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24,320,865 | 24,320,687 | 1 | 3 | 24,315,764 | train | <story><title>Apple doesn't let you disclose their 30% IAP fee to your customers</title><url>https://twitter.com/getify/status/1299569045348454401</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pier25</author><text>If it was closer to 5%, or even a fixed fee (eg: $1 per app sold), I would accept the narrative that it&#x27;s a fee.<p>30% of your business is not a fee, it&#x27;s more like a partnership. Apple is, in practice, a business partner to each and every iOS developer. Except that they have total and absolute control of the business. If they shut you down on the App Store, you&#x27;re done. Your iOS app is worthless on any other platform.<p>I shit you not, I&#x27;ve personally had apps rejected by the review board because they didn&#x27;t like the screenshots. Those were screenshots of the app itself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>antris</author><text>&gt; If they shut you down on the App Store, you&#x27;re done. Your iOS app is worthless on any other platform.<p>&gt; I shit you not, I&#x27;ve personally had apps rejected by the review board because they didn&#x27;t like the screenshots. Those were screenshots of the app itself.<p>My experience sending applications to the app store was certainly frustrating as a first-comer as the App Store has numerous rules about the screenshots, descriptions, naming etc. that you have to follow.<p>However, every time the app got rejected, the reviewer sent clear feedback on which rules the submissions were violating and how to fix those issues. After that, you could send your app for another review. Calling that &quot;shutting you down&quot; is slightly harsh in my ear. We fixed the problems they had with our submission and then we got approved.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple doesn't let you disclose their 30% IAP fee to your customers</title><url>https://twitter.com/getify/status/1299569045348454401</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pier25</author><text>If it was closer to 5%, or even a fixed fee (eg: $1 per app sold), I would accept the narrative that it&#x27;s a fee.<p>30% of your business is not a fee, it&#x27;s more like a partnership. Apple is, in practice, a business partner to each and every iOS developer. Except that they have total and absolute control of the business. If they shut you down on the App Store, you&#x27;re done. Your iOS app is worthless on any other platform.<p>I shit you not, I&#x27;ve personally had apps rejected by the review board because they didn&#x27;t like the screenshots. Those were screenshots of the app itself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>usefulcat</author><text>As long as there are still plenty of people making apps for iOS, I don&#x27;t see how Apple has much incentive at all to change their behavior.<p>If this stuff is that big of a problem for the average iOS developer, then shouldn&#x27;t this at least be an opportunity for Google (to attract more developers to its platform, possibly exclusively)? Or no because G has pretty much the same incentives that Apple does? Or is this already happening and I&#x27;m just not aware of it?</text></comment> |
11,836,926 | 11,836,904 | 1 | 2 | 11,834,888 | train | <story><title>Muhammad Ali has died</title><url>http://www.nbcnews.com/news/sports/muhammad-ali-greatest-all-time-dead-74-n584776</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ceyhunkazel</author><text>He is a man who have a heart that bigger than his fists. “Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I’m not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over. This is the day when such evils must come to an end. I have been warned that to take such a stand would cost me millions of dollars. But I have said it once and I will say it again. The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality. If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years.”</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>e40</author><text>I grew up in Louisville in the 60&#x27;s and can attest to the poor state of race relations there.<p>My white grandparents had a house in the middle of the black part of town. And when I say &quot;black&quot; I mean except for my grandparents and my family, we never saw another white person anywhere close to their house, when we visited. We&#x27;d make the trip from the suburbs to their house every Sunday to take them food and hang out on the porch, in good weather, or the living room in bad weather. They were in their 80&#x27;s and had lived in that house for 50+ years, and they saw no reason to leave. They and their neighbors were dirt poor.<p>As a kid, the difference between were I lived and this place I visited once a week was striking. It shaped how I felt about poor people and race relations, in general. The weird thing is that when I went there, that neighborhood felt more comfortable and friendly to me than mine in the burbs.<p>I remember when Ali refused to be drafted. There was a lot of anger in our home town. It help me form my feelings toward war and service. I don&#x27;t think that internal dialog would have happened had he not done what he did.</text></comment> | <story><title>Muhammad Ali has died</title><url>http://www.nbcnews.com/news/sports/muhammad-ali-greatest-all-time-dead-74-n584776</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ceyhunkazel</author><text>He is a man who have a heart that bigger than his fists. “Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I’m not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over. This is the day when such evils must come to an end. I have been warned that to take such a stand would cost me millions of dollars. But I have said it once and I will say it again. The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality. If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years.”</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adnam</author><text>Well he also said that Jews are devils, the mixing of the races is an abomination and that homosexuality is a white man’s disease.</text></comment> |
27,857,905 | 27,857,581 | 1 | 2 | 27,856,593 | train | <story><title>The case for banning non-competes</title><url>https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-case-for-banning-non-competes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>trentnix</author><text><i>But my employer does everything. There is no field that my employer is not involved in, somehow. You can guess who they are, probably, or just read my profile. And they say &quot;You cannot do anything that competes with anything we do&quot;. Which is everything. Want to make a Sudoku app? That&#x27;s a game, we do games. Want to do some open source ML library work? We do ML, you can&#x27;t do ML outside of work (I asked legal that one). And that&#x27;s ignoring the who-knows-how-many secret un-released projects that might relate.</i><p>I&#x27;m in a US state that allows non-competes. I recently turned down a job because I wasn&#x27;t comfortable with the non-compete I was compelled to sign expressly because the company&#x27;s opinion of its own market was so broad. They implored me to trust that they had &quot;never sued anyone&quot; and &quot;have no intentions to&quot;, and I think they honestly believe that. But then why have the non-compete at all?<p>And even if they are true to their word, what happens when they sell the company to someone else that exploits the leverage the non-compete provides?<p>A friend of mine was sued by their ex-employer over the violation of a non-compete. He lawyered up and fought it. And he won! But it was a Pyrrhic victory that resulted in a significant expensive of time (the judge granted an injunction that forced him out of business until the case was resolved - which was around 18 months) and money (he was granted no financial judgement). I am convinced the plaintiff&#x27;s lawyer knew they&#x27;d lose, but to the suing party the process was punishment and that became their goal.<p>His should be a cautionary tale - even if you&#x27;re advised that the non-compete isn&#x27;t enforceable, it can still hurt you.</text></item><item><author>mabbo</author><text>There are two kinds of non-competes, and both have problems.<p>First, there&#x27;s the really nasty ones saying &quot;If you ever work here, you can&#x27;t work for any competitor for X years&quot;, and they&#x27;re clearly abusing of employees, labor, etc. I hope there is a straight up ban on that.<p>The second kind is &quot;You can&#x27;t compete with us while you work here&quot;. And that is a much more complex beast. Obviously, if I work as a developer making a stock trading app, I shouldn&#x27;t be making a competing stock trading app after hours.<p>But my employer does <i>everything</i>. There is no field that my employer is not involved in, somehow. You can guess who they are, probably, or just read my profile. And they say &quot;You cannot do anything that competes with anything we do&quot;. Which is everything. Want to make a Sudoku app? That&#x27;s a game, we do games. Want to do some open source ML library work? We do ML, you can&#x27;t do ML outside of work (I asked legal that one). And that&#x27;s ignoring the who-knows-how-many secret un-released projects that <i>might</i> relate.<p>They don&#x27;t even tell us &quot;no&quot; anymore. They just say &quot;read the non-compete agreement and do what it says&quot;. Basically &quot;do what you like, but if we ever feel like it wasn&#x27;t right, you&#x27;re fired and maybe sued&quot;.<p>And when I apply to other companies, they ask &quot;do you have a github account?&quot;. No, I&#x27;ve been highly motivated not to.<p>Edit: eesh, this was a bit of a rant, wasn&#x27;t it? Apologies for that. But maybe folks have ideas on what to do about it, apart from the obvious.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zippergz</author><text>Also the people claiming (and believing) that they have no intention of suing are not the people who make the decision to sue or not (unless it&#x27;s an extremely small company, or you are an important enough hire to be discussing this with the CEO and General Counsel). Even if they have the best intentions, some random recruiter or manager really has no insight into this.</text></comment> | <story><title>The case for banning non-competes</title><url>https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-case-for-banning-non-competes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>trentnix</author><text><i>But my employer does everything. There is no field that my employer is not involved in, somehow. You can guess who they are, probably, or just read my profile. And they say &quot;You cannot do anything that competes with anything we do&quot;. Which is everything. Want to make a Sudoku app? That&#x27;s a game, we do games. Want to do some open source ML library work? We do ML, you can&#x27;t do ML outside of work (I asked legal that one). And that&#x27;s ignoring the who-knows-how-many secret un-released projects that might relate.</i><p>I&#x27;m in a US state that allows non-competes. I recently turned down a job because I wasn&#x27;t comfortable with the non-compete I was compelled to sign expressly because the company&#x27;s opinion of its own market was so broad. They implored me to trust that they had &quot;never sued anyone&quot; and &quot;have no intentions to&quot;, and I think they honestly believe that. But then why have the non-compete at all?<p>And even if they are true to their word, what happens when they sell the company to someone else that exploits the leverage the non-compete provides?<p>A friend of mine was sued by their ex-employer over the violation of a non-compete. He lawyered up and fought it. And he won! But it was a Pyrrhic victory that resulted in a significant expensive of time (the judge granted an injunction that forced him out of business until the case was resolved - which was around 18 months) and money (he was granted no financial judgement). I am convinced the plaintiff&#x27;s lawyer knew they&#x27;d lose, but to the suing party the process was punishment and that became their goal.<p>His should be a cautionary tale - even if you&#x27;re advised that the non-compete isn&#x27;t enforceable, it can still hurt you.</text></item><item><author>mabbo</author><text>There are two kinds of non-competes, and both have problems.<p>First, there&#x27;s the really nasty ones saying &quot;If you ever work here, you can&#x27;t work for any competitor for X years&quot;, and they&#x27;re clearly abusing of employees, labor, etc. I hope there is a straight up ban on that.<p>The second kind is &quot;You can&#x27;t compete with us while you work here&quot;. And that is a much more complex beast. Obviously, if I work as a developer making a stock trading app, I shouldn&#x27;t be making a competing stock trading app after hours.<p>But my employer does <i>everything</i>. There is no field that my employer is not involved in, somehow. You can guess who they are, probably, or just read my profile. And they say &quot;You cannot do anything that competes with anything we do&quot;. Which is everything. Want to make a Sudoku app? That&#x27;s a game, we do games. Want to do some open source ML library work? We do ML, you can&#x27;t do ML outside of work (I asked legal that one). And that&#x27;s ignoring the who-knows-how-many secret un-released projects that <i>might</i> relate.<p>They don&#x27;t even tell us &quot;no&quot; anymore. They just say &quot;read the non-compete agreement and do what it says&quot;. Basically &quot;do what you like, but if we ever feel like it wasn&#x27;t right, you&#x27;re fired and maybe sued&quot;.<p>And when I apply to other companies, they ask &quot;do you have a github account?&quot;. No, I&#x27;ve been highly motivated not to.<p>Edit: eesh, this was a bit of a rant, wasn&#x27;t it? Apologies for that. But maybe folks have ideas on what to do about it, apart from the obvious.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wolverine876</author><text>&gt; They implored me to trust that they had &quot;never sued anyone&quot; and &quot;have no intentions to&quot;, and I think they honestly believe that. But then why have the non-compete at all?<p>Exactly. &#x27;That&#x27;s great; we can resolve that issue easily. Let&#x27;s just skip the non-compete - you&#x27;re not using it anyway and I&#x27;m not comfortable with it.&#x27;<p>EDIT: A non-lawyer&#x27;s suggestion (talk to a lawyer before you do this): Skip signing or edit documents (cross out and initial sections you don&#x27;t like, add words - and initial each change) and then sign and send it back. Don&#x27;t say a thing; leave it to them to bring it up - most people won&#x27;t bother disputing it with you.</text></comment> |
25,649,180 | 25,649,221 | 1 | 2 | 25,648,585 | train | <story><title>GitHub is fully available in Iran</title><url>https://github.blog/2021-01-05-advancing-developer-freedom-github-is-fully-available-in-iran/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JoshTriplett</author><text>I&#x27;m curious: what was the rationale for not talking about this at all until it was ready? It seems like &quot;we&#x27;re working on a possible solution&quot; would have been a good response to the many complaints about this.<p>Was there some reason to believe that mentioning you were working towards this license would have a detrimental effect on the review process for that license?</text></item><item><author>natfriedman</author><text>Pure coincidence. We were working for two years to get this license.</text></item><item><author>harrisonjackson</author><text>Nat&#x27;s tweet in response to the other HN thread about a company getting locked out of their github because a developer opened their laptop in iran.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;natfriedman&#x2F;status&#x2F;1346453242499121155" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;natfriedman&#x2F;status&#x2F;1346453242499121155</a><p>Pretty fast to get this posted...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>natfriedman</author><text>I mentioned it many times, actually:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22630340" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22630340</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;natfriedman&#x2F;status&#x2F;1250200008621608962?s=20" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;natfriedman&#x2F;status&#x2F;1250200008621608962?s...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>GitHub is fully available in Iran</title><url>https://github.blog/2021-01-05-advancing-developer-freedom-github-is-fully-available-in-iran/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JoshTriplett</author><text>I&#x27;m curious: what was the rationale for not talking about this at all until it was ready? It seems like &quot;we&#x27;re working on a possible solution&quot; would have been a good response to the many complaints about this.<p>Was there some reason to believe that mentioning you were working towards this license would have a detrimental effect on the review process for that license?</text></item><item><author>natfriedman</author><text>Pure coincidence. We were working for two years to get this license.</text></item><item><author>harrisonjackson</author><text>Nat&#x27;s tweet in response to the other HN thread about a company getting locked out of their github because a developer opened their laptop in iran.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;natfriedman&#x2F;status&#x2F;1346453242499121155" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;natfriedman&#x2F;status&#x2F;1346453242499121155</a><p>Pretty fast to get this posted...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ncallaway</author><text>My guess is two reasons:<p>- Expectations settings. If they say they&#x27;re working on a possible solution, people will expect the solution to materialize and get upset when it doesn&#x27;t. Since this seems like it was a lobbying effort with OFAC, there was probably a large degree of uncertainty on whether this would happen at all.<p>- Like you suggested, maybe they thought any public comment about this might put at risk the conversations they were having with OFAC?</text></comment> |
19,780,228 | 19,779,385 | 1 | 3 | 19,778,097 | train | <story><title>Go 1.13: xerrors</title><url>https://crawshaw.io/blog/xerrors</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nickcw</author><text>This (it looks like to me) is an attempt to pull in the best bits of Dave Cheney&#x27;s errors package (which I love) into the standard library: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pkg&#x2F;errors" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pkg&#x2F;errors</a><p>Standardising error unwrapping is a great idea IMHO and I think that this has a lot of merit.<p>I don&#x27;t like the `fmt.Errorf(&quot;more description: %w&quot;, err)` though for several reasons.<p>Firstly it is a lot more opaque than Dave Cheney&#x27;s original mechanism errors.Wrap(err, &quot;more description&quot;). You&#x27;ve got to check the format string for a `%w` to see if it is wrapping an error or not.<p>Secondly why is this really important functionality in `fmt` and not in `error`?<p>And finally we&#x27;ve been encouraged to write `fmt.Errorf(&quot;more description: %v&quot;, err)` (note `%v` not `%w`), so I think there will be a lot of unwrapped errors.<p>...<p>I&#x27;m not sure enough has been thought about the backwards incompatibility. With rclone I try to maintain compatibility with the current go release and a few previous ones so that rclone can remain running with distro go versions and gccgo both of which are a bit behind. For something as common as error handling this will cause lots of libraries to suddenly be no longer usable with anything less than go1.13.<p>IMHO I think this would be better staying as a non standard library package for the time being while more kinks are worked out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>politician</author><text>Also note that the library checks for `: %w` at the end of the format string to enable this wrapping feature. If you use &quot;%w&quot; anywhere else in the format string it won&#x27;t work.<p>Yuck.</text></comment> | <story><title>Go 1.13: xerrors</title><url>https://crawshaw.io/blog/xerrors</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nickcw</author><text>This (it looks like to me) is an attempt to pull in the best bits of Dave Cheney&#x27;s errors package (which I love) into the standard library: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pkg&#x2F;errors" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pkg&#x2F;errors</a><p>Standardising error unwrapping is a great idea IMHO and I think that this has a lot of merit.<p>I don&#x27;t like the `fmt.Errorf(&quot;more description: %w&quot;, err)` though for several reasons.<p>Firstly it is a lot more opaque than Dave Cheney&#x27;s original mechanism errors.Wrap(err, &quot;more description&quot;). You&#x27;ve got to check the format string for a `%w` to see if it is wrapping an error or not.<p>Secondly why is this really important functionality in `fmt` and not in `error`?<p>And finally we&#x27;ve been encouraged to write `fmt.Errorf(&quot;more description: %v&quot;, err)` (note `%v` not `%w`), so I think there will be a lot of unwrapped errors.<p>...<p>I&#x27;m not sure enough has been thought about the backwards incompatibility. With rclone I try to maintain compatibility with the current go release and a few previous ones so that rclone can remain running with distro go versions and gccgo both of which are a bit behind. For something as common as error handling this will cause lots of libraries to suddenly be no longer usable with anything less than go1.13.<p>IMHO I think this would be better staying as a non standard library package for the time being while more kinks are worked out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheSwordsman</author><text>+1 on all of this. I really prefer that <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pkg&#x2F;errors" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pkg&#x2F;errors</a> is outside of the standard library so I don&#x27;t need to use the fmt.Errorf abomination.</text></comment> |
39,450,680 | 39,450,604 | 1 | 3 | 39,450,237 | train | <story><title>Would von Braun's Mars landers have worked?</title><url>https://raypatrick.xyz/blog/2023/11/24/would-von-brauns-mars-landers-have-worked/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>Von Braun lived just long enough for the first Viking lander. So he got to hear the bad news.<p>Landing heavy objects on Mars is not quite as bad as an airless landing, but it still takes a lot of fuel. Von Braun probably would have wanted to build a large space station orbiting Mars, with rockets shuttling back and forth from Earth orbit for supply. Then, with enough fuel accumulated in Mars orbit, a soft landing on rocket power would be possible.</text></comment> | <story><title>Would von Braun's Mars landers have worked?</title><url>https://raypatrick.xyz/blog/2023/11/24/would-von-brauns-mars-landers-have-worked/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Sparkyte</author><text>Mars doesn&#x27;t have a thick enough atmosphere for lift, you can fly a copter, but it needs a lot of power to do so and it needs to be light enough to do so.<p>On the otherhand you probably could get away with a space elevator on Mars where you couldn&#x27;t on Earth.</text></comment> |
26,434,350 | 26,433,894 | 1 | 3 | 26,433,654 | train | <story><title>Drop millions of allocations by using a linked list (2015)</title><url>https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/pull/1188</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rsp1984</author><text>Lessons from high-performance &#x2F; embedded development: If you know the size of your data beforehand, or can at least put a bound on it, it&#x27;s best to pre-allocate your memory and then hand out bits as needed through a custom allocator working on the pre-allocated set. That way you have only a single allocation and all your data is contiguous in memory (huge deal for cache coherency and therefore speed of access). Very easy to put a vector&#x2F;ArrayList -type interface on top of this.<p>If you don&#x27;t know the size or bound, then do the next best thing and pre-allocate in chunks and use a slightly more sophisticated allocator that manages the chunks to hand out bits.<p>Not sure what mechanisms high-level languages use these days and whether there&#x27;s any pre-allocation involved under the hood, but plain unoptimized linked lists can fragment your memory pretty badly and they also aren&#x27;t cache coherent. Use them to store small #s of large objects, instead of large #s of small objects.</text></comment> | <story><title>Drop millions of allocations by using a linked list (2015)</title><url>https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/pull/1188</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>naranha</author><text>Unrelated to the article, but perhaps an interesting fact: as a Java programmer you perhaps know that using the class java.util.LinkedList is almost always worse in than using plain arrays or ArrayList. Even though there are much less allocations, the overhead for maintaining the linked list data structures is immense. And it turns out that computers are pretty fast at allocating memory.<p>But there more optimized implementations of linked lists of course (probably using arrays as well internally (?)).</text></comment> |
31,443,050 | 31,442,777 | 1 | 3 | 31,437,033 | train | <story><title>Google open sourced PSP (hardware cryptographic offload)</title><url>https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/announcing-psp-security-protocol-is-now-open-source</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>oxplot</author><text>&gt; Almost a decade ago, we started encrypting traffic between our data centers to help protect user privacy.<p>That should be around mid 2013 after Ed Snowden revelations. I remember some frustrated Google engineers on G+ commenting on the leaked slides from NSA where a packet capture of Google cross data center traffic was shown.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google open sourced PSP (hardware cryptographic offload)</title><url>https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/announcing-psp-security-protocol-is-now-open-source</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kccqzy</author><text>&gt; it took ~0.7% of Google&#x27;s processing power to encrypt and decrypt RPCs<p>This figure is lower than I thought. Granted, I deal a lot with memcache style workloads, where each RPC basically just does some hash table lookup&#x2F;insert and a memcpy of hundreds of kilobytes. I personally see up to 5% of CPU time spent on cryptographic operations (mainly AES-NI instructions). If you aren&#x27;t Google and can&#x27;t afford custom silicon to do hardware offload, but you can&#x27;t drop the encryption-in-transit requirement either, what would you do to improve performance?</text></comment> |
37,986,382 | 37,986,558 | 1 | 2 | 37,985,176 | train | <story><title>Software disenchantment</title><url>https://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>city41</author><text>This article doesn&#x27;t even touch on the main pain point: bugs. Virtually all software is just as buggy as can be. I dread every time I need to take a piece of software down a non-happy&#x2F;non-common path. It almost always fails. Working around and dealing with bugs is just a normal, every day part of modern society now.<p>Simple example, I sold my car to Carvana the other day and just baaaarely pulled it off using Chrome and Firefox. In Chrome the upload image wizard would get a JS exception. That part of the app miraculously worked in FF, but virtually the entire rest of the site was mired in issues as it&#x27;s obvious Carvana devs don&#x27;t test in FF. I pulled off the transaction by bouncing between the two.<p>Even worse, most non-technical people think they did something wrong when they encounter a bug.<p>Software that is bloated and slow but stable and rock solid? I&#x27;d gladly take it at this point.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spacemadness</author><text>On one hand I cannot believe what we have actually works as well as it does. Duct tape and bubblegum everywhere at all levels and it actually still works. I’m amazed everyday at what humanity has accomplished with that in mind. On the other hand I can’t help but notice just how damn buggy everything is, and I’m not sure if everything is actually more buggy or if I’m just losing patience with big business software development as I age having seen how the sausage is made. I can’t help being angry at some illusory product person telling people to ship feature X or else with it having a glaring bug in the UX that is easily caught.</text></comment> | <story><title>Software disenchantment</title><url>https://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>city41</author><text>This article doesn&#x27;t even touch on the main pain point: bugs. Virtually all software is just as buggy as can be. I dread every time I need to take a piece of software down a non-happy&#x2F;non-common path. It almost always fails. Working around and dealing with bugs is just a normal, every day part of modern society now.<p>Simple example, I sold my car to Carvana the other day and just baaaarely pulled it off using Chrome and Firefox. In Chrome the upload image wizard would get a JS exception. That part of the app miraculously worked in FF, but virtually the entire rest of the site was mired in issues as it&#x27;s obvious Carvana devs don&#x27;t test in FF. I pulled off the transaction by bouncing between the two.<p>Even worse, most non-technical people think they did something wrong when they encounter a bug.<p>Software that is bloated and slow but stable and rock solid? I&#x27;d gladly take it at this point.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ohwellhere</author><text>You&#x27;re 100% right. Ever since watching the Jonathan Blow talk on the end of the world I have started paying attention to it and it&#x27;s amazing how many absolutely shitty software experiences we just accept on the daily.<p>I understand all the points about financial costs and opportunity costs and pragmatism and the rest, and I partially agree with it, but it&#x27;s hard not to sometimes feel like we&#x27;ve accepted living in a half built world.</text></comment> |
25,410,563 | 25,408,998 | 1 | 3 | 25,406,211 | train | <story><title>If-then-else had to be invented</title><url>https://github.com/e-n-f/if-then-else/blob/master/if-then-else.md</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dahart</author><text>&gt; That&#x27;s just English, right? Except that it isn&#x27;t. I can&#x27;t use &quot;else&quot; as a conjunction in normal speech, only in computer programs.<p>Sure you can!<p>Shakespeare used &#x27;else&#x27; in the same sense as &#x27;otherwise&#x27;:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.shakespeareswords.com&#x2F;Public&#x2F;GlossaryHeadword.aspx?headwordId=9622" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.shakespeareswords.com&#x2F;Public&#x2F;GlossaryHeadword.as...</a><p>&quot;else used as a conjunction&quot;
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wordtype.org&#x2F;of&#x2F;else" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wordtype.org&#x2F;of&#x2F;else</a><p>&quot;Or else!&quot; was common speech before computers, and a common vague cartoon&#x2F;cowboy&#x2F;sign threat.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reidacdc</author><text>There is some anecdotal support for the article&#x27;s position in a recent [1] article about the origin of the C programming language -- apparently the C predecessor language CPL used &quot;OR&quot; as a keyword where most modern languages now use &quot;else&quot;, on precisely these grammatical grounds, as understood by Christopher Strachey.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;features&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;a-damn-stupid-thing-to-do-the-origins-of-c&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;features&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;a-damn-stupid-thing...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>If-then-else had to be invented</title><url>https://github.com/e-n-f/if-then-else/blob/master/if-then-else.md</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dahart</author><text>&gt; That&#x27;s just English, right? Except that it isn&#x27;t. I can&#x27;t use &quot;else&quot; as a conjunction in normal speech, only in computer programs.<p>Sure you can!<p>Shakespeare used &#x27;else&#x27; in the same sense as &#x27;otherwise&#x27;:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.shakespeareswords.com&#x2F;Public&#x2F;GlossaryHeadword.aspx?headwordId=9622" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.shakespeareswords.com&#x2F;Public&#x2F;GlossaryHeadword.as...</a><p>&quot;else used as a conjunction&quot;
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wordtype.org&#x2F;of&#x2F;else" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wordtype.org&#x2F;of&#x2F;else</a><p>&quot;Or else!&quot; was common speech before computers, and a common vague cartoon&#x2F;cowboy&#x2F;sign threat.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SilasX</author><text>Even if it weren’t, that just means we would have called the construct “if-then-otherwise” instead (perhaps abbreviated as othw).</text></comment> |
33,258,858 | 33,258,299 | 1 | 2 | 33,228,387 | train | <story><title>C Minus Minus</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C--</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>paganel</author><text>Slightly related to this, this article made me check Simon Peyton Jones&#x27;s wiki page [1], where I saw this:<p>&gt; Jones has played a vital role in the development of new Microsoft Excel features since 2003, when he published a paper on user-defined functions.[19] In 2021, anonymous functions and let expressions were made available in the Office 365 version of Excel as a beta feature.[20]<p>Truly, there were (possibly still are) a lot of smart people working on Excel, as the years go by I&#x27;m starting to think of it as one of the most interesting pieces of software ever written.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Simon_Peyton_Jones" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Simon_Peyton_Jones</a></text></comment> | <story><title>C Minus Minus</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C--</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>Related:<p><i>Welcome to C-- (2008)</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30006215" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30006215</a> - Jan 2022 (23 comments)<p><i>The C-- Language Specification (2005) [pdf]</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19429522" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19429522</a> - March 2019 (27 comments)<p><i>C--: A Portable Assembly Language</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17966114" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17966114</a> - Sept 2018 (1 comment)<p><i>C--</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6621679" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6621679</a> - Oct 2013 (72 comments)<p>Pretty sure there have been other threads. Anyone?</text></comment> |
12,329,642 | 12,329,473 | 1 | 3 | 12,329,027 | train | <story><title>Charles 4</title><url>http://blog.xk72.com/post/148311808729/charles-4</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mitchhentges</author><text>Charles is pretty fantastic, I used it a little bit for debugging an Android app&#x27;s server communication. The only thing that turned me off is that Charles isn&#x27;t open source.<p>An open source alternative is James[1], which is pretty cool. Full disclosure though, I am a contributor :)<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;james-proxy&#x2F;james" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;james-proxy&#x2F;james</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Charles 4</title><url>http://blog.xk72.com/post/148311808729/charles-4</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ohstopitu</author><text>I was looking for an HTTP proxy and I recently found Stoplight [1]. I used to use MITM proxy &amp; Fiddler before.<p>I definitely like Stoplight a lot more (especially their self-documenting feature for 3rd party APIs [2])<p>[1] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stoplight.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stoplight.io&#x2F;</a><p>[2] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimeo.com&#x2F;155438645" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimeo.com&#x2F;155438645</a></text></comment> |
41,284,090 | 41,281,859 | 1 | 2 | 41,267,316 | train | <story><title>Ask for Advice, Not Permission (2015)</title><url>https://boz.com/articles/advice-not-permission</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chipdart</author><text>From the article:<p>&gt; (...) but if it goes wrong you might end up involving them in the failure: “Hey, I asked that team and they said it was fine.”<p>I&#x27;ve seen this play out in teams. The part that&#x27;s omitted is how some unscrupulous team members set up their team members for failure.<p>I&#x27;ve personally witnessed a case where a team member went out of his way to propose a rewrite of an important feature and reached out to a couple of senior members to do a system design review and provide feedback. They initially told him the design was good as is and required no feedback and change, but once the project was about to be deployed they suddenly became very opinionated and critical of each and every tiny detail, including on the need to rewrite the component.<p>There are plenty of good reasons why some FANGs enshrine the need to be thorough and extremely critical of projects at the design stage but everyone is obligated to commit to the project once it starts to be implemented. Teams need to commit to projects after they are prompted to give their opinion during the design process, and once their opinions are heard there should be no room for weaseling out and go the backstabbing route to throw everyone around under the bus. There is a time and place to provide feedback, and if you&#x27;re prompted to deliver your feedback then you should not pretend the project does not reflect your input.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sesm</author><text>&gt; They initially told him the design was good as is and required no feedback and change, but once the project was about to be deployed they suddenly became very opinionated<p>Because the design usually is presented in a way that looks the most plausible, default-looking and approvable, hiding the real problems and decision points. And when the project is close to being deployed, the problems become visible.<p>Very rarely I see design being presented like &#x27;here is the problem we need solve, here are the constraints, here are the unknowns, by this logic we come to this solution&#x27;. One of the reasons this rarely happens, is that in big organisations there is often a hidden agenda like &#x27;I want as many people and departments as possible to start depending on me so I can get my promotion&#x27;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask for Advice, Not Permission (2015)</title><url>https://boz.com/articles/advice-not-permission</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chipdart</author><text>From the article:<p>&gt; (...) but if it goes wrong you might end up involving them in the failure: “Hey, I asked that team and they said it was fine.”<p>I&#x27;ve seen this play out in teams. The part that&#x27;s omitted is how some unscrupulous team members set up their team members for failure.<p>I&#x27;ve personally witnessed a case where a team member went out of his way to propose a rewrite of an important feature and reached out to a couple of senior members to do a system design review and provide feedback. They initially told him the design was good as is and required no feedback and change, but once the project was about to be deployed they suddenly became very opinionated and critical of each and every tiny detail, including on the need to rewrite the component.<p>There are plenty of good reasons why some FANGs enshrine the need to be thorough and extremely critical of projects at the design stage but everyone is obligated to commit to the project once it starts to be implemented. Teams need to commit to projects after they are prompted to give their opinion during the design process, and once their opinions are heard there should be no room for weaseling out and go the backstabbing route to throw everyone around under the bus. There is a time and place to provide feedback, and if you&#x27;re prompted to deliver your feedback then you should not pretend the project does not reflect your input.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>irjustin</author><text>&gt; They initially told him the design was good as is and required no feedback and change, but once the project was about to be deployed they suddenly became very opinionated and critical of each and every tiny detail, including on the need to rewrite the component<p>I think this situation would&#x27;ve happened regardless of advice vs permission. So it&#x27;s not really talking directly towards the article, but yeah, bad actors are terrible to deal with especially when they hold power on like a PR review.</text></comment> |
