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1,208,602 | 1,208,461 | 1 | 3 | 1,208,169 | train | <story><title>Ben Folds Chatroulette Piano Ode to Merton</title><url>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfamTmY5REw</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andrewljohnson</author><text>I think I prefer this on Reddit where I first saw it. This is only vaguely topical here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gojomo</author><text>We're watching the real-time evolution of a new net-mediated interaction style -- randomly-grouped video chats -- that will probably spawn a number of new businesses.<p>We're seeing people experiment with the medium to create new emblematic characters, and artists with other talents -- Merton/Ben Folds -- use it to find a new challenge/audience. (At the same time their arrival pushes the creative envelope in some ways, it will also moderate the behavior in others -- you might become part of a live show in front of thousands, or a YouTube video viewed by hundreds of thousands! That will police the behavior more than any 'flagging' functionality.)<p>I find it intensely interesting, with lessons about how technology changes social interactions and creates new collaboration/entertainment opportunities.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ben Folds Chatroulette Piano Ode to Merton</title><url>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfamTmY5REw</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andrewljohnson</author><text>I think I prefer this on Reddit where I first saw it. This is only vaguely topical here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blhack</author><text>Agreed. I think there has been a mass exodus from reddit in the last few weeks. The quality of content there has gone down, and the quality of content here has slid as well as reddit's users bring their brand of news to the site.</text></comment> |
4,517,390 | 4,516,960 | 1 | 3 | 4,516,204 | train | <story><title>Why critics of Rails have it all wrong (and Ruby's bright multicore future)</title><url>http://www.unlimitednovelty.com/2012/03/why-critics-of-rails-have-it-all-wrong.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>programminggeek</author><text>I love Ruby, but I have no love for Rails. Want to write a nice JSON API using something light and nice? Use Sinatra, pick your favorite ORM (even ActiveRecord) and go to town. Why mess with all the other Rails junk when you can have a simple app.rb for your sinatra app and just write simple little controller actions and you're good to go?<p>You don't need all the ceremony and structure of Rails and MVC to write a JSON api, you just don't.<p>Worrying about Rails' future and if it's still "winning"(for some definition of winning?) compared to node.js is silly and reminds me of how many Java devs had an existential crisis about the future of Java since Java 7 took a few too many years to ship.<p>Rails is a web MVC framework, that's it. It's not even the only or best web framework in ruby. Rails is not ruby. It is not designed to compete with node. Node is a totally different thing.<p>Compare node and ruby and that's a more interesting and correct comparison, but I've happily used both and neither one is going to "kill" the other any more than Rails killed PHP or Java killed C++.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nahname</author><text>I really liked using Sinatra until I used it with a team. The lack of ceremony and structure (as you put it) killed us. The app started out as just a simple service, so why not use Sinatra right? Then things changed and we were more focused on the web side, but stuck with Sinatra because everyone had heard the FUD about rails.<p>Each person has a preference on where they thought something should be. Days were spent arguing over the location of mundane things. Each team member had a different understanding of REST, so without the rails routing we argued about what we thought an ideal API would look like. We argued about which view engine we should introduce. We argued about how to handle our JS/CS. We argued some more about routes and how to make them more discoverable. On and on. Not intentional, but something new would come up and we would need to figure out where to put it.<p>This, more than anything, hammered home for me the strength of rails. Rails is great at getting you up and running, but it's greatest strength is that it's idioms are well documented. That gives developers a strong impression of how things are going to be and where things go. This saves you so much time by not having to argue and reach consensus on every little thing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why critics of Rails have it all wrong (and Ruby's bright multicore future)</title><url>http://www.unlimitednovelty.com/2012/03/why-critics-of-rails-have-it-all-wrong.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>programminggeek</author><text>I love Ruby, but I have no love for Rails. Want to write a nice JSON API using something light and nice? Use Sinatra, pick your favorite ORM (even ActiveRecord) and go to town. Why mess with all the other Rails junk when you can have a simple app.rb for your sinatra app and just write simple little controller actions and you're good to go?<p>You don't need all the ceremony and structure of Rails and MVC to write a JSON api, you just don't.<p>Worrying about Rails' future and if it's still "winning"(for some definition of winning?) compared to node.js is silly and reminds me of how many Java devs had an existential crisis about the future of Java since Java 7 took a few too many years to ship.<p>Rails is a web MVC framework, that's it. It's not even the only or best web framework in ruby. Rails is not ruby. It is not designed to compete with node. Node is a totally different thing.<p>Compare node and ruby and that's a more interesting and correct comparison, but I've happily used both and neither one is going to "kill" the other any more than Rails killed PHP or Java killed C++.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nateberkopec</author><text>FTA: <a href="https://gist.github.com/1942658" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/1942658</a><p>Why wouldn't you just do a 50-line Rails app instead, and slot in any other Rails niceties when you feel like you need them?</text></comment> |
15,848,391 | 15,848,144 | 1 | 2 | 15,847,575 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Echo Podcasts – Goodreads for podcasts</title><url>https://echopodcasts.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dannylmathews</author><text>Hey, I am the founder and developer behind this app.<p>Aside from joining the app because you love podcasts, it may interest you because it has some cool tech behind it. ie) Echo is not a podcast player, but we connect to your podcast player. We give every user their own unique podcast feed, generated with a list of every episode that they want to listen to. This feed can be added to your podcast player just like any other podcast feed. When a user finds an episode on Echo, they just have to tap a button and it will be ready in their podcast player from them to listen to it. Try it out, it&#x27;s pretty slick in my opinion.<p>Similar solutions have been built, for instance, Patreon generates custom feeds for podcasts which include episodes available only to paid users. However, this is the first time users have the ability to generate a custom podcast feed, for themselves.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jonny_eh</author><text>Are you associated with Amazon? Because you&#x27;re using two of their trademarks (Echo + Goodreads)</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Echo Podcasts – Goodreads for podcasts</title><url>https://echopodcasts.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dannylmathews</author><text>Hey, I am the founder and developer behind this app.<p>Aside from joining the app because you love podcasts, it may interest you because it has some cool tech behind it. ie) Echo is not a podcast player, but we connect to your podcast player. We give every user their own unique podcast feed, generated with a list of every episode that they want to listen to. This feed can be added to your podcast player just like any other podcast feed. When a user finds an episode on Echo, they just have to tap a button and it will be ready in their podcast player from them to listen to it. Try it out, it&#x27;s pretty slick in my opinion.<p>Similar solutions have been built, for instance, Patreon generates custom feeds for podcasts which include episodes available only to paid users. However, this is the first time users have the ability to generate a custom podcast feed, for themselves.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mcrider</author><text>Hey I tried to export my OPML file from Pocketcasts but Echo doesn&#x27;t show up in the &#x27;share to&#x27; app list or in the More... list. Any tips?</text></comment> |
13,620,611 | 13,620,516 | 1 | 2 | 13,619,465 | train | <story><title>The Curse of Smart People (2014)</title><url>http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201407#01</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yakult</author><text>My pet theory: much of &#x27;gut feelings&#x27; and intuition boils down to having our internal black box predict the behavior of other people. When you are &#x27;average&#x27;, this often simplifies to reasoning about what you would do in the same circumstances, which is relatively easy. If you are 3 standard deviations out, you&#x27;ll have to compensate that consciously, which is inaccurate and difficult and slow. This is like how UI designers have difficulty to discern which parts of their UI are hard to use, while the end user could do so effortlessly.<p>Smart people end up having to run SmartPerson + NormalPersonVM(pre-alpha) in parallel. Normal people just run NormalPerson natively. Then they complain about bugs and slowness (&#x27;smart people are out of touch with reality!&#x27;, etc.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ThrustVectoring</author><text>I&#x27;ve got a similar-ish theory. &quot;Smart&quot; people get rewarded as a child or adolescent for doing &quot;smart&quot; behavior, which teaches them to interact with deeper and richer observations and insights. If you don&#x27;t get trained as a &quot;smart&quot; person, you get better responses to surface appearances.<p>The slowness comes out of this natively - &quot;smart&quot; children are taught to do more complicated things with social data, and brains need more time to get the sensory data necessary for more complicated behaviors. It takes a tenth of a second for the Patellar reflex, about a second to recognize a friend and wave hello, and a conversation to get someone on board with your project.<p>No magic required, just training the same sort of behaviors normal people have in the same sort of way. The most difficult part is un-learning &quot;impress people with how clever you are&quot; behaviors.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Curse of Smart People (2014)</title><url>http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201407#01</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yakult</author><text>My pet theory: much of &#x27;gut feelings&#x27; and intuition boils down to having our internal black box predict the behavior of other people. When you are &#x27;average&#x27;, this often simplifies to reasoning about what you would do in the same circumstances, which is relatively easy. If you are 3 standard deviations out, you&#x27;ll have to compensate that consciously, which is inaccurate and difficult and slow. This is like how UI designers have difficulty to discern which parts of their UI are hard to use, while the end user could do so effortlessly.<p>Smart people end up having to run SmartPerson + NormalPersonVM(pre-alpha) in parallel. Normal people just run NormalPerson natively. Then they complain about bugs and slowness (&#x27;smart people are out of touch with reality!&#x27;, etc.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yyhhsj0521</author><text>Agree. One of my friends is pretty smart (at least, above above-average) and works in the tech industry. When he was young he had to &quot;simulate&quot; his emotions to &quot;look like a normal person.&quot; He had to think what normal people would feel under his situation and tried to feel that way (or tried to make himself looked feeling that way in front of people). For example, he thinks that crying on funerals is illogical, because the dead are dead already, nothing can bring them back and the dead would surely rather see people they love live happily instead of in sorrow. But no. Until he escaped from the environment he was born he had to live like a normal person, and tried to cry on funerals.</text></comment> |
11,847,122 | 11,846,926 | 1 | 3 | 11,846,556 | train | <story><title>The tyranny of the Hollerith punched card</title><url>http://pub.gajendra.net/2012/09/hollerith_tyranny</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>benbenolson</author><text>I don&#x27;t doubt that the author&#x27;s story is correct, but I think that 80 is a perfectly reasonable number to have as a standard. It&#x27;s very annoying when I read code that doesn&#x27;t use the 80-character limit, because my terminal is not guaranteed to be as wide as theirs, and I really don&#x27;t like resizing my terminal window to fit their line length.<p>For car width, I think that that&#x27;s also a pretty reasonable width, since it&#x27;s the perfect width to fit two people side-by-side comfortably, with a bit of room in the middle.<p>Now we only need to think of things that have developed for historical purposes, yet are not reasonable defaults.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>s_kilk</author><text>Agreed, 80-chars may be an accident of history, but it&#x27;s an accident which happens to line up quite well with the human eyes ability to track horizontal lines of text.<p>It gets tiring listening to devs rage about the 80-char limit, then go on to produce code that&#x27;s basically unreadable because it scrolls way off the screen.</text></comment> | <story><title>The tyranny of the Hollerith punched card</title><url>http://pub.gajendra.net/2012/09/hollerith_tyranny</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>benbenolson</author><text>I don&#x27;t doubt that the author&#x27;s story is correct, but I think that 80 is a perfectly reasonable number to have as a standard. It&#x27;s very annoying when I read code that doesn&#x27;t use the 80-character limit, because my terminal is not guaranteed to be as wide as theirs, and I really don&#x27;t like resizing my terminal window to fit their line length.<p>For car width, I think that that&#x27;s also a pretty reasonable width, since it&#x27;s the perfect width to fit two people side-by-side comfortably, with a bit of room in the middle.<p>Now we only need to think of things that have developed for historical purposes, yet are not reasonable defaults.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DanBC</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s very annoying when I read code that doesn&#x27;t use the 80-character limit, because my terminal is not guaranteed to be as wide as theirs, and I really don&#x27;t like resizing my terminal window to fit their line length.<p>Considering the numbers of programmers in the world, and how long they&#x27;ve been working with text, and how much annoyance text breaks &#x2F; line wrapping &#x2F; format flowing causes it&#x27;s kind of surprising that there isn&#x27;t better ways of wrapping lines without line breaks.<p>What&#x27;s current best practice? Or is it just down to the project style guide?</text></comment> |
15,445,574 | 15,445,494 | 1 | 2 | 15,444,607 | train | <story><title>Disabling the Intel Management Engine</title><url>https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Sakaki%27s_EFI_Install_Guide/Disabling_the_Intel_Management_Engine</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jordigh</author><text>It makes me so unhappy that this is what things have come to. They make hardware that we can&#x27;t control, there&#x27;s no real alternative to buy, and now we gotta rely on volunteers and wiki pages to give instructions that might work but who knows you might brick it.<p>I wish there was more widespread outrage over ME and PSP and &quot;trusted computing&quot; so we could collectively tell them to stop selling this garbage. There&#x27;s so much cynicism out there, though, that I think the public would hardly bat an eye if they knew that all hardware since 2008 or so has secret backdoors. We&#x27;re just used to this kind of abuse and control.<p>I haven&#x27;t bought a new computer since 2007 because I don&#x27;t want backdoored hardware. If it really is For My Own Safety, as they advertise it to us, then let me control it!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jknz</author><text>It seems strange to me that the European Union is allowing this. The fact that a foreign company has a backdoor in every computer running in European countries is so concerning on so many levels. Defense ministers from European countries should wake up and outlaw this.<p>Of course, there is no specificity to the EU here -- this applies to Russia, China and other countries too.<p>Edit: maybe Intel is already eligible to a € multiple Billions fine from the EU based on this? (Disclaimer: I have no clue about how such fine works).</text></comment> | <story><title>Disabling the Intel Management Engine</title><url>https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Sakaki%27s_EFI_Install_Guide/Disabling_the_Intel_Management_Engine</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jordigh</author><text>It makes me so unhappy that this is what things have come to. They make hardware that we can&#x27;t control, there&#x27;s no real alternative to buy, and now we gotta rely on volunteers and wiki pages to give instructions that might work but who knows you might brick it.<p>I wish there was more widespread outrage over ME and PSP and &quot;trusted computing&quot; so we could collectively tell them to stop selling this garbage. There&#x27;s so much cynicism out there, though, that I think the public would hardly bat an eye if they knew that all hardware since 2008 or so has secret backdoors. We&#x27;re just used to this kind of abuse and control.<p>I haven&#x27;t bought a new computer since 2007 because I don&#x27;t want backdoored hardware. If it really is For My Own Safety, as they advertise it to us, then let me control it!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>roblabla</author><text>Next time I change laptop (which will probably happen soon, my laptop is also a 2007 hardware), it will be a Librem 13 from Purism. I want to send money to a company that cares about this issue, and Purism has demonstrated they do multiple times already[0][1].<p>I know purism is just neutralizing IME, so it&#x27;s the same as this, but they&#x27;re the best solution right now, and I hope that by supporting them, I participate in a clear message to the industry that I don&#x27;t want their undocumented blackbox on my hardware. Who knows ? Maybe one of the major players will take the hint and try to remove them, or document them. Or maybe a new player will displace them.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;puri.sm&#x2F;posts&#x2F;reverse-engineering-the-intel-management-engine-romp-module&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;puri.sm&#x2F;posts&#x2F;reverse-engineering-the-intel-manageme...</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;puri.sm&#x2F;posts&#x2F;neutralizing-intel-management-engine-on-librem-laptops&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;puri.sm&#x2F;posts&#x2F;neutralizing-intel-management-engine-o...</a></text></comment> |
31,086,749 | 31,084,423 | 1 | 3 | 31,081,417 | train | <story><title>Canada bans foreign home buyers for two years</title><url>https://www.axios.com/canada-foreign-home-buyers-ban-589fdf10-844f-4160-afe0-e8452df92fa8.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway894345</author><text>What&#x27;s stopping Canada from increasing its housing stock? Surely Canada has plenty of space for its 30M citizens, right? (Yes, I understand that much of the territory is uninhabitable, but even still...).</text></item><item><author>manbackharry</author><text>I&#x27;d argue the main cause of this is the REALTORs&#x2F;real estate boards&#x2F;MLS system that stonewalls any attempts at making real estate information publicly available precisely because the size of their paycheques relies on this information remaining hidden from the public. The conflict of interest beggars belief, but it&#x27;s allowed to remain, among other reasons, since it also tends to benefit political parties courting votes from homeowners who see their home values continue to rise.<p>All of this though (ending blind bidding, making buy and sell data publicly available, etc.) is just using a bucket to bail out the Titanic since the system is designed to have prices continuously rise since Canadians are in house debt up to their eyeballs and have no idea how else to actually save for the long term and any party that actually changed this would likely never get voted into power again, if they even continued to exist.</text></item><item><author>bko</author><text>The question is why does something like blind bidding exist in real estate? It could exist in all sorts of places but doesn&#x27;t. Imagine blind bidding when interviewing for a job. Write down the number you&#x27;d be willing to do the job for. Someone came in with a lower number, please resubmit.<p>These weird market distortions in real estate have underlying causes. A lot of them are based off patchwork rules and regulations around real estate. Stuff like who you&#x27;re allowed to sell to, how much you&#x27;re taxed, the paperwork required etc. Putting more patch work on top of a system that&#x27;s obviously broken will probably make things worse in the long run.</text></item><item><author>pards</author><text>I&#x27;m a homeowner in Toronto and I don&#x27;t think this will help. They&#x27;ve eliminated a small number of buyers from the market but have added other incentives like a first home buyers tax credit that will only fuel the fire - Australia tried this with tragic results.<p>&gt;&gt; working with provinces and territories to develop and implement a Home Buyers’ Bill of Rights and bring forward a national plan to end blind bidding.<p>Blind bidding is where multiple parties submit a sealed bid on a property. The realtor and seller review these bids behind close doors and then often request subsequent rounds of bids from the bidders *without telling them the current winning bid, or who&#x27;s bid is winning*. Bidders end up out-bidding themselves.<p>IMHO blind bidding is an unethical practice that should be outlawed regardless of its impact on housing prices.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pseudo0</author><text>38 million, with an annual immigration target of over 400k, plus foreign students, temporary visas, etc. New construction simply isn&#x27;t keeping up with demand. Politicians have tried to solve this from the supply side for decades, but many of the issues like zoning are in provincial and municipal jurisdiction, where the incentive is to keep prices high and homeowners happy.<p>So the federal government refuses to address the demand side of the equation (very high immigration rate) while the the provinces and municipalities block increases in supply. The natural result? Runaway price increases, and the rest of Canada&#x27;s economy becoming uncompetitive because employees can&#x27;t find a house within a 2 hour commute for under $1MM in the GTA.</text></comment> | <story><title>Canada bans foreign home buyers for two years</title><url>https://www.axios.com/canada-foreign-home-buyers-ban-589fdf10-844f-4160-afe0-e8452df92fa8.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway894345</author><text>What&#x27;s stopping Canada from increasing its housing stock? Surely Canada has plenty of space for its 30M citizens, right? (Yes, I understand that much of the territory is uninhabitable, but even still...).</text></item><item><author>manbackharry</author><text>I&#x27;d argue the main cause of this is the REALTORs&#x2F;real estate boards&#x2F;MLS system that stonewalls any attempts at making real estate information publicly available precisely because the size of their paycheques relies on this information remaining hidden from the public. The conflict of interest beggars belief, but it&#x27;s allowed to remain, among other reasons, since it also tends to benefit political parties courting votes from homeowners who see their home values continue to rise.<p>All of this though (ending blind bidding, making buy and sell data publicly available, etc.) is just using a bucket to bail out the Titanic since the system is designed to have prices continuously rise since Canadians are in house debt up to their eyeballs and have no idea how else to actually save for the long term and any party that actually changed this would likely never get voted into power again, if they even continued to exist.</text></item><item><author>bko</author><text>The question is why does something like blind bidding exist in real estate? It could exist in all sorts of places but doesn&#x27;t. Imagine blind bidding when interviewing for a job. Write down the number you&#x27;d be willing to do the job for. Someone came in with a lower number, please resubmit.<p>These weird market distortions in real estate have underlying causes. A lot of them are based off patchwork rules and regulations around real estate. Stuff like who you&#x27;re allowed to sell to, how much you&#x27;re taxed, the paperwork required etc. Putting more patch work on top of a system that&#x27;s obviously broken will probably make things worse in the long run.</text></item><item><author>pards</author><text>I&#x27;m a homeowner in Toronto and I don&#x27;t think this will help. They&#x27;ve eliminated a small number of buyers from the market but have added other incentives like a first home buyers tax credit that will only fuel the fire - Australia tried this with tragic results.<p>&gt;&gt; working with provinces and territories to develop and implement a Home Buyers’ Bill of Rights and bring forward a national plan to end blind bidding.<p>Blind bidding is where multiple parties submit a sealed bid on a property. The realtor and seller review these bids behind close doors and then often request subsequent rounds of bids from the bidders *without telling them the current winning bid, or who&#x27;s bid is winning*. Bidders end up out-bidding themselves.<p>IMHO blind bidding is an unethical practice that should be outlawed regardless of its impact on housing prices.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alex_sf</author><text>There is plenty of housing for plenty of people in most parts of North America. The &#x27;problem&#x27; is that what people _want_ is cheap housing in urban centers, a.k.a cool spots. Because that doesn&#x27;t exist, we claim to have a housing shortage.</text></comment> |
25,402,166 | 25,401,788 | 1 | 2 | 25,401,294 | train | <story><title>I Hacked into Facebook's Legal Department Admin Panel</title><url>https://alaa.blog/2020/12/how-i-hacked-facebook-part-one/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>throwitaway1235</author><text>You brilliant guys need to find a way to extract more than $7500 for solutions to problems that less than what, 2%?, of the worlds population can solve.<p>If I were your tech agent I&#x27;d demand Facebook pay out $75,000 minimum for this specific problem.</text></comment> | <story><title>I Hacked into Facebook's Legal Department Admin Panel</title><url>https://alaa.blog/2020/12/how-i-hacked-facebook-part-one/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>iso8859-1</author><text>First pentester I found with 12k followers on Instagram: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.instagram.com&#x2F;al_shwele&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.instagram.com&#x2F;al_shwele&#x2F;</a> but 8 on GitHub: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Alaa-abdulridha" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Alaa-abdulridha</a><p>Instagram keeps surprising me...</text></comment> |
29,404,618 | 29,404,409 | 1 | 3 | 29,403,773 | train | <story><title>Price increase on .io domains on January 1, 2022 (Renewal: $55.00)</title><url>https://www.gandi.net/en-US/domain/tld/io</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aimor</author><text>My thought is to require all domains be sold for the same set price (or at least constant for each TLD). If someone wants to register 1,000 domains let them, but don&#x27;t allow them to profit off that. If someone breaks the rule, revoke the domain. I&#x27;d like to hear reasons why this is a bad idea so I can stop thinking about it every time I get priced out.</text></item><item><author>cj</author><text>How do we create an incentive model that kills the “parked domain” industry without out pricing people who want to host a legitimate non-commercial personal site?<p>At first glance I was happy to see the headline because it means it’ll be more expensive for squatters to profit, but then I do sympathize with people using these domains for legitimate non-commercial purposes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dspillett</author><text><i>&gt; I&#x27;d like to hear reasons why this is a bad idea</i><p>1. It is practically impossible to enforce. Maybe exactly the right amount of money changed hands in one transaction, but how do you know there were no other related transactions perhaps via anonymous crypto transfers or entirely off-net (the good &#x27;ol brown envelope full of cash) or by non-monetary exchange (service rendered).<p>2. It punishes the final buyer, so the scalper in the middle doesn&#x27;t care. It may put buyers off so reduce the competition and the prices scalpers can command, but it won&#x27;t stop them completely. For every scalper that decides it isn&#x27;t worth bothering because profits are down 50% (figure plucked from thin air) there will be a queue of smaller fish more than happy to take the remaining margin.<p>Look into attempts that have been made to control big-name concert tickets and how they have all failed - the problem is essentially the same here.</text></comment> | <story><title>Price increase on .io domains on January 1, 2022 (Renewal: $55.00)</title><url>https://www.gandi.net/en-US/domain/tld/io</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aimor</author><text>My thought is to require all domains be sold for the same set price (or at least constant for each TLD). If someone wants to register 1,000 domains let them, but don&#x27;t allow them to profit off that. If someone breaks the rule, revoke the domain. I&#x27;d like to hear reasons why this is a bad idea so I can stop thinking about it every time I get priced out.</text></item><item><author>cj</author><text>How do we create an incentive model that kills the “parked domain” industry without out pricing people who want to host a legitimate non-commercial personal site?<p>At first glance I was happy to see the headline because it means it’ll be more expensive for squatters to profit, but then I do sympathize with people using these domains for legitimate non-commercial purposes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andruby</author><text>that seems like a nightmare to check. if 100 parties want to buy a specific domain from me (say: database.io), the incentive to sugar the deal will be huge. Why wouldn&#x27;t I sell it to the party that&#x27;ll gift me a Tesla when I sell them the domain for the fixed price?</text></comment> |
8,139,717 | 8,139,438 | 1 | 3 | 8,137,948 | train | <story><title>Obama's Secret Terrorist-Tracking System, by the Numbers</title><url>https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/08/05/watch-commander/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>infinotize</author><text>The article indicates many states are beginning to supply federal agencies with biometric data including driver&#x27;s license photographs. It also states a local police force (the NYPD) was a customer of a facial recognition system.<p>How long until central databases are collecting datapoints on our whereabouts at all times, not only from mobile devices, but just the image of our faces?<p>I don&#x27;t think the founders [US-centric post, but I think this applies to most technologically-advanced nations] envisioned this type of surveillance, and thus offered little protection against it. As the technology to employ this type of capability becomes simpler and cheaper, potential resistance in the form of court processes and public opinion will be comparitively slow to form. This will get a lot worse before it gets better.</text></comment> | <story><title>Obama's Secret Terrorist-Tracking System, by the Numbers</title><url>https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/08/05/watch-commander/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pvnick</author><text>I just love the label they used for the No Recognized Terrorist Group Affiliation on that graph.</text></comment> |
13,630,948 | 13,630,920 | 1 | 3 | 13,629,344 | train | <story><title>Python moved to GitHub</title><url>https://github.com/python/cpython</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>laurentdc</author><text>Yes!<p>I quite like the idea of &quot;centralizing&quot; development on GitHub, or similar services. It makes it much easier for everyone to fork, test, make a pull request, merge, etc..<p>For example, one reason why I gave up contributing to OpenWrt was their absolutely legacy contribution system [1], which required devs to submit code diff patches via email (good luck not messing up the formatting with a modern client) on a mailing list. It took me an hour to submit a patch for three lines of code. It seems like Python wasn&#x27;t much different. [2]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dev.openwrt.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;SubmittingPatches#a1.Creatingapatch" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dev.openwrt.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;SubmittingPatches#a1.Creatingap...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.python.org&#x2F;devguide&#x2F;patch.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.python.org&#x2F;devguide&#x2F;patch.html</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ycmbntrthrwaway</author><text>Centralizing around proprietary software is not a good idea generally.<p>Git is distributed, so when GitHub goes down, every developer has a backup of entire history. However, issues are lost forever. Python does not use &quot;issues&quot; feature for good.<p>One way to avoid email without centralization is setting up Gerrit. That is how Ring [1] and LineageOS (former CyanogenMod) [2] manage their &quot;pull requests&quot;.<p>Still, being able to submit patches via email is an absolutely necessary skill for everyone who considers himself a hacker. Lack of it makes you unable to contribute to many great projects, such as all suckless [3] projects and Linux itself.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gerrit-ring.savoirfairelinux.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gerrit-ring.savoirfairelinux.com&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;review.lineageos.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;review.lineageos.org&#x2F;</a><p>[3] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;suckless.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;suckless.org&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Python moved to GitHub</title><url>https://github.com/python/cpython</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>laurentdc</author><text>Yes!<p>I quite like the idea of &quot;centralizing&quot; development on GitHub, or similar services. It makes it much easier for everyone to fork, test, make a pull request, merge, etc..<p>For example, one reason why I gave up contributing to OpenWrt was their absolutely legacy contribution system [1], which required devs to submit code diff patches via email (good luck not messing up the formatting with a modern client) on a mailing list. It took me an hour to submit a patch for three lines of code. It seems like Python wasn&#x27;t much different. [2]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dev.openwrt.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;SubmittingPatches#a1.Creatingapatch" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dev.openwrt.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;SubmittingPatches#a1.Creatingap...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.python.org&#x2F;devguide&#x2F;patch.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.python.org&#x2F;devguide&#x2F;patch.html</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LeanderK</author><text>i don&#x27;t like centralising development on github, but i welcome the competition for more user-friendly systems. I think the pressure is increasing for other service to provide an equal experience both for exploring an contributing to a project.</text></comment> |
