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12,066,711 | 12,066,560 | 1 | 2 | 12,066,241 | train | <story><title>As Japan's population shrinks, bears and boars roam among schools and shrines</title><url>http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-japan-population-snap-story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sgt101</author><text>Perhaps this is what will happen across the world in 200 years time? People in advanced economies seem less keen to have lots of children, perhaps vast tracts of the earth will be abandoned to wildlife?<p>I actually hope so, I wonder if culture will change and adapt and eventually find a new equilibrium, but at a much lower population. Perhaps people will enjoy reliving the experiences of people from &quot;the crush&quot;. Perhaps they will struggle to understand the science of the artifacts that surround them and progress will effectively end - after all 10 billion people can go a lot faster than 100 million. There are no facts about the future.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text><i>&quot;Perhaps vast tracts of the earth will be abandoned to wildlife?&quot;</i><p>That&#x27;s already happened in the US.[1] The Buffalo Commons proposal, to depopulate a large part of the Great Plains and let buffalo roam, was a joke when it was first proposed in 1987. Much of the depopulation has already happened. So far, not many buffalo, but they may come back.<p>Small town America is slowly emptying out.[2] It has no function. Small towns existed mostly to support agriculture. Agriculture is only 3% of the US workforce. Most of the food comes from about 20% of the farms; the rest are marginal producers. Farming is doing fine; it just doesn&#x27;t take many people.<p>&quot;Mill towns&quot;, where one big employer dominates, die when their mill closes. These can be sizable cities, such as Youngstown, OH. More often, they&#x27;re small towns with one big plant. Young people leave; old people stay and die in place.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Buffalo_Commons" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Buffalo_Commons</a>
[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;SB10001424052702303325204579463761632103386" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;SB100014240527023033252045794637...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>As Japan's population shrinks, bears and boars roam among schools and shrines</title><url>http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-japan-population-snap-story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sgt101</author><text>Perhaps this is what will happen across the world in 200 years time? People in advanced economies seem less keen to have lots of children, perhaps vast tracts of the earth will be abandoned to wildlife?<p>I actually hope so, I wonder if culture will change and adapt and eventually find a new equilibrium, but at a much lower population. Perhaps people will enjoy reliving the experiences of people from &quot;the crush&quot;. Perhaps they will struggle to understand the science of the artifacts that surround them and progress will effectively end - after all 10 billion people can go a lot faster than 100 million. There are no facts about the future.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrexroad</author><text>...or maybe there are advantages with not being faced with the crisis of how to handle unsustainable growth? I&#x27;d love to see population &#x2F; GDP growth models reflect the &quot;oh sh*t, there&#x27;s no food for half the population&quot; inflection point<p>[edit: Any commentary for the downvote? impact on max-size of military aside, wouldn&#x27;t a non-growing population be an advantage when many countries will be scrambling (with varying degrees of success) to scale food production to match population growth?</text></comment> |
12,834,947 | 12,834,946 | 1 | 2 | 12,831,767 | train | <story><title>Everything about the state of the Mac</title><url>http://mjtsai.com/blog/2016/10/27/new-macbook-pros-and-the-state-of-the-mac/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>comex</author><text>Much the flak that&#x27;s been posted about the new MacBook Pros implies there are better offerings from PC manufacturers, and certainly there are plenty if your priorities are very different from Apple&#x27;s (e.g. you care more about upgradeability than sleekness). My personal priorities are pretty similar to Apple&#x27;s, but not quite the same: I&#x27;m skeptical about anything that reduces key travel. So I browsed around to try to find something that could compete with the new 15&quot; MacBook Pro for my next purchase. To my surprise, I couldn&#x27;t find a single model from the major vendors that had all of the following:<p>- 15&quot; or close<p>- In the general &quot;thin and light&quot; category (ideally at least as thin as my 2012 rMBP at 1.8 cm; latest is 1.55cm)<p>- Higher than 1080p screen resolution (old and new MBP are both 2880x1800)<p>- At least 7 hours of battery life (advertised battery life of my 2012 rMBP; latest advertises 10 hours)<p>It seemed to generally come down to 1080p and good battery life, or high resolution (usually higher than the MBP) and crappy battery life. I think the Surface Book was most tempting, but it has a significantly smaller screen.<p>If anyone has suggestions, I&#x27;d love to hear them. But for now my plan is to suck up the reduced key travel and buy a new MacBook Pro...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>caconym_</author><text>This is the thing. I was as bored by the new MBPs as everyone else, but they really do still seem to have a combination of power, screen quality, portability, and battery life that isn&#x27;t matched elsewhere (not to mention the more intangible benefits e.g. great touchpads). Every time someone tells me about a PC laptop that supposedly beats the Apple equivalent, the PC ends up either not being a reasonable equivalent or falls flat in at least one of the areas I mentioned.<p>Maybe if the price is right then making sacrifices is fine, but that&#x27;s up to the individual buyer. Speaking for myself, a boring computer that&#x27;s quietly excellent is exactly what I want. My biggest problem with the new MBPs is that i think the Touch Bar is a gimmick and losing the physical escape key is a real bummer.</text></comment> | <story><title>Everything about the state of the Mac</title><url>http://mjtsai.com/blog/2016/10/27/new-macbook-pros-and-the-state-of-the-mac/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>comex</author><text>Much the flak that&#x27;s been posted about the new MacBook Pros implies there are better offerings from PC manufacturers, and certainly there are plenty if your priorities are very different from Apple&#x27;s (e.g. you care more about upgradeability than sleekness). My personal priorities are pretty similar to Apple&#x27;s, but not quite the same: I&#x27;m skeptical about anything that reduces key travel. So I browsed around to try to find something that could compete with the new 15&quot; MacBook Pro for my next purchase. To my surprise, I couldn&#x27;t find a single model from the major vendors that had all of the following:<p>- 15&quot; or close<p>- In the general &quot;thin and light&quot; category (ideally at least as thin as my 2012 rMBP at 1.8 cm; latest is 1.55cm)<p>- Higher than 1080p screen resolution (old and new MBP are both 2880x1800)<p>- At least 7 hours of battery life (advertised battery life of my 2012 rMBP; latest advertises 10 hours)<p>It seemed to generally come down to 1080p and good battery life, or high resolution (usually higher than the MBP) and crappy battery life. I think the Surface Book was most tempting, but it has a significantly smaller screen.<p>If anyone has suggestions, I&#x27;d love to hear them. But for now my plan is to suck up the reduced key travel and buy a new MacBook Pro...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>acabal</author><text>I&#x27;ve been using a 2015 Razer Blade and it&#x27;s a great machine. 14&quot; 3200x1800 screen, 16GB RAM, decent battery life, very thin, great trackpad with click buttons, which I like. Excellent Linux support; I run Ubuntu on it as my daily OS. However it&#x27;s expensive, and has a pretty tacky color scheme. Parts are proprietary and repairs are expensive, though compared to Apple that&#x27;s a wash.<p>At the time I bought it they were for sale in Microsoft stores, so you could try it out in person too.</text></comment> |
28,606,990 | 28,606,172 | 1 | 3 | 28,605,584 | train | <story><title>Amazon’s new Kindle Paperwhite</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/21/22684801/amazon-kindle-paperwhite-features-price-release-date</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arepublicadoceu</author><text>So let me give my review of using kindle for the last three years.<p>I feel like kindle have two kinds of users:<p>- Orthodox user: only buy amazon books<p>- Unorthodox user: sideload books because doesn’t agree with drm or any other valid reason.<p>Ways in which amazon mess with unorthodox users:<p>- you can only sync using mobi and now you have a completely crippled book with horrible formatting;<p>- you have an almost good enough formatting with azw3 + calibre css kung fu but now you don’t have sync;<p>- want to see the cover on your sideloaded book? You need to either use it offline or use calibre workaround disconnecting the usb and reconnecting after sideloading it.<p>- Want to jailbreak your device? if you’re on the newest firmware you’re absolutely out of luck<p>So, if you’re an unorthodox user, do yourself a favor and buy any other brand of ereader. God knows whatelse amazon will do to nudge us into their walled garden on the years to come.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elorant</author><text>I&#x27;m an unorthodox reader by your definition. I&#x27;ve never, ever, connected my Kindle to the Internet and use it as a simple ebook reader. I&#x27;ve uploaded hundreds of books over the years through Calibre and the experience has been stellar. I don&#x27;t give two fucks about syncing since it&#x27;s my primary device for reading ebooks. I also have a tablet that I use only for pdfs. As for your last point, why would I want to jailbreak a device that works perfectly for what it is?</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon’s new Kindle Paperwhite</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/21/22684801/amazon-kindle-paperwhite-features-price-release-date</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arepublicadoceu</author><text>So let me give my review of using kindle for the last three years.<p>I feel like kindle have two kinds of users:<p>- Orthodox user: only buy amazon books<p>- Unorthodox user: sideload books because doesn’t agree with drm or any other valid reason.<p>Ways in which amazon mess with unorthodox users:<p>- you can only sync using mobi and now you have a completely crippled book with horrible formatting;<p>- you have an almost good enough formatting with azw3 + calibre css kung fu but now you don’t have sync;<p>- want to see the cover on your sideloaded book? You need to either use it offline or use calibre workaround disconnecting the usb and reconnecting after sideloading it.<p>- Want to jailbreak your device? if you’re on the newest firmware you’re absolutely out of luck<p>So, if you’re an unorthodox user, do yourself a favor and buy any other brand of ereader. God knows whatelse amazon will do to nudge us into their walled garden on the years to come.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fassssst</author><text>Kindle also has great integration with Overdrive though. I use the Libby app on my phone to send library books to my Kindle. They get delivered directly from Amazon and it’s the same experience as if you had bought it.</text></comment> |
923,059 | 923,012 | 1 | 2 | 922,913 | train | <story><title>The Incompetence of American Airlines and the Fate of Mr. X</title><url>http://dustincurtis.com/incompetence.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>noonespecial</author><text>The mistake Mr. X. made here was not about caring about his job or even criticizing his employer. <i>He contacted an outsider, with his company's email server, ostensibly on their behalf.</i> At bigco, you just can't do that folks. <i>Everything</i> that leaves corporate walls must be vetted by legal, (and probably marketing too). There are lists of 100's (maybe 1000's by now) of innocuous seeming words that you just can't use. Language, nationality, gender, and racial issues all must be considered.<p>Like it or not, at Bigco International, <i>everything is a press release.</i><p>Personally, I would have given the guy a warning. What he said was quite harmless and almost certainly common knowledge, but we don't know the whole story here. He may have been warned before, or AA burned by this type of thing before or both. Its unfortunate, but understandable. In the name of tolerance and acceptance, we've built one of the most intolerant and litigious societies ever. This is just one of the many sad side effects.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Incompetence of American Airlines and the Fate of Mr. X</title><url>http://dustincurtis.com/incompetence.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jrockway</author><text>Ouch. I have top-tier status on AA, and they will be getting a note from me about this. Not cool.<p>That said, I am still confused as to why Dustin thinks AA's website is so relevant to its business model. Their website is not very Web 2.0, it's true. But, they make up for that... I can fly non-stop from Chicago (my home airport) to thousands of cities around the world on AA quite cheaply. They have three-class international service, which means I can use frequent flyer miles to get a really nice seat once in a while. They have lounges. They have international partners where my status benefits can be used. I get free domestic upgrades to first class. They have customer service that cares. (I have never been greeted by name on Southwest, but it happens rather frequently on AA.)<p>So anyway, the legacies are not totally incompetent. I fly at least every month and I would never even consider WN or JetBlue. The fare is about the same, and I have no chance of receiving anything other than a middle-seat on the back of a 737. No thanks. Perhaps the website UX is nice, but the rest of the trip won't be. And when I'm in a metal tube for 18 hours, I don't really give a damn about how much AJAX the website had.<p>(I am a little defensive here, I know. AA has been really nice to me, so I feel that they deserve some compliments for that.)</text></comment> |
35,189,977 | 35,189,719 | 1 | 2 | 35,187,267 | train | <story><title>Amazon doubling down on return to office</title><url>https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/amazon-return-to-office/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shmatt</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand G.O&#x27;s obsession with Amazon RTO and not the rest of the industry. No, it&#x27;s not &quot;unprecedented pushback&quot;, Apple employees fought much harder, executives publicly quit, and employees went to the media with names publicly exposed. And yet they went back to the office (those who didn&#x27;t quit, which might of been intentional on Apples part)<p>Now back to G.O, I really really don&#x27;t understand the hype surrounding him in the industry as if his words mean anything.<p>He was a line manager at Uber 2017-2020. And left the industry. He writes as if he had held multiple SVP positions analyzing how and why engineering orgs do things. He writes about Uber once in a while, in such a generic way, as if in a 30,000 person org all teams have the same ways of working<p>His writing in clueless, its 90% &quot;I have been told&quot;, &quot;people in the company are telling me&quot;, its basically a mix of DJT&#x27;s ex-twitter feed and Blind.<p>His latest &quot;trick&quot; was scanning LinkedIn to show that in the past 45 days Google&#x27;s engineering org grew by 6%. I really doubt that happened, Googlers I know really doubt that happened, and using LinkedIn which doesn&#x27;t verify employment is a very poor way of analyzing data</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gregdoesit</author><text>Hi! The G.O. here who you refer to.<p>To reply to some of the factually incorrect parts of this comment:<p>On why I don’t cover other companies’ RTO? But I do! You asked about Apple: wrote about them and RTO last month [1]. Other companies doing this - also [2]. You can find my articles on my blog [3] and I really try not to “obsess” about any one company.<p>I am a bit puzzled on the comment about writing about Uber in “such a generic way.” Here’s a deepdive that happens to be about Uber’s data center history, just from two weeks ago [4]. I am not aware of these pretty specific - and not that easy to track down - details shared before.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.pragmaticengineer.com&#x2F;the-scoop-apple-rto&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.pragmaticengineer.com&#x2F;the-scoop-apple-rto&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.pragmaticengineer.com&#x2F;the-scoop-rto&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.pragmaticengineer.com&#x2F;the-scoop-rto&#x2F;</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.pragmaticengineer.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.pragmaticengineer.com&#x2F;</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;uber-move-to-cloud" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;uber-move-to-clou...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon doubling down on return to office</title><url>https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/amazon-return-to-office/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shmatt</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand G.O&#x27;s obsession with Amazon RTO and not the rest of the industry. No, it&#x27;s not &quot;unprecedented pushback&quot;, Apple employees fought much harder, executives publicly quit, and employees went to the media with names publicly exposed. And yet they went back to the office (those who didn&#x27;t quit, which might of been intentional on Apples part)<p>Now back to G.O, I really really don&#x27;t understand the hype surrounding him in the industry as if his words mean anything.<p>He was a line manager at Uber 2017-2020. And left the industry. He writes as if he had held multiple SVP positions analyzing how and why engineering orgs do things. He writes about Uber once in a while, in such a generic way, as if in a 30,000 person org all teams have the same ways of working<p>His writing in clueless, its 90% &quot;I have been told&quot;, &quot;people in the company are telling me&quot;, its basically a mix of DJT&#x27;s ex-twitter feed and Blind.<p>His latest &quot;trick&quot; was scanning LinkedIn to show that in the past 45 days Google&#x27;s engineering org grew by 6%. I really doubt that happened, Googlers I know really doubt that happened, and using LinkedIn which doesn&#x27;t verify employment is a very poor way of analyzing data</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tmpz22</author><text>A lot of Google subcontractors represent themselves as Google employees on LinkedIn etc.</text></comment> |
40,703,894 | 40,703,772 | 1 | 2 | 40,703,176 | train | <story><title>Developer Takes 'Retro' Concept to New Level by Creating Physical Winamp Player</title><url>https://www.xatakaon.com/makers/a-developer-has-just-taken-the-concept-of-retro-to-a-new-level-by-creating-a-physical-winamp-player</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>surfingdino</author><text>It&#x27;s proof positive that there exists a generation of devs who have never seen a physical user interface made of buttons, knobs, or sliders. E for effort.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hbbio</author><text>Someone has a (3d render?) better concept indeed: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=2nGCihgndng" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=2nGCihgndng</a><p>(the original page is now 404)</text></comment> | <story><title>Developer Takes 'Retro' Concept to New Level by Creating Physical Winamp Player</title><url>https://www.xatakaon.com/makers/a-developer-has-just-taken-the-concept-of-retro-to-a-new-level-by-creating-a-physical-winamp-player</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>surfingdino</author><text>It&#x27;s proof positive that there exists a generation of devs who have never seen a physical user interface made of buttons, knobs, or sliders. E for effort.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>forgetfreeman</author><text>I literally did a double take reading this. The very possibility that an adult in the world has never interacted with analog controls on anything more complex than a toaster trips me out a bit. Like, how in the hell has software driven UI (with all of the problems that entails) managed to take over? Why must literally everything suck?</text></comment> |
2,251,587 | 2,251,394 | 1 | 3 | 2,251,228 | train | <story><title>Visualization: Movies Are Getting Worse</title><url>http://moki.tv/blog/visual-evidence-movies-are-getting-worse</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pg</author><text>Interesting. I'd just been thinking about this. The last two new releases I tried watching were so bad that I couldn't finish either of them. I know this is only 2 data points, but they were both bad in the same way: they were completely predictable. That's something you commonly see in a declining medium. People recycle old ideas instead of having new ones.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spolia" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spolia</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anigbrowl</author><text>How much of this is a failure of the medium, though, rather than of individuals' jaded palates coupled with the availability of almost all hit movies from the past for instant home viewing? We tend to glamorize earlier generations of the movie industry because some of their products have stood the test of time so well, while overlooking the abundance of terrible films that came out around the same time.<p>I do think that plotting, which is only one element of a film, tends to get more predictable as viewers age. There are only so many basic dramatic situations, and nowadays genre tropes are so well-defined and well-known that almost anything is going to look familiar and derivative to somebody, and be blogged about in such terms. On the other hand, a good film can be enjoyed repeatedly, despite the element of surprise being gone after the first viewing; the pleasure is in the quality of the execution rather than in the novelty of the story development.</text></comment> | <story><title>Visualization: Movies Are Getting Worse</title><url>http://moki.tv/blog/visual-evidence-movies-are-getting-worse</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pg</author><text>Interesting. I'd just been thinking about this. The last two new releases I tried watching were so bad that I couldn't finish either of them. I know this is only 2 data points, but they were both bad in the same way: they were completely predictable. That's something you commonly see in a declining medium. People recycle old ideas instead of having new ones.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spolia" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spolia</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>larrik</author><text>I find most movies to be predictable. "Hero's Journey" and all that. But I assume you mean less structural, and more like knowing exactly what they are going to say (or what jokes they'll use for a situation). I hate that.<p>But still, movies are (generally) business first, and art second. They don't even want to be "new"... just "fresh".</text></comment> |
22,293,490 | 22,293,061 | 1 | 2 | 22,290,655 | train | <story><title>A prospective Alzheimer’s trial reports</title><url>https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/02/10/a-prospective-alzheimers-trial-reports</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ISL</author><text>As I tell my students all the time -- properly-executed, an experiment that doesn&#x27;t work is not a failure. If you don&#x27;t internalize this idea, you will find experimental physics to be psychologically untenable.<p>If you build an experiment (at any scale) to test out an idea that you think is going to work, and it doesn&#x27;t work, <i>you made progress</i>. Now you know something really essential -- that thing that seemed like a well-motivated idea has some kind of unknown flaw. With that in hand, you can proceed to try something better, whether it is a refined approach or something entirely new.<p>Without doing the experiment, that well-motivated idea would still look like something worth trying.<p>If a large team of people were willing to spend years and lots of resources on an Alzheimer&#x27;s clinical trial, it was likely to be because they thought it had a real chance of working. If it didn&#x27;t work, we all benefit from their effort.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dekhn</author><text>I&#x27;ve worked in both experimental physics and experimental biology (specifically in drug discovery, an early phase that can lead to clinical trials).<p>Failed experiments in biology don&#x27;t make much progress compared to failed experiments in physics. beyond the inability to control for wide range of variables that are normally managed in physics, most people in biology aren&#x27;t good at running high quality, reproducible experiments that falsify hypothesis. I have seen many coworkers run the same exact gel over and over until they get one that &quot;looks like what they were expecting&quot;. I don&#x27;t see the same level of experimental inadequacy in physics.<p>The best approaches in biology now seem to throw away the idea that we can construct a rational narrative to explain the biology that causes a complex disease, and more on collecting very large amounts of high quality data to produce sophisticated statistical models that deal with the underlying complexity in a useful way.</text></comment> | <story><title>A prospective Alzheimer’s trial reports</title><url>https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/02/10/a-prospective-alzheimers-trial-reports</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ISL</author><text>As I tell my students all the time -- properly-executed, an experiment that doesn&#x27;t work is not a failure. If you don&#x27;t internalize this idea, you will find experimental physics to be psychologically untenable.<p>If you build an experiment (at any scale) to test out an idea that you think is going to work, and it doesn&#x27;t work, <i>you made progress</i>. Now you know something really essential -- that thing that seemed like a well-motivated idea has some kind of unknown flaw. With that in hand, you can proceed to try something better, whether it is a refined approach or something entirely new.<p>Without doing the experiment, that well-motivated idea would still look like something worth trying.<p>If a large team of people were willing to spend years and lots of resources on an Alzheimer&#x27;s clinical trial, it was likely to be because they thought it had a real chance of working. If it didn&#x27;t work, we all benefit from their effort.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hprotagonist</author><text>The issue here is that for the past 25 years, multiple teams have spent years and lots of resources on the same idea despite it failing to work every previous time.<p>Negative results are valuable. The same negative result over and over starts to feel a lot more like sunk-cost fallacy.</text></comment> |
20,537,657 | 20,537,893 | 1 | 3 | 20,533,026 | train | <story><title>Users hate change</title><url>https://gist.github.com/sleepyfox/a4d311ffcdc4fd908ec97d1c245e57dc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nofunsir</author><text>&quot;everybody who wanted your software bought it and then the revenue stops.&quot;<p>That&#x27;s... how it should work. You don&#x27;t get to hook into their wallets for time and all eternity.<p>everybody who wanted your &lt;shovel&gt; bought it and then the revenue stops.<p>everybody who wanted your &lt;light bulb&gt; bought it and then the revenue stops.<p>everybody who wanted your &lt;real estate&gt; bought it and then the revenue stops.<p>... and then you go do something else!<p>That is the precise mechanism that drives the economy forward.</text></item><item><author>yoz-y</author><text>Subscription model is actually way better if you don&#x27;t want to end up with feature bloat. Because you actually get money from users even if you only ever fix bugs and improve performance.<p>If you freeze your features you will soon arrive at a point where everybody who wanted your software bought it and then the revenue stops.</text></item><item><author>flohofwoe</author><text>My pet theory is that every software product has a &quot;peak version&quot;. Before that peak version, the product is not yet in a complete state, and it is fairly obvious, both for the developer and user, what features are missing. Once the peak version is reached, new features are not added because they improve the product, but to justify selling the product again to existing customers, and to &#x27;keep the team busy&#x27;.<p>Instead of really improving the product, features become checkboxes on the roadmap. Which eventually results in degrading the quality of the product, it becomes bloated, the UX becomes confusing (especially to new users), and existing features start to suffer because the &quot;maintenance surface&quot; becomes bigger and bigger.<p>What <i>should</i> happen of course is that the product&#x27;s feature set is frozen at the &quot;peak version&quot;, and only bug fixes and optimizations are happening, that&#x27;s a hard sell to the bean counters of course, especially with subscription models and &quot;software as a service&quot; which they like so much. From the customer&#x27;s point of view, bug fixes and optimizations are expected to come for free, because they are fixing defects in the original product and don&#x27;t add any value, right?<p>Eventually progress and success is measured in features added, not in satisfaction of individual customers. And as long as KPIs are looking alright - meaning the &#x27;average customer&#x27; (which doesn&#x27;t exist btw) isn&#x27;t pissed off enough to look elsewhere, all is good, even though everything is terrible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ken</author><text>Except that revenue stream ends before the &quot;fix bugs and improve performance&quot; step. People buy based on screenshots&#x2F;demos&#x2F;trials&#x2F;reviews, and those don&#x27;t expose the deep bugs you run into 3 months later when doing real work.<p>Shovels break, light bulbs burn out. Then you go buy another one, and there&#x27;s a good chance it&#x27;s better than the earlier one. The manufacturer keeps working to improve the quality, and people keep paying them for this. &quot;Buy a software license once for all time&quot; is not analogous to this.</text></comment> | <story><title>Users hate change</title><url>https://gist.github.com/sleepyfox/a4d311ffcdc4fd908ec97d1c245e57dc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nofunsir</author><text>&quot;everybody who wanted your software bought it and then the revenue stops.&quot;<p>That&#x27;s... how it should work. You don&#x27;t get to hook into their wallets for time and all eternity.<p>everybody who wanted your &lt;shovel&gt; bought it and then the revenue stops.<p>everybody who wanted your &lt;light bulb&gt; bought it and then the revenue stops.<p>everybody who wanted your &lt;real estate&gt; bought it and then the revenue stops.<p>... and then you go do something else!<p>That is the precise mechanism that drives the economy forward.</text></item><item><author>yoz-y</author><text>Subscription model is actually way better if you don&#x27;t want to end up with feature bloat. Because you actually get money from users even if you only ever fix bugs and improve performance.<p>If you freeze your features you will soon arrive at a point where everybody who wanted your software bought it and then the revenue stops.</text></item><item><author>flohofwoe</author><text>My pet theory is that every software product has a &quot;peak version&quot;. Before that peak version, the product is not yet in a complete state, and it is fairly obvious, both for the developer and user, what features are missing. Once the peak version is reached, new features are not added because they improve the product, but to justify selling the product again to existing customers, and to &#x27;keep the team busy&#x27;.<p>Instead of really improving the product, features become checkboxes on the roadmap. Which eventually results in degrading the quality of the product, it becomes bloated, the UX becomes confusing (especially to new users), and existing features start to suffer because the &quot;maintenance surface&quot; becomes bigger and bigger.<p>What <i>should</i> happen of course is that the product&#x27;s feature set is frozen at the &quot;peak version&quot;, and only bug fixes and optimizations are happening, that&#x27;s a hard sell to the bean counters of course, especially with subscription models and &quot;software as a service&quot; which they like so much. From the customer&#x27;s point of view, bug fixes and optimizations are expected to come for free, because they are fixing defects in the original product and don&#x27;t add any value, right?<p>Eventually progress and success is measured in features added, not in satisfaction of individual customers. And as long as KPIs are looking alright - meaning the &#x27;average customer&#x27; (which doesn&#x27;t exist btw) isn&#x27;t pissed off enough to look elsewhere, all is good, even though everything is terrible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WA</author><text>This is a bit naive. Software and especially apps these days are more a stream of updates (like Netflix) than a v1.0 you buy once. Updates are expected from users (and app stores).<p>Example: A customer bought your app on iOS 9. It worked perfectly fine. You wrote it once, because you couldn’t expect more revenue from existing customers. It stopped working on iOS 11, because 32-bit support was ended on Apple’s side.<p>Of course, it’s not Apple who gets the blame, it’s you, because your app doesn’t work anymore. But it is supposed to work, because your customer paid good money for it ($4.99).<p>Back in the day, sure, if you bought a software that worked on MS-DOS only, it’s your fault when you got Windows and it didn’t run your software. No expectations, no hard feelings. But iOS is iOS. It’s the thing running average Joe’s smartphones. Software bought for iOS should work on iOS. Forever.<p>Your examples all describe products with an expected expiration date. Software used to have expiration dates. But not anymore. The expectation changed.</text></comment> |
12,282,523 | 12,281,394 | 1 | 3 | 12,280,764 | train | <story><title>Solid – A set of conventions and tools for decentralized social applications</title><url>https://solid.mit.edu/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cocktailpeanuts</author><text>I think these &quot;open web&quot; movement people are mistaken about what made the web successful.<p>The web succeeded because it let people connect more easily by removing friction.<p>Of course the &quot;openness&quot; part was important in gaining initial adoption, but today &quot;adoption&quot; is not a problem anymore. Most of these open web movement people just want to make things open without any immediate, clear, and tangible benefit to end-users. Even if they did, these always come with caveats--inconvenience.<p>Introducing inconvenience for the sake of making things more open is going backwards, and that&#x27;s why it never gets any traction.<p>I&#x27;m not saying being open is stupid, I&#x27;m just saying it&#x27;s not gonna happen if all these guys think about is &quot;how are we going to make the web more open?&quot;, they will keep building the same shit that no mainstream user cares about.<p>If you want to make the web more open, build something that provides a unique unprecedented benefit, important enough that people will use it no matter how inconvenient it is, like Bitcoin, or Bittorrent.</text></comment> | <story><title>Solid – A set of conventions and tools for decentralized social applications</title><url>https://solid.mit.edu/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wodenokoto</author><text>I feel like the description of this is either so high-level that it doesn&#x27;t make sense, or too close to the ground to really get an idea about what it is.<p>Is it an alternative to HTML? To http? Is it a set of guidelines for data handling? Is it a web-framework like Django or a framework like react?</text></comment> |
26,411,208 | 26,410,662 | 1 | 3 | 26,407,560 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Those who quit their jobs to travel the world, how did it go?</title><text>In light of the pandemic and countries slowly opening up again, I thought I&#x27;d ask this question that appeared back in 2015 [0].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9439286" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9439286</a></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>DanielleMolloy</author><text>They are probably used to closed-minded arrogant Westeners whining aloud about not getting their cornflakes. Unfortunately.<p>I also don&#x27;t get people who won&#x27;t at least <i>try</i> local customs like eating cooked fish on rice with green tea in the morning, but there are plenty of them. These people usually don&#x27;t do well in really different countries and complain and whine and compare to home all the time instead of curious observing &#x2F; understanding. Real travelling, which is about learning and immersing and broadening your mental horizon, and not about conquering some beach with your ass is just not for them.</text></item><item><author>gwd</author><text>&gt; A bit obvious, maybe, but I&#x27;ve met many people who insisted on only eating Western food[...] At that point, why even bother traveling?<p>Whenever I have a guide (either professional or a local friend), this is often strangely a lot of work. Particularly the tour companies I&#x27;ve gone with in China insist on trying to get me a Western breakfast. If I wanted pancakes and sausage I would have just stayed at home and cooked my own! Give me the stuff you like. I may not end up liking it, but there&#x27;s a pretty decent chance I will.</text></item><item><author>keiferski</author><text>Absolutely worth it, however I&#x27;d offer a few short tips:<p>1. Try to stay in one place for a few months, minimum. If you can stay a year or two, do that. Jumping from city to city every week seems exciting at first, but it quickly makes everywhere feel the same.<p>2. To quote Lao Tzu, <i>when your work is done, forget it.</i> If you work remotely, actively disconnect at the end of the day. It&#x27;s too easy to be constantly plugged into the English-speaking media world and ignore what&#x27;s right in front of you.<p>3. Try to blend in and adopt local clothing, culture, foods, etc. Read books by local authors, watch local films. A bit obvious, maybe, but I&#x27;ve met many people who insisted on only eating Western food, reading Harry Potter, and watching Netflix while abroad. At that point, why even bother traveling?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gwd</author><text>&gt; They are probably used to closed-minded arrogant Westeners whining aloud about not getting their cornflakes. Unfortunately.<p>Others have pointed out that lots of cultures have this problem: I read a Chinese newspaper article a few years ago about mainland Chinese bring suitcases full of instant noodles to eat when traveling abroad.<p>But while there are certainly Westerners like that, I don&#x27;t think they were the cause of my problem. First of all, lunch and dinner on these tours was typically &quot;Chinese&quot; food, but something which was clearly targeted at a Western palate (which was perhaps even more frustrating). I think ironically, it was probably people who <i>did</i> want to try &quot;authentic&quot; cuisine -- or thought they did -- who were causing some of my problems. My guess is that they had people say they wanted &quot;authentic cuisine&quot;, but when given actually authentic cuisine, didn&#x27;t like it -- it didn&#x27;t taste like the &quot;authentic&quot; cuisine in the Chinese restaurants at home.<p>Secondly, it probably does help people to deal with the new thing if they have <i>something</i> familiar. If you want to try something new but have never been outside the US, &quot;three genuine Chinese meals a day for two weeks&quot; is really throwing you in in the deep end. &quot;Western breakfast and pseudo-Chinese lunch and dinner&quot; probably is a much better way for those kinds of people to experience something new.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Those who quit their jobs to travel the world, how did it go?</title><text>In light of the pandemic and countries slowly opening up again, I thought I&#x27;d ask this question that appeared back in 2015 [0].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9439286" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9439286</a></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>DanielleMolloy</author><text>They are probably used to closed-minded arrogant Westeners whining aloud about not getting their cornflakes. Unfortunately.<p>I also don&#x27;t get people who won&#x27;t at least <i>try</i> local customs like eating cooked fish on rice with green tea in the morning, but there are plenty of them. These people usually don&#x27;t do well in really different countries and complain and whine and compare to home all the time instead of curious observing &#x2F; understanding. Real travelling, which is about learning and immersing and broadening your mental horizon, and not about conquering some beach with your ass is just not for them.</text></item><item><author>gwd</author><text>&gt; A bit obvious, maybe, but I&#x27;ve met many people who insisted on only eating Western food[...] At that point, why even bother traveling?<p>Whenever I have a guide (either professional or a local friend), this is often strangely a lot of work. Particularly the tour companies I&#x27;ve gone with in China insist on trying to get me a Western breakfast. If I wanted pancakes and sausage I would have just stayed at home and cooked my own! Give me the stuff you like. I may not end up liking it, but there&#x27;s a pretty decent chance I will.</text></item><item><author>keiferski</author><text>Absolutely worth it, however I&#x27;d offer a few short tips:<p>1. Try to stay in one place for a few months, minimum. If you can stay a year or two, do that. Jumping from city to city every week seems exciting at first, but it quickly makes everywhere feel the same.<p>2. To quote Lao Tzu, <i>when your work is done, forget it.</i> If you work remotely, actively disconnect at the end of the day. It&#x27;s too easy to be constantly plugged into the English-speaking media world and ignore what&#x27;s right in front of you.<p>3. Try to blend in and adopt local clothing, culture, foods, etc. Read books by local authors, watch local films. A bit obvious, maybe, but I&#x27;ve met many people who insisted on only eating Western food, reading Harry Potter, and watching Netflix while abroad. At that point, why even bother traveling?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RegnisGnaw</author><text>It’s not just Americans. My parents used to travel with a mini rice cooker, small bag of rice, and canned Chinese food when they travel. They have lived in Canada since 1990.<p>They stopped doing that after the Boston Marathon bombing cause of the airport security.<p>One of the highlights of their trip to France in 2002 was in Nice. Their hotel was near a Chinese Grocery and was able to get BBQ Pork and Soy Chicken.<p>Five years ago they went for a two week tour of Australia from China (after visiting relatives in China). Every meal on that tour was in a Chinese restaurant.</text></comment> |
14,052,620 | 14,052,084 | 1 | 3 | 14,051,529 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: What Is the Google 'Software Engineer, Machine Learning' Interview Like?</title><text>Is it any different from the normal SE interview ? Also how is that role different from normal SE, if at all ?</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>geofft</author><text>I attended a Google interview coaching session yesterday (if you get in touch with a recruiter, they&#x27;ll send you an link to RSVP for one in session, and I think they&#x27;re all recorded). It was led by, if I remember correctly, a fairly senior manager whose team was working on machine learning for recruiting, so he had some fairly specific experience with this.<p>Two things he mentioned that stand out for your question: first, Google attempts to hire generalists, or at least &quot;fungible specialists&quot;. Three of your five SE interviews will be general CS algorithms questions; the other two are likely to be specialized if you&#x27;re interviewing for a specialized role. I don&#x27;t think that it&#x27;s likely to be different from the other &quot;Software Engineer, Foo&quot; interviews (e.g., &quot;Software Engineer, Front End&quot; or &quot;Software Engineer, Mobile&quot;), where at least one of the remaining two interviews will probably be specific to Foo.<p>Second, he specifically complained about people who show up and say &quot;I want to do machine learning&quot; and then say they have no machine learning experience &#x2F; background. There are apparently a very small number of teams who will train a bright person how to do ML, but in general you&#x27;re expected to have some background with it.<p>This seems like the sort of thing you should ask your recruiter (after getting in touch with one) and perhaps ask at a coaching session, if there&#x27;s one in your city. I am a little genuinely confused that they seem to think their interviews need a coaching session, but hey, at least it&#x27;s progress.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: What Is the Google 'Software Engineer, Machine Learning' Interview Like?</title><text>Is it any different from the normal SE interview ? Also how is that role different from normal SE, if at all ?</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>onewland</author><text>Not an employee, but I&#x27;m pretty sure that the interview is the same for all engineering roles, unless you&#x27;re very senior&#x2F;specialized. I doubt that your interviewers will even know that you&#x27;re up for a ML position specifically.</text></comment> |
11,055,181 | 11,054,924 | 1 | 2 | 11,054,732 | train | <story><title>Disappointed with Europe, Thousands of Iraqi Migrants Return Home</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/05/world/middleeast/europe-migrant-crisis-reverse-migration.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>drinchev</author><text>This article is obviously about a person, that is an illegal migrant, not a refugee.<p><pre><code> &gt; “I felt like I couldn’t live in an open society,”
&gt; said Aqeed Hassan, 26, who plays the clarinet and,
&gt; back in Baghdad after going to Finland, is trying
&gt; to get a job in a military band.
&gt; “My wife has her head covered, and I didn’t feel like they liked Arabs.”
