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26,288,703 | 26,288,548 | 1 | 2 | 26,286,940 | train | <story><title>SolarWind, enough with the password already</title><url>https://gru.gq/2021/02/28/solarwind-enough-with-the-password-already/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slt2021</author><text>care to add examples? has there ever been a case when state actor sent a rogue employee and succeeded?
because in serious organizations there are robust defenses even against potentially rogue employees</text></item><item><author>qbasic_forever</author><text>I do think a lot of folks are missing the main point that no matter what security theater is in place, a state actor with enough motivation is going to breach it. They&#x27;re not going to send someone after the password protected parts, they&#x27;re going to send your recruiter the most irresistible candidate--the perfect background, right out of your favorite school and with expertise in exactly your tech stack. You&#x27;ll get pages and pages of glowing recommendations from people inside and around the industry. They&#x27;ll ace your interview loops, be loved by all your engineers and managers, and they won&#x27;t bat an eye at the lowball first offer you give them. They&#x27;ll move up the corporate ranks with ease and be everyone&#x27;s friend... and then the best security in the world doesn&#x27;t matter one bit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qbasic_forever</author><text>It is _far_ more common than you think. A few years after I started at MS this guy was caught: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;international&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2010&#x2F;07&#x2F;who-was-the-12th-russian-spy-at-microsoft&#x2F;344876&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;international&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2010&#x2F;07&#x2F;wh...</a> I knew a lot of folks internally that worked with him, knew him, etc. and had _no idea_ he was a spy or agent. He was the model of a perfect employee or hire for MS at the time.</text></comment> | <story><title>SolarWind, enough with the password already</title><url>https://gru.gq/2021/02/28/solarwind-enough-with-the-password-already/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slt2021</author><text>care to add examples? has there ever been a case when state actor sent a rogue employee and succeeded?
because in serious organizations there are robust defenses even against potentially rogue employees</text></item><item><author>qbasic_forever</author><text>I do think a lot of folks are missing the main point that no matter what security theater is in place, a state actor with enough motivation is going to breach it. They&#x27;re not going to send someone after the password protected parts, they&#x27;re going to send your recruiter the most irresistible candidate--the perfect background, right out of your favorite school and with expertise in exactly your tech stack. You&#x27;ll get pages and pages of glowing recommendations from people inside and around the industry. They&#x27;ll ace your interview loops, be loved by all your engineers and managers, and they won&#x27;t bat an eye at the lowball first offer you give them. They&#x27;ll move up the corporate ranks with ease and be everyone&#x27;s friend... and then the best security in the world doesn&#x27;t matter one bit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>freeone3000</author><text>Stuxnet is the one that comes to mind first, where a Polish mole was able to be hired at an Iranian nuclear enrichment facility.</text></comment> |
28,732,354 | 28,731,020 | 1 | 2 | 28,730,212 | train | <story><title>Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield, who revolutionized neuroimaging</title><url>https://www.annalsofian.org/article.asp?issn=0972-2327;year=2016;volume=19;issue=4;spage=448;epage=450;aulast=Bhattacharyya</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>car</author><text>The fundamental invention of tomography was by by William Oldendorf who inspired Hounsfield.<p>He used a record turntable and a toy train to prototype his early ideas.<p>His egregious exclusion from the Nobel prize was deemed a political decision by the Europeans committee due to ongoing patent matters.<p>Edit: For anyone interested in medical tomography, check out the current cutting edge, a bedside(!) MRI using two huge rare earth magnets[2].<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;William_H._Oldendorf#Role_in_development_of_neuroimaging" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;William_H._Oldendorf#Role_in_d...</a><p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;History_of_computed_tomography" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;History_of_computed_tomography</a><p>[2]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hyperfine.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hyperfine.io</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield, who revolutionized neuroimaging</title><url>https://www.annalsofian.org/article.asp?issn=0972-2327;year=2016;volume=19;issue=4;spage=448;epage=450;aulast=Bhattacharyya</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>redwall_hp</author><text>&gt; Finally, in possibly his most ingenious invention, Hounsfield created an algorithm to reconstruct an image of the brain based on all these layers. By working backward and using one of the era’s fastest new computers, he could calculate the value for each little box of each brain layer. Eureka!<p>And, of course, they glossed over the most interesting part by simply saying &quot;an algorithm.&quot; I know that modern CT scans use Marching Cubes [1], which is what that particular algorithm was developed for, but that came later in the 80s.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Marching_cubes" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Marching_cubes</a></text></comment> |
35,001,516 | 35,001,704 | 1 | 3 | 35,000,195 | train | <story><title>The Inverse Jim Cramer ETF</title><url>https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/inverse-cramer-etf-is-coming-to-the-real-world</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bryanlarsen</author><text>You can show really poor or really good results for pretty much any high volatility portfolio by cherry picking your time period.</text></item><item><author>dublinben</author><text>Similarly, an ETF inverse of Cathy Wood’s ARK fund has outperformed quite a bit over the last couple years.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.portfoliovisualizer.com&#x2F;backtest-portfolio?s=y&amp;timePeriod=2&amp;startYear=2021&amp;firstMonth=12&amp;endYear=2023&amp;lastMonth=2&amp;calendarAligned=true&amp;includeYTD=false&amp;initialAmount=10000&amp;annualOperation=0&amp;annualAdjustment=0&amp;inflationAdjusted=true&amp;annualPercentage=0.0&amp;frequency=4&amp;rebalanceType=1&amp;absoluteDeviation=5.0&amp;relativeDeviation=25.0&amp;leverageType=0&amp;leverageRatio=0.0&amp;debtAmount=0&amp;debtInterest=0.0&amp;maintenanceMargin=25.0&amp;leveragedBenchmark=false&amp;reinvestDividends=true&amp;showYield=false&amp;showFactors=false&amp;factorModel=3&amp;portfolioNames=false&amp;portfolioName1=Portfolio+1&amp;portfolioName2=Portfolio+2&amp;portfolioName3=Portfolio+3&amp;symbol1=ARKK&amp;allocation1_1=100&amp;allocation1_2=0&amp;symbol2=SARK&amp;allocation2_1=0&amp;allocation2_2=100" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.portfoliovisualizer.com&#x2F;backtest-portfolio?s=y&amp;t...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>__derek__</author><text>&gt; Note: The time period was constrained by the available data for AXS Short Innovation Daily ETF (SARK) [Dec 2021 - Feb 2023].<p>Including monthly investment doesn&#x27;t really help, either.[1]<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.portfoliovisualizer.com&#x2F;backtest-portfolio?s=y&amp;timePeriod=2&amp;startYear=2012&amp;firstMonth=12&amp;endYear=2023&amp;lastMonth=2&amp;calendarAligned=true&amp;includeYTD=false&amp;initialAmount=10000&amp;annualOperation=1&amp;annualAdjustment=1000&amp;inflationAdjusted=true&amp;annualPercentage=0.0&amp;frequency=2&amp;rebalanceType=1&amp;absoluteDeviation=5.0&amp;relativeDeviation=25.0&amp;leverageType=0&amp;leverageRatio=0.0&amp;debtAmount=0&amp;debtInterest=0.0&amp;maintenanceMargin=25.0&amp;leveragedBenchmark=false&amp;reinvestDividends=true&amp;showYield=false&amp;showFactors=false&amp;factorModel=3&amp;benchmark=-1&amp;benchmarkSymbol=VTI&amp;portfolioNames=false&amp;portfolioName1=Portfolio+1&amp;portfolioName2=Portfolio+2&amp;portfolioName3=Portfolio+3&amp;symbol1=ARKK&amp;allocation1_1=100&amp;allocation1_2=0&amp;symbol2=SARK&amp;allocation2_1=0&amp;allocation2_2=100" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.portfoliovisualizer.com&#x2F;backtest-portfolio?s=y&amp;t...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Inverse Jim Cramer ETF</title><url>https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/inverse-cramer-etf-is-coming-to-the-real-world</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bryanlarsen</author><text>You can show really poor or really good results for pretty much any high volatility portfolio by cherry picking your time period.</text></item><item><author>dublinben</author><text>Similarly, an ETF inverse of Cathy Wood’s ARK fund has outperformed quite a bit over the last couple years.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.portfoliovisualizer.com&#x2F;backtest-portfolio?s=y&amp;timePeriod=2&amp;startYear=2021&amp;firstMonth=12&amp;endYear=2023&amp;lastMonth=2&amp;calendarAligned=true&amp;includeYTD=false&amp;initialAmount=10000&amp;annualOperation=0&amp;annualAdjustment=0&amp;inflationAdjusted=true&amp;annualPercentage=0.0&amp;frequency=4&amp;rebalanceType=1&amp;absoluteDeviation=5.0&amp;relativeDeviation=25.0&amp;leverageType=0&amp;leverageRatio=0.0&amp;debtAmount=0&amp;debtInterest=0.0&amp;maintenanceMargin=25.0&amp;leveragedBenchmark=false&amp;reinvestDividends=true&amp;showYield=false&amp;showFactors=false&amp;factorModel=3&amp;portfolioNames=false&amp;portfolioName1=Portfolio+1&amp;portfolioName2=Portfolio+2&amp;portfolioName3=Portfolio+3&amp;symbol1=ARKK&amp;allocation1_1=100&amp;allocation1_2=0&amp;symbol2=SARK&amp;allocation2_1=0&amp;allocation2_2=100" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.portfoliovisualizer.com&#x2F;backtest-portfolio?s=y&amp;t...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>undersuit</author><text>And: &quot;Another study found that a blindfolded monkey could beat most stock pickers.&quot;<p>Include Michael Reeve&#x27;s Stock Picking Goldfish too.</text></comment> |
20,446,171 | 20,440,119 | 1 | 2 | 20,435,793 | train | <story><title>Why airplane windows have round corners (2016)</title><url>https://jasonlefkowitz.net/2016/09/why-airplane-windows-have-round-corners/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gmueckl</author><text>Stress concentration, especially at sharp corners, is a well known phenomenon. During the second world war, the US manufactured transport ships in an assembly line fashion. The were launching these ships at rates of more than one per week. A lot of them had the same design flaw: the cargo hatch corners were not properly rounded off. This made them starting points for cracks in the hull. Amd once a crack is started, it continues to extend relentlessly under stress. As the story goes, a few of these ships were lost because the cracks grew so long that the hulls broke and sank.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why airplane windows have round corners (2016)</title><url>https://jasonlefkowitz.net/2016/09/why-airplane-windows-have-round-corners/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tyingq</author><text>Wikipedia says the crashes weren&#x27;t caused by the windows:<p><i>&quot;The accident report&#x27;s use of the word &quot;window&quot; when referring to the Automatic Direction Finding (ADF) aerial cutout panel[121] has led to a common belief that the Comet 1&#x27;s accidents were the result of its having square passenger windows.&quot;</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;De_Havilland_Comet" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;De_Havilland_Comet</a></text></comment> |
22,844,528 | 22,844,420 | 1 | 2 | 22,843,908 | train | <story><title>Some doctors moving away from ventilators for virus patients</title><url>https://apnews.com/8ccd325c2be9bf454c2128dcb7bd616d</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>carbocation</author><text>There is a lot of misinformation about COVID-19 lung disease. This article&#x27;s title is alarming, but most of its content is mainstream. Lung protective ventilation - the standard approach for ARDS (which COVID-19 seems to cause) - avoids high pressure and high volume ventilation.<p>Broadly, I would suggest that interested people read Corey Hardin&#x27;s response to the cacophony of voices saying that COVID-19 respiratory failure is not ARDS: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mailchi.mp&#x2F;e10a89ac5988&#x2F;tz4idnzryr-4388986?e=96507de8e5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mailchi.mp&#x2F;e10a89ac5988&#x2F;tz4idnzryr-4388986?e=96507de...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Some doctors moving away from ventilators for virus patients</title><url>https://apnews.com/8ccd325c2be9bf454c2128dcb7bd616d</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jds375</author><text>The press release states that doctors have seen that patients on ventilators have higher death rates. But wouldn’t we expect that? If the situation is dire enough to put someone on a ventilator then they’re probably less likely to live anyway?<p>Edit: They do mention that it’s higher than other diseases relatively speaking, but don’t we expect Covid-19 to be higher than say, the flu, given it seems to primarily target the upper respiratory area?</text></comment> |
21,142,212 | 4,658,149 | 1 | 3 | 4,656,850 | train | <story><title>Show HN: create, share, explore database patterns</title><url>https://web.archive.org/web/20160408103107/http://dbpatterns.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>The original URL was <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dbpatterns.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dbpatterns.com&#x2F;</a>, which no longer points to the right content, so we replaced it with an archive.org copy.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: create, share, explore database patterns</title><url>https://web.archive.org/web/20160408103107/http://dbpatterns.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ripperdoc</author><text>A great interface, but I see one huge omission - a place to discuss or comment the patterns. A pattern doesn't live in vacuum, it is good under certain circumstances and bad in others. So the pattern is only valuable to me if it comes with an explanation of what it's trying to achieve and why it looks the way it does. Link it up to Stackoverflow or at least throw in some basic commenting function and this would be a useful tool.</text></comment> |
23,869,391 | 23,867,696 | 1 | 2 | 23,866,894 | train | <story><title>Shoelace 2.0 release: UI toolkit that works with all frameworks or none at all</title><url>https://shoelace.style/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>claviska</author><text>Shoelace author here.<p>A couple days ago, I released Shoelace 2.0, an open source library of common UI components.<p>These components work with any framework, can be loaded via CDN, are fully customizable with CSS (no preprocessor required), and install easily with a simple script + stylesheet. They were built with Stencil.js, which is a fantastic tool. The end result compiles down to vanilla web components.<p>Each component was designed from scratch to be lean, customizable, and easy to use. Accessibility is a common question folks have about component libraries. I’m definitely not an expert here, but I&#x27;ve spent a lot of time trying to get it right. I would like to echo the experts and say that accessibility only starts with components, but hopefully having a good foundation to build on will encourage others to think about it more at higher levels.<p>I hope you&#x27;ll take a second to check it out! I&#x27;m happy to answer any questions you have about the project, how it&#x27;s built, etc.</text></comment> | <story><title>Shoelace 2.0 release: UI toolkit that works with all frameworks or none at all</title><url>https://shoelace.style/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chrismorgan</author><text>My biggest concern with using Shadow DOM for things like this is that it makes it depend upon JavaScript, which I strongly prefer not to do.¹ I know there’s some research work into declarative Shadow DOM², which has the potential to resolve this, but that’s still quite some way off. As it stands, I don’t feel comfortable using Web Components with Shadow DOM for things like this, which is a pity, because it’s a <i>delightful</i> way to work, and this toolkit looks very good in most regards. Instead, I like Svelte’s model which essentially allows you to <i>write</i> things this way, but have it result in light DOM, so that you can still do server-side rendering if you desire.<p>¹ Requiring JavaScript harms accessibility, especially for web <i>pages</i> (as distinct from web <i>apps</i>). It makes pages take longer to load, not be as spider-friendly, and be more fragile when JavaScript fails to load, whether deliberately or accidentally—and simple network failures and the likes break things more often than you might imagine. I myself browse the web with JavaScript disabled via uMatrix, mostly because it speeds the web up a lot on average. Privacy improvements are a distant secondary reason. When I encounter pages that require JavaScript, I either give up on them or open them in a Private Browsing window, where I don’t have the uMatrix extension enabled; or if it’s something I expect I may be using more than once or twice, I see about more precise whitelisting in uMatrix.<p>² <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;whatwg&#x2F;dom&#x2F;issues&#x2F;831" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;whatwg&#x2F;dom&#x2F;issues&#x2F;831</a></text></comment> |
11,562,537 | 11,562,446 | 1 | 2 | 11,561,573 | train | <story><title>The K Language</title><url>http://kparc.com/k.txt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rtpg</author><text>RE the learning curve: Do you think the APL family can exist without the terse syntax? Are there any aspects of the language that just wouldn&#x27;t work well without it?<p>A comparison I can think of is that Lisp&#x27;s whole code&#x2F;data duality works well because the code is s-exprs, and that it would be pretty awkward to transform that if the syntax were more python-y<p>On the other hand, semicolons and braces have nothing to do with any Java features....</text></item><item><author>ktamura</author><text>While I really like K&#x2F;Q&#x2F;J&#x2F;APL (some of this is Stockholm Syndrome: I spent the first 3 years of my career writing K&#x2F;Q at a trading firm, eventually becoming the human debugger for my team&#x27;s K&#x2F;Q &quot;investment&quot;. It got so annoying that I worked on a little parser library to help me debug: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kiyoto&#x2F;ungod" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kiyoto&#x2F;ungod</a>), they are doomed from a adoption&#x2F;future viability point of view.<p>1. Steep learning curve without benefits: APLs like K&#x2F;Q&#x2F;J optimize for concision to the point of unreadability. Sure, it might be fun to decipher clever K&#x2F;Q one-liners, but if you have to do it everyday for work in production, it&#x27;s just exhausting. This lack of readability has limited adoption and the growth of its user community. For any technology is to have a viable community, it needs to be usable by a critical mass. K&#x2F;Q in specific but APLs in general never had that, especially with more user-friendly alternatives like R&#x2F;Matlab for scientific computing.<p>2. No open source community. There&#x27;s Kona (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kevinlawler&#x2F;kona" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kevinlawler&#x2F;kona</a>) by Kevin Lawler, but again, its community has been small because the underlying language is not design to be usable by enough people.<p>3. Domain specificity of array languages: These days, array languages are just too limited in its scope. Scientific computing, the bread and butter of any array programming language, has been made possible in other languages (ex: Python), making array languages not powerful nor compelling enough to use because most of its strengths can be found in other languages and its weaknesses are too crippling.<p>I heard that Arthur Whitney found his successors (a pair of Russian programmers from St. Petersburg, iirc), so K&#x2F;Q will likely to be around beyond his retirement. That said, I think its user base will continue to shrink for above reasons.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ncx</author><text>Well,<p>code&#x2F;data duality = homoiconicity<p>There are many languages which do not use sexps but are homoiconic.<p>See &quot;examples&quot; at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Homoiconicity" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Homoiconicity</a><p>Yes, most of the examples look very limited compared to Lisp but there is Rebol &#x2F; Red (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.red-lang.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.red-lang.org&#x2F;</a>) which is atleast as powerful as Lisp in terms of homoiconicity (as well as in other things), if not more. Red&#x2F;Rebol don&#x27;t use sexps, don&#x27;t look like this (((())))), are highly dynamic and homoiconic.<p>See &quot;Homoiconicity in Rebol&quot; in <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Homoiconicity" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Homoiconicity</a>
(well, no good examples over there which shows Rebol&#x27;s features properly.)<p>&gt; RE the learning curve: Do you think the APL family can exist without the terse syntax?<p>So yes, I think that the APL family could exist without the terse syntax, but well hey, everything has its tradeoffs and all this is subjective - everyone has his own thinking - there might be someone in this world who in love with the APL syntax :D</text></comment> | <story><title>The K Language</title><url>http://kparc.com/k.txt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rtpg</author><text>RE the learning curve: Do you think the APL family can exist without the terse syntax? Are there any aspects of the language that just wouldn&#x27;t work well without it?<p>A comparison I can think of is that Lisp&#x27;s whole code&#x2F;data duality works well because the code is s-exprs, and that it would be pretty awkward to transform that if the syntax were more python-y<p>On the other hand, semicolons and braces have nothing to do with any Java features....</text></item><item><author>ktamura</author><text>While I really like K&#x2F;Q&#x2F;J&#x2F;APL (some of this is Stockholm Syndrome: I spent the first 3 years of my career writing K&#x2F;Q at a trading firm, eventually becoming the human debugger for my team&#x27;s K&#x2F;Q &quot;investment&quot;. It got so annoying that I worked on a little parser library to help me debug: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kiyoto&#x2F;ungod" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kiyoto&#x2F;ungod</a>), they are doomed from a adoption&#x2F;future viability point of view.<p>1. Steep learning curve without benefits: APLs like K&#x2F;Q&#x2F;J optimize for concision to the point of unreadability. Sure, it might be fun to decipher clever K&#x2F;Q one-liners, but if you have to do it everyday for work in production, it&#x27;s just exhausting. This lack of readability has limited adoption and the growth of its user community. For any technology is to have a viable community, it needs to be usable by a critical mass. K&#x2F;Q in specific but APLs in general never had that, especially with more user-friendly alternatives like R&#x2F;Matlab for scientific computing.<p>2. No open source community. There&#x27;s Kona (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kevinlawler&#x2F;kona" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kevinlawler&#x2F;kona</a>) by Kevin Lawler, but again, its community has been small because the underlying language is not design to be usable by enough people.<p>3. Domain specificity of array languages: These days, array languages are just too limited in its scope. Scientific computing, the bread and butter of any array programming language, has been made possible in other languages (ex: Python), making array languages not powerful nor compelling enough to use because most of its strengths can be found in other languages and its weaknesses are too crippling.<p>I heard that Arthur Whitney found his successors (a pair of Russian programmers from St. Petersburg, iirc), so K&#x2F;Q will likely to be around beyond his retirement. That said, I think its user base will continue to shrink for above reasons.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>avmich</author><text>&gt; Do you think the APL family can exist without the terse syntax? Are there any aspects of the language that just wouldn&#x27;t work well without it?<p>Considering the evolution of APL, yes.<p>Ken Iverson was teaching math in Harvard, when he was growing the - mathematical - notation to describe the subject formally. It was happening in late 1950&#x27;s, and the computers were entering our life. At some point it became reasonable to use that evolved notation as A Programming Language - or APL, for short.<p>However, the idea was to make understanding easier - all along! Same idea which Alan Kay is pursuing with his works, same idea with many good technologies, when they are young - Java, JavaScript... Importance of notation - be it in math, or in formal-and-executable-math is the ideology of early APL. Now they say &quot;it&#x27;s hard to beat expressiveness of a whiteboard&quot;, but still attempt to use, say, an integral sign (and, similarly, one-letter variables), as one would do when showing the idea on a whiteboard. The history of hand-written math preferred terse notation - and that is carried on in APL as executable math.<p>So... yes, terseness is important, and APLers will also say that choice of symbols is important too. It&#x27;s only to beginners that they feel strange - pretty soon programmer learns them, gets used to them and refuses to substitute them with more readable longer variants - even though that would make certain things better. You don&#x27;t name variables on a whiteboard with long_names or camelCase - at best you use sub- and superscripts. Granted, you can have cups and power towers and other things, and they were really impractical with 1960&#x27;s level technologies... yet at least you have a singular text direction for expressions, in editors or in print.<p>J makes certain things more logical, and switches to ASCII. May be we&#x27;ll invent even better notation (to me, this - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;matt.might.net&#x2F;articles&#x2F;discrete-math-and-code&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;matt.might.net&#x2F;articles&#x2F;discrete-math-and-code&#x2F;</a> - looks like a good start to think about basic building blocks), but so far, we have APL family languages as arguably closest thing to math notation. To some, it&#x27;s the closest way they can imagine between making a solution in the head and explaining that to computer.</text></comment> |
35,161,641 | 35,161,584 | 1 | 2 | 35,160,421 | train | <story><title>GPT-4 is phenomenal at Code</title><url>https://github.com/anysphere/gpt-4-for-code</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nottathrowaway3</author><text>&gt; <i>is phenomenal at Code</i><p>Can it<p>- attend bullshit meetings<p>- lick my manager&#x27;s boot<p>- tell them that their ideas are good but in the masochistic, self-deprecating way they like to hear it from me in<p>Not yet? Darn it, guess my job is safe for now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dougmwne</author><text>I think it can actually do all those things reasonably well. I’d like to start getting meeting summaries that tell me my action items based on a transcript. And it can generate infinite boot-licking butt kissing if you just ask it. Generate and click send to your boss!</text></comment> | <story><title>GPT-4 is phenomenal at Code</title><url>https://github.com/anysphere/gpt-4-for-code</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nottathrowaway3</author><text>&gt; <i>is phenomenal at Code</i><p>Can it<p>- attend bullshit meetings<p>- lick my manager&#x27;s boot<p>- tell them that their ideas are good but in the masochistic, self-deprecating way they like to hear it from me in<p>Not yet? Darn it, guess my job is safe for now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>1attice</author><text>Yes, it can.<p>- Automated relations, whether with your employer or a customer, are trivial<p>- These relations can be fine-tuned for exactly the level of syncophancy your boss prefers<p>- So yes, it can tell your boss their ideas are good in <i>precisely</i> the masochistic, self-deprecating way, etc.<p>Your post is not longer than a system prompt. Think it through.</text></comment> |
10,532,038 | 10,532,016 | 1 | 2 | 10,531,046 | train | <story><title>Why Torture Doesn't Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation</title><url>http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v527/n7576/full/527035a.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LordKano</author><text>The idea that you cede the moral high ground when you use torture seems to have been forgotten.<p>I don&#x27;t care if it works. I grew up believing that we were &quot;The Good Guys&quot; and under no circumstance is it ever acceptable for the good guys to torture people.<p>What made the Viet Cong so bad? They tortured people.
What made the Japanese so bad? They tortured people.
What made the Germans so bad? They tortured people.<p>We should never torture anyone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>junto</author><text>Do you really believe that we didn&#x27;t torture or enemies during WWII. History is written by the victors.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Allied_war_crimes_during_World_War_II" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Allied_war_crimes_during_Wor...</a><p>Similarly, we often believe that it was only the Soviets that took part in the rape of German women after the third Reich fell in 1945, but there are lots of evidence to suggest that all the allied forces participated.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rape_during_the_occupation_of_Germany" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rape_during_the_occupation_o...</a><p>I&#x27;m not trying to take away the fact that the Axis forces were vicious and committed war crimes, but we have to remember that war is horrendous and has unforeseeable and negative long-term human outcomes. I wish our countries thought a bit more about this before they rush us all into such decisions using lies and deceit.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Torture Doesn't Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation</title><url>http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v527/n7576/full/527035a.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LordKano</author><text>The idea that you cede the moral high ground when you use torture seems to have been forgotten.<p>I don&#x27;t care if it works. I grew up believing that we were &quot;The Good Guys&quot; and under no circumstance is it ever acceptable for the good guys to torture people.<p>What made the Viet Cong so bad? They tortured people.
What made the Japanese so bad? They tortured people.
