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23,423,214 | 23,423,452 | 1 | 3 | 23,422,469 | train | <story><title>Trump to Sign Executive Order Waiving Key Environmental Laws</title><url>https://e360.yale.edu/digest/president-trump-to-sign-executive-order-waiving-key-environmental-laws</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cgrealy</author><text>Because your system of government is so fundamentally broken it barely even qualifies as a democracy anymore?<p>All the systems built into the US government were designed for a country with 1% the number of people it has now, when the fastest method of communication was a horse and the majority of it&#x27;s populace were farmers.<p>There are a few simple things that could be done right now to fix the US government (abolish the EC and gerrymandering to start with), but no one has the political will to do it.</text></item><item><author>tathougies</author><text>Why have we as a people allowed our past three administrations to continue to rule by fiat? Ultimately, these are probably perfectly reasonable ideas, but this kind of action must come from the legislature.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>veeralpatel979</author><text>I hate gerrymandering too. More competitive elections, in my view, makes politicians less partisan and incentivizes them more to deliver for their districts.<p>But who should determine who draws electoral lines? Right now, it&#x27;s in the hands of elected officials, so you can at least vote them out if they gerrymander.<p>If electoral lines are drawn by a nonpartisan commission, who appoints the commission? How do you ensure the members of the commission stay nonpartisan? Can the public hold members of this commission accountable?<p>Definitely our current system is broken; what are some alternatives to elected officials drawing electoral lines that are promising?</text></comment> | <story><title>Trump to Sign Executive Order Waiving Key Environmental Laws</title><url>https://e360.yale.edu/digest/president-trump-to-sign-executive-order-waiving-key-environmental-laws</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cgrealy</author><text>Because your system of government is so fundamentally broken it barely even qualifies as a democracy anymore?<p>All the systems built into the US government were designed for a country with 1% the number of people it has now, when the fastest method of communication was a horse and the majority of it&#x27;s populace were farmers.<p>There are a few simple things that could be done right now to fix the US government (abolish the EC and gerrymandering to start with), but no one has the political will to do it.</text></item><item><author>tathougies</author><text>Why have we as a people allowed our past three administrations to continue to rule by fiat? Ultimately, these are probably perfectly reasonable ideas, but this kind of action must come from the legislature.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JPKab</author><text>I support abolition of the EC, but only if there is some form of geographic weighting (ideally a smart one) that doesn&#x27;t allow a handful of cities to dominate the Federal gov&#x27;t.<p>I understand that this sounds crazy to people, but as a resident of Colorado who occasionally enjoys marijuana, a substance that my state allows but the Federal gov&#x27;t has long outlawed, I like the fact that the current system puts a higher emphasis on winning over broader regions of the country without just focusing on cities.<p>Obviously, I want it to be more of a sane weighting. My concern with not having some form of geographic weighting is that it sets up the USA not for some dramatic Civil War 2 that some people envision, but instead for a peaceful secession of certain regions who would end up going decades without having a voice in the Federal gov&#x27;t.<p>Most Americans don&#x27;t have a strong grasp of WHY the Senate was made the more powerful chamber of Congress. It was done over the objections of the two largest, most powerful states at the time (Virginia and Pennsylvania) at the demand of Connecticut, Delaware, Rhode Island, Mass, etc.<p>They explicitly stated that they were worried that Philadelphia, New York City, etc would dominate the Federal Gov&#x27;t and permanently ignore the smaller states who were irrelevant to the power process. It&#x27;s an odd situation, because the Federal Gov&#x27;t of the US was a creation of the state governments, not vice versa like many Europeans seem to think.<p>Obviously, the current EC is pretty silly and feels arbitrary and unjust. But I don&#x27;t foresee there being a single US nation without some mechanism to prevent a massive, contiguous chunk of the country from being permanently alienated from the legislative process. The history books are pretty clear on the longevity of empires whose governments ignore citizens outside of their urban centers. You can drive from Mexico to Canada in the US without driving through a single state that Hillary won in 2016. I don&#x27;t see those people putting up with 6 elections in a row of defeat for their candidate. They frankly are already combative as it is.<p>Ironically, many states in the US already have this issue within their own governments. The citizens of upstate New York are pretty much ignored at the expense of the citizens of New York City. Property taxes reflect this. My home state of Colorado is so dominated by Denver that a minimum wage law was enacted that ignores the vast differences in cost of living across the state, forcing small businesses in tiny towns with extremely low rents to pay as if their employees live in the relatively expensive Denver metro area. The Denver Post, which is absolutely not a conservative rag, opposed the minimum wage law&#x27;s implementation due to this fact.</text></comment> |
15,008,404 | 15,007,421 | 1 | 3 | 15,006,430 | train | <story><title>Thread Pools in Nginx Boost Performance 9x (2015)</title><url>https://www.nginx.com/blog/thread-pools-boost-performance-9x/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tyingq</author><text>This message should probably be repeated at the bottom of the article:<p><i>&quot;The page cache works pretty well and allows NGINX to demonstrate great performance in almost all common use cases...So if you have a reasonable amount of RAM and your working data set isn’t very big, then NGINX already works in the most optimal way without using thread pools&quot;</i><p>So using thread pools in NGINX isn&#x27;t a general recommendation. The article suggests &quot;a heavily loaded NGINX‑based streaming media server&quot; as the type of situation where it makes sense.</text></comment> | <story><title>Thread Pools in Nginx Boost Performance 9x (2015)</title><url>https://www.nginx.com/blog/thread-pools-boost-performance-9x/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Neil44</author><text>As long as you&#x27;re not using Apache in pre-fork mode then the rest boils down to a few percent in terms of http server overhead. Unless you&#x27;re trying to serve tons of little static object with either no resource or big scale then there are better places to spend your time optimizing.</text></comment> |
10,326,355 | 10,326,391 | 1 | 2 | 10,326,104 | train | <story><title>Rust Faster</title><url>https://llogiq.github.io/2015/10/03/fast.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>geofft</author><text>Fascinating things I learned from this article:<p>1. The benchmarks game is mostly a game of who can solve the problem fastest with the constraint of &quot;all the code has to be in this language.&quot; It&#x27;s not about how anyone would realistically write the code; if ludicrous optimizations were in-scope for any real-world project, so would be <i>calling out to a different language</i>. It&#x27;s worse than the usual problem of benchmarks being unrepresentative of real code; the implementations are also unrepresentative.<p>2. Apparently performant Haskell involves unchecked raw memory access? What&#x27;s the story there?</text></comment> | <story><title>Rust Faster</title><url>https://llogiq.github.io/2015/10/03/fast.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Everlag</author><text>I&#x27;ve been working with rust for about a week now and I&#x27;ve found it a mirror of go in several ways.<p>Go aims to be simple with the aim of being &#x27;easy&#x27; to start writing idiomatically within a few days of jumping into the language. Comparatively, rust is a behemoth in terms of complexity.<p>There&#x27;s the completely relevant compilation speed difference: if rust could compile within 5-10x the time go does, it would be much more pleasant to work with. Being able to compile within 2 seconds on large projects is crazy for iteration speed; having to wait upwards of 10 seconds on toy projects is not.<p>However, rust is stupid fast while also being safer than go. Also, generics; that&#x27;s a flamewar for another day.<p>Context: I&#x27;ve been working with go for around 2-3 years now. I recently decided to pick up rust because of the guarantees it provides along with the crazy performance.</text></comment> |
24,368,226 | 24,367,587 | 1 | 3 | 24,366,614 | train | <story><title>30-35 percent of Covid-19-positive Big Ten athletes had myocarditis</title><url>https://www.centredaily.com/sports/college/penn-state-university/psu-football/article245448050.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jdminhbg</author><text>A Twitter thread here gives more context: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;DanWetzel&#x2F;status&#x2F;1301591392473538560" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;DanWetzel&#x2F;status&#x2F;1301591392473538560</a><p>&gt; Wayne Sebastianelli was clear that B10 hasn&#x27;t cardiac MRI&#x27;d every athlete who tested positive for Covid. However, among ones that were cardiac MRI&#x27;d (don&#x27;t know number or why they were MRI&#x27;d) about 1&#x2F;3 &quot;had the level of inflammation that was determined to be myocarditis.&quot;<p>...<p>&gt; One more thing: it wasn’t a “study.” It appears he got this info somewhat informally from other athletic doctors from other schools, which may explain the rough numbers.<p>Among other things.<p>So I&#x27;d recommend at least changing the title, as it&#x27;s not actually the case (that we know of) that 1&#x2F;3 of covid-positive players have myocarditis, just 1&#x2F;3 of covid-positive players who were MRIed.<p>Update: It doesn&#x27;t seem like any other schools are actually seeing this according to reports here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;saturdaytradition.com&#x2F;big-ten-football&#x2F;report-multiple-b1g-schools-say-were-not-experiencing-high-levels-of-myocarditis-among-student-athletes&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;saturdaytradition.com&#x2F;big-ten-football&#x2F;report-multip...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>30-35 percent of Covid-19-positive Big Ten athletes had myocarditis</title><url>https://www.centredaily.com/sports/college/penn-state-university/psu-football/article245448050.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dhosek</author><text>This is the thing that&#x27;s frustrated me from the beginning. So many people assume that it&#x27;s like the flu, that you get sick and maybe you die but otherwise you go back to normal and there&#x27;s been abundant evidence that this simply isn&#x27;t the case. And I&#x27;m just some schmuck who reads a lot. We&#x27;re going to see a lot of people with long-term impacts on their health from this on top of all the dead and we <i>still</i> have people claiming it&#x27;s no big deal.</text></comment> |
41,330,496 | 41,329,887 | 1 | 2 | 41,329,505 | train | <story><title>SurrealEngine: Open-source reimplementation of Unreal Engine with playable UT99</title><url>https://github.com/dpjudas/SurrealEngine</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>modeless</author><text>I just ported Quake III to the web with multiplayer and mobile support: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thelongestyard.link&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thelongestyard.link&#x2F;</a>. I was hoping I could use this project to do Unreal Tournament as well, but it seems like it&#x27;s not that playable yet.<p>I wish Epic had GPL&#x27;d their old releases the way id Software did. I&#x27;d especially like to have UT2k4. I played a lot of ONS-Torlan in college.<p>Instead of UT I may do Serious Sam next. Serious Engine was open sourced and there&#x27;s already a web port (without multiplayer): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wasm.builders&#x2F;martinmullins&#x2F;serious-sam-in-the-browser-33f6" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wasm.builders&#x2F;martinmullins&#x2F;serious-sam-in-the-b...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>SurrealEngine: Open-source reimplementation of Unreal Engine with playable UT99</title><url>https://github.com/dpjudas/SurrealEngine</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tedivm</author><text>This makes me so happy and brings back a lot of memories. I really appreciate all the effort that video game archivists put into keeping these old games playable.</text></comment> |
27,154,326 | 27,154,186 | 1 | 2 | 27,153,338 | train | <story><title>I am resigning along with most other Freenode staff</title><url>https://p.haavard.me/407</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TulliusCicero</author><text>That&#x27;s really interesting. I wonder what&#x27;s particular to Brazil that causes this?</text></item><item><author>speeder</author><text>Irc is banned on Brazillian servers, most ISPs will insta-cancel your contract if they detect you are running a IRC server.<p>Reason for that is that Irc drama attracts brazillian hackers and script kiddies like flies, having an irc server is like having a huge DDoS magnet, having a irc server is an excellent way to make a whole ISP crumble under attack.<p>Last major irc network we had went bankrupt because of their DDoS protection costs rising and rising and rising until they went in debt to stay online and until they couldn&#x27;t pay the debts.</text></item><item><author>moepstar</author><text>This is why we can&#x27;t have nice things.<p>IRC is a constant drama, all the way back to The Great Split[0]<p>Been involved with IRC a good 25 years, running a pretty popular blog about it &quot;back in the days&quot;, i just couldn&#x27;t be bothered keeping it up and updated because of all the constant fighting, arguing, bickering and people outright attacking each other all the damn time.<p>I&#x27;m not entirely sure what it is, but something about IRC gives people big egos, omnipotence fantasies which, again, leads to drama - i, myself, just concluded it wasn&#x27;t worth my time anymore and moved on.<p>Mind you, this comes from someone who met his (former) wife on IRC, made great friendships with people all over the world - something i&#x27;m still grateful for to this very day.<p>But it wasn&#x27;t made to last, sadly.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.irc.org&#x2F;history_docs&#x2F;TheGreatSplit.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.irc.org&#x2F;history_docs&#x2F;TheGreatSplit.html</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marcodiego</author><text>I&#x27;m a brazilian and I watched it. There were two major IRC networks in Brazil. The older and bigger with more users was Brasnet, the younger, smaller and with less proficient users was brasirc later renamed to redebrasil.<p>IRC in Brazil was mostly born on university campi but, by the second half of the 90&#x27;s it quickly attracted teens who simply wanted to chat. Our version of the Eternal September.<p>Most used OS at the time was win9x and most used IRC client was mIRC. Actually, most users didn&#x27;t know the difference between mIRC and IRC. So, it was very very unsafe for illiterate users. Self-reproducing mIRC scripts and people trying to fool others with netbus and the like was extremely common.<p>One day, by the end of the 90&#x27;s, both major networks joined. The service quality went deeply down. Operators of big channels lost their status, illiterate users flooded the network and traditional brasnet channels got filled with users from redebreasil who weren&#x27;t used to the established netiquette. To make things worse, redebrasil had advertisements and such ads went together with them when they joined brasnet.<p>That day was one of the saddest days of my life, that day I lost my operator status on #programacao on brasnet, I was 15 and getting that status was no easy task. It was the day I stopped using IRC in Brazil.<p>The thing just went downhill from there. Getting IRCop status was reason to act arrogantly, attacks were rampant and winxp came along been not much safer than win9x. Netsplit was common because of the attacks, bots tryied to fool people to shady and phishing sites, there was no control to stop abuse from IRCops...<p>Then, by the beginning of the 2000&#x27;s IM became more popular, then social networks. Actually MSN messenger and orkut popularity were major blows in brazilian IRC. New people buying computers to get connected no longer even knew about the existence of what was once a major entertainment communication medium.<p>The quality of the service didn&#x27;t improve, and users started migrating away from it. It commercially devalued, ISP&#x27;s didn&#x27;t want to host it and, in 2007, brasnet was closed: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.brasnet.org&#x2F;2007&#x2F;05&#x2F;era-uma-vez-o-irc-brasileiro.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.brasnet.org&#x2F;2007&#x2F;05&#x2F;era-uma-vez-o-irc-brasileiro....</a></text></comment> | <story><title>I am resigning along with most other Freenode staff</title><url>https://p.haavard.me/407</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TulliusCicero</author><text>That&#x27;s really interesting. I wonder what&#x27;s particular to Brazil that causes this?</text></item><item><author>speeder</author><text>Irc is banned on Brazillian servers, most ISPs will insta-cancel your contract if they detect you are running a IRC server.<p>Reason for that is that Irc drama attracts brazillian hackers and script kiddies like flies, having an irc server is like having a huge DDoS magnet, having a irc server is an excellent way to make a whole ISP crumble under attack.<p>Last major irc network we had went bankrupt because of their DDoS protection costs rising and rising and rising until they went in debt to stay online and until they couldn&#x27;t pay the debts.</text></item><item><author>moepstar</author><text>This is why we can&#x27;t have nice things.<p>IRC is a constant drama, all the way back to The Great Split[0]<p>Been involved with IRC a good 25 years, running a pretty popular blog about it &quot;back in the days&quot;, i just couldn&#x27;t be bothered keeping it up and updated because of all the constant fighting, arguing, bickering and people outright attacking each other all the damn time.<p>I&#x27;m not entirely sure what it is, but something about IRC gives people big egos, omnipotence fantasies which, again, leads to drama - i, myself, just concluded it wasn&#x27;t worth my time anymore and moved on.<p>Mind you, this comes from someone who met his (former) wife on IRC, made great friendships with people all over the world - something i&#x27;m still grateful for to this very day.<p>But it wasn&#x27;t made to last, sadly.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.irc.org&#x2F;history_docs&#x2F;TheGreatSplit.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.irc.org&#x2F;history_docs&#x2F;TheGreatSplit.html</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tinus_hn</author><text>Nothing, this happened in Europe as well. IRC attracts this because of how the model works (although it has long since been mitigated through chanserv etc), if no one is in a channel and you enter it you are the owner. So if you can boot everyone else off of the network you can take over the channel.</text></comment> |
22,349,753 | 22,349,447 | 1 | 3 | 22,348,868 | train | <story><title>SEC proposes changes to “accredited investor” definition</title><url>https://www.dlapiper.com/en/us/insights/publications/2020/01/sec-proposes-changes-to-accredited-investor-definition/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>travisoneill1</author><text>The whole thing should be scrapped. This is supposed to be protecting unsophisticated investors, but most of the investments prevented here are equity investments in small businesses. While at the same time anybody is allowed to buy TVIX, a 2x leveraged VIX ETF, which is basically gambling.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cortesoft</author><text>I think Matt Levine has a good explanation about accredited investing and what private markets really mean:<p>&gt; But in fact the main thing that distinguishes public and private markets is not their legal status—private markets are mostly open to accredited investors, while public markets are open to everyone—but the fact that private companies get to choose their investors, and public companies don’t. Hedge funds, for instance, are mostly open only to accredited investors, but not all hedge funds are open to all accredited investors. The very best hedge funds mostly aren’t open to anyone: They are at capacity, won’t take new money, and mostly manage money for their own very rich employees. Other hedge funds with long track records of good performance are open to big institutional allocators who can write very large checks. If you are a dentist making $205,000 a year, and you want to invest in hedge funds … someone will definitely sell you a hedge fund! It will not be Renaissance.<p>Just because we legally allow people to invest in whatever they want doesn&#x27;t mean it will make equal footing between investors. The investments that will accept the people who are currently &#x27;non-accreddited investors&#x27; are going to be the worst of the private investments; it will do nothing to help the little guy compete with the rich guys.</text></comment> | <story><title>SEC proposes changes to “accredited investor” definition</title><url>https://www.dlapiper.com/en/us/insights/publications/2020/01/sec-proposes-changes-to-accredited-investor-definition/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>travisoneill1</author><text>The whole thing should be scrapped. This is supposed to be protecting unsophisticated investors, but most of the investments prevented here are equity investments in small businesses. While at the same time anybody is allowed to buy TVIX, a 2x leveraged VIX ETF, which is basically gambling.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Mvandenbergh</author><text>Agreed. While I think it is sensible to have rules that prevent gullible members of the public from being bamboozled, I also think that a more sensible policy is what the UK has. Here you can self-certify as a &quot;sophisticated investor&quot; which is basically the same thing except that there is no obligation on anyone to check your self-certification i.e. there is no penalty to claiming to be one when you&#x27;re not nor is there any penalty for allowing someone to invest who self-certifies but doesn&#x27;t actually meet the criteria. That seems fair. If you&#x27;re willing to confirm that then you should be able to invest in whatever damn fool thing you want.<p>(Note that in the UK private individuals can trade things like contracts for difference and spread bets which I actually think is slightly mad)</text></comment> |
32,960,314 | 32,960,426 | 1 | 2 | 32,949,122 | train | <story><title>Using GPT-3 to pathfind in random graphs</title><url>https://jacobbrazeal.wordpress.com/2022/09/23/gpt-3-can-find-paths-up-to-7-nodes-long-in-random-graphs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dwohnitmok</author><text>GPT-3 didn&#x27;t even need the `gloober Blue` prompt as part of `Answer:`. It 0-shotted (no other training examples required) it straight out of the box.<p>Prompt:<p><pre><code> Every turn each gloober flomps the same gloobers. If a yellow gloober flomps a blue gloober then the blue gloober turns yellow, otherwise, gloobers stay the same color.
1. gloober Roy flomps gloober Zoo and gloober Bat
2. gloober Zoo flomps gloober Bat and gloober Crystal
3. gloober Crystal flomps gloober X-Ray
4. gloober Bat flomps gloober Blue
If gloober Zoo is the only gloober that is yellow, and all other gloobers are blue, will gloober Blue turn yellow, and, if so, at what turn?
Answer:
</code></pre>
Continuation:<p><pre><code> gloober Blue will turn yellow on turn 4.
</code></pre>
&gt; I find it a little unsettling that GPT-3 is able to do this well.<p>I agree and think that this is definitely the right reaction.</text></item><item><author>ALittleLight</author><text>I find it a little unsettling that GPT-3 is able to do this well. This kind of problem is abstract and I assume its training data doesn&#x27;t extensively cover this kind of thing. I wonder if it would work meaningfully worse if you used different words in the prompt other &quot;edge&quot; and &quot;node&quot; which are probably used in examples somewhat like this.<p>Example prompt -<p>Every turn each gloober flomps the same gloobers. If a yellow gloober flomps a blue gloober then the blue gloober turns yellow, otherwise, gloobers stay the same color.<p>1. gloober Roy flomps gloober Zoo and gloober Bat<p>2. gloober Zoo flomps gloober Bat and gloober Crystal<p>3. gloober Crystal flomps gloober X-Ray<p>4. gloober Bat flomps gloober Blue<p>If gloober Zoo is the only gloober that is yellow, and all other gloobers are blue, will gloober Blue turn yellow, and, if so, at what turn?<p>Answer: gloober Blue</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nikkwong</author><text>I know that GPT-3 is not AGI nor modeled properly to ever represent what we would consider to be AGI; but this feels freakishly AGI-ish. This feels like the model is &#x27;reasoning&#x27; in a way that I would not expect based on my intuition of how GPT-3 works. As it&#x27;s been explained to me in lay terms; GPT is great at predicting the next word based on a chunk of previous context. This feels like it&#x27;s doing much more than that as it&#x27;s understanding the context and parameters that relate to a question embedded in the text, which seems unrelated to the original instruction of GPT-3 as I understand. Can anyone explain?</text></comment> | <story><title>Using GPT-3 to pathfind in random graphs</title><url>https://jacobbrazeal.wordpress.com/2022/09/23/gpt-3-can-find-paths-up-to-7-nodes-long-in-random-graphs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dwohnitmok</author><text>GPT-3 didn&#x27;t even need the `gloober Blue` prompt as part of `Answer:`. It 0-shotted (no other training examples required) it straight out of the box.<p>Prompt:<p><pre><code> Every turn each gloober flomps the same gloobers. If a yellow gloober flomps a blue gloober then the blue gloober turns yellow, otherwise, gloobers stay the same color.
1. gloober Roy flomps gloober Zoo and gloober Bat
2. gloober Zoo flomps gloober Bat and gloober Crystal
3. gloober Crystal flomps gloober X-Ray
4. gloober Bat flomps gloober Blue
If gloober Zoo is the only gloober that is yellow, and all other gloobers are blue, will gloober Blue turn yellow, and, if so, at what turn?
Answer:
</code></pre>
Continuation:<p><pre><code> gloober Blue will turn yellow on turn 4.
</code></pre>
&gt; I find it a little unsettling that GPT-3 is able to do this well.<p>I agree and think that this is definitely the right reaction.</text></item><item><author>ALittleLight</author><text>I find it a little unsettling that GPT-3 is able to do this well. This kind of problem is abstract and I assume its training data doesn&#x27;t extensively cover this kind of thing. I wonder if it would work meaningfully worse if you used different words in the prompt other &quot;edge&quot; and &quot;node&quot; which are probably used in examples somewhat like this.<p>Example prompt -<p>Every turn each gloober flomps the same gloobers. If a yellow gloober flomps a blue gloober then the blue gloober turns yellow, otherwise, gloobers stay the same color.<p>1. gloober Roy flomps gloober Zoo and gloober Bat<p>2. gloober Zoo flomps gloober Bat and gloober Crystal<p>3. gloober Crystal flomps gloober X-Ray<p>4. gloober Bat flomps gloober Blue<p>If gloober Zoo is the only gloober that is yellow, and all other gloobers are blue, will gloober Blue turn yellow, and, if so, at what turn?<p>Answer: gloober Blue</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ALittleLight</author><text>I&#x27;ve been messing with the prompt a little bit and tried to get it to spell out what it thinks is happening. (I changed the name of gloober Blue to gloober Lovely just to make it easier to read). Continuation is at the asterisk.<p><pre><code> Every turn each gloober flomps the same gloobers. If a yellow gloober flomps a blue gloober then the blue gloober turns yellow, otherwise, gloobers stay the same color.
1. gloober Roy flomps gloober Zoo
2. gloober Roy flomps gloober Bat
3. gloober Zoo flomps gloober Bat
4. gloober Zoo flomps gloober Crystal
5. gloober Crystal flomps gloober X-Ray
6. gloober Bat flomps gloober Lovely
gloober Zoo is the only yellow gloober. Write the turn and which gloobers are yellow.
1. Yellow gloobers - Zoo.
2. Yellow gloobers -* Zoo, Bat.
3. Yellow gloobers - Zoo, Bat, Crystal.
4. Yellow gloobers - Zoo, Bat, Crystal, X-Ray.
5. Yellow gloobers - Zoo, Bat, Crystal, X-Ray, Lovely.
6. Yellow gloobers - Zoo, Bat, Crystal, X-Ray, Lovely.
</code></pre>
Other than thinking the spread of yellow is limited to one gloober at a time, this seems right.</text></comment> |
37,778,523 | 37,778,712 | 1 | 2 | 37,776,854 | train | <story><title>September was the most anomalously hot month ever</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/september-was-the-most-anomalously-hot-month-ever/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>badcppdev</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.defense.gov&#x2F;News&#x2F;Feature-Stories&#x2F;story&#x2F;Article&#x2F;2128446&#x2F;during-wwii-industries-transitioned-from-peacetime-to-wartime-production&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.defense.gov&#x2F;News&#x2F;Feature-Stories&#x2F;story&#x2F;Article&#x2F;2...</a><p>I think the Overton window needs to shift soon to include the idea that widespread government intervention will be required to avoid 800 million climate refugees</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ramraj07</author><text>I don’t believe it’s possible to avoid anything anymore,
Merely the scale will be determined at best. It’s not just going to be 800 million refugees. I suspect it’s going to be actual deaths in that range. And with no real intervention as is the case now, likely in the billions. Given how the whole world handled the pandemic I have no confidence it’ll unfurl any other way. A sobering thought that keeps me awake for a bit every night.</text></comment> | <story><title>September was the most anomalously hot month ever</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/september-was-the-most-anomalously-hot-month-ever/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>badcppdev</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.defense.gov&#x2F;News&#x2F;Feature-Stories&#x2F;story&#x2F;Article&#x2F;2128446&#x2F;during-wwii-industries-transitioned-from-peacetime-to-wartime-production&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.defense.gov&#x2F;News&#x2F;Feature-Stories&#x2F;story&#x2F;Article&#x2F;2...</a><p>I think the Overton window needs to shift soon to include the idea that widespread government intervention will be required to avoid 800 million climate refugees</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>morkalork</author><text>There will be widespread government intervention. The only question is what it&#x27;s going to look like.</text></comment> |
1,263,573 | 1,263,630 | 1 | 3 | 1,261,869 | train | <story><title>Why the iPad isn't for me</title><url>http://www.macworld.com/article/150474/2010/04/ipad_not_for_everyone.html?t=</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>VBprogrammer</author><text>I would caution against using the music creation applications as good examples of iPad applications. Firstly, musicians rarely skim on their gear, if an iPad and a $10 App will do the same job as a bit of hardware costing twice the price more than half of them will buy the hardware. I've not used a synth very much but I doubt a touch screen provides an adequate replacement for the musical keyboard, nevermind the more natural feel of real buttons and knobs. Finally, any reasonably serious musician will buy a sound card priced in the hundreds of dollars, they will not be happy with a 3 1/4 inch analog output from one of their primary tools.</text></item><item><author>troystribling</author><text>That the iPad is consistently classified as a media consumption device seems an attempt to trivialize its significance by people who consider themselves power users. I agree that currently the use cases of most applications fall into this category, that it is expensive and I doubt you will ever do application development on a device of its form factor, but it is clearly not just a media consumption device. A few example applications are the two very nice musical instruments the Korg iElectribe <a href="http://www.korg.co.uk/products/software_controllers/iPad_iElectribe/sc_ipad_ielectribe.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.korg.co.uk/products/software_controllers/iPad_iEl...</a>, which sells for $10 while its HW equivqlent is around $450, and the MiniSynth Pro <a href="http://www.yonac.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.yonac.com/</a> a fully functional FM synthesizer. Neither of these applications would have been possible prior to the iPad. Others are the drawing applications Brushes <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id363590649?mt=8" rel="nofollow">http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id363590649?mt=8</a> and SketchBook Pro <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sketchbook-pro/id364253478?mt=8" rel="nofollow">http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sketchbook-pro/id364253478?mt...</a>. I also like the touch and hand drawing interface to OmniGraffle a diagramming application <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/omnigraffle/id363225984?mt=8" rel="nofollow">http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/omnigraffle/id363225984?mt=8</a>.<p>I think the majority of creative or power user applications will be for those with a complex control surface, such as the examples above. The large touch interface of the iPad is much simpler to use than a traditional mouse keyboard. Also when compared to Wacom drawing tablets <a href="http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&#38;rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS240&#38;q=wacom+tablet&#38;um=1&#38;ie=UTF-8&#38;cid=1545184928933896623&#38;ei=o5nES4G3EsL78Aax6bCtDw&#38;sa=X&#38;oi=product_catalog_result&#38;ct=result&#38;resnum=6&#38;ved=0CDIQ8wIwBQ#ps-sellers" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&#38;rlz=1G1GGLQ...</a> it is competitive, at the iPad low end the iPad is about $200 more, though not quite as functional, the iPad does not have pressure or stylus tilt sensitivity but it is portable. If you are interested in developing these types of applications you have to have one. If you do not have one you will never see were the deficiencies are or know which problems to solve. The device as only been available for 10 days. I would expect it will take a year or two before the application space has been adequately sampled.<p>Another obvious short coming, or opportunity, is with file synchronization and management. I am currently using dropbox, <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.dropbox.com/</a> with ReaddleDocs <a href="http://readdle.com/products/readdledocs" rel="nofollow">http://readdle.com/products/readdledocs</a>, which works for reading. If documents are generated on the IPad you have to use iTunes, eMail or an application specific server for document synchronization. Neither of these is adequate.<p>The typing problem you mentioned can be solved by a case that holds it an an angle, such as <a href="http://www.goincase.com/products/detail/CL57512" rel="nofollow">http://www.goincase.com/products/detail/CL57512</a>. The number of viewing and use positions for the device is greater than that for a laptop. Also heavy duty typing can be handled with a bluetooth attached keyboard though for my needs the the onscreen keyboard has been adequate.</text></item><item><author>akadien</author><text>Neither is it for me. I'm sending mine back. Things I don't like: (a) Eye strain, (b)It doesn't provide enough utility for me to justify another device in my life, and I don't want another media consumption device. In short, it's another toy.
(c) An awkward device angle when touch-typing and trying to read what I'm typing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dionysiac</author><text>The touch screen will not provide an adequate replacement for buttons and knobs - if you emulate buttons and knobs, that is. With capacitive multi-touch, there's a real opportunity to rethink the interface here. Interaction in the past was limited to what hardware can do in real life, so why should we keep those limitations now that they don't exist? The music world, unfortunately, has this "old-school" mentality for the most part. The focus is on previous hits and successes with synths and hardware that worked in the past (in this case the Electribe), not with what could be created with new ones. There's a real opportunity here that will take time to play out.<p>As for the sound card - I agree, the DAC in the iPad is probably similar to the other iDevices in the past.. Pretty good for consumer standards, but poor by pro standards - not to mention multiple outs, ins, etc. Where the iPad stands to gain the most is as a remote controller for a larger rig running on a laptop - via Bluetooth or Wifi. Heck the audio jack could be used for modulated data and have it interpreted by the host machine as a control input, a la Serato et al. Ever since the $2k Lemur people have been hungering for this - it will happen sooner or later!</text></comment> | <story><title>Why the iPad isn't for me</title><url>http://www.macworld.com/article/150474/2010/04/ipad_not_for_everyone.html?t=</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>VBprogrammer</author><text>I would caution against using the music creation applications as good examples of iPad applications. Firstly, musicians rarely skim on their gear, if an iPad and a $10 App will do the same job as a bit of hardware costing twice the price more than half of them will buy the hardware. I've not used a synth very much but I doubt a touch screen provides an adequate replacement for the musical keyboard, nevermind the more natural feel of real buttons and knobs. Finally, any reasonably serious musician will buy a sound card priced in the hundreds of dollars, they will not be happy with a 3 1/4 inch analog output from one of their primary tools.</text></item><item><author>troystribling</author><text>That the iPad is consistently classified as a media consumption device seems an attempt to trivialize its significance by people who consider themselves power users. I agree that currently the use cases of most applications fall into this category, that it is expensive and I doubt you will ever do application development on a device of its form factor, but it is clearly not just a media consumption device. A few example applications are the two very nice musical instruments the Korg iElectribe <a href="http://www.korg.co.uk/products/software_controllers/iPad_iElectribe/sc_ipad_ielectribe.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.korg.co.uk/products/software_controllers/iPad_iEl...</a>, which sells for $10 while its HW equivqlent is around $450, and the MiniSynth Pro <a href="http://www.yonac.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.yonac.com/</a> a fully functional FM synthesizer. Neither of these applications would have been possible prior to the iPad. Others are the drawing applications Brushes <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id363590649?mt=8" rel="nofollow">http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id363590649?mt=8</a> and SketchBook Pro <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sketchbook-pro/id364253478?mt=8" rel="nofollow">http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sketchbook-pro/id364253478?mt...</a>. I also like the touch and hand drawing interface to OmniGraffle a diagramming application <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/omnigraffle/id363225984?mt=8" rel="nofollow">http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/omnigraffle/id363225984?mt=8</a>.<p>I think the majority of creative or power user applications will be for those with a complex control surface, such as the examples above. The large touch interface of the iPad is much simpler to use than a traditional mouse keyboard. Also when compared to Wacom drawing tablets <a href="http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&#38;rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS240&#38;q=wacom+tablet&#38;um=1&#38;ie=UTF-8&#38;cid=1545184928933896623&#38;ei=o5nES4G3EsL78Aax6bCtDw&#38;sa=X&#38;oi=product_catalog_result&#38;ct=result&#38;resnum=6&#38;ved=0CDIQ8wIwBQ#ps-sellers" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&#38;rlz=1G1GGLQ...</a> it is competitive, at the iPad low end the iPad is about $200 more, though not quite as functional, the iPad does not have pressure or stylus tilt sensitivity but it is portable. If you are interested in developing these types of applications you have to have one. If you do not have one you will never see were the deficiencies are or know which problems to solve. The device as only been available for 10 days. I would expect it will take a year or two before the application space has been adequately sampled.<p>Another obvious short coming, or opportunity, is with file synchronization and management. I am currently using dropbox, <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.dropbox.com/</a> with ReaddleDocs <a href="http://readdle.com/products/readdledocs" rel="nofollow">http://readdle.com/products/readdledocs</a>, which works for reading. If documents are generated on the IPad you have to use iTunes, eMail or an application specific server for document synchronization. Neither of these is adequate.<p>The typing problem you mentioned can be solved by a case that holds it an an angle, such as <a href="http://www.goincase.com/products/detail/CL57512" rel="nofollow">http://www.goincase.com/products/detail/CL57512</a>. The number of viewing and use positions for the device is greater than that for a laptop. Also heavy duty typing can be handled with a bluetooth attached keyboard though for my needs the the onscreen keyboard has been adequate.</text></item><item><author>akadien</author><text>Neither is it for me. I'm sending mine back. Things I don't like: (a) Eye strain, (b)It doesn't provide enough utility for me to justify another device in my life, and I don't want another media consumption device. In short, it's another toy.