8,740,804 | 8,740,159 | 1 | 2 | 8,739,352 | train | <story><title>Google to close engineering office in Russia</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/12/us-russia-internet-google-idUSKBN0JQ03E20141212</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>riffraff</author><text>&gt; which I have to think will be well received.<p>sorry I can&#x27;t read the english here, do you expect it to be well received (why? seems like it would be a though choice for many people even with a relocation package) or are you expressing hope it will be?</text></item><item><author>robk</author><text>Word is that most employees are being offered full relocation (generally to Zurich) which I have to think will be well received.<p>This goes for both Moscow and St Petersburg.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>robk</author><text>Sorry for the colloquial English. I meant that employees will likely take advantage of this as a good alternative to leaving Google. It is financially beneficial to earn in CHF versus RUB if you don&#x27;t mind Zurich.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google to close engineering office in Russia</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/12/us-russia-internet-google-idUSKBN0JQ03E20141212</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>riffraff</author><text>&gt; which I have to think will be well received.<p>sorry I can&#x27;t read the english here, do you expect it to be well received (why? seems like it would be a though choice for many people even with a relocation package) or are you expressing hope it will be?</text></item><item><author>robk</author><text>Word is that most employees are being offered full relocation (generally to Zurich) which I have to think will be well received.<p>This goes for both Moscow and St Petersburg.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tonfa</author><text>At least in term of compensation, Zurich is hard to beat.</text></comment> |
38,060,081 | 38,059,859 | 1 | 2 | 38,056,637 | train | <story><title>Giving a Shit as a Service (2022)</title><url>https://allenpike.com/2022/giving-a-shit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dvt</author><text>Fundamentally disagree with this. In fact, most of human technology has worked without on-call rotations. From the complicated movements of mechanical watches, to the still-ticking heartbeats of the Voyager probes.<p>Most software engineers just happen to be bad engineers. On-call rotations are a band-aid for poor planning and development (to be fair, often imposed by tech-delinquent middle managers or executives).</text></item><item><author>somsak2</author><text>If you work at a company on a team with a user-facing surface, you need to have an on-call rotation. Consumer expectations of uptime are extremely high and there&#x27;s no way to build software that ensures 100% reliability without any human intervention.</text></item><item><author>dvt</author><text>&gt; &quot;A lack of planning on your behalf, does not constitute an emergency upon mine.&quot;<p>Agreed. Imo, having &quot;on call&quot; rotations is a clear red flag and bad software practice that has somehow made it in the mainstream.<p>I understand the idea of &quot;mission critical&quot; when you&#x27;re running software on the Moon or something, but if your Earthbound software has so many potential bugs that you need to have dedicated people being on call every weekend to fix bugs or restart servers, you just built it poorly.</text></item><item><author>ProllyInfamous</author><text>&gt;expect to make a few friends and many enemies<p>The older I get, the less I&#x27;m willing to help disaster scenarios.<p>&quot;A lack of planning on your behalf, does not constitute an emergency upon mine.&quot;</text></item><item><author>squarefoot</author><text>&gt; &quot;if you&#x27;re the only person that &#x27;gives a shit,&#x27; YOU&#x27;RE GONNA HAVE A BAD TIME.&quot;<p>Not only that (which is 100% true) but also you&#x27;re raising the bar in required work quality for everyone else to get on par with you, therefore expect to make a few friends and many enemies, especially among colleagues.</text></item><item><author>ProllyInfamous</author><text>I always carry a two dollar bill and fifty-cent piece, for when (e.g.) an entry-level store-clerk does something which most-other-clerks wouldn&#x27;t resolve, I can say to them &quot;Thank you for giving. a . shit.&quot;<p>As a blue-collar electrician (although retired), I want to hire anybody that seems to give even the tiniest shit. While working, it took me a decade to realize that &quot;if you&#x27;re the only person that &#x27;gives a shit,&#x27; YOU&#x27;RE GONNA HAVE A BAD TIME.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>infecto</author><text>Fundamentally disagree with this but I can see how someone who thinks at the level of &quot;Most software engineers just happen to be bad engineers&quot; would see it that way.<p>I have worked at firms of various sizes and there is always a point where things usually become complex at some point. Software is as much or more so about managing the humans than it is the software. This becomes especially true as the firm grows in size. Like all fields there are certainly some individuals that perform better&#x2F;worse than others but even for the best engineers out there, mistakes happen, edge cases pop up especially as the potential complexity grows. Of course these mistakes can pop up more frequently depending on the imposed deadlines. Deadlines to me are a healthy balancing act between the different parts of the business. Sometimes they are arbitrary but I think in a healthy relationship it helps to have that pushback&#x2F;friction to figure out how much effort is required.<p>That was a long way of saying I think its a pretty naive and dismissive view to just hand wave and say this is both due to bad engineers and tech-delinquent middle managers. You are not asking for it either but I think this also comes down to social ability&#x2F;skills. If your worldview is that most software engineers I can only imagine this shows up in the workplace.</text></comment> | <story><title>Giving a Shit as a Service (2022)</title><url>https://allenpike.com/2022/giving-a-shit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dvt</author><text>Fundamentally disagree with this. In fact, most of human technology has worked without on-call rotations. From the complicated movements of mechanical watches, to the still-ticking heartbeats of the Voyager probes.<p>Most software engineers just happen to be bad engineers. On-call rotations are a band-aid for poor planning and development (to be fair, often imposed by tech-delinquent middle managers or executives).</text></item><item><author>somsak2</author><text>If you work at a company on a team with a user-facing surface, you need to have an on-call rotation. Consumer expectations of uptime are extremely high and there&#x27;s no way to build software that ensures 100% reliability without any human intervention.</text></item><item><author>dvt</author><text>&gt; &quot;A lack of planning on your behalf, does not constitute an emergency upon mine.&quot;<p>Agreed. Imo, having &quot;on call&quot; rotations is a clear red flag and bad software practice that has somehow made it in the mainstream.<p>I understand the idea of &quot;mission critical&quot; when you&#x27;re running software on the Moon or something, but if your Earthbound software has so many potential bugs that you need to have dedicated people being on call every weekend to fix bugs or restart servers, you just built it poorly.</text></item><item><author>ProllyInfamous</author><text>&gt;expect to make a few friends and many enemies<p>The older I get, the less I&#x27;m willing to help disaster scenarios.<p>&quot;A lack of planning on your behalf, does not constitute an emergency upon mine.&quot;</text></item><item><author>squarefoot</author><text>&gt; &quot;if you&#x27;re the only person that &#x27;gives a shit,&#x27; YOU&#x27;RE GONNA HAVE A BAD TIME.&quot;<p>Not only that (which is 100% true) but also you&#x27;re raising the bar in required work quality for everyone else to get on par with you, therefore expect to make a few friends and many enemies, especially among colleagues.</text></item><item><author>ProllyInfamous</author><text>I always carry a two dollar bill and fifty-cent piece, for when (e.g.) an entry-level store-clerk does something which most-other-clerks wouldn&#x27;t resolve, I can say to them &quot;Thank you for giving. a . shit.&quot;<p>As a blue-collar electrician (although retired), I want to hire anybody that seems to give even the tiniest shit. While working, it took me a decade to realize that &quot;if you&#x27;re the only person that &#x27;gives a shit,&#x27; YOU&#x27;RE GONNA HAVE A BAD TIME.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dasil003</author><text>Obviously the truth is somewhere in between, there is no engineer so talented that they can produce a 100% reliable and available system, and the percentage goes down the more complex the system gets. The decision of whether to have a on-call rotation should be based on the consequences of downtime, not on some kind of moral stance on human fallibility.</text></comment> |
16,301,608 | 16,300,964 | 1 | 2 | 16,299,903 | train | <story><title>iMac Pro 18-core Follow Up Review</title><url>http://hrtapps.com/blogs/20180202/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ghostcluster</author><text>Some of the harshest criticisms of Apple have been coming from diehard fans in Apple&#x27;s market niche, such as Marco Arment. See: the Touch Bar, the keyboards: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marco.org&#x2F;2017&#x2F;11&#x2F;24&#x2F;fixing-the-macbook-pro" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marco.org&#x2F;2017&#x2F;11&#x2F;24&#x2F;fixing-the-macbook-pro</a><p>&gt; They are clearly doing something right.<p>Mac sales are down 5%.</text></item><item><author>plg</author><text>A lot of the negative comments wrt cost are versions of this: what a ripoff, you can get better components for way less money in some other PC and&#x2F;or if you build your own.<p>That&#x27;s nice but it&#x27;s not Apple&#x27;s market. Apple&#x27;s market is not other PCs, and it&#x27;s not build your own.<p>This criticism of Apple has been around ever since Apple has been around (1970s). While the criticism has basically stayed the same since then, Apple has not stayed the same, they have grown. Their products have improved. Their market share has grown and it continues to grow.<p>Some people pay more money for a Benz, and other people say Hey that&#x27;s a ripoff, I can buy a Toyota that gets me to work and back, just like your expensive Benz, for half the price! What a ripoff!<p>Apple is not in the business of making inexpensive PCs (and accepting all of the tradeoffs therein). The trends show that more and more people are willing to spend their money on Apple products.<p>They are clearly doing something right.<p>If you are enraged by their success, perhaps you are not their target market. And that is ok.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pentae</author><text>The worst part about this, is Apple will throw their hands up in the air and say &quot;See? The PC Business is dying. We need to double down on making Macbooks more like iPads and focus on the iPhone business&quot; Rather than realising it&#x27;s because their new Macbook computer lineup is a burning dumpster fire that is almost universally reviled.</text></comment> | <story><title>iMac Pro 18-core Follow Up Review</title><url>http://hrtapps.com/blogs/20180202/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ghostcluster</author><text>Some of the harshest criticisms of Apple have been coming from diehard fans in Apple&#x27;s market niche, such as Marco Arment. See: the Touch Bar, the keyboards: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marco.org&#x2F;2017&#x2F;11&#x2F;24&#x2F;fixing-the-macbook-pro" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marco.org&#x2F;2017&#x2F;11&#x2F;24&#x2F;fixing-the-macbook-pro</a><p>&gt; They are clearly doing something right.<p>Mac sales are down 5%.</text></item><item><author>plg</author><text>A lot of the negative comments wrt cost are versions of this: what a ripoff, you can get better components for way less money in some other PC and&#x2F;or if you build your own.<p>That&#x27;s nice but it&#x27;s not Apple&#x27;s market. Apple&#x27;s market is not other PCs, and it&#x27;s not build your own.<p>This criticism of Apple has been around ever since Apple has been around (1970s). While the criticism has basically stayed the same since then, Apple has not stayed the same, they have grown. Their products have improved. Their market share has grown and it continues to grow.<p>Some people pay more money for a Benz, and other people say Hey that&#x27;s a ripoff, I can buy a Toyota that gets me to work and back, just like your expensive Benz, for half the price! What a ripoff!<p>Apple is not in the business of making inexpensive PCs (and accepting all of the tradeoffs therein). The trends show that more and more people are willing to spend their money on Apple products.<p>They are clearly doing something right.<p>If you are enraged by their success, perhaps you are not their target market. And that is ok.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scarface74</author><text>This isn&#x27;t about the MacBook Pro. Marco bought a 10 core iMac Pro and raves about it on both ATP and Under the Radar.</text></comment> |
5,838,828 | 5,838,534 | 1 | 3 | 5,838,066 | train | <story><title>Anonymous releases NSA documents</title><url>http://pastebin.com/MPpT7xaf</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bradfordarner</author><text>What a waste of my eyes!<p>As someone who spent years working in government-ese, there is nothing new here at all. None of the documents are actually classified. They are standard policy propositions layered with heavy technical&#x2F;government jargon. The intelligence community and DOD is meticulous about properly classifying even the most mundane information that could be connected to anything of consequence for national security. Hence, it has been the standard for decades that every single classified document must have a header and footer with its classification level clearly posted. I was put on the spot once in a brief for not having a footer with the brief&#x27;s classification on one slide in a PowerPoint. None of these documents have the required headers or footers. Logical conclusion, none of them require it because none of them are classified.<p>The real government is far more boring than the one that appears in popular conspiracy theories and movies. Trust me, the real government is a boring employer...great health insurance though!</text></comment> | <story><title>Anonymous releases NSA documents</title><url>http://pastebin.com/MPpT7xaf</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>marcamillion</author><text>I would love for someone to go through these and let us know if there is anything worth while looking at.<p>This looks, on the surface, like run-of-the-mill process related docs for the various aspects of the defense department.</text></comment> |
37,199,713 | 37,197,764 | 1 | 2 | 37,197,155 | train | <story><title>Shit life syndrome</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shit_life_syndrome</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>padolsey</author><text>This is quite darkly hilarious tbh. And consistent with my experience of Blackpool.<p>I once went there on couple-week-long driving course when I was a teenager, hoping but eventually failing to get my license. I was put up in someone&#x27;s house that was run as a sort of unlicensed b&amp;b. The entire place, the curtains, the linen, the pillow,.. all smelled of old nicotine and damp. On my first evening I went out by myself to a fish-and-chip shop, feeling like a silly city boy in a greasy gritty concrete town. Stuck out like a sore thumb. I remember walking, late evening, lonely, on a bridge over the railtrack. The entire place felt deserted, metallic and concrete.<p>I went back to my room and ate the oily chips on my bed. After the first day with an old crusty – but perfectly lovely driving instructor – and a rather large heavy-haulage driver who was renewing a license, we went out for some drinks. Beers. Lots of beer. And they took me to a gay club – of which there are oddly many in Blackpool – because they thought it&#x27;d be a laugh. It was actually a massive spectacle for me. It was the first time I saw older men kissing, right there, by the entrance on a old tawdry sofa. I was still on a journey of coming out, so it felt oddly enlightening or validating or something. It was an old-england gay club – the type you hear about in the era of stonewall.<p>The entire town was like a time capsule to a poorer apocalyptic britain. Betting shops, cheap nail salons, boarded up derelict buildings everywhere! Even the beach was deserted. It reflected the same depressing crumbling economy of coastal towns all over the UK. It felt like a shadow of its former self, but somehow, there was a old english magic to it that I can still feel. My nostalgia is probably getting the better of me, but I remember it fondly.<p>So yeh I think I understand this SLS thing. In places like Blackpool – forgotten remnants - you can feel the depression in the paving stones – the grey withering vitality – swallowing you whole.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>placesalt</author><text>(beautiful writing, as others have said!)<p>&gt; the same depressing crumbling economy of coastal towns all over the UK<p>I&#x27;m surprised to hear that coastal towns in the UK are doing poorly. In North America, it&#x27;s generally the coastal areas that are more prosperous.<p>Was it overbuilding during the era of British sea power? Or a great sucking-up of wealth by London?<p>It makes me wonder if, long term, seaside areas would make good places to buy property. Surely, on the whole, they have more natural beauty than inland areas.</text></comment> | <story><title>Shit life syndrome</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shit_life_syndrome</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>padolsey</author><text>This is quite darkly hilarious tbh. And consistent with my experience of Blackpool.<p>I once went there on couple-week-long driving course when I was a teenager, hoping but eventually failing to get my license. I was put up in someone&#x27;s house that was run as a sort of unlicensed b&amp;b. The entire place, the curtains, the linen, the pillow,.. all smelled of old nicotine and damp. On my first evening I went out by myself to a fish-and-chip shop, feeling like a silly city boy in a greasy gritty concrete town. Stuck out like a sore thumb. I remember walking, late evening, lonely, on a bridge over the railtrack. The entire place felt deserted, metallic and concrete.<p>I went back to my room and ate the oily chips on my bed. After the first day with an old crusty – but perfectly lovely driving instructor – and a rather large heavy-haulage driver who was renewing a license, we went out for some drinks. Beers. Lots of beer. And they took me to a gay club – of which there are oddly many in Blackpool – because they thought it&#x27;d be a laugh. It was actually a massive spectacle for me. It was the first time I saw older men kissing, right there, by the entrance on a old tawdry sofa. I was still on a journey of coming out, so it felt oddly enlightening or validating or something. It was an old-england gay club – the type you hear about in the era of stonewall.<p>The entire town was like a time capsule to a poorer apocalyptic britain. Betting shops, cheap nail salons, boarded up derelict buildings everywhere! Even the beach was deserted. It reflected the same depressing crumbling economy of coastal towns all over the UK. It felt like a shadow of its former self, but somehow, there was a old english magic to it that I can still feel. My nostalgia is probably getting the better of me, but I remember it fondly.<p>So yeh I think I understand this SLS thing. In places like Blackpool – forgotten remnants - you can feel the depression in the paving stones – the grey withering vitality – swallowing you whole.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hkt</author><text>Beautifully put, an answer approaching literature. I have the same feelings about Blackpool.<p>Coastal towns really are monuments to another time. The houses are beautiful, too - a two bedroom flat in one of the old guesthouses on the sea front with bay windows is a steal in most towns, if you can cope with the town itself.<p>Scarborough is another one. It was clearly so much more full of life than it is now, but its status as an elder resort is part of its charm. The poverty, so much not.</text></comment> |
37,113,492 | 37,112,920 | 1 | 3 | 37,085,435 | train | <story><title>How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIa: Starting Down the Path of Honors</title><url>https://acoup.blog/2023/08/11/collections-how-to-roman-republic-101-part-iiia-starting-down-the-path-of-honors/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>diego_moita</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen some interest on HN for the Roman Kingdom, Republic and Empire.<p>For a very interesting history of Rome, from the 2 foundation myths (Romulus vs Aeneas) until the end of the &quot;Pax Romana&quot;, I strongly suggest the book &quot;SPQR&quot;, by Mary Beard.<p>She is a very respected scholar on Ancient Rome and she has a lot of documentaries on Youtube.<p>I just started the famous &quot;Decline and fall of the Roman Empire&quot;, by Edward Gibbons, covering the period after the SPQR book. Still in the beginning, to early for conclusions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cdcarter</author><text>I have to shout out the “Masters of Rome” series by Colleen Mccullough. It starts with “The First Man in Rome” covering Gaius Marius’ rise to power, and proceeds through the fall of the Republic and the establishing of the Empire.<p>These books are incredibly well researched and informative, but also have SUCH a compelling narrative style and characterizations. It’s very immersive.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIa: Starting Down the Path of Honors</title><url>https://acoup.blog/2023/08/11/collections-how-to-roman-republic-101-part-iiia-starting-down-the-path-of-honors/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>diego_moita</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen some interest on HN for the Roman Kingdom, Republic and Empire.<p>For a very interesting history of Rome, from the 2 foundation myths (Romulus vs Aeneas) until the end of the &quot;Pax Romana&quot;, I strongly suggest the book &quot;SPQR&quot;, by Mary Beard.<p>She is a very respected scholar on Ancient Rome and she has a lot of documentaries on Youtube.<p>I just started the famous &quot;Decline and fall of the Roman Empire&quot;, by Edward Gibbons, covering the period after the SPQR book. Still in the beginning, to early for conclusions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philipov</author><text>Check out the History of Rome podcast by Mike Duncan if you haven&#x27;t already.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_History_of_Rome_(podcast)" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_History_of_Rome_(podcast)</a></text></comment> |
22,659,009 | 22,658,266 | 1 | 2 | 22,657,652 | train | <story><title>Current Wuhan Situation</title><url>https://twitter.com/heylauragao/status/1241620966762938370</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yumraj</author><text>Doesn&#x27;t this put into question the whole premise that <i>China had defeated the Covid-19</i> and things are beginning to come to normal?<p>The lockdown is in effect and the moment it&#x27;s taken down, we&#x27;ll see a second wave. No?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>harmmonica</author><text>It has been, I think, 5 days since the last case in Wuhan (guess there&#x27;s a debate about a case that may have occurred yesterday&#x2F;today, but jury&#x27;s out on that one based on media reports).<p>That said, if the 5 days is true, then you wouldn&#x27;t expect them to remove the lockdown until they know they&#x27;ve starved the virus for the incubation period (I think it&#x27;s generally accepted that 14 days is the number, but that there are potentially longer outliers). By that logic, you wouldn&#x27;t expect them to lift the lockdown materially for another 9 days and even then you would expect them to only gradually lift restrictions while they ensure no new cases emerge.<p>I&#x27;m sure there <i>are</i> media outlets saying China has &quot;defeated&quot; the virus, but from what I&#x27;ve read they&#x27;ve contained it, kept new infections to a minimum (attributing all at this point to imported cases) and are still on varying degrees of lockdown. And this is hardly reputable, but I follow people on Instagram who are in Shanghai and folks there still talk as if things are far from normal... There are still restrictions on what you can do, where you can go.</text></comment> | <story><title>Current Wuhan Situation</title><url>https://twitter.com/heylauragao/status/1241620966762938370</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yumraj</author><text>Doesn&#x27;t this put into question the whole premise that <i>China had defeated the Covid-19</i> and things are beginning to come to normal?<p>The lockdown is in effect and the moment it&#x27;s taken down, we&#x27;ll see a second wave. No?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>glofish</author><text>&gt; The lockdown is in effect and the moment it&#x27;s taken down, we&#x27;ll see a second wave. No?<p>Who knows, I think they have no idea and are just keeping things as they are to avoid having Wuhan in the news. Would make awful press to admit to any new cases in Wuhan.<p>Are other major metropolises locked down similarly? Beijing, Shanghai?<p>In general, is it credible that China has had no new cases other than those so called &quot;imported from outside&quot;? Sounds like propaganda to me.</text></comment> |
3,486,225 | 3,486,173 | 1 | 2 | 3,484,980 | train | <story><title>Apple announces iBooks 2, iBooks Author to "reinvent textbooks"</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2012/01/apple-announces-ibooks-2-to-reinvent-textbooks.ars</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>r00fus</author><text>I agree with everything you said but worry about the market dynamics of capping the price at $15. As far as I've seen, Apple has never done this before (putting a price floor of $0.99 for paid apps is quite different).<p>Will this result in each "chapter" being $15 eventually? Will this favor the rich student over the poor one in terms of coverage (underfunded school wants basic book that covers entire course, but marketplace offers much better books that are more surgical in coverage - rich kid gets better content while poor kid does not).</text></item><item><author>gfodor</author><text>It's hard to overstate how important I think this is. There are a few reasons.<p>First, this brings a focused, clear path for educational content on the iPad. By opening the Books marketplace to more rich multimedia applications, Apple has made it possible for many of the dreams of interactive learning advocates to go mainstream. Imagine learning math by interacting with functions directly or doing symbolic manipulation directly. Or learning to code by actually doing it alongside a narrative. It's hard to imagine an area of study that would <i>not</i> benefit from creative use of technology in teaching it. (No, just adding videos and audio is not enough.)<p>Second, it opens the door to getting iPads in every classroom. By making it so there is a clear incentive for schools to buy iPads for all their students (cheaper, more useful textbooks) you get an iPad in the hands of every child. It goes without saying this is a big deal.<p>Finally, it opens the door for real competition for textbooks. By capping the price of textbooks at $15.00, students can easily decide to have several different treatments of the same topic on their iPad. If you manage to create content that is more clear, enjoyable, or even correct, parents and students will be one tap away from getting access to it, cheaply, if their officially-sanctioned book is not doing the job. This turns traditional textbook publishing on its head, because it empowers parents to overturn the textbook choices their school makes from the bottom up. If the entire math class has switched over to using an alternative textbook to learn a topic (just through word of mouth), this might tip the scales so the best content ends up being adopted by schools. Creative, upcoming authors will find that usurping the mainstream textbooks is now possible. I can imagine maverick publishers basically taking the same table of contents from a mainstream textbook and modernizing the treatment of the topic, so students have an easy way to move forward in their class at the same pace but with a much better learning tool.<p>And this is just what is on the top of my head, before forward thinking content creators have gotten their hands on this new platform.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jonknee</author><text>The music store is a very obvious example of Apple using a price cap.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple announces iBooks 2, iBooks Author to "reinvent textbooks"</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2012/01/apple-announces-ibooks-2-to-reinvent-textbooks.ars</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>r00fus</author><text>I agree with everything you said but worry about the market dynamics of capping the price at $15. As far as I've seen, Apple has never done this before (putting a price floor of $0.99 for paid apps is quite different).<p>Will this result in each "chapter" being $15 eventually? Will this favor the rich student over the poor one in terms of coverage (underfunded school wants basic book that covers entire course, but marketplace offers much better books that are more surgical in coverage - rich kid gets better content while poor kid does not).</text></item><item><author>gfodor</author><text>It's hard to overstate how important I think this is. There are a few reasons.<p>First, this brings a focused, clear path for educational content on the iPad. By opening the Books marketplace to more rich multimedia applications, Apple has made it possible for many of the dreams of interactive learning advocates to go mainstream. Imagine learning math by interacting with functions directly or doing symbolic manipulation directly. Or learning to code by actually doing it alongside a narrative. It's hard to imagine an area of study that would <i>not</i> benefit from creative use of technology in teaching it. (No, just adding videos and audio is not enough.)<p>Second, it opens the door to getting iPads in every classroom. By making it so there is a clear incentive for schools to buy iPads for all their students (cheaper, more useful textbooks) you get an iPad in the hands of every child. It goes without saying this is a big deal.<p>Finally, it opens the door for real competition for textbooks. By capping the price of textbooks at $15.00, students can easily decide to have several different treatments of the same topic on their iPad. If you manage to create content that is more clear, enjoyable, or even correct, parents and students will be one tap away from getting access to it, cheaply, if their officially-sanctioned book is not doing the job. This turns traditional textbook publishing on its head, because it empowers parents to overturn the textbook choices their school makes from the bottom up. If the entire math class has switched over to using an alternative textbook to learn a topic (just through word of mouth), this might tip the scales so the best content ends up being adopted by schools. Creative, upcoming authors will find that usurping the mainstream textbooks is now possible. I can imagine maverick publishers basically taking the same table of contents from a mainstream textbook and modernizing the treatment of the topic, so students have an easy way to move forward in their class at the same pace but with a much better learning tool.<p>And this is just what is on the top of my head, before forward thinking content creators have gotten their hands on this new platform.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tycho</author><text>Hmm but since private schools already exist, a more granular way for families to improve their child's education by choosing to spend more money on it is surely only going to be an improvement. (no idea why you were down voted)</text></comment> |
19,464,141 | 19,463,844 | 1 | 3 | 19,463,110 | train | <story><title>Rick Steves Wants to Save the World, One Vacation at a Time</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/03/20/magazine/rick-steves-travel-world.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cageface</author><text>I did a ton of traveling last year all over the world and the conclusion I reached was that the popular destinations are completely overwhelmed.<p>I guess it’s the combination of cheap flights and instagram but if you want to enjoy yourself then forget about Kyoto and Venice etc and look into some less popular and less well known places instead.<p>And do the rest of us a favor and don’t location tag if you do discover something great.</text></comment> | <story><title>Rick Steves Wants to Save the World, One Vacation at a Time</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/03/20/magazine/rick-steves-travel-world.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mturmon</author><text>I read his book <i>Europe through the back door</i> before my second trip to Europe, around 1992. What a refreshing book, especially in a category that was (and is) dominated by publications and institutions that are invested in making you want expensive and exclusive accommodations and attractions.<p>He has kind of a upright earnestness, combined with a sort of Germanic devotion to efficiency (&quot;save money by sleeping on the train&quot;; &quot;plan a day&#x27;s activity city-hopping by integrating a few key visits with the train schedule&quot;, &quot;roll your trousers when packing&quot;), that some nerds would generally find appealing.<p>I&#x27;ve returned to that book several times over the years when I feel like I need an attitude adjustment about how I travel, because it&#x27;s easy to fall into the habit of just booking expensive accommodations. The result can be one-dimensional.</text></comment> |
1,613,374 | 1,612,991 | 1 | 2 | 1,612,836 | train | <story><title>CSS3 lasers</title><url>http://motherfuckinglasers.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>photon_off</author><text>CSS3 offers a lot; essentially it can let you programmatically draw whatever you want fairly easily. While it's cool to see demos and fun things made with it, I'm about as impressed by most "look what I can do with CSS3" things as I am with "look what I can do with &#60;insert graphical design software here&#62;". That's not to say that neither can create amazing things; I'm just noting that since it's apparent CSS3 is quite powerful, it'll take more to impress me. Regardless, it's always fun to see these things :)</text></comment> | <story><title>CSS3 lasers</title><url>http://motherfuckinglasers.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jashkenas</author><text>Source Code for the curious...<p>lasers.coffee <a href="http://github.com/evilhackerdude/lasers/blob/master/lasers.coffee" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/evilhackerdude/lasers/blob/master/lasers.c...</a><p>lasers.sass <a href="http://github.com/evilhackerdude/lasers/blob/master/lasers.sass" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/evilhackerdude/lasers/blob/master/lasers.s...</a></text></comment> |
21,644,002 | 21,640,662 | 1 | 2 | 21,640,200 | train | <story><title>Eternal Terminal</title><url>https://eternalterminal.dev/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Digitalghost</author><text>Hey all, ET developer here. It was an amazing surprise to find ET on the top of HN today. Since it&#x27;s the three year anniversary of the project, I wanted to share a post that I wrote to my colleagues about it:<p>RejoinableTCP was a project that I started and abandoned in 11&#x2F;18&#x2F;16. RejoinableTCP was supposed to be a remote shell that automatically reconnects without interrupting the session. It was supposed to be resumable like mosh but with the user experience of ssh. I never started it, because:<p>1. Unix sockets, public-key encryption, and how TCP actually works are the stuff of eldritch nightmares.<p>2. No one would switch from ssh just to save a few minutes each day. No one would switch from mosh just to get OS scrollbars<p>3. I wasn&#x27;t living up to my expectations in my day-job, and it was taking all of my time. There was no way that I would work on something new.<p>I created an empty folder and gave up on the same day. The next day, after using mosh for a few hours, I decided:<p>1. I would give myself three weeks to learn these things before truly giving up.<p>2. Even if no one else used it, I&#x27;d use it.<p>3. I&#x27;d keep a weekly log of time spent and economize that time.<p>4. RejoinableTCP was not a good name.<p>So on 11&#x2F;19&#x2F;16 Eternal Terminal was born, and three years later, here we are.