What made the Germans so bad? They tortured people.<p>We should never torture anyone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cm2187</author><text>It&#x27;s not a matter of moral high ground. Carpet bombing cities to weaken the morale of the ennemy would have been treated as a war crime should the allies have lost WW2. It was deleberately killing civilians. The Good Guys is usually defined as &quot;our own side&quot;. Even today, if you place a bomb under a car it is terrorism, but if the bomb is delivered by a drone, then it&#x27;s all OK...</text></comment> |
5,662,350 | 5,661,381 | 1 | 3 | 5,659,524 | train | <story><title>Setting up Sublime Text 2</title><url>http://drewbarontini.com/setup/sublime-text/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>josteink</author><text>That is for OSX, which I refuse to use on an principle of ethical software conduct. Apple is hostile to open software and computers as open platforms. They want to take away the open nature of computers which allowed them to exist in the first place and they use BS patent-lawsuits to hinder competitors willing to provide just that.<p>They are <i>evil</i> and I refuse to support them with a penny or any significant effort or attention.<p>Apart from that, talking about SFTP mounts is completely missing the point.<p>Sometime I'm in a terminal, on a router, NAS, cloud-server or whatever, and need to edit some files in the current folder.<p>What I do then is "$ emacs file", not change context, go to another local terminal and fuse-mount some completely remote FS with whatever keys and credentials I need to provide, in /mnt/remote/, and then fire up a local editor for /mnt/remote/the/actual/directory/i/was/working/in/file.<p>That's extremely inefficient.<p>When I say I need something to work in a terminal to be a proper solution, I mean any terminal.</text></item><item><author>ary</author><text>You can use the built in 'subl' command to launch Sublime Text 2 from the terminal.<p><a href="http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/osx_command_line.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/osx_command_line.html</a><p>Editing remote files is as simple as an SFTP mount.</text></item><item><author>josteink</author><text>I know Sublime Text has a lot of momentum, especially on this site, but the one main ting which keeps me from adopting Sublime text is that I can't run it from a terminal. Simple as that.<p>If I'm going to invest time, effort and know-how into something as fundamental as a text-editor, I want to know that I can run it everywhere I need it.<p>I'm going to guesstimate that I spend at least 20% of my text-editing via terminals, via SSH, via remote sessions somehow. And there I can't use Sublime Text at all.<p>In those remote sessions I'm probably editing the same things I do locally, so why should I need to change my entire environment to suit that 20% of the same workload? It just doesn't make sense.<p>Other objections to Sublime text would be that it's not open source. With more and more (new) arm-based platforms popping up left and right, that becomes increasingly important. I want to know that I can take my tools with me to the places I go. Not being open-source severely limits those possibilities.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Shorel</author><text>In every sublime text thread there's someone praising Vim.<p>If you want a terminal text-only editor, and already have one like emacs, then you don't need or want sublime text.<p>Sublime Text does not try to work in the terminal and I love that it doesn't.<p>Very different use cases. I suspect you are simply a very subtle forum troll.</text></comment> | <story><title>Setting up Sublime Text 2</title><url>http://drewbarontini.com/setup/sublime-text/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>josteink</author><text>That is for OSX, which I refuse to use on an principle of ethical software conduct. Apple is hostile to open software and computers as open platforms. They want to take away the open nature of computers which allowed them to exist in the first place and they use BS patent-lawsuits to hinder competitors willing to provide just that.<p>They are <i>evil</i> and I refuse to support them with a penny or any significant effort or attention.<p>Apart from that, talking about SFTP mounts is completely missing the point.<p>Sometime I'm in a terminal, on a router, NAS, cloud-server or whatever, and need to edit some files in the current folder.<p>What I do then is "$ emacs file", not change context, go to another local terminal and fuse-mount some completely remote FS with whatever keys and credentials I need to provide, in /mnt/remote/, and then fire up a local editor for /mnt/remote/the/actual/directory/i/was/working/in/file.<p>That's extremely inefficient.<p>When I say I need something to work in a terminal to be a proper solution, I mean any terminal.</text></item><item><author>ary</author><text>You can use the built in 'subl' command to launch Sublime Text 2 from the terminal.<p><a href="http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/osx_command_line.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/osx_command_line.html</a><p>Editing remote files is as simple as an SFTP mount.</text></item><item><author>josteink</author><text>I know Sublime Text has a lot of momentum, especially on this site, but the one main ting which keeps me from adopting Sublime text is that I can't run it from a terminal. Simple as that.<p>If I'm going to invest time, effort and know-how into something as fundamental as a text-editor, I want to know that I can run it everywhere I need it.<p>I'm going to guesstimate that I spend at least 20% of my text-editing via terminals, via SSH, via remote sessions somehow. And there I can't use Sublime Text at all.<p>In those remote sessions I'm probably editing the same things I do locally, so why should I need to change my entire environment to suit that 20% of the same workload? It just doesn't make sense.<p>Other objections to Sublime text would be that it's not open source. With more and more (new) arm-based platforms popping up left and right, that becomes increasingly important. I want to know that I can take my tools with me to the places I go. Not being open-source severely limits those possibilities.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>np422</author><text>I fell for the peer pressure and tried to use a macbook some time ago and I feelt like I was in the movie "the island", but I wouldn't say that apple are any more evil than other companies in the IT industry.<p>So here I am running linux once more.<p>I have a lot of time invested in emacs but I have switched to sublime since early versions of v2-beta. My main reason was at that time the ruby and RoR modes for emacs wasn't really up to speed.<p>I like sublime text and I don't regret jumping on that train. Easy to get started, lots of features and plugins, highly configurable. I use sublime as my main "desktop" editor now.<p>When editing over ssh emacs is my preferred editor, after 15 years of using emacs as my primary editor I think I have enough emacs keystrokes deeply imprinted in my brain to last me a lifetime ... :)</text></comment> |
35,025,231 | 35,025,343 | 1 | 2 | 35,025,008 | train | <story><title>Word-processor idiot (Japanese expression)</title><url>https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E3%83%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%97%E3%83%AD%E9%A6%AC%E9%B9%BF</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ssnistfajen</author><text>China is seeing a somewhat similar phenomeno too. The ubiquity of pinyin-based digital input methods is causing a lot of younger generations to lose the ability to write Chinese characters by hand without looking them up online. Abbreviated acronyms due to a mix of censorship&#x2F;laziness is also becoming common making a lot of online messages look rather cryptic to anyone who doesn&#x27;t know the lingo.</text></comment> | <story><title>Word-processor idiot (Japanese expression)</title><url>https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E3%83%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%97%E3%83%AD%E9%A6%AC%E9%B9%BF</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>glandium</author><text>When you read word-processor, you probably think Microsoft Word, LibreOffice Writer, not Xerox 6016 Memorywriter (thanks wikipedia) or any other type of electronic typewriter. Maybe it&#x27;s a generational thing, but the only use of ワープロ I know of is for the latter (do a google image search for ワープロ, and compare to a google image search for word processor).<p>I&#x27;d say the expression ワープロ馬鹿 is probably very outdated.</text></comment> |
2,604,632 | 2,604,363 | 1 | 2 | 2,603,971 | train | <story><title>The Matt Cutts Debunking Flowchart</title><url>http://searchengineland.com/the-matt-cutts-debunking-flowchart-79152</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Matt_Cutts</author><text>I love that Danny Sullivan put an explicit "Is it on Hacker News?" question on the flowchart. :)</text></comment> | <story><title>The Matt Cutts Debunking Flowchart</title><url>http://searchengineland.com/the-matt-cutts-debunking-flowchart-79152</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ssharp</author><text>Matt Cutts must now debunk the myth of the "Matt Cutts Debunking Flowchart", per the "Matt Cutts Debunking Flowchart".</text></comment> |
40,673,768 | 40,670,594 | 1 | 2 | 40,667,786 | train | <story><title>Potential ozone depletion from satellite demise during atmospheric reentry</title><url>https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024GL109280</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adrian_b</author><text>The Japanese have already been concerned by this problem for a few years.<p>Their solution has been to develop satellites made mostly of wood, which will burn completely upon reentry.<p>The first such wooden satellite is planned to be launched in September. It is intended mainly for collecting data about the behavior of wood in the outer space, e.g. on wood expansion, contraction and degradation, along with internal temperature and electronic equipment performance.<p>An alternative to wood would be the use of synthetic polymers, but those are typically more sensitive to radiation, so more research would be needed for finding a suitable plastic and appropriate additives to decrease the radiation sensitivity.<p>Wood or plastic would not be suitable for ships hosting humans, because they are not hermetic, but they may be an acceptable choice for satellites with a short lifetime and with much more relaxed constraints for the composition and pressure of the internal atmosphere (which may not be needed at all, e.g. when the internally produced heat reaches the external radiant cooling surfaces through solid paths or through pipes with circulant liquid).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tivert</author><text>&gt; Their solution has been to develop satellites made mostly of wood, which will burn completely upon reentry.<p>I like how the Google image search for &quot;japan wooden satellite&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=japan+wooden+satellite&amp;udm=2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=japan+wooden+satellite&amp;udm=2</a>) is gummed up with garbage AI generated images of satellites with wooden solar panels. This wooden Borg cube with off-kilter panels is my favorite: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;indianspacetechnology.com&#x2F;wooden-satellite-lignosat-spacepollution&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;indianspacetechnology.com&#x2F;wooden-satellite-lignosat-...</a>. This one is also great: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.universetoday.com&#x2F;161473&#x2F;building-a-satellite-out-of-wood-use-magnolia&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.universetoday.com&#x2F;161473&#x2F;building-a-satellite-ou...</a>. I guess the satellite went back in time to the Cretaceous period, where North America had an inland sea?<p>The future is looking bright, guys!</text></comment> | <story><title>Potential ozone depletion from satellite demise during atmospheric reentry</title><url>https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024GL109280</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adrian_b</author><text>The Japanese have already been concerned by this problem for a few years.<p>Their solution has been to develop satellites made mostly of wood, which will burn completely upon reentry.<p>The first such wooden satellite is planned to be launched in September. It is intended mainly for collecting data about the behavior of wood in the outer space, e.g. on wood expansion, contraction and degradation, along with internal temperature and electronic equipment performance.<p>An alternative to wood would be the use of synthetic polymers, but those are typically more sensitive to radiation, so more research would be needed for finding a suitable plastic and appropriate additives to decrease the radiation sensitivity.<p>Wood or plastic would not be suitable for ships hosting humans, because they are not hermetic, but they may be an acceptable choice for satellites with a short lifetime and with much more relaxed constraints for the composition and pressure of the internal atmosphere (which may not be needed at all, e.g. when the internally produced heat reaches the external radiant cooling surfaces through solid paths or through pipes with circulant liquid).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>observationist</author><text>Nanocrystalline cellulose (NCC) could be a great constituent component of a composite material. Not only would it burn, but anything that doesn&#x27;t burn and makes it to the surface is biodegradable; there&#x27;s lots of stuff that eats cellulose. NCC can be formed into highly strong and rigid structural pieces, or combined with carbon fiber, fiberglass, hemp, or other fibers to create ultra strong and durable composite material.<p><pre><code> high mechanical strength, with a tensile modulus of approximately 150 GPa and a modulus of elasticity ranging from 18 to 50 GPa. CNCs also exhibit excellent thermal stability, undergoing gradual thermal transitions and decomposition between 150 °C and 600 °C</code></pre></text></comment> |
40,822,619 | 40,821,304 | 1 | 3 | 40,819,784 | train | <story><title>Is Clear Air Turbulence becoming more common?</title><url>https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/is-cat-more-common/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>w14</author><text>This does not seem to be borne out by the accident statistics, which apparently show no trend in turbulence related accidents. (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ntsb.gov&#x2F;safety&#x2F;safety-studies&#x2F;Documents&#x2F;SS2101.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ntsb.gov&#x2F;safety&#x2F;safety-studies&#x2F;Documents&#x2F;SS2101....</a>)<p>I don&#x27;t know if there are other factors which might be masking a rise in incidence of CAT from accident stats?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_moof</author><text>An increase in the frequency of clear air turbulence doesn&#x27;t necessarily entail an increase in reportable accidents and incidents. The NTSB is only notified when a specific set of criteria are met. See 49 CFR Part 830 for details. If the increase in turbulence is all light to moderate turbulence with no serious injuries, there&#x27;s nothing to report to the NTSB.</text></comment> | <story><title>Is Clear Air Turbulence becoming more common?</title><url>https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/is-cat-more-common/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>w14</author><text>This does not seem to be borne out by the accident statistics, which apparently show no trend in turbulence related accidents. (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ntsb.gov&#x2F;safety&#x2F;safety-studies&#x2F;Documents&#x2F;SS2101.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ntsb.gov&#x2F;safety&#x2F;safety-studies&#x2F;Documents&#x2F;SS2101....</a>)<p>I don&#x27;t know if there are other factors which might be masking a rise in incidence of CAT from accident stats?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ImaCake</author><text>Certainly no detectable trend in that data. But the accident frequency is so low that the random variation dominates and makes it impossible to distinguish any trend.<p>What is demonstrably increasing is CAT, due to climate change. But considering how infrequent these incidents are we might not see a clear increase for several decades.</text></comment> |
15,453,575 | 15,452,615 | 1 | 2 | 15,448,960 | train | <story><title>Broken packets: IP fragmentation is flawed</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/ip-fragmentation-is-broken/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>magila</author><text>While the designers of TCP&#x2F;IP got an amazing amount of things right, one things they missed rather badly was the need to take the incentives and motivations of the people participating in the network into account. I don&#x27;t blame them for that. At the time the internet was an academic pursuit, so the idea of designing a protocol to resist breakage by self-interested commercial ISPs simply wasn&#x27;t something that was on people&#x27;s minds.<p>Taking IP fragmentation as a particular example: The protocols should be designed such that inability to perform PMTU discovery prevents any connections being established at all.<p>Designing protocols which will be robust in the face of human actors who may-or-may-not be entirely interested in doing things the intended way is incredibly difficult. To make things worse, once you make a mistake it is practically impossible to fix. Using fragmentation as an example again: Now that middle boxes which break PMTU discovery are established, it would be impractical to introduce a &quot;fail unconditionally&quot; protocol. People would simply blame the products which introduced such a protocol for being broken. You have to get it right from the start so that bad actors get caught out before their broken products can be deployed.</text></comment> | <story><title>Broken packets: IP fragmentation is flawed</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/ip-fragmentation-is-broken/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>majke</author><text>Check out the online ICMP &#x2F; Fragmentation checker:<p>IPv4 version: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;icmpcheck.popcount.org" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;icmpcheck.popcount.org</a><p>IPv6 version: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;icmpcheckv6.popcount.org" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;icmpcheckv6.popcount.org</a><p>If you see red - this means your ISP &#x2F; cable modem is not really internet happy.<p>Funny thing, the ISP I use fails on the ICMP PMTU message delivery test on the first refresh, but succeeds on the second. What happens? The ICMP is delivered to middle box, which then FRAGMENTS MY TCP PACKETS. In other word - the ICMP is stopped at a middle box, who will ignore my packets DF flag and still, fragment them without my system even knowing. On second refresh the middle box remembers the Path MTU will be saved so the middle box will reduce the MSS on SYN packet. This is remembered for about 15 minutes. Middle boxes suck.</text></comment> |
10,632,065 | 10,631,357 | 1 | 2 | 10,631,008 | train | <story><title>Why the focus should be mass transit instead of tolls to fix traffic congestion</title><url>http://economicjustice.ca/2015/11/23/why-the-focus-should-be-mass-transit-instead-of-tolls-to-relieve-traffic-congestion-1/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>erispoe</author><text>This article conflates two very different things: creating new tolls on existing infrastructure, and creating new toll-funded infrastructures. The first one changes the incentives of existing users, the other one is creating induced demand for wealthy commuters. Wealthy or not, induced demand is still induced demand, and will create new congestion on the existing network.<p>The main fallacy, however, is the goal of reducing congestion. If we want to move trips from cars to more sustainable means, congestion is a way of reducing the competitive speed of individual vehicles, therefore shifting the incentives towards public transit.<p>edit: typos</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Natsu</author><text>Congestion, among its other faults, leaves cars idling on the roads wasting gas. It also harms some of the more common mass transit systems. For example, nobody is going to see a bus as the faster option when they&#x27;re both traveling the same congested streets as the cars do.<p>That said, it does work sometimes. For example, if you&#x27;re going to a baseball game, it&#x27;s better to use the light rail than to go anywhere near the downtown traffic in Phoenix.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why the focus should be mass transit instead of tolls to fix traffic congestion</title><url>http://economicjustice.ca/2015/11/23/why-the-focus-should-be-mass-transit-instead-of-tolls-to-relieve-traffic-congestion-1/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>erispoe</author><text>This article conflates two very different things: creating new tolls on existing infrastructure, and creating new toll-funded infrastructures. The first one changes the incentives of existing users, the other one is creating induced demand for wealthy commuters. Wealthy or not, induced demand is still induced demand, and will create new congestion on the existing network.<p>The main fallacy, however, is the goal of reducing congestion. If we want to move trips from cars to more sustainable means, congestion is a way of reducing the competitive speed of individual vehicles, therefore shifting the incentives towards public transit.<p>edit: typos</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jseliger</author><text>More simply, I&#x27;d observe that tolls and mass transit aren&#x27;t rivalrous: for that matter, one could earmark funds from the former to pay for the latter.<p>I don&#x27;t see why assuming too that a particular toll scheme that didn&#x27;t work in a particular place means that no such schemes can work anywhere under any system.</text></comment> |
15,018,431 | 15,018,533 | 1 | 2 | 15,016,947 | train | <story><title>What I believe II</title><url>http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3389</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cmiles74</author><text>&quot;... if James Damore deserves to be fired from Google, for treating evolutionary psychology as potentially relevant to social issues...&quot;<p>I don&#x27;t believe that&#x27;s why James Damore was fired. He was fired for a much more obvious reason: he was working against their efforts to have a more gender diverse workforce and he embarrassed the company in a very public way.<p>&quot;First, let me say that we strongly support the right of Googlers to express themselves, and much of what was in that memo is fair to debate, regardless of whether a vast majority of Googlers disagree with it.&quot;[0]<p>Google admits that there are some things in the memo that are debatable, even though Google disagrees with Damore.<p>&quot;It is contrary to our basic values and our Code of Conduct, which expects ‘each Googler to do their utmost to create a workplace culture that is free of harassment, intimidation, bias and unlawful discrimination&quot;[0]<p>And that is why he was fired: deliberately working against Google&#x27;s workplace culture goals. There may be room to argue about what Damore may have meant, in his heart, when he wrote the memo. However, since the memo is a physical artifact that we may all inspect, it&#x27;s clear that the text of the memo is unabashedly sexist. He clearly states that he believes the gender gap at Google is not caused by sexism and that&#x27;s at clear odds with Google&#x27;s goals.<p>&quot;We need to stop assuming that gender gaps imply sexism.&quot;[1]<p>As if it needs to be said, that is clearly not the case. The primary cause of the gender gap is very much sexism and it&#x27;s a real problem that needs to be dealt with. While we may disagree on which steps will be most effective, there&#x27;s no benefit to denying the problem exists.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;08&#x2F;07&#x2F;google-fires-memo-author&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;08&#x2F;07&#x2F;google-fires-memo-author&#x2F;</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@Cernovich&#x2F;full-james-damore-memo-uncensored-memo-with-charts-and-cites-339f3d2d05f" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@Cernovich&#x2F;full-james-damore-memo-uncenso...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Diederich</author><text>I&#x27;m not going to comment about whether Google was following their own policy statement when firing Damore, one way or another.<p>&gt; it&#x27;s clear that the text of the memo is unabashedly sexist<p>Just to be sure, I looked up the definitions:<p>sexism: &quot;prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination, typically against women, on the basis of sex&quot;<p>sterotype: &quot;a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing&quot;<p>Do these seem like reasonable definitions to you? If so, I wonder if you can take a moment to clearly connect points in the memo to these definitions?</text></comment> | <story><title>What I believe II</title><url>http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3389</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cmiles74</author><text>&quot;... if James Damore deserves to be fired from Google, for treating evolutionary psychology as potentially relevant to social issues...&quot;<p>I don&#x27;t believe that&#x27;s why James Damore was fired. He was fired for a much more obvious reason: he was working against their efforts to have a more gender diverse workforce and he embarrassed the company in a very public way.<p>&quot;First, let me say that we strongly support the right of Googlers to express themselves, and much of what was in that memo is fair to debate, regardless of whether a vast majority of Googlers disagree with it.&quot;[0]<p>Google admits that there are some things in the memo that are debatable, even though Google disagrees with Damore.<p>&quot;It is contrary to our basic values and our Code of Conduct, which expects ‘each Googler to do their utmost to create a workplace culture that is free of harassment, intimidation, bias and unlawful discrimination&quot;[0]<p>And that is why he was fired: deliberately working against Google&#x27;s workplace culture goals. There may be room to argue about what Damore may have meant, in his heart, when he wrote the memo. However, since the memo is a physical artifact that we may all inspect, it&#x27;s clear that the text of the memo is unabashedly sexist. He clearly states that he believes the gender gap at Google is not caused by sexism and that&#x27;s at clear odds with Google&#x27;s goals.<p>&quot;We need to stop assuming that gender gaps imply sexism.&quot;[1]<p>As if it needs to be said, that is clearly not the case. The primary cause of the gender gap is very much sexism and it&#x27;s a real problem that needs to be dealt with. While we may disagree on which steps will be most effective, there&#x27;s no benefit to denying the problem exists.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;08&#x2F;07&#x2F;google-fires-memo-author&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;08&#x2F;07&#x2F;google-fires-memo-author&#x2F;</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@Cernovich&#x2F;full-james-damore-memo-uncensored-memo-with-charts-and-cites-339f3d2d05f" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@Cernovich&#x2F;full-james-damore-memo-uncenso...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mdorazio</author><text>Please provide a source for your last statement since that is not at all clear. By your logic, the primary cause of the gender gap in public school teaching must also be sexism. Do you believe that as well?<p>The primary cause of the gender gap is tech is the lack of a gender-balanced candidate pool for tech jobs. If you&#x27;re a hiring manager posting developer jobs and 80% of the applicants are men, is it sexist that you end up hiring mostly men?<p>The real sexism problems are happening much earlier in life than when people start looking for jobs. If you want gender balance in tech jobs, we need to get more women into tech-focused college degrees, which means we need to get more girls interested in tech in primary school, which means we need to encourage teaching and parenting in early development that leads to an interest in tech later... etc. But wait, prenatal hormone exposure predicts toy choices in young children [1], so it&#x27;s not that simple. This is exactly what Damore was trying to get at.<p>I think we need to split the gender problem in tech into a few different categories and tackle each independently rather than throwing everything in the &quot;tech is sexist&quot; bucket and looking for magic umbrella solutions. At a minimum, there are problems with getting girls interested in tech, keeping girls on an education path that leads to a tech career, eliminating subconscious bias in hiring practices, moving startups away from bro culture, and retaining women in tech when work-life balance becomes more important. All of these are important and require different solutions.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pubmed&#x2F;15693771" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pubmed&#x2F;15693771</a></text></comment> |
20,298,326 | 20,294,878 | 1 | 3 | 20,293,819 | train | <story><title>Pentagon has a laser that can identify people at a distance by their heartbeat</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613891/the-pentagon-has-a-laser-that-can-identify-people-from-a-distanceby-their-heartbeat/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fit2rule</author><text>I saw a demonstration of this technology a few years back, at a European military-industrial contractor for which I worked.<p>It was being pitched as the ideal way to assassinate people in a crowd - identify them by heartbeat signature, fly a drone in to drop a small explosive package on their heads.<p>When I later saw that biometric information was being harvested by the same company at airports around the world, I figured - time to get a different job. So I quit.<p>And now, the tech of individually-targeted assassinations is coming to market.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bhouston</author><text>&gt; It was being pitched as the ideal way to assassinate people in a crowd - identify them by heartbeat signature, fly a drone in to drop a small explosive package on their heads.<p>Wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if this isn&#x27;t already happening in the Middle East, the unregulated and far away land we like to test all of the West&#x27;s&#x2F;Israel&#x27;s new toys in.</text></comment> | <story><title>Pentagon has a laser that can identify people at a distance by their heartbeat</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613891/the-pentagon-has-a-laser-that-can-identify-people-from-a-distanceby-their-heartbeat/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fit2rule</author><text>I saw a demonstration of this technology a few years back, at a European military-industrial contractor for which I worked.<p>It was being pitched as the ideal way to assassinate people in a crowd - identify them by heartbeat signature, fly a drone in to drop a small explosive package on their heads.<p>When I later saw that biometric information was being harvested by the same company at airports around the world, I figured - time to get a different job. So I quit.<p>And now, the tech of individually-targeted assassinations is coming to market.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>freeflight</author><text>&gt; It was being pitched as the ideal way to assassinate people in a crowd - identify them by heartbeat signature, fly a drone in to drop a small explosive package on their heads.<p>Reminds me of this little presentation [0]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;9CO6M2HsoIA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;9CO6M2HsoIA</a></text></comment> |
13,184,161 | 13,184,193 | 1 | 3 | 13,183,803 | train | <story><title>Galileo, Europe's own satnav, to go online</title><url>http://phys.org/news/2016-12-galileo-europe-satnav-online.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>padelt</author><text>Remembering the start of it and seeing the US pressuring enough to alter Galileo to be US-blockable[1] makes me feel old.
Really excited though to see it finally getting usable.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Galileo_(satellite_navigation)#Tension_with_the_United_States" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Galileo_(satellite_navigation)...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Galileo, Europe's own satnav, to go online</title><url>http://phys.org/news/2016-12-galileo-europe-satnav-online.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tinco</author><text>How does the paid system work? Do they broadcast more precise data in an encrypted format?</text></comment> |
34,722,943 | 34,722,894 | 1 | 2 | 34,722,118 | train | <story><title>LocalBitcoins will discontinue its service</title><url>https://localbitcoins.com/service_closure/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pavlov</author><text><i>&gt; &quot;He took their cash and sold it to people like me - expats, tourists - for BTC, and sent the BTC to his partner in Miami, who changed it out to USD and put it into American bank accounts for them.&quot;</i><p>And now assume that the cash in Argentina isn&#x27;t coming out of mattresses but from criminal activities, and the people receiving USD in America are part of the same cartel. A 5% transaction fee on both sides of the Bitcoin trade is just 9.75% for the complete wash cycle — very low for textbook money laundering.</text></item><item><author>noduerme</author><text>Awwwww...<p>The original &quot;meet in person&quot; model was so good. All the bank transfers, paypal, etc. never made any sense.<p>Just a shout out to LocalBitcoins. When I was living in Argentina during the almost-hyperinflation of 2014 or so, I got <i>all</i> of my living cash in pesos and USD by selling BTC to local traders who I met on Localbitcoins.com. Usually I would meet them in a coffeeshop, have a coffee, wave my phone and transfer some BTC and they would hand me an envelope with $1000 USD and ARS$9000 that would cover my rent and food for the next month. The cost was +5% for the BTC-to-cash trade, but the exchange rate was &quot;blue&quot; meaning, at the time, one peso was officially worth $0.33 but the blue market had it trading at somewhere closer to $0.06... and trading for BTC got you the live blue rate. One kid I dealt with a lot had a wonderful business model. He was a math student at the university and opened an office buying and selling Bitcoin. When I asked him where he got all this USD <i>cash</i> which was almost impossible to find in Argentina, he explained:<p>People gave it to him. Argentines who got 20% of their paycheck in dollars, or who had dollars stuffed under their mattresses that they couldn&#x27;t get out of the country. They paid him 5% to move it out.<p>He took their cash and sold it to people like me - expats, tourists - for BTC, and sent the BTC to his partner in Miami, who changed it out to USD and put it into American bank accounts for them. So he got 5% on either side of the trade.<p>This was the moment, around 2013 or so, when I really believed BTC would be a unit of exchange that would break the artificial currencies around the world and serve as a leveler that would allow anyone with skill to work anywhere and go anywhere; it would demolish the old sclerotic monetary regimes.<p>Then it got regulated [edit: all its endpoints got pwnd], and Localbitcoins has not for a long time shown any P2P meetups for unregistered, silent trading-for-cash. That was its original purpose, and it served very well at the time.<p>In loving memory.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>noduerme</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure what your argument is. Prevent people from circumventing ridiculous local monetary controls - artificial currency pegs at 10x the value of the currency - because any money they have might be &quot;criminal&quot;?<p>You could also just define criminality as having money, and dispense with the pretense of legality, as has been done so many times in Russia. This is the despotism that normally results where there is no outlet for capital.<p>Although it&#x27;s true, after a certain number of years in some places, everyone does become a criminal if you treat them this way; that should be obvious.</text></comment> | <story><title>LocalBitcoins will discontinue its service</title><url>https://localbitcoins.com/service_closure/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pavlov</author><text><i>&gt; &quot;He took their cash and sold it to people like me - expats, tourists - for BTC, and sent the BTC to his partner in Miami, who changed it out to USD and put it into American bank accounts for them.&quot;</i><p>And now assume that the cash in Argentina isn&#x27;t coming out of mattresses but from criminal activities, and the people receiving USD in America are part of the same cartel. A 5% transaction fee on both sides of the Bitcoin trade is just 9.75% for the complete wash cycle — very low for textbook money laundering.</text></item><item><author>noduerme</author><text>Awwwww...<p>The original &quot;meet in person&quot; model was so good. All the bank transfers, paypal, etc. never made any sense.<p>Just a shout out to LocalBitcoins. When I was living in Argentina during the almost-hyperinflation of 2014 or so, I got <i>all</i> of my living cash in pesos and USD by selling BTC to local traders who I met on Localbitcoins.com. Usually I would meet them in a coffeeshop, have a coffee, wave my phone and transfer some BTC and they would hand me an envelope with $1000 USD and ARS$9000 that would cover my rent and food for the next month. The cost was +5% for the BTC-to-cash trade, but the exchange rate was &quot;blue&quot; meaning, at the time, one peso was officially worth $0.33 but the blue market had it trading at somewhere closer to $0.06... and trading for BTC got you the live blue rate. One kid I dealt with a lot had a wonderful business model. He was a math student at the university and opened an office buying and selling Bitcoin. When I asked him where he got all this USD <i>cash</i> which was almost impossible to find in Argentina, he explained:<p>People gave it to him. Argentines who got 20% of their paycheck in dollars, or who had dollars stuffed under their mattresses that they couldn&#x27;t get out of the country. They paid him 5% to move it out.<p>He took their cash and sold it to people like me - expats, tourists - for BTC, and sent the BTC to his partner in Miami, who changed it out to USD and put it into American bank accounts for them. So he got 5% on either side of the trade.<p>This was the moment, around 2013 or so, when I really believed BTC would be a unit of exchange that would break the artificial currencies around the world and serve as a leveler that would allow anyone with skill to work anywhere and go anywhere; it would demolish the old sclerotic monetary regimes.<p>Then it got regulated [edit: all its endpoints got pwnd], and Localbitcoins has not for a long time shown any P2P meetups for unregistered, silent trading-for-cash. That was its original purpose, and it served very well at the time.<p>In loving memory.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WhyNotHugo</author><text>&gt; And now assume that the cash in Argentina isn&#x27;t coming out of mattresses but from criminal activities<p>Nah, it&#x27;s very common for people to have savings in cash under a mattress. We had crises before where banks essentially kept people&#x27;s savings and they never saw their money again. Trust is the banking system is non-existent.</text></comment> |
40,357,164 | 40,356,997 | 1 | 2 | 40,355,982 | train | <story><title>Firefox search update</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-search-update/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>romanows</author><text>Seems like this is in support of &quot;Firefox Suggest&quot;, which seems to show sponsored links. I really don&#x27;t like advertising so I really don&#x27;t like going down that road.<p>Can&#x27;t they just take Google&#x27;s yearly $600,000,000 payment and build the best browser &quot;for the user&quot; while also addressing technical debt and organizational issues so it can continue as an open source project if&#x2F;when the money ever dries up?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aquova</author><text>I constantly see this take and I&#x27;m afraid I don&#x27;t agree with it. Firefox is continuing to lose market share, and I think it&#x27;s less anything they&#x27;re doing and due simply to the fact that Google is a household name while Mozilla is not. When the user is already using a Google phone, email, search, maps, drive, and document editor, it follows to also use their browser. Simply being a solid browser isn&#x27;t enough to motivate people to switch away. So I think they should try out some new interesting ideas in the hope that some of them take off. Now, I don&#x27;t think this is the feature to do that, but I won&#x27;t criticize them for trying.</text></comment> | <story><title>Firefox search update</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-search-update/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>romanows</author><text>Seems like this is in support of &quot;Firefox Suggest&quot;, which seems to show sponsored links. I really don&#x27;t like advertising so I really don&#x27;t like going down that road.<p>Can&#x27;t they just take Google&#x27;s yearly $600,000,000 payment and build the best browser &quot;for the user&quot; while also addressing technical debt and organizational issues so it can continue as an open source project if&#x2F;when the money ever dries up?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pquki4</author><text>&gt; Can&#x27;t they just take Google&#x27;s yearly $600,000,000 payment<p>They can do that for as long as Google is willing to pay. Without additional revenue stream, the day Google decides to cut cost and stop sponsoring Mozilla, that&#x27;s the day Firefox will run into big trouble. Any additional revenue stream is going to help.<p>I am no CEO but that seems very clear to me.</text></comment> |
16,840,083 | 16,840,034 | 1 | 2 | 16,838,207 | train | <story><title>The Fossil distributed version control system</title><url>https://fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oomkiller</author><text>This may be helpful to you: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sqlite.org&#x2F;whynotgit.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sqlite.org&#x2F;whynotgit.html</a>, especially the links to other comparisons at the very bottom.</text></item><item><author>avar</author><text>I wish there was some post in the same vein as &quot;Repository Formats Matter&quot; comparing Git and Fossil. I.e. not one that describes differences in incidental UI features and how they happen to be exposed to the user <i>now</i>, but what the intrinsic differences are that make certain things intrinsically hard or impossible in one of the two systems.<p>That old post, by Keith Packard: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;keithp.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;Repository_Formats_Matter&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;keithp.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;Repository_Formats_Matter&#x2F;</a><p>I&#x27;ve read through the documentation on the Fossil file format: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fossil-scm.org&#x2F;index.html&#x2F;doc&#x2F;trunk&#x2F;www&#x2F;fileformat.wiki" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fossil-scm.org&#x2F;index.html&#x2F;doc&#x2F;trunk&#x2F;www&#x2F;fileform...</a><p>Maybe I&#x27;m just being dense, but e.g. in the case of the wiki which Fossil advertises as a core feature over Git, it&#x27;s not clear to me how it wouldn&#x27;t be implementable in a similar way in Git by some convention of creating commit objects &amp; having some web UI that understands that convention, and if so the real differentiation is just in the porcelain part of the UI.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Osiris</author><text>The examples he presents to compare the features of GitHub to Fossil, not git itself.<p>Fossil has a GUI built-in that makes visualizing the repo easy. There are tools for Git that provide similar functionality.<p>1. &quot;Git makes it difficult to find successors (descendents) of a check-in&quot; - Use a Git GUI like SourceTree and it&#x27;s really damn easy to jump to a commit and review the entire graph up and down using links to jump to parent&#x2F;child commits (even multiple parents for merges.<p>2. &quot;The mental model for Git is needlessly complex&quot; - Again, a Git GUI can make it really easy to keep track of &quot;changed but not ready to commit, changed and ready to commit, local and remote branch&quot;<p>3. &quot;Git does not track historical branch names&quot; - The example he provides here shows a visual graph in Fossil of the branch history. The exact same thing is available in Git via &quot;git log --graph --all --decorate&quot; or a GUI that shows the graph.<p>4. &quot;Git requires more administrative support&quot; - &quot;apt install git&quot; or &quot;brew install git&quot; or most systems come with it pre-installed. Windows is a bit more annoying.<p>5. &quot;Git provides a poor user experience&quot; - &quot;Just memorize the shell commands&quot;. Again, there is tooling available for Git to remove this requirement.<p>It seems to me that his main complaint is that Git doesn&#x27;t provide a GUI out of the box to make visualizing the repository easier. I get that, but there are enough tooling options available that it becomes a non-issue. SourceTree is a native app for Mac and Windows and there are various other GUIs even CLI GUIs for Git that users have a lot of flexibility. Fossil would seem to require them to use the GUI provided by Fossil whether they like it or not.<p>I&#x27;m not bashing on Fossil at all. I&#x27;m just saying that his arguments here show a lack of knowledge about the available tooling for Git and not fundamental advantages of Fossil over Git.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Fossil distributed version control system</title><url>https://fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oomkiller</author><text>This may be helpful to you: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sqlite.org&#x2F;whynotgit.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sqlite.org&#x2F;whynotgit.html</a>, especially the links to other comparisons at the very bottom.</text></item><item><author>avar</author><text>I wish there was some post in the same vein as &quot;Repository Formats Matter&quot; comparing Git and Fossil. I.e. not one that describes differences in incidental UI features and how they happen to be exposed to the user <i>now</i>, but what the intrinsic differences are that make certain things intrinsically hard or impossible in one of the two systems.<p>That old post, by Keith Packard: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;keithp.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;Repository_Formats_Matter&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;keithp.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;Repository_Formats_Matter&#x2F;</a><p>I&#x27;ve read through the documentation on the Fossil file format: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fossil-scm.org&#x2F;index.html&#x2F;doc&#x2F;trunk&#x2F;www&#x2F;fileformat.wiki" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fossil-scm.org&#x2F;index.html&#x2F;doc&#x2F;trunk&#x2F;www&#x2F;fileform...</a><p>Maybe I&#x27;m just being dense, but e.g. in the case of the wiki which Fossil advertises as a core feature over Git, it&#x27;s not clear to me how it wouldn&#x27;t be implementable in a similar way in Git by some convention of creating commit objects &amp; having some web UI that understands that convention, and if so the real differentiation is just in the porcelain part of the UI.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kelnos</author><text>For full disclosure: the creator of SQLite is also the creator of Fossil, so this is not at all an unbiased comparison.</text></comment> |