(c) An awkward device angle when touch-typing and trying to read what I'm typing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GHFigs</author><text><i>any reasonably serious musician</i><p>Snobbish bullshit like this is a bigger threat to creativity than anything the iPad does or doesn't do.</text></comment> |
16,496,997 | 16,496,848 | 1 | 3 | 16,496,498 | train | <story><title>What Happens to Us Does Not Happen to Most of You</title><url>https://www.sigarch.org/what-happens-to-us-does-not-happen-to-most-of-you/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>reuven</author><text>These stories upset me deeply. But as much as they upset me, they surprise me. And that&#x27;s because until it was just recently, after 20+ years in the computer industry, that I discovered how pervasive such behavior is.<p>I&#x27;m not happy that such stories take place. But I am happy that a growing number of women are telling their stories, shocking those of us who were able to be blissfully ignorant of what was going on, and forcing us to realize just how poorly our female colleagues are sometimes being treated.<p>Let&#x27;s even assume that 90% of the time, things are great for women in high tech. How many women are willing to put up with even 10% (or even 1%) of their time dealing with such behavior? I&#x27;m not sure if I would. And then we wonder why so many women aren&#x27;t interested in technology careers, or leave after a short period of time.<p>I hope that these stories eventually end. But in order for them to end, we need to hear more of them, to realize just how bad things are, and to make it completely unacceptable, in every way, for things to continue as they currently are.</text></comment> | <story><title>What Happens to Us Does Not Happen to Most of You</title><url>https://www.sigarch.org/what-happens-to-us-does-not-happen-to-most-of-you/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MollyR</author><text>I don&#x27;t like how they buried what I consider the lede.<p>&quot;For the authors of this article, each negative story is overshadowed by dozens of positive experiences, where someone went out of their way to offer support, provide opportunities, and encourage us.&quot;<p>I think this matters to encouraging both women and men. Yes, jerks exist. Sometimes its good people having bad days, some people are monsters hiding under a veneer (ex Hollywood&#x27;s Weinstein).<p>We need to stop dehumanizing each other, and understand all humans have the full expanse of positive and negative emotions.<p>Most people in technology are not bros, sjws, ceos, and whatever.<p>They are just people trying to get by.</text></comment> |
37,714,264 | 37,713,523 | 1 | 2 | 37,713,091 | train | <story><title>A couple of messages about changes to ianVisits</title><url>https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/a-couple-of-messages-about-changes-to-ianvisits-66081/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ben30</author><text>As a software engineer with a keen interest in photography, I&#x27;ve been using a method to allow others to benefit from my work, while also enjoying the spread of my photos in various public forums. I upload my pictures to Flickr and tag them with a Creative Commons license. This makes it easy for anyone to search and use these images without worrying about licensing fees; they just need to provide a link back to the original source.<p>This practice has brought me a lot of joy over the years. My photos have appeared on Wikipedia, in concert promotions, and even in a special Ibiza edition of Monopoly. The Monopoly team didn&#x27;t have to, but they sent me two copies of the game as a thank-you, which was a lovely touch.<p>For those of you who are like-minded and have photos that could be of public interest, consider setting a Creative Commons license on platforms like Flickr. Doing so could ease the burden for small publishers like ianVisits, allowing them to use high-quality images without worrying about legal repercussions.</text></comment> | <story><title>A couple of messages about changes to ianVisits</title><url>https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/a-couple-of-messages-about-changes-to-ianvisits-66081/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chilmers</author><text>Photographers using these kinds of copyright enforcement services are only hurting themselves in the long run. Most aren’t going to risk multiple thousands of pounds worth of fines for a few content images. They’ll switch to AI-generated content, or won’t use images at all, and licensing revenue will eventually decline.<p>If these enforcement services were legitimate entities instead of parasitic trolls, they would start by providing the infringer with options to either remove the image or purchase a royalty free license at a reasonable price, and only impose punitive fees if they continued to infringe.</text></comment> |
38,280,576 | 38,280,878 | 1 | 3 | 38,279,732 | train | <story><title>In illinois, a warden tried to fix an abusive prison</title><url>https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/11/15/illinois-federal-prison-thomson-abuse-thomas-bergami</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>autoexec</author><text>Our prison system is inhumane and our treatment of prisoners is torture. I don&#x27;t doubt there will be a lot of resistance to cleaning the system up because basically everyone involved is guilty and won&#x27;t like the idea of suddenly being vulnerable to being held accountable for what they&#x27;ve been doing.<p>There&#x27;s still a strong culture in the US that fetishizes punishment. A disturbingly high number of people want criminals to go to prison and get beaten and raped. They don&#x27;t care how many innocent people get caught up in it as long it isn&#x27;t them personally and so long as at least some people they feel &quot;deserve it&quot; are being tortured. I&#x27;d like to think that those attitudes will change and eventually we&#x27;ll start improving things, but I don&#x27;t see it happening any time soon.</text></comment> | <story><title>In illinois, a warden tried to fix an abusive prison</title><url>https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/11/15/illinois-federal-prison-thomson-abuse-thomas-bergami</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>unethical_ban</author><text>&gt;“the vast majority of our employees are hardworking, ethical, diligent corrections professionals, who act with integrity daily and want those engaging in misconduct to be held accountable.”<p>In the career of prison guard, the ideal would be 100% integrity.<p>I believe unions have their issues, but that in a &quot;market&quot; career, such as the trades or retail or service workers, the good outweighs the bad.<p>Unions for police and prison guards are 100% a mafia and they should not be tolerated. It needs to be much easier to fire cops.</text></comment> |
30,898,719 | 30,898,907 | 1 | 2 | 30,897,937 | train | <story><title>Young women earn more than young men in several U.S. cities</title><url>https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/03/28/young-women-are-out-earning-young-men-in-several-u-s-cities/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JamesBarney</author><text>My understanding is most of the mid career pay gap is due to women prioritizing child rearing over career.<p>There&#x27;s a conundrum where you either have to respect women&#x27;s choices and see the mid career pay gap as inevitable, or see women&#x27;s desire to be prioritize child rearing over career as internalized misogyny.</text></item><item><author>godelski</author><text>It&#x27;s only surprising because people just repeat pay gap statistics and don&#x27;t learn about them (I believe there are non good faith actors promoting this).<p>Pay gap for men and women only starts mid career. But this isn&#x27;t the 80c on the dollar pay gap (that&#x27;s median male earnings vs female). It&#x27;s usually in the 90c range (iirc 93c is the median and even Uber found a pay gap in this range). There&#x27;s also the glass ceiling. But neither of these things have a smoking gun to them. They are hard to solve and going to require a lot of us to start talking about them. So I&#x27;m not sure why we only discuss median gender earnings, which isn&#x27;t a great way to discuss fairness. It&#x27;s especially bad when we discuss median gender wages as if they are controlling for variables (like the 90c+ gap does, which you see in part of this data). But don&#x27;t let the bad discussion of median earnings prevent a discussion over the actual phenomena that exist.<p>Edit: there&#x27;s a lot I didn&#x27;t say here, I&#x27;m glad others are adding more. But let&#x27;s also try to be nuanced because it is a complicated topic. I also wanted to plug a podcast &quot;The Pay Check&quot; which goes in depth into these issues, including attempts to solve them. It&#x27;s from the perspective of economics (by Bloomberg) and discusses all the common misconceptions like child rearing.</text></item><item><author>cs702</author><text>...which is not <i>that</i> surprising, because in the US more women than men have graduated from college over the past two decades (roughly):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pewresearch.org&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2021&#x2F;11&#x2F;ft_2021.11.08_highered_01.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pewresearch.org&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2021&#x2F;11&#x2F;ft_20...</a><p>In other words, this is a predictable consequence of the growing female-male gap in college enrollment and graduation rates:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pewresearch.org&#x2F;fact-tank&#x2F;2021&#x2F;11&#x2F;08&#x2F;whats-behind-the-growing-gap-between-men-and-women-in-college-completion&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pewresearch.org&#x2F;fact-tank&#x2F;2021&#x2F;11&#x2F;08&#x2F;whats-behin...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>godelski</author><text>&gt; My understanding is most of the mid career pay gap is due to women prioritizing child rearing over career.<p>This is a common misconception. The gap I&#x27;m talking about can&#x27;t fully be explained by this. It does affect the glass ceiling though, even if the women don&#x27;t choose to have kids. I really do mean there&#x27;s no smoking gun. You can even account for worse negotiations, prioritization of work life balance, work flexibility, family, and you don&#x27;t fully explain a gap (albeit it does get smaller, but remember that even a 1% difference is significant here).<p>I really suggest listening to Rebecca Greenfield&#x27;s The Paycheck. The first season goes into all this. I think it&#x27;s a lot more convoluted and surprising to many. It&#x27;s also not focused on median earnings and so I think is really good if you want to understand fairness (glass ceiling is also discussed). And I don&#x27;t think anyone disagrees with your second paragraphs. Women should have choice. But there&#x27;s still gaps that aren&#x27;t explained and we shouldn&#x27;t just easily dismiss them. I should also mention that this gap is in no way a phenomena strictly in America. It&#x27;s global.<p>A lot of economists have put in a lot of work trying to understand this and there really is no agreement on what does cause it. So don&#x27;t dismiss things so easily. Most problems in our modern and complex world have many casual factors and large casual graphs.</text></comment> | <story><title>Young women earn more than young men in several U.S. cities</title><url>https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/03/28/young-women-are-out-earning-young-men-in-several-u-s-cities/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JamesBarney</author><text>My understanding is most of the mid career pay gap is due to women prioritizing child rearing over career.<p>There&#x27;s a conundrum where you either have to respect women&#x27;s choices and see the mid career pay gap as inevitable, or see women&#x27;s desire to be prioritize child rearing over career as internalized misogyny.</text></item><item><author>godelski</author><text>It&#x27;s only surprising because people just repeat pay gap statistics and don&#x27;t learn about them (I believe there are non good faith actors promoting this).<p>Pay gap for men and women only starts mid career. But this isn&#x27;t the 80c on the dollar pay gap (that&#x27;s median male earnings vs female). It&#x27;s usually in the 90c range (iirc 93c is the median and even Uber found a pay gap in this range). There&#x27;s also the glass ceiling. But neither of these things have a smoking gun to them. They are hard to solve and going to require a lot of us to start talking about them. So I&#x27;m not sure why we only discuss median gender earnings, which isn&#x27;t a great way to discuss fairness. It&#x27;s especially bad when we discuss median gender wages as if they are controlling for variables (like the 90c+ gap does, which you see in part of this data). But don&#x27;t let the bad discussion of median earnings prevent a discussion over the actual phenomena that exist.<p>Edit: there&#x27;s a lot I didn&#x27;t say here, I&#x27;m glad others are adding more. But let&#x27;s also try to be nuanced because it is a complicated topic. I also wanted to plug a podcast &quot;The Pay Check&quot; which goes in depth into these issues, including attempts to solve them. It&#x27;s from the perspective of economics (by Bloomberg) and discusses all the common misconceptions like child rearing.</text></item><item><author>cs702</author><text>...which is not <i>that</i> surprising, because in the US more women than men have graduated from college over the past two decades (roughly):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pewresearch.org&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2021&#x2F;11&#x2F;ft_2021.11.08_highered_01.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pewresearch.org&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2021&#x2F;11&#x2F;ft_20...</a><p>In other words, this is a predictable consequence of the growing female-male gap in college enrollment and graduation rates:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pewresearch.org&#x2F;fact-tank&#x2F;2021&#x2F;11&#x2F;08&#x2F;whats-behind-the-growing-gap-between-men-and-women-in-college-completion&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pewresearch.org&#x2F;fact-tank&#x2F;2021&#x2F;11&#x2F;08&#x2F;whats-behin...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thathndude</author><text>It does feel like society is swinging towards the latter. I think there’s a non-negligible slice of the population that look down on women’s desire&#x2F;choice to stay In the home and make child rearing their job.</text></comment> |
41,161,779 | 41,157,828 | 1 | 2 | 41,153,158 | train | <story><title>Belenios: Verifiable online voting system</title><url>https://www.belenios.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oivey</author><text>Criminals showing up to your house, putting a gun to your head, and demanding your vote is a fantasy. You don’t need to defend against it because it’s a totally unscalable way to steal an election.</text></item><item><author>tossandthrow</author><text>You don&#x27;t think this is even more pronounced if the criminals can keep af gun to your head in your own home when voting?<p>That said - I am yet to see any protocol that is resilient against not showing up IRL (due to the exact reason above).</text></item><item><author>thepra</author><text>Please forget about showing up physically, it&#x27;s noble to think of &quot;you really care&quot; but in places with organized crime they have ways to count if those that depend on them come and vote for their &quot;right&quot; choice.
It has been estimated that around 20-30% of IRL votes in Italy follow the organized crimes choice.</text></item><item><author>exabrial</author><text>Personally I love the idea of a fully verifiable election. I do the the current election protocol my county uses is pretty good: you present id in one room, they check your eligibility, then you’re given an anonymous ticket, in another room you vote using said ticket, and get a receipt. You can see your but counted online using said receipt.<p>There are two problems with this: 1. You can’t verify extra or in eligible voters voted. 2. It relies on trust that to tell you your vote was counted.<p>I am very interested in reading about this protocol, and it might make a fun hobby to re implement it as a research project.<p>The one issue I have is: the act of physically showing up is an important one. Mass stuffing of ballot boxes is nearly impossible when physical presence is required. It also puts ‘your ass in the game’, meaning you really care so to speak; as you have to do a minor piece of physical labor in order to get your vote counted.<p>If this protocol could be adapted to the physical world, I think it would be perfect barring any other issues.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Ajedi32</author><text>In most cases coercion probably won&#x27;t be as obvious as someone <i>literally</i> pointing a gun to your head (though there certainly <i>could</i> be a literal or metaphorical gun to the head in some cases). Typically it&#x27;ll probably be something more subtle like: &quot;Hi, I&#x27;m going door to door to turn out the vote. Have you voted yet? No? Here, let me help you fill out your ballot. I&#x27;ll even turn it in for you.&quot;<p>Coercion doesn&#x27;t need to be overt to be effective, just a small amount of social pressure applied over a large number of people is enough to make a significant difference. That&#x27;s why typically there are laws banning campaigning right outside polling places. Now what if the &quot;polling place&quot; is the entire country, over a period of multiple weeks? How are you going to enforce that? And how can the electorate trust that it is being effectively enforced?</text></comment> | <story><title>Belenios: Verifiable online voting system</title><url>https://www.belenios.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oivey</author><text>Criminals showing up to your house, putting a gun to your head, and demanding your vote is a fantasy. You don’t need to defend against it because it’s a totally unscalable way to steal an election.</text></item><item><author>tossandthrow</author><text>You don&#x27;t think this is even more pronounced if the criminals can keep af gun to your head in your own home when voting?<p>That said - I am yet to see any protocol that is resilient against not showing up IRL (due to the exact reason above).</text></item><item><author>thepra</author><text>Please forget about showing up physically, it&#x27;s noble to think of &quot;you really care&quot; but in places with organized crime they have ways to count if those that depend on them come and vote for their &quot;right&quot; choice.
It has been estimated that around 20-30% of IRL votes in Italy follow the organized crimes choice.</text></item><item><author>exabrial</author><text>Personally I love the idea of a fully verifiable election. I do the the current election protocol my county uses is pretty good: you present id in one room, they check your eligibility, then you’re given an anonymous ticket, in another room you vote using said ticket, and get a receipt. You can see your but counted online using said receipt.<p>There are two problems with this: 1. You can’t verify extra or in eligible voters voted. 2. It relies on trust that to tell you your vote was counted.<p>I am very interested in reading about this protocol, and it might make a fun hobby to re implement it as a research project.<p>The one issue I have is: the act of physically showing up is an important one. Mass stuffing of ballot boxes is nearly impossible when physical presence is required. It also puts ‘your ass in the game’, meaning you really care so to speak; as you have to do a minor piece of physical labor in order to get your vote counted.<p>If this protocol could be adapted to the physical world, I think it would be perfect barring any other issues.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gus_massa</author><text>Here in Argentina each party has a big ballot. We can cut it and mix part of different parties, like a president from party A, a governor from party B and a major from party C. But most people are lazy and just select everyone from the same party.<p>A few years ago, some of the local county majors know that people liked them more than the candidate to governor or president of the same party. So they send helpers to each house to ask people and give them cut ballots with the combination they liked. No judgement. People can choose whoever they want. The county majors know it was better for them in average.<p>So it&#x27;s possible to scale it if you distribute the task.<p>We have in person secret voting. So people can lie and accept the ballots provided by the helpers of the local major and then just pick another when voting. If people can vote remotely, they can be forced to vote under supervision.</text></comment> |
2,153,543 | 2,152,622 | 1 | 2 | 2,152,344 | train | <story><title>Egyptian Revolution Live [video]</title><url>http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/?</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kloncks</author><text>Egyptian here.<p>What I can't believe is the irresponsible behavior with taking down the Internet in a civilized country smack-dab in the middle of the World. That reckless behavior only goes to show how out of touch the current regime really is. There's no thinking whatsoever in how catastrophic (economically, politically, morally) such an action really is.<p>Yet beyond that, I'm just worried. I'm terrified actually. While the regime needs to change, I'm not yet sure about the future. Will Islamists seize power? Will another corrupt official do that? Will Chaos and Anarchy ensue?<p>The trouble with Tunisia is that we've yet to see the results of the revolution. Things are developing...but we don't yet know if it's successful or not.<p>Not to mention that certain events are making me very sad. I do realize it's hard to mass-protest in a very sane manner...but something like lighting up the National Democratic Party's HQ on fire, when it's across the street from the National Museum (King Tut + 100,000 other priceless treasures) and there's a huge threat of the fire spreading...just worries me. I remember when Iraq was first attacked; the first things that were looted were priceless treasures from Mesopotamia.</text></comment> | <story><title>Egyptian Revolution Live [video]</title><url>http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/?</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>Al Jazeera is more and more a resource of quality, it's gotten to the point that when you want news that is relatively spin free that you can go to the BBC or to Al Jazeera. The interesting part for me is that they are a better source of real info on the US and Europe than most local media.<p>The chances are though that that is because they're not reporting on their 'home turf', does that extend to them reporting on Arab affairs as well?</text></comment> |
15,651,758 | 15,651,719 | 1 | 2 | 15,651,058 | train | <story><title>Paradise Papers: Dear Tim Cook</title><url>https://projekte.sueddeutsche.de/paradisepapers/politik/dear-tim-cook-e322998/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nickpp</author><text>Monopolies are granted by governments. The free market has a natural solution to monopolies, it&#x27;s called competition - startups.<p>Big Cos will always lobby governments to add rules and regulation to raise the barrier of entry on their market and thus reduce competition.<p>They, in fact, buy their monopoly from the government.<p>Solution? Take away the government&#x27;s ability to grant monopolies.</text></item><item><author>sfifs</author><text>Those with wealth will always try to capture the system - whether its formal or informal. The natural state of any business is to try and become a monopoly because that maximizes rent taking ability - NOT competition.<p>Practically the ONLY power able to stop monopolies from forming is the government. In absence of the government&#x27;s ability to &quot;meddle&quot;, businesses can and will cut deals with big competitors and squelch smaller ones through anti competitive practices to dominate</text></item><item><author>nickpp</author><text>By default, big companies always get preferential treatment from governments. Open a mega-factory? They get tax cuts, cheap real estate, free utilities. Why? Those shiny new jobs look great on a politician&#x27;s resume for the next election...<p>What does the little business guy get? A letter of &quot;don&#x27;t forget to pay your taxes in full or else&quot;<p>It&#x27;s time to accept the fact that governments are NOT a fair and impartial warden of the economy. Therein lies the problem. Reducing their power of meddling in the economy is the solution.</text></item><item><author>styx31</author><text>What annoys me the most is that, as a small company, I can&#x27;t evade from my country tax system. I pay the taxes. All of them, at full rate.<p>But there are these big companies which can afford to create offshore companies&#x2F;holding just to evade some tax system, and lower their tax rate.<p>So, what? The tax rate of a country is now &quot;artificial&quot;, because it will never be applied to all revenues from all companies, because the higher profiles will be able to evade a part of it.<p>If governments want to reclaim more, they could raise up the tax rate, considering that the biggest players will only pay a fragment of it. But the small companies, the one that can only follow the rules? They are screwed.<p>All companies should be considered equals regarding the tax system. It is simply not the case when such schemes are used.<p>Edit: exactly the same point of view as jitbit: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15651457" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15651457</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sfifs</author><text>In any free market, the giant incumbent will either buy out or copy and squelch startups that threaten them unless restricted by anti trust. Witness how Facebook treats competition in the social space. Or how Oracle treats the database space. Or how Microsoft funded Apple&#x27;s survival and Intel ensured AMDs.<p>If there are sufficiently few rules and an lack of power in the government to enforce (Korea, Japan, Italy), giants may use corruption or organised crime to achieve this.<p>Less powerful governments are rarely a good solution to protect the small man. The right solution is to build checks and balances between the different wings of the government that make it difficult to &quot;capture&quot; all wings.</text></comment> | <story><title>Paradise Papers: Dear Tim Cook</title><url>https://projekte.sueddeutsche.de/paradisepapers/politik/dear-tim-cook-e322998/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nickpp</author><text>Monopolies are granted by governments. The free market has a natural solution to monopolies, it&#x27;s called competition - startups.<p>Big Cos will always lobby governments to add rules and regulation to raise the barrier of entry on their market and thus reduce competition.<p>They, in fact, buy their monopoly from the government.<p>Solution? Take away the government&#x27;s ability to grant monopolies.</text></item><item><author>sfifs</author><text>Those with wealth will always try to capture the system - whether its formal or informal. The natural state of any business is to try and become a monopoly because that maximizes rent taking ability - NOT competition.<p>Practically the ONLY power able to stop monopolies from forming is the government. In absence of the government&#x27;s ability to &quot;meddle&quot;, businesses can and will cut deals with big competitors and squelch smaller ones through anti competitive practices to dominate</text></item><item><author>nickpp</author><text>By default, big companies always get preferential treatment from governments. Open a mega-factory? They get tax cuts, cheap real estate, free utilities. Why? Those shiny new jobs look great on a politician&#x27;s resume for the next election...<p>What does the little business guy get? A letter of &quot;don&#x27;t forget to pay your taxes in full or else&quot;<p>It&#x27;s time to accept the fact that governments are NOT a fair and impartial warden of the economy. Therein lies the problem. Reducing their power of meddling in the economy is the solution.</text></item><item><author>styx31</author><text>What annoys me the most is that, as a small company, I can&#x27;t evade from my country tax system. I pay the taxes. All of them, at full rate.<p>But there are these big companies which can afford to create offshore companies&#x2F;holding just to evade some tax system, and lower their tax rate.<p>So, what? The tax rate of a country is now &quot;artificial&quot;, because it will never be applied to all revenues from all companies, because the higher profiles will be able to evade a part of it.<p>If governments want to reclaim more, they could raise up the tax rate, considering that the biggest players will only pay a fragment of it. But the small companies, the one that can only follow the rules? They are screwed.<p>All companies should be considered equals regarding the tax system. It is simply not the case when such schemes are used.<p>Edit: exactly the same point of view as jitbit: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15651457" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15651457</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>This is a reductionist view that ignores economies of scale, real barriers to entry, the actual requirement for regulation for most markets to function, not to mention basic safety.<p>Or are you campaigning for the abolition of patents as a concept?</text></comment> |
19,985,536 | 19,978,493 | 1 | 3 | 19,978,200 | train | <story><title>Go is Google's language, not ours</title><url>https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoIsGooglesLanguage</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cryptos</author><text>Actually there are relatively few real (TM) open source projects driven by the community, at least if you look at important projects. Many open source projects are just commercial projects driven mainly by a single company. Look for example at Redis, MongoDB, MySQL, and Elasticsearch. They follow exactly the model described in the article. Technologies like these could have been developed by a community, too, but it is hard to form such a community and keep it alive.<p>For a community-driven project from the size of a database some serious sponsors would be needed. Good examples are Rust, Linux, and PostgreSQL. I wonder why so many companies are happily paying Oracle (and the likes) tons of money instead of sponsoring an open source project like PostgreSQL.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>antirez</author><text>I disagree about Redis. Redis Labs did a great job at creating an ecosystem of advanced things around Redis. But the Redis core project itself, that is what most people use, is surely sponsored for a big part by Redis Labs, but is executed as a completely OSS community driven project:<p>1. All the work is done in public, with a license that gives zero protection to the original authors.<p>2. The project leder (myself) only does OSS work and has no other roles in the sponsoring company.<p>3. The roadmap is decided by the community (myself with feedbacks from the community), not a company or some product manager or alike.<p>4. There are multiple people from multiple companies contributing regularly code to Redis: Redis Labs, Alibaba, AWS, ...<p>5. The main web site is handled by the community.<p>In the case of Redis this was possible because of the minimality of the project, otherwise I agree that&#x27;s a huge challenge. But still IMHO Redis deserves to be listed in such &quot;purely community&quot; OSS projects.</text></comment> | <story><title>Go is Google's language, not ours</title><url>https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoIsGooglesLanguage</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cryptos</author><text>Actually there are relatively few real (TM) open source projects driven by the community, at least if you look at important projects. Many open source projects are just commercial projects driven mainly by a single company. Look for example at Redis, MongoDB, MySQL, and Elasticsearch. They follow exactly the model described in the article. Technologies like these could have been developed by a community, too, but it is hard to form such a community and keep it alive.<p>For a community-driven project from the size of a database some serious sponsors would be needed. Good examples are Rust, Linux, and PostgreSQL. I wonder why so many companies are happily paying Oracle (and the likes) tons of money instead of sponsoring an open source project like PostgreSQL.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ncmncm</author><text>Actually Mongo doesn&#x27;t even look at pull requests. So, yes.<p>Postgres (do we really still need the &quot;QL&quot; reminder?) has demonstrated staying power, and repays invested time in spades. Linux, obvs. Rust, it&#x27;s still too early to be sure about. Learning it will be at least educational, maybe formative, and at worst it won&#x27;t be taken away.</text></comment> |
18,995,522 | 18,995,511 | 1 | 3 | 18,994,760 | train | <story><title>Why media layoffs keep happening</title><url>https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1088503510184927233.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>untog</author><text>&quot;all news are fake news now&quot; is such an obviously false statement the whole thing drowns in irony.<p>I&#x27;m not trying to suggest that the industry is not without problems, but the stories broken by NYT, WSJ, Washington Post etc. each day are assuredly not &quot;fake&quot;. There are, on occasion, factual errors in a story. When it happens they issue a correction. They also do themselves no favours (IMO) by publishing absurd opinion columns alongside actual news in a way that devalues the overall proposition. And yes, they have biases, because there is no such thing as an entirely unbiased news report - that&#x27;s why it is in your benefit to maintain a varied news diet from different sources. None of this means they are all &quot;fake news&quot;.<p>I&#x27;m not particularly wedded to today&#x27;s media outlets. If something new is going to come along and blow them out of the water, bring it on. But I&#x27;m yet to see an alternative that improves on what they offer. All I see is amateurishness (Reddit crowd sourcing the wrong identity for terrorists multiple times) and all-out propaganda efforts.</text></item><item><author>anticodon</author><text>I have failed to find one important reason: all news are fake news now. When I see reports from the country where I live (be it my home country or country where I currently live) I see lots of distortion, omissions of very important news that don&#x27;t fit the current media paradigm, or even obvious lies.<p>I don&#x27;t see a point in spending my money and my time to read fake news. I&#x27;ve just stopped consuming news and felt a lot better.<p>Social networks and Internet in general are much worse in this respect. There&#x27;s immense amount of bots&#x2F;government agents (from every government in the world) spreading all kinds of fake information. Then real people start reposting that. You still can do fact-checking but if you&#x27;d fact-check everything, it would require as much time as a full-time job. So I&#x27;m planning on stopping reading the social networks also because in most social networks there&#x27;s no way of blocking reposts or filtering out the politics-related messages.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nostromo</author><text>It seems this past week we learned that the NYT and WaPo both have pre-existing narratives they want to tell — and they are always on the lookout for facts to back up those narratives. Facts outside of the narrative are simply passed over.<p>I wouldn’t call this fake news, but it’s also not good journalism.<p>And yes, Fox News and MSNBC have been doing this for years. But this form of bias now seems to permeate everything, including formerly trusted titans like NPR and the NYT.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why media layoffs keep happening</title><url>https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1088503510184927233.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>untog</author><text>&quot;all news are fake news now&quot; is such an obviously false statement the whole thing drowns in irony.<p>I&#x27;m not trying to suggest that the industry is not without problems, but the stories broken by NYT, WSJ, Washington Post etc. each day are assuredly not &quot;fake&quot;. There are, on occasion, factual errors in a story. When it happens they issue a correction. They also do themselves no favours (IMO) by publishing absurd opinion columns alongside actual news in a way that devalues the overall proposition. And yes, they have biases, because there is no such thing as an entirely unbiased news report - that&#x27;s why it is in your benefit to maintain a varied news diet from different sources. None of this means they are all &quot;fake news&quot;.<p>I&#x27;m not particularly wedded to today&#x27;s media outlets. If something new is going to come along and blow them out of the water, bring it on. But I&#x27;m yet to see an alternative that improves on what they offer. All I see is amateurishness (Reddit crowd sourcing the wrong identity for terrorists multiple times) and all-out propaganda efforts.</text></item><item><author>anticodon</author><text>I have failed to find one important reason: all news are fake news now. When I see reports from the country where I live (be it my home country or country where I currently live) I see lots of distortion, omissions of very important news that don&#x27;t fit the current media paradigm, or even obvious lies.<p>I don&#x27;t see a point in spending my money and my time to read fake news. I&#x27;ve just stopped consuming news and felt a lot better.<p>Social networks and Internet in general are much worse in this respect. There&#x27;s immense amount of bots&#x2F;government agents (from every government in the world) spreading all kinds of fake information. Then real people start reposting that. You still can do fact-checking but if you&#x27;d fact-check everything, it would require as much time as a full-time job. So I&#x27;m planning on stopping reading the social networks also because in most social networks there&#x27;s no way of blocking reposts or filtering out the politics-related messages.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adnzzzzZ</author><text>When people speak of &quot;fake news&quot; they&#x27;re generally not talking about news with factual mistakes, but often times where the fact picking mechanism is biased. You can produce a piece that is 100% factual that still omits important facts that are relevant to the story and would paint a completely different picture. Most of the sites you mentioned do that very consistently.</text></comment> |
2,804,339 | 2,804,291 | 1 | 3 | 2,803,307 | train | <story><title>Veteran developer Steve Lacey (Google, Microsoft) Killed in Auto Accident</title><url>http://www.loopinsight.com/2011/07/25/veteran-developer-steve-lacey-killed-in-driving-incident/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abduhl</author><text><i>And what about the culture where drinking and driving is, in many states, acceptable? Why isn't there a dramatic and meaningful campaign to demonstrate that there is really only zero-tolerance to drink-driving that is acceptable?</i><p>States have been cracking down on drunk driving for the past decade or two. If there ever was a culture where drinking and driving was "acceptable" on a state level it has long since disappeared.<p>If you don't mind me asking, where do you currently live (you're clearly from the Queen's domain) and, if it isn't in the US, how did you get this idea that the US doesn't take drinking and driving seriously?</text></item><item><author>imajes</author><text>Why? Plenty of people are able to drive a vehicle, and drive it well. It's the many who aren't, or choose to ignore the rules who are causing danger.<p>The "every vehicle should be automated" line is lowest common denominator FUD.<p>How about we start by actually applying a proper, rigorous upgrade to the new driver education from the DMV, and stop treating driving as a right, and instead a privilege?<p>How about we improve mass transit and spend more money fixing roads (which is a bigger cause of accidents than you might imagine).<p>What about Signage, which is over abundant and people ignore - or important signage which is entirely missing (many median lines are faded away - not repainted due to lack of funding)?<p>And what about the culture where drinking and driving is, in many states, acceptable? Why isn't there a dramatic and meaningful campaign to demonstrate that there is really only zero-tolerance to drink-driving that is acceptable?<p>The United States approach to driving is embarrassing and smacks of largesse, but for much of the country, where there is an abundance of space and empty roads, is tolerated.<p>Accidents happen routinely in city centers and suburban areas where the laws and driving regulations are not more stricter, but often just as (if not more) relaxed.<p>There isn't consideration given to heavy traffic, patterns of driving, preparing for exits - it's just expected that as long as you know how to steer and stop at a sign, you are qualified to drive.<p>Computer controlled cars is a stupid argument (mostly because they are almost already there, in the full part, and certainly the car you are driving is doing more work than you are to get you to your destination). Never mind the fact that the better answer is amazing and undeniable mass transit, obviating the need for personal car ownership in densely populated areas, and a 2-3 magnitude leap in driver education to prevent such stupidity on the roads as a basic requirement to even begin to address this problem.</text></item><item><author>amichail</author><text>It's time to have mandatory computer controlled cars.<p>Driving manually should be illegal unless done on a race track.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>imajes</author><text>Oh. and one more point.<p>There was an attempt to broadcast a drink driving psa in the US, which was filmed in the style of a UK drink-drive campaign advert.<p>It was banned. No network was willing to show it, and went so far as to get the FCC to ban it as it would scare people.<p>How is that in any way a serious attitude to drink driving?<p>If you haven't seen them, here are a few interesting PSAs from the uk. They are shocking, disturbing - horrible. But they work.<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQtTREndJKk" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQtTREndJKk</a> - drink driving
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iqCcMDByLA" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iqCcMDByLA</a> - using your phone
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm8yyl9ROEM" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm8yyl9ROEM</a> - speed (a classic)<p>from ireland:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om9qq2d4DRk" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om9qq2d4DRk</a> - drinking
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzvzqaicMz0&#38;NR=1" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzvzqaicMz0&#38;NR=1</a> - seatbelts<p>from australia:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8QxZJZfU5Q" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8QxZJZfU5Q</a> - speeding/mixed<p>And for comparison, this one won an emmy as a PSA from tennessee:<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miqGOGv7QPs" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miqGOGv7QPs</a><p>Seriously?</text></comment> | <story><title>Veteran developer Steve Lacey (Google, Microsoft) Killed in Auto Accident</title><url>http://www.loopinsight.com/2011/07/25/veteran-developer-steve-lacey-killed-in-driving-incident/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abduhl</author><text><i>And what about the culture where drinking and driving is, in many states, acceptable? Why isn't there a dramatic and meaningful campaign to demonstrate that there is really only zero-tolerance to drink-driving that is acceptable?</i><p>States have been cracking down on drunk driving for the past decade or two. If there ever was a culture where drinking and driving was "acceptable" on a state level it has long since disappeared.<p>If you don't mind me asking, where do you currently live (you're clearly from the Queen's domain) and, if it isn't in the US, how did you get this idea that the US doesn't take drinking and driving seriously?</text></item><item><author>imajes</author><text>Why? Plenty of people are able to drive a vehicle, and drive it well. It's the many who aren't, or choose to ignore the rules who are causing danger.<p>The "every vehicle should be automated" line is lowest common denominator FUD.<p>How about we start by actually applying a proper, rigorous upgrade to the new driver education from the DMV, and stop treating driving as a right, and instead a privilege?<p>How about we improve mass transit and spend more money fixing roads (which is a bigger cause of accidents than you might imagine).<p>What about Signage, which is over abundant and people ignore - or important signage which is entirely missing (many median lines are faded away - not repainted due to lack of funding)?<p>And what about the culture where drinking and driving is, in many states, acceptable? Why isn't there a dramatic and meaningful campaign to demonstrate that there is really only zero-tolerance to drink-driving that is acceptable?<p>The United States approach to driving is embarrassing and smacks of largesse, but for much of the country, where there is an abundance of space and empty roads, is tolerated.<p>Accidents happen routinely in city centers and suburban areas where the laws and driving regulations are not more stricter, but often just as (if not more) relaxed.<p>There isn't consideration given to heavy traffic, patterns of driving, preparing for exits - it's just expected that as long as you know how to steer and stop at a sign, you are qualified to drive.<p>Computer controlled cars is a stupid argument (mostly because they are almost already there, in the full part, and certainly the car you are driving is doing more work than you are to get you to your destination). Never mind the fact that the better answer is amazing and undeniable mass transit, obviating the need for personal car ownership in densely populated areas, and a 2-3 magnitude leap in driver education to prevent such stupidity on the roads as a basic requirement to even begin to address this problem.</text></item><item><author>amichail</author><text>It's time to have mandatory computer controlled cars.<p>Driving manually should be illegal unless done on a race track.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>imajes</author><text>I live in New York, where the average driving skill is one of the poorest i've ever had to be around in the western world.<p>I know that states are 'cracking down'. But till you see some of the PSAs that the UK and European countries have issued to 'crack down' on drink driving, you'll note that there's simply no question as to the laissez-faire approach to drink-driving in this country.<p>Whilst attorneys can still advertise quite so blatantly to help you 'get off' your DUI/DWI convictions, without any social consequence, and where major motion pictures make light of it (Bad Teacher recently features a scene where Cameron Diaz's character suggests it's ok to drive home as she's only "Buzzed"), it's CLEAR that the attitude here is inadequate.<p>To be clearer: there's now a healthy social stigma in the UK to go out and drink and drive; friends will forcibly remove you from your keys if you've been drinking - and it's ok. The punishment is also more significant, where drink driving is considered dangerous driving - not a misdemeanor or less.<p>And most importantly (which somewhat counters my arguments-- but only tangentially) much of the US land mass is a single, lonely road from a bar to your house. When you don't see another car for ages, it might seem ok to drive home when you've had a bit too much - what can go wrong, you might run off the road and take a nap?<p>But this doesn't apply in mountainous regions, or other places where you have to have your wits about you because the terrain isn't a wide, open plain.<p>and it certainly doesn't hold true when you're near/on Long Island (for example, as I see stories like this at least ONCE A MONTH), where you 'accidentally' get on the expressway the wrong way, and ram some innocent family's car.<p>[ and as an aside, to reinforce my signage point: off-ramps have "WRONG WAY" signed on the back of the exit-info signs. So that you know you're going the wrong way, if the angle of the ram and the difficulty you'll have experienced in entering it wasn't enough. Why there isn't the tire bursting heavy-duty spikes on off-ramps is totally beyond me. ]</text></comment> |
38,176,024 | 38,174,582 | 1 | 2 | 38,162,881 | train | <story><title>The coolest robot I've ever built [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO-DWWFolPw</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>specproc</author><text>I&#x27;ve actually had the pleasure of seeing this robot &quot;in the flesh&quot;, as it were. The creator&#x27;s an old friend and a real nice guy.<p>He&#x27;s got a really fun video with an old Soviet games console I particularly enjoyed.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=9mqXT-zj47s">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=9mqXT-zj47s</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The coolest robot I've ever built [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO-DWWFolPw</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lucubratory</author><text>This is a really cool little project!<p>I think projects like this, as well as Disney&#x27;s recent incredible robots (e.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;-cfIm06tcfA?si=D3SKsNekOaDQFeVU" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;-cfIm06tcfA?si=D3SKsNekOaDQFeVU</a>) mean it&#x27;s just a matter of time until we have pretty real, embodied robots in people&#x27;s homes. There will probably be some viral videos about that, and I imagine some company that can sell at an attractive price is going to make a lot of money one day.</text></comment> |
11,283,161 | 11,282,597 | 1 | 2 | 11,281,664 | train | <story><title>Minecraft to run artificial intelligence experiments</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35778288</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikegerwitz</author><text>I am personally very uncomfortable with introducing children to programming using Minecraft---sure, it has some benefits, but it&#x27;s teaching them to embrace a proprietary platform that tells them that they cannot study or modify the source code. Support for modding does not count. What children need to be introduced to is software and an operating system where you can &quot;mod&quot; _everything_, and expect to be able to! _That_ is a practical skill and a powerful foundation.<p>Children should be encouraged to adopt free software. Replacements like Minetest exist, and they also have a strong modding community. I&#x27;d recommend people instead invest their time creating excellent mods for Minetest and bring it up to par with the features of Minecraft. I will be introducing my son to Minetest soon (he&#x27;s four) before he gets into Kindergarten and his peers start talking about Minecraft and pressure him into a world of proprietary software. I would rather him talk to his friends about Minetest and encourage them to play with him.<p>There are also many other projects that aim to teach children programming.<p>Proprietary software is incompatible with education. rms has talked at length about these issues; I encourage others to consider his perspective:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;education&#x2F;education.en.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;education&#x2F;education.en.html</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gnu.org&#x2F;philosophy&#x2F;free-software-even-more-important.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gnu.org&#x2F;philosophy&#x2F;free-software-even-more-important...</a></text></item><item><author>kriro</author><text>The fact that they want to use it as a teaching platform of sorts has very exciting implications. Minecraft is really huge with kids and that&#x27;s an excellent way of getting more young people interested in AI and programming in general.