Somewhere out there, there is some engineer today who has an idea in the same state that I was with Eternal Terminal three years ago. This post is for you:<p>1. You can prototype anything in three weeks if you put your heart in it.<p>2. Look around: all the engineers around you felt that same Calling, when you are building something amazing, time becomes fluid and things just flow. We may all come from different places and backgrounds, but that shared experience unites us. If you see a way to make this place better for you, it will probably make it better for others as well.<p>3. If you love the job you do and the place you work, you can find a way through almost any situation. The entire company is rigged in your favor.</text></comment> | <story><title>Eternal Terminal</title><url>https://eternalterminal.dev/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Uehreka</author><text>Since I often complain about bad landing pages, I want to take a moment to highlight a really good one. I arrive on the page and:<p>BOOM! &quot;Eternal Terminal&quot; the name of the project<p>But what is-- &quot;H2: Remote terminal for the busy and impatient&quot;!<p>In a sentence or two? &quot;Eternal Terminal (ET) is a remote shell that automatically reconnects without interrupting the session. Learn how to install and use it here.&quot;<p>Oh sweet, now I know what this is. But I&#x27;m a power user, can&#x27;t you also just do this in bash using-- &quot;Here are alternative approaches along with explanations of why we&#x27;re better&quot;<p>Cool stuff, is this a new thing or-- &quot;Here&#x27;s our paginated version history with DATES! BEAUTIFUL WONDERFUL RELEASE DATES so you can see quickly that this project is at least a couple years old.&quot;<p>Sure sure, but what if someone on HN had just linked to the most recent release notes? &quot;Let your eye and your mouse cursor drift naturally to the upper left hand corner, where the name of the project shows up and links to the landing page you just spent 5 minutes gushing about.&quot;<p>Bravo.</text></comment> |
37,756,508 | 37,755,995 | 1 | 2 | 37,752,632 | train | <story><title>Running Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 in 298MB of RAM</title><url>https://github.com/vitoplantamura/OnnxStream/tree/846da873570a737b49154e8f835704264864b0fe</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vinkelhake</author><text>11 hours remind me of doing raytracing on my Amiga 500 back in the day. It was definitely an overnight job for the &quot;final&quot; render.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>somat</author><text>Heh sometimes I am still doing that. modern bidirectional raytracers can do some interesting tricks. and I wanted to see caustics(the bright lines in pools). but caustics despite being bright are actually statistically rare. to get good caustics you have to unbound the render engine and just let it cook overnight.<p>And the end result, a single image of a mediocre scene by a poor artist with amazing caustics. I won&#x27;t be quitting my day job.</text></comment> | <story><title>Running Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 in 298MB of RAM</title><url>https://github.com/vitoplantamura/OnnxStream/tree/846da873570a737b49154e8f835704264864b0fe</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vinkelhake</author><text>11 hours remind me of doing raytracing on my Amiga 500 back in the day. It was definitely an overnight job for the &quot;final&quot; render.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hinkley</author><text>Doing that low quality render first because you&#x27;d rather waste an hour being right than all night being wrong.<p>That was about when I decided I needed other hobbies. Right before that happened some brilliant soul put out a tool that would render your scene in OpenGL so you could look at it first. I don&#x27;t think that would run on your Amiga but it (barely) ran on my machine.</text></comment> |
21,161,310 | 21,161,529 | 1 | 2 | 21,159,872 | train | <story><title>Apple approves previously rejected HKMap.live app</title><url>https://twitter.com/hkmaplive/status/1180137132842610688</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>burtonator</author><text>The fact that we can&#x27;t side-load apps is a tragedy. Any anti-trust investigation into Apple + Google should discuss this it&#x27;s highly anti-competitive.<p>I get that they want a sanitary app store but if I go to myapp.com I should be able to side load.<p>It would also be nice to side-load from phone to phone in situations like this so that apps can&#x27;t be blocked by governments like China.<p>If the apps just verified keys that would be enough so that you know you&#x27;re installing the app from the right developer.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple approves previously rejected HKMap.live app</title><url>https://twitter.com/hkmaplive/status/1180137132842610688</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xvector</author><text>The big takeaway is that the app was never <i>removed</i> from the store - it was just never approved. Apps not being approved is quite common.<p>All the headlines were saying that the app was &quot;banned&quot;&#x2F;removed from the store, leading to massive outrage.</text></comment> |
21,708,670 | 21,708,076 | 1 | 2 | 21,707,402 | train | <story><title>Authentication Vulnerabilities in OpenBSD</title><url>https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/12/04/5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>notaplumber</author><text>Most of the issues are classified as Local privilege escalation, and none of the daemons mentioned are enabled by default, sshd can be enabled in the installer, but as the quote says &quot;sshd is not exploitable thanks to its defense-in-depth mechanisms.&quot;<p>So, no. Still holds.<p>Worth pointing that Linux has had a rough week as well, this one is pretty bad: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openwall.com&#x2F;lists&#x2F;oss-security&#x2F;2019&#x2F;12&#x2F;02&#x2F;2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openwall.com&#x2F;lists&#x2F;oss-security&#x2F;2019&#x2F;12&#x2F;02&#x2F;2</a><p>Patch your systems.</text></item><item><author>procinct</author><text>&gt; this vulnerability is remotely exploitable in smtpd, ldapd, and radiusd, but its real-world impact should be studied on a case-by-case basis. For example, sshd is not exploitable thanks to its defense-in-depth mechanisms.<p>Does this mean OpenBSD will have to update the tagline on their website that says &quot;Only two remote holes in the default install, in a heck of a long time!&quot;?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>technion</author><text>This discussion comes up a lot, and I&#x27;d make an opposing case. Rather than debating whether OpenBSD can reasonably say this - I&#x27;d suggest most Linux distributions could say it themselves if they so wanted.<p>Last time I installed CentOS the only port open on the firewall by default with OpenSSH after all.</text></comment> | <story><title>Authentication Vulnerabilities in OpenBSD</title><url>https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/12/04/5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>notaplumber</author><text>Most of the issues are classified as Local privilege escalation, and none of the daemons mentioned are enabled by default, sshd can be enabled in the installer, but as the quote says &quot;sshd is not exploitable thanks to its defense-in-depth mechanisms.&quot;<p>So, no. Still holds.<p>Worth pointing that Linux has had a rough week as well, this one is pretty bad: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openwall.com&#x2F;lists&#x2F;oss-security&#x2F;2019&#x2F;12&#x2F;02&#x2F;2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openwall.com&#x2F;lists&#x2F;oss-security&#x2F;2019&#x2F;12&#x2F;02&#x2F;2</a><p>Patch your systems.</text></item><item><author>procinct</author><text>&gt; this vulnerability is remotely exploitable in smtpd, ldapd, and radiusd, but its real-world impact should be studied on a case-by-case basis. For example, sshd is not exploitable thanks to its defense-in-depth mechanisms.<p>Does this mean OpenBSD will have to update the tagline on their website that says &quot;Only two remote holes in the default install, in a heck of a long time!&quot;?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>upofadown</author><text>Smtpd (one of the mentioned daemons) is started in a default install. It is configured to do local mail delivery and can queue up remote deliveries for programs running on the system. It only connects to localhost and does not authenticate so this exploit would be irrelevant. If one did open an authenticated mail connection on an interface accessible to the world then the exploit would allow the system to be used as a spam relay.<p>Added: Just to be clear, this doesn&#x27;t give any significant access to the system itself through smtpd even if it is configured to be remotely accessible. So not a possible remote hole. Dunno about other stuff.</text></comment> |
12,004,633 | 12,004,457 | 1 | 2 | 12,002,673 | train | <story><title>We built voice modulation to mask gender in technical interviews</title><url>http://blog.interviewing.io/we-built-voice-modulation-to-mask-gender-in-technical-interviews-heres-what-happened/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xienze</author><text>I honestly feel like this sort of thing is a waste of time.<p>Let&#x27;s pretend someone invents the perfect &quot;gender bias-free&quot; system: no names, no faces, voices are flawlessly transcribed on-the-fly so you can&#x27;t pick up on speech patterns. What if it works perfectly and you still end up hiring more men than women? I think exercises like this may end up giving people answers they don&#x27;t want to hear.<p>So, stop wasting time with stuff like this. If you&#x27;re bothered by the fact that there&#x27;s more men in your company than women just hire more women until you get your desired ratio. You&#x27;ve already made your minds up (&quot;there&#x27;s too many men here, clearly we&#x27;re biased against women during the hiring process&quot;) and I doubt anything will make you think differently, so just go ahead and fix the imbalance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tyr42</author><text>There is evidence to the contrary, where they have run this experiment in the real world. This is for Orchestras.<p>As late as 1970, the top five orchestras in the U.S. had fewer than 5% women. It wasn’t until 1980 that any of these top orchestras had 10% female musicians. But by 1997, they were up to 25% and today some of them are well into the 30s.<p>In the 1970s and 1980s, orchestras began using blind auditions. Candidates are situated on a stage behind a screen to play for a jury that cannot see them. In some orchestras, blind auditions are used just for the preliminary selection while others use it all the way to the end, until a hiring decision is made.<p>Even when the screen is only used for the preliminary round, it has a powerful impact; researchers have determined that this step alone makes it 50% more likely that a woman will advance to the finals. And, indeed, the screen has also been demonstrated to be the source of a surge in the number of women being offered positions.<p>So there is another field like CS where this approach actually helped a significant amount.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;curt-rice.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;10&#x2F;01&#x2F;what-the-worlds-best-orchestras-can-teach-us-about-gender-discrimination&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;curt-rice.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;10&#x2F;01&#x2F;what-the-worlds-best-orchest...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>We built voice modulation to mask gender in technical interviews</title><url>http://blog.interviewing.io/we-built-voice-modulation-to-mask-gender-in-technical-interviews-heres-what-happened/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xienze</author><text>I honestly feel like this sort of thing is a waste of time.<p>Let&#x27;s pretend someone invents the perfect &quot;gender bias-free&quot; system: no names, no faces, voices are flawlessly transcribed on-the-fly so you can&#x27;t pick up on speech patterns. What if it works perfectly and you still end up hiring more men than women? I think exercises like this may end up giving people answers they don&#x27;t want to hear.<p>So, stop wasting time with stuff like this. If you&#x27;re bothered by the fact that there&#x27;s more men in your company than women just hire more women until you get your desired ratio. You&#x27;ve already made your minds up (&quot;there&#x27;s too many men here, clearly we&#x27;re biased against women during the hiring process&quot;) and I doubt anything will make you think differently, so just go ahead and fix the imbalance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>omginternets</author><text>I&#x27;m always surprised by the strong underlying assumption that removing interviewer&#x2F;managerial bias will result in a gender ratio of 50%. There&#x27;s research to suggest that this assumption is flawed: [0]<p>Moreover, the idea that anatomy and physiology don&#x27;t condition preferences or behaviors flies in the face of everything we know about human biology and (embodied) cognition. Let&#x27;s recognize gender&#x2F;feminist theory for what they are: a <i>sociological</i> theories, not scientific ones.<p>Equality, in the sense of gender or racial equality, does not mean we&#x27;re all the same <i>de naturae</i>. It means we should be treated the same <i>de jure</i>.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchgate.net&#x2F;publication&#x2F;38061313_Men_and_Things_Women_and_People_A_Meta-Analysis_of_Sex_Differences_in_Interests" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchgate.net&#x2F;publication&#x2F;38061313_Men_and_Th...</a></text></comment> |
12,793,235 | 12,792,780 | 1 | 3 | 12,790,840 | train | <story><title>Images of New MacBook Pro with Magic Toolbar Leaked in MacOS Sierra 10.12.1</title><url>http://www.macrumors.com/2016/10/25/images-of-new-macbook-pro-leaked/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JoshTriplett</author><text>Yes, I touch-type function keys. And having used the X1 Carbon 2nd generation, I <i>hated</i> the &quot;touch-strip&quot; function keys, both because they have no boundaries between keys and because they have no tactile feedback when pressing.<p>The &quot;context bar&quot; seems like a huge win for people who look at the keyboard (who do comprise a huge fraction of the market), and a huge loss for touch-typists.<p>That said, I also don&#x27;t use that many function keys, and I&#x27;ve slowly started remapping the keys I care about to other key combinations. In practice, I care about a few sets of function keys, most notably F11&#x2F;F12 (commonly used for fullscreen, which I&#x27;ve now remapped to Super-F), and F4 (Alt-F4 to close applications, for which I&#x27;ve now trained my fingers to use Ctrl-W or Ctrl-Q and report bugs on the occasional application that doesn&#x27;t accept those).</text></item><item><author>hn_user2</author><text>I&#x27;m really surprised by the negative reactions to the context bar. Does everyone really have memorized what all 12 function keys do in every app they use? I think this could tremendously help usability for pretty much every application other than my IDE, since I do have those memorized.<p>Being able to hit a function key without looking? I may be able to to touch type. But I&#x27;ve never trusted myself to hit a function key blindly.<p>I will say. Stepping through code could be difficult. Where I repeatedly am stepping over lines while looking at the screen. I imagine my finger could drift. Couldn&#x27;t say without using it, but I imagine I would keep one finger on a number to ground my hand while tapping step over or step in.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lathiat</author><text>I have the same keyboard and same problem. I am desperately hoping that Apple is (a) using some taptic magic to make it easy to feel the edges between keys (this is possible from the original haptic&#x2F;taptic research) and (b) requires a CLICK instead of a TOUCH to reduce accidental touches. A physical escape key wouldn&#x27;t have gone astray either, as a power terminal user particularly with vim -- different escape keys (no matter how good or bad, simply being different in tactility) also drive me a bit batty.</text></comment> | <story><title>Images of New MacBook Pro with Magic Toolbar Leaked in MacOS Sierra 10.12.1</title><url>http://www.macrumors.com/2016/10/25/images-of-new-macbook-pro-leaked/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JoshTriplett</author><text>Yes, I touch-type function keys. And having used the X1 Carbon 2nd generation, I <i>hated</i> the &quot;touch-strip&quot; function keys, both because they have no boundaries between keys and because they have no tactile feedback when pressing.<p>The &quot;context bar&quot; seems like a huge win for people who look at the keyboard (who do comprise a huge fraction of the market), and a huge loss for touch-typists.<p>That said, I also don&#x27;t use that many function keys, and I&#x27;ve slowly started remapping the keys I care about to other key combinations. In practice, I care about a few sets of function keys, most notably F11&#x2F;F12 (commonly used for fullscreen, which I&#x27;ve now remapped to Super-F), and F4 (Alt-F4 to close applications, for which I&#x27;ve now trained my fingers to use Ctrl-W or Ctrl-Q and report bugs on the occasional application that doesn&#x27;t accept those).</text></item><item><author>hn_user2</author><text>I&#x27;m really surprised by the negative reactions to the context bar. Does everyone really have memorized what all 12 function keys do in every app they use? I think this could tremendously help usability for pretty much every application other than my IDE, since I do have those memorized.<p>Being able to hit a function key without looking? I may be able to to touch type. But I&#x27;ve never trusted myself to hit a function key blindly.<p>I will say. Stepping through code could be difficult. Where I repeatedly am stepping over lines while looking at the screen. I imagine my finger could drift. Couldn&#x27;t say without using it, but I imagine I would keep one finger on a number to ground my hand while tapping step over or step in.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>duckfruit</author><text>I have an X1 Carbon from work. Overall an OK windows laptop, but man does the eink(?) touch strip thing suck. While I think that the Macbook version will be far superior, I hope they manage to solve its glaring shortcomings. Some observations:<p>1. Questionable utility. Sure, there&#x27;s an icon for &#x27;copy&#x27; and &#x27;paste&#x27;, but I cannot imagine it being easier for anyone to hunt along a non tactile touch surface located in an awkward position to hit that icon rather than just using Ctrl + C (or the mouse, which you&#x27;ve just made your selection with). That&#x27;s a shortcut almost everyone knows.<p>2. Poor&#x2F;Non-existent third party software support. Basically works for IE and Windows Explorer and that&#x27;s it.<p>3. Software that drives the screen is poorly made and crashes occasionally.<p>4. The strip is a 2 bit&#x2F;pixel B&amp;W screen that is hard to read and is not backlit.</text></comment> |
32,562,960 | 32,562,532 | 1 | 3 | 32,559,119 | train | <story><title>An odd discovery on Spotify</title><url>https://www.robinsloan.com/newsletters/visions/#spotify</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rightbyte</author><text>Spotify&#x27;s algorithm works really well until you let someone else use the account. I wish there was a &quot;child mode&quot;, &quot;party mode&quot; or whatever to disable updating recommendations.</text></item><item><author>merijnv</author><text>&gt; Happens to me a lot on Youtube too - you watch just one thing - and now your recommendations are full of things like that one thing.<p>Spotify&#x27;s recommendation system is <i>much</i> better than youtube&#x27;s (at least for me). I frequently &quot;joke&quot; that it is one of the few applications of ML that actively make my life as a consumer better.<p>Having been following Spotify&#x27;s &quot;Discover Weekly&quot; for several years now, I&#x27;m actually really impressed how it manages to blend my long-term taste with recent moods. If I&#x27;ve been listening to one type of music for 1 or 2 weeks, there will be a noticeable uptick of it in the recommendations, while still mixing in less recent tastes.</text></item><item><author>nosianu</author><text>That&#x27;s really interesting - although when I read that story I thought the point was the broken recommendation system.<p>Happens to me a lot on Youtube too - you watch just <i>one thing</i> - and now your recommendations are full of things like that <i>one thing</i>. Or Facebook&#x2F;Youtube, somehow: I watched a single video on Youtube about Viking sword fighting and suddenly my people recommendations on Facebook were at least 20% militaria fans, always visible from the profile picture already. It finally stopped but it took well over half a year.<p>That&#x27;s why I thought this story was about recommendation systems recommending either only narrowly what you already know, and finding something new is not really well supported or not better than random, or that one outlier can skew your recommendations for a long time. Worst is there is no way to tell the system &quot;stop recommending me this kind of stuff&quot; at least for the second problem, no manual way to make adjustments for the user.</text></item><item><author>usednet</author><text>People have been noticing this a lot recently but what nobody seems to know is that this is a form of money laundering&#x2F;“scamming.” I know because I used to be active on crime forums and talked to some of the people who engineered this scheme.<p>People will set up fake Spotify artist accounts with stolen identities and bank accounts, pay a musician for songs that pass as music, and then bot millions of streams on them. At this point there are so many of these fake profiles and songs that the music, which is simple “mood music” normally (which happens to be easy to make), is appearing on real playlists and being recommended to real listeners.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>duckmysick</author><text>Perhaps Private listening is what you&#x27;re looking for, assuming it&#x27;s working as advertised.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.spotify.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;article&#x2F;private-listening&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.spotify.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;article&#x2F;private-listening&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>An odd discovery on Spotify</title><url>https://www.robinsloan.com/newsletters/visions/#spotify</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rightbyte</author><text>Spotify&#x27;s algorithm works really well until you let someone else use the account. I wish there was a &quot;child mode&quot;, &quot;party mode&quot; or whatever to disable updating recommendations.</text></item><item><author>merijnv</author><text>&gt; Happens to me a lot on Youtube too - you watch just one thing - and now your recommendations are full of things like that one thing.<p>Spotify&#x27;s recommendation system is <i>much</i> better than youtube&#x27;s (at least for me). I frequently &quot;joke&quot; that it is one of the few applications of ML that actively make my life as a consumer better.<p>Having been following Spotify&#x27;s &quot;Discover Weekly&quot; for several years now, I&#x27;m actually really impressed how it manages to blend my long-term taste with recent moods. If I&#x27;ve been listening to one type of music for 1 or 2 weeks, there will be a noticeable uptick of it in the recommendations, while still mixing in less recent tastes.</text></item><item><author>nosianu</author><text>That&#x27;s really interesting - although when I read that story I thought the point was the broken recommendation system.<p>Happens to me a lot on Youtube too - you watch just <i>one thing</i> - and now your recommendations are full of things like that <i>one thing</i>. Or Facebook&#x2F;Youtube, somehow: I watched a single video on Youtube about Viking sword fighting and suddenly my people recommendations on Facebook were at least 20% militaria fans, always visible from the profile picture already. It finally stopped but it took well over half a year.<p>That&#x27;s why I thought this story was about recommendation systems recommending either only narrowly what you already know, and finding something new is not really well supported or not better than random, or that one outlier can skew your recommendations for a long time. Worst is there is no way to tell the system &quot;stop recommending me this kind of stuff&quot; at least for the second problem, no manual way to make adjustments for the user.</text></item><item><author>usednet</author><text>People have been noticing this a lot recently but what nobody seems to know is that this is a form of money laundering&#x2F;“scamming.” I know because I used to be active on crime forums and talked to some of the people who engineered this scheme.<p>People will set up fake Spotify artist accounts with stolen identities and bank accounts, pay a musician for songs that pass as music, and then bot millions of streams on them. At this point there are so many of these fake profiles and songs that the music, which is simple “mood music” normally (which happens to be easy to make), is appearing on real playlists and being recommended to real listeners.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dento</author><text>There is. Called &quot;private session&quot; in the settings.</text></comment> |
24,053,495 | 24,052,209 | 1 | 2 | 24,051,517 | train | <story><title>Twitter used phone numbers provided for security to target ads (2019)</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/8/20905383/twitter-phone-numbers-email-addresses-targeted-advertising</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>techlaw</author><text>&quot;will likely owe a fine of up to $250 million&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;tech-policy&#x2F;2020&#x2F;08&#x2F;twitter-faces-ftc-probe-likely-fine-over-use-of-phone-numbers-for-ads&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;tech-policy&#x2F;2020&#x2F;08&#x2F;twitter-faces-ft...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Twitter used phone numbers provided for security to target ads (2019)</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/8/20905383/twitter-phone-numbers-email-addresses-targeted-advertising</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mgbmtl</author><text>Interesting bits: &quot;No personal data was ever shared externally with our partners or any other third parties.&quot; Advertisers uploaded lists with email&#x2F;phone, and Twitter matched them to users.<p>In any case, it does not help paranoid people like me, who are always reluctant to share a phone number as a recovery method (I use self-hosted email, it&#x27;s the most reliable recovery method, but I understand it&#x27;s not an option for most people).</text></comment> |
26,549,141 | 26,548,015 | 1 | 2 | 26,543,259 | train | <story><title>EU vaccine rollout severely lags behind</title><url>https://www.statista.com/chart/24471/covid-19-vaccine-doses-per-100-people/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kjakm</author><text>Nonsense. This isn’t really about countries exporting&#x2F;not exporting. These vaccine deals are with private companies who produce their product around the world. Just because vaccines are manufactured in a specific country doesn’t make them property of that country.<p>Whichever country is contractually at the front of the line will have their order fulfilled first&#x2F;according to the terms of the contracts.<p>The EU wasted months negotiating lower prices and then took longer with approvals.<p>There is no good guy or bad guy (at least until the UK or EU blocks exports preventing execution of the private contracts - at that point the country blocking the exports becomes the bad guy).</text></item><item><author>gaha</author><text>The EU has exported 41 millionen vaccine doses of which the UK has gotten 8 million so far [1]. Meanwhile, the UK and US do not export any vaccines at all. So just as a back of the envelope calculation, with 41 millionen doeses the EU could have vaccinated an additional 10% of its population, while the UK would have had more than 10% less vaccinatetions without those 8 million. This would not completetly close the gap, but the numbers would be quite different then.<p>Anyway, you can interpret this in a postivie way: the EU is trying to be good and is sharing its vaccinations more or less fairly with other countries (for now). However, you can also see it as the EU has no real power at all and is just an easy target to get fooled over by other countries..<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dw.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;coronavirus-eu-not-ready-to-share-covid-vaccines-with-poorer-countries&#x2F;a-56944274" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dw.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;coronavirus-eu-not-ready-to-share-covi...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sgift</author><text>&gt; Nonsense. This isn’t really about countries exporting&#x2F;not exporting. These vaccine deals are with private companies who produce their product around the world. Just because vaccines are manufactured in a specific country doesn’t make them property of that country.<p>The US used the national defense production act to block any export of BioNTech&#x2F;Pfizer vaccine produced in the US to other countries, so no, this is not just &quot;These vaccine deals are with private companies who produce their product around the world.&quot; - countries can and do influence these deals if it benefits them. UK did the same thing.</text></comment> | <story><title>EU vaccine rollout severely lags behind</title><url>https://www.statista.com/chart/24471/covid-19-vaccine-doses-per-100-people/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kjakm</author><text>Nonsense. This isn’t really about countries exporting&#x2F;not exporting. These vaccine deals are with private companies who produce their product around the world. Just because vaccines are manufactured in a specific country doesn’t make them property of that country.<p>Whichever country is contractually at the front of the line will have their order fulfilled first&#x2F;according to the terms of the contracts.<p>The EU wasted months negotiating lower prices and then took longer with approvals.<p>There is no good guy or bad guy (at least until the UK or EU blocks exports preventing execution of the private contracts - at that point the country blocking the exports becomes the bad guy).</text></item><item><author>gaha</author><text>The EU has exported 41 millionen vaccine doses of which the UK has gotten 8 million so far [1]. Meanwhile, the UK and US do not export any vaccines at all. So just as a back of the envelope calculation, with 41 millionen doeses the EU could have vaccinated an additional 10% of its population, while the UK would have had more than 10% less vaccinatetions without those 8 million. This would not completetly close the gap, but the numbers would be quite different then.<p>Anyway, you can interpret this in a postivie way: the EU is trying to be good and is sharing its vaccinations more or less fairly with other countries (for now). However, you can also see it as the EU has no real power at all and is just an easy target to get fooled over by other countries..<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dw.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;coronavirus-eu-not-ready-to-share-covid-vaccines-with-poorer-countries&#x2F;a-56944274" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dw.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;coronavirus-eu-not-ready-to-share-covi...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hourislate</author><text>&gt;Whichever country is contractually at the front of the line will have their order fulfilled first&#x2F;according to the terms of the contracts.<p>Tell that to Canada. They were securing doses from day one and still suffered from delayed shipments and now have to contend with countries of manufacture forbidding export. What really pisses me off is that the US Gov had 30 million doses of Astra for several months and it it isn&#x27;t even approved for use. Why hoard it when you can save lives in other countries while you have no intention of using it soon if ever? Sure they might get their approval in May or June but by then I expect the other manufacturers to have ramped up to cover everyone everywhere.</text></comment> |
26,678,457 | 26,677,981 | 1 | 3 | 26,677,112 | train | <story><title>Man who thought opening a TXT file is fine thought wrong</title><url>https://www.paulosyibelo.com/2021/04/this-man-thought-opening-txt-file-is.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>userbinator</author><text>Two words: excessive complexity.<p>It&#x27;s always seemed strange that an application called TextEdit is actually more than a text editor. I strongly believe that content-type autodetection, much less HTML rendering(!), most certainly does not belong in a text editor.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>13of40</author><text>Here&#x27;s an interesting quirk in Windows: There are two APIs to execute external programs, CreateProcess and ShellExecute. CreateProcess is the older of the two and only runs executables. ShellExecute opens the target with whatever app is associated with the extension.<p>When they shoehorned the ShellExecute behavior into cmd.exe, they basically just said &quot;if (!CreateProcess(foo)) {ShellExecute (foo)}&quot;<p>As a result, if you take &quot;foo.exe&quot; and rename it &quot;foo.txt&quot; then try to run it like &quot;C:\&gt;foo.txt&quot; from the command line, it will run as an executable instead of opening in Notepad like you would expect. Do the same with a real text file (that doesn&#x27;t start with &quot;MZ&quot;) and it opens in Notepad.</text></comment> | <story><title>Man who thought opening a TXT file is fine thought wrong</title><url>https://www.paulosyibelo.com/2021/04/this-man-thought-opening-txt-file-is.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>userbinator</author><text>Two words: excessive complexity.<p>It&#x27;s always seemed strange that an application called TextEdit is actually more than a text editor. I strongly believe that content-type autodetection, much less HTML rendering(!), most certainly does not belong in a text editor.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Wowfunhappy</author><text>Text ≠ Plain Text. TextEdit defaults to rtf. It supports html as an alternative to rtf, which is to say it can do basic formatting and nothing else.<p>It&#x27;s perfectly reasonable to expect a text editor to support more than literal unicode, and to work with a variety of commonly-used formats.</text></comment> |
12,626,077 | 12,625,001 | 1 | 2 | 12,624,022 | train | <story><title>Our Part of the Milky Way Is Bigger Than Previously Thought</title><url>http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/09/milky-way-local-arm-four-times-bigger-than-expected/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>f_allwein</author><text>Well, I suppose we&#x27;re still at the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy...<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.goodreads.com&#x2F;quotes&#x2F;54481-far-out-in-the-uncharted-backwaters-of-the-unfashionable-end" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.goodreads.com&#x2F;quotes&#x2F;54481-far-out-in-the-unchart...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Our Part of the Milky Way Is Bigger Than Previously Thought</title><url>http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/09/milky-way-local-arm-four-times-bigger-than-expected/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nashashmi</author><text>What does it mean by saying &quot;our section of the Milky Way galaxy&quot;? If the section is somehow larger, does that mean that the Milky Way galaxy is also larger?</text></comment> |
30,653,829 | 30,652,711 | 1 | 2 | 30,652,334 | train | <story><title>Lasers could cut lifespan of nuclear waste from a million years to 30 minutes</title><url>https://bigthink.com/the-present/laser-nuclear-waste/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yummypaint</author><text>I&#x27;m a practicing nuclear physicist and do work on gamma ray interactions with actinides. It&#x27;s possible i&#x27;m missing something important, but i think this article is an utter mess and was clearly written by someone with absolutely no understanding of what they are saying. Attempting to learn anything from this article will be counterproductive.<p>Here is an explanation of chirped pulse amplification: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rp-photonics.com&#x2F;chirped_pulse_amplification.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rp-photonics.com&#x2F;chirped_pulse_amplification.htm...</a>
This technique is for producing optical photons, which will have less than 10 ev of energy. In the same way that you can&#x27;t focus the sun&#x27;s light to a point that gets hotter than the surface of the sun (violates second law of thermodynamics), it isn&#x27;t obvious how low energy laser pulses can be useful for this. The article offers no explanation whatsoever. Maybe the electric field across the nucleus can be made strong enough to induce scission?<p>In general, if you want to interact with the nucleus you need photons on the order of 1 Mev or more, whose wavelengths are comparable to the size of the nucleus. These are gamma rays, which are not optical photons. There are ways to boost optical photons to those energies (like inverse compton scattering), but the article says nothing about that either. I would think inverse compton scattering of a chirped pulse from an electron packet in an accelerator will completely destroy the sharp timing and reflect the distribution of the electrons instead.</text></comment> | <story><title>Lasers could cut lifespan of nuclear waste from a million years to 30 minutes</title><url>https://bigthink.com/the-present/laser-nuclear-waste/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Jabbles</author><text><i>uranium 235 and plutonium 239, have a half life of 24,000 years</i><p>- U235 has a half life of 700,000,000 years.<p><i>If he gets pulses 10,000 times faster, he says he can modify waste on an atomic level.</i><p>The article says nothing about how he hopes to gain 4 orders of magnitude. Is there some kind of Moore&#x27;s law in the &quot;speed&quot; of these pulses?<p>I wasted my time reading this article, it explains nothing.</text></comment> |
8,456,067 | 8,456,057 | 1 | 3 | 8,455,651 | train | <story><title>W.H.O. Forecast for Ebola Worsens as Mortality Rate Rises</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/15/world/africa/ebola-epidemic-who-west-africa.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jMyles</author><text>I&#x27;ve never gotten the flu shot, and hadn&#x27;t planned to this year. I&#x27;m in great health; my immune system seems to be functioning extremely well. I never get sick.<p>However, I am concerned about the needle-haystack phenomenon with ebola.<p>Can you link me to a reasonable, digestible abstract about the real pros-and-cons of flu shot?</text></item><item><author>nostromo</author><text>I&#x27;m worried about the coming flu season. Many people will have the early symptoms shared by both flu and ebola (a fever and a headache). The medical establishment will need to find needles in the haystack.<p>Don&#x27;t skip the flu shot this (or any) year, folks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>binaryorganic</author><text>Healthy people with healthy immune systems aren&#x27;t supposed to get the flu shot to prevent themselves from getting sick. They&#x27;re supposed to get it because it drastically reduces the chances of passing the virus to at risk populations (who would have a much harder time fighting the virus than you). There are almost a quarter of a million hospitalizations due to the flu in the U.S. each year.</text></comment> | <story><title>W.H.O. Forecast for Ebola Worsens as Mortality Rate Rises</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/15/world/africa/ebola-epidemic-who-west-africa.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jMyles</author><text>I&#x27;ve never gotten the flu shot, and hadn&#x27;t planned to this year. I&#x27;m in great health; my immune system seems to be functioning extremely well. I never get sick.<p>However, I am concerned about the needle-haystack phenomenon with ebola.<p>Can you link me to a reasonable, digestible abstract about the real pros-and-cons of flu shot?</text></item><item><author>nostromo</author><text>I&#x27;m worried about the coming flu season. Many people will have the early symptoms shared by both flu and ebola (a fever and a headache). The medical establishment will need to find needles in the haystack.<p>Don&#x27;t skip the flu shot this (or any) year, folks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jfoutz</author><text>Is your immune system unusually effective, or do you simply have a lower exposure because people you come in contact with get their vaccines?</text></comment> |
21,006,927 | 21,007,113 | 1 | 3 | 21,006,605 | train | <story><title>How Long Before These Salmon Are Gone? ‘Maybe 20 Years’</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/16/science/chinook-salmon-columbia.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>guardiangod</author><text>Up here in British Columbia, Canada, the salmon situation this year has been dire. The government was expecting 5 million salmons returning to spawn. We got 600,000.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbc.ca&#x2F;news&#x2F;canada&#x2F;british-columbia&#x2F;sockeye-returns-plunge-in-b-c-official-calls-2019-extremely-challenging-1.5256443" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbc.ca&#x2F;news&#x2F;canada&#x2F;british-columbia&#x2F;sockeye-retu...</a><p><i>In one of the most dramatic shifts, the federal Department of Fisheries has adjusted the estimated number of returning Fraser River sockeye to slightly more than 600,000, down from an earlier projection of nearly five million.</i></text></comment> | <story><title>How Long Before These Salmon Are Gone? ‘Maybe 20 Years’</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/16/science/chinook-salmon-columbia.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>melling</author><text>We’re overfishing everywhere. China has gone all the way to West Africa:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;av&#x2F;world-africa-47698314&#x2F;is-china-s-fishing-fleet-taking-all-of-west-africa-s-fish" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;av&#x2F;world-africa-47698314&#x2F;is-china-s...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;05&#x2F;03&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;china-wants-fish-so-africa-goes-hungry.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;05&#x2F;03&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;china-wants-fish-...</a></text></comment> |
39,615,661 | 39,614,927 | 1 | 2 | 39,614,433 | train | <story><title>Dada, an experimental new programming language</title><url>https://dada-lang.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yamrzou</author><text>Their Hello, Dada! example:<p>print(&quot;...&quot;).await<p>I&#x27;m coming from Python, and I can&#x27;t help but ask: If my goal as a programmer is to simply print to the console, why should I care about the await? This already starts with a non zero complexity and some cognitive load, like the `public static void main` from Java.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wtetzner</author><text>&gt; If my goal as a programmer is to simply print to the console, why should I add care about the await?<p>Because that isn&#x27;t ever anyone&#x27;s actual goal? Optimizing a language design for &quot;Hello World&quot; doesn&#x27;t seem like a particularly useful decision.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dada, an experimental new programming language</title><url>https://dada-lang.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yamrzou</author><text>Their Hello, Dada! example:<p>print(&quot;...&quot;).await<p>I&#x27;m coming from Python, and I can&#x27;t help but ask: If my goal as a programmer is to simply print to the console, why should I care about the await? This already starts with a non zero complexity and some cognitive load, like the `public static void main` from Java.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baq</author><text>I&#x27;d say you want something like &#x27;debug_msg()&#x27; for this.<p>&#x27;print()&#x27; should be async because it does IO. In the real world most likely you&#x27;d see the output once you yield.</text></comment> |
20,615,307 | 20,612,475 | 1 | 2 | 20,610,662 | train | <story><title>Calculus For The People</title><url>https://www.geogebra.org/m/x39ys4d7#material/phuyhqtw</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>newprint</author><text>Can I give a very practical advise to people who are reading this and trying to learn math ? As someone, who received a very strong mathematical training in a former Soviet Union, here is my practical advise:<p>1. Calculus books, just like this one, are absolutely impractical in real life situation, especially, if your goal is &quot;Industrial Mathematics&quot;. All you will learn, are basic calculus notations. You will, at best be able to solve very basic toy problems.
2. Instead, learn basic algebra and combinatorics on extremely proficient level. This is what often is missing in US education.<p>In order to get to 2.