3,036,842 | 3,036,479 | 1 | 2 | 3,036,157 | train | <story><title>How to Force Facebook into Handing Over their Secret Tracking Data</title><url>http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Get_your_Data_/get_your_data_.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>sek</author><text>Unbelievable: <a href="http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Data_Pool/data_pool.html" rel="nofollow">http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Data_Pool/data_pool.html</a><p>They delete sh*t, if you delete your posts they don't remove them from their databases.<p>This makes me really angry, there is a reason why i delete this stuff. I can't believe this, they have a responsibility.<p>Edit: WTF <a href="http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Data_Pool/data_pool.html#Machines" rel="nofollow">http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Data_Pool/data_pool.html#Mac...</a><p>This is maybe the most frightening: <a href="http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Data_Pool/data_pool.html#Messages" rel="nofollow">http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Data_Pool/data_pool.html#Mes...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nextparadigms</author><text><i>"Note: According to facebook’s privacy policy, messages on facebook can not be deleted anymore. If you click on ‘delete’ the messages will only be invisible to you. US law enforcement agencies can access this information at there own liking, without judicial review."</i><p>That last one is scary indeed. People were arguing a while ago whether these companies should keep data only for 6 months, or for a year, or 18 months - but Facebook is simply keeping it forever. Even 10 years from now law enforcement could verify your Facebook data.<p>Facebook Timeline should give them a nice UI, too, in case you don't delete anything. But they would still want to dig deep. I wonder if Facebook built a special Timeline product for law enforcement to see <i>everything</i> about everyone. Remember when they admitted a while ago that they provide law enforcement a special software for the data? I wonder if the idea of Timeline for users comes from that.<p>Julian Assange was dead-on that Facebook is the biggest spying machine.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to Force Facebook into Handing Over their Secret Tracking Data</title><url>http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Get_your_Data_/get_your_data_.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>sek</author><text>Unbelievable: <a href="http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Data_Pool/data_pool.html" rel="nofollow">http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Data_Pool/data_pool.html</a><p>They delete sh*t, if you delete your posts they don't remove them from their databases.<p>This makes me really angry, there is a reason why i delete this stuff. I can't believe this, they have a responsibility.<p>Edit: WTF <a href="http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Data_Pool/data_pool.html#Machines" rel="nofollow">http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Data_Pool/data_pool.html#Mac...</a><p>This is maybe the most frightening: <a href="http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Data_Pool/data_pool.html#Messages" rel="nofollow">http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Data_Pool/data_pool.html#Mes...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FuzzyDunlop</author><text>You may be surprised that many (at a guess, maybe most?) companies/websites actually consider a delete function to be changing a 'deleted' flag to 1 in a database. The data persists, but is no longer shown.<p>I would also make a very big assumption that the only companies who <i>wouldn't</i> do this are those run by developers or other people who have had experience implementing that sort of system.<p>There's nothing bosses love more than storing whatever data they can get their hands on, no matter how relevant it is, and how reluctant they are to actually delete it. Or secure it properly. Hell, it's just data, who gives a shit right?</text></comment> |
32,079,846 | 32,079,989 | 1 | 2 | 32,078,518 | train | <story><title>Twitter Sues Elon Musk</title><url>https://www.axios.com/2022/07/12/twitter-sues-elon-musk</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zackees</author><text>As Musk stated on Twitter, Twitter didn’t hand over the bot data and will have to do so in court to prove its point.<p>I see Musk walking paying nothing, or else a settlement with twitter at a lower price.</text></item><item><author>dragonwriter</author><text>Even recognizing that any one sides filings present an incomplete story, Musk’s <i>public</i> actions alone combined with the terms of the contract as related in the Twitter suit look pretty bad for Musk. Unless he’s got some other line of attack much stronger than the ones he has been publicly previewing, I don’t see how he prevails here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gassit</author><text>Musk has been saying that on Twitter, but in Twitter&#x27;s court filing they exhaustively outline that a) it isn&#x27;t true and b) it isn&#x27;t even a valid request from Musk under the contract. Considering how misleading and full of shit Musk has been about this whole thing at this stage I am well inclined to believe Twitter.</text></comment> | <story><title>Twitter Sues Elon Musk</title><url>https://www.axios.com/2022/07/12/twitter-sues-elon-musk</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zackees</author><text>As Musk stated on Twitter, Twitter didn’t hand over the bot data and will have to do so in court to prove its point.<p>I see Musk walking paying nothing, or else a settlement with twitter at a lower price.</text></item><item><author>dragonwriter</author><text>Even recognizing that any one sides filings present an incomplete story, Musk’s <i>public</i> actions alone combined with the terms of the contract as related in the Twitter suit look pretty bad for Musk. Unless he’s got some other line of attack much stronger than the ones he has been publicly previewing, I don’t see how he prevails here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>&gt; Twitter didn’t hand over the bot data and will have to do so in court to prove its point.<p>Even if that was true (and none of Twitter’s legal claims require the bot data to prove), so what?</text></comment> |
22,432,996 | 22,433,053 | 1 | 2 | 22,432,386 | train | <story><title>New improvements to IPFS Bitswap for faster container image distribution</title><url>https://blog.ipfs.io/2020-02-14-improved-bitswap-for-container-distribution/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jude-</author><text>Would be curious to know how using IPFS for internal container distribution compares to using BitTorrent. IIRC BitTorrent has found similar uses in the past.<p>Also, how well does BitSwap work when the underlying network is congested? Do IPFS nodes do any kind of congestion control?</text></comment> | <story><title>New improvements to IPFS Bitswap for faster container image distribution</title><url>https://blog.ipfs.io/2020-02-14-improved-bitswap-for-container-distribution/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>Netflix use IPFS? That&#x27;s quite an endorsement and makes me take it a lot more seriously.</text></comment> |
22,364,164 | 22,364,259 | 1 | 3 | 22,360,642 | train | <story><title>I Worked for a Criminal Organization</title><url>https://openmonstervision.github.io/blog/posts/that-time-i-worked-for-criminals/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scandox</author><text>It&#x27;s a funny one because it&#x27;s potentially one of the most serious crimes. You&#x27;re stealing from everybody, undermining the basis of trust in the entire system in which we live and probably in the long term eroding the basis of democracy. You&#x27;re creating a non-level playing field.<p>On the other hand, black and grey market activity are also I think quite an important counter-balance to the possibility of totalitarian government. It creates &quot;gaps&quot; let&#x27;s say for more diverse human and economic outcomes. Which is also potentially good.<p>I think it&#x27;s one of those indefensible things that we should tolerate a tiny amount of. Kind of like a vaccine in the body.</text></item><item><author>TheSpiceIsLife</author><text>Tax evasion is a fairly soft crime, it’s shouldn’t be surprising there are people okay with facilitating it.<p>It’s not difficult to find people who believe, rightly or wrongly, the tax system is unfair.</text></item><item><author>skrebbel</author><text>Did it bother you that you were facilitating crimes?</text></item><item><author>PappaPatat</author><text>My first sale of my selfwritten software (about 35 years ago) was for a car driving instructor. The initial sales conversations where difficult. I thought they did not see the advantages of having their planning &amp; bookkeeping in a computer...<p>How wrong I was. It was their &quot;creative bookkeeping&quot; that worried them. When I offered to make that all possible (&#x27;zapping&#x27; as it is called now), they loved it. Based on their referrals I sold it many times over.<p>Come next customer &#x2F; market: bookshops. Guess what the most important selling argument was, besides easy cataloging, inventory, searching, website publishing and reporting? Right: zapping.<p>Thought me an important rule: do not underestimate what your customer is NOT telling you.</text></item><item><author>hackermailman</author><text>Not uncommon in some cities in Canada to find out you&#x27;re working for a criminal outfit if writing point of sale&#x2F;restaurant software where they want you to produce one receipt for the customer and a different one for the restaurant or salon or shady car mechanic that then pockets the unreported tax aka a &#x27;zapper&#x27;. Profitek was busted once, InfoSpec Systems, zappers are in high demand</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>speedplane</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s a funny one because [Tax Evasion is] potentially one of the most serious crimes. You&#x27;re stealing from everybody, undermining the basis of trust in the entire system in which we live and probably in the long term eroding the basis of democracy. You&#x27;re creating a non-level playing field.<p>This is true, and in addition, it&#x27;s a very unequal crime. To properly evade taxes and get away with it, you need professional help. Most standard W-2 employees can&#x27;t afford it, i.e., for most, the cost to hire professional help evading taxes is larger than the taxes they could save.<p>However, if you&#x27;re very wealthy, then the calculus changes: saving 20% taxes on $50M&#x2F;yr income is a lot more attractive than saving 20% on $200k&#x2F;yr income. Effectively, the wealthier you are, the easier it is to evade taxes, further exacerbating at least the perception (and quite likely the reality) of inequality.</text></comment> | <story><title>I Worked for a Criminal Organization</title><url>https://openmonstervision.github.io/blog/posts/that-time-i-worked-for-criminals/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scandox</author><text>It&#x27;s a funny one because it&#x27;s potentially one of the most serious crimes. You&#x27;re stealing from everybody, undermining the basis of trust in the entire system in which we live and probably in the long term eroding the basis of democracy. You&#x27;re creating a non-level playing field.<p>On the other hand, black and grey market activity are also I think quite an important counter-balance to the possibility of totalitarian government. It creates &quot;gaps&quot; let&#x27;s say for more diverse human and economic outcomes. Which is also potentially good.<p>I think it&#x27;s one of those indefensible things that we should tolerate a tiny amount of. Kind of like a vaccine in the body.</text></item><item><author>TheSpiceIsLife</author><text>Tax evasion is a fairly soft crime, it’s shouldn’t be surprising there are people okay with facilitating it.<p>It’s not difficult to find people who believe, rightly or wrongly, the tax system is unfair.</text></item><item><author>skrebbel</author><text>Did it bother you that you were facilitating crimes?</text></item><item><author>PappaPatat</author><text>My first sale of my selfwritten software (about 35 years ago) was for a car driving instructor. The initial sales conversations where difficult. I thought they did not see the advantages of having their planning &amp; bookkeeping in a computer...<p>How wrong I was. It was their &quot;creative bookkeeping&quot; that worried them. When I offered to make that all possible (&#x27;zapping&#x27; as it is called now), they loved it. Based on their referrals I sold it many times over.<p>Come next customer &#x2F; market: bookshops. Guess what the most important selling argument was, besides easy cataloging, inventory, searching, website publishing and reporting? Right: zapping.<p>Thought me an important rule: do not underestimate what your customer is NOT telling you.</text></item><item><author>hackermailman</author><text>Not uncommon in some cities in Canada to find out you&#x27;re working for a criminal outfit if writing point of sale&#x2F;restaurant software where they want you to produce one receipt for the customer and a different one for the restaurant or salon or shady car mechanic that then pockets the unreported tax aka a &#x27;zapper&#x27;. Profitek was busted once, InfoSpec Systems, zappers are in high demand</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>c3534l</author><text>Psychologically it&#x27;s hard to see the victim, so people don&#x27;t count it. It&#x27;s a terrible thing about human nature, but it is what it is. The person you&#x27;re replying to will never see themselves on the same level as someone who mugs someone or robs a liquor store, not because the damage they&#x27;ve done isn&#x27;t worse, but because it doesn&#x27;t <i>feel</i> wrong. We invent all sorts of ways and reasoning that allow us to do awful things without feeling guilt. It&#x27;s just a sad fact about us.</text></comment> |
33,213,374 | 33,213,362 | 1 | 2 | 33,212,871 | train | <story><title>Chaos Computer Club saves the German healthcare system 400M Euros</title><url>https://www.ccc.de/de/updates/2022/konnektoren-400-millionen-geschenk</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jonathanstrange</author><text>For anyone who doesn&#x27;t read German, here is a summary: The company in charge of the connectors for the health care system &quot;Telematik&quot; built devices with certificates that expire after 5 years. Instead of updating thousands of machines with new certificates, the company claims these need to be replaced for a total cost of 400M Euro. The CCC showed how the firmware can be changed to accept new certificates, making the hardware replacement unnecessary, and offers to assist hospitals and doctor&#x27;s offices with the software patch. However, the company &quot;gematik&quot; who delivers these connection endpoints first has to sign the new certificates, which they so far haven&#x27;t agreed to.<p>What&#x27;s worse about this story is that the company apparently planned the hardware replacement in a way that it would have to be replaced again in 2027, and they still were awarded the contracts for this multi-million dollar project.</text></comment> | <story><title>Chaos Computer Club saves the German healthcare system 400M Euros</title><url>https://www.ccc.de/de/updates/2022/konnektoren-400-millionen-geschenk</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tonnydourado</author><text>&gt; Finally, the CCC appeals to the manufacturers of the connectors to look for honest ways of earning a living.<p>This is fucking brilliant XD</text></comment> |
26,792,702 | 26,792,420 | 1 | 2 | 26,792,031 | train | <story><title>NSFW Server Designation</title><url>https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500005389362-NSFW-Server-Designation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RankingMember</author><text>The juxtaposition is really pretty amazing and, ultimately, frustrating to see.<p>You can see the far-reaching impact of the odd &quot;Violence yes! Sex no!&quot; American morality in so many places. One recent example that struck me: GTA Online, a game rife with violence and destruction and even sex (surprisingly for an American game), but the chat has a profanity filter that filters words that are otherwise present in the game&#x27;s scripted dialog and soundtrack left and right.</text></item><item><author>pjmlp</author><text>Can we please stop having US morality controlling Internet?<p>What about Discord blocking servers full of war scenes and car chasing with shootings?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gambiting</author><text>&gt;&gt;(surprisingly for an American game)<p>It&#x27;s made by Rockstar North in Edinburgh. Almost all GTA games have been satires of American culture made by a British company.</text></comment> | <story><title>NSFW Server Designation</title><url>https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500005389362-NSFW-Server-Designation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RankingMember</author><text>The juxtaposition is really pretty amazing and, ultimately, frustrating to see.<p>You can see the far-reaching impact of the odd &quot;Violence yes! Sex no!&quot; American morality in so many places. One recent example that struck me: GTA Online, a game rife with violence and destruction and even sex (surprisingly for an American game), but the chat has a profanity filter that filters words that are otherwise present in the game&#x27;s scripted dialog and soundtrack left and right.</text></item><item><author>pjmlp</author><text>Can we please stop having US morality controlling Internet?<p>What about Discord blocking servers full of war scenes and car chasing with shootings?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hprotagonist</author><text>&gt;You can see the far-reaching impact of the odd &quot;Violence yes! Sex no!&quot; American morality in so many places.<p>1978: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=qNLOXJw0aUU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=qNLOXJw0aUU</a><p>&quot;better get down off that horse, sherrif: we&#x27;re fixin&#x27; ter fuck yeh, now ... but we&#x27;re not gonna fuck yeh fast; we&#x27;re gonna fuck yeh sloooooow&quot;</text></comment> |
37,065,417 | 37,065,240 | 1 | 3 | 37,062,820 | train | <story><title>Nintendo filed numerous patents for Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom mechanics</title><url>https://automaton-media.com/en/news/20230808-20590/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jallen_dot_dev</author><text>&gt; <i>The functionality seems at first glance to be a given for any game with a similar environment, but according to an observation by naoya2k, what makes Nintendo’s solution unique is that there are no physics working between Link and the dynamic object. Since both the character and object use physics, the most straightforward solution would be that Link moves together with the moving objects he is on top of as a result of physics (such as frictional force), but Nintendo apparently decided that what works better game-wise is Link being given the same movement that the object is performing, without any physics working between the two.</i><p>No way this is the first game to ignore the player character in physics calculations. I&#x27;m pretty sure in GTA3 you could climb onto the roof of a car and not slide around as the NPC drives and makes sharp turns.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thomastjeffery</author><text>That&#x27;s just a trivial parent-child transformation copy, and it&#x27;s one of the <i>oldest</i> tools in 3D digital representation. You would be hard-pressed to find a game engine or even modeling software without this feature. Hell, I&#x27;m sure if you looked through a few geometry or physics books, you could pretty easily find any instance of this that predates computing.<p>We aren&#x27;t even talking about something interesting like inverse kinematics!<p>This patent boils down to nothing more than math, and should have been invalidated as soon as it was read. The fact that it <i>wasn&#x27;t</i> speaks volumes on the failure of our patent system.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nintendo filed numerous patents for Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom mechanics</title><url>https://automaton-media.com/en/news/20230808-20590/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jallen_dot_dev</author><text>&gt; <i>The functionality seems at first glance to be a given for any game with a similar environment, but according to an observation by naoya2k, what makes Nintendo’s solution unique is that there are no physics working between Link and the dynamic object. Since both the character and object use physics, the most straightforward solution would be that Link moves together with the moving objects he is on top of as a result of physics (such as frictional force), but Nintendo apparently decided that what works better game-wise is Link being given the same movement that the object is performing, without any physics working between the two.</i><p>No way this is the first game to ignore the player character in physics calculations. I&#x27;m pretty sure in GTA3 you could climb onto the roof of a car and not slide around as the NPC drives and makes sharp turns.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jamesu</author><text>Another example could be: in Tribes, when you pilot a vehicle your player character gets attached to a mount point and any physics calculations are ignored.<p>I&#x27;d imagine nintendo probably have other claims linked to this since alone it has clearly been done before.</text></comment> |
37,258,746 | 37,258,731 | 1 | 2 | 37,256,968 | train | <story><title>America is building chip factories. Now to find the workers</title><url>https://www.economist.com/united-states/2023/08/05/america-is-building-chip-factories-now-to-find-the-workers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jacoblambda</author><text>Yeah and that can happen by paying everybody more.<p>Salaries have largely stayed the same while prices have risen and that excess has gone to profits. If workers demand more pay and they force the issue, the economy eventually will reach equilibrium.<p>The issue currently is that those workers can&#x27;t really do that because the US government has shown time and again that they don&#x27;t really care that much if a company violates organised labor laws or labor laws in general (you get a fine and a slap on the wrist) but they will bring down god&#x27;s wrath if workers&#x2F;a union has an &quot;illegal strike&quot; after the employer ignores their demands.<p>There is a reason why ever since Reagan took a hardline anti-union stance and disbanded the PATCO union for having the audacity to strike in the 1980s that the number of major strikes per year has steadily declined.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bls.gov&#x2F;web&#x2F;wkstp&#x2F;annual-listing.htm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bls.gov&#x2F;web&#x2F;wkstp&#x2F;annual-listing.htm</a></text></item><item><author>doctorwho42</author><text>You guys keep focusing on the wrong thing, salaries are a first order solution. What needs to happen is that the average salary can provide a citizen with a comfortable and simple life (housing&#x2F;shelter, food, clothing, etc.).<p>Jacking up salaries without bringing the standard of living for the rest of your society will only lead to a continued breakdown of the social fabric that we have been seeing steadily happening over the past 30-40 years.</text></item><item><author>voidfunc</author><text>Or semiconductor salaries need to rise...</text></item><item><author>georgeburdell</author><text>Software salaries have to fall a lot more to keep semiconductor experts from doing lateral moves. I have an EE PhD, concentration semiconductors, and worked in the industry for a while, and a decade out my entire group of semiconductor PhD friends has now moved onto data science, ML, firmware, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>infogulch</author><text>A big part of the problem is the fed that literally pursues a monetary policy that intends to suppress real wage growth. This is why wages are flat for 30 years.</text></comment> | <story><title>America is building chip factories. Now to find the workers</title><url>https://www.economist.com/united-states/2023/08/05/america-is-building-chip-factories-now-to-find-the-workers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jacoblambda</author><text>Yeah and that can happen by paying everybody more.<p>Salaries have largely stayed the same while prices have risen and that excess has gone to profits. If workers demand more pay and they force the issue, the economy eventually will reach equilibrium.<p>The issue currently is that those workers can&#x27;t really do that because the US government has shown time and again that they don&#x27;t really care that much if a company violates organised labor laws or labor laws in general (you get a fine and a slap on the wrist) but they will bring down god&#x27;s wrath if workers&#x2F;a union has an &quot;illegal strike&quot; after the employer ignores their demands.<p>There is a reason why ever since Reagan took a hardline anti-union stance and disbanded the PATCO union for having the audacity to strike in the 1980s that the number of major strikes per year has steadily declined.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bls.gov&#x2F;web&#x2F;wkstp&#x2F;annual-listing.htm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bls.gov&#x2F;web&#x2F;wkstp&#x2F;annual-listing.htm</a></text></item><item><author>doctorwho42</author><text>You guys keep focusing on the wrong thing, salaries are a first order solution. What needs to happen is that the average salary can provide a citizen with a comfortable and simple life (housing&#x2F;shelter, food, clothing, etc.).<p>Jacking up salaries without bringing the standard of living for the rest of your society will only lead to a continued breakdown of the social fabric that we have been seeing steadily happening over the past 30-40 years.</text></item><item><author>voidfunc</author><text>Or semiconductor salaries need to rise...</text></item><item><author>georgeburdell</author><text>Software salaries have to fall a lot more to keep semiconductor experts from doing lateral moves. I have an EE PhD, concentration semiconductors, and worked in the industry for a while, and a decade out my entire group of semiconductor PhD friends has now moved onto data science, ML, firmware, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qwytw</author><text>&gt; Salaries have largely stayed the same<p>Salaries for the top 10% or so have increased significantly over the years. Of course it still pales in comparison to how much the incomes of the top 1% increased over the same period (meaning there is enough money&#x2F;productivity to pay everyone more)</text></comment> |
34,076,389 | 34,076,392 | 1 | 3 | 34,072,516 | train | <story><title>An extensive letter from Edsger Dijkstra to my 19 year old self (1989)</title><url>https://mastodon.online/@raph/109547934082265439</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ryloric</author><text>Whenever I come across some new AI hype thing in the wild with the usual buzzwords, a sentence Dijkstra wrote way back sort of flashes through my head. It always reminds me to be careful and precise with words.<p>&quot;...the question of whether Machines Can Think, a question of which we now know that it is about as relevant as the question of whether Submarines Can Swim.&quot;<p>In the same &quot;post&quot; he also talks a lot about hype and how it hurts the field. The last few years of computing have been exceptionally hype driven, even more than usual. We could&#x27;ve been better with a few more critics like him in that period.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.utexas.edu&#x2F;~EWD&#x2F;ewd08xx&#x2F;EWD898.PDF" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.utexas.edu&#x2F;~EWD&#x2F;ewd08xx&#x2F;EWD898.PDF</a></text></comment> | <story><title>An extensive letter from Edsger Dijkstra to my 19 year old self (1989)</title><url>https://mastodon.online/@raph/109547934082265439</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mberning</author><text>I know for myself it is very refreshing when a young person comes to you with question or problem that they have clearly spent a lot of time on. It certainly motivates me to provide detailed and extensive feedback. In the industry you unfortunately end up answering the same “dumb” questions ad nauseam. When something different comes along it is a joy.</text></comment> |
41,055,777 | 41,054,848 | 1 | 3 | 41,053,761 | train | <story><title>"Doors" in Solaris: Lightweight RPC Using File Descriptors (1996)</title><url>http://www.kohala.com/start/papers.others/doors.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>monocasa</author><text>Writing a top level comment here to hopefully address some of the misconceptions present across this comment section.<p>Doors at the end of the day aren&#x27;t message passing based RPC. There is no door_recv(2) syscall or equivalent nor any way for a thread pool in the callee to wait for requests.<p>Doors at the end of the day are a control transfer primitive. In a very real sense the calling thread is simply transferred to the callee&#x27;s address space and continues execution there until a door_return(2) syscall transfers it back into the caller address_space.<p>It truly is a &#x27;door&#x27; into another address space.<p>This is most similar to some of the CPU control transfer primitives. It&#x27;s most like task gate style constructs like seen on 286&#x2F;i432&#x2F;mill CPUs. Arguably it&#x27;s kind of like the system call instruction itself too, transferring execution directly to another address space&#x2F;context.</text></comment> | <story><title>"Doors" in Solaris: Lightweight RPC Using File Descriptors (1996)</title><url>http://www.kohala.com/start/papers.others/doors.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>codetrotter</author><text>Solaris was ahead of its time. They had Zones, which was a container technology, years ago. Likewise, FreeBSD way ahead with Jails. Only later did Docker on Linux come into existence and then containerization exploded in popularity.</text></comment> |
40,089,681 | 40,089,230 | 1 | 3 | 40,088,106 | train | <story><title>Daniel Dennett has died</title><url>https://dailynous.com/2024/04/19/daniel-dennett-death-1942-2024/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>raddan</author><text>This is sad. I teach an upper-level undergraduate course on programming language theory, and one major component of the course is reduction proofs. Many students find proof by contradiction (reductio ad absurdum) to be a confusing concept. I have always directed those students toward Dennett’s helpful video (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=sVUMAqMmy7o" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=sVUMAqMmy7o</a>) and most of them respond positively to Dennett’s lucid style. RIP.<p>FWIW, I have also seen the dismissive STEM attitude toward the philosophical tradition. It helps to remember that the philosophical tradition predates the scientific tradition significantly, and that it does not take logical positivism or reductionism as givens. Having studied both disciplines, I feel like philosophy has seriously enhanced my understand of the world even if I don’t use it in my day-to-day scientific work.</text></item><item><author>klodolph</author><text>You’re not alone. I think a lot of people, especially in STEM, pooh-pooh philosophy at first.<p>The problem is that in any field, if you start digging to understand the underlying concepts of that field and how they are defined, at some point you hit philosophy and start working with philosophical concepts.<p>The other problem is that there’s some real quack philosophy around, too. Various traps that philosophers sometimes fall into.</text></item><item><author>ithkuil</author><text>I must admit I always scoffed at philosophers, but then I started reading Dennett and not only I finally met a philosopher that I respected, but he helped me unlock what other philosophers are doing and I started to see philosophers as a whole in new light.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pgspaintbrush</author><text>STEM often overlooks the fundamental work that was done in philosophy that led to breakthroughs within STEM. For example, Claude Shannon&#x27;s undergraduate philosophy course is what taught him boolean algebra, which ultimately led him to design digital circuits.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bentley.umich.edu&#x2F;news-events&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;the-elegant-philosophy-of-ones-and-zeros&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bentley.umich.edu&#x2F;news-events&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;the-elegant-p...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Daniel Dennett has died</title><url>https://dailynous.com/2024/04/19/daniel-dennett-death-1942-2024/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>raddan</author><text>This is sad. I teach an upper-level undergraduate course on programming language theory, and one major component of the course is reduction proofs. Many students find proof by contradiction (reductio ad absurdum) to be a confusing concept. I have always directed those students toward Dennett’s helpful video (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=sVUMAqMmy7o" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=sVUMAqMmy7o</a>) and most of them respond positively to Dennett’s lucid style. RIP.<p>FWIW, I have also seen the dismissive STEM attitude toward the philosophical tradition. It helps to remember that the philosophical tradition predates the scientific tradition significantly, and that it does not take logical positivism or reductionism as givens. Having studied both disciplines, I feel like philosophy has seriously enhanced my understand of the world even if I don’t use it in my day-to-day scientific work.</text></item><item><author>klodolph</author><text>You’re not alone. I think a lot of people, especially in STEM, pooh-pooh philosophy at first.<p>The problem is that in any field, if you start digging to understand the underlying concepts of that field and how they are defined, at some point you hit philosophy and start working with philosophical concepts.<p>The other problem is that there’s some real quack philosophy around, too. Various traps that philosophers sometimes fall into.</text></item><item><author>ithkuil</author><text>I must admit I always scoffed at philosophers, but then I started reading Dennett and not only I finally met a philosopher that I respected, but he helped me unlock what other philosophers are doing and I started to see philosophers as a whole in new light.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kijin</author><text>I think it depends a lot on which tradition of philosophy one is first exposed to. Most STEM people will find Anglo-American analytic philosophy (where Dennett firmly belonged) much easier to approach than continental philosophy or the classical stuff, but unfortunately casual readers tend to get exposed to a lot more of the latter.<p>It&#x27;s like the first programming language you learned. It will shape your perception of what programming is all about for a long time afterward, and might even turn you away from programming altogether. But there are lots of programming languages, and they&#x27;re just different ways to make the same silicon do something interesting!</text></comment> |
4,325,977 | 4,325,980 | 1 | 2 | 4,323,617 | train | <story><title>Throne of JS: Eight JavaScript MV* Libraries Compared</title><url>http://blog.stevensanderson.com/2012/08/01/rich-javascript-applications-the-seven-frameworks-throne-of-js-2012</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Maciek416</author><text>I attended the conference, and the topic (framework vs. framework vs. library) was definitely timely. There are strong points of contention between the major competing frameworks/libraries right now, and this was reflected in the panel discussions.<p>What struck me about the talks I saw was the degree to which each project strongly reflects the personalities of its authors; Jeremy Ashkenas was indeed (as the article says) the calm zen master of the panels, taking a minimally-prescriptive stance on how his code should shape your code.<p>Tom Dale and Yehuda Katz, on the other hand, came in with passionate arguments for the idea that JS frameworks should have strong opinions and exert a great deal of influence on your code and the outcome of your solutions. Katz's central thesis seemed to be that for highly common problems for which Ember would be used, extremely similar (if not identical) solutions should emerge.<p>All in all a good conference, and very differently-flavoured from JSConf.</text></comment> | <story><title>Throne of JS: Eight JavaScript MV* Libraries Compared</title><url>http://blog.stevensanderson.com/2012/08/01/rich-javascript-applications-the-seven-frameworks-throne-of-js-2012</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ilaksh</author><text><a href="http://tjholowaychuk.com/post/27984551477/components" rel="nofollow">http://tjholowaychuk.com/post/27984551477/components</a><p>Those frameworks are great, but they all fail to take advantage of a key advance in software development: the widget.<p>Reusable, composable GUI components that package front end and back end files together and can be distributed easily as plugins are the next step up in abstraction and superior from a software engineering perspective.<p>The reason many web developers aren't able to either grasp or accept that is because A) understanding and building those types of components that are truly generic enough to be applicable to a wide variety of applications as well as reusable, has a significant learning curve and is time consuming and B) the better you are at it, the less likely you are to get credit for your programming skills, because unfortunately if you can build an application without typing colorful ASCII text, then you didn't do any programming and aren't a programmer.<p>To get past B) we just need to redefine what programming is, and also grow up a little. Also realize that even if you are programming with GUI components, you still have to create new components sometimes, so you are still programming and still a programmer.<p>I have a very early rough draft system that I am throwing together on my own, mostly because very few people seem to be able to appreciate these concepts. Or the ones that do are happy to use existing systems like ASP.NET or WordPress.<p><a href="https://github.com/ithkuil/cureblog" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ithkuil/cureblog</a><p><a href="https://vimeo.com/43784316" rel="nofollow">https://vimeo.com/43784316</a> Note that I have modernized the interface somewhat since I made that video.</text></comment> |
28,382,780 | 28,383,203 | 1 | 2 | 28,381,324 | train | <story><title>Tyler Cowen is a curator of talent</title><url>https://kulesa.substack.com/p/tyler-cowen-is-the-best-curator-of</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kqr</author><text>&gt; there is very little connection between &quot;aesthetic value&quot; and &quot;market value.&quot;<p>Wait, so how do you determine this &quot;aesthetic value&quot; if not by how much people are willing to work to acquire it?<p>Your personal opinion? Some authority figure? Maths?</text></item><item><author>keiferski</author><text>The section on art collecting highlights the limitations of an economics-based approach to defining &quot;talent.&quot; Cowen is an economist and this colors his entire approach.<p><i>“You learn about other cultures, you learn different points of view by refining your eye and you develop a skill that is extremely useful for judging other things and cracking cultural codes in other settings. It’s an education in market economics - art markets. Like how do you buy the best pictures in an area Haitian art, or how do you assemble a very good voodoo flag collection? How do you get artists in Mexico to do their best work for you? That’s a business problem that you need to solve.</i><p><i>You want experience at solving a broad diversity of problems, to heighten your aesthetic sense, to learn some real history, and to understand how some of the art world works, surround yourself with beauty.</i><p><i>And you should buy it for the love of the art, and try to find that which other people have not really found or appreciated yet. It’s just like the world of ideas right? It is the world of ideas. It just costs more to play in it in terms of upfront dollar commitments.” [Tyler Cowen: Production Function. David Perrell, North Star Podcast.]</i><p>Relying on markets and the opinions of others may be effective in determining current economic value, but it is not a fruitful approach for finding &quot;talent&quot;, broadly defined. Contemporary art is an excellent place to observe this phenomenon; there is very little connection between &quot;aesthetic value&quot; and &quot;market value.&quot; The art market is a fascinating thing, but make no mistake, the most popular artists are not the most &quot;talented&quot;, by whatever definition of <i>talent</i> you may have.<p>&quot;<i>Slow is the experience of all deep fountains: long have they to wait until they know what hath fallen into their depths. Away from the marketplace and from fame taketh place all that is great: away from the marketplace and from fame have ever dwelt the devisers of new values.&quot;</i><p>- Nietzsche, <i>Thus Spoke Zarathustra</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>keiferski</author><text>Philosophers, artists, and other thinkers have written about aesthetics for thousands of years.<p>Truly answering your question would take a long time, but a short version might be something like: the collective opinions of a diverse group of highly informed and experienced (not necessarily <i>educated</i> as in a university) individuals. But that&#x27;s just one approach and there are many others.<p>Even then, <i>anything</i> is probably superior to using monetary value as equivalent to anything other than <i>what the market currently prices it as.</i> I certainly don&#x27;t think the most expensive painting is the most beautiful one, although it may be not be totally uncorrelated.<p>If you&#x27;re interested in these kinds of questions, definitely look into the philosophical field of aesthetics.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tyler Cowen is a curator of talent</title><url>https://kulesa.substack.com/p/tyler-cowen-is-the-best-curator-of</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kqr</author><text>&gt; there is very little connection between &quot;aesthetic value&quot; and &quot;market value.&quot;<p>Wait, so how do you determine this &quot;aesthetic value&quot; if not by how much people are willing to work to acquire it?<p>Your personal opinion? Some authority figure? Maths?</text></item><item><author>keiferski</author><text>The section on art collecting highlights the limitations of an economics-based approach to defining &quot;talent.&quot; Cowen is an economist and this colors his entire approach.<p><i>“You learn about other cultures, you learn different points of view by refining your eye and you develop a skill that is extremely useful for judging other things and cracking cultural codes in other settings. It’s an education in market economics - art markets. Like how do you buy the best pictures in an area Haitian art, or how do you assemble a very good voodoo flag collection? How do you get artists in Mexico to do their best work for you? That’s a business problem that you need to solve.</i><p><i>You want experience at solving a broad diversity of problems, to heighten your aesthetic sense, to learn some real history, and to understand how some of the art world works, surround yourself with beauty.</i><p><i>And you should buy it for the love of the art, and try to find that which other people have not really found or appreciated yet. It’s just like the world of ideas right? It is the world of ideas. It just costs more to play in it in terms of upfront dollar commitments.” [Tyler Cowen: Production Function. David Perrell, North Star Podcast.]</i><p>Relying on markets and the opinions of others may be effective in determining current economic value, but it is not a fruitful approach for finding &quot;talent&quot;, broadly defined. Contemporary art is an excellent place to observe this phenomenon; there is very little connection between &quot;aesthetic value&quot; and &quot;market value.&quot; The art market is a fascinating thing, but make no mistake, the most popular artists are not the most &quot;talented&quot;, by whatever definition of <i>talent</i> you may have.<p>&quot;<i>Slow is the experience of all deep fountains: long have they to wait until they know what hath fallen into their depths. Away from the marketplace and from fame taketh place all that is great: away from the marketplace and from fame have ever dwelt the devisers of new values.&quot;</i><p>- Nietzsche, <i>Thus Spoke Zarathustra</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dalbasal</author><text>Taste.<p>I realize this is unsatisfying to many, but there really is no other choice. A strict empiricist has no way of knowing whether or not art is good. In fact, a purely empirical worldview will find it hard to have art in it at all. There&#x27;s no way to distinguish subjective from arbitrary.<p>If you do accept that taste exists and that subjective != arbitrary, we can move forward and discuss it without expecting externally verifiable tests for it. If you can&#x27;t, maybe you shouldn&#x27;t believe that art exists at all... or that we can gain any knowledge of it if it does.<p>Substituting price or popularity for quality is redundant. Just think in terms of price or popularity, and forget about quality. Calling popularity quality just because it&#x27;s easier to define or measure muddies things up, whether or not you believe in taste.</text></comment> |