</code></pre>
The whole debate with migration is that IMHO the real <i>refugees</i> need to visit psychologists, when they arrive here. They&#x27;ve suffered war, laws that declare gender-inequality ( soft words for what those laws actually are, but anyway ), homo-phobic state-politics, etc. Those are all things that western world fight ages to make it right ( yes, including war ) and people that have lived in different society can&#x27;t understand by just &quot;living&quot; there.<p>I&#x27;m really happy to know people from Syria, Pakistan, Taiwan &amp; Japan. It&#x27;s so cool when we all try to understand more about the way we live our every-day life , but on the other hand all of us will feel offended if forced to change it. No matter what &quot;When in Rome, do as the Romans do ...&quot;, if you can&#x27;t just leave.</text></comment> | <story><title>Disappointed with Europe, Thousands of Iraqi Migrants Return Home</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/05/world/middleeast/europe-migrant-crisis-reverse-migration.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>k-mcgrady</author><text>Interesting article. I&#x27;m very pro-Europe taking in refugees. It seems however that the guy in this article moved because he couldn&#x27;t get a job in his own country and thought he would instantly get one here - not a chance when a lot of Europeans are still struggling to find work because of the economy. It also sounds like he was pretty close-minded in regards to integrating into a new culture&#x2F;diet&#x2F;environment. Unless the article isn&#x27;t telling us something or I misread this guy wasn&#x27;t really a migrant - this was a man who wanted to move to a new country and didn&#x27;t like it very much but he took the illegal route in instead of applying for a visa. He wasn&#x27;t forced out of his home, his life wasn&#x27;t at risk etc. Like I said, I think we should be helping refugees in every way we can but it really seems like this guy isn&#x27;t a refugee.</text></comment> |
32,727,386 | 32,724,646 | 1 | 2 | 32,724,569 | train | <story><title>'Serious errors' in research linking deaths to red meat</title><url>https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/serious-errors-in-research-linking-deaths-to-red-meat-qtdh28fv5</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>drno123</author><text>Every PhD student should, in order to obtain PhD, not only do his original research but reproduce another published result. This will make PhD harder to get, so PhD’s will become more valuable (and more vetted), and we will have people verify published studies.</text></comment> | <story><title>'Serious errors' in research linking deaths to red meat</title><url>https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/serious-errors-in-research-linking-deaths-to-red-meat-qtdh28fv5</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Mountain_Skies</author><text>As the replication crisis grows, or we&#x27;re simply becoming more aware of it, I do wonder how much of this is due to poorly aligned incentives causing researchers to error on the side of what will get the most attention versus researchers in general simply being sloppy. Much discussion has been had on what to do if it is the former but if it is the latter, what needs to change in the education process so studies are better designed to end up with errors so frequently?</text></comment> |
25,126,705 | 25,126,052 | 1 | 3 | 25,125,325 | train | <story><title>Servo’s new home</title><url>https://blog.servo.org/2020/11/17/servo-home/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simias</author><text>What&#x27;s the plan exactly? Will there be a Servo browser that integrates the servo rendering engine with some open source components (for instance from Firefox, WebKit or Chromium) that will let us use the engine stand-alone, or is it &quot;just&quot; going to be an engine for embedding in third-party programs?<p>The former seems like it would be a huge amount of work, but if it&#x27;s the latter I fear for the long term survival of the project because it&#x27;s going to be hard to build a community around such a project IMO.<p>Or is there a possibility that Firefox will try to integrate Servo even if it&#x27;s developed outside of Mozilla? Seems unlikely to me.</text></item><item><author>lastontheboat</author><text>We&#x27;ve been cagey about this over the months since the Servo team at Mozilla was disbanded, since there were various moving pieces that needed to fall into place. We&#x27;re excited about the possibility for Servo to continue growing and evolving in its new home, though!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nvrspyx</author><text>A third-option that I would like to see is extending the latter to an Electron alternative (aka using Servo as a cross-platform GUI). There&#x27;s definitely positives to Electron, but it would be nice to see a more performant, less memory hungry, and more battery friendly alternative.</text></comment> | <story><title>Servo’s new home</title><url>https://blog.servo.org/2020/11/17/servo-home/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simias</author><text>What&#x27;s the plan exactly? Will there be a Servo browser that integrates the servo rendering engine with some open source components (for instance from Firefox, WebKit or Chromium) that will let us use the engine stand-alone, or is it &quot;just&quot; going to be an engine for embedding in third-party programs?<p>The former seems like it would be a huge amount of work, but if it&#x27;s the latter I fear for the long term survival of the project because it&#x27;s going to be hard to build a community around such a project IMO.<p>Or is there a possibility that Firefox will try to integrate Servo even if it&#x27;s developed outside of Mozilla? Seems unlikely to me.</text></item><item><author>lastontheboat</author><text>We&#x27;ve been cagey about this over the months since the Servo team at Mozilla was disbanded, since there were various moving pieces that needed to fall into place. We&#x27;re excited about the possibility for Servo to continue growing and evolving in its new home, though!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway894345</author><text>With respect to the latter, I agree that it seems unlikely that the project would attract users. Maybe it’s my own ignorance, but I don’t know what kind of apps (besides web browsers) would want just the web rendering engine and not various other components in a web browser. What are the responsibilities of a “web rendering engine” anyway? How tightly coupled is it to the DOM? Does it “own” the DOM, or is that owned by some other component in the browser? In the latter case, how are the relevant aspects of the DOM communicated to servo? And does the rest of the web engine query servo for things (e.g., “what are the exact coordinates of this &lt;div&gt;?”)? If this engine ends up not being so web-specific, then maybe it could be used as a replacement for Skia, more or less.</text></comment> |
18,275,244 | 18,274,755 | 1 | 2 | 18,273,530 | train | <story><title>Sqlite: Code Of Conduct</title><url>https://sqlite.org/codeofconduct.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>finnthehuman</author><text>I am surprised at how dismissive and intolerant the comments here are of this code of conduct. And I say this as an atheist that still harbors a lot of resentment against my family&#x27;s religion.<p>Do you have so little empathy that you can&#x27;t possibly image someone adopting The Rule of St. Benedict in good faith (no pun intended)?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Sprign</author><text>I don&#x27;t think that the problem is adopting in bad or good faith; personally I am saddened because the CoCs are meant to be there to protect people that are usually in a weaker position and in our development communities that usually identifies with a few categories: women, LGBT+, disabled people etc.<p>Now if you look at it from this point of view I think that you can at least see the irony of using a religious text in this context; to be more clear, quoting their webpage:<p>&gt; This code of conduct has proven its mettle in thousands of diverse communities for over 1,500 years<p>Those &quot;thousands of diverse communities&quot; include the ones who were using their religion as a pretext to burn heretics&#x2F;witches, torture homosexuals and in general oppress the weak and the diverse as well as the ones that today are still trying to infuse young people with their toxic shame when they are non-conforming.<p>This is what really grinds my gears: some people would do anything to NOT take responsibility and hide themselves behind nice words with little to no real content.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sqlite: Code Of Conduct</title><url>https://sqlite.org/codeofconduct.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>finnthehuman</author><text>I am surprised at how dismissive and intolerant the comments here are of this code of conduct. And I say this as an atheist that still harbors a lot of resentment against my family&#x27;s religion.<p>Do you have so little empathy that you can&#x27;t possibly image someone adopting The Rule of St. Benedict in good faith (no pun intended)?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stephenr</author><text>&gt; so little empathy that you can&#x27;t possibly image someone adopting The Rule of St. Benedict in good faith<p>I think it&#x27;s more that the wording suggests the author pushing his own faith onto others.</text></comment> |
7,034,181 | 7,033,782 | 1 | 3 | 7,033,562 | train | <story><title>Lost city in Darfur</title><url>http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/bdiscoe/diary/20539</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>state</author><text>I don&#x27;t think of myself as a luddite in any way, but one can&#x27;t help but get the feeling that the image of the world brought to us by huge tech companies has gigantic holes in it.<p>When you spend all of your time inside of that image of the world it&#x27;s difficult to see the gaps. I love this. It&#x27;s as if he walked in to a void.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mxfh</author><text>This is more a shift in perception of what online maps are taken for. Online maps were traditionally made for one purpose only, car navigation, not to show a complete picture of the world.<p>And the only commercially geodata available in digital format, from a few specialized companies, were for car navigation in lucrative markets (like the US and Europe). It wasn&#x27;t a given that online maps work properly or show more than base coverage outside those regions.<p>Only recently maps providers started integrating user created content.
OSM as a whole is also surprisingly sparse outside those established markets.<p>Just a reminder, back in 2007 Mexico wasn&#x27;t even covered by Google.<p><a href="http://google-latlong.blogspot.de/2007/09/more-of-world-for-you-to-explore.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;google-latlong.blogspot.de&#x2F;2007&#x2F;09&#x2F;more-of-world-for-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Lost city in Darfur</title><url>http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/bdiscoe/diary/20539</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>state</author><text>I don&#x27;t think of myself as a luddite in any way, but one can&#x27;t help but get the feeling that the image of the world brought to us by huge tech companies has gigantic holes in it.<p>When you spend all of your time inside of that image of the world it&#x27;s difficult to see the gaps. I love this. It&#x27;s as if he walked in to a void.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cpayne</author><text>Couldn&#x27;t agree more. Its like a Doctor Who episode.<p>- It shouldn&#x27;t be there?<p>- Try telling that to the local population...</text></comment> |
5,221,593 | 5,221,713 | 1 | 2 | 5,220,752 | train | <story><title>HipChat releases native app for Mac</title><url>https://www.hipchat.com/mac</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jedberg</author><text>I used it for five minutes and found: There is no way to search for a person in the Lobby and you can't reorder the tabs. These are two things I do a lot.</text></item><item><author>javery</author><text>Been using it for an hour or so and haven't run into any issues - what have you found? Just saying critical bugs is pretty unhelpful to everyone.</text></item><item><author>n9com</author><text>I know people are happy as the infamous GIF bug is fixed, but seriously this is one of the worst 'beta' apps I have tried.<p>This mac app has been in development for ages, then been in closed beta and now finally it's available to everyone to try.<p>Our team just switched to the beta native app, and already found several critical bugs with the app within minutes.<p>Sorry guys, this is really poorly put together and the number of obvious bugs makes me think that you don't even use your own product!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marquis</author><text>Interestingly the first thing I did was re-order the tabs. Now I went back to check and I can't re-order them. Maybe that info helps the Hipchat devs out - I just trashed prefs and then you can re-order one tab. Then it stops allowing you to do this.</text></comment> | <story><title>HipChat releases native app for Mac</title><url>https://www.hipchat.com/mac</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jedberg</author><text>I used it for five minutes and found: There is no way to search for a person in the Lobby and you can't reorder the tabs. These are two things I do a lot.</text></item><item><author>javery</author><text>Been using it for an hour or so and haven't run into any issues - what have you found? Just saying critical bugs is pretty unhelpful to everyone.</text></item><item><author>n9com</author><text>I know people are happy as the infamous GIF bug is fixed, but seriously this is one of the worst 'beta' apps I have tried.<p>This mac app has been in development for ages, then been in closed beta and now finally it's available to everyone to try.<p>Our team just switched to the beta native app, and already found several critical bugs with the app within minutes.<p>Sorry guys, this is really poorly put together and the number of obvious bugs makes me think that you don't even use your own product!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rgrieselhuber</author><text>Those aren't bugs.</text></comment> |
14,957,209 | 14,954,965 | 1 | 2 | 14,952,787 | train | <story><title>Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-08/google-fires-employee-behind-controversial-diversity-memo</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sp527</author><text>There are a lot of holes in the arguments you&#x27;re laying out, but I&#x27;ll comment on just a few:<p>* Google is a profit-motivated entity. They have to act in the interest of their shareholders. Correcting for historical imbalances - to the extent that it negatively perverts hiring standards - doesn&#x27;t factor into the calculus of a responsible corporation.<p>* Jews were systematically exterminated in a historical event that was even more recent than slavery. Countless more were left destitute. Why are they any less deserving of positive bias?<p>* There are millions of White people across the Midwest who are dirt poor because manufacturing is no longer a meaningful economic sector in this country. What about them?<p>And more generally, believing that there&#x27;s a contemporary responsibility to correct for historical imbalances leads you down a fantastically absurd rabbit hole. We should instead be addressing the present socioeconomic condition (which will indirectly benefit many of the historically disenfranchised). And that is the job of government. Not corporations.</text></item><item><author>postnihilism</author><text>I appreciate where you are coming from. And I agree we should, &quot;strive towards a world in which we stop making exactly those kinds of distinctions and instead judge people on the content of their character and the value they can create.&quot; And I honestly believe that diversity and outreach programs are part of that process.<p>The economic and social structure of the United States is the result of historical processes that were driven by racism and sexism; disparities in wealth and power between these groups continue to exist today due to that legacy.<p>To take one example, &quot;If average black family wealth continues to grow at the same pace it has over the past three decades, it would take black families 228 years to amass the same amount of wealth white families have today.&quot; [0]<p>While it is a great sentiment that everyone should be treated purely as individuals and it is something to strive for, it completely ignores the economic reality of our country and is an ahistorical approach to public policy or the construction of a hiring pipeline.<p>We can argue about to what role public companies can or should play to reduce these historical inequities. I think that outreach and education at all levels to increase the number of candidates from underrepresented groups in the tech hiring pipeline is a great step and that reducing these inequities, beyond being ethical, will create a stronger workforce. Others might disagree and have good reasons to disagree. That is a conversation worth having, but it needs to happen in the historical context in which we find ourselves.<p>Writing a manifesto that claims that the disparity in tech is the result of biological differences that lead women to be inferior at performing in tech and leadership capacities is not the way to start this conversation. In fact this is the exact kind of sentiment that you call out by saying, &quot;I personally find it inflammatory to equate the concept of diversity with differences in sex and race in the first place.&quot;<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ips-dc.org&#x2F;report-ever-growing-gap&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ips-dc.org&#x2F;report-ever-growing-gap&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>sp527</author><text>&gt; Diversity programs are not about lowering the bar<p>As an Asian male who once upon a time had to apply to colleges, I&#x27;d like to see some evidence for that assertion.<p>To be clear, I (and hopefully many other people commenting here) have no problem with outreach, anti-harrassment, and other such workplace training initiatives. It&#x27;s unfortunate that we can&#x27;t all achieve a baseline level of civility that abstracts away a person&#x27;s biological character.<p>But I personally find it inflammatory to equate the concept of diversity with differences in sex and race in the first place. This tends disturbingly towards institutionalized stereotyping (e.g. &quot;all Asians are nerdy and softspoken, so we&#x27;re going to lump them into the same cohort and exert an implicit negative bias against them&quot;). It&#x27;s also particularly vacuous in that our notion of &#x27;diversity&#x27; is thereby premised chiefly on superficial appearances - &#x27;you look different, therefore you must be the kind of different we need&#x27;.<p>One would think the more equitable philosophy would be to strive towards a world in which we stop making exactly those kinds of distinctions and instead judge people on the content of their character and the value they can create.<p>I find it highly reductionist to conflate people challenging biased hiring practices with people challenging diversity more generally. There are likely some in the tech world who are genuinely bigoted and misogynist. I would hope, however, that a larger share are simply perplexed that hiring practices in engineering would be predicated on anything other than an assessment of raw merit.<p>My final point is this: as long as we continue to perpetuate diversity practices that emphasize sex and race in any way, some classes of people are going to be harmed. Sometimes that&#x27;s more obvious to the Asian male who grew up in a tough part of NYC under difficult circumstances than it is to the affluent Black female who grew up in a world willing to bias opportunities unfairly in her favor (when some other less fortunate Black female really needed the leg up).</text></item><item><author>postnihilism</author><text>This feels like the blue and black (white and gold) dress. It boggles my mind that people don&#x27;t see the fundamental and toxic misogyny in this &#x27;manifesto&#x27;. Please have a woman you care about in your life, preferably one in tech, read this and then ask their opinion of the piece.<p>The &quot;treat people as individuals, not as just another member of their group&quot; sentiment of the author is fine except that we have hundreds of years of doing just this in order to oppress and disenfranchise groups of people. Diversity programs are not about lowering the bar, they are about outreach and working against institutionalized racism and sexism which has created the distribution of wealth and education and work culture that we have today. Given the massive disparity we see in tech it&#x27;s ridiculous that this individual felt the need to lambast the relatively minimal amount of work being done to foster a more diverse and inclusive culture across the industry.<p>If one of the things you have to deal with as a woman in tech is seeing 10 page pseudo-intellectual manifestos about your inherent inferiority at performing in technical and leadership roles published at one of the premier tech companies in the world, and then see that piece supported on the most popular tech social sites then it&#x27;s no wonder we have the gender gap we see today.<p>When somebody&#x27;s views are being attacked for being misogynistic and alienating to their female colleagues, it is not suppression of free speech and diverse political opinion it is common decency. Nobody is infringing on your free speech but they will respond. All of these cries of &#x27;authoritarian left-wing thought-police&#x27; makes me think We need a manifesto on White Male Persecution Complex Culture in Tech.<p>[disclaimer: I work at Google, my words are my own and not my employers]</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>themacguffinman</author><text>* Google clearly doesn&#x27;t believe or intend for its diversity programs to negatively pervert its hiring standards. And while correcting historical imbalance isn&#x27;t inherently profitable, building a more diverse workforce is potentially profitable in the long term as it provides broader perspective and empathy, a valuable thing for a company with a diverse user-base. The positive PR doesn&#x27;t hurt either.<p>* This isn&#x27;t a competition. It seems that the Jewish people have collectively been more resilient to persecution and therefore need no assistance, but so what? Good for them, but it doesn&#x27;t diminish the fact that other minority groups still wear old wounds that hurt them today. Are you seriously suggesting that we shouldn&#x27;t help disadvantaged black Americans simply because disadvantaged Jewish Americans didn&#x27;t need it?<p>* Millions of white people across the Midwest are in bad shape, you&#x27;re right about that. I support programs and practices that will help them out. I also support programs and practices that support other disadvantaged race and gender groups. So I don&#x27;t know what to make of the question &quot;what about them?&quot;. I&#x27;d have to hand the question back to you: what about them?<p>* The government is definitely necessary to address much of this, but it&#x27;s ridiculous to ignore the role of corporations as the backbone of our capitalist society. The private sector is responsible for the majority of economic activity and employment in many countries; they exist at the heart of the problem. Not to mention that some corporate diversity initiatives are actually attempts to comply with government policy. The wider context to this memo is Google&#x27;s gender pay gap lawsuit filed by the US Department of Labor.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-08/google-fires-employee-behind-controversial-diversity-memo</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sp527</author><text>There are a lot of holes in the arguments you&#x27;re laying out, but I&#x27;ll comment on just a few:<p>* Google is a profit-motivated entity. They have to act in the interest of their shareholders. Correcting for historical imbalances - to the extent that it negatively perverts hiring standards - doesn&#x27;t factor into the calculus of a responsible corporation.<p>* Jews were systematically exterminated in a historical event that was even more recent than slavery. Countless more were left destitute. Why are they any less deserving of positive bias?<p>* There are millions of White people across the Midwest who are dirt poor because manufacturing is no longer a meaningful economic sector in this country. What about them?<p>And more generally, believing that there&#x27;s a contemporary responsibility to correct for historical imbalances leads you down a fantastically absurd rabbit hole. We should instead be addressing the present socioeconomic condition (which will indirectly benefit many of the historically disenfranchised). And that is the job of government. Not corporations.</text></item><item><author>postnihilism</author><text>I appreciate where you are coming from. And I agree we should, &quot;strive towards a world in which we stop making exactly those kinds of distinctions and instead judge people on the content of their character and the value they can create.&quot; And I honestly believe that diversity and outreach programs are part of that process.<p>The economic and social structure of the United States is the result of historical processes that were driven by racism and sexism; disparities in wealth and power between these groups continue to exist today due to that legacy.<p>To take one example, &quot;If average black family wealth continues to grow at the same pace it has over the past three decades, it would take black families 228 years to amass the same amount of wealth white families have today.&quot; [0]<p>While it is a great sentiment that everyone should be treated purely as individuals and it is something to strive for, it completely ignores the economic reality of our country and is an ahistorical approach to public policy or the construction of a hiring pipeline.<p>We can argue about to what role public companies can or should play to reduce these historical inequities. I think that outreach and education at all levels to increase the number of candidates from underrepresented groups in the tech hiring pipeline is a great step and that reducing these inequities, beyond being ethical, will create a stronger workforce. Others might disagree and have good reasons to disagree. That is a conversation worth having, but it needs to happen in the historical context in which we find ourselves.<p>Writing a manifesto that claims that the disparity in tech is the result of biological differences that lead women to be inferior at performing in tech and leadership capacities is not the way to start this conversation. In fact this is the exact kind of sentiment that you call out by saying, &quot;I personally find it inflammatory to equate the concept of diversity with differences in sex and race in the first place.&quot;<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ips-dc.org&#x2F;report-ever-growing-gap&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ips-dc.org&#x2F;report-ever-growing-gap&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>sp527</author><text>&gt; Diversity programs are not about lowering the bar<p>As an Asian male who once upon a time had to apply to colleges, I&#x27;d like to see some evidence for that assertion.<p>To be clear, I (and hopefully many other people commenting here) have no problem with outreach, anti-harrassment, and other such workplace training initiatives. It&#x27;s unfortunate that we can&#x27;t all achieve a baseline level of civility that abstracts away a person&#x27;s biological character.<p>But I personally find it inflammatory to equate the concept of diversity with differences in sex and race in the first place. This tends disturbingly towards institutionalized stereotyping (e.g. &quot;all Asians are nerdy and softspoken, so we&#x27;re going to lump them into the same cohort and exert an implicit negative bias against them&quot;). It&#x27;s also particularly vacuous in that our notion of &#x27;diversity&#x27; is thereby premised chiefly on superficial appearances - &#x27;you look different, therefore you must be the kind of different we need&#x27;.<p>One would think the more equitable philosophy would be to strive towards a world in which we stop making exactly those kinds of distinctions and instead judge people on the content of their character and the value they can create.<p>I find it highly reductionist to conflate people challenging biased hiring practices with people challenging diversity more generally. There are likely some in the tech world who are genuinely bigoted and misogynist. I would hope, however, that a larger share are simply perplexed that hiring practices in engineering would be predicated on anything other than an assessment of raw merit.<p>My final point is this: as long as we continue to perpetuate diversity practices that emphasize sex and race in any way, some classes of people are going to be harmed. Sometimes that&#x27;s more obvious to the Asian male who grew up in a tough part of NYC under difficult circumstances than it is to the affluent Black female who grew up in a world willing to bias opportunities unfairly in her favor (when some other less fortunate Black female really needed the leg up).</text></item><item><author>postnihilism</author><text>This feels like the blue and black (white and gold) dress. It boggles my mind that people don&#x27;t see the fundamental and toxic misogyny in this &#x27;manifesto&#x27;. Please have a woman you care about in your life, preferably one in tech, read this and then ask their opinion of the piece.<p>The &quot;treat people as individuals, not as just another member of their group&quot; sentiment of the author is fine except that we have hundreds of years of doing just this in order to oppress and disenfranchise groups of people. Diversity programs are not about lowering the bar, they are about outreach and working against institutionalized racism and sexism which has created the distribution of wealth and education and work culture that we have today. Given the massive disparity we see in tech it&#x27;s ridiculous that this individual felt the need to lambast the relatively minimal amount of work being done to foster a more diverse and inclusive culture across the industry.<p>If one of the things you have to deal with as a woman in tech is seeing 10 page pseudo-intellectual manifestos about your inherent inferiority at performing in technical and leadership roles published at one of the premier tech companies in the world, and then see that piece supported on the most popular tech social sites then it&#x27;s no wonder we have the gender gap we see today.<p>When somebody&#x27;s views are being attacked for being misogynistic and alienating to their female colleagues, it is not suppression of free speech and diverse political opinion it is common decency. Nobody is infringing on your free speech but they will respond. All of these cries of &#x27;authoritarian left-wing thought-police&#x27; makes me think We need a manifesto on White Male Persecution Complex Culture in Tech.<p>[disclaimer: I work at Google, my words are my own and not my employers]</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>solidsnack9000</author><text>&gt; And more generally, believing that there&#x27;s a contemporary responsibility to correct for historical imbalances leads you down a fantastically absurd rabbit hole.<p>It amounts to collective guilt, which is generally considered to be a violation of human rights.</text></comment> |
41,137,639 | 41,135,884 | 1 | 2 | 41,130,620 | train | <story><title>Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters</title><url>https://blog.fal.ai/flux-the-largest-open-sourced-text2img-model-now-available-on-fal/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Hizonner</author><text>You also might want to &quot;clarify&quot; that it is not open source (and neither are any of the other &quot;open source&quot; models). If you want to call it something, try &quot;open weights&quot;, although the usage restrictions make even that a HUGE FUCKING STRETCH.<p>Also, everybody should remember that these models are <i>not copyrightable</i> and you should never agree to any license for them...</text></item><item><author>burkaygur</author><text>hi friends! burkay from fal.ai here. would like to clarify that the model is NOT built by fal. all credit should go to Black Forest Labs (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blackforestlabs.ai&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blackforestlabs.ai&#x2F;</a>) which is a new co by the OG stable diffusion team.<p>what we did at fal is take the model and run it on our inference engine optimized to run these kinds of models really really fast. feel free to give it a shot on the playgrounds. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fal.ai&#x2F;models&#x2F;fal-ai&#x2F;flux&#x2F;dev" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fal.ai&#x2F;models&#x2F;fal-ai&#x2F;flux&#x2F;dev</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DHolzer</author><text>When I read &quot;open source&quot; i thought they actually are doing open source instead of &quot;open weights&quot; this time. Surely they would expect to be called out on hackernews if they label it incorrectly...<p>Thanks for pointing that out @Hizonener</text></comment> | <story><title>Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters</title><url>https://blog.fal.ai/flux-the-largest-open-sourced-text2img-model-now-available-on-fal/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Hizonner</author><text>You also might want to &quot;clarify&quot; that it is not open source (and neither are any of the other &quot;open source&quot; models). If you want to call it something, try &quot;open weights&quot;, although the usage restrictions make even that a HUGE FUCKING STRETCH.<p>Also, everybody should remember that these models are <i>not copyrightable</i> and you should never agree to any license for them...</text></item><item><author>burkaygur</author><text>hi friends! burkay from fal.ai here. would like to clarify that the model is NOT built by fal. all credit should go to Black Forest Labs (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blackforestlabs.ai&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blackforestlabs.ai&#x2F;</a>) which is a new co by the OG stable diffusion team.<p>what we did at fal is take the model and run it on our inference engine optimized to run these kinds of models really really fast. feel free to give it a shot on the playgrounds. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fal.ai&#x2F;models&#x2F;fal-ai&#x2F;flux&#x2F;dev" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fal.ai&#x2F;models&#x2F;fal-ai&#x2F;flux&#x2F;dev</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Morphiak</author><text>A personal bugbear is the AI fascination with calling themselves open source, virtue signalling I guess. Open <i>weights</i> is exactly right. Source code and arguably more important datasets are both required to replicate the work, which is more in the spirit of open source (and science). I think Meta is especially egregious here, given their history.<p>Never underestimate the value of getting hordes of unpaid workers to refine your product. (See also React, others)</text></comment> |
26,052,528 | 26,051,981 | 1 | 2 | 26,051,600 | train | <story><title>The Mediocre Programmer</title><url>http://themediocreprogrammer.com/what-is-the-mediocre-programmer.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ShroudedNight</author><text>I half read, half skimmed the contents, and what I found was significantly divergent from what I was hoping for.<p>I was hoping to find some combination of a breakdown of potential paper cuts that hold programmers back, and an insightful breakdown of seemingly insurmountable problems that keep programmers in their provincial comfort zones, providing a series of bite-sized victories to lead one to greatness.<p>Instead I found number of already well-tread tropes of self-acceptance, limiting the amount one compares one&#x27;s self to others, finding friends, and taking breaks. Furthermore, it does this without presenting any kind of new model to achieve this within the programmers existing emotional, executive and motivational budget.<p>I don&#x27;t know if I&#x27;m staggeringly abnormal but I&#x27;m already acutely aware of those requirements. Absent some seemingly miraculous improvement in my executive function, in order to effect change (at least in me), the content needs to provide either compelling anecdotes as to why I should try harder, or a new model that provides a path where the extra smashing of face is not required.<p>I fully acknowledge I have no claim of liability for the content not meeting my hopes, given the generous lack of cost, but I must say I&#x27;m disappointed.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Mediocre Programmer</title><url>http://themediocreprogrammer.com/what-is-the-mediocre-programmer.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yarg</author><text>&gt; before we can become better programmers we have to pass through being mediocre programmers<p>Sure it&#x27;s true, but it leaves out a fundamental truth about programming (and technically complex disciplines in general): most people that attempt programming will never be a good programmer - indeed most never even cross through the gate of mediocrity.<p>There seems to me to be a superegalitarian notion that all people given the same opportunities will be capable of achieving, if not the same, then comparable results on a given task (or set of tasks of a given type).<p>That simply is not true - &quot;fake it &#x27;till you make it&quot; is not universal.</text></comment> |
11,960,890 | 11,960,987 | 1 | 3 | 11,960,606 | train | <story><title>Lessons from Doom (2010)</title><url>http://vectorpoem.com/news/?p=74</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ivl</author><text>I&#x27;m glad the article mentioned movement. Games today make so many decisions when it comes to movement where the goal is to make it feel &#x27;realistic&#x27;, with sprinting, ducking and the like, but they end up feeling like they don&#x27;t have any depth. An average player will have fairly similar movement to a fairly good one, with incremental differences on small things, and a player with amazing movement won&#x27;t hugely stand out. In Quake 3? A player with amazing movement could do way more to control the map. Quake 3 really mastered that depth, especially with how much there was to learn between the two physics rule-sets (with CPM allowing for a bit more than VQ3). And the reason I say that is because the classic arena shooters (Doom, Quake, Unreal Tournament, etc) had their movement systems as a key part of the game. It&#x27;s why Defrag became such a (relatively) big thing. And it&#x27;s why Overwatch just doesn&#x27;t feel as fun as it could, to me at least. For a game to look like that, but to leave out bunny hopping? Disappointing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Lessons from Doom (2010)</title><url>http://vectorpoem.com/news/?p=74</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ifdefdebug</author><text>&quot;This creates a feeling that’s quite rare in modern FPS: that you are powerful because you are agile, not because you’re a tank.&quot;<p>Thanks. I lost interest in FPS and after reading that chapter now I know why.</text></comment> |
36,714,508 | 36,714,123 | 1 | 2 | 36,712,564 | train | <story><title>We spent $20k on Google Play pre-registration ads</title><url>https://andreaskambanis.com/google-play-store-pre-registration-campaigns/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aantix</author><text>Just thinking out loud - is there any way to create a profitable Google Ad campaign without sinking thousands of money ramping up and learning?<p>It doesn&#x27;t appear so.</text></item><item><author>l5870uoo9y</author><text>&gt; MealPrepPro is built by a small indie dev team and $20k was a painful amount of money for us to waste. With pre-registration ads you&#x27;re putting all your faith in Google that they&#x27;ll deliver the conversions they&#x27;re showing in the ads reports<p>I am running a small independent startup myself where I count every nickel and dime. I tried Google Ads (there was an offer to spend $400 to get an additional $400). Besides a few sign ups, it didn&#x27;t pay off at all. I would never even consider spending $20,000 (!?). I talked with a few newsletters (starts at $1500 per quarter for a campaign) and social influencers (starts at $700 per post) and if money wasn&#x27;t an issue I would buy marketing, but in the early stage the most important resource is myself. If I spend my savings that I live off, I risk running out of money and must go back to being a freelance developer (and the European market sucks at the moment).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phpnode</author><text>The best way to learn is to become a PPC expert at some marketing company, you&#x27;ll still burn through thousands learning all the tricks, but at least they won&#x27;t be <i>your</i> thousands.</text></comment> | <story><title>We spent $20k on Google Play pre-registration ads</title><url>https://andreaskambanis.com/google-play-store-pre-registration-campaigns/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aantix</author><text>Just thinking out loud - is there any way to create a profitable Google Ad campaign without sinking thousands of money ramping up and learning?<p>It doesn&#x27;t appear so.</text></item><item><author>l5870uoo9y</author><text>&gt; MealPrepPro is built by a small indie dev team and $20k was a painful amount of money for us to waste. With pre-registration ads you&#x27;re putting all your faith in Google that they&#x27;ll deliver the conversions they&#x27;re showing in the ads reports<p>I am running a small independent startup myself where I count every nickel and dime. I tried Google Ads (there was an offer to spend $400 to get an additional $400). Besides a few sign ups, it didn&#x27;t pay off at all. I would never even consider spending $20,000 (!?). I talked with a few newsletters (starts at $1500 per quarter for a campaign) and social influencers (starts at $700 per post) and if money wasn&#x27;t an issue I would buy marketing, but in the early stage the most important resource is myself. If I spend my savings that I live off, I risk running out of money and must go back to being a freelance developer (and the European market sucks at the moment).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rcme</author><text>I haven&#x27;t fully validated this idea yet, but I ran a Google ad campaign for $5 a day for a mailing list signup page that I was planning a business around. Click through rates were around 2.5%, which seems to be the baseline, i.e. a 2.5% click through rate basically means no engagement. One thing that was interesting, however, is that certain keywords had click through rates around 7%. I wanted to try re-targeting the campaign to just those keywords but I lost motivation.</text></comment> |
13,451,482 | 13,450,632 | 1 | 3 | 13,450,095 | train | <story><title>DuckDuckGo Hits 14M Searches in a Single Day</title><url>https://www.searchenginejournal.com/duckduckgo-hits-milestone-14-million-searches-single-day/184179/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AdamSC1</author><text>For the team here at DuckDuckGo, we were excited not only to hit 14M searches in a single day but to also cross the threshold of 10B total private searches served. Of which 4B were from last year alone.<p>We wrote a post covering it in our newly launched blog:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;spreadprivacy.com&#x2F;10-billion-fc7808c91343" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;spreadprivacy.com&#x2F;10-billion-fc7808c91343</a><p>It is always an amazing and humbling moment when we hit a new milestone in our metrics. Our team is so incredibly passionate about what we do. To have people from all over the world rally around this concept of raising the standard of trust online and build this product is one thing. But, for users to endorse that mission at such a growing pace and to share us with their friends and family -- it lets us know we&#x27;re truly making a difference for people who want to be more private online, and that is incredibly rewarding.<p>So thank you, to all of you who search with us, all of you who know privacy matters, and all of you who work along side us to show that privacy is not a fringe interest but something we can all have!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WhitneyLand</author><text>DDG is a great success story, I wish the whole team the best.<p>I wonder how an exit will play out though. A big factor with DDG is user trust - that seems to limit the list potential buyers to the few that could credibly maintain that trust.<p>Then there is the IPO route, but that has it&#x27;s own challenges. You could argue that up until now DDG has had no competition because Google doesn&#x27;t think it&#x27;s worth raising its hand to swat a fly. But there is no flying under the radar after an IPO. What if Google promoted a new &quot;no track&quot; feature which matched DDGs benefits without having to do dumb things like append query arguments, modify location, and run plugins?<p>You might say Google would never give up this much tracking control, but there are two caveats. First, if it&#x27;s just an option buried in settings there will be limited uptake yet DDG&#x27;s ability to claim differentiation would be nullified. Secondly, as DDG itself says, search can still be a great business without having to track people.<p>If I were lucky enough to be in DDGs position I would push for a Microsoft acquisition. MS has kept enough promises in recent years that they just may be able provide DDG users enough guarantees to maintain the trust. People have mentioned Apple but that seems like a lower probability for a variety of reasons. An MS deal would avoid the massive hassle of an IPO and enough resources to chip away at Google indefinitely without being pressured into short term decisions.<p>For now I&#x27;m just glad DDG is here trying to do some good.</text></comment> | <story><title>DuckDuckGo Hits 14M Searches in a Single Day</title><url>https://www.searchenginejournal.com/duckduckgo-hits-milestone-14-million-searches-single-day/184179/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AdamSC1</author><text>For the team here at DuckDuckGo, we were excited not only to hit 14M searches in a single day but to also cross the threshold of 10B total private searches served. Of which 4B were from last year alone.<p>We wrote a post covering it in our newly launched blog:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;spreadprivacy.com&#x2F;10-billion-fc7808c91343" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;spreadprivacy.com&#x2F;10-billion-fc7808c91343</a><p>It is always an amazing and humbling moment when we hit a new milestone in our metrics. Our team is so incredibly passionate about what we do. To have people from all over the world rally around this concept of raising the standard of trust online and build this product is one thing. But, for users to endorse that mission at such a growing pace and to share us with their friends and family -- it lets us know we&#x27;re truly making a difference for people who want to be more private online, and that is incredibly rewarding.<p>So thank you, to all of you who search with us, all of you who know privacy matters, and all of you who work along side us to show that privacy is not a fringe interest but something we can all have!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>libraryatnight</author><text>Thank you for a great search engine! I swapped from Google as a default search to your guys&#x27; engine just shy of a year ago and haven&#x27;t looked back. Keep up the great work :)</text></comment> |
27,771,544 | 27,771,596 | 1 | 2 | 27,770,414 | train | <story><title>US-Canada heatwave 'virtually impossible' without warming</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57751918</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aww_dang</author><text>I appreciate that. From the perspective of the skeptic the Popper quote comes to mind.<p>Karl Popper — &#x27;A theory that explains everything, explains nothing&#x27;</text></item><item><author>JulianMorrison</author><text>There is a causal arrow from climate to weather. It just isn&#x27;t as crude as &quot;warm planet equals warm weather&quot;. It would be closer to the truth to say &quot;warm planet equals more unsettled weather, averaging warmer over the large scale, but including unseasonal cold as (for example) wind patterns distort&quot;.</text></item><item><author>aww_dang</author><text>On the other hand, proponents of climate apocalypse frequently make a distinction between weather and climate.</text></item><item><author>aliasEli</author><text>&gt; beating the previous national high temperature mark by more than 4C in one go, as happened in Canada last week, is virtually unprecedented.<p>This event should be a warning call to all people who believe that a global warming of only 2 degrees Celsius will be barely noticeable.<p>One positive effect is that scientists have collected a lot of data that will help them improve climate models.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>syops</author><text>Why does that come to mind? The explanation provided does not explain everything even within the confines of climate science. When massive amounts of energy are added to a dynamical system there will be chaos before a new equilibrium is obtained. This is not controversial. It’s settled science. The heat dome in question is not just a bunch of new local high temps. That’s the wrong thing to look at. It’s a large high pressure mass doing things that the equilibrium established before the industrial revolution largely prevented.</text></comment> | <story><title>US-Canada heatwave 'virtually impossible' without warming</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57751918</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aww_dang</author><text>I appreciate that. From the perspective of the skeptic the Popper quote comes to mind.<p>Karl Popper — &#x27;A theory that explains everything, explains nothing&#x27;</text></item><item><author>JulianMorrison</author><text>There is a causal arrow from climate to weather. It just isn&#x27;t as crude as &quot;warm planet equals warm weather&quot;. It would be closer to the truth to say &quot;warm planet equals more unsettled weather, averaging warmer over the large scale, but including unseasonal cold as (for example) wind patterns distort&quot;.</text></item><item><author>aww_dang</author><text>On the other hand, proponents of climate apocalypse frequently make a distinction between weather and climate.</text></item><item><author>aliasEli</author><text>&gt; beating the previous national high temperature mark by more than 4C in one go, as happened in Canada last week, is virtually unprecedented.<p>This event should be a warning call to all people who believe that a global warming of only 2 degrees Celsius will be barely noticeable.<p>One positive effect is that scientists have collected a lot of data that will help them improve climate models.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>orwin</author><text>Or you know, the refutability criterion.<p>The denialist theory is that CO2 have no impact on temperature.<p>So let&#x27;s build two closed of greenhouses with the same sun exposition, fill one of them with old ambiant air with 450 ppm of CO2 and one with current&#x2F;predicted ambiant air (750 ppm of CO2), same humidity (or rather, a bassin with the same quantity of water). After a day under the sun, check the temperature of both greenhouses (well, actually, the energy contain in the air of both greenhouses would be better). If one of them have more energy than the second, this &quot;CO2 have no impact on the climate&quot; theory should die and his proponents shut up.</text></comment> |
35,607,137 | 35,605,893 | 1 | 3 | 35,600,860 | train | <story><title>RedPajama: Reproduction of LLaMA with friendly license</title><url>https://www.together.xyz/blog/redpajama</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>doctoboggan</author><text>I am a little concerned that they have only about 60% of the code tokens (GitHub and stackexchange). Given that so far the only concrete use case I have for LLMs is coding assistance I wouldn&#x27;t want this open source model to be and less quality in that area.<p>In your opinion do you think this will hamper the model at all? Or is it still more than enough to get good coding assistance?</text></item><item><author>simonw</author><text>The training data - all 1.2 trillion tokens - can be downloaded by grabbing each of the 2,084 URLs listed here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.together.xyz&#x2F;redpajama-data-1T&#x2F;v1.0.0&#x2F;urls.txt" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.together.xyz&#x2F;redpajama-data-1T&#x2F;v1.0.0&#x2F;urls.txt</a><p>I ran a HEAD request against them all to sum up the total file size, and it&#x27;s 2.67TB total.<p>Here&#x27;s a Datasette Lite URL that lets you explore the size metadata about those files: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lite.datasette.io&#x2F;?json=https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;simonw&#x2F;73d15c0dd1025d1196829740bacf4464#&#x2F;data&#x2F;raw?_facet=top_folder&amp;_facet=top_folders" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lite.datasette.io&#x2F;?json=https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;simo...</a><p>And a SQL query that shows the breakdown across the different sources:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lite.datasette.io&#x2F;?json=https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;simonw&#x2F;73d15c0dd1025d1196829740bacf4464#&#x2F;data?sql=select+top_folder%2C+sum%28size_gb%29+from+raw+group+by+top_folder+order+by+sum%28size_gb%29+desc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lite.datasette.io&#x2F;?json=https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;simo...</a><p>Sizes here are in GB:<p><pre><code> common_crawl 1341.6166818914935
c4 806.7667234372348
github 212.1786002581939
wikipedia 111.89125544670969
book 100.43162744678557
arxiv 87.35323827341199
stackexchange 74.54870238155127
</code></pre>
Common Crawl is in there a few times - they have the following folders:<p><pre><code> common_crawl&#x2F;2020-05 198 files
common_crawl&#x2F;2021-04 176 files
common_crawl&#x2F;2023-06 175 files
common_crawl&#x2F;2022-05 157 files
common_crawl&#x2F;2019-30 153 files
</code></pre>
And then C4 as well, which is &quot;a colossal, cleaned version of Common Crawl&#x27;s web crawl corpus. It was based on Common Crawl dataset&quot;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;paperswithcode.com&#x2F;dataset&#x2F;c4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;paperswithcode.com&#x2F;dataset&#x2F;c4</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>csris</author><text>Nice catch! We sampled the github dataset to match the total # tokens seen by LLaMA during training: ~64B tokens (they only pass through 0.64 of their total Github dataset according to the paper). We have a lot of Github data and will make them available soon. Note, we also have not built this for compute optimal training. We are following LLaMA&#x27;s lead and are training on more data for longer to optimize for quality, not compute.</text></comment> | <story><title>RedPajama: Reproduction of LLaMA with friendly license</title><url>https://www.together.xyz/blog/redpajama</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>doctoboggan</author><text>I am a little concerned that they have only about 60% of the code tokens (GitHub and stackexchange). Given that so far the only concrete use case I have for LLMs is coding assistance I wouldn&#x27;t want this open source model to be and less quality in that area.<p>In your opinion do you think this will hamper the model at all? Or is it still more than enough to get good coding assistance?</text></item><item><author>simonw</author><text>The training data - all 1.2 trillion tokens - can be downloaded by grabbing each of the 2,084 URLs listed here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.together.xyz&#x2F;redpajama-data-1T&#x2F;v1.0.0&#x2F;urls.txt" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.together.xyz&#x2F;redpajama-data-1T&#x2F;v1.0.0&#x2F;urls.txt</a><p>I ran a HEAD request against them all to sum up the total file size, and it&#x27;s 2.67TB total.<p>Here&#x27;s a Datasette Lite URL that lets you explore the size metadata about those files: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lite.datasette.io&#x2F;?json=https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;simonw&#x2F;73d15c0dd1025d1196829740bacf4464#&#x2F;data&#x2F;raw?_facet=top_folder&amp;_facet=top_folders" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lite.datasette.io&#x2F;?json=https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;simo...</a><p>And a SQL query that shows the breakdown across the different sources:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lite.datasette.io&#x2F;?json=https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;simonw&#x2F;73d15c0dd1025d1196829740bacf4464#&#x2F;data?sql=select+top_folder%2C+sum%28size_gb%29+from+raw+group+by+top_folder+order+by+sum%28size_gb%29+desc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lite.datasette.io&#x2F;?json=https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;simo...</a><p>Sizes here are in GB:<p><pre><code> common_crawl 1341.6166818914935
c4 806.7667234372348
github 212.1786002581939
wikipedia 111.89125544670969
book 100.43162744678557
arxiv 87.35323827341199
stackexchange 74.54870238155127
</code></pre>
Common Crawl is in there a few times - they have the following folders:<p><pre><code> common_crawl&#x2F;2020-05 198 files
common_crawl&#x2F;2021-04 176 files
common_crawl&#x2F;2023-06 175 files
common_crawl&#x2F;2022-05 157 files
common_crawl&#x2F;2019-30 153 files
</code></pre>
And then C4 as well, which is &quot;a colossal, cleaned version of Common Crawl&#x27;s web crawl corpus. It was based on Common Crawl dataset&quot;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;paperswithcode.com&#x2F;dataset&#x2F;c4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;paperswithcode.com&#x2F;dataset&#x2F;c4</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bkm</author><text>Relevant: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;abacaj&#x2F;status&#x2F;1647999551964323844" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;abacaj&#x2F;status&#x2F;1647999551964323844</a></text></comment> |
6,111,725 | 6,111,702 | 1 | 2 | 6,110,993 | train | <story><title>They Know Much More Than You Think</title><url>http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/aug/15/nsa-they-know-much-more-you-think/?pagination=false</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>uptown</author><text>If what we believe to be true is in-fact true regarding data collection - isn&#x27;t every future President compromised? Somewhere, in the massive archive of phone calls and emails and financial transactions that make-up the digital profile of their path from birth to the door of the White House is a lie, or a half-truth, or something that doesn&#x27;t quite mesh with the public persona they represented in order to attain elected office. Somewhere in that archive is something in their past that could be used against them in a way that would render their Presidency impotent at the very least. Wouldn&#x27;t those with access to this information use that for their own gain? To show the newly elected President what they know, and leverage him or her to make things happen in a manner that benefits their objectives.<p>Now step down the ladder of power and authority. Couldn&#x27;t the same methods be used against Senators? Congressmen and women? Or maybe judges, mayors, police chiefs? Stock Markets? Banks? CEOs? College admissions boards? The potential targets are endless and infinite.<p>A brilliant quote from Sneakers:<p>&quot;There&#x27;s a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it&#x27;s not about who&#x27;s got the most bullets. It&#x27;s about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it&#x27;s all about the information!&quot;<p>The world where these things are possible scares the hell out of me - because I fear that the amassing of this information will inevitably lead to its abuse.</text></comment> | <story><title>They Know Much More Than You Think</title><url>http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/aug/15/nsa-they-know-much-more-you-think/?pagination=false</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ArkyBeagle</author><text>&quot;The value we are trading away, under the surveillance
programs as presently constituted, are quality of
governance. This is not a debate about privacy. It is a
debate about corruption.&quot;<p><a href="http://www.interfluidity.com/v2/4435.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.interfluidity.com&#x2F;v2&#x2F;4435.html</a><p>Orwell himself could not have said it better.</text></comment> |
8,322,411 | 8,322,363 | 1 | 2 | 8,322,152 | train | <story><title>Upgrading GitHub to Rails 3 with Zero Downtime</title><url>http://shayfrendt.com/posts/upgrading-github-to-rails-3-with-zero-downtime/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>ics</author><text><p><pre><code> For those of you keeping score:
- Yes, Rails 3 was released four years ago
- Yes, the current stable version is Rails 4.1, which left us
two major versions behind
We had work to do in order to live in the modern world again.