14,907,829 | 14,907,278 | 1 | 2 | 14,906,649 | train | <story><title>Apple Watch sales up over 50% since last year</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/01/apple-watch-sales-up-over-50-since-last-year/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Steko</author><text>The jobs the watch will do aren&#x27;t as clear cut as it was for the iPod.<p>The iPod let you listen to music and carried lots of (or all of) your music and had software that made it easy to convert and manage your digital music and buy more over the internet. Those were things basically everyone wanted and it did that better than competitors.<p>The watch? Well yeah it tells time, but it&#x27;s worse at that then most watches and everyone already carries a device that tells time which the watch can&#x27;t replace. Yeah, it gives you slightly faster access to notifications but not everyone needs that. Yeah, it has some good health&#x2F;tracking benefits but that&#x27;s not a huge deal to most people. Imho the best use of the watch is for (mobile OS)-Pay&#x2F;mobile ID but adoption is still weak (unless you&#x27;re in Tokyo) and it can be delivered with a much smaller wearable.</text></item><item><author>mortenjorck</author><text>I’ve been saying it all along: to understand the Apple Watch, look to the iPod. The first three years of iPod sales were minuscule compared to the following ten: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commons.m.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;File:Ipod_sales_per_quarter.svg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commons.m.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;File:Ipod_sales_per_qua...</a><p>The two products occupy a very similar space of affordable luxury; they are not world-changing like the Mac or iPhone, but category-defining. Through gradual iteration and segmentation, Apple slowly turned its niche product into a cultural force.<p>Just wait until the iPod Classic 5G equivalent of the Watch comes out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dsacco</author><text>I have a few points for you in response:<p>1. I&#x27;m what you&#x27;d call a &quot;watch guy.&quot; In the time I have had the Apple Watch Series 2, I have barely used my mechanicals (including a Lange &amp; Sohne and a Nomos Glashutte). The Apple Watch comes with me on all but the most formal&#x2F;elegant occasions, and I now hate changing straps on my mechanical watches in comparison. The Apple Watch may not be as beautiful, but it is far more versatile and useful. When I want to dress it up a bit, I throw a Hermes leather strap on it, which works nicely in just about everything other than a suit (which is essentially the only time I&#x27;d jump back to the Lange).<p>2. You&#x27;re vastly underestimating the utility of quick replies on the Apple Watch, in particular. I have quick replies for every conceivable response I could give to someone that is fewer than five words or so. This makes a lot of communication much faster because I don&#x27;t need to take out my phone - I can tap, &quot;congratulations&quot;, &quot;cool!&quot;, &quot;no&quot;, &quot;yes&quot;, &quot;I&#x27;m in a meeting&quot;, &quot;I&#x27;m in a movie&quot;, etc.<p>3. Having notifications or synced functionality on the watch is a very frictionless way of enhancing iPhone interaction. As other commenters have said I can quickly glance at a multitude of things, not just the time. If I receive a message on Slack, I don&#x27;t need to take my phone out if it&#x27;s not something that requires my attention. When driving, I can have directions on my wrist directly, instead of on my dashboard. I can even have conversations on my wrist, hands free, while cooking. These are all ways it&#x27;s directly enhanced my life in ways I wouldn&#x27;t have really thought of without trying it.<p>4. I run a fair amount - at least 30 miles each week. The Apple Watch is the single most empowering device I&#x27;ve ever had for quantified self tracking and fitness enhancement. Having a pair of Airpods and an Apple Watch is a fantastic combination - I can&#x27;t even imagine bringing my phone with my on a run anymore. I can look at my wrist to see my pace and split information, and that&#x27;s just on the native Workout app. I can track my heart rate constantly using something like Cardiogram. I can also track my sleep. There is a massive amount of data enablement that I can now see and monitor as much as I want in the Health app.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple Watch sales up over 50% since last year</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/01/apple-watch-sales-up-over-50-since-last-year/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Steko</author><text>The jobs the watch will do aren&#x27;t as clear cut as it was for the iPod.<p>The iPod let you listen to music and carried lots of (or all of) your music and had software that made it easy to convert and manage your digital music and buy more over the internet. Those were things basically everyone wanted and it did that better than competitors.<p>The watch? Well yeah it tells time, but it&#x27;s worse at that then most watches and everyone already carries a device that tells time which the watch can&#x27;t replace. Yeah, it gives you slightly faster access to notifications but not everyone needs that. Yeah, it has some good health&#x2F;tracking benefits but that&#x27;s not a huge deal to most people. Imho the best use of the watch is for (mobile OS)-Pay&#x2F;mobile ID but adoption is still weak (unless you&#x27;re in Tokyo) and it can be delivered with a much smaller wearable.</text></item><item><author>mortenjorck</author><text>I’ve been saying it all along: to understand the Apple Watch, look to the iPod. The first three years of iPod sales were minuscule compared to the following ten: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commons.m.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;File:Ipod_sales_per_quarter.svg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commons.m.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;File:Ipod_sales_per_qua...</a><p>The two products occupy a very similar space of affordable luxury; they are not world-changing like the Mac or iPhone, but category-defining. Through gradual iteration and segmentation, Apple slowly turned its niche product into a cultural force.<p>Just wait until the iPod Classic 5G equivalent of the Watch comes out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Fezzik</author><text>I think the health tracking features are the major differentiating feature for wearables. Fit people want to track their exercise and stay fit and the unfit (for the most part) want to get fit. These two groups are 99% of the population. And, as we&#x27;re finding in the 21st century&#x2F;age of plenty, fitness takes some work. This thread alone indicates wearable can be a big motivator for fitness.<p>In addition, the health tracking will only get better and lead to preemptive sensing for cardiac events, insulin detection, and who knows what else.<p>I think the market for wearables (watches) is bigger than the iPod market, as wearables solve a real problem (fitness tracking and health monitoring) and are more than an awesome convenience.</text></comment> |
34,578,520 | 34,577,686 | 1 | 3 | 34,568,011 | train | <story><title>The Last Mustard Maker in Dijon</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dijon-mustard</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>miniwark</author><text>For other great french mustard, not from Dijon you have :<p>&quot;Moutarde de Meaux&quot; (or &quot;Moutarde à l&#x27;ancienne&quot;), a mustard done the old way. One of the best producer is Pommery:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.moutarde-de-meaux.com&#x2F;pommery" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.moutarde-de-meaux.com&#x2F;pommery</a><p>&quot;Moutarde de Normandie&quot;, the same than the above but with cider vinegar:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;toustain-barville.com&#x2F;3-moutardes" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;toustain-barville.com&#x2F;3-moutardes</a><p>&quot;Moutarde violette de Brive&quot;, yep! it&#x27;s purple:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.denoix.com&#x2F;moutarde-violette" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.denoix.com&#x2F;moutarde-violette</a><p>&quot;Moutarde à la Violette&quot;, this one is not purple, but do include extract of violet flower:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lamaisondelaviolette.com&#x2F;fr&#x2F;epicerie-salee&#x2F;101-moutarde-a-l-ancienne-200g.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lamaisondelaviolette.com&#x2F;fr&#x2F;epicerie-salee&#x2F;101-m...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Last Mustard Maker in Dijon</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dijon-mustard</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>runnerup</author><text>&quot;Last mustard-maker in Dijon&quot;; does Bornier not count due to some kind of jurisdictional issue? It&#x27;s labeled as &quot;Made in Dijon, France&quot; but perhaps this is a state vs. city thing.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.moutarde.com&#x2F;assets&#x2F;files&#x2F;Marques&#x2F;bornier_leaflet_2020.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.moutarde.com&#x2F;assets&#x2F;files&#x2F;Marques&#x2F;bornier_leafle...</a></text></comment> |
13,677,619 | 13,677,298 | 1 | 3 | 13,674,890 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Evilpass – A slightly evil password strength checker</title><url>https://github.com/SirCmpwn/evilpass?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jfroma</author><text>This server-side call to Twitter, Facebook etc is a bad idea. I understand you are trying to educate your users with a nice UX but let&#x27;s say this software is running on USA but the user trying to sign up is based on France, the attempt of login can trigger anomaly detection algorithms (eg: impossible travel) and the user might receive an email from Twitter &quot;someone has login across the pond with your password, if is not you please change immediately&quot;.<p>There are a lot of things that can be done though. Facebook and Netflix [1] for instance are crawling the web for leaks and pastes, once they find one of their user&#x27;s password they will force the user to change their password. Auth0 is a authentication-as-a-service and we offer this as a feature [2].<p>I have worked on this feature and several related features, my advice is don&#x27;t ask for a password in your public website. If you think is easy, you are wrong, it is a lot of work to code it correctly but it is also a lot of work maintaining the system. Brute force protection, anomaly detection, detecting when your user password has been leak by a third party, etc. It is simpler to authenticate by using a third party like google, you just have to be careful about implementing oauth flows correctly.<p>DISCLAIMER: I work for Auth0.<p>1: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dailymail.co.uk&#x2F;sciencetech&#x2F;article-3628950&#x2F;Time-change-password-Facebook-Netflix-asking-users-tighten-account-security-following-major-breaches.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dailymail.co.uk&#x2F;sciencetech&#x2F;article-3628950&#x2F;Time-...</a><p>2: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;auth0.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;announcing-password-breach-detection&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;auth0.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;announcing-password-breach-detection&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sametmax</author><text>Using a 3rd party to login is nice and all but:<p>- if the party and you don&#x27;t get along anymore, the accounts are dead. Some business are still counting the money lost from cloudflare deciding the underlying site is not respecting their conditions anymore. Same for Google translate. Auth is no different.<p>- if it has a technical failure, it&#x27;s impossible to login. If you think it never happens, think again. We hear about a failure every year for some big companies. Because you don&#x27;t have access to the code, you can&#x27;t implement a quick fallback and must wait until they fix it.<p>- if their 3rd party account is compromised your site is as well. &quot;Someone pirated my facebook&quot; is something I heard to many time. It just meant that a close person from them maliciously used their account by accessing their computer when they were away, gaining access to everything.<p>- if their API changes, you need to change your code. Meaning you need to follow up on each providers. This can have a huge cost and the GAFAS really don&#x27;t care and change their API at will.<p>- if the user closed their 3rd party account, they can&#x27;t login anymore. This one is terrible : when I closed my gmail account, I became locked out of many services with not way of recovering them.<p>And then let&#x27;s say you have one sass for auth (Oauth provider X), one for the db (firebase), one for map (gmap), one for static files (ES2), one for your messages (CloudAMQP) and so one.<p>Basically you own nothing in your infrastructure. You have no control on anything, you are dependent of a lot of things, and they all have you &quot;clicked here to agree&quot; on a lonnnng legal text that will update regularly and be affected by market and politics, across various countries.<p>Your entire business is at the mercy of others.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Evilpass – A slightly evil password strength checker</title><url>https://github.com/SirCmpwn/evilpass?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jfroma</author><text>This server-side call to Twitter, Facebook etc is a bad idea. I understand you are trying to educate your users with a nice UX but let&#x27;s say this software is running on USA but the user trying to sign up is based on France, the attempt of login can trigger anomaly detection algorithms (eg: impossible travel) and the user might receive an email from Twitter &quot;someone has login across the pond with your password, if is not you please change immediately&quot;.<p>There are a lot of things that can be done though. Facebook and Netflix [1] for instance are crawling the web for leaks and pastes, once they find one of their user&#x27;s password they will force the user to change their password. Auth0 is a authentication-as-a-service and we offer this as a feature [2].<p>I have worked on this feature and several related features, my advice is don&#x27;t ask for a password in your public website. If you think is easy, you are wrong, it is a lot of work to code it correctly but it is also a lot of work maintaining the system. Brute force protection, anomaly detection, detecting when your user password has been leak by a third party, etc. It is simpler to authenticate by using a third party like google, you just have to be careful about implementing oauth flows correctly.<p>DISCLAIMER: I work for Auth0.<p>1: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dailymail.co.uk&#x2F;sciencetech&#x2F;article-3628950&#x2F;Time-change-password-Facebook-Netflix-asking-users-tighten-account-security-following-major-breaches.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dailymail.co.uk&#x2F;sciencetech&#x2F;article-3628950&#x2F;Time-...</a><p>2: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;auth0.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;announcing-password-breach-detection&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;auth0.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;announcing-password-breach-detection&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Sir_Cmpwn</author><text>This isn&#x27;t intended for serious use, it&#x27;s just intended to raise awareness about the dangers of password reuse. Also, Twitter sent me 2FA SMS messages during testing.</text></comment> |
14,180,821 | 14,179,156 | 1 | 3 | 14,178,397 | train | <story><title>Uber CEO Plays with Fire</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/23/technology/travis-kalanick-pushes-uber-and-himself-to-the-precipice.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Retric</author><text>Flexible schedules has almost nothing to do with employees vs contractors.</text></item><item><author>bmelton</author><text>&gt; I don&#x27;t think you can support a ridesharing company that by design treats employees as contractors and also be socially conscious<p>I don&#x27;t understand why not. I have a total of five friends who have each chosen to drive for various ridesharing companies, and in the conversations I&#x27;ve had with them, it seems pretty clear that none of them would be drivers if they couldn&#x27;t set their own schedules, or if they were otherwise treated as actual employees.<p>To be fair, only one of them is driving as their main source of income; the other four are driving to supplement their day jobs for side money. The flexible schedule is crucial to that. The fifth prefers flexible scheduling as well. Though he might otherwise be considered a &#x27;full time&#x27; employee, he working a schedule around a non-standard custodial agreement with his ex-wife, which means he might drive for 14-15 hours in one day, and none in another.</text></item><item><author>zitterbewegung</author><text>I don&#x27;t think you can support a ridesharing company that by design treats employees as contractors and also be socially conscious .
If you really want to do this use public transportation .</text></item><item><author>taude</author><text>I really hope Lyft doesn&#x27;t do anything to screw up, as I&#x27;ve uninstalled Uber and will probably never use the service again. However, I don&#x27;t see myself going back to regular taxi system as that&#x27;s even more corrupt and despicable.<p>I just hope Lyft plays the game with a social conscious and makes positive decisions and continues to treat drivers well (most Lyft drivers I talk to say they like driving for Lyft way better than Uber).<p>I&#x27;m not so sure that as a society we should be rewarding people with drive like this &quot;Mr. Kalanick, 40, is driven to the point that he must win at whatever he puts his mind to and at whatever cost&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adrianmonk</author><text>It is literally one of the criteria that the IRS uses to decide whether someone is an employee or an independent contractor.<p>From <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.irs.gov&#x2F;businesses&#x2F;small-businesses-self-employed&#x2F;independent-contractor-self-employed-or-employee#SE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.irs.gov&#x2F;businesses&#x2F;small-businesses-self-employe...</a> :
&quot;In determining whether the person providing service is an employee or an independent contractor, all information that provides evidence of the degree of control and independence must be considered.&quot;<p>One of the categories of control and independence is behavioral, which is described here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.irs.gov&#x2F;businesses&#x2F;small-businesses-self-employed&#x2F;behavioral-control" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.irs.gov&#x2F;businesses&#x2F;small-businesses-self-employe...</a><p>It says: &quot;An employee is generally subject to the business’s instructions about when, where, and how to work.&quot;<p>Uber, Lyft, etc. leave the driver to decide which car they drive, where they buy gas, which jobs they take, and when they work or don&#x27;t work. This is a big part of what goes into justifying their legal status as contractors rather than employees.</text></comment> | <story><title>Uber CEO Plays with Fire</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/23/technology/travis-kalanick-pushes-uber-and-himself-to-the-precipice.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Retric</author><text>Flexible schedules has almost nothing to do with employees vs contractors.</text></item><item><author>bmelton</author><text>&gt; I don&#x27;t think you can support a ridesharing company that by design treats employees as contractors and also be socially conscious<p>I don&#x27;t understand why not. I have a total of five friends who have each chosen to drive for various ridesharing companies, and in the conversations I&#x27;ve had with them, it seems pretty clear that none of them would be drivers if they couldn&#x27;t set their own schedules, or if they were otherwise treated as actual employees.<p>To be fair, only one of them is driving as their main source of income; the other four are driving to supplement their day jobs for side money. The flexible schedule is crucial to that. The fifth prefers flexible scheduling as well. Though he might otherwise be considered a &#x27;full time&#x27; employee, he working a schedule around a non-standard custodial agreement with his ex-wife, which means he might drive for 14-15 hours in one day, and none in another.</text></item><item><author>zitterbewegung</author><text>I don&#x27;t think you can support a ridesharing company that by design treats employees as contractors and also be socially conscious .
If you really want to do this use public transportation .</text></item><item><author>taude</author><text>I really hope Lyft doesn&#x27;t do anything to screw up, as I&#x27;ve uninstalled Uber and will probably never use the service again. However, I don&#x27;t see myself going back to regular taxi system as that&#x27;s even more corrupt and despicable.<p>I just hope Lyft plays the game with a social conscious and makes positive decisions and continues to treat drivers well (most Lyft drivers I talk to say they like driving for Lyft way better than Uber).<p>I&#x27;m not so sure that as a society we should be rewarding people with drive like this &quot;Mr. Kalanick, 40, is driven to the point that he must win at whatever he puts his mind to and at whatever cost&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Pulcinella</author><text>Uh yes it does. If you are sitting your own hours, they definitely points towards contractor.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oregon.gov&#x2F;ODA&#x2F;shared&#x2F;Documents&#x2F;Publications&#x2F;NaturalResources&#x2F;20FactorTestforIndependentContractors.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oregon.gov&#x2F;ODA&#x2F;shared&#x2F;Documents&#x2F;Publications&#x2F;Nat...</a></text></comment> |
17,635,846 | 17,635,557 | 1 | 3 | 17,634,547 | train | <story><title>iTerm2 has a new drawing engine that uses Metal 2</title><url>https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/wikis/Metal-Renderer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>evmar</author><text>I fiddle in this area as a hobby project. One thing I never understand when I read announcements like this is why the graphics performance affects the throughput. Like in a video game, the world moves at the same rate regardless of the frame rate, so why are the two related here?<p>In some of my experimental terminal emulators I&#x27;ve decoupled these and it&#x27;s not so hard -- there&#x27;s a piece that processes command output as fast as it can, and then there&#x27;s another piece that updates the screen as fast as it can, and as long as those two pieces are decoupled then even if your graphics hardware is 5fps it&#x27;s still fast to cat a file.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gnachman</author><text>It&#x27;s a funny feeling opening hacker news and seeing your project at the top :)<p>In iTerm2&#x27;s case it&#x27;s because of bad decisions about a decade ago. The data model is read &amp; written on the main thread. The main thread is solely responsible for drawing operations if you use the standard drawRect: interface on NSView. That means that a slow draw blocks it from processing more data. Other work, like reading from the socket and parsing bytes into tokens was offloaded onto other threads years ago. Unwinding all the assumptions about single-threadedness is nearly impossible. The only way to reduce the main thread&#x27;s workload is to use a GPU renderer because building the data structures the GPU needs can be done off the main thread after a quick copy of the necessary state.</text></comment> | <story><title>iTerm2 has a new drawing engine that uses Metal 2</title><url>https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/wikis/Metal-Renderer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>evmar</author><text>I fiddle in this area as a hobby project. One thing I never understand when I read announcements like this is why the graphics performance affects the throughput. Like in a video game, the world moves at the same rate regardless of the frame rate, so why are the two related here?<p>In some of my experimental terminal emulators I&#x27;ve decoupled these and it&#x27;s not so hard -- there&#x27;s a piece that processes command output as fast as it can, and then there&#x27;s another piece that updates the screen as fast as it can, and as long as those two pieces are decoupled then even if your graphics hardware is 5fps it&#x27;s still fast to cat a file.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tomc1985</author><text>Unless the programmer specifically decouples graphics from the rest of the program, anything that renders to the screen will have to wait for that command to finish drawing. It will effectively govern the throughput of any program that both prints lots of text to screen and is not appropriately multithreaded.</text></comment> |
30,606,486 | 30,605,389 | 1 | 3 | 30,604,447 | train | <story><title>Apple Mac Studio</title><url>https://www.apple.com/mac-studio/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cyberpunk</author><text>How&#x27;s your internet connection? I&#x27;m playing on a RTX3080 thanks to geforce now, but I admit it&#x27;s only possible due to my living in a big city with a very low ping connection to nvidias data centres.<p>But the economics make total sense. It&#x27;s like 15&#x2F;euro a month. A RTX 3080 would cost me like 1200 euro to buy at the moment, without the rest of the PC to go with it. And I&#x27;d need to run windows, which I&#x27;ve not done since &#x27;98.<p>Outsourcing hardware it seems, does work for gaming, if you&#x27;ve got the &#x27;net for it, :}</text></item><item><author>Tiktaalik</author><text>Seriously. If Apple supported gaming more I&#x27;d be able to drop this PC.<p>Could be the sort of thing that could cause an avalanche of switchers.<p>You&#x27;d also pull over the entire games industry into the Apple space. Right now we code on PCs. As Apple silicon gets better, it&#x27;s gonna be more and more painful to not be able to make use of that.</text></item><item><author>nerdjon</author><text>More and more I see the M1 chips and I wish Mac worked seriously well for gaming. Would love too see something like Proton but for Mac (given up hopes for native support).<p>I hate that I have my gaming PC and then my Mac for everything else.<p>I have to wonder though what their plan is for the M2. Are they laying the groundwork for when the M2 comes out all of these variants will be ready at the same time? Or a gradual upgrade but the same series (Normal, Pro, Max, and then Ultra) for each.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrtksn</author><text>What I don&#x27;t like about this model is that you are not allowed to run whatever you want, you can&#x27;t even run all your library from Steam or Epic but select games only.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple Mac Studio</title><url>https://www.apple.com/mac-studio/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cyberpunk</author><text>How&#x27;s your internet connection? I&#x27;m playing on a RTX3080 thanks to geforce now, but I admit it&#x27;s only possible due to my living in a big city with a very low ping connection to nvidias data centres.<p>But the economics make total sense. It&#x27;s like 15&#x2F;euro a month. A RTX 3080 would cost me like 1200 euro to buy at the moment, without the rest of the PC to go with it. And I&#x27;d need to run windows, which I&#x27;ve not done since &#x27;98.<p>Outsourcing hardware it seems, does work for gaming, if you&#x27;ve got the &#x27;net for it, :}</text></item><item><author>Tiktaalik</author><text>Seriously. If Apple supported gaming more I&#x27;d be able to drop this PC.<p>Could be the sort of thing that could cause an avalanche of switchers.<p>You&#x27;d also pull over the entire games industry into the Apple space. Right now we code on PCs. As Apple silicon gets better, it&#x27;s gonna be more and more painful to not be able to make use of that.</text></item><item><author>nerdjon</author><text>More and more I see the M1 chips and I wish Mac worked seriously well for gaming. Would love too see something like Proton but for Mac (given up hopes for native support).<p>I hate that I have my gaming PC and then my Mac for everything else.<p>I have to wonder though what their plan is for the M2. Are they laying the groundwork for when the M2 comes out all of these variants will be ready at the same time? Or a gradual upgrade but the same series (Normal, Pro, Max, and then Ultra) for each.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cyberpunk</author><text>And cyberpunk 2077 or farcry 6 on full on ultra settings makes me almost want to cry it&#x27;s so pretty. I&#x27;ll walk past a puddle and just... walk back and forward. It feels like what your teenage overclock made crysis look look like in the early 2000&#x27;s, I can recommend.</text></comment> |
36,043,123 | 36,043,017 | 1 | 3 | 36,041,059 | train | <story><title>FBI misused surveillance powers more than 280k times in a year</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/22/fbi_fisa_abuse/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brvsft</author><text>&gt; Why should an agency be allowed to spy on non-americans more anyway?<p>Non-Americans don&#x27;t have the same rights as Americans. They may also be looked at more in a more adversarial manner.<p>I&#x27;m not suggesting this is right, just what I&#x27;d guess the logic is.</text></item><item><author>Gasp0de</author><text>I have not thought this through, but it seems like that is what you get for implementing such a law in the first place? Why should an agency be allowed to spy on non-americans more anyway?<p>If they have a good reason, they can spy, and they can get a warrant for it. If they don&#x27;t have a reason, they shouldn&#x27;t be able to search anything, American citizen or not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ethbr0</author><text>Specifically in this context -- 9&#x2F;11 and perceived ongoing threats from international terror.<p>A shocking and terrible event happens, a report identifies that intelligence agencies collectively had all the pieces to prevent it but were unable to see the entire picture due to compartmentalization, and the country decreases that compartmentalization.<p>Cause, reflection, and effect.<p>After that, it&#x27;s been the intertia of &quot;hidden privacy erosion&quot; vs &quot;visible perception of safety.&quot; (Yes, actual safety has poor statistical support)<p>But democracies generally discount hidden evils and multiply visible goods when voting.</text></comment> | <story><title>FBI misused surveillance powers more than 280k times in a year</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/22/fbi_fisa_abuse/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brvsft</author><text>&gt; Why should an agency be allowed to spy on non-americans more anyway?<p>Non-Americans don&#x27;t have the same rights as Americans. They may also be looked at more in a more adversarial manner.<p>I&#x27;m not suggesting this is right, just what I&#x27;d guess the logic is.</text></item><item><author>Gasp0de</author><text>I have not thought this through, but it seems like that is what you get for implementing such a law in the first place? Why should an agency be allowed to spy on non-americans more anyway?<p>If they have a good reason, they can spy, and they can get a warrant for it. If they don&#x27;t have a reason, they shouldn&#x27;t be able to search anything, American citizen or not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>argiopetech</author><text>Constitutionally, I believe this is largely untrue. Non-citizens can&#x27;t vote or hold federal office, but are otherwise granted the privileges assigned to all people by the remainder of the US Constitution. This likely (IANAL) only applies within the bounds of US borders&#x2F;territories&#x2F;holdings, but that&#x27;s where the FBI should only be operating, IMHO.<p>The exceptions written to this by Congress (FISA, USA PATRIOT, etc.) are unconstitutional and should be struck down.</text></comment> |
988,925 | 988,606 | 1 | 2 | 988,218 | train | <story><title>Dygraphs: Better Time Series Graphs</title><url>http://www.danvk.org/dygraphs/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rjurney</author><text>Very impressive. Drop kicking my flash charts in the next release. Between Dygraph, High Charts and Cartographer.js there's no reason to use Flash: <a href="http://bit.ly/8Yksg4" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/8Yksg4</a> <a href="http://bit.ly/8kAgAu" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/8kAgAu</a> <a href="http://bit.ly/2quRUs" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/2quRUs</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Dygraphs: Better Time Series Graphs</title><url>http://www.danvk.org/dygraphs/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>audionerd</author><text>I love this landing page. Excellent marketing for an open source project. Demos and documentation right up front. Lots of information on the home page, but it all loads quickly, easy to scan.</text></comment> |
25,456,560 | 25,456,510 | 1 | 3 | 25,455,314 | train | <story><title>Zstandard v1.4.7</title><url>https://github.com/facebook/zstd/releases/tag/v1.4.7</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rwmj</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;facebook&#x2F;zstd&#x2F;issues&#x2F;395#issuecomment-535875379" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;facebook&#x2F;zstd&#x2F;issues&#x2F;395#issuecomment-535...</a><p>If anyone from Facebook is reading, please look at making zstd seekable. There is already experimental support but it needs to be standardized. This could open up really interesting new use-cases [see my comment linked above], where currently we have to use much slower xz&#x2F;lzma instead.</text></comment> | <story><title>Zstandard v1.4.7</title><url>https://github.com/facebook/zstd/releases/tag/v1.4.7</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kieckerjan</author><text>Zstandard is great indeed. Performance is excellent, but in my experience its killer feature is the user definable dictionary. My search engine software stores its documents in an archive to which I need random access. Lots of small documents, random access: bad for compression. Use of zstd with a tuned dictionary improved compression fivefold(!) when compared to the older zlib solution.</text></comment> |
18,885,209 | 18,884,983 | 1 | 2 | 18,879,681 | train | <story><title>AT&T says it’ll stop selling location data amid calls for federal investigation</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/01/10/phone-companies-are-selling-your-location-data-now-some-lawmakers-want-federal-investigation/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>En_gr_Student</author><text>They are lying.<p>The only winning strategy is if the FBI does investigate, and if there is an actual penalty. Nothing less will impact the long term behavior of AT&amp;T or any other cell company.<p>Seriously, it is game theory. They are saying &quot;we will stop&quot; because of the presence of the threat. If the threat goes away, then they are going to keep making money&#x2F;selling you until the threat comes back. Like the boy crying wolf, the villagers (fbi) takes longer to build momentum for the second event than for the first.<p>The organization is the least common denominator, so its moral capacity is the worst of a 5 year old child. Like raising&#x2F;disciplining a child, the only way to change their negative behavior is to add an expected penalty to the behavior that is larger than the expected gain, so the risk-reward evaluation they make says &quot;don&#x27;t do it&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>usefulcat</author><text>Surely their offer to stop is strong evidence that an investigation is warranted..</text></comment> | <story><title>AT&T says it’ll stop selling location data amid calls for federal investigation</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/01/10/phone-companies-are-selling-your-location-data-now-some-lawmakers-want-federal-investigation/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>En_gr_Student</author><text>They are lying.<p>The only winning strategy is if the FBI does investigate, and if there is an actual penalty. Nothing less will impact the long term behavior of AT&amp;T or any other cell company.<p>Seriously, it is game theory. They are saying &quot;we will stop&quot; because of the presence of the threat. If the threat goes away, then they are going to keep making money&#x2F;selling you until the threat comes back. Like the boy crying wolf, the villagers (fbi) takes longer to build momentum for the second event than for the first.<p>The organization is the least common denominator, so its moral capacity is the worst of a 5 year old child. Like raising&#x2F;disciplining a child, the only way to change their negative behavior is to add an expected penalty to the behavior that is larger than the expected gain, so the risk-reward evaluation they make says &quot;don&#x27;t do it&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wilkystyle</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure even a penalty will be enough, given how most of them end up being a slap on the wrist that is easily affordable.</text></comment> |
41,649,588 | 41,648,956 | 1 | 2 | 41,648,711 | train | <story><title>Capstone Disassembler Framework</title><url>https://github.com/capstone-engine/capstone</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>woodruffw</author><text>Capstone supports an impressive breadth of architectures. However, if all you need is x86&#x2F;AMD64 decoding and disassembly, there are much higher quality (in terms of accurate decoding) libraries out there.<p>I wrote a differential fuzzer for x86 decoders a few years ago, and XED and Zydis generally performed far better (in terms of accuracy) than Capstone[1]. And on the Rust side, yaxpeax and iced-x86 perform very admirably.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.trailofbits.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;10&#x2F;31&#x2F;destroying-x86_64-instruction-decoders-with-differential-fuzzing&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.trailofbits.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;10&#x2F;31&#x2F;destroying-x86_64-in...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Capstone Disassembler Framework</title><url>https://github.com/capstone-engine/capstone</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jstrieb</author><text>Capstone is very useful!<p>Someone (not me) has also cross-compiled Capstone to WebAssembly so it can be used in client-side browser applications.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;alexaltea.github.io&#x2F;capstone.js&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;alexaltea.github.io&#x2F;capstone.js&#x2F;</a><p>I&#x27;ve used this in a couple of projects to support disassembly in static web apps with no back end.</text></comment> |
9,426,144 | 9,426,102 | 1 | 3 | 9,425,317 | train | <story><title>OSv, a new operating system for the cloud</title><url>https://github.com/cloudius-systems/osv</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bcg1</author><text>This is definitely a developing trend... seems to be catching on that most server applications are more or less single programs that just use the OS as an emulation layer so that applications don&#x27;t need to come with their own low level drivers. Quite overkill if you&#x27;re just trying to run java, node, ruby, whatever<p>We&#x27;re probably not too far off from java-as-the-os, node-as-the-os, etc. Substituting a hypervisor for Linux or whatever other OS you&#x27;re using as the emulation layer seems to the be the architecture of choice for this type of work right now... I guess because you&#x27;d just have to implement a handful of drivers... in addition to other OS bits like scheduling and memory of course, but I suspect those things are fairly straightforward for many applications especially if you can assume that there are no other &quot;processes&quot; running... essentially those just become implementation details of the application that can be swapped in and out like any other library&#x2F;framework<p>The term I&#x27;ve seen for this sort of architecture is a &quot;unikernel&quot;<p>This OSv project looks nice, definitely something to keep on the radar</text></comment> | <story><title>OSv, a new operating system for the cloud</title><url>https://github.com/cloudius-systems/osv</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fasteo</author><text>This is interesting. They are also claiming that unmodified Redis and memcached instances run x2 faster on OSv [1]. Furthermore, a modified version of memcached, using their OSv network APIs [2] runs x4 faster.<p>Note also that they are launching a drop-in memcached replacement software appliance [3]<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;osv.io&#x2F;benchmarks&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;osv.io&#x2F;benchmarks&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;osv.io&#x2F;nfv&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;osv.io&#x2F;nfv&#x2F;</a><p>[3] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;osv.io&#x2F;flashcache&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;osv.io&#x2F;flashcache&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
39,371,047 | 39,370,941 | 1 | 3 | 39,370,235 | train | <story><title>Your AI Girlfriend Is a Data-Harvesting Horror Show</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/your-ai-girlfriend-is-a-data-harvesting-horror-show-1851253284</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skocznymroczny</author><text>Emphasis on &quot;your&quot;. My AI girlfriends are running locally on my GPU and don&#x27;t require internet access to function.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>solardev</author><text>&gt; don&#x27;t require internet access to function<p>I can&#x27;t even say that about my real girlfriend. Take away the internet for a few hours and see what happens...</text></comment> | <story><title>Your AI Girlfriend Is a Data-Harvesting Horror Show</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/your-ai-girlfriend-is-a-data-harvesting-horror-show-1851253284</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skocznymroczny</author><text>Emphasis on &quot;your&quot;. My AI girlfriends are running locally on my GPU and don&#x27;t require internet access to function.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>steelframe</author><text>&gt; My AI girlfriends are running locally on my GPU<p>The future is amazing.</text></comment> |
27,988,189 | 27,985,036 | 1 | 3 | 27,982,991 | train | <story><title>France issues moratorium on prion research after fatal brain disease strikes</title><url>https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/07/france-issues-moratorium-prion-research-after-fatal-brain-disease-strikes-two-lab</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dekhn</author><text>Prions are weird. I was at UCSF during the time they went from a fringe theory to an established fact and a nobel prize. The professor who studied them (Prusiner) had to overcome tons of resistance and the experiments were heroic (often waiting months for mice to die). It&#x27;s really funny that everybody resisted it until somebody mentioned that there was a plausible physical mechanism of refolding catalysis.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andrewflnr</author><text>&gt; everybody resisted it until somebody mentioned that there was a plausible physical mechanism<p>This is a good instinct IMO. Experiments by one person can easily be nonsense, especially if you don&#x27;t already know and trust that person. Without a physical mechanism, given extraordinary results, I would certainly remain skeptical.</text></comment> | <story><title>France issues moratorium on prion research after fatal brain disease strikes</title><url>https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/07/france-issues-moratorium-prion-research-after-fatal-brain-disease-strikes-two-lab</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dekhn</author><text>Prions are weird. I was at UCSF during the time they went from a fringe theory to an established fact and a nobel prize. The professor who studied them (Prusiner) had to overcome tons of resistance and the experiments were heroic (often waiting months for mice to die). It&#x27;s really funny that everybody resisted it until somebody mentioned that there was a plausible physical mechanism of refolding catalysis.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>varispeed</author><text>Is it because many researchers put their ego first over the science?