To this day I think the Berkeley intro to AI class[1] on edx is the best I&#x27;ve seen because it uses Pacman as the running example which makes everything more approachable.
It would probably be interesting to turn some of the examples from AIAMA into Minecraft examples as well.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.edx.org&#x2F;course&#x2F;artificial-intelligence-uc-berkeleyx-cs188-1x" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.edx.org&#x2F;course&#x2F;artificial-intelligence-uc-berkel...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>panglott</author><text>The most important thing for education is simply getting the attention of the kids. Once you have their attention, you can get them to tinker and play and learn. But until you actually have their attention, it&#x27;s all &quot;you can lead a horse to water but you can&#x27;t make them drink.&quot; Free software is important, but explicating GNU orthodoxy to kids is about the worst possible way to actually get them out there playing with technology.</text></comment> | <story><title>Minecraft to run artificial intelligence experiments</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35778288</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikegerwitz</author><text>I am personally very uncomfortable with introducing children to programming using Minecraft---sure, it has some benefits, but it&#x27;s teaching them to embrace a proprietary platform that tells them that they cannot study or modify the source code. Support for modding does not count. What children need to be introduced to is software and an operating system where you can &quot;mod&quot; _everything_, and expect to be able to! _That_ is a practical skill and a powerful foundation.<p>Children should be encouraged to adopt free software. Replacements like Minetest exist, and they also have a strong modding community. I&#x27;d recommend people instead invest their time creating excellent mods for Minetest and bring it up to par with the features of Minecraft. I will be introducing my son to Minetest soon (he&#x27;s four) before he gets into Kindergarten and his peers start talking about Minecraft and pressure him into a world of proprietary software. I would rather him talk to his friends about Minetest and encourage them to play with him.<p>There are also many other projects that aim to teach children programming.<p>Proprietary software is incompatible with education. rms has talked at length about these issues; I encourage others to consider his perspective:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;education&#x2F;education.en.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;education&#x2F;education.en.html</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gnu.org&#x2F;philosophy&#x2F;free-software-even-more-important.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gnu.org&#x2F;philosophy&#x2F;free-software-even-more-important...</a></text></item><item><author>kriro</author><text>The fact that they want to use it as a teaching platform of sorts has very exciting implications. Minecraft is really huge with kids and that&#x27;s an excellent way of getting more young people interested in AI and programming in general.
To this day I think the Berkeley intro to AI class[1] on edx is the best I&#x27;ve seen because it uses Pacman as the running example which makes everything more approachable.
It would probably be interesting to turn some of the examples from AIAMA into Minecraft examples as well.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.edx.org&#x2F;course&#x2F;artificial-intelligence-uc-berkeleyx-cs188-1x" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.edx.org&#x2F;course&#x2F;artificial-intelligence-uc-berkel...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hacker_9</author><text>I think you&#x27;ve missed the point entirely here. Minecraft is a popular game that kids would play anyway, so if they can involve the game in an educational sense then it&#x27;s a win win.</text></comment> |
3,716,439 | 3,716,130 | 1 | 2 | 3,715,831 | train | <story><title>The curious case of our iOS app (Prey)</title><url>http://preyproject.com/blog/2012/03/the-curious-case-of-our-ios-app</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mirsadm</author><text>My first job out of uni was for a startup in Melbourne, Australia. After 3 years the place was running out of cash. The company was betting its entire future on this iPhone app that we were developing for them (iPhone 3G era). It was finished in about 3 months and we submitted it to the app store. Apple had taken over 2 months to reject the application and the process to get it approved took almost 6 months. This was a voip app and Apple's reasoning was that it was potentially competing with their own products. By the time it was approved the company was pretty much finished and I'd taken up another job.<p>As crappy as the whole process can be it is still a million times better than pre-iPhone Nokia. We had to pay thousands of dollars to get a dongle license just to be able to develop for Nokia phones. After you finish you have to pay money and submit it to an "approved" test house so they can run through a bunch of test cases. If your app failed you had to pay again and resubmit.</text></comment> | <story><title>The curious case of our iOS app (Prey)</title><url>http://preyproject.com/blog/2012/03/the-curious-case-of-our-ios-app</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dtorres</author><text>Prey iOS app dev here,<p>The app is technically ready to be submitted I'm waiting on some last graphic details that need to be designed yet, so as the post says any day next week we will submit the app which will be diligently tweeted (@preyproject) and hopefully (with Apple's blessing) it will become available on the last days of this month.<p>In the meantime, you can check what we've been doing here: <a href="https://github.com/prey/prey-ios-client" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/prey/prey-ios-client</a>. *<p>*As you may note, it doesn't compile since the project includes the In-App Purchases classes which are private and part of a submodule. Delete those references and you'll be good to hack :)</text></comment> |
16,219,287 | 16,219,126 | 1 | 3 | 16,214,279 | train | <story><title>Printing and binding your own books and manuals (2003)</title><url>https://uazu.net/notes/binding.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jimnotgym</author><text>&gt;Originally I made myself one out of softwood, but I found that the wood bent too much and didn&#x27;t give an even pressure over the spine when the nuts were tightened down<p>Never made a bookpress, but have transferrable knowledge. You didn&#x27;t need a rigid piece of wood, you need a piece with a slight curve so the middle touches first and the edges after. When the nuts are tightened it will go straight but be pushing hard in the middle. In case you don&#x27;t have a bent piece of wood, you can plane or even sand the subtle curve (I would guess 3mm&#x2F; 1&#x2F;8&quot; would do for an A5 book). I am itching to try this.<p>&#x27;Real&#x27; books seem to have some kind of linen scrim rather than tissue. I should imagine this helps with tensile strength like glass fibre tape does to GRP. Evo stick has a very pungent solvent smell, worth taking care of ventilation to avoid getting high</text></comment> | <story><title>Printing and binding your own books and manuals (2003)</title><url>https://uazu.net/notes/binding.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pkaye</author><text>I&#x27;m doing the reverse... scanning or buying books or manuals into pdf form.<p>I realized I accumulated way too many books. They take up a lot of space, I don&#x27;t read many of the often but would hate to lose the information. Thus I&#x27;ve slowly converted over the years. Also many pdf format books are cheaper than paper copy these days. I still keep the important books as paper copy but a bulk of the rest now fits is a harddrive available on my home network.</text></comment> |
36,809,199 | 36,802,819 | 1 | 2 | 36,800,297 | train | <story><title>Apple says it'll remove iMessage and FaceTime in UK rather than break encryption</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2023/07/20/apple-imessage-facetime-remove-security-law/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JKCalhoun</author><text>I&#x27;ll play Devil&#x27;s Advocate (because I enjoy throwing myself into the fray — especially when arguing against a point I actually agree with).<p>No one is mass-sharing their safe of child-porn worldwide with thousands of other child-porn voyeurs.<p>The internet and its ubiquitous accessibility combined with digital image file formats has changed the landscape for those that would fight these heinous crimes.<p>It is indeed a new and special case where a locked safe is not.</text></item><item><author>mihaaly</author><text>I wonder why the UK legislators not preparing a new regulation mandating every keys to every door and safe having a bypass mechanism for government officials.<p>Behind every door and every locked place there could be child pornography and illicit materials hidden!! Every house, every hotel safe are suspects!<p>Criminal oversight, criminal oversight!<p>(and if they think their reasoning for backdoors into online chat and conversation is mandated by this supid reasoning of theirs then it must be valid for all entrance doors of every home and buidlding and every locked spaces as well! Getting easy access to material without assistance or knowledge of the people involved.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cvwright</author><text>The most amazing psy op I’ve ever seen is this convincing the public that it’s people who use encryption who are the perverts, and not the people who literally want to creep on other people’s private photos of their kids &#x2F; spouses &#x2F; romantic partners.<p>This is exactly the opposite of how it works in the real world.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple says it'll remove iMessage and FaceTime in UK rather than break encryption</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2023/07/20/apple-imessage-facetime-remove-security-law/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JKCalhoun</author><text>I&#x27;ll play Devil&#x27;s Advocate (because I enjoy throwing myself into the fray — especially when arguing against a point I actually agree with).<p>No one is mass-sharing their safe of child-porn worldwide with thousands of other child-porn voyeurs.<p>The internet and its ubiquitous accessibility combined with digital image file formats has changed the landscape for those that would fight these heinous crimes.<p>It is indeed a new and special case where a locked safe is not.</text></item><item><author>mihaaly</author><text>I wonder why the UK legislators not preparing a new regulation mandating every keys to every door and safe having a bypass mechanism for government officials.<p>Behind every door and every locked place there could be child pornography and illicit materials hidden!! Every house, every hotel safe are suspects!<p>Criminal oversight, criminal oversight!<p>(and if they think their reasoning for backdoors into online chat and conversation is mandated by this supid reasoning of theirs then it must be valid for all entrance doors of every home and buidlding and every locked spaces as well! Getting easy access to material without assistance or knowledge of the people involved.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sva_</author><text>&gt; No one is mass-sharing their safe of child-porn worldwide with thousands of other child-porn voyeurs.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t call 1 on 1 chats mass sharing</text></comment> |
29,500,817 | 29,500,761 | 1 | 2 | 29,500,110 | train | <story><title>Don't spend 6mins doing it by hand when you can spend 6h failing to automate it</title><url>https://twitter.com/camilaleniss/status/1370883721319026690</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>haroldp</author><text>In a daily grind of frameworks, patterns, boilerplate and early optimization, I find automation work a lot more like the hacking I started with. It&#x27;s a more rewarding and... joyful kind of programming.<p>Maybe it saves me time, and maybe it doesn&#x27;t. Perhaps it makes tasks more repeatable. Mostly it makes me less likely to drop out and switch to a career in beach combing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Don't spend 6mins doing it by hand when you can spend 6h failing to automate it</title><url>https://twitter.com/camilaleniss/status/1370883721319026690</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ghaff</author><text>There&#x27;s also the matter of eliminating errors.<p>There&#x27;s one script I wrote to partially automate posting podcasts. (I really should add a couple of additional steps.) It&#x27;s almost certainly saved me time over time. But it also automates a fiddly process that&#x27;s very easy to get something wrong if I do it by hand.</text></comment> |
2,771,758 | 2,771,620 | 1 | 3 | 2,771,374 | train | <story><title>Mentioning Google+ gets you banned from Facebook ads</title><url>https://plus.google.com/100125012078853567494/posts/c6S1scoujvJ</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>reso</author><text>PLEASE Note the comments in the previous post on this: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2770237" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2770237</a><p>Summarized:<p>1) Trademarked images are banned from Facebook images, and Google+ is a trademarked image!<p>2) Considering the volume they deal with, it is very unlikely this case ever got to a human-review. It was more likely caught by an automated system looking for trademarked content.<p>Its amazing what conclusions people will jump to. A few days ago I saw a status update on G+ claiming Facebook doesn't send email notifications if you mention G+ in your status. I tested it on my own account and discovered it was entirely false.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mentioning Google+ gets you banned from Facebook ads</title><url>https://plus.google.com/100125012078853567494/posts/c6S1scoujvJ</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>arkitaip</author><text>This has got to be a variation of the Streisand effect. By not letting this slide by, people start perceiving Facebook of fearing Google+. And why would you fear a competitor if not because you believed the market would respond to their advantage and your detriment. And it that is true, i.e. Facebook doubts itself, why should the users and, more importantly, the customers, i.e. Facebook's advertisers.</text></comment> |
37,971,959 | 37,972,099 | 1 | 3 | 37,970,572 | train | <story><title>The decline of computers as a general-purpose technology (2021)</title><url>https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2021/3/250710-the-decline-of-computers-as-a-general-purpose-technology/fulltext</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ethbr1</author><text>I understand this is ACM, but I would say the decline has strictly been a failure of <i>software</i>.<p>Specifically, corporate IT&#x27;s failure to deliver general purpose development tools usable by anyone in a company to make computers do work for them (aka programming).<p>There&#x27;s still a ton of general <i>value</i> that could be delivered by general purpose processors&#x2F;computers.<p>But instead, most non-programmers live in a Kafkaesque reality where the only programs they have access to don&#x27;t do what they want, and so their work becomes &quot;working around the bad program.&quot;<p>I helped a lady on Friday at a midsized bank whose job it was to take a set of dates in an Excel file, search each one individually into an internal search tool, then Ctrl+f the result report and verify that every code listed in the original document exists in the report.<p>For 100+ entries.<p>Every month.<p>In 2023.<p>What the fuck are we doing as a society, that this lady, with a machine that could compute the above in a fraction of a second, has to spend a decent chunk of her work time doing this?<p>Example specifically chosen because I&#x27;ve seen innumerable similar &quot;internal development will never work on this, because it&#x27;s too small of an impact&quot; issues at every company.<p>Computers should work for us. <i>All</i> of us. Not the other way around.</text></comment> | <story><title>The decline of computers as a general-purpose technology (2021)</title><url>https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2021/3/250710-the-decline-of-computers-as-a-general-purpose-technology/fulltext</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>karmakaze</author><text>I largely don&#x27;t blame the specialized processors, they exist to fill a need. The transition to mobile&#x2F;tablet has been very much a producer-consumer relationship. In the old days, normal users would one day &quot;View source&quot; and dabble in HTML and making their own web pages and journey into making their own programs. There&#x27;s no parallel to this on mobile today. Perhaps the next generation that grew up on Roblox and using yet to successful end-user visual development tools will.<p>Is there a web-app like MS Access or Visual Basic today, maybe Airtable, others?</text></comment> |
22,782,705 | 22,781,986 | 1 | 2 | 22,781,113 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Firefox addon that hides news articles about Covid-19</title><url>https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/phagocyte/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lhdj</author><text>I was literally developing the exact same thing (I called it Novid-19 [1]). While testing it out on HN, I saw a post filtered out.<p>It was this post...<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;christoshadjiaslanis&#x2F;novid-19" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;christoshadjiaslanis&#x2F;novid-19</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Firefox addon that hides news articles about Covid-19</title><url>https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/phagocyte/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jasonv</author><text>I keep a long list of blocked words in Twitter, Feedly, and I try... as much as I can, to only consume news on reuters.com (and 4 print weeklies). I block CNN and Facebook in my hosts file.<p>And yet, I&#x27;m barraged on the web with celebrity news, popular news, Tiger King (never clicked on it, never wanted it, can&#x27;t get away from it), whatever the foamy coffee thing that&#x27;s big right now.<p>I know about the shelters in place. I knew not to bring my re-usable bags to the grocery this morning.<p>The whole of media, content, everything you see when you open your browser and leave the house, is a monumental barrage of trending, overwhelming, unavoidable content. Memes you can&#x27;t get away from but which you&#x27;ll see hundreds, thousands of times.<p>Whatever people need to do to get away from it... you&#x27;ll still get it, but if you choose and are aware of the filters you use, by all means.</text></comment> |
20,652,733 | 20,652,243 | 1 | 3 | 20,649,470 | train | <story><title>Apple Confirms $1M Reward for Anyone Who Can Hack an iPhone</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/08/08/apple-confirms-1-million-reward-for-hackers-who-find-serious-iphone-vulnerabilities/#7b31cc2d3948</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>H8crilA</author><text>I&#x27;m surprised by how cheap the vulnerabilities market is. A good exploit, against a popular product like Chrome, selling for 100k or even $1M may sound like a lot, but it&#x27;s really pennies for any top software firm. And $1M is still a lot for a vulnerability by market prices.<p>You can do so much damage&#x2F;return with an exploit that affects &gt; 30% of the population. Get 5 of those and sky is the limit.</text></item><item><author>devin</author><text>Apple salaries aren’t much of a secret, see: levels.fyi.<p>1M is a lot of money to me, a regular person, but when you consider that top security engineering talent could be making north of 500k in total compensation, 1M suddenly doesn’t seem all that impressive.<p>It’s a good bet to make on their risk. Imagine paying a mere 1M to avoid a public fiasco where all of your users get owned.<p>This just seems like good business. They could make it 5M, and it would still be worth it to them in the medium to long term.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>raxxorrax</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m surprised by how cheap the vulnerabilities market is<p>I think this has a lot to do with government agencies buying any exploit they can get their hands and there is basically no market besides that. I don&#x27;t know if that is illegal in the US, but it seems that government is the only buyer.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple Confirms $1M Reward for Anyone Who Can Hack an iPhone</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/08/08/apple-confirms-1-million-reward-for-hackers-who-find-serious-iphone-vulnerabilities/#7b31cc2d3948</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>H8crilA</author><text>I&#x27;m surprised by how cheap the vulnerabilities market is. A good exploit, against a popular product like Chrome, selling for 100k or even $1M may sound like a lot, but it&#x27;s really pennies for any top software firm. And $1M is still a lot for a vulnerability by market prices.<p>You can do so much damage&#x2F;return with an exploit that affects &gt; 30% of the population. Get 5 of those and sky is the limit.</text></item><item><author>devin</author><text>Apple salaries aren’t much of a secret, see: levels.fyi.<p>1M is a lot of money to me, a regular person, but when you consider that top security engineering talent could be making north of 500k in total compensation, 1M suddenly doesn’t seem all that impressive.<p>It’s a good bet to make on their risk. Imagine paying a mere 1M to avoid a public fiasco where all of your users get owned.<p>This just seems like good business. They could make it 5M, and it would still be worth it to them in the medium to long term.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway3627</author><text>It depends on how an exploit is monetized; the devils is in the terms: exclusivity, duration, scope and level of access. A non-exclusively-licensed exploit that can be sold 50x for $50k&#x2F;year is bank ($2.5m&#x2F;yr). If I were to spend 6-9 months developing a good exploit, I wouldn&#x27;t give it Apple if and only if money were the primary and sole motivation. However, it makes sense to blog about it, turn it in to Apple and leverage such a discovery into outside Angel funding for a startup... that is if Apple doesn&#x27;t require onerous NDAs. If the terms from Apple weren&#x27;t favorable (they&#x27;re likely to be terrible), then reselling it makes sense if you were really broke or going nonprofit security disclosure route at least parlays it into cred.</text></comment> |
29,299,323 | 29,297,941 | 1 | 2 | 29,296,251 | train | <story><title>Women of the sea: Korea’s oldest free divers</title><url>https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-21/come-on-an-underwater-treasure-hunt-with-korean-haenyeo/100597018</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>getoj</author><text>Unfortunately no mention of the equivalent Japanese tradition of <i>ama</i>[1], identically named in Chinese characters (海女) though much older - the first records of female <i>ama</i> are from the Heian period, whereas <i>haenyeo</i> as female divers appear to be a more recent phenomenon.<p>I am sure there are a number of interesting comparisons to be made and probably some historical connection between the two. However, these kinds of cultural similarities between Japan and Korea are rarely discussed, probably due to the nationalist animosity between the two countries.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ama_(diving)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ama_(diving)</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Women of the sea: Korea’s oldest free divers</title><url>https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-21/come-on-an-underwater-treasure-hunt-with-korean-haenyeo/100597018</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eatonphil</author><text>Random tip for New Yorkers here: there&#x27;s a great restaurant in Park Slope Brooklyn named after them, Haenyeo, on 5th Ave and Carroll Street.</text></comment> |
18,891,035 | 18,889,969 | 1 | 2 | 18,888,641 | train | <story><title>SpaceX to lay off 10% of Workforce</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-spacex-layoffs-20190111-story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roedog</author><text>The SoCal aerospace job market is hot right now. The driver is multiple large program starts at multiple contractors who are competing for people. This should make it possible for everyone to land on their feet. (I&#x27;ve reached out to my former colleagues who left to join Space X)<p>What&#x27;s odd is why SpaceX is cutting staff with the new development underway on the larger rockets and the satellite business. I&#x27;m curious about how they&#x27;re going to increase development while cutting staff. The big aero firms have room for improvement on productivity. But SpaceX has been lean from the start. I wonder how they&#x27;ll get more out of an already highly productive team. That&#x27;d be something to learn from.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>HeadsUpHigh</author><text>SpaceX switched from carbon fiber construction for their next rocket to stainless steel. My guess is at least a big part of this workforce reduction relates to people involved in cf which are no longer needed. Additionally they had a lot of people working on crew dragon which as it now nears it&#x27;s launch might not be needed any more( e.g. pica heatshield, electronics, software developers etc). Same goes for the now mature f9( block 5 was supposed to be the last iteration but there might have been some small improvements. Furthermore with the speed up on the Starship timeline the potential need for an elongated 2nd stage is reduced). So it makes sense for these divisions to move people to the new projects and at least some of them end up getting fired, either due to expertise or performance or whatever.</text></comment> | <story><title>SpaceX to lay off 10% of Workforce</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-spacex-layoffs-20190111-story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roedog</author><text>The SoCal aerospace job market is hot right now. The driver is multiple large program starts at multiple contractors who are competing for people. This should make it possible for everyone to land on their feet. (I&#x27;ve reached out to my former colleagues who left to join Space X)<p>What&#x27;s odd is why SpaceX is cutting staff with the new development underway on the larger rockets and the satellite business. I&#x27;m curious about how they&#x27;re going to increase development while cutting staff. The big aero firms have room for improvement on productivity. But SpaceX has been lean from the start. I wonder how they&#x27;ll get more out of an already highly productive team. That&#x27;d be something to learn from.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Robotbeat</author><text>SpaceX has like 7000 employees, about twice as many as ULA (their domestic competitor). There are reasons why (Dragon, BFR, Starlink, in-house engines, higher flightrate, more in-house everything), but that&#x27;s a lot of people.<p>What I hope is we&#x27;ll see new startups form out of these folk. What I&#x27;d like to see is an ESOP&#x2F;co-op newspace company bent on similar goals. A lot of these employees have vested stock (or likely will vest soon) that might help capitalize such an effort.</text></comment> |
40,683,003 | 40,682,909 | 1 | 2 | 40,681,345 | train | <story><title>Sleep deprivation disrupts memory</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01732-y</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thesuavefactor</author><text>May I ask what you did to improve your deep sleep?</text></item><item><author>mattgreenrocks</author><text>The mention of deep sleep being necessary to memory formation is especially interesting to me.<p>I went 5-8 years or so with poor quality sleep. While it is difficult to estimate correctly at home, my Zeo was regularly giving me 15-20m of deep sleep a night and I had a very hard time fixing it. While I performed fine at work, I had a hard time recovering from any sort of physical symptoms (such as tension) and building muscle memory. I certainly felt pretty bad, and it was like things didn&#x27;t &#x27;stick&#x27;.<p>Nowadays I get 40m on average. Still not great but getting better.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chasebank</author><text>One of the first episodes in the huberman podcast, he references a study where insomnia was cured in 100% of study participants by taking them camping for a week. I think sleeping is like weight loss, it&#x27;s really simple but people don&#x27;t want to do what&#x27;s necessary. Non-sedentary lifestyle, eat right, wake up and go to sleep with sun, don&#x27;t use electronics, etc.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sleep deprivation disrupts memory</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01732-y</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thesuavefactor</author><text>May I ask what you did to improve your deep sleep?</text></item><item><author>mattgreenrocks</author><text>The mention of deep sleep being necessary to memory formation is especially interesting to me.<p>I went 5-8 years or so with poor quality sleep. While it is difficult to estimate correctly at home, my Zeo was regularly giving me 15-20m of deep sleep a night and I had a very hard time fixing it. While I performed fine at work, I had a hard time recovering from any sort of physical symptoms (such as tension) and building muscle memory. I certainly felt pretty bad, and it was like things didn&#x27;t &#x27;stick&#x27;.<p>Nowadays I get 40m on average. Still not great but getting better.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mattgreenrocks</author><text>Hard to pin it on any one thing unfortunately.<p>I notice it goes up when I’m doing as much as I can of the following: get 20-30m sunlight, talk with friends in person, avoid alcohol, work out, and be more active in building my life (vs having it built for me). Also, doing necessary emotional work with a counselor. All of those IME reduce my low grade anxiety.<p>It’s basically all eating your vegetables stuff. Way more impactful than any supplement or protocol.<p>N=1 and all that. HTH</text></comment> |
22,228,009 | 22,227,763 | 1 | 2 | 22,226,532 | train | <story><title>Swift Crypto</title><url>https://swift.org/blog/crypto/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Nullabillity</author><text>&gt; On Apple platforms, Swift Crypto defers directly to CryptoKit, while on all other platforms it uses a brand-new implementation built on top of the BoringSSL library.<p>Oh great, more pointless differences. Just pick one and stick to it. If you trust the BoringSSL version then use it everywhere. If you don&#x27;t, well, why are you using it on the other platforms?<p>I could understand it if it was very platform-specific (async networking, GUI controls, whatever). But come on, BSSL already exists everywhere, you&#x27;re not saving yourself any porting work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jws</author><text>From most of the way down the page…<p><i>Given that we had do to this extra work, what advantage is gained from having two backends, instead of consolidating onto a single backend for both CryptoKit and Swift Crypto? The primary advantage is verification. With two independent implementations of the CryptoKit API, we are able to test the implementations against each other as well as their own test suites. This improves reliability and compatibility for both implementations, reducing the changes of regression and making it easy to identify errors by comparing the output of the two implementations.</i></text></comment> | <story><title>Swift Crypto</title><url>https://swift.org/blog/crypto/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Nullabillity</author><text>&gt; On Apple platforms, Swift Crypto defers directly to CryptoKit, while on all other platforms it uses a brand-new implementation built on top of the BoringSSL library.<p>Oh great, more pointless differences. Just pick one and stick to it. If you trust the BoringSSL version then use it everywhere. If you don&#x27;t, well, why are you using it on the other platforms?<p>I could understand it if it was very platform-specific (async networking, GUI controls, whatever). But come on, BSSL already exists everywhere, you&#x27;re not saving yourself any porting work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cerberusss</author><text>Curiousness, not casual dismissal, is what&#x27;s mentioned in the HN guidelines.<p>But since you ask, they do mention some of the reasons:
- Apple’s Secure Enclave processor
- Able to test the implementations against each other</text></comment> |
14,191,299 | 14,190,735 | 1 | 3 | 14,189,688 | train | <story><title>WikiTribune – Evidence-based journalism</title><url>https://www.wikitribune.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jim-jim-jim</author><text>The article in the dupe thread suggested that this would combat &quot;fake news,&quot; but I dunno about that. I get the impression that people who digest biased&#x2F;questionable sources do it to express tribal affiliation more than some genuine need to be informed. Hell, many people share articles without even reading them; they&#x27;re primarily concerned with what the headline in their feed says about their character rather than the world at large. I&#x27;m not sure if having (another) &quot;evidence based&quot; outlet is going to be of any use to your cranky uncle.<p>I think the real promise lies in Wikitribune potentially going toe-to-toe with &quot;real news&quot; like CNN or the Washington Post. These outlets also don&#x27;t always get the facts straight and can&#x27;t be said to have a diehard following. If a superior option presents itself, readers will follow.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>michaelbuckbee</author><text>I tried to track down some of the crazy news stories that were being shared broadly on Facebook and much of what I found was that they were algorithmically generated titles slapped onto the same URL and the actual &quot;story&quot; was copied bits from other semi-related stories.<p>You&#x27;d find really salacious headlines: &quot;Hillary Clinton Murder Victim Speaks&quot; and the actual story would be about her fundraising.<p>They were arbitraging the cost of buying a FB ad (to drive traffic and start the viral loop) against how many ads they could run on the site.</text></comment> | <story><title>WikiTribune – Evidence-based journalism</title><url>https://www.wikitribune.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jim-jim-jim</author><text>The article in the dupe thread suggested that this would combat &quot;fake news,&quot; but I dunno about that. I get the impression that people who digest biased&#x2F;questionable sources do it to express tribal affiliation more than some genuine need to be informed. Hell, many people share articles without even reading them; they&#x27;re primarily concerned with what the headline in their feed says about their character rather than the world at large. I&#x27;m not sure if having (another) &quot;evidence based&quot; outlet is going to be of any use to your cranky uncle.<p>I think the real promise lies in Wikitribune potentially going toe-to-toe with &quot;real news&quot; like CNN or the Washington Post. These outlets also don&#x27;t always get the facts straight and can&#x27;t be said to have a diehard following. If a superior option presents itself, readers will follow.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tmalsburg2</author><text>Yeah, some people may not care about it and go on to consume questionable but ideological aligned news. However, this is for the people who do care about reliable and transparent news. For these people Wikitribune promises to do a great deal to combat fake news because at this time all they can do it to choose between different flavors of fake news.</text></comment> |
12,119,687 | 12,119,788 | 1 | 2 | 12,119,292 | train | <story><title>It’s No 'Accident:' Advocates Want to Speak of Car 'Crashes' Instead</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/23/science/its-no-accident-advocates-want-to-speak-of-car-crashes-instead.html?_r=2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nostromo</author><text>I feel like the U.S. is shifting too much to a blame culture.<p>For every bad or unfortunate incident, we call for blame and jail time and sometimes even public shaming.<p>And then we turn around and wonder why so many behaviors are criminalized and why so many people are in jail.<p>Yes, reckless driving shouldn&#x27;t be ignored, but the article is arguing that accidents almost never happen, and that almost all accidents should lead to some sort of charges.</text></item><item><author>brianvan5155</author><text>I&#x27;m a supporter of a large transportation advocacy group that strongly believes in this shift in terminology. I believe in it personally, too.<p>Anyone who spends some time observing the news in New York - a city with a fairly low (relative) car ownership rate - would immediately notice how even the most shocking, violent, absurd automobile collisions are not just referred to as &quot;accidents&quot; but referred to as distinct forces of nature apart from their drivers. It&#x27;s always the machine that did the colliding, the maiming and the killing... there is never any agency or responsibility given to the driver. (It&#x27;s as if these cars just decided themselves to jump the curb, or race into oncoming traffic!) Flip it to a bicyclist or motorcyclist who caused a collision, and you&#x27;ll see the language very precisely target the user, not the device.<p>Sometimes a collision IS just an accident. But not all collisions are accidents.<p>It&#x27;s really important that policy and public perception change to dismiss the exceptions in behavior and risk-taking that we assign to most drivers who aren&#x27;t drunk. If a driver is caught clearly speeding, turning through occupied crosswalks, or coming out of an assigned lane in an uncontrolled fashion, and if the result is (almost predictably) a collision, it must be stated that the driver chose to violate traffic laws &amp; take harmful risks, which is no accident at all. The converse of this is that a driver who doesn&#x27;t take these risks may get into accidental collisions, but they won&#x27;t be of the sort where the car ends upside down very far from the roadway in a 25mph speed limit area.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>akgerber</author><text>Blame and jail time are essentially never applied, even in egregious cases, at least in New York City. Families have to fight for DAs to charge even unlicensed drivers that end up on the sidewalk:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;abc7ny.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;exclusive-family-outraged-after-driver-who-killed-daughter-not-charged&#x2F;1369365&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;abc7ny.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;exclusive-family-outraged-after-drive...</a><p>Beyond that, a lifetime driving ban is nearly impossible to impose in this country even though it would be an appropriate punishment for repeat dangerous drivers. Driving, despite being a privilege, is often treated as a right. A man who ran down and killed a little girl holding hands with her grandma in the crosswalk with the light (the police initially blamed the child on the word of the driver, and the DA dismissed the crash as an &#x27;accident&#x27;) only ended up with a driving ban due to a civil suit:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.streetsblog.org&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;29&#x2F;civil-suit-compels-man-who-killed-ally-liao-to-stop-driving-for-5-years&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.streetsblog.org&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;29&#x2F;civil-suit-compels-man...</a><p>We clearly shouldn&#x27;t blame, and especially shouldn&#x27;t jail, people for every crash— but the current driving and policing culture in this country is profoundly far from that standard. Redesigning roadways so safe behavior is the default is a far better first step, but an abusive driver can figure out ways to make the best-designed piece of infrastructure dangerous.</text></comment> | <story><title>It’s No 'Accident:' Advocates Want to Speak of Car 'Crashes' Instead</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/23/science/its-no-accident-advocates-want-to-speak-of-car-crashes-instead.html?_r=2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nostromo</author><text>I feel like the U.S. is shifting too much to a blame culture.<p>For every bad or unfortunate incident, we call for blame and jail time and sometimes even public shaming.<p>And then we turn around and wonder why so many behaviors are criminalized and why so many people are in jail.<p>Yes, reckless driving shouldn&#x27;t be ignored, but the article is arguing that accidents almost never happen, and that almost all accidents should lead to some sort of charges.</text></item><item><author>brianvan5155</author><text>I&#x27;m a supporter of a large transportation advocacy group that strongly believes in this shift in terminology. I believe in it personally, too.<p>Anyone who spends some time observing the news in New York - a city with a fairly low (relative) car ownership rate - would immediately notice how even the most shocking, violent, absurd automobile collisions are not just referred to as &quot;accidents&quot; but referred to as distinct forces of nature apart from their drivers. It&#x27;s always the machine that did the colliding, the maiming and the killing... there is never any agency or responsibility given to the driver. (It&#x27;s as if these cars just decided themselves to jump the curb, or race into oncoming traffic!) Flip it to a bicyclist or motorcyclist who caused a collision, and you&#x27;ll see the language very precisely target the user, not the device.<p>Sometimes a collision IS just an accident. But not all collisions are accidents.<p>It&#x27;s really important that policy and public perception change to dismiss the exceptions in behavior and risk-taking that we assign to most drivers who aren&#x27;t drunk. If a driver is caught clearly speeding, turning through occupied crosswalks, or coming out of an assigned lane in an uncontrolled fashion, and if the result is (almost predictably) a collision, it must be stated that the driver chose to violate traffic laws &amp; take harmful risks, which is no accident at all. The converse of this is that a driver who doesn&#x27;t take these risks may get into accidental collisions, but they won&#x27;t be of the sort where the car ends upside down very far from the roadway in a 25mph speed limit area.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Eric_WVGG</author><text>Is it &quot;blame culture&quot; when some jerk falls asleep behind the wheel, unintentionally kill a pedestrian, and is let off the hook because he wasn&#x27;t attempting murder?<p>Is it &quot;blame culture&quot; when someone hits-and-runs a cyclist, posts on Facebook that he hit some dumb-ass guy on a bicycle, that cyclist winds up dead, but hey, he wasn&#x27;t <i>actually(</i> trying to kill him, and gets off the hook with a $350 traffic fine?<p>This shit happens EVERY WEEK in New York City. Our cops would rather pretend like they&#x27;re on The Wire or 24 hunting down drug lords and terrarists than doing basic traffic enforcement. They use terminology like &quot;accidents&quot; because a cabbie paralyzing or murdering a child is difficult to prosecute.<p>Semantics count. When we say &quot;call it a crash, not an accident,&quot; all we&#x27;re saying is, &quot;figure out whether the person driving the car is culpable before you let him off the hook.&quot;</text></comment> |
11,175,173 | 11,175,114 | 1 | 3 | 11,173,609 | train | <story><title>Insecure by design: protocols for encrypted phone calls</title><url>https://www.benthamsgaze.org/2016/01/19/insecure-by-design-protocols-for-encrypted-phone-calls/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dotBen</author><text>If a government agency responsible for signal monitoring and espionage suggests an encryption format, endorses one particular format over another or even just actively participates in such discussions -- shouldn&#x27;t that raise alarm bells in most tech-savvy people&#x27;s heads?<p>The reality is the telecommunication industries in UK, US and other nations are complicit with such activity because they are legally required to provide access to their partners in government intelligence. And they operate in highly regulated environments that they will be shut out of if they don&#x27;t cooperate.<p>Encryption has moved to the OS level, which is why we&#x27;re seeing similar pressure being presented to Apple with this terrorist&#x27;s iPhone.</text></comment> | <story><title>Insecure by design: protocols for encrypted phone calls</title><url>https://www.benthamsgaze.org/2016/01/19/insecure-by-design-protocols-for-encrypted-phone-calls/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cema</author><text>I think a number of the comments tend to use the word &quot;country&quot; instead of &quot;government&quot;. The UK, France, and all other first world countries are great countries, in many ways that count. Governments however are not so great, and cannot be expected to be, by the nature of being institutes of suppression (as well as castles of bureaucracies). Still, compared to the rest of the world, they are manageable, and often tolerable.</text></comment> |