</code></pre>
Okay, so why didn&#x27;t aren&#x27;t they transitioning to Rails 4? I&#x27;m not clued in to much more than the version numbers so I suppose there are reasons that go a little deeper than &#x27;the lowest version that works with the gems we want&#x27;. They&#x27;ve been working on the transition for six months according to the post, making it recent enough that 4 would be the &#x27;obvious&#x27; choice unless there were fears that it wouldn&#x27;t be stable (IIRC Rails 4 has only been so for a few months).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>donw</author><text>An important lesson I learned while working as a sysadmin was that when you&#x27;re making operational changes, you do one thing at a time.<p>Let&#x27;s say you need to set up a replicated database with failover and monitoring.<p>First you set up the database (and make sure it works).<p>Then you set up monitoring (and make sure it works, too).<p>Followed by replication (which should also work).<p>And finally, automatic failover (there&#x27;s a pattern here...)<p>This sounds obvious, but I&#x27;ve worked with developers that, when given this task, tried to set up the entire thing in one shot. It took them over a month to wrap up, and they didn&#x27;t have time to properly test it, because they bit off too much in one go.<p>The same goes for migrations. You work along an incremental plan to move from Point A to Point B, where at every step of the way, the set of things you need to change is small enough to manage, <i>and</i> you have the option of rolling back.<p>I can&#x27;t imagine that Github has a tiny codebase, so I could totally believe six months for a zero-downtime Rails 2.x -&gt; 3.0 migration. The next big step (3.0 -&gt; 3.2) will be easier from what they learned in the first step, as will the step after that (my guess is 3.2 -&gt; 4.0).</text></comment> | <story><title>Upgrading GitHub to Rails 3 with Zero Downtime</title><url>http://shayfrendt.com/posts/upgrading-github-to-rails-3-with-zero-downtime/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>ics</author><text><p><pre><code> For those of you keeping score:
- Yes, Rails 3 was released four years ago
- Yes, the current stable version is Rails 4.1, which left us
two major versions behind
We had work to do in order to live in the modern world again.
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Okay, so why didn&#x27;t aren&#x27;t they transitioning to Rails 4? I&#x27;m not clued in to much more than the version numbers so I suppose there are reasons that go a little deeper than &#x27;the lowest version that works with the gems we want&#x27;. They&#x27;ve been working on the transition for six months according to the post, making it recent enough that 4 would be the &#x27;obvious&#x27; choice unless there were fears that it wouldn&#x27;t be stable (IIRC Rails 4 has only been so for a few months).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jeremycw</author><text>2.3 to 3.0 is not that bad. 3.0 -&gt; 3.2 is where the trouble will begin.<p>3.0 deprecates a ton of stuff in 2.3. 3.2 actually removes it all and adds in the asset pipeline.<p>Best to not bite off more than you can chew.</text></comment> |
11,897,125 | 11,897,096 | 1 | 2 | 11,896,785 | train | <story><title>Apple File System</title><url>https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/content/documentation/FileManagement/Conceptual/APFS_Guide/Introduction/Introduction.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40016999</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cpr</author><text>Siracusa will finally be happy. ;-)<p>Sounds an awful like like ZFS (zero-cost clones, read-only snapshots) but could it be? I would imagine they&#x27;d start from scratch to due IP issues.<p>Clearly this is immature technology they want to get out for testing&#x2F;evaluation before it&#x27;s fully adopted even into their own products. (See below.)<p>- - - from the release notes - - -<p>As a developer preview of this technology, there are currently several limitations:<p>Startup Disk: APFS volumes cannot currently be used as a startup disk.<p>Case Sensitivity: Filenames are currently case-sensitive only.<p>Time Machine: Time Machine backups are not currently supported.<p>FileVault: APFS volumes cannot currently be encrypted using FileVault.<p>Fusion Drive: Fusion Drives cannot currently use APFS.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>legulere</author><text>Another reason is that ZFS just isn&#x27;t fitting for Apple devices. It&#x27;s memory hungry and energy hungry and has several limitations compared to HFS+ like not being able to be resized.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple File System</title><url>https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/content/documentation/FileManagement/Conceptual/APFS_Guide/Introduction/Introduction.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40016999</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cpr</author><text>Siracusa will finally be happy. ;-)<p>Sounds an awful like like ZFS (zero-cost clones, read-only snapshots) but could it be? I would imagine they&#x27;d start from scratch to due IP issues.<p>Clearly this is immature technology they want to get out for testing&#x2F;evaluation before it&#x27;s fully adopted even into their own products. (See below.)<p>- - - from the release notes - - -<p>As a developer preview of this technology, there are currently several limitations:<p>Startup Disk: APFS volumes cannot currently be used as a startup disk.<p>Case Sensitivity: Filenames are currently case-sensitive only.<p>Time Machine: Time Machine backups are not currently supported.<p>FileVault: APFS volumes cannot currently be encrypted using FileVault.<p>Fusion Drive: Fusion Drives cannot currently use APFS.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TillE</author><text>ZFS gobbles RAM and almost certainly couldn&#x27;t be made to run acceptably on the Apple Watch. No, this seems like something developed from scratch to meet their particular needs.</text></comment> |
19,368,567 | 19,367,734 | 1 | 3 | 19,367,320 | train | <story><title>Leaderless Debian</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/782786/1b0334c3a2a9d8b1/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ilovecaching</author><text>Controversial opinion warning, and I would love to hear some counterpoints outside of my thought bubble.<p>I&#x27;ve never understood the appeal of Debian or Ubuntu, or I guess I don&#x27;t understand why people would invest so much time in them compared to Fedora and Redhat. In actual buisness dealings Redhat has always led the way in enterprise (whole data centers), kernel development (a bunch of the maintainers work for them and they lead efforts like cgroups v2), and other highly technical pieces of the ecosystem, including acquiring all of the start developers (such as the systemd folks). Investing in Redhat is an investment into a deeper understanding of LInux through their excellent documentation and well paying positions through their famously good certifications.<p>There is of course a lot of debian and ubunutu out there in small deployments, usually individuals, small buisnesses, and education, but they are ultimately less lucrative and more oriented towards beginners&#x2F;hobbyists. At least Ubuntu used to be. I&#x27;m not really sure who the target audience of debian is.<p>I&#x27;ve also never understood the appeal of .deb or apt, or what debians end goal is. They never seem to be doing anything that interesting except grinding away at repackaging everything. Canonical is just flailing to find some sort of niche and historically (Ubuntu phone, Mir, Open Stack, Upstart, probably snap) they are incredibly bad at finding relevance. I think having multiple packaging ecosystems is the stupidest idea in the world, and don&#x27;t see the value add except giving people the illusion of more choices.</text></comment> | <story><title>Leaderless Debian</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/782786/1b0334c3a2a9d8b1/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>baldfat</author><text>I know how loved Debian has been for the community and all that has been built on it but as a user I kind of always felt that Debian was always doing their own thing, at their own pace and their own requirements. Maybe this is a sign that that way of running a Linux community is over? We really have a fairly robust ecosystem and development has become much more refined? I might be missing the inner politics of the community that has caused this?</text></comment> |
19,112,154 | 19,111,289 | 1 | 2 | 19,108,781 | train | <story><title>They Don’t Make Music Like They Used To</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/opinion/what-these-grammy-songs-tell-us-about-the-loudness-wars.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>puranjay</author><text>I&#x27;m an amateur musician. One of the more common pieces of advice you&#x27;ll see floating around in the community is to make your music &quot;louder&quot;, especially if you&#x27;re creating electronic music of any form.<p>Two reasons for this:<p>1. More and more people are listening to music through equipment that is significantly inferior. Mobile phones, cheap Bluetooth speakers, cheap earphones - they&#x27;re all subpar in their ability to render sound faithfully.<p>2. There is a constant &quot;war for loudness&quot;. Once you&#x27;ve listened to a David Guetta song that can be ferociously loud, anything not as loud will be perceived as &quot;soft&quot; that &quot;kills the vibe&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>They Don’t Make Music Like They Used To</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/opinion/what-these-grammy-songs-tell-us-about-the-loudness-wars.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cmurphycode</author><text>I think that an underrated factor in the dynamic range compression is the way we listen to music. I&#x27;m not sure if it&#x27;s accurate to say that the average quality of listening devices (that is, speakers&#x2F;headphones) has decreased, but certainly it has become more common to hear music through bad earbuds, tinny smartphone speakers, or laptops simply because those devices are so prevalent.<p>In these settings, music with lots of dynamic range may legitimately not sound as good. Due to the quality of reproduction, the low-loudness parts are hard to perceive.<p>For me, there are certainly songs that I enjoy listening to on good headphones in a quiet room that don&#x27;t have anywhere near the impact when played on laptop speakers.</text></comment> |
30,222,111 | 30,222,192 | 1 | 3 | 30,188,843 | train | <story><title>Decades-old IBM database became profitable dossier on health of 270M Americans</title><url>https://www.statnews.com/2022/02/01/ibm-watson-health-marketscan-data/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hedora</author><text>&gt; <i>He started by reaching out to the biggest corporations. If they would agree to give him data on their employees’ paid medical claims, he would return to them an analysis of their cost drivers, benefit designs, and manageable risks that would give them leverage in negotiations with insurers</i><p>What? Isn&#x27;t this exactly the sort of thing HIPAA is supposed to ban? What happened to doctor-patient confidentiality? Why do employers even have that information?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>capableweb</author><text>The clues are a bit earlier in the article and the full name of HIPAA<p>&gt; The financial trajectory of MarketScan was perhaps unimaginable in 1981, when a former insurance executive named Ernie Ludy founded the company. His idea was to simply collect patients’ data and parcel it out to big companies that were seeking to control costs by getting a more granular view of their employees’ health care use.<p>&gt; The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996</text></comment> | <story><title>Decades-old IBM database became profitable dossier on health of 270M Americans</title><url>https://www.statnews.com/2022/02/01/ibm-watson-health-marketscan-data/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hedora</author><text>&gt; <i>He started by reaching out to the biggest corporations. If they would agree to give him data on their employees’ paid medical claims, he would return to them an analysis of their cost drivers, benefit designs, and manageable risks that would give them leverage in negotiations with insurers</i><p>What? Isn&#x27;t this exactly the sort of thing HIPAA is supposed to ban? What happened to doctor-patient confidentiality? Why do employers even have that information?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>icegreentea2</author><text>The information is supposedly de-identified. That means it&#x27;s not a HIPAA violation. You can look at the HIPAA de-identification standard right over here (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hhs.gov&#x2F;hipaa&#x2F;for-professionals&#x2F;privacy&#x2F;special-topics&#x2F;de-identification&#x2F;index.html#standard" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hhs.gov&#x2F;hipaa&#x2F;for-professionals&#x2F;privacy&#x2F;special-...</a>).</text></comment> |
17,692,984 | 17,693,128 | 1 | 2 | 17,687,676 | train | <story><title>Scream – virtual network sound card for Windows</title><url>https://github.com/duncanthrax/scream</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zitterbewegung</author><text>So what do you use this for? Playing audio back in a large room like a restaurant?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>magicalhippo</author><text>Personally I&#x27;ve used PulseAudio to send audio over the network from my Linux NUC to my Windows Desktop, so I could watch videos and similar on it without using noisy analog audio or get a new soundcard with optical input. This seems like it could fill a similar role except in reverse.<p>I have separate monitors but use Symless Synergy to share the mouse and keyboard.</text></comment> | <story><title>Scream – virtual network sound card for Windows</title><url>https://github.com/duncanthrax/scream</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zitterbewegung</author><text>So what do you use this for? Playing audio back in a large room like a restaurant?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jaruzel</author><text>With this you can cheaply replicate a Sonos style whole home networked music system, by having the recievers be something like some raspberry pi zeros wired up to some amplified speakers.<p>Ive been wary of stuff like Sonos due to the cost and the proprietary nature of the tech, but this Scream driver seems to be a nice simple alternative.</text></comment> |
2,384,374 | 2,384,446 | 1 | 3 | 2,384,066 | train | <story><title>How Western Diets Are Making The World Sick </title><url>http://www.npr.org/2011/03/24/132745785/how-western-diets-are-making-the-world-sick</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aantix</author><text>Am I the only one that felt like he was holding the Afghanistan people up as a model of health because they lack fat? Their life expectancy is a mere ~44 years (<a href="http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&#38;met=sp_dyn_le00_in&#38;idim=country:AFG&#38;dl=en&#38;hl=en&#38;q=afghanistan+life+expectancy" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&#38;met=sp_dyn_le...</a>). Neighboring Pakistan is 66 years (<a href="http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&#38;met=sp_dyn_le00_in&#38;idim=country:PAK&#38;dl=en&#38;hl=en&#38;q=pakistan+life+expectancy" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&#38;met=sp_dyn_le...</a>).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>splish</author><text>It was a doctor's observation. While operating on Afghan soldiers who have limited access to processed foods and a western lifestyle the fat deposits were not found as abundantly internally.<p>It serves as a launching point to describe the point of the article and book.<p>Your premise and statistics are a bit on the hand-waving side, of course no one is calling Afghanistan and Pakistan models of health.<p>And life expectancy is not a proper measure of health either, as per capita (~2006) Afghan people had $29 as the total expenditure on health per capita. The United States? $6,714. We may live longer but we have a lot more help in getting there.<p><a href="http://www.who.int/countries/afg/en/" rel="nofollow">http://www.who.int/countries/afg/en/</a><p><a href="http://www.who.int/countries/usa/en/" rel="nofollow">http://www.who.int/countries/usa/en/</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How Western Diets Are Making The World Sick </title><url>http://www.npr.org/2011/03/24/132745785/how-western-diets-are-making-the-world-sick</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aantix</author><text>Am I the only one that felt like he was holding the Afghanistan people up as a model of health because they lack fat? Their life expectancy is a mere ~44 years (<a href="http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&#38;met=sp_dyn_le00_in&#38;idim=country:AFG&#38;dl=en&#38;hl=en&#38;q=afghanistan+life+expectancy" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&#38;met=sp_dyn_le...</a>). Neighboring Pakistan is 66 years (<a href="http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&#38;met=sp_dyn_le00_in&#38;idim=country:PAK&#38;dl=en&#38;hl=en&#38;q=pakistan+life+expectancy" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&#38;met=sp_dyn_le...</a>).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sp332</author><text>Reminds me of a cartoon with a caveman thinking, "Something's just not right - our air is clean, our water is pure, we all get plenty of exercise, everything we eat is organic and free-range, and yet nobody lives past 30." :)</text></comment> |
3,389,043 | 3,389,004 | 1 | 2 | 3,388,945 | train | <story><title>Google has contributed $17.5k to SOPA sponsor Lamar Smith</title><url>http://transparencydata.com/contributions/#Y29udHJpYnV0b3JfZnQ9R29vZ2xlJTIwSW5jJnJlY2lwaWVudF9mdD1MYW1hciUyMFNtaXRo</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Rhapso</author><text>Google is too big, and supports too many things, to not in have in some way contributed money to just about everything. Relax and put down thy pitchfork, SOPA hurts them in many ways and they do not want it. If we want to make it a big PR fiasco like like we did for Go Daddy, whom i think the internet was just looking for an excuse to hurt, then we can but why? Bad target, not worth the effort, no efficacy. Right not, on this topic, Google is on our side for a change because SOPA scares them.<p>*edit s/to/too (and s/too/to) once I saw it, it drove me mad.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google has contributed $17.5k to SOPA sponsor Lamar Smith</title><url>http://transparencydata.com/contributions/#Y29udHJpYnV0b3JfZnQ9R29vZ2xlJTIwSW5jJnJlY2lwaWVudF9mdD1MYW1hciUyMFNtaXRo</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>0x006A</author><text>A better overview of donations to Lamar Smith
<a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cid=N00001811&#38;cycle=2012" rel="nofollow">http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cid=N0000...</a><p>and a list of who Google gave money this cycle
<a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/pacgot.php?cmte=C00428623&#38;cycle=2012" rel="nofollow">http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/pacgot.php?cmte=C00428623&#3...</a><p>Lamar Smith received the most money according to that list.</text></comment> |
34,763,635 | 34,763,446 | 1 | 3 | 34,762,844 | train | <story><title>Hackers interrupt Iran president’s TV speech on anniversary of revolution</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/12/middleeast/hackers-interrupt-iran-leader-revolution-anniversary-intl-hnk/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sillystuff</author><text>&gt; Security forces have responded with a deadly crackdown to the protests, among the strongest challenges to the Islamic Republic since the 1979 revolution ended 2,500 years of monarchy.<p>Iran had a democratically elected government in 1953 when the US and UK overthrew their democracy, and installed the dictator&#x2F;monarch, the Shaw.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;2013&#x2F;aug&#x2F;19&#x2F;cia-admits-role-1953-iranian-coup" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;2013&#x2F;aug&#x2F;19&#x2F;cia-admits-rol...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nsarchive.gwu.edu&#x2F;briefing-book&#x2F;iran&#x2F;2017-08-08&#x2F;1953-iran-coup-new-us-documents-confirm-british-approached-us-late" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nsarchive.gwu.edu&#x2F;briefing-book&#x2F;iran&#x2F;2017-08-08&#x2F;1953...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>enkid</author><text>The monarch wasn&#x27;t installed in that there was a monarch in the Iran before 1953, and it wasn&#x27;t really all that much of a democracy at the time. Its not like Iran was a well running democracy, then the US overthrew it&#x27;s president and set up a monarch. I&#x27;m not defending the US&#x27;s actions,just pointing out your comment seems to be implying Iran didn&#x27;t have a monarch and then the US installed one. It&#x27;s more like the US supported one part of the government in not undertaking necessary reforms, even though those reforms were popular, which then shifted power away from another part of the government.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hackers interrupt Iran president’s TV speech on anniversary of revolution</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/12/middleeast/hackers-interrupt-iran-leader-revolution-anniversary-intl-hnk/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sillystuff</author><text>&gt; Security forces have responded with a deadly crackdown to the protests, among the strongest challenges to the Islamic Republic since the 1979 revolution ended 2,500 years of monarchy.<p>Iran had a democratically elected government in 1953 when the US and UK overthrew their democracy, and installed the dictator&#x2F;monarch, the Shaw.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;2013&#x2F;aug&#x2F;19&#x2F;cia-admits-role-1953-iranian-coup" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;2013&#x2F;aug&#x2F;19&#x2F;cia-admits-rol...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nsarchive.gwu.edu&#x2F;briefing-book&#x2F;iran&#x2F;2017-08-08&#x2F;1953-iran-coup-new-us-documents-confirm-british-approached-us-late" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nsarchive.gwu.edu&#x2F;briefing-book&#x2F;iran&#x2F;2017-08-08&#x2F;1953...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>varjag</author><text>It was still a monarchy during the 1953 ousting of Shah.</text></comment> |
5,551,970 | 5,551,680 | 1 | 2 | 5,551,034 | train | <story><title>How to work with Software Engineers</title><url>https://www.kennethnorton.com/essays/how-to-work-with-software-engineers.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hvs</author><text>I know where this article is coming from, but I guess I've just been lucky to work with a lot of great PMs that:<p>1) Are a firewall between upper management and the development team.<p>2) Organize the priorities of the team and help the developers to get the most done in the limited amount of time that they have.<p>3) Follow up on business requirements and the thousands of other details that need to be figured out so that the client doesn't say, "what the hell is this?" on delivery day even though it is precisely what they asked for (but not what they wanted).<p>4) Praise the team for the great work that they've been doing and make their successes known to management.<p>I've worked with as many (or more) crap developers as I have PMs, so I'm always wary of articles like this. It's way too easy to talk about how management/sales/PMs/etc don't add any value to the process (which is patently false) while lionizing the work of the developer as if they are all dedicated, hardworking, and never, ever, make mistakes.<p>This "us vs. them" mentality that exists is ridiculous. We are all trying to accomplish something. Some are better than others at it. But don't shit on someone else's job, complain about how you want to be left alone, and then wonder why your career isn't going anywhere.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to work with Software Engineers</title><url>https://www.kennethnorton.com/essays/how-to-work-with-software-engineers.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>edw519</author><text>Cute. Nice fake list. Nice writing. The "true" list at the end, like a Hollywood ending, was probably not necessary.<p>Now my list:<p>1. You don't "work with" software engineers. We don't even "work with" each other. If you don't learn anything else from this, get this: we work alone. Always. Even when we think we don't. Sure, we occasionally get together to plan, analyze, discuss, white board, even "pair program" whatever that means, but sooner or later, we all sit down alone and do what we do. With that in mind...<p>2. Leave us the fuck alone! If you see a software engineer looking at a screen and typing, that means we're BUSY. Do not interrupt. Do not call. Do not text. Do not IM. Do ask if we're busy (WE are!). Do not tap us on our shoulder. And whatever you do, don't just stand there waiting for us to stop typing (We won't; that's a test of wills you will lose). Just send an email. That's it. When we break, we'll check email and reply. If you don't write well enough to communicate with us, then learn how to.<p>(If my language seems a little strong, it's because I feel so strongly about this. Nothing is more frustrating to us than having work to do and being kept from doing it when we want to. We often need large blocks of time and room to focus deeply.)<p>3. Don't try to understand how we work, what makes us tick, what turns us on, or the "secret" to making us more productive. a. All those things are different for every one of us. b. We don't even know what they are ourselves.<p>4. Don't patronize us. Sure, we all appreciate beer, donuts, chocolate, and foosball, just like everybody else, but don't bother trying to get something from us with a gimmick. It may work once or twice, but then never again. That shit doesn't even work on your dog. Why do you think it would work with us?<p>5. Provide us with the resources we need. This is pretty binary. Do this and get results. Don't do this and don't get results. For the most part, we're fairly easy. A comfortable chair. A decent machine. Good lighting. Fresh air or HVAC. Peace and quiet. Decent facilities. Specs or requirements &#62; 50% accurate. (Forget about 100% accurate; none of us has ever seen that; we'll live with 50-80%.).<p>6. When we tell you we need something, believe us!.If we need clarification on something, get it. If we need more time, give it to us. If we need access to someone/something, make it happen.<p>7. Never lie to us. We are used to our machines always telling the truth. We insist on no less from other humans.<p>8. Contrary to common belief, we do not hate the following classes of things, we just hate idiotic instances of them: meetings, status reports, timesheets, processes, procedures, policies, mission statements, motivational posters, HR, reviews, interviews, reports, specs, and team-building exercises.<p>9. The best thing you could possibly do for us: everything you must and not one thing more.<p>10. Top ten lists suck (except this one).</text></comment> |
22,343,795 | 22,342,091 | 1 | 3 | 22,341,140 | train | <story><title>The Art of Powerful Questions (2003) [pdf]</title><url>https://umanitoba.ca/admin/human_resources/change/media/the-art-of-powerful-questions.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ssivark</author><text>In context, allow me to share this gem of a comic: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;kiriakakis.net&#x2F;comics&#x2F;mused&#x2F;a-day-at-the-park" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;kiriakakis.net&#x2F;comics&#x2F;mused&#x2F;a-day-at-the-park</a><p>I won&#x27;t say anything about it, because I don&#x27;t want to spoil it for you.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Art of Powerful Questions (2003) [pdf]</title><url>https://umanitoba.ca/admin/human_resources/change/media/the-art-of-powerful-questions.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tlb</author><text>Before the internet, I user to spend a lot of time pondering questions to which the answer was in a textbook somewhere. Sometimes I figured them out for myself.<p>Today, I rarely spend much time pondering questions whose answer is in Wikipedia. I just look it up.<p>Pondering any question is good mental exercise for others. I wonder if the easy availability of answers to most questions makes it harder to tackle the truly unsolved ones.</text></comment> |
40,659,620 | 40,659,622 | 1 | 2 | 40,654,190 | train | <story><title>Silicon Valley's best kept secret: Founder liquidity</title><url>https://www.stefantheard.com/silicon-valleys-best-kept-secret-founder-liquidity/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>corry</author><text>Three interesting part of the discussion:<p>(1) The opportunity cost to the founder of taking early liquidity:<p>If a founder cashes out 10% of their position for $500k @ $25M Series A valuation, that de-risks a lot of their personal life. But when the startup ends up selling for $250M, that $500k of &#x27;early&#x27; selling would have been worth $5M (less any dilution between rounds) - hard not to regret the choice in that case even if hedging is going to be the correct choice 99% of the time.<p>(2) Meaningful vs. not-meaningful amounts:<p>From my prev example, the founder sells 10% of their position for $500k. Well, if all employees were allowed to sell up to 10% of their positions too, would that even matter to them? If you were an employee and had $200k total value in your options, and you could sell 10%, you&#x27;re getting $20k. Not really enough to de-risk your life although still might be welcome (and employees would appreciate having the choice).<p>(3) Sellers need buyers:<p>In order for there to be a seller of shares, there needs to be a buyer. The founder is effectively choosing his buyer and future business partner by taking investment and choosing to give that buyer more control over the corp by selling him even more shares (his personal shares). The buyer wants to make the founder happy and de-risk their downside so they can be more aggressive or big-picture or whatever, plus is happy to own more of the company assuming it&#x27;s a hot round.<p>But what does the buyer want to achieve by purchasing the employees shares? Just to own a little bit more % of the corp? For amounts that might not even matter for the employees and may de-incentivize them?<p>It&#x27;s all very complicated and perhaps there are nuances that make every situation unique.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>neilv</author><text>&gt; <i>If a founder cashes out 10% of their position for $500k @ $25M Series A valuation, that de-risks a lot of their personal life. But when the startup ends up selling for $250M, that $500k of &#x27;early&#x27; selling would have been worth $5M (less any dilution between rounds) - hard not to regret the choice in that case even if hedging is going to be the correct choice 99% of the time.</i><p>IMHO, it&#x27;s <i>very easy</i> <i>not</i> to regret, with those particular numbers.<p>I&#x27;d take $500K now plus possibly $45M later -- over $0 now and possibly $50M later.<p>I&#x27;d take that deal even if &quot;possibly&quot; were &quot;guaranteed&quot;.<p>(Who might regret that is a founder who was otherwise already wealthy.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Silicon Valley's best kept secret: Founder liquidity</title><url>https://www.stefantheard.com/silicon-valleys-best-kept-secret-founder-liquidity/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>corry</author><text>Three interesting part of the discussion:<p>(1) The opportunity cost to the founder of taking early liquidity:<p>If a founder cashes out 10% of their position for $500k @ $25M Series A valuation, that de-risks a lot of their personal life. But when the startup ends up selling for $250M, that $500k of &#x27;early&#x27; selling would have been worth $5M (less any dilution between rounds) - hard not to regret the choice in that case even if hedging is going to be the correct choice 99% of the time.<p>(2) Meaningful vs. not-meaningful amounts:<p>From my prev example, the founder sells 10% of their position for $500k. Well, if all employees were allowed to sell up to 10% of their positions too, would that even matter to them? If you were an employee and had $200k total value in your options, and you could sell 10%, you&#x27;re getting $20k. Not really enough to de-risk your life although still might be welcome (and employees would appreciate having the choice).<p>(3) Sellers need buyers:<p>In order for there to be a seller of shares, there needs to be a buyer. The founder is effectively choosing his buyer and future business partner by taking investment and choosing to give that buyer more control over the corp by selling him even more shares (his personal shares). The buyer wants to make the founder happy and de-risk their downside so they can be more aggressive or big-picture or whatever, plus is happy to own more of the company assuming it&#x27;s a hot round.<p>But what does the buyer want to achieve by purchasing the employees shares? Just to own a little bit more % of the corp? For amounts that might not even matter for the employees and may de-incentivize them?<p>It&#x27;s all very complicated and perhaps there are nuances that make every situation unique.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ipsento606</author><text>&gt; hard not to regret the choice in that case even if hedging is going to be the correct choice 99% of the time<p>in the scenario you outline the founder sells the remaining 90% of their position for $45MM?<p>I don&#x27;t think many people would experience any real regret at &quot;only&quot; getting $45.5MM instead of $50MM, due to declining marginal utility of money</text></comment> |
17,390,128 | 17,389,598 | 1 | 3 | 17,389,338 | train | <story><title>Want to Understand What Ails the Modern Internet? Look at eBay</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/magazine/want-to-understand-what-ails-the-modern-internet-look-at-ebay.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>steven2012</author><text>I use eBay frequently. I have only bought things, but I want to sell things, however I&#x27;m terrified of getting scammed. And eBay does nothing to ameliorate those fears. I got as close as taking pictures, writing a description, and stopped at the last step before putting my item for sale. Everything I&#x27;ve read suggests that it&#x27;s simply not worth it to try to sell things because you have no protection from scammers.<p>As a buyer, however, it&#x27;s great so unless you have enough margins to protect you from scammers, and if you just want to sell one-off things like eBay from the 2000s, then don&#x27;t bother.<p>As a technology platform, eBay is an embarrassment. They released features like collections that didn&#x27;t work on their production website and it looks like they got rid of it entirely now. They have a half-built API that has confusing documentation, and their APIs that do work aren&#x27;t very useful. Nothing about their site has changed in 20 years, and they&#x27;re waiting to die, like Yahoo. I&#x27;m surprised Amazon or even etsy hasn&#x27;t been able to destroy them yet, since they&#x27;re a stationary target that hasn&#x27;t done anything meaningful in over a decade.</text></comment> | <story><title>Want to Understand What Ails the Modern Internet? Look at eBay</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/magazine/want-to-understand-what-ails-the-modern-internet-look-at-ebay.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>6nf</author><text>I think I missed the point because I don&#x27;t understand what this article is trying to say exactly.</text></comment> |
23,170,432 | 23,170,451 | 1 | 2 | 23,168,998 | train | <story><title>How we successfully handled 2.5x traffic in a week</title><url>http://engineering.khanacademy.org/posts/handling-2x-traffic-in-a-week.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>polote</author><text>If Khan Academy uses Youtube to serve their video and uses Fastly to serve static content, what makes it hard to scale ?<p>I mean being able to scale that easily is a great thing, but is there anything worth sharing with the world in their case ?</text></comment> | <story><title>How we successfully handled 2.5x traffic in a week</title><url>http://engineering.khanacademy.org/posts/handling-2x-traffic-in-a-week.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xhkkffbf</author><text>This is a good example of how cloud tools make this kind of scaling easy.<p>The trickier part can be the cost-- which this piece notes will increase roughly linearly with the number of users. If Khan Academy is free, I think this means those who are generous are going to need to keep giving to keep it that way. Let&#x27;s step up, everyone.</text></comment> |
10,892,887 | 10,892,701 | 1 | 2 | 10,890,907 | train | <story><title>Cisco Must Be Held Accountable for Aiding China’s Human Rights Abuses</title><url>https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-court-cisco-must-be-held-accountable-aiding-chinas-human-rights-abuses</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>est</author><text>Quick quiz for you: exactly how many people died on that square you mentioned? If not, where are the killing happened? Which side draw first blood?</text></item><item><author>wmt</author><text>Yeah right. Until 1999 it received wide support from Chinese officials, but then decided it was too big and started a silly propaganda campaign feeding the gullible with lies like you just told at the same time when they started a violent persecution.<p>At least they had learned something from the bloody Tienanmen massacre, and this time instead sending military to murder piles of unarmed civilians carried out the murders a bit more covertly.</text></item><item><author>est</author><text>Falun was banned by mainland China simply because it&#x27;s a Taiwan backed cult organization to gather intel &amp; support coup in government seniors and military. The rest is media propaganda.</text></item><item><author>quantumpotato_</author><text>I talked with a Chinese person who told me why. His explanation:<p>Falun Gong exercises (Tai-Chi like) improved the health of their practicioners. The communist party supported Falun Gong practice because it lowered their healthcare costs.<p>Until there were more members of Falun Gong than Communist party officials. So the latter began hunting the former.<p>Some Chinese fled China, and that&#x27;s how the West know about Falun Gong.<p>Very sad state of affairs.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.falundafa.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.falundafa.org&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>meowface</author><text>I didn&#x27;t know a lot about Falun Gong, and did some research.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Gong_practitioners_in_China" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Go...</a><p>The fact that there is even a Wikipedia article with this title is horrifying.<p>&gt;Falun Gong practitioners in Changchun intercepted eight cable television networks in Jilin Province, and for nearly an hour, televised a program titled &quot;Self-Immolation or a Staged Act?&quot;. All six of the Falun Gong practitioners involved were captured over the next few months. Two were killed immediately, while the other four were all dead by 2010 as a result of injuries sustained while imprisoned.<p>Falun Gong is a peaceful semi-religion. They&#x27;ve never committed violent acts (as far as I can tell), nor have they even tried to subvert China&#x27;s government. Why in the world is China torturing and killing them? It seems like they&#x27;re doing it merely out of fear they <i>could maybe</i> one day become a force that would stand against the government. This is very Stalin-esque persecution and paranoia.</text></item><item><author>tim333</author><text>It seems clear Cisco knew their systems were going to be used against Falun Gong. Leaked Cisco presentation:<p>&quot;Cisco Confidential 57 © 2002, Cisco Systems<p>The Golden Shield Project:<p>Public Network Information Security Monitor System<p>• Stop the network-related crimes<p>• Guarantee the security and services of public network<p>• Combat “Falun Gong” evil religion and other hostiles<p>[Note: Statement of Government goals from speech government offical
Li Runsen]&quot;<p>Then again it&#x27;s going to be hard to show legally they were doing much more than helping China enforce it&#x27;s laws. Still at least the embarrassment factor may put companies off from getting involved in this stuff.<p>I hope the EFF case makes them release documents related to it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aaronbrethorst</author><text>Just for fun, let&#x27;s compare search engine results for the term &quot;tiananmen square&quot;:<p>Google: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=tiananmen+square&amp;safe=off&amp;client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwiCyfXvpKbKAhVP0GMKHfpEATIQ_AUIBygB&amp;biw=1920&amp;bih=893" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=tiananmen+square&amp;safe=off&amp;cl...</a><p>Baidu: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;image.baidu.com&#x2F;search&#x2F;index?tn=baiduimage&amp;ps=1&amp;ct=201326592&amp;lm=-1&amp;cl=2&amp;nc=1&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;word=tiananmen%20square" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;image.baidu.com&#x2F;search&#x2F;index?tn=baiduimage&amp;ps=1&amp;ct=20...</a><p>Most estimates I see put the number of casualties in the 1000&#x27;s, caused by the side that happened to have, y&#x27;know, tanks.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cisco Must Be Held Accountable for Aiding China’s Human Rights Abuses</title><url>https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-court-cisco-must-be-held-accountable-aiding-chinas-human-rights-abuses</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>est</author><text>Quick quiz for you: exactly how many people died on that square you mentioned? If not, where are the killing happened? Which side draw first blood?</text></item><item><author>wmt</author><text>Yeah right. Until 1999 it received wide support from Chinese officials, but then decided it was too big and started a silly propaganda campaign feeding the gullible with lies like you just told at the same time when they started a violent persecution.<p>At least they had learned something from the bloody Tienanmen massacre, and this time instead sending military to murder piles of unarmed civilians carried out the murders a bit more covertly.</text></item><item><author>est</author><text>Falun was banned by mainland China simply because it&#x27;s a Taiwan backed cult organization to gather intel &amp; support coup in government seniors and military. The rest is media propaganda.</text></item><item><author>quantumpotato_</author><text>I talked with a Chinese person who told me why. His explanation:<p>Falun Gong exercises (Tai-Chi like) improved the health of their practicioners. The communist party supported Falun Gong practice because it lowered their healthcare costs.<p>Until there were more members of Falun Gong than Communist party officials. So the latter began hunting the former.<p>Some Chinese fled China, and that&#x27;s how the West know about Falun Gong.<p>Very sad state of affairs.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.falundafa.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.falundafa.org&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>meowface</author><text>I didn&#x27;t know a lot about Falun Gong, and did some research.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Gong_practitioners_in_China" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Go...</a><p>The fact that there is even a Wikipedia article with this title is horrifying.<p>&gt;Falun Gong practitioners in Changchun intercepted eight cable television networks in Jilin Province, and for nearly an hour, televised a program titled &quot;Self-Immolation or a Staged Act?&quot;. All six of the Falun Gong practitioners involved were captured over the next few months. Two were killed immediately, while the other four were all dead by 2010 as a result of injuries sustained while imprisoned.<p>Falun Gong is a peaceful semi-religion. They&#x27;ve never committed violent acts (as far as I can tell), nor have they even tried to subvert China&#x27;s government. Why in the world is China torturing and killing them? It seems like they&#x27;re doing it merely out of fear they <i>could maybe</i> one day become a force that would stand against the government. This is very Stalin-esque persecution and paranoia.</text></item><item><author>tim333</author><text>It seems clear Cisco knew their systems were going to be used against Falun Gong. Leaked Cisco presentation:<p>&quot;Cisco Confidential 57 © 2002, Cisco Systems<p>The Golden Shield Project:<p>Public Network Information Security Monitor System<p>• Stop the network-related crimes<p>• Guarantee the security and services of public network<p>• Combat “Falun Gong” evil religion and other hostiles<p>[Note: Statement of Government goals from speech government offical