It&#x27;s so many times that they ridicule ideas, that often amounts to bullying and then they rarely even say sorry when it turns out they were wrong.
Why won&#x27;t academia flush out these types of people?
The toxic atmosphere with no way of getting rid of bad apples is what put me off from studying.</text></comment> |
32,626,784 | 32,623,387 | 1 | 3 | 32,604,322 | train | <story><title>The UNIX Programming Environment (1984)</title><url>https://archive.org/details/UnixProgrammingEnviornment</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mgaunard</author><text>Any software engineer should have written a filesystem during their bachelor&#x27;s degree, and should be well familiar with the concept of inodes.</text></item><item><author>theonemind</author><text>You have to read this so that when inodes come up at your sysadmin&#x2F;devops social gathering&#x27;s scintillating conversation you don&#x27;t have to run to the bathroom and google it on your phone and try muddle your way through without your face turning red.<p>(inodes just strike me as one of those weird little things like SQL, except for much smaller&#x2F;easier to learn--just something critical, always there, and for some reason, not understood by a lot of sysad&#x2F;devops types. I forgot the detail until rereading this book recently. I imagine you can expect the details to vary widely on modern filesystems, but ext4 (descending from and backwards compatible with ole ext2) probably has the concept, and BSD&#x27;s ffs&#x2F;ufs, and the idea probably gives you some hazy idea of this general area of the world for a lot of filesystems<p>I also find the treatment of some old topics kind of illuminating, like the stty command when I do obscure stuff like use serial terminals or try to use a text buffer as a tty--interesting that you can still tell the kernel &quot;hey, do this dirty hack for my terminal when handling characters and things. Thanks.&quot;)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ElCheapo</author><text>I agree. Also every software engineer should have written a compiler, a scheduler, a device driver, a small kernel, an IEEE compliant floating point library and a 3D raytracer in their free time between 30 courses by the time they have completed their degree! &#x2F;s<p>Writing a filesystem from scratch is something I would expect from a full 5 years degree entirely dedicated to operating systems, not a generic SWE curriculum</text></comment> | <story><title>The UNIX Programming Environment (1984)</title><url>https://archive.org/details/UnixProgrammingEnviornment</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mgaunard</author><text>Any software engineer should have written a filesystem during their bachelor&#x27;s degree, and should be well familiar with the concept of inodes.</text></item><item><author>theonemind</author><text>You have to read this so that when inodes come up at your sysadmin&#x2F;devops social gathering&#x27;s scintillating conversation you don&#x27;t have to run to the bathroom and google it on your phone and try muddle your way through without your face turning red.<p>(inodes just strike me as one of those weird little things like SQL, except for much smaller&#x2F;easier to learn--just something critical, always there, and for some reason, not understood by a lot of sysad&#x2F;devops types. I forgot the detail until rereading this book recently. I imagine you can expect the details to vary widely on modern filesystems, but ext4 (descending from and backwards compatible with ole ext2) probably has the concept, and BSD&#x27;s ffs&#x2F;ufs, and the idea probably gives you some hazy idea of this general area of the world for a lot of filesystems<p>I also find the treatment of some old topics kind of illuminating, like the stty command when I do obscure stuff like use serial terminals or try to use a text buffer as a tty--interesting that you can still tell the kernel &quot;hey, do this dirty hack for my terminal when handling characters and things. Thanks.&quot;)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>userbinator</author><text>Not every filesystem has the concept of inodes. The FAT family, for example, or ISO 9660.</text></comment> |
24,002,483 | 24,002,178 | 1 | 2 | 23,999,542 | train | <story><title>Apple halved app store fee to get Amazon Prime video on devices</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-29/apple-considered-taking-40-cut-from-subscriptions-emails-show</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thephyber</author><text>Yes, but it&#x27;s relevant because Steve Jobs seemed to claim otherwise in his testimony yesterday:<p>&gt; During a hearing before the House antitrust subcommittee on Wednesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook testified that “we apply the rules to all developers evenly” when it comes to the App Store. But documents revealed by the subcommittee’s investigation show Apple senior vice president Eddy Cue offered Amazon a unique deal in 2016: Apple would only take a 15 percent fee on subscriptions that signed up through the app, compared to the standard 30 percent that most developers must hand over.[1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;7&#x2F;30&#x2F;21348108&#x2F;apple-amazon-prime-video-app-store-special-treatment-fee-subscriptions" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;7&#x2F;30&#x2F;21348108&#x2F;apple-amazon-pri...</a></text></item><item><author>CubsFan1060</author><text>Isn&#x27;t this pretty average business? Amazon (and the others) are bringing more business and get a discount.<p>AWS does this. So does monoprice (volume pricing). My local landscaping place does this (contractors buying more tons of rock get a better price). Home depot has &quot;contractor pricing&quot; when you buy multiples of things.</text></item><item><author>taylorhou</author><text>interesting how bigger players are able to negotiate discounts&#x2F;preference when arguably they are more suited to not need the discount - whereas 15% could be the difference between bankruptcy and breakeven or ramen profitability for a small startup&#x2F;business.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sah2ed</author><text>&gt; <i>Yes, but it&#x27;s relevant because Steve Jobs seemed to claim otherwise in his testimony yesterday:</i><p>You have a unfortunate typo in your first sentence (since your excerpted text mentions the correct person: Tim Cook).</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple halved app store fee to get Amazon Prime video on devices</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-29/apple-considered-taking-40-cut-from-subscriptions-emails-show</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thephyber</author><text>Yes, but it&#x27;s relevant because Steve Jobs seemed to claim otherwise in his testimony yesterday:<p>&gt; During a hearing before the House antitrust subcommittee on Wednesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook testified that “we apply the rules to all developers evenly” when it comes to the App Store. But documents revealed by the subcommittee’s investigation show Apple senior vice president Eddy Cue offered Amazon a unique deal in 2016: Apple would only take a 15 percent fee on subscriptions that signed up through the app, compared to the standard 30 percent that most developers must hand over.[1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;7&#x2F;30&#x2F;21348108&#x2F;apple-amazon-prime-video-app-store-special-treatment-fee-subscriptions" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;7&#x2F;30&#x2F;21348108&#x2F;apple-amazon-pri...</a></text></item><item><author>CubsFan1060</author><text>Isn&#x27;t this pretty average business? Amazon (and the others) are bringing more business and get a discount.<p>AWS does this. So does monoprice (volume pricing). My local landscaping place does this (contractors buying more tons of rock get a better price). Home depot has &quot;contractor pricing&quot; when you buy multiples of things.</text></item><item><author>taylorhou</author><text>interesting how bigger players are able to negotiate discounts&#x2F;preference when arguably they are more suited to not need the discount - whereas 15% could be the difference between bankruptcy and breakeven or ramen profitability for a small startup&#x2F;business.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philwelch</author><text>Steve Jobs passed away nine years ago.</text></comment> |
20,702,552 | 20,701,598 | 1 | 3 | 20,698,985 | train | <story><title>Scientists reverse aging process in rat brain stem cells</title><url>https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-08-scientists-reverse-aging-rat-brain.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dr_coffee</author><text>The cell&#x27;s ability to mechanically sense it&#x27;s surroundings is fascinating. There is an old paper from 2006 in Cell that was similar to this study in that it showed onencould direct stem cell differentiation down different lineages purely by growing the cells on different stiffness substrates. Definitely worth a read of you are interested in this topic:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;m&#x2F;pubmed&#x2F;16923388&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;m&#x2F;pubmed&#x2F;16923388&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Scientists reverse aging process in rat brain stem cells</title><url>https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-08-scientists-reverse-aging-rat-brain.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ilaksh</author><text>Did they reverse the aging process, or just trick the cells into thinking they were in a less stiff environment?<p>Does disabling Piezo1 have any side effects? I am guessing there is a reason for it. Might be more applicable in severe MS than aging.</text></comment> |
21,941,144 | 21,940,404 | 1 | 3 | 21,939,634 | train | <story><title>Psilocybin found safe for consumption in largest ever controlled study</title><url>https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/magic-mushroom-depression-psilocybin-trials-kcl-mental-health-addiction-a9251451.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vmchale</author><text>I don&#x27;t think Psilocybin mushrooms or LSD are used as a club drug.</text></item><item><author>kasperni</author><text>Now that mainstream club drugs such as MDMA, Ketamine, and LSD&#x2F;Magic Mushrooms are finding their way into therapeutic usage. I&#x27;m wondering if and how governments will change the
current narrative about &quot;all drugs are bad for you&quot;.<p>Edit: I&#x27;m not advocating recreational drug usage. Just saying, that if mum is on magic mushrooms and studies like these have established safety dosage and clear therapeutic benefits. You can&#x27;t really tell your teenager that they are going to go crazy if they try some.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scarejunba</author><text>They&#x27;re a party drug for sure. LSD is great for festivals, and though I&#x27;ve never done shrooms, I know my friends have gone to shows on them.<p>In fact, I&#x27;d say LSD is used more as a party drug than it is used for anything else.</text></comment> | <story><title>Psilocybin found safe for consumption in largest ever controlled study</title><url>https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/magic-mushroom-depression-psilocybin-trials-kcl-mental-health-addiction-a9251451.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vmchale</author><text>I don&#x27;t think Psilocybin mushrooms or LSD are used as a club drug.</text></item><item><author>kasperni</author><text>Now that mainstream club drugs such as MDMA, Ketamine, and LSD&#x2F;Magic Mushrooms are finding their way into therapeutic usage. I&#x27;m wondering if and how governments will change the
current narrative about &quot;all drugs are bad for you&quot;.<p>Edit: I&#x27;m not advocating recreational drug usage. Just saying, that if mum is on magic mushrooms and studies like these have established safety dosage and clear therapeutic benefits. You can&#x27;t really tell your teenager that they are going to go crazy if they try some.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>robertfw</author><text>Perhaps not club, but most definitely festival</text></comment> |
27,264,420 | 27,264,347 | 1 | 2 | 27,252,899 | train | <story><title>Counterexamples in Type Systems</title><url>https://counterexamples.org/intro.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>duped</author><text>The notation is an insurmountable barrier to many.</text></item><item><author>siraben</author><text>I study type systems and programming language theory at university, and I encourage friends studying CS to at least have some understanding of type theory, such as well-known type systems (simply-typed, System F) and properties like soundness or uniqueness of typing. Why? Because as programmers we argue to death comparing the expressiveness and properties of type systems of our favorite programming languages, or we&#x27;re picking up a language with features like traits or type inference. Type theory really lets you learn the heart of such features in a small, idealistic setting and specifies things rigorously and uniformly, (since languages tend to come up with their own names and examples for things like ad-hoc polymorphism, AKA typeclasses&#x2F;traits&#x2F;protocols&#x2F;concepts), and they appear no matter the paradigm.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>siraben</author><text>Many introductory texts, such as Types and Programming Languages explain the notation thoroughly and start <i>really</i> simple, even starting from the inference rule notation, then talking about reduction of untyped arithmetic expressions, building up to the standard notation type theory.</text></comment> | <story><title>Counterexamples in Type Systems</title><url>https://counterexamples.org/intro.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>duped</author><text>The notation is an insurmountable barrier to many.</text></item><item><author>siraben</author><text>I study type systems and programming language theory at university, and I encourage friends studying CS to at least have some understanding of type theory, such as well-known type systems (simply-typed, System F) and properties like soundness or uniqueness of typing. Why? Because as programmers we argue to death comparing the expressiveness and properties of type systems of our favorite programming languages, or we&#x27;re picking up a language with features like traits or type inference. Type theory really lets you learn the heart of such features in a small, idealistic setting and specifies things rigorously and uniformly, (since languages tend to come up with their own names and examples for things like ad-hoc polymorphism, AKA typeclasses&#x2F;traits&#x2F;protocols&#x2F;concepts), and they appear no matter the paradigm.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>steego</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting how calling it insurmountable both panders to and insults the people you&#x27;re talking about.<p>Maybe a better way to describe the notation is &quot;off-putting&quot;?</text></comment> |
15,023,345 | 15,023,283 | 1 | 3 | 15,021,427 | train | <story><title>Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo</title><url>https://blog.ycombinator.com/ask-a-female-engineer-thoughts-on-the-google-memo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>camgunz</author><text>&gt; We should be able to talk about his arguments honestly and rationally without falling back on gendered reasons at this point at least.<p>We are and lots of people are doing so, but another point made in this post is that the workplace isn&#x27;t the venue for this.</text></item><item><author>nicolashahn</author><text>I&#x27;m not talking about a woman having to prove her technical ability to her male coworkers at work because of their prejudices. I know that that&#x27;s bullshit and I&#x27;m sorry they have to do so.<p>I&#x27;m talking about handling what Damore claimed in an intellectually honest way. You can&#x27;t dismiss his points just because you&#x27;re tired of talking about them (or what you think are the same points you&#x27;ve always been talking about, but I think Damore&#x27;s comments on each gender&#x27;s preference and pressures for picking careers had something worth discussing). What he said had at least some spark of originality and insight, otherwise it wouldn&#x27;t have gotten nearly the attention it did. Consider, would we be talking about the memo if it were about how he thought Sundar Pichai was a lizard man?<p>Those who disagreed with Damore already won the battle. They kicked him out of Google and doubled down on their diversity initiatives&#x2F;echo chamber. We should be able to talk about his arguments honestly and rationally without falling back on gendered reasons at this point at least.</text></item><item><author>Blackthorn</author><text>&gt; Then the correct way to handle it is to drop another refutational evidence bomb attacking his primary points instead of picking the low hanging fruit of claiming it&#x27;s &quot;too confrontational,&quot; &quot;poorly written,&quot; &quot;naive,&quot; or whatever other secondary problems exist (this is aside from wilfully misrepresenting his claims, which is definitely a bigger problem).<p>This was addressed in the article. This burden has fallen on women since they were teenagers. To expect them to do it yet again, to have to defend themselves at work this time, is ridiculous.</text></item><item><author>nicolashahn</author><text>Then the correct way to handle it is to drop another refutational evidence bomb attacking his primary points instead of picking the low hanging fruit of claiming it&#x27;s &quot;too confrontational,&quot; &quot;poorly written,&quot; &quot;naive,&quot; or whatever other secondary problems exist (this is aside from wilfully misrepresenting his claims, which is definitely a bigger problem). Plenty of far more aggressive articles and essays have been written from the opposite side that have not been criticized in the same way.<p>And for the record, I did not get any aggressive tone from his paper. I thought he was as polite as he needed to be and made the necessary caveats. I think many people were just so unprepared to hear any argument from an opposing viewpoint that they read into it what they wanted to.</text></item><item><author>ryanbrunner</author><text>I think one thing that struck me from the linked article was the point that the memo wasn&#x27;t structured to invite discussion. It wasn&#x27;t &quot;let&#x27;s have a chat&quot;, it was &quot;here&#x27;s an evidence bomb of how you&#x27;re all wrong&quot;.<p>I think advancing points is fine, but if you&#x27;re after productive discussion rather than an adversarial debate, you need to proactively invite discussion. And if an adversarial debate was what he was after, that does strike me as inappropriate work communication.</text></item><item><author>hedgew</author><text>Many of the more reasonable criticisms of the memo say that it wasn&#x27;t written well enough; it could&#x27;ve been more considerate, it should have used better language, or better presentation. In this particular link, Scott Alexander is used as an example of better writing, and he certainly is one of the best and most persuasive modern writers I&#x27;ve found. However, I can not imagine ever matching his talent and output, even if I practiced for years to try and catch up.<p>I do not think that anyone&#x27;s ability to write should disbar them from discussion. We can not expect perfection from others. Instead we should try to understand them as human beings, and interpret them with generosity and kindness.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nicolashahn</author><text>I&#x27;m still making up my mind on this one, but for the sake of argument, I&#x27;ll disagree with you.<p>The workplace <i>was</i> the venue for this, because &#x27;this&#x27; was evidence was that Google(his workplace)&#x27;s diversity initiatives and censorship were harming the company. He attempted to go through the proper channels (HR) as discussed in another part of the comment section for this very article.<p>Completely ignored by HR, and after some watercooler discussion in which he received confirmation that he was not the only one to have such thoughts, he decided to organize his thoughts into a memo, which from his perspective, introduced ideas that could explain the gender employment gap at Google and help make the company better by erasing the notion of being a &#x27;diversity hire&#x27; among other things.<p>What it did <i>not</i> do was claim that his female coworkers were inferior. I feel the need to reiterate that because that seems to be the disinformation that many take home with them and use for their arguments against him. With it, they vilified and ousted him.<p>Going back and reading it now, it&#x27;s hard to believe such a seemingly harmless claim (women aren&#x27;t as well represented in tech because they&#x27;re not as interested in it) has created such outrage. I blame this mainly on Gizmodo, and those who piggybacked their original article (that blatantly lied about what he wrote and presented his memo which they had quietly edited). Some credit also needs to go to whoever leaked the memo, which Damore probably did not mean to leave the relatively small group of people he originally introduced it to, at least at that point in time.<p>Really, what he presented and how he presented it were not very controversial. It easily could have been addressed internally by HR, or discussed within the company by its employees without the dishonesty and witch hunting. My point is, what he presented should have been acceptable in the way he did it especially given Google&#x27;s claims of free speech and the historical precedent of memos like these, but dishonesty and close-mindedness distorted it until it looked like he was calling for repealing women&#x27;s suffrage.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo</title><url>https://blog.ycombinator.com/ask-a-female-engineer-thoughts-on-the-google-memo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>camgunz</author><text>&gt; We should be able to talk about his arguments honestly and rationally without falling back on gendered reasons at this point at least.<p>We are and lots of people are doing so, but another point made in this post is that the workplace isn&#x27;t the venue for this.</text></item><item><author>nicolashahn</author><text>I&#x27;m not talking about a woman having to prove her technical ability to her male coworkers at work because of their prejudices. I know that that&#x27;s bullshit and I&#x27;m sorry they have to do so.<p>I&#x27;m talking about handling what Damore claimed in an intellectually honest way. You can&#x27;t dismiss his points just because you&#x27;re tired of talking about them (or what you think are the same points you&#x27;ve always been talking about, but I think Damore&#x27;s comments on each gender&#x27;s preference and pressures for picking careers had something worth discussing). What he said had at least some spark of originality and insight, otherwise it wouldn&#x27;t have gotten nearly the attention it did. Consider, would we be talking about the memo if it were about how he thought Sundar Pichai was a lizard man?<p>Those who disagreed with Damore already won the battle. They kicked him out of Google and doubled down on their diversity initiatives&#x2F;echo chamber. We should be able to talk about his arguments honestly and rationally without falling back on gendered reasons at this point at least.</text></item><item><author>Blackthorn</author><text>&gt; Then the correct way to handle it is to drop another refutational evidence bomb attacking his primary points instead of picking the low hanging fruit of claiming it&#x27;s &quot;too confrontational,&quot; &quot;poorly written,&quot; &quot;naive,&quot; or whatever other secondary problems exist (this is aside from wilfully misrepresenting his claims, which is definitely a bigger problem).<p>This was addressed in the article. This burden has fallen on women since they were teenagers. To expect them to do it yet again, to have to defend themselves at work this time, is ridiculous.</text></item><item><author>nicolashahn</author><text>Then the correct way to handle it is to drop another refutational evidence bomb attacking his primary points instead of picking the low hanging fruit of claiming it&#x27;s &quot;too confrontational,&quot; &quot;poorly written,&quot; &quot;naive,&quot; or whatever other secondary problems exist (this is aside from wilfully misrepresenting his claims, which is definitely a bigger problem). Plenty of far more aggressive articles and essays have been written from the opposite side that have not been criticized in the same way.<p>And for the record, I did not get any aggressive tone from his paper. I thought he was as polite as he needed to be and made the necessary caveats. I think many people were just so unprepared to hear any argument from an opposing viewpoint that they read into it what they wanted to.</text></item><item><author>ryanbrunner</author><text>I think one thing that struck me from the linked article was the point that the memo wasn&#x27;t structured to invite discussion. It wasn&#x27;t &quot;let&#x27;s have a chat&quot;, it was &quot;here&#x27;s an evidence bomb of how you&#x27;re all wrong&quot;.<p>I think advancing points is fine, but if you&#x27;re after productive discussion rather than an adversarial debate, you need to proactively invite discussion. And if an adversarial debate was what he was after, that does strike me as inappropriate work communication.</text></item><item><author>hedgew</author><text>Many of the more reasonable criticisms of the memo say that it wasn&#x27;t written well enough; it could&#x27;ve been more considerate, it should have used better language, or better presentation. In this particular link, Scott Alexander is used as an example of better writing, and he certainly is one of the best and most persuasive modern writers I&#x27;ve found. However, I can not imagine ever matching his talent and output, even if I practiced for years to try and catch up.<p>I do not think that anyone&#x27;s ability to write should disbar them from discussion. We can not expect perfection from others. Instead we should try to understand them as human beings, and interpret them with generosity and kindness.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>humanrebar</author><text>Shouldn&#x27;t employers abstain from controversial subjects as well, then? It seems one sided to hold employees to that standard but not the corporations and bosses they work for.</text></comment> |
7,645,620 | 7,645,623 | 1 | 2 | 7,645,044 | train | <story><title>RadiumOne CEO escapes felony charges</title><url>http://www.siliconrepublic.com/business/item/36623-radiumone-ceo-escapes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>downandout</author><text>It&#x27;s a little ironic that Brendan Eich had to step down over a $1,000 donation to a political cause nearly a decade ago, but the Valley so far has no problem with &quot;G&quot; hitting a woman 117 times in 30 minutes on video (after which he tried to smother her with a pillow). If he indeed suffers no significant professional fallout from what he did - and as of this moment there are no signs that he will - then the Valley is truly a disturbing place with priorities that are completely out of sync with the rest of humanity.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>swombat</author><text>It&#x27;s not ironic, it&#x27;s infuriating...<p>But the best way I&#x27;ve heard it explained is that everyone knows and cares about Mozilla and Github, and no one knows RadiumOne.<p>I tweeted John Gruber suggesting he might link to this, and he (rightly, I guess) pointed out that he had no idea who this guy is. And that will be most people&#x27;s reaction, I guess.</text></comment> | <story><title>RadiumOne CEO escapes felony charges</title><url>http://www.siliconrepublic.com/business/item/36623-radiumone-ceo-escapes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>downandout</author><text>It&#x27;s a little ironic that Brendan Eich had to step down over a $1,000 donation to a political cause nearly a decade ago, but the Valley so far has no problem with &quot;G&quot; hitting a woman 117 times in 30 minutes on video (after which he tried to smother her with a pillow). If he indeed suffers no significant professional fallout from what he did - and as of this moment there are no signs that he will - then the Valley is truly a disturbing place with priorities that are completely out of sync with the rest of humanity.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lholden</author><text>I think what he did is absolutely disgusting and am rather upset that he isn&#x27;t going to be rotting in jail. But honestly I&#x27;ve also never heard of him or his company until this article. On the other hand, I have known of and have had a vested interested in Mozilla for as long as it has existed.<p>I&#x27;m guessing most folks are in the same situation as myself.<p>His company is private. The most anyone can do is to not do business with him. I think it&#x27;s absolutely fucked up that he isn&#x27;t going to prison... but what do you expect people to do? I doubt anyone is going to defend his actions. I don&#x27;t see how your comparison with Mozilla makes any sense.</text></comment> |
38,695,508 | 38,693,086 | 1 | 2 | 38,690,060 | train | <story><title>Google's True Moonshot</title><url>https://stratechery.com/2023/googles-true-moonshot/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>The one part of this thesis that I pretty strongly disagree with is the idea that people would <i>prefer</i> to have long, meandering voice conversations with an AI, compared to text.<p>Just look at anyone under the age of 25 (35 maybe?) They can easily have long, meandering conversations with <i>actual</i> humans using voice, yet I see them go for text 9 times out of ten. As someone on the backside of middle age, I often find it pretty baffling. I like the succinctness of text when I need to send a quick update or ask a short question, but I normally always call someone for an in-depth conversation. But I&#x27;ll see my nieces text back and forth with friends for literally hours, sometimes getting emotionally worked up, and I&#x27;m thinking &quot;OMG, just pick up the phone to your ear and just <i>talk</i> to them.&quot;<p>But I think the reason people prefer texting is the same reason most people still prefer typing, despite tech that, these days, could easily transcribe with great accuracy. At least for me, typing frees up my brain to actually move <i>faster</i>. When typing, I can think about the next phrase or sentence. When talking, I find it much more difficult to &quot;think ahead&quot;, so to speak.<p>So I&#x27;m really skeptical that voice interfaces will be &quot;the wave of the future&quot;. Sure, I use OK Google a lot, but basically for the same sets of commands as everyone else (What&#x27;s the weather? Set my alarm. What&#x27;s next on my calendar? Etc. etc.) Occasionally I&#x27;ll ask it &quot;search-like&quot; questions. Perhaps I suffer from a dearth of imagination, but I just have a hard time believing long voice conversations with a machine are something most folks would want.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>satyrnein</author><text>Some potential &quot;costs&quot; of voice&#x2F;video: it&#x27;s (often) exclusive to one person, it&#x27;s immediate, and it&#x27;s easy to expose your own emotional state. In an emotionally fraught, developing situation, perhaps your nieces want to take it slow, check what their friends think, not let on that they&#x27;re upset, etc.<p>This is all just speculation, I&#x27;m not really a texter, but I do find it interesting when limitations might turn out to be features.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google's True Moonshot</title><url>https://stratechery.com/2023/googles-true-moonshot/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>The one part of this thesis that I pretty strongly disagree with is the idea that people would <i>prefer</i> to have long, meandering voice conversations with an AI, compared to text.<p>Just look at anyone under the age of 25 (35 maybe?) They can easily have long, meandering conversations with <i>actual</i> humans using voice, yet I see them go for text 9 times out of ten. As someone on the backside of middle age, I often find it pretty baffling. I like the succinctness of text when I need to send a quick update or ask a short question, but I normally always call someone for an in-depth conversation. But I&#x27;ll see my nieces text back and forth with friends for literally hours, sometimes getting emotionally worked up, and I&#x27;m thinking &quot;OMG, just pick up the phone to your ear and just <i>talk</i> to them.&quot;<p>But I think the reason people prefer texting is the same reason most people still prefer typing, despite tech that, these days, could easily transcribe with great accuracy. At least for me, typing frees up my brain to actually move <i>faster</i>. When typing, I can think about the next phrase or sentence. When talking, I find it much more difficult to &quot;think ahead&quot;, so to speak.<p>So I&#x27;m really skeptical that voice interfaces will be &quot;the wave of the future&quot;. Sure, I use OK Google a lot, but basically for the same sets of commands as everyone else (What&#x27;s the weather? Set my alarm. What&#x27;s next on my calendar? Etc. etc.) Occasionally I&#x27;ll ask it &quot;search-like&quot; questions. Perhaps I suffer from a dearth of imagination, but I just have a hard time believing long voice conversations with a machine are something most folks would want.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spzb</author><text>Typing also has the advantage that several people doing it in the same room at the same time don’t interfere with each other. A train carriage full of people texting is considerably less annoying than the same carriage full of people chattering away with their voice assistants</text></comment> |
34,173,493 | 34,173,117 | 1 | 3 | 34,171,618 | train | <story><title>Revealed: Group shaping US nutrition receives millions from big food industry</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/dec/09/academy-nutrition-financial-ties-processed-food-companies-contributions</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>magic_hamster</author><text>The title might be overblown but I&#x27;ve come to fully expect every government agency is somehow influenced (to say the least) by some organization or another with an ulterior motive.<p>It appears this is just the way the system is set up. Everyone has something to gain from this influence (except the public of course). I&#x27;ve come to accept this as a fact of life and think for myself. Do my own research, consult professionals in matters that are important to me.</text></comment> | <story><title>Revealed: Group shaping US nutrition receives millions from big food industry</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/dec/09/academy-nutrition-financial-ties-processed-food-companies-contributions</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Overtonwindow</author><text>The Academy and nutrition and dietetics depend on dietitians renewing their Registered Dietitian credential. That&#x27;s how they make money.<p>In order to force the issue, the AND&#x27;s lobbyists have gone around the country and made it so that you are required to have a license in 14 states to talk with another individual about food and nutrition.<p>The AND made it so that in order to get that license you must be a registered dietitian, in other words, you must pay a private organization for the privilege to pay the government for a license to talk about food and nutrition.<p>It&#x27;s a classic government back monopoly that has no positive impact on society, other than protectionism of an outdated business model.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ij.org&#x2F;client&#x2F;heather-kokesch-del-castillo&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ij.org&#x2F;client&#x2F;heather-kokesch-del-castillo&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
36,472,935 | 36,472,877 | 1 | 2 | 36,472,370 | train | <story><title>A new study looks at how exercise can help alleviate anxiety and depression</title><url>https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/what_type_of_exercise_is_best_for_mental_health</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hinkley</author><text>I don’t know if this has changed for younger generations, but a lot of people, particularly those in intellectual pursuits, suffer to one degree or another from thinking of themselves as a brain being carried around as a meat sack.<p>We are learning more about mind body connections and this is very not true (the ways the vagus nerve can totally fuck with your mental state is terrifying, and there are people with dysfunctions that are five times worse).<p>Any exercise where you think about your body as “you” helps with the dysphoria, and being integrated helps with a whole lot of other things.<p>Especially for men, who are conditioned to not give themselves permission to have feelings and sensations affect their behavior (and then surprise! Are affected anyway, with zero attempts at healthy coping skills).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mudita</author><text>The thing that made me transition from a mindset of “I have a body” to “I am a body”, was actually Zen meditation. This was surprising to me. Before I tried it, I thought of meditation as a purely mental thing, I didn’t expect that the first really noticeable effect of regular meditation would be a changed relationship to my body,<p>Much later I discovered contemporary dance, quit my phd in machine learning and became a professional dancer, which really deepened my body awareness and transformed my relationship to being a body even more.<p>I remember, in the beginning of my dance career, after a three month dance intensive I applied to a (Haskell) programming job again to finance my dance education and went to a computer science conference. It was a bit of surreal experience. The people at the conference were very nice and intellectually curious people and I liked them, but the contrast to the environment in dance communities was very strong. I felt like almost everybody there thought of them-self as a brain, piloting a body like a big mecha. In the dance environments, even during lunch breaks etc., it always felt like there was a lot of subtle awareness in everybody about their own body, the other bodies in the space, the distances and empty space between bodies, a non-verbal channel full of quiet energy and information. In the computer science conference this channel was just dead.</text></comment> | <story><title>A new study looks at how exercise can help alleviate anxiety and depression</title><url>https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/what_type_of_exercise_is_best_for_mental_health</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hinkley</author><text>I don’t know if this has changed for younger generations, but a lot of people, particularly those in intellectual pursuits, suffer to one degree or another from thinking of themselves as a brain being carried around as a meat sack.<p>We are learning more about mind body connections and this is very not true (the ways the vagus nerve can totally fuck with your mental state is terrifying, and there are people with dysfunctions that are five times worse).<p>Any exercise where you think about your body as “you” helps with the dysphoria, and being integrated helps with a whole lot of other things.<p>Especially for men, who are conditioned to not give themselves permission to have feelings and sensations affect their behavior (and then surprise! Are affected anyway, with zero attempts at healthy coping skills).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>haswell</author><text>&gt; <i>suffer to one degree or another from thinking of themselves as a brain being carried around as a meat sack</i><p>This was me for most of my life.<p>Yoga has been life changing. Cultivating full body awareness and presence opened my eyes to states of being that I didn’t know I was capable of experiencing.<p>I can feel the subtle changes in strength each day, or a touch of soreness, or the exact spot that anxiety has settled into in my gut.<p>Gaining the level of focus needed brought with it a deeper and broader awareness of my emotional states, and the realization that I have some separation from them, i.e. they != me. This in turn helped me unwind some big things I’d been dealing with in therapy.<p>In retrospect, it makes so much sense to think of my body as an integral part of who I am and how I feel.<p>But that’s a mode of thinking that I was certainly never introduced to as a kid, and never experienced by default.</text></comment> |
30,198,788 | 30,197,844 | 1 | 3 | 30,191,669 | train | <story><title>What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00214-3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dopylitty</author><text>This is a really good article on the immune system.<p>One thing I can&#x27;t help but notice though is that it only barely skirts the fact that essentially no viral vaccine prevents infection, with the possible exception of the HPV vaccine.<p>The vast majority of the vaccines we currently use allow infection but give the body the ability to quickly respond to and end the infection before it leads to severe disease (eg paralysis in Polio or B-cell destruction in Measles). For slowly developing viruses you may see no symptoms at all because the body is able to clear the infection but for viruses like flu and Sars-CoV-2 that attack the respiratory system it&#x27;s much more difficult to prevent symptomatic disease.<p>Somehow there&#x27;s this idea that the Sars-CoV-2 vaccines need to prevent infection or symptomatic disease but that is an incredibly high bar that no respiratory viral vaccine has ever met.<p>The benefit of the vaccines is that they greatly reduce severe disease, almost eliminate death, and shorten the amount of time the virus has to reproduce so transmission and variant generation are also reduced.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lamontcg</author><text>&gt; This is a really good article on the immune system.<p>I still don&#x27;t particularly like it that much.<p>None of this should be all that new.<p>There were plenty of knowledgeable people saying all along that sterilizing nutralizing immunity in the mucosa was unlikely to be achievable for a vaccine against a respiratory virus that most commonly had no viremic phase, particularly as a shot given in the arm.<p>They were also saying that T-cells were the important thing to prevent disease and death and we shouldn&#x27;t be focusing on preventing infection.<p>Some other people who debated or disagreed with that perspective are now suddenly learning novel new things about the immune system. There&#x27;s a good chunk of experts out there that were saying this all along though (if you were listening to them and not the headlines and blogs and twitter).</text></comment> | <story><title>What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00214-3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dopylitty</author><text>This is a really good article on the immune system.<p>One thing I can&#x27;t help but notice though is that it only barely skirts the fact that essentially no viral vaccine prevents infection, with the possible exception of the HPV vaccine.<p>The vast majority of the vaccines we currently use allow infection but give the body the ability to quickly respond to and end the infection before it leads to severe disease (eg paralysis in Polio or B-cell destruction in Measles). For slowly developing viruses you may see no symptoms at all because the body is able to clear the infection but for viruses like flu and Sars-CoV-2 that attack the respiratory system it&#x27;s much more difficult to prevent symptomatic disease.<p>Somehow there&#x27;s this idea that the Sars-CoV-2 vaccines need to prevent infection or symptomatic disease but that is an incredibly high bar that no respiratory viral vaccine has ever met.<p>The benefit of the vaccines is that they greatly reduce severe disease, almost eliminate death, and shorten the amount of time the virus has to reproduce so transmission and variant generation are also reduced.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cloutchaser</author><text>I think we should thank whatever god that so far it seems we didn&#x27;t end up with a Marek&#x27;s disease type situation. I don&#x27;t know how much of a guarantee there was about this with covid, but if the vaccine would have promoted a much more aggressive virus we could have ended up in a situation where any unvaccinated human will basically die (this happens in chickens, see: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Marek%27s_disease" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Marek%27s_disease</a>).<p>I sincerely hope the people who devised this vaccine know what they are doing. As far as I know (according to a Katalin Kariko inteview), the Sars-Cov-2 spike protein can&#x27;t mutate too much without limiting it&#x27;s effectiveness, so therefore this vaccine should theoretically work in the future.<p>But that Marek&#x27;s disease issue is very very scary to me.</text></comment> |
26,325,719 | 26,325,231 | 1 | 2 | 26,323,966 | train | <story><title>Local PDF Tools – Powered by WebAssembly</title><url>https://localpdf.tech/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>svat</author><text>Last year I wrote a couple of similar &quot;local&quot; PDF tools that run in the browser with no network requests. Each is just a single HTML file that will work offline:<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shreevatsa.net&#x2F;pdf-pages&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shreevatsa.net&#x2F;pdf-pages&#x2F;</a> is for extracting pages, inserting blank pages, duplicating or reversing pages, etc.<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shreevatsa.net&#x2F;pdf-unspread&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shreevatsa.net&#x2F;pdf-unspread&#x2F;</a> is for splitting a PDF&#x27;s &quot;wide&quot; pages (consisting of two-page spreads) in the middle.<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shreevatsa.net&#x2F;mobius-print&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shreevatsa.net&#x2F;mobius-print&#x2F;</a> is the earliest of these, and written for a niche use-case: &quot;Möbius printing&quot; of pages, which is printing out an article&#x2F;paper two-sided in a really interesting order. (I&#x27;ve tried it and love it.)<p>These don&#x27;t use WebAssembly, but just use the excellent &quot;pdf-lib&quot; JS library. To keep the file self-contained, I put the whole minified source into a &lt;script&gt; tag at the bottom of the (otherwise hand-written) HTML file.</text></comment> | <story><title>Local PDF Tools – Powered by WebAssembly</title><url>https://localpdf.tech/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kickbeak</author><text>Hey, Thanks for Posting it here, i built this tool, hope you like it, feel free to look at my source and contribute. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jufabeck2202&#x2F;localpdfmerger" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jufabeck2202&#x2F;localpdfmerger</a></text></comment> |
40,908,621 | 40,908,106 | 1 | 3 | 40,905,891 | train | <story><title>Python Has Too Many Package Managers</title><url>https://dublog.net/blog/so-many-python-package-managers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lexicality</author><text>I do a lot of maintenance work and every time I&#x27;ve encountered a (complex) project set up in this way that&#x27;s older than ~6 months, it&#x27;s bitrotted from breaking changes in the dependencies.<p>The python ecosystem does not stand still and seems quite happy to introduce breaking changes in non-major versions.<p>To my mind, there are 3 ways to make sure your python project of today will work in 2 years time:<p><pre><code> 1. Have no dependencies
2. Destroy your virtual environment and reinstall it every day for the next 2 years and fix anything that breaks
3. Freeze your entire dependency tree where it stands and occasionally do large breaking change updates
</code></pre>
All 3 options suck but #3 is the least worst</text></item><item><author>slt2021</author><text>I see a lot of package managers I never head of, am a happy venv &amp; pip user.<p><pre><code> One of the key faults of pip is what happens when you decide to remove a dependency. Removing a dependency does not actually remove the sub-dependencies that were brought in by the original dependency, leaving a lot of potential cruft.