20,955,941 | 20,951,559 | 1 | 2 | 20,950,832 | train | <story><title>Norway's Bold Plan to Tackle Overtourism</title><url>https://www.outsideonline.com/2401446/norway-adventure-travel-overtourism</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cletus</author><text>Welcome to the world of, by some measures, &quot;too many&quot; people having too much disposable wealth. There are obviously worse problems to have. But overtourism is a problem that&#x27;s only going to get worse.<p>This even affects Mount Everest where people are literally dying just to say they stood at the top of the world. And Everest simply can&#x27;t support the number of climbers now.<p>You see this in US national parks where the obvious ones (eg Yosemite) are arguably oversubscribed while others you could probably go days without seeing anyone.<p>There&#x27;s a certain lack of imagination here. Some of it is convenience. Take Everest. People climb it because it&#x27;s the tallest and people know what it is. There are ~14 other peaks over 8000 meters. Are any of these qualitatively worse experiences? Probably not. But... bragging rights.<p>Solutions to this fall into a number of buckets:<p>1. Making it more expensive: some will complain only the rich can go and this is unfair.<p>2. Quotas: you have to book far, far in advance and no doubt this is unfair to some people.<p>3. Lottery system: this is really a variation of quotas but probably fairer.<p>So I&#x27;ve been to Paris like 4 times. I like it but my God the touristy places are a nightmare such that I basically never went to any. Honestly the best part for me was the bread. The sandwiches you&#x27;d buy on the street were unbelievably good.<p>Anyway, I honestly don&#x27;t understand this need people have to jam in with 100,000 other people just to see some famous building. Maybe that&#x27;s just me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>munificent</author><text><i>&gt; &quot;too many&quot; people having too much disposable wealth. </i><p>I don&#x27;t think this is the problem at all. The world is huge. There are millions of tourist destinations and plenty of room for people in all of them.<p>The problem is with distribution. Social media creates power law distributions of attention. There are a few pieces of writing I wish every human on Earth had read and this is one of them:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;shirky.com&#x2F;writings&#x2F;powerlaw_weblog.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;shirky.com&#x2F;writings&#x2F;powerlaw_weblog.html</a><p>Instagram has caused these power law distributions to escape media onto the real world. While there are millions of delightful vacation destinations, most people never hear about most of them. Instead, a tiny minority of the most photogenic one (like Trolltunga, mentioned in the article), consume almost all of the attention and then net a huge, unmanageable number of visitors. For every Everest, there are a hundred mountains that are 90% as beautiful but only get 10% of the visitors.<p>I believe this is one of the fundamental, structural problems of the modern age. Most of the information we consume — literally the knowledge we base our worldview on — is now brought to our attention based on social media sharing and aggregation. The nature of those systems takes a linear range of &quot;relevance&quot; and distorts it into power law that no longer matches reality. But because this <i>is</i> our window into reality, we then take the result of that distortion at face value.<p>I would love to see more systems engineered to try to balance that. Perhaps a Twitter-like system that capped the number of followers you had. A recommendation engine that subtracted out the effect of popularity when ranking. But so far I don&#x27;t see many. I&#x27;m not sure if it&#x27;s because it&#x27;s not what people want, not what advertisers want, or what.<p>(The great thing about <i>knowing</i> that this effect happens is that you can often easily acquire a better-than-average experience by deliberately stepping a little farther towards the long tail. The third best restaurant in a city is usually almost as good as #1 but noticeably cheaper. The second-most popular hike will give you 80% of the view with 20% of the crowds.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Norway's Bold Plan to Tackle Overtourism</title><url>https://www.outsideonline.com/2401446/norway-adventure-travel-overtourism</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cletus</author><text>Welcome to the world of, by some measures, &quot;too many&quot; people having too much disposable wealth. There are obviously worse problems to have. But overtourism is a problem that&#x27;s only going to get worse.<p>This even affects Mount Everest where people are literally dying just to say they stood at the top of the world. And Everest simply can&#x27;t support the number of climbers now.<p>You see this in US national parks where the obvious ones (eg Yosemite) are arguably oversubscribed while others you could probably go days without seeing anyone.<p>There&#x27;s a certain lack of imagination here. Some of it is convenience. Take Everest. People climb it because it&#x27;s the tallest and people know what it is. There are ~14 other peaks over 8000 meters. Are any of these qualitatively worse experiences? Probably not. But... bragging rights.<p>Solutions to this fall into a number of buckets:<p>1. Making it more expensive: some will complain only the rich can go and this is unfair.<p>2. Quotas: you have to book far, far in advance and no doubt this is unfair to some people.<p>3. Lottery system: this is really a variation of quotas but probably fairer.<p>So I&#x27;ve been to Paris like 4 times. I like it but my God the touristy places are a nightmare such that I basically never went to any. Honestly the best part for me was the bread. The sandwiches you&#x27;d buy on the street were unbelievably good.<p>Anyway, I honestly don&#x27;t understand this need people have to jam in with 100,000 other people just to see some famous building. Maybe that&#x27;s just me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skohan</author><text>&gt; this need people have to jam in with 100,000 other people just to see some famous building. Maybe that&#x27;s just me.<p>I was fortunate enough to spend a gap year traveling around the world, and one of the lessons I learned quickly was that I have little interest in &quot;iconic&quot; destinations. I can distinctly remember when I made this realization: I was in Oia Santorini at sunset, which I had decided to go to because I had seen amazing photos of this secluded town on a cliffside overlooking the sun go down over the Aegean. But while the view was beautiful, the reality of that moment was a thousand other tourists elbowing their way to a good vantage point to take the same picture which had been taken a million times before. There was even a newly married couple who was standing there dejected: they had apparently gone to that point to take wedding photos, but discovered it would obviously be impossible.<p>I still like to travel, but please keep me miles away from anything famous.</text></comment> |
39,655,990 | 39,655,933 | 1 | 2 | 39,654,538 | train | <story><title>Scientists built their own Stone Age tools to figure out how they were used</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/03/these-scientists-built-their-own-stone-age-tools-to-figure-out-how-they-were-used/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sillysaurusx</author><text>I’ve found myself infected with a desire to have a machine shop. I don’t exactly know what I’d use it for, but there’s something so cool about making your own stuff.<p>This fellow inherited his grandfather’s machine shop <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;hearLttbrLo?si=r2CHxdepmhQ71xJq" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;hearLttbrLo?si=r2CHxdepmhQ71xJq</a> and used it to make… a pen. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;j27RKTHMLkA?si=f5OPN7ZJ10EBSZa4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;j27RKTHMLkA?si=f5OPN7ZJ10EBSZa4</a> And it’s an addiction I didn’t know I had.<p>The gateway drug that led to all of this was a video about a $200 CNC mill <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;K9pjduKSsKs?si=mOJGCF9X6_s7d-J9" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;K9pjduKSsKs?si=mOJGCF9X6_s7d-J9</a> which led to a tour of his machine shop <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;bHnfvtYHn7k?si=w65ZPfYm_5xpdkcD" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;bHnfvtYHn7k?si=w65ZPfYm_5xpdkcD</a> and a video about making a library. For his apartment. With a ladder that rolls along the shelves. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;DPRQaPVuRxU?si=uyR5xMDWgrYzHqlp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;DPRQaPVuRxU?si=uyR5xMDWgrYzHqlp</a><p>I’ve been making things for… I probably shouldn’t have calculated it, but it turns out to be 23 years now. They’ve all been digital. Somehow it never occurred to me that you can just make things yourself rather than buy it from Amazon. It sounds stupid to write it out like that, but it’s an easy thing to overlook, because you can go your whole life without thinking about it.<p>There’s also no limit to the stuff you can cobble together. Here’s someone whose channel averages about 30 views per video, who made a <i>vacuum pump</i> out of a refrigerator compressor. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;4Zg0EXvyD-4?si=f6oB8ScuhDd64T6n" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;4Zg0EXvyD-4?si=f6oB8ScuhDd64T6n</a> (His channel also has hundreds of videos with dozens of projects, including making his own friggin’ laser CNC machine from scratch via arduino and time. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;0z-zXQ2INp4?si=Y0Ao6dwr1YpQVqU7" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;0z-zXQ2INp4?si=Y0Ao6dwr1YpQVqU7</a> I have no idea how no one has noticed him yet.)<p>All of this culminated into an intersection of everything I’ve been interested in recently: 3D resin-printed molds for plastic injection molding. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;wMRSPXt48CI?si=5IeQnSi89byrr0Il" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;wMRSPXt48CI?si=5IeQnSi89byrr0Il</a> You can make practically anything you can think of, and they don’t feel cheap. Not to punch down on normal 3D printers; some people love them, but a larger contingent dismiss most of what they can make as cheap toys. They’re not wrong.<p>It’s interesting tracing a line from the Stone Age tools to these. The people back then were smart and industrious. If you gave them a lathe, I wonder what they would have made.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pugworthy</author><text>If you really want to start from the beginning, get “Build Your Own Metal Working Shop From Scrap” by David Gingery.<p>Quoting the description from Amazon (link below)…<p>“[It] is a progressive series of seven projects. Beginning with a simple charcoal fired foundry, you produce the castings for building the machine tools to equip your shop. Initially the castings are finished by simple hand methods, but it is not long before the developing machines are doing much of the work to produce their own parts.”<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;a.co&#x2F;d&#x2F;cIqbQCD" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;a.co&#x2F;d&#x2F;cIqbQCD</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Scientists built their own Stone Age tools to figure out how they were used</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/03/these-scientists-built-their-own-stone-age-tools-to-figure-out-how-they-were-used/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sillysaurusx</author><text>I’ve found myself infected with a desire to have a machine shop. I don’t exactly know what I’d use it for, but there’s something so cool about making your own stuff.<p>This fellow inherited his grandfather’s machine shop <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;hearLttbrLo?si=r2CHxdepmhQ71xJq" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;hearLttbrLo?si=r2CHxdepmhQ71xJq</a> and used it to make… a pen. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;j27RKTHMLkA?si=f5OPN7ZJ10EBSZa4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;j27RKTHMLkA?si=f5OPN7ZJ10EBSZa4</a> And it’s an addiction I didn’t know I had.<p>The gateway drug that led to all of this was a video about a $200 CNC mill <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;K9pjduKSsKs?si=mOJGCF9X6_s7d-J9" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;K9pjduKSsKs?si=mOJGCF9X6_s7d-J9</a> which led to a tour of his machine shop <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;bHnfvtYHn7k?si=w65ZPfYm_5xpdkcD" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;bHnfvtYHn7k?si=w65ZPfYm_5xpdkcD</a> and a video about making a library. For his apartment. With a ladder that rolls along the shelves. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;DPRQaPVuRxU?si=uyR5xMDWgrYzHqlp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;DPRQaPVuRxU?si=uyR5xMDWgrYzHqlp</a><p>I’ve been making things for… I probably shouldn’t have calculated it, but it turns out to be 23 years now. They’ve all been digital. Somehow it never occurred to me that you can just make things yourself rather than buy it from Amazon. It sounds stupid to write it out like that, but it’s an easy thing to overlook, because you can go your whole life without thinking about it.<p>There’s also no limit to the stuff you can cobble together. Here’s someone whose channel averages about 30 views per video, who made a <i>vacuum pump</i> out of a refrigerator compressor. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;4Zg0EXvyD-4?si=f6oB8ScuhDd64T6n" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;4Zg0EXvyD-4?si=f6oB8ScuhDd64T6n</a> (His channel also has hundreds of videos with dozens of projects, including making his own friggin’ laser CNC machine from scratch via arduino and time. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;0z-zXQ2INp4?si=Y0Ao6dwr1YpQVqU7" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;0z-zXQ2INp4?si=Y0Ao6dwr1YpQVqU7</a> I have no idea how no one has noticed him yet.)<p>All of this culminated into an intersection of everything I’ve been interested in recently: 3D resin-printed molds for plastic injection molding. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;wMRSPXt48CI?si=5IeQnSi89byrr0Il" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;wMRSPXt48CI?si=5IeQnSi89byrr0Il</a> You can make practically anything you can think of, and they don’t feel cheap. Not to punch down on normal 3D printers; some people love them, but a larger contingent dismiss most of what they can make as cheap toys. They’re not wrong.<p>It’s interesting tracing a line from the Stone Age tools to these. The people back then were smart and industrious. If you gave them a lathe, I wonder what they would have made.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dieselgate</author><text>That’s what Harbor Freight is great for if you’re in the States. They have little milling machines and lots of cheap tools that work well for one-off stuff, at least.<p>Was lucky to take an engineering machining class in college and got to use a lathe and mill, am more of a welder now. The definition of a “tool” is pretty loose but lots of small things can be made with just a cheap stick welder and grinder.<p>Cheers</text></comment> |
37,151,761 | 37,151,795 | 1 | 3 | 37,151,308 | train | <story><title>New York City bans TikTok for government employees</title><url>https://www.engadget.com/new-york-city-bans-tiktok-for-government-employees-174806575.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elicash</author><text>&quot;from government devices&quot; seems important to the title<p>Edit: also, this article simply re-reports a Verge article: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;8&#x2F;16&#x2F;23834579&#x2F;nyc-tiktok-ban-new-york-china-surveillance-spy" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;8&#x2F;16&#x2F;23834579&#x2F;nyc-tiktok-ban-n...</a> Props to Engadget for citing their source, but just think that the Verge deserves that shout-out here too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>Banning non business critical apps from corp&#x2F;org devices is just good security hygiene. Would probably not even be PR if the MDM policy was pushed and when people asked, IT said &quot;no non business apps.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>New York City bans TikTok for government employees</title><url>https://www.engadget.com/new-york-city-bans-tiktok-for-government-employees-174806575.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elicash</author><text>&quot;from government devices&quot; seems important to the title<p>Edit: also, this article simply re-reports a Verge article: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;8&#x2F;16&#x2F;23834579&#x2F;nyc-tiktok-ban-new-york-china-surveillance-spy" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;8&#x2F;16&#x2F;23834579&#x2F;nyc-tiktok-ban-n...</a> Props to Engadget for citing their source, but just think that the Verge deserves that shout-out here too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zffr</author><text>Yeah, this seems completely reasonable IMO.</text></comment> |
18,664,043 | 18,664,221 | 1 | 3 | 18,663,278 | train | <story><title>Microsoft Edge</title><url>https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdge</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phkahler</author><text>&gt;&gt; our unique web-platform codebase still faces occasional compatibility problems as web developers focus less on HTML standards and rationally focus on widely used platforms like Chrome to develop and validate experiences for their customers<p>IMHO this is not rational on the part of web developers. If they&#x27;ve forgotten the lessons of IE-6 they need to have a refresher and stick to standards. If that means sticking to a subset of the standards that are supported by all browsers then so be it - stop thinking about yourself and your immediate desire (it&#x27;s not a need after all) and think about the future and your users.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>le-mark</author><text>I&#x27;m just finishing up a year+ project to make an old IE7 app work on Chrome&#x2F;Firefox. IE7 is the oldest version that IE11 supports in compatability mode. As it stood, this old app was actually quite impressive. It was a true SPA before SPAs were a thing (2005 or so). It used all the Microsoft specific tech; DHTML, behaviors, htc components, soap&#x2F;xml, client side xpath&#x2F;xsl&#x2F;xslt. Thankfully only a little activex that was easy to replace. Rewriting wasn&#x27;t an option, but even putting in shims and reorganizing the code was a major effort.<p>Realistically, that&#x27;s a worst case scenario, and I think it would be a long time before firefox&#x2F;Chrome diverged to that level, if at all.<p>But the horror, oh the horror....</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft Edge</title><url>https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdge</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phkahler</author><text>&gt;&gt; our unique web-platform codebase still faces occasional compatibility problems as web developers focus less on HTML standards and rationally focus on widely used platforms like Chrome to develop and validate experiences for their customers<p>IMHO this is not rational on the part of web developers. If they&#x27;ve forgotten the lessons of IE-6 they need to have a refresher and stick to standards. If that means sticking to a subset of the standards that are supported by all browsers then so be it - stop thinking about yourself and your immediate desire (it&#x27;s not a need after all) and think about the future and your users.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>criddell</author><text>&gt; stick to standards<p>There are standards, and then there are standards.<p>Ideally, de jure standards would rule the day but in practice de facto standards often win.</text></comment> |
19,197,580 | 19,195,329 | 1 | 3 | 19,192,856 | train | <story><title>Chris Lattner on the Origins of Swift</title><url>https://oleb.net/2019/chris-lattner-swift-origins/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>melling</author><text>@50m in they discuss the problems of using Swift on non-iOS platforms. How far is Swift from being a good cross-platform language?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chriseidhof</author><text>We wrote the Swift Talk backend in it. It’s mostly fine, but some parts are still buggy on Linux. For us, there were two or three bugs that took a few hours each (over the course of a few months of development). Apart from that, I loved Swift on the server: it’s the language I know, so it makes things really fast to build for me. The performance is amazing (both in terms of execution time as well as memory usage).</text></comment> | <story><title>Chris Lattner on the Origins of Swift</title><url>https://oleb.net/2019/chris-lattner-swift-origins/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>melling</author><text>@50m in they discuss the problems of using Swift on non-iOS platforms. How far is Swift from being a good cross-platform language?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saagarjha</author><text>It’s not great, but it’s not bad in Linux. In other platforms it’s going to be a pain.</text></comment> |
19,118,198 | 19,118,257 | 1 | 2 | 19,115,686 | train | <story><title>Jeff Bezos Turned Narrative into Amazon's Competitive Advantage</title><url>https://slab.com/blog/jeff-bezos-writing-management-strategy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jrauser</author><text>I&#x27;ve written documents for Jeff, and IMO, the six-page narrative memo is a key part of Amazon&#x27;s success. It&#x27;s so easy to fool both yourself and your audience with an oral presentation or powerpoint slides. With narrative text that has to stand on its own, there is no place for poor reasoning to hide. Amazon&#x27;s leadership makes better decisions than their competitors in part because they are routinely supplied with better arguments than their competitors.<p>&quot;Writing is nature&#x27;s way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is.&quot; -Dick Guindon, via Leslie Lamport</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>busyant</author><text>&gt; &quot;Writing is nature&#x27;s way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is.&quot;<p>Indeed!<p>Every so often, I have a coding question and I have an urge to ask that question on StackExchange.<p>Before I actually post the question, I write a draft question. I usually revise my draft a few times to make it as clear as possible. About 50% of the time, the process of revising my draft makes me realize an obvious solution to my own problem that I had overlooked.</text></comment> | <story><title>Jeff Bezos Turned Narrative into Amazon's Competitive Advantage</title><url>https://slab.com/blog/jeff-bezos-writing-management-strategy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jrauser</author><text>I&#x27;ve written documents for Jeff, and IMO, the six-page narrative memo is a key part of Amazon&#x27;s success. It&#x27;s so easy to fool both yourself and your audience with an oral presentation or powerpoint slides. With narrative text that has to stand on its own, there is no place for poor reasoning to hide. Amazon&#x27;s leadership makes better decisions than their competitors in part because they are routinely supplied with better arguments than their competitors.<p>&quot;Writing is nature&#x27;s way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is.&quot; -Dick Guindon, via Leslie Lamport</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>primitivesuave</author><text>My cofounder&#x2F;CEO used to work for Jeff Bezos as a GM and the most valuable lesson he imparted to us is the six pager. Before a high-level meeting begins, everyone grabs a red pen and reads&#x2F;annotates the six-pager for 20 minutes. The discussion that follows is between informed participants, and has more structure. It is a highly effective technique for decision making, and a practice I would certainly carry forth to whatever I work on in the future.</text></comment> |
6,410,851 | 6,410,839 | 1 | 3 | 6,410,312 | train | <story><title>Rethinking the guest operating system</title><url>http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/567222/d02ddd1c4e25ae22/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>kalleboo</author><text>So in the end, we&#x27;re reinventing the OS with a hypervisor acting as the kernel? Are the current hypervisors better or worse than the Linux kernel at this task? What&#x27;s the reason people don&#x27;t just run these processes straight in a regular Linux install with properly configured users&#x2F;chroots&#x2F;quotas?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Negitivefrags</author><text>I for one, really dislike this drive towards VMs for everything.<p>VMs are mostly about solving the same problems that operating systems were there to solve in the first place, only slower.<p>I personally think that part of the problem is the way software is installed and configured by modern package managers and distributions. It makes people see the installed software as part of the operating system almost. If you want two webservers with different configurations you therefore need two operating systems.<p>The concept for creating a couple of different users and running the software out of each one seems foreign to modern system admin these days.</text></comment> | <story><title>Rethinking the guest operating system</title><url>http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/567222/d02ddd1c4e25ae22/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>kalleboo</author><text>So in the end, we&#x27;re reinventing the OS with a hypervisor acting as the kernel? Are the current hypervisors better or worse than the Linux kernel at this task? What&#x27;s the reason people don&#x27;t just run these processes straight in a regular Linux install with properly configured users&#x2F;chroots&#x2F;quotas?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ddalex</author><text>cgroups help solve the same problem, for tasks.<p>I suspect running properly isolated JVMs directly on host kernel would be faster than going through the hypervisor. I would love to see benchmarking numbers.<p>But there are two problems on why people keep reinventing the wheel:<p>- Current solution Isn&#x27;t Sexy Enough, aka Not Invented Here.<p>- Current corporate culture drives acquisitions of tech startups based on a) business, i.e. number of users, and b) innovative technology that doesn&#x27;t exist anywhere else, reinforcing previous point.<p>All this work to come up to yet another solution to the same old problems (IBM solved machine partitioning around 70s ?) is happening because engineers love to work on their specific pet projects and not solve other people&#x27;s problems.<p>Not that there&#x27;s anything wrong with that.</text></comment> |
6,565,008 | 6,564,732 | 1 | 2 | 6,564,558 | train | <story><title>Adi Shamir Prevented from Attending Crypto and Cryptology Conferences</title><url>http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/27.54.html#subj1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>buro9</author><text>My visa takes a long while.<p>Not quite as long as it took Adi Shamir, but long.<p>On average it takes about 14 weeks to get a visa, but on occasion it has taken many many months.<p>I&#x27;ve done the calculations, the worst-case scenario for the full process is 32 weeks. It&#x27;s never actually taken that long, but it&#x27;s not been far off.<p>I remember having to explain to Microsoft that they needed to write a sponsor&#x2F;supporting letter (for the US embassy) more than half a year in advance of any potential visit to Redmond that I&#x27;d be working at. As this was for DAC (Developer Advisory Council) meetings that Microsoft only scheduled a month in advance they found themselves in a dilemma over this. Thankfully they agreed, and their legal department would author letters that a meeting would likely occur requiring my attendance, but it was always a slog of a process.<p>For those wondering, I was shortly married to a US citizen and I speculate that this triggers some flag or signal that makes them think I want to stay there (I don&#x27;t). I also have an interesting past, having been homeless for a while. Who knows though, the system doesn&#x27;t supply answers. It&#x27;s a black box process.<p>It&#x27;s a nightmare process that doesn&#x27;t end when you have a visa. On arrival I experience the joys of &quot;secondary&quot;, and being sat in a waiting room for many hours before a 10-second interview in which they let me go my way.<p>Every part of the experience is a miserable one, always with the threat of an axe over the visit.<p>The vast majority of the time I have been invited, or had opportunities to visit, I just do not choose to visit the USA.</text></comment> | <story><title>Adi Shamir Prevented from Attending Crypto and Cryptology Conferences</title><url>http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/27.54.html#subj1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lvryc</author><text>I quite like the &#x27;apology&#x27; he received from the conference organizers:<p>&gt; In July 2013 I told the NSA-affiliated conference organizers that I was having some problems in getting my visa, and gently asked whether they could do something about it. Always eager to help, the NSA people leaped into action, and immediately sent me a short email written with a lot of tact:<p>&gt; “The trouble you are having is regrettable… Sorry you won’t be able to come to our conference. We have submitted our program and did not include you on it.”</text></comment> |
34,681,051 | 34,680,995 | 1 | 3 | 34,677,471 | train | <story><title>Why the conventional wisdom on how to grow muscles is wrong</title><url>https://mennohenselmans.com/optimal-program-design/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>epistemer</author><text>I have lifted for 30 years.<p>The standard bullshit line in the fitness industry has always been &quot;everyone else is wrong&quot;. Practically what every single trainer ever in the world has said.<p>The reason is because of all the things I have done in my life, lifting is the most trivially simple activity there is. It is as complex as shoveling dirt. The only way to differentiate if trying to make money is to bullshit. Pick the weights up, put them down, eat food. It just not that complicated.</text></item><item><author>jasondigitized</author><text>&quot;Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but nobody wants to lift no heavy-ass weights.&quot; - Ronnie Coleman<p>I have gained quite a bit of muscle mass after building out a home gym during covid. I&#x27;m no scientist but following the Reddit PPL[1] workout and eating lots of protein did the trick for me.<p>[1] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;Fitness&#x2F;comments&#x2F;37ylk5&#x2F;a_linear_progression_based_ppl_program_for&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;Fitness&#x2F;comments&#x2F;37ylk5&#x2F;a_linear_pr...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Taylor_OD</author><text>Yup. Everything else is either bull shit or an attempt to optimize. Unless you are a body builder or a pro athlete you really should focus on consistency more than optimization.<p>Getting 1% better results for the average person is going to be nullified by the beers they drink on the weekend&#x2F;the multiple days they skip because they dont feel like working out&#x2F;any number of other normal life actives that are not optimal.<p>Find a way to exercise that you enjoy it and do it often. After that don&#x27;t think about it too much.<p>Recently I&#x27;ve been riding an exercise bike after work while playing a video game on my computer with an xbox controller. Every 5 minutes I hop off the bike and do some weight training then get back on the bike. I ride for an hour. Doing this most weekdays has lead to far better results than when I used to go to the gym because I actually do it everyday&#x2F;most days and I don&#x27;t rdread it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why the conventional wisdom on how to grow muscles is wrong</title><url>https://mennohenselmans.com/optimal-program-design/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>epistemer</author><text>I have lifted for 30 years.<p>The standard bullshit line in the fitness industry has always been &quot;everyone else is wrong&quot;. Practically what every single trainer ever in the world has said.<p>The reason is because of all the things I have done in my life, lifting is the most trivially simple activity there is. It is as complex as shoveling dirt. The only way to differentiate if trying to make money is to bullshit. Pick the weights up, put them down, eat food. It just not that complicated.</text></item><item><author>jasondigitized</author><text>&quot;Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but nobody wants to lift no heavy-ass weights.&quot; - Ronnie Coleman<p>I have gained quite a bit of muscle mass after building out a home gym during covid. I&#x27;m no scientist but following the Reddit PPL[1] workout and eating lots of protein did the trick for me.<p>[1] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;Fitness&#x2F;comments&#x2F;37ylk5&#x2F;a_linear_progression_based_ppl_program_for&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;Fitness&#x2F;comments&#x2F;37ylk5&#x2F;a_linear_pr...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JeremyNT</author><text>The problem here is that there really are many little optimizations that could be applied to &quot;pick up, put down&quot; and some do work. Injury avoidance and recovery in particular are easy to overlook.<p>Of course the magnitude of the effect from most optimizations is small, so it&#x27;s pretty easy for con artists to claim some secret or new breakthrough.<p>At the very highest levels people want every edge they can get, but it&#x27;s silly for most of us who aren&#x27;t devoted to competition to go down these rabbit holes. Pick up &#x2F; put down &#x2F; don&#x27;t get hurt goes quite a long way.</text></comment> |
28,372,125 | 28,372,300 | 1 | 3 | 28,369,570 | train | <story><title>Docker Desktop no longer free for large companies</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/31/docker_desktop_no_longer_free/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SkyMarshal</author><text>Why run Docker inside a VM on a Mac, when you can just run the Linux dev environment directly inside the VM? That&#x27;s just starting to sound like Docker for the sake of Docker.<p>Multipass, Qemu, and Parallels can all provide a solid VM on Mac host. All you need after that is your dev environment VM guest image to deploy to the team.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.qemu.org&#x2F;Hosts&#x2F;Mac" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.qemu.org&#x2F;Hosts&#x2F;Mac</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.parallels.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.parallels.com&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>rcarmo</author><text>For the Mac, just get Canonical’s Multipass (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;multipass.run" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;multipass.run</a>) and do an apt-get to install Docker into a VM and use VS Code to “remote” to it. It will automatically install the Docker extension inside the Linux VM and you’re set.<p>For Windows, use WSL2 and do the same.<p>Both can mount “local” folders, although the setup is obviously different.<p>You now have a better way to manage containers than ever before.</text></item><item><author>dpratt</author><text>This appears to be cutting of their nose to spite their face. We have a team of 50+ engineers that all use Docker for Mac for daily development tasks, but I suspect that will no longer be true in a rather short amount of time. Frankly, I don’t really know if anybody actually uses the UI components for it outside of starting and stopping the engine and for basic configuration of the VM. Everything else that comes with it is just useless cruft for our use cases.<p>As soon as there is a viable alternative (and I’d be happy to contribute to the effort), I’ll be moving away from Docker for Mac.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dsjoerg</author><text>Some people here actually want and need Docker features. For me it&#x27;s the ability to run from a given image and know that I&#x27;ve got _exactly_ the same image that other developers have. Reproducibility.</text></comment> | <story><title>Docker Desktop no longer free for large companies</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/31/docker_desktop_no_longer_free/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SkyMarshal</author><text>Why run Docker inside a VM on a Mac, when you can just run the Linux dev environment directly inside the VM? That&#x27;s just starting to sound like Docker for the sake of Docker.<p>Multipass, Qemu, and Parallels can all provide a solid VM on Mac host. All you need after that is your dev environment VM guest image to deploy to the team.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.qemu.org&#x2F;Hosts&#x2F;Mac" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.qemu.org&#x2F;Hosts&#x2F;Mac</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.parallels.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.parallels.com&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>rcarmo</author><text>For the Mac, just get Canonical’s Multipass (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;multipass.run" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;multipass.run</a>) and do an apt-get to install Docker into a VM and use VS Code to “remote” to it. It will automatically install the Docker extension inside the Linux VM and you’re set.<p>For Windows, use WSL2 and do the same.<p>Both can mount “local” folders, although the setup is obviously different.<p>You now have a better way to manage containers than ever before.</text></item><item><author>dpratt</author><text>This appears to be cutting of their nose to spite their face. We have a team of 50+ engineers that all use Docker for Mac for daily development tasks, but I suspect that will no longer be true in a rather short amount of time. Frankly, I don’t really know if anybody actually uses the UI components for it outside of starting and stopping the engine and for basic configuration of the VM. Everything else that comes with it is just useless cruft for our use cases.<p>As soon as there is a viable alternative (and I’d be happy to contribute to the effort), I’ll be moving away from Docker for Mac.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>osdril</author><text>On Apple Silicon Multipass actually uses QEMU under the hood. Basically it&#x27;s just a (very convenient) wrapper</text></comment> |
7,853,878 | 7,853,138 | 1 | 2 | 7,852,717 | train | <story><title>High Frequency Trading and Finance's Race to Irrelevance</title><url>http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/06/high-frequency-trading-and-finances-race-to-irrelevance/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kiyoto</author><text>I want to shed some light on this topic. As a former HFT quant, I find the general &quot;Main Street&quot; sentiment toward the profession to be misguided.<p>1. HFT does NOT take anything from most investors most of the time. Most investors trade on a much longer investment horizon than any HFT firm. If you are a normal investor, you can lump up most of HFTs into the same bucket as the exchange itself. Most of them engage in some combinations of (i) pure arbitrage (ii) very short-termed statistical arbitrage (iii) market-making based on (i) and (ii). None of this is really that relevant to most investors. The only time HFTs can screw over a lot of investors is when their software goes awry. But this is a risk that any computerized system has, high frequency or not. If there is a major bug in Chicago Mercantile Exchange&#x27;s matching engines, that would be a total disaster.<p>2. HFT firms do have huge execution risks: if you are making a two-sided market, there is a chance you can get &quot;swept&quot;, meaning when the value of the underlying moves faster than you can react, you get filled on one side of the order without a realistic chance of hedging for a profit. HFT firms do a ton of research into estimating their execution risks. (edit: This point is often glossed over, making HFTs look like this evil superpower group of nerds exploiting other investors. That&#x27;s not the case)<p>3. Finally, most HFT traders don&#x27;t go into the profession solely for the money, just like most people do not apply for YC solely for their passion. Most of my former coworkers weren&#x27;t that greedy and led pretty modest lives despite making hundreds of thousands of dollars. For them, high frequency trading had a locally optimal balance of tackling intellectually challenging problems while getting paid handsomely.<p>I won&#x27;t say HFT is the most valuable thing that its practitioners can be doing. I think the (trading) world would operate just fine without all these micro-second level transactions. But they are NOT the next subprime mortgage, and I just hope folks stop commenting on stuff they have no clue about.</text></comment> | <story><title>High Frequency Trading and Finance's Race to Irrelevance</title><url>http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/06/high-frequency-trading-and-finances-race-to-irrelevance/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>minikites</author><text>&gt; What Lewis’s book demonstrated to me isn’t just how “bad” HFTs are per se, but rather, what happens when finance keeps walking down the path it seems to be set on — a path that involves abstracting itself from the creation of real-world value. The final destination? It will enter a world entirely of its own — a world in which it is fighting to capture value that is completely independent of whether any is created in the first place.<p>I&#x27;d say the financial markets have been there for 6-8 years already.</text></comment> |
32,791,182 | 32,790,584 | 1 | 2 | 32,790,428 | train | <story><title>Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”</title><url>https://www.blender.org/user-stories/visual-effects-for-the-indian-blockbuster-rrr/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jwitthuhn</author><text>Excited to see this posted here, I&#x27;m the author of the Cycles for Max plugin mentioned in the article. I was delighted when I first heard it was used in RRR.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cyclesformax.net" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cyclesformax.net</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”</title><url>https://www.blender.org/user-stories/visual-effects-for-the-indian-blockbuster-rrr/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>weinzierl</author><text>There is also <i>&quot;I Lost My Body&quot;</i> which is full-length movie made in Blender. An interview with the director Jérémy Clapin[1] gives a bit of the backgound of the project.<p>Both <i>&quot;RRR&quot;</i> [2] and
<i>&quot;I Lost My Body&quot;</i> [3] are on Netflix.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.blender.org&#x2F;user-stories&#x2F;i-lost-my-body-a-stunning-hybrid-cinematic-experience&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.blender.org&#x2F;user-stories&#x2F;i-lost-my-body-a-stunni...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.netflix.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;title&#x2F;81476453?s=i&amp;trkid=13747225&amp;vlang=en&amp;clip=81552243" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.netflix.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;title&#x2F;81476453?s=i&amp;trkid=13747225...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.netflix.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;title&#x2F;81120982?s=i&amp;trkid=13747225&amp;vlang=en&amp;clip=81305435" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.netflix.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;title&#x2F;81120982?s=i&amp;trkid=13747225...</a></text></comment> |