Li Runsen]&quot;<p>Then again it&#x27;s going to be hard to show legally they were doing much more than helping China enforce it&#x27;s laws. Still at least the embarrassment factor may put companies off from getting involved in this stuff.<p>I hope the EFF case makes them release documents related to it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>peterwwillis</author><text>You don&#x27;t know?<p>The estimates for the civilians killed in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 range from hundreds to thousands - no exact count is available.<p>In terms of &quot;which side drew first blood&quot;, you could say the &quot;side&quot; of the student protesters, though there&#x27;s no evidence of &quot;blood&quot; in their actions (as they had no weapons).<p>The morning of June 3, protesters clashed with unarmed soldiers trying to force them out of the square, momentarily forcing the army to retreat. By 10pm that night, the army began firing live ammunition at the protesters and the fatalities commenced.</text></comment> |
23,421,743 | 23,421,535 | 1 | 3 | 23,420,935 | train | <story><title>BlackRock Is Bailing Out Its ETFs with Fed Money and Taxpayers Eating Losses</title><url>https://wallstreetonparade.com/2020/06/blackrock-is-bailing-out-its-etfs-with-fed-money-and-taxpayers-eating-losses-its-also-the-sole-manager-for-335-billion-of-federal-employees-retirement-funds/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>anonu</author><text>Garbage article. This sentence got me:<p><pre><code> Since BlackRock is allowed to buy up its own ETFs, this
means that taxpayers will be eating losses that might
otherwise accrue to billionaire Larry Fink’s company and
investors
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What? The sentence indicates a deep misunderstanding of the subject which the author writes about. BlackRock is (mostly) a fund manager: they earn money on assets under management and not (broadly speaking) when the market goes up or down. If the ETFs BlackRock are buying go down, it simply means they are propping up the underlying holdings - the actual corporate bonds. They will then &quot;create&quot; ETF shares and give them to the Fed. Think of the ETF simply as an IOU.<p>BlackRock has also said they will be waiving the ETF fund management fee.</text></comment> | <story><title>BlackRock Is Bailing Out Its ETFs with Fed Money and Taxpayers Eating Losses</title><url>https://wallstreetonparade.com/2020/06/blackrock-is-bailing-out-its-etfs-with-fed-money-and-taxpayers-eating-losses-its-also-the-sole-manager-for-335-billion-of-federal-employees-retirement-funds/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Etheryte</author><text>For those not familiar with the company name, BlackRock owns iShares, which manages the largest S&amp;P 500 ETF tracked in EUR [1]. This and many other ETFs by their brands are commonly recommended as solid entry points for beginner investors [2].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.justetf.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;how-to&#x2F;sp-500-etfs.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.justetf.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;how-to&#x2F;sp-500-etfs.html</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.benzinga.com&#x2F;money&#x2F;best-sp-500-etfs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.benzinga.com&#x2F;money&#x2F;best-sp-500-etfs&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
25,698,339 | 25,695,855 | 1 | 2 | 25,695,357 | train | <story><title>Twitter suspends Sci-Hub account amid Indian court case</title><url>https://twitter.com/verge/status/1347597998155591680</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rvz</author><text>&gt; Ok, so that&#x27;s dangerous enough to suspend, but accounts of literal tyrants and wannabe dictators are just fine?<p>Tough. That&#x27;s Twitter (and any other platform) [0]. They are with in their right to suspend who ever they want.<p>But that&#x27;s not the actual issue, the real issue is coordinated and targeted bans from &#x27;Big Tech&#x27;. These bans will always result in users using alternative platforms and the &#x27;problem&#x27; they tried to remove is still there.<p>Instead of using PayPal, they&#x27;ll just send Bitcoin to them instead which that is harder to stop. Sure, they can blacklist the address, they&#x27;ll just create a thousand more wallet addresses.<p>These bans are becoming pointless. If not, making it even worse.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coindesk.com&#x2F;blackballed-by-paypal-scientific-paper-pirate-takes-bitcoin-donations" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coindesk.com&#x2F;blackballed-by-paypal-scientific-pa...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ThrustVectoring</author><text>&gt; Instead of using PayPal, they&#x27;ll just send Bitcoin to them instead which that is harder to stop<p>If you have a technologically sophisticated user base who is on board with cryptocurrency, you&#x27;ll only lose 90% of your payments switching from credit cards to cryptocurrency.<p>Don&#x27;t minimize the damage that these bans and actions do merely because there is, in principle, a way to route around the damage. It&#x27;s still plenty enough to kill off businesses, and anything with network effects that wants to be a platform will end up being stunted before it can take off.</text></comment> | <story><title>Twitter suspends Sci-Hub account amid Indian court case</title><url>https://twitter.com/verge/status/1347597998155591680</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rvz</author><text>&gt; Ok, so that&#x27;s dangerous enough to suspend, but accounts of literal tyrants and wannabe dictators are just fine?<p>Tough. That&#x27;s Twitter (and any other platform) [0]. They are with in their right to suspend who ever they want.<p>But that&#x27;s not the actual issue, the real issue is coordinated and targeted bans from &#x27;Big Tech&#x27;. These bans will always result in users using alternative platforms and the &#x27;problem&#x27; they tried to remove is still there.<p>Instead of using PayPal, they&#x27;ll just send Bitcoin to them instead which that is harder to stop. Sure, they can blacklist the address, they&#x27;ll just create a thousand more wallet addresses.<p>These bans are becoming pointless. If not, making it even worse.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coindesk.com&#x2F;blackballed-by-paypal-scientific-paper-pirate-takes-bitcoin-donations" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coindesk.com&#x2F;blackballed-by-paypal-scientific-pa...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FeepingCreature</author><text>&gt; They are with in their right to suspend who ever they want.<p>I realize this is heresy, but maybe they should not be?<p>&gt; But that&#x27;s not the actual issue, the real issue is coordinated and targeted bans from &#x27;Big Tech&#x27;. These bans will always result in users using alternative platforms<p>Good. Please continue the coordinated and targeted bans. Compared to a Twitter that can&#x27;t ban people, a diverse ecosystem of alternative services is a usable second place.</text></comment> |
2,627,616 | 2,627,436 | 1 | 2 | 2,627,074 | train | <story><title>Demoted</title><url>http://daringfireball.net/2011/06/demoted</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kenjackson</author><text>Gruber is repeating the obvious, but in a convoluted way.<p>Apple is about selling HW. Google is about selling ads.<p>That's it. Everything else falls from that.<p>Google's goal is to commodotize HW, and I this is, at least theoretically, doable. Apple can't really commodotize ads, at least in no way I can think of.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tedunangst</author><text>The past is not always a good predictor of the future, but I think 10 years ago most people would have said that PC hardware <i>was</i> commoditized. You had your choice of a beige box running Windows from HP/Dell/Gateway. Apple has done a pretty good uncommoditizing it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Demoted</title><url>http://daringfireball.net/2011/06/demoted</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kenjackson</author><text>Gruber is repeating the obvious, but in a convoluted way.<p>Apple is about selling HW. Google is about selling ads.<p>That's it. Everything else falls from that.<p>Google's goal is to commodotize HW, and I this is, at least theoretically, doable. Apple can't really commodotize ads, at least in no way I can think of.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChrisLTD</author><text>Exactly. A lot of Apple's big announcements today were about features that create lock-in. Your music is tied to a $25 iTunes subscriptions; your reading list, email, calendar, to do list, and office documents are tied to iCloud; they even want your text messaging tied to your iOS devices. Then there's all those apps you bought on the Mac and iOS App Stores that you'll never be able to transfer to another system.<p>If you start using enough of these new features, switching away to Android, WebOS or Windows will be a nightmare.</text></comment> |
24,678,853 | 24,678,818 | 1 | 2 | 24,670,416 | train | <story><title>M17 Aims to Replace Proprietary Ham Radio Protocols</title><url>https://hackaday.com/2020/10/02/m17-aims-to-replace-proprietary-ham-radio-protocols/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MaxBarraclough</author><text>Is it legal to use crypto with ham transmissions? I was the under the impression that was generally forbidden.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nateberkopec</author><text>Section 97.113(a)(4) of the Amateur Service rules prohibits the transmission of “effectively encrypted or encoded messages, including messages that cannot be readily decoded over-the-air for true meaning.”<p>What _exactly_ that means is, of course, up for debate. Some say you can use encryption as long as the key is publicly available and obvious (i.e. my key is &quot;password&quot;). There&#x27;s been a bunch of stuff happening in the last year around Winlink. Devil&#x27;s in the details.</text></comment> | <story><title>M17 Aims to Replace Proprietary Ham Radio Protocols</title><url>https://hackaday.com/2020/10/02/m17-aims-to-replace-proprietary-ham-radio-protocols/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MaxBarraclough</author><text>Is it legal to use crypto with ham transmissions? I was the under the impression that was generally forbidden.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wl</author><text>There are exceptions that allow for use of encryption to authenticate remote control of satellites and such. But generally speaking, it violates the rules to obscure the content of a message.</text></comment> |
39,142,251 | 39,138,190 | 1 | 3 | 39,137,502 | train | <story><title>AMD Publishes XDNA Linux Driver: Support for Ryzen AI on Linux</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-XDNA-Linux-Driver-Ryzen-AI</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>neomantra</author><text>Noting that AMD also operates OSS well in their NIC space. Onload and associated tools are on GitHub. Solarflare had the foresight long ago (&gt;10 years) to be open source and that stewardship continued through acquisitions. [1]<p>As an OSS contributor, that available software (via tarball from their website) allowed me to make public Docker tooling and other projects [2]. I would be less inclined to do so with proprietary binary bundles.<p>But it wasn&#x27;t &quot;open collaboration&quot; until recently -- but they were great on support emails! However, <i>new</i> GitHub projects are popping up from them even in the last few months! [3]<p>And thus, I can independently and openly work on issues [4] and integrate their software with other tools [5], just yesterday.<p>This all echoes to the recurrent Supabase thread of the value chain of OSS in companies[6]; there&#x27;s a lot of reasons to do it.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20180108154033&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openonload.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20180108154033&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openon...</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;neomantra&#x2F;docker-onload">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;neomantra&#x2F;docker-onload</a>
[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Xilinx-CNS&#x2F;sfptpd">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Xilinx-CNS&#x2F;sfptpd</a>
[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Xilinx-CNS&#x2F;sfptpd&#x2F;issues&#x2F;6">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Xilinx-CNS&#x2F;sfptpd&#x2F;issues&#x2F;6</a>
[5] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;neomantra&#x2F;nomad-onload">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;neomantra&#x2F;nomad-onload</a>
[6] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39087837">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39087837</a></text></comment> | <story><title>AMD Publishes XDNA Linux Driver: Support for Ryzen AI on Linux</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-XDNA-Linux-Driver-Ryzen-AI</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>im3w1l</author><text>So what functionality does Ryzen AI have? I couldn&#x27;t get past the marketing copy while trying to find it.</text></comment> |
7,977,812 | 7,977,123 | 1 | 3 | 7,976,841 | train | <story><title>Coinbase introduces Vault</title><url>http://blog.coinbase.com/post/90552757447/the-future-of-bitcoin-storage-wallets-vaults</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kolev</author><text>How about fixing the web app before adding more features? Their Ajax page loading hangs most of the time. Going straight to the URL works immediately, but it&#x27;s not always possible.</text></comment> | <story><title>Coinbase introduces Vault</title><url>http://blog.coinbase.com/post/90552757447/the-future-of-bitcoin-storage-wallets-vaults</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>white_eskimo</author><text>Why is multi-sig in quotes? Is Coinbase providing its users with a &#x27;3&#x27; address that is on-block chain, or does this &quot;multi-sig&quot; approach still reside entirely off-block chain.<p>Edit: I presume that Coinbase still holds on to all of the private keys for Vault accounts. Can someone verify otherwise?</text></comment> |
2,699,926 | 2,699,790 | 1 | 3 | 2,699,437 | train | <story><title>Hacked Gmail Account</title><url>http://www.multitasked.net/2011/jun/27/hacked-gmail-google-account/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>raldi</author><text>What I'd like is one-factor for my typical "log in and check mail, write back to a few people" use case, and two-factor or a second password that kicks in when I (or a bad guy) tries to:<p>* Log in from a computer that's never used this account before<p>* Set up a forward<p>* Make a mass mailing<p>* Change the password<p>* Do extensive searching or searching for suspicious terms ("password", "credit card", etc)<p>* Export a large amount of mail<p>...and other such things. That way, I don't have to be inconvenienced by constantly having to use the second factor, but would still survive a stolen laptop, keylogged passord, or sniffed cookie with a contained amount of damage.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trout</author><text>I've been on it since the first day they would let me, and I couldn't be a larger fan. I know how vulnerable I would be if I lost control of my email account, and it's scary. I don't trust the recovery options with google because they're useless if someone gets your password and changes it.<p>I lost my phone skiing, used an application to find it, and realized someone else had the phone already. Without two factor authentication I would have had to change my gmail password, update it everywhere, and type the wrong password in for the next 2 weeks. Revoking the application was simple and made me feel better about the situation. This was huge for me.<p>I would recommend everyone who keeps a fancy phone with them nearly 24/7 to enable 2 factor authentication.<p>What it's like to use:
-Once every 30 days I have to put the code in.
-I keep a paper copy of the 10 backup codes on me. I've had to use 2 of these for when my phone was dead or lost and I was logging on to a new browser.
-I've also emailed these codes to an account that is totally unaffiliated and has no link to my google account.
-I have about 3 other applications I had to set up the application passwords for. This was less painful than I expected.<p>The real risk is when you're in a worst case scenario - without your wallet, without your phone, and every online email you have is compromised.<p>Even if someone does manage to get through the 2 factor authentication, there's a pretty good chance they won't disable it or clear out the emergency codes.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hacked Gmail Account</title><url>http://www.multitasked.net/2011/jun/27/hacked-gmail-google-account/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>raldi</author><text>What I'd like is one-factor for my typical "log in and check mail, write back to a few people" use case, and two-factor or a second password that kicks in when I (or a bad guy) tries to:<p>* Log in from a computer that's never used this account before<p>* Set up a forward<p>* Make a mass mailing<p>* Change the password<p>* Do extensive searching or searching for suspicious terms ("password", "credit card", etc)<p>* Export a large amount of mail<p>...and other such things. That way, I don't have to be inconvenienced by constantly having to use the second factor, but would still survive a stolen laptop, keylogged passord, or sniffed cookie with a contained amount of damage.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>plasma</author><text>Agreed; I got half way through setting up Google's 2 factor but then was told I had to use it for every login, instead of say when I was logging in from a different IP or doing some big change.</text></comment> |
23,808,923 | 23,808,953 | 1 | 2 | 23,807,429 | train | <story><title>An F-22 test pilot on the Raptor's flight control system</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/34762/this-lecture-by-an-f-22-test-pilot-on-the-raptors-flight-control-system-is-bonkers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stouset</author><text>This 100%. While really cool demonstrations, the utility of these in a fight is virtually nonexistent. Any air-to-air engagements these days are inevitably BVR (beyond visual range) encounters, where aircraft fire missiles at one-another from extreme ranges. This type of maneuverability has no use whatsoever in such a scenario.<p>If all of the long-range missiles fail to neutralize one side of the other and both forces opt to continue the engagement, you get to WVR (within visual range) where infrared missiles and—once those are spent—guns are employed. There <i>could</i> be opportunities here where such a trick might be useful, but only in a 1v1 scenario. For any case where you might have two or more enemies to deal with, such an abrupt loss of energy is suicide. And if you’re on the side with superior numbers, the odds are overwhelmingly in your favor with little chance of you being defensive in the first place. And in the 1v1 scenario, modern infrared missiles like the AIM-9x (which are effective even when launched at frankly ridiculous off-boresight angles) make such a maneuver suicide as well.<p>So it might, <i>might</i> be useful if: both sides empty their long&#x2F;medium-range radar-guided missiles at one-another, only two combatants remain, neither decides to bug out, the aggressor empties their IR missiles unsuccessfully, and the defensive craft is imminently going to be within the weapon employment zone for the bandit’s cannon… <i>then</i> this might be a Hail Mary to force the aggressor to overshoot so you can turn the tables. But having bled all your energy, you’re going to get at most one shot before you’re back to simply trying to survive.</text></item><item><author>scarier</author><text>To add on, supermaneuverabillity looks really cool and is an impressive technical achievement for sure, but its utility in combat (at least for the time being) is likely low to negative. Among other reasons, the more players in a fight, the less anyone can afford to sell all their energy for a shot opportunity--even if it works, it leaves them extremely vulnerable.</text></item><item><author>sandworm101</author><text>&gt;&gt; is needed to make the Raptor&#x27;s super maneuverability a reality.<p>The term is &quot;Supermaneuverability&quot;... all one word. This is characterized as post-stall, sometimes called &quot;non-aerodynamic&quot; controlled flight. In short, it means the aircraft remains under pilot control even after the flow has separated from the wing (aka a stall).<p>The 22 is not considered supermaneuverable by many. It can use thrust vectoring and some fly-by-wire tricker to ape supermaneuverability but it pales in comparison to many russian aircraft. The 22&#x27;s wing becomes very unpredictable in stall, hence the need for all the fly by wire. It was meant for flying fast in a strait line, and for stealth. It was never meant for things like Kobras or Kulbits. That it could eventually do them was an afterthought. The Russian aircraft have wings designed for slow speed&#x2F;high AOA maneuverability.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kulbit" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kulbit</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Jks6TTFsglk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Jks6TTFsglk</a><p>Kulbit &#x2F; Chakra at about 05:20 and again at 06:20. Note how slow&#x2F;tight the show is. An f-22 could never perform repeated maneuvers like this in such a confined space.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Firehawke</author><text>Most fights will inevitably go from BVR to WVR-- ECM is continually in a war of escalation with munitions and ECM is almost always ahead.</text></comment> | <story><title>An F-22 test pilot on the Raptor's flight control system</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/34762/this-lecture-by-an-f-22-test-pilot-on-the-raptors-flight-control-system-is-bonkers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stouset</author><text>This 100%. While really cool demonstrations, the utility of these in a fight is virtually nonexistent. Any air-to-air engagements these days are inevitably BVR (beyond visual range) encounters, where aircraft fire missiles at one-another from extreme ranges. This type of maneuverability has no use whatsoever in such a scenario.<p>If all of the long-range missiles fail to neutralize one side of the other and both forces opt to continue the engagement, you get to WVR (within visual range) where infrared missiles and—once those are spent—guns are employed. There <i>could</i> be opportunities here where such a trick might be useful, but only in a 1v1 scenario. For any case where you might have two or more enemies to deal with, such an abrupt loss of energy is suicide. And if you’re on the side with superior numbers, the odds are overwhelmingly in your favor with little chance of you being defensive in the first place. And in the 1v1 scenario, modern infrared missiles like the AIM-9x (which are effective even when launched at frankly ridiculous off-boresight angles) make such a maneuver suicide as well.<p>So it might, <i>might</i> be useful if: both sides empty their long&#x2F;medium-range radar-guided missiles at one-another, only two combatants remain, neither decides to bug out, the aggressor empties their IR missiles unsuccessfully, and the defensive craft is imminently going to be within the weapon employment zone for the bandit’s cannon… <i>then</i> this might be a Hail Mary to force the aggressor to overshoot so you can turn the tables. But having bled all your energy, you’re going to get at most one shot before you’re back to simply trying to survive.</text></item><item><author>scarier</author><text>To add on, supermaneuverabillity looks really cool and is an impressive technical achievement for sure, but its utility in combat (at least for the time being) is likely low to negative. Among other reasons, the more players in a fight, the less anyone can afford to sell all their energy for a shot opportunity--even if it works, it leaves them extremely vulnerable.</text></item><item><author>sandworm101</author><text>&gt;&gt; is needed to make the Raptor&#x27;s super maneuverability a reality.<p>The term is &quot;Supermaneuverability&quot;... all one word. This is characterized as post-stall, sometimes called &quot;non-aerodynamic&quot; controlled flight. In short, it means the aircraft remains under pilot control even after the flow has separated from the wing (aka a stall).<p>The 22 is not considered supermaneuverable by many. It can use thrust vectoring and some fly-by-wire tricker to ape supermaneuverability but it pales in comparison to many russian aircraft. The 22&#x27;s wing becomes very unpredictable in stall, hence the need for all the fly by wire. It was meant for flying fast in a strait line, and for stealth. It was never meant for things like Kobras or Kulbits. That it could eventually do them was an afterthought. The Russian aircraft have wings designed for slow speed&#x2F;high AOA maneuverability.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kulbit" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kulbit</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Jks6TTFsglk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Jks6TTFsglk</a><p>Kulbit &#x2F; Chakra at about 05:20 and again at 06:20. Note how slow&#x2F;tight the show is. An f-22 could never perform repeated maneuvers like this in such a confined space.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sandworm101</author><text>Yes but to win the fight first you have to get <i>to</i> the fight. These low-speed abilities mean russian aircraft can operate from much shorter&#x2F;poorer strips than western jets. They are the product of a different mindset, a more defensive strategy. I doubt the f22 has ever touched grass.</text></comment> |
21,992,089 | 21,992,346 | 1 | 2 | 21,978,936 | train | <story><title>The Political History of Pad Thai</title><url>https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/food-drink/article/3007657/history-pad-thai-how-stir-fried-noodle-dish-was-invented-thai</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zxexz</author><text>Thailand has successfully put a lot of effort in exporting cuisine.<p>It&#x27;s no wonder that Pad Thai and other Thai cuisine is ubiquitous in many countries, with the Thai government putting so much effort into &#x27;gastrodiplomacy&#x27; [0][1]. I&#x27;m certainly not complaining!<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20130926085448&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thailand.prd.go.th&#x2F;view_news.php?id=5585&amp;a=2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20130926085448&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thailand.p...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vice.com&#x2F;en_us&#x2F;article&#x2F;paxadz&#x2F;the-surprising-reason-that-there-are-so-many-thai-restaurants-in-america" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vice.com&#x2F;en_us&#x2F;article&#x2F;paxadz&#x2F;the-surprising-rea...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Political History of Pad Thai</title><url>https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/food-drink/article/3007657/history-pad-thai-how-stir-fried-noodle-dish-was-invented-thai</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wenc</author><text>&quot;Gastro-diplomacy&quot;: the Korean government did something similar.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qz.com&#x2F;747757&#x2F;your-newfound-love-of-korean-food-is-a-government-conspiracy&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qz.com&#x2F;747757&#x2F;your-newfound-love-of-korean-food-is-a...</a><p>Interestingly, it turns out that competent governments <i>are</i> able to export culture and brand in a directed, purposeful way (as opposed to organic) if they put enough money and effort behind the effort and have the right kind of staffing.<p>It&#x27;s fascinating because most government tourism boards rarely achieve success. I&#x27;d never have imagined that bureaucrats would know anything about promoting the arts.</text></comment> |
37,569,570 | 37,569,582 | 1 | 2 | 37,566,929 | train | <story><title>U.K. rejoins Horizon Europe research funding scheme</title><url>https://www.science.org/content/article/uk-finally-rejoins-horizon-europe-research-funding-scheme</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gadders</author><text>You could say that about any election, ever. The Brexit Referendum was no more or less honest than any general election.</text></item><item><author>swores</author><text>Democracy isn&#x27;t a magical word that automatically makes every decision made democratically good, nor does it stop being democracy if people are lied to and tricked into voting against their own interests.</text></item><item><author>FiniteField</author><text>&gt;This whole brexit thing happened by ignoring researchers and listening to whoever spoke louder :)<p>When it goes the way someone wants they call that &quot;democracy&quot; ;)</text></item><item><author>kramerger</author><text>Maybe. This whole brexit thing happened by ignoring researchers and listening to whoever spoke louder :)<p>On the other hand, since brexit happened most international research teams in UK have lost key members to other countries so maybe someone finally took notice.</text></item><item><author>phh</author><text>FWIW, I don&#x27;t have numbers, but Horizon Europe is both a research funding scheme and an industry innovation funding scheme. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu&#x2F;funding&#x2F;funding-opportunities&#x2F;funding-programmes-and-open-calls&#x2F;horizon-europe_en" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu&#x2F;funding&#x2F;funding...</a> says &quot;This is 70% of the budget earmarked for SMEs.&quot;<p>It has both direct research grants (ERC grants), and funds for big consortium projects, where most of the money goes to big companies, with some money also going to SMEs and researchers (It probably has intermediate funding like direct SME fund, I don&#x27;t really know the full extent).<p>I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised that UK joined Horizon Europe because of industry lobbying rather than research.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bemusedthrow75</author><text>&gt; The Brexit Referendum was no more or less honest than any general election.<p>Sorry<i>, no. It was </i>profoundly* dishonest.<p>I have a leaflet that was dropped through my door talking about Turkey joining the EU as if it was something imminent and guaranteed (it is neither).<p>It featured a map that prominently suggested this was a gateway to all things nefarious by showing Turkey as a coloured region without a label, surrounded by Iraq and Syria, which were.<p>It&#x27;s the single most dishonest thing I&#x27;ve seen in politics in my life.<p>* I&#x27;m actually not sorry. This claim is ludicrous.</text></comment> | <story><title>U.K. rejoins Horizon Europe research funding scheme</title><url>https://www.science.org/content/article/uk-finally-rejoins-horizon-europe-research-funding-scheme</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gadders</author><text>You could say that about any election, ever. The Brexit Referendum was no more or less honest than any general election.</text></item><item><author>swores</author><text>Democracy isn&#x27;t a magical word that automatically makes every decision made democratically good, nor does it stop being democracy if people are lied to and tricked into voting against their own interests.</text></item><item><author>FiniteField</author><text>&gt;This whole brexit thing happened by ignoring researchers and listening to whoever spoke louder :)<p>When it goes the way someone wants they call that &quot;democracy&quot; ;)</text></item><item><author>kramerger</author><text>Maybe. This whole brexit thing happened by ignoring researchers and listening to whoever spoke louder :)<p>On the other hand, since brexit happened most international research teams in UK have lost key members to other countries so maybe someone finally took notice.</text></item><item><author>phh</author><text>FWIW, I don&#x27;t have numbers, but Horizon Europe is both a research funding scheme and an industry innovation funding scheme. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu&#x2F;funding&#x2F;funding-opportunities&#x2F;funding-programmes-and-open-calls&#x2F;horizon-europe_en" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu&#x2F;funding&#x2F;funding...</a> says &quot;This is 70% of the budget earmarked for SMEs.&quot;<p>It has both direct research grants (ERC grants), and funds for big consortium projects, where most of the money goes to big companies, with some money also going to SMEs and researchers (It probably has intermediate funding like direct SME fund, I don&#x27;t really know the full extent).<p>I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised that UK joined Horizon Europe because of industry lobbying rather than research.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mcintyre1994</author><text>I&#x27;d argue that it was less honest on the basis that the Leave side didn&#x27;t have the equivalent of a general election manifesto. Cameron had his negotiated deal and Remain was continuity his government. But Leave didn&#x27;t present any concrete document of what they wanted to happen next if we left, and if they had created such a document the referendum wouldn&#x27;t have given them the power to put their plan into practice. The whole referendum design made it impossible for them to be honest IMO even if they wanted to.<p>The Scottish referendum in 2014 didn&#x27;t have the same problem because the SNP campaigning for independence were in power in Scotland and had negotiated the referendum with the UK government.</text></comment> |
2,513,571 | 2,513,282 | 1 | 2 | 2,513,174 | train | <story><title>Tell HN: I'm writing an Erlang recipes book, are you interested?</title><url>http://leanpub.com/erlang-recipes</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Xixi</author><text>Erlang recipes, not that much. Make that Erlang/OTP recipes with a strong emphasis on the OTP side of it, and a million times yes !<p>Or to say it slightly differently : I'm not that much interested in recipes about the Erlang language itself, but I'm very very interested in recipes/examples of architectures of actual Erlang/OTP softwares.<p>I'm doing mostly Python these days, but I worked on a couple of side projects in Erlang in the past (a large one ~3 years ago, and a small one ~6 months ago). And for me the hardest was (and still is) to figure out how to use the OTP behaviors in an optimal way. How to make a nice, working supervision tree.<p>I managed to pull working stuff out of the ground, but somehow it never fell OTPish. I couldn't tell if I did it right or wrong.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tell HN: I'm writing an Erlang recipes book, are you interested?</title><url>http://leanpub.com/erlang-recipes</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jeromec</author><text>Hey, I see you're gaging potential reader interest by asking what they might pay. You might consider using StoryFunded (<a href="http://www.storyfunded.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.storyfunded.com</a>) for this.<p>Our site lets authors raise funds for promising book projects. Like Kickstarter it's all-or-nothing where contributors only pay once the goal is met. If the goal is met authors receive the raised funds, minus 5% and processing fees. We've just went live, and our biggest challenge now is finding book projects people would be interested in funding. This may be such a project :)<p>&#60;/plug&#62; (sorry! :) )</text></comment> |
27,155,414 | 27,155,401 | 1 | 2 | 27,153,279 | train | <story><title>EV Range Breakthrough as New Aluminum-Ion Battery Charges 60 Times Faster to Lit</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltaylor/2021/05/13/ev-range-breakthrough-as-new-aluminum-ion-battery-charges-60-times-faster-than-lithium-ion/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qayxc</author><text>While the research itself sound promising, the article leaves a lot to be desired.<p>The use of units and their notation is horrendous, almost as if the author doesn&#x27;t know even the first thing about SI units and their use:<p>&gt; 197 mAh g−1<p>&gt; 10 gigaWatt to 50gW plants<p>I&#x27;m sorry, but nonsense like that detracts from the trustworthiness of the content.<p>The title is also a bit click-baity - so far they&#x27;re working with coin cells and statements like<p>&gt; It charges an iPhone coin cell in less than 10 seconds.<p>are highly misleading. What does that even mean? An iPhone doesn&#x27;t contain coin cells.<p>Another irritating statements follows immediately after:<p>&gt; The new battery cells are claimed to deliver far more energy density than current lithium-ion batteries, without the cooling, heating or rare-earth problems they face.<p>According to them, their cells achieve 160 Wh&#x2F;kg. That doesn&#x27;t add up at all. A mainstream APN 616-0809 Li-Ion battery pack (iPhone 6) has a capacity of 1810 mAh @ 3.8V and weighs ~45.5 g, e.g. ~150 Wh&#x2F;kg.<p>So their current cells are no better than current Li-Ion batteries, but only just match them. I mean, heck, a Tesla Powerwall - a fully integrated, plug-and-play unit - comes in at 114 Wh&#x2F;kg (13.5 kWh @ 114 kg) [0].<p>If they have a product with unique selling points (no rare earths required, much faster to charge, safer), why make claims that are demonstrably false? Little things like that make the whole announcement sound fishy and I can&#x27;t tell whether it&#x27;s the author or the researchers who messed up there.<p>I mean, seriously, the COTS Panasonic NCR18650B cell has an energy density of 252 Wh&#x2F;kg [1] so even with cooling&#x2F;heating elements a battery pack would have a higher energy density (by mass) than their product.<p>Something just doesn&#x27;t add up in this piece.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tesla.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;pdfs&#x2F;powerwall&#x2F;Powerwall_2_AC_Datasheet_EN_NA.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tesla.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;pdfs&#x2F;powerwall&#x2F;Pow...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.batteryjunction.com&#x2F;panasonic-ncr18650b-3400.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.batteryjunction.com&#x2F;panasonic-ncr18650b-3400.htm...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jartelt</author><text>Also, this statement is very strange:<p>&gt; Testing by peer-reviewed specialist publication Advanced Functional Materials publication concluded the cells had “outstanding high-rate performance (149 mAh g−1 at 5 A g−1), surpassing all previously reported AIB cathode materials”.<p>Advanced Functional Materials is just a journal. They do not do third-party testing (unless something really has changed in scientific publishing in that last few years). Just because your paper was accepted for publication doesn&#x27;t mean you can go around claiming your device performance has been validated by outside investigators. The peer-reviewers for journals just look at the data&#x2F;figures submitted and make a judgement call on if it looks legit&#x2F;plausible or if it looks fake&#x2F;wrong. They don&#x27;t actually get devices from the authors and test them out in their own labs to verify things...<p>For third party verification you need to pay outside consultants (e.g. Exponent) to test your devices or need to get a national lab like NREL to test things.</text></comment> | <story><title>EV Range Breakthrough as New Aluminum-Ion Battery Charges 60 Times Faster to Lit</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltaylor/2021/05/13/ev-range-breakthrough-as-new-aluminum-ion-battery-charges-60-times-faster-than-lithium-ion/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qayxc</author><text>While the research itself sound promising, the article leaves a lot to be desired.<p>The use of units and their notation is horrendous, almost as if the author doesn&#x27;t know even the first thing about SI units and their use:<p>&gt; 197 mAh g−1<p>&gt; 10 gigaWatt to 50gW plants<p>I&#x27;m sorry, but nonsense like that detracts from the trustworthiness of the content.<p>The title is also a bit click-baity - so far they&#x27;re working with coin cells and statements like<p>&gt; It charges an iPhone coin cell in less than 10 seconds.<p>are highly misleading. What does that even mean? An iPhone doesn&#x27;t contain coin cells.<p>Another irritating statements follows immediately after:<p>&gt; The new battery cells are claimed to deliver far more energy density than current lithium-ion batteries, without the cooling, heating or rare-earth problems they face.<p>According to them, their cells achieve 160 Wh&#x2F;kg. That doesn&#x27;t add up at all. A mainstream APN 616-0809 Li-Ion battery pack (iPhone 6) has a capacity of 1810 mAh @ 3.8V and weighs ~45.5 g, e.g. ~150 Wh&#x2F;kg.<p>So their current cells are no better than current Li-Ion batteries, but only just match them. I mean, heck, a Tesla Powerwall - a fully integrated, plug-and-play unit - comes in at 114 Wh&#x2F;kg (13.5 kWh @ 114 kg) [0].<p>If they have a product with unique selling points (no rare earths required, much faster to charge, safer), why make claims that are demonstrably false? Little things like that make the whole announcement sound fishy and I can&#x27;t tell whether it&#x27;s the author or the researchers who messed up there.<p>I mean, seriously, the COTS Panasonic NCR18650B cell has an energy density of 252 Wh&#x2F;kg [1] so even with cooling&#x2F;heating elements a battery pack would have a higher energy density (by mass) than their product.<p>Something just doesn&#x27;t add up in this piece.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tesla.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;pdfs&#x2F;powerwall&#x2F;Powerwall_2_AC_Datasheet_EN_NA.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tesla.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;pdfs&#x2F;powerwall&#x2F;Pow...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.batteryjunction.com&#x2F;panasonic-ncr18650b-3400.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.batteryjunction.com&#x2F;panasonic-ncr18650b-3400.htm...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scythe</author><text>The use of ampere-hours per gram and derived measurements is extremely common in battery research. For example:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;nature14340" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;nature14340</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubs.acs.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;abs&#x2F;10.1021&#x2F;jacs.5b06809" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubs.acs.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;abs&#x2F;10.1021&#x2F;jacs.5b06809</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41560-017-0014-y" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41560-017-0014-y</a></text></comment> |
16,564,761 | 16,563,885 | 1 | 2 | 16,563,349 | train | <story><title>Picat: A Logic-Based, Multi-Paradigm, Programming Language</title><url>http://picat-lang.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>afaz</author><text>Picat is a pragmatic mix of several programming paradigms, and it supports both directional and non-directional computing.<p>Pattern-matching is directional. Consider the following predicate definitions:<p>p([a,b|_]) =&gt; true.<p>q([X,X]) =&gt; true.<p>A call p(L) succeeds only when L has at least two elements and the first two elements are a and b, respectively. A call q(L) succeeds only when L has exactly two identical elements.<p>Functions are directional. In Prolog, the length(L,N) predicate can be used to compute the length of L and can also be used to create a list of a given length N. In Picat, you need to use function new_list(N) to create a list, and use function len(L) to compute the length of L.<p>Loops are directional. Unlike in ECLiPSe-CLP where it is possible to iterate over a list that is to be created, in Picat the collection of every iterator must be fixed.<p>Unification is non-directional. A call X = Y is like an equality constraint over terms. Built-ins predicates, such as member(X,L) and append(L1,L2,L3), are defined by using unification, and can be used in the same way as in Prolog.<p>Constraints are non-directional. While a unification X = Y has a unique solution when it succeeds, a system of constraints may have multiple solutions. Picat provides a built-in, called solve, that calls the imported solver to search for a satisfactory or an optimal solution.</text></comment> | <story><title>Picat: A Logic-Based, Multi-Paradigm, Programming Language</title><url>http://picat-lang.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>YeGoblynQueenne</author><text>That looks nice. List comprehensions, higher-order functions and arrays in a logic-based language with CLP and planning facilities sounds great. In terms of looks, I&#x27;m not sure why but it reminds me of a cross between Python and Prolog.<p>There&#x27;s a few things that look a bit strange though. e.g.:<p><pre><code> perms([]) = [[]].
perms(Lst) = [[E|P] : E in Lst, P in perms(Lst.delete(E))].
</code></pre>
So, &quot;|&quot; is a cons operator, but can&#x27;t be used to take a list apart by recursively separating its head from its tail? That&#x27;s a bit strange.<p>Also:<p><pre><code> Compared with Prolog, Picat is arguably more expressive and
scalable: it is not rare to find problems for which Picat
requires an order of magnitude fewer lines of code to
describe than Prolog and Picat can be significantly faster
than Prolog because pattern-matching facilitates indexing of
rules.