1,260,181 | 1,259,842 | 1 | 2 | 1,259,695 | train | <story><title>This link says it's from YouTube but it's not</title><url>http://www.youtube.com/redirect?username=digitalhook&q=http%3A%2F%2Fsecuritytube.net%2FSocial-Engineering-Attacks-using-Simple-Redirections-video.aspx&video_id=Vgc3NVVpb8c&event=url_redirect&url_redirect=True&usg=UE0DOmwjBRK-mgheFtW1hMTEvh4=</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kleevr</author><text>My first computer job as a teen was working at a small SEO shop (3 people) writing little cgi/perl scripts for this and that.<p>Yahoo's http server at that time used to take redirect URLs in this format: "<a href="http://yahoo/url/*http://exiturl/" rel="nofollow">http://yahoo/url/*http://exiturl/</a>. They were using these URLs on all search results, I'm guessing to track click-throughs to improve rankings. So I set up a script on our site to load an image using this format with the img src in the exit-url, and for the yahoo-url and we would round robin 'client' links though. Essentially spoofing legitimate search&#38;clicks on yahoo from unique IPs from our site visitors. Over the next two weeks all our sites started bubbling up in the results. This worked for about a month before Yahoo changed something (I'd guess they started validating the http-referrer or the exit-url), and it all stopped working.<p>But, for that brief window of time when it was working, I was the king of the high fives.<p>(FWIW, I don't do SEO work of any kind anymore, and I certainly don't advocate 'blackhat seo'.)</text></comment> | <story><title>This link says it's from YouTube but it's not</title><url>http://www.youtube.com/redirect?username=digitalhook&q=http%3A%2F%2Fsecuritytube.net%2FSocial-Engineering-Attacks-using-Simple-Redirections-video.aspx&video_id=Vgc3NVVpb8c&event=url_redirect&url_redirect=True&usg=UE0DOmwjBRK-mgheFtW1hMTEvh4=</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tednaleid</author><text>This is a common exploit. So common that it's #8 on the 2010 OWASP top 10 most critical web application security risks: "Unvalidated Redirects and Forwards".<p><a href="http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Top_Ten_Project" rel="nofollow">http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Top_Ten_Projec...</a><p>Every web app developer should review these vulnerabilities before releasing their code to the world.</text></comment> |
27,519,735 | 27,519,915 | 1 | 2 | 27,514,437 | train | <story><title>DraftKings: a $21B SPAC betting it can hide its black market operations</title><url>https://hindenburgresearch.com/draftkings/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ordinaryradical</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting to me that people like this can continue to succeed in modern democracies. There seems to be no consequences for massive financial crimes anymore, and the more brazen you are the more you are rewarded.<p>If I broke into the homes of millions of people to fleece them of their life savings I&#x27;d never be seeing the outside of a prison but these guys do it via a confidence scam and the internet and never see the inside of a prison. Then they become CEO of another company and start all over agin.<p>I stop believing in democracy when I read stories like these.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>Is the real purpose of this deal money-laundering by organized crime? DraftKings was supposedly losing money, while SBTech makes money illegally.<p>The BTi&#x2F;CoreTech CEO was formerly the CEO (and previously CTO) of SpotOption, the binary option scam run out of Ramat Gan, Israel.[1] That was a big operation. Out front were the fake &quot;binary option brokers&quot;, in reality bucket shops, such as Banc de Binary. SpotOption provided the back-end services, while the front companies ran call centers to recruit more suckers. Some of the front companies appeared to be operated directly by SpotOption, although that was never entirely clear.<p>Until 2017, it was legal for Israeli companies to scam non-Israelis in this way.[2] When the binary option business was made illegal in Israel, the companies were given three months to move to another country. &quot;Officials say that numerous Israeli-owned binary options firms have already begun moving to countries where the activity has not yet been banned.&quot; SpotOption moved to Bulgaria.<p>The scam goes on, under new names.[3] &quot;Since then, some scammers have shifted to schemes involving forex trading, CFD or cryptocurrency speculation.&quot;<p>So that&#x27;s the back story here.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.timesofisrael.com&#x2F;sec-charges-israels-main-binary-options-firm-and-its-2-chiefs-with-vast-fraud&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.timesofisrael.com&#x2F;sec-charges-israels-main-binar...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.haaretz.com&#x2F;israel-news&#x2F;business&#x2F;israel-bans-binary-options-industry-that-defrauded-millions-1.5460002" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.haaretz.com&#x2F;israel-news&#x2F;business&#x2F;israel-bans-bin...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.timesofisrael.com&#x2F;german-police-raid-call-centers-allegedly-running-israel-linked-investment-scams&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.timesofisrael.com&#x2F;german-police-raid-call-center...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adolph</author><text><i>it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;richardlangworth.com&#x2F;worst-form-of-government" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;richardlangworth.com&#x2F;worst-form-of-government</a></text></comment> | <story><title>DraftKings: a $21B SPAC betting it can hide its black market operations</title><url>https://hindenburgresearch.com/draftkings/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ordinaryradical</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting to me that people like this can continue to succeed in modern democracies. There seems to be no consequences for massive financial crimes anymore, and the more brazen you are the more you are rewarded.<p>If I broke into the homes of millions of people to fleece them of their life savings I&#x27;d never be seeing the outside of a prison but these guys do it via a confidence scam and the internet and never see the inside of a prison. Then they become CEO of another company and start all over agin.<p>I stop believing in democracy when I read stories like these.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>Is the real purpose of this deal money-laundering by organized crime? DraftKings was supposedly losing money, while SBTech makes money illegally.<p>The BTi&#x2F;CoreTech CEO was formerly the CEO (and previously CTO) of SpotOption, the binary option scam run out of Ramat Gan, Israel.[1] That was a big operation. Out front were the fake &quot;binary option brokers&quot;, in reality bucket shops, such as Banc de Binary. SpotOption provided the back-end services, while the front companies ran call centers to recruit more suckers. Some of the front companies appeared to be operated directly by SpotOption, although that was never entirely clear.<p>Until 2017, it was legal for Israeli companies to scam non-Israelis in this way.[2] When the binary option business was made illegal in Israel, the companies were given three months to move to another country. &quot;Officials say that numerous Israeli-owned binary options firms have already begun moving to countries where the activity has not yet been banned.&quot; SpotOption moved to Bulgaria.<p>The scam goes on, under new names.[3] &quot;Since then, some scammers have shifted to schemes involving forex trading, CFD or cryptocurrency speculation.&quot;<p>So that&#x27;s the back story here.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.timesofisrael.com&#x2F;sec-charges-israels-main-binary-options-firm-and-its-2-chiefs-with-vast-fraud&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.timesofisrael.com&#x2F;sec-charges-israels-main-binar...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.haaretz.com&#x2F;israel-news&#x2F;business&#x2F;israel-bans-binary-options-industry-that-defrauded-millions-1.5460002" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.haaretz.com&#x2F;israel-news&#x2F;business&#x2F;israel-bans-bin...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.timesofisrael.com&#x2F;german-police-raid-call-centers-allegedly-running-israel-linked-investment-scams&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.timesofisrael.com&#x2F;german-police-raid-call-center...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lainga</author><text>The nuance is slightly different - it&#x27;s like the CEO&#x27;s breaking into the homes of millions of <i>Americans</i>. The fellow participants in his democracy (in Israel) were not affected; there are two separate jurisdictions.</text></comment> |
38,414,325 | 38,414,425 | 1 | 3 | 38,413,064 | train | <story><title>Shh: Simple Shell Scripting from Haskell</title><url>https://github.com/luke-clifton/shh</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>themk</author><text>Author here.<p>My main use for this is incremental migration away from bash. I&#x27;m not saying this is the best way to do scripts, but it&#x27;s a pretty great stepping stone. Just following the cargo culting guide [0] can already uplift a bash script without changing the logic too much. From there you can start adding structure.<p>My secondary use case is little scripts in NixOS&#x2F;nixpkgs. There are some helpers in there that make it quite convenient.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;luke-clifton&#x2F;shh&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;docs&#x2F;porting.md">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;luke-clifton&#x2F;shh&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;docs&#x2F;porting...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Shh: Simple Shell Scripting from Haskell</title><url>https://github.com/luke-clifton/shh</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sshine</author><text>shh is a really cool package, and so is turtle and shelly:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackage.haskell.org&#x2F;package&#x2F;turtle&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Turtle-Tutorial.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackage.haskell.org&#x2F;package&#x2F;turtle&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Turtle-Tutor...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackage.haskell.org&#x2F;package&#x2F;shelly" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackage.haskell.org&#x2F;package&#x2F;shelly</a><p>shh&#x27;s &quot;Alternatives&quot; section summarises nicely some of the differences between these:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;luke-clifton&#x2F;shh#alternatives">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;luke-clifton&#x2F;shh#alternatives</a><p>shh has a neat [fmt| ... |] macro that gets you around escaping strings.<p>shh generally has more Template Haskell support; you may or may not like this.<p>I am personally leaning towards shh because of its &quot;native pipe style&quot;.</text></comment> |
39,832,051 | 39,831,258 | 1 | 2 | 39,816,152 | train | <story><title>How do MRI Headphones work? (2022)</title><url>https://tomlingham.com/articles/how-do-mri-headphones-work/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>snakeyjake</author><text>&gt;The only headphone tech that I was aware of or that I&#x27;d ever really considered<p>I guess I&#x27;m old now because this style of headphone was present on every model of passenger aircraft in the sky when I was a young adult.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nessus42</author><text>When I was a kid, I once brought a stethoscope with me on the airplane so that I could watch the movie for free. (Or rather listen to it.) I pulled off the heart-listening cup part of the stethoscope and inserted beverage straws into the rubber tubing. Then I put one straw into each of the two little holes in the armrest.<p>It worked perfectly! Until a stewardess caught me and made me stop.</text></comment> | <story><title>How do MRI Headphones work? (2022)</title><url>https://tomlingham.com/articles/how-do-mri-headphones-work/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>snakeyjake</author><text>&gt;The only headphone tech that I was aware of or that I&#x27;d ever really considered<p>I guess I&#x27;m old now because this style of headphone was present on every model of passenger aircraft in the sky when I was a young adult.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>treve</author><text>I&#x27;ve never heard this before! When I started flying it was just the 2 mono jacks that you still see on planes that haven&#x27;t been updated (always wondered why it wasn&#x27;t just a stereo jack)<p>Pretty surprising to hear there&#x27;s air&#x2F;sound tubes rigged on to every seat on a plane.<p>Seems like the sound tubes ended in the 70&#x27;s: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apex.aero&#x2F;articles&#x2F;sound-tube-surprising-history-airline-headsets&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apex.aero&#x2F;articles&#x2F;sound-tube-surprising-history-air...</a></text></comment> |
7,791,450 | 7,791,370 | 1 | 3 | 7,790,806 | train | <story><title>OS X 10.9.3 Is Toxic</title><url>http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2014-05-23/osx-10.9.3-is-toxic.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bkurtz13</author><text>In an attempt to balance the discussion, I&#x27;m on 10.9.3 and I&#x27;ve had absolutely zero issues so far.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sitharus</author><text>Same, I run 10.9.3 on five machines - 6 year old Mac Pro, a 2 year old 13&quot; MacBook Pro, a 2 year old retina MacBook Pro and a 6 month old MacBook Air.<p>I use AirPlay, external monitors and projectors all the time. No problems here.<p>As we have to remind ourselves at work, hundreds of thousands of happy customers don&#x27;t complain, but the hundred who do (quite rightly) are very loud.</text></comment> | <story><title>OS X 10.9.3 Is Toxic</title><url>http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2014-05-23/osx-10.9.3-is-toxic.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bkurtz13</author><text>In an attempt to balance the discussion, I&#x27;m on 10.9.3 and I&#x27;ve had absolutely zero issues so far.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mryingster</author><text>10.9.3 has been pretty rock solid for me on my Mac Pro, as has every OS I&#x27;ve had on it since Leopard (10.5), although I skipped right past 10.7 to 10.8.2.<p>My Air has had some weird won&#x27;t-wake-up issues from time to time since 10.9.3 came out. Maybe its a laptop thing?<p>I honestly haven&#x27;t seen a kernel panic in years though on any of my computers though. The last time I did it was because I had a slew of bad sectors on my HDD.</text></comment> |
32,487,388 | 32,486,251 | 1 | 2 | 32,483,979 | train | <story><title>Using the same Arch Linux installation for a decade</title><url>https://meribold.org/2022/08/16/same-arch-linux-installation-for-a-decade/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>meribold</author><text>I can provide some details regarding the times things did break that I mentioned in the article.<p>* In September 2014, X broke, and I created an `&#x2F;etc&#x2F;X11&#x2F;Xwrapper.config` file with the lines `allowed_users = anybody` and `needs_root_rights = yes` to get it to work again. I don&#x27;t remember and don&#x27;t have notes on why that helped. It sure does sound like a pretty terrible hack. I don&#x27;t have that Xwrapper.config file anymore, and I also don&#x27;t know when I deleted it.<p>* In June 2017, audio stopped working, but all I had to do was add my user to the `audio` group.<p>* In May 2018, X broke a second time. This time I downgraded the `xorg-server-common` and `xorg-server` packages. A few weeks later, I ran another system upgrade, and this one went fine.<p>These weren&#x27;t the only problems, but they were the most disruptive. Generally, things like TrackPoint driver updates changing how the cursor responds or Firefox changing its UI have been far more annoying than Arch Linux issues :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>agumonkey</author><text>I had a similar life with arch. A handful of boot blocking issues, let&#x27;s say 5. 4 out of them were solved after joining #arch on now-dead freenode and realizing this was explained on arch main page. 1 of them was a deeper borkage that arch team didn&#x27;t catch early and required a bit of surgery. The problem was gone in 5 minutes.</text></comment> | <story><title>Using the same Arch Linux installation for a decade</title><url>https://meribold.org/2022/08/16/same-arch-linux-installation-for-a-decade/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>meribold</author><text>I can provide some details regarding the times things did break that I mentioned in the article.<p>* In September 2014, X broke, and I created an `&#x2F;etc&#x2F;X11&#x2F;Xwrapper.config` file with the lines `allowed_users = anybody` and `needs_root_rights = yes` to get it to work again. I don&#x27;t remember and don&#x27;t have notes on why that helped. It sure does sound like a pretty terrible hack. I don&#x27;t have that Xwrapper.config file anymore, and I also don&#x27;t know when I deleted it.<p>* In June 2017, audio stopped working, but all I had to do was add my user to the `audio` group.<p>* In May 2018, X broke a second time. This time I downgraded the `xorg-server-common` and `xorg-server` packages. A few weeks later, I ran another system upgrade, and this one went fine.<p>These weren&#x27;t the only problems, but they were the most disruptive. Generally, things like TrackPoint driver updates changing how the cursor responds or Firefox changing its UI have been far more annoying than Arch Linux issues :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andrewstuart2</author><text>I definitely had some rough edges with the pulseaudio, and then pipewire, upgrades, and a few cases where almost everything broke because in my infinite genius I had compiled my own (insert dependency) for a bleeding edge feature, forgot to revert when it made it to mainline, and then later down the road a major version bump meant some `.so` was missing, and I had to USB liveboot to fix it.<p>I&#x27;ve also been on Arch for over a decade, and it&#x27;s almost never been broken, even when I was playing with some seriously bleeding edge components. Almost always, it&#x27;s been surprisingly straightforward to un-screw the few screw-ups I&#x27;ve made.</text></comment> |
9,652,850 | 9,652,827 | 1 | 3 | 9,651,844 | train | <story><title>Microsoft announces support for SSH</title><url>http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20150603090420&mode=expanded</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sullivanmatt</author><text>The Microsoft of today is not the Microsoft of 15 years ago. Nadella has a long history of embracing openness, especially with the Cloud Services division he was heading until his appointment as CEO. I think the open-sourcing of the .NET platform is a big testament to that. The old Microsoft guard would have ran the company into the ground before doing that.</text></item><item><author>raverbashing</author><text>&quot;this is a harbinger of Microsoft trying to take over SSH... well, get those tinfoil hats ready&quot;<p>Because MS never tried that? See Kerberos, for example:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish#Examples" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish...</a></text></item><item><author>bovermyer</author><text>This is excellent. Now I won&#x27;t have to rely on that terrible, terrible program PuTTY.<p>As for those who are claiming this is a harbinger of Microsoft trying to take over SSH... well, get those tinfoil hats ready, kids. Looks like Nadella&#x27;s Microsoft is willing to play nice in a wide variety of arenas, so you&#x27;ll have all kinds of things to be foolishly terrified of.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jonhohle</author><text>Where is the evidence that this is not the Microsoft of 15-25 years ago?<p>What was going on 20 years ago at Microsoft?<p><pre><code> * implementing POSIX application compatibility to compete with UNIX for gov. contracts
* giving away IE
* embrace and extending Java
</code></pre>
Compare to today<p><pre><code> * additional compatibility with tools typically used in Unix administration
* giving away windows
* Objective-C&#x2F;Cocoa support for Windows applications
</code></pre>
The steps they were taking didn&#x27;t seem bad until the end game was obvious, but they started out very similarly to the current initiatives. A lot of the actions seem exactly like 20 years ago - do whatever it takes to get market share, make it incredibly difficult for that market share to migrate.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft announces support for SSH</title><url>http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20150603090420&mode=expanded</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sullivanmatt</author><text>The Microsoft of today is not the Microsoft of 15 years ago. Nadella has a long history of embracing openness, especially with the Cloud Services division he was heading until his appointment as CEO. I think the open-sourcing of the .NET platform is a big testament to that. The old Microsoft guard would have ran the company into the ground before doing that.</text></item><item><author>raverbashing</author><text>&quot;this is a harbinger of Microsoft trying to take over SSH... well, get those tinfoil hats ready&quot;<p>Because MS never tried that? See Kerberos, for example:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish#Examples" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish...</a></text></item><item><author>bovermyer</author><text>This is excellent. Now I won&#x27;t have to rely on that terrible, terrible program PuTTY.<p>As for those who are claiming this is a harbinger of Microsoft trying to take over SSH... well, get those tinfoil hats ready, kids. Looks like Nadella&#x27;s Microsoft is willing to play nice in a wide variety of arenas, so you&#x27;ll have all kinds of things to be foolishly terrified of.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>raverbashing</author><text>I agree, it&#x27;s not the same MS.<p>Just don&#x27;t forget about the royalties MS charges from Android manufacturers as well.<p>They might be on the right reinvention path, but they&#x27;re still a giant company, and one to be respected.</text></comment> |
22,797,140 | 22,797,187 | 1 | 2 | 22,795,189 | train | <story><title>Amazon Isn’t the Only Shop Online</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/shipping-delays-out-of-stock-items-amazon-isnt-the-only-shop-online-11586165400</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dan_quixote</author><text>My nomination is McMaster-Carr (mcmaster.com) - They have a huge catalog of parts&#x2F;tools yet somehow it&#x27;s so intuitive to browse. I was a mechanical engineer in a previous life and McMaster&#x27;s website was my bible. Step one for any new prototype design was to browse this site. Best case scenario, you could cobble together your prototype from various COTS (commercial off the shelf) McMaster parts. And if that wasn&#x27;t an option, scan the catalog for necessary parts and raw materials. If they don&#x27;t exist at McMaster, your design idea just got at least 10X expensive and lead time doubled.</text></item><item><author>mauvehaus</author><text>I beg to differ. Rock Auto is where it&#x27;s at for auto parts. The website is ugly as hammered shit, but it&#x27;s fast, shows you the options grouped by rough quality level (economy&#x2F;you cheapskate, daily driver, performance, etc), shows you what part to select so it <i>ships from the same warehouse</i> as the parts already in your cart and saves you shipping, and returns are painless (disclaimer: I&#x27;ve only ever done returns for core exchanges). I have never had a better online purchasing experience.<p>And the prices are a fraction of what you pay at a brick and mortar place. Especially for e.g. wiper blades.<p>Companies that &quot;get&quot; e-commerce are out there, but a lot of them are quietly and competently doing their thing in unsexy domains and aren&#x27;t trying to eat the whole pie.<p>Rock Auto, for instance, isn&#x27;t trying to serve every idiot on the planet with a car. If you can&#x27;t keep your lefts&#x2F;rights and fronts&#x2F;backs straight when ordering e.g. brake hoses, you&#x27;re going to find it a frustrating experience. Putting up a (small) barrier to entry to keep out the least clueful people probably helps keep their costs down.<p>Not affiliated, just a very happy repeat customer.</text></item><item><author>jakearmitage</author><text>HomeDepot&#x27;s ecommerce is a joke. Not only the shopping experience is poor, they treat logistics as if they were doing you a favor. And, on top of all that, you get damaged items. I made 7 purchases and all 7, in different periods of time, had to be returned or replaced.<p>Same for Lowe&#x27;s. There&#x27;s a reason people shop on Amazon. Other than BestBuy, no other retailer &quot;gets&quot; ecommerce.</text></item><item><author>ebg13</author><text>I tried ordering some things from Home Depot the other day, and they silently cancelled half of my order while still charging me the same amount for delivery from the store and while saying that some things can only be delivered from a warehouse and that some things can only be delivered from a specific store <i>and</i> that delivery from each store has a $45 minimum purchase before they&#x27;ll even consider delivery despite the fact that they&#x27;re charging the same amount for delivery from the store no matter how much you order. That of course makes it difficult to then order the remaining items even if you call them and demand a refund for the first delivery fee, because the remaining items now don&#x27;t meet the minimum. Then the delivery from the warehouse is some weird arbitrary calculation involving a nominal+ amount that then gets divided up across the items you&#x27;re ordering (3.77 here, 2.83 there, and so on) such that if you remove any item the delivery fees for the other items all go up, and then there are some items that deliver for free if you order more than $45 worth <i>from the warehouse</i> which of course doesn&#x27;t help you if some items can only be purchased from the individual stores. And then there are still things like cans of spraypaint that you can&#x27;t get delivered at all and you&#x27;re only allowed to pick up in person.<p>I know that right now is an exceptional time, but this kind of shopping experience is part of why people choose Amazon first.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sambroner</author><text>I was always shocked by McMaster-Carr&#x27;s delivery speed. I felt like the parts would arrive as quickly as I could have conceivably picked them up.<p>This was 10 years ago now, so sort of like Amazon Prime before it became ubiquitous, but for materials and tools. However McMaster was and remains much better organized and much better spec-ed.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon Isn’t the Only Shop Online</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/shipping-delays-out-of-stock-items-amazon-isnt-the-only-shop-online-11586165400</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dan_quixote</author><text>My nomination is McMaster-Carr (mcmaster.com) - They have a huge catalog of parts&#x2F;tools yet somehow it&#x27;s so intuitive to browse. I was a mechanical engineer in a previous life and McMaster&#x27;s website was my bible. Step one for any new prototype design was to browse this site. Best case scenario, you could cobble together your prototype from various COTS (commercial off the shelf) McMaster parts. And if that wasn&#x27;t an option, scan the catalog for necessary parts and raw materials. If they don&#x27;t exist at McMaster, your design idea just got at least 10X expensive and lead time doubled.</text></item><item><author>mauvehaus</author><text>I beg to differ. Rock Auto is where it&#x27;s at for auto parts. The website is ugly as hammered shit, but it&#x27;s fast, shows you the options grouped by rough quality level (economy&#x2F;you cheapskate, daily driver, performance, etc), shows you what part to select so it <i>ships from the same warehouse</i> as the parts already in your cart and saves you shipping, and returns are painless (disclaimer: I&#x27;ve only ever done returns for core exchanges). I have never had a better online purchasing experience.<p>And the prices are a fraction of what you pay at a brick and mortar place. Especially for e.g. wiper blades.<p>Companies that &quot;get&quot; e-commerce are out there, but a lot of them are quietly and competently doing their thing in unsexy domains and aren&#x27;t trying to eat the whole pie.<p>Rock Auto, for instance, isn&#x27;t trying to serve every idiot on the planet with a car. If you can&#x27;t keep your lefts&#x2F;rights and fronts&#x2F;backs straight when ordering e.g. brake hoses, you&#x27;re going to find it a frustrating experience. Putting up a (small) barrier to entry to keep out the least clueful people probably helps keep their costs down.<p>Not affiliated, just a very happy repeat customer.</text></item><item><author>jakearmitage</author><text>HomeDepot&#x27;s ecommerce is a joke. Not only the shopping experience is poor, they treat logistics as if they were doing you a favor. And, on top of all that, you get damaged items. I made 7 purchases and all 7, in different periods of time, had to be returned or replaced.<p>Same for Lowe&#x27;s. There&#x27;s a reason people shop on Amazon. Other than BestBuy, no other retailer &quot;gets&quot; ecommerce.</text></item><item><author>ebg13</author><text>I tried ordering some things from Home Depot the other day, and they silently cancelled half of my order while still charging me the same amount for delivery from the store and while saying that some things can only be delivered from a warehouse and that some things can only be delivered from a specific store <i>and</i> that delivery from each store has a $45 minimum purchase before they&#x27;ll even consider delivery despite the fact that they&#x27;re charging the same amount for delivery from the store no matter how much you order. That of course makes it difficult to then order the remaining items even if you call them and demand a refund for the first delivery fee, because the remaining items now don&#x27;t meet the minimum. Then the delivery from the warehouse is some weird arbitrary calculation involving a nominal+ amount that then gets divided up across the items you&#x27;re ordering (3.77 here, 2.83 there, and so on) such that if you remove any item the delivery fees for the other items all go up, and then there are some items that deliver for free if you order more than $45 worth <i>from the warehouse</i> which of course doesn&#x27;t help you if some items can only be purchased from the individual stores. And then there are still things like cans of spraypaint that you can&#x27;t get delivered at all and you&#x27;re only allowed to pick up in person.<p>I know that right now is an exceptional time, but this kind of shopping experience is part of why people choose Amazon first.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jbay808</author><text>I like McMaster-Carr, but I often hear them being held up as a positive UX example when, in my experience, their website is endlessly frustrating. They often force you into choosing arbitrary categories too early, break tabbed browsing expectations, and have a frustrating mix of metric and imperial measurements that can&#x27;t be escaped. Their pricing is also generally at quite a premium.<p>For example, let&#x27;s say I want a piece of hollow metal cylinder (any metal, to be determined later based on cost and availability), with an ID of around 12 mm and a wall thickness of at least 5 mm, at least 150 mm long. It ends up being a needlessly frustrating experience even for such a simple item.</text></comment> |
28,980,051 | 28,979,525 | 1 | 3 | 28,978,692 | train | <story><title>Two conspiracy theories about cola</title><url>https://dynomight.net/cola/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pirate787</author><text>For context on the Mexican cola, US cola had sugar as well until the mid 1980s. The US sugar program restricts imports and keeps the domestic price for sugar high, which created a new market for milling corn into HFCS. HFCS is uniquely an American invention that&#x27;s the result of massive government subsidies for corn and price support for sugar. If the government did not intervene in American sugar markets, cola would still be made with sugar imported from outside the United States.</text></comment> | <story><title>Two conspiracy theories about cola</title><url>https://dynomight.net/cola/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>giantg2</author><text>Maybe Emetrol is placebo, but it has worked for me in the past on a couple of occasions. This included 8 hours of vomiting no mater how hard I willed it to stop or other remedies I tried, and it didn&#x27;t work on the first dose. It didn&#x27;t seem like placebo to me, but I am grateful it worked either way.<p>One thing to note that isn&#x27;t in the article, is that concentration can matter, so comparing one can to a 30ml dose of medication might not be a great comparison (although this still supports for the author&#x27;s position that phosphoric acid is not added to cola to prevent vomiting).<p>Is the placebo effect applicable in infants? I would think that infants would not be capable of the understanding that something will make them better, and thus placebo wouldn&#x27;t apply to them. Unfortunately this paper is pay-walled so we dont have details about the methods used, but the summary seems relevant.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jpeds.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;S0022-3476(51)80084-2&#x2F;pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jpeds.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;S0022-3476(51)80084-2&#x2F;pdf</a></text></comment> |
11,061,062 | 11,060,985 | 1 | 3 | 11,059,738 | train | <story><title>How to do distributed locking</title><url>http://martin.kleppmann.com/2016/02/08/how-to-do-distributed-locking.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>antirez</author><text>Thanks to Martin for analyzing Redlock, I looked forward to an analysis. I don&#x27;t agree with the two main arguments of the analysis. TLDR: I think the unique random token of Redlock is enough for Check &amp; Set when the lock holder work materializes into a database write (also note that it requires a linearizable database, to check token_A_ID &gt; token_B_ID in the Martin proposed solution), and I think the system model is very real world (AFAIK the algorithm is not dependent on bounded network delays, I think there is an issue in the analysis, details in my blog post so other people can evaluate), and that the fact different processes can count relative time, without any absolute clock, with a bound error (like, 10%) is absolutely credible. However, I&#x27;m analyzing the analysis in depth right now and writing a blog post with the details to be posted tomorrow. Also note that usually when you need a distributed lock, it&#x27;s because you have no sane way to handle race conditions, otherwise you can do with some weaker and&#x2F;or optimistic locking form to start with.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to do distributed locking</title><url>http://martin.kleppmann.com/2016/02/08/how-to-do-distributed-locking.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cryptica</author><text>If you want to have a truly parallel system, you cannot share resources between processes. If you need a lock, then that implies sharing of resources... Which implies limited scalability according to Amdahl&#x27;s law.<p>To achieve unlimited scalability, you need to make sure that no single data store is shared between all processes and that the amount of interprocess communication (on a per-process basis) doesn&#x27;t increase as you add more processes.<p>The more sharing you have, the less you can scale your system.</text></comment> |
17,427,762 | 17,427,058 | 1 | 3 | 17,424,970 | train | <story><title>Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/29/apple-is-rebuilding-maps-from-the-ground-up/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>macintux</author><text>OSM is orders of magnitude worse than Apple&#x27;s current data set in my area, and I doubt that&#x27;s unusual.<p>So the question for Apple is why tie themselves to a 3rd party platform? If they&#x27;re going to go to this massive level of effort to generate the best data set they can achieve, they&#x27;ll want to control the full stack for quality and predictability.<p>They could feed the OSM-relevant data they create to the platform, but that means a lot more work to create and maintain the integration tools and manage the workflow, along with potentially reduced revenues if they make OSM too good.<p>I doubt they&#x27;ll care about any threat from OSM, but I doubt they&#x27;d see the overall effort as a good business investment. This isn&#x27;t as straightforward as open sourcing some software.</text></item><item><author>untog</author><text>They could sponsor OpenStreetMaps and dedicate resources to it, donate satellite imagery etc. They&#x27;d get a lot of great data in return.</text></item><item><author>macintux</author><text>I&#x27;ll quote my reply from a similar comment...<p>What choice do they have? Maps, location data, and the services they enable are critical to mobile devices today, and will only get more so with AR and devices without screens.<p>“Everybody but Google” isn’t good enough judging by the current state of affairs, and Google doesn’t play by the same privacy rules as Apple, so they seem to have few options.</text></item><item><author>dalbasal</author><text>Apple maps is an odd sort of problem for apple to have taken on.<p>First, it&#x27;s Google head on. This is exactly the stuff where Google is very hard to beat. For Apple, it&#x27;s a little outside their strengths. Too fiddly. Every damned place in the world has their own little public transport issues, data sources. Apple are more of a <i>clever solution with the right compromises</i> bunch than a &quot;<i>slog our way through 10 million random issues until a pattern emerges</i>&quot; bunch.<p>I like the moxy, but there&#x27;s always going to be an &quot;are we the new Bing?&quot; cloud hanging over projects like this, unless and until they &quot;win.&quot; All that said, I&#x27;m glad there is something out there that isn&#x27;t google.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Doctor_Fegg</author><text>&gt; OSM is orders of magnitude worse than Apple&#x27;s current data set in my area, and I doubt that&#x27;s unusual.<p>As ever, define &quot;worse&quot; and &quot;my area&quot;.<p>OSM is consistently worse worldwide (compared to Google, TomTom and Here) for geocoding. OSM is consistently worse for lane guidance. OSM is generally worse than Google worldwide for commercial POIs (shops, restaurants etc.), but on a par with TomTom and Here, and this is very location-dependent.<p>OSM is better worldwide, by several orders of magnitude, for pedestrian and bicycle mapping. OSM is generally better for non-commercial POIs. OSM is very often better in all aspects (save geocoding) in rural locations, particularly in Europe.<p>If you&#x27;re an American motorist then Google is your best map right now. If you&#x27;re a European cyclist then OSM is really the only game in town. It&#x27;s not a black-and-white issue.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/29/apple-is-rebuilding-maps-from-the-ground-up/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>macintux</author><text>OSM is orders of magnitude worse than Apple&#x27;s current data set in my area, and I doubt that&#x27;s unusual.<p>So the question for Apple is why tie themselves to a 3rd party platform? If they&#x27;re going to go to this massive level of effort to generate the best data set they can achieve, they&#x27;ll want to control the full stack for quality and predictability.<p>They could feed the OSM-relevant data they create to the platform, but that means a lot more work to create and maintain the integration tools and manage the workflow, along with potentially reduced revenues if they make OSM too good.<p>I doubt they&#x27;ll care about any threat from OSM, but I doubt they&#x27;d see the overall effort as a good business investment. This isn&#x27;t as straightforward as open sourcing some software.</text></item><item><author>untog</author><text>They could sponsor OpenStreetMaps and dedicate resources to it, donate satellite imagery etc. They&#x27;d get a lot of great data in return.</text></item><item><author>macintux</author><text>I&#x27;ll quote my reply from a similar comment...<p>What choice do they have? Maps, location data, and the services they enable are critical to mobile devices today, and will only get more so with AR and devices without screens.<p>“Everybody but Google” isn’t good enough judging by the current state of affairs, and Google doesn’t play by the same privacy rules as Apple, so they seem to have few options.</text></item><item><author>dalbasal</author><text>Apple maps is an odd sort of problem for apple to have taken on.<p>First, it&#x27;s Google head on. This is exactly the stuff where Google is very hard to beat. For Apple, it&#x27;s a little outside their strengths. Too fiddly. Every damned place in the world has their own little public transport issues, data sources. Apple are more of a <i>clever solution with the right compromises</i> bunch than a &quot;<i>slog our way through 10 million random issues until a pattern emerges</i>&quot; bunch.<p>I like the moxy, but there&#x27;s always going to be an &quot;are we the new Bing?&quot; cloud hanging over projects like this, unless and until they &quot;win.&quot; All that said, I&#x27;m glad there is something out there that isn&#x27;t google.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pythonaut_16</author><text>I think it&#x27;s kinda like Google working with Android as an open source project. Google makes money on Android primarily by using Android as a means of delivering the Google ecosystem. They don&#x27;t care that it&#x27;s open source because they don&#x27;t make money by selling it.<p>Apple could do the same thing with maps. Support a robust open mapping initiative to make sure their primary business (selling iPhones and other devices) has a solid platform for emerging technologies like AR. Making sure they have a solid maps offering supports the Apple (aka iPhone) ecosystem.<p>Also similarly to Google, they can still push plenty of proprietary things on top of the open parts of the initiative.</text></comment> |
20,397,331 | 20,397,563 | 1 | 2 | 20,397,179 | train | <story><title>Apple Updates Air, Pro Laptops, Kills Off the MacBook</title><url>https://tidbits.com/2019/07/09/apple-updates-air-pro-laptops-kills-off-the-macbook/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ValentineC</author><text>Discussion from a similar post: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20393236" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20393236</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Apple Updates Air, Pro Laptops, Kills Off the MacBook</title><url>https://tidbits.com/2019/07/09/apple-updates-air-pro-laptops-kills-off-the-macbook/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wwweston</author><text>Macbook Pro &quot;improvements&quot; over the last 3-7 years:<p>* No more matte display<p>* RAM soldered to the board<p>* SSD soldered in<p>* remove all ports except USB-C<p>* make keyboard worse<p>* remove function keys, replace with touch surface that&#x27;s redundant at best<p>But it&#x27;s very thin!<p>And even thinner was the recent Macbook, and if the law of &quot;diminishing returns&quot; matters as little as the usual defenses of all the above tradeoffs in pursuit of light&#x2F;thin imply, you&#x27;d think that that&#x27;d be worth keeping.<p>Maybe there <i>is</i> a limit, and Apple&#x27;s actually reflected on that?<p>Or... maybe it&#x27;s just a recognition that the Air and Macbook had come to a place where there was little distinguishing them. And that really, the MBP is less and less designed&#x2F;deployed with actual professionals in mind and more and more meant for a prosumer subsegment. In which case reducing focus to two models (general purpose consumer laptop, light netbook) makes sense.</text></comment> |