14,263,919 | 14,263,607 | 1 | 3 | 14,254,396 | train | <story><title>The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen (1899)</title><url>https://www.gutenberg.org/files/833/833-h/833-h.htm#link2HCH0001</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alephnil</author><text>Veblen uses the word &quot;Barbarian&quot; in a way I have not seen before. For example he mentions European and Japanese Feudal societies as &quot;higher Barbarian cultures&quot;, and others as &quot;Lower Barbarian&quot;. The common use of &quot;Barbarian&quot; I have seen are entirely derogatory, and not something that would have been used in a serious work like this. Anyone that know what its meaning is in this context?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hythloday</author><text>It&#x27;s the usage that originated with Lewis H. Morgan. Engels used it in &quot;The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State&quot;, which Wikipedia has a good summary of:<p>&gt; Barbarism – the period during which man learns to breed domestic animals and to practice agriculture, and acquires methods of increasing the supply of natural products by human activity.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Origin_of_the_Family" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Origin_of_the_Family</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen (1899)</title><url>https://www.gutenberg.org/files/833/833-h/833-h.htm#link2HCH0001</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alephnil</author><text>Veblen uses the word &quot;Barbarian&quot; in a way I have not seen before. For example he mentions European and Japanese Feudal societies as &quot;higher Barbarian cultures&quot;, and others as &quot;Lower Barbarian&quot;. The common use of &quot;Barbarian&quot; I have seen are entirely derogatory, and not something that would have been used in a serious work like this. Anyone that know what its meaning is in this context?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TuringTest</author><text>The original meaning of &quot;barbarian&quot; was akin to &quot;not Roman&quot; or &quot;foreigner&quot; (more precisely, someone not belonging to any of the classic civilizations).<p>Akin to &quot;villanus&quot; (someone living in a village), it took a derogatory tone later, as someone &quot;uncivilized&quot;, but that was not part of its literal meaning.</text></comment> |
35,098,500 | 35,098,661 | 1 | 2 | 35,096,691 | train | <story><title>Oxy is Cloudflare's Rust-based next generation proxy framework</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-oxy/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>iou</author><text>It’s not OSS :(<p>I figured with this type of blog post the finale would be, and everyone can try it out at…<p>Hopefully they do release it OSS eventually.</text></comment> | <story><title>Oxy is Cloudflare's Rust-based next generation proxy framework</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-oxy/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>RcouF1uZ4gsC</author><text>&gt; Oxy heavily relies on open-source dependencies, with hyper and tokio being the backbone of the framework<p>It seems almost every single production async framework uses tokio instead of async-std. Has tokio won? Is there a reason in 2023 not to use tokio as the async base?</text></comment> |
23,428,221 | 23,427,488 | 1 | 3 | 23,420,786 | train | <story><title>The Beauty of Unix Pipelines</title><url>https://prithu.xyz/posts/unix-pipeline/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tsimionescu</author><text>The problem is that the pipeline model is extremely fragile and breaks in unexpected ways in unexpected places when hit with the real world.<p>The need to handle spaces and quotes can take you from a 20 character pipeline to a 10 line script, or a C program. That is not a good model whichever way you look at it.</text></item><item><author>gorgoiler</author><text>To criticize sh semantics without acknowledging that C was <i>always there when you needed something serious</i> is a bit short sighted.<p>There are two uses of the Unix “api”:<p>[A] Long lived tools for other people to use.<p>[B] Short lived tools one throws together oneself.<p>The fact that most things work most of the time is why the shell works so well for B, and why it is indeed a poor choice for the sort of stable tools designed for others to use, in A.<p>The ubiquity of the C APIs of course solved [A] use cases in the past, when it was unconscionable to operate a system without cc(1). It’s part of why they get first class treatment in the Unix man pages, as old fashioned as that seems nowadays.</text></item><item><author>jcranmer</author><text>&gt; (1) everything is text<p>And lists are space-separated. Unless you want them to be newline-separated, or NUL-separated, which is controlled by an option that may or may not be present for the command you&#x27;re invoking, and is spelled completely differently for each program. Or maybe you just quote spaces somehow, and good luck figuring out who is responsible for inserting quotes and who is responsible for removing them.</text></item><item><author>gorgoiler</author><text>Pipes are wonderful! In my opinion you can’t extol them by themselves. One has to bask in a fuller set of features that are so much greater than the sum of their parts, to feel the warmth of Unix:<p>(1) everything is <i>text</i><p>(2) everything (ish) is a <i>file</i><p>(3) including <i>pipes</i> and <i>fds</i><p>(4) every piece of software is accessible as a file, invoked at the <i>command line</i><p>(5) ...with local <i>arguments</i><p>(6) ...and persistent globals in the <i>environment</i><p>A lot of understanding comes once you know what execve does, though such knowledge is of course not necessary. It just helps.<p>Unix is seriously uncool with young people at the moment. I intend to turn that around and articles like this offer good material.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mbreese</author><text>Pipelines are mainly for short-lived, one-off quick scripts. But they are also really useful for when you control the input data. For example, if you need a summary report based on the results of a sql query.<p>If you control the inputs and you need to support quotes, spaces, non-white space delimiters, etc... in shell script, then that’s on you.<p>If you don’t control the inputs, then shell scripts are generally a poor match. For example, if you need summary reports from a client, but they sometimes provide the table in xlxs or csv format — shell might not be a good idea.<p>Might be controversial, but I think you can tell who works with shell pipes the most by looking at who uses CSV vs tab-delimited text files. Tabs can still be a pain if you have spaces in data. But if you mix shell scripts with CSV, you’re just asking for trouble.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Beauty of Unix Pipelines</title><url>https://prithu.xyz/posts/unix-pipeline/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tsimionescu</author><text>The problem is that the pipeline model is extremely fragile and breaks in unexpected ways in unexpected places when hit with the real world.<p>The need to handle spaces and quotes can take you from a 20 character pipeline to a 10 line script, or a C program. That is not a good model whichever way you look at it.</text></item><item><author>gorgoiler</author><text>To criticize sh semantics without acknowledging that C was <i>always there when you needed something serious</i> is a bit short sighted.<p>There are two uses of the Unix “api”:<p>[A] Long lived tools for other people to use.<p>[B] Short lived tools one throws together oneself.<p>The fact that most things work most of the time is why the shell works so well for B, and why it is indeed a poor choice for the sort of stable tools designed for others to use, in A.<p>The ubiquity of the C APIs of course solved [A] use cases in the past, when it was unconscionable to operate a system without cc(1). It’s part of why they get first class treatment in the Unix man pages, as old fashioned as that seems nowadays.</text></item><item><author>jcranmer</author><text>&gt; (1) everything is text<p>And lists are space-separated. Unless you want them to be newline-separated, or NUL-separated, which is controlled by an option that may or may not be present for the command you&#x27;re invoking, and is spelled completely differently for each program. Or maybe you just quote spaces somehow, and good luck figuring out who is responsible for inserting quotes and who is responsible for removing them.</text></item><item><author>gorgoiler</author><text>Pipes are wonderful! In my opinion you can’t extol them by themselves. One has to bask in a fuller set of features that are so much greater than the sum of their parts, to feel the warmth of Unix:<p>(1) everything is <i>text</i><p>(2) everything (ish) is a <i>file</i><p>(3) including <i>pipes</i> and <i>fds</i><p>(4) every piece of software is accessible as a file, invoked at the <i>command line</i><p>(5) ...with local <i>arguments</i><p>(6) ...and persistent globals in the <i>environment</i><p>A lot of understanding comes once you know what execve does, though such knowledge is of course not necessary. It just helps.<p>Unix is seriously uncool with young people at the moment. I intend to turn that around and articles like this offer good material.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>necrotic_comp</author><text>I&#x27;ve been scripting stuff on the pipeline for over a decade and haven&#x27;t really run into this much.<p>You can define a field separator in the command line with the environment variable IFS - i.e. &#x27;IFS=$(echo -en &quot;\n\b&quot;);&#x27; for newlines - which takes care of the basic cases like spaces in filenames&#x2F;directory names when doing a for loop, and if I have other highly structured data that is heavily quoted or has some other sort of structure to it, then I either normalize it in some fashion or, as you suggest, write a perl script.<p>I haven&#x27;t found it too much of a burden, even when dealing with exceptionally large files.</text></comment> |
15,384,340 | 15,384,540 | 1 | 2 | 15,384,046 | train | <story><title>ZeroNet: Decentralized websites using Bitcoin crypto and the BitTorrent network</title><url>https://zeronet.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eberkund</author><text>Does anyone else see it as an issue that the decentralized website solution to databases is to create a copy of a SQLite database on every user&#x27;s machine?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brad0</author><text>I agree. This is the biggest technological issue for zeronet imo.<p>Every time there&#x27;s a change to the db you need to download a whole new copy afaik.<p>Ideally you&#x27;d use a log based store. To do this you need to fundamentally change your idea for how a website works.<p>With a distributed log store chances are you won&#x27;t have the same data as another person.</text></comment> | <story><title>ZeroNet: Decentralized websites using Bitcoin crypto and the BitTorrent network</title><url>https://zeronet.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eberkund</author><text>Does anyone else see it as an issue that the decentralized website solution to databases is to create a copy of a SQLite database on every user&#x27;s machine?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jchanimal</author><text>PouchDB is the correct solution here.</text></comment> |
39,782,904 | 39,779,425 | 1 | 2 | 39,775,304 | train | <story><title>Vernor Vinge has died</title><url>https://file770.com/vernor-vinge-1944-2024/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmd</author><text>Please mirror, because more people should have a copy of this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;3e.org&#x2F;vvannot" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;3e.org&#x2F;vvannot</a><p>This is Vinge&#x27;s <i>annotated</i> copy of A Fire Upon the Deep. It has all his comments and discussion with editors and early readers. It provides an absolutely fascinating insight into his writing process and shows the depth of effort he put into making sure everything made sense.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_emacsomancer_</author><text>There&#x27;s an interview with Vinge from 2009 [0] which contains a screenshot [1] of him using Emacs with his home-brewed proto-Org-mode annotation system (which appears in parent&#x27;s link).<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20170215121054&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.norwescon.org&#x2F;archives&#x2F;norwescon33&#x2F;vingeinterview.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20170215121054&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.norwes...</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20170104130412&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.norwescon.org&#x2F;archives&#x2F;norwescon33&#x2F;images&#x2F;Vinge_screenshot.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20170104130412&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.norwes...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Vernor Vinge has died</title><url>https://file770.com/vernor-vinge-1944-2024/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmd</author><text>Please mirror, because more people should have a copy of this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;3e.org&#x2F;vvannot" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;3e.org&#x2F;vvannot</a><p>This is Vinge&#x27;s <i>annotated</i> copy of A Fire Upon the Deep. It has all his comments and discussion with editors and early readers. It provides an absolutely fascinating insight into his writing process and shows the depth of effort he put into making sure everything made sense.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thrtythreeforty</author><text>Thanks for mirroring this! This was only published on an old CD for the &#x27;93 Hugo winners, and I had a devil of a time trying to find a copy (inter-library-loan, etc) before realizing someone had archived it on archive.org. It is indeed well worth the time spent if you&#x27;re a fan of <i>Fire</i>.</text></comment> |
26,629,167 | 26,621,683 | 1 | 3 | 26,620,892 | train | <story><title>Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time</title><url>https://www.axios.com/church-membership-gallup-26cc020b-5405-417a-a786-e10c286a30db.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CedarMills</author><text>As a believer and someone who attends church regularly, this is sad but not unexpected. From my own personal experience - if the church cannot answer questions clearly, their members will look for answers somewhere else. A lot of churches unfortunately are so elementary in their teaching or turn to &quot;feel good preaching&quot; (see Elevation Church). The longterm effect is that a person ends up being tired of getting the same &quot;baby food&quot; and they look to other places. The churches where theology is solid (and clear) tend to be stronger in number and in regular attendance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>filoeleven</author><text>The American evangelical movement is particularly rabid, and subscribes overwhelmingly to Christian nationalism. It is entirely too mixed into politics, and is trying to create a theocratic state where “everyone must live like Christians (for my definition of Christian).”<p>One of the high points for me regarding religion in the past couple years was finding The Holy Post podcast. One host is Phil Vischer, AKA Bob the Tomato, the creator of Veggie Tales. I have some fundamental (heh) disagreements with their perspective at this point, but they remind me of what I thought the church was while growing up within it, and they still largely reflect what I think it should be. They acknowledge that there’s lots of room for disagreement, they don’t think they have all the answers, and they strike me as genuinely loving people.<p>If I had heard more people talking like them 20 years ago, I might not have left the church. It’s not a question of “baby food” so much as “cultural identity,” and the cultural identity of the American church is largely flag-waving rah-rah nationalism. Not sure what stats you’re referencing, because megachurches are still quite popular here and quite clear on their “theology.”<p>If you the parent poster are not located in America, please disregard this post entirely.</text></comment> | <story><title>Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time</title><url>https://www.axios.com/church-membership-gallup-26cc020b-5405-417a-a786-e10c286a30db.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CedarMills</author><text>As a believer and someone who attends church regularly, this is sad but not unexpected. From my own personal experience - if the church cannot answer questions clearly, their members will look for answers somewhere else. A lot of churches unfortunately are so elementary in their teaching or turn to &quot;feel good preaching&quot; (see Elevation Church). The longterm effect is that a person ends up being tired of getting the same &quot;baby food&quot; and they look to other places. The churches where theology is solid (and clear) tend to be stronger in number and in regular attendance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>49531</author><text>As someone who was raised in a religious home who no longer attends any church I think it&#x27;s less to do with not answering questions and more to do with a hostile rejection of religion generally. It wasn&#x27;t until I had children of my own that I realized I needed to distance myself from religion. I know there is a large variety of what is taught from religion to religion and sect to sect but I&#x27;d like to steer clear from any organization that takes a negative view on basic things like homosexuality. I cannot fathom exposing my (or any) kids to that kind of worldview.</text></comment> |
16,161,439 | 16,161,117 | 1 | 3 | 16,159,808 | train | <story><title>Leap: An Online Community for Women</title><url>http://blog.ycombinator.com/join-leap-an-online-community-for-women/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fruzz</author><text>I really wish your experience was unique.<p>A colleague was groped. She didn&#x27;t report it. It would have likely diminished her future prospects. A friend was asked out on dates, unsolicited, multiple times by coworkers. She just had to laugh it off. Women at a previous employment reported not being taken as seriously as men in meetings, and being passed over for promotions in favour of less qualified men. A friend reported sexualized posters of women up in the office. In the chat of my company, a sexualized video of women was passed around.<p>I&#x27;m trans, so my challenges are a bit different. I try to hide the fact that I&#x27;m trans during interviews. A lot of people are uncomfortable with trans people (26% of Canadian men are uncomfortable moving next to one), and with interviews to see if I&#x27;m socially a good fit, that can end it. I actually changed my name to an androgynous one as to not out myself. I get misgendered at work by people who do it on purpose. I also get touched inappropriately by a coworker.<p>In all cases, what can you do to challenge these things without being seen as &quot;the crazy one&quot;, &quot;too sensitive&quot;, &quot;party pooper&quot;, or whatever? Without hurting my finances?
It&#x27;s shit.</text></item><item><author>turinapple</author><text>I&#x27;m a woman that&#x27;s worked in tech since 2011... at times the discrimination and treatment I&#x27;ve faced has made me want to quit the industry all together. But every time I reached that point I thought - no, I&#x27;m not the one who should have to leave, it&#x27;s the people -- usually men -- who have not shown empathy, kindness or compassion. The ones who have bullied me and harassed me and made inappropriate comments or advances. So many of these experiences I just buried inside until I was in the company of other people I trusted and felt safe to share. There hasn&#x27;t really been an online forum where I felt safe to have these conversations until now. Now that Leap is here I have other people who <i>get</i> me who I can talk to about the stuff that is bugging me. With their help I can treat each day as new and keep moving forward with my career. If you don&#x27;t understand why this community is important perhaps it&#x27;s because you have had the privilege of never feeling like a second class citizen in the industry you work in.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fortythirteen</author><text>Disclaimer: not in any way attempting to diminish your experience. Only adding my own, to broaden the conversation.<p>It can be a similar experience for men (although it&#x27;s definitely not something talked about). I&#x27;ve had a female coworker walk up behind me repeatedly and give me unsolicited back rubs and ask me if I wanted to go to an empty office. I&#x27;ve been flirted with and hit on repeatedly. I&#x27;ve had a group of women at work, some of whom were in positions of power, socially shun me because I wasn&#x27;t romantically interested in one of their friends, another coworker.<p>Most of this happened when I was younger, and I probably would respond differently now that I have more experience (I just kept my mouth shut back then). But, I still can&#x27;t help but feel that I wouldn&#x27;t be taken as seriously by HR, because I&#x27;m a man.<p>I&#x27;d like to see us move past the current narrative of &quot;Men do this to Women&quot; and get to a place where we recognize that <i>People shouldn&#x27;t do this to other People</i>.</text></comment> | <story><title>Leap: An Online Community for Women</title><url>http://blog.ycombinator.com/join-leap-an-online-community-for-women/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fruzz</author><text>I really wish your experience was unique.<p>A colleague was groped. She didn&#x27;t report it. It would have likely diminished her future prospects. A friend was asked out on dates, unsolicited, multiple times by coworkers. She just had to laugh it off. Women at a previous employment reported not being taken as seriously as men in meetings, and being passed over for promotions in favour of less qualified men. A friend reported sexualized posters of women up in the office. In the chat of my company, a sexualized video of women was passed around.<p>I&#x27;m trans, so my challenges are a bit different. I try to hide the fact that I&#x27;m trans during interviews. A lot of people are uncomfortable with trans people (26% of Canadian men are uncomfortable moving next to one), and with interviews to see if I&#x27;m socially a good fit, that can end it. I actually changed my name to an androgynous one as to not out myself. I get misgendered at work by people who do it on purpose. I also get touched inappropriately by a coworker.<p>In all cases, what can you do to challenge these things without being seen as &quot;the crazy one&quot;, &quot;too sensitive&quot;, &quot;party pooper&quot;, or whatever? Without hurting my finances?
It&#x27;s shit.</text></item><item><author>turinapple</author><text>I&#x27;m a woman that&#x27;s worked in tech since 2011... at times the discrimination and treatment I&#x27;ve faced has made me want to quit the industry all together. But every time I reached that point I thought - no, I&#x27;m not the one who should have to leave, it&#x27;s the people -- usually men -- who have not shown empathy, kindness or compassion. The ones who have bullied me and harassed me and made inappropriate comments or advances. So many of these experiences I just buried inside until I was in the company of other people I trusted and felt safe to share. There hasn&#x27;t really been an online forum where I felt safe to have these conversations until now. Now that Leap is here I have other people who <i>get</i> me who I can talk to about the stuff that is bugging me. With their help I can treat each day as new and keep moving forward with my career. If you don&#x27;t understand why this community is important perhaps it&#x27;s because you have had the privilege of never feeling like a second class citizen in the industry you work in.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>turinapple</author><text>Thanks for sharing. Everytime I&#x27;ve tried to challenge others&#x27; behavior towards me, I&#x27;ve ended up the villain...</text></comment> |
32,419,554 | 32,419,310 | 1 | 2 | 32,417,230 | train | <story><title>FCC cancels Starlink’s and LTD's rural development grants</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/08/fcc-rejects-starlinks-886-million-grant-says-spacex-proposal-too-risky/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>colejohnson66</author><text>That, and latency. Or has that improved in the last decade?</text></item><item><author>wmf</author><text>Yes, the density of satellite is far lower than urban cellular which is why no one is pitching satellite for urban customers.</text></item><item><author>H8crilA</author><text>Oh, ok. But 22km is still <i>a lot</i> more than a typical 4G&#x2F;5G urban cell. It&#x27;s basically the size of a city. Whereas I can spot multiple stations in my city if I go for a 5-10 minute walk.</text></item><item><author>wmf</author><text>All modern satellites use multiple narrow spot beams; in Starlink&#x27;s case each beam is 22 km wide. This allows spectrum to be reused.</text></item><item><author>H8crilA</author><text>Can someone explain how does Starlink go about using the electromagnetic spectrum efficiently? 4G (and 5G even more so) relies on small cells to spatially partition the spectrum, therefore increasing the maximum bandwidth available in the system. Need to serve more users without compromising per-user throughput? Split the cells.<p>Now, the cell of a satellite is enormous, and there&#x27;s no way to reduce the tx power without getting out of range of the surface of the planet altogether. Not to mention that those satellites are pretty damn fast so they stay over any particular user for a very short amount of time.<p>What am I missing? Or is this supposed to be a low throughput system (when added up over all concurrent users)?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>deepdriver</author><text>Starlink latency is somewhere around 50ms on average according to friends, more than adequate for e.g. online multiplayer first-person shooters.</text></comment> | <story><title>FCC cancels Starlink’s and LTD's rural development grants</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/08/fcc-rejects-starlinks-886-million-grant-says-spacex-proposal-too-risky/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>colejohnson66</author><text>That, and latency. Or has that improved in the last decade?</text></item><item><author>wmf</author><text>Yes, the density of satellite is far lower than urban cellular which is why no one is pitching satellite for urban customers.</text></item><item><author>H8crilA</author><text>Oh, ok. But 22km is still <i>a lot</i> more than a typical 4G&#x2F;5G urban cell. It&#x27;s basically the size of a city. Whereas I can spot multiple stations in my city if I go for a 5-10 minute walk.</text></item><item><author>wmf</author><text>All modern satellites use multiple narrow spot beams; in Starlink&#x27;s case each beam is 22 km wide. This allows spectrum to be reused.</text></item><item><author>H8crilA</author><text>Can someone explain how does Starlink go about using the electromagnetic spectrum efficiently? 4G (and 5G even more so) relies on small cells to spatially partition the spectrum, therefore increasing the maximum bandwidth available in the system. Need to serve more users without compromising per-user throughput? Split the cells.<p>Now, the cell of a satellite is enormous, and there&#x27;s no way to reduce the tx power without getting out of range of the surface of the planet altogether. Not to mention that those satellites are pretty damn fast so they stay over any particular user for a very short amount of time.<p>What am I missing? Or is this supposed to be a low throughput system (when added up over all concurrent users)?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Dylan16807</author><text>I wouldn&#x27;t care about 40ms of latency for my phone.<p>If by &quot;last decade&quot; you&#x27;re comparing against geostationary, then yes. The satellites are roughly a hundred times closer.</text></comment> |
20,483,884 | 20,483,944 | 1 | 2 | 20,483,591 | train | <story><title>Equifax Is Said to Be Near $650M Settlement for Data Breach</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/business/equifax-data-breach-settlement.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tuxxy</author><text>I took Equifax to small claims. When that didn&#x27;t pay up, I appealed and removed to higher courts. I continued doing this until it wasn&#x27;t worth it for me. I think I cost Equifax a total of at least $20K USD. They had to keep flying lawyers back and forth from Atlanta to where I lived and put them in hotels.<p>I think I got them to spend more than I would have received in any settlement.<p>Fun note, my judge in small claims dismissed my case but said the following before dismissing it, &quot;Mr. tuxxy, I would not trust Equifax with my dog&#x27;s vaccination records. I&#x27;m absolutely appalled in the lack of protections Equifax provides for the personal data of Americans, however I&#x27;m afraid I don&#x27;t see a case for negligence...&quot;<p>She lectured Equifax&#x27;s lawyers a bit on what a shitty offer credit monitoring was for the loss of my PII for a bit, then sent us out.<p>I trolled their legal team a bit near the end and tried to settle for $3.50 after mediation failed, but I wanted them to refer to the $3.50 as &quot;tree-fiddy&quot; in the settlement, but they refused. Oh well...</text></comment> | <story><title>Equifax Is Said to Be Near $650M Settlement for Data Breach</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/business/equifax-data-breach-settlement.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>FlyingLawnmower</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand how Facebook got a $5B fine, yet Equifax gets a ~$650m fine. The data breached in the Equifax case seems to cause far more direct harm, and affected many more Americans. It feels like the 10x difference should go the other way.<p>Can someone more educated in how these fines work teach me about how these numbers are calculated?</text></comment> |
4,134,392 | 4,134,459 | 1 | 3 | 4,133,686 | train | <story><title>UVA Computer Science professor resigns over incompetence of board</title><url>https://gist.github.com/2955870</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomasien</author><text>Brief description of what's happening: a bit over 2 years ago, Teressa Sullivan was appointed the first woman president in the history of UVa, a school that was all male until the 70's.<p>Suddenly, last week she was forced to resign because of a "philosophical difference" with the Board of Visitors, a group that is appointed by the state of oversee University Affairs and top level hirings. It was later revealed this was the result of a coup by a bunch of Darden MBA's because they wanted "radical" change to the future plans of the University, not incremental change.<p>The students and faculty are outraged because this was done in secret behind closed doors, which is very much contrary to the way things are typically done at UVa (because of Jefferson's vision or whatever, I find a lot of the Jefferson talk to be crap but let's take it for what it is for now).<p>There have been protests, yada yada yada everybody is pissed and people are starting to quit.<p>This is a big damn deal that's only getting worse, and although I'm a UVa alum who for some reason doesn't really care, I suggest taking a look at this if you're interested in the bs that can go on at the ivory tower institutions</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_delirium</author><text>A fundamental problem is that university boards have an increasing disconnect from anything to do with merit, and a close enough connect to donating money (in two ways) that it's pretty close to just buying a seat. They're mostly made up some mixture of: 1) large donors to the university, who're appointed to maintain good relations, encourage future donations, etc.; and 2) for public universities, large <i>political</i> donors, who're appointed by governors, sort of in the way that ambassadorships often go to big political donors.<p>It's admittedly long been common for particularly large donors to be flattered a bit with some role, but over the past 10-20 years this seems to have gone from being a few members of the board, to being almost all of them, with very few members appointed primarily because of non-donation-related merit, like someone thinking they're actually good candidates for overseeing an academic/research institution. Note the lack of accomplished scientists on the board, for example. In addition, the political appointees seem to have decreased in quality: it was once more common to appoint someone who, while they were from your own party, was a late-career "elder statesman" type figure, e.g. a former governor or Congressman.<p>It's sadly not a partisan issue, either: if you look at, say, the University of California Board of Regents, you have a nice bipartisan mixture of big Democratic donors (appointed by Democratic governors) and big Republican donors (appointed by Republican governors). Their expertise is... not too relevant seeming, including such credentials as "former CEO of Paramount Pictures" and "husband of Dianne Feinstein".</text></comment> | <story><title>UVA Computer Science professor resigns over incompetence of board</title><url>https://gist.github.com/2955870</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomasien</author><text>Brief description of what's happening: a bit over 2 years ago, Teressa Sullivan was appointed the first woman president in the history of UVa, a school that was all male until the 70's.<p>Suddenly, last week she was forced to resign because of a "philosophical difference" with the Board of Visitors, a group that is appointed by the state of oversee University Affairs and top level hirings. It was later revealed this was the result of a coup by a bunch of Darden MBA's because they wanted "radical" change to the future plans of the University, not incremental change.<p>The students and faculty are outraged because this was done in secret behind closed doors, which is very much contrary to the way things are typically done at UVa (because of Jefferson's vision or whatever, I find a lot of the Jefferson talk to be crap but let's take it for what it is for now).<p>There have been protests, yada yada yada everybody is pissed and people are starting to quit.<p>This is a big damn deal that's only getting worse, and although I'm a UVa alum who for some reason doesn't really care, I suggest taking a look at this if you're interested in the bs that can go on at the ivory tower institutions</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kmfrk</author><text><p><pre><code> It was later revealed this was the result of a coup by a
bunch of Darden MBA's because they wanted "radical" change
to the future plans of the University, not incremental
change.
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Which, as I recall, was revealed in some seriously mustache-twirling e-mails that the main orchestrator had used the <i>Reply All</i> feature for or something to that extent. I can't remember which article I read this in, but this has all the elements of <i>the</i> most interesting and scandalous affair in academia this year.</text></comment> |
38,453,279 | 38,453,530 | 1 | 2 | 38,443,283 | train | <story><title>Trojan Room Coffee Pot</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Room_coffee_pot</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mastazi</author><text>The early Internet was magical.<p>The fact that you could see a place through a camera, in real time and whenever you wanted, on the other side of the world, was magical.<p>Before webcams, only large television networks had the technical ability to do that, through an extremely expensive satellite connection.<p>Now, 16-year-old-me could do it from my bedroom.</text></comment> | <story><title>Trojan Room Coffee Pot</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Room_coffee_pot</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>triyambakam</author><text>Amazing how wanting to avoid an empty coffee pot led to the invention of the webcam. I had no idea.</text></comment> |
17,589,331 | 17,589,003 | 1 | 2 | 17,587,684 | train | <story><title>BPG Image format</title><url>https://bellard.org/bpg/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nailer</author><text>Just reiterating this. Same guy behind FFmpeg, QEmu. One of the living legends.</text></item><item><author>rudolfwinestock</author><text>Note that the author of the linked page is Fabrice Bellard. He created a PC emulator in JavaScript.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bellard.org&#x2F;jslinux&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bellard.org&#x2F;jslinux&#x2F;</a><p>He&#x27;s also made several other impressive hacks: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bellard.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bellard.org&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sofaofthedamned</author><text>The 4G&#x2F;LTE stuff he did was amazing. We had a team of people at the <i>extremely large</i> network company I worked at previously who didn&#x27;t get the same quality and coverage he managed.<p>Does he do public talks? I&#x27;d love to see him and shake his hand for many, many reasons.</text></comment> | <story><title>BPG Image format</title><url>https://bellard.org/bpg/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nailer</author><text>Just reiterating this. Same guy behind FFmpeg, QEmu. One of the living legends.</text></item><item><author>rudolfwinestock</author><text>Note that the author of the linked page is Fabrice Bellard. He created a PC emulator in JavaScript.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bellard.org&#x2F;jslinux&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bellard.org&#x2F;jslinux&#x2F;</a><p>He&#x27;s also made several other impressive hacks: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bellard.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bellard.org&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joss82</author><text>Don&#x27;t forget the decimals of pi record holder for a while (on a laptop)</text></comment> |
16,352,348 | 16,352,288 | 1 | 3 | 16,352,074 | train | <story><title>Answers to front-end developer job interview questions</title><url>https://github.com/yangshun/front-end-interview-handbook</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jasim</author><text>If you&#x27;re new to front-end development and this questionnaire freaks you out, that&#x27;s okay. This is probably useful for the author as a preparation aid, or for programmers whose interviewing style is based on regurgitating trivia. And this is trivia - man-made transient factoids, most of which are quirks of history that will go out of fashion in a few years.<p>This is not how a well-run interview happens. Can you read things and comprehend them? Can you think? Can you write? Can you be kind? Can you be professional in times of stress? Ultimately, can you build? If you can and if you&#x27;ve already built things, go into the interview so that you can speak about the things you know, the things you have opinions on, the things you&#x27;ve built and the things you want to build. If it is a good interviewer on the other end you&#x27;ll have a good time jamming with a fellow maker; if it is a bad interviewer they&#x27;ll ask you questions from a checklist they collected maybe from this handbook, and it is best that you don&#x27;t work with those people.</text></comment> | <story><title>Answers to front-end developer job interview questions</title><url>https://github.com/yangshun/front-end-interview-handbook</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>weego</author><text>Some if these are just kinda...why does it matter. Honestly who cares what a doctype does&#x2F;is for when you only ever use one from a boilerplate.<p>For most people in most companies weeding out the overly zealous, the ones who are unable to be pragmatic and the ones who can&#x27;t play well in a team or in front of clients instead of biasing selection on technical knowledge is far more beneficial to the business.<p>Spending some time pair programming in an interview doing something actually relevant to the job is much more enlightening than throwing questions.</text></comment> |
34,523,458 | 34,523,278 | 1 | 3 | 34,521,970 | train | <story><title>The audacity of Apple Podcasts</title><url>https://basta.substack.com/p/the-absolute-audacity-of-apple-podcasts</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>&gt; <i>You could sign up to allow Apple to host your show and its audio (for a cool $20&#x2F;year). In exchange, you could charge a subscription fee to your listeners... If you host your show with Apple, the only listeners you can have are folks with the Apple Podcasts app... The audio will be protected with DRM.</i><p>The author presents this as &quot;audacity&quot; and bad... but doesn&#x27;t it make perfect sense? If you&#x27;re charging a subscription fee then it makes sense that the podcast lives in a walled DRM&#x27;ed garden. Also, if Apple is hosting it for nearly free ($20&#x2F;year is nothing), why would you expect Apple to make it available to competing podcast apps? If you post something on TikTok it doesn&#x27;t show up on people&#x27;s Facebook feeds.<p>Apple isn&#x27;t taking away self-hosted RSS podcast feeds. It&#x27;s presenting a separate paid subscription experience within its Podcasts app. No &quot;audacity&quot; about it. If you don&#x27;t want that as a creator, don&#x27;t use it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bastawhiz</author><text>Author here.<p>&gt; If you&#x27;re charging a subscription fee<p>The DRM applies even if you charge no fee.<p>&gt; why would you expect Apple to make it available to competing podcast apps<p>Because every single other podcast hosting service does, with the exception of folks that signed a contract with Spotify.<p>&gt; If you post something on TikTok it doesn&#x27;t show up on people&#x27;s Facebook feeds.<p>It can, actually. You can post a link. If I upload a podcast to Apple, it&#x27;s physically inaccessible unless you have a Mac or an iOS device.<p>&gt; Apple isn&#x27;t taking away self-hosted RSS podcast feeds.<p>That was never the point, and not my concern. What they&#x27;re doing is tricking small podcasters into signing up for a cheap service that prevents them from ever leaving.</text></comment> | <story><title>The audacity of Apple Podcasts</title><url>https://basta.substack.com/p/the-absolute-audacity-of-apple-podcasts</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>&gt; <i>You could sign up to allow Apple to host your show and its audio (for a cool $20&#x2F;year). In exchange, you could charge a subscription fee to your listeners... If you host your show with Apple, the only listeners you can have are folks with the Apple Podcasts app... The audio will be protected with DRM.</i><p>The author presents this as &quot;audacity&quot; and bad... but doesn&#x27;t it make perfect sense? If you&#x27;re charging a subscription fee then it makes sense that the podcast lives in a walled DRM&#x27;ed garden. Also, if Apple is hosting it for nearly free ($20&#x2F;year is nothing), why would you expect Apple to make it available to competing podcast apps? If you post something on TikTok it doesn&#x27;t show up on people&#x27;s Facebook feeds.<p>Apple isn&#x27;t taking away self-hosted RSS podcast feeds. It&#x27;s presenting a separate paid subscription experience within its Podcasts app. No &quot;audacity&quot; about it. If you don&#x27;t want that as a creator, don&#x27;t use it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xoa</author><text>&gt;<i>If you&#x27;re charging a subscription fee then it makes sense that the podcast lives in a walled DRM&#x27;ed garden</i><p>No, it absolutely does not. In the same way it doesn&#x27;t make any sense to have DRM on music or anything else I pay for. I&#x27;m a paying customer, why should my experience and the product I&#x27;m paying for literally be worse then the people who pirate it? This thinking is straight out of the 90s&#x2F;00s RIAA playbook that Apple themselves played a major role in tearing down! Normal podcast systems charge money and make things member-only just fine with normal RSS and standard sound. If someone wants to save one they got while paying to listen to again later so what?<p>&gt;<i>Also, if Apple is hosting it for nearly free ($20&#x2F;year is nothing), why would you expect Apple to make it available to competing podcast apps?</i><p>&quot;Nearly&quot; isn&#x27;t actually free. It&#x27;s a paid service, and it&#x27;s for something that&#x27;s &quot;nearly free&quot; to provide too by that argument. Why shouldn&#x27;t it just be standard, with a bit of Apple polish in the interface and tooling and some options for users to add Apple as an intermediary for privacy if they want? This is a dumb, good-will burning approach for peanuts. Anything Apple gets from this isn&#x27;t worth even having a front page story on HN and a few thousand people noticing and getting just a little bit more irritated. It&#x27;s a symptom of a company that isn&#x27;t thinking as holistically as it once did, or more charitably this is such an unimportant thing that it didn&#x27;t actually get any serious attention and they just built it in a proprietary lazy way out of their current defaults I guess.</text></comment> |
9,778,748 | 9,778,666 | 1 | 2 | 9,778,285 | train | <story><title>Atom 1.0</title><url>http://blog.atom.io/2015/06/25/atom-1-0.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joefitzgerald</author><text>The killer feature of Atom to me is the ease with which it can be extended (via packages) and the openness to community contribution on core features. That&#x27;s not a knock against any other editor (some of which share similar characteristics in this regard) – it&#x27;s just what draws me to Atom.<p>It&#x27;s super easy to hack on and contribute to.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jerf</author><text>It&#x27;s the Cycle of Bloat.<p><pre><code> 1. Develop tool. It&#x27;s small and fast and minimal! Woo!