</code></pre>
That&#x27;s just ... no :) [Because modern Prologs index all predicats, including rules, by pattern mathing and there&#x27;s nothing more expressive than FOL so].</text></comment> |
28,843,714 | 28,843,608 | 1 | 2 | 28,842,836 | train | <story><title>Public health impacts of an imminent Red Sea oil spill</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-021-00774-8</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lisper</author><text>&quot;The Safer, a deteriorating oil tanker containing 1.1 million barrels of oil, has been deserted near the coast of Yemen since 2015...&quot;<p>WTF? That&#x27;s tens of millions of dollars worth of oil. Why hasn&#x27;t someone salvaged her?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rapnie</author><text>Recommend reading the <i>New Yorker</i> article mentioned in another comment. Makes you appreciate the complexity of the situation and full background story.</text></comment> | <story><title>Public health impacts of an imminent Red Sea oil spill</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-021-00774-8</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lisper</author><text>&quot;The Safer, a deteriorating oil tanker containing 1.1 million barrels of oil, has been deserted near the coast of Yemen since 2015...&quot;<p>WTF? That&#x27;s tens of millions of dollars worth of oil. Why hasn&#x27;t someone salvaged her?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>htrp</author><text>It&#x27;s literally in a warzone and is surrounded by mines</text></comment> |
12,950,806 | 12,950,742 | 1 | 2 | 12,948,890 | train | <story><title>Big Tech Companies Pounce as the Allure of Startups Fades</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-14/big-tech-companies-pounce-as-the-allure-of-startups-fades</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>poof131</author><text>I recently made the jump from startups to bigger co. For me there were a few considerations:<p>1. We’re at the end of a bubble and doing a slow pop. Multiple companies that have raised a lot of money don’t have the revenue or unit economics to be sustainable. Employees with compensation tied up in stock aren’t going to do well. Had a friend leave two companies within 6 months (didn’t bother vesting) that both raised over $100 million because the executive teams were celebrating $900 deals.<p>2. Startups don’t exit anymore. Waiting 8-10 years for an exit is unacceptable. It might be okay for founders who take a couple million off the table at the B round or VCs who keep the IRR on their books, but for employees it’s a fail.<p>3. Founders as rockstars. The narrative is hurting the industry. People I like and respected raise money and become narcissistic assholes. Last founder I worked for who I considered a friend told me “he was like Elon Musk or Larry Paige, a technical genius, and not to question his leadership”. This was after he fired his cofounder and chased off the one other employee of our seed stage startup.<p>4. Risk vs. Reward. As an employee with founders trying to keep 50% of the company to be like Zuck, companies never exiting, and no idea what the terms of later rounds are, working at a startup is becoming stupid. Saying it’s about the mission, it’s about learning not earning, when the VCs and founders are doing great is disingenuous.<p>We’re at the end of the cycle. I’ve seen 3 now: 2001, 2008, 2016. Hopefully in the next round the powers that be will figure out how to better reward everyone who takes risk working at startups. Right now employees take almost as much risk as founders for much less reward.</text></comment> | <story><title>Big Tech Companies Pounce as the Allure of Startups Fades</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-14/big-tech-companies-pounce-as-the-allure-of-startups-fades</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hibikir</author><text>The way startups run today and the way compensation is often structured just makes startups a bad deal economically in the best of times.<p>Imagine for a second that you become employee 10 in a new startup that you believe in. You dedicate it 15 hours a day for 5 years, everything went awesome, and now the company is worth 5B. Your stock options would be worth millions in case of a liquidity event. Great, right?<p>The thing is, it&#x27;s 5 years later the company is probably 300-800 people now, and therefore is a very different company than the one you joined, and if it&#x27;s still growing, it&#x27;s be a different company still next year. But there&#x27;s no liquidity event: You cant exercise your options because you can&#x27;t pay the taxes. If you want to exercise anything, the company has to go public, and you sure don&#x27;t control that. So you either wait in a job that probably doesn&#x27;t fit you anymore, or your stock compensation was worth nothing. Therefore, whether the startup does great or not, you have to apply the &#x27;I might want to quit&#x27; discount. If I am assuming 8 years to IPO, which is not insane that discount is going to be huge by itself. I&#x27;d not rate my chances of staying in a job for 8 years as 1&#x2F;10. And that&#x27;s without considering that, career wise, you&#x27;ll be learning more changing jobs every couple of years or so.<p>Let&#x27;s compare this to a public company: Their stock compensation has none of that complexity, especially now that RSUs are the way to go. You can sell them for cash immediately at the stock price that day. The downside is minimal, and chances are your first block of shares comes after one year, so if you hate your job, you sit there a year, sell your shares and quit.<p>Given how much stock the bigger companies are awarding developers, you have to completely ignore compensation to go to a tiny startup: You kind of have to bet in the world around you changing to make exercising options early to be more or less free, along with believing that the startup will go the distance. Those are odds I&#x27;d not take</text></comment> |
30,595,970 | 30,587,645 | 1 | 3 | 30,568,164 | train | <story><title>Native Matrix VoIP with Element Call</title><url>https://element.io/blog/introducing-native-matrix-voip-with-element-call/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Arathorn</author><text>The competitive gap with Discord in terms of media quality is probably something like:<p>* Need a low-latency SFU. This should be very doable; not only are there a lot of good FOSS SFUs to build on top of these days, the history of the Matrix team is actually that we built VoIP stacks fulltime before we shifted focus to Matrix, and we&#x27;ve built MCUs and media servers of all flavours in the past. MSC3401 should also give us a competitive edge given latency will be automagically minimised by using the physically closest decentralised SFU, thus letting anyone bring their SFU to the party.<p>* Needs a SFU with good rate control (and&#x2F;or FEC). This is probably the single most important thing to get right in terms of quality. Signal wrote up a good overview of why: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;signal.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;how-to-build-encrypted-group-calls&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;signal.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;how-to-build-encrypted-group-calls&#x2F;</a><p>* Excellent noise cancellation (and background noise elimination, microphone scratch noise elimination etc). Ideally you need something like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;krisp.ai&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;krisp.ai&#x2F;</a> or <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;workspaceupdates.googleblog.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;06&#x2F;background-noise-reduction-cancellation-update.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;workspaceupdates.googleblog.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;06&#x2F;background-n...</a> in the mix - but doing this in an E2EE-friendly and privacy preserving manner is Hard. However, just like we solved E2EE full text search by doing it clientside and making the indexes gossipable between your clients (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;matrix-org&#x2F;seshat" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;matrix-org&#x2F;seshat</a>), we&#x27;ll have a go at doing something similar for this problem too.<p>* Excellent automatic gain control. The importance of normalising&#x2F;compressing everyone&#x27;s audio so they&#x27;re equivalent loudness is really important.<p>We&#x27;re also in the process of adding in spatial audio (unsure if Discord has that) which should help a tonne with distinguishing the different audio feeds.<p>We can probably also be more bullish about supporting new audio codecs like Lyra.<p>EDIT: oh, the other obvious thing is echo cancellation - but we&#x27;re currently at the mercy of the browser&#x27;s WebRTC stack for that. However, we could ship a tweaked WebRTC in Element Desktop (or other native Matrix clients) in future to do better than plain old WebRTC.</text></item><item><author>jfkimmes</author><text>Could you give some insights on how you estimate the amount of effort of making Element Call competitive, performance-wise, with say Discord. I heard that Discord threw a lot of time and money at optimizing voice in their product. Can you just jump in and realistically compete?<p>There are a lot of performance&#x2F;latency&#x2F;sound quality comparisons online of Mumble vs TeamSpeak vs Discord and recently Jitsi vs MS Teams vs Zoom, etc. I feel like this is a problem-space that can be optimized to an arbitrarily deep extent. Just two examples that come to mind are SFU performance&#x2F;efficiency and noise reduction, two things where e.g Jitsi notoriously lags behind Zoom.</text></item><item><author>Arathorn</author><text>From my perspective, the really exciting thing about this that it works equally well in mobile web browsers as well as desktop web - clicking on a link on Mobile Safari should Do The Right Thing without having to install anything.<p>Moreover, because it&#x27;s built on Matrix, MSC3401 (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;matrix-org&#x2F;matrix-doc&#x2F;blob&#x2F;matthew&#x2F;group-voip&#x2F;proposals&#x2F;3401-group-voip.md" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;matrix-org&#x2F;matrix-doc&#x2F;blob&#x2F;matthew&#x2F;group-...</a>) means that we&#x27;ll finally have decentralised cascading video&#x2F;voice conferences once the SFU (selective forwarding unit) component is added into the mix. So, for instance, users on the same homeserver will get their video feeds relayed locally with minimal latency... and then users on another remote homeserver will also get mixed locally with minimal latency, trunking the two together. If the link dies or one homeserver dies, the conference will keep going - i.e. precisely the same semantics as normal Matrix.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pthatcherg</author><text>Hey, I&#x27;m the author of the Signal blog post about SFUs. I have a few questions&#x2F;comments:<p>1. I don&#x27;t think there are many good open source SFUs to choose from. I know of 2, maybe 3 (including our new one). There may be many, but few have good rate control. But maybe I just don&#x27;t know about them? I&#x27;d be happy to learn of more good ones.<p>2. Echo cancellation is certainly a hard problem, but it doesn&#x27;t conflict with E2EE unless you do it on the server, which isn&#x27;t necessary. So perhaps it may be a somewhat harder problem because you close off one possible approach (doing it server-side), but many (most?) echo cancellation solutions are done client-side.<p>3. You may not be completely dependent on WebRTC&#x27;s echo cancellation any more because of
the new MediaStreamTrackProcessor and MediaStreamTrackGenerator APIs. I don&#x27;t know if it will work for echo cancellation, but it might.</text></comment> | <story><title>Native Matrix VoIP with Element Call</title><url>https://element.io/blog/introducing-native-matrix-voip-with-element-call/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Arathorn</author><text>The competitive gap with Discord in terms of media quality is probably something like:<p>* Need a low-latency SFU. This should be very doable; not only are there a lot of good FOSS SFUs to build on top of these days, the history of the Matrix team is actually that we built VoIP stacks fulltime before we shifted focus to Matrix, and we&#x27;ve built MCUs and media servers of all flavours in the past. MSC3401 should also give us a competitive edge given latency will be automagically minimised by using the physically closest decentralised SFU, thus letting anyone bring their SFU to the party.<p>* Needs a SFU with good rate control (and&#x2F;or FEC). This is probably the single most important thing to get right in terms of quality. Signal wrote up a good overview of why: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;signal.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;how-to-build-encrypted-group-calls&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;signal.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;how-to-build-encrypted-group-calls&#x2F;</a><p>* Excellent noise cancellation (and background noise elimination, microphone scratch noise elimination etc). Ideally you need something like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;krisp.ai&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;krisp.ai&#x2F;</a> or <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;workspaceupdates.googleblog.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;06&#x2F;background-noise-reduction-cancellation-update.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;workspaceupdates.googleblog.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;06&#x2F;background-n...</a> in the mix - but doing this in an E2EE-friendly and privacy preserving manner is Hard. However, just like we solved E2EE full text search by doing it clientside and making the indexes gossipable between your clients (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;matrix-org&#x2F;seshat" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;matrix-org&#x2F;seshat</a>), we&#x27;ll have a go at doing something similar for this problem too.<p>* Excellent automatic gain control. The importance of normalising&#x2F;compressing everyone&#x27;s audio so they&#x27;re equivalent loudness is really important.<p>We&#x27;re also in the process of adding in spatial audio (unsure if Discord has that) which should help a tonne with distinguishing the different audio feeds.<p>We can probably also be more bullish about supporting new audio codecs like Lyra.<p>EDIT: oh, the other obvious thing is echo cancellation - but we&#x27;re currently at the mercy of the browser&#x27;s WebRTC stack for that. However, we could ship a tweaked WebRTC in Element Desktop (or other native Matrix clients) in future to do better than plain old WebRTC.</text></item><item><author>jfkimmes</author><text>Could you give some insights on how you estimate the amount of effort of making Element Call competitive, performance-wise, with say Discord. I heard that Discord threw a lot of time and money at optimizing voice in their product. Can you just jump in and realistically compete?<p>There are a lot of performance&#x2F;latency&#x2F;sound quality comparisons online of Mumble vs TeamSpeak vs Discord and recently Jitsi vs MS Teams vs Zoom, etc. I feel like this is a problem-space that can be optimized to an arbitrarily deep extent. Just two examples that come to mind are SFU performance&#x2F;efficiency and noise reduction, two things where e.g Jitsi notoriously lags behind Zoom.</text></item><item><author>Arathorn</author><text>From my perspective, the really exciting thing about this that it works equally well in mobile web browsers as well as desktop web - clicking on a link on Mobile Safari should Do The Right Thing without having to install anything.<p>Moreover, because it&#x27;s built on Matrix, MSC3401 (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;matrix-org&#x2F;matrix-doc&#x2F;blob&#x2F;matthew&#x2F;group-voip&#x2F;proposals&#x2F;3401-group-voip.md" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;matrix-org&#x2F;matrix-doc&#x2F;blob&#x2F;matthew&#x2F;group-...</a>) means that we&#x27;ll finally have decentralised cascading video&#x2F;voice conferences once the SFU (selective forwarding unit) component is added into the mix. So, for instance, users on the same homeserver will get their video feeds relayed locally with minimal latency... and then users on another remote homeserver will also get mixed locally with minimal latency, trunking the two together. If the link dies or one homeserver dies, the conference will keep going - i.e. precisely the same semantics as normal Matrix.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ryukafalz</author><text>&gt; We&#x27;re also in the process of adding in spatial audio (unsure if Discord has that) which should help a tonne with distinguishing the different audio feeds.<p>Thank you! This is something I&#x27;ve wanted in a videoconferencing app since I discovered it was a thing, and I&#x27;m glad it&#x27;s Element doing it.</text></comment> |
17,152,438 | 17,152,524 | 1 | 2 | 17,147,404 | train | <story><title>In Twitter’s early days, only one celebrity could tweet at a time</title><url>https://theoutline.com/post/4147/in-twitters-early-days-only-one-celebrity-could-tweet-at-a-time</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>liquidgecka</author><text>If anybody is interested in random Twitter internal stuff I might bang up a medium post one day. I was neck deep in the infra side of things for years and have all sorts of funny stories.<p>Our managed hosting provider wouldn&#x27;t let us use VPNs or anything that allowed direct access to the managed network they provided, but we wanted to make internal only services that were not on the internet so I setup a simple little system that used DNS to point to private space in the office and a SSH tunnel to forward the ports to the right places. Worked great, but over time the internal stuff grew up, and our IT team refused to let me have a server in the office so it was all running of a pair of mac mini&#x27;s. We called them the &quot;load bearing mac minis&quot; since basically 90% of the production management traffic went over the SSH tunnels they hosted. =)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lagadu</author><text>Posting that here is like showing a big juicy steak to a pit full of hungry lions: of course we&#x27;re interested!</text></comment> | <story><title>In Twitter’s early days, only one celebrity could tweet at a time</title><url>https://theoutline.com/post/4147/in-twitters-early-days-only-one-celebrity-could-tweet-at-a-time</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>liquidgecka</author><text>If anybody is interested in random Twitter internal stuff I might bang up a medium post one day. I was neck deep in the infra side of things for years and have all sorts of funny stories.<p>Our managed hosting provider wouldn&#x27;t let us use VPNs or anything that allowed direct access to the managed network they provided, but we wanted to make internal only services that were not on the internet so I setup a simple little system that used DNS to point to private space in the office and a SSH tunnel to forward the ports to the right places. Worked great, but over time the internal stuff grew up, and our IT team refused to let me have a server in the office so it was all running of a pair of mac mini&#x27;s. We called them the &quot;load bearing mac minis&quot; since basically 90% of the production management traffic went over the SSH tunnels they hosted. =)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mpfundstein</author><text>Make a mailing list please. Don’t want to miss that</text></comment> |
20,052,118 | 20,052,087 | 1 | 2 | 20,051,078 | train | <story><title>Pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements</title><url>https://pi-hole.net/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChikkaChiChi</author><text>Pi-hole is my most prized addition to my connected home. It was simple to set up, easy to manage, and easy to access for whitelisting. Now, all of my devices throughout my network benefit from the service, as opposed to relying on locally installed solutions.<p>If you aren&#x27;t using it, you should!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>loudtieblahblah</author><text>I see it as an advantage for all the devices on your network. I mean, to block trackers from Windows computers, or Roku devices or android apps.<p>But as an adblocker - I feel like I&#x27;m missing something. It acts as a DNS server for your local network and blocks what&#x27;s essentially a host file.<p>So how does it handle ads served through websockets?<p>How does it handle ads that come from the same domain as legitimate content (which is increasingly common)?<p>The complexity of rulesets by addons like ublock origin or PrivacyBadger seem to far surpass what PiHole is capable of.<p>I think PiHole has it&#x27;s place on a network - obviously, but people have been promoting this thing like you can just get rid of your adblocker on your browser now.<p>People also downplay that this can be a pain in a home with a handful a streaming devices, each with a handful of apps. You end up whitelisting so much for those devices, you might as well whitelist the whole device just so the apps can work.<p>Your wife downloads a game on her phone, and you get that look like &quot;ok, why isn&#x27;t this working.. what did you do now?&quot;<p>It just seems like a lot of effort for fairly imperfect results.<p>Sure installation is easy, but long term maintenance (the OS, the app, constantly whitelisting or troubleshooting when a new service or app breaks for someone in the house).</text></comment> | <story><title>Pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements</title><url>https://pi-hole.net/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChikkaChiChi</author><text>Pi-hole is my most prized addition to my connected home. It was simple to set up, easy to manage, and easy to access for whitelisting. Now, all of my devices throughout my network benefit from the service, as opposed to relying on locally installed solutions.<p>If you aren&#x27;t using it, you should!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>programbreeding</author><text>Over 50% of my DNS queries get blocked by the pihole [0]; and I&#x27;ve seen it much higher. Like you said, it&#x27;s one of the most prized devices on my network.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;dPZzYjL.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;dPZzYjL.png</a></text></comment> |
19,469,013 | 19,467,499 | 1 | 2 | 19,466,548 | train | <story><title>Pinterest S-1</title><url>https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1506293/000119312519083544/d674330ds1.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>john_moscow</author><text>I am genuinely curious, how does the year-over-year growth of 60% come together with the pretty consistent &quot;death curve&quot; according to Google Trends [0]. Could they have deliberately lowered the revenue in 2017 through some clever accounting in order to come up with this number? As they have been around since ~2012, are there any prior financial metrics publicly available?<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;trends.google.com&#x2F;trends&#x2F;explore?date=all&amp;geo=US&amp;q=pinterest" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;trends.google.com&#x2F;trends&#x2F;explore?date=all&amp;geo=US&amp;q=p...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>owens99</author><text>Because you are clearly wrong.<p>Forgive me for being blunt, I just think it’s a bit obvious: they have grown through means other than someone going to google.com and typing “Pinterest.”<p>I can think of a dozen reasons why that would be the case. Google Trends does not match 1:1 popularity, usage, or growth of all products.<p>Personally, I’m only a casual Pinterest user and have no stake in this, but the service has gotten a lot better over the last couple years.</text></comment> | <story><title>Pinterest S-1</title><url>https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1506293/000119312519083544/d674330ds1.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>john_moscow</author><text>I am genuinely curious, how does the year-over-year growth of 60% come together with the pretty consistent &quot;death curve&quot; according to Google Trends [0]. Could they have deliberately lowered the revenue in 2017 through some clever accounting in order to come up with this number? As they have been around since ~2012, are there any prior financial metrics publicly available?<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;trends.google.com&#x2F;trends&#x2F;explore?date=all&amp;geo=US&amp;q=pinterest" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;trends.google.com&#x2F;trends&#x2F;explore?date=all&amp;geo=US&amp;q=p...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tuckermi</author><text>The story looks different (albeit short of YoY +60%) if you look at Trends for Image Search: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;trends.google.com&#x2F;trends&#x2F;explore?date=all_2008&amp;geo=US&amp;gprop=images&amp;q=pinterest" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;trends.google.com&#x2F;trends&#x2F;explore?date=all_2008&amp;geo=U...</a></text></comment> |
29,405,263 | 29,405,394 | 1 | 2 | 29,403,976 | train | <story><title>Stripe hiring issues make some lose job offers</title><url>https://www.protocol.com/workplace/stripe-hiring-issues-rescinded-jobs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>htrp</author><text>In most companies with apparently functioning HR, you don&#x27;t get a written offer until after the reference&#x2F;bg check clears. Your verbal is what gets you to provide those reference&#x2F;bg check authorizations.<p>This is like HR 101</text></item><item><author>hyperpape</author><text>Some people are getting side-tracked asking if this is a common problem. I think that&#x27;s a distraction: the right number of rescinded offers to engineers and other individual contributors is 0.[0]<p>If the actual number of candidates affected is small, then it would be cheap to make it right for them. You could find a team that can take the engineer (we&#x27;re not interchangeable parts, but Stripe is a big company), and&#x2F;or offer monetary compensation for the opportunity cost.<p>[0] I&#x27;ll reserve judgment about higher level management. I don&#x27;t know if the norms and circumstances are different. Obviously this also excludes failed background checks, candidates being dishonest, etc, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ollien</author><text>Both of the companies I&#x27;ve worked at have given me an offer prior to a background check, and included a clause that the offer could be terminated if I failed it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Stripe hiring issues make some lose job offers</title><url>https://www.protocol.com/workplace/stripe-hiring-issues-rescinded-jobs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>htrp</author><text>In most companies with apparently functioning HR, you don&#x27;t get a written offer until after the reference&#x2F;bg check clears. Your verbal is what gets you to provide those reference&#x2F;bg check authorizations.<p>This is like HR 101</text></item><item><author>hyperpape</author><text>Some people are getting side-tracked asking if this is a common problem. I think that&#x27;s a distraction: the right number of rescinded offers to engineers and other individual contributors is 0.[0]<p>If the actual number of candidates affected is small, then it would be cheap to make it right for them. You could find a team that can take the engineer (we&#x27;re not interchangeable parts, but Stripe is a big company), and&#x2F;or offer monetary compensation for the opportunity cost.<p>[0] I&#x27;ll reserve judgment about higher level management. I don&#x27;t know if the norms and circumstances are different. Obviously this also excludes failed background checks, candidates being dishonest, etc, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>the_jeremy</author><text>I don&#x27;t agree. All of my written offers have been before bg check clears. I&#x27;ve always signed the offer and background check paperwork in the same set of paperwork.</text></comment> |
13,221,173 | 13,220,861 | 1 | 2 | 13,219,828 | train | <story><title>Facebook charged with misleading EU on $22B WhatsApp merger</title><url>http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2016/12/facebook-whatsapp-european-commission-charges-misleading-merger-claim/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alivelore</author><text>If the US had the same taxation and regulatory environment as Europe you wouldn&#x27;t have Facebook in the first place lol</text></item><item><author>mkaziz</author><text>I wish the US had laws like the EU that protected the consumer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ewood</author><text>The US has higher absolute and effective corporate tax rates than EU countries and almost every country in the OECD.<p>Tax treatment of equity compensation varies among European nations though.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook charged with misleading EU on $22B WhatsApp merger</title><url>http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2016/12/facebook-whatsapp-european-commission-charges-misleading-merger-claim/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alivelore</author><text>If the US had the same taxation and regulatory environment as Europe you wouldn&#x27;t have Facebook in the first place lol</text></item><item><author>mkaziz</author><text>I wish the US had laws like the EU that protected the consumer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mkaziz</author><text>Funnily, I&#x27;d be okay with that. I guess I&#x27;m just an old fogey though.</text></comment> |
25,434,881 | 25,434,242 | 1 | 2 | 25,432,540 | train | <story><title>Record Breaking Number of Journalists Arrested in the U.S. This Year</title><url>https://freedom.press/news/2020-report-journalists-arrested-us/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dgritsko</author><text>So here&#x27;s the dilemma I&#x27;m faced with. As someone who wishes to consume news that is as factual as reasonably possible, while also being aware that at least <i>some</i> bias is inevitable (no matter how well-intentioned the author may be)... how does one evaluate a news source for its trustworthiness, short of physically observing an event for yourself?</text></item><item><author>hilbertseries</author><text>&gt; On one side, the death of traditional journalism really has opened up folks&#x27; eyes to bias in reporting. Having one or two main-stream news sources really opens up the possibility for bias becoming truth.<p>This is not what I see happening. Instead what happens is people see news they disagree with and deem it biased. So they find a news outlet that they agree with and decide that’s the real news.</text></item><item><author>Loughla</author><text>I mean, it&#x27;s a double-edged sword.<p>On one side, the death of traditional journalism really has opened up folks&#x27; eyes to bias in reporting. Having one or two main-stream news sources really opens up the possibility for bias becoming truth.<p>On the other side, now that everyone is a reporter, people roll around inside whichever cocoon of bias makes them feel the best.<p>It&#x27;s very frustrating, and overwhelming.</text></item><item><author>i_haz_rabies</author><text>We will look back on the ruination of journalism as a profession as one of the most consequential changes of these last two decades.</text></item><item><author>indigochill</author><text>One line from the report jumped out at me as I was skimming it:<p>&gt; About half the journalists here are freelancers, who may lack the institutional support of a newsroom and the financial resources for a potentially expensive legal defense.<p>I hadn&#x27;t really thought of the value of legal defense from journalism institutions (as opposed to non-institutional platforms like Substack) before.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jimmygrapes</author><text>Others have given great responses, but one thing not emphasized enough is recognizing the type of language used. It failed for various reasons, but The Knife used to do a textual analysis of articles and point out the manipulative language used. A quick example off the top of my head is recent reporting on the US election (all paraphrased, but I bet you can find real examples easily):<p>&quot;... baseless claims&quot;
&quot;... without evidence&quot;
&quot;... debunked conspiracy theory&quot;<p>These may be factual in some (or all) cases, but it is <i>manipulative</i> language. It prejudices the reader without giving the reader a chance to even consider the claims or theory. There&#x27;s much to be discussed about dis- and misinformation, but overall the truth emerges only in sunlight.<p>Also watch those adjectives. They love their superfluous adjectives.</text></comment> | <story><title>Record Breaking Number of Journalists Arrested in the U.S. This Year</title><url>https://freedom.press/news/2020-report-journalists-arrested-us/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dgritsko</author><text>So here&#x27;s the dilemma I&#x27;m faced with. As someone who wishes to consume news that is as factual as reasonably possible, while also being aware that at least <i>some</i> bias is inevitable (no matter how well-intentioned the author may be)... how does one evaluate a news source for its trustworthiness, short of physically observing an event for yourself?</text></item><item><author>hilbertseries</author><text>&gt; On one side, the death of traditional journalism really has opened up folks&#x27; eyes to bias in reporting. Having one or two main-stream news sources really opens up the possibility for bias becoming truth.<p>This is not what I see happening. Instead what happens is people see news they disagree with and deem it biased. So they find a news outlet that they agree with and decide that’s the real news.</text></item><item><author>Loughla</author><text>I mean, it&#x27;s a double-edged sword.<p>On one side, the death of traditional journalism really has opened up folks&#x27; eyes to bias in reporting. Having one or two main-stream news sources really opens up the possibility for bias becoming truth.<p>On the other side, now that everyone is a reporter, people roll around inside whichever cocoon of bias makes them feel the best.<p>It&#x27;s very frustrating, and overwhelming.</text></item><item><author>i_haz_rabies</author><text>We will look back on the ruination of journalism as a profession as one of the most consequential changes of these last two decades.</text></item><item><author>indigochill</author><text>One line from the report jumped out at me as I was skimming it:<p>&gt; About half the journalists here are freelancers, who may lack the institutional support of a newsroom and the financial resources for a potentially expensive legal defense.<p>I hadn&#x27;t really thought of the value of legal defense from journalism institutions (as opposed to non-institutional platforms like Substack) before.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>loudmax</author><text>I don&#x27;t know how to answer your dilemma that all of us face. But to add some nuance... it&#x27;s pretty rare for a news organization of whatever political persuasion to report outright falsehoods. An individual reporter may stretch the truth more than we&#x27;re comfortable with, but as a whole, the big news outlets are more likely to make mistakes than commit outright lies that they know are false.<p>Most of the bias is in deciding what stories to cover and what stories to ignore. They can&#x27;t simply cover <i>everything</i> that happens. An organization needs to decide what stories are worthy of publishing, and how to frame these stories (&quot;All the news that&#x27;s fit to print&quot;). And then which politicians do they want to ask questions of, and what types of questions, and that&#x27;s even before deciding what experts, or &quot;experts&quot; or pundits or downright paid shills to comment on these stories. This is where the bias is.</text></comment> |
20,694,316 | 20,694,223 | 1 | 3 | 20,693,998 | train | <story><title>A Novel Concept: Silent Book Clubs Offer Introverts a Space to Socialize</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2019/08/12/740897970/a-novel-concept-silent-book-clubs-offer-introverts-a-space-to-socialize</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ddtaylor</author><text>People often equate introvert to mean &quot;doesn&#x27;t prefer to be around people&quot; and extroverts to mean &quot;loves to be around people&quot;, but that&#x27;s essentially a myth.<p>The best layman explanation I have heard is that extroverts are &quot;recharged&quot; by being around others whereas introverts recharge by being alone. For example, I really like being around people, but the idea of not having time to myself to recharge can be exhausting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nicoburns</author><text>&gt; The best layman explanation I have heard is that extroverts are &quot;recharged&quot; by being around others whereas introverts recharge by being alone<p>That&#x27;s a good step 1.<p>Step 2 is realising that introverts often do get energised by one-on-one or small group socialising, or socialising in a more meaningful way around a real shared interest.<p>Step 3 is realising that the concept of introversion&#x2F;extraversion generalises past social interaction to preferences for levels of external interaction &#x2F; stimulation in general. So for example, some people may not be super-sociable, but may love lot&#x27;s of external physical stimulation (music&#x2F;lights&#x2F;exercise, etc), others may love to be exposed external ideas (or alternatively have a preference to only be exposed to small amounts of these things).<p>^ This is the notion of introversion&#x2F;extroversion captured by the MBTI &#x2F; Jungian Type Theories, where Extraverted Feeling (Fe) roughly function corresponds to the popular notion of extraversion, but there are also Extraverted Sensing (Se), Extraverted Intuition (Ne) and Extraverted Thinking (Te) functions which present differently.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Novel Concept: Silent Book Clubs Offer Introverts a Space to Socialize</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2019/08/12/740897970/a-novel-concept-silent-book-clubs-offer-introverts-a-space-to-socialize</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ddtaylor</author><text>People often equate introvert to mean &quot;doesn&#x27;t prefer to be around people&quot; and extroverts to mean &quot;loves to be around people&quot;, but that&#x27;s essentially a myth.<p>The best layman explanation I have heard is that extroverts are &quot;recharged&quot; by being around others whereas introverts recharge by being alone. For example, I really like being around people, but the idea of not having time to myself to recharge can be exhausting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iraldir</author><text>yep, that&#x27;s correct. Me and my fiancée are both text-books introverts, but I&#x27;m not shy at all, have no fear of public speaking etc. while she is the opposite.<p>But for both of us, even having a drink after work with people is super exhausting and we just want to go home and relax, while an extrovert would be depressed staying alone and needs to recharge by having fun with people.</text></comment> |
11,856,516 | 11,856,404 | 1 | 2 | 11,855,787 | train | <story><title>Confirmshaming</title><url>http://confirmshaming.tumblr.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>acangiano</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m more concerned with the fact that I can&#x27;t go to any web page these days without getting one of these pop-ups.<p>People use these pop-ups (Landing Pages, Optinmonster, etc) because they are extremely effective at capturing emails. Your average programmer or techie on HN is horrified when prompted to sign up via a pop-up, but many regular users will just comply. The site has now converted a random passer-by, into someone who might continue to receive new content (and marketing material) in the future. Nothing comes even close to the ROI that you get from people subscribing to your mailing list. Note that I&#x27;m not talking about whether this is right or wrong, just that it&#x27;s done for a very good reason. Would I put a pop-up form on a programming blog? Obviously no. Know your audience. But on a regular site? Not doing so is literally leaving money on the table. And that&#x27;s why they are ubiquitous. When you don&#x27;t see one it&#x27;s often either an ethical choice (the site owner decided to maximize user experience, not profit) or lack of knowledge of how effective these pop-ups are.</text></item><item><author>alttab</author><text>If anything, I get a little chuckle when I see this stuff. I&#x27;m sure we&#x27;ve all been there trying to make things clearer for the user.<p>That said, I&#x27;m more concerned with the fact that I can&#x27;t go to any web page these days without getting one of these pop-ups.<p>It&#x27;s even worse when the pop-up comes 20 seconds later since loading all of the Javascript takes a while on mobile - and then shows up halfway down the page.<p>It&#x27;s even worse when being scrolled down the page prevents the widget from rendering correctly.<p>The internet is quickly becoming a ghetto, and other parts of the internet (Facebook, Instagram, Reddit) are getting incrementally controlled and censored.<p>... Sigh ...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gedrap</author><text>Exactly.<p>&gt;&gt;&gt; Obviously no. Know your audience. But on a regular site? Not doing so is literally leaving money on the table. And that&#x27;s why they are ubiquitous.<p>This.<p>Most (all?) of the mentioned ones are run by companies, not individuals who are not seeking any profit or anything. In terms of ethics, I wouldn&#x27;t even call it unethical or a dark pattern. Some sneaky checkbox to receive spam is bad. Sneaky checkbox for addon when purchasing is horribly bad. But pop up with email field? Nope. Calling it ethical decision is a stretch. Worst case scenario - you close the tab and move on with your life. If anyone loses then it&#x27;s the business, not you.<p>At the end, it&#x27;s a business decision whether it&#x27;s worth annoying some users in order to extract more value later from a fraction of them and it&#x27;s the users choice to accept or not. It&#x27;s a personal choice, to each their own.<p>You think the UX is so crap because of it and surely something better can be done? Take it as a business opportunity!</text></comment> | <story><title>Confirmshaming</title><url>http://confirmshaming.tumblr.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>acangiano</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m more concerned with the fact that I can&#x27;t go to any web page these days without getting one of these pop-ups.<p>People use these pop-ups (Landing Pages, Optinmonster, etc) because they are extremely effective at capturing emails. Your average programmer or techie on HN is horrified when prompted to sign up via a pop-up, but many regular users will just comply. The site has now converted a random passer-by, into someone who might continue to receive new content (and marketing material) in the future. Nothing comes even close to the ROI that you get from people subscribing to your mailing list. Note that I&#x27;m not talking about whether this is right or wrong, just that it&#x27;s done for a very good reason. Would I put a pop-up form on a programming blog? Obviously no. Know your audience. But on a regular site? Not doing so is literally leaving money on the table. And that&#x27;s why they are ubiquitous. When you don&#x27;t see one it&#x27;s often either an ethical choice (the site owner decided to maximize user experience, not profit) or lack of knowledge of how effective these pop-ups are.</text></item><item><author>alttab</author><text>If anything, I get a little chuckle when I see this stuff. I&#x27;m sure we&#x27;ve all been there trying to make things clearer for the user.<p>That said, I&#x27;m more concerned with the fact that I can&#x27;t go to any web page these days without getting one of these pop-ups.<p>It&#x27;s even worse when the pop-up comes 20 seconds later since loading all of the Javascript takes a while on mobile - and then shows up halfway down the page.<p>It&#x27;s even worse when being scrolled down the page prevents the widget from rendering correctly.<p>The internet is quickly becoming a ghetto, and other parts of the internet (Facebook, Instagram, Reddit) are getting incrementally controlled and censored.<p>... Sigh ...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xiaoma</author><text>&gt;<i>&quot;Your average programmer or techie on HN is horrified when prompted to sign up via a pop-up, but many regular users will just comply.&quot;</i><p>... especially if you shame them into it!</text></comment> |
34,777,354 | 34,775,066 | 1 | 3 | 34,773,860 | train | <story><title>GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023</title><url>https://twitter.com/karrisaarinen/status/1623857893090152448</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ralph84</author><text>Somewhat ironic that a company that’s entire existence was based on the idea of giving developers great tools no longer values giving its own developers great tools. Only a matter of time before this new attitude towards developers shows up in the product.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gautamdivgi</author><text>My Teams works fine on my Mac without issues. Have been using it for over a year now.<p>Fwiw - I don’t understand why it’s hated. It’s a collaboration tool - mainly messaging and conferencing. It’s been decent at that for me.</text></comment> | <story><title>GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023</title><url>https://twitter.com/karrisaarinen/status/1623857893090152448</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ralph84</author><text>Somewhat ironic that a company that’s entire existence was based on the idea of giving developers great tools no longer values giving its own developers great tools. Only a matter of time before this new attitude towards developers shows up in the product.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>unnouinceput</author><text>We talk about Microsoft here? In what era M$ was based on such idea? In 80&#x27;s when Bill&amp;Co. did whatever they could to undermine OS&#x2F;2, DR-DOS &amp; LaTex? Or in 90&#x27;s when Bill&#x27;s lap dogs were threatening OEM manufactures to automatically include DOS and later Windows as default operating system in their systems? Or maybe it was 2000&#x27;s when Ballmer did everything it could to stop Linux and later a rather spectacular fail to stop Android&#x2F;iOS with their Nokia acquisition&#x2F;spin-off of WinCE? Wait wait, you talk about maybe 2010&#x27;s with Nadella&#x27;s &quot;Microsoft loves Linux&quot; BS campaign only to try again to undermine it with WSL and now WSL2? And in latest years with a string of acquisitions, GitHub included, to have access to people&#x27;s greatest single skill, I mean creativity. Because software is an art and you need creativity, something that in face of current AI progression will remain our single advantage.<p>Lemme tell you something, the only thing that matters and ever mattered to Microsoft, regardless of decade was $$$. Nothing else. Everything else was just secondary effect.</text></comment> |