3. Learn how to do a. complex algebraic manipulations, b. solve complex algebraic inequalities, c. basics of number theory, d. combinatorics. Notice, nothing going beyond Real Numbers and I&#x27;m not even including Euclidean geometry.<p>4. Best sources for that are Math Olympiad problems and technique to solve them. You will learn how to crack extremely complicated algebraic expression, how to factor them and represent them in different forms, how to do tricky substitutions. Same technique is applicable in working with complicated integrals&#x2F;diff. There is an entire layer of mathematics that devoted to inequalities and they are very applicable in solving calculus problems. Most of the technique and materials to solve those problems aren&#x27;t taught in high schools and even college course.<p>Being able to solve moderately complex algebraic problems is must before learning calculus and analysis. Crush your ego, google&#x2F;amazon for books and materials on how to solve (basic) Olympic problems that are intended for HS 9-12 graders and see what you can do.</text></comment> | <story><title>Calculus For The People</title><url>https://www.geogebra.org/m/x39ys4d7#material/phuyhqtw</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pugio</author><text>For a truly &quot;from scratch&quot; and deeply empowering introduction to the basic notions in calculus (and all mathematics), I&#x27;ve found nothing better than Burn Math Class[1] by Jason Wilkes. It assumes nothing but basic arithmetic, and proceeds to guide you through how to invent maths for yourself.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Burn-Math-Class-Reinvent-Mathematics&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0465053734" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Burn-Math-Class-Reinvent-Mathematics&#x2F;...</a></text></comment> |
26,138,659 | 26,138,351 | 1 | 2 | 26,137,479 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere doesn't know about?</title><text>What unique or high-quality content only exists outside the English-speaking web? Is there a Chinese equivalent to Hacker News? A Hindi StackOverflow? I would love to broaden my horizons :)</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>aasasd</author><text>If you&#x27;re asking about services too: Yandex Market. It&#x27;s like Google Product Search that is actually successful and widely used for searching for specific products, or Amazon that doesn&#x27;t swindle you left and right.<p>It&#x27;s basically just a large catalog of products, filled by third-parties a-la Amazon now, only it didn&#x27;t sell anything itself (until recently). Instead, it had detailed characteristics for a lot of products, with corresponding filters in the catalog; and good user reviews. Since Yandex is good at dealing with unstructured text, even poor data exports by vendors end up organized decently on the service. Since Yandex had millions of users on its other services, they all could leave reviews without much hassle. And since Yandex is primarily a search engine, it knows when a bogus review is spammed across the web.<p>Alas, it&#x27;s only available in Russian since it works with Russian shops. Every time I need to look for a product on the English web, I lament that there&#x27;s no service that is quite that solid. Amazon has filters, but search results usually look like simply a bit better Aliexpress. In regard to Google Product Search I don&#x27;t even know anything particular—I tried to use it a couple times, and my general impression is that it... exists. Not much else.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kalleboo</author><text>Sweden has prisjakt.nu, and Japan has kakaku.com that serve the same purpose, they&#x27;re both great! It&#x27;s so nice to be able to drill down into any product in any product category (for kakaku this is not just tech products but contact lenses, credit cards, movers, electricity providers, car insurance, phone plans, etc) using the specs you want, and then sort by intelligently selected columns like $&#x2F;TB for a harddisk.<p>Amazon attempts to do some product categorization but it doesn&#x27;t work at all - even when they have the category you want to filter on the results are usually wrong, and the sort options are bad and marred by their ads and recommendations.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere doesn't know about?</title><text>What unique or high-quality content only exists outside the English-speaking web? Is there a Chinese equivalent to Hacker News? A Hindi StackOverflow? I would love to broaden my horizons :)</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>aasasd</author><text>If you&#x27;re asking about services too: Yandex Market. It&#x27;s like Google Product Search that is actually successful and widely used for searching for specific products, or Amazon that doesn&#x27;t swindle you left and right.<p>It&#x27;s basically just a large catalog of products, filled by third-parties a-la Amazon now, only it didn&#x27;t sell anything itself (until recently). Instead, it had detailed characteristics for a lot of products, with corresponding filters in the catalog; and good user reviews. Since Yandex is good at dealing with unstructured text, even poor data exports by vendors end up organized decently on the service. Since Yandex had millions of users on its other services, they all could leave reviews without much hassle. And since Yandex is primarily a search engine, it knows when a bogus review is spammed across the web.<p>Alas, it&#x27;s only available in Russian since it works with Russian shops. Every time I need to look for a product on the English web, I lament that there&#x27;s no service that is quite that solid. Amazon has filters, but search results usually look like simply a bit better Aliexpress. In regard to Google Product Search I don&#x27;t even know anything particular—I tried to use it a couple times, and my general impression is that it... exists. Not much else.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>modeless</author><text>Amazon product listings and reviews are such a cesspool these days. It&#x27;s a travesty.<p>It&#x27;s completely impossible to tell good quality stuff from useless garbage (especially since they are usually commingled in the same listing), and often it&#x27;s impossible to find good quality stuff at all under the barrage of listings of the same two products with different fake brand names. The sorting options are a joke and the ratings are gamed so much they indicate nothing except how much the seller spent buying reviews.<p>It&#x27;s amazing that Google hasn&#x27;t been able to do better here.</text></comment> |
15,991,785 | 15,987,101 | 1 | 2 | 15,987,047 | train | <story><title>GitPlex – browse code in Git repository like in IDE</title><url>https://www.gitplex.com</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>carussell</author><text>Sourcegraph is also working on a similar service.<p>Also: unless you&#x27;ve okayed the name with the Git folks, you&#x27;re going to need to change the name. Git is trademarked, and they are no longer allowing just anyone to use the mark without first seeking permission. (GitHub, GitLab, and others have been grandfathered in.)<p>See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;public-inbox.org&#x2F;git&#x2F;[email protected]&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;public-inbox.org&#x2F;git&#x2F;20170202022655.2jwvudhvo4hmueaw...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>GitPlex – browse code in Git repository like in IDE</title><url>https://www.gitplex.com</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>robinshen</author><text>It parses source code of popular programming languages so that user can search symbols, jump to symbols, show&#x2F;search outlines in every revision of the repository.<p>Currently supports Java&#x2F;JavaScript&#x2F;C&#x2F;C++&#x2F;CSharp&#x2F;Python&#x2F;Go&#x2F;PHP&#x2F;R&#x2F;CSS&#x2F;LESS&#x2F;SCSS.</text></comment> |
29,176,647 | 29,176,618 | 1 | 2 | 29,174,877 | train | <story><title>Nine governors press U.S. lawmakers to pass semiconductor funding bill</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/us/nine-governors-press-us-lawmakers-pass-semiconductor-funding-bill-2021-11-10/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Server6</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why people are so opposed to pork spending? Pork is how things got done historically. Sure on the surface it&#x27;s wasteful, but it promotes compromise and greases the wheels of government. None of the great works in the US would have been completed without it. Pork reform in my opinion is one of the reasons why things are so partisan these days - everyone is in their own corner and there&#x27;s no incentive for Democrats to help Republicans and vice versa.</text></item><item><author>malchow</author><text>This is a pork bill from Intel, which used to know how to build competitive fabs and now does not.<p>Federal pork will not make our country better at semi autolines.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwawaygh</author><text>You don&#x27;t even need those sorts of justifications, because <i>government investment</i> is historically how things got built.<p>The Great American Giant (Intel) could never have existed without massive R&amp;D spend in the post-war period, not to mention the fact that it more recently had its ass completely whipped by a government-funded company (the aptly-named Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited).<p>But, anyways, the answer to your question is: because government ==== bad.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nine governors press U.S. lawmakers to pass semiconductor funding bill</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/us/nine-governors-press-us-lawmakers-pass-semiconductor-funding-bill-2021-11-10/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Server6</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why people are so opposed to pork spending? Pork is how things got done historically. Sure on the surface it&#x27;s wasteful, but it promotes compromise and greases the wheels of government. None of the great works in the US would have been completed without it. Pork reform in my opinion is one of the reasons why things are so partisan these days - everyone is in their own corner and there&#x27;s no incentive for Democrats to help Republicans and vice versa.</text></item><item><author>malchow</author><text>This is a pork bill from Intel, which used to know how to build competitive fabs and now does not.<p>Federal pork will not make our country better at semi autolines.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SavantIdiot</author><text>Intel signed an agreement with Hillsboro, Oregon to pay zero taxes for 30 years. It&#x27;s a little crass for them to go hat-in-hand to the federal government.</text></comment> |
4,322,449 | 4,322,331 | 1 | 2 | 4,321,773 | train | <story><title>The new Digg</title><url>http://digg.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blauwbilgorgel</author><text>From a technical point of view this "redesign" scares me a bit:<p>All the old stories and user accounts 404 now. That is a major loss to their SEO. 14 million pages just thrown away and not passing any juice.<p>They don't employ canonical or robots.txt.<p>They have character encoding issues. ("'Superbird' Discovered")<p>They use a meta keywords tag, and it contains "celebrity news", which doesn't appear anywhere on their site.<p>They hardcode CSS with styles on div's. They don't use text-transform but type headers in all-caps.<p>They use the HTML5 doctype, but none of the new tags or practices (like ditching the obsolete 'type="text/javascript"' on script tags).<p>The layout breaks without javascript on, and the "upcoming stories" section doesn't get loaded. They provide no warning as to why the site's functionality stops working.<p>They don't combine or compress resources like CSS and Javascript.<p>They left debugging and TODO's statements in their javascript.<p><pre><code> $(".story-image-marquee-standard").empty().html("&#60;img src='http://imoscar.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/imoscar11.gif' alt='' /&#62;");
</code></pre>
tries to load content from a discontinued website.<p>A lot of empty placeholder divs to js-load content into. TPL's are also stored inside the page contents.<p>URL's are not properly encoded (space instead of %20).<p>Links to the same article are both with 'target="_blank"' and without.<p>They don't use microformats or schema.org.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>freehunter</author><text><i>The layout breaks without javascript on</i><p>I see this bandied about on reviews of various sites, and I continue to believe it doesn't matter. If you have Javascript turned off and a page doesn't load, you should know why that page isn't loading. It's because you deliberately broke it for yourself.</text></comment> | <story><title>The new Digg</title><url>http://digg.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blauwbilgorgel</author><text>From a technical point of view this "redesign" scares me a bit:<p>All the old stories and user accounts 404 now. That is a major loss to their SEO. 14 million pages just thrown away and not passing any juice.<p>They don't employ canonical or robots.txt.<p>They have character encoding issues. ("'Superbird' Discovered")<p>They use a meta keywords tag, and it contains "celebrity news", which doesn't appear anywhere on their site.<p>They hardcode CSS with styles on div's. They don't use text-transform but type headers in all-caps.<p>They use the HTML5 doctype, but none of the new tags or practices (like ditching the obsolete 'type="text/javascript"' on script tags).<p>The layout breaks without javascript on, and the "upcoming stories" section doesn't get loaded. They provide no warning as to why the site's functionality stops working.<p>They don't combine or compress resources like CSS and Javascript.<p>They left debugging and TODO's statements in their javascript.<p><pre><code> $(".story-image-marquee-standard").empty().html("&#60;img src='http://imoscar.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/imoscar11.gif' alt='' /&#62;");
</code></pre>
tries to load content from a discontinued website.<p>A lot of empty placeholder divs to js-load content into. TPL's are also stored inside the page contents.<p>URL's are not properly encoded (space instead of %20).<p>Links to the same article are both with 'target="_blank"' and without.<p>They don't use microformats or schema.org.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>verroq</author><text>Apart from all the old pages being 404 (which is a huge mishap). Nitpicking on html is a fun and amusing pastime, but unless the page is deformed in some way, it falls into the "shit nobody cares about" category.</text></comment> |
26,704,938 | 26,705,182 | 1 | 3 | 26,703,808 | train | <story><title>Git as a NoSql Database (2016)</title><url>https://www.kenneth-truyers.net/2016/10/13/git-nosql-database/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>simonw</author><text>In almost every database-backed application I&#x27;ve ever built someone, at some point, inevitable asks for the ability to see what changes were made when and by whom.<p>My current preferred strategy for dealing with this (at least for any table smaller than a few GBs) is to dump the entire table contents to a git repository on a schedule.<p>I&#x27;ve run this for a few toy projects and it seems to work really well. I&#x27;m ready to try it with something production-scale the next time the opportunity presents itself.</text></comment> | <story><title>Git as a NoSql Database (2016)</title><url>https://www.kenneth-truyers.net/2016/10/13/git-nosql-database/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lisper</author><text>&gt; The reason why it says stupid in the man-pages is that it makes no assumptions about what content you store in it.<p>That&#x27;s not true. The assumption that you are storing text files is very much built in to the design of git, and specifically, into the design of its diff and merge algorithm. Those algorithms treat line breaks as privileged markers of the structure of the underlying data. This is the reason git does not play well with large binary files.</text></comment> |
24,423,890 | 24,424,023 | 1 | 2 | 24,422,472 | train | <story><title>AT&T’s current 5G is slower than 4G in nearly every city tested by PCMag</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/09/atts-current-5g-is-slower-than-4g-in-nearly-every-city-tested-by-pcmag/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sandworm101</author><text>&gt;&gt; use beamforming to finish your download at Gbps speeds and get you off the network faster<p>Ya, &quot;Faster speeds mean people will spend less time clogging the connection&quot; ... it never happens that way. Increased speeds mean people use more internet, not less. Consumers start doing new things with the faster speeds (streaming video etc) increasing demand and overall usage. The only real answer is massive and <i>constantly increasing</i> speeds and bandwidth capacities. It is a race that cannot be won but must be run nevertheless.</text></item><item><author>kayson</author><text>I really believe that for commercial cellular in urban areas, 5G is more of a benefit for the carriers than the consumers. While low band spectrum (850MHz) has decent penetrating power, the majority of 5G is deployed at ~5GHz and mm-Wave frequencies, where you won&#x27;t get much of any signal through a wall, or even on the other side of the building. This is why so many 5G base stations have to be deployed; the coverage just isn&#x27;t as good. But the improvements in base station handoffs and spectral efficiency will increase a carrier&#x27;s total capacity, even if the end user doesn&#x27;t see a massive benefit.<p>There are scenarios where you might see massive speeds, though. 5G heavily leverages Carrier Aggregation, where a client can connect to multiple channels at once, increasing bandwidth, and beam-forming, where the &quot;shape&quot; of the signal is modified to steer maximum power to the physical location of a client. If you happen to be near a base station with good Signal to Noise Ratio while downloading something large, the base station can allocate multiple channels and use beamforming to finish your download at Gbps speeds and get you off the network faster, freeing up spectrum time for more users at lower SNR&#x27;s and bandwidths.<p>There is potential for much more impactful deployment of 5G cellular in rural areas where there aren&#x27;t many buildings or walls blocking high frequency signal. The same goes for point-to-point links such as inter-building WAN or low latency self driving car to self driving car communication.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bleepblorp</author><text>How much cellular data people use is dictated far more by data caps and usurious overage charges than by the speed of their connection. With overage charges of &gt;$100 a GB in some parts of the world, usage per person isn&#x27;t going to increase just because speeds go up.<p>Unless the carriers have a sudden outbreak of generosity, data caps won&#x27;t rise under 5G, so usage per person will stay the same but improved efficiency will allow the carriers to extract more profits from more people per cell simultaneously.<p>5G doesn&#x27;t solve any problems for end-users. It solves the carriers&#x27; problem of &#x27;how can we get more people to use up their data cap faster.&#x27;</text></comment> | <story><title>AT&T’s current 5G is slower than 4G in nearly every city tested by PCMag</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/09/atts-current-5g-is-slower-than-4g-in-nearly-every-city-tested-by-pcmag/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sandworm101</author><text>&gt;&gt; use beamforming to finish your download at Gbps speeds and get you off the network faster<p>Ya, &quot;Faster speeds mean people will spend less time clogging the connection&quot; ... it never happens that way. Increased speeds mean people use more internet, not less. Consumers start doing new things with the faster speeds (streaming video etc) increasing demand and overall usage. The only real answer is massive and <i>constantly increasing</i> speeds and bandwidth capacities. It is a race that cannot be won but must be run nevertheless.</text></item><item><author>kayson</author><text>I really believe that for commercial cellular in urban areas, 5G is more of a benefit for the carriers than the consumers. While low band spectrum (850MHz) has decent penetrating power, the majority of 5G is deployed at ~5GHz and mm-Wave frequencies, where you won&#x27;t get much of any signal through a wall, or even on the other side of the building. This is why so many 5G base stations have to be deployed; the coverage just isn&#x27;t as good. But the improvements in base station handoffs and spectral efficiency will increase a carrier&#x27;s total capacity, even if the end user doesn&#x27;t see a massive benefit.<p>There are scenarios where you might see massive speeds, though. 5G heavily leverages Carrier Aggregation, where a client can connect to multiple channels at once, increasing bandwidth, and beam-forming, where the &quot;shape&quot; of the signal is modified to steer maximum power to the physical location of a client. If you happen to be near a base station with good Signal to Noise Ratio while downloading something large, the base station can allocate multiple channels and use beamforming to finish your download at Gbps speeds and get you off the network faster, freeing up spectrum time for more users at lower SNR&#x27;s and bandwidths.<p>There is potential for much more impactful deployment of 5G cellular in rural areas where there aren&#x27;t many buildings or walls blocking high frequency signal. The same goes for point-to-point links such as inter-building WAN or low latency self driving car to self driving car communication.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kayson</author><text>That&#x27;s not what I meant. With higher SNR you can achieve much better spectral efficiency, so it makes more sense for spectrum-time use to allocate the most bandwidth to high SNR users as they need it. It&#x27;s not a constant or necessarily noticeable thing. My example was an extreme one for illustrative purposes. It could just as well be downloading 1MB of web content at 300Mb&#x2F;s.</text></comment> |
21,463,534 | 21,463,505 | 1 | 2 | 21,462,832 | train | <story><title>Mark Text: Simple and Elegant Markdown Editor Focused on Speed and Usability</title><url>https://marktext.app/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mumblemumble</author><text>I think that this argument is, frankly, over. Electron is <i>the</i> way to build cross-platform apps that don&#x27;t merit separate UI code for each platform.<p>Electron wins because Electron apps are able to deliver consistently decent UX, something that never happened with Swing or GTK+ or WxWidgets or whatever.<p>Sure, it eats RAM. It turns out that I care about that so much less than I thought I would. I&#x27;m rarely using 100% of my system&#x27;s RAM these days, so I&#x27;m willing to burn a couple hundred MB on widgets continuing to be sensibly drawn and laid out when I resize the window.</text></item><item><author>stanski</author><text>Can anything running on Electron be classified as simple? Just saying. (yes, I am <i>that</i> guy in this case)<p>I like the idea behind it though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>swebs</author><text>&gt;Sure, it eats RAM. It turns out that I care about that so much less than I thought I would.<p>It sure is nice having a powerful developer machine with 16 or 32 gb of RAM. Just remember there are a lot of people out there running on 4gb laptops or even less. These days, the OS, web browser, and Slack alone are already enough to max it out and start swapping.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mark Text: Simple and Elegant Markdown Editor Focused on Speed and Usability</title><url>https://marktext.app/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mumblemumble</author><text>I think that this argument is, frankly, over. Electron is <i>the</i> way to build cross-platform apps that don&#x27;t merit separate UI code for each platform.<p>Electron wins because Electron apps are able to deliver consistently decent UX, something that never happened with Swing or GTK+ or WxWidgets or whatever.<p>Sure, it eats RAM. It turns out that I care about that so much less than I thought I would. I&#x27;m rarely using 100% of my system&#x27;s RAM these days, so I&#x27;m willing to burn a couple hundred MB on widgets continuing to be sensibly drawn and laid out when I resize the window.</text></item><item><author>stanski</author><text>Can anything running on Electron be classified as simple? Just saying. (yes, I am <i>that</i> guy in this case)<p>I like the idea behind it though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ComputerGuru</author><text>Text editors don’t need all the widgets and controls. They basically need a context menu (and Electron’s menus are horrible as they provide none of the native OS accelerators and integrations), a open&#x2F;save dialog (pretty please don’t use a custom UI here!), and maybe a menu&#x2F;toolbar. The editor itself is custom code (whether html&#x2F;css&#x2F;js or native), and that’s where the performance benefits of native code shine best anyway.</text></comment> |
12,929,214 | 12,926,948 | 1 | 3 | 12,926,297 | train | <story><title>China’s ‘Artificial Sun’ achieves fusion breakthrough</title><url>http://en.people.cn/n3/2016/1103/c90000-9136786.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kybernetikos</author><text>I would love to see a huge effort towards fusion, on the same (or even greater) scale as the Manhattan project or the Apollo program. I had been disappointed in the way that fusion always seemed to be 30 years away no matter how many years went past, but I just assumed that that was because the science was hard and just the way it had to be.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;sjH5r.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;sjH5r.jpg</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.21stcenturysciencetech.com&#x2F;Articles_2010&#x2F;Winter_2009&#x2F;Who_Killed_Fusion.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.21stcenturysciencetech.com&#x2F;Articles_2010&#x2F;Winter_...</a><p>In 1976, a number of plans for investing in fusion were described, and what actually happened was that less was invested in fusion even than the level at which the program plan predicted we would never achieve fusion. This is the kind of thing that anyone who cares about humanity in general should find upsetting.<p>Massively abundant, cheap, clean energy should be one of humanity&#x27;s top priorities.<p>Working, economic fusion power has a chance to revolutionize life as we know it. The countries that have access to the technology first will be at the forefront of a huge economic, social, cultural, scientific change.<p>It&#x27;s more important than going to Mars (and would probably make going to Mars significantly easier). It&#x27;s more important than nearly anything we&#x27;re working on.</text></comment> | <story><title>China’s ‘Artificial Sun’ achieves fusion breakthrough</title><url>http://en.people.cn/n3/2016/1103/c90000-9136786.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Trombone12</author><text>Weird, as far as I can tell this result was essentially achieved in February; at least that&#x27;s when the register reported on it: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.co.uk&#x2F;2016&#x2F;02&#x2F;06&#x2F;china_shows_how_fusion_is_done&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.co.uk&#x2F;2016&#x2F;02&#x2F;06&#x2F;china_shows_how_fusi...</a><p>EAST seems to be connected to ITER, and is testing confinement methods like those planned for ITER. Here is an ITER press release about EAST hitting that 32 s H-mode confinement: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iter.org&#x2F;newsline&#x2F;291&#x2F;1783" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iter.org&#x2F;newsline&#x2F;291&#x2F;1783</a><p>And here is a later article about EAST receiving an upgrade and shooting for those 100 seconds in 2014: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iter.org&#x2F;newsline&#x2F;-&#x2F;1916" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iter.org&#x2F;newsline&#x2F;-&#x2F;1916</a></text></comment> |
15,881,121 | 15,881,052 | 1 | 2 | 15,879,843 | train | <story><title>Please invest responsibly – an important message from the Coinbase team</title><url>https://blog.coinbase.com/please-invest-responsibly-an-important-message-from-the-coinbase-team-bf7f13a4b0b1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cgb223</author><text><i>Despite the sizable and ongoing increases in our technical infrastructure and engineering staff, we wanted to remind customers that access to Coinbase services may become degraded or unavailable during times of significant volatility or volume. This could result in the inability to buy or sell for periods of time. Despite ongoing increases in our support capacity, our customer support response times may be delayed, especially for requests that do not involve immediate risks to customer account security. You can read more in our Coinbase User Agreement.</i><p>This is the problem they should be solving, not avoiding with blog posts</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kinkrtyavimoodh</author><text>Because we all know that an entire company can, at a given time, either write blog posts or solve infrastructural issues, never both.</text></comment> | <story><title>Please invest responsibly – an important message from the Coinbase team</title><url>https://blog.coinbase.com/please-invest-responsibly-an-important-message-from-the-coinbase-team-bf7f13a4b0b1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cgb223</author><text><i>Despite the sizable and ongoing increases in our technical infrastructure and engineering staff, we wanted to remind customers that access to Coinbase services may become degraded or unavailable during times of significant volatility or volume. This could result in the inability to buy or sell for periods of time. Despite ongoing increases in our support capacity, our customer support response times may be delayed, especially for requests that do not involve immediate risks to customer account security. You can read more in our Coinbase User Agreement.</i><p>This is the problem they should be solving, not avoiding with blog posts</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>linkregister</author><text>I agree they should solve the problem. It&#x27;s pretty embarrassing.<p>Do you think it might be reasonable that they do both? The time to publish a blog post is probably about 4 employee-hours, including management review. Getting more servers, provisioning them, adding them to pools, rebalancing, and deploying code takes more time and engineers.</text></comment> |
2,239,615 | 2,239,613 | 1 | 3 | 2,239,471 | train | <story><title>Are founders really 1000x more valuable than their employees?</title><url>http://venturehacks.com/articles/employees-founders</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasonmcalacanis</author><text>This isn't about who is more valuable, this about who took the <i>risk</i>.<p>Employees take little or no risk in 99% of cases. You are not taking a risk making 75% of your max pay at Google/Facebook/Zynga/Twitter by going to a startup. You are taking a 25% haircut to be part of something new/small/etc.<p>However, starting something from scratch, incorporating and putting your reputation on the line is a major risk. If you are the creator you carry the lifetime risk/reward of your startup.<p>The founder(s) of Friendster, PointCast and Webvan will always be remembered a certain way. As will the founders of Twitter, Groupon, Yahoo and Google.<p>The employees that come after them do not carry this personal risk/reward issue. They can always say "I joined Freindster and it was a great learning experience."<p>The founder of Friendster will have to explain for all time why they were first and failed so horribly. How they missed the opportunity to be MySpace, LinkedIn or Facebook.<p>That's the real difference in my mind: personal reputation risk.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gamble</author><text>I really question this idea that (YC-style) startup founders are taking on more risk than employees. Few founders have a significant amount of personal capital invested in the business. If the startup fails, they're not out of much more than a job. In fact, early employees are in a far more precarious situation, since they're much more likely to lose their job than the founders. And if the company does go down, the founders have a much better entry on their resume than someone who took a job at a small company that no one has ever heard of.<p>At least in America, there is so little stigma associated with a failed startup that I don't see the reputation aspect of your argument. Short of flat-out malfeasance, a failed entrepreneur is far <i>more</i> fundable than someone who has never started a company.</text></comment> | <story><title>Are founders really 1000x more valuable than their employees?</title><url>http://venturehacks.com/articles/employees-founders</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasonmcalacanis</author><text>This isn't about who is more valuable, this about who took the <i>risk</i>.<p>Employees take little or no risk in 99% of cases. You are not taking a risk making 75% of your max pay at Google/Facebook/Zynga/Twitter by going to a startup. You are taking a 25% haircut to be part of something new/small/etc.<p>However, starting something from scratch, incorporating and putting your reputation on the line is a major risk. If you are the creator you carry the lifetime risk/reward of your startup.<p>The founder(s) of Friendster, PointCast and Webvan will always be remembered a certain way. As will the founders of Twitter, Groupon, Yahoo and Google.<p>The employees that come after them do not carry this personal risk/reward issue. They can always say "I joined Freindster and it was a great learning experience."<p>The founder of Friendster will have to explain for all time why they were first and failed so horribly. How they missed the opportunity to be MySpace, LinkedIn or Facebook.<p>That's the real difference in my mind: personal reputation risk.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mattmanser</author><text>This seems a weak argument, it's only applicable once you've actually got a reputation to protect. The vast majority of founders aren't celebrities.<p>Given that many entrepreneurs just keep failing and then trying again and again and again it doesn't make much sense to me at all. There is no risk. Maybe it will be embarrassing if Malhalo fails, but I'm sure that won't stop you trying again.<p>Personally I think there's no good reason, founders aren't actually worth much more than the employees, it's just the way capitalism works. To the victor goes the spoils. Hence the occasional Marx being thrown into the mix to try and keep the worst excesses in check (overall I think capitalism's been a greater good for humanity). I think we're due a Marx soon if the earnings divide keeps growing as it is.<p>Don't try and rationalize it, it's just natural greed. But it has benefits too, all those jobs that wouldn't have existed.</text></comment> |
27,415,272 | 27,415,354 | 1 | 2 | 27,414,184 | train | <story><title>The modern trap of turning hobbies into hustles (2019)</title><url>https://repeller.com/trap-of-turning-hobbies-into-hustles/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>insickness</author><text>I make electronic music. Last year I invested in learning promotion. I spent about $1500 and now I have about a thousand followers on Spotify. Every time I release a song, I get a couple hundred listens. I don&#x27;t do it for the money. The return on a it is a meager. My &#x27;day job&#x27; makes me pretty good money.<p>But it got me thinking: what does it mean to me to have listeners? It&#x27;s great when people &#x27;like&#x27; my music, but in a lot of ways, it&#x27;s just numbers on a screen. What difference would it make if I had 10,000 or 100,000 listeners instead of 1000? Maybe it would be cool if I were in a store and hear a song of mine playing on the radio or watching a movie and it was playing as a sound track. The validation I&#x27;ve felt from similar successes is great but it is fleeting. Ultimately, the most joy I get out of it is being able to sit down and create music that I myself enjoy and respect.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>riebschlager</author><text>I think you nailed it in your last sentence. Hobbies are our chance to create without the baggage of external requirements or external validation.<p>Being in that creative flow state is the <i>best</i> feeling. If someone else appreciates what you made, that&#x27;s just the icing on an already tasty cake.<p>I post my silly art projects on Instagram for 30 or 40 likes. Would I love more? Well, yeah. Endorphins and all that. But I can&#x27;t stop making this stuff because I just really, really enjoy the moments of making it.</text></comment> | <story><title>The modern trap of turning hobbies into hustles (2019)</title><url>https://repeller.com/trap-of-turning-hobbies-into-hustles/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>insickness</author><text>I make electronic music. Last year I invested in learning promotion. I spent about $1500 and now I have about a thousand followers on Spotify. Every time I release a song, I get a couple hundred listens. I don&#x27;t do it for the money. The return on a it is a meager. My &#x27;day job&#x27; makes me pretty good money.<p>But it got me thinking: what does it mean to me to have listeners? It&#x27;s great when people &#x27;like&#x27; my music, but in a lot of ways, it&#x27;s just numbers on a screen. What difference would it make if I had 10,000 or 100,000 listeners instead of 1000? Maybe it would be cool if I were in a store and hear a song of mine playing on the radio or watching a movie and it was playing as a sound track. The validation I&#x27;ve felt from similar successes is great but it is fleeting. Ultimately, the most joy I get out of it is being able to sit down and create music that I myself enjoy and respect.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mjr00</author><text>I&#x27;m in the same boat, making electronic music as a hobby. I don&#x27;t think there&#x27;s anything wrong with wanting fans of your music, even if you have a day job and have no desire to make it a career. As fun as the creative process is, if you&#x27;re making (good) music there will probably be things about it that you don&#x27;t enjoy, whether that&#x27;s sound design, tweaking effects chains to get something to sound right, banging your head trying to figure out why your track doesn&#x27;t sound like your reference, mixing, mastering, etc. If you&#x27;re putting in that effort, it <i>is</i> nice to see some validation, even if it&#x27;s just in the form of &quot;likes.&quot;<p>Promotion is a different story, though... I don&#x27;t think it makes sense to throw real money (aka more than like $20 on Submithub&#x2F;Labelradar, which I consider more paid feedback than promotion) for a release unless you&#x27;re planning to get an actual return on investment there. At which point it crosses the line into &quot;hustle,&quot; for me.</text></comment> |
19,256,552 | 19,256,707 | 1 | 2 | 19,255,603 | train | <story><title>The most popular docker images each contain at least 30 vulnerabilities</title><url>https://snyk.io/blog/top-ten-most-popular-docker-images-each-contain-at-least-30-vulnerabilities/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DCKing</author><text>Although vulnerability scanners can be a useful tool, I find it very troublesome that you can utter the sentence &quot;this package contains XX vulnerabilities, and that package contains YY vulnerabilities&quot; <i>and then stop talking</i>. You&#x27;ve provided barely any useful information!<p>The quantity of vulnerabilities in an image is not really all that useful information. A large amount of vulnerabilities in a Docker image does not necessarily imply that there&#x27;s anything insecure going on. Many people don&#x27;t realize that a vulnerability is usually defined as &quot;has a CVE security advisory&quot;, and that CVEs get assigned based on a worst-case evaluation of the bug. As a result, having a CVE in your container barely tells you anything about your actual vulnerability position. In fact, most of the time you will find that having a CVE in some random utility doesn&#x27;t matter. Most CVEs in system packages don&#x27;t apply to most of your containers&#x27; threat models.<p>Why not? Because an attacker is very unlikely to be able to use vulnerabilities in these system libraries or utilities. Those utilities are usually not in active use in the first place. Even if they are used, you are not usually in a position to exploit these vulnerabilities as an attacker.<p>Just as an example, a hypothetical outdated version of grep in one of these containers can hypothetically contain many CVEs. But if your Docker service doesn&#x27;t use grep, then you would need to <i>manually run</i> grep to be vulnerable. And an attacker that is able to run grep in your Docker container has <i>already owned you</i> - it doesn&#x27;t make a difference that your grep is vulnerable! This hypothetical vulnerable version of grep therefore makes no difference in the security of your container, despite containing many CVEs.<p>It&#x27;s the <i>quality</i> of these vulnerabilities that matters. Can an attacker actually exploit the vulnerabilities to do bad things? The answer for almost all of these CVEs is &quot;no&quot;. But that&#x27;s not really the product that Snyk sells - Snyk sells a product to show you as many vulnerabilities as possible. Any vulnerability scanner company thinks it can provide most business value (and make the most money) by reporting as many vulnerabilities as it can. For sure it can help you to pinpoint those few vulnerabilities that are exploitable, but that&#x27;s where your own analysis comes in.<p>I&#x27;m not saying there&#x27;s not a lot to improve in terms of container security. There&#x27;s a <i>whole bunch</i> to improve there. But focusing on quantities like &quot;amount of CVEs in an image&quot; is not the solution - it&#x27;s marketing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>djsumdog</author><text>This entire depending on a base container for setup and then essentially throwing away everything you get from the package manager is part of the issue. There is no real package management for Docker. Hell, there isn&#x27;t even an official way to determine if your image needs an upgrade (I wrote a ruby script that gets the latest tags from a docker repo, extracts the ones with numbers and sorts them in order and compares them to what I have running).<p>Relying on an Alpine&#x2F;Debian&#x2F;Ubuntu base helps to get dependencies installed quickly. Docker could have just created their own base distro and some mechanism to track package updates across images, but they did not.<p>There are guides for making bare containers, they contain nothing .. no ip, grep, bash .. only the bare minimum libraries and requirements to run your service. They are minimal, but incredibly difficult to debug (sysdig still sucks unless you shell out money for enterprise).<p>I feel like containers are alright, but Docker is a partial dumpster fire. cgroup isolation is good, the crazy way we deal with packages in container systems is not so good.<p>Sure if you&#x27;re just checking for base-distro packages for security vulnerabilities, you&#x27;re going to find security issues that don&#x27;t apply (e.g. an exploit in libpng even though your container runs nothing that even links to libpng), but it does excuse the whole issue with the way containers are constructed.<p>I think this space is really open too, for people to find better systems that are also portable: image formats that are easy to build, easy to maintain dependencies for, and easy to run as FreeBSD jails OR Linux cgroup managed containers (Docker for FreeBSD translated images to jails, but it&#x27;s been unmaintained for years).</text></comment> | <story><title>The most popular docker images each contain at least 30 vulnerabilities</title><url>https://snyk.io/blog/top-ten-most-popular-docker-images-each-contain-at-least-30-vulnerabilities/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DCKing</author><text>Although vulnerability scanners can be a useful tool, I find it very troublesome that you can utter the sentence &quot;this package contains XX vulnerabilities, and that package contains YY vulnerabilities&quot; <i>and then stop talking</i>. You&#x27;ve provided barely any useful information!<p>The quantity of vulnerabilities in an image is not really all that useful information. A large amount of vulnerabilities in a Docker image does not necessarily imply that there&#x27;s anything insecure going on. Many people don&#x27;t realize that a vulnerability is usually defined as &quot;has a CVE security advisory&quot;, and that CVEs get assigned based on a worst-case evaluation of the bug. As a result, having a CVE in your container barely tells you anything about your actual vulnerability position. In fact, most of the time you will find that having a CVE in some random utility doesn&#x27;t matter. Most CVEs in system packages don&#x27;t apply to most of your containers&#x27; threat models.<p>Why not? Because an attacker is very unlikely to be able to use vulnerabilities in these system libraries or utilities. Those utilities are usually not in active use in the first place. Even if they are used, you are not usually in a position to exploit these vulnerabilities as an attacker.<p>Just as an example, a hypothetical outdated version of grep in one of these containers can hypothetically contain many CVEs. But if your Docker service doesn&#x27;t use grep, then you would need to <i>manually run</i> grep to be vulnerable. And an attacker that is able to run grep in your Docker container has <i>already owned you</i> - it doesn&#x27;t make a difference that your grep is vulnerable! This hypothetical vulnerable version of grep therefore makes no difference in the security of your container, despite containing many CVEs.<p>It&#x27;s the <i>quality</i> of these vulnerabilities that matters. Can an attacker actually exploit the vulnerabilities to do bad things? The answer for almost all of these CVEs is &quot;no&quot;. But that&#x27;s not really the product that Snyk sells - Snyk sells a product to show you as many vulnerabilities as possible. Any vulnerability scanner company thinks it can provide most business value (and make the most money) by reporting as many vulnerabilities as it can. For sure it can help you to pinpoint those few vulnerabilities that are exploitable, but that&#x27;s where your own analysis comes in.<p>I&#x27;m not saying there&#x27;s not a lot to improve in terms of container security. There&#x27;s a <i>whole bunch</i> to improve there. But focusing on quantities like &quot;amount of CVEs in an image&quot; is not the solution - it&#x27;s marketing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kayfox</author><text>I work for a network hardware and security vendor and its utterly disheartening how many customers come to us and don&#x27;t actually care about the impact of any of the vulnerabilities they ask us about, they just care about the CVSS score, its PCI impact and their often bizarre policy about them. Theres often less concern about actually doing something about security risks and more concern about meeting their compliance goals. Now, this may be biased by who actually reaches out, but it is scary that big names have underlings who dont know the first thing about some of the security issues their &quot;investigating&quot;.<p>In another discussion the other day, I had heard programming these days compared to slowly transitioning out of the hunter-gatherer phase and into more structured society. From what I have seen this largely rings true, we are still relying on software that is largely not engineered, but written with loose engineering. The security industry seems to largely be like this, but more of a wild west (as depicted in Westerns) feel to it. Some companies and organizations have structured strategies for security, but even in large organizations like Equifax theres still a kinda &quot;go shoot the bad guys and tie up the gate so the cattle dont get out&quot; aspect to it, very ad hoc.<p>I am hoping the industry moves more towards engineering things, standardizing interactions, characterizing software modules, etc so that the security industry can spend less time on wild goose chases when trying to figure out how something is supposed to work and how this latest vulnerability applies to that.</text></comment> |
31,794,453 | 31,794,047 | 1 | 2 | 31,793,030 | train | <story><title>Cold Showers</title><url>https://github.com/hwayne/awesome-cold-showers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CapmCrackaWaka</author><text>&gt; Benchmarking cutting-edge graph-processing algorithms running on 128-core clusters against a single-threaded 2014 Macbook Pro. The laptop consistently wins, sometimes by an order of magnitude.<p>LOL, this hits close to home. My company had a modeling specific VM set up to run our predictive modeling pipelines. Typical pipeline is about 50,000 to 5 million rows of training data. At best, using an expensive VM, we managed to get 2x training speed from lightgbm on the VM vs my personal work laptop. We tried GPU boxes, hyper threaded machines, you name it. At the end of the day, we decided to let our data scientists just run models locally.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>VWWHFSfQ</author><text>Haha! Back in ~2014 or so my company was spending nearly $30,000&#x2F;month on an EC2 &quot;compute-optimized&quot; cluster to transcode live video streams to multiple renditions. One of our engineers said hey, why don&#x27;t we try to colo some real hardware? We did a test with a single bare-metal 8-core Xeon server and it completely destroyed the performance of the EC2 &quot;compute-optimized&quot; cluster!<p>After that we colo&#x27;d 4 big Xeon servers for about $1,600&#x2F;month total. Looking back on it now it&#x27;s just so insane...$30,000? no way.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cold Showers</title><url>https://github.com/hwayne/awesome-cold-showers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CapmCrackaWaka</author><text>&gt; Benchmarking cutting-edge graph-processing algorithms running on 128-core clusters against a single-threaded 2014 Macbook Pro. The laptop consistently wins, sometimes by an order of magnitude.<p>LOL, this hits close to home. My company had a modeling specific VM set up to run our predictive modeling pipelines. Typical pipeline is about 50,000 to 5 million rows of training data. At best, using an expensive VM, we managed to get 2x training speed from lightgbm on the VM vs my personal work laptop. We tried GPU boxes, hyper threaded machines, you name it. At the end of the day, we decided to let our data scientists just run models locally.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thom</author><text>There appear to be slightly weird commercial reasons behind this, because gaming GPUs have great CUDA performance but NVIDIA won’t let you put them in a datacentre. So buying your data scientists gaming laptops (RGB and all) generally works out faster for any reasonable price point. That said, a dedicated server with a decent Xeon and MKL set up correctly generally outperforms CPU-bound stuff.</text></comment> |
37,171,993 | 37,171,601 | 1 | 2 | 37,143,376 | train | <story><title>Load Balancing: The Intuition Behind the Power of Two Random Choices</title><url>https://betterprogramming.pub/load-balancing-the-intuition-behind-the-power-of-two-random-choices-6de2e139ac2f</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>magicalhippo</author><text>Maybe I misunderstood something, I admit I glossed over parts of the article, but the explanations seemed a bit over-complicated.<p>In the balls and bucket scenario, ideally you&#x27;d want to scan all the buckets and put the ball in the least filled one.<p>By picking two random buckets and putting the ball in the least filled of the two, you approximate the ideal algorithm.<p>The chance of picking two relatively filled buckets is inversely proportional to how &quot;bad&quot; it is. If there are just two buckets which have more balls than the others then it&#x27;s relatively bad to pick those two, but chances are low. And vice versa.<p>Still, hadn&#x27;t thought about this before, interesting trick indeed!</text></comment> | <story><title>Load Balancing: The Intuition Behind the Power of Two Random Choices</title><url>https://betterprogramming.pub/load-balancing-the-intuition-behind-the-power-of-two-random-choices-6de2e139ac2f</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>codetrotter</author><text>This is excellent! A prime example of what real engineering work can look like in the field of “software engineering”. I wish we saw more posts sharing this kind of knowledge.</text></comment> |
22,142,566 | 22,142,624 | 1 | 2 | 22,139,743 | train | <story><title>What can you use instead of Google and Facebook?</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/business-50460712</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reaperducer</author><text>The article talks mostly about e-mail and search, but you know what&#x27;s still the best social network on the interwebs? E-mail.<p>When I dumped social media two years ago, I gave my &quot;friends&quot; my e-mail address.<p>Now, instead of getting an endless stream of reposted political image captions and photos of people&#x27;s lunches I get messages about the things that are actually worth seeing: news about family, friends, life events, funny stories — all without the dross and anger-inducing cruft of a social media &quot;feed.&quot;<p>E-mail has all of the benefits of social media: photos, group chat, near-instant delivery; with none of the drawbacks: tracking, advertising, stalking, third-party influences.<p>More importantly, what happened is that I found out who my actual friends are. I think the whole social media &quot;friends&quot; button has cheapened the word. We don&#x27;t make a distinction between friends, acquaintances, associates, and people we just know. Your real friends will e-mail you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dwild</author><text>&gt; The article talks mostly about e-mail and search, but you know what&#x27;s still the best social network on the interwebs? E-mail.<p>I&#x27;m pretty sure if you replaced &quot;social network&quot; by &quot;ticket tracker&quot;, you would had made quite a bit of people laugh here, still here we are, unable to accept that some tools are just much more efficient in a task.<p>For me Facebook is something where I can reach everyone that I need to reach at once. The sad thing is the best social network is the one that people use. Sure everyone got an email, as this is a requirement to even have a social network account, but it&#x27;s the usage that people does of it that make it impossible to use it as such.<p>I remember at nearly every team project at my university, we tried to make Slack happens, or Discord, or whatever else to communicate, instead of Facebook, but the response was never as instant and each time we came back to Facebook, simply because that&#x27;s what most people in the group were online on at the same time.<p>Personally my actual usage of Facebook is mostly to quickly organize events, it&#x27;s only useful to reach &quot;everyone&quot; at the same time. I remember one of the best example of event we organized, it was mid afternoon, I was in class with a friend and we decided to organize a friend gathering that night. We had nothing, not even somewhere to do it. We simply created a Facebook event, we invited about 20 friends to the event, 5 hours later we had a place, we had food, plenty of board games and more than a dozens people present.<p>Sure we can send 20 emails or SMS, hope that everyone read them in the afternoon, have everyone send a bunch of answers in random order, again hope that everyone read the one that are important mixed with all the random &quot;I&#x27;m in&quot;. That&#x27;s 20x more effort for each and everyone involved. At that event, my friend and I were the organizer, and we only had to send an handful of messages, the event was the source of truth easy to follow by everyone. Minimum effort, quick and easy.<p>Sure we can text you on the side, but the truth is, that add friction for each and everyone that aren&#x27;t on Facebook. If something get updated and I forget to tell you, well I&#x27;m now responsible for you missing the update.<p>The older I get, the less this kind of thing happen, so yeah Facebook is less important, but that still why I used it, and it&#x27;s still what makes it the best social network. It allow you more easily, more quickly, and more efficiently to be social.<p>&gt; Now, instead of getting an endless stream of reposted political image captions and photos of people&#x27;s lunches I get messages about the things that are actually worth seeing: news about family, friends, life events, funny stories — all without the dross and anger-inducing cruft of a social media &quot;feed.&quot;<p>I would like you to have a talk to everyone grandparents. The amount of emails chains I got from my family when I was younger...<p>I personally don&#x27;t really follow people posts, in fact almost no one does them in my friend circle, it&#x27;s mostly stuff shared from the news, which isn&#x27;t important.<p>&gt; none of the drawbacks: tracking, advertising, stalking, third-party influences.<p>Gmail and Hotmail don&#x27;t track email and advertise?<p>&gt; More importantly, what happened is that I found out who my actual friends are. I think the whole social media &quot;friends&quot; button has cheapened the word. We don&#x27;t make a distinction between friends, acquaintances, associates, and people we just know. Your real friends will e-mail you.<p>That&#x27;s kind of weird. Think a bit about it, why would a &quot;real friend&quot; e-mail you? Are you a &quot;real friend&quot; by not sending a message to your friend over Facebook because that&#x27;s what he use? That would means you are not really a real friend to anyone... I&#x27;m sure that&#x27;s not the case. You didn&#x27;t found out who your actual friends were, you simply lost actual friends by making it harder to contact you and you slowly made them become acquaintances.</text></comment> | <story><title>What can you use instead of Google and Facebook?</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/business-50460712</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reaperducer</author><text>The article talks mostly about e-mail and search, but you know what&#x27;s still the best social network on the interwebs? E-mail.<p>When I dumped social media two years ago, I gave my &quot;friends&quot; my e-mail address.<p>Now, instead of getting an endless stream of reposted political image captions and photos of people&#x27;s lunches I get messages about the things that are actually worth seeing: news about family, friends, life events, funny stories — all without the dross and anger-inducing cruft of a social media &quot;feed.&quot;<p>E-mail has all of the benefits of social media: photos, group chat, near-instant delivery; with none of the drawbacks: tracking, advertising, stalking, third-party influences.<p>More importantly, what happened is that I found out who my actual friends are. I think the whole social media &quot;friends&quot; button has cheapened the word. We don&#x27;t make a distinction between friends, acquaintances, associates, and people we just know. Your real friends will e-mail you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vinceleo</author><text>I&#x27;m very big fan of Elgg
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;elgg.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;elgg.org</a><p>I believe that this social networking framework has a great future.<p>Look at these projects which created using this engine:
Minds <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.minds.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.minds.com</a>
Pleio <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pleio.nl" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pleio.nl</a>
GCconnex and GCcollab <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gctools-outilsgc&#x2F;gcconnex" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gctools-outilsgc&#x2F;gcconnex</a><p>There is even a Platform that will make building apps based on Elgg easier <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wzm.me&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wzm.me&#x2F;</a><p>Right now this project needs more cotributors to help it develop even more <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Elgg&#x2F;Elgg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Elgg&#x2F;Elgg</a></text></comment> |
4,006,371 | 4,006,254 | 1 | 3 | 4,006,150 | train | <story><title>Of abusive behavior in programming communities</title><url>http://rjbs.manxome.org/rubric/entry/1959</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>coffeemug</author><text><p><pre><code> ^ (IV) | (I)
| People | People everyone
| everyone | wants to work
n | feels bad | with
i | for |
c | |
e +---------------+----------------
n | (III) | (II)
e | Get off | People everyone
s | my lawn | just tolerates
s | people |
| |
| |
+-------------------------------&#62;
talent</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>Of abusive behavior in programming communities</title><url>http://rjbs.manxome.org/rubric/entry/1959</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nikatwork</author><text>I run a net radio show with a live chatroom that is frequently trolled. "Troll hugging" really does work - it's amazing how fast a user can turn from troll to punter. My theory is they're bored and just want attention.<p>It doesn't always work. Some People Are Just Assholes.</text></comment> |
3,587,293 | 3,587,396 | 1 | 2 | 3,586,882 | train | <story><title>Sample App with Backbone.js and Twitter Bootstrap</title><url>http://coenraets.org/blog/2012/02/sample-app-with-backbone-js-and-twitter-bootstrap/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dangrossman</author><text>If this is of interest, you might also check out Bookmarkly, a visual bookmark organizer I open sourced last week. It's node.js on the server and Backbone.js on the client, with a little Twitter Bootstrap in the UI as well.<p><a href="http://bookmarkly.com" rel="nofollow">http://bookmarkly.com</a><p><a href="https://github.com/dangrossman/Bookmarkly" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/dangrossman/Bookmarkly</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Sample App with Backbone.js and Twitter Bootstrap</title><url>http://coenraets.org/blog/2012/02/sample-app-with-backbone-js-and-twitter-bootstrap/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dts</author><text>Hmmm. Any reason all the views and models are attached to the window object instead of namespaced under some kind of app controller?</text></comment> |
12,451,774 | 12,451,424 | 1 | 3 | 12,450,905 | train | <story><title>This Is What Python Beginners Have to Deal With</title><url>http://pythonforengineers.com/this-is-what-python-beginners-have-to-deal-with/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>junke</author><text>&gt; Now, compare that to what happens when I search for the same in Python. I get this:<p>&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.python.org&#x2F;2&#x2F;library&#x2F;re.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.python.org&#x2F;2&#x2F;library&#x2F;re.html</a><p>I clicked and I saw the kind of technical documentation I love to read: precise, with examples. There is an introduction to Python&#x27;s flavor of regular expressions, which highlights the potential problems (backslashes). This is not targetted at novice <i>programmers</i>, though.<p>&gt; That’s the generic re library page. I have to scroll down to see which function I need.<p>Did you notice the table of contents on the left?