</code></pre>
This is not really an issue if your virtual environments are disposable. Just nuke and recreate venv from scratch using only what you need.<p>This is similar approach to “zero-based budgeting”. It forces you to carefully pick your dependencies and think about what you carry.<p>I never mention transitive dependencies in my requirements.txt file, just direct dependencies and rely on pip to install all transitive libs.<p>You dont even have to freeze the version, just list the name and pull up latest version whenever you run pip upgrade<p>If you dont do that, you can quickly go down the javascript’s path of bloated node_modules.<p>Can people explain why venv&amp;pip is a bad solution that doesnt work for them they have to resort to other package managers?<p>Even venv is not really required if you dockerize your python apps, which you will have to do anyways at deploy time</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yjftsjthsd-h</author><text>IMHO the problem with python package management isn&#x27;t python package management. The biggest problem I&#x27;ve hit is when python depends on non-python - `pip install` failing because I need to `apt install libsomething-dev` is the big one, but also managing multiple versions of python itself (I count this as a dependency on non-python because the python3 binary isn&#x27;t written in python - if it was, then pip+virtualenv could manage it like everything else). And also as you note there&#x27;s just ecosystem churn.</text></comment> | <story><title>Python Has Too Many Package Managers</title><url>https://dublog.net/blog/so-many-python-package-managers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lexicality</author><text>I do a lot of maintenance work and every time I&#x27;ve encountered a (complex) project set up in this way that&#x27;s older than ~6 months, it&#x27;s bitrotted from breaking changes in the dependencies.<p>The python ecosystem does not stand still and seems quite happy to introduce breaking changes in non-major versions.<p>To my mind, there are 3 ways to make sure your python project of today will work in 2 years time:<p><pre><code> 1. Have no dependencies
2. Destroy your virtual environment and reinstall it every day for the next 2 years and fix anything that breaks
3. Freeze your entire dependency tree where it stands and occasionally do large breaking change updates
</code></pre>
All 3 options suck but #3 is the least worst</text></item><item><author>slt2021</author><text>I see a lot of package managers I never head of, am a happy venv &amp; pip user.<p><pre><code> One of the key faults of pip is what happens when you decide to remove a dependency. Removing a dependency does not actually remove the sub-dependencies that were brought in by the original dependency, leaving a lot of potential cruft.
</code></pre>
This is not really an issue if your virtual environments are disposable. Just nuke and recreate venv from scratch using only what you need.<p>This is similar approach to “zero-based budgeting”. It forces you to carefully pick your dependencies and think about what you carry.<p>I never mention transitive dependencies in my requirements.txt file, just direct dependencies and rely on pip to install all transitive libs.<p>You dont even have to freeze the version, just list the name and pull up latest version whenever you run pip upgrade<p>If you dont do that, you can quickly go down the javascript’s path of bloated node_modules.<p>Can people explain why venv&amp;pip is a bad solution that doesnt work for them they have to resort to other package managers?<p>Even venv is not really required if you dockerize your python apps, which you will have to do anyways at deploy time</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GenerocUsername</author><text>I work in JS and the issues are the same.<p>It&#x27;s why NPM creates lockfiles that can freeze the version of direct and indirect deps.</text></comment> |
16,072,619 | 16,071,849 | 1 | 3 | 16,071,488 | train | <story><title>Announcing Rust 1.23</title><url>https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/01/04/Rust-1.23.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>provost</author><text>I haven&#x27;t started playing around with Rust yet, but I&#x27;m interested in it.<p>If you&#x27;re using Rust -- tell me, what are you building in it? And what do you love about Rust in your experience while building it? (Get me excited)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pedrocr</author><text>My project to learn rust was a camera RAW format loader[1]. Compared to the good modern C++ codebase it&#x27;s based on the end result supports the same formats, has the same performance, is only 20% of the lines of code, and is much safer to use (binary formats are rife for exploits). Doing all that took me less time than I had already spent previously fuzzing the C++ codebase and doing whack-a-mole on extremely scary exploitable bugs. For that use case it was <i>extremely</i> successful.<p>The next step is to build an image pipeline and editor around it[2][3]. For that the graphics ecosystem isn&#x27;t as mature as the equivalent C&#x2F;C++ ones but the possibilities are also amazing. The expressiveness of the language combined with the great LLVM backend means some things like very clean ways to do SIMD&#x2F;threading become just a joy to use<p>If only I had the chance to work on this full time for a year... Help would be very much appreciated!<p>The kinds of things that become possible and even pleasent once you remove the mental overhead of dealing with the fundamental warts of C&#x2F;C++ are amazing. After this experience with rust I don&#x27;t see any reason to ever write C&#x2F;C++ again.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pedrocr&#x2F;rawloader" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pedrocr&#x2F;rawloader</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pedrocr&#x2F;rawloader&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;imageops" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pedrocr&#x2F;rawloader&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;imageop...</a> (to be spun out into its own crate)<p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pedrocr&#x2F;chimper" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pedrocr&#x2F;chimper</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Announcing Rust 1.23</title><url>https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/01/04/Rust-1.23.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>provost</author><text>I haven&#x27;t started playing around with Rust yet, but I&#x27;m interested in it.<p>If you&#x27;re using Rust -- tell me, what are you building in it? And what do you love about Rust in your experience while building it? (Get me excited)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arianvanp</author><text>I&#x27;m building a realtime path tracer using <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;vulkano.rs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;vulkano.rs&#x2F;</a><p>It&#x27;s the best Vulkan library I&#x27;ve seen so far (Though the C++ one is pretty good as well). It will preprocess your shaders and generate rust structs that are guarenteed to be the same alignment as the structs in your shaders, which is very nice. They also use a future-based API (a la tokio) such that I don&#x27;t have to deal with fences and semaphores and whatnot myself. The future simply resolves as soon as the GPU is done doing work. It&#x27;s an amazing abstraction, and really makes you think of your GPU as an asynchronous machine, instead of the openGL hacks that try to hide that from you.</text></comment> |
25,822,228 | 25,822,087 | 1 | 2 | 25,821,718 | train | <story><title>That XOR Trick (2020)</title><url>https://florian.github.io/xor-trick</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danpalmer</author><text>As mentioned in this article, x ^ x == 0. Fun fact, this is frequently used by compilers as a &quot;cheap&quot; way to zero out a register.<p>In addition, there are comparatively few cases in programming where we XOR. Sure, it happens in things like games quite a lot, but the main use is actually _cryptography_.<p>Between these two facts (more like hints really), I managed to reverse engineer the bulk of a piece of malware I was given to analyse in a an internship. I was handed the malware, a copy of IDA Pro, and given a few days to see what I could find. All I could remember when presented with a wall of hex encoded machine code were the hints above. I looked for XORs of different values, assumed it was crypto, and extrapolated from there. Found a routine happening three times in quick succession and guessed it was triple-DES. Then I guessed that writing your own 3DES from scratch was unlikely, so googled for crypto libraries and happened to find one that nearly matched (I think an earlier&#x2F;unmodified version), and worked my way up tagging the operations until I got to the purpose, exfiltrating various registry keys and browser history to [somewhere].<p>It was a fun exercise, and therefore these facts will stay with me for far longer than they are accurate I&#x27;m sure!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nickelpro</author><text>Xor&#x27;ing registers isn&#x27;t a compiler trick or arcane piece of lore, it&#x27;s the canonical way to zero a register on most architectures. It&#x27;s the only universally recommended way for both Intel and AMD x86 and x64 processors.</text></comment> | <story><title>That XOR Trick (2020)</title><url>https://florian.github.io/xor-trick</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danpalmer</author><text>As mentioned in this article, x ^ x == 0. Fun fact, this is frequently used by compilers as a &quot;cheap&quot; way to zero out a register.<p>In addition, there are comparatively few cases in programming where we XOR. Sure, it happens in things like games quite a lot, but the main use is actually _cryptography_.<p>Between these two facts (more like hints really), I managed to reverse engineer the bulk of a piece of malware I was given to analyse in a an internship. I was handed the malware, a copy of IDA Pro, and given a few days to see what I could find. All I could remember when presented with a wall of hex encoded machine code were the hints above. I looked for XORs of different values, assumed it was crypto, and extrapolated from there. Found a routine happening three times in quick succession and guessed it was triple-DES. Then I guessed that writing your own 3DES from scratch was unlikely, so googled for crypto libraries and happened to find one that nearly matched (I think an earlier&#x2F;unmodified version), and worked my way up tagging the operations until I got to the purpose, exfiltrating various registry keys and browser history to [somewhere].<p>It was a fun exercise, and therefore these facts will stay with me for far longer than they are accurate I&#x27;m sure!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gameswithgo</author><text>I feel like xor comes up all the time in programming! Perhaps generations that have almost entirely focuses on web front and backends never have use for it, but libraries underneath it all certainly are.</text></comment> |
11,069,553 | 11,067,415 | 1 | 2 | 11,066,667 | train | <story><title>Jepsen: RethinkDB 2.2.3 reconfiguration</title><url>https://aphyr.com/posts/330-jepsen-rethinkdb-2-2-3-reconfiguration</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>coffeemug</author><text>Slava @ RethinkDB here.<p>It&#x27;s been a pleasure working with Kyle on doing an exhaustive analysis of RethinkDB and tracking down bugs revealed in the second test. Our lead engineer wrote a detailed analysis of our findings (linked from the blog post, but I wanted to link it again): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rethinkdb&#x2F;rethinkdb&#x2F;issues&#x2F;5289#issuecomment-175394540" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rethinkdb&#x2F;rethinkdb&#x2F;issues&#x2F;5289#issuecomm...</a>. For anyone interested in the details, this is a good read!</text></comment> | <story><title>Jepsen: RethinkDB 2.2.3 reconfiguration</title><url>https://aphyr.com/posts/330-jepsen-rethinkdb-2-2-3-reconfiguration</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>emidln</author><text>As someone employed in building complex systems, I appreciate the takeaways listed during the discussion:<p><pre><code> RethinkDB’s engineers noted three takeaways from tracking
down this bug. First, fuzz-testing—at both the functional
and integration-test level, can be a powerful tool for
verifying systems with complex order dependence. Second,
runtime invariant assertions were key in identifying the
underlying cause. A test like Jepsen can tell you that the
cluster can exhibit split-brain behavior, but can’t tell
you anything about why. The error messages from those
leader and log order assertions were key hints in tracking
down the bug. Rethink plans to introduce additional runtime
assertions to help identify future problems. Finally, they
plan to devote more attention to issues which suggest—even
tangentially—consistency errors.</code></pre></text></comment> |
26,090,067 | 26,090,407 | 1 | 2 | 26,089,464 | train | <story><title>Paw is joining Rapid API, Paw for the Web, Windows, and Linux is available</title><url>https://blog.paw.cloud/paw-joins-forces-with-rapidapi/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Nextgrid</author><text>The only reason I use Paw instead of the countless alternatives is <i>because</i> it’s not web-based. Sad to see this new development, though thankfully I can still hold onto the last native version.<p>Edit: was looking at the article on my phone and missed the part where they claim they&#x27;ll maintain the native version. However I still have concerns they would eventually discontinue it given that Rapid API&#x27;s main business model is around API marketplaces, gateways and billing and the revenue from selling tooling is likely to be a drop in the bucket in comparison.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>folkrav</author><text>&gt; While we&#x27;ll keep building the native macOS application as a first-class citizen, we&#x27;re introducing today Paw for the Web, Paw for Windows and Paw for Linux!<p>Straight from their announcement.</text></comment> | <story><title>Paw is joining Rapid API, Paw for the Web, Windows, and Linux is available</title><url>https://blog.paw.cloud/paw-joins-forces-with-rapidapi/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Nextgrid</author><text>The only reason I use Paw instead of the countless alternatives is <i>because</i> it’s not web-based. Sad to see this new development, though thankfully I can still hold onto the last native version.<p>Edit: was looking at the article on my phone and missed the part where they claim they&#x27;ll maintain the native version. However I still have concerns they would eventually discontinue it given that Rapid API&#x27;s main business model is around API marketplaces, gateways and billing and the revenue from selling tooling is likely to be a drop in the bucket in comparison.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Cthulhu_</author><text>Same, although an additional reason is that it stores the requests as a plain file that can be yote into version control, instead of an awkward file import &#x2F; export or (what this version seems to do, as well as Postman) push you to a subscription just to share files.<p>I&#x27;m afraid I&#x27;ll be sticking to .http files or swagger-ui for now.</text></comment> |
39,125,353 | 39,123,938 | 1 | 2 | 39,122,286 | train | <story><title>BLIS: A BLAS-like framework for basic linear algebra routines</title><url>https://github.com/flame/blis</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>quanto</author><text>The real money shot is here:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;flame&#x2F;blis&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Performance.md">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;flame&#x2F;blis&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Performance.m...</a><p>It seems that the selling point is that BLIS does multi-core quite well. I am especially impressed that it does as well as the highly optimized Intel MKL on Intel CPUs.<p>I do not see the selling point of BLIS-specific APIs, though. The whole point of having an open BLAS API standard is that numerical libraries should be drop-in replaceable, so when a new library (such as BLIS here) comes along, one could just re-link the library and reap the performance gain immediately.<p>What is interesting is that numerical algebra work, by nature, is mostly embarrassingly parallel, so it should not be too difficult to write multi-core implementations. And yet, BLIS here performs so much better than some other industry-leading implementations on multi-core configurations. So the question is not why BLIS does so well; the question is why some other implementations do so poorly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vatican_banker</author><text>&gt; numerical algebra work [...] is mostly embarrassingly parallel<p>It&#x27;s the exact opposite, most numerical linear algebra is _not_ embarrassingly parallel and requires quite an effort to code properly.<p>That is why BLAS&#x2F;LAPACK is popular and there are few competing implementations.</text></comment> | <story><title>BLIS: A BLAS-like framework for basic linear algebra routines</title><url>https://github.com/flame/blis</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>quanto</author><text>The real money shot is here:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;flame&#x2F;blis&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Performance.md">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;flame&#x2F;blis&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Performance.m...</a><p>It seems that the selling point is that BLIS does multi-core quite well. I am especially impressed that it does as well as the highly optimized Intel MKL on Intel CPUs.<p>I do not see the selling point of BLIS-specific APIs, though. The whole point of having an open BLAS API standard is that numerical libraries should be drop-in replaceable, so when a new library (such as BLIS here) comes along, one could just re-link the library and reap the performance gain immediately.<p>What is interesting is that numerical algebra work, by nature, is mostly embarrassingly parallel, so it should not be too difficult to write multi-core implementations. And yet, BLIS here performs so much better than some other industry-leading implementations on multi-core configurations. So the question is not why BLIS does so well; the question is why some other implementations do so poorly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bee_rider</author><text>BLIS mixed precision interfaces seem quite interesting and might be a good reason to expand on the BLAS api.<p>If I recall correctly, MKL also has interfaces that allow different array orders (row order or column order).</text></comment> |
15,982,626 | 15,982,134 | 1 | 3 | 15,979,714 | train | <story><title>Facebook’s Political Unit Enables Propaganda</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-12-21/inside-the-facebook-team-helping-regimes-that-reach-out-and-crack-down</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fortythirteen</author><text>Imagine if ABC&#x2F;CBS&#x2F;NBC actively went to political parties and sold them on buying their way into the scripts of the top prime-time sitcoms to shape the opinion of viewers.<p>That&#x27;s essentially what Facebook is doing out in the open.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Steeeve</author><text>Imagine...<p>If somebody like Rush Limbaugh had a nationwide radio show where day by day he created content based on RNC talking points.<p>Or a network like Fox or MSNBC went all in on party loyalty and based all their content on party talking points.<p>Or a media conglomerate like Sinclair or Clear Channel pushed out political messaging to their affiliates in small markets that had to be aired during prime viewership.<p>oh wait...</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook’s Political Unit Enables Propaganda</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-12-21/inside-the-facebook-team-helping-regimes-that-reach-out-and-crack-down</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fortythirteen</author><text>Imagine if ABC&#x2F;CBS&#x2F;NBC actively went to political parties and sold them on buying their way into the scripts of the top prime-time sitcoms to shape the opinion of viewers.<p>That&#x27;s essentially what Facebook is doing out in the open.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philwelch</author><text>Parks and Rec ran for seven seasons, and its protagonist was a fictionalized Hillary Clinton. The West Wing ran for seven seasons and explicitly featured a Democratic Presidential administration.</text></comment> |
19,117,402 | 19,116,656 | 1 | 3 | 19,115,460 | train | <story><title>Facebook adds 5 divs, 9 spans and 30 CSS classes to every post in the timeline</title><url>https://twitter.com/wolfiechristl/status/1071473931784212480</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jordan801</author><text>Anyone who has written a few scrappers knows how brutally ineffective this is. Yelp tried to pull the same thing and it took me about 3 minutes to rectify my &quot;for fun&quot; scraper. It&#x27;s also really not that difficult to write a smart scraper that you say, &quot;Look for these things in this post. However you find them, replicate it for the others&quot;. Which is ultimately what I made my Yelp scraper do.<p>If there&#x27;s a pattern, I will find it, and I will exploit it. &lt;3</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>singron</author><text>It actually seems pretty effective in this case. This uBlock Origin issue has been open for half a year and none of the default lists block the ads: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;uBlockOrigin&#x2F;uAssets&#x2F;issues&#x2F;3367" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;uBlockOrigin&#x2F;uAssets&#x2F;issues&#x2F;3367</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook adds 5 divs, 9 spans and 30 CSS classes to every post in the timeline</title><url>https://twitter.com/wolfiechristl/status/1071473931784212480</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jordan801</author><text>Anyone who has written a few scrappers knows how brutally ineffective this is. Yelp tried to pull the same thing and it took me about 3 minutes to rectify my &quot;for fun&quot; scraper. It&#x27;s also really not that difficult to write a smart scraper that you say, &quot;Look for these things in this post. However you find them, replicate it for the others&quot;. Which is ultimately what I made my Yelp scraper do.<p>If there&#x27;s a pattern, I will find it, and I will exploit it. &lt;3</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>folkhack</author><text>100% true. Have written PLENTY of scrapers and methods like this are ultimately ineffective.<p>Even if you absolutely mangled the HTML&#x2F;selectors&#x2F;DOM&#x2F;etc. I feel you could always have it process screenshots of the interfaces to rip text&#x2F;figure out how to interact etc. If it&#x27;s human readable, it&#x27;s bot readable imo. (but in years of botting it&#x27;s never came to this - I&#x27;ve always been able to figure out how to use the existing DOM&#x2F;selectors to do my work even with anti-bot measures)</text></comment> |
32,561,757 | 32,561,596 | 1 | 2 | 32,560,361 | train | <story><title>Google refuses to reinstate account after man took medical images of son’s groin</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/22/google-csam-account-blocked</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eps</author><text>Maybe in States, but not in the majority of the world. Definetly not in Europe.</text></item><item><author>dannyw</author><text>If both Visa and Mastercard refuse to deal with you, you are basically screwed in today&#x27;s world.</text></item><item><author>AndrewThrowaway</author><text>Cyberpunk dystopia realized. It is not so hard to imagine a near future where corporations have much more power than states.<p>Imagine you do something like this in the near future. You are banned from all communications. Alpha corp. reports it to VISA corp. and all your money is confiscated. State can&#x27;t help you as you do not have a way to communicate with it, don&#x27;t have a way to start any legal process as you do not have a way to pay. All your daily subscriptions to housing, mobility, entertainment are cancelled and you are homeless the same day.<p>The only way for you to stay alive is to hike to lawless desert city of &quot;Kowloon 2.1&quot;. You walk by the highways observing huge OLED billboards. They show presidential elections. This time it is some adult TV reality show star competing with tanned bodybuilder.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oarabbus_</author><text>I think the point being made is about banned by your region&#x27;s major payment processing corporations, not specifically Visa or Mastercard.<p>Any statement about a &quot;majority of the world&quot; would need to apply to India, China, and the African continent to be true. In China being banned from Alipay or similar would presumably have the same or even worse effect. India&#x27;s attempt to go cashless some years back disproportionately affected those without plastic or digital payment cards, further emphasizing the point.<p>I don&#x27;t know too much about payment systems in Africa but my understanding is that mobile payment services have been heavily adopted and if a major payment corporation in the region banned an individual it would have a drastic negative effect on their livelihood. If corporate-issued payment devices are easy to do without in Europe it would seem to be the exception, not the rule.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google refuses to reinstate account after man took medical images of son’s groin</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/22/google-csam-account-blocked</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eps</author><text>Maybe in States, but not in the majority of the world. Definetly not in Europe.</text></item><item><author>dannyw</author><text>If both Visa and Mastercard refuse to deal with you, you are basically screwed in today&#x27;s world.</text></item><item><author>AndrewThrowaway</author><text>Cyberpunk dystopia realized. It is not so hard to imagine a near future where corporations have much more power than states.<p>Imagine you do something like this in the near future. You are banned from all communications. Alpha corp. reports it to VISA corp. and all your money is confiscated. State can&#x27;t help you as you do not have a way to communicate with it, don&#x27;t have a way to start any legal process as you do not have a way to pay. All your daily subscriptions to housing, mobility, entertainment are cancelled and you are homeless the same day.<p>The only way for you to stay alive is to hike to lawless desert city of &quot;Kowloon 2.1&quot;. You walk by the highways observing huge OLED billboards. They show presidential elections. This time it is some adult TV reality show star competing with tanned bodybuilder.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dalbasal</author><text>There are plenty of European parts where you cannot rent a car or book a hotel without visa or mastercard.<p>Meanwhile, for a business, either of these refusing to work with you will likely kill the business on the spot.<p>The differences between Europe and US corporatism is petty narcissism of small differences.</text></comment> |
9,472,029 | 9,471,945 | 1 | 3 | 9,471,488 | train | <story><title>American Psychological Association Bolstered C.I.A. Torture Program</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/01/us/report-says-american-psychological-association-collaborated-on-torture-justification.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Someone1234</author><text>People who were legally in the US, were literally picked up off of American streets, blindfolded, put into secret CIA aircraft, flown to Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, and Uzbekistan, and then tortured [0].<p>Yet not a single person has gone to jail over this. The CIA hasn&#x27;t been reformed structurally, and no additional oversights have been added. In fact the only difference between then and now is we have a different administration in the White House who are just choosing not to continue it...<p>Does this not disturb anyone? Isn&#x27;t this exactly the type of stuff people used to joke about the USSR&#x2F;KGB doing? Since when did the US constitution only apply to citizens and not residence?<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Extraordinary_rendition#21st_century" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Extraordinary_rendition#21st_c...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>American Psychological Association Bolstered C.I.A. Torture Program</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/01/us/report-says-american-psychological-association-collaborated-on-torture-justification.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pnut</author><text>The Bush years made me so ill, I had to stop following the news in order to maintain my health. A generational low point for western society.</text></comment> |
28,882,227 | 28,882,175 | 1 | 3 | 28,877,955 | train | <story><title>PinePhone Pro Announced</title><url>https://www.pine64.org/pinephonepro/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>officeplant</author><text>As a owner of many pine64 products I wish there was a clear path to learning how to contribute. My last time coding was C++ class over 16 years ago and I wish I had some sort of idea on how to get started with hobby programming in my spare time as an adult.<p>Edit&#x2F;&#x2F; Especially since I&#x27;ve jumped on the ARM bandwagon and replaced my desktop with an M1 mac and my laptop with a Pinebook Pro.</text></item><item><author>djent</author><text>It is frustrating to me that despite the blunt verbiage about it being a beta device for software and hardware developers, people even here are griping about it being not ready for everyday use. If a free and open-source mobile operating system is missing software support for a feature you want, please contribute to its development.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ognarb</author><text>Create apps! This is the most needed. We created a tutorial for Kirigami here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;develop.kde.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;kirigami&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;develop.kde.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;kirigami&#x2F;</a>. There are also a few tutorials for GTK&#x2F;libhandy with e.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tuxphones.com&#x2F;tutorial-developing-responsive-linux-smartphone-apps-gnome-builder-gtk-libhandy-gtk-part-1&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tuxphones.com&#x2F;tutorial-developing-responsive-linux-s...</a><p>Also join the developer channels on matrix: #plasmamobile:kde.org (not sure that the address for the GNOME one)</text></comment> | <story><title>PinePhone Pro Announced</title><url>https://www.pine64.org/pinephonepro/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>officeplant</author><text>As a owner of many pine64 products I wish there was a clear path to learning how to contribute. My last time coding was C++ class over 16 years ago and I wish I had some sort of idea on how to get started with hobby programming in my spare time as an adult.<p>Edit&#x2F;&#x2F; Especially since I&#x27;ve jumped on the ARM bandwagon and replaced my desktop with an M1 mac and my laptop with a Pinebook Pro.</text></item><item><author>djent</author><text>It is frustrating to me that despite the blunt verbiage about it being a beta device for software and hardware developers, people even here are griping about it being not ready for everyday use. If a free and open-source mobile operating system is missing software support for a feature you want, please contribute to its development.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blihp</author><text>Just pick something that bothers you or you think is missing and start working on it. I&#x27;d recommend something application, as opposed to system, level to get started. That way you can develop using something like Python and not worry about lots of other dependencies on whatever you&#x27;re working on.<p>There generally isn&#x27;t much in the way of formal organization in the open source world... just scratch an itch that you have. There are relatively few people working on things specific to Linux on mobile so even a modest contribution can have a big impact. For example, the developer of the Megapixels camera app, which is a vast improvement over what existed previously but still needs much work, just wanted a better camera app.</text></comment> |
40,872,634 | 40,872,222 | 1 | 2 | 40,858,165 | train | <story><title>The Sphere</title><url>https://mssv.net/2024/07/02/the-sphere/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>oceanplexian</author><text>U2 was fantastic, and they really took advantage of the format but Postcards from Earth was awful. They didn’t correct a lot of the video so you’d have things like pillars and objects like trees that were curved. And the cheap tickets are at least $100.<p>The other problem was that the story, [Spoiler Alert] has an environmentalist theme but it was being told on the world’s largest LED screen in a giant air conditioned death star in the middle of the desert. I found this kind of ironic.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Sphere</title><url>https://mssv.net/2024/07/02/the-sphere/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rzimmerman</author><text>I went to see the Dead there and it was fantastic. The sound was excellent and they used the beam-forming to have the vocals sound like they were coming from the stage below, while the instruments seemed non-directional. The haptic chairs were killer fun for Drums and Space. The Dead usually do about 10 minutes of improvisational percussion (Drums) and about 10 minutes of sonic exploration (Space). Watching Mickey Hart play the Sphere (seats, visuals reacting to his sounds, and of course the sound itself) was the coolest part.<p>The visuals were so engaging that I had to look away to avoid motion sickness once or twice. My brain got used to it quickly. Totally worth the trip and fantastic. One complaint was the lack of bathrooms.</text></comment> |
21,859,343 | 21,858,350 | 1 | 3 | 21,858,157 | train | <story><title>A programming language based on the one-liners of Arnold Schwarzenegger</title><url>https://lhartikk.github.io/ArnoldC/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tgv</author><text>Here&#x27;s the hello world of technical interviews in ArnoldC:<p><pre><code> IT&#x27;S SHOWTIME
HEY CHRISTMAS TREE JOHN
YOU SET US UP @NO PROBLEMO
HEY CHRISTMAS TREE SARAH
YOU SET US UP @I LIED
GET TO THE CHOPPER SARAH
HERE IS MY INVITATION JOHN
LET OFF SOME STEAM BENNET 100
ENOUGH TALK
STICK AROUND SARAH
GET TO THE CHOPPER SARAH
HERE IS MY INVITATION JOHN
HE HAD TO SPLIT 15
YOU&#x27;RE FIRED 15
GET DOWN JOHN
YOU ARE NOT YOU YOU ARE ME 0
ENOUGH TALK
BECAUSE I&#x27;M GOING TO SAY PLEASE SARAH
TALK TO THE HAND &quot;FizzBuzz&quot;
BULLSHIT
GET TO THE CHOPPER SARAH
HERE IS MY INVITATION JOHN
HE HAD TO SPLIT 5
YOU&#x27;RE FIRED 5
GET DOWN JOHN
YOU ARE NOT YOU YOU ARE ME 0
ENOUGH TALK
BECAUSE I&#x27;M GOING TO SAY PLEASE SARAH
TALK TO THE HAND &quot;Buzz&quot;
BULLSHIT
GET TO THE CHOPPER SARAH
HERE IS MY INVITATION JOHN
HE HAD TO SPLIT 3
YOU&#x27;RE FIRED 3
GET DOWN JOHN
YOU ARE NOT YOU YOU ARE ME 0
ENOUGH TALK
BECAUSE I&#x27;M GOING TO SAY PLEASE SARAH
TALK TO THE HAND &quot;Fizz&quot;
BULLSHIT
TALK TO THE HAND JOHN
YOU HAVE NO RESPECT FOR LOGIC
YOU HAVE NO RESPECT FOR LOGIC
YOU HAVE NO RESPECT FOR LOGIC
GET TO THE CHOPPER JOHN
HERE IS MY INVITATION 1
GET UP JOHN
ENOUGH TALK
GET TO THE CHOPPER SARAH
HERE IS MY INVITATION JOHN
LET OFF SOME STEAM BENNET 100
ENOUGH TALK
CHILL
YOU HAVE BEEN TERMINATED</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>A programming language based on the one-liners of Arnold Schwarzenegger</title><url>https://lhartikk.github.io/ArnoldC/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chabes</author><text>Was hoping there was a “who is your daddy and what does he do?”</text></comment> |
25,858,967 | 25,858,844 | 1 | 3 | 25,858,603 | train | <story><title>Why do we assume extraterrestrials might want to visit us?</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-do-we-assume-extraterrestrials-might-want-to-visit-us/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ballenf</author><text>The point is that we&#x27;re one of (large number) of ant colonies and there&#x27;s nothing particularly interesting about us vs. any other ant colony.<p>Even if ETs study ants generally, there&#x27;s nothing unique about us to give us a greater than 1&#x2F;(large number) chance of being studied.</text></item><item><author>nend</author><text>&gt;We may be a phenomenon as uninteresting to them as ants are to us; after all, when we’re walking down the sidewalk we rarely if ever examine every ant along our path.<p>Not really the most convincing argument. There are professions that study ants. And I&#x27;m sure I&#x27;m not the only person on this forum that has a casual interest in observing ants.<p>Pretty sure aliens would still be interested in us even if we were as primitive as ants.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bbarnett</author><text>This. And to add my own expansion to this, the number of ants studied by humans is effectively zero.<p>First, out of all the ant biomass, humans have only seen a very, very tiny amount. Ants are so numerous, and so ubiquitous, Google claims 10 billion billion. Yet this number seems incredibly low, for apparently (wikipedia) some ant colonies have 100s of millions of workers.<p>Regardless, as a human, can you imagine trying to visit each ant colony? How about if you lived just as long as an ant, or thereabouts? Say, a few years?<p>How about ant colonies which appear, die off? And how about the fact that ants have been around since the dinosaurs, and our modern civilisation has been around for a few hundred?<p>And how about if you are a researcher? Let&#x27;s say you stand back, and watch the ants. Do the ants even notice? Especially the main colony?<p>Or are you looking at a few out of endless numbers? What do they report when they get back. Do you even need to be near the ant colony to watching them?<p>And after you&#x27;ve looked at 100 ant colonies, do you need to look at another 1000? Million? We keep discovering subtle branches of insects, so why would a.. I dunno, being comprised of energy, find different (after the first 1000) in a species with a bunch of meaty limbs?</text></comment> | <story><title>Why do we assume extraterrestrials might want to visit us?</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-do-we-assume-extraterrestrials-might-want-to-visit-us/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ballenf</author><text>The point is that we&#x27;re one of (large number) of ant colonies and there&#x27;s nothing particularly interesting about us vs. any other ant colony.<p>Even if ETs study ants generally, there&#x27;s nothing unique about us to give us a greater than 1&#x2F;(large number) chance of being studied.</text></item><item><author>nend</author><text>&gt;We may be a phenomenon as uninteresting to them as ants are to us; after all, when we’re walking down the sidewalk we rarely if ever examine every ant along our path.<p>Not really the most convincing argument. There are professions that study ants. And I&#x27;m sure I&#x27;m not the only person on this forum that has a casual interest in observing ants.<p>Pretty sure aliens would still be interested in us even if we were as primitive as ants.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yoz-y</author><text>Last time a new mammal was discovered here it was international news.<p>If an alien civilisation has trillions of trillions individuals, there must be quite a bit of them interested in any possible niche. This assumes that an interstellar species would be naturally curious.</text></comment> |