31,730,850 | 31,730,998 | 1 | 3 | 31,728,560 | train | <story><title>The Fed has made a historic mistake on inflation</title><url>https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/04/23/why-the-federal-reserve-has-made-a-historic-mistake-on-inflation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zozbot234</author><text>There&#x27;s a real alternative to higher interest rates: bring government spending under control. Notably, this was done during the 1990s Clinton administrations and it worked quite well.</text></item><item><author>dralley</author><text>Of course, it doesn&#x27;t help when you have politicians constantly making open threats against raising interest rates.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;trump-complains-about-rising-interest-rates-calling-the-fed-my-biggest-threat-1539720681" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;trump-complains-about-rising-in...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;09&#x2F;11&#x2F;business&#x2F;economy&#x2F;bonehead-trump-jay-powell.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;09&#x2F;11&#x2F;business&#x2F;economy&#x2F;bonehead...</a><p>Not that the Fed doesn&#x27;t deserve criticism, because they do, but the public would be pissed about many of the measures that combat inflation as well, and the politicians would make sure they know who to blame (hint: not themselves).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Supermancho</author><text>&gt; Notably, this was done during the 1990s Clinton administrations and it worked quite well.<p>- in the summer of 1995, the Clinton administration admitted that “balancing the budget is not one of our top priorities.”<p>&quot;It worked quite well&quot; meaning:<p>&quot;We have a balanced budget today that is mostly a result of 1) an exceptionally strong economy that is creating gobs of new tax revenues and 2) a shrinking military budget.&quot; - Stephen Moore<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;OD4nl#selection-1643.78-1643.91" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;OD4nl#selection-1643.78-1643.91</a><p>Whoever was to blame, the issue is that politicians have been disconnected from spending constraints for too long. There are no controls that impact them when they fail to perform one of their basic duties. Deciding how to spend tax revenue has morphed into deciding how to spend future revenue across all strata of politics (local to federal). The 91fwy express lanes from 1994 are <i>STILL</i> tolls, which was supposed to be converted to additional freeway lanes decades ago, based on the initial project. Nope, money in the hand and promises of money in the future, is what the cities want. From this, we get wasteful slush-fund industries (eg lotteries, etc).</text></comment> | <story><title>The Fed has made a historic mistake on inflation</title><url>https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/04/23/why-the-federal-reserve-has-made-a-historic-mistake-on-inflation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zozbot234</author><text>There&#x27;s a real alternative to higher interest rates: bring government spending under control. Notably, this was done during the 1990s Clinton administrations and it worked quite well.</text></item><item><author>dralley</author><text>Of course, it doesn&#x27;t help when you have politicians constantly making open threats against raising interest rates.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;trump-complains-about-rising-interest-rates-calling-the-fed-my-biggest-threat-1539720681" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;trump-complains-about-rising-in...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;09&#x2F;11&#x2F;business&#x2F;economy&#x2F;bonehead-trump-jay-powell.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;09&#x2F;11&#x2F;business&#x2F;economy&#x2F;bonehead...</a><p>Not that the Fed doesn&#x27;t deserve criticism, because they do, but the public would be pissed about many of the measures that combat inflation as well, and the politicians would make sure they know who to blame (hint: not themselves).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>somewhereoutth</author><text>Or equivalently, tax rich people more.<p>Interest rates should be returned to their norm, around 5%, for sound resource allocation (i.e. the time value of money is priced correctly).<p>Fiscal policy, specifically wealth taxes, should be used to cushion low and middle incomes from this painful readjustment.</text></comment> |
39,446,391 | 39,446,133 | 1 | 2 | 39,444,165 | train | <story><title>Why is no one making a new version of old Facebook?</title><url>https://12challenges.substack.com/p/why-is-no-one-making-a-new-version</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nostrademons</author><text>&quot;Every moment in business happens only once.&quot; -- Peter Thiel<p>The success of the old Facebook was very much rooted in a particular time and place. The leading edge of the Millennial generation (which was raised to be both more social and more trusting than previous generations) was in college. The Internet was new, and people were figuring out what it was for. The economy was humming along, and recovering from the dot-com bust, and people had few concerns that basic needs like housing and food would be taken care of. A website where the point was to throw sheep at each other was a nice idle diversion for that time surplus.<p>It also helped that Facebook was started in one of the highest social-status dorms, in the highest social-status college, among the highest social-status demographic (college students), in a generation that was tightly socially connected. I&#x27;d remarked to a coworker, when Google was just starting Google+, that we were replicating all the technology in Facebook (and many good ideas <i>not</i> in Facebook that had been pioneered by LiveJournal), but we were missing the particular social moment in time that Zuckerburg capitalized on.<p>In short, yes, consumer preferences have changed. Consumer preferences are <i>always</i> changing. The new Facebook is messaging, or hanging out in person, or <i>maybe</i> TikTok. Replicating the old Facebook won&#x27;t give back the moment in time that lead to its ascendance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>I pretty strongly disagree with this. I don&#x27;t think that user preferences have changed so much, in that I think a lot of people would respond well to an &quot;old-school&quot;-style Facebook, even if released right now. The issue is simply that <i>that</i> version of Facebook probably has people only using it 15-30 mins a day max, but you really need to get the continual mindless scrolling to maximize ad rates. Facebook is just suffering &quot;the tyranny of the marginal user&quot;, the topic which was so well-discussed on HN a couple months back.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why is no one making a new version of old Facebook?</title><url>https://12challenges.substack.com/p/why-is-no-one-making-a-new-version</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nostrademons</author><text>&quot;Every moment in business happens only once.&quot; -- Peter Thiel<p>The success of the old Facebook was very much rooted in a particular time and place. The leading edge of the Millennial generation (which was raised to be both more social and more trusting than previous generations) was in college. The Internet was new, and people were figuring out what it was for. The economy was humming along, and recovering from the dot-com bust, and people had few concerns that basic needs like housing and food would be taken care of. A website where the point was to throw sheep at each other was a nice idle diversion for that time surplus.<p>It also helped that Facebook was started in one of the highest social-status dorms, in the highest social-status college, among the highest social-status demographic (college students), in a generation that was tightly socially connected. I&#x27;d remarked to a coworker, when Google was just starting Google+, that we were replicating all the technology in Facebook (and many good ideas <i>not</i> in Facebook that had been pioneered by LiveJournal), but we were missing the particular social moment in time that Zuckerburg capitalized on.<p>In short, yes, consumer preferences have changed. Consumer preferences are <i>always</i> changing. The new Facebook is messaging, or hanging out in person, or <i>maybe</i> TikTok. Replicating the old Facebook won&#x27;t give back the moment in time that lead to its ascendance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>threeseed</author><text>Also it was before many parents were on the internet.<p>Now young people know from experience that little good comes from their parents and extended family being on the social network as them. And so they instead prefer messaging apps for these relationships.<p>And then for communicating within their age group it&#x27;s much more about trends and what is new and different as every young generation is enticed by.</text></comment> |
14,561,842 | 14,561,544 | 1 | 3 | 14,560,471 | train | <story><title>Go and Simplicity Debt</title><url>https://dave.cheney.net/2017/06/15/simplicity-debt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasode</author><text><i>&gt;But there is equally no question that adding these features to Go would make it more complex. [...] I have no doubt that adding templated types to Go will make it a more complicated language, </i><p>I don&#x27;t know if adding generics to Golang is the right thing to do but I don&#x27;t agree with how Cheney has framed it. I wish programmers would use a more precise mental framework about &quot;simplicity&#x2F;complexity&quot;.<p>It&#x27;s not important if generics make the <i>&quot;language specification&quot;</i> more complex. What&#x27;s really more important is if it makes the real-world <i>language usage</i> more complex.<p>What matters is the sum of <i>total complexity</i>: the language spec + adhoc idioms&#x2F;patterns&#x2F;conventions&#x2F;workarounds used in actual codebases.<p>As an example, if you make a super simple language like Javascript in 1995 with hardly any features, what you eventually end up with is <i>complexity in npm</i> with dozens of modules for things like leftpad(). Or you can insist that &quot;prototypes are simpler than OO&quot; but you actually end up with a dozen OO-simulation libraries with different syntax out in the wild. Instead of the overall JS landscape being simpler, it is more complex.<p>This does not mean you must put everything language feature including the kitchen sink into the language. The lesson learned from history is to talk about about simplicity&#x2F;complexity in a <i>more holistic way</i>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>munificent</author><text>This is exactly Larry Wall&#x27;s point when he talks about the &quot;waterbed theory&quot;:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Waterbed_theory" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Waterbed_theory</a><p>Users don&#x27;t often have the luxury of discarding essential complexity in the problem their trying to solve. So, if you don&#x27;t give them the right tools to tackle that in your language, that doesn&#x27;t mean they no longer need those tools. It just means they have to build them themselves first.</text></comment> | <story><title>Go and Simplicity Debt</title><url>https://dave.cheney.net/2017/06/15/simplicity-debt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasode</author><text><i>&gt;But there is equally no question that adding these features to Go would make it more complex. [...] I have no doubt that adding templated types to Go will make it a more complicated language, </i><p>I don&#x27;t know if adding generics to Golang is the right thing to do but I don&#x27;t agree with how Cheney has framed it. I wish programmers would use a more precise mental framework about &quot;simplicity&#x2F;complexity&quot;.<p>It&#x27;s not important if generics make the <i>&quot;language specification&quot;</i> more complex. What&#x27;s really more important is if it makes the real-world <i>language usage</i> more complex.<p>What matters is the sum of <i>total complexity</i>: the language spec + adhoc idioms&#x2F;patterns&#x2F;conventions&#x2F;workarounds used in actual codebases.<p>As an example, if you make a super simple language like Javascript in 1995 with hardly any features, what you eventually end up with is <i>complexity in npm</i> with dozens of modules for things like leftpad(). Or you can insist that &quot;prototypes are simpler than OO&quot; but you actually end up with a dozen OO-simulation libraries with different syntax out in the wild. Instead of the overall JS landscape being simpler, it is more complex.<p>This does not mean you must put everything language feature including the kitchen sink into the language. The lesson learned from history is to talk about about simplicity&#x2F;complexity in a <i>more holistic way</i>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grok2</author><text>I think the author was actually referring to the fact that it makes the written software using Go more complex to understand and maintain. Quoting:
&quot;...efforts to add templated types and immutability to the language would unlock the ability to write more complex, less readable software. Indeed, the addition of these features would have a knock on effect that would profoundly alter the way error handling, collections, and concurrency are implemented.&quot;</text></comment> |
40,162,446 | 40,162,469 | 1 | 2 | 40,161,811 | train | <story><title>Asian American women are getting lung cancer despite never smoking</title><url>https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/asian-american-women-lung-cancer-rcna138895</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>max_</author><text>There are Many things that cause lung cancer other than smoking.<p>Infact majority of people that smoke don&#x27;t get Cancer (only about 30% in a group of smokers get lung cancer)<p>Edit: I don&#x27;t mean it&#x27;s comforting I prefer to have it at 0&#x2F;10<p>I am just trying to say that things that cause cancer are not as deterministic as we think.</text></item><item><author>helsinkiandrew</author><text>12% of Asian American men smoke compared with 2.6% of women. So non smoking Asian women are more likely to live with a smoking man. Could second hand smoking exposure be a factor in this?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lung.org&#x2F;quit-smoking&#x2F;smoking-facts&#x2F;impact-of-tobacco-use&#x2F;tobacco-use-racial-and-ethnic" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lung.org&#x2F;quit-smoking&#x2F;smoking-facts&#x2F;impact-of-to...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DonsDiscountGas</author><text>IIRC the lifetime risk of lung cancer for smokers is more like 20%. For reference, among non-smokers the risk of lung cancer[0] is about 1%. So smoking is represents a 20x increase in risk.<p>Around 80% of lung cancers are found in smokers and another 10% with heavy exposure to second-hand smoke. Smoking is the single largest risk factor for lung cancer.<p>[0] All numbers are based on general population of US, so heavily white-skewed, I dunno about asian americans specifically.</text></comment> | <story><title>Asian American women are getting lung cancer despite never smoking</title><url>https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/asian-american-women-lung-cancer-rcna138895</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>max_</author><text>There are Many things that cause lung cancer other than smoking.<p>Infact majority of people that smoke don&#x27;t get Cancer (only about 30% in a group of smokers get lung cancer)<p>Edit: I don&#x27;t mean it&#x27;s comforting I prefer to have it at 0&#x2F;10<p>I am just trying to say that things that cause cancer are not as deterministic as we think.</text></item><item><author>helsinkiandrew</author><text>12% of Asian American men smoke compared with 2.6% of women. So non smoking Asian women are more likely to live with a smoking man. Could second hand smoking exposure be a factor in this?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lung.org&#x2F;quit-smoking&#x2F;smoking-facts&#x2F;impact-of-tobacco-use&#x2F;tobacco-use-racial-and-ethnic" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lung.org&#x2F;quit-smoking&#x2F;smoking-facts&#x2F;impact-of-to...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Zancarius</author><text>I suspect part of this is because smokers, generally, don&#x27;t always live long enough to actually <i>get</i> cancer, and statistically their year-over-year cancer risk drops to the same as the general population when they do quit.<p>However, COPD, once established, is irreversible.<p>My dad was a long time smoker and it was COPD that eventually got him. He battled it for years after he quit.</text></comment> |
29,379,495 | 29,377,729 | 1 | 3 | 29,377,563 | train | <story><title>UK regulator set to block Meta's Giphy deal</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/uk-regulator-set-block-metas-giphy-deal-ft-2021-11-29/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kungito</author><text>I&#x27;d say a way better approach is what was on HN recently where the chat platforms will have to enable 3rd party integrations effectively breaking the walled gardens. It makes way more sense to collapse the walls than distance and split the gardens</text></item><item><author>blowski</author><text>I want this to be the start of a forced breakup of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram. There’s zero benefit to consumers, and a lot of harm.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>technofiend</author><text>Maybe I misunderstood your reasoning but it seems like you&#x27;re suggesting that Whatsapp for instance is forced to let third party clients connect to their system? That still gives Facebook access to data I don&#x27;t want them to have. The whole point is to cut these information brokers <i>entirely</i> out of the loop, not force them into a compromise where they get some of what they want anyway.</text></comment> | <story><title>UK regulator set to block Meta's Giphy deal</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/uk-regulator-set-block-metas-giphy-deal-ft-2021-11-29/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kungito</author><text>I&#x27;d say a way better approach is what was on HN recently where the chat platforms will have to enable 3rd party integrations effectively breaking the walled gardens. It makes way more sense to collapse the walls than distance and split the gardens</text></item><item><author>blowski</author><text>I want this to be the start of a forced breakup of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram. There’s zero benefit to consumers, and a lot of harm.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tester34</author><text>You mean Discord implementing XMPP?</text></comment> |
5,033,027 | 5,032,637 | 1 | 3 | 5,032,451 | train | <story><title>What Startups Need To Know About Health Insurance in 2013</title><url>http://blog.simplyinsured.com/what-startups-need-to-know-about-health-insurance-in-2013/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>I don't even need public healthcare. I just want something that does away with the current employer-sponsored system. We should make it easier, not harder, for people to move between jobs, take gaps to start companies or get new training, etc. We shouldn't be discouraging younger workers from getting preventative care so they can stay healthy and keep contributing to the economy.</text></item><item><author>kzahel</author><text>Everything I read about healthcare recently just reinforces the notion that we need public health care. Let's just model our system after say, Canada's, and call it done.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrbird</author><text>David Goldhill wrote an excellent piece in The Atlantic a few years ago on this topic. The fix is quite simple, but nearly impossible to implement: Stop using insurance for health care, and buy actual insurance (you know, for catastrophes).<p>How often do you use your car insurance? Fire insurance? That's because insurance is designed to never be used, by most people. Health insurance has been unfortunately recast into comprehensive health <i>care</i>, with disastrous results. But the system is very entrenched now.<p><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/09/how-american-health-care-killed-my-father/307617/?single_page=true" rel="nofollow">http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/09/how-amer...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>What Startups Need To Know About Health Insurance in 2013</title><url>http://blog.simplyinsured.com/what-startups-need-to-know-about-health-insurance-in-2013/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>I don't even need public healthcare. I just want something that does away with the current employer-sponsored system. We should make it easier, not harder, for people to move between jobs, take gaps to start companies or get new training, etc. We shouldn't be discouraging younger workers from getting preventative care so they can stay healthy and keep contributing to the economy.</text></item><item><author>kzahel</author><text>Everything I read about healthcare recently just reinforces the notion that we need public health care. Let's just model our system after say, Canada's, and call it done.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yaks_hairbrush</author><text>Absolutely, yes! I was and still am upset with PPACA because it reinforces the horrid employer-provided care model.</text></comment> |
18,756,147 | 18,755,188 | 1 | 3 | 18,754,664 | train | <story><title>Netflix Pulls the Plug on Feature Designed to Get Kids Addicted to Netflix</title><url>https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/03/netflix-patch-testing-kids-binge-watching</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>parhamn</author><text>Lots of folks&#x2F;companies are going to lose long-term as a result of bad A&#x2F;B testing driven decision making. I suspect the decline of the Facebook feed might be attributed to this as well (maybe even the recent polls of Trump&#x27;s twitter practices[1]). Generally these sorts of things don&#x27;t really consider long term fatigue and other important factors, and take short term micro-benchmark wins as success. On the flip side, some attribute not A&#x2F;B testing to the failure of the SnapChat redesign[2].<p>Is there anyway to do this properly? I can imagine the problem will get worse and worse as we reduce human evaluation of A&#x2F;B test results and automatically make real-time decisions through software and ML.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;poll-shows-trump-appears-to-be-losing-somewhat-supporters-with-antics-2018-12" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;poll-shows-trump-appears-to-...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.engadget.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;10&#x2F;05&#x2F;snap-evan-spiegel-app-redesign-rushed&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.engadget.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;10&#x2F;05&#x2F;snap-evan-spiegel-app-re...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>apatters</author><text>Any metric or KPI is going to get gamed in harmful ways if it&#x27;s prioritized too highly. So the answer is to use A&#x2F;B testing to make sure you&#x27;re not regressing on the goals of a design change, and judiciously, to validate whether your change is moving things in the right direction.<p>But beyond that you have to do the hard slog of mastering the discipline of UX, real, human-centric design, and accept that not everything important is measurable.<p>We have plenty of examples of how doing real UX instead of playing a numbers game can differentiate your business, Apple has applied this philosophy consistently over many years.<p>The root of the problem is a &quot;fuck you, market share at all costs&quot; culture that has come to permeate Silicon Valley. And you can argue (somewhat cynically) that this philosophy makes sense in a blue ocean where you have no competition and just need to gobble up people and turn them into cash before someone else does. But I think going forward this mentality may actually become a liability as more humane alternatives to heavily despised products emerge. Many of the current crop of giants seem to have forgotten that a company&#x27;s most valuable asset is always its brand.</text></comment> | <story><title>Netflix Pulls the Plug on Feature Designed to Get Kids Addicted to Netflix</title><url>https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/03/netflix-patch-testing-kids-binge-watching</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>parhamn</author><text>Lots of folks&#x2F;companies are going to lose long-term as a result of bad A&#x2F;B testing driven decision making. I suspect the decline of the Facebook feed might be attributed to this as well (maybe even the recent polls of Trump&#x27;s twitter practices[1]). Generally these sorts of things don&#x27;t really consider long term fatigue and other important factors, and take short term micro-benchmark wins as success. On the flip side, some attribute not A&#x2F;B testing to the failure of the SnapChat redesign[2].<p>Is there anyway to do this properly? I can imagine the problem will get worse and worse as we reduce human evaluation of A&#x2F;B test results and automatically make real-time decisions through software and ML.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;poll-shows-trump-appears-to-be-losing-somewhat-supporters-with-antics-2018-12" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;poll-shows-trump-appears-to-...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.engadget.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;10&#x2F;05&#x2F;snap-evan-spiegel-app-redesign-rushed&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.engadget.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;10&#x2F;05&#x2F;snap-evan-spiegel-app-re...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>annadane</author><text>I mean one way to do it properly is to actually listen to your users. So many corporations claim to have that as a priority and when you look at real, actual feedback, they really don&#x27;t. How hard is it to look at the masses of complaints about autoplay or notification spam or... any numbers of dark patterns you could name and decide that you shouldn&#x27;t do that?</text></comment> |
25,557,998 | 25,557,110 | 1 | 2 | 25,556,502 | train | <story><title>Repairability</title><url>https://psankar.blogspot.com/2020/12/repairability.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fareesh</author><text>In countries like India we don&#x27;t really have too many consumer protections. Apple tends to operate similar to a criminal enterprise - they sell defective products &#x2F; products which become defective after barely any use.<p>I bought the 2015 Macbook Pro which developed the &quot;staingate&quot; issue. In first world countries, I hear that Apple replaced the screens for customers for free (I&#x27;m not sure if this is true or whether it&#x27;s astroturfing). There is no such system here. Both speakers in this Macbook developed tearing and are no longer audible. Other laptops - Samsung, Lenovo, etc. in my household have worked perfectly. One laptop developed an issue with the keyboard, which was replaced for $50.<p>I received Airpods as a gift this year in February. One earphone stopped working within 8 months. Apple told me they weren&#x27;t going to do anything about it. I must have used them about 20 times total. I also own knock-off Airpods. They work perfectly.<p>I follow Louis Rossman&#x27;s YouTube channel where he opens up the devices and showcases the various corners that have been cut in the manufacturing process. He also exposes the unethical behaviour of the Apple &quot;Genius&quot; employees who overcharge customers for simple repairs. In one case he just plugged a loose connection back in and charged the customer for 20 minutes of labour whereas Apple said it would require a screen replacement for roughly ~30% of the cost of the device.<p>Repairability is becoming near impossible with these products now. At one point in time you could salvage together parts from dead devices to gather spares, but now Apple is working on technology to ensure that parts from different devices will not be compatible with each other.<p>Without legislation they will continue to operate like this with impunity. If enough key markets push for something like &quot;right to repair&quot; there is a small possibility that something will be done about this, otherwise the way things are headed, there will essentially be no accountability for cases like this.<p>I would not be surprised if there will come a point where they make devices stop working if you open them, and only they can restore the device back to a working state.</text></comment> | <story><title>Repairability</title><url>https://psankar.blogspot.com/2020/12/repairability.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>opengears</author><text>This is a great read about repairability, and we should also not forget that apple are the worst when it comes to repair. They essentially said “Our Manuals Could Make Repairs Safer, But You Can’t Have Them” (source here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ifixit.com&#x2F;News&#x2F;33977&#x2F;apple-told-congress-how-repair-should-work-we-respond" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ifixit.com&#x2F;News&#x2F;33977&#x2F;apple-told-congress-how-re...</a> )</text></comment> |
9,369,843 | 9,369,697 | 1 | 2 | 9,367,599 | train | <story><title>Stephen King: “Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully”</title><url>https://www.msu.edu/~jdowell/135/King_Everything.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scott_s</author><text>If you enjoyed this, read King&#x27;s book &quot;On Writing&quot;. It&#x27;s half memoir, half an essay on writing for a living. The memoir part is interesting because he&#x27;s had an interesting life, and it&#x27;s closely tied to his writing career.<p>The writing part should be interesting to anyone who: likes reading fiction and thinking about how it is created; likes writing and has spent time about how to do it well; has spent time thinking about how to a particular thing well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jalanco</author><text>It&#x27;s been years since I&#x27;ve read it but &quot;On Writing&quot; is still one of my favorite books of all time. It&#x27;s worth reading whether you write much or not. His description of the time he was struck by a van (and nearly killed) while walking down the road near his home with his head in a paperback book is alone worth the read. He said the guy driving the van was reaching into a box of raw meat and tossing chunks to a dog in the back of the van and didn&#x27;t see him walking on the side of the road. He said it was like a scene from one of his novels. I recall that he also goes into some detail about how he struggled through a long period of near poverty with his wife Tabitha always supporting him and staying by his side. So she deserves tremendous credit for his success. For me the book was more about persevering through the struggle to create in general.</text></comment> | <story><title>Stephen King: “Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully”</title><url>https://www.msu.edu/~jdowell/135/King_Everything.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scott_s</author><text>If you enjoyed this, read King&#x27;s book &quot;On Writing&quot;. It&#x27;s half memoir, half an essay on writing for a living. The memoir part is interesting because he&#x27;s had an interesting life, and it&#x27;s closely tied to his writing career.<p>The writing part should be interesting to anyone who: likes reading fiction and thinking about how it is created; likes writing and has spent time about how to do it well; has spent time thinking about how to a particular thing well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eropple</author><text>Parts of this article are repeated almost verbatim in that book. (That&#x27;s a compliment, not a complaint. It&#x27;s a fantastic book. Anyone who wants to write for a living, and most people who do not, should read it.)</text></comment> |
14,896,231 | 14,893,587 | 1 | 3 | 14,893,563 | train | <story><title>Rezoom.SQL: Statically typed SQL for F#</title><url>https://github.com/rspeele/Rezoom.SQL</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>phillipcarter</author><text>This is really cool. Yet another example of how Type Providers are such a game-changer for people.<p>Relevant for folks:<p>FSharp.Data: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fsharp.github.io&#x2F;FSharp.Data&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fsharp.github.io&#x2F;FSharp.Data&#x2F;</a><p>SqlProvider: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fsprojects.github.io&#x2F;SQLProvider&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fsprojects.github.io&#x2F;SQLProvider&#x2F;</a><p>FSharp.Data.SqlClient: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fsprojects.github.io&#x2F;FSharp.Data.SqlClient&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fsprojects.github.io&#x2F;FSharp.Data.SqlClient&#x2F;</a><p>Azure Storage Type Provider: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;fsprojects&#x2F;AzureStorageTypeProvider" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;fsprojects&#x2F;AzureStorageTypeProvider</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Rezoom.SQL: Statically typed SQL for F#</title><url>https://github.com/rspeele/Rezoom.SQL</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Bognar</author><text>Some discussion on reddit: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;programming&#x2F;comments&#x2F;6qizpb&#x2F;statically_typed_sql_for_f&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;programming&#x2F;comments&#x2F;6qizpb&#x2F;statica...</a></text></comment> |
3,659,041 | 3,659,088 | 1 | 2 | 3,658,860 | train | <story><title>What HN users don't mean to be</title><url>http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=%22I+don%27t+mean+to+be%22&sortby=create_ts+asc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DarkShikari</author><text>It's an old rule that whenever someone says "I'm not racist, but", they are practically <i>always</i> about to say something incredibly racist. I think this can be generalized to all forms of "I'm not X, but" or, "I don't mean to be X, but", and so forth. "No offense, but, &#60;offensive thing&#62;" seems to also be a common variation.<p>Is there a word for this kind of linguistic construct?<p>( Possibly related: <a href="http://www.notracistbut.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.notracistbut.com/</a> )</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacobolus</author><text>I think your analysis is too glib here. [And since PG seems to be implying the same thing, that goes for him too.]<p>It’s typically a way of expressing anger/displeasure/etc. without turning the comment into a personal insult. If I say “I don’t mean to be rude, but you made a grammatical mistake”, or “I don’t mean to be harsh, but your idea doesn’t make sense” what I mean in the former case is something like <i>“anyone could make that mistake, please don’t take it personally, but I figured you’d like to know”</i>, or in the latter case, <i>“you need to clarify your idea, because you’re losing your audience; I don’t want to imply it doesn’t have any merit, but as currently explained the merit doesn’t shine through”</i>.<p>Being able to make quick softening caveats without taking up a paragraph is very useful, and our language is more nuanced and powerful for having these constructions.</text></comment> | <story><title>What HN users don't mean to be</title><url>http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=%22I+don%27t+mean+to+be%22&sortby=create_ts+asc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DarkShikari</author><text>It's an old rule that whenever someone says "I'm not racist, but", they are practically <i>always</i> about to say something incredibly racist. I think this can be generalized to all forms of "I'm not X, but" or, "I don't mean to be X, but", and so forth. "No offense, but, &#60;offensive thing&#62;" seems to also be a common variation.<p>Is there a word for this kind of linguistic construct?<p>( Possibly related: <a href="http://www.notracistbut.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.notracistbut.com/</a> )</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kmfrk</author><text>I think it's just an acknowledgement of the ambiguity of tone in the written word and of the tendency of people to always take away the most offensive interpretation of the comment.<p>Some people use it as a preface to cushion their unfiltered invective, but it's in everyone's interest to give people the benefit of the doubt in recognition of the ambiguity in what we say.</text></comment> |
16,754,505 | 16,754,099 | 1 | 2 | 16,753,347 | train | <story><title>SteamOS, Linux, and Steam Machines</title><url>https://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/0/1696043806550421224/?t=1&cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjcw%3D%3D&refsrc=email&iid=349e1d3fdcdc46d493b14572c866208a&uid=2862984859&nid=244+272699400</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>headsoup</author><text>I feel like Valve has certainly been putting effort into Linux, but not <i>serious</i> effort.<p>They seem to be going low-moderate risk&#x2F;investment. Sure there&#x27;s progress, but then the Wine devs are moving pretty steadily too at the moment.<p>If Valve wants to really be serious:<p>- Offer incentives to Devs to support Linux&#x2F;Vulkan<p>- Release a goddamn new game (HL3 - dreams) and make it Linux exclusive for a time<p>- develop and release new features for Linux first (maybe if GoG ever get the Galaxy client over to Linux Valve will get a kick in the pants to act...)<p>- Promote SteamOS and (maybe) Steam Machines, like at least some. Show Steam Machines as an &#x27;out-of-the-box Windows gaming replacement, not a console competitor.<p>- Fund Linux devs or take a lower cut from Linux releases<p>- Convince Adobe to release their suite on Linux! Push for&#x2F;fund official Unity and Unreal Engine Linux versions<p>- Offer the ability to natively launch games through Wine (and either use &#x27;community&#x27; environment files or require one exist, or have a link to WineHQ for help)<p>Be serious Valve, be genuine and get your flat structured &#x27;follow the shiny thing&#x27; company focused and determined.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AnIdiotOnTheNet</author><text>&gt; Release a goddamn new game (HL3 - dreams) and make it Linux exclusive for a time<p>A move like this would definitely not win Linux any friends, because as it turns out the Linux Desktop really isn&#x27;t that great and you&#x27;d just be causing a huge headache for a lot of people. The gamers would be annoyed at having to deal with Linux&#x27;s bullshit, the Linux Destkop community would be annoyed at the huge influx of new users who don&#x27;t think &quot;try another distro&quot; (especially after the third distro), or &quot;write your own driver, it&#x27;s open source!&quot;, are acceptable solutions to their problems.<p>If Linux wants gamers there&#x27;s a simple (note: simple != easy) thing they have to do: make their platform attractive to gamers and game developers. So far they can&#x27;t manage either, the only reason gaming on Linux is even remotely viable is A) Valve coming in and saying &quot;Ok, since there&#x27;s no such thing as a standardized base system in Linux Desktop land, here&#x27;s a standardized base system for Steam you can target&quot;, and 2) the popularity of Android making engines like Unity and Unreal have Linux support, which allows devs to tack it on without too much extra effort.</text></comment> | <story><title>SteamOS, Linux, and Steam Machines</title><url>https://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/0/1696043806550421224/?t=1&cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjcw%3D%3D&refsrc=email&iid=349e1d3fdcdc46d493b14572c866208a&uid=2862984859&nid=244+272699400</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>headsoup</author><text>I feel like Valve has certainly been putting effort into Linux, but not <i>serious</i> effort.<p>They seem to be going low-moderate risk&#x2F;investment. Sure there&#x27;s progress, but then the Wine devs are moving pretty steadily too at the moment.<p>If Valve wants to really be serious:<p>- Offer incentives to Devs to support Linux&#x2F;Vulkan<p>- Release a goddamn new game (HL3 - dreams) and make it Linux exclusive for a time<p>- develop and release new features for Linux first (maybe if GoG ever get the Galaxy client over to Linux Valve will get a kick in the pants to act...)<p>- Promote SteamOS and (maybe) Steam Machines, like at least some. Show Steam Machines as an &#x27;out-of-the-box Windows gaming replacement, not a console competitor.<p>- Fund Linux devs or take a lower cut from Linux releases<p>- Convince Adobe to release their suite on Linux! Push for&#x2F;fund official Unity and Unreal Engine Linux versions<p>- Offer the ability to natively launch games through Wine (and either use &#x27;community&#x27; environment files or require one exist, or have a link to WineHQ for help)<p>Be serious Valve, be genuine and get your flat structured &#x27;follow the shiny thing&#x27; company focused and determined.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bitL</author><text>&gt; but not <i>serious</i> effort.<p>Dunno, my Steam Box runs games like Grid Autosport, Mad Max, Tomb Raider, Deus Ex etc. without a single issue, as fast as on Windows (quad i5 + NVidia), and I don&#x27;t even notice I am on Linux. So thanks to Valve and Feral Interactive, I can slowly move away from Windows to Linux for all my computing needs, not just for programming, Deep Learning and blockchain. What else is missing?<p>Moreover, I can run a lot of software under Wine, like Adobe CS6 or MS Office, or even many games (it has gotten significantly better lately).</text></comment> |
11,277,359 | 11,276,938 | 1 | 2 | 11,276,798 | train | <story><title>Lee Sedol Beats AlphaGo in Game 4</title><url>https://gogameguru.com/alphago-4/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>argonaut</author><text>If it&#x27;s true that AlphaGo started making a series of bad moves after its mistake on move 79, this might tie into a classic problem with agents trained using reinforcement learning, which is that after making an initial mistake (whether by accident or due to noise, etc.), the agent gets taken into a state it&#x27;s not familiar with, so it makes another mistake, digging an even deeper hole for itself - the mistakes then continue to compound. This is one of the <i>biggest</i> challenges with RL agents in the real, physical world, where you have noise and imperfect information to confront.<p>Of course, a plausible alternate explanation is that AlphaGo felt like it needed to make risky moves to catch up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>The same happens to people, especially people that study theory. You can totally throw them off their game by making a non-standard move, even a relatively bad one as long as it breaks their existing pre-conceived notions about how the game should progress.<p>Of course against a really strong player you&#x27;re going to get beaten after that but a weak player strong on theory will have a harder time.</text></comment> | <story><title>Lee Sedol Beats AlphaGo in Game 4</title><url>https://gogameguru.com/alphago-4/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>argonaut</author><text>If it&#x27;s true that AlphaGo started making a series of bad moves after its mistake on move 79, this might tie into a classic problem with agents trained using reinforcement learning, which is that after making an initial mistake (whether by accident or due to noise, etc.), the agent gets taken into a state it&#x27;s not familiar with, so it makes another mistake, digging an even deeper hole for itself - the mistakes then continue to compound. This is one of the <i>biggest</i> challenges with RL agents in the real, physical world, where you have noise and imperfect information to confront.<p>Of course, a plausible alternate explanation is that AlphaGo felt like it needed to make risky moves to catch up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kotach</author><text>What you are talking about here is called &quot;label bias&quot;. [2] It is present only if training is done badly.<p>When you have a game of Go, or Super Mario level. You don&#x27;t want to make your decisions by just checking the local features and doing them, because it can be the case that by compounding errors you end up in a state you never saw, and all of the future decisions won&#x27;t be good.<p>One can avoid these situations by training jointly over the whole game.<p>For example, maximum entropy models can work for decision making problems but their training leaves them in a &quot;label bias&quot; state because the training is trying to minimize loss of local decisions, instead of trying to minimize the future regret of current local decision.<p>The solution to these label bias problems are Conditional Random Fields, or Hidden Markov Models. You could accomplish the same with Recursive Neural Networks if you trained them properly. For example, there is no search part (monte carlo tree search, or dynamic programming [viterbi] like it is in CRFs or HMMs) in RNNs but they are completely adequate for decision based problems (sequence labeling etc.). Why is that the case? Because search results are present in the data, there&#x27;s no need to search if you can just learn to search from the data.<p>If DeepMind open-sourced the hundreds of millions of games that AlphaGo played, it is quite possible to train a model that wouldn&#x27;t need a Monte Carlo search and would work quite well, because you would learn the model to make local decisions to minimize future regret, not to minimize its local loss. [1]<p>The only reason why reinforcement learning is used is because there are too few human games of Go available for the model to generalize well. Reinforcement learning can be used in the setting of joint learning because you play out the whole game before you do the learning. This means that you can try to learn a classifier that will minimize the regret by making a proper local decision. Although, as far as I know, and can see from the paper, they didn&#x27;t train AlphaGo jointly over the game sequence.<p>But! Now they have a lot of data and they can repeat the process.<p>[1]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1502.02206" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1502.02206</a><p>[2]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;repository.upenn.edu&#x2F;cgi&#x2F;viewcontent.cgi?article=1162&amp;context=cis_papers" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;repository.upenn.edu&#x2F;cgi&#x2F;viewcontent.cgi?article=1162...</a></text></comment> |