25,462,857 | 25,461,751 | 1 | 3 | 25,459,434 | train | <story><title>Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews</title><url>http://blog.kevmod.com/2020/12/amazon-disallows-pointing-out-paid-reviews/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jdmichal</author><text>If you&#x27;ve never read it before, I highly recommend reading David Sirlin&#x27;s Playing to Win.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sirlin.net&#x2F;ptw&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sirlin.net&#x2F;ptw&#x2F;</a><p>Specifically the chapter &quot;Introducing... the Scrub&quot; discusses exactly this sentiment.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sirlin.net&#x2F;ptw-book&#x2F;introducingthe-scrub" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sirlin.net&#x2F;ptw-book&#x2F;introducingthe-scrub</a><p>&gt; In Street Fighter, the scrub labels a wide variety of tactics and situations “cheap.” This “cheapness” is truly the mantra of the scrub. Performing a throw on someone is often called cheap. A throw is a special kind of move that grabs an opponent and damages him, even when the opponent is defending against all other kinds of attacks. The entire purpose of the throw is to be able to damage an opponent who sits and blocks and doesn’t attack. As far as the game is concerned, throwing is an integral part of the design—it’s meant to be there—yet the scrub has constructed his own set of principles in his mind that state he should be totally impervious to all attacks while blocking. The scrub thinks of blocking as a kind of magic shield that will protect him indefinitely.</text></item><item><author>jrockway</author><text>There is something about how the human brain works that makes us hate this. It happens in games a lot; the community will complain that a certain character is broken and that they hate playing against it... but won&#x27;t actually go play the character themselves to exploit the brokenness for their own gain. Seems silly to me.<p>(Buying reviews might actually be illegal though, so that&#x27;s a strong argument to not do it.)</text></item><item><author>toxik</author><text>... and give away $20 gift cards to people who leave 5-star reviews!</text></item><item><author>pc86</author><text>Write an ebook on how to make money on Amazon, sell it for $297, and post a Show HN about it.</text></item><item><author>Buttons840</author><text>Leave a 5-star review, get your $20. Resell the item on Amazon for $10 less than what the original seller was selling for. Earn $10 dollars profit. Repeat for other such products. Earn more profit. Make a blog about your antics; earn more profit, and help others profit the same way. Exploit the system until Amazon has to fix it.<p>EDIT: I guess at no point is Amazon actually harmed by this scheme. However, the companies trying to buy 5-star reviews are themselves exploited to the extent that people do this.<p>The cost to the original company is a lost sale, a lost product, and $20 [lost] in exchange for a legitimate looking 5-star review (from someone who is not a bot). That may well be worth it for the company, so I&#x27;m not sure this scheme would actually stop dishonest reviews, only make it worse.</text></item><item><author>ilamont</author><text>I purchased the same webcam for my high school sophomore in September 2020, as school restarted (all online for him). The box contained a $20 &quot;gift card&quot; if I emailed proof of my 5-star review. It looks identical to the one I received (including the email address). Only the reward is different.<p>I didn&#x27;t try to write a review, I notified customer service in an attempt to report the seller.<p>I documented everything including photos, my exchange with Amazon customer service, and the confirmation from the seller that they would pay me $20 for a 5-star review. I did not take the money offered ... I was appalled at the situation and more than a little angry that I had been tricked by bogus reviews.<p>Here&#x27;s what happened when I reported the seller:<p><i>Me: Hi. The box for this product contained a card that says “Amazon $20 gift card” and looks like a gift card, but the back says I have to give a 5 star review and send my order information to an outlook email address. Is this legitimate? Is it really a $20 Amazon gift card?<p>Amazon: Thank you so much for your information on this, I will certainly pass it along here so that we can check this promotion or offer directly with the seller. Because I am not seeing that advertised on the item at all And would not be capable of confirming if that is a legit Amazon gift card because, I do not see that offer on the item<p>Me: So what should I do?<p>Amazon: My best suggestion would be to contact the seller directly for this through this link [redacted] So that you can confirm directly with them if this is legit or not Certainly giving away gift cards for good reviews is not professional And I have to report the seller for that<p>Me: I thought this type of offer was forbidden by Amazon’s own policies for sellers. But I will contact them using the link you sent to ask them if that’s what you recommend.</i><p>Even though the CSR reported the seller, and I confirmed with the seller through Amazon&#x27;s own communication system that they were paying $20 per 5 star review, nothing happened to the seller. The item (a webcam) is still for sale on Amazon, with thousands of additional 5-star reviews - more than 12,000 now, compared to 3,266 when I let Amazon know how they were gaming the reviews in September.<p>Once again, the good guys (in the case, customers and honest sellers) lose out while the bad guys win, with no repercussions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chowells</author><text>I&#x27;m afraid you&#x27;ve <i>deeply</i> misunderstood Playing to Win. This is quite common. Sirlin assumed a sort of community knowledge as to the context that people who came across the series later tend to lack.<p>Playing To Win is about people who refuse to learn the rules of a game. That&#x27;s not what&#x27;s happening here. What&#x27;s happening here is that people who understand the rules very well are pointing out that they have holes in them.<p>Scrub statement: &quot;throws are cheap&quot;. Informed statement: &quot;the way SF2 tick throw setups work biases the gameplay too far in favor of the player with offensive agency.&quot; You&#x27;ll note that the latter makes no mistake about the purpose of the rules and makes no judgments about players using the tools provided. Instead it focuses on system interactions and their net result. You&#x27;ll note that almost every big fighting game in the 20 years since the end of the SF2 series has reduced the power of tick throws by means of frame data or broader system changes. Players generally decided that getting the first knockdown should not have <i>that</i> much influence over a match.<p>Scrub statement: &quot;I hate people who get upset at review purchasing.&quot; Informed statement: &quot;Review purchasing makes the buying process worse for everyone by creating incentives to deceive buyers, increasing costs for sellers that purchase reviews and reducing sales to sellers who do not. It shifts the Nash equilibrium towards paying more for lower-quality products.&quot; Again, the latter examines the system interactions and emergent behavior rather than making moral judgments about the participants.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews</title><url>http://blog.kevmod.com/2020/12/amazon-disallows-pointing-out-paid-reviews/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jdmichal</author><text>If you&#x27;ve never read it before, I highly recommend reading David Sirlin&#x27;s Playing to Win.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sirlin.net&#x2F;ptw&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sirlin.net&#x2F;ptw&#x2F;</a><p>Specifically the chapter &quot;Introducing... the Scrub&quot; discusses exactly this sentiment.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sirlin.net&#x2F;ptw-book&#x2F;introducingthe-scrub" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sirlin.net&#x2F;ptw-book&#x2F;introducingthe-scrub</a><p>&gt; In Street Fighter, the scrub labels a wide variety of tactics and situations “cheap.” This “cheapness” is truly the mantra of the scrub. Performing a throw on someone is often called cheap. A throw is a special kind of move that grabs an opponent and damages him, even when the opponent is defending against all other kinds of attacks. The entire purpose of the throw is to be able to damage an opponent who sits and blocks and doesn’t attack. As far as the game is concerned, throwing is an integral part of the design—it’s meant to be there—yet the scrub has constructed his own set of principles in his mind that state he should be totally impervious to all attacks while blocking. The scrub thinks of blocking as a kind of magic shield that will protect him indefinitely.</text></item><item><author>jrockway</author><text>There is something about how the human brain works that makes us hate this. It happens in games a lot; the community will complain that a certain character is broken and that they hate playing against it... but won&#x27;t actually go play the character themselves to exploit the brokenness for their own gain. Seems silly to me.<p>(Buying reviews might actually be illegal though, so that&#x27;s a strong argument to not do it.)</text></item><item><author>toxik</author><text>... and give away $20 gift cards to people who leave 5-star reviews!</text></item><item><author>pc86</author><text>Write an ebook on how to make money on Amazon, sell it for $297, and post a Show HN about it.</text></item><item><author>Buttons840</author><text>Leave a 5-star review, get your $20. Resell the item on Amazon for $10 less than what the original seller was selling for. Earn $10 dollars profit. Repeat for other such products. Earn more profit. Make a blog about your antics; earn more profit, and help others profit the same way. Exploit the system until Amazon has to fix it.<p>EDIT: I guess at no point is Amazon actually harmed by this scheme. However, the companies trying to buy 5-star reviews are themselves exploited to the extent that people do this.<p>The cost to the original company is a lost sale, a lost product, and $20 [lost] in exchange for a legitimate looking 5-star review (from someone who is not a bot). That may well be worth it for the company, so I&#x27;m not sure this scheme would actually stop dishonest reviews, only make it worse.</text></item><item><author>ilamont</author><text>I purchased the same webcam for my high school sophomore in September 2020, as school restarted (all online for him). The box contained a $20 &quot;gift card&quot; if I emailed proof of my 5-star review. It looks identical to the one I received (including the email address). Only the reward is different.<p>I didn&#x27;t try to write a review, I notified customer service in an attempt to report the seller.<p>I documented everything including photos, my exchange with Amazon customer service, and the confirmation from the seller that they would pay me $20 for a 5-star review. I did not take the money offered ... I was appalled at the situation and more than a little angry that I had been tricked by bogus reviews.<p>Here&#x27;s what happened when I reported the seller:<p><i>Me: Hi. The box for this product contained a card that says “Amazon $20 gift card” and looks like a gift card, but the back says I have to give a 5 star review and send my order information to an outlook email address. Is this legitimate? Is it really a $20 Amazon gift card?<p>Amazon: Thank you so much for your information on this, I will certainly pass it along here so that we can check this promotion or offer directly with the seller. Because I am not seeing that advertised on the item at all And would not be capable of confirming if that is a legit Amazon gift card because, I do not see that offer on the item<p>Me: So what should I do?<p>Amazon: My best suggestion would be to contact the seller directly for this through this link [redacted] So that you can confirm directly with them if this is legit or not Certainly giving away gift cards for good reviews is not professional And I have to report the seller for that<p>Me: I thought this type of offer was forbidden by Amazon’s own policies for sellers. But I will contact them using the link you sent to ask them if that’s what you recommend.</i><p>Even though the CSR reported the seller, and I confirmed with the seller through Amazon&#x27;s own communication system that they were paying $20 per 5 star review, nothing happened to the seller. The item (a webcam) is still for sale on Amazon, with thousands of additional 5-star reviews - more than 12,000 now, compared to 3,266 when I let Amazon know how they were gaming the reviews in September.<p>Once again, the good guys (in the case, customers and honest sellers) lose out while the bad guys win, with no repercussions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cafard</author><text>If you are applying this to computer games, I see your point. If you are applying it to 5-star reviews for $20, then I disagree.<p>(Luigi Barzini mentions an Italian book on card-playing--written, I think, by a clergyman--that begins &quot;Always try to see your opponents&#x27; cards.&quot; He was trying to point out the light value to that Italians assign to official rules.)</text></comment> |
23,380,602 | 23,380,296 | 1 | 2 | 23,379,661 | train | <story><title>San Francisco, Silicon Valley rents plunge amid downturn</title><url>https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/San-Francisco-Silicon-Valley-rents-saw-sharp-15307118.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jcomis</author><text>I think the reality will set in soon on this once the CARES bonus UI is removed (and if it is not replaced) and the PPP loans run out. Right now everyone I know in real estate is still convinced it was just a minor blip and love to cite cherry picked stats about how a recovery is already under way.<p>Coincidently I have been seeing a lot of fully furnished units coming on the market which I assume were former Airbnbs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ra1n85</author><text>Two things:<p>1. The consequences of having millions of unemployed people with bills to pay and no income are too much for a nation, let alone politicians in an election year. My bet is that the payments will be extended or replaced with something as the alternative is not viable.<p>2. WFH has already started normalizing, and will shortly become a differentiating perk offered by companies. I don&#x27;t suspect that may of the people living in tech hubs would choose to continue doing so if they had the opportunity to live anywhere they wanted (of course while considering COL adjustment).</text></comment> | <story><title>San Francisco, Silicon Valley rents plunge amid downturn</title><url>https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/San-Francisco-Silicon-Valley-rents-saw-sharp-15307118.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jcomis</author><text>I think the reality will set in soon on this once the CARES bonus UI is removed (and if it is not replaced) and the PPP loans run out. Right now everyone I know in real estate is still convinced it was just a minor blip and love to cite cherry picked stats about how a recovery is already under way.<p>Coincidently I have been seeing a lot of fully furnished units coming on the market which I assume were former Airbnbs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xur17</author><text>&gt; Coincidently I have been seeing a lot of fully furnished units coming on the market which I assume were former Airbnbs.<p>I&#x27;ve been noticing this as well (I can still find some of them on Airbnb actually).<p>I&#x27;m currently in the market for a house, but wondering if waiting a year might be a wise move..</text></comment> |
1,606,599 | 1,605,994 | 1 | 2 | 1,605,361 | train | <story><title>Is a Crash Coming? Reasons to Be Cautious</title><url>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703723504575425723973560744.html#</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cynicalkane</author><text>Why does this have 23 upvotes?<p>Nothing of any substance is stated here. Vague comments about "the players" and "the debt"--what players? Whose debt? To what extent an opinion can be extracted from this post, it's wrong. For example, I don't know who "the players" he refers to are, but my guess is they are <i>supposed</i> to be for profit.</text></item><item><author>Revisor</author><text>The crash is not coming, it's just returning. The original one was never over. Its effects were just postponed by pouring money in it (aka bailouts and buy-outs).<p>The real reasons - ultra high debt of all players, errors in the system, for-profit players not controllable by the three political branches - were not remedied, in fact they might have been even worsened (the debt increased because of the bailouts).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joe_the_user</author><text>Because it's true??<p>Seriously, those who have studied this for a while pretty much know the situation. Sorry if it seems vague to you.<p>The players are large bank, investment houses, and the Federal government at the least. But even more, the entire <i>housing market</i> was temporarily re-inflated to sustain the massive over-valuations that built up over the last ten-twenty years. Of course, all the other bubbles; medical, student loans, etc depended on this inflating to keep going (and there's a Chinese property bubble too btw). Did you notice the auction rate bond market <i>cease to exist</i> around the time of the crisis? We are in a fragile respite from result of the unsustainable economy of 2001-2007 (or longer).<p>Seriously, in 2008, a boulder rolled half-way down a hill and massive world wide spending brought it to a halt.<p>Sorry if I can't give a single factual pointer to all this stuff. It's more a matter of the economy's "big picture".<p>I would recommend Doug Noland's Credit Bubble Bulletin.<p>I'd especially recommend the earlier issue, where he extend's Hyman Minksky's idea of Ponzi finance.<p><a href="http://www.safehaven.com/author/2/doug-noland" rel="nofollow">http://www.safehaven.com/author/2/doug-noland</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Is a Crash Coming? Reasons to Be Cautious</title><url>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703723504575425723973560744.html#</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cynicalkane</author><text>Why does this have 23 upvotes?<p>Nothing of any substance is stated here. Vague comments about "the players" and "the debt"--what players? Whose debt? To what extent an opinion can be extracted from this post, it's wrong. For example, I don't know who "the players" he refers to are, but my guess is they are <i>supposed</i> to be for profit.</text></item><item><author>Revisor</author><text>The crash is not coming, it's just returning. The original one was never over. Its effects were just postponed by pouring money in it (aka bailouts and buy-outs).<p>The real reasons - ultra high debt of all players, errors in the system, for-profit players not controllable by the three political branches - were not remedied, in fact they might have been even worsened (the debt increased because of the bailouts).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Revisor</author><text>As for the indebtedness, I was speaking about the key layers of the economy - personal/household debt[1], corporate debt and public (government) debt[2].
We've grown accustomed to the debt as a regular part of our life, of how our households, businesses and whole countries work. This is very dangerous.<p>Regarding the unaccountability of the for-profit players, mind you, I'm pro-free-market as anyone here. But this piece of news[3] makes you rethink what happens at the highest level of the market, how the largest enterprises become uncontrollable institutions on their own.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/housedebt/" rel="nofollow">http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/housedebt/</a><p>[2] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USDebt.png" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USDebt.png</a><p>[3] <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/12697/64796" rel="nofollow">http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/12697/64796</a></text></comment> |
29,906,355 | 29,905,177 | 1 | 2 | 29,904,425 | train | <story><title>Writing a Game Boy Emulator in OCaml</title><url>https://linoscope.github.io/writing-a-game-boy-emulator-in-ocaml/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tombert</author><text>An emulator is still on my &quot;bucket list as an engineer.&quot; I feel like it&#x27;s a hurdle I still haven&#x27;t crossed and I&#x27;m reasonably certain I <i>could</i> make one.<p>I have some free time this weekend...I might take this repo and port it over to clojure to get the hang of things.</text></comment> | <story><title>Writing a Game Boy Emulator in OCaml</title><url>https://linoscope.github.io/writing-a-game-boy-emulator-in-ocaml/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sandebert</author><text>Looks nice, well done.<p>I&#x27;d also like to add that it seems like a missed opportunity here. It could have been named OBoy.</text></comment> |
22,321,626 | 22,320,603 | 1 | 2 | 22,319,941 | train | <story><title>Burnoutindex.org</title><url>https://burnoutindex.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sz4kerto</author><text>Be really careful with these surveys.<p>The problems of these, among other things:<p>- mixing up burnout risk with burnout<p>- mixing up burnout with physical or mental fatigue<p>- not serving any purpose (i.e. not providing good directions)<p>Burnout is primarily a negative change in perception, and it&#x27;s a spectrum, obviously. You get burned out when your perception of the same situation gets progressively worse. This can be caused by various factors -- exhaustion, doing stuff that doesn&#x27;t match your values, etc. It can also be prevented in various ways; i.e. you can do very exhausting work and not get burned out.<p>A really simplistic, but fun&#x2F;useful way of detecting burnout (not the risk): if you regularly think that you and your team&#x2F;company&#x2F;environment work hard, but your customers&#x2F;broader company&#x2F;other teams are stupid&#x2F;not intelligent&#x2F;not constructive, then that&#x27;s the first phase (&#x27;us vs them&#x27;). This can progress to the next phase, where it&#x27;s more like &#x27;me vs them&#x27;, so you despise most of your environment. This is when people tend to leave. The last step is apathy, people rarely end here.<p>It&#x27;s not really possible to move backwards on this scale without changing roles&#x2F;work&#x2F;colleagues.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChefboyOG</author><text>Our common idea of burnout largely comes from Christina Maslach—the Maslach Burnout Inventory is more or less the standard tool that psychologists use to score and diagnose burnout now—and interestingly, it diagnoses burnout as three related but independent subscales:<p>Exhaustion - somewhat self-explanatory<p>Professional Efficacy - your view of your performance<p>Cynicism - a distancing of yourself from your job<p>Though you may come across different names in different writings. It&#x27;s interesting how the subscales impact each other.<p>I don&#x27;t know if I fully buy into the framework 100%, but it makes for interesting research nonetheless.</text></comment> | <story><title>Burnoutindex.org</title><url>https://burnoutindex.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sz4kerto</author><text>Be really careful with these surveys.<p>The problems of these, among other things:<p>- mixing up burnout risk with burnout<p>- mixing up burnout with physical or mental fatigue<p>- not serving any purpose (i.e. not providing good directions)<p>Burnout is primarily a negative change in perception, and it&#x27;s a spectrum, obviously. You get burned out when your perception of the same situation gets progressively worse. This can be caused by various factors -- exhaustion, doing stuff that doesn&#x27;t match your values, etc. It can also be prevented in various ways; i.e. you can do very exhausting work and not get burned out.<p>A really simplistic, but fun&#x2F;useful way of detecting burnout (not the risk): if you regularly think that you and your team&#x2F;company&#x2F;environment work hard, but your customers&#x2F;broader company&#x2F;other teams are stupid&#x2F;not intelligent&#x2F;not constructive, then that&#x27;s the first phase (&#x27;us vs them&#x27;). This can progress to the next phase, where it&#x27;s more like &#x27;me vs them&#x27;, so you despise most of your environment. This is when people tend to leave. The last step is apathy, people rarely end here.<p>It&#x27;s not really possible to move backwards on this scale without changing roles&#x2F;work&#x2F;colleagues.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>soneca</author><text>The first time I heard about burnout was from a colleague that was just trying to go back to a job after about two years being mentally unable to do any job. It started when one day, arriving at the work, they just froze and started crying uncontrollably.<p>It was a diagnosed condition. I am always unsure of what people are talking about when they talk about burnout. Is this panic attack that makes someone temporarily incapable of working or is a strong stress feeling that might be solved just by changing jobs?<p>The spectrum idea makes sense, but the situation, consequences, and ways to help are <i>very</i> different on different parts of this spectrum.</text></comment> |
34,175,931 | 34,175,346 | 1 | 2 | 34,161,081 | train | <story><title>The Linux Command Line</title><url>https://www.linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>velavar</author><text>Do you think that this is because they don&#x27;t really need to anymore with all the nice GUI&#x2F;tools around? Is there an advantage to bring able to do something on a command line vs other ways?<p>Asking because I&#x27;m at a bit of a crossroads - I have a good handle on about 5% of the command line knowledge which gets me through 80% of the stuff I need to do. I&#x27;m wondering if learning to use more commands is worth the effort when I can already get the task done without using the command line?</text></item><item><author>channel_t</author><text>I consider this book pretty much required reading for junior devs and others in engineering who don&#x27;t have a decent handle on basic Unix skills for whatever reason--which seems to be a more common occurrence these days than earlier in my career.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amalgamated_inc</author><text>I think that you probably have 80% of the gross capability, but you will gain a huge level of refinement. I&#x27;m about 10-15 years into the command line (depending on how you count, lol) and I keep finding more stuff that just wouldn&#x27;t stick 5 years ago, because I simply didn&#x27;t have those problems yet.<p>E.g. there was a time in my life when I didn&#x27;t get what `xargs` even did, I literally couldn&#x27;t grok it. Now, I can&#x27;t imagine life without `-0`!<p>The composability of UNIX commands is just so amazing. Every command builds on every other command. I haven&#x27;t seen that with any other tools or program.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Linux Command Line</title><url>https://www.linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>velavar</author><text>Do you think that this is because they don&#x27;t really need to anymore with all the nice GUI&#x2F;tools around? Is there an advantage to bring able to do something on a command line vs other ways?<p>Asking because I&#x27;m at a bit of a crossroads - I have a good handle on about 5% of the command line knowledge which gets me through 80% of the stuff I need to do. I&#x27;m wondering if learning to use more commands is worth the effort when I can already get the task done without using the command line?</text></item><item><author>channel_t</author><text>I consider this book pretty much required reading for junior devs and others in engineering who don&#x27;t have a decent handle on basic Unix skills for whatever reason--which seems to be a more common occurrence these days than earlier in my career.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gofreddygo</author><text>more commands are a side effect of more capability.<p>If you get a sense of things you can do with (|, &amp; , &gt;) and a dozen or so commands like<p>sort | uniq | cut | paste | join | head | tail | sed | awk | wc | tr | fmt | col | nl | pr | find | grep | tar | export<p>The value you get in return is intense for the effort invested.<p>Plus, in the 10 years i&#x27;ve been maintaining code, bash scripts are the minority that still work as they used to with almost no change needed.<p>That single handedly is worth my money.</text></comment> |
12,431,935 | 12,432,008 | 1 | 2 | 12,431,686 | train | <story><title>The FBI’s Approach to the Cyber Threat</title><url>https://www.fbi.gov/news/speeches/the-fbis-approach-to-the-cyber-threat</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>corysama</author><text>&gt; One of my children described to me what our problem is in recruiting. She said, “Dad, the problem is you’re the man.” I thought that was a compliment, so I said, “Thank you, I really appreciate that.” She said, “Dad, I don’t mean that in a good way. I mean you’re the ‘Man.’ Who would want to work for the ‘Man’?” I think she’s right. But I said to her, “You know, if people saw what this ‘Man’ and ‘Woman’ of the FBI was like, and what we do, and the challenges we face, I think they’d want to come work for us.”<p>Given that even after his daughter explained the term to him, he still doesn&#x27;t know that &#x27;The&#x27; is part of the phrase, I&#x27;m not sure if The Director of the FBI knows what the phrase &#x27;The Man&#x27; means...</text></comment> | <story><title>The FBI’s Approach to the Cyber Threat</title><url>https://www.fbi.gov/news/speeches/the-fbis-approach-to-the-cyber-threat</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ramblenode</author><text>The tri-letters seek more and more access to personal data, yet their own transparency worsens and their operations are increasingly classified or confidential, even to members of Congress. We have more reason to be concerned about the dark areas of government than Mr. Comey&#x27;s &quot;dark room&quot; of civil privacy. Defending civil liberties is an uphill battle because their importance is not as immediately apparent as the security predicament of the day. On the other hand, once the government gains a new mandate and new authority it&#x27;s rarely willing to relinquish this power once the cause for the mandate has been resolved or the solution demonstrated unworkable. So we should be cautious about granting broad authority to solve today&#x27;s problems; we&#x27;ll have to live with the consequences tomorrow and days to come even if it&#x27;s realized the cure was worse than the disease.</text></comment> |
5,621,311 | 5,621,098 | 1 | 2 | 5,620,923 | train | <story><title>Icelandic Pirate Party enters parliament</title><url>http://falkvinge.net/2013/04/28/icelandic-pirate-party-wins-enters-parliament/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>SagelyGuru</author><text>Congratulations to the Icelandic Pirate Party on entering the national parliament with three MPs!<p>The name "Pirates" does not mean robbers but is meant to indicate an analogy between the freedom of the international seas and the freedom of the internet.<p>Pirate Parties are now established in many countries. The core ideas of their policies are: direct democracy, transparency, free internet.</text></comment> | <story><title>Icelandic Pirate Party enters parliament</title><url>http://falkvinge.net/2013/04/28/icelandic-pirate-party-wins-enters-parliament/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kzrdude</author><text>The booster is that (some) Icelanders demand change and are seeking out new politicians. However, a depressing majority seems to have voted to install the old politicians, that were part of setting up the crisis, into power again.</text></comment> |
28,269,327 | 28,267,392 | 1 | 2 | 28,266,403 | train | <story><title>C++20 Concepts: The Definitive Guide</title><url>https://thecodepad.com/cpp/c20-concepts-the-definitive-guide/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tialaramex</author><text>I feel like one of the things a &quot;Definitive Guide&quot; to this feature needs to make clear, and maybe even emphasise, is a key way these are different than say Rust type Traits.<p>Concepts, just like the SFINAE and constrexpr hacks you should discard in their favour, are about only what will <i>compile</i> and you, the C++ programmer, are always responsible for shouldering the burden of deciding whether that will do what you meant <i>even if you have no insight into the types involved</i>.<p>Example: In C++ the floating point type &quot;float&quot; matches a concept std::totally_ordered. You can, in fact, compile code that treats any container of floats as totally ordered. <i>But</i> of course if some of them are NaN that won&#x27;t work, because NaNs in fact don&#x27;t even compare equal to themselves. You, the C++ programmer were responsible for knowing not to use this with NaNs.<p>Whereas, Rust&#x27;s floating point type f32 implements PartialOrd (saying you can try to compare these) but not Ord (a claim that <i>all</i> of them are totally ordered). If you know you won&#x27;t use NaNs you can construct a wrapper type, and insist that is Ord and Rust will let you do that, because now <i>you</i> pointed the gun at your foot, and it&#x27;s clearly your fault if you pull the trigger.<p>This is a quite deliberate choice, it&#x27;s not as though C++ could have just dropped in Rust-style traits, but I think a &quot;Definitive Guide&quot; ought to spell this out so that programmers understand that the burden the concept seems to be taking on is in fact still resting firmly on their shoulders in C++.<p>The other side of this is, if you wrote a C++ type say Beachball that implements the necessary comparison operators the Beachball is std::totally_ordered in C++ 20 with no further work from you to clear up this fact. Your users might hope you&#x27;ll document whether Beachballs <i>are</i> actually totally ordered or not though...<p>I think this will likely prove to be a curse, obviously its proponents think it will work out OK or even a blessing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CodeMage</author><text>&gt; <i>I feel like one of the things a &quot;Definitive Guide&quot; to this feature needs to make clear, and maybe even emphasise, is a key way these are different than say Rust type Traits.</i><p>&gt; <i>Concepts, just like the SFINAE and constrexpr hacks you should discard in their favour, are about only what will compile and you, the C++ programmer, are always responsible for shouldering the burden of deciding whether that will do what you meant even if you have no insight into the types involved.</i><p>To be fair, that&#x27;s not what makes them different from Rust. Unless there&#x27;s something in Rust that I missed, it offers no guarantees that the implementation of the trait is consistent with its semantics.<p>Whether it&#x27;s traits or concepts, it&#x27;s still about compile-time type-checking, not actual contracts.</text></comment> | <story><title>C++20 Concepts: The Definitive Guide</title><url>https://thecodepad.com/cpp/c20-concepts-the-definitive-guide/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tialaramex</author><text>I feel like one of the things a &quot;Definitive Guide&quot; to this feature needs to make clear, and maybe even emphasise, is a key way these are different than say Rust type Traits.<p>Concepts, just like the SFINAE and constrexpr hacks you should discard in their favour, are about only what will <i>compile</i> and you, the C++ programmer, are always responsible for shouldering the burden of deciding whether that will do what you meant <i>even if you have no insight into the types involved</i>.<p>Example: In C++ the floating point type &quot;float&quot; matches a concept std::totally_ordered. You can, in fact, compile code that treats any container of floats as totally ordered. <i>But</i> of course if some of them are NaN that won&#x27;t work, because NaNs in fact don&#x27;t even compare equal to themselves. You, the C++ programmer were responsible for knowing not to use this with NaNs.<p>Whereas, Rust&#x27;s floating point type f32 implements PartialOrd (saying you can try to compare these) but not Ord (a claim that <i>all</i> of them are totally ordered). If you know you won&#x27;t use NaNs you can construct a wrapper type, and insist that is Ord and Rust will let you do that, because now <i>you</i> pointed the gun at your foot, and it&#x27;s clearly your fault if you pull the trigger.<p>This is a quite deliberate choice, it&#x27;s not as though C++ could have just dropped in Rust-style traits, but I think a &quot;Definitive Guide&quot; ought to spell this out so that programmers understand that the burden the concept seems to be taking on is in fact still resting firmly on their shoulders in C++.<p>The other side of this is, if you wrote a C++ type say Beachball that implements the necessary comparison operators the Beachball is std::totally_ordered in C++ 20 with no further work from you to clear up this fact. Your users might hope you&#x27;ll document whether Beachballs <i>are</i> actually totally ordered or not though...<p>I think this will likely prove to be a curse, obviously its proponents think it will work out OK or even a blessing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>svalorzen</author><text>Are you sure about this? In my tests floating points are always considered partially ordered, not totally ordered. This page [0] even mentions this in the notes towards the bottom.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.cppreference.com&#x2F;w&#x2F;cpp&#x2F;utility&#x2F;compare&#x2F;partial_ordering" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.cppreference.com&#x2F;w&#x2F;cpp&#x2F;utility&#x2F;compare&#x2F;partial_or...</a></text></comment> |
22,572,041 | 22,572,011 | 1 | 2 | 22,569,662 | train | <story><title>Popular iPhone and iPad Apps Snooping on the Pasteboard</title><url>https://www.mysk.blog/2020/03/10/popular-iphone-and-ipad-apps-snooping-on-the-pasteboard/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kennywinker</author><text>The pasteboard API is essentially the same in iOS as it is in macOS. Which means it&#x27;s an api that was likely designed more than 20 years ago. Because of that, it was not designed for the user-hostile app world we live in, where developers will harness any api that can leak data about the user.<p>A solution to this is to re-design this api so that it allows developers to query for specific matches, but requires user-action to unlock them I.e. I can passively ask &quot;does the clipboard contain a photo?&quot; or &quot;does the clipboard contain a url in the *.facebook.com domain?&quot; but in order to get the contents I have to prompt the user to manually paste. Probably this would require putting these queries in the info plist, so that they can be validated by app review and you don&#x27;t get developers brute-forcing the contents with large numbers of generated queries.<p>This is very similar to how apple solved apps detecting what other apps you have installed using `-[UIApplication canOpenURL:]`. Apple added rate limiting and an info-plist based whitelist, which essentially put a stop to this practice.</text></comment> | <story><title>Popular iPhone and iPad Apps Snooping on the Pasteboard</title><url>https://www.mysk.blog/2020/03/10/popular-iphone-and-ipad-apps-snooping-on-the-pasteboard/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>banana_giraffe</author><text>Something that confuses me:<p>Windows app can do this. Heck, in the case of a Windows app, you need not even poll the clipboard, you can sign up for notifications when it changes. The API is ancient, well documented, and provides no feedback when it&#x27;s being used. And some apps indeed use it, one obvious one is remote desktop apps use it to &quot;sniff&quot; what&#x27;s in the clipboard to mirror it along.<p>Is there a reason whatever security trade offs are OK in Windows, but not on a phone?</text></comment> |
5,326,796 | 5,326,170 | 1 | 2 | 5,325,540 | train | <story><title>Why American Eggs Would Be Illegal In A British Supermarket, And Vice Versa</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/nadiaarumugam/2012/10/25/why-american-eggs-would-be-illegal-in-a-british-supermarket-and-vice-versa/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sliverstorm</author><text>That's hardly amazing; I've known since I was a child that the main source of salmonella was eggs and possibly raw chicken. In fact, I'd have been hard-pressed to name another place you could get it.</text></item><item><author>Luc</author><text>&#62; It's completely expected, not amazing at all.<p>It's amazing because it's the hens being vaccinated. Humans could get the infection from other sources, but apparently by and large don't.</text></item><item><author>user24</author><text>&#62; Since the late 1990’s British farmers have been vaccinating hens against salmonella [...] Amazingly, this measure has virtually wiped out the health threat in Britain.<p>"Amazingly"? No not really! Vaccination stops disease. It's completely expected, not amazing at all.<p>edit: Likewise it's not "amazing" that cases of Diptheria, Measles, Polio, etc have been drastically reduced - by 100% in some cases - since widespread vaccination began in the USA (source: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2013/02/19/a-graphic-that-drives-home-how-vaccines-have-changed-our-world/" rel="nofollow">http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2013/02/19/a-graph...</a> )</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pash</author><text>If you look at the data [0] on food recalls and safety warnings in the United States, you'll see that the large majority of food-borne salmonella occurs not in meat or eggs but in fruits and vegetables, particularly in ground-hugging varieties like peanuts, lettuces, peppers, and bean sprouts.<p>This is almost always either because (a) the vegetables are fertilized with manure (organic vegetables, in particular, carry a higher risk of fecal contamination and associated diseases) or because (b) they're processed and packed in contaminated facilities. It is a self-fulfilling irony of the regulatory regime that vegetable-processing plants, which are more likely to be contaminated, are subject to less stringent safety standards than their meat- and poultry-processing counterparts.<p>0. <a href="http://google2.fda.gov/search?site=FDAgov-recalls&#38;client=FDAgov-recalls&#38;proxystylesheet=FDAgov-recalls&#38;filter=0&#38;getfields=*&#38;sort=date:D:S:d1&#38;q=Salmonella&#38;requiredfields=recall_category:Food" rel="nofollow">http://google2.fda.gov/search?site=FDAgov-recalls&#38;client...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Why American Eggs Would Be Illegal In A British Supermarket, And Vice Versa</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/nadiaarumugam/2012/10/25/why-american-eggs-would-be-illegal-in-a-british-supermarket-and-vice-versa/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sliverstorm</author><text>That's hardly amazing; I've known since I was a child that the main source of salmonella was eggs and possibly raw chicken. In fact, I'd have been hard-pressed to name another place you could get it.</text></item><item><author>Luc</author><text>&#62; It's completely expected, not amazing at all.<p>It's amazing because it's the hens being vaccinated. Humans could get the infection from other sources, but apparently by and large don't.</text></item><item><author>user24</author><text>&#62; Since the late 1990’s British farmers have been vaccinating hens against salmonella [...] Amazingly, this measure has virtually wiped out the health threat in Britain.<p>"Amazingly"? No not really! Vaccination stops disease. It's completely expected, not amazing at all.<p>edit: Likewise it's not "amazing" that cases of Diptheria, Measles, Polio, etc have been drastically reduced - by 100% in some cases - since widespread vaccination began in the USA (source: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2013/02/19/a-graphic-that-drives-home-how-vaccines-have-changed-our-world/" rel="nofollow">http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2013/02/19/a-graph...</a> )</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ryusage</author><text>It's a somewhat common concern with pet reptiles.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/features/salmonellafrogturtle" rel="nofollow">http://www.cdc.gov/features/salmonellafrogturtle</a></text></comment> |
5,811,165 | 5,810,318 | 1 | 2 | 5,809,564 | train | <story><title>OpenCola Soft Drink</title><url>http://www.colawp.com/colas/400/cola467_recipe.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DigitalSea</author><text>I made a batch of OpenCola a few years back, I actually prefer the taste in comparison to that of Coca Cola. Brew up the syrup and get yourself a Soda Stream or any other carbonation device and you've got a tasty cola you made yourself.<p>Word of warning, making this stuff is SUPER expensive compared to just buying some Coke from the shop. All of those oils are not only hard to find (especially in Australia), but can be quite pricey when you total them up. Neroli oil is expensive in itself (about $25 AUD for 10mls of the stuff) follow the recipe right down to every warning (you could easily end up poisoning yourself if you make it incorrectly). Remember to get food grade, 100% undiluted oils or you could make yourself really sick or as I said, poison yourself.<p>I skipped the caffeine in mine and it seemed fine without it, but probably would taste better with it. I did notice something was missing, not sure if that's due to the lack of caffeine though I skipped primarily because the dangers of caffeine and the fact small amounts can actually kill you.<p>Don't go making this if you're expecting a 1:1 Coke copy. This has its own unique taste, slightly syrupy. I think the recipe definitely needs more work, but considering it's a free and open sourced recipe it's pretty good as it is.</text></comment> | <story><title>OpenCola Soft Drink</title><url>http://www.colawp.com/colas/400/cola467_recipe.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lobster_johnson</author><text>I love this recipe. I make it now and then so that I have a glass of syrup in the fridge that I can mix with carbonated water from a cartridge system.<p>(For a while we had the cola on tap in the office via a carbonator, alongside a colleague's home-brewed beer. It was very popular.)<p>I easily prefer this recipe to commercial Coca-Cola. On the one hand, it does lack a certain something that Coca-Cola has, and I attribute this mainly to the fact that I don't use any coca-leaf extract; you can get this online, and it ultimately comes from the same source as Coca-Cola uses, but I haven't bothered.<p>But on the other hand, it just tastes <i>better</i>. Fresher and more vibrant. Very different from off-the-shelf cola syrups such as SodaStream's. It's closer to a "indie" cola like Fentimans or Boylan's. My hypothesis is that Coca-Cola's current "natural aroma" ingredients are no longer natural essential oils, but synthesized versions of these, although I have not been able to confirm this.</text></comment> |
7,417,922 | 7,417,337 | 1 | 2 | 7,416,507 | train | <story><title>“This presentation can’t be opened because it’s too old”</title><url>https://plus.google.com/+StefanUrbanek/posts/LKkGeEoPUzA</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jakejake</author><text>The author might consider using Microsoft products because they are obsessive about providing backwards compatibility. That&#x27;s one of the positive things about Microsoft products. The downside is that they have to deal with a lot of old baggage as a result.<p>Apple, on the other hand is almost the opposite. They&#x27;re obsessive about upgrading everyone and leaving the past behind. That&#x27;s great because they&#x27;re free to make bold and innovative changes. The downside of course is that you and your files sometimes get left behind.<p>Both are valid strategies in my opinion and appeal to different customers. If you feel like backwards compatibility is a really important feature then whether you want to admit it or not, you probably would be happy as a Microsoft customer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tolmasky</author><text>The most important point here is that if you are aware of the problem and provide an incredibly lame dialog to deal with it, then you should have just provided the solution. Clearly Apple has all the necessary tools in their possession to fix this problem: they own the source to both Keynote &#x27;09 and the latest Keynote. Why not either 1) make a small conversion utility and provide a direct link to it in the dialog (still lazy but at least actionable), or 2) include said utility as part of the latest Keynote so you don&#x27;t have to show a dialog? We&#x27;re not talking &quot;backwards compatibility philosophy&quot; here, we&#x27;re talking user experience 101 (something Apple used to hold in the highest regard). This is particularly important given the context of the software: certain file formats are expected to stick around way longer than others. In particular, with presentation software there are loads of class slides sitting on the internet that probably will never be updated, which means you are often putting the onus on someone who didn&#x27;t make the file to go and convert it. Compare this to, say, Final Cut where the only real client of the serialized file is probably the original creator, and it is thus more reasonable to expect a higher degree of personal responsibility in keeping it up to date.</text></comment> | <story><title>“This presentation can’t be opened because it’s too old”</title><url>https://plus.google.com/+StefanUrbanek/posts/LKkGeEoPUzA</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jakejake</author><text>The author might consider using Microsoft products because they are obsessive about providing backwards compatibility. That&#x27;s one of the positive things about Microsoft products. The downside is that they have to deal with a lot of old baggage as a result.<p>Apple, on the other hand is almost the opposite. They&#x27;re obsessive about upgrading everyone and leaving the past behind. That&#x27;s great because they&#x27;re free to make bold and innovative changes. The downside of course is that you and your files sometimes get left behind.<p>Both are valid strategies in my opinion and appeal to different customers. If you feel like backwards compatibility is a really important feature then whether you want to admit it or not, you probably would be happy as a Microsoft customer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Touche</author><text>Files are data. Data should be eternal. You should be able to convert a presentation you make today 30 years from now to a newer format. Making software not-backwards compatible is fine and normal but if files expire in a few years Apple is saying that the things you do on their computers are disposable.</text></comment> |