25,761,464 | 25,760,948 | 1 | 3 | 25,760,180 | train | <story><title>Milestone: Half a million downloads for VideoLAN packages in the .NET ecosystem</title><url>https://mfkl.github.io/2021/01/13/half-a-million-downloads.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>martinald</author><text>Agreed, and after a shakey start .NET Core is really delivering. It&#x27;s trivial now to use any CI to build docker images of .NET core apps and deploy like any other docker container. Performance is great and I&#x27;m a huge fan of the big stdlib, which means less fragmentation and churn relying on packages for quite basic behaviour.<p>The only thing I&#x27;m not entirely sure about is the recent direction of C# to add loads and loads of syntactic sugar, which reduces the amount of code you have to write but I find the code becomes so terse it&#x27;s hard to glance and reason with, but that may be just because it&#x27;s quite new.</text></item><item><author>davidhyde</author><text>It’s nice to see .NET get some coverage now and again. It’s not regarded as the cool kid on the block but it just continues its quiet steady climb in ergonomics and performance year on year. I find c# to be a great language to build very large corporate applications in. I’ve never spotted an instance where something has been rewritten in a different language because c# was lacking in some way. Maybe it’s because the applications were too big to rewrite but maybe because it is very forgiving to change.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hackerfromthefu</author><text>Yes the big stdlib is the secret sauce. c# is great but the framework offers so much. Imagine taking a non trivial 5 year old javascript project and upgrading it .. but with .NET that is well written to use the framework features it&#x27;s often quite achievable. I&#x27;ve upgraded a number recently and mostly it&#x27;s been quick and successful. Because of the sensible stdlib!</text></comment> | <story><title>Milestone: Half a million downloads for VideoLAN packages in the .NET ecosystem</title><url>https://mfkl.github.io/2021/01/13/half-a-million-downloads.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>martinald</author><text>Agreed, and after a shakey start .NET Core is really delivering. It&#x27;s trivial now to use any CI to build docker images of .NET core apps and deploy like any other docker container. Performance is great and I&#x27;m a huge fan of the big stdlib, which means less fragmentation and churn relying on packages for quite basic behaviour.<p>The only thing I&#x27;m not entirely sure about is the recent direction of C# to add loads and loads of syntactic sugar, which reduces the amount of code you have to write but I find the code becomes so terse it&#x27;s hard to glance and reason with, but that may be just because it&#x27;s quite new.</text></item><item><author>davidhyde</author><text>It’s nice to see .NET get some coverage now and again. It’s not regarded as the cool kid on the block but it just continues its quiet steady climb in ergonomics and performance year on year. I find c# to be a great language to build very large corporate applications in. I’ve never spotted an instance where something has been rewritten in a different language because c# was lacking in some way. Maybe it’s because the applications were too big to rewrite but maybe because it is very forgiving to change.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>politelemon</author><text>I&#x27;m with you on the terseness. I&#x27;ve been finding myself asking people to be &quot;clear, not clever&quot; with usage of some of the sugar, whereas previously adopting new syntax hasn&#x27;t been so much of a challenge. It&#x27;s definitely a balancing act between being easy to read and causing the reader to have to context switch while reading. Most of the sugar in C# hits all the right spots though.<p>I have no doubt that some of this newer syntax is clever, and very welcome to many, but not everyone will realize that it&#x27;s far more beneficial in the long term to cater to the common denominator.</text></comment> |
41,646,958 | 41,647,288 | 1 | 2 | 41,630,223 | train | <story><title>Nova by Panic: Native Mac code editor</title><url>https://nova.app/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Crudodev</author><text>Zed code editor looks more interesting, plus it is modern, open-source, and actively developed</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>isametry</author><text>I am also interested in Zed!<p>(Although I think the program still needs a bit of time to smooth out the edges, plus not everyone may be a fan of the AI and collaborative features, which get a lot of care in the GUI. You can turn all of it off, but still.)<p>But I don&#x27;t like the implication that Nova is abandoned or less modern compared to Zed. Nova is arguably one of the sexiest apps on the Mac right now – it looks <i>gorgeous</i> and it&#x27;s far more &quot;Mac-assed&quot; than any of Apple&#x27;s software, for starters. And in terms of development &#x2F; maintenance, it should be in VERY good hands at Panic.<p>You&#x27;re 100% right on open-source vs closed-source, though.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nova by Panic: Native Mac code editor</title><url>https://nova.app/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Crudodev</author><text>Zed code editor looks more interesting, plus it is modern, open-source, and actively developed</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>asa400</author><text>What does &quot;modern&quot; mean in this context?</text></comment> |
38,598,653 | 38,598,630 | 1 | 3 | 38,596,622 | train | <story><title>Could we stop Yellowstone from erupting with a geothermal power plant?</title><url>https://www.construction-physics.com/p/could-we-stop-yellowstone-from-erupting</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Maxion</author><text>We&#x27;ll except the fact that deep geothermal plants are completely theoretic as a means of production - the final cost of power is a big ???.<p>Most people want cheap power. Anything over around 20 cents a kWh makes it uncompetitive to fossile equivalents (e.g. wood &#x2F; oil &#x2F; gas heating).</text></item><item><author>pacificmint</author><text>Plus you’d take a great step towards solving our energy problems.</text></item><item><author>jconnop</author><text>In the article it&#x27;s said the proposal already included 160 plants in a big ring around yellowstone, resulting in the 16,000 years figure.<p>So to get it down to 100 years you&#x27;d need 160^2 = 25,600 geothermal plants.<p>Perfectly reasonable, let&#x27;s do it.</text></item><item><author>michaelbrave</author><text>half jokingly I thought &quot;so we just need 160 power plants to bring it down to 100 years&quot;</text></item><item><author>ceejayoz</author><text>&gt; At this rate, the energy of the next eruption would be drained after about 16,000 years, and in less than 50,000 years the magma chamber would be cooled completely.<p>Iceland&#x27;s event is much smaller, but we&#x27;re not talking about the sort of thing that you can implement in a year.</text></item><item><author>chongli</author><text>It’s a shame this was written earlier this year. In Iceland there’s an ongoing magma intrusion event near (and under) the town of Grindavik. There also happens to be a geothermal power plant not far from the town.<p>The progression of this magma intrusion, particularly beneath the power plant itself, seems like it should provide a valuable case study to test the idea presented by this article. If there ends up being an eruption under that power plant we might learn something about the advantages and potential pitfalls of this proposal.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ben_w</author><text>Not only does it already exist, it&#x27;s cheap enough that Kenya has some and wants more: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Geothermal_power_in_Kenya" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Geothermal_power_in_Kenya</a><p>Judging by the price tag of 9.1 Ksh&#x2F;kWh listed on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Energy_in_Kenya" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Energy_in_Kenya</a> (and looking up historical exchange rates because of the date of the link and their persistent inflation), that&#x27;s about 0.085-0.090 USD&#x2F;kWh.</text></comment> | <story><title>Could we stop Yellowstone from erupting with a geothermal power plant?</title><url>https://www.construction-physics.com/p/could-we-stop-yellowstone-from-erupting</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Maxion</author><text>We&#x27;ll except the fact that deep geothermal plants are completely theoretic as a means of production - the final cost of power is a big ???.<p>Most people want cheap power. Anything over around 20 cents a kWh makes it uncompetitive to fossile equivalents (e.g. wood &#x2F; oil &#x2F; gas heating).</text></item><item><author>pacificmint</author><text>Plus you’d take a great step towards solving our energy problems.</text></item><item><author>jconnop</author><text>In the article it&#x27;s said the proposal already included 160 plants in a big ring around yellowstone, resulting in the 16,000 years figure.<p>So to get it down to 100 years you&#x27;d need 160^2 = 25,600 geothermal plants.<p>Perfectly reasonable, let&#x27;s do it.</text></item><item><author>michaelbrave</author><text>half jokingly I thought &quot;so we just need 160 power plants to bring it down to 100 years&quot;</text></item><item><author>ceejayoz</author><text>&gt; At this rate, the energy of the next eruption would be drained after about 16,000 years, and in less than 50,000 years the magma chamber would be cooled completely.<p>Iceland&#x27;s event is much smaller, but we&#x27;re not talking about the sort of thing that you can implement in a year.</text></item><item><author>chongli</author><text>It’s a shame this was written earlier this year. In Iceland there’s an ongoing magma intrusion event near (and under) the town of Grindavik. There also happens to be a geothermal power plant not far from the town.<p>The progression of this magma intrusion, particularly beneath the power plant itself, seems like it should provide a valuable case study to test the idea presented by this article. If there ends up being an eruption under that power plant we might learn something about the advantages and potential pitfalls of this proposal.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>soco</author><text>In theory the cost of the whole thing blowing up should offset this investment costs but Don&#x27;t Look Up (2021) convincing the folk about potential natural disasters.</text></comment> |
10,272,363 | 10,271,810 | 1 | 2 | 10,271,139 | train | <story><title>Obama administration quietly explored ways to bypass smartphone encryption</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/obama-administration-ponders-how-to-seek-access-to-encrypted-data/2015/09/23/107a811c-5b22-11e5-b38e-06883aacba64_story.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>whoopdedo</author><text>From another leaked memo (or maybe the same memo):<p><pre><code> Although “the legislative environment is very hostile today, it could turn in the
event of a terrorist attack or criminal event where strong encryption can be shown
to have hindered law enforcement.”
There is value, he said, in “keeping our options open for such a situation.”
</code></pre>
In other words, he was hoping for a terrorist attack that could be used as a flag to push anti-encryption legislation.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;national-security&#x2F;tech-trade-agencies-push-to-disavow-law-requiring-decryption-of-phones&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;16&#x2F;1fca5f72-5adf-11e5-b38e-06883aacba64_story.html?postshare=9031442410909976" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;national-security&#x2F;tech-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Obama administration quietly explored ways to bypass smartphone encryption</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/obama-administration-ponders-how-to-seek-access-to-encrypted-data/2015/09/23/107a811c-5b22-11e5-b38e-06883aacba64_story.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alyandon</author><text>Cry me a river. The widespread adoption of encryption wouldn&#x27;t have been such a pressing issue if spy agencies like the NSA hadn&#x27;t been abusing their powers by conducting mass surveillance on law abiding citizens.</text></comment> |
6,362,730 | 6,362,857 | 1 | 3 | 6,361,558 | train | <story><title>Apple Unveils The iPhone 5S</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/10/apple-unveils-the-iphone-5s/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cheald</author><text>Probably when the NSA stops illegally spying on the citizens it is supposed to serve.</text></item><item><author>dev_jim</author><text>Urgh. When do we get to the point where I can read HN without a snarky NSA comment being voted to the top?</text></item><item><author>pilif</author><text>Now that we have to consider the iPhones to be backdoored by the NSA, I wonder whether I really want to give them my fingerprint together with the rest of my data. I&#x27;m also not so sure whether a fingerprint can&#x27;t still be easily faked (like it was possible on that Mythbusters episode for example).<p>Personally, I think I&#x27;d rather stay with my passcode.<p>Did you btw know that you can turn off &quot;simple passcode&quot; and then use a purely numeric longer passcode? In that case the iPhone will still show the big easy-to-hit numeric keyboard allowing you to type in the arbitrary length numeric code.<p>Yes. It&#x27;s not as safe as a long alphanumeric password, but this gets annoying SO quickly, I&#x27;d rather type in my 8 digits.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stanleydrew</author><text>More snark. This isn&#x27;t helpful.<p>For those who want to believe it, I doubt there is any amount of information that could ever be released to convince them that the NSA <i>isn&#x27;t</i> spying on people anymore.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple Unveils The iPhone 5S</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/10/apple-unveils-the-iphone-5s/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cheald</author><text>Probably when the NSA stops illegally spying on the citizens it is supposed to serve.</text></item><item><author>dev_jim</author><text>Urgh. When do we get to the point where I can read HN without a snarky NSA comment being voted to the top?</text></item><item><author>pilif</author><text>Now that we have to consider the iPhones to be backdoored by the NSA, I wonder whether I really want to give them my fingerprint together with the rest of my data. I&#x27;m also not so sure whether a fingerprint can&#x27;t still be easily faked (like it was possible on that Mythbusters episode for example).<p>Personally, I think I&#x27;d rather stay with my passcode.<p>Did you btw know that you can turn off &quot;simple passcode&quot; and then use a purely numeric longer passcode? In that case the iPhone will still show the big easy-to-hit numeric keyboard allowing you to type in the arbitrary length numeric code.<p>Yes. It&#x27;s not as safe as a long alphanumeric password, but this gets annoying SO quickly, I&#x27;d rather type in my 8 digits.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jad</author><text>&gt; Probably when the NSA stops illegally spying...<p>Who said what they&#x27;re doing is illegal? The whole problem is that the entire surveillance regime is completely secret and completely legal.</text></comment> |
25,259,384 | 25,258,915 | 1 | 2 | 25,256,605 | train | <story><title>FCC Chairman Ajit Pai will step down on January 20</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/30/fcc-chairman-ajit-pai-will-step-down-on-january-20.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Reedx</author><text>What fears about Net Neutrality have come to pass?<p>I was really concerned about it at the time, I admit, but now seems overblown in retrospect. Internet speeds, for example, have only improved since then. And haven&#x27;t seen the concerns about web site bundling or priority access manifest.</text></item><item><author>zachberger</author><text>I know he got a lot of flack for the Net Neutrality rules, but not everything out of this FCC regime has been bad. Just earlier this month the FCC added additional spectrum to the 5 Ghz unlicensed block used by Wifi[1]. I&#x27;m not sure I&#x27;ll ever complain about additional spectrum for WiFi.<p>[1] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;tech-policy&#x2F;2020&#x2F;11&#x2F;fcc-adds-45mhz-to-wi-fi-promising-supersize-networks-on-5ghz-band&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;tech-policy&#x2F;2020&#x2F;11&#x2F;fcc-adds-45mhz-t...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>deelowe</author><text>&gt; What fears about Net Neutrality have come to pass?<p>ATT appears to have a transparent proxy [1] on LTE that selectively disables protocols based on usage. As a rural LTE user, we completely lost our ability to work&#x2F;school from home for 2 weeks as a result until I could find a suitable alternative. Note, there was no violation of TOS or anything like that.<p>[1] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forums.att.com&#x2F;conversations&#x2F;other-phones-devices&#x2F;att-transparent-proxy-not-stable-hanging-connections-to-websites&#x2F;5ee7bfdf483393542c96b341" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forums.att.com&#x2F;conversations&#x2F;other-phones-devices&#x2F;at...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>FCC Chairman Ajit Pai will step down on January 20</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/30/fcc-chairman-ajit-pai-will-step-down-on-january-20.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Reedx</author><text>What fears about Net Neutrality have come to pass?<p>I was really concerned about it at the time, I admit, but now seems overblown in retrospect. Internet speeds, for example, have only improved since then. And haven&#x27;t seen the concerns about web site bundling or priority access manifest.</text></item><item><author>zachberger</author><text>I know he got a lot of flack for the Net Neutrality rules, but not everything out of this FCC regime has been bad. Just earlier this month the FCC added additional spectrum to the 5 Ghz unlicensed block used by Wifi[1]. I&#x27;m not sure I&#x27;ll ever complain about additional spectrum for WiFi.<p>[1] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;tech-policy&#x2F;2020&#x2F;11&#x2F;fcc-adds-45mhz-to-wi-fi-promising-supersize-networks-on-5ghz-band&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;tech-policy&#x2F;2020&#x2F;11&#x2F;fcc-adds-45mhz-t...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sandworm101</author><text>&gt;&gt; And haven&#x27;t seen the concerns about web site bundling or priority access manifest.<p>How would you know? Absolute blocks are one thing, artificial performance differences another. If your ISP was slightly reducing the performance of one streaming service to advantage another, how many people would actually test for this? If a phone maker (apple&#x2F;google&#x2F;whatever) was feeding an ISP money to ensure their phones would be that little bit better on the network, wouldn&#x27;t most people chalk that up to differences in hardware? True evil survives by being difficult to detect with certainty.</text></comment> |
883,329 | 883,080 | 1 | 2 | 882,864 | train | <story><title>Ooc - modern object oriented c</title><url>http://ooc-lang.org/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nddrylliog</author><text>Group answer so I don't blow up my HackerNews quota:<p>thrives/strives : yeah! thanks a lot, fixed now<p>wrong url in downloads: all fixed, thanks for reporting.<p>guess vs inferred: replaced.<p>why some things are prefix and some infix: that's the magic of covers. In "hi world" println(), it's the method String.println() which is called. In println("hi world"), it's a different function, e.g. println(String) which is called.<p>prank by ruby users: actually there seems to be a lot of interest from the ruby community =) maybe they're realizing you can have nice syntax without a VM.<p>Objective C &#38;&#38; ooc: that's been mentioned on #ooc-lang, it would be very interesting for iPhone development, definitely something to explore =)<p>sorry about the delay, I've got more traffic than I can handle right now =)<p>EDIT 1: fixed syntaxic/syntactic. Damn me and my French background ;) thanks for reporting<p>EDIT 2: I <i>love</i> the comparison "ooc is to C as Scala is to Java." Seems very fit =)</text></comment> | <story><title>Ooc - modern object oriented c</title><url>http://ooc-lang.org/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chipsy</author><text>At first I wanted to say "bah humbug" but it really does seem to hit a sweet spot:<p>-Common modern features(implicit typing, generics, GC, iterator syntax)<p>-Source-to-source C, so it is compatible with just about everything<p>-Doesn't attempt to reinvent libraries<p>-Doesn't attempt to reinvent the build system<p>-Doesn't diverge strongly on syntax(apart from supporting the new features)<p>These are the kind of things that make a language easy to pick up and start using :)</text></comment> |
22,460,430 | 22,459,665 | 1 | 3 | 22,457,018 | train | <story><title>Malicious Charging Cable</title><url>https://shop.hak5.org/products/o-mg-cable</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dijit</author><text>Shameless plug: the hak5 community[0] is super nice and while there are &quot;can you hack facebook&quot; people around there is also a dearth of super kind people who are willing to put in the time to teach people about computers.<p>I have been watching their shows since season two and recently was granted the proud responsibility of hosting their IRC these days[1]. (which is the shameless plug)<p>Obviously it&#x27;s built for newbies but that&#x27;s part of the charm and a lot of the content gets new people interested in security and computers in general. :)<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forums.hak5.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forums.hak5.org&#x2F;</a><p>[1]: ircs:&#x2F;&#x2F;irc.hak5.org&#x2F;hak5</text></comment> | <story><title>Malicious Charging Cable</title><url>https://shop.hak5.org/products/o-mg-cable</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wfriesen</author><text>Similar to this is the USB Ninja, which delivers a remote payload like the Rubber Ducky.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackerwarehouse.com&#x2F;product&#x2F;usb-ninja-cable&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackerwarehouse.com&#x2F;product&#x2F;usb-ninja-cable&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
12,586,865 | 12,586,051 | 1 | 3 | 12,582,448 | train | <story><title>A Rare Tour of Microsoft’s Hyperscale Datacenters</title><url>http://www.nextplatform.com/2016/09/26/rare-tour-microsofts-hyperscale-datacenters/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text><i>&quot;What came out of this was a realization that we were really building large air conditioners, that we were not in the IT business but in the industrial air conditioning business when you build a facility like this.&quot;</i><p>This was one of the big secrets that Google learned early on. Every bit of air you cool that isn&#x27;t going into a computer is wasted. The issue is that co-location facilities have to be ready for any kind of user equipment, but if you own the entire data center and all the equipment inside you can design it differently and <i>much</i> more efficiently. It stops being computers in a building and starts being a building sized computer.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Rare Tour of Microsoft’s Hyperscale Datacenters</title><url>http://www.nextplatform.com/2016/09/26/rare-tour-microsofts-hyperscale-datacenters/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>danohu</author><text>It will be interesting to see how these improvements trickle down.<p>At the moment, a few providers have the scale and skills to run datacenters much more efficiently. But I&#x27;m guessing that within a few years there will be some generic datacenter-in-a-container available, with efficiency not much inferior to the big four.<p>At that point, we go back to the hosting market of 15 years ago. Everybody can offer a datacenter without deep technical knowledge, and sell compute cycles on an open cloud market.<p>It&#x27;s like all the tiny hosting providers, except that it requires more capital. So it becomes financialised -- if you can get cheap power, low temperatures and good connectivity, and borrow a few million dollars cheaply, then you&#x27;re in business. But margins collapse precisely because nobody can do it.<p>In the end, once we get over the transition period of this move to cloud everything, datacenters end up like utilities</text></comment> |
12,867,689 | 12,866,979 | 1 | 3 | 12,865,834 | train | <story><title>Visual Studio Code 1.7.1</title><url>http://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_7#_171-recovery-build</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mattmanser</author><text>I don&#x27;t get the end game though, what is the strategy?<p>Ultimately, if you end up using Linux .net core + typescript, they seem to be killing off visual studio, IIS, Windows Server, etc.<p>For what? Azure, glorified hosting that might end up a race to the bottom vs AWS &amp; GCE? Selling SQL server licences?<p>I just don&#x27;t get the strategy. I&#x27;m genuinely asking, where is this actually taking them apart from burning a bunch of money making free tools? Why are they making .Net core?</text></item><item><author>pavlov</author><text><i>The team Microsoft really seems to be invested in this free code editor.</i><p>It&#x27;s great strategic marketing. Making Visual Studio Code costs a fraction of what Microsoft spent on the Surface RT marketing campaign (as an example), and the benefits to their image are much more powerful and long-lasting.<p>The Microsoft brand has been completely reborn in the eyes of developers over the past few years. The lows of 2007-2010 seem a distant memory.</text></item><item><author>jagermo</author><text>Can I say that I really like the speed of these updates? The team Microsoft really seems to be invested in this free code editor.<p>And a lot of the features are cool, however I really like:<p>| Help &gt; Keyboard Shortcuts Reference brings up a printable PDF reference sheet of VS Code command keyboard shortcuts. Keep this reference handy and you&#x27;ll be a VS Code power user in no time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oblio</author><text>IMO the long term strategy is Enterprise Javascript on one hand and Azure on the other one.<p>Azure is the obvious one.<p>Enterprise Javascript is basically:<p>1. Javascript is probably the most popular programming language at the moment (or at least top 3).<p>2. Since the creation of Node Javascript has entered the realm of back end services applications.<p>3. There&#x27;s a lot of Javascript being written these days, and those lines of code will have to be maintained.<p>4. A large enterprise will need good tools from a solid, respected vendor, preferably one that has a great image in the developer community.<p>5. These tools, Open Source but beefed up with enterprise extensions, will cost $$$.<p>Microsoft was losing the back end completely, on the long term. It has already lost the frond end: web, Android, iOS. Now it&#x27;s clawing its way back with its back end stacks or at least with tools meant for Open Source stacks.<p>Mark my words, after this huge flurry of development to mark Visual Studio Code as the leading cross platform &quot;light IDE&quot; (ahead of Sublime, Atom and maybe even ahead of some &quot;heavy IDEs&quot; such as Eclipse or Netbeans), Microsoft will release proprietary extensions, especially things targeting big enterprises.<p>In my eyes, this is a win-win situation. Microsoft still makes money, developers don&#x27;t get EEEd like in the bad old 90s, etc.</text></comment> | <story><title>Visual Studio Code 1.7.1</title><url>http://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_7#_171-recovery-build</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mattmanser</author><text>I don&#x27;t get the end game though, what is the strategy?<p>Ultimately, if you end up using Linux .net core + typescript, they seem to be killing off visual studio, IIS, Windows Server, etc.<p>For what? Azure, glorified hosting that might end up a race to the bottom vs AWS &amp; GCE? Selling SQL server licences?<p>I just don&#x27;t get the strategy. I&#x27;m genuinely asking, where is this actually taking them apart from burning a bunch of money making free tools? Why are they making .Net core?</text></item><item><author>pavlov</author><text><i>The team Microsoft really seems to be invested in this free code editor.</i><p>It&#x27;s great strategic marketing. Making Visual Studio Code costs a fraction of what Microsoft spent on the Surface RT marketing campaign (as an example), and the benefits to their image are much more powerful and long-lasting.<p>The Microsoft brand has been completely reborn in the eyes of developers over the past few years. The lows of 2007-2010 seem a distant memory.</text></item><item><author>jagermo</author><text>Can I say that I really like the speed of these updates? The team Microsoft really seems to be invested in this free code editor.<p>And a lot of the features are cool, however I really like:<p>| Help &gt; Keyboard Shortcuts Reference brings up a printable PDF reference sheet of VS Code command keyboard shortcuts. Keep this reference handy and you&#x27;ll be a VS Code power user in no time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elnado</author><text>In 2012ish as a freshman intern at Microsoft, I asked Will Kennedy (then CVP in Office) how did he feel about people pirating Office apps. He said that they would rather permit people to use illegal versions of Office than have them use their competitor&#x27;s tools. Essentially he was saying Microsoft would rather people use their products free of charge rather than using other products as it promotes Microsoft image and helps Microsoft dominate the workspace. Promoting VSCode vs Visual studio are not competing efforts - the two tools are solving different problems in different work environments &#x2F; tech stacks. They&#x27;re simply trying to branch out to permeate more of the workplace, and it&#x27;s working. Now that I&#x27;m in a startup in SF, I look around and I see some people switching from Sublime to VSCode for our web&#x2F;backend stack, who would never ever use Visual Studio (100% macs here).</text></comment> |
31,267,111 | 31,266,568 | 1 | 2 | 31,264,618 | train | <story><title>TurboTax to pay $141M in agreement reached by all 50 states</title><url>https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2022/attorney-general-james-secures-141-million-millions-americans-deceived-turbotax</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rootusrootus</author><text>How about instead of fining them, we just create a free tax filing website at the IRS to spite them? $141MM is just the cost of doing business, and that&#x27;s ridiculous.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Izkata</author><text>It already exists: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.irs.gov&#x2F;filing&#x2F;free-file-do-your-federal-taxes-for-free" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.irs.gov&#x2F;filing&#x2F;free-file-do-your-federal-taxes-f...</a><p>If you&#x27;re below the threshold I think it should be similar to TurboTax &amp; etc, while the Fillable Forms one is the same as the paper forms.</text></comment> | <story><title>TurboTax to pay $141M in agreement reached by all 50 states</title><url>https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2022/attorney-general-james-secures-141-million-millions-americans-deceived-turbotax</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rootusrootus</author><text>How about instead of fining them, we just create a free tax filing website at the IRS to spite them? $141MM is just the cost of doing business, and that&#x27;s ridiculous.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>db65edfc7996</author><text>Even better is to have the IRS to automatically calculate your tax each year. Send a postcard with the results, if you disagree, you do the entire filing yourself. Planet Money[0] did a story about California&#x27;s attempt years ago. Conservatives vetoed the legislation because they think taxes should be painful.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;sections&#x2F;money&#x2F;2019&#x2F;04&#x2F;03&#x2F;709656642&#x2F;episode-760-tax-hero" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;sections&#x2F;money&#x2F;2019&#x2F;04&#x2F;03&#x2F;709656642&#x2F;epis...</a></text></comment> |
35,816,679 | 35,816,703 | 1 | 3 | 35,815,538 | train | <story><title>Europeans drain billions from banks, fed up with shrinking savings</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/fed-up-with-shrinking-savings-europeans-drain-billions-banks-2023-05-04/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ab_testing</author><text>So, where are they putting in the money. Reading the article, it is not very clear, but it looks like there a slight shift from Savings Accounts to Money Market Accounts. In the end, I think it is just shuffling money between banks. Nobody is stuffing their money in the mattress anymore.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>huhtenberg</author><text>Stocks dividends are now in 5-10% range, e.g. Verizon is at 7%.<p>Obviously, markets are volatile and are in &quot;search of direction&quot;, but quite a few dividend-paying stocks are trading at near 5-10 year low, so picking them up is not that much of a gamble if your investment horizon is long.</text></comment> | <story><title>Europeans drain billions from banks, fed up with shrinking savings</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/fed-up-with-shrinking-savings-europeans-drain-billions-banks-2023-05-04/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ab_testing</author><text>So, where are they putting in the money. Reading the article, it is not very clear, but it looks like there a slight shift from Savings Accounts to Money Market Accounts. In the end, I think it is just shuffling money between banks. Nobody is stuffing their money in the mattress anymore.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>robotresearcher</author><text>Paragraphs 6-10 of the article are entirely about the new popularity of money market accounts and the reasons for it.</text></comment> |
2,731,346 | 2,731,009 | 1 | 2 | 2,730,067 | train | <story><title>V8: a tale of two compilers</title><url>http://wingolog.org/archives/2011/07/05/v8-a-tale-of-two-compilers</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>Joeri</author><text>It's amazing how much faster dynamic languages can run with some engineering effort. It's also frustrating, because it contrasts starkly with my PHP code's performance. I wish the PHP team had the resources to do this kind of work, because at this point it's the slowest subcomponent in my stack.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>masklinn</author><text>&#62; It's amazing how much faster dynamic languages can run with some engineering effort<p>It's a bit more than just "some", and it's an evolution 20 years[0] in the making[1].<p>[0] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_(programming_language)" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_(programming_language)</a><p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StrongTalk" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StrongTalk</a></text></comment> | <story><title>V8: a tale of two compilers</title><url>http://wingolog.org/archives/2011/07/05/v8-a-tale-of-two-compilers</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>Joeri</author><text>It's amazing how much faster dynamic languages can run with some engineering effort. It's also frustrating, because it contrasts starkly with my PHP code's performance. I wish the PHP team had the resources to do this kind of work, because at this point it's the slowest subcomponent in my stack.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SpikeGronim</author><text>Have you tried HipHop? <a href="https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php</a></text></comment> |
5,564,923 | 5,563,057 | 1 | 2 | 5,562,963 | train | <story><title>Criminal Sketch Artist Draws Women as They See Themselves and as Others See Them</title><url>http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/dove-hires-criminal-sketch-artist-draw-women-they-see-themselves-and-others-see-them-148613</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nateabele</author><text><i>Seriously!?</i> We can't stop being cynical, hyper-analytical computer nerds for <i>5 minutes</i>?<p>This isn't a study. There's no academic rigor to apply. It is a commentary. It's a commentary that almost anyone who has either been a woman or been in a relationship with one can probably identify with or relate to.<p>And yes, <i>it is advertising</i>. I have no doubt that no one walked away from that video <i>not realizing</i> it was advertising. So what? Advertising isn't allowed to say something positive, or dare I say, honest?<p>What? Is it because they're a multinational and not a <i>startup</i>?</text></comment> | <story><title>Criminal Sketch Artist Draws Women as They See Themselves and as Others See Them</title><url>http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/dove-hires-criminal-sketch-artist-draw-women-they-see-themselves-and-others-see-them-148613</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Breefield</author><text>The sketch artist could have intentionally drawn the women as slightly disproportionate from reality just to make this piece more polemic. I don't see how that was prevented?</text></comment> |
15,542,441 | 15,542,182 | 1 | 2 | 15,541,504 | train | <story><title>Faktory, a new background job system</title><url>http://www.mikeperham.com/2017/10/24/introducing-faktory/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jitl</author><text>It seems nuts to me to introduce a stateful queue system like this where the persistence story is “data’s out there on a single node in some kind of disk format, hope it doesn’t go missing!”<p>I guess this style significantly reduces setup friction, but it’s almost an irresponsible design in a universe where the average cloud provider is telling you, “your compute instances may vanish at any time.” If this used Kafka, Redis, MySQL, or another well-known stand-alone data store, I know my data is replicated, and I can recover my enqueued jobs if Somethimg Bad happens.<p>I like the nice UI and the simple API, but there’s no way this will replace Resque or any Kafka-based-job-whatever at my place of work.</text></comment> | <story><title>Faktory, a new background job system</title><url>http://www.mikeperham.com/2017/10/24/introducing-faktory/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>manigandham</author><text>You can just use Redis, Kafka, or better yet use Google&#x27;s Cloud Pub&#x2F;Sub or Azure Service Bus for an extremely cheap and highly-reliable system that already has all of these features included.<p>What exactly is the use-case for an entirely new and separate system that looks like it&#x27;s single-node only?</text></comment> |
23,561,397 | 23,561,073 | 1 | 3 | 23,549,342 | train | <story><title>A Graphical Introduction to Lattices</title><url>https://philosophyforprogrammers.blogspot.com/2013/06/a-graphical-introduction-to-lattices.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>QuinnWilton</author><text>Lattices, and by extension semilattices, are one of my favourite algebraic structures in the context of programming. Their applications are innumerable, from access control, to distributed systems, to constraining the information flow of privileged information.<p>For example, CvRDTs (a class of conflict-free replicated data types), are made up of the semilattices over a monotonic operation. If you can prove a few basic properties about your data + the merge operation over it, you can construct a CRDT. It won&#x27;t necessarily be efficient, but it&#x27;s a good starting point for reasoning about the problem.<p>People spend a lot of time trying to sell abstract algebra using monads, but in my opinion it&#x27;s a lot easier to grasp the applications of lattices.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zwaps</author><text>Similarly, the most general form of rational decision theory or rational choice theory is based on lattices. That makes intuitive sense, since preference relations ~are~ partially ordered sets.