22,499,692 | 22,499,614 | 1 | 2 | 22,496,533 | train | <story><title>The human body’s remarkable ability to adapt to the cold</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200226-how-to-survive-in-the-extreme-cold</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rmcpherson</author><text>The article mentions that plastic bags work better than emergency &quot;space&quot; blankets since they block moisture and thus evaporative cooling. A large industrial trash bag is part of my emergency supplies on cold backpacking trips. It&#x27;s cheap, weighs almost nothing, and provides protection from both radiative and convective cooling.</text></item><item><author>js2</author><text>Fellow runner here. For God&#x27;s sake man, carry an emergency blanket with you at least.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Emergency-Blanket&#x2F;s?k=Emergency+Blanket" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Emergency-Blanket&#x2F;s?k=Emergency+Blank...</a></text></item><item><author>LeifCarrotson</author><text>&gt; <i>A man in the cold is not necessarily a cold man,” says Tipton. “If you keep moving and you are reasonably insulated you will produce enough heat to stay warm. At maximum exercise, it is like you are running a 2kW fire. When you exercise reasonably hard you can do that in shorts and t-shirt in the cold...</i><p>I think about this a lot as a runner in the Midwest US. I regularly go out in 20-30F weather in wool socks, running shorts, a long-sleeve shell, and a hat and gloves. I add running tights and a bit of vaseline on my cheekbones and nose if it&#x27;s under 20. This last weekend it was 45 and blissfully sunny; it felt like spring, I left my hat and gloves at home and did my first shirtless workout of the season.<p>The article reminds me of the quote from Jack London&#x27;s &quot;To Build a Fire&quot; (full text at [1]):<p>&gt; <i>His idea of running until he arrived at the camp and the boys presented one problem: he lacked the endurance.</i><p>Guðlaugur did have the endurance! Good on him.<p>It does make me think, however, what would happen if I were to sprain an ankle or break a leg and be unable to run to generate heat. If I could only hobble, would I be able to, say, sit down to do sit-ups and push-ups until I could warm up and resume hobbling? Fortunately, I&#x27;m not far from from shore on a dark sea, my routes never take me further than about two miles from civilization.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;americanenglish.state.gov&#x2F;files&#x2F;ae&#x2F;resource_files&#x2F;to-build-a-fire.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;americanenglish.state.gov&#x2F;files&#x2F;ae&#x2F;resource_files&#x2F;to...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rconti</author><text>Funny, this Californian ran a half marathon in northern norway rain (during the summer, though, so it was about 45f). I inadvertently tested this plastic bag theory.<p>My luggage had been lost by the airlines, so I didn&#x27;t have my rain shell, just the most basic running clothes that I wisely chose to put in my carryon.<p>I ended up running the race in t-shirt and shorts covered by a free plastic poncho handed out by a restaurant. I quickly saturated my clothes from a combination of sweat and rain getting in, but it functioned like a wet suit in that it prevented the fresh rain and wind from cooling me evaporatively, while my body kept my wet clothes warm.<p>While it was a bit stuffy, I was afraid I&#x27;d get cold very quickly in the wind and rain if I took it off (which I did in the last few miles, and yes, it got cold quickly). As soon as I stopped running, even with a space blanket, even going indoors, my temperature plummeted EXTREMELY rapidly.<p>At 45f in the dry I&#x27;d typically use long sleeves (and I repeated this experiment this past weekend in Napa) although, again, it&#x27;s really just to keep you warm while you wait to start; once you&#x27;re running, it&#x27;s no problem to get by with only short sleeves and shorts.</text></comment> | <story><title>The human body’s remarkable ability to adapt to the cold</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200226-how-to-survive-in-the-extreme-cold</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rmcpherson</author><text>The article mentions that plastic bags work better than emergency &quot;space&quot; blankets since they block moisture and thus evaporative cooling. A large industrial trash bag is part of my emergency supplies on cold backpacking trips. It&#x27;s cheap, weighs almost nothing, and provides protection from both radiative and convective cooling.</text></item><item><author>js2</author><text>Fellow runner here. For God&#x27;s sake man, carry an emergency blanket with you at least.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Emergency-Blanket&#x2F;s?k=Emergency+Blanket" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Emergency-Blanket&#x2F;s?k=Emergency+Blank...</a></text></item><item><author>LeifCarrotson</author><text>&gt; <i>A man in the cold is not necessarily a cold man,” says Tipton. “If you keep moving and you are reasonably insulated you will produce enough heat to stay warm. At maximum exercise, it is like you are running a 2kW fire. When you exercise reasonably hard you can do that in shorts and t-shirt in the cold...</i><p>I think about this a lot as a runner in the Midwest US. I regularly go out in 20-30F weather in wool socks, running shorts, a long-sleeve shell, and a hat and gloves. I add running tights and a bit of vaseline on my cheekbones and nose if it&#x27;s under 20. This last weekend it was 45 and blissfully sunny; it felt like spring, I left my hat and gloves at home and did my first shirtless workout of the season.<p>The article reminds me of the quote from Jack London&#x27;s &quot;To Build a Fire&quot; (full text at [1]):<p>&gt; <i>His idea of running until he arrived at the camp and the boys presented one problem: he lacked the endurance.</i><p>Guðlaugur did have the endurance! Good on him.<p>It does make me think, however, what would happen if I were to sprain an ankle or break a leg and be unable to run to generate heat. If I could only hobble, would I be able to, say, sit down to do sit-ups and push-ups until I could warm up and resume hobbling? Fortunately, I&#x27;m not far from from shore on a dark sea, my routes never take me further than about two miles from civilization.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;americanenglish.state.gov&#x2F;files&#x2F;ae&#x2F;resource_files&#x2F;to-build-a-fire.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;americanenglish.state.gov&#x2F;files&#x2F;ae&#x2F;resource_files&#x2F;to...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jniedrauer</author><text>Related: I used ziploc bags as vapor barriers nested between two pairs of socks while on a multi-month winter hiking trip in trail shoes. It was extremely effective. I could posthole in deep snow all day in my running shoes and not get frostbite.</text></comment> |
36,294,850 | 36,294,523 | 1 | 3 | 36,294,244 | train | <story><title>Reddit.com appears to be having an outage</title><text>Errors<p>&gt;Something went wrong. Just don&#x27;t panic.<p>&gt; Sorry, we couldn&#x27;t load posts for this page. [RETRY]</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>skhr0680</author><text>A meme pointing out that u&#x2F;spez was a mod of r&#x2F;jailbait in 2008 was the top post on r&#x2F;all a few hours ago</text></item><item><author>r0bbbo</author><text>Lots of speculation on Twitter about this—a failed attempt to re-open all closed subreddits and instate their own moderators. I can&#x27;t imagine it&#x27;d be that, although I do enjoy the conspiracy, and more likely they were using the window of reduced traffic to make some larger changes and they went awry</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aw1621107</author><text>It&#x27;s worth noting that a very old user (&#x2F;u&#x2F;andrewsmith1986 IIRC) responded that at that time it was possible to add arbitrary users as mods without needing interaction&#x2F;feedback&#x2F;etc. from the user in question. If that was the case, then any user being a mod on any particular sub at that time doesn&#x27;t really mean much.<p>Obviously I can&#x27;t reference the comment in question right now, but I&#x27;ll try to remember to circle back and add a reference when(&#x2F;if?) Reddit comes back up.<p>Edit: &#x2F;u&#x2F;andrewsmith1986&#x27;s comment can be found at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;dankmemes&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1477psa&#x2F;all_3_are_going_to_lie_to_you&#x2F;jnuy0xf&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;dankmemes&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1477psa&#x2F;all_3_ar...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Reddit.com appears to be having an outage</title><text>Errors<p>&gt;Something went wrong. Just don&#x27;t panic.<p>&gt; Sorry, we couldn&#x27;t load posts for this page. [RETRY]</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>skhr0680</author><text>A meme pointing out that u&#x2F;spez was a mod of r&#x2F;jailbait in 2008 was the top post on r&#x2F;all a few hours ago</text></item><item><author>r0bbbo</author><text>Lots of speculation on Twitter about this—a failed attempt to re-open all closed subreddits and instate their own moderators. I can&#x27;t imagine it&#x27;d be that, although I do enjoy the conspiracy, and more likely they were using the window of reduced traffic to make some larger changes and they went awry</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trompetenaccoun</author><text>Doesn&#x27;t seem that unbelievable when you look into some of the other stuff he&#x27;s done. For example he secretly used his admin powers to edit user comments from users he didn&#x27;t like or who criticized him.</text></comment> |
22,056,470 | 22,056,441 | 1 | 2 | 22,055,479 | train | <story><title>Physician burnout widespread, especially among those midcareer, report says</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/physician-burnout-widespread-especially-among-those-midcareer-report-says-11579086008</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pkaye</author><text>Another solution is allow more doctors to be licensed so they don&#x27;t need to be as overworked.</text></item><item><author>xzel</author><text>Both of my parents are doctors. In high school I had real thoughts of going into medicine. They strongly discouraged me towards going into that field. In college I was pushed towards a MD&#x2F;PhD program by my lab&#x27;s PI. I thought about graduating at 28-30 and decided against it.<p>Jr year I interned at Amazon after that experience I knew I made the right decision. It is a really, really hard sell for this current generation to do another 5 years of school with residency and then specialization when you can quickly make 100k+ at a tech company. All of my friends who went into medical school are working hours like 6am-6pm or 8pm-8am. They get like two days off every two weeks. I think there are a bunch of possible solutions but the easiest one is making 5 year medical programs (2 years undergrad, 3 graduate) more common in the US.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zionic</author><text>The medical cartel will never allow that. They have a complete stranglehold on both licensing and education.</text></comment> | <story><title>Physician burnout widespread, especially among those midcareer, report says</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/physician-burnout-widespread-especially-among-those-midcareer-report-says-11579086008</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pkaye</author><text>Another solution is allow more doctors to be licensed so they don&#x27;t need to be as overworked.</text></item><item><author>xzel</author><text>Both of my parents are doctors. In high school I had real thoughts of going into medicine. They strongly discouraged me towards going into that field. In college I was pushed towards a MD&#x2F;PhD program by my lab&#x27;s PI. I thought about graduating at 28-30 and decided against it.<p>Jr year I interned at Amazon after that experience I knew I made the right decision. It is a really, really hard sell for this current generation to do another 5 years of school with residency and then specialization when you can quickly make 100k+ at a tech company. All of my friends who went into medical school are working hours like 6am-6pm or 8pm-8am. They get like two days off every two weeks. I think there are a bunch of possible solutions but the easiest one is making 5 year medical programs (2 years undergrad, 3 graduate) more common in the US.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sodosopa</author><text>Is that from lowering educational requirements or from lowering standards?</text></comment> |
38,501,469 | 38,498,671 | 1 | 3 | 38,498,090 | train | <story><title>No new boss at NSA until it answers questions on buying location, browsing data</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/02/nsa_held_hostage/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kevin_thibedeau</author><text>&gt; CUI is not classified information, as its name indicates, but it should, generally speaking, be protected with access controls and not widely disseminated. Wyden is clearly not a fan of this labeling, which he described as a &quot;made up designation with no basis in law.&quot; CUI was created by an executive order from President Obama in 2010.<p>This is the bigger problem. Classified documents have a mandatory declassification date that is only overridden in special circumstances. CUI can last indefinitely because it&#x27;s an extra-legal construction designed to stay outside the classification system.</text></comment> | <story><title>No new boss at NSA until it answers questions on buying location, browsing data</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/02/nsa_held_hostage/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sgift</author><text>&gt; This won&#x27;t guarantee answers, however. It does mean the NSA will either need to satisfy Wyden&#x27;s request, or Congress will need to hold a procedural vote to push through the confirmation.<p>So, the most probable outcome is that this will delay the process for a few weeks at most until congress just pushes it through. At least it shines a bit light on the whole charade. Not that it makes much of a difference for me, since I&#x27;m not an US citizen, but imho the easiest and best solution would be to stop private companies from gobbling up and selling private data. But that would mean going against companies and we can&#x27;t have that now, can we?</text></comment> |
10,413,950 | 10,413,893 | 1 | 3 | 10,413,570 | train | <story><title>Facebook Relay: An Evil And/Or Incompetent Attack on REST</title><url>https://www.pandastrike.com/posts/20151015-rest-vs-relay</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jtchang</author><text>This article is a load of bullshit. When Facebook announced Relay it made immediate sense to me. The problem of fetching the right data from the backend is a pain in the ass for anyone that has built more than a simple todo app.<p>To me it is like sending a SQL query to the backend and instead of getting rows back you get objects nested in a way you specify.<p>The problem when using REST &quot;correctly&quot; is that the way your objects interrelate is not necessarily the same way on the backend as it is on the UI. So you end up creating custom REST endpoints for complicated UI that does not map directly to how your objects are related in the database.<p>This article has no substance in how they want to solve it besides just spouting &quot;use REST correctly&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qyv</author><text>&gt; The problem when using REST &quot;correctly&quot; is that the way your objects interrelate is not necessarily the same way on the backend as it is on the UI. So you end up creating custom REST endpoints for complicated UI that does not map directly to how your objects are related in the database.<p>Not defending the article here, but I don&#x27;t see this as a problem at all. Yes, you API objects should not necessarily map directly to your persistence layer; that is a good thing. The problem domains of the UI and the persistence layer are completely different and should therefore be modelled differently. Your API mediates between the two, acting like a repository for your UI models and abstracting away the persistence layer completely.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook Relay: An Evil And/Or Incompetent Attack on REST</title><url>https://www.pandastrike.com/posts/20151015-rest-vs-relay</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jtchang</author><text>This article is a load of bullshit. When Facebook announced Relay it made immediate sense to me. The problem of fetching the right data from the backend is a pain in the ass for anyone that has built more than a simple todo app.<p>To me it is like sending a SQL query to the backend and instead of getting rows back you get objects nested in a way you specify.<p>The problem when using REST &quot;correctly&quot; is that the way your objects interrelate is not necessarily the same way on the backend as it is on the UI. So you end up creating custom REST endpoints for complicated UI that does not map directly to how your objects are related in the database.<p>This article has no substance in how they want to solve it besides just spouting &quot;use REST correctly&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wheaties</author><text>As much as I agree about your argument, that&#x27;s going to be a problem no matter how you do it. You will always run into an impedance mismatch. The problem is, which area should drive the solutions of another area? You&#x27;ll never get a &quot;good&quot; answer.</text></comment> |
23,661,702 | 23,661,649 | 1 | 2 | 23,661,305 | train | <story><title>Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS pre-installed</title><url>https://ubuntu.com/blog/dell-xps-13-developer-edition-with-ubuntu-20-04-lts-pre-installed-is-now-available</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hetspookjee</author><text>I seriously hope Dell finally found a way to make more solid laptops because half of the ~30 XPS laptops I&#x27;ve seen around me needed to be send back because of issues with the device freezing or with the display.<p>I started out in November last year with an XPS and after multiple freezes I requested an repair that would take my laptop out for multiple weeks. Having seen my previous company send multiple laptops back multiple times I didn&#x27;t have much trust in the certainty of resolution for my issues with the xps. My coworker at the time didn&#x27;t have any issues with her XPS but I gave up on Dell and switched to Mac. Sadly my coworkers XPS broke down after 2 months and it&#x27;s still being repaired after 5 weeks...<p>The specs of the XPS certainly are the best and the feel is great and I so hoped it would be a succes but it just sucks the experience is so bad. I often hear others still raving and reading about non problems so somehow I still think I might have seen a really bad batch enter the Netherlands over 2 years time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>conradfr</author><text>I was very interested because of the 16&#x2F;10 display and the general design but besides the Intel CPU being apparently not that great compared to current AMD chips (including thermals and battery life) and the 32GB not available in my country (and not upgradable) it seems there is currently a great lack of QA at Dell that is really off-putting.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS pre-installed</title><url>https://ubuntu.com/blog/dell-xps-13-developer-edition-with-ubuntu-20-04-lts-pre-installed-is-now-available</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hetspookjee</author><text>I seriously hope Dell finally found a way to make more solid laptops because half of the ~30 XPS laptops I&#x27;ve seen around me needed to be send back because of issues with the device freezing or with the display.<p>I started out in November last year with an XPS and after multiple freezes I requested an repair that would take my laptop out for multiple weeks. Having seen my previous company send multiple laptops back multiple times I didn&#x27;t have much trust in the certainty of resolution for my issues with the xps. My coworker at the time didn&#x27;t have any issues with her XPS but I gave up on Dell and switched to Mac. Sadly my coworkers XPS broke down after 2 months and it&#x27;s still being repaired after 5 weeks...<p>The specs of the XPS certainly are the best and the feel is great and I so hoped it would be a succes but it just sucks the experience is so bad. I often hear others still raving and reading about non problems so somehow I still think I might have seen a really bad batch enter the Netherlands over 2 years time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brianwawok</author><text>We have bought 7 or 8 for my startup in the past 4 years. Only one failure that happened at like month 3. Seems at least average reliability?<p>In the same time we have had 2 of 4 appple laptops need a new motherboard &#x2F; some drastic problem</text></comment> |
41,517,830 | 41,517,333 | 1 | 3 | 41,516,327 | train | <story><title>Be a thermostat, not a thermometer (2023)</title><url>https://larahogan.me/blog/be-a-thermostat-not-a-thermometer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deisteve</author><text>While the article has some good points about the importance of emotional intelligence and awareness, I&#x27;m skeptical about the idea that we can simply &quot;choose&quot; to be thermostats. Humans are complex and emotional creatures, and our emotions can be triggered by a multitude of factors beyond our control. The article&#x27;s suggestions, while well-intentioned, feel like a form of emotional labor that can be exhausting and unsustainable. Can we really expect people to be constantly &quot;on&quot; and aware of their emotional impact on others?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bfung</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m skeptical about the idea that we can simply &quot;choose&quot; to be thermostats.<p>Well, it’s like most things, it takes practice and time to be good at it if natural talent isn’t there.<p>Sure, things out of our control can trigger emotions, but one incredible ability of humans is to rationalize those emotions and act in more constructive ways than to immediate react back.<p>It can be quite liberating and fun to understand and process these things, much like understanding code and data structures in order to recombine them into things you want to achieve.</text></comment> | <story><title>Be a thermostat, not a thermometer (2023)</title><url>https://larahogan.me/blog/be-a-thermostat-not-a-thermometer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deisteve</author><text>While the article has some good points about the importance of emotional intelligence and awareness, I&#x27;m skeptical about the idea that we can simply &quot;choose&quot; to be thermostats. Humans are complex and emotional creatures, and our emotions can be triggered by a multitude of factors beyond our control. The article&#x27;s suggestions, while well-intentioned, feel like a form of emotional labor that can be exhausting and unsustainable. Can we really expect people to be constantly &quot;on&quot; and aware of their emotional impact on others?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>theultdev</author><text>It&#x27;s less emotional labor and less exhausting the more you are aware of your emotions.<p>You can recognize the stimuli and rationalize it before becoming upset.<p>The more you do it, the easier it becomes and the less stressed you become.</text></comment> |
39,548,468 | 39,548,580 | 1 | 3 | 39,545,676 | train | <story><title>Over 100k Infected Repos Found on GitHub</title><url>https://apiiro.com/blog/malicious-code-campaign-github-repo-confusion-attack/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dspillett</author><text>As well as this being our regular reminder to be careful what you pull from public repositories and other sources, and to verify your dependency trees, it raises another question:<p>If malware is massively prolific in public repos, how much does this affect LLMs and other automation tools that are trained using the contents of such resources? What are the chances that we&#x27;ll see copilot &amp; friends occasionally emit malware in response to coding questions that generate responses long enough for accidentally malicious parts to hide amongst? Simpler vulnerabilities such as simple injection vectors have often been seen already.</text></comment> | <story><title>Over 100k Infected Repos Found on GitHub</title><url>https://apiiro.com/blog/malicious-code-campaign-github-repo-confusion-attack/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>keepamovin</author><text>This sucks. Supply chain is such an issue.<p>Even tho we don&#x27;t currently target any npm releases, I make use of socket.dev to monitor my project by creating an npm release for it. But my project BrowserBox (lightweight virtualized web browser) only uses ~800 dependencies including all descendents, with only 19 top-level deps (cool your heels non-JavaScript folks, this is comparatively lightweight for a full stack boing).<p>I&#x27;m considering just snapshotting all 800 deps into a @browserbox namespace at npm. And then tracking any vulnerabilities discovered and patching the fixes.<p>It sounds crazy, but that&#x27;s where we are. At least that way I &quot;own&quot; all the dependencies and can guarantee (up to company security at least) that we don&#x27;t have supply chain vulns on the Node&#x2F;JS side.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;socket.dev" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;socket.dev</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;BrowserBox&#x2F;BrowserBox">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;BrowserBox&#x2F;BrowserBox</a></text></comment> |
21,832,498 | 21,832,170 | 1 | 2 | 21,831,951 | train | <story><title>Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client</title><url>http://yeokhengmeng.com/2019/12/building-a-new-win-3-1-app-in-2019-part-1-slack-client/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yeokm1</author><text>I built a Win 3.1 app during a company hackathon just for fun. Here, I detail learnings and process for how a new old app can be created with the aid of modern tools and hindsight of old technologies. And perhaps what lessons can it offer us today.<p>Without the benefit of modern libraries and languages, I had to read up and take care of many low level details, socket programming, HTTP, JSON parsing, UI design in code all under tight memory constraints. Nevertheless, it was a terrific lesson in understanding how things work under the hood.<p>I had to do things the old-fashioned way reading books and header files due to the dearth of online documentation. I can empathise with the plight of the programmers of yesteryears who had to code without the benefit of online search engines.<p>With this blog post, I hope you&#x27;ll find it interesting to learn about developing a modern-ancient app for Win 3.1.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;yeokm1&#x2F;w31slack" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;yeokm1&#x2F;w31slack</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;yeokm1&#x2F;http-to-https-proxy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;yeokm1&#x2F;http-to-https-proxy</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eb0la</author><text>I expected to be compiled in some kind of VM, not on an <i>actual</i> computer with Windows 3.11 :-).<p>I feel &quot;old-style&quot; documentation is much better than we have now. My most productive _python_ only work times were when I had only the python .hlp file and a _physical_ paper book.<p>What are your impressions?</text></comment> | <story><title>Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client</title><url>http://yeokhengmeng.com/2019/12/building-a-new-win-3-1-app-in-2019-part-1-slack-client/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yeokm1</author><text>I built a Win 3.1 app during a company hackathon just for fun. Here, I detail learnings and process for how a new old app can be created with the aid of modern tools and hindsight of old technologies. And perhaps what lessons can it offer us today.<p>Without the benefit of modern libraries and languages, I had to read up and take care of many low level details, socket programming, HTTP, JSON parsing, UI design in code all under tight memory constraints. Nevertheless, it was a terrific lesson in understanding how things work under the hood.<p>I had to do things the old-fashioned way reading books and header files due to the dearth of online documentation. I can empathise with the plight of the programmers of yesteryears who had to code without the benefit of online search engines.<p>With this blog post, I hope you&#x27;ll find it interesting to learn about developing a modern-ancient app for Win 3.1.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;yeokm1&#x2F;w31slack" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;yeokm1&#x2F;w31slack</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;yeokm1&#x2F;http-to-https-proxy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;yeokm1&#x2F;http-to-https-proxy</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dboreham</author><text>Prior to online search engines there were similar offline resources such as the MSDN CDs.</text></comment> |
24,170,847 | 24,170,382 | 1 | 3 | 24,168,902 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Anyone a social entrepreneur, i.e. placing social impact above profit?</title><text>For a few years now, there&#x27;s been a rising tide of activism and talk of capitalism 2.0 -- is anyone actually riding this wave, or is it mostly talk?<p>If anyone is actively working on (or with) a social enterprise, or if you know of any, I&#x27;d really appreciate it if you can loop me in!<p>Thank you in advance!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>kfreds</author><text>We started Mullvad VPN in 2009 for political reasons.<p>My cofounder Daniel and I viewed it as direct political action through entrepreneurship. In particular we wanted to protest Swedish surveillance legislation (FRA), which is partly why we chose a Swedish name for the service.<p>So far we have refused at least five serious offers of investment and acquisition, because we would rather retain control, even if that meant slow growth or obscurity.<p>As time went by the company grew and so did our capabilities to affect change. So far we have reinvested all profit in things we believe move the needle in the right direction. Some are direct donations, others are pure investments, others should probably be classified as &quot;high-risk bets that might make things better, but not necessarily for us&quot;.<p>The fact that we retain 100% ownership in the company enables us to engage in strategic behavior that is unavailable to competitors who accept outside investment. All VCs have investment horizons. If we invited one onboard they would eventually want us to sell, or commit to handing out dividends.<p>We&#x27;d rather build some kind of institution. Even better if we can obsolete VPN services as a concept. Then we could move on to other problems. It&#x27;s not like there&#x27;s a shortage. We have explored the idea of moving our shares to a foundation. Unfortunately that is an action that can&#x27;t be undone. It&#x27;s kind of the point, but by retaining the shares we retain maximum strategic flexibility.<p>Edit: I don&#x27;t identify as a social entrepreneur, but thought you might enjoy the story anyway, as we&#x27;re also sort of optimizing for impact. Whatever that means.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seibelj</author><text>I see you take Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash, any reason you don&#x27;t take Monero? Monero is the most private cryptocurrency in existence, and if you want maximum privacy you could use this so customers don&#x27;t need to mix their coins first.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Anyone a social entrepreneur, i.e. placing social impact above profit?</title><text>For a few years now, there&#x27;s been a rising tide of activism and talk of capitalism 2.0 -- is anyone actually riding this wave, or is it mostly talk?<p>If anyone is actively working on (or with) a social enterprise, or if you know of any, I&#x27;d really appreciate it if you can loop me in!<p>Thank you in advance!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>kfreds</author><text>We started Mullvad VPN in 2009 for political reasons.<p>My cofounder Daniel and I viewed it as direct political action through entrepreneurship. In particular we wanted to protest Swedish surveillance legislation (FRA), which is partly why we chose a Swedish name for the service.<p>So far we have refused at least five serious offers of investment and acquisition, because we would rather retain control, even if that meant slow growth or obscurity.<p>As time went by the company grew and so did our capabilities to affect change. So far we have reinvested all profit in things we believe move the needle in the right direction. Some are direct donations, others are pure investments, others should probably be classified as &quot;high-risk bets that might make things better, but not necessarily for us&quot;.<p>The fact that we retain 100% ownership in the company enables us to engage in strategic behavior that is unavailable to competitors who accept outside investment. All VCs have investment horizons. If we invited one onboard they would eventually want us to sell, or commit to handing out dividends.<p>We&#x27;d rather build some kind of institution. Even better if we can obsolete VPN services as a concept. Then we could move on to other problems. It&#x27;s not like there&#x27;s a shortage. We have explored the idea of moving our shares to a foundation. Unfortunately that is an action that can&#x27;t be undone. It&#x27;s kind of the point, but by retaining the shares we retain maximum strategic flexibility.<p>Edit: I don&#x27;t identify as a social entrepreneur, but thought you might enjoy the story anyway, as we&#x27;re also sort of optimizing for impact. Whatever that means.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sneak</author><text>As a customer, I didn’t know any of this explicitly, but a lot of it seems a little implicit from the copy on your site and the way you do business.<p>I also appreciate the support and visibility you provide for WireGuard.<p>Thanks for running the service, it’s great!</text></comment> |
7,311,494 | 7,311,213 | 1 | 2 | 7,310,768 | train | <story><title>To close or not to close – Void HTML elements</title><url>http://www.colorglare.com/2014/02/03/to-close-or-not-to-close.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bhaak</author><text>This. I wish they didn&#x27;t do a HTML5 but instead only did a XHTML5.<p>There are a lot of good ideas in HTML5 but why did there need to be _another_ way of parsing HTML-like documents?<p>Apparently because it&#x27;s the one HTML-parser to surpass and replace all other HTML-parsers out there. &lt;sarcasm&gt;Yeah, I totally believe that.&lt;&#x2F;sarcasm&gt;</text></item><item><author>jrockway</author><text>HTML loves its special cases. XML is overly complex, but at least your editor doesn&#x27;t need to know anything special about what document type you&#x27;re writing in order to indent it properly. Throw in HTML&#x27;s special cases, and now it needs to know that &lt;br&gt; is different from &lt;foo&gt;.<p>I guess since HTML is so common it doesn&#x27;t really matter, but really? We need 5 differnt types of markup, when one would have been fine?<p><a href="https://xkcd.com/927/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;927&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jeswin</author><text>I prefer HTML over XHTML, because it is easier to write. I don&#x27;t get the reasoning behind closing tags. LIs close before the next LI, or the UL. &lt;BR&gt; saves two characters over &lt;BR &#x2F;&gt; and causes no harm. XHTML feels like trying too hard to make the machine overlord happy.<p>It is plain wrong to make a standard easier for machine-parsing at the expense of humans who are typing it in.<p>EDIT: Another example. I write some HTML in a text-editor&#x2F;textarea and send it across to someone. If I missed a &lt;&#x2F;LI&gt;, should the parser reject it? If not, the standard should be accommodating enough so that this is valid.</text></comment> | <story><title>To close or not to close – Void HTML elements</title><url>http://www.colorglare.com/2014/02/03/to-close-or-not-to-close.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bhaak</author><text>This. I wish they didn&#x27;t do a HTML5 but instead only did a XHTML5.<p>There are a lot of good ideas in HTML5 but why did there need to be _another_ way of parsing HTML-like documents?<p>Apparently because it&#x27;s the one HTML-parser to surpass and replace all other HTML-parsers out there. &lt;sarcasm&gt;Yeah, I totally believe that.&lt;&#x2F;sarcasm&gt;</text></item><item><author>jrockway</author><text>HTML loves its special cases. XML is overly complex, but at least your editor doesn&#x27;t need to know anything special about what document type you&#x27;re writing in order to indent it properly. Throw in HTML&#x27;s special cases, and now it needs to know that &lt;br&gt; is different from &lt;foo&gt;.<p>I guess since HTML is so common it doesn&#x27;t really matter, but really? We need 5 differnt types of markup, when one would have been fine?<p><a href="https://xkcd.com/927/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;927&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>userbinator</author><text>I think it&#x27;s excellent that HTML5 completely specifies the parsing in a very clear, and most backwards-compatible way; judging by what the big browser vendors have been doing, they seem to be following it. (It also gives a nice starting point that makes it easier for anyone to write their own parser, and have it behave the same as any other mainstream browser - and having the possibility of making more browsers available, with the same standard parsing behaviour, is a good thing.)</text></comment> |
13,075,974 | 13,075,724 | 1 | 2 | 13,074,667 | train | <story><title>Zero Cost Abstractions</title><url>https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2016/11/30/zero-cost-abstractions</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mpweiher</author><text>&gt;The only proper way to reason about the cost of these<p>&gt;abstractions is to inspect the generated machine code.<p>To me, that&#x27;s a big problem with a lot of these Heldencompilers. They <i>may</i> generate really optimal machine code. Then again, they may not, and the difference between optimizations working well and not working well in runtime efficiency is so great (I&#x27;ve measured 1000x for Swift) that they might as well be completely different languages.<p>For reference, 1000x means that 1 second turns into 16 minutes, and having that type of difference in something that&#x27;s completely opaque is not a useful performance tool for me, because predictability is at least half the game in performance. So something like Knuth&#x27;s transformation systems that turn optimization into a dialogue between programmer, compiler and instrumentation seems like a better idea[1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.sjsu.edu&#x2F;~mak&#x2F;CS185C&#x2F;KnuthStructuredProgrammingGoTo.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.sjsu.edu&#x2F;~mak&#x2F;CS185C&#x2F;KnuthStructuredProgrammi...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Zero Cost Abstractions</title><url>https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2016/11/30/zero-cost-abstractions</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>etrain</author><text>This is pretty awesome. One key bit of information that the compiler has is that the coefficients are a constant array of length 12, which makes the loop unrolling possible and also means that the register magic is in play - it&#x27;s seriously awesome that the compiler does this.<p>That said, I&#x27;d expect something similar to happen with a well-written C program. Would equivalent abstractions in C++1{1,4,7} be &quot;costly&quot;?</text></comment> |
19,703,774 | 19,703,468 | 1 | 2 | 19,703,075 | train | <story><title>Malware researcher Marcus Hutchins, known as ’MalwareTech’, pleads guilty</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/19/malwaretech-legal-case-over/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jlgaddis</author><text>A few friends and myself chipped in some money for his legal defense, taking hin at his word when he said he was innocent.<p>Lesson learned, I suppose.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>meowface</author><text>I directly knew, from being in some IRC channels he and I frequented ages ago, that he was absolutely guilty of the charge. But I also knew (as far as I could tell) that he genuinely turned over a new leaf a while ago, left that life behind, and is trying to do good now. This is a pretty common story for whitehats; many of their hats weren&#x27;t quite so white in their pasts, whether people around them are aware or not.<p>People make mistakes, and people can change. Don&#x27;t feel too bad for contributing to his defense. He fucked up and is trying to make up for the damage he caused by sincerely helping people.</text></comment> | <story><title>Malware researcher Marcus Hutchins, known as ’MalwareTech’, pleads guilty</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/19/malwaretech-legal-case-over/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jlgaddis</author><text>A few friends and myself chipped in some money for his legal defense, taking hin at his word when he said he was innocent.<p>Lesson learned, I suppose.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mchannon</author><text>I wouldn&#x27;t hold it against him that he pled guilty. The government has unlimited resources, and he didn&#x27;t. Innocent people plead guilty every day.</text></comment> |
3,506,854 | 3,506,926 | 1 | 3 | 3,506,343 | train | <story><title>Judge: Fifth Amendment doesn't protect encrypted hard drives</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/judge-fifth-amendment-doesnt-protect-encrypted-hard-drives.ars</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simonsarris</author><text>I have question to those who know more about these things: Instead of hidden volumes, wouldn't it be better to have an "under duress" password?<p>The hard drive is encrypted and sensitive folders are identified by the user. When a password is given all contents are decrypted.<p>When a "under duress" password is given the sensitive folders are permanently wiped and all the (remaining, innoculous) contents are decrypted.<p>This stops them from finding hidden volumes or operating systems because there are none. Wouldn't that be a better model, and much harder to figure out?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tedunangst</author><text>Then they restore the hard drive from the cloned image they made before entering the password and ask you once more for the password. This time, with feeling.</text></comment> | <story><title>Judge: Fifth Amendment doesn't protect encrypted hard drives</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/judge-fifth-amendment-doesnt-protect-encrypted-hard-drives.ars</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simonsarris</author><text>I have question to those who know more about these things: Instead of hidden volumes, wouldn't it be better to have an "under duress" password?<p>The hard drive is encrypted and sensitive folders are identified by the user. When a password is given all contents are decrypted.<p>When a "under duress" password is given the sensitive folders are permanently wiped and all the (remaining, innoculous) contents are decrypted.<p>This stops them from finding hidden volumes or operating systems because there are none. Wouldn't that be a better model, and much harder to figure out?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mattiask</author><text>What you want to do is to have a password that decrypts the content to something innocently looking. If the encryption program has the feature to both "dual encrypt" and do an ordinary encryption it should be hard to prove anything :) Not sure how you go about doing that algorithmically though so it would resist reverse engineering the program</text></comment> |