You might want to try Ctrl+F. But you might have to scroll down too, I don&#x27;t deny it. You have to read, too.<p>&gt; And even then, all I get is a hundred words of generic description. No examples.<p>Ctrl+F &quot;example&quot; highlights the table of contents. There is an example for &quot;findall&quot;.<p>&gt; I then have to Google Python regex findall examples, and go through a dozen blogs written in 2008.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lmgtfy.com&#x2F;?q=regex+findall+example#" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lmgtfy.com&#x2F;?q=regex+findall+example#</a><p>Not really, there are plenty of recent posts (stackoverflow, etc). And having articles from 2008 would not even imply that they are incorrect. In order to see how old your post is, I have to look at the source, but even though it is quite recent, it contains factual errors.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Illniyar</author><text>I think this is the exact type of comments that the author comes out against.<p>You aren&#x27;t putting yourself in the shoes of a beginner.<p>Let&#x27;s say I&#x27;m a beginner, and I want to just experiment with the language a bit (I&#x27;ve already read some tutorials or am not interested) - since I&#x27;m just trying to get the feel of the language and ecosystem, I&#x27;m not trying to get a deep understanding of the language and tools - I want to match a regex.<p>In the C++ and PHP examples he provided, the basic example is easily found - it&#x27;s basically two actions - search in google and scroll to the example.<p>What you are suggesting takes several more steps - ctrl-f for a text that you might get wrong (you&#x27;ve searched for sample instead of example for instance), iterate until you get the right place, etc...<p>And that&#x27;s assuming you even realize that you should run ctrl-f, why should you?<p>The main issue though is that if I&#x27;m a beginner I&#x27;m doing this kind of searches several times a minute - to have to stop and realize what to look for every time is extremely frustrating.<p>I&#x27;ve worked with Ruby,Python, Java and Javascript - python&#x27;s (and django&#x27;s) documentation is extremely verbose and rarely straightforward compared to the other ones.</text></comment> | <story><title>This Is What Python Beginners Have to Deal With</title><url>http://pythonforengineers.com/this-is-what-python-beginners-have-to-deal-with/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>junke</author><text>&gt; Now, compare that to what happens when I search for the same in Python. I get this:<p>&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.python.org&#x2F;2&#x2F;library&#x2F;re.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.python.org&#x2F;2&#x2F;library&#x2F;re.html</a><p>I clicked and I saw the kind of technical documentation I love to read: precise, with examples. There is an introduction to Python&#x27;s flavor of regular expressions, which highlights the potential problems (backslashes). This is not targetted at novice <i>programmers</i>, though.<p>&gt; That’s the generic re library page. I have to scroll down to see which function I need.<p>Did you notice the table of contents on the left?
You might want to try Ctrl+F. But you might have to scroll down too, I don&#x27;t deny it. You have to read, too.<p>&gt; And even then, all I get is a hundred words of generic description. No examples.<p>Ctrl+F &quot;example&quot; highlights the table of contents. There is an example for &quot;findall&quot;.<p>&gt; I then have to Google Python regex findall examples, and go through a dozen blogs written in 2008.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lmgtfy.com&#x2F;?q=regex+findall+example#" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lmgtfy.com&#x2F;?q=regex+findall+example#</a><p>Not really, there are plenty of recent posts (stackoverflow, etc). And having articles from 2008 would not even imply that they are incorrect. In order to see how old your post is, I have to look at the source, but even though it is quite recent, it contains factual errors.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>int_19h</author><text>Regarding the docs layout and &quot;having to scroll down to see which function&quot;, I also don&#x27;t quite get it. From my perspective, it&#x27;s a very nice trait of Python docs compared to PHP docs, that the former actually explain <i>how</i> to use the various parts of the API together, before giving descriptions for every specific API. It&#x27;s simply a much better way to digest it and learn to use it without making a mess (speaking of which and PHP...).</text></comment> |
12,206,532 | 12,206,602 | 1 | 2 | 12,205,855 | train | <story><title>Salesforce buys word processing app Quip for $750M</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/01/salesforce-buys-word-processing-app-quip-for-750m/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>beat</author><text>Thinking about this just in terms of product...<p>There are two real competitors on the market - MS Office, and Google Docs. Office is where it is today through sheer inertia. It&#x27;s a slow-moving and often terrible product. Google Docs feels like a &quot;free product&quot;, with a lot of limitations. The market feels like someone could &quot;Slack&quot; it - walk in with a good enough product and just lay waste to the incumbents very quickly.<p>The shift to cloud-based tools is happening rapidly, pushed by the ubiquity and quality of mobile devices. Salesforce practically invented this market, and they have incredibly deep hooks into the enterprise (and lucrative enterprise licensing agreements). MS Office feels like a clunky antique hobbling users to their clunky old PCs, but Google Docs isn&#x27;t going to satisfy the corporate power users who are amazingly productive with Word, Excel, and Powerpoint.<p>Mark Benioff is ambitious. This isn&#x27;t about his RoI for some A round investment. He&#x27;s already a billionaire. More money is just bouncing the rubble. What&#x27;s important is he built a company, Salesforce, at the top of the <i>second tier</i> of the software industry. It&#x27;s important enough to have shaped the industry, and make billions - but it&#x27;s not Google. It&#x27;s not Apple. It&#x27;s not Oracle. And it&#x27;s not Microsoft. If he wants to break into that tier, he needs to level the company up. Taking over the enterprise productivity app market and consigning Microsoft to the dust bin of history? That might just do it.<p>And finally... like all large companies, Salesforce may be facing market saturation and a tapering off of growth. It&#x27;s too big to easily develop breakthrough products in house anymore. Instead, there&#x27;s growth through acquisition, buying hot startups with the ample buckets of cash you have, to break into new markets.<p>So maybe, just maybe, this buyout is exactly what it looks like.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>curiousDog</author><text>You seem to be unaware of the fact that Office isn&#x27;t desktop only any longer. Office 365 is growing like crazy and there&#x27;s no way Salesforce is going to catch up before the cloud wave blows over. Infact, modernizing and getting office on ever device has been the shtick of Satya since he took over.</text></comment> | <story><title>Salesforce buys word processing app Quip for $750M</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/01/salesforce-buys-word-processing-app-quip-for-750m/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>beat</author><text>Thinking about this just in terms of product...<p>There are two real competitors on the market - MS Office, and Google Docs. Office is where it is today through sheer inertia. It&#x27;s a slow-moving and often terrible product. Google Docs feels like a &quot;free product&quot;, with a lot of limitations. The market feels like someone could &quot;Slack&quot; it - walk in with a good enough product and just lay waste to the incumbents very quickly.<p>The shift to cloud-based tools is happening rapidly, pushed by the ubiquity and quality of mobile devices. Salesforce practically invented this market, and they have incredibly deep hooks into the enterprise (and lucrative enterprise licensing agreements). MS Office feels like a clunky antique hobbling users to their clunky old PCs, but Google Docs isn&#x27;t going to satisfy the corporate power users who are amazingly productive with Word, Excel, and Powerpoint.<p>Mark Benioff is ambitious. This isn&#x27;t about his RoI for some A round investment. He&#x27;s already a billionaire. More money is just bouncing the rubble. What&#x27;s important is he built a company, Salesforce, at the top of the <i>second tier</i> of the software industry. It&#x27;s important enough to have shaped the industry, and make billions - but it&#x27;s not Google. It&#x27;s not Apple. It&#x27;s not Oracle. And it&#x27;s not Microsoft. If he wants to break into that tier, he needs to level the company up. Taking over the enterprise productivity app market and consigning Microsoft to the dust bin of history? That might just do it.<p>And finally... like all large companies, Salesforce may be facing market saturation and a tapering off of growth. It&#x27;s too big to easily develop breakthrough products in house anymore. Instead, there&#x27;s growth through acquisition, buying hot startups with the ample buckets of cash you have, to break into new markets.<p>So maybe, just maybe, this buyout is exactly what it looks like.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bla2</author><text>You probably haven&#x27;t used Google Docs in a while. It&#x27;s much more capable than four years ago in my experience, and does everything I want it to do these days.</text></comment> |
33,067,268 | 33,066,521 | 1 | 2 | 33,066,069 | train | <story><title>Google Analytics is injected with Stripe.js when enabling Google Pay</title><url>https://twitter.com/jackellis/status/1576879802379751424</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ezekg</author><text>It sucks that even a good Content Security Policy [0] can&#x27;t stop an iframe from making these types of requests.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Web&#x2F;HTTP&#x2F;Headers&#x2F;Content-Security-Policy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Web&#x2F;HTTP&#x2F;Headers&#x2F;Co...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Google Analytics is injected with Stripe.js when enabling Google Pay</title><url>https://twitter.com/jackellis/status/1576879802379751424</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mrunkel</author><text>I don’t understand the issue. If you’re already using google pay, then google is a data processor for you and you should have already received consent.<p>This isn’t stripe doing this, rather it’s google doing it.</text></comment> |
23,702,285 | 23,701,463 | 1 | 3 | 23,701,316 | train | <story><title>Norwegian Air cancels order for 97 Boeing aircraft, sues Boeing</title><url>https://airlinegeeks.com/2020/06/30/norwegian-air-cancels-order-for-97-boeing-aircraft-sues-boeing/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>walkingolof</author><text>BOC Aviation, controlled by the Chinese state, is now a majority owner of Norwegian, BOC have previously canceled 737 Max orders.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thelocal.no&#x2F;20200520&#x2F;china-become-norwegians-biggest-owner-after-debt-swap" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thelocal.no&#x2F;20200520&#x2F;china-become-norwegians-big...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Norwegian Air cancels order for 97 Boeing aircraft, sues Boeing</title><url>https://airlinegeeks.com/2020/06/30/norwegian-air-cancels-order-for-97-boeing-aircraft-sues-boeing/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>redleggedfrog</author><text>I wonder who is going to have the guts to kill the 737 Max for good. It&#x27;s never going to fly with airline and passengers ever again,</text></comment> |
22,350,175 | 22,350,102 | 1 | 2 | 22,349,677 | train | <story><title>DisplayPort and 4K</title><url>https://etbe.coker.com.au/2020/02/16/displayport-4k/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dangus</author><text>This article does contain useful information especially since a lot of this is way less obvious than it should be to a non-technical end user.<p>My crappy Apple USB-C Multiport adapter simply refuses 60Hz 4K on an HDMI cable that works out of the box with Windows 10 on a GTX 1060. This is despite the fact that the product page says that this configuration with my particular Mac is supported (edit: it’s actually because I have an old adapter).<p>Then I use a cheap $8 USB-C to HDMI cable and it works fine on two MacBook Pro 15&#x2F;16” computers (be careful here as a 2016 USB-C MacBook Pro 15” doesn’t support 4K 60Hz over HDMI but the identical-looking 2017 model and newer do).<p>Frustratingly, Apple doesn’t make a similar USB&#x2F;power&#x2F;video adapter for DisplayPort, just for HDMI. Nobody else seems to make one either unless you get into the world of expensive hubs.<p>For our older 2015 MacBook Pro, Thunderbolt 2&#x2F;mini displayport to DisplayPort is the option.<p>What I’m getting at in a poorly organized fashion is that the world of single cable charge and display and device hub is definitely not here. There’s one display on the market that supports USB-C charging above 85W and it only works with newer Macs.<p>You can get basically the same display for $1000 less with an LG 27” 4K display and just use DisplayPort and HDMI with adapters. Saving yourself from plugging in a second thing isn’t worth $1000.<p>I can’t for the life of me figure out why the people who make displays with built in power supplies for USB-C charging didn’t just default it on the 100W maximum that the spec allows. What short-sighted design!<p>In any event, I think I don’t mind keeping that piece of hardware separate from my display, not just for reliability but for weight and bulk as well. I can easily hide a power brick under the table.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paranoidrobot</author><text>The situation with HDMI is confusing enough without also introducting USB-C into the picture.<p>A lot of video cards and some monitors will negotiate a DisplayPort link over HDMI ports and HDMI cables.<p>For instance, my Intel NUC has only a single HDMI port, but plug a HDMI to DisplayPort cable in, and it&#x27;ll negotiate a DisplayPort 1.2 connection to my Dell U2711 at 2560x1440@60hz. Plug a HDMI to HDMI cable in, and plug into the HDMI port on the same monitor - no bueno, it&#x27;s HDMI only and we&#x27;re stuck at 1920x1200.<p>Another monitor, I forget the brand, was happy to negotiate DisplayPort over a HDMI port.<p>Introducing USB-C adapters into the mix and some adapters appear to support USB-C Alternate Mode to carry DisplayPort but only have HDMI connectors, others won&#x27;t.<p>Then we run into potential issues where the video card&#x27;s outputs may not have been wired into the USB-C controller. Though this afaict is mostly applicable to desktops with discrete GPUs.</text></comment> | <story><title>DisplayPort and 4K</title><url>https://etbe.coker.com.au/2020/02/16/displayport-4k/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dangus</author><text>This article does contain useful information especially since a lot of this is way less obvious than it should be to a non-technical end user.<p>My crappy Apple USB-C Multiport adapter simply refuses 60Hz 4K on an HDMI cable that works out of the box with Windows 10 on a GTX 1060. This is despite the fact that the product page says that this configuration with my particular Mac is supported (edit: it’s actually because I have an old adapter).<p>Then I use a cheap $8 USB-C to HDMI cable and it works fine on two MacBook Pro 15&#x2F;16” computers (be careful here as a 2016 USB-C MacBook Pro 15” doesn’t support 4K 60Hz over HDMI but the identical-looking 2017 model and newer do).<p>Frustratingly, Apple doesn’t make a similar USB&#x2F;power&#x2F;video adapter for DisplayPort, just for HDMI. Nobody else seems to make one either unless you get into the world of expensive hubs.<p>For our older 2015 MacBook Pro, Thunderbolt 2&#x2F;mini displayport to DisplayPort is the option.<p>What I’m getting at in a poorly organized fashion is that the world of single cable charge and display and device hub is definitely not here. There’s one display on the market that supports USB-C charging above 85W and it only works with newer Macs.<p>You can get basically the same display for $1000 less with an LG 27” 4K display and just use DisplayPort and HDMI with adapters. Saving yourself from plugging in a second thing isn’t worth $1000.<p>I can’t for the life of me figure out why the people who make displays with built in power supplies for USB-C charging didn’t just default it on the 100W maximum that the spec allows. What short-sighted design!<p>In any event, I think I don’t mind keeping that piece of hardware separate from my display, not just for reliability but for weight and bulk as well. I can easily hide a power brick under the table.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lispm</author><text>&gt; Apple USB-C Multiport adapter simply refuses 60Hz 4K<p>Don&#x27;t know if it&#x27;s the case for you: the older version of the adapter was limited to 30Hz @ 4K. Only the latest version supports 60Hz @ 4K.<p>I have both and unfortunately they look very similar. Only the fineprint gives a clue which is the newer version.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;HT207806" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;HT207806</a></text></comment> |
31,414,859 | 31,414,963 | 1 | 2 | 31,405,859 | train | <story><title>Taking a break from social media makes you happier and less anxious</title><url>https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2022/05/16/taking-a-break-from-social-media-makes-you-happier-and-less-anxious/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>colpabar</author><text>&gt; It comes down to you, are you using that as fuel to motivate you or are you seething inside and burning with envy?<p>&gt; I honestly believe that envy is the thief of joy and if you allow it to consume you it will destroy you.<p>It&#x27;s nice that <i>you</i> are able to do this, but most don&#x27;t use social media this way. They see successful, beautiful people doing interesting things and they feel sad that they can&#x27;t do the same. Can&#x27;t you empathize?</text></item><item><author>sharadov</author><text>No, it does not bother me.
I am one of those people who feels happy when something good is happening in other people&#x27;s lives.<p>That other person who got that job put time into it and achieved it. Good for them.<p>Someone lost a shit ton of weight and looks ripped. That&#x27;s motivation for me to lift too and eat better.<p>It comes down to you, are you using that as fuel to motivate you or are you seething inside and burning with envy?<p>I honestly believe that envy is the thief of joy and if you allow it to consume you it will destroy you.<p>The only people that turn me off are those folks who make political shit posts, but I don&#x27;t follow them.</text></item><item><author>charstacker</author><text>Consider the following scenario: You&#x27;re pleased and content one minute, thinking your life is going fine the next. You have a few minutes to kill, so you log onto Facebook and begin scrolling...<p>First, you notice a friend&#x27;s post stating that she has accepted her ideal job.<p>Then you read a coworker&#x27;s too political rant.<p>You continue browsing and see a video of your neighbour enjoying a fantastic tropical vacation.<p>And now your cousin has uploaded a before and after photo that makes you want to hide your thighs for the rest of your life.<p>The next thing you know, you&#x27;re second-guessing your profession, irritated by politics, wondering why you can&#x27;t afford a trip, and researching your next diet.<p>Social media is nothing but roller coaster,</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BhavdeepSethi</author><text>So true. It&#x27;s almost ironic how they mention they feel good when something good happens to someone else, but when not everyone may feel the same, then it&#x27;s their problem.<p>&quot;Why can&#x27;t this be happening to me?&quot; is considered envy, but &quot;Why are you not happy for others like me?&quot; is considered moral high ground.</text></comment> | <story><title>Taking a break from social media makes you happier and less anxious</title><url>https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2022/05/16/taking-a-break-from-social-media-makes-you-happier-and-less-anxious/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>colpabar</author><text>&gt; It comes down to you, are you using that as fuel to motivate you or are you seething inside and burning with envy?<p>&gt; I honestly believe that envy is the thief of joy and if you allow it to consume you it will destroy you.<p>It&#x27;s nice that <i>you</i> are able to do this, but most don&#x27;t use social media this way. They see successful, beautiful people doing interesting things and they feel sad that they can&#x27;t do the same. Can&#x27;t you empathize?</text></item><item><author>sharadov</author><text>No, it does not bother me.