Then, analyzing rational (vs. for example boundedly rational choice behavior) is equivalent to analyzing lattice optimization problems (monotonicity).<p>Then, parameterizing the choice situation and &#x2F; or introducing strategic dependecies between actors leads to analyzing sub&#x2F;supermodular correspondences on these sets. In fact, the most general version would make use of quasi-supermodularity. I think Milgrom&amp;Roberts 94 show that this is the most general way, one can think of coherent (rational) decision theory.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Graphical Introduction to Lattices</title><url>https://philosophyforprogrammers.blogspot.com/2013/06/a-graphical-introduction-to-lattices.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>QuinnWilton</author><text>Lattices, and by extension semilattices, are one of my favourite algebraic structures in the context of programming. Their applications are innumerable, from access control, to distributed systems, to constraining the information flow of privileged information.<p>For example, CvRDTs (a class of conflict-free replicated data types), are made up of the semilattices over a monotonic operation. If you can prove a few basic properties about your data + the merge operation over it, you can construct a CRDT. It won&#x27;t necessarily be efficient, but it&#x27;s a good starting point for reasoning about the problem.<p>People spend a lot of time trying to sell abstract algebra using monads, but in my opinion it&#x27;s a lot easier to grasp the applications of lattices.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>082349872349872</author><text>Lattices are also ordered (by intellectual descent) with respect to early explorations in philosophy, such as using transitivity on &quot;Socrates is a man&quot; and &quot;All men are mortal&quot;.<p>Without lattices, we would never have had the ambiguous phrase &quot;computer scientists commonly choose models which have bottoms, but prefer them topless&quot; occurring in a serious textbook.<p>Edit: agreed, intellectual descent is only partially ordered, but the interval between aristotle&#x27;s example syllogism and lattices contains a chain. Guess I should&#x27;ve said &quot;also comparable (by.&quot;</text></comment> |
36,114,270 | 36,112,395 | 1 | 3 | 36,108,927 | train | <story><title>Easy Effects: Audio effects for PipeWire applications</title><url>https://github.com/wwmm/easyeffects</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>myself248</author><text>I use EasyEffects constantly (and have since it was called PulseEffects) to compress and limit the dynamic range of what comes out my speakers.<p>So much content is made with low voices and incredibly loud effects, and if I turn it up to where I can understand the speech, everything else just blasts me. But with a compressor and limiter in the chain, I can turn it up as much as I need, and the loud moments are simply not that loud.<p>Lack of this capability on my phone is the main reason I don&#x27;t consume videos or streams there -- the audio engineering is just beyond terrible. For the moment, desktop is the only place I have the tools to fix it, so desktop is where I listen.</text></comment> | <story><title>Easy Effects: Audio effects for PipeWire applications</title><url>https://github.com/wwmm/easyeffects</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mmmrk</author><text>Using this to equalise my headphones with the parameter sets on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jaakkopasanen&#x2F;AutoEq">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jaakkopasanen&#x2F;AutoEq</a>. Highly recommended!</text></comment> |
38,309,429 | 38,309,373 | 1 | 2 | 38,304,405 | train | <story><title>Electric vehicle battery prices are falling faster than expected</title><url>https://www.goldmansachs.com/intelligence/pages/electric-vehicle-battery-prices-falling.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hristov</author><text>This is very good news. Now I would like to see western car manufacturers lower prices of EVs in unison.<p>Remember how in the 90s the intel pc completely overwhelmed and completely destroyed several layers of computing competitors. Intel and their PC manufacturing bretheren did that by providing a decent quality product at the lowest price. Then they used the benefits of manufacturing scale to improve the price quality ratio to the point where the intel PCs were higher performance than even the fancy work stations that cost 10 times as much.<p>Well the chinese are about to do that with EVs. EVs are very similar to PCs in this respect, because they have a lot of potential for manufacturing efficiencies.<p>Western manufacturers (other than Tesla) should drop their prices and try to get to scale as soon as possible. Tesla is at scale but it has a bunch of other problems. Elon should stop his public stage embarrassments (latest having to do with antisemitism and neo nazis) and should concentrate on making cars people like.</text></comment> | <story><title>Electric vehicle battery prices are falling faster than expected</title><url>https://www.goldmansachs.com/intelligence/pages/electric-vehicle-battery-prices-falling.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hshsbs84848</author><text>“Goldman Sachs Research estimates the EV market could achieve cost parity, without subsidies, with internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles around the middle of this decade”<p>That would be quite the milestone<p>I’m curious at what point it will flip and EVs become cheaper than ICE</text></comment> |
25,919,297 | 25,917,043 | 1 | 2 | 25,916,681 | train | <story><title>A worker owned (co-op) store for sustainable products</title><url>https://thesustainablecoopstore.splashthat.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>Signup pages can&#x27;t be Show HNs. There needs to be something that readers can actually try out for themselves. Please read the rules: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;showhn.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;showhn.html</a><p>I&#x27;ve taken Show HN out of the title now.</text></comment> | <story><title>A worker owned (co-op) store for sustainable products</title><url>https://thesustainablecoopstore.splashthat.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>satvikpendem</author><text>I posted this on another comment, but it might be relevant here as well. Basically, make a better product than Amazon in order to win, people don&#x27;t usually care about the organizational structure of the company.<p>---<p>I am reminded of OpenHunt, an open source version of Product Hunt that was made. The only value proposition was that it was open source, but it shut down precisely because users didn&#x27;t care about that, they cared whether it had enough cool products (as a consumer) and enough traffic (as a submitter).<p>Here&#x27;s one post-mortem: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10940729" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10940729</a><p>&gt; OpenHunt tried solving a problem for the content makers without providing any additional benefit to the content consumers.<p>&gt; It&#x27;s a nice, heart-warming mission. But in the end of the day, content is king, that&#x27;s what consumers want.<p>&gt; There have been many examples of people rallying around a &quot;free and open&quot; version of a service. They fail to realize that the end consumer barely cares. Look at voat (Reddit), app.net (Twitter), Diaspora (Facebook), even ycreject.com (Y Combinator) tried to be a thing for a while.<p>&gt; If someone is able to make it &quot;free and open&quot; while also making it a better experience than the alternative, then it&#x27;ll be a big success. But so far everyone gets that wrong.</text></comment> |
13,112,642 | 13,112,334 | 1 | 3 | 13,110,082 | train | <story><title>My Favorite Books of 2016</title><url>https://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Best-Books-2016?linkId=31806383</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>raintrees</author><text>A humorous observation: Ever look at an HTML page created by Microsoft Word? Quite a bit of code goes into what should have been a simple HTML document.<p>Now try viewing source of Mr. Gates&#x27; web page here: 6873 lines, the HTML &lt;p&gt; content starts at 5816 and goes for 9 lines to describe the 4 books plus the bonus, for a whopping total of 9 lines of content, 6864 lines of behavior and presentation... Wow.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thirdsun</author><text>Furthermore, with uBlock Origin on Chrome the doesn&#x27;t show any text &#x2F; paragraph. I see the header image followed by an endless sea of whitespace.</text></comment> | <story><title>My Favorite Books of 2016</title><url>https://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Best-Books-2016?linkId=31806383</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>raintrees</author><text>A humorous observation: Ever look at an HTML page created by Microsoft Word? Quite a bit of code goes into what should have been a simple HTML document.<p>Now try viewing source of Mr. Gates&#x27; web page here: 6873 lines, the HTML &lt;p&gt; content starts at 5816 and goes for 9 lines to describe the 4 books plus the bonus, for a whopping total of 9 lines of content, 6864 lines of behavior and presentation... Wow.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yvsong</author><text>Bill Gates writes very well in English. It&#x27;s evidence that he wrote excellent software decades ago. It&#x27;s interesting that writing software seems to make more money than dealing with English documents as ordinary office workers. However, as one moves up and becomes a successful businessman, he reads and writes in English primarily, and makes much more money than those who write software.</text></comment> |
26,572,943 | 26,572,596 | 1 | 3 | 26,568,142 | train | <story><title>Mastering Real-Time Strategy Games with Deep RL: Mere Mortal Edition</title><url>https://clemenswinter.com/2021/03/24/mastering-real-time-strategy-games-with-deep-reinforcement-learning-mere-mortal-edition/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Gunax</author><text>They can train the bots based on on those games though, right? Seems more like a flaw in the training data than the principle.<p>I am not sure if the training is done live or not--that is does the algorithm learn based on each game against a real, live player? Or do they just train the model offline, then allow players to play against the static model?</text></item><item><author>kevinwang</author><text>&lt; OpenAI&#x27;s DoTA 2 system wasn&#x27;t playing the full game. I think the final version could play 17 of the 117 heroes, and the opposing human players were also restricted to playing this subset of the game.<p>The bigger issue in my eyes was that while OpenAI 5 defeated the world champion team OG, when they let anyone in the world fight it, some ingenious players figured out a pretty robust method to consistently exploit and defeat the bot. As I haven&#x27;t heard any buzz about OpenAI 5 since then, I think it was more or less unsuccessful unless they can show that their training method produces unexploitable bots (instead of bots that are really good against certain strategies)</text></item><item><author>FartyMcFarter</author><text>&gt; This trend has culminated in the defeat of top human players in the complex real-time strategy (RTS) games of DoTA 2 [1] and StarCraft II [2] in 2019.<p>Not quite:<p>- OpenAI&#x27;s DoTA 2 system wasn&#x27;t playing the full game. I think the final version could play 17 of the 117 heroes, and the opposing human players were also restricted to playing this subset of the game.<p>- DeepMind&#x27;s StarCraft II system reached a level above &quot;above 99.8% of officially ranked human players.&quot;, so it isn&#x27;t trivial to argue that this amounts to defeating top players.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jrumbut</author><text>Sibling posters have pointed out technical issues but I&#x27;d like to point out that while chasing after each successive exploit might let them stay on top of the Starcraft rankings, it changes the accomplishment from &quot;we made a model that understands Starcraft better than almost any human&quot; to &quot;we made a model that memorized a selection of very good strategies and tactics.&quot;<p>When it was first demonstrated, it really looked like it was doing very smart things (while also taking advantage of the fact that it doesn&#x27;t have attention lapses and hand fatigue) and reacting well to different strategies on a level that was freaky to me.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mastering Real-Time Strategy Games with Deep RL: Mere Mortal Edition</title><url>https://clemenswinter.com/2021/03/24/mastering-real-time-strategy-games-with-deep-reinforcement-learning-mere-mortal-edition/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Gunax</author><text>They can train the bots based on on those games though, right? Seems more like a flaw in the training data than the principle.<p>I am not sure if the training is done live or not--that is does the algorithm learn based on each game against a real, live player? Or do they just train the model offline, then allow players to play against the static model?</text></item><item><author>kevinwang</author><text>&lt; OpenAI&#x27;s DoTA 2 system wasn&#x27;t playing the full game. I think the final version could play 17 of the 117 heroes, and the opposing human players were also restricted to playing this subset of the game.<p>The bigger issue in my eyes was that while OpenAI 5 defeated the world champion team OG, when they let anyone in the world fight it, some ingenious players figured out a pretty robust method to consistently exploit and defeat the bot. As I haven&#x27;t heard any buzz about OpenAI 5 since then, I think it was more or less unsuccessful unless they can show that their training method produces unexploitable bots (instead of bots that are really good against certain strategies)</text></item><item><author>FartyMcFarter</author><text>&gt; This trend has culminated in the defeat of top human players in the complex real-time strategy (RTS) games of DoTA 2 [1] and StarCraft II [2] in 2019.<p>Not quite:<p>- OpenAI&#x27;s DoTA 2 system wasn&#x27;t playing the full game. I think the final version could play 17 of the 117 heroes, and the opposing human players were also restricted to playing this subset of the game.<p>- DeepMind&#x27;s StarCraft II system reached a level above &quot;above 99.8% of officially ranked human players.&quot;, so it isn&#x27;t trivial to argue that this amounts to defeating top players.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CyberRage</author><text>Training requires millions of games. playing against humans is only for evaluation purposes, not for training.<p>In both cases, it was indeed a static model but more recent work which is called MuZero is not static and achieves great results in board games and atari.</text></comment> |
35,996,432 | 35,996,316 | 1 | 3 | 35,987,545 | train | <story><title>Apple’s new headset meets reality</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-05-18/apple-s-mixed-reality-headset-may-define-tim-cook-s-legacy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zamnos</author><text>And that, dear reader, is how we ended up with hundreds of bland copy-cat Android phones to the iPhone. There&#x27;s something to be said, mentally, for working somewhere that&#x27;s inspiring. A shitty office in yet a clone of all the other office parks, buried in office-park-landia of San Jose, is not it. Even a stroll through the secret underground parking lot at Apple is inspiring with all the exotic cars that are owned by early Apple employees, instead of Honda Civics and Toyota Camrys. Not that there&#x27;s anything wrong with that, I drive a Honda, but they just don&#x27;t have the same emotional pull.</text></item><item><author>deet</author><text>I strongly doubt that the campus is any more of a force multiplier than a collection of far cheaper class A office buildings of similar capacity, with similarly serene grass and vegetation connecting them.</text></item><item><author>bredren</author><text>It is hard to not compare the breakthrough product release count between Jobs and Cook.<p>If that is the measure, then we have to bring in Jobs&#x27; tenure as not only CEO but company founder that stretched 25 years as CEO, 1976 to 1985 and 1997 to 2011.<p>Cook only took the reins in 2011, and at that time arguably the company should not have focused on releasing yet more revolutionary products.<p>iPhone is the most successful consumer product in history, focus was correctly placed in supporting that, building moats around it and positioning the ecosystem to support the next big thing.<p>One product often left out, which may have started with Jobs, but delivery should be attributed to Cook is the new Apple HQ. The initial impact has crumbled due to Covid WFH.<p>However, this campus may turn out to be a force multiplier going forward. If so, it is a victory, but not in the minds of consumers.</text></item><item><author>tguedes</author><text>Absolutely. Between Apple Silicon, Apple Watch, AirPods, and scaling operations to be able to sell the amount of products they do in a year, that is hard to argue against being an overwhelming success for Tim Cook as CEO.<p>Is it equal to the legacy of Apple under Jobs? Definitely not. But how many other companies&#x2F;people released 3 revolutionary products?</text></item><item><author>bredren</author><text>&gt;underscoring the narrative that the company’s biggest victories were initiated under his predecessor, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs<p>What does the author consider to be a victory?<p>Tim Cook was elevated because he had the operational capability to grow Apple. Jobs did not consider Cook to be a product design person. But Jobs trusted Cook to find and keep people who could design products.<p>By any stretch of the imagination, the company&#x27;s biggest victories have been in growing and holding together the vast ecosystem of HW &#x2F; SW and services that continuously deliver the highest customer satisfaction ratings. The reward for that has been becoming the biggest company in the world. (Some might consider this a victory.)<p>If introducing new hit products is the only kind of victory that can exist, then Apple Silicon and AirPods victories also go to Cook.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KerrAvon</author><text>This is nonsense. The place where the iPhone was invented, and iterated upon for many successful years, was the Infinite Loop campus, which is pretty much a clone of all the other office parks. Initially, when the iPhone was invented, developers had their own individual offices there, with closeable doors, which was nice.<p>Apple Park: it kinda sucks to actually work at Apple Park. It’s a goldfish bowl. It’s impossible to focus. But, yes, it looks really nice. It’s very pretty, that is undeniable.<p>Also, Teslas and Mercedes aren’t exotic or rare. They just cost a bit more than most Hondas. And the rare, occasional actual exotic doesn’t inspire new features, better design, or QA polish, they just indicate someone’s a pretentious ass with more money than sense. Remember that Steve drove a fairly pedestrian Mercedes.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple’s new headset meets reality</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-05-18/apple-s-mixed-reality-headset-may-define-tim-cook-s-legacy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zamnos</author><text>And that, dear reader, is how we ended up with hundreds of bland copy-cat Android phones to the iPhone. There&#x27;s something to be said, mentally, for working somewhere that&#x27;s inspiring. A shitty office in yet a clone of all the other office parks, buried in office-park-landia of San Jose, is not it. Even a stroll through the secret underground parking lot at Apple is inspiring with all the exotic cars that are owned by early Apple employees, instead of Honda Civics and Toyota Camrys. Not that there&#x27;s anything wrong with that, I drive a Honda, but they just don&#x27;t have the same emotional pull.</text></item><item><author>deet</author><text>I strongly doubt that the campus is any more of a force multiplier than a collection of far cheaper class A office buildings of similar capacity, with similarly serene grass and vegetation connecting them.</text></item><item><author>bredren</author><text>It is hard to not compare the breakthrough product release count between Jobs and Cook.<p>If that is the measure, then we have to bring in Jobs&#x27; tenure as not only CEO but company founder that stretched 25 years as CEO, 1976 to 1985 and 1997 to 2011.<p>Cook only took the reins in 2011, and at that time arguably the company should not have focused on releasing yet more revolutionary products.<p>iPhone is the most successful consumer product in history, focus was correctly placed in supporting that, building moats around it and positioning the ecosystem to support the next big thing.<p>One product often left out, which may have started with Jobs, but delivery should be attributed to Cook is the new Apple HQ. The initial impact has crumbled due to Covid WFH.<p>However, this campus may turn out to be a force multiplier going forward. If so, it is a victory, but not in the minds of consumers.</text></item><item><author>tguedes</author><text>Absolutely. Between Apple Silicon, Apple Watch, AirPods, and scaling operations to be able to sell the amount of products they do in a year, that is hard to argue against being an overwhelming success for Tim Cook as CEO.<p>Is it equal to the legacy of Apple under Jobs? Definitely not. But how many other companies&#x2F;people released 3 revolutionary products?</text></item><item><author>bredren</author><text>&gt;underscoring the narrative that the company’s biggest victories were initiated under his predecessor, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs<p>What does the author consider to be a victory?<p>Tim Cook was elevated because he had the operational capability to grow Apple. Jobs did not consider Cook to be a product design person. But Jobs trusted Cook to find and keep people who could design products.<p>By any stretch of the imagination, the company&#x27;s biggest victories have been in growing and holding together the vast ecosystem of HW &#x2F; SW and services that continuously deliver the highest customer satisfaction ratings. The reward for that has been becoming the biggest company in the world. (Some might consider this a victory.)<p>If introducing new hit products is the only kind of victory that can exist, then Apple Silicon and AirPods victories also go to Cook.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kbenson</author><text>I&#x27;ve always found that after a while the wonder at the flash and pomp of some place that seems new and wonderful like that dies down and it&#x27;s just another place that you do work in.<p>Much more important is the people you interact with every day, both in person and at a distance. If I had to choose between jobs doing the same work but one was in a closet but interacting with people I like or the apple campus and interacting with people I felt no connection to, I would take the former in a heartbeat.<p>I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;m an outlier. If indeed I&#x27;m not, what does that say for how important and special Apple HQ will end up being in the long run?</text></comment> |
33,663,457 | 33,663,631 | 1 | 3 | 33,663,191 | train | <story><title>Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to 11 years in prison for Theranos fraud</title><url>https://www.axios.com/2022/11/18/elizabeth-holmes-fraud-trial-prison-sentence</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joshlemer</author><text>Isn&#x27;t there a less cynical explanation, that she wanted to have children and, facing the prospect of over a decade in prison, that this was her last opportunity to have them?</text></item><item><author>mrlonglong</author><text>I can&#x27;t believe she tried to get out of it by having babies. I feel for her kids, it&#x27;s going to be really shit for them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>idop</author><text>So she knew she was going to prison, and decided to bring kids in to the world to grow up without a mother? That&#x27;s even worse.<p>Edit: typo</text></comment> | <story><title>Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to 11 years in prison for Theranos fraud</title><url>https://www.axios.com/2022/11/18/elizabeth-holmes-fraud-trial-prison-sentence</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joshlemer</author><text>Isn&#x27;t there a less cynical explanation, that she wanted to have children and, facing the prospect of over a decade in prison, that this was her last opportunity to have them?</text></item><item><author>mrlonglong</author><text>I can&#x27;t believe she tried to get out of it by having babies. I feel for her kids, it&#x27;s going to be really shit for them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ziroshima</author><text>Good point. There&#x27;s always a lot of self-righteous judgment with these sort of things. Not trying to necessarily defend Ms. Holmes, but the objective reality is that no one knows her motivations.</text></comment> |
23,085,708 | 23,085,306 | 1 | 2 | 23,083,692 | train | <story><title>Citing revenue declines, Airbnb cuts 25% of workforce</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/05/citing-revenue-declines-airbnb-cuts-1900-jobs-or-around-25-of-its-global-workforce/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jdminhbg</author><text>&gt; lower levels of disposable income during the recovery.<p>There&#x27;s also going to be a lot of pent-up demand from people who didn&#x27;t lose jobs and had no outlet for leisure spending during the quarantine. I&#x27;m not sure which will win out.</text></item><item><author>ashtonkem</author><text>I personally suspect that travel related industries will be one of the last to recover, both due to consumer reticence and due to lower levels of disposable income during the recovery.</text></item><item><author>supernova87a</author><text>If Airbnb is willing to pay 14 weeks (3.25 months) of severance, they must believe this is going to go on significantly longer than that. Or they&#x27;re using this as an opportunity to cut underperformers at the same time.<p>Because if they believed things would start to recover by fall, wouldn&#x27;t you just pay the people as normal and make a judgement call around then? You&#x27;re spending the payroll money either way -- 14 weeks of severance and people stop working immediately, or 14 weeks of payroll and people are still working.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JMTQp8lwXL</author><text>The pandemic doesn&#x27;t end simply because quarantine is lifted. People will seriously question flying or passing through airports, especially as case counts are getting worse while the restrictions are being lifted.</text></comment> | <story><title>Citing revenue declines, Airbnb cuts 25% of workforce</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/05/citing-revenue-declines-airbnb-cuts-1900-jobs-or-around-25-of-its-global-workforce/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jdminhbg</author><text>&gt; lower levels of disposable income during the recovery.<p>There&#x27;s also going to be a lot of pent-up demand from people who didn&#x27;t lose jobs and had no outlet for leisure spending during the quarantine. I&#x27;m not sure which will win out.</text></item><item><author>ashtonkem</author><text>I personally suspect that travel related industries will be one of the last to recover, both due to consumer reticence and due to lower levels of disposable income during the recovery.</text></item><item><author>supernova87a</author><text>If Airbnb is willing to pay 14 weeks (3.25 months) of severance, they must believe this is going to go on significantly longer than that. Or they&#x27;re using this as an opportunity to cut underperformers at the same time.<p>Because if they believed things would start to recover by fall, wouldn&#x27;t you just pay the people as normal and make a judgement call around then? You&#x27;re spending the payroll money either way -- 14 weeks of severance and people stop working immediately, or 14 weeks of payroll and people are still working.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ialyos</author><text>But most people are capped to how much they&#x27;ll spend on leisure by their vacation time. So there probably isn&#x27;t much headroom to be gained for people who are regular travellers post this pandemic.</text></comment> |
2,001,456 | 2,000,549 | 1 | 2 | 2,000,349 | train | <story><title>Everything you never wanted to know about file locking</title><url>http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201012#13</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tedunangst</author><text>Every BSD system I'm aware of has something called lockf, which may or may not be layered on top of flock (or the other way around).<p>Note that all of these locking schemes fall down hard on NFS, depending on client and server, regardless of what any man pages say about support. Homework question: How does a stateless protocol like NFS remember when one client locks a file and a different client tries locking it?<p>The failure mode on NFS can vary from "lock always succeeds, regardless of actual status" to "lock always fails, hanging forever", or my favorite, "locks work, unless your process crashes, and then you can never lock that file again until you reboot the NFS server".</text></comment> | <story><title>Everything you never wanted to know about file locking</title><url>http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201012#13</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>Worth reading all the way to the bottom; the Python stuff made me giggle.</text></comment> |
20,280,364 | 20,279,353 | 1 | 2 | 20,278,509 | train | <story><title>How to Make Apple’s Mac Pro Holes</title><url>http://saccade.com/blog/2019/06/how-to-make-apples-mac-pro-holes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alanbernstein</author><text>On the subject of Apple&#x27;s hole-machining process, I recently noticed how tiny the light-grill holes are on the older wireless Apple keyboards: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;l9n9Cp2.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;l9n9Cp2.jpg</a>. Look at the ruler, marked in mm - the holes are less than .1mm in diameter. I was wondering how they did this, I guess a laser or plasma cutter is the only way?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joshvm</author><text>They found a company that built machines that could laser mill 20um holes and bought them out. It&#x27;s unclear if they bought the capacity (i.e. all their stock) or if they actually acquired them. The reports vary.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.bolt.io&#x2F;no-you-cant-manufacture-that-like-apple-does-93bea02a3bbf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.bolt.io&#x2F;no-you-cant-manufacture-that-like-apple...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How to Make Apple’s Mac Pro Holes</title><url>http://saccade.com/blog/2019/06/how-to-make-apples-mac-pro-holes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alanbernstein</author><text>On the subject of Apple&#x27;s hole-machining process, I recently noticed how tiny the light-grill holes are on the older wireless Apple keyboards: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;l9n9Cp2.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;l9n9Cp2.jpg</a>. Look at the ruler, marked in mm - the holes are less than .1mm in diameter. I was wondering how they did this, I guess a laser or plasma cutter is the only way?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>evv</author><text>Lasers. I think their technique is top-secret, because I don&#x27;t see lights-through-metal on many other products.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;venturebeat.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;11&#x2F;04&#x2F;apple-laser-manufacturing&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;venturebeat.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;11&#x2F;04&#x2F;apple-laser-manufacturing...</a></text></comment> |
6,101,423 | 6,100,496 | 1 | 3 | 6,099,765 | train | <story><title>This tiny, wearable patch makes you invisible to mosquitos</title><url>http://io9.com/this-tiny-wearable-patch-makes-you-invisible-to-mosqui-894656159</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nostromo</author><text>Just use an oscillating fan.<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/16/science/a-low-tech-mosquito-deterrent.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;07&#x2F;16&#x2F;science&#x2F;a-low-tech-mosquit...</a><p>It&#x27;s also worth noting that previous attempts at preventing malaria in Africa have failed not because of any technological limitation, but because they view it completely differently than we do in the West.<p>&gt; As medical anthropologists have consistently found, because malaria is so common in much of sub-Saharan Africa, and because the overwhelming majority of cases go away on their own, most rural Africans consider malaria a minor ailment, the way that Westerners might think of the cold or flu.<p><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2010/may/02/opinion/la-oe-shah-20100502" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;articles.latimes.com&#x2F;2010&#x2F;may&#x2F;02&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;la-oe-shah-2...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>carlesfe</author><text>I tried the oscillating fan stuff, and got bitten three times in a couple of hours. Guess there are some mosquitoes which can actually fly over a fan&#x27;s currents.<p>Local hint: in Spain, we are being invaded by the tiger mosquito[1], which is faster, stronger, and stealthier than regular mosquitoes. They don&#x27;t care about oscillating fans. So don&#x27;t trust the fan thingy. I would recommend DEET-based repellents or Autan, which contains Icaridin[2] and has never failed me. I&#x27;ve seen those fuckers hover my legs in rage, unable to land and bite me.<p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aedes_albopictus" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Aedes_albopictus</a><p>[2] <a href="http://www.scjohnson.co.uk/nqcontent.cfm?a_name=Autan.uk-FAQ#Q353" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scjohnson.co.uk&#x2F;nqcontent.cfm?a_name=Autan.uk-FAQ...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>This tiny, wearable patch makes you invisible to mosquitos</title><url>http://io9.com/this-tiny-wearable-patch-makes-you-invisible-to-mosqui-894656159</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nostromo</author><text>Just use an oscillating fan.<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/16/science/a-low-tech-mosquito-deterrent.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;07&#x2F;16&#x2F;science&#x2F;a-low-tech-mosquit...</a><p>It&#x27;s also worth noting that previous attempts at preventing malaria in Africa have failed not because of any technological limitation, but because they view it completely differently than we do in the West.<p>&gt; As medical anthropologists have consistently found, because malaria is so common in much of sub-Saharan Africa, and because the overwhelming majority of cases go away on their own, most rural Africans consider malaria a minor ailment, the way that Westerners might think of the cold or flu.<p><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2010/may/02/opinion/la-oe-shah-20100502" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;articles.latimes.com&#x2F;2010&#x2F;may&#x2F;02&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;la-oe-shah-2...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ams6110</author><text>Rather hard to carry an oscillating fan around with you at all times.</text></comment> |
15,841,456 | 15,840,894 | 1 | 2 | 15,840,337 | train | <story><title>Some of China's greatest advances depend heavily on local conditions</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-12-03/maybe-china-can-t-take-over-the-world</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>astatine</author><text>I think there are two perspectives that might provide a different view - the world outside the Western countries and when seen from the view of physical products vs soft services.<p>I travel a fair bit in sub-Saharan Africa and the extent of Chinese influence has changed dramatically in the last decade or so. The airports in most countries are being built&#x2F;upgraded by Chinese companies. The major highways are almost always built by the Chinese. Often enough these are financed by Chinese banks. Even at a consumer level there is a visible presence of Chinese cars and trucks. Chinese motorcycles are everywhere. Most supermarkets are filled with Chinese products, and quite often with Chinese brand names. Union Pay from China is starting to get accepted along with Visa and MasterCard at retail establishments. Even WeChat is taking root as a communication tool of choice though WhatsApp is still hugely more popular. There are Chinese owned&#x2F;run hotels in most cities to cater to the increasing number of visitors and it won&#x27;t be long before they compete with the large chains like Accor and Marriot for non-Chinese visitors.<p>To me, there seems a very clear influence at all levels in a very large number of countries (including Sri Lanka, Maldives and many others in Asia). Even in India, where I am from, with its rather complex relationship with China, Chinese products are everywhere. A recent article (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gadgetsnow.com&#x2F;tech-news&#x2F;chinese-fashion-e-tailers-see-increased-demand-from-indians&#x2F;articleshow&#x2F;61814871.cms" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gadgetsnow.com&#x2F;tech-news&#x2F;chinese-fashion-e-taile...</a>) shows Alibaba competing quite well with Amazon and Flipkart, the current leaders, in some categories.<p>There is also a sense that I see of the Western companies withdrawing a bit, if only anecdotally. Most flights I take to the African countries less popular on the tourist circuit has more and more Chinese people looking like they are on business, and a corresponding reduction from everywhere else.<p>It may be less in-your-face when compared to the spree of Middle Eastern purchases in major Western cities from the earlier decards, but this looks more steady and lasting.</text></comment> | <story><title>Some of China's greatest advances depend heavily on local conditions</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-12-03/maybe-china-can-t-take-over-the-world</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>owenversteeg</author><text>IMHO there&#x27;s an interesting case to be made here (that China won&#x27;t take over the world), but this article seems to have all the thought and research of an off-the-cuff tweet. The author spends almost half the article talking about mobile payments, which is a really tiny part of international dominance.<p>He mentions the gravity model being a limiting factor. Huh? If anything, including the gravity model would sway the balance further towards China and away from the US. China is extremely close to a massive number of highly populated Asian countries, and can run inexpensive trains to Europe. The US has Canada (population 36 million) or Mexico (127 million) close by, but not really much else. As a result, China can inexpensively ship to ~5 billion people, and the US can ship to maybe 500MM. Throw in all of South America (only 400MM or so people) and the US&#x27;s reach is still under a billion.<p>Some figures: Northeast US to southern South America is about 11,000 km straight line, which has to be done with a complicated series of trucks, trains, boats, more trucks, etc. Beijing to Eastern Europe is 6400km, and can be done with two trains.<p>I think that one of the big blocks for China will be regulations around product safety and manufacturing&#x2F;labor standards. There will be also regional pride (&quot;made in USA&quot;&#x2F;&quot;made in Europe&quot;) products and specialized equipment (processors, optics, scientific equipment.) There are a lot of cases to be made, but I don&#x27;t think this article makes any good ones.</text></comment> |