2. It&#x27;s easy to modify because it&#x27;s so small! Woo!
3. Look, there&#x27;s a budding ecosystem of packages! Woo! (Let&#x27;s
not talk about the fact the packages exist precisely because
the original product wasn&#x27;t big enough.)
4. Oh dear, some of them conflict, a lot of them suck. Well,
here&#x27;s some winners, let&#x27;s pull them into the core. Now the
base system is that much better! Woo!
5. Repeat 3 and 4 a few times.
6. Crap, this tool is all bloated and slow. I&#x27;m going to go
create a small, fast, minimalist solution!
</code></pre>
Repeat indefinitely.<p>See also: &quot;minimalist web framework&quot;, &quot;minimalist Linux distribution&quot;, &quot;minimalist programming language&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Atom 1.0</title><url>http://blog.atom.io/2015/06/25/atom-1-0.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joefitzgerald</author><text>The killer feature of Atom to me is the ease with which it can be extended (via packages) and the openness to community contribution on core features. That&#x27;s not a knock against any other editor (some of which share similar characteristics in this regard) – it&#x27;s just what draws me to Atom.<p>It&#x27;s super easy to hack on and contribute to.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>omouse</author><text>Welcome to what I&#x27;ve felt with Emacs since I first used it.<p>Might be time to work on some tutorials and examples to make Emacs easier to hack on and contribute to...</text></comment> |
34,942,165 | 34,941,614 | 1 | 2 | 34,939,809 | train | <story><title>Bizarre and unusual uses of DNS</title><url>https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/dns_bizarre_and_unusual_uses_of_dns/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zyberzero</author><text>I remember 15 years or so; a friend and I figured out that DNS got through my friends cellular connection even though the data limit were reached.
We tested and set up a socks-over-dns-proxy back then and it worked! We loled and then never did anything more than that unfortunately (or it depends, we´d most likely be detected if we continued to use that, eh, solution).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hsbauauvhabzb</author><text>This is really common in ‘airgapped networks’ so much that tools exist to create tunnels. I tested this on a job and upstream dns servers blocked me after about 1mb of traffic, it’s an abuse of a public service and a complete waste of resources (5-10x amplification) so something that’s completely understandable.<p>I imagine 10 years ago, controls may not have been so good though.<p>Edit: part of the rationale in some cases, I believe, is to facilitate captive portals for hotel wifi login etc.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bizarre and unusual uses of DNS</title><url>https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/dns_bizarre_and_unusual_uses_of_dns/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zyberzero</author><text>I remember 15 years or so; a friend and I figured out that DNS got through my friends cellular connection even though the data limit were reached.
We tested and set up a socks-over-dns-proxy back then and it worked! We loled and then never did anything more than that unfortunately (or it depends, we´d most likely be detected if we continued to use that, eh, solution).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philsnow</author><text>About 15 years ago as well, a cruise ship I was on blocked most connections if you hadn&#x27;t paid, but allowed DNS, so I tunneled some vpn over dns and it worked.</text></comment> |
1,876,200 | 1,875,592 | 1 | 2 | 1,874,941 | train | <story><title>Lessons learned from helping over 150 startups with marketing (from my Offer HN)</title><url>http://insight.io/blog/2010/11/lessons-learned-from-helping-over-150-startups-with-marketing-part-1-fundamentals/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>patio11</author><text>Serious Ravers Love Our Lasers -- Pew Pew<p>You may want to take off the "pew pew". I am not plugged into that community. Alternate phrasing "Like Glow Sticks, Without The Suck"<p>Edit:<p><i>Want an intense effect for your next rave? Try a green laser -- it is magical in a dark room or at nighttime.
Each laser pen is effectively a laser pointer with a detachable kaleidoscope light filter on the top. When this filter is on, the single, solid laser beam transforms into hundreds of different points of light on a surface. Too dangerous to point at a face.</i></text></item><item><author>prawn</author><text>First thing I noticed was "top product" which is pretty generic. Might be better if that said "green lasers - our top seller" or similar?</text></item><item><author>user24</author><text>look at the site with fresh eyes.<p>Load the homepage and only allow yourself to read the most obvious 5 words on it.<p>What do you read? At the moment when I do that, I read: "plurty cart checkout light gloves".<p>Just put a nice bright tagline under plurty that says "Number 1 for rave lights" and bam!</text></item><item><author>treeface</author><text>Thanks jscore! We're in the process of a redesign that will greatly simplify the whole thing, but I will see what I can do in the short term to make it more obvious what we sell. Thanks again :-]</text></item><item><author>jscore</author><text>Just adding $0.02 of my own about your site. I went there really quick but took a while to figure out what you were selling. I'd simplify the design and add a headline somewhere about what the site does. It's just too busy.</text></item><item><author>treeface</author><text>Ilya was kind enough to review my startup, an online rave gear retail site:<p><a href="http://www.plurty.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.plurty.com</a><p>Previously, I had this giant "Sign up" button on the home page, but what I had forgotten was that most of the value of the site came from the ability to <i>not have to sign up in order to buy our products</i>. We built anonymity into it so much that you don't even have to enter your email address. This was crucial for us because nobody wants to sign up for a website that is unknown.<p>Also, Ilya pointed out that the most distinguishing feature of our site were the extended exposure images and that we should use it as a marketing tool. We are currently planning on replacing our text-only adwords campaign and using the images to get more clicks.<p>Anyway...just thought I'd add my $0.02 and thank Ilya again. It was useful advice that we really needed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chc</author><text>My girlfriend got out of the rave scene not too long ago, and I guarantee you she would have bought it for the "Pew Pew" alone.</text></comment> | <story><title>Lessons learned from helping over 150 startups with marketing (from my Offer HN)</title><url>http://insight.io/blog/2010/11/lessons-learned-from-helping-over-150-startups-with-marketing-part-1-fundamentals/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>patio11</author><text>Serious Ravers Love Our Lasers -- Pew Pew<p>You may want to take off the "pew pew". I am not plugged into that community. Alternate phrasing "Like Glow Sticks, Without The Suck"<p>Edit:<p><i>Want an intense effect for your next rave? Try a green laser -- it is magical in a dark room or at nighttime.
Each laser pen is effectively a laser pointer with a detachable kaleidoscope light filter on the top. When this filter is on, the single, solid laser beam transforms into hundreds of different points of light on a surface. Too dangerous to point at a face.</i></text></item><item><author>prawn</author><text>First thing I noticed was "top product" which is pretty generic. Might be better if that said "green lasers - our top seller" or similar?</text></item><item><author>user24</author><text>look at the site with fresh eyes.<p>Load the homepage and only allow yourself to read the most obvious 5 words on it.<p>What do you read? At the moment when I do that, I read: "plurty cart checkout light gloves".<p>Just put a nice bright tagline under plurty that says "Number 1 for rave lights" and bam!</text></item><item><author>treeface</author><text>Thanks jscore! We're in the process of a redesign that will greatly simplify the whole thing, but I will see what I can do in the short term to make it more obvious what we sell. Thanks again :-]</text></item><item><author>jscore</author><text>Just adding $0.02 of my own about your site. I went there really quick but took a while to figure out what you were selling. I'd simplify the design and add a headline somewhere about what the site does. It's just too busy.</text></item><item><author>treeface</author><text>Ilya was kind enough to review my startup, an online rave gear retail site:<p><a href="http://www.plurty.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.plurty.com</a><p>Previously, I had this giant "Sign up" button on the home page, but what I had forgotten was that most of the value of the site came from the ability to <i>not have to sign up in order to buy our products</i>. We built anonymity into it so much that you don't even have to enter your email address. This was crucial for us because nobody wants to sign up for a website that is unknown.<p>Also, Ilya pointed out that the most distinguishing feature of our site were the extended exposure images and that we should use it as a marketing tool. We are currently planning on replacing our text-only adwords campaign and using the images to get more clicks.<p>Anyway...just thought I'd add my $0.02 and thank Ilya again. It was useful advice that we really needed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Johnnytops</author><text>As the co-owner of this site, I highly approve of the pew pew and have added it to the description. Now to figure out how to add a cross-browser compatible sound effect...</text></comment> |
10,470,922 | 10,470,634 | 1 | 3 | 10,470,117 | train | <story><title>China to begin two-child policy</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-34665539</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sethbannon</author><text>From the article &quot;All couples will now be allowed to have two children&quot;.<p>So it seems China isn&#x27;t so much ending its one-child policy, as augmenting it by one to a two-child policy. This means the brutal and cruel enforcement will continue, only it will kick in at the third child instead of at the second.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>funkyy</author><text>China managed to succeed in increasing people wealth and loosening laws (still bad for Western standards, but huge step comparing to China 30 years ago).
Only because West thinks this is &quot;brutal and cruel&quot; dosent mean our laws would ever worked there.<p>Some tried giving Arab countries democracy and it turned out they never really wanted it and most of the dictators were much better alternative (still bad, just better - to clarify).<p>Same with China - imagine them exploding with an extra 1 Billion people over next 20 years. Who will feed them? What would be social implications of such a move?<p>Our freedoms are not always applicable in other parts of the world.</text></comment> | <story><title>China to begin two-child policy</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-34665539</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sethbannon</author><text>From the article &quot;All couples will now be allowed to have two children&quot;.<p>So it seems China isn&#x27;t so much ending its one-child policy, as augmenting it by one to a two-child policy. This means the brutal and cruel enforcement will continue, only it will kick in at the third child instead of at the second.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rubidium</author><text>The most disgusting thing about the policy is that the citizens let the state have that much power.<p>It&#x27;s a terrible thing to let economic concerns so dominant the public arena and politics that people let the gov&#x27;t decide how many kids they have.</text></comment> |
14,285,496 | 14,284,876 | 1 | 2 | 14,284,502 | train | <story><title>The great British Brexit robbery</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/07/the-great-british-brexit-robbery-hijacked-democracy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>candiodari</author><text>The point of democracy is the implicit threat: if you, as a leader of the country, mess up the lives of the people you govern, you&#x27;ll get kicked out. Aside from that, democracy has mostly negative<p>This prevents the situation from getting out of hand before it completely descends into violence.<p>That&#x27;s it. That&#x27;s the sum total of what democracy gets us.<p>Analyzing critical ideas is not now, and wasn&#x27;t ever part of the democratic process. Cicero was complaining about citizen&#x27;s lack of analyzing critical ideas (except when directly hurting them in the wallet) in 70 BC. You can read about leaders from the French revolution lamenting the same, and even in cases where only limited self government exists, like today in Bahrain, you find most analysts complaining that the large majority of the people who have influence (usually local landowners) do not think critically at all.<p>What has happened is simple: the previous government was pro-Europe, couldn&#x27;t get Europe to commit to basic concessions that would make British lives easier, and the imposed austerity made a lot of people&#x27;s lives worse in a very concrete and visible way. So they were voted out.<p>Now you can argue that they were right, that it wasn&#x27;t their fault that this happened, and I might even agree with you. But as the government, I do understand, this is not good enough.</text></item><item><author>kristianc</author><text>What&#x27;s really scary about these recent developments is that we&#x27;re losing the ability to critically analyze the ideas and arguments that are being used to influence people.<p>Back in the days of network TV, you might not agree with everything that was being said, but you could at least see the arguments that were being used to convince others.<p>Even the early so-called behaviour change campaigns, such as &#x27;Five a Day&#x27; (a marketing campaign that most didn&#x27;t realize was a marketing campaign that has long since been accepted as a piece of general health advice) were quite benign.<p>Here it seems that an influence &#x2F; behaviour change campaign could be waged relatively cheaply against a relatively small number of people, exist completely outside the normal rules for fact checking or veracity, and the majority of the population would have no idea about it.<p>I&#x27;m not sure I agree with the thesis of the piece - that Cambridge Analytica played even a primary role in Brexit happening (I think it was always pretty likely, due to UK tabloids having campaigned for around 20 years on the issue, lack of organization in the Remain campaign, Corbyn failure to engage working class voters etc, hell even a latent feeling that the EU maybe isn&#x27;t that great after all), but the techniques for doing this will only become more sophisticated and I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised to see them become a common feature of our democracy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>&gt; the previous government was pro-Europe, couldn&#x27;t get Europe to commit to basic concessions that would make British lives easier, and the imposed austerity made a lot of people&#x27;s lives worse in a very concrete and visible way.<p>Are you thinking of Greece here?<p>The &quot;imposed austerity&quot; was purely the choice of the Conservative government in the UK, and the &quot;concessions&quot; demanded seemed to be an end to freedom of movement, which was always a non-starter <i>and</i> wouldn&#x27;t make the lives of Brits better in any discernable way.<p>What has happened is simple: there has long been a war inside the Conservative party between the pro-EU side and the anti-EU side. Cameron hoped that calling a referendum and deploying &quot;project Fear&quot; which had won the Scottish indyref would settle the question. Unfortunetely he&#x27;d misunderstood the Scottish result and Project Fear was hugely counter-productive.<p>This is why UKIP have ceased to exist in the council elections: they&#x27;re now in control of the Conservative party.<p>(I mean, if <i>I</i> wanted to make a case against the EU, I&#x27;d do it on the basis of how Greece was treated - but even Greece didn&#x27;t choose to leave, as they recognised that it would make them even worse off economically. UK anti-Europeanism seems to be built around a mixture of desire to deport foreigners, &quot;bendy bananas&quot; lies promulgated by Boris, and hatred of the metric system)</text></comment> | <story><title>The great British Brexit robbery</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/07/the-great-british-brexit-robbery-hijacked-democracy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>candiodari</author><text>The point of democracy is the implicit threat: if you, as a leader of the country, mess up the lives of the people you govern, you&#x27;ll get kicked out. Aside from that, democracy has mostly negative<p>This prevents the situation from getting out of hand before it completely descends into violence.<p>That&#x27;s it. That&#x27;s the sum total of what democracy gets us.<p>Analyzing critical ideas is not now, and wasn&#x27;t ever part of the democratic process. Cicero was complaining about citizen&#x27;s lack of analyzing critical ideas (except when directly hurting them in the wallet) in 70 BC. You can read about leaders from the French revolution lamenting the same, and even in cases where only limited self government exists, like today in Bahrain, you find most analysts complaining that the large majority of the people who have influence (usually local landowners) do not think critically at all.<p>What has happened is simple: the previous government was pro-Europe, couldn&#x27;t get Europe to commit to basic concessions that would make British lives easier, and the imposed austerity made a lot of people&#x27;s lives worse in a very concrete and visible way. So they were voted out.<p>Now you can argue that they were right, that it wasn&#x27;t their fault that this happened, and I might even agree with you. But as the government, I do understand, this is not good enough.</text></item><item><author>kristianc</author><text>What&#x27;s really scary about these recent developments is that we&#x27;re losing the ability to critically analyze the ideas and arguments that are being used to influence people.<p>Back in the days of network TV, you might not agree with everything that was being said, but you could at least see the arguments that were being used to convince others.<p>Even the early so-called behaviour change campaigns, such as &#x27;Five a Day&#x27; (a marketing campaign that most didn&#x27;t realize was a marketing campaign that has long since been accepted as a piece of general health advice) were quite benign.<p>Here it seems that an influence &#x2F; behaviour change campaign could be waged relatively cheaply against a relatively small number of people, exist completely outside the normal rules for fact checking or veracity, and the majority of the population would have no idea about it.<p>I&#x27;m not sure I agree with the thesis of the piece - that Cambridge Analytica played even a primary role in Brexit happening (I think it was always pretty likely, due to UK tabloids having campaigned for around 20 years on the issue, lack of organization in the Remain campaign, Corbyn failure to engage working class voters etc, hell even a latent feeling that the EU maybe isn&#x27;t that great after all), but the techniques for doing this will only become more sophisticated and I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised to see them become a common feature of our democracy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kristianc</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting - as Tocqueville (Democracy in America) and Mill (On Liberty) argued precisely that it was civil society and discourse that help us protect against a tyranny of the majority.<p>And that generally what separates &#x27;democratizing&#x27; nations from &#x27;democracies&#x27; is that one simply has democratic institutions such as voting, and the other has a culture of democratic decision making, civil discourse etc etc to go with it. Iraq may have elections and be able to kick out its leaders but it sure isn&#x27;t a democracy in the same way Britain and the United States are.<p>Now its not a &#x27;the people are stupid&#x27; argument that I&#x27;m making - there have been people throughout history who have contended that we take a too simplistic view of affairs. Fine, blah, I&#x27;m sure they do, and I&#x27;m happy to accept there are people who don&#x27;t reason critically on both sides and there&#x27;s no reason to think one side has a monopoly on those.<p>What I&#x27;m saying is that we can&#x27;t fairly determine the information that is being seeded to all parties. It&#x27;s the equivalent of someone turning up to lots of Tocqueville&#x27;s town hall meetings and distributing pamphlets biased to one side to people who look like they&#x27;re from a certain socioeconomic background as they walk in.<p>There is something that happened in Britain in the last five years that merits explanation. A population which according to Eurobarometer 2010 data, only five years ago was 45% Pro-EU and 33% anti voted 52% to 48% to Leave when the government of the day, international instutitions, and all major political parties were arguing that we should stay. This, in Britain, a country not generally known for upending its whole political system on a whim.<p>Now you can pin the explanation for that on whatever you want (and I happen to think your austerity theory has something in it), but it&#x27;s reasonable to think in a democracy that we should be able to have a discussion (or at least know about) the factors that swayed people.</text></comment> |
25,673,968 | 25,674,408 | 1 | 2 | 25,672,461 | train | <story><title>Facebook Indefinitely Suspends Trump</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/4/posts/10112681480907401/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>technofiend</author><text>I know Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Reddit and all the rest <i>don&#x27;t</i> count as broadcast media but I feel like we got here in part because the 1987 elimination of FCC&#x27;s fairness doctrine slowly allowed a shift in how we communicate with each other.<p>We went from specious claims and conspiracy theories being the subject matter of newsletters to their public broadcast to millions via talk radio ~and Fox News~, thus allowing people to descend into their own bubbles without ever having their views challenged. Now people seem to rely on social media to give them the same experience. When challenged too much people just pull up stakes to insulate themselves: voat, parler, and private facebook groups are only three recent examples.<p>It&#x27;ll be interesting to see if whoever replaces Ajit Pai holds a different view on public intercourse over the airwaves.<p>Edit: Well as some people have pointed out, Fox News would have been exempt from the Fairness Doctrine as a cable network, i.e. it doesn&#x27;t use the public spectrum.<p>As Wikipedia says &quot;The channel was created by Australian-American media mogul Rupert Murdoch to appeal to a conservative audience, hiring former Republican media consultant and CNBC executive Roger Ailes as its founding CEO.&quot; So my personal view that Fox (among others) is responsible for a) exposing millions to fact-free content without opposing views and b) people got used to that and don&#x27;t like it when it&#x27;s challenged created the bubble we have today. I&#x27;m wrong that the Fairness Doctrine would have prevented Fox, although it might have prevented talk radio.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>youeseh</author><text>Traditional TV and Print News Media gets the most eyeballs when they are controversial. Fox, CNN, MSNBC all do everything they can to coddle their specific segment. They phrase and comment on the news in a way that&#x27;ll either excite their segment when they think it&#x27;ll benefit and soften the blow whenever they think it&#x27;ll hurt.<p>And no, none of them appeal to a general audience. The ads that each network displays will tell you exactly who their specific audience is.<p>Twitter&#x27;s audience is narrow: Most of the people I know (across countries, religions, genders, professions) do not have a Twitter account. So, they make decisions that suit their userbase, which is significantly narrower than Facebook&#x27;s.<p>Facebook user base is closer to the general public. Unfortunately, their platform also enables an echo chamber. So, they have a tough job to do and in this regard. They have to be careful about whom to censor. Whatever they choose will be closer the law. I think they&#x27;re trying their best.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook Indefinitely Suspends Trump</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/4/posts/10112681480907401/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>technofiend</author><text>I know Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Reddit and all the rest <i>don&#x27;t</i> count as broadcast media but I feel like we got here in part because the 1987 elimination of FCC&#x27;s fairness doctrine slowly allowed a shift in how we communicate with each other.<p>We went from specious claims and conspiracy theories being the subject matter of newsletters to their public broadcast to millions via talk radio ~and Fox News~, thus allowing people to descend into their own bubbles without ever having their views challenged. Now people seem to rely on social media to give them the same experience. When challenged too much people just pull up stakes to insulate themselves: voat, parler, and private facebook groups are only three recent examples.<p>It&#x27;ll be interesting to see if whoever replaces Ajit Pai holds a different view on public intercourse over the airwaves.<p>Edit: Well as some people have pointed out, Fox News would have been exempt from the Fairness Doctrine as a cable network, i.e. it doesn&#x27;t use the public spectrum.<p>As Wikipedia says &quot;The channel was created by Australian-American media mogul Rupert Murdoch to appeal to a conservative audience, hiring former Republican media consultant and CNBC executive Roger Ailes as its founding CEO.&quot; So my personal view that Fox (among others) is responsible for a) exposing millions to fact-free content without opposing views and b) people got used to that and don&#x27;t like it when it&#x27;s challenged created the bubble we have today. I&#x27;m wrong that the Fairness Doctrine would have prevented Fox, although it might have prevented talk radio.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lallysingh</author><text>Video is a terrible format for anything requiring the reflection and nuance of politics. People need to read at their own pace, stop and make their own judgements, and re-read parts to make it all make sense. Video is a firehose that keeps attention instead of letting you _think_.<p>Leave it for entertainment and deep documentaries. If we had no more news channels and nightly programs, I think we&#x27;d both be happier and better informed.</text></comment> |
20,082,695 | 20,082,650 | 1 | 2 | 20,082,249 | train | <story><title>I've stopped flying to conferences for climate change reasons</title><url>https://twitter.com/monadic/status/1133678258338373632</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>edent</author><text>Next week I&#x27;m taking a 5 hour train journey rather than flying. When I figure in the time to get to the airport, the waiting in the lounge, baggage retrieval, etc. then flying doesn&#x27;t save much time.<p>On the train I can work all the way, stretch my legs when I want, use WiFi &#x2F; 4G, and bring as many liquids as I like. The environmental benefits are a bonus on top.<p>I wish more of Europe was accessible directly via Eurostar from London, but I&#x27;m quite happy with Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam for now.<p>(I&#x27;ll be attending <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;opensourceawards.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;opensourceawards.org&#x2F;</a> - come say hi!)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>murph-almighty</author><text>As behind as the US is on this front, the NE Regional and Acela are fantastic for NY-DC travel. It&#x27;s infinitely less headache in terms of what you can bring (liquids in baggage and not really much of a weight limit), space (leg room for days), general comfort (no cabin pressure)... I could go on about this.</text></comment> | <story><title>I've stopped flying to conferences for climate change reasons</title><url>https://twitter.com/monadic/status/1133678258338373632</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>edent</author><text>Next week I&#x27;m taking a 5 hour train journey rather than flying. When I figure in the time to get to the airport, the waiting in the lounge, baggage retrieval, etc. then flying doesn&#x27;t save much time.<p>On the train I can work all the way, stretch my legs when I want, use WiFi &#x2F; 4G, and bring as many liquids as I like. The environmental benefits are a bonus on top.<p>I wish more of Europe was accessible directly via Eurostar from London, but I&#x27;m quite happy with Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam for now.<p>(I&#x27;ll be attending <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;opensourceawards.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;opensourceawards.org&#x2F;</a> - come say hi!)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matt7aylor</author><text>I&#x27;ve found this to be a fantastic resource for creating travel plans in Europe (and beyond) without flying: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seat61.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seat61.com&#x2F;</a><p>No affiliation, just been using it to help plan all sorts of travel since I stopped flying in 2011 (although I have to say the best way to travel long distance in Europe is by bicycle, if you can make the time).</text></comment> |
8,012,144 | 8,011,921 | 1 | 2 | 8,011,310 | train | <story><title>An Experimental New Type Inference Scheme for Rust</title><url>http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2014/07/09/an-experimental-new-type-inference-scheme-for-rust/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pcwalton</author><text>My colleague zwarich aptly said that &quot;this changes our type inference algorithm from a master&#x27;s thesis to a blog post&quot;. As we approach 1.0, language simplifications like this are really valuable; the fact that it doesn&#x27;t break existing code is even better.</text></comment> | <story><title>An Experimental New Type Inference Scheme for Rust</title><url>http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2014/07/09/an-experimental-new-type-inference-scheme-for-rust/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>I really appreciate Niko&#x27;s efforts into blogging about this sort of thing. It&#x27;s really neat to watch Rust evolve in a fairly public manner. I&#x27;m not sure if there is any other language where these sorts of relatively early design decisions have been played out publicly before.<p>I also found this article really interesting: <a href="http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2014/05/13/focusing-on-ownership" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;smallcultfollowing.com&#x2F;babysteps&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2014&#x2F;05&#x2F;13&#x2F;focu...</a>.</text></comment> |
9,017,614 | 9,017,177 | 1 | 2 | 9,017,041 | train | <story><title>The Ken Thompson Hack</title><url>http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TheKenThompsonHack</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>brudgers</author><text>The reference point is [Trusting Trust]. It was his Turing Award lecture in 1982. Honestly, it and similar materials should be required reading somewhere in university CS and Software Engineering curricula.<p>[Trusting Trust]: <a href="http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cm.bell-labs.com&#x2F;who&#x2F;ken&#x2F;trust.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Ken Thompson Hack</title><url>http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TheKenThompsonHack</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nischalsamji</author><text>Don&#x27;t think he told that he actually put a bug in the c compiler. He was just explaining how he could have done it. A very interesting read though.</text></comment> |
12,355,392 | 12,355,243 | 1 | 3 | 12,353,441 | train | <story><title>Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star</title><url>https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1629/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>valarauca1</author><text>I&#x27;m imaging an age of discovery-esque expeditions to the center of the <i>Solar Plane</i>.<p>They&#x27;d likely have radically different definitions of poles. One hot enough to melt lead, one cold enough to freeze C02.</text></item><item><author>rezashirazian</author><text>This is the first time I&#x27;m reading about this concept and I find it fascinating. If there was to be intelligent life on an eye ball like planet the cultural, mythological and theological aspects of having a thin habitable strip of land sandwiched between ice and fire would be captivating.</text></item><item><author>runesoerensen</author><text>Cool so it&#x27;s an &quot;eyeball&quot; planet? <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nautil.us&#x2F;blog&#x2F;forget-earth_likewell-first-find-aliens-on-eyeball-planets" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nautil.us&#x2F;blog&#x2F;forget-earth_likewell-first-find-alien...</a></text></item><item><author>mjhoy</author><text>The fun stuff is buried in footnote [4]:<p>&gt; The actual suitability of this kind of planet to support water and Earth-like life is a matter of intense but mostly theoretical debate. Major concerns that count against the presence of life are related to the closeness of the star. For example gravitational forces probably lock the same side of the planet in perpetual daylight, while the other side is in perpetual night. The planet&#x27;s atmosphere might also slowly be evaporating or have more complex chemistry than Earth’s due to stronger ultraviolet and X-ray radiation, especially during the first billion years of the star’s life. However, none of the arguments has been proven conclusively and they are unlikely to be settled without direct observational evidence and characterisation of the planet’s atmosphere. Similar factors apply to the planets recently found around TRAPPIST-1.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>room271</author><text>Check out Proxima by Stephen Baxter:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Proxima-Stephen-Baxter&#x2F;dp&#x2F;045146771X" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Proxima-Stephen-Baxter&#x2F;dp&#x2F;045146771X</a><p>It&#x27;s a Sci-fi book about life on Proxima Centauri and includes the idea you mentioned.<p>(Also a really good read!)</text></comment> | <story><title>Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star</title><url>https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1629/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>valarauca1</author><text>I&#x27;m imaging an age of discovery-esque expeditions to the center of the <i>Solar Plane</i>.<p>They&#x27;d likely have radically different definitions of poles. One hot enough to melt lead, one cold enough to freeze C02.</text></item><item><author>rezashirazian</author><text>This is the first time I&#x27;m reading about this concept and I find it fascinating. If there was to be intelligent life on an eye ball like planet the cultural, mythological and theological aspects of having a thin habitable strip of land sandwiched between ice and fire would be captivating.</text></item><item><author>runesoerensen</author><text>Cool so it&#x27;s an &quot;eyeball&quot; planet? <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nautil.us&#x2F;blog&#x2F;forget-earth_likewell-first-find-aliens-on-eyeball-planets" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nautil.us&#x2F;blog&#x2F;forget-earth_likewell-first-find-alien...</a></text></item><item><author>mjhoy</author><text>The fun stuff is buried in footnote [4]:<p>&gt; The actual suitability of this kind of planet to support water and Earth-like life is a matter of intense but mostly theoretical debate. Major concerns that count against the presence of life are related to the closeness of the star. For example gravitational forces probably lock the same side of the planet in perpetual daylight, while the other side is in perpetual night. The planet&#x27;s atmosphere might also slowly be evaporating or have more complex chemistry than Earth’s due to stronger ultraviolet and X-ray radiation, especially during the first billion years of the star’s life. However, none of the arguments has been proven conclusively and they are unlikely to be settled without direct observational evidence and characterisation of the planet’s atmosphere. Similar factors apply to the planets recently found around TRAPPIST-1.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thaumasiotes</author><text>&gt; They&#x27;d likely have radically different definitions of poles. One hot enough to melt lead, one cold enough to freeze C02.<p>Well, in a certain sense the West Pole and East Pole would exist in the manner you describe, but the behavior is not similar to that of the north and south poles. The stars will still rotate around the north-south axis, and east-west still won&#x27;t affect that. It&#x27;s not obvious that both phenomena should be called &quot;poles&quot;.</text></comment> |
18,815,272 | 18,814,946 | 1 | 2 | 18,814,416 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Learn and practice modern JavaScript</title><url>https://learnjavascript.online/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>commandlinefan</author><text>I wish there was a &quot;learn modern Javascript for people who learned Javascript in 1998&quot; - it seems like the only way to get up to speed is to slog through all the basics (yet again) and keep an eye out for the parts that seem to be unfamiliar&#x2F;new.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Learn and practice modern JavaScript</title><url>https://learnjavascript.online/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sjroot</author><text>I wanted to test this out but it appears the only way to do so is by signing in with GitHub. That won&#x27;t necessarily deter me, but I imagine that will be the case for others.<p>If I were you, I would allow access to the course without signing in. Then, if the user wants to save their progress, they can connect their GH account.</text></comment> |
37,300,396 | 37,295,415 | 1 | 2 | 37,295,066 | train | <story><title>Designing a new concurrent data structure</title><url>https://questdb.io/blog/concurrent-lockfree-datastructure-design-walkthrough/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>IndoorPatio</author><text>In my experience Left-Write is the clear place to start. It&#x27;s general purpose and fast for reads. Only if that is unsuitable (eg memory usage) does one design a custom data structure. There&#x27;s a Rust lib implementation with links to more resources:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.rs&#x2F;left-right&#x2F;latest&#x2F;left_right&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.rs&#x2F;left-right&#x2F;latest&#x2F;left_right&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Designing a new concurrent data structure</title><url>https://questdb.io/blog/concurrent-lockfree-datastructure-design-walkthrough/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jerrinot</author><text>Hello, the author here. It feels great to see my blog on HN!<p>It was quite a journey, at first I thought I invented a novel concurrency schema. However, it turns out that it was simply a mix of my ignorance and hubris! :-)<p>Still, I had a lot of fun while designing this data structure and I believe it made a nice story. Ask me anything!</text></comment> |