I am one of those people who feels happy when something good is happening in other people&#x27;s lives.<p>That other person who got that job put time into it and achieved it. Good for them.<p>Someone lost a shit ton of weight and looks ripped. That&#x27;s motivation for me to lift too and eat better.<p>It comes down to you, are you using that as fuel to motivate you or are you seething inside and burning with envy?<p>I honestly believe that envy is the thief of joy and if you allow it to consume you it will destroy you.<p>The only people that turn me off are those folks who make political shit posts, but I don&#x27;t follow them.</text></item><item><author>charstacker</author><text>Consider the following scenario: You&#x27;re pleased and content one minute, thinking your life is going fine the next. You have a few minutes to kill, so you log onto Facebook and begin scrolling...<p>First, you notice a friend&#x27;s post stating that she has accepted her ideal job.<p>Then you read a coworker&#x27;s too political rant.<p>You continue browsing and see a video of your neighbour enjoying a fantastic tropical vacation.<p>And now your cousin has uploaded a before and after photo that makes you want to hide your thighs for the rest of your life.<p>The next thing you know, you&#x27;re second-guessing your profession, irritated by politics, wondering why you can&#x27;t afford a trip, and researching your next diet.<p>Social media is nothing but roller coaster,</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ben174</author><text>(not op) Empathize yes, but I would encourage people to try as much as they possibly can to change their viewpoint from envy to joy. I think that&#x27;s a healthier solution than hiding from it.</text></comment> |
11,178,148 | 11,177,098 | 1 | 2 | 11,176,955 | train | <story><title>Lila Tretikov Has Resigned from Wikimedia Foundation</title><url>https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2016-February/082470.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ianamartin</author><text>Honestly, this all sounds pretty typical of non-profit organizations. I&#x27;ve been working with various different ones since I was 7. Sometimes as a volunteer, sometimes as an employee, sometimes as an executive, and sometimes as a board member.<p>I have never seen a functional non-profit. For whatever reason, non-profits seem to attract all kinds of people who are motivated by things I can only describe as &quot;weird.&quot; And it&#x27;s not just at the management levels. Volunteers and employees tend to have an irrational sense of entitlement, as though the mission of the group and the fact that they are in some way devoted to it earns them a right to a voice in the leadership.<p>But there are also issues with the personalities that the management roles attract, particularly with boards. There are two types of board members: those who are doing the work because they think they should, so they want to get in, make decisions, and get out. Then there are the ones who are passionately invested in &quot;the cause&quot;, and the passionate ones are complete wild cards. You never know what you are going to get. Narcissists, martyrs, and drama queens, most often. But sometimes other.<p>I haven&#x27;t been following this situation at all, but if I had to make a guess, the truth is somewhere in the middle. Lila was probably doing her honest and straightforward best to deal with a situation that was <i>way</i> over her head and made some mistakes.<p>The board and other employees are probably a mixed bag of honest, good-heated people trying to make a difference, some complete nutbags, and a lot of people in between.<p>In many ways, non-profits are like academia. Important and necessary organizations, but extremely disfunctional in the same ways. They tend to be sanctuaries for people who do not really function all that well in public society or companies. The pay stakes are generally lower, so people fight militantly over issues of status and control that seem trivial to the rest of the outside world.</text></comment> | <story><title>Lila Tretikov Has Resigned from Wikimedia Foundation</title><url>https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2016-February/082470.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ptest1</author><text>Some background here:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mollywhite.net&#x2F;wikimedia-timeline&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mollywhite.net&#x2F;wikimedia-timeline&#x2F;</a><p>The above conflates a lot of highly unrelated events, but it&#x27;s a cool visualization.<p>But the reality is that she lost the support of senior staff, and wasn&#x27;t able to regain it. It&#x27;s impossible to recover from something like that, so it&#x27;s a good sign she stepped down.</text></comment> |
19,780,227 | 19,780,219 | 1 | 2 | 19,779,545 | train | <story><title>Insurers Know How Often American Drivers Touch Their Phones</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-29/insurers-know-exactly-how-often-american-drivers-touch-their-phones</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikepurvis</author><text>We already have regulations. It&#x27;s not working.<p>I&#x27;m perfectly content for a phone to detect via GPS&#x2F;IMU that it&#x27;s in a moving vehicle and send up a big angry prompt like &quot;Please confirm that you are a passenger and not driving this vehicle. Phone interactions are being logged and will be available to law enforcement if a collision occurs.&quot;<p>I say this as a bike commuter who sees phones being used at stoplights every day, and as a parent of kids who walk to school. But also has a driver who occasionally fiddles with Google Maps on the road and could use the reminder myself.</text></item><item><author>gbrown</author><text>Are they accounting for carpooling&#x2F;passengers? I drive into work with my wife every morning, and often check my phone en-route while she&#x27;s driving.<p>This is an important problem, but ham fisted solutions which invade privacy are not the answer. We need better regulation of this stuff.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tasty_freeze</author><text>&gt; I say this as a bike commuter who sees phones being used at stoplights every day<p>Why is this a problem? I don&#x27;t mess with my phone while I&#x27;m driving, but if I&#x27;m sitting at a light for a minute or two, I&#x27;ll take a peek if, say, a text message came in while I was moving, just to make sure it isn&#x27;t something important from my wife or daughter.</text></comment> | <story><title>Insurers Know How Often American Drivers Touch Their Phones</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-29/insurers-know-exactly-how-often-american-drivers-touch-their-phones</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikepurvis</author><text>We already have regulations. It&#x27;s not working.<p>I&#x27;m perfectly content for a phone to detect via GPS&#x2F;IMU that it&#x27;s in a moving vehicle and send up a big angry prompt like &quot;Please confirm that you are a passenger and not driving this vehicle. Phone interactions are being logged and will be available to law enforcement if a collision occurs.&quot;<p>I say this as a bike commuter who sees phones being used at stoplights every day, and as a parent of kids who walk to school. But also has a driver who occasionally fiddles with Google Maps on the road and could use the reminder myself.</text></item><item><author>gbrown</author><text>Are they accounting for carpooling&#x2F;passengers? I drive into work with my wife every morning, and often check my phone en-route while she&#x27;s driving.<p>This is an important problem, but ham fisted solutions which invade privacy are not the answer. We need better regulation of this stuff.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gbrown</author><text>Don&#x27;t get me wrong, I bike too. I also have little faith that this sort of system will be implemented effectively and transparently. I also don&#x27;t think it should be legal in the first place to gather this kind of data without informed consent (no, TOS doesn&#x27;t count). There&#x27;s so much going on in industry that an IRB wouldn&#x27;t touch, and that&#x27;s where I think we need more regulation.<p>(I also think we need change-lanes-to-pass bills, better bike infrastructure, more regulation on car infotainment systems, and GOOD approaches to punishing and preventing distracted driving).</text></comment> |
6,083,548 | 6,083,226 | 1 | 2 | 6,082,697 | train | <story><title>Can you help me understand the benefit of require.js?</title><url>https://gist.github.com/desandro/4686136</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>oinksoft</author><text>This post doesn&#x27;t contain an argument so much against require.js as against module systems as a whole. I think that is short-sighted for any project where performance is important because the fact is, most projects of that kind are still using Closure Compiler which in spite of being slow, produces much smaller, more efficient code than does Uglify. Particularly, the project will be compiled with ADVANCED_OPTIMIZATIONS which can break code that will work when uncompressed (when literal property names are not written as strings or externs are not defined properly, mainly). I think any compiler with really high quality output will probably be somewhat finicky with its inputs, so Closure Compiler is not unique in that regard.<p>But if you don&#x27;t buy into compilation as a step in your frontend development cycle, I&#x27;m not sure there&#x27;s much point in using require.js, goog.provide&#x2F;require, or any other module system.</text></comment> | <story><title>Can you help me understand the benefit of require.js?</title><url>https://gist.github.com/desandro/4686136</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>andreypopp</author><text>Use browserify — <a href="http://browserify.org" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;browserify.org</a><p>Compared to require.js browserify has the following benefits:<p>* CommonJS module format which is less verbose than AMD<p>* it uses node_modules&#x2F; dir to load dependencies from so<p>* ... you can use npm to install dependencies<p>* ... and if you use Node.js then that facilitates code sharing between your client and server</text></comment> |
12,757,299 | 12,755,840 | 1 | 2 | 12,751,585 | train | <story><title>The Neural Network Zoo</title><url>http://www.asimovinstitute.org/neural-network-zoo/#</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Houshalter</author><text>Look at computer science. They have invented so many different algorithms that work! This is a sign that computer science lacks a decent unifying theoretical framework.<p>Having different algorithms for different purposes is fine. For instance, autoencoders can do unsupervised learning, GANs can learn generative models that sample from the entire distribution, recurrent neural networks can handle time series, etc. Also while there are many different types of networks, research has shown which ones work and which ones don&#x27;t. Few people pretrain autoencoders or bother with RBMs anymore, for instance. And I think we have good theoretical reasons why they aren&#x27;t as good.<p>But to continue the analogy to computer science, imagine all the different kinds of sorting algorithms. They will each work better or worse based on how the data you are sorting is arranged. If it&#x27;s already sorted in reverse, that&#x27;s a lot different than if it&#x27;s sorted completely randomly, or if it was sorted and then big chunks were randomly rearranged.<p>There&#x27;s no way to prove that one sorting algorithm will always do better than another, because there&#x27;s always special cases where they do do better. The same is true of neural networks, it&#x27;s impossible to formally prove they will work, because it depends on how real world problems are distributed.</text></item><item><author>cs702</author><text>Good job.<p>Alas, the proliferation of different kinds of neural net architectures <i>that work</i>, over the past few years, is a sign that we lack a decent unifying theoretical framework that can explain, from fundamental principles, what works, what doesn&#x27;t, and why. We&#x27;re not there yet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danharaj</author><text>Type theory is a unifying theory of program semantics. It is one among many, each of which is a facet of one whole. In particular, the theory of algebraic and coalgebraic data types is a unifying theory for computation that allows one to <i>derive</i> efficient algorithms automatically. It does not encompass all algorithms design by a long shot, it is actually quite niche, but as a coherent mathematical theory that gets to the essence of computation, it is very promising.<p>I highly recommend this book to anyone who has access to a library and is interested in seeing algorithms from the thousand-mile-high point of view: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Algebra-Programming-Prentice-Hall-International-Computer&#x2F;dp&#x2F;013507245X" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Algebra-Programming-Prentice-Hall-Int...</a><p>I suppose the point of my comment is that theoretical computer science is actually a field with a lot of unifying theories that approach computation in coherent ways. Applied computer science is much, much messier because it is interested in the particularities and flaws of real world computational models and getting practical results now, leaving explanations to come later.<p>There are unifying theories of inference for AI, but they don&#x27;t really cover deep neural networks. There are a few tantalizing hints that deep learning is intimately related to profound concepts in physics (renormalization) and functional programming.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Neural Network Zoo</title><url>http://www.asimovinstitute.org/neural-network-zoo/#</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Houshalter</author><text>Look at computer science. They have invented so many different algorithms that work! This is a sign that computer science lacks a decent unifying theoretical framework.<p>Having different algorithms for different purposes is fine. For instance, autoencoders can do unsupervised learning, GANs can learn generative models that sample from the entire distribution, recurrent neural networks can handle time series, etc. Also while there are many different types of networks, research has shown which ones work and which ones don&#x27;t. Few people pretrain autoencoders or bother with RBMs anymore, for instance. And I think we have good theoretical reasons why they aren&#x27;t as good.<p>But to continue the analogy to computer science, imagine all the different kinds of sorting algorithms. They will each work better or worse based on how the data you are sorting is arranged. If it&#x27;s already sorted in reverse, that&#x27;s a lot different than if it&#x27;s sorted completely randomly, or if it was sorted and then big chunks were randomly rearranged.<p>There&#x27;s no way to prove that one sorting algorithm will always do better than another, because there&#x27;s always special cases where they do do better. The same is true of neural networks, it&#x27;s impossible to formally prove they will work, because it depends on how real world problems are distributed.</text></item><item><author>cs702</author><text>Good job.<p>Alas, the proliferation of different kinds of neural net architectures <i>that work</i>, over the past few years, is a sign that we lack a decent unifying theoretical framework that can explain, from fundamental principles, what works, what doesn&#x27;t, and why. We&#x27;re not there yet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LeanderK</author><text>I don&#x27;t think that this is a sign that computer science lacks a decent unifying theoretical framework.<p>We can even proof that there is no optimal sorting algorithm. &quot;For every sorting algorithm x exists an input i for which an sorting algorithm y exists, so that y sorts i faster than x&quot; is provable</text></comment> |
5,851,920 | 5,851,769 | 1 | 3 | 5,851,484 | train | <story><title>Edward Snowden, The N.S.A. Leaker, Comes Forward</title><url>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2013/06/edward-snowden-the-nsa-leaker-comes-forward.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>miles</author><text><i>He talked about living “comfortably” but “unfreely.” (The dystopia he seems to be obsessing about is less “1984” than “Brave New World.”)</i><p>Epictetus addressed this sentiment a few thousand years ago:<p>Men shut up tame lions in a cage, and bring them up, and feed them, and some take them around with them. And yet who will call such a lion free? Is it not true that the more softly the lion lives the more slavishly he lives? And what lion, were he to get sense and reason, would care to be one of these lions? Why, yes, and the birds yonder, when they are caught and brought up in cages, what do they suffer in their efforts to escape? And some of them starve to death rather than endure such a life, while even such as live, barely do so, and suffer and pine away, and if ever they find any opening, make their escape. Such is their desire for physical freedom, and a life of independence and freedom from restraint. And what is wrong with you here in your cage? &quot;What a question! My nature is to fly where I please, to live in the open air, to sing when I please. You rob me of all this, and then ask, &#x27;What is wrong with you?&#x27;&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Edward Snowden, The N.S.A. Leaker, Comes Forward</title><url>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2013/06/edward-snowden-the-nsa-leaker-comes-forward.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mikejholly</author><text>&gt; He is the cheeriest major leaker one is likely to see.<p>I didn&#x27;t get that impression at all. He seems to fully comprehend his situation and it comes through clearly in his interview.</text></comment> |
16,217,608 | 16,217,561 | 1 | 3 | 16,216,187 | train | <story><title>Net neutrality bill in CA</title><url>http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB822</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>brlewis</author><text>I know enough Internet history to recognize that ca.gov is a United States URL. However, I&#x27;d still like to request that HN headlines disambiguate California and Canada.<p>Edit: As of this writing the title is &quot;Net neutrality bill in CA&quot;. I hope the title gets changed soon enough to make my comment make no sense to most of the people who read it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Net neutrality bill in CA</title><url>http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB822</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rdtsc</author><text>It&#x27;s good to see this. Most of the time &quot;states rights&quot; ends up being used for something discriminatory &quot;we reserve the right to tell women what to do with their bodies&quot; or at best something that&#x27;s just annoying &quot;why do these laws have to be different, just to be different&quot;. In this case it is an example, that at least to me, justifies having that ability.</text></comment> |
13,413,021 | 13,412,187 | 1 | 2 | 13,411,723 | train | <story><title>Fighting the Borrow Checker</title><url>https://m-decoster.github.io//2017/01/16/fighting-borrowchk/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kaosjester</author><text>I really hate the phrase &quot;fighting&quot;. Calling it a fight doesn&#x27;t do justice to the conversations you have with the borrow checker when you use Rust every day. You don&#x27;t <i>fight</i> with the borrow checker, because there isn&#x27;t a fight to win. It&#x27;s far more elegant, more precise. It&#x27;s <i>fencing</i>; you <i>fence</i> with the borrow checker, with ripostes and parries and well-aimed thrusts. And sometimes, you get to the end and you realize you lose anyway because the thing you were trying to do was fundamentally <i>wrong</i>. And it&#x27;s okay, because it&#x27;s just fencing, and you&#x27;re a little wiser, a little better-honed, a little more practiced for your next bout.</text></comment> | <story><title>Fighting the Borrow Checker</title><url>https://m-decoster.github.io//2017/01/16/fighting-borrowchk/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>weberc2</author><text>I&#x27;ve often wondered why the extra scope is needed to borrow the same variable twice in a function. It seems like the borrow checker is being overly pedantic in this case by preventing users from writing a valid program. Rather than training new users to pacify the borrow checker, perhaps the borrow checker could be made to permit valid programs so as to reduce the learning curve?</text></comment> |
20,927,805 | 20,927,473 | 1 | 2 | 20,927,093 | train | <story><title>Margrethe Vestager stays on as EU competition head in blow for tech giants</title><url>https://www.cityam.com/margrethe-vestager-stays-on-as-eu-competition-head-in-blow-for-tech-giants/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mscasts</author><text>As an European I am happy over this. It feels like companies like Microsoft, Google, Facebook etc only really care about what the US Government has to say and it&#x27;s good that the EU show these companies clearly that they have to play nice if they are going to exist in the European market.</text></comment> | <story><title>Margrethe Vestager stays on as EU competition head in blow for tech giants</title><url>https://www.cityam.com/margrethe-vestager-stays-on-as-eu-competition-head-in-blow-for-tech-giants/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>camillomiller</author><text>This is good news.
EU is the last stronghold against big tech becoming more powerful than Nations on the global scenario.
America has had its own Chaebols for a while now, it’s just they’re not managed by families.</text></comment> |
16,617,524 | 16,617,449 | 1 | 2 | 16,616,589 | train | <story><title>Beyond CI/CD: GitLab's DevOps Vision (2017)</title><url>https://about.gitlab.com/2017/10/04/devops-strategy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eadz</author><text>I like gitlab, but a mixed open source &#x2F; closed source product is always going to be a challenge in terms of hearts and minds. Take this quote from the article.<p>&gt; The other way to look at it is that this is pretty advanced stuff, and frankly, it doesn’t deserve to be, free, open source.<p>So is all the stuff that gitlab builds on, like git, or ruby, or linux, that&#x27;s all pretty advanced stuff I&#x27;d say.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>d33</author><text>&gt; The other way to look at it is that this is pretty advanced stuff, and frankly, it doesn’t deserve to be, free, open source.<p>Did they actually say that...? I only went to the page to confirm this and it appears true. Sounds like next time I choose self-hosted Github alternative, I should exclude Gitlab from my options - based on their approach so far, it feels like they really do mean this kind of contemptuous attitude of &quot;only basic stuff should be free software&quot;.
I used to cheer for Gitlab, but this is just way over the line.<p>And despite what some say, I really don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s that great a product - they seem to be focused on getting a million of things poorly than get their core fixed. Performance is still terrible, see what happens to your browser when you view a diff for a large merge request. Also, you there&#x27;s a limit to the number of commits in the history you can browse - come on, my `git log` loads the whole history in a split second but you can&#x27;t render it? And they clearly don&#x27;t care - I reported many issues to them that got confirmed and most of the time those were just shrugged off. As long as you&#x27;re not an EE user, you won&#x27;t really get much more than the annoyance of having odd version numbers make the sidebar sticky and even ones undo that.</text></comment> | <story><title>Beyond CI/CD: GitLab's DevOps Vision (2017)</title><url>https://about.gitlab.com/2017/10/04/devops-strategy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eadz</author><text>I like gitlab, but a mixed open source &#x2F; closed source product is always going to be a challenge in terms of hearts and minds. Take this quote from the article.<p>&gt; The other way to look at it is that this is pretty advanced stuff, and frankly, it doesn’t deserve to be, free, open source.<p>So is all the stuff that gitlab builds on, like git, or ruby, or linux, that&#x27;s all pretty advanced stuff I&#x27;d say.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Cthulhu_</author><text>Wow that really is a poorly worded phrase. If someone from GL is reading this, please fix that, it makes you look pretty bad.<p>Just be honest and say you want to charge for advanced features, because there&#x27;s little money to be made in open source and you&#x27;re a business after all and want to pay your employees a living wage.</text></comment> |
40,008,404 | 40,007,534 | 1 | 3 | 40,006,722 | train | <story><title>Why CISA Is Warning CISOs About a Breach at Sisense</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/04/why-cisa-is-warning-cisos-about-a-breach-at-sisense/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>koolba</author><text>&gt; Those sources said the breach appears to have started when the attackers somehow gained access to the company’s Gitlab code repository, and in that repository was a token or credential that gave the bad guys access to Sisense’s Amazon S3 buckets in the cloud.<p>So plaintext AWS credentials checked into source control.<p>&gt; Both sources said the attackers used the S3 access to copy and exfiltrate several terabytes worth of Sisense customer data, which apparently included millions of access tokens, email account passwords, and even SSL certificates.<p>And those credentials can access tons of other credentials, also stored in plaintext.<p>Even if the security policies didn’t pick this up, didn’t they at least having billing alerts for the terabytes of AWS bandwidth?</text></comment> | <story><title>Why CISA Is Warning CISOs About a Breach at Sisense</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/04/why-cisa-is-warning-cisos-about-a-breach-at-sisense/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dboreham</author><text>This sounds nuts. Are people still entrusting bearer tokens to third parties? I haven&#x27;t seen that done in at least 10 years. Surely it&#x27;s prohibited by the ToS of the first party providers?</text></comment> |
20,818,888 | 20,818,798 | 1 | 2 | 20,816,827 | train | <story><title>Python rounds float values by converting them to string and then back</title><url>https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Objects/floatobject.c#L965-L972</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fs111</author><text>Apples libc used to shell-out to perl in a function: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Apple-FOSS-Mirror&#x2F;Libc&#x2F;blob&#x2F;2ca2ae74647714acfc18674c3114b1a5d3325d7d&#x2F;gen&#x2F;wordexp.c#L192" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Apple-FOSS-Mirror&#x2F;Libc&#x2F;blob&#x2F;2ca2ae7464771...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stefan_</author><text>I thought this is what the Unix philosophy is supposed to be all about.<p>(Realistically, calling wordexp should just abort the program. Now I actually want to make a hacked up musl that aborts in all the various &quot;libc functions no one should ever use&quot; and see how far I get into a Ubuntu boot..)</text></comment> | <story><title>Python rounds float values by converting them to string and then back</title><url>https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Objects/floatobject.c#L965-L972</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fs111</author><text>Apples libc used to shell-out to perl in a function: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Apple-FOSS-Mirror&#x2F;Libc&#x2F;blob&#x2F;2ca2ae74647714acfc18674c3114b1a5d3325d7d&#x2F;gen&#x2F;wordexp.c#L192" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Apple-FOSS-Mirror&#x2F;Libc&#x2F;blob&#x2F;2ca2ae7464771...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tus88</author><text>That&#x27;s hilarious. You&#x27;re not supposed to go the other direction libc!</text></comment> |
38,094,063 | 38,093,537 | 1 | 3 | 38,092,612 | train | <story><title>Norwegian ban on Meta behavioral advertising extended to entire EU</title><url>https://www.datatilsynet.no/aktuelt/aktuelle-nyheter-2023/datatilsynets-vedtak-mot-meta-utvides-til-eueos-og-gjores-permanent/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>neontomo</author><text>Context from the Norwegian article:<p>Meta promised to ask users whether they want to opt-in, but they never did, so now they are banning these behaviours until they have come up with a better way of handling this.<p>Furthermore, Meta wanted those who opt-out of data sharing to have to pay money, which is most likely not legal.</text></comment> | <story><title>Norwegian ban on Meta behavioral advertising extended to entire EU</title><url>https://www.datatilsynet.no/aktuelt/aktuelle-nyheter-2023/datatilsynets-vedtak-mot-meta-utvides-til-eueos-og-gjores-permanent/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>runesoerensen</author><text>For people who don&#x27;t read Norwegian, here&#x27;s the Norwegian Data Protection Authority&#x27;s previous post on this matter (which the EDPB has now sided with Norway on) in English: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.datatilsynet.no&#x2F;en&#x2F;news&#x2F;aktuelle-nyheter-2023&#x2F;meta-case-brought-to-the-european-level&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.datatilsynet.no&#x2F;en&#x2F;news&#x2F;aktuelle-nyheter-2023&#x2F;me...</a><p>More details on the temporary ban: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.datatilsynet.no&#x2F;en&#x2F;news&#x2F;aktuelle-nyheter-2023&#x2F;temporary-ban-of-behavioural-advertising-on-facebook-and-instagram&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.datatilsynet.no&#x2F;en&#x2F;news&#x2F;aktuelle-nyheter-2023&#x2F;te...</a></text></comment> |
17,216,600 | 17,216,565 | 1 | 2 | 17,215,966 | train | <story><title>China has turned Xinjiang into a police state like no other</title><url>https://www.economist.com/briefing/2018/05/31/china-has-turned-xinjiang-into-a-police-state-like-no-other</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oblio</author><text>One could argue that “totalitarianism” was the default government form for most of history.<p>The problem is, the higher we go on the Maslow pyramid, the more likely it is for it to fail. You just can’t have a huge mass of creative, inventive people without them complaining about leadership (and wanting to improve it).<p>And totalitarianism by definition has problems accepting criticism.<p>The only way for totalitarianism to “work” is if the rulers are both much smarter than the population as a whole and also benevolent.<p>Regarding China, let’s see. These kinds of regimes don’t fail immediately. Just the cracks get bigger and bigger. From what I heard there’s a consolidation of power going on, that’s generally a sure sign of the first cracks appearing.</text></item><item><author>tc</author><text>In the West we have a false sense of security that totalitarianism will inevitably fail. We&#x27;ve seen so many examples of fallen tyrannical states. But many ideas fail the first few times they&#x27;re tried. China seems committed to making totalitarianism &quot;work.&quot;<p>It&#x27;s hard to think of any more dangerous invention. Even nuclear weapons aren&#x27;t as dangerous as a sustainable model for modern tyrannical government.<p>This is an invention that would be exported and widely adopted.<p>The liberal democratic model of government spread around the world not just because the people saw it work in America and decided that&#x27;s what they wanted, but also because the ruling aristocrats saw that it would be net better for them. The French Revolution probably helped convince them it compared favorably to the guillotine.<p>If another model is pioneered and proven that&#x27;s better for the ruling class, it won&#x27;t be difficult to find regimes eager to adopt it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cf498</author><text>&gt;The only way for totalitarianism to “work” is if the rulers are both much smarter than the population as a whole and also benevolent.<p>I dont think thats realistic anymore. Once they are able to hit first and hit hard when opposition forms, they are pretty much untouchable.<p>The whole argument, of autocratic regimes having a higher chance of collapsing the longer the reign looks like a naive outdated approach to me.
It bets on a critical mass of opposition forming. With total surveillance this wont happen.<p>A successful mass protest has to start somewhere. If you arrest those first people willing to risk everything you quell the entire thing. Its the basic concept of 1984. The only thing holding back this dystopia was the lack of a big brother state with sufficient insight.</text></comment> | <story><title>China has turned Xinjiang into a police state like no other</title><url>https://www.economist.com/briefing/2018/05/31/china-has-turned-xinjiang-into-a-police-state-like-no-other</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oblio</author><text>One could argue that “totalitarianism” was the default government form for most of history.<p>The problem is, the higher we go on the Maslow pyramid, the more likely it is for it to fail. You just can’t have a huge mass of creative, inventive people without them complaining about leadership (and wanting to improve it).<p>And totalitarianism by definition has problems accepting criticism.<p>The only way for totalitarianism to “work” is if the rulers are both much smarter than the population as a whole and also benevolent.<p>Regarding China, let’s see. These kinds of regimes don’t fail immediately. Just the cracks get bigger and bigger. From what I heard there’s a consolidation of power going on, that’s generally a sure sign of the first cracks appearing.</text></item><item><author>tc</author><text>In the West we have a false sense of security that totalitarianism will inevitably fail. We&#x27;ve seen so many examples of fallen tyrannical states. But many ideas fail the first few times they&#x27;re tried. China seems committed to making totalitarianism &quot;work.&quot;<p>It&#x27;s hard to think of any more dangerous invention. Even nuclear weapons aren&#x27;t as dangerous as a sustainable model for modern tyrannical government.<p>This is an invention that would be exported and widely adopted.<p>The liberal democratic model of government spread around the world not just because the people saw it work in America and decided that&#x27;s what they wanted, but also because the ruling aristocrats saw that it would be net better for them. The French Revolution probably helped convince them it compared favorably to the guillotine.<p>If another model is pioneered and proven that&#x27;s better for the ruling class, it won&#x27;t be difficult to find regimes eager to adopt it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>s4vi0r</author><text>The amount of protests in China has been exploding over the past decade(s). I didn&#x27;t even know until someone mentioned it on here a few months back, but iirc its gone from maybe a few thousand per year in the 90s to well over 100,000 in recent years.<p>The Chinese rich I&#x27;ve interacted with are also (in my experience, at least - I don&#x27;t have stats to support this) really ignorant of how bad a lot of their countrymen have it. A friend of mine&#x27;s father is some sort of government official in a tier 1 or 2 city, and he&#x27;s told me that the rich and poor are segregated enough that he himself didn&#x27;t even realize his family was anything other than middle class until he came to Canada and saw it wasn&#x27;t exactly normal to have parents who can afford 100k+ annual tuition, luxury cars and apartments, etc.</text></comment> |
10,468,458 | 10,468,152 | 1 | 3 | 10,466,888 | train | <story><title>Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?</title><url>https://medium.com/@johnsalzarulo/didn-t-homejoy-shut-down-e8d7a2dfb485</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nostromo</author><text>Your CC is probably safe on Stripe&#x27;s servers.<p>Which makes me wonder -- does Stripe allow entire accounts to change hands willy-nilly like this?</text></item><item><author>jasonlaramburu</author><text>Aaron, I was a homejoy customer. I am frustrated and concerned that my credit card # was sold to another company without my consent. How can users opt-out of having their data sold to flymaids (or any future ventures)? The fact that flymaids&#x27; site is a poorly-built clone of a competitor&#x27;s site also makes me scared that my data is not being protected.</text></item><item><author>aarontcheung</author><text>I&#x27;m one of the founders of Homejoy. I&#x27;m still very passionate about the home service space. After leaving Homejoy, I started FlyMaids, where we&#x27;re exploring a few different angles on the space.<p>We recently acquired the customer and service provider data from Homejoy.<p>We&#x27;re a small team that has been focused on moving quickly while bootstraping. We tried to quickly test different approaches, but we realize now that we did so in an unclear manner. We recognize the need to use the data we acquired responsibily. As a result, we&#x27;re taking the site down, and we&#x27;re going to do a better job with our testing moving forward.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>noneTheHacker</author><text>Yes, Stripe makes it SUPER simple for accounts to change hands.<p>I bought a small business from a brokerage site.<p>He transferred the Stripe account to me no problem. It was as simple as me making a Stripe user account and then him adding me to the account he used for the business and then me removing him.<p>The entire process took minutes. It took about 3 weeks for PayPal.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.stripe.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;change-account-owner" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.stripe.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;change-account-owner</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?</title><url>https://medium.com/@johnsalzarulo/didn-t-homejoy-shut-down-e8d7a2dfb485</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nostromo</author><text>Your CC is probably safe on Stripe&#x27;s servers.<p>Which makes me wonder -- does Stripe allow entire accounts to change hands willy-nilly like this?</text></item><item><author>jasonlaramburu</author><text>Aaron, I was a homejoy customer. I am frustrated and concerned that my credit card # was sold to another company without my consent. How can users opt-out of having their data sold to flymaids (or any future ventures)? The fact that flymaids&#x27; site is a poorly-built clone of a competitor&#x27;s site also makes me scared that my data is not being protected.</text></item><item><author>aarontcheung</author><text>I&#x27;m one of the founders of Homejoy. I&#x27;m still very passionate about the home service space. After leaving Homejoy, I started FlyMaids, where we&#x27;re exploring a few different angles on the space.<p>We recently acquired the customer and service provider data from Homejoy.<p>We&#x27;re a small team that has been focused on moving quickly while bootstraping. We tried to quickly test different approaches, but we realize now that we did so in an unclear manner. We recognize the need to use the data we acquired responsibily. As a result, we&#x27;re taking the site down, and we&#x27;re going to do a better job with our testing moving forward.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TimSchumann</author><text>My guess is the account never changed hands. Stripe can&#x27;t really prevent a legitimate owner of an account from doing something stupid with it. At least, not until after the fact.</text></comment> |
32,048,098 | 32,048,316 | 1 | 2 | 32,047,230 | train | <story><title>Irwin – the protector of Lichess from all chess players villainous</title><url>https://github.com/clarkerubber/irwin</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CSSer</author><text>I’ve seen a video of Magnus Carlsen playing on Lichess before. Does Irwin ever accidentally flag him or people like him? Do these sorts of folks have to be verified in some fashion?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>have_faith</author><text>What it looks like to cheat is more than just playing relatively accurate moves. Average move time, centipawn loss over multiple games, blunder&#x2F;mistake frequency across multiple games, strengh of moves while in time trouble, etc. Cheaters tend to stand out when you look at a short history of games.</text></comment> | <story><title>Irwin – the protector of Lichess from all chess players villainous</title><url>https://github.com/clarkerubber/irwin</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CSSer</author><text>I’ve seen a video of Magnus Carlsen playing on Lichess before. Does Irwin ever accidentally flag him or people like him? Do these sorts of folks have to be verified in some fashion?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colechristensen</author><text>High level humans and chess engines play differently. You can see commentary on chess YouTube videos when they run across cheaters.<p>Also the chess engines people use are accessible, you can compare what a suspected cheater does with what the cheater does and if they’re exactly the same consistently, you have a pretty strong signal.<p>One of the bigger tells are strange moves that set up a many move series resulting in a victory, things that humans just can’t find quickly.</text></comment> |
17,527,790 | 17,527,371 | 1 | 3 | 17,526,574 | train | <story><title>Coinbase Is Exploring Cardano, BAT, Stellar Lumens, Zcash, and 0x</title><url>https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-is-exploring-cardano-basic-attention-token-stellar-zcash-and-0x-9e44f0eb823f</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yumraj</author><text>Wonder if folks at Coinbase did or could have engaged in insider trading? And if they did, does it even fall under SEC jurisdiction or crypto currencies are in the wild West of insider trading?</text></item><item><author>tlrobinson</author><text>In case you were wondering how this news affected the price of these assets (as of this posting):<p><pre><code> ADA +10.59%
BAT +20.82%
XLM +9.42%
ZEC +15.18%
0x +23.40%</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dantiberian</author><text>This is why they are making the announcement now. I would suspect that only a few trusted people would have been involved in making the decision on which tokens to explore. They then made this announcement that they are exploring it at the same time as it was announced internally.<p>&gt; We are making this announcement internally at Coinbase and to the public at the same time to remain transparent with our customers about support for future assets.<p>This would hopefully avoid another class action lawsuit like they did with Bitcoin Cash: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coindesk.com&#x2F;coinbase-hit-lawsuit-alleged-insider-trading&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coindesk.com&#x2F;coinbase-hit-lawsuit-alleged-inside...</a>.</text></comment> | <story><title>Coinbase Is Exploring Cardano, BAT, Stellar Lumens, Zcash, and 0x</title><url>https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-is-exploring-cardano-basic-attention-token-stellar-zcash-and-0x-9e44f0eb823f</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yumraj</author><text>Wonder if folks at Coinbase did or could have engaged in insider trading? And if they did, does it even fall under SEC jurisdiction or crypto currencies are in the wild West of insider trading?</text></item><item><author>tlrobinson</author><text>In case you were wondering how this news affected the price of these assets (as of this posting):<p><pre><code> ADA +10.59%
BAT +20.82%
XLM +9.42%
ZEC +15.18%
0x +23.40%</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alttab</author><text>There was plenty of this and speculation thereof when it comes to the BCH launch in December[1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coindesk.com&#x2F;coinbase-hit-lawsuit-alleged-insider-trading&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coindesk.com&#x2F;coinbase-hit-lawsuit-alleged-inside...</a></text></comment> |
29,044,347 | 29,043,424 | 1 | 3 | 29,043,420 | train | <story><title>3½ years on my custom emperor mattress – a retrospective</title><url>https://www.middleendian.com/emperor_retrospective</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aroundtown</author><text>The one question I wanted answered, how good is the sex on a mattress this big.<p>Nobody talks of how foam mattresses change the dynamics of sex. Gone is the nice bounce back from the coils. Instead you get the firm motion deadening of the foam. Participants expecting to find that extra spring in their step find they have to provide their own bounce. I hope your muscles are up for it.<p>I personally don&#x27;t having sex on a foam mattress. I think those seeking a foam mattress should consider keeping around a spare coiled sex bed. Call it your guest bed if so inclined. It will be there for you, providing that extra spring you may be missing from you foam mattress.</text></comment> | <story><title>3½ years on my custom emperor mattress – a retrospective</title><url>https://www.middleendian.com/emperor_retrospective</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MiddleEndian</author><text>The original hacker news thread from when I built the mattress:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17558719" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17558719</a></text></comment> |