14,693,493 | 14,692,208 | 1 | 2 | 14,690,638 | train | <story><title>Django vs. Flask</title><url>https://www.git-pull.com/code_explorer/django-vs-flask.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yen223</author><text>I&#x27;m working with a large, 5 year old Django codebase. My humble opinion: Django itself is actively hindering our ability to deliver new features.<p>Some pain points:<p>- Django&#x27;s fat models approach is bad. By coupling model behaviour to database schema, it all but guarantees that you&#x27;re gonna have a tough time modifying either.<p>- Django&#x27;s class-based views and its admin framework strongly encourages a sort of &quot;one-view, one-model&quot; approach. Just about nobody has requirements that neatly fit that worldview. If you need to interact with two models in a single view, working around it is painful.<p>- Not Django specific, but Python is a bad choice to use at scale. The lack of a good default immutable data structure means we&#x27;re stuck using mutable data structures everywhere. In a large codebase, the lack of guarantees around something as basic as the shape of a data structure is a huge problem. A notorious example is Django&#x27;s HttpRequest, whose attributes may or may not be set by the middlewares.<p>There are more, but one thing&#x27;s for sure, I probably won&#x27;t be using Django for my next project.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ibejoeb</author><text>I&#x27;m a heavy Django user, but I work on a lot of data-intensive projects. I do my data modeling in the database and expose it to Django, and it feels pretty clean to me. I use the ORM for what I would consider its true purpose: converting relations and attributes to objects and properties. I use it very lightly, otherwise, like for filtering and sorting.<p>* Create primary &quot;fact&quot; models for the things you are CRUDing.<p>* Process the data in the database. Write your complex operations in SQL, and expose them as views.<p>* Create corresponding Django models on top of the views. These are not as &quot;fat&quot; because they are unmanaged models that just facilitate getting processed data to the user.<p>If you&#x27;re using a good database, you accommodate writes through the views as well. I rarely find a good reason to do this, but when it comes up, it works great. It is especially useful when dealing with legacy schemas.</text></comment> | <story><title>Django vs. Flask</title><url>https://www.git-pull.com/code_explorer/django-vs-flask.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yen223</author><text>I&#x27;m working with a large, 5 year old Django codebase. My humble opinion: Django itself is actively hindering our ability to deliver new features.<p>Some pain points:<p>- Django&#x27;s fat models approach is bad. By coupling model behaviour to database schema, it all but guarantees that you&#x27;re gonna have a tough time modifying either.<p>- Django&#x27;s class-based views and its admin framework strongly encourages a sort of &quot;one-view, one-model&quot; approach. Just about nobody has requirements that neatly fit that worldview. If you need to interact with two models in a single view, working around it is painful.<p>- Not Django specific, but Python is a bad choice to use at scale. The lack of a good default immutable data structure means we&#x27;re stuck using mutable data structures everywhere. In a large codebase, the lack of guarantees around something as basic as the shape of a data structure is a huge problem. A notorious example is Django&#x27;s HttpRequest, whose attributes may or may not be set by the middlewares.<p>There are more, but one thing&#x27;s for sure, I probably won&#x27;t be using Django for my next project.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wolf550e</author><text>It won&#x27;t help you with handling code size so big you really want types, but one advice I would give is ditch class based views. I find that function views much easier to reason about, even if it leads to code duplication. The ability to read the code linearly without jumping through inheritance hierarchies makes everything better.</text></comment> |
11,953,996 | 11,953,020 | 1 | 2 | 11,952,498 | train | <story><title>Dotty: a next generation compiler for Scala</title><url>http://dotty.epfl.ch/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>joneholland</author><text>We are a big scala shop at Expedia and it&#x27;s concerning that Martin is more interested in Dotty.<p>Scala 2.12 is late, and not having easy java8 interoperability is becoming more and more of an issue.<p>I love the language but it is becoming harder to recommend it for new things due to the ambiguous roadmap.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dotty: a next generation compiler for Scala</title><url>http://dotty.epfl.ch/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>walkingolof</author><text>Looking forward to this, its a bold step to start from &quot;scratch&quot;, but in return the Scala community will get a compiler that have solid theoretical foundation, better performance and more utility for development tools.<p>Scala&#x27;s Road Ahead - by Martin Odersky
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_2oGY8l67jk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_2oGY8l67jk</a></text></comment> |
28,864,288 | 28,864,306 | 1 | 3 | 28,864,095 | train | <story><title>Apple Captures 75% of Global Handset Market Operating Profit in Q2 2021</title><url>https://www.counterpointresearch.com/global-handset-market-operating-profit-q2-2021/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cs702</author><text>...with only a 13% share of units.<p>That is, all other vendors together sold 87% of units, but earned only a combined 25% of industry-wide profit.<p>The vast majority of those other vendors are companies headquartered in Asian countries with a long history of promoting market share, access to information, and knowledge transfer at the expense of short-term profit. They might be making less money willingly to grow&#x2F;maintain volume, grow&#x2F;maintain access to a large volume of user data, and acquire&#x2F;maintain expertise.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple Captures 75% of Global Handset Market Operating Profit in Q2 2021</title><url>https://www.counterpointresearch.com/global-handset-market-operating-profit-q2-2021/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>criddell</author><text>I think one of the smartest things Apple did was open physical stores and not depend on carrier stores and Best Buy.<p>I&#x27;ve often wondered why their competitors don&#x27;t do the same thing? Why isn&#x27;t there a Samsung store a block away from every Apple store? Having a physical location for purchases, repairs, and support is why I always recommend Apple devices when somebody who isn&#x27;t super technical asks me what to buy.<p>Microsoft made a half-hearted effort, Sony was there too soon with their stores, Dell had crappy little mall kiosks. Apple has shown you can make pretty great revenue-per-sq-ft with a store. Samsung copies everything else Apple, why not the stores?</text></comment> |
36,533,008 | 36,532,998 | 1 | 2 | 36,532,812 | train | <story><title>Microwaved plastic containers release microplastics into food</title><url>https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.3c01942</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>quaintdev</author><text>Why we don&#x27;t use glassware? It&#x27;s perfect for food.<p>1. Easy for cleaning<p>2. Good glass container will look new for years with proper washing<p>3. It breaks. So it requires full attention of person handling it. We all want to live in present moment, don&#x27;t we? Use glassware and you will be in the present moment more often ;)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nervousvarun</author><text>Maybe I&#x27;m in the minority but we (and everyone else we seem to interact with) use pyrex.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microwaved plastic containers release microplastics into food</title><url>https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.3c01942</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>quaintdev</author><text>Why we don&#x27;t use glassware? It&#x27;s perfect for food.<p>1. Easy for cleaning<p>2. Good glass container will look new for years with proper washing<p>3. It breaks. So it requires full attention of person handling it. We all want to live in present moment, don&#x27;t we? Use glassware and you will be in the present moment more often ;)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>moffkalast</author><text>Some of us do use it. It just has the slight problem of weighing 200 tons which makes it mildly impractical for anything but use at home.</text></comment> |
16,539,015 | 16,538,400 | 1 | 2 | 16,537,718 | train | <story><title>For Two Months, I Got My News from Print Newspapers</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/07/technology/two-months-news-newspapers.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bryananderson</author><text>What would you recommend as a good complement to The Economist?</text></item><item><author>detritus</author><text>I&#x27;m a big fan of The Economist and have bought and&#x2F;or subscribed to it pretty much continuously for almost twenty years now (young old man that i am), but unless you&#x27;re entirely beholden to its agenda, which I find very un-self-questioning - I&#x27;d suggest you offset its perspective with a &#x27;complementary adversarial&#x27; weekly.<p>Last time I swore off excess media consumption (about a decade ago) I kept on with The Economist and found I was &#x27;drinking the Kool Aid&#x27; after a while.</text></item><item><author>nindalf</author><text>Eliminating notification spam sounds great and reading daily newspapers sounds great, but I&#x27;ve tried another variant of this with some success. Reading just the weekly version of the Economist left me vast amounts of free time and I didn&#x27;t feel any less informed than when I was reading several sources over the course of a day.<p>Of course, that&#x27;s my own estimation of how well informed I was, so that might be far from accurate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dredmorbius</author><text>Good question.<p>I conducted a study of the relative mentions of an arbitrarily selected set of high-informational indicators (the <i>Foreign Policy</i> list of top 100 global thinkers), and looked for references to those amongst numerous online domains (and TLDs), including several mainstream and alternative media sources.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;dredmorbius&#x2F;comments&#x2F;3hp41w&#x2F;tracking_the_conversation_fp_global_100_thinkers&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;dredmorbius&#x2F;comments&#x2F;3hp41w&#x2F;trackin...</a><p>(Scroll down past the social media listing.)<p><i>The Economist</i> and <i>The Financial Times</i> both rate excellently amongst mainstream publications. Each has a very distinct pro-business, pro-banking, and overt pro-free-trade[1] agenda (though not unquestioningly so), though the quality is generally good.<p>Amongst the more highly-rating alternatives were (in no particular order):<p>1. Mother Jones<p>2. The Christian Science Monitor<p>3. The Nation<p>4. Jacobin Magazine. (Probably the most directly ideologically opposed publication.)<p>5. Alternet, The Real News, and Truthdig, each of which has a diverse though sometimes questionable set of contributors.<p>Selecting from amongst these might be useful.<p>My survey, of about 100 distinct domains, is not complete and has various methodological issues, but should be a good guide.<p>________________________________<p>Notes:<p>1. See <i>The Economist&#x27;s</i> own Prospectus:<p><i>THE ECONOMIST, which will contain — First.—ORIGINAL LEADING ARTICLES, in which free-trade principles will be most rigidly applied to all the important questions of the day....</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.economist.com&#x2F;node&#x2F;1873493" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.economist.com&#x2F;node&#x2F;1873493</a></text></comment> | <story><title>For Two Months, I Got My News from Print Newspapers</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/07/technology/two-months-news-newspapers.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bryananderson</author><text>What would you recommend as a good complement to The Economist?</text></item><item><author>detritus</author><text>I&#x27;m a big fan of The Economist and have bought and&#x2F;or subscribed to it pretty much continuously for almost twenty years now (young old man that i am), but unless you&#x27;re entirely beholden to its agenda, which I find very un-self-questioning - I&#x27;d suggest you offset its perspective with a &#x27;complementary adversarial&#x27; weekly.<p>Last time I swore off excess media consumption (about a decade ago) I kept on with The Economist and found I was &#x27;drinking the Kool Aid&#x27; after a while.</text></item><item><author>nindalf</author><text>Eliminating notification spam sounds great and reading daily newspapers sounds great, but I&#x27;ve tried another variant of this with some success. Reading just the weekly version of the Economist left me vast amounts of free time and I didn&#x27;t feel any less informed than when I was reading several sources over the course of a day.<p>Of course, that&#x27;s my own estimation of how well informed I was, so that might be far from accurate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>detritus</author><text>To be honest, I&#x27;m not sure of a competing one-stop shop - I certainly didn&#x27;t know when I last fasted from media.<p>These days I do a daily scan of all the none-too-tabloidy newspapers (UK-based here), and on a weekly-or-so basis take in the likes of The Spectator, National Review and Foreign Affairs.<p>- edit:<p>I&#x27;m not going to lie - I could probably do with another breather - I&#x27;m unsure how much value I get from scouring all this crap.</text></comment> |
879,189 | 878,138 | 1 | 2 | 877,535 | train | <story><title>10 finger multi-touch UI designed to replace the mouse</title><url>http://10gui.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andreyf</author><text>In my experience, OSX has <i>much</i> better thought-out keyboard shortcuts than Windows does. A simple example: you'd like to force-kill the focused application. In OSX, you type command-option-esc (one hand), return, return (other hand). I don't know what it is in Vita, but in XP, it would require quite a bit of mousework.</text></item><item><author>joe_the_user</author><text>No, but his problem actually points to this being a problem for anyone.<p>It becomes a problem when the machine requires all of my dexterity just to accomplish a given task. I dislike all Apple products specifically because they <i>require</i> mouse operations to accomplish things where Linux and MS interfaces tend to have keyboard shortcuts.</text></item><item><author>gecko</author><text>Without disagreeing, I also don't think it makes sense to discount potentially massive improvements in user interfaces merely because a portion of the population cannot use them.</text></item><item><author>Semiapies</author><text>Talk about multi-touch reminds me of a friend's perennial complaint, "The future of interfaces seems designed to screw me over."<p>He has a congenital deformity of the arms, but he can type (and is one of those clacky-IBM keyboard fetishists). With his feet, he can use mice and controllers. But multi-touch systems are beyond his ability - while he can pivot and shift to type remarkably quickly, he can't get more than one hand on something at the same time. Worse, each hand is effectively only one digit for him.<p>And then, there are the folks who don't even have his degree of dexterity.<p>I can't help thinking that it might be a good thing for general interface designers to consider the implications of disabilities for users of these designs, instead of shrugging that off onto providers of interfaces specifically for the disabled.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>deyan</author><text>Did you (all of you not just andreyf) seriously manage to degrade the discussion on the GUI into a OSX vs. Windows debate? Or perhaps my expectations are just way too high..</text></comment> | <story><title>10 finger multi-touch UI designed to replace the mouse</title><url>http://10gui.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andreyf</author><text>In my experience, OSX has <i>much</i> better thought-out keyboard shortcuts than Windows does. A simple example: you'd like to force-kill the focused application. In OSX, you type command-option-esc (one hand), return, return (other hand). I don't know what it is in Vita, but in XP, it would require quite a bit of mousework.</text></item><item><author>joe_the_user</author><text>No, but his problem actually points to this being a problem for anyone.<p>It becomes a problem when the machine requires all of my dexterity just to accomplish a given task. I dislike all Apple products specifically because they <i>require</i> mouse operations to accomplish things where Linux and MS interfaces tend to have keyboard shortcuts.</text></item><item><author>gecko</author><text>Without disagreeing, I also don't think it makes sense to discount potentially massive improvements in user interfaces merely because a portion of the population cannot use them.</text></item><item><author>Semiapies</author><text>Talk about multi-touch reminds me of a friend's perennial complaint, "The future of interfaces seems designed to screw me over."<p>He has a congenital deformity of the arms, but he can type (and is one of those clacky-IBM keyboard fetishists). With his feet, he can use mice and controllers. But multi-touch systems are beyond his ability - while he can pivot and shift to type remarkably quickly, he can't get more than one hand on something at the same time. Worse, each hand is effectively only one digit for him.<p>And then, there are the folks who don't even have his degree of dexterity.<p>I can't help thinking that it might be a good thing for general interface designers to consider the implications of disabilities for users of these designs, instead of shrugging that off onto providers of interfaces specifically for the disabled.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alexitosrv</author><text>I can think in several counter examples:<p>In mac os x,
- how to show the desktop with a keyboard shortcut ?<p>- how to maximize/minimize/restore a window with a keyboard shortcut (on windows you can press Alt+spacebar, and then x/n/r) ?<p>- how to efficiently copy/move files in finder with a keyboard shortcut ?<p>- how is better thought the fact that when you are in finder and then you press enter, you are going to rename a file? because in order to open/execute on a file you must press command+O...<p>And finally, the operation you asked can be performed on windows by pressing ctrl+shift+esc, and if you are in the process tab, spelling the first letters of the procname, then press delete and confirm.</text></comment> |
16,571,768 | 16,571,697 | 1 | 3 | 16,571,590 | train | <story><title>Lyft says its revenue is growing nearly 3x faster than Uber’s</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/12/lyft-says-its-revenue-is-growing-nearly-3x-faster-than-ubers/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Lukeas14</author><text>Sounds nice from a PR standpoint but you can&#x27;t really compare the two companies based on revenue growth. Lyft is still a smaller company so in a global industry it&#x27;s much easier for it to grow faster on a percentage basis. They&#x27;re still expanding to cities where Uber already exists. If you started a rideshare company and gave 11 rides this month you&#x27;d be growing 10x faster than Lyft.</text></comment> | <story><title>Lyft says its revenue is growing nearly 3x faster than Uber’s</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/12/lyft-says-its-revenue-is-growing-nearly-3x-faster-than-ubers/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ipsum2</author><text>&gt; Lyft provided this stat shot, which also includes some highlight numbers on its performance thus far in 2018.<p>Where&#x27;s the data for this?<p>&gt; with a particularly strong Q4 during which its revenue outpaced Uber’s by 2.75x<p>How much revenue did Lyft pull in? Or Uber? This article isn&#x27;t very good.</text></comment> |
27,797,136 | 27,797,075 | 1 | 3 | 27,796,443 | train | <story><title>Using IceWM and a Raspberry Pi as my main PC, sharing my theme, config and some</title><url>https://raymii.org/s/blog/Using_IceWM_and_sharing_my_config_and_tips_tricks.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>prvc</author><text>&gt;KDE is my desktop environment of choice. KDE5 is rock-solid, configurable in any way possible and works great. It treats you like a responsible adult instead of a child like GNOME does these days, and after XFCE switched to GTK3, the RAM usage is on-par, more often than not a bare KDE install (Debian or Arch) uses around 300MB ram. This is with Baloo (search indexer) and Akonadi (PIM database backend) disabled.<p>The GNOME Foundation&#x27;s supposed rationale for removing basic functionality from its desktop is to help inexperienced users, and international users. However, those are precisely the same users who are more likely to have a shortage of computing resources. GTK&#x27;s bloat is really indefensible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nextos</author><text>If you are reasonably experienced and constrained by resources, a great option is to use a window manager without a desktop environment.<p>That&#x27;s my setup because it has fewer moving parts and lower latency, as there are only a handful of processes running and no compositor.</text></comment> | <story><title>Using IceWM and a Raspberry Pi as my main PC, sharing my theme, config and some</title><url>https://raymii.org/s/blog/Using_IceWM_and_sharing_my_config_and_tips_tricks.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>prvc</author><text>&gt;KDE is my desktop environment of choice. KDE5 is rock-solid, configurable in any way possible and works great. It treats you like a responsible adult instead of a child like GNOME does these days, and after XFCE switched to GTK3, the RAM usage is on-par, more often than not a bare KDE install (Debian or Arch) uses around 300MB ram. This is with Baloo (search indexer) and Akonadi (PIM database backend) disabled.<p>The GNOME Foundation&#x27;s supposed rationale for removing basic functionality from its desktop is to help inexperienced users, and international users. However, those are precisely the same users who are more likely to have a shortage of computing resources. GTK&#x27;s bloat is really indefensible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andrekandre</author><text>its kind of ironic if you think about it, youd think removing features and simplification should allow for more optimization not less...</text></comment> |
39,491,739 | 39,488,422 | 1 | 3 | 39,488,375 | train | <story><title>DVD's New Cousin Can Store More Than a Petabit</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/data-storage-petabit-optical-disc</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Aurornis</author><text>In case you didn’t notice, this isn’t an actual, usable product. Scientists in a lab created a technique to encode bits into very tiny spaces across 100 layers.<p>The proof of concept technique they created in a lab is so slow that it would take a full second for 10 pixels on the disc.<p>The headline claiming that this is a new cousin of DVDs is clickbait. It’s a lab technique, but someone extrapolated it into the same area of a DVD and imagined how many bits it could theoretically hold.</text></comment> | <story><title>DVD's New Cousin Can Store More Than a Petabit</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/data-storage-petabit-optical-disc</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ksec</author><text>&gt;All in all, a DVD-size version of the new disc has a capacity of up to 1.6 petabits—that is, 1.6 million gigabits. This is some 4,000 times greater data density than a Blu-ray disc and 24 times that of the currently most advanced hard disks.<p>1.6 petabits is 0.2PB, or 200TB. The highest shipping density hard drive is 22TB or 30TB depending on whether you are consumer or cooperate customer. But even with 22TB is is only 9 times. Not 24 times.</text></comment> |
31,980,275 | 31,980,031 | 1 | 2 | 31,976,955 | train | <story><title>The local news crisis is deepening America's divides</title><url>https://www.axios.com/2022/07/04/local-newspapers-news-deserts</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>I’ve spent quite a bit of time in South Georgia, as a visibly non-white guy with a Muslim surname. Folks were nicer to me there than in NYC or DC.<p>Majorie Taylor Greene was elected in 2021. She’s a <i>reaction</i> to national media efforts that started with the governor’s race in 2018 to paint half of Georgia as “deplorables.” People are tribal. When attacked from outside, they’ll close ranks.<p>As to Ahmed Aubury, it’s an unfortunate fact that police fuckups and cover ups happen. But the media chooses how it frames any given such event. Notice how the media isn’t portraying the Uvalde police department’s efforts to cover things up as an indictment of the whole community? Do you think it has nothing to do with the community being 80% Hispanic in addition to the police chief? If the community and shooter had been white, we would have been treated to story after story about how “mass shootings are a manifestation of white supremacy.”</text></item><item><author>lotsofpulp</author><text>&gt; They made Georgia out to be an unreformed Confederate backwater:<p>Electing Marjorie Greene Taylor and the coverup attempt around this killing might have contributed.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Murder_of_Ahmaud_Arbery" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Murder_of_Ahmaud_Arbery</a><p>Although, I would not say rural areas of GA are special in being unreformed Confederate backwaters.</text></item><item><author>rayiner</author><text>The nationalization of news and politics in a country of 330 million people is toxic. We’re one country but we don’t share a single set of values. Even the notion of “blue America” and “red America” is misleading. What would be unremarkable in San Francisco would raise eyebrows in Baltimore.<p>I noticed this acutely living in Atlanta for the better part of a decade. Politics was not a big deal when I lived there. Atlanta was “blue” and the rest of the state was “red” but politics was forward looking and productive. The mayor when I was there, Shirley Franklin, was truly put the city above partisanship. A Democrat, she endorsed Mary Norwood, an independent, in 2017, because the Democratic candidate was a protege of a mayor she believed to have been corrupt: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wabe.org&#x2F;former-atlanta-mayor-shirley-franklin-endorses-mary-norwood" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wabe.org&#x2F;former-atlanta-mayor-shirley-franklin-e...</a>. She waved aside criticism suggesting that she (a Black woman) should have endorsed the Black Democratic candidate instead of Norwood, a white woman.<p>Then in 2018 all hell broke loose when Georgia’s governor’s race became the subject of national attention. The state became a battleground in a proxy war between New York and Mississippi. Racialist rhetoric reached a fever pitch in the New York Times and Washington Post (but notably, the Atlanta Journal Constitution was far more prudent). They made Georgia out to be an unreformed Confederate backwater, instead of a state that’s the destination for huge numbers of Black residents leaving California, Illinois, and New York, attracted by plentiful jobs, low taxes, and an excellent public university system. The national media completely misrepresented Georgia and the people in it to the rest of the country.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lotsofpulp</author><text>&gt; As to Ahmed Aubury, it’s an unfortunate fact that police fuckups and cover ups happen. But the media chooses how it frames any given such event. Notice how the media isn’t portraying the Uvalde police department’s efforts to cover things up as an indictment of the whole community?<p>The difference is that in Ahmed Aubury’s case, there was clear evidence of corruption along racial lines amongst local leaders, and which there is a long history of in the area Aubury was murdered in.<p>Obviously, this was not the case in Uvalde and so it would not be portrayed as such.</text></comment> | <story><title>The local news crisis is deepening America's divides</title><url>https://www.axios.com/2022/07/04/local-newspapers-news-deserts</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>I’ve spent quite a bit of time in South Georgia, as a visibly non-white guy with a Muslim surname. Folks were nicer to me there than in NYC or DC.<p>Majorie Taylor Greene was elected in 2021. She’s a <i>reaction</i> to national media efforts that started with the governor’s race in 2018 to paint half of Georgia as “deplorables.” People are tribal. When attacked from outside, they’ll close ranks.<p>As to Ahmed Aubury, it’s an unfortunate fact that police fuckups and cover ups happen. But the media chooses how it frames any given such event. Notice how the media isn’t portraying the Uvalde police department’s efforts to cover things up as an indictment of the whole community? Do you think it has nothing to do with the community being 80% Hispanic in addition to the police chief? If the community and shooter had been white, we would have been treated to story after story about how “mass shootings are a manifestation of white supremacy.”</text></item><item><author>lotsofpulp</author><text>&gt; They made Georgia out to be an unreformed Confederate backwater:<p>Electing Marjorie Greene Taylor and the coverup attempt around this killing might have contributed.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Murder_of_Ahmaud_Arbery" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Murder_of_Ahmaud_Arbery</a><p>Although, I would not say rural areas of GA are special in being unreformed Confederate backwaters.</text></item><item><author>rayiner</author><text>The nationalization of news and politics in a country of 330 million people is toxic. We’re one country but we don’t share a single set of values. Even the notion of “blue America” and “red America” is misleading. What would be unremarkable in San Francisco would raise eyebrows in Baltimore.<p>I noticed this acutely living in Atlanta for the better part of a decade. Politics was not a big deal when I lived there. Atlanta was “blue” and the rest of the state was “red” but politics was forward looking and productive. The mayor when I was there, Shirley Franklin, was truly put the city above partisanship. A Democrat, she endorsed Mary Norwood, an independent, in 2017, because the Democratic candidate was a protege of a mayor she believed to have been corrupt: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wabe.org&#x2F;former-atlanta-mayor-shirley-franklin-endorses-mary-norwood" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wabe.org&#x2F;former-atlanta-mayor-shirley-franklin-e...</a>. She waved aside criticism suggesting that she (a Black woman) should have endorsed the Black Democratic candidate instead of Norwood, a white woman.<p>Then in 2018 all hell broke loose when Georgia’s governor’s race became the subject of national attention. The state became a battleground in a proxy war between New York and Mississippi. Racialist rhetoric reached a fever pitch in the New York Times and Washington Post (but notably, the Atlanta Journal Constitution was far more prudent). They made Georgia out to be an unreformed Confederate backwater, instead of a state that’s the destination for huge numbers of Black residents leaving California, Illinois, and New York, attracted by plentiful jobs, low taxes, and an excellent public university system. The national media completely misrepresented Georgia and the people in it to the rest of the country.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>justin66</author><text>As someone with family from the Dalton area, I would warn against trivializing the difference between Greene&#x27;s district (NW corner of the state) and places where sane people tend to congregate in larger numbers. People I love have lived there, but it&#x27;s exactly the kind of place where three out of four people would think voting for Marjorie Taylor Greene is a good idea.<p>Marietta is a cultural Mecca, comparatively, not to mention Atlanta.</text></comment> |
2,490,405 | 2,490,031 | 1 | 2 | 2,489,786 | train | <story><title>IOS games using JavaScriptCore without WebKit</title><url>http://www.phoboslab.org/log/2011/04/ios-and-javascript-for-real-this-time</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tlrobinson</author><text>AFAIK the only way Apple can enable Nitro for 3rd party apps without enabling executable memory pages generally is by separating JavaScriptCore (and WebKit render engine) into separate processes (ala WebKit2 / Chrome) which are allowed to create executable memory pages.<p>Then, of course, there is no way to create bindings between your code and the JavaScript interpreter (at least not without the overhead of IPC, which would probably negate any benefits of enabling Nitro).<p>So yeah, I wouldn't hold my breath.</text></comment> | <story><title>IOS games using JavaScriptCore without WebKit</title><url>http://www.phoboslab.org/log/2011/04/ios-and-javascript-for-real-this-time</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jonbro</author><text>I am super glad he has released this. He is not joking about compiling javascript core for iOS being painful, I dumped many hours into it. It would have been nice of him to release the project files just for jsc under MIT or something, but I guess people have to make money somehow.</text></comment> |
35,673,593 | 35,664,798 | 1 | 3 | 35,655,282 | train | <story><title>The EARN IT bill is back, seeking to scan our messages and photos</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/earn-it-bill-back-again-seeking-scan-our-messages-and-photos</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BizarroLand</author><text>&quot;IT PROTECTS THE CHILDREN!&quot; they&#x27;ll scream, while using it to take more power away from society and concentrate it into their own hands.<p>Surveillance isn&#x27;t some harmless thing, because you can tell a million lies with a drop of the truth in them for any reason you want.<p>Imagine you get established in life and decide to run for local politics only to have the fact that you&#x27;ve gone to Vegas 4 times in your life somehow turned into a completely untrue &quot;drug use and prostitution&quot; scandal that destroys your credibility and political career before it even started.<p>Imagine having your grandkids&#x27; college scholarships revoked because you ran an incredibly unprofitable and short lived onlyfans for 3 months in your late teens.<p>Maybe the results won&#x27;t be as overt as this. Maybe it will be worse.<p>Either way, it is invasive and gives complete strangers power over your future and your children&#x27;s future that they simply should not have and have no reason to ever have.<p>It&#x27;s morally repugnant and abhorrent to any person who takes the time to think not of what information will be collected but of what that information will be used for and by whom.<p>The children of the people who as of today are still talking about how great trump is and how he &quot;brought peace to the middle east&quot; and how &quot;evil demoncrats are running a global cabal to turn humans into monkeys&quot; are the people who at best will be the parents and friends and neighbors of the people who will have finely grained and exacting data of everything you have done from well before the day of the passing of a bill like this.<p>This bill would make America the equivalent of living in an overly nosy HOA city everywhere for everyone. The people who fit in and don&#x27;t make waves will get the 1950&#x27;s nuclear family treatment, and those that don&#x27;t will get the April 26, 1986 Pripyat nuclear treatment.</text></item><item><author>BLKNSLVR</author><text>I think &quot;why do you have the right to know?&quot; is a decent answer.<p>&quot;What level of trust do you think you&#x27;ve earned?&quot;<p>&quot;What do you want to do with all this information?&quot;<p>&quot;How will this make things better?&#x27;<p>&quot;Don&#x27;t you have more important things to spend time and money on?&quot;<p>&quot;Is this really the best thing the government should be working on right now?&quot;<p>&quot;How does this help any of society&#x27;s ills?&quot;<p>&quot;Will taxes need to be increased to manage, store, and analyse the mountains of information that will be created?&quot;<p>&quot;How long will you store messages between me and my daughter about her contemplating suicide, and will those messages prevent her from getting a government job later in life?&quot;<p>&quot;Does the storing of all this data come with a responsibility to make it accessible to defend people who have been accused of a crime?&quot;<p>&quot;My wife works in law enforcement, will she have access to this trove of data?&quot;<p>&quot;Will there be a process to remove data from this trove that may be libelous or cause undue harm to an individual or company?&quot;<p>&quot;Is the government responsible for the complete chain of access to this data, or are there private companies involved that have to be trusted not to sneak a peek?&quot;<p>&quot;What specific issue, currently facing today&#x27;s society, does this solve?&quot;</text></item><item><author>maerF0x0</author><text>A reminder that &quot;you have nothing to hide&quot; argument is a fallacy because people abuse their power:<p>Some first hits as reminders of places where their powers are abused<p>[1]: &quot;NSA staff used spy tools on spouses, ex-lovers: watchdog&quot;