27,381,478 | 27,381,626 | 1 | 3 | 27,380,752 | train | <story><title>United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/03/united-will-buy-15-ultrafast-airplanes-from-start-up-boom-supersonic.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>herlitzj</author><text>afavour (via Benedict Evans) c. 2005<p>- No charging network, can&#x27;t drive away from home<p>- Battery tech not there, no realistic range<p>- Too expensive, no one will pay that much for a car they can&#x27;t drive anywhere<p>- Everyone wants an SUV or an affordable sedan, not some niche vehicle. Who&#x27;s going go buy it?<p>Which ones has Tesla solved?<p>Moving an industry takes time. Will Boom do it? Who knows. But this line of thinking is kind of short sighted and defeatist, don&#x27;t you think?</text></item><item><author>afavour</author><text>Problems with supersonic (?):<p>- Noise means you can&#x27;t do US domestic<p>- Concorde didn&#x27;t have the range for Pacific<p>- Costs didn&#x27;t work for Atlantic routes<p>- And airlines want lots of identical planes, not one special one for one route<p>Which ones has Boom solved?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;benedictevans&#x2F;status&#x2F;1400425028022308874" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;benedictevans&#x2F;status&#x2F;1400425028022308874</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iainmerrick</author><text>Tesla <i>has</i> at least partly solved some of those, no?<p>- Charging network: don’t they have their own network? I’m sure it’s not widespread enough to meet everyone’s needs, but it’s not nothing and helped get the ball rolling.<p>- Battery tech: has been gradually improving, range is now in the hundreds of miles which is enough for many uses.<p>- Too expensive &#x2F; everybody wants an SUV: starting with luxury and sports models and gradually following up with mass-market models addresses both of these.<p>So I think the analogous questions for Boom are good and valid questions. Tesla had decent answers and Boom should too.</text></comment> | <story><title>United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/03/united-will-buy-15-ultrafast-airplanes-from-start-up-boom-supersonic.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>herlitzj</author><text>afavour (via Benedict Evans) c. 2005<p>- No charging network, can&#x27;t drive away from home<p>- Battery tech not there, no realistic range<p>- Too expensive, no one will pay that much for a car they can&#x27;t drive anywhere<p>- Everyone wants an SUV or an affordable sedan, not some niche vehicle. Who&#x27;s going go buy it?<p>Which ones has Tesla solved?<p>Moving an industry takes time. Will Boom do it? Who knows. But this line of thinking is kind of short sighted and defeatist, don&#x27;t you think?</text></item><item><author>afavour</author><text>Problems with supersonic (?):<p>- Noise means you can&#x27;t do US domestic<p>- Concorde didn&#x27;t have the range for Pacific<p>- Costs didn&#x27;t work for Atlantic routes<p>- And airlines want lots of identical planes, not one special one for one route<p>Which ones has Boom solved?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;benedictevans&#x2F;status&#x2F;1400425028022308874" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;benedictevans&#x2F;status&#x2F;1400425028022308874</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MattGaiser</author><text>Tesla has built a charging network, done a lot of work on the battery&#x2F;range, and built an electric SUV.<p>So I would say they have made at least solid progress on three of them.</text></comment> |
25,124,013 | 25,123,153 | 1 | 3 | 25,121,416 | train | <story><title>Git is too hard</title><url>https://changelog.com/posts/git-is-simply-too-hard</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rjmunro</author><text>The underlying technology of git is great, but the UX is terrible. The commands are all named wrong. &quot;To create a branch, use git branch, but that doesn&#x27;t check it out. If you want to create it and check it out at the same time use &quot;git checkout -b&quot;, not &quot;git branch --checkout&quot; which would be 1000x more logical (and then there could be an option to make that the default behaviour)<p>Resisting GUI&#x27;s is not a good idea. The trick to learning is to always have `gitk --all` or a similar viewer open in another window.<p>Also instead of `git add` &#x2F; `git commmit`, use `git gui`, but for most other things stick to the CLI.<p>Having said that use a GUI, github desktop is terrible. It tries to make things easier and as a result takes you away from git&#x27;s standard terminology, so it&#x27;s impossible to understand what it does.<p>Something I found teaching other people is it helps a lot if you haven&#x27;t learnt SVN before.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ivanhoe</author><text>I don&#x27;t think memorizing commands is really the problem. Learning just 8 git commands (clone, pull, checkout, checkout -b, commit, push, merge, rebase) will cover like 99% of situations average dev will ever encounter. And when you need something more exotic you usually can google it, usually in under 5 mins.<p>The problem, at least for me, was the complexity of the model which makes the whole thing super scary when you&#x27;ve just started using it. That&#x27;s where GUI tools come useful, as people are generally less scared of GUI tools - they make you feel there&#x27;s less of chance of making a mistake because you put the trust in the tool to stop them doing something obviously stupid. However IME that trust is not really deserved as most of the GUI tools will just as happily let you mess up your repository...</text></comment> | <story><title>Git is too hard</title><url>https://changelog.com/posts/git-is-simply-too-hard</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rjmunro</author><text>The underlying technology of git is great, but the UX is terrible. The commands are all named wrong. &quot;To create a branch, use git branch, but that doesn&#x27;t check it out. If you want to create it and check it out at the same time use &quot;git checkout -b&quot;, not &quot;git branch --checkout&quot; which would be 1000x more logical (and then there could be an option to make that the default behaviour)<p>Resisting GUI&#x27;s is not a good idea. The trick to learning is to always have `gitk --all` or a similar viewer open in another window.<p>Also instead of `git add` &#x2F; `git commmit`, use `git gui`, but for most other things stick to the CLI.<p>Having said that use a GUI, github desktop is terrible. It tries to make things easier and as a result takes you away from git&#x27;s standard terminology, so it&#x27;s impossible to understand what it does.<p>Something I found teaching other people is it helps a lot if you haven&#x27;t learnt SVN before.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skohan</author><text>&gt; Resisting GUI&#x27;s is not a good idea.<p>I disagree. In my personal experience, learning git took a lot of trial and error, but now whatever terminal I sit down in front of, I know exactly which commands I have to run to do what I want in git. When using a GUI, it&#x27;s fine for the easy&#x2F;common stuff, but if I want to do something more complex I have to figure out how to dig through the options provided by the tool to get the result I want.</text></comment> |
1,849,237 | 1,849,247 | 1 | 2 | 1,849,142 | train | <story><title>The quest for freedom and safety: Why I donated $100,000 to YesOn19</title><url>http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2010/10/quest-for-freedom-and-safety-why-i.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hfinney</author><text>Why are all these donations happening so late? It's four days until the election. Half the electorate has already voted, and the rest are tuning everything out by now. Prop 19 is failing and it's too late for advertising to make a difference. Where were all these deep pockets a month ago?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paul</author><text>Better late than never :)<p>Apparently a very large fraction of voters actually make their decision <i>while in the voting booth</i>!</text></comment> | <story><title>The quest for freedom and safety: Why I donated $100,000 to YesOn19</title><url>http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2010/10/quest-for-freedom-and-safety-why-i.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hfinney</author><text>Why are all these donations happening so late? It's four days until the election. Half the electorate has already voted, and the rest are tuning everything out by now. Prop 19 is failing and it's too late for advertising to make a difference. Where were all these deep pockets a month ago?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dotBen</author><text>I agree with your point (I also agree on YES on 19, although I'm not allowed to vote here in CA).<p>I'm guessing the late run of donations is because latest polls show there is a 50/50 chance of this passing, whereas a few months ago it looked like it was unlikely.<p>You either put up $100k earlier on to make a wider political statement regardless of the chances of outcome or you put up $100k to help create tip the balance when it looks like things could go either way...</text></comment> |
1,754,278 | 1,754,254 | 1 | 2 | 1,753,979 | train | <story><title>The Social Network Bust: What I learned from my job interview with Facebook </title><url>http://www.thebitsource.com/infrastructure-operations/the-social-network-bust-what-i-learned-from-my-job-interview-with-facebook/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>neilk</author><text>It's good that the author prepared him or herself so thoroughly, but in my experience, someone like Tom Cook would not waste time asking a new candidate how to scale Facebook. That's like preparing for your interview with NASA by studying how they built the Space Shuttle. They <i>know</i> you aren't going to have experience there.<p>What they want are people who understand the fundamentals of how the computer and the OS works, who can diagnose problems correctly, who know modern sysadmin tools. They can teach you the ins and outs of their macro-scale systems on the job.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Social Network Bust: What I learned from my job interview with Facebook </title><url>http://www.thebitsource.com/infrastructure-operations/the-social-network-bust-what-i-learned-from-my-job-interview-with-facebook/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lionhearted</author><text>&#62; What I slowly understood while I was talking with Tom Cook was that this was not a discussion on scalability on a macro scale, however it was it was discussion of scalability on a micro-scale. I was not prepared for some of these questions, since some of these questions were Computer Science fundamental. It took me a short while to re-calibrate myself, and try not to sound like I was bullshitting my way through an answer, and began some of my retorts with , “From my experience from C programming…”<p>I wonder if he could've answered, "Oh my, I spent two weeks preparing like crazy for this, but I was working and reading nonstop on scalability, and focusing more on showing you hands on what I can do on collabedit." Maybe he did, but it sounds like he just tried to play it off when the interview went in another direction - if you research/prepare like a madman, my god, you've got to let the interviewer know how dedicated you are and how much you want it. If the interview goes in a different direction than you planned for, you could still possibly guide it back towards what you're strong in, or at least get a mention in of how dedicated and prepared you are for this, and how much you want it.</text></comment> |
32,549,754 | 32,545,826 | 1 | 3 | 32,538,805 | train | <story><title>A dad took photos of his toddler for a doctor – Google flagged him as a criminal</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveillance-toddler-photo.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>The similarity is because it&#x27;s an example of something other cultures see as normal, or at least harmless, but in the US it is seen as an egregious offense.<p>Not hard for me to imagine a 7 year old American getting expelled and potentially prosecuted for trying to play a &quot;Kancho&quot; prank on a friend.</text></item><item><author>therealdrag0</author><text>Similar in South Korea: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thesun.co.uk&#x2F;travel&#x2F;5476857&#x2F;south-korean-game-dong-chim&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thesun.co.uk&#x2F;travel&#x2F;5476857&#x2F;south-korean-game-do...</a><p>But what does this have to do with nudity or destroying lives? Seems totally off base.</text></item><item><author>elif</author><text>in japan, children play a game called Kancho, where they put their index fingers together and try to insert it into the anus of their unsuspecting friend.<p>in america, you could destroy someone&#x27;s life over that. (possibly even multiple lives)</text></item><item><author>Wowfunhappy</author><text>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s quite as strict as you&#x27;re making it out to be.<p>I was in a park in Manhattan last week, which had a bunch of big sprinklers for kids to run through. No one was naked in the sprinkler, but some parents helped their children change in&#x2F;out of their bathing suits out in the open.<p>(Then again, I only remember this because I was a tad surprised by it.)</text></item><item><author>elif</author><text>From my travels, my impression has been that America in particular treats child nudity as completely, unexceptionally obscene, beyond even adult nudity.<p>Compared to a beach in Europe, where nearly half of children under 2 run naked, there seems to be no grey area or minimum acceptability in the US.<p>It makes me wonder if our hypersexualized treatment of child nudity &#x2F;actively contributes&#x2F; to the sexualization of children in our culture.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bitwize</author><text>In America you can be prosecuted for being that weird kid who tries to kiss everybody. It can result in permanent sex-offender registration, and when they look at your record it won&#x27;t say you were a weird kid who tried to kiss everybody. It will say something like &quot;INDCNT ASSAULT VICTIM UNDER 12 YO&quot;. Try explaining <i>that</i> to employers.</text></comment> | <story><title>A dad took photos of his toddler for a doctor – Google flagged him as a criminal</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveillance-toddler-photo.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>The similarity is because it&#x27;s an example of something other cultures see as normal, or at least harmless, but in the US it is seen as an egregious offense.<p>Not hard for me to imagine a 7 year old American getting expelled and potentially prosecuted for trying to play a &quot;Kancho&quot; prank on a friend.</text></item><item><author>therealdrag0</author><text>Similar in South Korea: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thesun.co.uk&#x2F;travel&#x2F;5476857&#x2F;south-korean-game-dong-chim&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thesun.co.uk&#x2F;travel&#x2F;5476857&#x2F;south-korean-game-do...</a><p>But what does this have to do with nudity or destroying lives? Seems totally off base.</text></item><item><author>elif</author><text>in japan, children play a game called Kancho, where they put their index fingers together and try to insert it into the anus of their unsuspecting friend.<p>in america, you could destroy someone&#x27;s life over that. (possibly even multiple lives)</text></item><item><author>Wowfunhappy</author><text>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s quite as strict as you&#x27;re making it out to be.<p>I was in a park in Manhattan last week, which had a bunch of big sprinklers for kids to run through. No one was naked in the sprinkler, but some parents helped their children change in&#x2F;out of their bathing suits out in the open.<p>(Then again, I only remember this because I was a tad surprised by it.)</text></item><item><author>elif</author><text>From my travels, my impression has been that America in particular treats child nudity as completely, unexceptionally obscene, beyond even adult nudity.<p>Compared to a beach in Europe, where nearly half of children under 2 run naked, there seems to be no grey area or minimum acceptability in the US.<p>It makes me wonder if our hypersexualized treatment of child nudity &#x2F;actively contributes&#x2F; to the sexualization of children in our culture.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adventured</author><text>And many normal cultural things in the US would be regarded as an egregious offense in Japan (which has a very rigid, conservative, homogenous culture).<p>So what.</text></comment> |
25,596,986 | 25,597,216 | 1 | 2 | 25,595,971 | train | <story><title>My Favorite Books 2020</title><url>https://oleb.net/2020/favorite-books-2020/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>warent</author><text>Yep! Not just fiction but fantasy. It&#x27;s my favorite genre, and the more fantastical the better.<p>I&#x27;m currently on book 9 of 12 in the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. Also enjoying everything by Brandon Sanderson who I believe to be greatest living fantasy writer, perhaps one of the greatest of all time.</text></item><item><author>TedDoesntTalk</author><text>Mostly non-fiction books. I am one of the few people in my circles who reads primarily fiction books.<p>Anyone else read mostly fiction?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FajitaNachos</author><text>I came across Brandon Sanderson in another HN book thread. He&#x27;s such a phenomenal author in the fantasy genre. I&#x27;ve read most of his series at this point and they are all great. Mistborn and Way of Kings being favorites.</text></comment> | <story><title>My Favorite Books 2020</title><url>https://oleb.net/2020/favorite-books-2020/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>warent</author><text>Yep! Not just fiction but fantasy. It&#x27;s my favorite genre, and the more fantastical the better.<p>I&#x27;m currently on book 9 of 12 in the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. Also enjoying everything by Brandon Sanderson who I believe to be greatest living fantasy writer, perhaps one of the greatest of all time.</text></item><item><author>TedDoesntTalk</author><text>Mostly non-fiction books. I am one of the few people in my circles who reads primarily fiction books.<p>Anyone else read mostly fiction?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kamarg</author><text>It&#x27;s always impressive to me when someone makes it through the slog that was books 4-8. Books 10-12 really pick up the pace again. I believe that&#x27;s when Sanderson took over for the late Robert Jordan.<p>If you enjoy somewhat grittier fiction, I would suggest Joe Abercrombie&#x27;s The First Law trilogy.</text></comment> |
27,118,951 | 27,118,958 | 1 | 3 | 27,118,362 | train | <story><title>TikTok launching jobs service for Gen Z</title><url>https://www.axios.com/tiktok-job-hiring-tiktok-576f3b99-602c-46ac-afed-218ddf61a9ba.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>logshipper</author><text>&gt; Users can post a TikTok video resume to the site rather than a traditional resume. The idea is for users to give an elevator pitch or work experience summary via the video in a unique way.<p>Genuine question. Can anyone tell me how recruiters intend to parse through thousands of videos without some level of automation or software-based filtering?<p>I understand that there are AI systems that can pick up keywords and sentiment, but we all know they are far from perfect. Plus we end up with all sorts of issues where some accents might be under-represented, leading to exclusion etc.<p>For all the flaws in text resume-based hiring, automated systems can, at least to _some_ extent, help sift through thousands of candidates.<p>I&#x27;m not saying that the present system is perfect, just that the proposed video-based system could be worse in terms of scale.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrtksn</author><text>It&#x27;s actually very easy to go through thousands of TikTok videos. The app is very fluid and as soon as the algorithm begins to get what kind of content you like, the cognitive load of going through videos becomes very low. It&#x27;s very different from the Spotify algo that assumes you are all into Japanese music just because you liked one song or YouTube that will show you how deep the rabbit hole goes in anything.<p>I like the idea of elevator pitch style TikToks where you can quickly express yourself and show your creativity. I would imagine the algorithm can start showing the recruiters through the job relevant hashtags and work its magic from there.<p>The creativity tools of the app can prove very useful, the simplest idea that comes to my mind is a recruiter creating a TikTok video and says something like &quot;Show me something that you learn in your career as X that isn&#x27;t taught in school&quot; and have the TikToker&#x27;s quote and reply to the video. The recruiters then can go through the replies and pick candidates for interviewing.<p>I don&#x27;t think that anybody will hire through click of a button like shopping for employees, that doesn&#x27;t happen on LinkedIn, on Indeed, on HN or anywhere. CV or Video, it&#x27;s just a lead and I bet a few second of a video can tell much more than 2 pages of written CV.</text></comment> | <story><title>TikTok launching jobs service for Gen Z</title><url>https://www.axios.com/tiktok-job-hiring-tiktok-576f3b99-602c-46ac-afed-218ddf61a9ba.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>logshipper</author><text>&gt; Users can post a TikTok video resume to the site rather than a traditional resume. The idea is for users to give an elevator pitch or work experience summary via the video in a unique way.<p>Genuine question. Can anyone tell me how recruiters intend to parse through thousands of videos without some level of automation or software-based filtering?<p>I understand that there are AI systems that can pick up keywords and sentiment, but we all know they are far from perfect. Plus we end up with all sorts of issues where some accents might be under-represented, leading to exclusion etc.<p>For all the flaws in text resume-based hiring, automated systems can, at least to _some_ extent, help sift through thousands of candidates.<p>I&#x27;m not saying that the present system is perfect, just that the proposed video-based system could be worse in terms of scale.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dangus</author><text>I also see it as a huge vehicle for hiring discrimination.<p>Introverted? Neurodiverse? Ugly? Differently abled? Have a regional accent? Too bad, your video resume is disqualified for not being as “good” as the charismatic member of the cultural&#x2F;ethnic majority.<p>I think it’s especially important for employers to make their evaluations as blind as they can be for as long as possible, including things like removing names from resumes before presenting them to hiring managers.<p>In my view this is an incredibly lazy way for TikTok to launch a new revenue stream while engaging in a bare minimum amount of product development. They see how LinkedIn can charge a hundred bucks a month to recruiters and they want in.</text></comment> |
5,346,066 | 5,346,054 | 1 | 2 | 5,343,590 | train | <story><title>The Professor, the Bikini Model and the Suitcase Full of Trouble</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/magazine/the-professor-the-bikini-model-and-the-suitcase-full-of-trouble.html?hp</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kbenson</author><text>&#62; you can't con an honest man.<p>Unfortunately it's not true. There are a number of cons that apply towards people wanting to do the right thing (and usually mixing a bit of greed in as well), to make the pull twice as hard to resist.<p>Check out the Glim-dropper scam[1]. I've heard it described in multiple variations (diamond ring at a gas station, wallet on the street, etc). Importantly, the mark is both making money, and <i>providing help to someone who needs it</i>.<p>[1]: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_confidence_tricks" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_confidence_tricks</a></text></item><item><author>api</author><text>This is the origin of "you can't con an honest man." I was a victim of a very weird kind of con once, and I'm not ashamed to admit that my ego played a huge role in getting me to fall for it. Con men play to the mark's ego because because it <i>works</i>!<p>(Luckily in my case I escaped with little loss, and didn't end up in an Argentine jail.)</text></item><item><author>IvyMike</author><text>Having read the whole story, I can't help but think that he knew he was transporting drugs, but was duped into thinking he was doing it for the real Milani. Like all the best movie cons, you make the mark believe they're on the inside, but they're really not.<p>Getting back to the egotism: This is speculation, but I think his thought process on the drug smuggling probably went like this: "I'm so much smarter than everyone else I've ever met, of COURSE I will get away with it, especially with my airtight excuse if I am caught." This kind of reminds me of Hans Reiser, whose egotism and belief in his own superiority was also his downfall.</text></item><item><author>seiji</author><text>This paragraph sounds like classic Wolfram/Kurzweil egotism: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/magazine/the-professor-the-bikini-model-and-the-suitcase-full-of-trouble.html?hp#p%5BAFtAia%5D" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/magazine/the-professor-the...</a><p>Personality is a vector. Just because you are really high up on technical smarts means nothing in regard to the rest of you. We could simplify it down to a minimal [technical-smarts world] vector where at an extreme end you could have [100 0] being "brilliant, but forgot to wear pants to work today" to [0 100] being "the friendliest, most amazing person you'll ever meet, but they can't work a toaster." Few people are a Feynman. Most of us manage to be midline boring enough we wouldn't make interesting NYT articles.<p>But, more interestingly, never underestimate the ability of a smart person to seem dumber than they are for their own benefit. We honestly can't tell if he's a rube, a conman, or a mark.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smsm42</author><text>In the Glim scam, the target wants to get money he doesn't earn (neither by honest work nor by actually finding the supposed lost item) and profit by concealing information that is not supposed to be concealed (i.e. the contact info of the supposed one-eyed man). If he acted honestly, he'd say "oh, lucky you, you're getting a grand, here's the phone number!" and his loss would be $0.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Professor, the Bikini Model and the Suitcase Full of Trouble</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/magazine/the-professor-the-bikini-model-and-the-suitcase-full-of-trouble.html?hp</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kbenson</author><text>&#62; you can't con an honest man.<p>Unfortunately it's not true. There are a number of cons that apply towards people wanting to do the right thing (and usually mixing a bit of greed in as well), to make the pull twice as hard to resist.<p>Check out the Glim-dropper scam[1]. I've heard it described in multiple variations (diamond ring at a gas station, wallet on the street, etc). Importantly, the mark is both making money, and <i>providing help to someone who needs it</i>.<p>[1]: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_confidence_tricks" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_confidence_tricks</a></text></item><item><author>api</author><text>This is the origin of "you can't con an honest man." I was a victim of a very weird kind of con once, and I'm not ashamed to admit that my ego played a huge role in getting me to fall for it. Con men play to the mark's ego because because it <i>works</i>!<p>(Luckily in my case I escaped with little loss, and didn't end up in an Argentine jail.)</text></item><item><author>IvyMike</author><text>Having read the whole story, I can't help but think that he knew he was transporting drugs, but was duped into thinking he was doing it for the real Milani. Like all the best movie cons, you make the mark believe they're on the inside, but they're really not.<p>Getting back to the egotism: This is speculation, but I think his thought process on the drug smuggling probably went like this: "I'm so much smarter than everyone else I've ever met, of COURSE I will get away with it, especially with my airtight excuse if I am caught." This kind of reminds me of Hans Reiser, whose egotism and belief in his own superiority was also his downfall.</text></item><item><author>seiji</author><text>This paragraph sounds like classic Wolfram/Kurzweil egotism: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/magazine/the-professor-the-bikini-model-and-the-suitcase-full-of-trouble.html?hp#p%5BAFtAia%5D" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/magazine/the-professor-the...</a><p>Personality is a vector. Just because you are really high up on technical smarts means nothing in regard to the rest of you. We could simplify it down to a minimal [technical-smarts world] vector where at an extreme end you could have [100 0] being "brilliant, but forgot to wear pants to work today" to [0 100] being "the friendliest, most amazing person you'll ever meet, but they can't work a toaster." Few people are a Feynman. Most of us manage to be midline boring enough we wouldn't make interesting NYT articles.<p>But, more interestingly, never underestimate the ability of a smart person to seem dumber than they are for their own benefit. We honestly can't tell if he's a rube, a conman, or a mark.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gimeq</author><text>The Glim-dropper scam involves the mark trying make money by inserting oneself as an intermediary who provides no benefit, concealing his true intentions. Outside of HN, that is considered dishonesty.</text></comment> |
18,440,099 | 18,439,988 | 1 | 2 | 18,439,343 | train | <story><title>Cadbury ‘pushing orangutans towards extinction by wrecking habitat for palm oil’</title><url>https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/orangutans-palm-oil-habitat-rainforest-cadbury-mondelez-oreos-indonesia-greenpeace-a8630801.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kokey</author><text>To put this into perspective: palm oil for biofuel and heating currently makes up around 60% of the palm oil imports into Europe.<p>Greenpeace has been targeting European food companies over palm oil where the majority of the increased palm oil demand from Europe that has directly caused the clearing of rainforest to meet this demand, has been for biofuels because the EU had a mandatory biofuels component in fuel. This biofuels policy was driven by anti-nuclear organisations like Greenpeace, and yet they blame food producers whose demand has actually been sustainable without the need for massive clearing out of forests before biofuels came into the picture.<p>The EU has now moved to ban the use of palm oil for biofuel, but it&#x27;s only being phased out slowly until 2030. This is being replaced by rapeseed oil in Europe. Unfortunately protecting the seeds of this crop was one of the biggest uses of neonicotinoid pesticides which is blamed for the decline in bee populations. The EU now also put a moratorium on using these pesticides so now older and more harmful pesticides are being used instead and with the increased demand I am worried about the impacts we&#x27;ll see in the future.<p>Yet Greenpeace targets food companies. It&#x27;s because Greenpeace is a political organisation, their purpose is to be anti-corporation and they just use the environment just as a tool to that end. They target retail brands while staying silent when governments destroy the environment intentionally or through badly conceived regulation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>avar</author><text>I disagree with the pseudo-scientific stance Greenpeace and other similar organizations have about nuclear power, but saying they&#x27;re to blame for our use of palm oils for biofuels is ridiculous.<p>Sure they campaigned against nuclear, but that doesn&#x27;t mean they approve of whatever other means the EU has been using as an alternative, as they themselves say on their website[1].<p>I&#x27;m sure if they got their way we wouldn&#x27;t have nuclear <i>or</i> &quot;bad&quot; biofuels, and would just be paying a higher tax rate to scale up our sustainable energy production. That the EU has been dropping nuclear power without that investment in sustainable energy isn&#x27;t Greenpeace&#x27;s fault.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.greenpeace.org&#x2F;archive-eu-unit&#x2F;en&#x2F;campaigns&#x2F;Climate&#x2F;Transport-oil-and-biofuels&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.greenpeace.org&#x2F;archive-eu-unit&#x2F;en&#x2F;campaigns&#x2F;Clim...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Cadbury ‘pushing orangutans towards extinction by wrecking habitat for palm oil’</title><url>https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/orangutans-palm-oil-habitat-rainforest-cadbury-mondelez-oreos-indonesia-greenpeace-a8630801.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kokey</author><text>To put this into perspective: palm oil for biofuel and heating currently makes up around 60% of the palm oil imports into Europe.<p>Greenpeace has been targeting European food companies over palm oil where the majority of the increased palm oil demand from Europe that has directly caused the clearing of rainforest to meet this demand, has been for biofuels because the EU had a mandatory biofuels component in fuel. This biofuels policy was driven by anti-nuclear organisations like Greenpeace, and yet they blame food producers whose demand has actually been sustainable without the need for massive clearing out of forests before biofuels came into the picture.<p>The EU has now moved to ban the use of palm oil for biofuel, but it&#x27;s only being phased out slowly until 2030. This is being replaced by rapeseed oil in Europe. Unfortunately protecting the seeds of this crop was one of the biggest uses of neonicotinoid pesticides which is blamed for the decline in bee populations. The EU now also put a moratorium on using these pesticides so now older and more harmful pesticides are being used instead and with the increased demand I am worried about the impacts we&#x27;ll see in the future.<p>Yet Greenpeace targets food companies. It&#x27;s because Greenpeace is a political organisation, their purpose is to be anti-corporation and they just use the environment just as a tool to that end. They target retail brands while staying silent when governments destroy the environment intentionally or through badly conceived regulation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cbzbc</author><text>Greenpeace has been targeting non-sustainable practices in biofuel production - and the ill thought out legislation that led to this for at least the last 10 years, so it is factually incorrect to say that they have been &#x27;staying silent&#x27;.<p>Palm oil for biofuel&#x2F;heating constitutes 55% of palm oil imports, but food and feedstock usage accounts for 40-45%, so it&#x27;s still a significant area of use<p>Understandably a campaign in this particular area is going to be more visible to the end consumer because of the companies that it targets.<p>And everything is political.</text></comment> |
9,148,379 | 9,148,320 | 1 | 2 | 9,147,958 | train | <story><title>Why This Tech Bubble is Worse Than the Tech Bubble of 2000</title><url>http://blogmaverick.com/2015/03/04/why-this-tech-bubble-is-worse-than-the-tech-bubble-of-2000/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sixQuarks</author><text>I think Cuban is wrong. It&#x27;s WORSE when ordinary investors are risking their money. Today, you&#x27;ve got angels and VCs that have risked their money. And this is money they don&#x27;t need. Big deal if everything implodes, what do they lose? Simply their bets. Back in 2000s, a lot of ordinary people lost money they couldn&#x27;t afford to lose.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dogma1138</author><text>VC&#x27;s are not risking their money they are risking yours.
VC&#x27;s get money from your insurer, pension provider, 401K and similar saving options.
While you might invest and gamble with your own money, VC&#x27;s are literally gambling with everyone&#x27;s future. And these days the regulations limiting insurance companies and private pension providers in investing their money in a VC or other types of risky capital are looser than ever.<p>While I won&#x27;t to pretend to understand the details behind the article, but just looking at the many &quot;startups&quot; without a clear business plan, revenue stream not to mention profits which are valued in billions of dollars all of a sudden should make everyone&#x27;s eyebrows rise if just a little.<p>10-15 years ago if you made an exit in 100&#x27;s of millions it would be a worldwide sensation, these days it seems you sneeze and get 100M in funding and the WSJ posts an article about your company being valued higher than the GDP of some developing nations.<p>I remember when in the mid 90&#x27;s Checkpoint got like 70M $ in it&#x27;s NASDAQ IPO which was then a sensation which was talked about for year, these days that&#x27;s considered a cold round 2 funding run for the next sexting app.
Even with &quot;inflation&quot; and all that other nonsense the fact that since 2006-2007 you could probably count at least 40 US techstartups which got valued for over 1bln should hint a that something stinks.<p>Heck evernote which their current business model seems to be more focused around selling 70$ socks and 200$ messenger bags instead of you know their own actual techonlogy is valued these days at what 4-5bln, really? A company with 18M in yearly revenues after almost 8 years with no real assets to speak off, with a user base smaller than even marginally popular online games with almost no profit that hasn&#x27;t even returned it&#x27;s initial investment runs is valued at 300 times their pre-tax income?</text></comment> | <story><title>Why This Tech Bubble is Worse Than the Tech Bubble of 2000</title><url>http://blogmaverick.com/2015/03/04/why-this-tech-bubble-is-worse-than-the-tech-bubble-of-2000/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sixQuarks</author><text>I think Cuban is wrong. It&#x27;s WORSE when ordinary investors are risking their money. Today, you&#x27;ve got angels and VCs that have risked their money. And this is money they don&#x27;t need. Big deal if everything implodes, what do they lose? Simply their bets. Back in 2000s, a lot of ordinary people lost money they couldn&#x27;t afford to lose.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shockzzz</author><text>What he seems to be implying is that there are investment funds that exist solely for private equity investments, i.e. investments in startups as &quot;VC&quot; money. If that&#x27;s true, and it&#x27;s true that stuff like pension funds are sinking money into these &quot;Equity Crowd Funds,&quot; then we&#x27;re in real big trouble.</text></comment> |
22,540,483 | 22,540,543 | 1 | 3 | 22,539,789 | train | <story><title>MIT moves all classes online for the rest of the semester</title><url>https://web.mit.edu/covid19/update-from-president-l-rafael-reif-to-the-mit-community/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JPKab</author><text>One of my coworkers daughters is affected by this.<p>The big question this begs:<p>If there is no refund being offered for the content shifting online from in-person, why have in-person at all?<p>Is room and board going to be refunded?<p>If courses being taught online is an acceptable substitute, why have caps on admission at all?
Edit: Understood that infinite sized classes aren&#x27;t workable for human intensive grading, interactions, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gumby</author><text>I don&#x27;t think anyone believes online is an acceptable substitute to a traditional MIT education, but it&#x27;s a lot better than nothing, and better than continuing the in person teaching.<p>I&#x27;m an MIT grad and know the benefits of being on campus. In fact I spent more time in the lab than I did in classes or my dorm and that just isn&#x27;t possible online.<p>My son&#x27;s school (Courant) has sent everyone home too, with online substitute, but like MIT that only really works for undergrads.</text></comment> | <story><title>MIT moves all classes online for the rest of the semester</title><url>https://web.mit.edu/covid19/update-from-president-l-rafael-reif-to-the-mit-community/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JPKab</author><text>One of my coworkers daughters is affected by this.<p>The big question this begs:<p>If there is no refund being offered for the content shifting online from in-person, why have in-person at all?<p>Is room and board going to be refunded?<p>If courses being taught online is an acceptable substitute, why have caps on admission at all?