27,674,712 | 27,674,874 | 1 | 2 | 27,674,413 | train | <story><title>MIT and Harvard agree to transfer edX to ed-tech firm 2U</title><url>https://news.mit.edu/2021/mit-harvard-transfer-edx-2u-0629</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brutus1213</author><text>This seems like terrible news :( After the focus on monetization of platforms such as udemy and coursera, edx seemed to give me a sliver of hope that education will be open. Given the immense trust funds held by Harvard and MIT, I had hoped money would not be a factor and these institutions would be able to develop their platform in the open.<p>I&#x27;d like to add .. non-profit does not mean free to end users. There are many good non-profits and there are many terrible ones (highly paid execs, insane amount of money spent on marketing).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>benrbray</author><text>I tried to use edX for the first time recently to take a &quot;food science&quot; course, but was disappointed to see that they&#x27;ve resorted to the same dark patterns as Coursera and others, such as:<p>* Removing your access to course materials when the class is done, and disallowing access to past versions of the class.<p>* Pressuring you into joining as many courses as possible, due to fear of missing out. When you visit the site, every course says &quot;Course began ($TODAY-5)&quot; to make you feel like &quot;wow, I got here just in time! I better sign up for everything!&quot;.<p>* Breaking courses into useless 2-minute chunks and constant unhelpful quizzes. I really just want to hear the lecturer speak for 20-30 minutes at a time uninterrupted, especially if I&#x27;m listening while doing dishes etc.<p>* An unsettling UI that feels less like it&#x27;s about presenting information in a compact and&#x2F;or digestible way and more like it&#x27;s tracking my every move and waiting for an opportunity to pounce. Everything is a button or clickthrough menu that requires interaction.<p>Thankfully MIT OpenCourseWare still has plenty of lecture videos &#x2F; course materials available. But I&#x27;m quite afraid for the future.</text></comment> | <story><title>MIT and Harvard agree to transfer edX to ed-tech firm 2U</title><url>https://news.mit.edu/2021/mit-harvard-transfer-edx-2u-0629</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brutus1213</author><text>This seems like terrible news :( After the focus on monetization of platforms such as udemy and coursera, edx seemed to give me a sliver of hope that education will be open. Given the immense trust funds held by Harvard and MIT, I had hoped money would not be a factor and these institutions would be able to develop their platform in the open.<p>I&#x27;d like to add .. non-profit does not mean free to end users. There are many good non-profits and there are many terrible ones (highly paid execs, insane amount of money spent on marketing).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sokoloff</author><text>One of the problems of the current structure (at least as of five-ish years ago) is that most of the EdX employees are on the MIT payroll and benefits system (meaning the benefits are pretty great, but the pay bands are incompatible with competing [financially] for engineering talent against the actual tech market). If this breaks that logjam, it could be good for EdX in this one, small regard.<p>Fundamentally though I agree with your summary; I trusted EdX a lot more <i>because</i> it was tightly affiliated with MIT and Harvard. Spun out into an arms-length institution, it seems like it will now be more likely to be driven into the ground by its leadership at some point in the next 100 years because of the lack of enough stabilizing &quot;keel&quot; provided by the affiliation with world-class universities.</text></comment> |
32,589,160 | 32,588,606 | 1 | 2 | 32,561,670 | train | <story><title>The end of the manual transmission is near?</title><url>https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/a40900795/the-end-of-the-manual-transmission/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hinkley</author><text>A great number of the cool designs from the 50&#x27;s and 60&#x27;s are illegal because the front of the car eats people. Swallows them, chews them up, and spits them out.<p>The sloped design of new cars isn&#x27;t just about aerodynamics. In a low-speed impact a pedestrian is lifted onto the hood. Forward leaning grills, such as on the Dodge Charger, some of the beefier Mustangs, and any number of other muscle cars or sedans, instead clip pedestrians in the knee or hip, tip them over and drop them onto the ground, where the car then runs over them.<p>I think there was also an issue with those profiles and Jersey barriers, in that they were more likely to pole vault over them off the side of a bridge or onto - not into - oncoming traffic.<p>You are not ever going to get those designs back.</text></item><item><author>recursivedoubts</author><text>I reiterate my compromise proposal:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32397975" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32397975</a><p>I will give up my manual transmission, if you will bring back pull-knobs, twist knobs and other tactile switches for the main controls of my vehicle, with the appropriate tactile feedback at set points so I can set them without looking.<p>After thinking on it, I am going to raise my demands, however: you also need to produce cars that are as visually appealing and reasonably sized as in the 50s and 60s. Fire all your designers, go back to whatever your models were in 1965, and begin anew. When in doubt, don&#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Pxtl</author><text>Okay but then why is the rolling brick wall of a modern pickup allowed?</text></comment> | <story><title>The end of the manual transmission is near?</title><url>https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/a40900795/the-end-of-the-manual-transmission/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hinkley</author><text>A great number of the cool designs from the 50&#x27;s and 60&#x27;s are illegal because the front of the car eats people. Swallows them, chews them up, and spits them out.<p>The sloped design of new cars isn&#x27;t just about aerodynamics. In a low-speed impact a pedestrian is lifted onto the hood. Forward leaning grills, such as on the Dodge Charger, some of the beefier Mustangs, and any number of other muscle cars or sedans, instead clip pedestrians in the knee or hip, tip them over and drop them onto the ground, where the car then runs over them.<p>I think there was also an issue with those profiles and Jersey barriers, in that they were more likely to pole vault over them off the side of a bridge or onto - not into - oncoming traffic.<p>You are not ever going to get those designs back.</text></item><item><author>recursivedoubts</author><text>I reiterate my compromise proposal:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32397975" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32397975</a><p>I will give up my manual transmission, if you will bring back pull-knobs, twist knobs and other tactile switches for the main controls of my vehicle, with the appropriate tactile feedback at set points so I can set them without looking.<p>After thinking on it, I am going to raise my demands, however: you also need to produce cars that are as visually appealing and reasonably sized as in the 50s and 60s. Fire all your designers, go back to whatever your models were in 1965, and begin anew. When in doubt, don&#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>calvinmorrison</author><text>the sloped design of... a current Escalade? I do doubt designers in the 50&#x27;s were worried about the top of the grill hitting a full grown mans head on contact.</text></comment> |
38,128,192 | 38,128,384 | 1 | 3 | 38,121,199 | train | <story><title>Auto industry executives admit electric vehicle plans are in jeopardy</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/auto-executives-coming-clean-evs-arent-working-2023-10</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NikolaNovak</author><text>I would love to own an EV, but even as a well-to-do middle income, they&#x27;re just.so.expensive right now!<p>And they have to be a second car for many north American folks (due to distances and ranges involved),which unfortunately makes it even more of a luxury :-(<p>I&#x27;d be curious to hear more about handling part though. Outside of Tesla (which I&#x27;ve never driven ; it&#x27;s a personal thing but as soon as I see the &quot;controls&quot;, I jump out) , the EVs I&#x27;ve tried (volt,ioniq, leaf) had great acceleration, but not great handling (turning etc). Tires, suspension and in particular extra weight all seemed to work against me in the corner.<p>They were all very <i>comfortable</i>, and powerful, but I would not have called any of them well <i>handling</i>.</text></item><item><author>avalys</author><text>I&#x27;m, like, the world&#x27;s biggest car enthusiast and I love EVs. For a daily driver, if you have a garage or a place to plug in daily, EVs are just a better experience than gas cars. They&#x27;re smooth, quiet, and powerful and you never have to worry about stopping at a gas station - the car is ready to go every morning and you don&#x27;t even have to think about it!<p>An electric drivetrain is a way better driving experience than the miserable turbocharged 4-cylinder engines that everyone has been forced to use for fuel economy reasons today, even premium brands like Mercedes and BMW. These are nasty, underpowered, vibrating pieces of shit with no torque and no power unless you run them at thousands of RPM, where they&#x27;re loud and buzzy. Just complete fucking garbage.<p>It&#x27;s a shame EVs are not catching on, because they&#x27;re really just better cars. I&#x27;d definitely pay a premium for an EV (and I have). I suppose the problem is that, if you&#x27;re not a car enthusiast, a $30k Toyota hybrid is still a better deal, even if it drives like shit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Royce-CMR</author><text>I’ve done multiple test drives of the model 3 performance and now own a Model Y. Everything below is my opinion and sample size of one… etc.<p>The model 3 is a great handling car - closest compare is a 2012ish BMW 335xi. It’s heavier and you can feel it in turns, but you can feel the low center of gravity, and the grip&#x2F;acceleration curve compensates it out. For street use the tires grip and the car overall overpowers its weight. The suspension is good, really reminding me of the BMW. Note suspension is tuned like a BMW with surprisingly similar dampening but overall is not as mature as the 335xi was - on super bumpy roads the tires will stay in contact with the ground but you will feel the difference. The model 3 not going to be close to a Miata, but in its size class it’s a great time. I would totally buy one, and almost did; it always puts a smile on my face.<p>The model Y is not nearly as maneuverable, but the low center of gravity really helps in turns. It’s better than I expected from a CUV&#x2F;SUV. Not in the same league as the model 3.<p>Tesla is really good about test drives - I’d highly recommend it. Even if you never buy one, it’s a solid experience.</text></comment> | <story><title>Auto industry executives admit electric vehicle plans are in jeopardy</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/auto-executives-coming-clean-evs-arent-working-2023-10</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NikolaNovak</author><text>I would love to own an EV, but even as a well-to-do middle income, they&#x27;re just.so.expensive right now!<p>And they have to be a second car for many north American folks (due to distances and ranges involved),which unfortunately makes it even more of a luxury :-(<p>I&#x27;d be curious to hear more about handling part though. Outside of Tesla (which I&#x27;ve never driven ; it&#x27;s a personal thing but as soon as I see the &quot;controls&quot;, I jump out) , the EVs I&#x27;ve tried (volt,ioniq, leaf) had great acceleration, but not great handling (turning etc). Tires, suspension and in particular extra weight all seemed to work against me in the corner.<p>They were all very <i>comfortable</i>, and powerful, but I would not have called any of them well <i>handling</i>.</text></item><item><author>avalys</author><text>I&#x27;m, like, the world&#x27;s biggest car enthusiast and I love EVs. For a daily driver, if you have a garage or a place to plug in daily, EVs are just a better experience than gas cars. They&#x27;re smooth, quiet, and powerful and you never have to worry about stopping at a gas station - the car is ready to go every morning and you don&#x27;t even have to think about it!<p>An electric drivetrain is a way better driving experience than the miserable turbocharged 4-cylinder engines that everyone has been forced to use for fuel economy reasons today, even premium brands like Mercedes and BMW. These are nasty, underpowered, vibrating pieces of shit with no torque and no power unless you run them at thousands of RPM, where they&#x27;re loud and buzzy. Just complete fucking garbage.<p>It&#x27;s a shame EVs are not catching on, because they&#x27;re really just better cars. I&#x27;d definitely pay a premium for an EV (and I have). I suppose the problem is that, if you&#x27;re not a car enthusiast, a $30k Toyota hybrid is still a better deal, even if it drives like shit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>UniverseHacker</author><text>IMO the VW eGolf is a great handling and driving car, also with real buttons for controls but didn’t have great range.</text></comment> |
36,620,367 | 36,620,172 | 1 | 2 | 36,619,758 | train | <story><title>Sacramento Sheriff sharing license plate reader data with anti-abortion states</title><url>https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article276848586.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>brightlancer</author><text>Awful click-bait headline. The sheriff dep&#x27;t isn&#x27;t doing this _specifically_ with &quot;anti-abortion states&quot;, they&#x27;re doing this broadly with other states &quot;including Alabama, Oklahoma and Texas&quot;.<p>Not listed in the article is that they also shared with Arizona, Indiana, Louisiana, Nevada, Oregon, Tennessee, Illinois, Mississippi, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Michigan, Utah, Wisconsin, Florida, Colorado, New Mexico, New York (State), North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Ohio, and probably some others that weren&#x27;t listed.<p>Is this bad? Absolutely. Is this specifically related to abortion? No.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sacramento Sheriff sharing license plate reader data with anti-abortion states</title><url>https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article276848586.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>&gt; The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office isn’t the only one sharing that data; in May, EFF released a report showing that 71 law enforcement agencies in 22 California counties — including Sacramento County — were sharing such data. The practice is in violation of a 2015 law that states “a (California law enforcement) agency shall not sell, share, or transfer ALPR information, except to another (California law enforcement) agency, and only as otherwise permitted by law.”<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;press&#x2F;releases&#x2F;civil-liberties-groups-demand-california-police-stop-sharing-drivers-location-data" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;press&#x2F;releases&#x2F;civil-liberties-groups-de...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;california.public.law&#x2F;codes&#x2F;ca_civ_code_section_1798.90.55#:~:text=(b),as%20otherwise%20permitted%20by%20law" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;california.public.law&#x2F;codes&#x2F;ca_civ_code_section_1798...</a>.</text></comment> |
31,460,171 | 31,459,744 | 1 | 2 | 31,459,316 | train | <story><title>The balance has shifted away from SPAs</title><url>https://nolanlawson.com/2022/05/21/the-balance-has-shifted-away-from-spas/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TekMol</author><text>What is SPA about YouTube? It feels completely MPA to me.</text></item><item><author>tshaddox</author><text>YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are the obvious examples from among the top 10 or so most visited websites in the United States.</text></item><item><author>TekMol</author><text>Where are those SPAs everybody is talking about?<p>All sites I use regularly are MPAs:<p>Hackernews, Amazon, AirBnB, Booking.com, Wikipedia, GithHub ...<p>Reddits new design is kind of a hybrid. It is MPA when you hop between subreddits and other pages. But it shows a post on the same page when you click on it in a subreddit feed. I actually are annoyed by the new Reddit enough to switch to old.reddit.com most of the time when I end up on Reddit. Not sure why. But maybe it tells something, that the only &quot;somewhat SPA&quot; I know makes me switch to its MPA version regularly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NovemberWhiskey</author><text>Minimize a video so it&#x27;s playing in the corner of the browser; notice that the video continues to play seamlessly as you navigate around the site. You can&#x27;t do that in an MPA right now.</text></comment> | <story><title>The balance has shifted away from SPAs</title><url>https://nolanlawson.com/2022/05/21/the-balance-has-shifted-away-from-spas/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TekMol</author><text>What is SPA about YouTube? It feels completely MPA to me.</text></item><item><author>tshaddox</author><text>YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are the obvious examples from among the top 10 or so most visited websites in the United States.</text></item><item><author>TekMol</author><text>Where are those SPAs everybody is talking about?<p>All sites I use regularly are MPAs:<p>Hackernews, Amazon, AirBnB, Booking.com, Wikipedia, GithHub ...<p>Reddits new design is kind of a hybrid. It is MPA when you hop between subreddits and other pages. But it shows a post on the same page when you click on it in a subreddit feed. I actually are annoyed by the new Reddit enough to switch to old.reddit.com most of the time when I end up on Reddit. Not sure why. But maybe it tells something, that the only &quot;somewhat SPA&quot; I know makes me switch to its MPA version regularly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>323</author><text>It&#x27;s an illusion. If you look carefully you&#x27;ll see that all YT content is loaded dynamically, starting from a blank page with a blank video player.</text></comment> |
36,749,730 | 36,748,475 | 1 | 3 | 36,743,784 | train | <story><title>How to Use AI to Do Stuff: An Opinionated Guide</title><url>https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/how-to-use-ai-to-do-stuff-an-opinionated</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>p-e-w</author><text>What the article barely touches upon is that all currently available AIs-as-a-service<p>- permit themselves to store and use your inputs essentially as they see fit, for essentially any purpose<p>- have mechanisms designed to &quot;prevent abuse&quot;, without defining what that actually means<p>- are engineered to &quot;keep you safe&quot;, without stating clearly what they want to keep you safe from, and without any option to disable those so-called safeguards<p>- have been carefully tuned to align their outputs with the Upper Middle Class U.S. West Coast Tech Scene political zeitgeist of the day, and that is what you&#x27;ll get from them, even if it is completely inappropriate in your own cultural environment.<p><i>Caveat emptor.</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>roseway4</author><text>Caveat emptor indeed. LLM-as-a-Service vendors know their customer and this customer’s needs. It’s not you. They’re selling an API to companies for whom safety and governance are part of the value proposition.<p>As others have mentioned, the data retention aspect is specifically &#x2F;not&#x2F; an issue with OpenAI (and other vendors’) APIs.<p>I don’t really get the saltiness so many on this site have towards LLM vendors. It just sounds entitled.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to Use AI to Do Stuff: An Opinionated Guide</title><url>https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/how-to-use-ai-to-do-stuff-an-opinionated</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>p-e-w</author><text>What the article barely touches upon is that all currently available AIs-as-a-service<p>- permit themselves to store and use your inputs essentially as they see fit, for essentially any purpose<p>- have mechanisms designed to &quot;prevent abuse&quot;, without defining what that actually means<p>- are engineered to &quot;keep you safe&quot;, without stating clearly what they want to keep you safe from, and without any option to disable those so-called safeguards<p>- have been carefully tuned to align their outputs with the Upper Middle Class U.S. West Coast Tech Scene political zeitgeist of the day, and that is what you&#x27;ll get from them, even if it is completely inappropriate in your own cultural environment.<p><i>Caveat emptor.</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>IG_Semmelweiss</author><text>What is a casual or nontechnical poweruser to do if the user wants to use LLM for work or education , without worry of the many points you mention?</text></comment> |
5,497,746 | 5,497,703 | 1 | 3 | 5,497,633 | train | <story><title>Updated Packages – Python 3.3</title><url>https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RaringRingtail/TechnicalOverview#Python_3.3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ancarda</author><text>I don't code Python so as an outsider it always seemed strange that almost all code was written for Python 2.x - like 3 was unanimously rejected from the community. Can anyone shed light on why this is/was the case?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>masklinn</author><text>It was not a rejection. Python 3 (project name Python 3000, just to give you the kind of scope we're talking about) was always expected to be a long and rather arduous migration, because it "cleaned up" a number of things in backwards-incompatible manner: the stdlib was reorganized, syntax was added (and removed), semantics altered (the basic string of Python 2 is a bytestring, in Python 3 it's a codepoint sequence and implicit conversions were removed from the language), shuffling between keywords and regular symbols, etc... It might have been even more arduous than the core team expected, but most of the community has been aware it'd take a long time from the start (the initial planning alone took ~30 months: the PEP3000 was created in April 2006 and Python 3.0 was released in December 2008, and as far as I remember Python 3.0 was not considered a production-able Python, more of a "stable" version for experiments and discovery in real-world settings)<p>Things were moving very slowly at the start, some features were backported to Python 2, others were reintroduced (in Python 3.2 and 3.3) and compatibility packages slowly appeared as people started experimenting with porting strategies and methods.<p>Since the second half of 2012, things have started picking up steam as bigger packages have started their migration effort (often as single-source, which is now considered the best strategy when possible) which is starting to solve the chicken-and-eggs problem for end-users (applications can't switch until all their dependencies are compatible)[0].<p>Python 2 will stick around though, there are 20 years of Python code which won't run as-is on Python 3, and may never do barring significant rewrite.<p>And of course Python 3 may yet be rejected by the community, although it definitely seems to be gaining — rather than losing — steam. The biggest problems in the long term will probably be in the Scientific Python communities.<p>[0] A few pretty big names are still Python 2 though, Werkzeug and Flask are big ones for webby stuff, the official-ish MySQL adapter is an other one for many, and a bunch are not considered "production-ready" state or side-packages are missing e.g. Django 1.5 is the start of Django's transition but many extensions such as South or the debug-toolbar are not p3-compatible.</text></comment> | <story><title>Updated Packages – Python 3.3</title><url>https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RaringRingtail/TechnicalOverview#Python_3.3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ancarda</author><text>I don't code Python so as an outsider it always seemed strange that almost all code was written for Python 2.x - like 3 was unanimously rejected from the community. Can anyone shed light on why this is/was the case?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>misnome</author><text>All code WAS written for 2.X, because 3 was either not around yet, under constantly changing flux (before release proper, and to a certain extent for a couple of versions) or the subsequent killer: Not enough libraries that you might depend on, worked in 3.0 yet - as it was written to be deliberately incompatible by removing legacy and old ways of doing things.<p>IIRC most of the big packages have finally moved over so it'll just become less of an issue over time.</text></comment> |
22,668,268 | 22,668,247 | 1 | 3 | 22,667,025 | train | <story><title>Why Is Facebook Not in the Cloud Business?</title><url>https://interconnected.blog/why-is-facebook-not-in-the-cloud-business/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jedberg</author><text>They may still get into the business, and it would make sense for them to do so, and may even solve their privacy problem while they are at it.<p>Amazon did it a long time ago, and when they started, they had no sales team. They had to build that capability slowly over time, but they had the first mover advantage, so they had time to learn. Now they are number one.<p>Microsoft already had the enterprise sales team, they had to learn how to sell cloud. They had some trouble with the shift, and with the technology, but now they are knocking it out of the park, and are solidly in the number two spot behind Amazon.<p>Google is struggling with their cloud business. While what they offer is technically superior to all their competitors, they don’t have the sales team, nor the experience in building one. They are trying, but they haven’t gotten the hang of it yet, and in the meantime, Amazon and Microsoft just keep growing.<p>This is the position Facebook would be in. They probably have the technology, or can at least attract the necessary talent to build it (I know that I would at least listen if they said, “Come build a new cloud with us from the ground up”). But they don’t have the enterprise sales team, just like Google.<p>Now, in Google’s defense, they have realized they are coming from behind, and as such have focused on selling their higher level services. If you want to do AI and Machine Learning, Google’s cloud is the place to do it! And then maybe while you’re there, if your core business is AI, maybe you’ll use some of their other services as well, since your data is already there.<p>Facebook could make a similar play. They could build a cloud and then require any 3rd party apps that work with Facebook to use their cloud. This would jumpstart their adoption, and could potentially help them solve their privacy issues. They could require that you never send any personal Facebook data out of their cloud, and could closely monitor all the outbound traffic. Then they could theoretically allow <i>even more access</i> to Facebook data, if they knew they could control what happens to that data after the 3rd party gets hold of it.<p>In other words they could launch a cloud that lets you run your 3rd party Facebook apps in a controlled and audited way, and even give you building blocks to do it quickly and efficiently. It would boost their bottom line, because there is good margins in compute and storage, and at the same time give them more control of their own data.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tonystubblebine</author><text>Google has a real trust issue with me that&#x27;s twofold.<p>One is that you can&#x27;t trust them to stick with a product offering. They are driven by a throw things at the wall and see what sticks strategy rather than some deeper vision for the world. So I&#x27;m always suspicious that they will abandon anything they launch.<p>Two is that they don&#x27;t believe in offering quality support. I had this issue with an Android app recently. It got flagged incorrectly for a compliance concern and I was not able to reach a knowledgable human under any circumstances, including getting it escalated by internal Google staff. I would have easily paid a support contract, $1k or more, to get access to a human. In the end, I had to guess at what their algorithm was flagging and just ended up tricking it through trial and error.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Is Facebook Not in the Cloud Business?</title><url>https://interconnected.blog/why-is-facebook-not-in-the-cloud-business/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jedberg</author><text>They may still get into the business, and it would make sense for them to do so, and may even solve their privacy problem while they are at it.<p>Amazon did it a long time ago, and when they started, they had no sales team. They had to build that capability slowly over time, but they had the first mover advantage, so they had time to learn. Now they are number one.<p>Microsoft already had the enterprise sales team, they had to learn how to sell cloud. They had some trouble with the shift, and with the technology, but now they are knocking it out of the park, and are solidly in the number two spot behind Amazon.<p>Google is struggling with their cloud business. While what they offer is technically superior to all their competitors, they don’t have the sales team, nor the experience in building one. They are trying, but they haven’t gotten the hang of it yet, and in the meantime, Amazon and Microsoft just keep growing.<p>This is the position Facebook would be in. They probably have the technology, or can at least attract the necessary talent to build it (I know that I would at least listen if they said, “Come build a new cloud with us from the ground up”). But they don’t have the enterprise sales team, just like Google.<p>Now, in Google’s defense, they have realized they are coming from behind, and as such have focused on selling their higher level services. If you want to do AI and Machine Learning, Google’s cloud is the place to do it! And then maybe while you’re there, if your core business is AI, maybe you’ll use some of their other services as well, since your data is already there.<p>Facebook could make a similar play. They could build a cloud and then require any 3rd party apps that work with Facebook to use their cloud. This would jumpstart their adoption, and could potentially help them solve their privacy issues. They could require that you never send any personal Facebook data out of their cloud, and could closely monitor all the outbound traffic. Then they could theoretically allow <i>even more access</i> to Facebook data, if they knew they could control what happens to that data after the 3rd party gets hold of it.<p>In other words they could launch a cloud that lets you run your 3rd party Facebook apps in a controlled and audited way, and even give you building blocks to do it quickly and efficiently. It would boost their bottom line, because there is good margins in compute and storage, and at the same time give them more control of their own data.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oarabbus_</author><text>&gt;Google is struggling with their cloud business. While what they offer is technically superior to all their competitors, they don’t have the sales team, nor the experience in building one. They are trying, but they haven’t gotten the hang of it yet, and in the meantime, Amazon and Microsoft just keep growing.<p>Don&#x27;t forget the support. I used to work at a Series B startup, and AWS provided excellent support. We probably tossed them a few million a year, so I can only imagine what kind of white-glove top-tier support a big enterprise spender would&#x27;ve received.<p>We got responses for anything ranging from general UI questions to highly-in-the-weeds Redshift technical questions within 1 business day. &gt;90% of the time, the issue was resolved upon the first response.<p>Google on the other hand, has very poor support. Facebook is by no means a support paragon either.<p>For this reason alone, I see a Microsoft-Amazon cloud duopoly with anyone else being a minor player as the only outcome. When shit hits the fan (as it is now) you need enterprise support capabilities.</text></comment> |
5,686,487 | 5,685,842 | 1 | 2 | 5,684,187 | train | <story><title>The CAP Theorem FAQ</title><url>http://henryr.github.io/cap-faq/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nlavezzo</author><text>Glad to see this point at the end:<p>"16. Have I 'got around' or 'beaten' the CAP theorem?<p>No. You might have designed a system that is not heavily affected by it. That's good."<p>Our thoughts on CAP and how we've dealt with it while building a distributed truly ACID database might also be interesting to some: <a href="http://foundationdb.com/white-papers/the-cap-theorem/" rel="nofollow">http://foundationdb.com/white-papers/the-cap-theorem/</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The CAP Theorem FAQ</title><url>http://henryr.github.io/cap-faq/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Xodarap</author><text>Pardon my naivete, but why isn't this obvious?<p>Of course two systems can only be consistent if they can communicate, so you have to either sacrifice availability until the partition is resolved, or give up on consistency.</text></comment> |
31,458,335 | 31,458,153 | 1 | 3 | 31,456,763 | train | <story><title>Apple Shipped Me a 79-Pound iPhone Repair Kit to Fix a 1.1-Ounce Battery</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/21/23079058/apple-self-service-iphone-repair-kit-hands-on</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&gt; You have to admit that requiring 79 lbs of equipment, a 1200$ deposit, and so much effort just to swap a friggin’ battery is a tad overkill<p>You know people were swapping batteries long before this was available, right? And that you don’t have to rent the official factory tools?<p>Apple did a great thing by providing this option <i>at a loss</i> to themselves. The fact that people are rushing to criticize the move suggests more that people like to find reasons to complain about everything.<p>It’s surreal to read HN threads where people are floating ideas about making laws to prevent companies from designing better hardware products just because they want to replace batteries with a screwdriver. I guarantee if you put a screwdriver-repairable phone and a modern iPhone in front of average consumers, 99% or more would choose the modern iPhone without a second question. The obsession with easy battery replacement seems limited to a very narrow set of people while the rest of the population has moved on to appreciate the benefits of modern sealed phones such as impressive resistance to water damage.</text></item><item><author>ornornor</author><text>You have to admit that requiring 79 lbs of equipment, a 1200$ deposit, and so much effort just to swap a friggin’ battery is a tad overkill and exactly what is wrong with the current state of self repairs. Never mind the DRM on the battery so that the phone won’t recognize even a genuine battery as genuine without involving the 3PL to marry the parts together…<p>It shouldn’t be so complicated. If it makes the phone one mm thicker but you can swap the battery easily without requiring all this equipment, why aren’t we there yet?<p>I can (with a bit of a stretch) understand why they would not accept just any OEM part, but making extra difficult to even use an Apple bruine battery with the rest of the Apple hardware, that’s also very unnecessarily self repair hostile.</text></item><item><author>wfhordie</author><text>Apple can’t win here. If they had sent the sleek, easy to carry tools this author asked for, the author would complain about the pathetic tools they are providing.<p>Really disappointed in The Verge on this article. Could have been a cool piece about the specific tech that Apple provides, but instead it’s framed so disingenuously that I come away not feeling particularly good about right to repair in general. It no longer sounds to me like people trying to get access to their own devices. It sounds like people taking potshots at BigCo because big co bad.<p>By the way. The tools this guy used are common, dead-common in China. Go to any repair mall in Shenzhen and you’ll see hundreds of these.<p>Does he actually want to repair his phone? It doesn’t seem like it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ornornor</author><text>Not having easily replaceable batteries (and pardon me but I don’t consider requiring 79 lbs of equipment and a 1200$ deposit “easy”) in modern phones is akin to selling cars with the tires welded on.<p>It is ridiculous, consumer hostile, and wasteful.<p>Batteries are consumable, they should not be a reason to throw the phone away once they stopped working.<p>You don’t throw your house away when the garbage bag is full or when the tap starts leaking. These are things you’re expected to replace and it can easily be done with simple tools.<p>Phones shouldn’t be any different when it comes to their parts, especially <i>consumable</i> ones.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple Shipped Me a 79-Pound iPhone Repair Kit to Fix a 1.1-Ounce Battery</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/21/23079058/apple-self-service-iphone-repair-kit-hands-on</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&gt; You have to admit that requiring 79 lbs of equipment, a 1200$ deposit, and so much effort just to swap a friggin’ battery is a tad overkill<p>You know people were swapping batteries long before this was available, right? And that you don’t have to rent the official factory tools?<p>Apple did a great thing by providing this option <i>at a loss</i> to themselves. The fact that people are rushing to criticize the move suggests more that people like to find reasons to complain about everything.<p>It’s surreal to read HN threads where people are floating ideas about making laws to prevent companies from designing better hardware products just because they want to replace batteries with a screwdriver. I guarantee if you put a screwdriver-repairable phone and a modern iPhone in front of average consumers, 99% or more would choose the modern iPhone without a second question. The obsession with easy battery replacement seems limited to a very narrow set of people while the rest of the population has moved on to appreciate the benefits of modern sealed phones such as impressive resistance to water damage.</text></item><item><author>ornornor</author><text>You have to admit that requiring 79 lbs of equipment, a 1200$ deposit, and so much effort just to swap a friggin’ battery is a tad overkill and exactly what is wrong with the current state of self repairs. Never mind the DRM on the battery so that the phone won’t recognize even a genuine battery as genuine without involving the 3PL to marry the parts together…<p>It shouldn’t be so complicated. If it makes the phone one mm thicker but you can swap the battery easily without requiring all this equipment, why aren’t we there yet?<p>I can (with a bit of a stretch) understand why they would not accept just any OEM part, but making extra difficult to even use an Apple bruine battery with the rest of the Apple hardware, that’s also very unnecessarily self repair hostile.</text></item><item><author>wfhordie</author><text>Apple can’t win here. If they had sent the sleek, easy to carry tools this author asked for, the author would complain about the pathetic tools they are providing.<p>Really disappointed in The Verge on this article. Could have been a cool piece about the specific tech that Apple provides, but instead it’s framed so disingenuously that I come away not feeling particularly good about right to repair in general. It no longer sounds to me like people trying to get access to their own devices. It sounds like people taking potshots at BigCo because big co bad.<p>By the way. The tools this guy used are common, dead-common in China. Go to any repair mall in Shenzhen and you’ll see hundreds of these.<p>Does he actually want to repair his phone? It doesn’t seem like it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>turbinerneiter</author><text>Completely made up and false conundrum.<p>You can design devices that are easy to repair and still waterproof and sleek.<p>This is a made up target-conflict that is easily resolved by any trained industrial designer and engineer.</text></comment> |
14,172,336 | 14,172,251 | 1 | 2 | 14,170,575 | train | <story><title>For First Time Since 1800s, Britain Goes a Day Without Burning Coal for Power</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/21/world/europe/britain-burning-coal-electricity.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MarkMc</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why the Carbon Price Floor was a &#x27;poorly designed policy&#x27;. From your description, it had exactly the intended effect - it reduced carbon emissions. That coal was pushed out so early might not have been foreseen, but why does that matter?</text></item><item><author>pash</author><text>This is an astoundingly vapid article. If you want to understand why and how the UK has so quickly reduced the amount of coal it burns, Carbon Brief has a much more informative overview [0].<p>The basic explanation of what happened is simple: the UK instituted a carbon tax that made coal more expensive than natural gas per unit of electricity produced, so British utilities shut down their coal plants and replaced them with gas plants as quickly as possible.<p>The backstory is somewhat more complicated, and much more interesting. The British tax was implemented in 2013 as a local fix to a broken EU carbon-trading program; that program, called the Emissions Trading Scheme [1], allocated to electrical utilities in the EU the right to produce a fixed amount of carbon emissions (and carbon-equivalent emissions), and the rights were made transferable—a typical cap-and-trade set-up. And then the basic problem with that typical set-up occurred: the fixed supply of rights to produce emissions proved higher than the EU&#x27;s electrical sector&#x27;s total demand, a consequence mostly of lower than expected demand for electricity during the recession that followed the financial crisis of a decade ago, but also partly due to other clean-energy initiatives and to big changes in world energy markets. And so the price of emissions rights collapsed.<p>That wasn&#x27;t really a problem—no more carbon was being pumped into the air than the ETS allowed—but it made plain the fact that the ETS was doing nothing at all to reduce emissions. So British lawmakers decided to implement their own carbon tax, called the Carbon Price Floor [2], in order to reduce emissions and support the development of clean energy. The tax rate Parliament set was one of the highest in the world, and as it turned out it was just high enough to make coal slightly more expensive than natural gas for generating electricity, an outcome entirely unforeseen when the policy was decided, just as global production of natural gas was beginning to boom and its price to plummet.<p>So in the end, a bunch of poorly designed policies and their unforeseen consequences led to a better than expected outcome: Britain has been weened off coal decades earlier than was thought possible.<p>0. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.carbonbrief.org&#x2F;analysis-uk-cuts-carbon-record-coal-drop" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.carbonbrief.org&#x2F;analysis-uk-cuts-carbon-record-co...</a><p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;European_Union_Emission_Trading_Scheme" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;European_Union_Emission_Trad...</a><p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gov.uk&#x2F;government&#x2F;publications&#x2F;carbon-price-floor-reform" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gov.uk&#x2F;government&#x2F;publications&#x2F;carbon-price-floo...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>curun1r</author><text>Where does the UK get its natural gas? If it&#x27;s like most of Europe, it&#x27;s now dependant on Russia for that. And pipeline politics is a huge driver of the situation in Syria and the refugee crisis. And if reports are to believed, Russia&#x27;s meddling is behind Brexit, Trump and the wave of xenophobic populism that&#x27;s sweeping the world at the moment.<p>I&#x27;m not saying that coal is better or even a necessary evil, but we shouldn&#x27;t pretend that natural gas is some kumbaya solution to pollution and climate change. Even without the controversy over fracking, natural gas has consequences that may be even worse than the effects of coal.</text></comment> | <story><title>For First Time Since 1800s, Britain Goes a Day Without Burning Coal for Power</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/21/world/europe/britain-burning-coal-electricity.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MarkMc</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why the Carbon Price Floor was a &#x27;poorly designed policy&#x27;. From your description, it had exactly the intended effect - it reduced carbon emissions. That coal was pushed out so early might not have been foreseen, but why does that matter?</text></item><item><author>pash</author><text>This is an astoundingly vapid article. If you want to understand why and how the UK has so quickly reduced the amount of coal it burns, Carbon Brief has a much more informative overview [0].<p>The basic explanation of what happened is simple: the UK instituted a carbon tax that made coal more expensive than natural gas per unit of electricity produced, so British utilities shut down their coal plants and replaced them with gas plants as quickly as possible.<p>The backstory is somewhat more complicated, and much more interesting. The British tax was implemented in 2013 as a local fix to a broken EU carbon-trading program; that program, called the Emissions Trading Scheme [1], allocated to electrical utilities in the EU the right to produce a fixed amount of carbon emissions (and carbon-equivalent emissions), and the rights were made transferable—a typical cap-and-trade set-up. And then the basic problem with that typical set-up occurred: the fixed supply of rights to produce emissions proved higher than the EU&#x27;s electrical sector&#x27;s total demand, a consequence mostly of lower than expected demand for electricity during the recession that followed the financial crisis of a decade ago, but also partly due to other clean-energy initiatives and to big changes in world energy markets. And so the price of emissions rights collapsed.<p>That wasn&#x27;t really a problem—no more carbon was being pumped into the air than the ETS allowed—but it made plain the fact that the ETS was doing nothing at all to reduce emissions. So British lawmakers decided to implement their own carbon tax, called the Carbon Price Floor [2], in order to reduce emissions and support the development of clean energy. The tax rate Parliament set was one of the highest in the world, and as it turned out it was just high enough to make coal slightly more expensive than natural gas for generating electricity, an outcome entirely unforeseen when the policy was decided, just as global production of natural gas was beginning to boom and its price to plummet.<p>So in the end, a bunch of poorly designed policies and their unforeseen consequences led to a better than expected outcome: Britain has been weened off coal decades earlier than was thought possible.<p>0. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.carbonbrief.org&#x2F;analysis-uk-cuts-carbon-record-coal-drop" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.carbonbrief.org&#x2F;analysis-uk-cuts-carbon-record-co...</a><p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;European_Union_Emission_Trading_Scheme" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;European_Union_Emission_Trad...</a><p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gov.uk&#x2F;government&#x2F;publications&#x2F;carbon-price-floor-reform" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gov.uk&#x2F;government&#x2F;publications&#x2F;carbon-price-floo...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Ensorceled</author><text>It&#x27;s poorly designed because there is no incentive in the policy to continue reducing global warming. The problem isn&#x27;t solved yet.<p>It&#x27;s also poorly designed, for the UK, in that UK power generation just bought the unused credits from other EU nations and really didn&#x27;t reduce their coal usage.</text></comment> |
21,681,481 | 21,681,296 | 1 | 3 | 21,679,682 | train | <story><title>PIA VPN to be acquired by malware company founded by former Israeli spy</title><url>https://telegra.ph/Private-Internet-Access-VPN-acquired-by-malware-business-founded-by-former-Israeli-spies-12-01</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rasengan</author><text>If you think a platform is responsible for what their developers do with it, then I understand. However, Kape was never directly involved in adware other than providing SDKs that let developers create positive and negative things.<p>To say Kape was involved in adware would be akin to saying the Wright Bros killed millions of people - because they made planes which people used to kill people (which is simply untrue). Even the original article notes this ever so briefly so as not to show Kape positively.<p>Thank you for your trust until now, and given the long track record and relationship, I hope you can verify my statements as well.<p>Our future work will always be the same work we have been doing, so whether now or later, I&#x27;m confident we will re-earn your trust again, and hope you&#x27;ll give us the opportunity.</text></item><item><author>smsm42</author><text>Thank you for taking time to explain your position. I can appreciate the need for resources and why you think this deal is the right thing to do for your company. I&#x27;ve trusted you company enough to use it for years and buy a multi-year subscription. Unfortunately, given the track record of Kape, I can&#x27;t trust the bundle of Kape+PIA the way I trusted PIA alone. Maybe in the following years this trust will be accumulated, but right now, due to Kape history, it&#x27;s below zero, drugged down by Kape&#x27;s past. I understand all about new management and stuff, but adware alone is a business shady enough that steering clear of it in matters like VPN seems to be a basic prudence. And when malware added to the mix... as I said, trust level becomes negative. Good luck in your future work, hopefully your new combined company will accumulate the trust again, but I&#x27;ll be using some other solution for now.</text></item><item><author>rasengan</author><text>This article and articles like this miscast Kape in an incorrect light. To be clear, in the past the company was known as CrossRider and provided a developer SDK that could be used to integrate with browsers. Unfortunately, CrossRider didn&#x27;t do enough to prevent malware (like platforms these days and their fake news) and the platform was used by some bad people for bad purposes.<p>When the new management team of CrossRider took over, they immediately ceased to engage in the previous business and focused on the opposite due to the insights they gained watching nefarious developers abuse their platform. With the focus on security and privacy, they changed their name to Kape and further the new company will be called Private Internet as it will be purely focused on privacy.<p>The merger between Kape and PIA affords PIA the resources needed to bring privacy to the mainstream. The company can now be decentrally owned by the people, and public reporting requirements are much stronger than those for private companies. Couple this with a new random audit program we are going to launch and its as transparent as it gets, and it&#x27;s exactly the direction we at PIA want to go, where our users no longer need to just trust us, instead our actions are and will continue to be verified.<p>Ultimately, the choice of VPN is yours, but transparency is verification and with most VPN companies being incredibly secretive about their operations, who is behind it, and where they are located, what they do with their funds, etc. I stand behind the move to bring more transparency to privacy.<p>The company has always practiced sustainable karma - wherein we do what&#x27;s best for the people&#x2F;what people want, and that allows us to make a living doing what we love; that&#x27;s not going to change.<p>Sincerely,