2,803,015 | 2,802,708 | 1 | 2 | 2,802,480 | train | <story><title>Why Google cares if you use your real name</title><url>http://scripting.com/stories/2011/07/25/whyGoogleCaresIfYouUseYour.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Matt_Cutts</author><text>For a counter-point, this is what Robert Scoble wrote about his conversation with Vic Gundotra, Google's head of social: <a href="https://plus.google.com/111091089527727420853/posts/Fddn6rV8mBX" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/111091089527727420853/posts/Fddn6rV8...</a><p>"He [Vic] says that he is trying to make sure a positive tone gets set here. Like when a restaurant doesn't allow people who aren't wearing shirts to enter.<p>He says it isn't about real names. He says he isn't using his legal name here. He says, instead, it is about having common names and removing people who spell their names in weird ways, like using upside-down characters, or who are using obviously fake names, like "god" or worse.<p>....<p>He also says they are working on ways to handle pseudonyms, but that will be a while before the team can turn on those features (everyone is working hard on a raft of different things and can't just react overnight to community needs)."<p>Just wondering: can non-Google+ users follow the link above and read the post? I ask because Dave Winer said "I can't point to those articles because only people with Google-Plus accounts can read them, apparently." But I could pull up that Google+ post just fine, even with a non-logged-in Firefox or incognito Chrome window?</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Google cares if you use your real name</title><url>http://scripting.com/stories/2011/07/25/whyGoogleCaresIfYouUseYour.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jonknee</author><text>Dave's been for a long time the tech version of an old man screaming at kids to get off his lawn. Matching your "Real Name" to advertising partners isn't at all why Google wants your "Real Name". They want it because it makes for a better social network. Most Gmail users provide a "Real Name" so Google already had hundreds of millions and so far as I know, hasn't decided to hook up with my grocery to somehow advertise better to me. They do use interest data, but it's one-click to opt-out of (<a href="http://www.google.com/privacy/ads/" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/privacy/ads/</a>) and knowing someone's name adds little to being able to target ads.</text></comment> |
8,009,930 | 8,009,531 | 1 | 3 | 8,008,974 | train | <story><title>The Android Screen Fragmentation Myth</title><url>http://rustyshelf.org/2014/07/08/the-android-screen-fragmentation-myth</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>joeblau</author><text>As a developer, layout and screen size is not the main problem with Android. To be honest, Android isn&#x27;t even the problem. It&#x27;s hardware that Android is built on that is the problem. If a handset is broken down into all of it&#x27;s sensors [Speaker, Camera, Light Sensor, Microphone, Compass, Accelerometer, Clock, NFC, GPS, Screen, BLE, Wifi, Altimeter, Speedometer, CPU] that&#x27;s where the fragmentation problem is. It&#x27;s hard to say which devices contain certain sensors (CPU, Screen, Camera, Mic, and Speakers are pretty standard). Of the devices that have most of those sensors, it&#x27;s hard to say say which devices have those sensors working correctly.<p>I attended a Facebook&#x2F;Parse hackathon where FB detailed issues about a certain bug in specific CPU&#x27;s with respect to a C++ based photo processing library. Certain Android phones would randomly crash. There is also the infamous compass video [1] where multiple devices all with different hardware report different readings. As a developer, the Android Emulator makes me think I&#x27;m going to have a consistent user experience, but based on hardware, I may not.<p>In my personal experience, I built this game (<a href="http://joeblau.com/orb./" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;joeblau.com&#x2F;orb.&#x2F;</a>) which runs on iOS and Android and I noticed a crazy bug where it would only crash on S4&#x27;s from Sprint, not from Verizon or AT&amp;T. I re-worked some code to get the application working eventually, but the fact that something would only break on a specific carrier&#x27;s version of the hardware was crazy to me. The problem is not Android; Android as an OS is actually very good. The problem is HTC, Samsung, Motorola and all of the other hardware manufacturers that build the handsets. Thankfully Google is doing what it can to address the hardware issue by announcing their Android One program, but that hurts other hardware competitors.<p>[1] - <a href="https://vine.co/v/MgWLMmmwUQQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vine.co&#x2F;v&#x2F;MgWLMmmwUQQ</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Android Screen Fragmentation Myth</title><url>http://rustyshelf.org/2014/07/08/the-android-screen-fragmentation-myth</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>smackfu</author><text>At the same time, Apple is strongly pushing developers to not use pixel perfect layouts anymore that are dependent on particular screen sizes, and to use auto layout everywhere. If you follow Apple&#x27;s iOS 8 guidance, you really shouldn&#x27;t have any problem dealing with even the original graph of &quot;terrible&quot; fragmentation.<p>Which prompts the question whether it was really that bad after all, or just a gut reaction to something that was different.</text></comment> |
5,395,692 | 5,395,928 | 1 | 3 | 5,394,494 | train | <story><title>Checkboxes that kill your product</title><url>http://limi.net/checkboxes-that-kill</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>agwa</author><text>&#62; Shouldn’t you be able to restrict how much disk space is being used? It turns out, we know that you are low on disk space, and will reduce our usage accordingly. It’s pretty likely that Firefox keeps better track of this than humans do.<p>No. Here's a case where Firefox will definitely <i>not</i> do a better job: an NFS-based computer lab environment where users have individual quotas - the statfs() syscall (i.e. what the `df` command uses) returns you the amount of disk space available to <i>everyone</i>, which is enormous. Firefox then attempts to use that space, and quickly exhausts the user's quota. This is a real-life scenario and the current solution among users is to set the cache size to 0 - the Internet connection is damn fast anyways and they'd rather use their space to store actual files.<p>For the love of god, what is wrong with having an Advanced options panel? The author's stated goal is "to design software that can be used by everyone " but when you remove options like this, you make your product not usable by some people unless they do additional research to find the hidden about:config option or install some add-on.<p>The bug for this is <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=851698" rel="nofollow">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=851698</a> - if you think this is a bad idea I encourage you to leave a comment there (but be nice). Mozilla may otherwise not realize that this is such a bad, unpopular idea.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>I think you're dragging the article to a conclusion it didn't try to make. For the love of god, he didn't say that software can't have "Advanced" options panels. He pointed out a series of specific options that were either ill-advised, overly accessible, or so unusable as to be hardly better than a properties file.<p>Firefox really does have an easily-reached config panel with "Use SSL 3.0" and "Use TLS 1.0" on it. What is the situation in which any user at your lab would know which of those options is sensible? Neither of them are the current version of TLS. Both of them have cryptographic flaws. And both are extremely widespread.<p>Firefox really does have a top-level config panel with a checkbox that disables automatic image loading. It's not even an "advanced" option.<p>I don't think your comment really engages with the article. What <i>should</i> the top-level options for a browser be?</text></comment> | <story><title>Checkboxes that kill your product</title><url>http://limi.net/checkboxes-that-kill</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>agwa</author><text>&#62; Shouldn’t you be able to restrict how much disk space is being used? It turns out, we know that you are low on disk space, and will reduce our usage accordingly. It’s pretty likely that Firefox keeps better track of this than humans do.<p>No. Here's a case where Firefox will definitely <i>not</i> do a better job: an NFS-based computer lab environment where users have individual quotas - the statfs() syscall (i.e. what the `df` command uses) returns you the amount of disk space available to <i>everyone</i>, which is enormous. Firefox then attempts to use that space, and quickly exhausts the user's quota. This is a real-life scenario and the current solution among users is to set the cache size to 0 - the Internet connection is damn fast anyways and they'd rather use their space to store actual files.<p>For the love of god, what is wrong with having an Advanced options panel? The author's stated goal is "to design software that can be used by everyone " but when you remove options like this, you make your product not usable by some people unless they do additional research to find the hidden about:config option or install some add-on.<p>The bug for this is <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=851698" rel="nofollow">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=851698</a> - if you think this is a bad idea I encourage you to leave a comment there (but be nice). Mozilla may otherwise not realize that this is such a bad, unpopular idea.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JoshTriplett</author><text>No, don't solicit spam for the bug that wants to remove the options; instead, go file a bug saying that Firefox should check the user's quota in addition to statfs. Easily added, and then Firefox becomes that much more automatic.</text></comment> |
10,241,273 | 10,241,453 | 1 | 2 | 10,240,957 | train | <story><title>Subresource Integrity</title><url>http://githubengineering.com/subresource-integrity/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bsimpson</author><text>What about caching? If the HTML and the JS are both updated, but the browser receives the new version of one and the old version of another, this will break your page. (Since you&#x27;d now have to update the integrity attribute for every JS change, it means you run this risk every time you update your JS.)<p>To be fair, running a mismatched version of the JS could already break things if the changes are big enough, but for minor updates, the user often won&#x27;t notice the difference. Now, these cases are hard failures. That&#x27;s not necessarily a bad thing, but I wonder if there&#x27;s a path here to tell the browser &quot;you have an old version of the content; go get the new version.&quot;<p>CDNs and invalidations can be tricky, and it sounds like this could lead to things being broken more often if you&#x27;re caught in the window where one piece updates before the other.</text></comment> | <story><title>Subresource Integrity</title><url>http://githubengineering.com/subresource-integrity/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>diafygi</author><text>Would love for the next generation of SRI to include signatures as an option (e.g. integrity=&quot;ed25519-&lt;public_key&gt;&quot;).<p>Hashes means you have to specify an exact version, so there&#x27;s not an easy way to add integrity to things like Google&#x27;s CDN for jQuery that has latest minor version update links for the major API versions of jQuery.<p>Of course, that means also adding a signature to the payload response (maybe an &quot;Integrity: &lt;hash&gt;-&lt;sig&gt;&quot; header?). So it&#x27;s understandable why signatures weren&#x27;t in scope for the first release.</text></comment> |
2,724,946 | 2,724,751 | 1 | 3 | 2,724,212 | train | <story><title>Why Fair Bosses Fall Behind</title><url>http://hbr.org/2011/07/why-fair-bosses-fall-behind/ar/1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>j_baker</author><text>The thing about #1 is that they probably <i>aren't</i> trying to help the company succeed. It's more likely that they're trying to take the company for a ride to meet their own ends. Any success they have is only going to be in the short term and only in the interests of posturing. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates can get away with this because their companies by and large <i>are</i> theirs.<p>While #2 isn't a very effective leader, their heart is usually at least in the right place. Plus, given the right people, it's amazing what you can get accomplished by simply leaving them alone and letting them do their job.<p>But then again, I'm of the opinion that we focus too much on the leadership and not enough on the people. Maybe I'm just naive. Great leaders are like surfers riding a big wave. It's easy to get distracted by the surfer and forget that the wave is really the important part.</text></item><item><author>axiom</author><text>I've had 3 kinds of bosses:<p>1. Hardass who pushes everyone to the limit, tends to micro-manage, frequently overrules consensus with his own views.<p>2. Total pushover who agrees with everything. Constantly seeks consensus and rule by democracy, never pushes anyone and just tries to be everyone's friend.<p>3. Somewhere in between the two above. Seeks consensus and lets people make mistakes in order to help them learn. Sometimes overrules people in order to make sure things don't get too far off track. Doesn't try to be people's friend, but is sensitive to people's needs and gives a reasonable amount of leeway.<p>The somewhat counter-intuitive thing is that #2 is by far and away the worst kind of boss to have. It's fun for about a month, and then everything falls apart. The teams never seems to get anything done. All the best people eventually leave because there is never any consequence to incompetence and so tons of people just default to being lazy (think: working in government.)<p>Although #1 is tough and often unpleasant, he tends to get things done (albeit with higher turnover and more grumbling) and most often at least ensures that the company succeeds (think guys like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, who are notorious for being insanely demanding and insensitive.)<p>Lastly, it's <i>insanely</i> hard to hit the right balance between #1 and #2. Really it's damn near impossible and requires some kind of magic innate talent to be able to inspire and push people to work hard without crushing their spirits.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jerf</author><text>"Great leaders are like surfers riding a big wave. It's easy to get distracted by the surfer and forget that the wave is really the important part."<p>I used to think that. I've recanted. I'm still not 100% sure why leaders are so important, but the evidence I've personally seen over the years is pretty clear.<p>My best guesses are some combination of:<p>1. It is true that the performance of a team is given an upper bound by both the quality of the team and the quality of the leadership, but people tend to badly underestimate how much quality and talent there is in the world. The average person is above average in some significant way. I would agree world-class results require a world-class team, but I think in general, for a given "random" [1] selection of team and task, it's a rare time when the core problem is a true lack of talent. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure it happens, but I've never personally witnessed it in 15 years. Whereas, I've personally witnessed many teams failing to live up to their obvious potential because of bad leadership. So, in a sort of mathematical sense it is true that neither leadership nor team talent is more important, in practice, leadership is the thing for which demand is much higher than supply, not team talent.<p>2. It is true the team is who provides the day-to-day progress on a problem, but it's generally the leadership making a lot of little decisions that add up over time; little words that affect morale, small key decisions that affect efficiency by a few percent, that little bit of vision-from-experience that avoids blowing a few days on a bad path, the careful selection of problems to personally take on. It adds up to a lot, and especially when the leadership is blowing these little calls consistently, no team is good enough to undo the damage... especially when the leadership actively prevents it!<p>I do agree that it's important not to fetishize leadership and never to forget the team gets much credit too, but over the years my estimation of the importance of true leadership has been going consistently up, not down.<p>[1]: By "random" I don't literally mean five people uniformly randomly chosen from everybody on planet Earth, but something more like, go out to a random company and get a random team working on some problem, and it is unlikely that the most pressing problem the team has is a raw lack of talent to complete the assigned task. Again, totally non-zero of course.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Fair Bosses Fall Behind</title><url>http://hbr.org/2011/07/why-fair-bosses-fall-behind/ar/1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>j_baker</author><text>The thing about #1 is that they probably <i>aren't</i> trying to help the company succeed. It's more likely that they're trying to take the company for a ride to meet their own ends. Any success they have is only going to be in the short term and only in the interests of posturing. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates can get away with this because their companies by and large <i>are</i> theirs.<p>While #2 isn't a very effective leader, their heart is usually at least in the right place. Plus, given the right people, it's amazing what you can get accomplished by simply leaving them alone and letting them do their job.<p>But then again, I'm of the opinion that we focus too much on the leadership and not enough on the people. Maybe I'm just naive. Great leaders are like surfers riding a big wave. It's easy to get distracted by the surfer and forget that the wave is really the important part.</text></item><item><author>axiom</author><text>I've had 3 kinds of bosses:<p>1. Hardass who pushes everyone to the limit, tends to micro-manage, frequently overrules consensus with his own views.<p>2. Total pushover who agrees with everything. Constantly seeks consensus and rule by democracy, never pushes anyone and just tries to be everyone's friend.<p>3. Somewhere in between the two above. Seeks consensus and lets people make mistakes in order to help them learn. Sometimes overrules people in order to make sure things don't get too far off track. Doesn't try to be people's friend, but is sensitive to people's needs and gives a reasonable amount of leeway.<p>The somewhat counter-intuitive thing is that #2 is by far and away the worst kind of boss to have. It's fun for about a month, and then everything falls apart. The teams never seems to get anything done. All the best people eventually leave because there is never any consequence to incompetence and so tons of people just default to being lazy (think: working in government.)<p>Although #1 is tough and often unpleasant, he tends to get things done (albeit with higher turnover and more grumbling) and most often at least ensures that the company succeeds (think guys like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, who are notorious for being insanely demanding and insensitive.)<p>Lastly, it's <i>insanely</i> hard to hit the right balance between #1 and #2. Really it's damn near impossible and requires some kind of magic innate talent to be able to inspire and push people to work hard without crushing their spirits.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>larsberg</author><text>&#62; their heart is usually at least in the right place<p>I've normally seen that people in role #2 are just not prepared for the hard conversations that come with being a manager. Sometimes, you have to call people out on poor or below-potential performance. If you do, I've found that most people will either pick up the pace or quit. If you don't, well... things get bad.<p>The unfortunate chaps in role #2 leave poor performers around to poison the team (most coworkers slack off when they see somebody else slacking, particularly if you have the corporate-standard opaque compensation schemes), avoiding dealing with negative actions until either somebody else comes around and fixes it or the team is killed. I was in this situation once, where a string of #2s had been managing a decently-sized development team I was merging with and it took several months for me to sort through the people, clean house, and build a functional team again.<p>You know the worst part? There were a few fantastic people who had utterly languished due to being surrounded by mediocrity. On the other hand, that was also the <i>best</i> part, because the "let's talk about how we're going to get you working on bigger and better things" talk is much more enjoyable than the, "concretely, we expect you to be doing X, Y, and Z at your level, none of which you are" talk.<p>Type #2 managers leave a trail of broken teams and wasted potential in their wake. I respect few things as well as working for an upper-manager who can pick up on that behavior and nip it in the bud. At least, I think I would, if I'd ever seen it :-)</text></comment> |
1,121,531 | 1,121,387 | 1 | 2 | 1,120,820 | train | <story><title>The $5 Guerrilla User Test</title><url>http://blog.bumblebeelabs.com/the-5-guerrilla-user-test/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AFerenci</author><text>I experienced the same effectiveness (95%-99%) of getting the "guy/gal reading the newspaper" to volunteer for the study first hand. Although, this was more focused in cafe environments.<p>Our team was trying to get beta users signed up for a location-based iphone app in the Boston/Cambridge area and most people reading newspapers in coffee shops or cafes are frequently willing participants. I even noticed that 7/10 times these people will engage with you in conversation regarding feedback/UX improvements etc.<p>In parallel with Rodyancy's experience, some of the user feedback was arbitrary (one guy started comparing our application to time/space continuum theories...etc) but nonetheless, I would advocate approaching the newspaper guy/gal as they are already on the knowledge quest and usually are more open-minded.<p>Oh, and avoid the book/textbook readers. These people are either really engaged in novel (imagine tapping on someone's shoulder during a movie) or are stressed-out students.</text></comment> | <story><title>The $5 Guerrilla User Test</title><url>http://blog.bumblebeelabs.com/the-5-guerrilla-user-test/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rodyancy</author><text>I've done the sober equivalent to this (coffee shops). Not only did it point out some usability issues, like, "oh, he thinks THAT'S a button," it also proved to be a great way to generate ideas. Most of the input we received was dead wrong, but we had to think about why it was wrong, and that got us thinking in ways we hadn't thought before, which led to good ideas. I suspect the drunken version would be more fun and just as useful, assuming you are producing a consumer product. As for B2B, if your domain is specific, this might not be the most valuable use of your time.</text></comment> |
18,003,608 | 18,003,269 | 1 | 2 | 18,000,698 | train | <story><title>Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off</title><url>https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFy+Hv9O5citAawS+mVZO+ywCKd9NQ2wxUmGsz9ZJzqgJQ@mail.gmail.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ggreer</author><text>I totally agree with this. I actually quit my job at Red Hat because of the culture of non-criticism. I kept getting in trouble for pushing back against stupid decisions, even though I never insulted a single person.<p>For example: When the design team added 10MB of web fonts to the app, I said something like, &quot;Users don&#x27;t care whether the font is Open Sans or Arial. They care whether things load quickly and don&#x27;t re-flow. This is a bad decision.&quot; I got nothing but condemnation for pointing this out. Today, every user downloads several megabytes of web fonts which have broken kerning and hinting on some platforms.[1]<p>It was a similar story when people wanted to change our build artifact to be based on RHEL instead of Alpine Linux.[2] This would have bloated the build artifact from 11MB to 200MB, introduced a host of security concerns, and drastically increased CI build times. In a meeting I said, &quot;This decision seems totally braindead.&quot; I was immediately taken aside and given a stern talking-to by my manager. If that&#x27;s not a braindead decision, then I don&#x27;t know what is.<p>I also got in trouble for this comment[3] pointing out flaws in PatternFly. I was told that some of my coworkers felt insulted by my comment, and that I should be more civil and tactful. Who was insulted? What parts of the comment were insulting? I never got answers to those questions.<p>Encouraging civility sounds like a good thing, but in my experience the people leading the charge are doing it to suppress criticism.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;openshift&#x2F;console&#x2F;pull&#x2F;3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;openshift&#x2F;console&#x2F;pull&#x2F;3</a> My bullet point about reducing the build artifact from 11.3MB to 7.6MB was incorrect. It actually reduced the build artifact from 40MB to 7.6MB.<p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;openshift&#x2F;console&#x2F;pull&#x2F;12" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;openshift&#x2F;console&#x2F;pull&#x2F;12</a><p>3. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17163740" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17163740</a></text></item><item><author>coffeemug</author><text>Actually, it isn&#x27;t. For example in today&#x27;s environment when someone suggests something stupid, it is no longer acceptable to say &quot;this seems stupid to me&quot; because it might hurt someone&#x27;s feelings. So instead you walk it back and say things diplomatically (which is a tiny form of a white lie). Then people reply to your diplomatic statement with another diplomatic statement, and pretty soon nobody is saying the thing they want to be saying at all.<p>Have you been to a corporate meeting? It feels like soul death for precisely this reason -- <i>nobody is saying the thing they want to be saying at all</i>.<p>Tech&#x2F;open-source was one of very few domains where people <i>did</i> say the thing they wanted to say. The culture selected for people who want to interact that way, and then encouraged that form of interaction.<p>Now that&#x27;s dead. Codes of conduct, inclusion, and caring about people&#x27;s feelings are lofty ideals, but if people can&#x27;t say &quot;it&#x27;s a stupid idea&quot; when they think &quot;it&#x27;s a stupid idea&quot; the whole thing will disintegrate into a dilbertesque nightmare along with the rest of the corporate America.</text></item><item><author>grzm</author><text>&gt; <i>”I&#x27;ll take an asshole over a pushover any day“</i><p>This is a false dichotomy. There’s no need to be an asshole to not be a pushover.</text></item><item><author>coffeemug</author><text>Same. Linus always called a spade a spade, and I always respected that. In a culture where the Overton window has shrunk considerably and people habitually hide their thoughts, I think this kind of attitude is <i>more</i> important, not less. People give up ability to say certain things in the name of inclusion, and then lose ability to think those things in the first place.<p>I&#x27;ll take an asshole over a pushover any day, and most of us are pushovers.</text></item><item><author>serf</author><text>I&#x27;m probably going to be alone in saying so, but I always enjoyed Linus and his attitude.<p>(to me) it made him appear honest and dedicated to (his own) goals, and I always felt like that was respectable. (mostly) whenever he was proven technically wrong about how to do something he would concede to the technically better solution, and if he didn&#x27;t do so he gave reasons for his conclusion.<p>in other words : his technical brilliance, in my own opinion, was a far larger boon than the problems stemming from having to deal with his knife-like personality.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jogjayr</author><text>Effectively critiquing ideas without hurting feelings is a powerful skill, hard to master, and shouldn&#x27;t be written off.<p>IME there are only 2 reliable ways to get people to do what you want: you have authority to tell them to do it, or you can convince them that it&#x27;s the best course of action.<p>People often treat their ideas like their children - and calling someone&#x27;s child &quot;stupid&quot;, or &quot;braindead&quot; isn&#x27;t going to make you popular with them. Good luck convincing them it&#x27;s a bad idea now - it&#x27;s a matter of pride, and they&#x27;ll obstruct you every way they can. Is this rational? No - but it&#x27;s a reality of working with people, and denying it is futile. I&#x27;ve done it myself in the past, without being aware of my biases, and even then I&#x27;ll probably do it again in future.<p>If you&#x27;re actually working with people (and those people&#x27;s bosses) who can&#x27;t be reasoned with using facts and data, presented without calling the idea names, then the rational thing to do (which, it seems, you did) is to find a different team or company. Either you&#x27;re wrong or they are, and time will prove someone right.<p>&gt; Who was insulted? What parts of the comment were insulting?<p>I read the comment and my opinion is &quot;It&#x27;s a CSS framework! How can it take over a year to make?!&quot; and &quot;The speed and quality of development leaves much to be desired. For example: It took them five months to merge a TTY component. We wrote a similar component in two days.&quot; might have been the insulting parts.<p>Those comments could be construed as calling those devs slow and incompetent. I don&#x27;t know if that was your actual meaning, but it&#x27;s hard for me to read it any other way - sorry :-( maybe I&#x27;m missing some context.<p>Sorry also if any of what I said seemed rude. It took me years of insulting people to learn this stuff, and I&#x27;m still nowhere near perfect :-), but I thought I should share - it&#x27;s possible I&#x27;m wrong. I also understand if you feel differently.<p>P.S. I checked out Floobits and it looks super-cool. I&#x27;m looking forward to trying it out sometime.</text></comment> | <story><title>Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off</title><url>https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFy+Hv9O5citAawS+mVZO+ywCKd9NQ2wxUmGsz9ZJzqgJQ@mail.gmail.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ggreer</author><text>I totally agree with this. I actually quit my job at Red Hat because of the culture of non-criticism. I kept getting in trouble for pushing back against stupid decisions, even though I never insulted a single person.<p>For example: When the design team added 10MB of web fonts to the app, I said something like, &quot;Users don&#x27;t care whether the font is Open Sans or Arial. They care whether things load quickly and don&#x27;t re-flow. This is a bad decision.&quot; I got nothing but condemnation for pointing this out. Today, every user downloads several megabytes of web fonts which have broken kerning and hinting on some platforms.[1]<p>It was a similar story when people wanted to change our build artifact to be based on RHEL instead of Alpine Linux.[2] This would have bloated the build artifact from 11MB to 200MB, introduced a host of security concerns, and drastically increased CI build times. In a meeting I said, &quot;This decision seems totally braindead.&quot; I was immediately taken aside and given a stern talking-to by my manager. If that&#x27;s not a braindead decision, then I don&#x27;t know what is.<p>I also got in trouble for this comment[3] pointing out flaws in PatternFly. I was told that some of my coworkers felt insulted by my comment, and that I should be more civil and tactful. Who was insulted? What parts of the comment were insulting? I never got answers to those questions.<p>Encouraging civility sounds like a good thing, but in my experience the people leading the charge are doing it to suppress criticism.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;openshift&#x2F;console&#x2F;pull&#x2F;3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;openshift&#x2F;console&#x2F;pull&#x2F;3</a> My bullet point about reducing the build artifact from 11.3MB to 7.6MB was incorrect. It actually reduced the build artifact from 40MB to 7.6MB.<p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;openshift&#x2F;console&#x2F;pull&#x2F;12" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;openshift&#x2F;console&#x2F;pull&#x2F;12</a><p>3. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17163740" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17163740</a></text></item><item><author>coffeemug</author><text>Actually, it isn&#x27;t. For example in today&#x27;s environment when someone suggests something stupid, it is no longer acceptable to say &quot;this seems stupid to me&quot; because it might hurt someone&#x27;s feelings. So instead you walk it back and say things diplomatically (which is a tiny form of a white lie). Then people reply to your diplomatic statement with another diplomatic statement, and pretty soon nobody is saying the thing they want to be saying at all.<p>Have you been to a corporate meeting? It feels like soul death for precisely this reason -- <i>nobody is saying the thing they want to be saying at all</i>.<p>Tech&#x2F;open-source was one of very few domains where people <i>did</i> say the thing they wanted to say. The culture selected for people who want to interact that way, and then encouraged that form of interaction.<p>Now that&#x27;s dead. Codes of conduct, inclusion, and caring about people&#x27;s feelings are lofty ideals, but if people can&#x27;t say &quot;it&#x27;s a stupid idea&quot; when they think &quot;it&#x27;s a stupid idea&quot; the whole thing will disintegrate into a dilbertesque nightmare along with the rest of the corporate America.</text></item><item><author>grzm</author><text>&gt; <i>”I&#x27;ll take an asshole over a pushover any day“</i><p>This is a false dichotomy. There’s no need to be an asshole to not be a pushover.</text></item><item><author>coffeemug</author><text>Same. Linus always called a spade a spade, and I always respected that. In a culture where the Overton window has shrunk considerably and people habitually hide their thoughts, I think this kind of attitude is <i>more</i> important, not less. People give up ability to say certain things in the name of inclusion, and then lose ability to think those things in the first place.<p>I&#x27;ll take an asshole over a pushover any day, and most of us are pushovers.</text></item><item><author>serf</author><text>I&#x27;m probably going to be alone in saying so, but I always enjoyed Linus and his attitude.<p>(to me) it made him appear honest and dedicated to (his own) goals, and I always felt like that was respectable. (mostly) whenever he was proven technically wrong about how to do something he would concede to the technically better solution, and if he didn&#x27;t do so he gave reasons for his conclusion.<p>in other words : his technical brilliance, in my own opinion, was a far larger boon than the problems stemming from having to deal with his knife-like personality.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>noufalibrahim</author><text>A related point that occurred to me about the convenant which Torvalds has included is the &quot;Scope&quot; section. It looks like it leaves most of the details to the project maintainer which I suppose is a good thing. However, an explicit statement about where the whole thing doesn&#x27;t apply would be useful.<p>If a person has a political or other opinion and is very strident about it in every sphere (twitter, personal blog, facebook etc.) outside of the project, the convenant should explicitly allow this. That way, it sounds more like a &quot;this is our house and these are the rules you should follow if you want to enter&quot; vs. &quot;you should be a certain kind of person in all aspects of your life to be allowed in here&quot;. The latter has too much overreach IMHO.</text></comment> |
25,468,476 | 25,466,900 | 1 | 2 | 25,466,561 | train | <story><title>When important components become scarce: CPUs, GPUs</title><url>https://www.igorslab.de/en/if-important-components-will-become-shortage-cpus-gpus-console-chips-and-other-components-as-complex-handle-object/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>coward8675309</author><text>The paranoid conspiratorial tone of TFA is a symptom of what&#x27;s wrong with the Internet and therefore humanity:<p>&gt; The big brands that are ultimately at stake (Sony, Microsoft, NVIDIA, AMD) all talk about “demand exceeding supply”. Oh, really? [New paragraph.] It is a rather evasive explanation, without any communication about the actual state of their supply and production lines…<p>The dark secret? Not only is demand GREATER THAN supply, but supply is — wait for it! — LESS THAN demand! OMG, they&#x27;ve been covering this up the whole time! And not only that, current events and world affairs are contributing to this situation! When will the sheeple wake up?!</text></comment> | <story><title>When important components become scarce: CPUs, GPUs</title><url>https://www.igorslab.de/en/if-important-components-will-become-shortage-cpus-gpus-console-chips-and-other-components-as-complex-handle-object/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>est31</author><text>Really interesting:<p>&gt; With the exception of the current RTX 3000 (Samsung), all market launches of the year 2020 rely on the 7-nm chips from TSMC. ARM-SoC manufacturers such as Qualcomm also use 7 nm and have only recently moved capacity from Samsung to TSMC. TSMC is currently pretty much alone in the market with this technology and the production lines are therefore working at full capacity. A sudden increase in production is therefore not possible.<p>&gt; A special insulating film, the so-called ABF substrate (Ajinomoto Build-up Film), which is indispensable for etching chips in 7 and 5 nm, has also become increasingly scarce and scarce in recent months. The prices for this film are said to have risen by 40% and the waiting time is said to have increased to up to 4 months.</text></comment> |
9,248,767 | 9,248,067 | 1 | 2 | 9,247,978 | train | <story><title>The decline in unionization has fed the rise in incomes at the top</title><url>http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2015/03/jaumotte.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Frondo</author><text>Before anyone brings up the &quot;I want to be paid for my skill, not my seniority,&quot; I&#x27;d just like to point out:<p>If you formed a union at your workplace, <i>you and your colleagues</i> would get to decide the rules like that.<p>And a few other things I think are worth saying...<p>A union is a legal framework for the employees (who have no ownership stake in the business, despite putting their time and energy into the business day after day) to recast some of the power imbalance in their favor; since many of us here are employees, and not owners, we <i>should</i> be looking out for our interests.<p>Aaand...a union isn&#x27;t a &quot;let&#x27;s all be lazy and wreck businesses&quot; framework; that&#x27;s a bit of nonsensical propaganda that we&#x27;ve all swum in for the last few decades.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>frostmatthew</author><text>&gt; nonsensical propaganda that we&#x27;ve all swum in for the last few decades<p>It doesn&#x27;t sound like you have any actual first-hand experience with unions. I&#x27;ll admit unions played a <i>significant</i> role in improving the workplace for everyone, and we should all be thankful for their contributions 50+ years ago. But they are now primarily self-serving organizations that exist for the benefit of the union itself.<p>Before becoming a developer I worked in hotels (as a banquet manager), let me give you some examples of the types of things unions now fight for:<p>* a dishwasher cannot wash pots and a potwasher cannot wash dishes<p>* only an electrician can change the batteries in a TV remote or change a lightbulb<p>* when it&#x27;s busy your manager(s) cannot help you<p>* re-hiring of employees who were terminated because they were caught stealing or physically assaulting other employees<p>The better an employee is the less they benefit from a union. It results in good employees not getting paid as well as they could be and bad employees sticking around because it&#x27;s difficult (or impossible) to fire them.<p>We could certainly benefit from the types of professional association lawyers[1] and doctors[2] have, but those are quite different than unions.<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Bar_Association" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;American_Bar_Association</a><p>[2] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Medical_Association" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;American_Medical_Association</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The decline in unionization has fed the rise in incomes at the top</title><url>http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2015/03/jaumotte.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Frondo</author><text>Before anyone brings up the &quot;I want to be paid for my skill, not my seniority,&quot; I&#x27;d just like to point out:<p>If you formed a union at your workplace, <i>you and your colleagues</i> would get to decide the rules like that.<p>And a few other things I think are worth saying...<p>A union is a legal framework for the employees (who have no ownership stake in the business, despite putting their time and energy into the business day after day) to recast some of the power imbalance in their favor; since many of us here are employees, and not owners, we <i>should</i> be looking out for our interests.<p>Aaand...a union isn&#x27;t a &quot;let&#x27;s all be lazy and wreck businesses&quot; framework; that&#x27;s a bit of nonsensical propaganda that we&#x27;ve all swum in for the last few decades.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>forrestthewoods</author><text>&quot;you and your colleagues would get to decide the rules like that&quot;<p>False. People who worked there before you decided the rules. Once you have an entrenched senior workforce the probability that they will vote themselves less power or money is remarkably low. It&#x27;s basically the same problem as NIMBYism.</text></comment> |
6,844,237 | 6,843,898 | 1 | 3 | 6,843,051 | train | <story><title>SES-8 – Falcon 9 GEO Transfer Mission</title><url>http://www.spacex.com/webcast/?when=2013-12-03</url><text>Always worth to keep an eye on: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;elonmusk</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>physcab</author><text>I know HN readers have a love affair with SpaceX but my dad&#x27;s company is launching a rocket on Thurs at Vandenberg and it should be fun to watch:<p><a href="http://www.noozhawk.com/article/atlas_v_set_for_launch_from_vandenberg_thursday_20131202" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.noozhawk.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;atlas_v_set_for_launch_from_...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>SES-8 – Falcon 9 GEO Transfer Mission</title><url>http://www.spacex.com/webcast/?when=2013-12-03</url><text>Always worth to keep an eye on: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;elonmusk</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jccooper</author><text>Saw the 1st stage doing some RCS maneuvers right after separation, but they cut the camera away from that shot pretty quick so I couldn&#x27;t see exactly what. They&#x27;re not supposed to be trying to &quot;land&quot; this one, but I bet they&#x27;re getting aero data in support of the F9-R.<p>All in all, looks like a good launch. Can&#x27;t wait to hear about the second burn, which was last flight&#x27;s sticking point.</text></comment> |
23,453,132 | 23,453,016 | 1 | 2 | 23,452,365 | train | <story><title>Python Wheels Crosses 90%</title><url>https://pythonwheels.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>haberman</author><text>Today I spent at least an hour fighting with Python packaging. The more I think about it, the more I feel that self-contained static binaries are the way to go. Trying to load source files from all over the filesystem at runtime is hell. Or at least it&#x27;s hell to debug when it goes wrong.<p>I would love to see a move towards &quot;static&quot; binaries that package everything together into a single, self-contained unit.</text></comment> | <story><title>Python Wheels Crosses 90%</title><url>https://pythonwheels.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>u801e</author><text>One thing I found when converting our python application packaging from RPM to wheels is that wheels don&#x27;t properly handle the data_files parameter in the setup call. That is, it places files under the python library directory instead of in the absolute path as specified. This means that sample configuration files and init scripts end up in the wrong place on the file system. In order to get around this, we had to upload the source distribution to our devpi instance and run pip install with the --no-binary option which would then place those files in the correct directories.<p>The other issue is that there&#x27;s no equivalent of the %(config) RPM spec directive to prevent the config file from being overwritten if it already exists on the file system.<p>So, for libraries, wheels are a good cross-platform packaging solution, but not so much for applications that require configuration files and init scripts.</text></comment> |