Edit: Understood that infinite sized classes aren&#x27;t workable for human intensive grading, interactions, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>samatman</author><text>Most of the value of an elite education is signaling: it proves the student had what it takes both to get into MIT, and to graduate.<p>If MIT switched to an online-only format, that would erode the value of the latter (which, remember, is social proof, not something which is notoriously rational), while open enrollment would obliterate the former.<p>A semester of remote teaching won&#x27;t damage the brand.</text></comment> |
18,284,489 | 18,283,985 | 1 | 3 | 18,283,041 | train | <story><title>Why did the golden age of the Simpsons end?</title><url>http://www.nathancunn.com/2018-10-21-simpsons-writers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bliblah</author><text>Nothing lasts forever. Plain and simple.<p>I really dislike TV&#x2F;Anime that <i>never</i> ends, seems to be the modus operandi for pretty much every mainstream show despite how bad the quality gets after 2-3 seasons.<p>Simpsons is a great showcase of the homogenization that every sitcom will go through given enough time. It starts out as a comedy with some wholesome family moments to bring it together but eventually every character is distilled to their most basic formula
Homer -&gt; Idiot who causes events to happen
Bart -&gt; Same as above
Marge -&gt; Straight man &#x2F; Voice of reason or Satire of moralistic conservative adults depending on the situation
Lisa -&gt; same as marge but liberal piñata<p>Old episodes had genuine moments where you saw them become closer as family, now every episode is a hodgepodge of nonstop comedy.<p>Family Guy also went through this, especially after they got revived. The early episodes focused on the trials of the family with some goofy humor peppered throughout (Peter getting fired, Louis dealing with being a bored housewife) but now its just nonstop comedy.<p>Once you get syndicated it&#x27;s not about making good episodes just churning out 26 more a year and cashing in that paycheck.<p>Even Steven Universe which has a very straightforward story with an end planned feels bloated with a bunch of filler episodes and lazy character development.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dmortin</author><text>&gt; I really dislike TV&#x2F;Anime that never ends, seems to be the modus operandi for pretty much every mainstream show despite how bad the quality gets after 2-3 seasons.<p>Isn&#x27;t this an American thing where TV&#x2F;movie things are primarily for money making?<p>I mean the British Office had 2 seasons and 12 episodes. The US version had 9 seasons and 200 episodes.<p>I didn&#x27;t watch The Office, so I don&#x27;t know if the US version got worse towards the end, but in general in the US they keep making episodes while the series is profitable, regardless of quality and in the end they usually drive it to the ground.<p>They just can&#x27;t stop until there is no money in it. Most of the time they can&#x27;t end a TV series on a high note.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why did the golden age of the Simpsons end?</title><url>http://www.nathancunn.com/2018-10-21-simpsons-writers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bliblah</author><text>Nothing lasts forever. Plain and simple.<p>I really dislike TV&#x2F;Anime that <i>never</i> ends, seems to be the modus operandi for pretty much every mainstream show despite how bad the quality gets after 2-3 seasons.<p>Simpsons is a great showcase of the homogenization that every sitcom will go through given enough time. It starts out as a comedy with some wholesome family moments to bring it together but eventually every character is distilled to their most basic formula
Homer -&gt; Idiot who causes events to happen
Bart -&gt; Same as above
Marge -&gt; Straight man &#x2F; Voice of reason or Satire of moralistic conservative adults depending on the situation
Lisa -&gt; same as marge but liberal piñata<p>Old episodes had genuine moments where you saw them become closer as family, now every episode is a hodgepodge of nonstop comedy.<p>Family Guy also went through this, especially after they got revived. The early episodes focused on the trials of the family with some goofy humor peppered throughout (Peter getting fired, Louis dealing with being a bored housewife) but now its just nonstop comedy.<p>Once you get syndicated it&#x27;s not about making good episodes just churning out 26 more a year and cashing in that paycheck.<p>Even Steven Universe which has a very straightforward story with an end planned feels bloated with a bunch of filler episodes and lazy character development.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jun8</author><text>Exactly, and you have to know when to let go, a la Seinfeld. Adventure Time handled this very well, I think: told what they had to tell and ended after that. Another canonical good example exiting at the right time is Calvin and Hobbes.</text></comment> |
18,100,303 | 18,100,270 | 1 | 3 | 18,100,156 | train | <story><title>U.S. Congress Renews $5M Open Textbook Pilot for Second Year</title><url>https://sparcopen.org/news/2018/open-textbooks-pilot-fy19/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>skh</author><text>I teach mathematics at a community college. The content I cover has a very slow rate of change. There is no valid educational reason for textbooks to cost so much in my area or to change from year to year. I decided some years ago stop using paid materials on my courses.<p>I create most of the content myself. I have my own problem sets with solutions and create almost all of my own lectures. It was a lot of work to get everything to the point of being able to stop using paid materials but the up front work pays dividends in making my job a lot easier now.<p>I don’t know how feasible this is for other areas but in mathematics it is. The problem with open textbooks that I’ve seen is that they tend not to be done well. I’ve found a few open textbooks in math that are very well done. The nice thing is that when you find one that is done well you won’t ever have change books.</text></comment> | <story><title>U.S. Congress Renews $5M Open Textbook Pilot for Second Year</title><url>https://sparcopen.org/news/2018/open-textbooks-pilot-fy19/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>walterbell</author><text>Here are some open textbooks, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;open.umn.edu&#x2F;opentextbooks" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;open.umn.edu&#x2F;opentextbooks</a><p><i>&gt; Open textbooks are textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. These books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality. These books can be downloaded for no cost, or printed at low cost. All textbooks are either used at multiple higher education institutions; or affiliated with an institution, scholarly society, or professional organization</i><p>Whitepaper from Open Textbook Alliance: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;opentextbookalliance.org&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2016&#x2F;08&#x2F;Open-Textbook-Alliance-Guide.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;opentextbookalliance.org&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2016&#x2F;08&#x2F;O...</a></text></comment> |
18,461,950 | 18,458,178 | 1 | 3 | 18,457,325 | train | <story><title>Slate JS – A customizable framework for building rich text editors</title><url>https://docs.slatejs.org</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>digitalbase</author><text>We&#x27;re using Slate to for a mid-sized react application where content editing is the core. I don&#x27;t want to link&#x2F;plug a product video showing you how it works but imagine dropbox paper, medium editor, CKeditor 5, ...<p>The implementation includes mentions, pretty complex gallery&#x2F;inline image functionality, galleries with size&#x2F;output controls, embeds (iframely) and other inline elements.<p>First we had TinyMCE, Redactor, DraftJS and then switched to Slate.<p>I would not say it&#x27;s smooth sailing from here, we&#x27;re mostly struggling with pasting from word, tables, mobile support and overall performance with the number of plugins, but working on it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>k7d</author><text>Similar story here - started with DraftJS but it was kind of cumbersome. Slate in comparison is much more flexible and we&#x27;ve been using it in production for almost a year now. In fact we just launched a sticky notes project management tool which features a smooth rich text editing based on slate <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;whimsical.co&#x2F;sticky-notes&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;whimsical.co&#x2F;sticky-notes&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Slate JS – A customizable framework for building rich text editors</title><url>https://docs.slatejs.org</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>digitalbase</author><text>We&#x27;re using Slate to for a mid-sized react application where content editing is the core. I don&#x27;t want to link&#x2F;plug a product video showing you how it works but imagine dropbox paper, medium editor, CKeditor 5, ...<p>The implementation includes mentions, pretty complex gallery&#x2F;inline image functionality, galleries with size&#x2F;output controls, embeds (iframely) and other inline elements.<p>First we had TinyMCE, Redactor, DraftJS and then switched to Slate.<p>I would not say it&#x27;s smooth sailing from here, we&#x27;re mostly struggling with pasting from word, tables, mobile support and overall performance with the number of plugins, but working on it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sbr464</author><text>What was the main reason for switching from draftjs to slate? Just curious since we’ve been working on various tools in the space (not directly related to either). Was it an api design issue or more a plugin&#x2F;ecosystem issue?</text></comment> |
28,518,649 | 28,518,552 | 1 | 2 | 28,515,579 | train | <story><title>High Performance Organizations Reading List</title><url>https://github.com/pdfernhout/High-Performance-Organizations-Reading-List</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Aeolun</author><text>My problem with reading all of these tomes (and by now I’ve read a few), is that while <i>I</i> appear to be aware of what works for a software team, my management does not, hasn’t read these, or just plain doesn’t care.<p>I need a guide on how to teach people that have a vested interest in not acknowledging that there might have been a problem in the first place.</text></comment> | <story><title>High Performance Organizations Reading List</title><url>https://github.com/pdfernhout/High-Performance-Organizations-Reading-List</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>physicsgraph</author><text>Similar pages: [0,1,2] and my own list, [3]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;LappleApple&#x2F;awesome-leading-and-managing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;LappleApple&#x2F;awesome-leading-and-managing</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kdeldycke&#x2F;awesome-engineering-team-management" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kdeldycke&#x2F;awesome-engineering-team-manage...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ankitjaininfo&#x2F;awesome-managers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ankitjaininfo&#x2F;awesome-managers</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;graphthinking.blogspot.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;04&#x2F;reading-list-for-professional.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;graphthinking.blogspot.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;04&#x2F;reading-list-for-...</a></text></comment> |
25,778,758 | 25,777,806 | 1 | 2 | 25,777,207 | train | <story><title>Apple reportedly dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained (2020)</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/21/21075033/apple-icloud-end-to-end-encryption-scrapped-fbi-reuters-report</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>modeless</author><text>It&#x27;s also important to realize that the backup includes your encrypted iMessage messages, <i>and</i> the key required to decrypt them. Meaning that if you have backups enabled, all the &quot;end-to-end&quot; encryption in iMessage is defeated. Apple and by extension the FBI can read your messages. This is documented by Apple here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;HT202303" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;HT202303</a><p>Even if you disable backups, whenever you correspond with someone that has backups enabled those messages are still accessible to Apple.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple reportedly dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained (2020)</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/21/21075033/apple-icloud-end-to-end-encryption-scrapped-fbi-reuters-report</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>viktorcode</author><text>Since user encrypted iCloud backups would prevent password recovery to access your data I&#x27;m more inclined to believe the decision was made out of convenience for the end user.<p>General public would hate it when the support won&#x27;t help them recover family photos which are still stored in the cloud. Full encryption is nice to have, but overwhelming majority of users won&#x27;t get any tangible benefits from that.</text></comment> |
8,026,845 | 8,026,689 | 1 | 3 | 8,026,531 | train | <story><title>Making an embedded Linux computer</title><url>http://hforsten.com/making-embedded-linux-computer.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mng2</author><text>Wow, I had mistakenly assumed that you couldn&#x27;t do 0.8 mm BGAs on a hobbyist-level PCB. The solder lands are actually within recommendations.<p>The author mentioned that this is a test board without much hooked up. That really helps, since not every pin needs to be broken out. On a more complex design with higher pin coverage you&#x27;d need more layers to be able to route it all.</text></comment> | <story><title>Making an embedded Linux computer</title><url>http://hforsten.com/making-embedded-linux-computer.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cskau</author><text>Site seems overloaded, cached version:<p><a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:deo-53h8218J:hforsten.com/making-embedded-linux-computer.html+&amp;cd=1&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;webcache.googleusercontent.com&#x2F;search?q=cache:deo-53h...</a></text></comment> |
36,455,622 | 36,454,800 | 1 | 2 | 36,453,790 | train | <story><title>Make your programs run faster by better using the data cache (2020)</title><url>https://johnnysswlab.com/make-your-programs-run-faster-by-better-using-the-data-cache/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jacknews</author><text>It seems to me there is scope for a language feature of &#x27;managed memory&#x27; where you declare the data you need and how it is to be accessed (or access can be determined from the program), and let the language&#x2F;compiler figure out how to organize it for safety and performance.<p>For example if you declare an array of structures, the compiler&#x2F;language should be able to turn that into a structure of arrays under the hood if that is the way the data is accessed.<p>Not sure how that could work in practice, I guess you&#x27;d start with hints, but it seems like something to research. Indeed I&#x27;m sure there&#x27;s already some research in this area.</text></comment> | <story><title>Make your programs run faster by better using the data cache (2020)</title><url>https://johnnysswlab.com/make-your-programs-run-faster-by-better-using-the-data-cache/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>charcircuit</author><text>This is a list of microoptimizations. Designing the architecture of your whole program to be cache friendly was not addressed here, but is arguably more important.</text></comment> |
18,424,718 | 18,423,558 | 1 | 2 | 18,422,935 | train | <story><title>Argo: Open source Kubernetes native workflows, events, CI and CD</title><url>https://argoproj.github.io/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bwarminski</author><text>We&#x27;re using Argo as a replacement for our GoCD based continuous delivery system and it&#x27;s been fantastic. We were about to move onto Concourse and realized we would need to set up the and manage the equivalent of a Kubernetes cluster just to support it. We took a few extra weeks to prototype Argo first and were glad we did.<p>In our use case, the primary deployment model is blue&#x2F;green deploys of VM based microservices on AWS with a bunch of Terraform managed infrastructure gluing them together. The newer class of service we&#x27;re developing right now is container based and has even more infrastructure complexity. Teams manage their own service releases and each group has slight variations in their deploy steps. We need a deploy system that can support the old and new style and remain flexible while providing a migration path.<p>Teams love the flexibility and expressiveness of the workflow definitions. They&#x27;ve begun to move cron jobs onto it as well. Argo is much more lightweight and easy to operate than any other system we had worked with because it leans so heavily on Kubernetes primitives that we already needed to understand. The codebase is also relatively easy to understand, so we&#x27;ve been able to contribute things back to the project while working through the migration.<p>We&#x27;ve taken a cue from the project and begun to consolidate our control plane on CRDs so they can seamlessly integrate with Argo. CRD Operators + Argo are allowing us to consolidate all of the custom deploy&#x2F;config tooling we built over the years onto a common system that is testable and well integrated.<p>It&#x27;s a little early in the project to measure the full effect, but the internal project has a lot of momentum.</text></comment> | <story><title>Argo: Open source Kubernetes native workflows, events, CI and CD</title><url>https://argoproj.github.io/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mattashii</author><text>The idea is nice, but if security is one of your concerns, you&#x27;ll probably not want to run this if the docs are even close to representative of the actual application:<p>&gt; 3. Configure the service account to run workflows<p>&gt; For clusters with RBAC enabled, the &#x27;default&#x27; service account is too limited to support features like artifacts, outputs, access to secrets, etc... Run the following command to grant admin privileges to the &#x27;default&#x27; service account in the namespace &#x27;default&#x27;<p>This raises so many red flags. Never give admin rights &#x27;as a default&#x27;.</text></comment> |
19,018,206 | 19,018,283 | 1 | 2 | 19,018,113 | train | <story><title>Israel airport security stole my laptop</title><url>https://twitter.com/theAlexLavin/status/1089036484735262720</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>boltzmannbrain</author><text>Curbside security guard asked a couple basic questions (&quot;How long were you in Israel? Where are you traveling to?&quot;). The guard at the first security gate inside asked ~20 questions (4-8 is normal). I think answering that I&#x27;m a SW engineer to &quot;What do you do for a living?&quot; made her suspicious. I was then directed to a side security area where they searched my bags and discovered my laptop. A few guards then escorted me to a side room. Here there was one guard interrogating me on and off for ~2 hours. Just about any question I asked was met with &quot;We can&#x27;t tell you that.&quot; They confiscated my laptop b&#x2F;c they had to &quot;run more tests&quot;. I said several times I would wait for the tests, but they &#x27;insisted&#x27; I leave. As soon as I was through security I went to Turkish airlines for help, but their immediate (read: scripted) response was &quot;We do not deal with airport security.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Israel airport security stole my laptop</title><url>https://twitter.com/theAlexLavin/status/1089036484735262720</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>boltzmannbrain</author><text>Yes this could have been worse, and is relatively minor compared to other mideast travel horror stories. Nonetheless I feel frustrated not only losing my computer and non-backed up materials, but because this occurs as I am helping an Israeli tech company by sharing my knowledge and expertise. There has been incredible outreach initiative in the AI research community as of late -- e.g., DL Indaba in Africa -- but this makes us feel unwanted. I will continue working with the Israeli startup, but from my office in SF.</text></comment> |
18,315,726 | 18,315,460 | 1 | 2 | 18,315,292 | train | <story><title>Show HN: I wrote a BASIC interpreter in Go</title><url>https://github.com/skx/gobasic</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mrspeaker</author><text>A while ago I started making a game (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=GwBiJR_rj_w" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=GwBiJR_rj_w</a>) that was going to be about typing in program listings from magazines and books (like &quot;back in the day&quot;)... but the &quot;twist&quot; was going to be that the whole world turned out to be alterable and scriptable with BASIC. The WIP title was &quot;BASIC Instincts&quot;.<p>The problem was I spent way to much time having fun making the interpreter (in JavaScript) and then Else.HeartBreak() was released and it took the wind out of my sails (because it was great!)... I might go back to it now though, writing interpreters is really enjoyable!</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: I wrote a BASIC interpreter in Go</title><url>https://github.com/skx/gobasic</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jimnotgym</author><text>I still have fond memories of the various BASICs. I first used BBC basic at school (unofficially), and it seemed like magic. I had an Atari ST and a got a copy of STOS at home.<p>Whilst BASIC encourages all kinds of spaghetti, I&#x27;m still convinced it is a better language than Python to start on. Control flow is so obvious to non-programmers when it has line numbers.</text></comment> |
20,406,336 | 20,405,973 | 1 | 3 | 20,403,233 | train | <story><title>Google’s 4k-Word Privacy Policy Is a History of the Internet</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/07/10/opinion/google-privacy-policy.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SolaceQuantum</author><text>Asking for curiosity: Given the tenured faculty comparison, should we blame tenured faculty who criticize predatory lending when their university accepts students with the same predatory loans?<p>Or perhaps a more direct comparison: Are tenured faculty at D1 sports universities hypocritical for researching the benefits of more funding going towards education and less towards massive stadiums?</text></item><item><author>icxa</author><text>&gt; We should celebrate this, not mock it.<p>I don&#x27;t know what dystopian world you want to live in, but any time I see a company profit off sheer hypocrisy, I am going to call it out and mock it. They can have freedom all they want, but this article is generating clicks and revenues for Parent Corp, so they deserve the scrutiny. This isn&#x27;t some public service they are providing.</text></item><item><author>smnrchrds</author><text>There is a separation between NYT the corporation and the editorial staff. Just a couple of weeks ago, there was an article in NYT complaining about CCTVs installed in NYT office [0]. Should we now dismiss every article in NYT complaining about surveillance (especially workplace surveillance) as hypocritical and ironic, because if NYT thinks surveillance is bad, why do they do it themselves?<p>Newspapers like NYT are one of the few institutions where workers enjoy a level of freedom from management in doing their work. The other example is tenured professors. We should celebrate this, not mock it.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;06&#x2F;01&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;surveillance-cameras-work.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;06&#x2F;01&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;surveillance-came...</a></text></item><item><author>jsnell</author><text>The NYT privacy policy [0] is 5.2K words. It contains basically everything that they&#x27;re criticizing Google for. And a bit more. Apparently NYT will by default sell (sorry, &quot;rent&quot;) your name and postal address to direct mail advertisers.<p>&gt; [If you use technology, someone is using your information. We’ll tell you how — and what you can do about it. Sign up for our limited-run newsletter.]<p>Uh-huh. If there&#x27;s even a trace of irony in that writing, I can&#x27;t spot it.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.nytimes.com&#x2F;hc&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;articles&#x2F;115014892108-Privacy-policy?module=inline" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.nytimes.com&#x2F;hc&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;articles&#x2F;115014892108-Priv...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thanhhaimai</author><text>There are two different cases for this:<p>1) The faculty member from University A writes an article criticizing University B, <i>without</i> mentioning that University A also has the same problems.<p>2) The faculty member from University A writes an article criticizing a set of problems, including examples from both University A and B.<p>The subtle distinction between both #1 and #2 is why people have different opinions on this. Many people consider #1 to be hypocritical and #2 to be fair.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google’s 4k-Word Privacy Policy Is a History of the Internet</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/07/10/opinion/google-privacy-policy.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SolaceQuantum</author><text>Asking for curiosity: Given the tenured faculty comparison, should we blame tenured faculty who criticize predatory lending when their university accepts students with the same predatory loans?<p>Or perhaps a more direct comparison: Are tenured faculty at D1 sports universities hypocritical for researching the benefits of more funding going towards education and less towards massive stadiums?</text></item><item><author>icxa</author><text>&gt; We should celebrate this, not mock it.<p>I don&#x27;t know what dystopian world you want to live in, but any time I see a company profit off sheer hypocrisy, I am going to call it out and mock it. They can have freedom all they want, but this article is generating clicks and revenues for Parent Corp, so they deserve the scrutiny. This isn&#x27;t some public service they are providing.</text></item><item><author>smnrchrds</author><text>There is a separation between NYT the corporation and the editorial staff. Just a couple of weeks ago, there was an article in NYT complaining about CCTVs installed in NYT office [0]. Should we now dismiss every article in NYT complaining about surveillance (especially workplace surveillance) as hypocritical and ironic, because if NYT thinks surveillance is bad, why do they do it themselves?<p>Newspapers like NYT are one of the few institutions where workers enjoy a level of freedom from management in doing their work. The other example is tenured professors. We should celebrate this, not mock it.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;06&#x2F;01&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;surveillance-cameras-work.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;06&#x2F;01&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;surveillance-came...</a></text></item><item><author>jsnell</author><text>The NYT privacy policy [0] is 5.2K words. It contains basically everything that they&#x27;re criticizing Google for. And a bit more. Apparently NYT will by default sell (sorry, &quot;rent&quot;) your name and postal address to direct mail advertisers.<p>&gt; [If you use technology, someone is using your information. We’ll tell you how — and what you can do about it. Sign up for our limited-run newsletter.]<p>Uh-huh. If there&#x27;s even a trace of irony in that writing, I can&#x27;t spot it.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.nytimes.com&#x2F;hc&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;articles&#x2F;115014892108-Privacy-policy?module=inline" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.nytimes.com&#x2F;hc&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;articles&#x2F;115014892108-Priv...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>longway2go</author><text>If the lecturer gave a lecture and handed out fliers for the thing they were criticising without explaining that this was an example of the same problem the yes 100%.<p>The only way the article, its writer, the editor and the organisation should not be ridiculed is if they explicitly reference their own t&#x27;s and c&#x27;s in the article. Or if we all agree this is not news but entertainment and should not be takrn seriously (or shared on hacker news)</text></comment> |
23,720,808 | 23,720,451 | 1 | 3 | 23,719,559 | train | <story><title>Politically-correct witch-hunt is killing free speech</title><url>https://medium.com/@sarahadowney/this-politically-correct-witch-hunt-is-killing-free-speech-and-we-have-to-fight-it-7ced038d33ae</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Thorentis</author><text>Oh look, another response to &quot;we want to express ourselves without losing our jobs&quot; of &quot;have you actually read the first amendment?&quot;.<p>I see this response on HN almost daily now. For the millionth time: PC culture goes beyond the constitution&#x27;s definition of freedom of speech. This is a cultural discussion. This is a discussion about how much power we have given to private companies (like social media giants and media production companies) over our lives.<p>I don&#x27;t care that the first amendment protects me from government censorship, if my livelihood, the reputation of me and my family, and my future job prospects, can all be destroyed in an instant because of some outrage mob on Twitter. Why are people apologising because a few people on Twitter told them to? Why are people being fired because they made a tweet that wasn&#x27;t supportive enough (or supportive in the right way) of the &quot;correct&quot; social causes?<p>Call it freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom to have an opinion. Whatever. But don&#x27;t try and avoid the problem by pointing to the constitution as if that suddenly makes this all okay because &quot;at least it&#x27;s not the government&quot;.</text></item><item><author>blacksqr</author><text>&quot;We’re supposed to have a First Amendment right to freedom of the press, but this phenomenon is ruining it.&quot;<p>Writer of linked article claims to be a lawyer, but strangely seems unaware that the First Amendment protects speech and the press from the <i>government</i>.<p>No examples of government restricting free expression were given.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Barrin92</author><text>&gt;Why are people being fired because they made a tweet that wasn&#x27;t supportive enough (or supportive in the right way) of the &quot;correct&quot; social causes?<p>I honestly rarely have seen this happen. There&#x27;s almost always some other context to the story or the people who feel that they&#x27;ve been unjustly fired actually vastly underestimate what the impact of their statement was.<p>The reality is when you post on twitter with your name attached to it you are making a public statement that can reach thousands of people. Doesn&#x27;t matter if you tweet from your toilet, you&#x27;re reaching an audience that is larger than most people 20 years ago could ever dream of.<p>If that actually for some reason causes a PR shitstorm for your employer, you&#x27;ve damaged their business. This has always let to people being fired, this is not new.<p>Do you know how many local politicians or celebrities or public figures have lost their careers over a single sentence? A ton, there&#x27;s nothing novel about it. Twitter gives you the opportunity as a complete nobody to reach hundreds of thousands within minutes. It&#x27;s time people recognise they&#x27;re not nobody&#x27;s any more when that happens.</text></comment> | <story><title>Politically-correct witch-hunt is killing free speech</title><url>https://medium.com/@sarahadowney/this-politically-correct-witch-hunt-is-killing-free-speech-and-we-have-to-fight-it-7ced038d33ae</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Thorentis</author><text>Oh look, another response to &quot;we want to express ourselves without losing our jobs&quot; of &quot;have you actually read the first amendment?&quot;.<p>I see this response on HN almost daily now. For the millionth time: PC culture goes beyond the constitution&#x27;s definition of freedom of speech. This is a cultural discussion. This is a discussion about how much power we have given to private companies (like social media giants and media production companies) over our lives.<p>I don&#x27;t care that the first amendment protects me from government censorship, if my livelihood, the reputation of me and my family, and my future job prospects, can all be destroyed in an instant because of some outrage mob on Twitter. Why are people apologising because a few people on Twitter told them to? Why are people being fired because they made a tweet that wasn&#x27;t supportive enough (or supportive in the right way) of the &quot;correct&quot; social causes?<p>Call it freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom to have an opinion. Whatever. But don&#x27;t try and avoid the problem by pointing to the constitution as if that suddenly makes this all okay because &quot;at least it&#x27;s not the government&quot;.</text></item><item><author>blacksqr</author><text>&quot;We’re supposed to have a First Amendment right to freedom of the press, but this phenomenon is ruining it.&quot;<p>Writer of linked article claims to be a lawyer, but strangely seems unaware that the First Amendment protects speech and the press from the <i>government</i>.<p>No examples of government restricting free expression were given.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>subsection1h</author><text>Oh, look, another response from Thorentis. blacksqr wasn&#x27;t the person who brought up the First Amendment; it was Sarah A. Downey. For the millionth time: People who complain about a lack of free speech on privately-owned websites and refer specifically to the First Amendment should be criticized every time.</text></comment> |
22,895,801 | 22,895,714 | 1 | 3 | 22,895,152 | train | <story><title>Vue 3 Beta</title><url>https://github.com/vuejs/vue-next/releases/tag/v3.0.0-beta.1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thrwn_frthr_awy</author><text>For someone with little experience with the modern front-end development, what are the reasons to choose Vue over React or vice-versa? Are they both just different flavors of the same patterns or is there a philosophical difference in the two?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ggregoire</author><text>Vue is kinda the unofficial successor of Backbone.js, Angular 1 and friends. You write templates mixing HTML and Vue syntax that you bind to DOM elements. You can pass data and event handlers to your templates. You separate your markup, your CSS and your JavaScript like you have always been doing. It just works. Pretty easy and quick to get started, even without a big programming background.<p>Meanwhile, React lets you write your UI with JavaScript functions, which is completely different from anything I&#x27;ve seen before. You develop a bunch of functions and reuse them everywhere. Since functions are first-class citizens in JavaScript (i.e. you can pass a function as argument to a function and a function can return another function), there are pretty cool patterns in React. Like functions that enhance or inject styles or logic into your components (which are just functions too). This offers a lot of composability and reusability options to design and code your applications. (personal tip: Add TypeScript and VSCode on top of it to make your productivity skyrocket)</text></comment> | <story><title>Vue 3 Beta</title><url>https://github.com/vuejs/vue-next/releases/tag/v3.0.0-beta.1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thrwn_frthr_awy</author><text>For someone with little experience with the modern front-end development, what are the reasons to choose Vue over React or vice-versa? Are they both just different flavors of the same patterns or is there a philosophical difference in the two?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ng12</author><text>They&#x27;re pretty similar. I prefer React because the JavaScript-first approach is much better for large applications. It leads to a smaller API while simultaneously giving you more control over how things work. Also Vue has a lot more magic to it which you might care about on a large project.<p>The use case I recommend Vue for is when you just want a quick drop-in solution. For any serious development I stick with React.</text></comment> |
22,891,926 | 22,891,868 | 1 | 3 | 22,890,604 | train | <story><title>Auth0 JWT Auth Bypass: Case-Sensitive Blacklisting Is Harmful</title><url>https://insomniasec.com/blog/auth0-jwt-validation-bypass</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CiPHPerCoder</author><text>Tired: {&quot;alg&quot;:&quot;none&quot;}<p>Wired: {&quot;alg&quot;:&quot;nonE&quot;}<p>The JOSE standards (including JWT) are a gift that keeps on giving to attackers.<p>I designed an alternative format in 2018 called PASETO, which doesn&#x27;t contain the JOSE foot-guns. (I&#x27;m pushing for an IETF RFC this year.)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;paseto.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;paseto.io</a><p>EDIT: Also, this affected their Authentication API rather than their JWT library.<p>If you use their JWT library, well, it certainly <i>allows</i> this kind of horrendous misuse... but it is not, per se, vulnerable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>speedgoose</author><text>Before starting a new project some time ago, I read about the critics to JOSE (JWE) and the alternative PASETO. I decided to use JOSE carefully instead of PASETO because it had an IETF RFC. I think it will be great for PASETO to get a RFC as well. The second point that made me chose JOSE was that PASETO was a bit too mean towards JOSE, and I didn&#x27;t want drama in my technology choices.<p>But good work! With a RFC PASETO will be my choice for my next projects.</text></comment> | <story><title>Auth0 JWT Auth Bypass: Case-Sensitive Blacklisting Is Harmful</title><url>https://insomniasec.com/blog/auth0-jwt-validation-bypass</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CiPHPerCoder</author><text>Tired: {&quot;alg&quot;:&quot;none&quot;}<p>Wired: {&quot;alg&quot;:&quot;nonE&quot;}<p>The JOSE standards (including JWT) are a gift that keeps on giving to attackers.<p>I designed an alternative format in 2018 called PASETO, which doesn&#x27;t contain the JOSE foot-guns. (I&#x27;m pushing for an IETF RFC this year.)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;paseto.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;paseto.io</a><p>EDIT: Also, this affected their Authentication API rather than their JWT library.<p>If you use their JWT library, well, it certainly <i>allows</i> this kind of horrendous misuse... but it is not, per se, vulnerable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>different_sort</author><text>Why a new standard than to push for reform to the current standard?<p>Are they just closely protected by greybeards who won&#x27;t listen to reason?<p>Question comes from a true place of ignorance&#x2F;curiosity, I definitely understand the need to have unambiguous, easy to implement security tokens without the foot-guns.</text></comment> |
35,854,214 | 35,853,894 | 1 | 2 | 35,852,192 | train | <story><title>Pixel phones are sold with bootloader unlocking disabled</title><url>https://www.fitzsim.org/blog/?p=545</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pbasista</author><text>&gt; connect the device to the Internet before they are allowed to install the operating system they want<p>Phoning home before undertaking such an activity takes away the ownership rights from the customers. They do not actually own these devices even after they have purchased them.<p>The reason is that an important part of their ownership rights, i.e. the freedom to use the software of their choice, has been withheld from them. With a <i>promise</i> that it will be given to them on request. Unless, of course, the manufacturer changes their mind.<p>Unfortunately, there are cases when the manufacturer did not even make such a promise and disabled bootloader unlocking permanently with no way of enabling it again. On Pixel phones.<p>This used to happen (and perhaps still happens) to some Pixel phones purchased in the USA from Verizon. They have been known [0] for disabling the bootloader unlocking and for giving their customers no way to enable it. Not even after phoning home.<p>Some people claim [1] that they paid someone from China to unlock their Pixel 1 phone remotely using some shady approach. I assume that someone with inside information from Google has leaked some software and instructions for doing so. It is unclear whether later Pixel phones sold by Verizon with locked bootloaders could be unlocked in a similar way.<p>As a result, it seems like the only way to have a chance at unlocking such Pixel phones, which have been made by a US company and purchased from a US carrier, is to pay someone in China and hope for the best. It has gotten that far.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.xda-developers.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;how-to-unlock-bootloader-on-verizon-pixel-xl.3796030&#x2F;page-73" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.xda-developers.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;how-to-unlock-bootloader-...</a>
[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.xda-developers.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;how-to-unlock-bootloader-on-verizon-pixel-xl.3796030&#x2F;page-73#post-88299591" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.xda-developers.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;how-to-unlock-bootloader-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>j1elo</author><text>Xiaomi does the same (or at least did until my latest phone change i.e. around 3 years ago). You must unlock the bootloader before being able to install a custom recovery image such as TWRP, which itself is used to install custom ROMs.<p>This unlock involves: creating a user account in the Xiaomi services website, logging into that account from your phone&#x27;s system, then <i>having the phone logged in for at least 7 days</i>, then using a Windows software which sends a request for unlocking, which they will grant (at least in my experience).<p>The most outrageous part of all this process (apart from the fact that it exists at all) is the 7 days of usage with the phone logged in. If you attempt an unlock earlier than that, the software will say: &quot;You have to wait X days and Y hours before you can unlock this device.&quot;<p>EDIT: This Reddit wiki page explains the process. I&#x27;m flabbergasted that it actually takes <i>720 hours</i> aka 30 days:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;Xiaomi&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;bootloader&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;Xiaomi&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;bootloader&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Pixel phones are sold with bootloader unlocking disabled</title><url>https://www.fitzsim.org/blog/?p=545</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pbasista</author><text>&gt; connect the device to the Internet before they are allowed to install the operating system they want<p>Phoning home before undertaking such an activity takes away the ownership rights from the customers. They do not actually own these devices even after they have purchased them.<p>The reason is that an important part of their ownership rights, i.e. the freedom to use the software of their choice, has been withheld from them. With a <i>promise</i> that it will be given to them on request. Unless, of course, the manufacturer changes their mind.<p>Unfortunately, there are cases when the manufacturer did not even make such a promise and disabled bootloader unlocking permanently with no way of enabling it again. On Pixel phones.<p>This used to happen (and perhaps still happens) to some Pixel phones purchased in the USA from Verizon. They have been known [0] for disabling the bootloader unlocking and for giving their customers no way to enable it. Not even after phoning home.<p>Some people claim [1] that they paid someone from China to unlock their Pixel 1 phone remotely using some shady approach. I assume that someone with inside information from Google has leaked some software and instructions for doing so. It is unclear whether later Pixel phones sold by Verizon with locked bootloaders could be unlocked in a similar way.<p>As a result, it seems like the only way to have a chance at unlocking such Pixel phones, which have been made by a US company and purchased from a US carrier, is to pay someone in China and hope for the best. It has gotten that far.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.xda-developers.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;how-to-unlock-bootloader-on-verizon-pixel-xl.3796030&#x2F;page-73" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.xda-developers.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;how-to-unlock-bootloader-...</a>
[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.xda-developers.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;how-to-unlock-bootloader-on-verizon-pixel-xl.3796030&#x2F;page-73#post-88299591" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.xda-developers.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;how-to-unlock-bootloader-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ls65536</author><text>&gt; With a promise that it will be given to them on request. Unless, of course, the manufacturer changes their mind.<p>Or if the manufacturer decides to simply shut down those servers after some time, at which point the effective default situation will almost certainly be a denied request. In this case, they may not necessarily even be actively changing their mind, but rather just trying to reduce some overhead for those devices they deem to be &quot;no longer supported&quot; but which are nevertheless still out there being used.</text></comment> |
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