Andrew - Co Founder PIA</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hncommenter13</author><text>Again, in the interests of historical accuracy, Crossrider did more than that. They actively provided monetization for traffic from installed apps.<p>I have in my email a post from longtime senior employee Yonatan Pesses to a LinkedIn group (then named &quot;Downloadable Software Distribution &amp; Monetization&quot;) for people working in the pay-per-install space. It is dated Dec 5, 2014, and it reads:<p>&quot;Crossrider is offering an amazing monetization solution for your MAC traffic! Very easy implementation, with high user value!<p>Yonatan Pesses
Crossrider&quot;<p>I&#x27;d say that is pretty clearly more than just an SDK.<p>I also gather Pesses has recently left Kape: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;QYtxD" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;QYtxD</a></text></comment> | <story><title>PIA VPN to be acquired by malware company founded by former Israeli spy</title><url>https://telegra.ph/Private-Internet-Access-VPN-acquired-by-malware-business-founded-by-former-Israeli-spies-12-01</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rasengan</author><text>If you think a platform is responsible for what their developers do with it, then I understand. However, Kape was never directly involved in adware other than providing SDKs that let developers create positive and negative things.<p>To say Kape was involved in adware would be akin to saying the Wright Bros killed millions of people - because they made planes which people used to kill people (which is simply untrue). Even the original article notes this ever so briefly so as not to show Kape positively.<p>Thank you for your trust until now, and given the long track record and relationship, I hope you can verify my statements as well.<p>Our future work will always be the same work we have been doing, so whether now or later, I&#x27;m confident we will re-earn your trust again, and hope you&#x27;ll give us the opportunity.</text></item><item><author>smsm42</author><text>Thank you for taking time to explain your position. I can appreciate the need for resources and why you think this deal is the right thing to do for your company. I&#x27;ve trusted you company enough to use it for years and buy a multi-year subscription. Unfortunately, given the track record of Kape, I can&#x27;t trust the bundle of Kape+PIA the way I trusted PIA alone. Maybe in the following years this trust will be accumulated, but right now, due to Kape history, it&#x27;s below zero, drugged down by Kape&#x27;s past. I understand all about new management and stuff, but adware alone is a business shady enough that steering clear of it in matters like VPN seems to be a basic prudence. And when malware added to the mix... as I said, trust level becomes negative. Good luck in your future work, hopefully your new combined company will accumulate the trust again, but I&#x27;ll be using some other solution for now.</text></item><item><author>rasengan</author><text>This article and articles like this miscast Kape in an incorrect light. To be clear, in the past the company was known as CrossRider and provided a developer SDK that could be used to integrate with browsers. Unfortunately, CrossRider didn&#x27;t do enough to prevent malware (like platforms these days and their fake news) and the platform was used by some bad people for bad purposes.<p>When the new management team of CrossRider took over, they immediately ceased to engage in the previous business and focused on the opposite due to the insights they gained watching nefarious developers abuse their platform. With the focus on security and privacy, they changed their name to Kape and further the new company will be called Private Internet as it will be purely focused on privacy.<p>The merger between Kape and PIA affords PIA the resources needed to bring privacy to the mainstream. The company can now be decentrally owned by the people, and public reporting requirements are much stronger than those for private companies. Couple this with a new random audit program we are going to launch and its as transparent as it gets, and it&#x27;s exactly the direction we at PIA want to go, where our users no longer need to just trust us, instead our actions are and will continue to be verified.<p>Ultimately, the choice of VPN is yours, but transparency is verification and with most VPN companies being incredibly secretive about their operations, who is behind it, and where they are located, what they do with their funds, etc. I stand behind the move to bring more transparency to privacy.<p>The company has always practiced sustainable karma - wherein we do what&#x27;s best for the people&#x2F;what people want, and that allows us to make a living doing what we love; that&#x27;s not going to change.<p>Sincerely,
Andrew - Co Founder PIA</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>warent</author><text>I didn&#x27;t do any development on CrossRider so my understanding is pretty limited here, but it looks like it was just an SDK to build cross-browser extensions which a bunch of developers used to place ads, and then CrossRider caught all the blame for it.<p>To me this sounds like if people used Ionic or React Native to make spammy crappy apps and then people blamed those frameworks respectively. It wouldn&#x27;t make any sense. It&#x27;s the fault of the app developers or the platforms which distribute the app (e.g. the app store)<p>Am I missing something here? Did CrossRider have a storefront which actively promoted adware extensions? I&#x27;m not able to find anything rationally explaining the amount of backlash and downvoting rasengan is getting.</text></comment> |
22,623,310 | 22,621,993 | 1 | 2 | 22,621,016 | train | <story><title>GraphQLize: JVM library to build GraphQL API instantly from PostgreSQL and MySQL</title><url>https://www.graphqlize.org/blog/announcing-graphqlize-alpha</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>brunoc</author><text>I feel that by using these types of tools you could really miss out on a fantastic opportunity to create a schema that models the business domain as accurately and elegantly as you want to make it, regardless of the underlying service topology or the databases behind it.<p>That&#x27;s what I find the most attractive about GraphQL. Large companies and companies that have grown fast often have all kinds of APIs made at different time by different people with different standards. GraphQL lets you paper over that without breaking existing, revenue making code.</text></comment> | <story><title>GraphQLize: JVM library to build GraphQL API instantly from PostgreSQL and MySQL</title><url>https://www.graphqlize.org/blog/announcing-graphqlize-alpha</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mooted1</author><text>For the love of god, this is never how GraphQL was intended to be used. The official graphql website is very clear:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;graphql.org&#x2F;learn&#x2F;authorization&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;graphql.org&#x2F;learn&#x2F;authorization&#x2F;</a><p>&gt; Delegate authorization logic to the business logic layer<p>If you take security or performance debugging seriously, you should never expose database models through APIs directly in a production app.<p>To illustrate, say you have an Employee model:<p><pre><code> query {
employee(userId=uuid) {
name
salary
}
}
</code></pre>
Say you add some hacks on top of this to only allow users to query their own employee data, believing this provides adequate security.<p>The next day, someone creates a Manager object, a relation from employee to Manager, and Manager to employee.<p>Now, without having consider security for a second, you&#x27;ve granted all employees the ability to query each other:<p><pre><code> query {
employee(userId=uuid) {
name
salary
manager {
employees {
name
salary
}
}
}
}
</code></pre>
To say that these problems occur in the wild frequently is an understatement. Since these graphql frameworks also expose introspection capabilities, discovering these exploits can be automated using crawlers. If you write a bug like this, and you will, people will find it.<p>Please, please stop encouraging people to directly expose their databases through an API.</text></comment> |
10,861,363 | 10,858,579 | 1 | 2 | 10,857,646 | train | <story><title>Microsoft reveals details of Windows 10 usage tracking</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35251484</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rms_returns</author><text>&gt; Open-source, meanwhile, has struggled to provide a basic desktop environment to rival the best from five years ago.<p>Open-source is pretty young on the desktop arena. Consider that Microsoft ruled the entire nineties and tried all tricks in the book to sabotage linux. Despite this, the fact that linux desktops are even available today is nothing short of a miracle! IMHO, the GNOME and Unity desktops are mature enough to handle 90% of users&#x27; needs, the only exception is gaming but that gap is also rapidly getting filled.<p>&gt; It&#x27;s simply too much work without a paid, focused, and highly-skilled product team consisting of more than just developers.<p>Consider that the OS that powers all kinds of devices from satellites to embedded devices is Linux, an open-source project where payment isn&#x27;t a top-priority for developers, but merit is!<p>&gt; And they&#x27;re still fighting the chicken-and-egg problem of user-adoption.<p>All endeavors are like that, not just software projects. More the user participation, better the product focus and development.<p>&gt; I don&#x27;t like the spyware &quot;features,&quot; but I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ll be going back to Linux any time soon and giving up all the great software I&#x27;ve come to depend on.<p>Can you cite a single widely used software that doesn&#x27;t have a FOSS alternative which works on Linux. Unless you are heavily dependent of Microsoft Excel worksheets and their arcane proprietary macros, I don&#x27;t see a reason not to switch (besides just being lethargic to learn something new).</text></item><item><author>agentultra</author><text>I went the other way around. I started with your conclusions and have been migrating to the Apple ecosystem and am tempted to move to Windows. I had become tired of the dearth of issues that crop up to maintain an Arch desktop distribution.<p>While the privacy collection issues should be addressed and be transparent to end-users I think open source is not the way to go for these devices. I&#x27;m tired of each device being an island. I like handing off calls from my phone to my laptop when I&#x27;m at work. It began frustrating me years ago when I couldn&#x27;t just flick a few files off of my e-reader to a friend&#x27;s phone despite the prevalence of available networks.<p>Open-source, meanwhile, has struggled to provide a basic desktop environment to rival the best from five years ago. It&#x27;s simply too much work without a paid, focused, and highly-skilled product team consisting of more than just developers. And they&#x27;re still fighting the chicken-and-egg problem of user-adoption.<p>I don&#x27;t like the spyware &quot;features,&quot; but I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ll be going back to Linux any time soon and giving up all the great software I&#x27;ve come to depend on.<p>I&#x27;m hopeful that people will find ways to invest in its development and find a way to introduce a competing product that is both secure, in the control of the user, and a delight to use -- able to integrate with a plethora of devices and, for the most part, <i>just work</i>.</text></item><item><author>dantillberg</author><text>I spent my holiday break shifting my alignment 2 or 3 points towards Stallmanism. The existence&#x2F;collection of statistics like this increase my confidence in that choice.<p>Between Windows privacy craziness and Apple&#x27;s continuing lockdown of OSX (I think that System Integrity Protection augurs an iOS-like walled-garden future for OSX), I recently switched all of my OSX&#x2F;Windows&#x2F;Ubuntu systems to Arch Linux; it takes some tweaking and setup and a bit of command line hacking, but it&#x27;s really awesome to have all my machines doing my bidding -- I tell them what to run, when&#x2F;what to update, and I&#x27;m in control of synchronizing settings&#x2F;files between them.<p>With Windows&#x2F;OSX (and Ubuntu to a lesser degree, which I&#x27;d used previously), you can only kind of hope that it does what you want, and when it doesn&#x27;t work, you kind of bang on it a bit to try and get it to change its behavior. All the while, the computer is doing a large number of things you don&#x27;t really want it to do (what are all these processes? why is it connecting to x.y.domain.net? what data is it sending? why does it insist on trying to get me to log in to XXCloudY? I don&#x27;t want to use that), but which you&#x27;re kind of powerless to stop (aside from e.g. blocking connections with another physical network device), even if you knew what was happening. But you don&#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>krick</author><text>&gt; Can you cite a single widely used software that doesn&#x27;t have a FOSS alternative which works on Linux.<p>Woah, really? There are plenty.<p>Photoshop &amp; Lightroom debatable, but I can agree — nothing FOSS really <i>substitutes</i> them, unfortunately.<p>AutoCAD &amp; ArchiCAD. Solidworks. Pretty much all specific 3D modelling tools like Poser (though I don&#x27;t really need that last one).<p>Ableton, Cubase, everything from NativeInstruments, including sample libraries which sometimes are <i>the</i> reason why you need KONTAKT, and not some other sampler. U-he Zebra. Hundreds of various VST plugins from different developers: reverbs, phasers, limiters, etc. Often this stuff is quite trivial, but there just is some amount of domain knowledge which random opensource developer just doesn&#x27;t possess. That&#x27;s why free stuff available sucks or even doesn&#x27;t exist.<p>Decent speech recognition and text to speech. Nonexistent.<p>OCR is quite better, but still loses to commercial alternatives like ABBYY. Understandably so.<p>To put it shorter: pretty much any software which isn&#x27;t trivial to write or requires domain knowledge. The only decent examples of these in the FOSS world I can remember are Blender and Krita.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft reveals details of Windows 10 usage tracking</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35251484</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rms_returns</author><text>&gt; Open-source, meanwhile, has struggled to provide a basic desktop environment to rival the best from five years ago.<p>Open-source is pretty young on the desktop arena. Consider that Microsoft ruled the entire nineties and tried all tricks in the book to sabotage linux. Despite this, the fact that linux desktops are even available today is nothing short of a miracle! IMHO, the GNOME and Unity desktops are mature enough to handle 90% of users&#x27; needs, the only exception is gaming but that gap is also rapidly getting filled.<p>&gt; It&#x27;s simply too much work without a paid, focused, and highly-skilled product team consisting of more than just developers.<p>Consider that the OS that powers all kinds of devices from satellites to embedded devices is Linux, an open-source project where payment isn&#x27;t a top-priority for developers, but merit is!<p>&gt; And they&#x27;re still fighting the chicken-and-egg problem of user-adoption.<p>All endeavors are like that, not just software projects. More the user participation, better the product focus and development.<p>&gt; I don&#x27;t like the spyware &quot;features,&quot; but I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ll be going back to Linux any time soon and giving up all the great software I&#x27;ve come to depend on.<p>Can you cite a single widely used software that doesn&#x27;t have a FOSS alternative which works on Linux. Unless you are heavily dependent of Microsoft Excel worksheets and their arcane proprietary macros, I don&#x27;t see a reason not to switch (besides just being lethargic to learn something new).</text></item><item><author>agentultra</author><text>I went the other way around. I started with your conclusions and have been migrating to the Apple ecosystem and am tempted to move to Windows. I had become tired of the dearth of issues that crop up to maintain an Arch desktop distribution.<p>While the privacy collection issues should be addressed and be transparent to end-users I think open source is not the way to go for these devices. I&#x27;m tired of each device being an island. I like handing off calls from my phone to my laptop when I&#x27;m at work. It began frustrating me years ago when I couldn&#x27;t just flick a few files off of my e-reader to a friend&#x27;s phone despite the prevalence of available networks.<p>Open-source, meanwhile, has struggled to provide a basic desktop environment to rival the best from five years ago. It&#x27;s simply too much work without a paid, focused, and highly-skilled product team consisting of more than just developers. And they&#x27;re still fighting the chicken-and-egg problem of user-adoption.<p>I don&#x27;t like the spyware &quot;features,&quot; but I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ll be going back to Linux any time soon and giving up all the great software I&#x27;ve come to depend on.<p>I&#x27;m hopeful that people will find ways to invest in its development and find a way to introduce a competing product that is both secure, in the control of the user, and a delight to use -- able to integrate with a plethora of devices and, for the most part, <i>just work</i>.</text></item><item><author>dantillberg</author><text>I spent my holiday break shifting my alignment 2 or 3 points towards Stallmanism. The existence&#x2F;collection of statistics like this increase my confidence in that choice.<p>Between Windows privacy craziness and Apple&#x27;s continuing lockdown of OSX (I think that System Integrity Protection augurs an iOS-like walled-garden future for OSX), I recently switched all of my OSX&#x2F;Windows&#x2F;Ubuntu systems to Arch Linux; it takes some tweaking and setup and a bit of command line hacking, but it&#x27;s really awesome to have all my machines doing my bidding -- I tell them what to run, when&#x2F;what to update, and I&#x27;m in control of synchronizing settings&#x2F;files between them.<p>With Windows&#x2F;OSX (and Ubuntu to a lesser degree, which I&#x27;d used previously), you can only kind of hope that it does what you want, and when it doesn&#x27;t work, you kind of bang on it a bit to try and get it to change its behavior. All the while, the computer is doing a large number of things you don&#x27;t really want it to do (what are all these processes? why is it connecting to x.y.domain.net? what data is it sending? why does it insist on trying to get me to log in to XXCloudY? I don&#x27;t want to use that), but which you&#x27;re kind of powerless to stop (aside from e.g. blocking connections with another physical network device), even if you knew what was happening. But you don&#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PuffinBlue</author><text>&gt; Can you cite a single widely used software that doesn&#x27;t have a FOSS alternative which works on Linux.<p>Yes. Photoshop and Lightroom.<p>And before you all jump in and slather me with suggestions of Darktable, Shotwell, GIMP, ASP, RAWtherapee et al please know that NONE of these are a true substitute for Lightroom and Photoshop.<p>Individually you can put together a decent work flow with Linux programmes but it&#x27;s slow. Particularly for wedding photography as there&#x27;s just nothing that can offer the same level of speed AND quality that you get from Adobe&#x27;s programmes. Running them on WINE is hit and miss and very slow for me, and the newest CC versions don&#x27;t seem to be supported as far as I could see.<p>I ran Linux Mint for the last year and switched to Windows 10 a few days ago. I absolutely love Linux Mint and would switch back to it immediately (especially as Windows seem a lot more long-winded in terms of &#x27;developer&#x27; stuff so far) if I didn&#x27;t need Lightroom and Photoshop but I just couldn&#x27;t get a fast enough workflow together.<p>I&#x27;m a massive Linux fan, and I&#x27;d literally jump back to it this evening if someone can show me in the comments below a workflow that can match what Lightroom&#x2F;Photoshop offer. But the reality is there are certain types of requirement that Linux just can&#x27;t provide yet and, tough as it is to swallow, that&#x27;s the truth of it.</text></comment> |
26,462,645 | 26,461,732 | 1 | 3 | 26,460,390 | train | <story><title>Satellite imagery shows Northern California kelp forests have collapsed</title><url>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/satellite-imagery-shows-northern-california-kelp-forests-have-collapsed-180977214/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nradov</author><text>I have been diving in the Monterey, CA region since 1999 and have seen the change first hand. Sunflower sea stars are now extinct in the area; I haven&#x27;t seen one in years. Some of the smaller sea star species have started to gradually recover but they aren&#x27;t effective at preying on purple urchins. There is a local group culling urchins but they&#x27;ll only be able to cover a small area.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;g2kr.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;g2kr.com&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>deanCommie</author><text>Same thing in British Columbia: over 90%, 5.7 billion have died since 2013 [1].<p>When I was a kid in the 90s, and starting to dive in the 2000s, sea stars were everywhere on the ocean floor, even really close to the city center of Vancouver. They were so ubiquitous that they were completely uninteresting to us locals. We would hear that BC was considered world-renowned for scuba diving quality, and think &quot;How dull, it&#x27;s just a shit ton of sea stars&quot;<p>(Of course, we were young, stupid, and also called them starfish not sea stars then)<p>Me and some friends would go camping at an oceanfront spot on Vancouver Island every year, and go crabbing with mixed results. Half of the irritation was sometimes you&#x27;d be pulling up what felt like a really heavy crab trap full of goodness (We were always responsible and only kept the males over the legal size), only to find it full of sea stars who chased away the crabs and ate our bait.<p>Then, about six or seven years ago, the sea stars just...disappeared. And they didn&#x27;t come back.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbc.ca&#x2F;news&#x2F;canada&#x2F;british-columbia&#x2F;sunflower-sea-star-decline-1.5844674" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbc.ca&#x2F;news&#x2F;canada&#x2F;british-columbia&#x2F;sunflower-se...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Satellite imagery shows Northern California kelp forests have collapsed</title><url>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/satellite-imagery-shows-northern-california-kelp-forests-have-collapsed-180977214/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nradov</author><text>I have been diving in the Monterey, CA region since 1999 and have seen the change first hand. Sunflower sea stars are now extinct in the area; I haven&#x27;t seen one in years. Some of the smaller sea star species have started to gradually recover but they aren&#x27;t effective at preying on purple urchins. There is a local group culling urchins but they&#x27;ll only be able to cover a small area.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;g2kr.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;g2kr.com&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aryik</author><text>Thank you for sharing this. I literally got open water certified in Monterey this afternoon, and I will be signing up to volunteer!</text></comment> |
5,066,237 | 5,065,902 | 1 | 2 | 5,065,071 | train | <story><title>Prosecutor pursuing Aaron Swartz linked to suicide of another hacker</title><url>http://rt.com/usa/news/swartz-prosecutor-suicide-hacker-050/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>downandout</author><text>The reality is that it is quite rare for a federal defendant to kill themselves. To have 2 of them (that we know about) stemming from prosecutions by one individual, I would have to say, is pretty remarkable. While it could just be a coincidence, the one common denominator in these two statistically rare incidents is Stephen Heymann.<p>We'll just call him "Suicide Steve".<p>On a somewhat related note, the callousness of the people that work in the MA US Attorney's office apparently extends to their spouses. The husband of US Attorney Carmen Ortiz posted on his (now deleted) twitter account criticizing Aaron's family for the content of his obituary (screenshot of his tweet here - <a href="http://imgur.com/IR5ah" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/IR5ah</a> ).</text></comment> | <story><title>Prosecutor pursuing Aaron Swartz linked to suicide of another hacker</title><url>http://rt.com/usa/news/swartz-prosecutor-suicide-hacker-050/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jamesaguilar</author><text>I can understand how people might expect different behavior in the Swartz case. But what in the behavior discussed in this article is other than exactly what you would expect? <i>Of course</i> she is going to prosecute a credit card thief who has stolen tens of thousands of cards. How does this stack up as added evidence against her?</text></comment> |
38,351,163 | 38,348,713 | 1 | 3 | 38,341,708 | train | <story><title>RustGPT: ChatGPT UI Built with Rust, Htmx, SQLite</title><url>https://github.com/bitswired/rustgpt</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>neilyio</author><text>This is such a great project, thank you for sharing! It seems like you&#x27;re getting the usual dump of negativity around HTMX... but as usual, not much coming from anyone who&#x27;s actually tried to build something small&#x2F;medium-sized. I keep hearing that this stack &quot;would&quot; fall apart in a bigger project, but I never hear any concrete, empirical descriptions of issues that actually do arise.<p>I&#x27;ll offer one here... using HTMX usually means you&#x27;re going to be writing HTML templates, and HTML templating languages don&#x27;t have much IDE support. I really miss goto-definition etc. when I&#x27;m writing Jinja templates.<p>That being said, I&#x27;ve personally found Rust&#x2F;HTMX to be a magnificent combo. I personally find writing backend endpoints in Rust to be no more cumbersome than any other language (after becoming comfortable with Rust)... and there&#x27;s massive gains from the incredible tooling and type system.<p>I wonder if you&#x27;ve considered using Askama for your templates? It has a Axum integration that cleans up some of the boilerplate around template rendering. There&#x27;s also an open PR for block fragments [1], which will make componentization of HTML fragments much easier, as discussed in this essay on the HTMX site [2].<p>We need more projects like this to demonstrate how useful, highly-interactive apps are made with HTMX. I&#x27;d encourage skeptics to try the same before writing it off.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;djc&#x2F;askama&#x2F;pull&#x2F;824">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;djc&#x2F;askama&#x2F;pull&#x2F;824</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;htmx.org&#x2F;essays&#x2F;template-fragments&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;htmx.org&#x2F;essays&#x2F;template-fragments&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>RustGPT: ChatGPT UI Built with Rust, Htmx, SQLite</title><url>https://github.com/bitswired/rustgpt</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jadbox</author><text>I was just browsing through this code all night. In principle, Htmx is really showing how React or any frontend framework is just not needed for most applications. Htmx simplifies everything.. even component endpoint caching is as simple as just adding a good ol&#x27; header. No more &quot;partial rendering&quot; or related complexity needed.<p>I&#x27;m still unconvinced that Rust is a good idea for general web servers due to (overly) aggressive compiler checks and chaotic documentation related to web server concerns (many Rust web related libs cannot work together or not easily).<p>Today I&#x27;m mostly just using Hono+htmx+view transitions. Astro is a similar stack, but with more batteries included (and some additional complexity).</text></comment> |
15,180,604 | 15,178,077 | 1 | 3 | 15,174,737 | train | <story><title>The Windows Shutdown crapfest (2006)</title><url>http://moishelettvin.blogspot.com/2006/11/windows-shutdown-crapfest.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bradford</author><text>I started at MS during Vista and I&#x27;ve been involved (sometimes tangentially) with Windows ever since. This is all my opinion, but It&#x27;s been very interesting seeing the decision making process change over time.<p>If I had to summarize the change, I&#x27;d say that it&#x27;s evolved from an expertise-based system to a data based system. The reason why eight people were present at every planning meeting is because their expert opinion was the primary tool used in decision making. In addition to poor decisions, this had two very negative outcomes:<p>1) reputation was fiercely fought for. Individuals feared that if they were ever incorrect, the damage to their reputation would limit their ability to impact future decisions and eventually lead to career death. Whether this actually happened or not is irrelevant; the fear itself caused overt caution and consensus seeking.<p>2) In the absence of data, an eloquent negotiator is often able to obtain their desired outcome, no matter how sub-optimal that outcome might be.<p>Nowadays, I see data used a lot more, hence the telemetry. A while ago, in response to criticism of Windows telemetry habits, I wrote:<p>&quot;Telemetry is, by now, a fundamental part of the engineering process. Products that don&#x27;t incorporate it are going to be clobbered by products that do. Microsoft didn&#x27;t start this paradigm, but I think they had to incorporate it in order to stay competitive.&quot;<p>I understand that telemetry is still a delicate issue, but the expertise based decision making of yester-year truly sucked for many, and I don&#x27;t see a viable alternative.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wrs</author><text>Putting on my asbestos suit... I started the telemetry project (aka SQM or CEIP) at Microsoft when I was on the MSN Explorer team. (Then Office got excited about it, then SQL Server and Windows and nearly everyone else.)<p>The original inspiration was being in a meeting much like the one described, where people were arguing about whether we should optimize the UI for 640x480, 800x600, or 1024x768 screens. The &quot;argument&quot; consisted almost entirely of anecdotes. I thought &quot;Why don&#x27;t we just measure how big the screens actually are, and then I won&#x27;t have to attend any more meetings like this?&quot; It turned out a lot of other people felt that way.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Windows Shutdown crapfest (2006)</title><url>http://moishelettvin.blogspot.com/2006/11/windows-shutdown-crapfest.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bradford</author><text>I started at MS during Vista and I&#x27;ve been involved (sometimes tangentially) with Windows ever since. This is all my opinion, but It&#x27;s been very interesting seeing the decision making process change over time.<p>If I had to summarize the change, I&#x27;d say that it&#x27;s evolved from an expertise-based system to a data based system. The reason why eight people were present at every planning meeting is because their expert opinion was the primary tool used in decision making. In addition to poor decisions, this had two very negative outcomes:<p>1) reputation was fiercely fought for. Individuals feared that if they were ever incorrect, the damage to their reputation would limit their ability to impact future decisions and eventually lead to career death. Whether this actually happened or not is irrelevant; the fear itself caused overt caution and consensus seeking.<p>2) In the absence of data, an eloquent negotiator is often able to obtain their desired outcome, no matter how sub-optimal that outcome might be.<p>Nowadays, I see data used a lot more, hence the telemetry. A while ago, in response to criticism of Windows telemetry habits, I wrote:<p>&quot;Telemetry is, by now, a fundamental part of the engineering process. Products that don&#x27;t incorporate it are going to be clobbered by products that do. Microsoft didn&#x27;t start this paradigm, but I think they had to incorporate it in order to stay competitive.&quot;<p>I understand that telemetry is still a delicate issue, but the expertise based decision making of yester-year truly sucked for many, and I don&#x27;t see a viable alternative.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bo1024</author><text>Very interesting and thanks for the post. Does Windows 10 actually conduct ongoing A&#x2F;B tests and use telemetry to evaluate them? (for example the interface used by two people on two different computers might look different, or something)<p>I&#x27;m intrigued but still very skeptical about the effectiveness of the data-based approach to UI design. That seems to be an area where local, hillclimbing optimization can lead to a mess of conflicting decisions across the OS.</text></comment> |
32,422,904 | 32,420,849 | 1 | 3 | 32,416,815 | train | <story><title>The Case for Degrowth</title><url>https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n16/geoff-mann/reversing-the-freight-train</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roflyear</author><text>There is an obvious way out. Increase immigration. The US does this well. Why doesn&#x27;t Japan? Because of racism and xenophobia. No one talks about it (wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if I got downvoted for mentioning it) but Japan is mad racist. They do not like foreigners.</text></item><item><author>thematrixturtle</author><text>Japan is a living case study of degrowth: GDP has been essentially flat for the past 20 years. The scale below exaggerates small shifts, but it was $4968B in 2000 and $4937B in 2020.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tradingeconomics.com&#x2F;japan&#x2F;gdp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tradingeconomics.com&#x2F;japan&#x2F;gdp</a><p>On the ground, this has translated into flat or deflating prices (until very recently) and an increasing bifurcation of society into salarymen, with low but stable incomes anchored on jobs-almost-for-life, and part-timers on temporary contracts, with groups like single mothers living in poverty. Population is shrinking by close to 1M&#x2F;year, the rural countryside is rapidly emptying out as young people flock into cities to chase opportunities, and the national pension scheme will sooner or later implode since it can&#x27;t support 1 worker paying for 4 retirees forever. It&#x27;s frankly depressing and there&#x27;s no obvious way out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coldtea</author><text>&gt;<i>There is an obvious way out. Increase immigration. The US does this well. Why doesn&#x27;t Japan? Because of racism and xenophobia.</i><p>Because the US was created as a ragtag coalition of immigrants from all kinds of countries. Their whole shtick is based on being a melting pot. Japan is a much more ethnically homogenous nation.<p>Besides, this coming of immigrants didn&#x27;t work so well for the natives in the US (the native Americans that is).<p>&gt;<i>No one talks about it (wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if I got downvoted for mentioning it) but Japan is mad racist. They do not like foreigners.</i><p>Well, if they thought like that for my country, I wouldn&#x27;t like them either.<p>&quot;Not liking&quot; people coming over is not the same as being racist, any more than a tribe in the Amazon not liking tourists or Americans&#x2F;Europeans coming over to live with them would be &quot;racist&quot;. They want to maintain their way of life, and that&#x27;s up to them.<p>Besides, cultures which had seggregation up until the 60s, have a huge majority of blacks in jail even today, and routinely have cops kill them unarmed, shouldn&#x27;t throw stones.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Case for Degrowth</title><url>https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n16/geoff-mann/reversing-the-freight-train</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roflyear</author><text>There is an obvious way out. Increase immigration. The US does this well. Why doesn&#x27;t Japan? Because of racism and xenophobia. No one talks about it (wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if I got downvoted for mentioning it) but Japan is mad racist. They do not like foreigners.</text></item><item><author>thematrixturtle</author><text>Japan is a living case study of degrowth: GDP has been essentially flat for the past 20 years. The scale below exaggerates small shifts, but it was $4968B in 2000 and $4937B in 2020.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tradingeconomics.com&#x2F;japan&#x2F;gdp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tradingeconomics.com&#x2F;japan&#x2F;gdp</a><p>On the ground, this has translated into flat or deflating prices (until very recently) and an increasing bifurcation of society into salarymen, with low but stable incomes anchored on jobs-almost-for-life, and part-timers on temporary contracts, with groups like single mothers living in poverty. Population is shrinking by close to 1M&#x2F;year, the rural countryside is rapidly emptying out as young people flock into cities to chase opportunities, and the national pension scheme will sooner or later implode since it can&#x27;t support 1 worker paying for 4 retirees forever. It&#x27;s frankly depressing and there&#x27;s no obvious way out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>neilwilson</author><text>Immigration is just colonial appropriation. It&#x27;s the solution proposed by city dwellers who think we should live 50 deep in a square mile of massive cities - generally an upper middle class who seem to believe they should have constant access to cheap servants they don&#x27;t have to personally house and look after.<p>Japan already has massive cities. It doesn&#x27;t work.<p>We need economics that doesn&#x27;t assume you can always go around the world taking other nations resources - including the people they have schooled and trained to provide for their own population.</text></comment> |
36,476,496 | 36,476,215 | 1 | 2 | 36,466,248 | train | <story><title>XML is the future</title><url>https://www.bitecode.dev/p/hype-cycles</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andrewflnr</author><text>I would phrase almost the same idea from the opposite angle: focus on the fundamentals that never change, and view the trends in terms of how they relate to those fundamentals.<p>But also, those are some pretty odd comparisons. For sure Ansible and Terraform aren&#x27;t directly comparable. If anything they&#x27;re complementary. Terraform provisions machines (and also infra, etc), and Ansible configures provisioned machines.</text></item><item><author>hardwaresofton</author><text>&gt; Look I&#x27;m not even complaining. But it feels like I&#x27;m stuck in a Franz Kafka novel. We just keep changing and changing the same things again and again because that&#x27;s the new way to do. Big distraction. Destroys your workflow. Forget about all the util scripts you wrote last 6 months being useless.<p>Here&#x27;s how I stay sane -- I focus on the changes. For the technologies that you noted, here are some good questions that come to mind to set them in my brain:<p>- What&#x27;s the difference between CGI scripts and Serverless?<p>- What&#x27;s the difference between Terraform and Ansible?<p>- What&#x27;s the difference between a Bash script and a Makefile ? Is one more general than the other? Does one have a considerably better interface than the other?<p>All the solutions <i>look</i> the same, but the distinctions between them (even at a relatively surface level) are what help to actually tell things apart and stop the feeling of endless churn.<p>I think of it this way -- unlike other fields because the fruits of our research are <i>immediately usable</i> and almost zero-cost, we&#x27;re given a front seat to the frontier of experimentation. It&#x27;s a water hose, and you have to determine which streams are worth turning on&#x2F;off, bottling for later.</text></item><item><author>gnulinux</author><text>I&#x27;ve been working in the tech industry in the US for about 5 years. Ever since I knew myself I&#x27;ve been coding. From middle school to high school, given any problem, like Sudoku, or keeping up daily chores, my solution was Programming! Programming wasy homebase. Then I studied it in uni, thought I was kinda good at it, and loved it.<p>But when I started working in the industry, I realized that it&#x27;s absolutely exhausting. Hype after hype, fad after fad, modern after modern, refactor after refactor. I have a workflow, I know how to build apps. Then one day director of Ops comes and completely and utterly changes the workflow. Ok fine, I&#x27;m young, will learn this. Month passes, it is now Terraform. Ok fine I&#x27;m young, will learn this. Now we&#x27;re serverless. Ok fine, will learn. Now everything is container. Ok. Now everything microservice. K. Now turns out lambdas aren&#x27;t good, so everything is ECS. OK will rewrite everything...<p>Look I&#x27;m not even complaining. But it feels like I&#x27;m stuck in a Franz Kafka novel. We just keep changing and changing the same things again and again because that&#x27;s the new way to do. Big distraction. Destroys your workflow. Forget about all the util scripts you wrote last 6 months being useless.<p>I don&#x27;t even know how I would do it. Maybe I would do this the same way if I had any power. But that doesn&#x27;t change the fact that it&#x27;s a bit ridiculous. Fun but tiring. Entertaining but exhausting. Cute but frustrating.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kitd</author><text>Lord, teach me to accept the things I cannot change,<p>And use version control for the things I can ...</text></comment> | <story><title>XML is the future</title><url>https://www.bitecode.dev/p/hype-cycles</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andrewflnr</author><text>I would phrase almost the same idea from the opposite angle: focus on the fundamentals that never change, and view the trends in terms of how they relate to those fundamentals.<p>But also, those are some pretty odd comparisons. For sure Ansible and Terraform aren&#x27;t directly comparable. If anything they&#x27;re complementary. Terraform provisions machines (and also infra, etc), and Ansible configures provisioned machines.</text></item><item><author>hardwaresofton</author><text>&gt; Look I&#x27;m not even complaining. But it feels like I&#x27;m stuck in a Franz Kafka novel. We just keep changing and changing the same things again and again because that&#x27;s the new way to do. Big distraction. Destroys your workflow. Forget about all the util scripts you wrote last 6 months being useless.<p>Here&#x27;s how I stay sane -- I focus on the changes. For the technologies that you noted, here are some good questions that come to mind to set them in my brain:<p>- What&#x27;s the difference between CGI scripts and Serverless?<p>- What&#x27;s the difference between Terraform and Ansible?<p>- What&#x27;s the difference between a Bash script and a Makefile ? Is one more general than the other? Does one have a considerably better interface than the other?<p>All the solutions <i>look</i> the same, but the distinctions between them (even at a relatively surface level) are what help to actually tell things apart and stop the feeling of endless churn.<p>I think of it this way -- unlike other fields because the fruits of our research are <i>immediately usable</i> and almost zero-cost, we&#x27;re given a front seat to the frontier of experimentation. It&#x27;s a water hose, and you have to determine which streams are worth turning on&#x2F;off, bottling for later.</text></item><item><author>gnulinux</author><text>I&#x27;ve been working in the tech industry in the US for about 5 years. Ever since I knew myself I&#x27;ve been coding. From middle school to high school, given any problem, like Sudoku, or keeping up daily chores, my solution was Programming! Programming wasy homebase. Then I studied it in uni, thought I was kinda good at it, and loved it.<p>But when I started working in the industry, I realized that it&#x27;s absolutely exhausting. Hype after hype, fad after fad, modern after modern, refactor after refactor. I have a workflow, I know how to build apps. Then one day director of Ops comes and completely and utterly changes the workflow. Ok fine, I&#x27;m young, will learn this. Month passes, it is now Terraform. Ok fine I&#x27;m young, will learn this. Now we&#x27;re serverless. Ok fine, will learn. Now everything is container. Ok. Now everything microservice. K. Now turns out lambdas aren&#x27;t good, so everything is ECS. OK will rewrite everything...<p>Look I&#x27;m not even complaining. But it feels like I&#x27;m stuck in a Franz Kafka novel. We just keep changing and changing the same things again and again because that&#x27;s the new way to do. Big distraction. Destroys your workflow. Forget about all the util scripts you wrote last 6 months being useless.<p>I don&#x27;t even know how I would do it. Maybe I would do this the same way if I had any power. But that doesn&#x27;t change the fact that it&#x27;s a bit ridiculous. Fun but tiring. Entertaining but exhausting. Cute but frustrating.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hardwaresofton</author><text>&gt; I would phrase almost the same idea from the opposite angle: focus on the fundamentals that never change, and view the trends in terms of how they relate to those fundamentals.<p>Definitely -- I&#x27;d say that these questions <i>force</i> the understanding of the fundamentals, because that&#x27;s what you get down to (&quot;fundamental&quot;&#x2F;irreconcilable differences).<p>The problem is that fundamentals can be similar, and sometimes the difference is elsewhere (UX&#x2F;DX&#x2F;perf for example).<p>&gt; But also, those are some pretty odd comparisons.<p>So they <i>are</i> odd comparisons, in some sense -- but the point was to reflect the kind of questions someone who didn&#x27;t know the answer would ask. Ansible and Terraform (and Salt&#x2F;Puppet&#x2F;Chef) are often presented in similar context and they&#x27;re often confusing <i>precisely because they are so close but different</i>.<p>The other example (CGI vs Serverless) is situation that&#x27;s somewhat more targeted towards the age discussion -- did we churn over the years for churnings&#x27; sake?<p>&gt; For sure Ansible and Terraform aren&#x27;t directly comparable. If anything they&#x27;re complementary. Terraform provisions machines (and also infra, etc), and Ansible configures provisioned machines.<p>What you&#x27;ve said is the usual rebuttal (and it&#x27;s mostly right!), but did you know that Ansible did&#x2F;does provisioning?[0] The lines aren&#x27;t drawn as neatly as they seem to be.<p>You can build a Terraform-like experience <i>out of</i> Ansible, if you wanted to, and it&#x27;s important to know that and why you choose a tool like Terraform instead of traveling deep into Ansible land.<p>All that said, if you prefer, replace &quot;Ansible&quot; with &quot;Pulumi&quot; (Full Disclosure: I&#x27;m firmly on the Pulumi side in the Terraform vs Pulumi debate).<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.ansible.com&#x2F;ansible&#x2F;latest&#x2F;collections&#x2F;index_module.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.ansible.com&#x2F;ansible&#x2F;latest&#x2F;collections&#x2F;index_mo...</a></text></comment> |
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