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-usa-surveillance-watchdog&#x2F;nsa-staff-used-spy-tools-on-spouses-ex-lovers-watchdog-idUSBRE98Q14G20130927" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-usa-surveillance-watchdog...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reason.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;07&#x2F;26&#x2F;police-can-access-your-ring-camera-footage-without-a-warrant&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reason.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;07&#x2F;26&#x2F;police-can-access-your-ring-ca...</a><p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reason.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;04&#x2F;26&#x2F;warrantless-border-searches-draw-call-for-supreme-court-action&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reason.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;04&#x2F;26&#x2F;warrantless-border-searches-dr...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>Can you please not fulminate like this on HN? It leads to more predictable, less interesting discussion.<p>This is in the site guidelines: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html</a>.</text></comment> | <story><title>The EARN IT bill is back, seeking to scan our messages and photos</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/earn-it-bill-back-again-seeking-scan-our-messages-and-photos</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BizarroLand</author><text>&quot;IT PROTECTS THE CHILDREN!&quot; they&#x27;ll scream, while using it to take more power away from society and concentrate it into their own hands.<p>Surveillance isn&#x27;t some harmless thing, because you can tell a million lies with a drop of the truth in them for any reason you want.<p>Imagine you get established in life and decide to run for local politics only to have the fact that you&#x27;ve gone to Vegas 4 times in your life somehow turned into a completely untrue &quot;drug use and prostitution&quot; scandal that destroys your credibility and political career before it even started.<p>Imagine having your grandkids&#x27; college scholarships revoked because you ran an incredibly unprofitable and short lived onlyfans for 3 months in your late teens.<p>Maybe the results won&#x27;t be as overt as this. Maybe it will be worse.<p>Either way, it is invasive and gives complete strangers power over your future and your children&#x27;s future that they simply should not have and have no reason to ever have.<p>It&#x27;s morally repugnant and abhorrent to any person who takes the time to think not of what information will be collected but of what that information will be used for and by whom.<p>The children of the people who as of today are still talking about how great trump is and how he &quot;brought peace to the middle east&quot; and how &quot;evil demoncrats are running a global cabal to turn humans into monkeys&quot; are the people who at best will be the parents and friends and neighbors of the people who will have finely grained and exacting data of everything you have done from well before the day of the passing of a bill like this.<p>This bill would make America the equivalent of living in an overly nosy HOA city everywhere for everyone. The people who fit in and don&#x27;t make waves will get the 1950&#x27;s nuclear family treatment, and those that don&#x27;t will get the April 26, 1986 Pripyat nuclear treatment.</text></item><item><author>BLKNSLVR</author><text>I think &quot;why do you have the right to know?&quot; is a decent answer.<p>&quot;What level of trust do you think you&#x27;ve earned?&quot;<p>&quot;What do you want to do with all this information?&quot;<p>&quot;How will this make things better?&#x27;<p>&quot;Don&#x27;t you have more important things to spend time and money on?&quot;<p>&quot;Is this really the best thing the government should be working on right now?&quot;<p>&quot;How does this help any of society&#x27;s ills?&quot;<p>&quot;Will taxes need to be increased to manage, store, and analyse the mountains of information that will be created?&quot;<p>&quot;How long will you store messages between me and my daughter about her contemplating suicide, and will those messages prevent her from getting a government job later in life?&quot;<p>&quot;Does the storing of all this data come with a responsibility to make it accessible to defend people who have been accused of a crime?&quot;<p>&quot;My wife works in law enforcement, will she have access to this trove of data?&quot;<p>&quot;Will there be a process to remove data from this trove that may be libelous or cause undue harm to an individual or company?&quot;<p>&quot;Is the government responsible for the complete chain of access to this data, or are there private companies involved that have to be trusted not to sneak a peek?&quot;<p>&quot;What specific issue, currently facing today&#x27;s society, does this solve?&quot;</text></item><item><author>maerF0x0</author><text>A reminder that &quot;you have nothing to hide&quot; argument is a fallacy because people abuse their power:<p>Some first hits as reminders of places where their powers are abused<p>[1]: &quot;NSA staff used spy tools on spouses, ex-lovers: watchdog&quot;
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-usa-surveillance-watchdog&#x2F;nsa-staff-used-spy-tools-on-spouses-ex-lovers-watchdog-idUSBRE98Q14G20130927" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-usa-surveillance-watchdog...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reason.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;07&#x2F;26&#x2F;police-can-access-your-ring-camera-footage-without-a-warrant&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reason.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;07&#x2F;26&#x2F;police-can-access-your-ring-ca...</a><p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reason.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;04&#x2F;26&#x2F;warrantless-border-searches-draw-call-for-supreme-court-action&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reason.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;04&#x2F;26&#x2F;warrantless-border-searches-dr...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jiggawatts</author><text>Ah yes, “protecting the children”. Meanwhile, some of the most paranoid IT data security I’ve seen was at a department of education.<p>You see, <i>just statistically speaking</i>, they have pedophiles on staff, staff with potential data access. They have ex husbands that want to abduct their kid after the messy divorce where the wife had to get a new identity, but good luck fleeing from your husband who has DB access at the DoE.<p>The real world is messy and filled with bad actors in positions of power and access to data that enables their abuse.<p>The less data there is, the less they can abuse it.<p>Almost like… guns. The less guns are out there… oh. <i>Oh…</i><p>You guys in the States are screwed. I’m sorry for you all.</text></comment> |
25,228,496 | 25,228,493 | 1 | 3 | 25,226,430 | train | <story><title>Amazon Workers to Stage Coordinated Black Friday Protests in 15 Countries</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/epdvzp/amazon-workers-to-stage-coordinated-black-friday-protests-in-12-countries</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dalbasal</author><text>It seems that union politics is swinging back. If we choose 1980 as a nominal endpoint for the union pendulum, it feels like 2020-ish may be the other one.<p>Honestly, I don&#x27;t know if that&#x27;s a good or bad thing... 40 years is a long time, considering the &quot;pendulum&quot; took a long time getting to 1980. I&#x27;m not sure what from past experience transposes to the present and how. The world is very different.<p>What does an amazon union even look like? How do unions operate legally&#x2F;practically in global firms? What &quot;package&quot; would they want to negotiate for. One union? Many unions? Structure. Strategy. Tactics. Etc.<p>I feel like most discussions fall into generic &quot;for&quot; and &quot;against&quot; union points. Realistically, unionisations is a wide space. Sports league unions. Newspaper Guilds. Germany&#x27;s DGB. America&#x27;s Teamsters. Teachers unions... all very different, and different in different eras.<p>What, besides achieving a union and negotiating power, would an amazon union want to be?</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon Workers to Stage Coordinated Black Friday Protests in 15 Countries</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/epdvzp/amazon-workers-to-stage-coordinated-black-friday-protests-in-12-countries</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>x87678r</author><text>&gt; &quot;Meanwhile, Amazon warehouse workers risked their lives as essential workers, and only briefly received an increase in pay.&quot;<p>This concerns me but I still haven&#x27;t seen any evidence that Amazon warehouse workers are treated differently to any other unskilled manual labor. Is Amazon different because its super successful right now? Or because it uses tech to make people work harder.</text></comment> |
1,991,277 | 1,990,952 | 1 | 3 | 1,990,498 | train | <story><title>What does it feel like to be stupid? An anonymous Quora user explains.</title><url>http://garrysub.posterous.com/what-does-it-feel-like-to-be-stupid-an-anonym</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alanh</author><text>Meta:<p>This, to me, is a fundamental problem with the Posterous culture. Here we have a post on a Posterous blog <i>made by a Posterous co-founder</i> which copies, <i>in its entirety</i> and with no significant commentary, a work published elsewhere.<p>It’s attributed with a link to the source — barely, in lowercased, tiny font, at the bottom. The headline is a link to the Posterous page, not the source (unlike Daring Fireball “linked list” items, for example). How many people will actually follow the link? Why is this Posterous blog entry #1 on HN when a permalink to the original source on Quora is readily available?<p>Let’s be clear. This is not “fair use.” It’s not <i>plagiarism,</i> as Garry doesn’t claim he wrote the anecdote; but it’s a violation of copyright. It’s publishing without permission of the copyright holder.†<p>My first submission to Hacker News was an original item I posted to my own website. It got quite a few reads — but a lot of people were re-tweeting a link to a full copy of it hosted on <i>someone else’s Posterous.</i> That user didn’t add much (A sentence expressing “me, too”). I was conflicted: Glad people found my writing interesting enough to duplicate and share, but disappointed that they were reading it on someone else’s site for no good reason.<p>I see now that if the company’s own bloggers consider copyright a joke, if they believe posting other people’s articles verbatim is kosher, well, can we be surprised their users do, too?<p>(Postscript: This differs from Tumblr’s “re-blogging” in one important way: You only re-blog other Tumblr posts. “Re-blogging” is part of the Tumblr system. You expect it there if you post there. You don’t “lose” anything by it. I have no problem there.)<p>† I don’t know if Quora’s terms of service mean that consent is implied, but honestly, in this case and this case only (the case of a Posterous employee), it doesn’t matter, because it’s about setting precedent for the community.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dchest</author><text><i>Quora's Licenses to You<p>Subject to these Terms, Quora gives you a worldwide, royalty-free, non-assignable and non-exclusive license to re-post any of the Content on Quora anywhere on the rest of the web provided that the Content was added to the Service after April 22, 2010, and provided that the user who created the content has not explicitly marked the content as not for reproduction, and provided that you: (a) do not modify the Content; (b) attribute Quora with a human and machine-followable link (an A tag) linking back to the page displaying the original source of the content on quora.com (c) upon request, either by Quora or a user, remove the user's name from Content which the user has subsequently made anonymous; (d) upon request, either by Quora or by a user who contributed to the Content, make a reasonable effort to update a particular piece of Content to the latest version on quora.com; and (e) upon request, either by Quora or by a user who contributed to the Content, make a reasonable attempt to delete Content that has been deleted on quora.com.</i><p><a href="http://www.quora.com/about/tos" rel="nofollow">http://www.quora.com/about/tos</a></text></comment> | <story><title>What does it feel like to be stupid? An anonymous Quora user explains.</title><url>http://garrysub.posterous.com/what-does-it-feel-like-to-be-stupid-an-anonym</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alanh</author><text>Meta:<p>This, to me, is a fundamental problem with the Posterous culture. Here we have a post on a Posterous blog <i>made by a Posterous co-founder</i> which copies, <i>in its entirety</i> and with no significant commentary, a work published elsewhere.<p>It’s attributed with a link to the source — barely, in lowercased, tiny font, at the bottom. The headline is a link to the Posterous page, not the source (unlike Daring Fireball “linked list” items, for example). How many people will actually follow the link? Why is this Posterous blog entry #1 on HN when a permalink to the original source on Quora is readily available?<p>Let’s be clear. This is not “fair use.” It’s not <i>plagiarism,</i> as Garry doesn’t claim he wrote the anecdote; but it’s a violation of copyright. It’s publishing without permission of the copyright holder.†<p>My first submission to Hacker News was an original item I posted to my own website. It got quite a few reads — but a lot of people were re-tweeting a link to a full copy of it hosted on <i>someone else’s Posterous.</i> That user didn’t add much (A sentence expressing “me, too”). I was conflicted: Glad people found my writing interesting enough to duplicate and share, but disappointed that they were reading it on someone else’s site for no good reason.<p>I see now that if the company’s own bloggers consider copyright a joke, if they believe posting other people’s articles verbatim is kosher, well, can we be surprised their users do, too?<p>(Postscript: This differs from Tumblr’s “re-blogging” in one important way: You only re-blog other Tumblr posts. “Re-blogging” is part of the Tumblr system. You expect it there if you post there. You don’t “lose” anything by it. I have no problem there.)<p>† I don’t know if Quora’s terms of service mean that consent is implied, but honestly, in this case and this case only (the case of a Posterous employee), it doesn’t matter, because it’s about setting precedent for the community.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>You know what, you're absolutely right. So, let's provide the link to the original article:<p><a href="http://www.quora.com/What-does-it-feel-like-to-be-stupid/answers/157939" rel="nofollow">http://www.quora.com/What-does-it-feel-like-to-be-stupid/ans...</a><p>It actually is simply a violation of copyright. Anything over 15 lines cited iirc.<p>edit: fixed the link tx Alan!</text></comment> |
23,421,094 | 23,413,532 | 1 | 3 | 23,411,520 | train | <story><title>iMessage for Windows: A labor of love that will never see light of day (2018)</title><url>https://neosmart.net/blog/2018/imessage-for-windows/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>carlyfan</author><text>For anyone who is interested in making an iMessage proxy and has time to spend: There is a legitimate way to interact with the iMessage system with a standard protocol. It requires you to have a host iPhone (no jailbreaking needed).<p>What you need to have is a Bluetooth adapter with MAP (Message Access Profile) support. Your iPhone will treat all messages from the MAP protocol as if they are from the Messages app. This means it will automatically route your SMS as iMessage if possible (you have no say on what the iPhone decides to do, however). As a bonus, you can also use email addresses as recipients with MAP.<p>A good place to start probing is the WT32 or WT41u module from Silicon Laboratories. It supports MAP, although it looks like the module supports receive-only [1]. I do not know whether you can hack blueZ to support MAP. I&#x27;ve tried to look at it and I don&#x27;t think the MAP support for blueZ is complete but I could as well be very wrong. A Raspberry Pi 0 as a bluetooth middleman is very sweet, regardless.<p>Once that Bluetooth middleman is set up, you can use a public server to relay your messages. The scheme will look something like this:<p>iPhone &lt;--bluetooth--&gt; (WT41+ESP32)|(Pi0+BlueZ) &lt;--wifi--&gt; MQTT broker &lt;--wifi--&gt; your device of choice.<p>I am relatively confident that this scheme will work. I just don&#x27;t have time in my hands to do it. So I figured I could share here. Hopefully, some good hacker will do it and publish it. Happy hacking!<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.silabs.com&#x2F;documents&#x2F;public&#x2F;application-notes&#x2F;AN994.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.silabs.com&#x2F;documents&#x2F;public&#x2F;application-notes&#x2F;AN...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pzmarzly</author><text>A bit of a shameless self-plug, but it took me 4 weekends to implement iMessage message receiving with BlueZ[0]. Sadly, all I learned about Bluetooth LE and Apple&#x27;s ANCS will be completely useless when it comes to sending messages, since MAP works over Bluetooth, while ANCS works over Bluetooth Low Energy, and these 2 protocols are almost nothing alike.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pzmarzly&#x2F;ancs4linux" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pzmarzly&#x2F;ancs4linux</a></text></comment> | <story><title>iMessage for Windows: A labor of love that will never see light of day (2018)</title><url>https://neosmart.net/blog/2018/imessage-for-windows/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>carlyfan</author><text>For anyone who is interested in making an iMessage proxy and has time to spend: There is a legitimate way to interact with the iMessage system with a standard protocol. It requires you to have a host iPhone (no jailbreaking needed).<p>What you need to have is a Bluetooth adapter with MAP (Message Access Profile) support. Your iPhone will treat all messages from the MAP protocol as if they are from the Messages app. This means it will automatically route your SMS as iMessage if possible (you have no say on what the iPhone decides to do, however). As a bonus, you can also use email addresses as recipients with MAP.<p>A good place to start probing is the WT32 or WT41u module from Silicon Laboratories. It supports MAP, although it looks like the module supports receive-only [1]. I do not know whether you can hack blueZ to support MAP. I&#x27;ve tried to look at it and I don&#x27;t think the MAP support for blueZ is complete but I could as well be very wrong. A Raspberry Pi 0 as a bluetooth middleman is very sweet, regardless.<p>Once that Bluetooth middleman is set up, you can use a public server to relay your messages. The scheme will look something like this:<p>iPhone &lt;--bluetooth--&gt; (WT41+ESP32)|(Pi0+BlueZ) &lt;--wifi--&gt; MQTT broker &lt;--wifi--&gt; your device of choice.<p>I am relatively confident that this scheme will work. I just don&#x27;t have time in my hands to do it. So I figured I could share here. Hopefully, some good hacker will do it and publish it. Happy hacking!<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.silabs.com&#x2F;documents&#x2F;public&#x2F;application-notes&#x2F;AN994.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.silabs.com&#x2F;documents&#x2F;public&#x2F;application-notes&#x2F;AN...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dawnerd</author><text>Does it support group threads? That’s one of the biggest limitations to Tesla’s implementation of this.</text></comment> |
8,585,866 | 8,585,895 | 1 | 2 | 8,585,597 | train | <story><title>An Update on Hacker News</title><url>http://blog.ycombinator.com/an-update-on-hacker-news</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>readerrrr</author><text>If I understand the rules correctly, downvoting is used for not agreeing with a comment, and flags are used for inappropriate comments.<p>But is fading the comment really the correct behaviour. Isn&#x27;t the position on the page deciding whether the community agrees with the comment?<p>My suggestion is: remove the fading; let downvoting only move the comments down, since the comment is appropriate yet the community doesn&#x27;t agree with it; and let flagging remove inappropriate comments.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hackuser</author><text>&gt; downvoting is used for not agreeing with a comment<p>I hope downvoting has nothing to do with agreement; I thought it was for comments that aren&#x27;t valuable to the conversation (e.g., not substantive, poorly reasoned, false, or poorly communicated).<p>I want to see many more comments that are valuable and challenge the community (and challenge my thinking too). The groupthink is already well known and if not, will certainly be posted by someone.<p>In practice, I do see downvoting used on comments that are valuable but challenging. It&#x27;s disappointing.<p>EDIT: remove embarrassing typo</text></comment> | <story><title>An Update on Hacker News</title><url>http://blog.ycombinator.com/an-update-on-hacker-news</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>readerrrr</author><text>If I understand the rules correctly, downvoting is used for not agreeing with a comment, and flags are used for inappropriate comments.<p>But is fading the comment really the correct behaviour. Isn&#x27;t the position on the page deciding whether the community agrees with the comment?<p>My suggestion is: remove the fading; let downvoting only move the comments down, since the comment is appropriate yet the community doesn&#x27;t agree with it; and let flagging remove inappropriate comments.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jonnathanson</author><text><i>&quot;If I understand the rules correctly, downvoting is used for not agreeing with a comment, and flags are used for inappropriate comments.&quot;</i><p>In theory, no, downvoting is not supposed to be used to disagree. It&#x27;s supposed to be used to move &quot;stupid&quot; comments (inarticulate, illogical, poorly argued, etc.) down towards the bottom of the screen. Flagging, on the other hand, is meant to call out wildly inappropriate, offensive, or completely off-topic comments.<p>A few hypotheticals:<p>1) I see a comment that is well articulated and generally inoffensive, but I disagree completely with its premise or its arguments --&gt; I do nothing.<p>2) I see a comment that is irrational, illogical, poorly constructed, whiny, or off topic --&gt; I downvote.<p>3) I see a comment that is extremely offensive, completely unrelated to the topic at hand, spammy&#x2F;astroturfy, or clearly intended to instigate a flame war --&gt; I flag.<p>That said, many people seem to use downvotes to disagree with a comment, and I&#x27;m concerned that lowering the downvote threshold will lead to even more of that behavior.<p>Maybe the problem is that downvoting and flagging share too close of a hypothetical use case. Downvoting is clearly easier to do, and it&#x27;s doable in the main thread view. So that could be why people routinely use it to disagree with comments. I have flagged maybe a grand total of one comment in all my time on HN, and I generally regard flagging as an option of last resort. (It could also be that I arrive at various threads after the worst stuff has been flagged and removed, providing me an artificially sunny view of the threads).</text></comment> |
33,739,219 | 33,738,196 | 1 | 2 | 33,716,429 | train | <story><title>Tumblr to Add Support for ActivityPub</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/21/tumblr-to-add-support-for-activitypub-the-social-protocol-powering-mastodon-and-other-apps/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Kye</author><text>Can you imagine<p>You log into your Tumblr dashboard<p>All your friends on Mastodon making posts, your favorite bloggers on Write.as&#x2F;WriteFreely instances, your favorite artists and photographers on Pixelfed<p>Mingling with the people you follow on Tumblr. And it&#x27;s all neatly tied together through ActivityPub.<p>This was the original promise of the tumbleblogs Tumblr was inspired by. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kottke.org&#x2F;05&#x2F;10&#x2F;tumblelogs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kottke.org&#x2F;05&#x2F;10&#x2F;tumblelogs</a><p>I see people worry that it&#x27;ll be quickly blocked the moment it steps on to the Fediverse. The matt in Automattic lived through the same decades of web and internet we all did. I <i>hope</i> he has the good sense to slow walk it and make sure Tumblr is a good citizen of the Fediverse rather than flipping a switch one day to open the floodgates.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toastal</author><text>&gt; your favorite artists and photographers on Pixelfed<p>Pixelfed is more or less an Instagram clone ... which is like photo&#x2F;video microblogging. Because the audience is largely &#x27;casual&#x27; and encourage taking and consuming media from a smart phone it does some things with images that are antithetical to what a _good_ platform would be for artists. Instagram compresses the living hell out of images, it limits you to square and close-to-square dimensions, the color profile is stripped (I would assume you still can&#x27;t even upload DCI-P3 photos from non-Apple platforms for whatever reason), and all license and metadata is stripped from the image. Most, if not all, of these issues have traveled to Pixelfed too. If it wasn&#x27;t for the walled status and trying to gain &#x27;casual&#x27; followers, I don&#x27;t think artists would prefer the degradation of image options, quality, and metadata of Pixelfed&#x2F;Instagram if they could be federated on a different, image-quality-focused platform. It&#x27;s not without it&#x27;s shortcomings, but Flickr better at this sort of thing and was talking of federation this week: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;DonMacAskill&#x2F;status&#x2F;1594945727255699457" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;DonMacAskill&#x2F;status&#x2F;1594945727255699457</a>. Currently nothing in the Fediverse respects the media in the way a deviantArt, 500px, Flickr, et.al. type platform does.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tumblr to Add Support for ActivityPub</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/21/tumblr-to-add-support-for-activitypub-the-social-protocol-powering-mastodon-and-other-apps/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Kye</author><text>Can you imagine<p>You log into your Tumblr dashboard<p>All your friends on Mastodon making posts, your favorite bloggers on Write.as&#x2F;WriteFreely instances, your favorite artists and photographers on Pixelfed<p>Mingling with the people you follow on Tumblr. And it&#x27;s all neatly tied together through ActivityPub.<p>This was the original promise of the tumbleblogs Tumblr was inspired by. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kottke.org&#x2F;05&#x2F;10&#x2F;tumblelogs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kottke.org&#x2F;05&#x2F;10&#x2F;tumblelogs</a><p>I see people worry that it&#x27;ll be quickly blocked the moment it steps on to the Fediverse. The matt in Automattic lived through the same decades of web and internet we all did. I <i>hope</i> he has the good sense to slow walk it and make sure Tumblr is a good citizen of the Fediverse rather than flipping a switch one day to open the floodgates.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>no_wizard</author><text>Why is flipping the switch bad in this context? Isn’t that actually what the protocol needs, a major visible platform adopting it with open arms all at once?</text></comment> |
19,851,760 | 19,851,830 | 1 | 2 | 19,850,629 | train | <story><title>Dear Client, Here’s Why That Change Took So Long</title><url>https://www.simplethread.com/dear-client-heres-why-that-change-took-so-long/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>noego</author><text>On the flip side, I&#x27;ve seen far too many teams move at the speed of molasses, for reasons unrelated to the intrinsic complexity of the problem. Bureaucracy, analysis paralysis, no automated testing, accidental complexity, tech debt, poor retention of experienced developers, poor compensation resulting in sub-par hires, insufficient training and mentoring for new hires etc etc. I wouldn&#x27;t be so quick to assume that every single development team is operating at their most ideal.</text></item><item><author>commandlinefan</author><text>What gets me is that software has been a mainstay of modern business for _at least_ 30 years. And this whole time, every single professional software developer has been telling every single non-software developer the exact same thing, over and over: this takes longer to do than you think. If, say, 80% of developers were knocking things out, problem free, in an hour or two and the other 20% were hanging back like a 50’s union boss saying, “yeah, that’s going to be an all-day job easy”, then maybe I could understand why they STILL think we’re lying. Even if 20% of the devs could get things done in the time they seem to think it takes and the other 80% were hemming and hawing I could still understand this perspective. But that’s not the ratio. 0% of devs can reliably complete tasks in the time that MBA’s seem to think it should take and 100% of devs take longer than they “wish” it would take and THEY STILL AREN’T PAYING ATTENTION.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thanatropism</author><text>&gt; . Bureaucracy, analysis paralysis, no automated testing, accidental complexity, tech debt, poor retention of experienced developers, poor compensation resulting in sub-par hires, insufficient training and mentoring for new hires etc etc.<p>Most of these look like MBA problems.<p>That said, maybe more experienced coders should be doing MBAs (which isn&#x27;t just about attending classes but about networking, acquiring a wider shallower knowledge base etc) so the dynamics of tech debt are clear to people who are in charge of making debt decisions.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dear Client, Here’s Why That Change Took So Long</title><url>https://www.simplethread.com/dear-client-heres-why-that-change-took-so-long/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>noego</author><text>On the flip side, I&#x27;ve seen far too many teams move at the speed of molasses, for reasons unrelated to the intrinsic complexity of the problem. Bureaucracy, analysis paralysis, no automated testing, accidental complexity, tech debt, poor retention of experienced developers, poor compensation resulting in sub-par hires, insufficient training and mentoring for new hires etc etc. I wouldn&#x27;t be so quick to assume that every single development team is operating at their most ideal.</text></item><item><author>commandlinefan</author><text>What gets me is that software has been a mainstay of modern business for _at least_ 30 years. And this whole time, every single professional software developer has been telling every single non-software developer the exact same thing, over and over: this takes longer to do than you think. If, say, 80% of developers were knocking things out, problem free, in an hour or two and the other 20% were hanging back like a 50’s union boss saying, “yeah, that’s going to be an all-day job easy”, then maybe I could understand why they STILL think we’re lying. Even if 20% of the devs could get things done in the time they seem to think it takes and the other 80% were hemming and hawing I could still understand this perspective. But that’s not the ratio. 0% of devs can reliably complete tasks in the time that MBA’s seem to think it should take and 100% of devs take longer than they “wish” it would take and THEY STILL AREN’T PAYING ATTENTION.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>novaleaf</author><text>my own anicdata: Integrate a default proxy into our existing &quot;choose proxy&quot; workflow takes about 2 weeks, and I&#x27;m currently on my 3rd month of those 2 weeks :)<p>Reasons for the delay:<p>1) Proxy is a stand-alone application. Needs it&#x27;s own deployment and build configuration
2) Main app was running on Node 6.x. High time to upgrade to 10.x as 6.x LTS is running out.
3) Upgrade to 10.x breaks some modules we depend on (Google Cloud datastore) and that module has been deprecated in Node 8.x+.. time to refactor that....
4) Main app is in a mono-repo with backend systems still running node 6.x Don&#x27;t want to spend the time upgrading everything to node 10, so need to split Main app into it&#x27;s own repo, decoupling from existing mono-repo codebase
5) Since we are upgrading main app to Node 10, Best to remove dependencies on old definitely-typed typescript typings (upgrade to npm @types definitions). And as such refactor to use latest version of all modules....
6) Security: New Default Proxy should only allow the Main app. code a solution for this using Keypairs....
7) Docs, sample code for users, announcement mail.<p>thankfully i&#x27;m currently on step 7. Usually I expect to be off on my estimates by a factor of 4x. This is excessive :)</text></comment> |
28,330,703 | 28,329,713 | 1 | 3 | 28,329,286 | train | <story><title>App store payments will have increased competition</title><url>https://www.kalzumeus.com/2021/08/27/app-store-payment-competition/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>patio11</author><text>Happy to chat about it, HN, since otherwise I&#x27;d just be playing more Genshin Impact.<p>My capsule review of the game nobody asked for: if you like Breath of the Wild, you&#x27;ll likely enjoy it a lot. It is not as pure of an exploration game at BotW is, and the emergent game mechanics that made BotW such a joy, a toy which produced its own unique stories with every player, are mostly absent. The exploration doesn&#x27;t tie in closely with the plot like it does in BotW.<p>But, other than that, it&#x27;s an extremely, extremely effective game. Excellent art and music design; the graphics compare favorably to anything I&#x27;ve ever seen in an AAA game if you like this anime-inspired visual style.<p>I find the combat similar to single-player WoW with more interesting strategic choices (regarding party comp, etc) and less interesting tactical choices. Harder encounters are fun puzzles to solve.<p>While the actual story in the game is nothing we haven&#x27;t seen done better before, the character interactions are an extremely interesting Chinese take on Chinese&#x2F;Japanese&#x2F;Western fantasy tropes. Someone could get an East Asian Studies thesis out of it fairly easily. It&#x27;s amusing to &quot;read&quot; with that cultural commentary lens on; the localization is also surprisingly well done (including both English and Japanese, to the extent you credit me with being able to perceive that).<p>The metagame about how to progress as quickly as possible, and where to invest your resources &#x2F; how to harvest them efficiently, also pushes my buttons very effectively.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kbenson</author><text>I learned all I want to know about that game while my 11 year old was playing it. Sounded like BotW with annoyingly long and useless grinding to get weird crystals or something that are needed to buy better weapons (or buy loot boxes of a sort with low good loot chace, IIRC).<p>It didn&#x27;t sound <i>horrible</i>, because he seemed to like the gameplay, but I didn&#x27;t feel any desire to get into a game where you can pay for benefit (I tend to the other end of the spectrum, repeatedly punishing deaths until you get better, like Dark Souls).<p>He probably spent a total of ~$80 on the game, over 4-6 months. I don&#x27;t count that as too bad, as it&#x27;s not much more than buying it and an expansion would cost, and it provided him a lot of entertainment. That said, the reason it as <i>only</i> ~$80 is because I was controlling the purse strings.</text></comment> | <story><title>App store payments will have increased competition</title><url>https://www.kalzumeus.com/2021/08/27/app-store-payment-competition/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>patio11</author><text>Happy to chat about it, HN, since otherwise I&#x27;d just be playing more Genshin Impact.<p>My capsule review of the game nobody asked for: if you like Breath of the Wild, you&#x27;ll likely enjoy it a lot. It is not as pure of an exploration game at BotW is, and the emergent game mechanics that made BotW such a joy, a toy which produced its own unique stories with every player, are mostly absent. The exploration doesn&#x27;t tie in closely with the plot like it does in BotW.<p>But, other than that, it&#x27;s an extremely, extremely effective game. Excellent art and music design; the graphics compare favorably to anything I&#x27;ve ever seen in an AAA game if you like this anime-inspired visual style.<p>I find the combat similar to single-player WoW with more interesting strategic choices (regarding party comp, etc) and less interesting tactical choices. Harder encounters are fun puzzles to solve.<p>While the actual story in the game is nothing we haven&#x27;t seen done better before, the character interactions are an extremely interesting Chinese take on Chinese&#x2F;Japanese&#x2F;Western fantasy tropes. Someone could get an East Asian Studies thesis out of it fairly easily. It&#x27;s amusing to &quot;read&quot; with that cultural commentary lens on; the localization is also surprisingly well done (including both English and Japanese, to the extent you credit me with being able to perceive that).<p>The metagame about how to progress as quickly as possible, and where to invest your resources &#x2F; how to harvest them efficiently, also pushes my buttons very effectively.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smoldesu</author><text>I like Breath of the Wild, but trying Genshin Impact was like having a root canal done on my brain. After around 30 minutes of playing it I had to put it down, grinding a game for the promise of being able to buy microtransactions is not a effective way for me to spend my time. Maybe it&#x27;s just because I&#x27;m not an MMO fan, but Genshin feels like a regression in the genre of JRPGs.</text></comment> |
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