39,362,433 | 39,360,469 | 1 | 2 | 39,357,948 | train | <story><title>Apple's iMessage avoids EU's Digital Markets Act regulation</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/2024/02/13/imessage-avoids-eu-regulation/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hwbehrens</author><text>I think it&#x27;s a historical artifact -- by the time that iMessage launched, the US was well into the phase of free, unlimited texting, so there was no barrier to &quot;just texting&quot;. Since there was <i>also</i> no barrier (in terms of costs, subscriptions, or installation friction) to using iMessage, it was a drop-in upgrade of the user experience for SMS.<p>In contrast, I <i>still</i> have to pay a fee to send SMS messages to my European relatives, so there&#x27;s a financial incentive to overcome that initial friction to switch messaging provider.</text></item><item><author>ghusto</author><text>In the U.S.A., people use iMessage by default, because they use text messaging. People don&#x27;t use texts in Europe (we use WhatsApp and similar, but WhatsApp by a long margin).<p>The reason people still use texts in the U.S.A. is up for debate, and it&#x27;s something I&#x27;ve thought about for a long time.</text></item><item><author>marcellus23</author><text>I&#x27;m curious, in what sense did it come &quot;for free&quot; in the USA?</text></item><item><author>jerojero</author><text>The usage of iMessage in Europe is vastly inferior to the usage of it in America.<p>I think that was a reasonable argument from Apple and the European Commission agreed.<p>But the thing is, apple obviously wants for people to use iPhones in Europe and to use their services just like in America. But they are now very much aware that this sort of market dominance won&#x27;t come for free like it does in the USA.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bombcar</author><text>More importantly, most Americas <i>do not text</i> anyone outside of the country, and haven&#x27;t really ever.<p>So people had no real reason to move off of texting, because it just worked, and Apple&#x27;s iMessage just looks like texting seamlessly.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple's iMessage avoids EU's Digital Markets Act regulation</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/2024/02/13/imessage-avoids-eu-regulation/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hwbehrens</author><text>I think it&#x27;s a historical artifact -- by the time that iMessage launched, the US was well into the phase of free, unlimited texting, so there was no barrier to &quot;just texting&quot;. Since there was <i>also</i> no barrier (in terms of costs, subscriptions, or installation friction) to using iMessage, it was a drop-in upgrade of the user experience for SMS.<p>In contrast, I <i>still</i> have to pay a fee to send SMS messages to my European relatives, so there&#x27;s a financial incentive to overcome that initial friction to switch messaging provider.</text></item><item><author>ghusto</author><text>In the U.S.A., people use iMessage by default, because they use text messaging. People don&#x27;t use texts in Europe (we use WhatsApp and similar, but WhatsApp by a long margin).<p>The reason people still use texts in the U.S.A. is up for debate, and it&#x27;s something I&#x27;ve thought about for a long time.</text></item><item><author>marcellus23</author><text>I&#x27;m curious, in what sense did it come &quot;for free&quot; in the USA?</text></item><item><author>jerojero</author><text>The usage of iMessage in Europe is vastly inferior to the usage of it in America.<p>I think that was a reasonable argument from Apple and the European Commission agreed.<p>But the thing is, apple obviously wants for people to use iPhones in Europe and to use their services just like in America. But they are now very much aware that this sort of market dominance won&#x27;t come for free like it does in the USA.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GeekyBear</author><text>&gt; by the time that iMessage launched, the US was well into the phase of free, unlimited texting<p>The iPhone itself launched with unlimited data, but limited text messages.<p>&gt; keep in mind that AT&amp;T&#x27;s default rate plans for the iPhone don&#x27;t include unlimited SMS messages: they include 200 messages per month unless you add an extra-SMS plan. Chatting this way can easily rack up your SMS charges if you&#x27;re not careful.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;gadgets&#x2F;2007&#x2F;07&#x2F;iphone-review&#x2F;8&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;gadgets&#x2F;2007&#x2F;07&#x2F;iphone-review&#x2F;8&#x2F;</a><p>When iMessage launched as part of iOS 5, free unlimited SMS was still not a normal thing.<p>&gt; iMessage is Apple&#x27;s answer to SMS and MMS—a way to send text and multimedia messages to other iOS device users without relying on a cell carrier. Any kind of text-type message between iOS users can be sent for free in unlimited amounts without chipping away at those overpriced text messages that you pay for through your carrier.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;gadgets&#x2F;2011&#x2F;10&#x2F;ios-5-reviewed-notifications-imessages-and-icloud-oh-my&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;gadgets&#x2F;2011&#x2F;10&#x2F;ios-5-reviewed-notif...</a></text></comment> |
18,411,511 | 18,411,174 | 1 | 2 | 18,408,845 | train | <story><title>Amazon's AbeBooks backs down after booksellers stage global protest</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/nov/08/amazon-abebooks-backs-down-after-booksellers-stage-global-protest?CMP=twt_gu</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aezell</author><text>I stopped using AbeBooks when I stopped using Amazon. ThriftBooks and BetterWorldBooks are good alternatives unless you are on AbeBooks for antiquarian books.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>beauzero</author><text>I would encourage people to support ThriftBooks. Used to compete against them when running KudzuBooks.com. Kudzu went bankrupt shortly after owner sold AcademicBookServices.com (used K-12 books) to Follett&#x27;s used k-12 division. ThriftBooks has been around since the Kudzu days and have continued to run a tight ship and improve their site with little to no resources. It&#x27;s good to see them around. Margins in the remainder business are extremely tight and it is difficult to get good remaindered stock with the consolidation of publishing houses and the closing of so many bricks and mortar stores. Remaindered book = book returned to the publisher who puts a black mark somewhere on the loose page ends and resells to bargain market (usually wholesalers) at 5-15% of retail price. They in turn get resold to brick and mortars for bargain book tables or online (should be sold &quot;Like New&quot; but some are sold &quot;New&quot; if the publisher forgot to mark the book).</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon's AbeBooks backs down after booksellers stage global protest</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/nov/08/amazon-abebooks-backs-down-after-booksellers-stage-global-protest?CMP=twt_gu</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aezell</author><text>I stopped using AbeBooks when I stopped using Amazon. ThriftBooks and BetterWorldBooks are good alternatives unless you are on AbeBooks for antiquarian books.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Simulacra</author><text>+1 for BetterWorldBooks. They donate their profits to fund literacy programs. Plus free shipping. Love them.</text></comment> |
4,159,952 | 4,159,986 | 1 | 2 | 4,159,795 | train | <story><title>YC S12 company refuses to pay for my design. "Send your claim to our legal team"</title><url>http://www.reddit.com/r/web_design/comments/vlrp7/yc_s12_company_refuses_to_pay_for_my_design_send/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>I don't understand what happened here. The CEO told him to submit his invoice to legal@. Did he do that? What did their legal say? Did the company formally decline to pay the invoice? Or did he just assume he wasn't going to get paid and jump the gun?<p>But anyways: LESSON LEARNED for startup CEOs. Here it is, it's very simple:<p>If you want to question or slowroll an invoice, direct it to finance@, not legal@.<p>You have exactly the same set of options with finance@, and your legal can still review the invoice, ping the vendor, or what-have-you, but you haven't escalated the situation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Silhouette</author><text>Surely the lesson for start-up CEOs is even simpler: you are responsible for <i>everything</i> in your organisation.<p>Like most here, I wouldn't have let myself get into the position of this freelance designer or chosen to air my dirty laundry in public. On the other hand, if I had sent a legitimate invoice and a CEO tried to fob me off with the kind of attitude claimed here (he says, noting that we haven't heard the other side of the story yet) then I would be extremely unsympathetic to flippant comments and requests to mess around with underlings. I imagine my response would be to send the final claim letter by registered post with a note that legal action would follow if the invoice remained unpaid after a reasonable period.<p>Of course, in this case, it doesn't matter: the Internet hype machine has been started, and if the reported claims are accurate, it is presumably a matter of time before everyone who has anything to do with this start-up starts forgetting to return their calls. Who wants to be associated with someone who thinks it's funny not to pay their bills, particularly when it's a small business working with another small business?</text></comment> | <story><title>YC S12 company refuses to pay for my design. "Send your claim to our legal team"</title><url>http://www.reddit.com/r/web_design/comments/vlrp7/yc_s12_company_refuses_to_pay_for_my_design_send/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>I don't understand what happened here. The CEO told him to submit his invoice to legal@. Did he do that? What did their legal say? Did the company formally decline to pay the invoice? Or did he just assume he wasn't going to get paid and jump the gun?<p>But anyways: LESSON LEARNED for startup CEOs. Here it is, it's very simple:<p>If you want to question or slowroll an invoice, direct it to finance@, not legal@.<p>You have exactly the same set of options with finance@, and your legal can still review the invoice, ping the vendor, or what-have-you, but you haven't escalated the situation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>damoncali</author><text>I think the legal@ was meant to be equivalent to fuckoff@. That was my reading, at least.<p>Lesson: Get paid first when working with new clients. There just is no other way.</text></comment> |
16,557,983 | 16,555,847 | 1 | 2 | 16,555,106 | train | <story><title>FCC Accuses Stealthy Startup of Launching Rogue Satellites</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/aerospace/satellites/fcc-accuses-stealthy-startup-of-launching-rogue-satellites</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>Wow, I love this story. It raises so many intriguing issues in one small space.<p>First, while the FCC clearly has US authority over spectrum, how is it that its charter includes satellite launches? Or conversely, if they SpaceBees never turn on did they violate the license? And on what basis does the FCC get to evaluate the risk of other things in orbit, isn&#x27;t that NORAD&#x27;s job? And what if this had been a startup in Bangalore or Mumbai, would they be getting crap from the FCC for launching the very same satellites?<p>Now I understand the leverage the FCC can use with US based launch services, sort &quot;Follow our rules and do what we say or we will have the FAA pull your launch permit.&quot; but that leverage doesn&#x27;t really exist for foreign launch services. Heck the Russians might launch stuff like this just to irritate the FCC and tweak our noses.<p>And it raises a whole different set of questions about cubesats. How closely are they inspected at Integration time? Is is possible to create a cubesat that looks and smells like it is doing one mission but is actually doing a different mission? What happens when someone launches an orbital spy satellite network? Not the one you would expect taking pictures of people&#x27;s back yards, but a collection of satellites with large lenses that are looking <i>up</i> and <i>over</i> at the things coming up from the ground. Imagine an ion engine powered small sat that works its way up to GEO and snaps pictures of all the satellites it can find and beams those images down to earth.<p>Let&#x27;s say their quad systems stays under the weight of the typical cubesat limit of 1.33kg. That means they could launch 100,000+ satellites on a single F9 load. And while that would be silly (They would all be in a very similar orbit) it suggests how easily someone could (in theory) just &quot;throw up&quot; a covert microwave based communication network on a very small number of launches.<p>These are definitely 21st century sorts of problems :-).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>olympus</author><text>The short answer is that the Outer Space Treaty states that all commercial satellites are under the jurisdiction of the country in which the company exists, regardless of where they are launched. SpaceBees is a California based company, so the US government is the ones they answer to, not the country they hired to launch their stuff. Since satellites must communicate and could potentially disrupt the communications of others, the FCC gets a say in what goes on. The FCC is not the only authority in town, just the ones taking action here.<p>As far as satellites with covert missions or missions other than what is publicly stated, we should probably assume they already exist. The NRO is pretty sneaky and the USAF has never stated what the heck the X-37 is doing. There&#x27;s a good chance that they have other satellites with publicly acknowledged missions that are doing something else behind the scenes. They are probably attempting to guard against that same behavior from others as well.<p>Doing optical imaging probably isn&#x27;t feasible for a cubesat, it takes quite a bit of fuel to get next to another satellite and not hit it, so a cubesat can&#x27;t zip up to dozens of satellites to get detailed images with a smartphone size sensor- it would run out of fuel too quickly. Instead, optical satellites will probably have their own orbit and accept that they will be far away from their targets. Large distances require a huge aperture if you want a good image, but it&#x27;s not hard to imagine a satellite such as Hubble occasionally rotating to catch an image of Russian or Chinese tech. Plus, the NRO has sent up several <i>very</i> large payloads that we don&#x27;t know what they do, so there&#x27;s probably a large aperture imaging satellite snapping images we don&#x27;t know about. What cubesats can do is extend long antennas that were folded up for launch. A small cubesat could be effective at RF surveillance and a constellation of cubesats and good signal processing could provide a surveillance system for other satellites that could spot various communication types and record the orbital information of the satellites doing the transmitting.</text></comment> | <story><title>FCC Accuses Stealthy Startup of Launching Rogue Satellites</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/aerospace/satellites/fcc-accuses-stealthy-startup-of-launching-rogue-satellites</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>Wow, I love this story. It raises so many intriguing issues in one small space.<p>First, while the FCC clearly has US authority over spectrum, how is it that its charter includes satellite launches? Or conversely, if they SpaceBees never turn on did they violate the license? And on what basis does the FCC get to evaluate the risk of other things in orbit, isn&#x27;t that NORAD&#x27;s job? And what if this had been a startup in Bangalore or Mumbai, would they be getting crap from the FCC for launching the very same satellites?<p>Now I understand the leverage the FCC can use with US based launch services, sort &quot;Follow our rules and do what we say or we will have the FAA pull your launch permit.&quot; but that leverage doesn&#x27;t really exist for foreign launch services. Heck the Russians might launch stuff like this just to irritate the FCC and tweak our noses.<p>And it raises a whole different set of questions about cubesats. How closely are they inspected at Integration time? Is is possible to create a cubesat that looks and smells like it is doing one mission but is actually doing a different mission? What happens when someone launches an orbital spy satellite network? Not the one you would expect taking pictures of people&#x27;s back yards, but a collection of satellites with large lenses that are looking <i>up</i> and <i>over</i> at the things coming up from the ground. Imagine an ion engine powered small sat that works its way up to GEO and snaps pictures of all the satellites it can find and beams those images down to earth.<p>Let&#x27;s say their quad systems stays under the weight of the typical cubesat limit of 1.33kg. That means they could launch 100,000+ satellites on a single F9 load. And while that would be silly (They would all be in a very similar orbit) it suggests how easily someone could (in theory) just &quot;throw up&quot; a covert microwave based communication network on a very small number of launches.<p>These are definitely 21st century sorts of problems :-).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>teej</author><text>Putting on my tin foil hat.<p>&gt; Is is possible to create a cubesat that looks and smells like it is doing one mission but is actually doing a different mission?<p>You mean like Zuma which SpaceX launched and then was declared as &quot;lost&quot; but might have secretly been designed to <i>look</i> like it was lost?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;1&#x2F;9&#x2F;16866806&#x2F;spacex-zuma-mission-failure-northrop-grumman-classified-falcon-9-rocket" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;1&#x2F;9&#x2F;16866806&#x2F;spacex-zuma-missi...</a></text></comment> |
15,766,266 | 15,765,637 | 1 | 3 | 15,765,281 | train | <story><title>I don’t want to be a software developer anymore</title><url>https://medium.com/@melissamcewen/i-just-dont-want-to-be-a-software-developer-anymore-a371422069a1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jameskegel</author><text>I read the article; I&#x27;m not sure this is so much a criticism of the industry as it is an examination of this developer&#x27;s personal anecdotal experience.<p>As developers, we lead a very charmed life that others sometimes aren&#x27;t even born with the chance to intellectually compete for; the author neglects to address how lucky we are to be able to do this at all, let alone to then find employment in it. If it&#x27;s not an industry that benefits you holistically, find something you love that doesn&#x27;t strain your neck or involve gender-politics- dentistry for example, or maybe upholstery or culinary arts.<p>Personally, it&#x27;s the hundreds of days spent in a dish pit, and burning my hands on a hot grill for 12 hours every night that gives me the ability and patience to appreciate this opportunity we have, and all of the different elements of it. I&#x27;ve had very few experiences in life that afford me this type of luxury or time to examine my surroundings and then have time to compose them in words for others to read. This doesn&#x27;t make the author wrong, this makes our perspectives different, and perhaps a tour of duty in other professions would benefit the author.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aphextron</author><text>This one hits hard. As a front end developer, when people ask what I do, I say &quot;I make buttons&quot;. Red buttons, blue buttons, big buttons, small buttons. Any kind of button you can imagine. I spend my life making buttons light up on a colorful screen. And then people click on those buttons and I get paid an obscene amount of money for it.<p>I&#x27;m not sure if this is how people are supposed to live. It&#x27;s driving me mad.<p>But then I get home, order a burrito on Postmates, and am horrified at the thought of ending up as this guy delivering me a burrito at 3AM to make his rent. So I wake up the next morning to do it all over again. As a mediocre self taught developer without even a high school degree, I know I&#x27;ll be right back there once the market turns down, so I don&#x27;t really have the luxury of considering anything else.</text></comment> | <story><title>I don’t want to be a software developer anymore</title><url>https://medium.com/@melissamcewen/i-just-dont-want-to-be-a-software-developer-anymore-a371422069a1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jameskegel</author><text>I read the article; I&#x27;m not sure this is so much a criticism of the industry as it is an examination of this developer&#x27;s personal anecdotal experience.<p>As developers, we lead a very charmed life that others sometimes aren&#x27;t even born with the chance to intellectually compete for; the author neglects to address how lucky we are to be able to do this at all, let alone to then find employment in it. If it&#x27;s not an industry that benefits you holistically, find something you love that doesn&#x27;t strain your neck or involve gender-politics- dentistry for example, or maybe upholstery or culinary arts.<p>Personally, it&#x27;s the hundreds of days spent in a dish pit, and burning my hands on a hot grill for 12 hours every night that gives me the ability and patience to appreciate this opportunity we have, and all of the different elements of it. I&#x27;ve had very few experiences in life that afford me this type of luxury or time to examine my surroundings and then have time to compose them in words for others to read. This doesn&#x27;t make the author wrong, this makes our perspectives different, and perhaps a tour of duty in other professions would benefit the author.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>claudiulodro</author><text>I was a furniture upholsterer. It was super interesting, good exercise, and really required a lot of analytic thinking. I loved upholstery. However, I wasn&#x27;t able to support a wife and kid on an upholsterer&#x27;s paycheck. An employee upholsterer starts at $10&#x2F;hour for a junior up to a high-range of $20&#x2F;hr for 10+ years experience. Now I&#x27;m a software developer making multiples higher more income. I like it OK and I can provide a cushy life for my family.<p>Upholstery was the best. I miss upholstery. I don&#x27;t see any way I could feasibly switch back to it, though.</text></comment> |
9,734,669 | 9,734,629 | 1 | 2 | 9,734,305 | train | <story><title>A Look inside Google’s Data Center Networks</title><url>http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2015/06/A-Look-Inside-Googles-Data-Center-Networks.html?m=1</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lstamour</author><text>See also: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;06&#x2F;google-reveals-secret-gear-connects-online-empire&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;06&#x2F;google-reveals-secret-gear-conn...</a> (again, not much info, but puts it in context for a less technical audience...)</text></comment> | <story><title>A Look inside Google’s Data Center Networks</title><url>http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2015/06/A-Look-Inside-Googles-Data-Center-Networks.html?m=1</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Splendor</author><text>I&#x27;m excited to see this type of information from Google but this post seems more like an announcemant that they released information and less like actual information.</text></comment> |
29,616,352 | 29,615,887 | 1 | 2 | 29,609,514 | train | <story><title>C Programming on System 6 – Implementing Multi-User Chat</title><url>https://jcs.org/2021/12/18/chat</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rvense</author><text>Soft spoken people selfhosting down-to-earth videos without asking me to like, subscribe and send my left b*llock to Facegoogle is everything I want from the 2020&#x27;s. Bonus points for old Macs.</text></comment> | <story><title>C Programming on System 6 – Implementing Multi-User Chat</title><url>https://jcs.org/2021/12/18/chat</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>georgeoliver</author><text>With the many examples I see of very skilled programmers using retro tools for their personal projects, I wonder if it goes the other way too -- are there examples of highly capable programmers choosing bleeding-edge tools for personal projects? What does that look like?</text></comment> |
21,660,767 | 21,660,307 | 1 | 3 | 21,657,930 | train | <story><title>Smart TVs like Samsung, LG and Roku are tracking everything</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/09/18/you-watch-tv-your-tv-watches-back/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AdamJacobMuller</author><text>I had a very nice Sharp Aquos TV for a long time. One of the first reasonably priced 1080p 65&quot; TVs. It had absolutely no &quot;smart&quot; features, which was perfectly fine with me. I have my TV hooked up to a home theatre system and have my devices (PS4&#x2F;AppleTV&#x2F;XB1&#x2F;Nvidia Shield) hooked up to that.<p>I recently upgraded to a LG 4K OLED TV. It&#x27;s an absolutely gorgeous TV, but, I absolutely lament the &quot;smart&quot; features of this TV. I get software update prompts on a regular basis for software I don&#x27;t use (I&#x27;m sure there would be some for the base system anyway, but, an order of magnitude less). The prompts when setting up the TV to accept myriad EULAs are obnoxious. Pop-ups advertising &quot;features&quot; on my TV which I don&#x27;t want? Ugh.<p>I really want either a manufacturer who resells these panels with 0 features, or a mode from LG which disables all of this. &quot;Lock to HDMI1 and disable everything but color management features&quot;.<p>More on-topic with the article: I&#x27;m a pretty tech and legally-savvy guy, but, even I&#x27;m not sure I&#x27;ve toggled the correct order of knobs and declined the correct EULAs to disable that tracking. Moreover, I&#x27;m exactly 0% sure that someone else didn&#x27;t try to watch Netflix (via the TV and not the AppleTV&#x2F;Shield&#x2F;PS4&#x2F;etc) and wasn&#x27;t prompted to accept EULAs to do that. My point is, if I can&#x27;t even do this properly, normal people have a near 0% chance of disabling tracking.<p>That said, it&#x27;s a fantastically gorgeous panel. I&#x27;ve had a lot of fun re-watching older favorite movies in 4K.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DrPhish</author><text>What you are looking for are called &quot;Commercial Displays&quot; or &quot;Digital Signage&quot;
Expect to pay a premium, but they are generally simple panels built to endure a very heavy duty cycle and harsher-than-a-living-room environment</text></comment> | <story><title>Smart TVs like Samsung, LG and Roku are tracking everything</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/09/18/you-watch-tv-your-tv-watches-back/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AdamJacobMuller</author><text>I had a very nice Sharp Aquos TV for a long time. One of the first reasonably priced 1080p 65&quot; TVs. It had absolutely no &quot;smart&quot; features, which was perfectly fine with me. I have my TV hooked up to a home theatre system and have my devices (PS4&#x2F;AppleTV&#x2F;XB1&#x2F;Nvidia Shield) hooked up to that.<p>I recently upgraded to a LG 4K OLED TV. It&#x27;s an absolutely gorgeous TV, but, I absolutely lament the &quot;smart&quot; features of this TV. I get software update prompts on a regular basis for software I don&#x27;t use (I&#x27;m sure there would be some for the base system anyway, but, an order of magnitude less). The prompts when setting up the TV to accept myriad EULAs are obnoxious. Pop-ups advertising &quot;features&quot; on my TV which I don&#x27;t want? Ugh.<p>I really want either a manufacturer who resells these panels with 0 features, or a mode from LG which disables all of this. &quot;Lock to HDMI1 and disable everything but color management features&quot;.<p>More on-topic with the article: I&#x27;m a pretty tech and legally-savvy guy, but, even I&#x27;m not sure I&#x27;ve toggled the correct order of knobs and declined the correct EULAs to disable that tracking. Moreover, I&#x27;m exactly 0% sure that someone else didn&#x27;t try to watch Netflix (via the TV and not the AppleTV&#x2F;Shield&#x2F;PS4&#x2F;etc) and wasn&#x27;t prompted to accept EULAs to do that. My point is, if I can&#x27;t even do this properly, normal people have a near 0% chance of disabling tracking.<p>That said, it&#x27;s a fantastically gorgeous panel. I&#x27;ve had a lot of fun re-watching older favorite movies in 4K.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wvenable</author><text>&gt; My point is, if I can&#x27;t even do this properly, normal people have a near 0% chance of disabling tracking.<p>The other point is that all these features are advertised on the box (Netflix, Alexa integration, etc) but you can&#x27;t even use them unless you accept those EULA prompts.</text></comment> |
11,845,655 | 11,845,610 | 1 | 2 | 11,845,051 | train | <story><title>Sad news today: systemd-resolved to be deployed in Ubuntu 16.10</title><url>https://lists.dns-oarc.net/pipermail/dns-operations/2016-June/014964.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tener</author><text>If systemd is so horrible why is everyone switching to it?
EDIT: This is an honest question. I read quite a few negative comments on it and yet people in charge seem to be convinced this is the way forward. I&#x27;m curious why.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sad news today: systemd-resolved to be deployed in Ubuntu 16.10</title><url>https://lists.dns-oarc.net/pipermail/dns-operations/2016-June/014964.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>3princip</author><text>I have used Linux (mainly Ubuntu) exclusively for years and love it. I do some devops when needed, run a few websites etc. Granted, I&#x27;m not a full-time sysadmin but I do plenty of work with Linux.<p>I don&#x27;t understand why systemd is taking over or what benefit it has bought. It works for now, is that enough?<p>It feels like a monstrosity of overly complex and questionable design. Yet, it spreads. Throwing &quot;unix philosophy&quot;, a most agreeable set of ideas, out the window.<p>Maybe I&#x27;m just being reactionary and slow to adapt.</text></comment> |
30,840,734 | 30,840,729 | 1 | 2 | 30,838,564 | train | <story><title>My own phone number is now spam texting me</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/28/22999719/spam-texts-own-phone-number-verizon-att-tmobile</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BoxOfRain</author><text>Isn&#x27;t there campaigning laws around that? If a political campaign did that in the UK they&#x27;d be raked over the coals by the Electoral Commission.<p>Not that the country&#x27;s been able to do anything about the sheer volume of scam texts pretending to be the Post Office with a parcel for you or Microsoft telling people their Windows boxes are full of viruses.</text></item><item><author>sillysaurusx</author><text>I’m starting to get those too. From the trump campaign, of all things. Somehow they got ahold of my number and keep asking me to go save America.<p>Not sure which is worse, someone trying to sell me stuff or that.<p>How much volume? Is it a daily annoyance? My wife seems to get hit harder than me, but as far as I can tell we’ve both been equally careless about sharing our number online. So I’m dreading the day that these people figure out how to turn text messages into a gmail spam inbox.<p>It feels like it’s time to just write a Bayesian filter and proxy all text messages through it. It was theoretically easy to do that back when you could send texts just by emailing a special address, but sadly I think carriers ditched that feature. Nowadays I’m not sure where to start if the goal is to proxy our texts like that, but I’d like to.</text></item><item><author>karlshea</author><text>My impression is STIR&#x2F;SHAKEN is only for voice calls, not SMS.<p>I&#x27;m no longer getting almost any robocalls on Verizon as of a couple of months ago when they &quot;turned on&quot; STIR&#x2F;SHAKEN. What I am getting instead is the same volume of spam text messages.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>The &quot;STIR&#x2F;SHAKEN initiative&quot; was supposed to fix this.[1] There&#x27;s now a whole system with signed certificates, much like SSL certs, to sign caller ID info. The info is at least good enough to find out which carrier generated the phony data.<p>You should file a complaint with the FCC that your carrier has not clearly not properly implemented STIR&#x2F;SHAKEN, since they badly mis-identified the source of a call. While calls from outside the US can be unsigned, the carrier should detect that the number is inconsistent with the source.<p>There are &quot;A&quot;, &quot;B&quot;, and &quot;C&quot; level of verification. &quot;A&quot; calls are probably legit. The others, maybe not.<p>If you&#x27;re in California, try making a personal data request to your carrier for the detailed STIR&#x2F;SHAKEN data for that call.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commlawgroup.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;stir-shaken-robocall-mitigation-compliance-regime-what-is-it-why-is-it-important-who-must-comply-how-and-by-when" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commlawgroup.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;stir-shaken-robocall-mitigatio...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ldoughty</author><text>In the USA, the law makers exempt themselves from many laws. For example, political campaigns can ignore the &quot;Do not call&quot; list which the government maintains which allows citizens to opt out of cold calls.</text></comment> | <story><title>My own phone number is now spam texting me</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/28/22999719/spam-texts-own-phone-number-verizon-att-tmobile</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BoxOfRain</author><text>Isn&#x27;t there campaigning laws around that? If a political campaign did that in the UK they&#x27;d be raked over the coals by the Electoral Commission.<p>Not that the country&#x27;s been able to do anything about the sheer volume of scam texts pretending to be the Post Office with a parcel for you or Microsoft telling people their Windows boxes are full of viruses.</text></item><item><author>sillysaurusx</author><text>I’m starting to get those too. From the trump campaign, of all things. Somehow they got ahold of my number and keep asking me to go save America.<p>Not sure which is worse, someone trying to sell me stuff or that.<p>How much volume? Is it a daily annoyance? My wife seems to get hit harder than me, but as far as I can tell we’ve both been equally careless about sharing our number online. So I’m dreading the day that these people figure out how to turn text messages into a gmail spam inbox.<p>It feels like it’s time to just write a Bayesian filter and proxy all text messages through it. It was theoretically easy to do that back when you could send texts just by emailing a special address, but sadly I think carriers ditched that feature. Nowadays I’m not sure where to start if the goal is to proxy our texts like that, but I’d like to.</text></item><item><author>karlshea</author><text>My impression is STIR&#x2F;SHAKEN is only for voice calls, not SMS.<p>I&#x27;m no longer getting almost any robocalls on Verizon as of a couple of months ago when they &quot;turned on&quot; STIR&#x2F;SHAKEN. What I am getting instead is the same volume of spam text messages.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>The &quot;STIR&#x2F;SHAKEN initiative&quot; was supposed to fix this.[1] There&#x27;s now a whole system with signed certificates, much like SSL certs, to sign caller ID info. The info is at least good enough to find out which carrier generated the phony data.<p>You should file a complaint with the FCC that your carrier has not clearly not properly implemented STIR&#x2F;SHAKEN, since they badly mis-identified the source of a call. While calls from outside the US can be unsigned, the carrier should detect that the number is inconsistent with the source.<p>There are &quot;A&quot;, &quot;B&quot;, and &quot;C&quot; level of verification. &quot;A&quot; calls are probably legit. The others, maybe not.<p>If you&#x27;re in California, try making a personal data request to your carrier for the detailed STIR&#x2F;SHAKEN data for that call.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commlawgroup.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;stir-shaken-robocall-mitigation-compliance-regime-what-is-it-why-is-it-important-who-must-comply-how-and-by-when" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commlawgroup.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;stir-shaken-robocall-mitigatio...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sillysaurusx</author><text>It’s interesting to hear that the UK has sensible laws about this sort of thing. Over here in Murica we get these: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;UjELy2y" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;UjELy2y</a><p>My guess is that they’re sending this to all numbers in a certain area code. I’m in Missouri, which was mostly red. So they kindly delivered a MAGA to my phone and I’m like “thanks! … tell me who gave you my number so I can hire a hitman on them please”<p>The political tactics at play are actually quite fascinating to me, because they seem so dumb. But it’s the opposite. In reality it’s effective, and I’ve always wondered why. So it’s interesting to hear that politicians are prohibited from doing this in other countries, and makes me wonder if it’s an effective policy. It seems like it might be.<p>Of course, that doesn’t help rid us of the silagra spammers, but maybe the FCC can come up with a solution that can prohibit both. It feels sort of hopeless, but then I remember that we could literally proxy every text message through our laptops, run them through a 1997 naive Bayesian filter, and eliminate 97% of the problem with 0.03% false positives. It seems like a matter of time till some service comes along and makes that schlep effortless, and I can just pay $5&#x2F;mo for the privilege of dodging spammers.</text></comment> |
29,601,434 | 29,600,752 | 1 | 2 | 29,591,095 | train | <story><title>The Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences (2016)</title><url>https://qualiacomputing.com/2016/12/12/the-hyperbolic-geometry-of-dmt-experiences/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aviancrane</author><text>It seems to me two things are happening. [1] The brain is really good at filling in gaps in its perception of the world and [2] there seems to be some kind of strange loopy recursion in the way the brain analyzes and observes things including itself.<p>I think on DMT and similar, you are actually seeing less of the world, and the recursive&#x2F;fractal aspect is coming from the brain filling in gaps with observations including its own analyzing patterns.<p>The world at our scale has a lot of data and is really complex. These &quot;hypbolic geometries&quot; seem like simplifications. One strand of a flower that happens to follow something roughly like the golden ration becomes a fibonacci spiral repeated at every degree; the sense of self gets muddled with the modeling of this pattern, allowing the pattern to permeate the entire observation, and now you too are the spiral. You notice the observation and how muddled it is with the pattern and the self, creating a loop which also gets modeled, and down the recursive rabbit hole you go.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences (2016)</title><url>https://qualiacomputing.com/2016/12/12/the-hyperbolic-geometry-of-dmt-experiences/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lend000</author><text>A new game called Hyperbolica is being developed to explore new geometries [0]. It will be interesting to see how people playing the game compare the experience to their previous trips.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=EMKLeS-Uq_8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=EMKLeS-Uq_8</a></text></comment> |
29,912,609 | 29,912,351 | 1 | 2 | 29,910,327 | train | <story><title>Who Contributed to PostgreSQL Development in 2020 and 2021?</title><url>http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2022/01/who-contributed-to-postgresql.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>uhoh-itsmaciek</author><text>If anyone wants to keep up with Tom Lane&#x27;s prolific mailing list contributions without subscribing to the pgsql-hackers firehose, I wrote a Twitter bot that tweets the last sentence (according to some mostly-working regex heuristics) from his e-mails: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;regardstomlane" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;regardstomlane</a><p>Postgres is a fantastic community.</text></comment> | <story><title>Who Contributed to PostgreSQL Development in 2020 and 2021?</title><url>http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2022/01/who-contributed-to-postgresql.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Alir3z4</author><text>Mad love for each of contributor to postgresql whether on this or not, whether backend by organization or not.<p>Thank you very much for such a wonderful database.</text></comment> |
12,437,804 | 12,437,591 | 1 | 3 | 12,436,873 | train | <story><title>Multi-process Firefox brings 400-700% improvement in responsiveness</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/02/multi-process-firefox-brings-400-700-improvement-in-responsiveness/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>azinman2</author><text>Maybe I&#x27;m misreading things but it looks like it&#x27;s been constantly getting worse since 2012?</text></item><item><author>AdmiralAsshat</author><text>And they&#x27;re still at it, too:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;areweslimyet.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;areweslimyet.com&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>toxican</author><text>A few years ago if you&#x27;d told me FF would be the RAM-sensitive browser, I&#x27;d have laughed you off the internet.</text></item><item><author>rsp1984</author><text><i>“We can learn from the competition,” said Dotzler. “The way they implemented multi-process is RAM-intensive, it can get out of hand. We are learning from them and building an architecture that doesn’t eat all your RAM.”</i><p>That&#x27;s the money quote here. I&#x27;ve been waiting for this for a long time actually. Every browser I&#x27;ve tried except Firefox just basically eats all my RAM and other app performance (e.g. compiling stuff) goes down the toilet.<p>Then on the other hand FF has not been so snappy and responsive traditionally. So responsive + soft on RAM is the combination I&#x27;ve really been waiting for. Let&#x27;s hope they can deliver.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Lagged2Death</author><text>The FAQ says:<p><i>TP5 loads 100 popular webpages, served from a local webserver.</i><p>I don&#x27;t know if that means the test pages are up-to-date copies of real-world pages or not. On one hand, real-world pages have certainly been getting heavier, and it would bear mentioning if that fact was not reflected in this test. On the other hand the graph becomes really hard to interpret if the test suite isn&#x27;t a constant.</text></comment> | <story><title>Multi-process Firefox brings 400-700% improvement in responsiveness</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/02/multi-process-firefox-brings-400-700-improvement-in-responsiveness/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>azinman2</author><text>Maybe I&#x27;m misreading things but it looks like it&#x27;s been constantly getting worse since 2012?</text></item><item><author>AdmiralAsshat</author><text>And they&#x27;re still at it, too:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;areweslimyet.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;areweslimyet.com&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>toxican</author><text>A few years ago if you&#x27;d told me FF would be the RAM-sensitive browser, I&#x27;d have laughed you off the internet.</text></item><item><author>rsp1984</author><text><i>“We can learn from the competition,” said Dotzler. “The way they implemented multi-process is RAM-intensive, it can get out of hand. We are learning from them and building an architecture that doesn’t eat all your RAM.”</i><p>That&#x27;s the money quote here. I&#x27;ve been waiting for this for a long time actually. Every browser I&#x27;ve tried except Firefox just basically eats all my RAM and other app performance (e.g. compiling stuff) goes down the toilet.<p>Then on the other hand FF has not been so snappy and responsive traditionally. So responsive + soft on RAM is the combination I&#x27;ve really been waiting for. Let&#x27;s hope they can deliver.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arcatek</author><text>There&#x27;s more and more features every month. Add that to the various performance improvements (that can take a hit on the ram, dependending on how they&#x27;re implemented), and it becomes a bit more understandable why you would see such an increase.</text></comment> |
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