25,041,912 | 25,041,892 | 1 | 2 | 25,037,183 | train | <story><title>McDonald's is adding plant-based burgers to the menu</title><url>https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/food/2020/11/09/mcplant-mcdonalds-plant-based-burger-crispy-chicken-sandwich/6187977002/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>no_wizard</author><text>The reality is, the appeal to eating a vegan pizza to <i>some</i> is that they know it will be cruelty free, and I admire that, to be sure.<p>However, if you want to win over the average consumer, or someone who has developed tastebuds over twenty years, or really anyone who doesn&#x27;t already eat a vegan diet, you have to overcumb 1 crucial thing:<p>It needs to taste good or better than whatever you are trying to replace.<p>I haven&#x27;t come across a vegan pizza that doesn&#x27;t taste like the way I have come to expect pizza to taste, the cheese just isn&#x27;t right. All the food science in the world can&#x27;t seem to solve this problem (I&#x27;ve tried it homemade, by several skilled professionals, I&#x27;ve tried what was rated as some of the best vegan pizza in my city, mutiple times of the years, and the list goes on).<p>Until it tastes like the pizza I have fundamentally come to expect pizza to taste like, it just isn&#x27;t worth switching for me.<p>If you can solve this problem, nobody is going to care if its vegan or not, because it just taste good.<p>I wish PETA and the like would focus their time and money on this, since it would actually yield the net benefit results they&#x27;re looking for without the air of hositility some of their followers have.<p>Yes, you can debate whether its right or wrong to even think this way. The truth is, people in large already do, why not meet them where they are at?</text></item><item><author>dandare</author><text>The appeal of vegan pizza is that no animals were industrially farmed to make it. If you think your cheese is suffering free you are lying to yourself.</text></item><item><author>markdown</author><text>What is the appeal of a vegan pizza? Is it even pizza without cheese?</text></item><item><author>elif</author><text>The price of animal agriculture products is artificially lowered by direct subsidy, price controls, and indirectly lowered by the unaccounted ecological costs. It is largely a matter of policy rather than a reflection of market forces.<p>On a level playing field, the cost competitiveness is there. For instance, in New Zealand, one of the largest dairy export markets, I can buy a vegan pizza for the same price. In fact, I can buy it from Dominos, a US brand that doesn&#x27;t even offer it in the US.</text></item><item><author>Nbox9</author><text>I think it’ll be a big win when plant-based burgers are cheaper than animal based burgers. From a raw ingredients standpoint plant based food should almost always be cheaper than animal based food because the costs associated with farming plants is lower than the costs associated with farming animals. Hopefully, with McDonald’s scale and with their vertical integration they can make affordable, tasty, and comparably healthy veggie burgers a reality.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jedberg</author><text>&gt; It needs to taste good or better than whatever you are trying to replace.<p>Or just cost less. At scale (notwithstanding government subsidies), vegan food will be cheaper than animal based food.<p>People don&#x27;t go to McDonald&#x27;s because their burgers taste better than at the steakhouse, they go because it&#x27;s cheaper.</text></comment> | <story><title>McDonald's is adding plant-based burgers to the menu</title><url>https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/food/2020/11/09/mcplant-mcdonalds-plant-based-burger-crispy-chicken-sandwich/6187977002/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>no_wizard</author><text>The reality is, the appeal to eating a vegan pizza to <i>some</i> is that they know it will be cruelty free, and I admire that, to be sure.<p>However, if you want to win over the average consumer, or someone who has developed tastebuds over twenty years, or really anyone who doesn&#x27;t already eat a vegan diet, you have to overcumb 1 crucial thing:<p>It needs to taste good or better than whatever you are trying to replace.<p>I haven&#x27;t come across a vegan pizza that doesn&#x27;t taste like the way I have come to expect pizza to taste, the cheese just isn&#x27;t right. All the food science in the world can&#x27;t seem to solve this problem (I&#x27;ve tried it homemade, by several skilled professionals, I&#x27;ve tried what was rated as some of the best vegan pizza in my city, mutiple times of the years, and the list goes on).<p>Until it tastes like the pizza I have fundamentally come to expect pizza to taste like, it just isn&#x27;t worth switching for me.<p>If you can solve this problem, nobody is going to care if its vegan or not, because it just taste good.<p>I wish PETA and the like would focus their time and money on this, since it would actually yield the net benefit results they&#x27;re looking for without the air of hositility some of their followers have.<p>Yes, you can debate whether its right or wrong to even think this way. The truth is, people in large already do, why not meet them where they are at?</text></item><item><author>dandare</author><text>The appeal of vegan pizza is that no animals were industrially farmed to make it. If you think your cheese is suffering free you are lying to yourself.</text></item><item><author>markdown</author><text>What is the appeal of a vegan pizza? Is it even pizza without cheese?</text></item><item><author>elif</author><text>The price of animal agriculture products is artificially lowered by direct subsidy, price controls, and indirectly lowered by the unaccounted ecological costs. It is largely a matter of policy rather than a reflection of market forces.<p>On a level playing field, the cost competitiveness is there. For instance, in New Zealand, one of the largest dairy export markets, I can buy a vegan pizza for the same price. In fact, I can buy it from Dominos, a US brand that doesn&#x27;t even offer it in the US.</text></item><item><author>Nbox9</author><text>I think it’ll be a big win when plant-based burgers are cheaper than animal based burgers. From a raw ingredients standpoint plant based food should almost always be cheaper than animal based food because the costs associated with farming plants is lower than the costs associated with farming animals. Hopefully, with McDonald’s scale and with their vertical integration they can make affordable, tasty, and comparably healthy veggie burgers a reality.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ceras</author><text>For anyone curious, the largest non-profit focusing on exactly that (cheap &amp; delicious vegan alternatives) is the Good Food Institute: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gfi.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gfi.org&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
22,371,590 | 22,370,417 | 1 | 3 | 22,366,942 | train | <story><title>Hackers Were Inside Citrix for Five Months</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/02/hackers-were-inside-citrix-for-five-months/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PopeDotNinja</author><text>I used to work with a brilliant chip designer who couldn&#x27;t find the start button on a Windows machine. We all suck at something. Personally, I think CSS is the devil and should we should nuke it from orbit.</text></item><item><author>BiteCode_dev</author><text>I work with a F500 oil company from time to time.<p>Half of the devs from there that I was in contact with were not capable of:<p>- googling a solution to a problem efficiently. When they hit a wall, they turned to me with an empty look like they were lost.<p>- read an error message to troubleshoot. A stack trace is utter mystery.<p>- use effectively the UI of their laptop. Some can&#x27;t even Ctrl + S to save, they look up the &quot;save&quot; entry in the menu.<p>We are talking about people writing code every day, in several programming languages: fortran, c, c++, java, Python...<p>Because I&#x27;m a freelancer, I don&#x27;t care. I&#x27;m paid extremely well to be very nice to them and solve all their problems.<p>But I&#x27;m very glad I don&#x27;t have to be held responsible for anything those people end up putting in production. And I have no reason to believe it&#x27;s different in their security department.<p>However, and this is a good lesson to all of the geeks like me that think work is about doing the right thing: the output they produce is good enough in our society. Its cost&#x2F;value hits the sweat spot. Business is not about doing things right, it&#x27;s about being profitable.<p>If you have one scandal a year, but it costs you less than making sure you have a secure system, and you are not legally challenged, then you are golden.<p>In fact, the chances to have even one scandal are very low. Actual risks of failure or attack are low. And consequences in case of crisis are low too. People don&#x27;t care that much about privacy, cyber-security, etc. And policy makers won&#x27;t enforce their laws anyway, at least not to any extent that will endanger the company.<p>So if the software allows people to do their job IRL at a reasonable price, under an acceptable deadline, good enough.<p>In fact, David Goodenough is a very funny French meme: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ho4W5LnFl6s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ho4W5LnFl6s</a></text></item><item><author>arminiusreturns</author><text>One thing I have learned as a sysadmin who has had the privledge to see the inside of hundreds of companies from medium sized law firms to F500 oil companies:<p>There is a lot more incompetence than you would ever want to believe, and it&#x27;s not always where you think. I&#x27;ve traced most of it to a failure of connection&#x2F;communication between IT departments and C-levels&#x2F;boards. The CTO&#x2F;CIO and the person immediately below them (and the person immediately below them) are the &quot;buck stops here&quot; people for these kinds of issues, but often are either one of two types. 1) Too much MBA, not enough tech. 2) Too much tech, not enough MBA.<p>Both tend to have pretty similar results.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>neltnerb</author><text>True, I have a Ph.D. and am very skilled with electronics and embedded programming. If you handed me an iPhone I would have no idea how to read text messages (actual situation).<p>Same with the people I help technically at work. They&#x27;re all brilliant scientists. They get confused by the difference between VGA, DisplayPort, HDMI, and DVI. Or get extremely frustrated when a button on the UI moves.<p>I think software developers don&#x27;t quite understand how big a deal it is to a 70 year old when the button to do something moves. Probably a quarter of my day is often just figuring out how to reconfigure things to their liking or else spend an hour retraining them because of some unnecessary UI change in Windows 10, after which they will still forget and ask for help again.<p>God forbid you break apart an application into multiple programs or have online activation or a license server. I think I hear at least a daily rant about how you can&#x27;t just <i>buy</i> software anymore and now you can only rent it for a bit.<p>We have versions of software that are 13 years old because the publisher switched from an unlimited permanent license to a per-seat per-year license model. Rarely worth it when the instructors get confused by new software anyway.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hackers Were Inside Citrix for Five Months</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/02/hackers-were-inside-citrix-for-five-months/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PopeDotNinja</author><text>I used to work with a brilliant chip designer who couldn&#x27;t find the start button on a Windows machine. We all suck at something. Personally, I think CSS is the devil and should we should nuke it from orbit.</text></item><item><author>BiteCode_dev</author><text>I work with a F500 oil company from time to time.<p>Half of the devs from there that I was in contact with were not capable of:<p>- googling a solution to a problem efficiently. When they hit a wall, they turned to me with an empty look like they were lost.<p>- read an error message to troubleshoot. A stack trace is utter mystery.<p>- use effectively the UI of their laptop. Some can&#x27;t even Ctrl + S to save, they look up the &quot;save&quot; entry in the menu.<p>We are talking about people writing code every day, in several programming languages: fortran, c, c++, java, Python...<p>Because I&#x27;m a freelancer, I don&#x27;t care. I&#x27;m paid extremely well to be very nice to them and solve all their problems.<p>But I&#x27;m very glad I don&#x27;t have to be held responsible for anything those people end up putting in production. And I have no reason to believe it&#x27;s different in their security department.<p>However, and this is a good lesson to all of the geeks like me that think work is about doing the right thing: the output they produce is good enough in our society. Its cost&#x2F;value hits the sweat spot. Business is not about doing things right, it&#x27;s about being profitable.<p>If you have one scandal a year, but it costs you less than making sure you have a secure system, and you are not legally challenged, then you are golden.<p>In fact, the chances to have even one scandal are very low. Actual risks of failure or attack are low. And consequences in case of crisis are low too. People don&#x27;t care that much about privacy, cyber-security, etc. And policy makers won&#x27;t enforce their laws anyway, at least not to any extent that will endanger the company.<p>So if the software allows people to do their job IRL at a reasonable price, under an acceptable deadline, good enough.<p>In fact, David Goodenough is a very funny French meme: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ho4W5LnFl6s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ho4W5LnFl6s</a></text></item><item><author>arminiusreturns</author><text>One thing I have learned as a sysadmin who has had the privledge to see the inside of hundreds of companies from medium sized law firms to F500 oil companies:<p>There is a lot more incompetence than you would ever want to believe, and it&#x27;s not always where you think. I&#x27;ve traced most of it to a failure of connection&#x2F;communication between IT departments and C-levels&#x2F;boards. The CTO&#x2F;CIO and the person immediately below them (and the person immediately below them) are the &quot;buck stops here&quot; people for these kinds of issues, but often are either one of two types. 1) Too much MBA, not enough tech. 2) Too much tech, not enough MBA.<p>Both tend to have pretty similar results.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Vesuvium</author><text>Let&#x27;s start a css-less tech trend, shall we? :)</text></comment> |
36,613,851 | 36,612,930 | 1 | 2 | 36,611,355 | train | <story><title>Joplin – An open-source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation</title><url>https://github.com/laurent22/joplin</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wanderingmind</author><text>For those that want to crosslink anything and everything I suggest Logseq[1]. Its journal and graph view are fantastic. And it has many useful plugins. I use it along with git-sync [2] and syncthing [3] now I can sync the notes across my work, personal desktops and my mobile.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;logseq.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;logseq.com&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;simonthum&#x2F;git-sync">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;simonthum&#x2F;git-sync</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;syncthing.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;syncthing.net&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dunco</author><text>I looked at logseq as an alternative to joplin but there were too many little flags that suggested to me that privacy and being free might not be forever. I don&#x27;t have a problem with paying for software, but I don&#x27;t like getting embedded in it when I don&#x27;t know what the cost will be. Privacy wise, statements like &quot;The aim of Logseq is to establish a better environment for both learning and collaboration, enabling us to form a network that connects our ideas and enhances the collective knowledge of humanity.&quot; worry me. I don&#x27;t want my ideas connected with humanity and I certainly don&#x27;t want my notes used to train someones LLM. Maybe this is an unfair reading, as they do claim to be privacy focused, but I am worried that they will discover far to many interesting and fun things to do with user data and I just don&#x27;t really like where that sounds like its headed. If Joplin could do better sharing (with eg a colleague or spouse) on mobile and better separation of work&#x2F;private notes (like different storage locations) it would be just about perfect for me for a note taking app, but then my needs are pretty simple.</text></comment> | <story><title>Joplin – An open-source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation</title><url>https://github.com/laurent22/joplin</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wanderingmind</author><text>For those that want to crosslink anything and everything I suggest Logseq[1]. Its journal and graph view are fantastic. And it has many useful plugins. I use it along with git-sync [2] and syncthing [3] now I can sync the notes across my work, personal desktops and my mobile.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;logseq.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;logseq.com&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;simonthum&#x2F;git-sync">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;simonthum&#x2F;git-sync</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;syncthing.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;syncthing.net&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eitland</author><text>I jumped from Joplin to Logseq too.<p>Before it was Boostnote.<p>Probably the reason was both Boostnote and Joplin seems to have stopped developing the application and shifted focus to monetization.<p>Also I personally prefer the (much) more technical way that Logseq work. It is not a markdown editor, but a knowledge base that stores its data as plaintext files in a markdown-like format.<p>One question: do you have pointers to a good way to setup git sync and syncthing? I pay enough to LogSeq to have free sync but I prefer to self host and also the current sync
model is somewhat flaky.</text></comment> |
28,720,933 | 28,719,293 | 1 | 2 | 28,718,703 | train | <story><title>Banking-Crisis Interventions, 1257-2019 [pdf]</title><url>https://som.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/II__metrick-schmelzing%2C%20body%20-%209-7.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>specialist</author><text>Graeber&#x27;s book Debt: The First 5000 Years documents that cycles of debt crisis and subsequent forgiveness is historically normal. And probably necessary. I mean, think about it: What other remedies do we have to winner-takes-all? Progressive taxation? Government largess?<p>Made me rethink all the bailouts, etc. Especially with the renewed scholarship on Keynesian 2.0 (MMT).<p>I&#x27;d probably be ok with bailouts, jubilees if they were more fair, more bottom up.<p>Financiers gobbling up all the cheddar, abandoning all their victim&#x27;s, really pisses me off.<p>Insult to injury is lack of consequences, acting aggrieved when their malfeasance is examined. Just one example being Jamie Dimon clutching his pearls when Obama Admin merely suggesting the optics of huge bonuses for execs during a meltdown was a bad look.</text></comment> | <story><title>Banking-Crisis Interventions, 1257-2019 [pdf]</title><url>https://som.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/II__metrick-schmelzing%2C%20body%20-%209-7.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cs702</author><text>The authors compiled data for 1886 interventions in 20 categories across 138 countries going back to the 13th century. Fabulous work. Looking forward to reading it.<p>In the meantime, please do yourself a favor and take a look at Figure 6 on page 31, which shows that the number of interventions to rescue financial institutions around the world <i>has been increasing consistently since the 1600&#x27;s</i>.<p>As the authors put it in their abstract, &quot;intervention frequencies and sizes suggest that the crisis problem in the financial sector has indeed <i>reached an apex during the post-Bretton Woods era</i> – but that such trends are part of a more deeply entrenched development that saw global intervention frequencies and sizes gradually rise since at least the late 17th century.&quot;<p>And it&#x27;s not only the frequencies and sizes of interventions that have increased, but also their <i>scope</i>. From the abstract: &quot;The data shows a gradual shift over the past centuries from the traditional interventions of a lender-of-last-resort, suspensions of convertibility, and bank holidays, towards a much more prominent role for capital injections and sweeping guarantees of bank liabilities.&quot;<p>In short, over the course of at least five centuries, the financial system has grown more and more dependent on governmental support.</text></comment> |
24,571,858 | 24,571,133 | 1 | 2 | 24,567,711 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Is hydrogen likely to be a major source of power in the next 10 years?</title><text>There has been hype around hydrogen fuel cells being a source of green power for decades, but the hype cycle is currently ramping up significantly. Hydrogen fuel cell stocks such as PLUG and FCEL have gone up 10x despite the lack of any significant new breakthrough technology and a history of loss making and value destruction.<p>Just today, Bank of America research released a 103 page &quot;Hydrogen Primer&quot; in which they predict that the hydrogen space will generate $2.5 trillion in direct revenues and $11 trillion of indirect infrastructure potential. They believe that a tipping point is coming soon because of the falling cost of renewable energy and electrolysers used to produce &quot;green&quot; hydrogen, as well as better efficiencies in fuel cells.<p>My question is for the experts in the crowd here, either based on engineering experience or on first principles and physics, does this seem likely to you? Why do we really need hydrogen? It seems we are getting to the point where wind power and particularly solar power are now cost effective. Once we have better batteries for storage, what problem do we have left that requires hydrogen to solve? Is this just a giant promotional bubble being pushed by Wall Street and unscrupulous companies trying to sell a dream? I may sound skeptical but I genuinely don&#x27;t know and would like to hear from people with more expertise.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>PaulHoule</author><text>It astonishes me how far behind aviation is behind surface transport when it comes to sustainable fuels. They still use leaded gas!<p>It seems you would try methane before you try hydrogen:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;energynews.us&#x2F;2013&#x2F;08&#x2F;26&#x2F;midwest&#x2F;could-natural-gas-fuel-commercial-flights-of-the-future&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;energynews.us&#x2F;2013&#x2F;08&#x2F;26&#x2F;midwest&#x2F;could-natural-gas-f...</a><p>Petroleum-based liquid fuels contain mixed entity hydrocarbons that match a specification; if you have the perfect feedstock and markets for the fractions you don&#x27;t use this is cheap. Worst-case you have to synthesize them with Fischer-Tropsch chemistry<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fischer%E2%80%93Tropsch_process" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fischer%E2%80%93Tropsch_proces...</a><p>which is such a PITA (normally a chem E would be delighted that you can use iron as a catalyst, but it works so poorly that a desperate search of the other 91 elements found just 2 that sorta-kinda work)<p>The issue there is you are sticking C&#x27;s onto the end of a chain and you have to deal with a network of reactions that produce products you couldn&#x27;t care less for, such as petroleum jelly that gums up your catalyst, sticks up your downrisers, etc.<p>Sustainable motor fuels tend to be single entities such as 1-butanol, dimethyl ether, etc. You might need to blend something in for low temperature starting, but it&#x27;s possible for a single entity fuel to be synthesized with decent yield.<p>General av is seen as a backwater that is barely hanging on and couldn&#x27;t possibly get the lead out. The USAF has done biofuels trials, but commercial av is spooked to try anything that could leave passengers up in the air.</text></item><item><author>jeffreyrogers</author><text>&gt; In my opinion, batteries will be a technically and economicly superior solution for all uses other than where weight is extremely critical such as in aircraft.<p>I was excited about the use of hydrogen in aircraft for a while but the more I looked into it the less likely it seems. I think the advantages of liquid fuels are too great and that even if there were no oil production it would still make more sense to synthesize jet fuel or some other liquid fuel for use in aviation.<p>This has nothing to do with feasibility (the Soviet Union had an airliner that ran on hydrogen, so hydrogen aircraft are absolutely feasible), just with lock-in effects and ease of use.</text></item><item><author>55873445216111</author><text>Hydrogen fuel cells are not a source of energy, since hydrogen (H2) is not naturally found on Earth. All H2 must be generated in a process which consumes either natural gas or eletricity. Therefore H2 fuel cells are more aptly described as an energy storage system than as an energy source.<p>Therefore the relevant comparison is between H2 fuel cells and Li ion batteries. Batteries have much higher full cycle efficiency (energy input -&gt; storage -&gt; energy output), but they are large and heavy. H2 can be stored in less volume and less weight, but it is less efficient. In my opinion, batteries will be a technically and economicly superior solution for all uses other than where weight is extremely critical such as in aircraft.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>samatman</author><text>&gt; <i>It astonishes me how far behind aviation is behind surface transport when it comes to sustainable fuels. They still use leaded gas!</i><p>It&#x27;s important to qualify this: jet fuel contains no lead, and constitutes the vast majority of commercial aviation, and hence of emissions.<p>Jet fuel itself is kerosene, with some additives that aren&#x27;t superb in raw form, but nothing so durable in the environment as lead.<p>A sibling comment does a fine job of explaining why avgas still contains lead, and to be sure, a plan to phase that out except where absolutely necessary would be welcome.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Is hydrogen likely to be a major source of power in the next 10 years?</title><text>There has been hype around hydrogen fuel cells being a source of green power for decades, but the hype cycle is currently ramping up significantly. Hydrogen fuel cell stocks such as PLUG and FCEL have gone up 10x despite the lack of any significant new breakthrough technology and a history of loss making and value destruction.<p>Just today, Bank of America research released a 103 page &quot;Hydrogen Primer&quot; in which they predict that the hydrogen space will generate $2.5 trillion in direct revenues and $11 trillion of indirect infrastructure potential. They believe that a tipping point is coming soon because of the falling cost of renewable energy and electrolysers used to produce &quot;green&quot; hydrogen, as well as better efficiencies in fuel cells.<p>My question is for the experts in the crowd here, either based on engineering experience or on first principles and physics, does this seem likely to you? Why do we really need hydrogen? It seems we are getting to the point where wind power and particularly solar power are now cost effective. Once we have better batteries for storage, what problem do we have left that requires hydrogen to solve? Is this just a giant promotional bubble being pushed by Wall Street and unscrupulous companies trying to sell a dream? I may sound skeptical but I genuinely don&#x27;t know and would like to hear from people with more expertise.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>PaulHoule</author><text>It astonishes me how far behind aviation is behind surface transport when it comes to sustainable fuels. They still use leaded gas!<p>It seems you would try methane before you try hydrogen:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;energynews.us&#x2F;2013&#x2F;08&#x2F;26&#x2F;midwest&#x2F;could-natural-gas-fuel-commercial-flights-of-the-future&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;energynews.us&#x2F;2013&#x2F;08&#x2F;26&#x2F;midwest&#x2F;could-natural-gas-f...</a><p>Petroleum-based liquid fuels contain mixed entity hydrocarbons that match a specification; if you have the perfect feedstock and markets for the fractions you don&#x27;t use this is cheap. Worst-case you have to synthesize them with Fischer-Tropsch chemistry<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fischer%E2%80%93Tropsch_process" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fischer%E2%80%93Tropsch_proces...</a><p>which is such a PITA (normally a chem E would be delighted that you can use iron as a catalyst, but it works so poorly that a desperate search of the other 91 elements found just 2 that sorta-kinda work)<p>The issue there is you are sticking C&#x27;s onto the end of a chain and you have to deal with a network of reactions that produce products you couldn&#x27;t care less for, such as petroleum jelly that gums up your catalyst, sticks up your downrisers, etc.<p>Sustainable motor fuels tend to be single entities such as 1-butanol, dimethyl ether, etc. You might need to blend something in for low temperature starting, but it&#x27;s possible for a single entity fuel to be synthesized with decent yield.<p>General av is seen as a backwater that is barely hanging on and couldn&#x27;t possibly get the lead out. The USAF has done biofuels trials, but commercial av is spooked to try anything that could leave passengers up in the air.</text></item><item><author>jeffreyrogers</author><text>&gt; In my opinion, batteries will be a technically and economicly superior solution for all uses other than where weight is extremely critical such as in aircraft.<p>I was excited about the use of hydrogen in aircraft for a while but the more I looked into it the less likely it seems. I think the advantages of liquid fuels are too great and that even if there were no oil production it would still make more sense to synthesize jet fuel or some other liquid fuel for use in aviation.<p>This has nothing to do with feasibility (the Soviet Union had an airliner that ran on hydrogen, so hydrogen aircraft are absolutely feasible), just with lock-in effects and ease of use.</text></item><item><author>55873445216111</author><text>Hydrogen fuel cells are not a source of energy, since hydrogen (H2) is not naturally found on Earth. All H2 must be generated in a process which consumes either natural gas or eletricity. Therefore H2 fuel cells are more aptly described as an energy storage system than as an energy source.<p>Therefore the relevant comparison is between H2 fuel cells and Li ion batteries. Batteries have much higher full cycle efficiency (energy input -&gt; storage -&gt; energy output), but they are large and heavy. H2 can be stored in less volume and less weight, but it is less efficient. In my opinion, batteries will be a technically and economicly superior solution for all uses other than where weight is extremely critical such as in aircraft.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ohazi</author><text>&gt; General av is seen as a backwater that is barely hanging on and couldn&#x27;t possibly get the lead out.<p>The issue is infrastructure. Modern engines run fine on unleaded fuel, but the little airstrips in the middle of nowhere all have 100LL and&#x2F;or jet fuel, so that&#x27;s what pilots use.<p>I know a few pilots who are <i>prefer</i> to use unleaded in their Rotax engines to prevent spark plug fouling, and they have to jump through some pretty ridiculous hoops to get gas, while their buddies just fill up with whatever is on the field.</text></comment> |
27,080,084 | 27,079,541 | 1 | 3 | 27,078,792 | train | <story><title>Crossbar.io – an open source platform for distributed and microservice apps</title><url>https://crossbar.io/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>omneity</author><text>I used crossbar at multiple occasions in projects of various complexity. My main take away:<p>- Pleasant to use and does almost exactly what it advertises<p>- Interesting authentication &amp; permission patterns, unfortunately we couldn&#x27;t extend it to the frontend, and that left us with a strange gap<p>- Hard to scale for serious cases, clustering is impossible in the open source edition and the commercial version costs in the 5 figures <i>per cluster node</i><p>Ultimately I am quite confused about the target demographic of Crossbar (factories moving to IoT?)<p>I don&#x27;t know of many pubsub + rpc solutions targeting a similar tradeoff with a tight packaging and a similar learning curve. Here are some I found then:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deepstream.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deepstream.io</a> is the closest and has a richer feature set (including a replicating document store), however it seems to have a small ecosystem &#x2F; community &#x2F; limited support options, and permissions do not seem as advanced.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nats.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nats.io</a> is close but lower level. Has a large community and rich ecosystem however.<p>Then you can also mix and match lower level technologies to achieve the particular set of tradeoffs you need. MQTT, AMQP, WS as the protocol, mosquitto &#x2F; rabbitmq &#x2F; zeromq, then json-rpc on top, grpc ...</text></comment> | <story><title>Crossbar.io – an open source platform for distributed and microservice apps</title><url>https://crossbar.io/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kitd</author><text>Maybe I&#x27;m just getting old, but can someone explain what this is? Some kind of message broker? &quot;Networking platform&quot; is too vague.</text></comment> |
17,800,034 | 17,800,087 | 1 | 3 | 17,799,345 | train | <story><title>Flatpak 1.0 Released, Ready for Prime Time</title><url>https://flatpak.org/press/2018-08-20-flatpak-1.0/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ddevault</author><text>Ready to ruin the security of Linux, you mean. The split between package vendor and package maintainer has classically been the primary reason for malware being rare on Linux. Getting maintainers out of the loop for auditing packages, ensuring security updates go out, etc - is an <i>awful</i> idea. Sandboxing applications is great, but it can be done without subverting the package manager.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>akerro</author><text>There are several linux distros, I&#x27;m a single OSS developer. I once tried making my program available for Debian (deb), Ubuntu (ppa) and Fedora (rpm). I ended up supporting only AUR. There are too many differences in packaging managers, different requirements, too many websites I have to register on, too many config files for each distro. Support from people who work as packagers is non-existent, questions on SO out of date, error and warning from packaging software misleading or completely useless. It&#x27;s a huge mess, and if you think existing system is better than Flatpak&#x2F;Snap&#x2F;AppImage, I&#x27;m sure you haven&#x27;t tried porting your software to top 6 distributions. Also, enjoy dependency hell, Debian has old Qt and PA, Mint has PA compiled without noise-cancelling flags, Ubuntu had SQLite3 with not working encryption, Fedora had backported Qt5 patch (old Qt with latest patch) witch fixed one issue, but broke CSS on Cancel&#x2F;OK button group.<p>I welcome AppImage and Flatpak.</text></comment> | <story><title>Flatpak 1.0 Released, Ready for Prime Time</title><url>https://flatpak.org/press/2018-08-20-flatpak-1.0/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ddevault</author><text>Ready to ruin the security of Linux, you mean. The split between package vendor and package maintainer has classically been the primary reason for malware being rare on Linux. Getting maintainers out of the loop for auditing packages, ensuring security updates go out, etc - is an <i>awful</i> idea. Sandboxing applications is great, but it can be done without subverting the package manager.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nickik</author><text>The split might have some amount of minimal value, but it also has many problems. Just the insane amount of work spent, by literally 100s of different communities is almost beyond insane.<p>Massive amount of identical work that the WASTE majority of the time, does not improve anything for the end user.<p>Security should come from moving into well maintained platform, automatic scanners and many users. Instead of the package maintainers being the &#x27;security reviewers&#x27; we should have app stores and sub repositories with security reviews.<p>Nothing stops a distro from only offering flatpaks from their own repo.<p>Centralizing and automating these things will allow for far better security processes in the long run.</text></comment> |
37,135,047 | 37,134,918 | 1 | 2 | 37,134,563 | train | <story><title>Ball milling destroys PFAS in contaminated soil</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2023-08-chemicals.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ryanschaefer</author><text>Maybe I am missing something, but I don’t see how this is feasible at all.<p>Running a mill filled with tons of earth for a day at 450 RPM seems to be an enormous amount of energy expenditure relative to the PFAS you’d be able to destroy at the concentrations in the US.<p>For their context, in which it was firefighting material in a small training zone, it seems like a great fit, but for widespread deployment this seems like a stretch.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ball milling destroys PFAS in contaminated soil</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2023-08-chemicals.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>giardini</author><text>If ball milling works, why wouldn&#x27;t ultrasound (Knock the PFAS into components using ultrasound)? Both are in essence physical methods (as opposed to chemical methods).</text></comment> |
30,949,072 | 30,945,984 | 1 | 2 | 30,945,926 | train | <story><title>Tree-sitter grammar for org-mode</title><url>https://github.com/milisims/tree-sitter-org</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tconfrey</author><text>This is very exciting.<p>IMO the Tools For Thought (#TFT) ecosystem is crying out for a standard interchange format to break down the silos. Org-mode could be that format. It&#x27;s not just an outliner format, it&#x27;s the best markup[1] <i>and</i> supports pretty much everything you need for journaling&#x2F;task-management&#x2F;project-management etc.<p>What&#x27;s been missing thus far is a single canonical definition that everyone can build on (beyond the org-mode source code). I&#x27;d love to see this be the reference implementation of Karl Voits Orgdown proposal [2]. (BTW there was a recent relevant discussion here [3])<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;karl-voit.at&#x2F;2017&#x2F;09&#x2F;23&#x2F;orgmode-as-markup-only" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;karl-voit.at&#x2F;2017&#x2F;09&#x2F;23&#x2F;orgmode-as-markup-only</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;publicvoit&#x2F;orgdown" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;publicvoit&#x2F;orgdown</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30879327" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30879327</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Tree-sitter grammar for org-mode</title><url>https://github.com/milisims/tree-sitter-org</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>happy-dude</author><text>From the readme:<p>&gt; Org grammar for tree-sitter. It is not meant to implement emacs&#x27; orgmode parser, but to implement a grammar that can usefully parse org files to be used in neovim and any library that uses tree-sitter parsers.<p>This grammar is in active development and is being used by nvim-orgmode&#x2F;orgmode [1], a org-mode neovim plugin.<p>Some additional resources some might find useful:<p>* Org Syntax - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;orgmode.org&#x2F;worg&#x2F;dev&#x2F;org-syntax.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;orgmode.org&#x2F;worg&#x2F;dev&#x2F;org-syntax.html</a><p>* EBNF grammar - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;200ok-ch&#x2F;org-parser&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;resources&#x2F;org.ebnf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;200ok-ch&#x2F;org-parser&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;resources...</a><p>* Tree-sitter - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tree-sitter.github.io&#x2F;tree-sitter&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tree-sitter.github.io&#x2F;tree-sitter&#x2F;</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nvim-orgmode&#x2F;orgmode" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nvim-orgmode&#x2F;orgmode</a></text></comment> |
25,754,956 | 25,754,182 | 1 | 2 | 25,753,166 | train | <story><title>Computer Science Curriculum in 1000 YouTube Videos</title><url>https://laconicml.com/computer-science-curriculum-youtube-videos/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>opportune</author><text>The thing about languages like C is that they will teach students to do many things by rote that they aren’t equipped to understand until later. I’m talking about things like includes, using a compiler, &lt;&lt; and other facets of basic I&#x2F;O, defining a main function.<p>Python allows students to hit the ground running much faster. Once they learn the very basics, then it can make sense to introduce something like C, but not require them to temporarily ignore magic incantations with the promise they’ll understand them later.</text></item><item><author>ArikBe</author><text>I think this depends on the student. I do not have a CS degree. I dabbled in Python, but the first programming course that I took was Harvard&#x27;s CS50 MOOC. I really appreciated learning C because it taught me about the underlying system through concepts like memory management. I agree that Python is friendlier, but I feel like C trains a particular mindset. Python may be more suitable for those who want to get off the ground quickly.</text></item><item><author>wrs</author><text>This is the eternal debate, but man, I wouldn’t start somebody off with a C programming course as #1. Especially if there’s a Python course coming up shorty anyway. And then a C++ course to learn “OOP”, which is much easier to learn in Python. Ouch.<p>I suggest just starting with Python, learning C at some point because it’s universal, and never learning C++ without a specific reason.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Imnimo</author><text>When teaching new students Java, the first step is &quot;type these exact lines character for character, you won&#x27;t understand what they mean for the next year, but you need to type them at the start of every new program.&quot;, which can be a little rough.</text></comment> | <story><title>Computer Science Curriculum in 1000 YouTube Videos</title><url>https://laconicml.com/computer-science-curriculum-youtube-videos/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>opportune</author><text>The thing about languages like C is that they will teach students to do many things by rote that they aren’t equipped to understand until later. I’m talking about things like includes, using a compiler, &lt;&lt; and other facets of basic I&#x2F;O, defining a main function.<p>Python allows students to hit the ground running much faster. Once they learn the very basics, then it can make sense to introduce something like C, but not require them to temporarily ignore magic incantations with the promise they’ll understand them later.</text></item><item><author>ArikBe</author><text>I think this depends on the student. I do not have a CS degree. I dabbled in Python, but the first programming course that I took was Harvard&#x27;s CS50 MOOC. I really appreciated learning C because it taught me about the underlying system through concepts like memory management. I agree that Python is friendlier, but I feel like C trains a particular mindset. Python may be more suitable for those who want to get off the ground quickly.</text></item><item><author>wrs</author><text>This is the eternal debate, but man, I wouldn’t start somebody off with a C programming course as #1. Especially if there’s a Python course coming up shorty anyway. And then a C++ course to learn “OOP”, which is much easier to learn in Python. Ouch.<p>I suggest just starting with Python, learning C at some point because it’s universal, and never learning C++ without a specific reason.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jghn</author><text>This resonates with me. When I was an undergrad about 25 years ago most intro to programming classes were taught in C. There were a lot of concepts I struggled with at the time that now I find trivial. In retrospect, what I was <i>really</i> struggling with was some of the lower level gnarly bits C exposes to the programmer.<p>While it&#x27;s good that I know how those things work, I did <i>not</i> need to understand them to just get a basic understanding of strings, data structures, etc. For instance it wasn&#x27;t that I couldn&#x27;t grok linked lists, I couldn&#x27;t grok pointer manipulation at the time. But that still meant my code didn&#x27;t work.</text></comment> |
9,396,935 | 9,396,908 | 1 | 2 | 9,396,694 | train | <story><title>A Million Lines of Bad Code</title><url>http://varianceexplained.org/programming/bad-code/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>swalsh</author><text>I recently read the book &quot;How to Win Friends &amp; Influence People&quot;, bad title great book. My main take away from this is I&#x27;ve been talking to people really badly for the last 27 years. I wish I had read this book in middle school.<p>But this blog reminded me of some of the concepts from the book, its far more productive to give positive encouragement than to give negative feedback, and just adding a complement isn&#x27;t enough if you follow it with a &quot;but&quot;.<p>&quot;Hey pretty cool program! Its a great start. I bet we can make it run faster if we changed the way files are imported to something like this... nice work&quot;<p>will get better results then this<p>&quot;Hey pretty cool program, but you&#x27;re reading in files wrong&quot;<p>which even that is better than this<p>&quot;You&#x27;re reading in files completely wrong, try googling for a better solution&quot; which unfortunately among engineers seems to be the most common reply.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AceJohnny2</author><text>I like teaching. I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;m amazing at it, but I like sharing knowledge and experience with my friends and co-workers and see them improve, or just sometimes for the abstract sense of helping. Of course, sometimes I fall flat and come across as arrogant or condescending, but I hope that&#x27;s rare. I read &quot;How to make friends&quot; a long time ago, and I apply those rules diligently to my interactions with people.<p>Recently though, I&#x27;ve been assigned a guy to help me with one of my tasks, managing the build pipeline. This requires a wide range of knowledge about unix and scripting (Bash, Perl AND Python. Yup. On top of Makefiles, of course).<p>The guy doesn&#x27;t know how to use a command-line.<p>I&#x27;m surprised to find myself to be very unhelpful and curt with this guy. He&#x27;s the unlucky recipient of my resentment at the amount of effort I will have to put in before he can actually become remotely helpful. Of course, it doesn&#x27;t help that he&#x27;s in far off timezone where I&#x27;d have to stay up late to help him, and that I have trouble getting direct answers from him about his knowledge level. The communication and experience gap is too large.<p>Anyhow, this is just my two cents relating an experience to show how a seemingly normal and friendly human being can revert to angry &quot;RTFM&quot;s.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Million Lines of Bad Code</title><url>http://varianceexplained.org/programming/bad-code/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>swalsh</author><text>I recently read the book &quot;How to Win Friends &amp; Influence People&quot;, bad title great book. My main take away from this is I&#x27;ve been talking to people really badly for the last 27 years. I wish I had read this book in middle school.<p>But this blog reminded me of some of the concepts from the book, its far more productive to give positive encouragement than to give negative feedback, and just adding a complement isn&#x27;t enough if you follow it with a &quot;but&quot;.<p>&quot;Hey pretty cool program! Its a great start. I bet we can make it run faster if we changed the way files are imported to something like this... nice work&quot;<p>will get better results then this<p>&quot;Hey pretty cool program, but you&#x27;re reading in files wrong&quot;<p>which even that is better than this<p>&quot;You&#x27;re reading in files completely wrong, try googling for a better solution&quot; which unfortunately among engineers seems to be the most common reply.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cperciva</author><text><i>&quot;Hey pretty cool program! Its a great start. I bet we can make it run faster if we changed the way files are imported to something like this... nice work&quot;</i><p>I usually hear this referred to as a &quot;criticism sandwich&quot;: Criticism surrounded on either side with compliments.</text></comment> |
23,429,906 | 23,428,222 | 1 | 3 | 23,425,041 | train | <story><title>SimRefinery Recovered</title><url>https://obscuritory.com/sim/simrefinery-recovered/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cosmodisk</author><text>We urgently need OfficeSim version of this.</text></item><item><author>cm2187</author><text>For those who wondered like me who this software was built for, the answer is in the full article:<p>&gt; <i>The operators at the refinery sometimes had trouble getting a big picture for what was happening at the plant beyond their particular area of focus. “The whole goal if this was to teach operators that they are part of a bigger system,” Skidmore said. “Their concern at the time was that operators tended to be very focused on their one plant, and their one thing they do, and so [they] weren’t keeping in mind that what they do affected other parts of the plant. So they wanted a training tool that allowed operators to manipulate inputs and outputs of the various pieces of the refinery process to see how they impact.”</i><p>&gt; <i>The non-technical staff at the Richmond refinery needed to know how it worked too. The people in human resources and accounting weren’t chemical engineers, but it would help their work to see how the different areas of the plant were networked together, how one department affected another department.</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;obscuritory.com&#x2F;sim&#x2F;when-simcity-got-serious&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;obscuritory.com&#x2F;sim&#x2F;when-simcity-got-serious&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blululu</author><text>It already exists and it&#x27;s fabulous:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pippinbarr.github.io&#x2F;itisasifyouweredoingwork&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pippinbarr.github.io&#x2F;itisasifyouweredoingwork&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>SimRefinery Recovered</title><url>https://obscuritory.com/sim/simrefinery-recovered/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cosmodisk</author><text>We urgently need OfficeSim version of this.</text></item><item><author>cm2187</author><text>For those who wondered like me who this software was built for, the answer is in the full article:<p>&gt; <i>The operators at the refinery sometimes had trouble getting a big picture for what was happening at the plant beyond their particular area of focus. “The whole goal if this was to teach operators that they are part of a bigger system,” Skidmore said. “Their concern at the time was that operators tended to be very focused on their one plant, and their one thing they do, and so [they] weren’t keeping in mind that what they do affected other parts of the plant. So they wanted a training tool that allowed operators to manipulate inputs and outputs of the various pieces of the refinery process to see how they impact.”</i><p>&gt; <i>The non-technical staff at the Richmond refinery needed to know how it worked too. The people in human resources and accounting weren’t chemical engineers, but it would help their work to see how the different areas of the plant were networked together, how one department affected another department.</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;obscuritory.com&#x2F;sim&#x2F;when-simcity-got-serious&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;obscuritory.com&#x2F;sim&#x2F;when-simcity-got-serious&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hammock</author><text>Read the link in the top comment. It exists. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;mujgvUsO7w8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;mujgvUsO7w8</a></text></comment> |
16,698,579 | 16,698,738 | 1 | 3 | 16,697,897 | train | <story><title>Illinois pension benefits have grown six times faster than state revenues</title><url>http://thesoundingline.com/the-illinois-pension-nightmare/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ebbv</author><text>They’re not absurd pensions. They’re nothing compared to what many, many executives even of failing companies get paid.</text></item><item><author>bunderbunder</author><text>I think the paren&#x27;t side of the argument also holds water, though: Paying these absurd pensions is something like a form of theft from future taxpayers. Most of the people who will have to pay for these pensions wouldn&#x27;t have been of voting age when a lot of the deals were being made, so they really had zero say in the matter.<p>I doubt that state employees from previous generations realized that they were agreeing to skim all this money money off of their children and grandchildren, but, nonetheless, here we are. It&#x27;s a situation where it&#x27;s going to be impossible to do justice to everyone. But it&#x27;s going to be important to minimize the injustice. That is probably going to require some concessions on the parts of pensioners - if they don&#x27;t take a scale back, it&#x27;s just going to put Illinois on a downward spiral as its most economically productive citizens and businesses emigrate. That&#x27;s a worse path. It will lead to pensioners suffering an even worse kick in the pocketbook, and create a lot of collateral damage for working people in the process.</text></item><item><author>pulisse</author><text><i>One generation promised itself the next generation will pay them massive, undeserved pensions</i><p>Defined-benefit pensions are a form of deferred compensation. State employees in the past accepted lower salaries in exchange for this future benefit. Taking away that pension now would be theft from these people.</text></item><item><author>ComputerGuru</author><text>Yeah it’s a horrible mess. One generation promised itself the next generation will pay them massive, undeserved pensions. That first generation is still calling the shots (and voting avidly) and the coming generation is going to be stuck with an impossible tab, continuously rising taxes, lowered pensions and benefits, and a miserable situation all around.<p>Or Illinois could find a way to renege without filing for bankruptcy to avoid throwing out the baby with the bathwater.<p>Perhaps someday Madigan and his political machine will pay for what they’ve done. But likely not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>EpicEng</author><text>Ok, but I, the tax payer, am not footing that bill (yes, I&#x27;m sure we can find instances of bailouts and whatnot, but that&#x27;s not the norm.) Private companies can do whatever they like in this regard, I don&#x27;t really care at a practical level. I care when I&#x27;m paying the bill.</text></comment> | <story><title>Illinois pension benefits have grown six times faster than state revenues</title><url>http://thesoundingline.com/the-illinois-pension-nightmare/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ebbv</author><text>They’re not absurd pensions. They’re nothing compared to what many, many executives even of failing companies get paid.</text></item><item><author>bunderbunder</author><text>I think the paren&#x27;t side of the argument also holds water, though: Paying these absurd pensions is something like a form of theft from future taxpayers. Most of the people who will have to pay for these pensions wouldn&#x27;t have been of voting age when a lot of the deals were being made, so they really had zero say in the matter.<p>I doubt that state employees from previous generations realized that they were agreeing to skim all this money money off of their children and grandchildren, but, nonetheless, here we are. It&#x27;s a situation where it&#x27;s going to be impossible to do justice to everyone. But it&#x27;s going to be important to minimize the injustice. That is probably going to require some concessions on the parts of pensioners - if they don&#x27;t take a scale back, it&#x27;s just going to put Illinois on a downward spiral as its most economically productive citizens and businesses emigrate. That&#x27;s a worse path. It will lead to pensioners suffering an even worse kick in the pocketbook, and create a lot of collateral damage for working people in the process.</text></item><item><author>pulisse</author><text><i>One generation promised itself the next generation will pay them massive, undeserved pensions</i><p>Defined-benefit pensions are a form of deferred compensation. State employees in the past accepted lower salaries in exchange for this future benefit. Taking away that pension now would be theft from these people.</text></item><item><author>ComputerGuru</author><text>Yeah it’s a horrible mess. One generation promised itself the next generation will pay them massive, undeserved pensions. That first generation is still calling the shots (and voting avidly) and the coming generation is going to be stuck with an impossible tab, continuously rising taxes, lowered pensions and benefits, and a miserable situation all around.<p>Or Illinois could find a way to renege without filing for bankruptcy to avoid throwing out the baby with the bathwater.<p>Perhaps someday Madigan and his political machine will pay for what they’ve done. But likely not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>curioussavage</author><text>You really think using exec compensation is a good point to compare to?</text></comment> |
10,423,049 | 10,421,396 | 1 | 3 | 10,420,328 | train | <story><title>BoringSSL</title><url>https://www.imperialviolet.org/2015/10/17/boringssl.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ghshephard</author><text><i>&quot;Random number generation in OpenSSL suffers because entropy used to be really difficult. There were entropy files on disk that applications would read and write, timestamps and PIDs would be mixed into entropy pools and applications would try other tricks to gather entropy and mix it into the pool. That has all made OpenSSL complicated.<p>BoringSSL just uses urandom—it&#x27;s the right answer. (Although we&#x27;ll probably do it via getrandom rather than &#x2F;dev&#x2F;urandom in the future.) There are no return values that you can forget to check: if anything goes wrong, it crashes the address space.&quot;</i><p>There is a meme that pops up from time to time on HN, that &quot;&#x2F;dev&#x2F;urandom is okay for stretching out random data but not sufficient for random seeds&quot;, that I&#x27;ve never understood. tptacek seems to be consistent in suggesting, &quot;Just use &#x2F;dev&#x2F;urandom. Period.&quot; And it looks like people who also have a lot on the line concur.<p>If this is the case, I&#x27;m wondering if we&#x27;ll see a day when gpg might migrate from &#x2F;dev&#x2F;random to &#x2F;dev&#x2F;urandom?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zaroth</author><text>It&#x27;s just &quot;because entropy used to be really difficult!&quot; We now have relatively simple and proven algorithms (Yarrow, Fortuna) which can take 256-bits of entropy, and deliver effectively infinite streams of high quality entropy from that core without leaking any of the seed, or skewing the output. In such a system, pulling bits out of the core entropy bucket is counter-productive.<p>As djb says;<p><pre><code> Cryptographers are certainly not responsible for this superstitious
nonsense. Think about this for a moment: whoever wrote the &#x2F;dev&#x2F;random
manual page seems to simultaneously believe that
(1) we can&#x27;t figure out how to deterministically expand one 256-bit
&#x2F;dev&#x2F;random output into an endless stream of unpredictable keys (this
is what we need from urandom), but
(2) we _can_ figure out how to use a single key to safely encrypt many
messages (this is what we need from ssl, pgp, etc.).
For a cryptographer this doesn&#x27;t even pass the laugh test.
</code></pre>
BSD and OS X are more modern than Linux in their choice of CS-PRNG; they used to use Yarrow, and then added Fortuna support in 2014 (behind a config flag) and will make it default in 11.0. Linux has used largely the same CS-PRNG for &#x2F;dev&#x2F;urandom since 1994, with some upgrades to their mixing function, to prevent DoS against &#x2F;dev&#x2F;random, and upgraded recently to include random bytes extracted from &quot;RDRAM&quot; provided by Intel CPUs.<p>I&#x27;m not sure why we haven&#x27;t seen the underlying CS-PRNG switched wholesale to Fortuna in Linux. For example, they are still using a SHA-1 based output hash, which seems like it might be time for that to go.<p>The higher level take-away is that trying to avoid the modest code complexity of the CS-PRNG by going directly to &#x2F;dev&#x2F;random is more likely to lead to an exploitable catastrophic failure than sticking with &#x2F;dev&#x2F;urandom.</text></comment> | <story><title>BoringSSL</title><url>https://www.imperialviolet.org/2015/10/17/boringssl.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ghshephard</author><text><i>&quot;Random number generation in OpenSSL suffers because entropy used to be really difficult. There were entropy files on disk that applications would read and write, timestamps and PIDs would be mixed into entropy pools and applications would try other tricks to gather entropy and mix it into the pool. That has all made OpenSSL complicated.<p>BoringSSL just uses urandom—it&#x27;s the right answer. (Although we&#x27;ll probably do it via getrandom rather than &#x2F;dev&#x2F;urandom in the future.) There are no return values that you can forget to check: if anything goes wrong, it crashes the address space.&quot;</i><p>There is a meme that pops up from time to time on HN, that &quot;&#x2F;dev&#x2F;urandom is okay for stretching out random data but not sufficient for random seeds&quot;, that I&#x27;ve never understood. tptacek seems to be consistent in suggesting, &quot;Just use &#x2F;dev&#x2F;urandom. Period.&quot; And it looks like people who also have a lot on the line concur.<p>If this is the case, I&#x27;m wondering if we&#x27;ll see a day when gpg might migrate from &#x2F;dev&#x2F;random to &#x2F;dev&#x2F;urandom?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eliteraspberrie</author><text>libgcrypt (GPG) does the same thing OpenSSL did. It uses &#x2F;dev&#x2F;random to seed an internal PRNG. But you can switch to using just the system PRNG:<p><pre><code> gcry_control(GCRYCTL_SET_PREFERRED_RNG_TYPE, GCRY_RNG_TYPE_SYSTEM);
</code></pre>
I don&#x27;t know if they would be convinced to use &#x2F;dev&#x2F;urandom though. They already rank &#x2F;dev&#x2F;random as having lower &quot;security&quot; than their own PRNG.</text></comment> |
27,531,267 | 27,531,526 | 1 | 3 | 27,529,049 | train | <story><title>How does one get hired by a top cybercrime gang?</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/06/how-does-one-get-hired-by-a-top-cybercrime-gang/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ackbar03</author><text>Wait hang on, that cliff hanger though<p>&gt;&quot;Multiple security experts quickly zeroed in on how investigators were able to retrieve the funds, which did not represent the total amount Colonial paid (~$4.4 million): The amount seized was roughly what a top DarkSide affiliate would have earned for scoring the initial malware infection that precipitated the ransomware incident.&quot;<p>I&#x27;m not quite sure what this implies? That the team who did the initial infection was in fact some sort of FBI undercover?<p>So undercover FBI successfully hacked colonial pipeline, ignited all this press coverage and attention, and quietly disappeared with the ransom amount? Am I interpreting that correctly?</text></comment> | <story><title>How does one get hired by a top cybercrime gang?</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/06/how-does-one-get-hired-by-a-top-cybercrime-gang/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>great_reversal</author><text>Getting hired is just applying to another job posting. The interview process is two-step, with a project-based technical component. The job itself is also two-step: first year is similar to contract work, with good employees brought into the fold not long after.<p>It looks like DOJ is trying to make an example out of some lowly frontend&#x2F;freelance developer. Her work includes:<p>- creating a &quot;web panel used to access victim data stored in a database&quot;<p>- added a feature that &quot;showed an infected computer or ‘bot’ status in different colors based on the colors of a traffic light&quot;<p>- added a feature that &quot;allowed other Trickbot Group members to know when their co-conspirators were working on a particular infected machine&quot;<p>One thing DOJ accuses her of is &quot;developing tools and protocols for the storage of credentials stolen and exfiltrated from victims infected by Trickbot.&quot; But its pretty obvious they don&#x27;t know what &quot;frontend developer&quot; even means.</text></comment> |
38,407,935 | 38,407,623 | 1 | 2 | 38,406,478 | train | <story><title>Mail-in-a-Box: a mail server in a box</title><url>https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abdullahkhalids</author><text>I have been running mailinabox with a hetzner server for 2-3 years now.<p>- Setup was largely painless. Main problem was making sure dns settings at my domain registrar were correct.<p>- Almost zero problems with mail delivery on the big providers [1]. Last time my email was dropped was by amd.com.<p>- Last year had to do a major version upgrade to mailinabox and it was a huge hassle. I think they need to improve on this. Rolling updates are painless.<p>Here is my advice to people who are on the threshold of wanting to host their own email, but are unsure because of mail delivery issues. Well, there are zero problems with incoming mail. So setup mailinabox and use that email to register for websites [2]. Use it for all your mailing lists etc.<p>Do it for a few years and see how it feels. Occasionally send out email. If enough people do it, then over time it will become easier for more people to host their own email.<p>[1] I have a theory that I deployed. I asked a whole bunch of people with gmail&#x2F;hotmail email addresses to send me emails first on my new email. I then replied to them. I think this ensured that from that start I was put on the good lists.<p>[2] Use [email protected] to register. Easy to block spam this way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jimmaswell</author><text>It was flat out impossible for me to get Outlook to accept my mail server. They&#x27;d only give me some vague response with no actionable steps to resolve it. I gave up and used a gmail account to route everything outgoing. That way mail still shows up as from:[email protected] but rides on Google&#x27;s reputation. Defeats the purpose a little but there&#x27;s nothing more I can do (apparently unless I buy my own non residential ISP line, host the server in my house, and build reputatiom forever, but that&#x27;s an absurd length to have to go through. ideally we&#x27;d have antitrust legislation forcing MS et al to be fair towards smaller email and save the open internet overall, but I&#x27;m not holding my breath.).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35691618">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35691618</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Mail-in-a-Box: a mail server in a box</title><url>https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abdullahkhalids</author><text>I have been running mailinabox with a hetzner server for 2-3 years now.<p>- Setup was largely painless. Main problem was making sure dns settings at my domain registrar were correct.<p>- Almost zero problems with mail delivery on the big providers [1]. Last time my email was dropped was by amd.com.<p>- Last year had to do a major version upgrade to mailinabox and it was a huge hassle. I think they need to improve on this. Rolling updates are painless.<p>Here is my advice to people who are on the threshold of wanting to host their own email, but are unsure because of mail delivery issues. Well, there are zero problems with incoming mail. So setup mailinabox and use that email to register for websites [2]. Use it for all your mailing lists etc.<p>Do it for a few years and see how it feels. Occasionally send out email. If enough people do it, then over time it will become easier for more people to host their own email.<p>[1] I have a theory that I deployed. I asked a whole bunch of people with gmail&#x2F;hotmail email addresses to send me emails first on my new email. I then replied to them. I think this ensured that from that start I was put on the good lists.<p>[2] Use [email protected] to register. Easy to block spam this way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Arnavion</author><text>&gt;Last time my email was dropped was by amd.com.<p>They have something weird going on. I had to make an account with them to redeem a game key, and they wouldn&#x27;t deliver the account verification email to my custom domain hosted by Fastmail. I used a gmail address and the email came instantly. Then out of the blue 24h later the emails to my custom domain were delivered (by which time the verification codes had all expired, of course).<p>I saw a bunch of discussion where other people reported the same thing like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;AMDHelp&#x2F;comments&#x2F;yr9tqq&#x2F;amd_rewards_activation_not_working&#x2F;k555hh7&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;AMDHelp&#x2F;comments&#x2F;yr9tqq&#x2F;amd_rewards...</a> - they got emails instantly when they switched to gmail but other domains didn&#x27;t work.</text></comment> |
40,455,535 | 40,455,504 | 1 | 3 | 40,454,933 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Devs/data scis who pivoted to a new career in 30s/40s, what do you do?</title><text>I see posts every once in a while about engineers or data scientists choosing to leave the space to a new one.... I also often hear how hard it is to do so.<p>For those who made a successful transition, what did you move to? What advice do you have in hindsight?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>lr4444lr</author><text>As someone who has obligations to provide for a family in the USA, I can&#x27;t imagine leaving dev work without an absolute clear passion and burning drive to do something specific. Giving up a six figure income I use to feed and house my family that demands I use my brain while sitting in a comfortable indoor environment, doing nothing more physically taxing than use a keyboard? Sure, I have fantasies from time to time about doing something with more dynamism in meatspace, but let&#x27;s get real: it&#x27;s a fantasy. I can&#x27;t imagine recommending anyone with a stable career in data work upset that apple cart unless they already have a clear aim in mind, which they think about day and night - not with the unsureness of this post.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ryandrake</author><text>I think some people must have some romantic view of manual labor, like it is more noble or pure than moving protobufs from one API layer to the other. Combine that with the very real problem of burnout and stress from an emotionally abusive work environment, and you have people thinking they want to quit and do farming or something. A lot of my peers in the office quite obviously (it&#x27;s hard to hide) grew up quite well off and have no idea what it&#x27;s like to work a mind-numbingly dull service job or how much daily manual labor wrecks your body.<p>I&#x27;ve had the pleasure (&#x2F;s) of working retail, being a janitor at a McDonalds, working in a plastics factory that wrecked my sense of smell, and hauling shingles up onto a roof in 100F+ summer temperatures. I will take my sit-down, climate controlled, fingers typing job over any of them, any day, no matter how much those meetings and status updates annoy me.<p>And, none of the above even touched on salary or standard of living...</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Devs/data scis who pivoted to a new career in 30s/40s, what do you do?</title><text>I see posts every once in a while about engineers or data scientists choosing to leave the space to a new one.... I also often hear how hard it is to do so.<p>For those who made a successful transition, what did you move to? What advice do you have in hindsight?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>lr4444lr</author><text>As someone who has obligations to provide for a family in the USA, I can&#x27;t imagine leaving dev work without an absolute clear passion and burning drive to do something specific. Giving up a six figure income I use to feed and house my family that demands I use my brain while sitting in a comfortable indoor environment, doing nothing more physically taxing than use a keyboard? Sure, I have fantasies from time to time about doing something with more dynamism in meatspace, but let&#x27;s get real: it&#x27;s a fantasy. I can&#x27;t imagine recommending anyone with a stable career in data work upset that apple cart unless they already have a clear aim in mind, which they think about day and night - not with the unsureness of this post.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nextworddev</author><text>Think you are overestimating stability in data work, especially going forward</text></comment> |
27,277,134 | 27,277,100 | 1 | 2 | 27,275,318 | train | <story><title>What if remote work didn’t mean working from home?</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/remote-work-not-from-home</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geoduck14</author><text>Regarding the Happy Hours:<p>In 2019, my team would occasionally need to work long hours or would deliver something awesome. I would reward them with HH and dinner&#x2F;late meal. It gave me a chance to say &quot;thanks&quot; and for us to bond over the challenge we overcame.<p>I can&#x27;t do that anymore! I&#x27;ve don&#x27;t virtual HH, but it isn&#x27;t the same! I would REALLY like a virtual solution to &quot;bond with your team&quot; and &quot;say thanks in a meaningful way&quot; - cost be damned.<p>As a side note, politics suck. I really like WFH. Working long hours is bad - bonding is good.</text></item><item><author>bluefirebrand</author><text>As long as I still have a quiet, private office and don&#x27;t spend an hour+ per day in traffic and am not expected to give up evenings for &quot;not mandatory but really you should show up to play politics&quot; office happy hours, I don&#x27;t care where I work.<p>Currently working from home gives me all of that and I haven&#x27;t been happier with a job ever.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Taylor_OD</author><text>Yup. Ever after 5pm work thing I&#x27;ve been &quot;rewarded&quot; with is still work. Even if it&#x27;s more fun than working at my desk its still work. I&#x27;m not able to do with that time what I want. It&#x27;s only a reward if it is replacing work. And really it&#x27;s only a reward if the amount of time that it is replacing is taken out of the sprint planning.<p>At the end of the day if you take a weeknight from me I&#x27;m going to be annoyed at best and upset at worst. If you take a work day from me, or part of one, but still expect me to get a full days or work done we will both be in a bad position.<p>I get the intention here. I used to be a people manager and I planned lots of things for after work. But I stopped when I realized how difficult it actually made things for many people and people with kids.</text></comment> | <story><title>What if remote work didn’t mean working from home?</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/remote-work-not-from-home</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geoduck14</author><text>Regarding the Happy Hours:<p>In 2019, my team would occasionally need to work long hours or would deliver something awesome. I would reward them with HH and dinner&#x2F;late meal. It gave me a chance to say &quot;thanks&quot; and for us to bond over the challenge we overcame.<p>I can&#x27;t do that anymore! I&#x27;ve don&#x27;t virtual HH, but it isn&#x27;t the same! I would REALLY like a virtual solution to &quot;bond with your team&quot; and &quot;say thanks in a meaningful way&quot; - cost be damned.<p>As a side note, politics suck. I really like WFH. Working long hours is bad - bonding is good.</text></item><item><author>bluefirebrand</author><text>As long as I still have a quiet, private office and don&#x27;t spend an hour+ per day in traffic and am not expected to give up evenings for &quot;not mandatory but really you should show up to play politics&quot; office happy hours, I don&#x27;t care where I work.<p>Currently working from home gives me all of that and I haven&#x27;t been happier with a job ever.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>conductr</author><text>&gt; It gave me a chance to say &quot;thanks&quot;<p>&quot;Me&quot; is the key word<p>&gt; and for us to bond over the challenge we overcame.<p>That occurred already. It happened through the process of overcoming the challenge.<p>I get the intent, but your people probably just want to rest and get some of their time back. If you must celebrate, do it during hours. I typically did offsite lunch time activities pre-COVID. Now it&#x27;s more gift driven and individual. I made up award systems like the high school &quot;most likely to ...&quot;. If someone renovated their masterbath, give them something that is specific to that as a thanks. Find out if they prefer public or 1:1 gratitude</text></comment> |
18,235,681 | 18,235,782 | 1 | 3 | 18,234,192 | train | <story><title>Responder: A familiar HTTP Service Framework</title><url>http://python-responder.org</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>m_ke</author><text>I&#x27;d argue that python needs an async django, which will hopefully be django in a few releases.</text></item><item><author>monkmartinez</author><text>Pretty cool, but I can&#x27;t shake the feeling that the first example looks an awful lot like javascript...<p>Perhaps... Maybe ... its because I have been &quot;cheating&quot; on Python with JS. I mean, it is a pain in the booty to code up a web app in python without JS. Try to code a mobile app with Python and Kivy... not all that fun (not practical). In less than a week with React, I have done both. So... why not just skip Python all together? I have been asking myself that question.<p>Bottom line: The authors of this &quot;service framework&quot; states the Python world doesn&#x27;t need another web framework, I agree.<p>It needs some serious love in GUI land.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scardine</author><text>There is an async Flask in the form of Sanic[1]. Looks quite usable compared to raw aiohttp or twisted spaghetti I had to help maintain a couple months ago.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sanic.readthedocs.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sanic.readthedocs.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Responder: A familiar HTTP Service Framework</title><url>http://python-responder.org</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>m_ke</author><text>I&#x27;d argue that python needs an async django, which will hopefully be django in a few releases.</text></item><item><author>monkmartinez</author><text>Pretty cool, but I can&#x27;t shake the feeling that the first example looks an awful lot like javascript...<p>Perhaps... Maybe ... its because I have been &quot;cheating&quot; on Python with JS. I mean, it is a pain in the booty to code up a web app in python without JS. Try to code a mobile app with Python and Kivy... not all that fun (not practical). In less than a week with React, I have done both. So... why not just skip Python all together? I have been asking myself that question.<p>Bottom line: The authors of this &quot;service framework&quot; states the Python world doesn&#x27;t need another web framework, I agree.<p>It needs some serious love in GUI land.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yla92</author><text>Tornado[0] is not on per when it comes to features richness of Django. Yet, it&#x27;s async and a joy to write. You should check it out if you have not. I would like to hear more from others about Tornado vs other Python frameworks as well.<p>[0]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tornadoweb.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;stable&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tornadoweb.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;stable&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
15,933,813 | 15,930,882 | 1 | 2 | 15,930,077 | train | <story><title>Defect that causes Huntington's disease has been corrected for the first time</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/health-42308341</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>TheBeardKing</author><text>Since this drug was developed on public funding in the UK, how does that affect its pricing and incorporation in the NHS? I assume whoever gets the license to sell it in the US will have exclusivity and make it expensive as hell.<p>edit: Never mind, although the research took place at the University of London, it was funded by Ionis Pharmaceuticals (US) and further by Roche (Swiss multinational). The Guardian article relegates that bit of info to the very last line, as if they were just a minor part of the effort.
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;markets.businessinsider.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;stocks&#x2F;Ionis-Pharmaceuticals-Licenses-IONIS-HTT-Rx-to-Partner-Following-Successful-Phase-1-2a-Study-in-Patients-with-Huntington-s-Disease-1010933822" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;markets.businessinsider.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;stocks&#x2F;Ionis-Pharmac...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Defect that causes Huntington's disease has been corrected for the first time</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/health-42308341</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Merem</author><text>Great news. Although it&#x27;s already too late for my mother, my sister can definitely profit from it if it turns out well. And I guess I will have to take the test now to see whether I have the disease as well...</text></comment> |
7,299,310 | 7,297,165 | 1 | 2 | 7,297,002 | train | <story><title>WebGL raytraced eye</title><url>http://www.vill.ee/eye/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>codezero</author><text>Freaked me out for a second because the backing image looked a lot like my living room :P</text></comment> | <story><title>WebGL raytraced eye</title><url>http://www.vill.ee/eye/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pyalot2</author><text>Has some strange black flickering (screenie <a href="http://i.imgur.com/dUOSudN.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;dUOSudN.png</a>).<p>I&#x27;m a webgl developer and WebGL works perfectly fine otherwise (no crappy driver, no crappy GPU etc.)<p>Browsers: Firefox 26&#x2F;27 and Chrome 32&#x2F;33 (error visibile in all)<p>OS: Linux Ubuntu 13.04<p>GPU: GTX-780<p>Driver: nvidia 331.20</text></comment> |
18,510,643 | 18,510,198 | 1 | 2 | 18,509,735 | train | <story><title>The Google Cemetery – A list of dead Google products and why they died</title><url>https://gcemetery.co/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jansan</author><text>Remember Google Code Search? That was a great feature of Google search. You could search for swear words in all the code available worldwide. In one (Sun Microsystems?) code there was a comment &quot;The user is a wanker. He cannot remember his password.&quot; The old days were much more fun.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>secure</author><text>I built <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codesearch.debian.net" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codesearch.debian.net</a> when Google Code Search was taken down.<p>Debian Code Search doesn’t crawl, but it indexes all software in Debian, which is typically helpful enough :)</text></comment> | <story><title>The Google Cemetery – A list of dead Google products and why they died</title><url>https://gcemetery.co/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jansan</author><text>Remember Google Code Search? That was a great feature of Google search. You could search for swear words in all the code available worldwide. In one (Sun Microsystems?) code there was a comment &quot;The user is a wanker. He cannot remember his password.&quot; The old days were much more fun.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marbu</author><text>Yes, google code search was a great service. One could use regular expressions and limit the search to particular language or license. Moreover it indexed code from any tarball or repository google bot run into, so the sheer size of data one was searching was hard for others to match.</text></comment> |
23,150,851 | 23,147,738 | 1 | 3 | 23,145,433 | train | <story><title>Bullshit Ability as an Honest Signal of Intelligence</title><url>https://psyarxiv.com/aru3f/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jessriedel</author><text>FYI: Philosopher Harry Frankfurt wrote the classic essay &quot;On Bullshit&quot;, defining the concept. Unlike lying&#x2F;fraud, where falsehood is instrumental, Frankfurt defined bullshit as potentially false speech where the truth <i>simply wasn&#x27;t important</i>. Bullshit is characterized by giving the <i>surface appearance</i> of confidence, intelligence, or a convincing argument; whether it&#x27;s actually true or not is besides the point.<p>The essay is only 20 pages and available here:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ruby.fgcu.edu&#x2F;courses&#x2F;twimberley&#x2F;EnviroPhilo&#x2F;bullshit.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ruby.fgcu.edu&#x2F;courses&#x2F;twimberley&#x2F;EnviroPhilo&#x2F;bullshit...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grawprog</author><text>I&#x27;ve always thought of bullshit as being more about what you don&#x27;t say than what you say. It&#x27;s a lot easier to get away with bullshit when your bullshit consists of truths with a healthy dose of leaving important details that affect the implications of your statements out.<p>Such as something like, &#x27;we&#x27;ve seen a dramatic increase in revenue&#x27; while leaving out the dramatic increase in expenditures and downplaying that profit hasn&#x27;t really changed.<p>Or the kind of bullshit large companies use with the environment or social issues. Things like, our company uses 75% recycled products and cares about diversity, while leaving out that they destroy thousands of hectares of natural ecosystems, pollute land and water, oppress developing nations and murder their protesting citizens in the jungle while employing their children as slave labour. Meanwhile, they tell you how much they care about your rich, empty, disconnected technocrat concerns about the world and make you believe you&#x27;re making a difference by buying their garbage and investing
in their company.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bullshit Ability as an Honest Signal of Intelligence</title><url>https://psyarxiv.com/aru3f/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jessriedel</author><text>FYI: Philosopher Harry Frankfurt wrote the classic essay &quot;On Bullshit&quot;, defining the concept. Unlike lying&#x2F;fraud, where falsehood is instrumental, Frankfurt defined bullshit as potentially false speech where the truth <i>simply wasn&#x27;t important</i>. Bullshit is characterized by giving the <i>surface appearance</i> of confidence, intelligence, or a convincing argument; whether it&#x27;s actually true or not is besides the point.<p>The essay is only 20 pages and available here:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ruby.fgcu.edu&#x2F;courses&#x2F;twimberley&#x2F;EnviroPhilo&#x2F;bullshit.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ruby.fgcu.edu&#x2F;courses&#x2F;twimberley&#x2F;EnviroPhilo&#x2F;bullshit...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>clairity</author><text>i think i&#x27;ve read this at some point but taking a quick look to refesh myself, i was struck on the first page by the word <i>procrustean</i>, which apparently means something like &quot;rigidly but arbitrarily specified&quot;[0], possibly obliquely related to hard-shelled sea creatures. neat word.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Procrustes#Cultural_references" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Procrustes#Cultural_references</a></text></comment> |
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