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21,096,564 | 21,096,394 | 1 | 2 | 21,095,821 | train | <story><title>Men Are Waiting to Share Some Feelings (2018)</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/08/style/men-emotions-mankind-project.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sabarn01</author><text>Whats wrong with stoicism. Feelings are fleeting in general didn&#x27;t lead me to positive places. I think we should put a high value on people that can handle their own problems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>I&#x27;ve participated in some of this work and agree that having feeling-sharing be the top line item is misleading. Feelings are involved, but the core of it is to face what one has been avoiding, in order to become stronger and grow. There&#x27;s plenty of room for stoicism in that.<p>The way to overcome pain is to acknowledge and include it instead of denying it. The difference is huge, and most of us need help to get there—personally contactful help, not idea help. I found it pretty liberating to be able to get such help from other men, in a group no less. The point is not to become a gushy feeling-sharer or a sensitive new-age male. It is to no longer be governed by unconscious feelings and the wounds of early experience.<p>The organizations that practice this work are not super clear about that distinction, which I suspect limits their appeal to many men. I went because of a friend I respect, who in turn went because of a friend he respects. Had either of us only read an article like this, I doubt we&#x27;d have been interested. Its subtle ironizing, which approaches belittling (&quot;chastened menfolk&quot;, &quot;There, there&quot;), would have turned me off. The photos would have turned me off too, and I&#x27;ve sat in a lot of workshops (though usually with few men and many women).<p>Edit: an interesting thing to me was the gap between practice and theory. Even though there were parts of the theory behind that work which I didn&#x27;t necessarily find appealing, I met quite a few men there who struck me as having a kind of integrated masculinity (maybe not the best phrase, but it&#x27;s hard to find words for these qualities). They seemed strong and open at the same time. I found myself admiring them and wanting to be more like that myself. None of this had much to do with expressing feelings or being emotional; I would use the word presence instead. They maybe even seemed a bit less emotional than most men I meet—more able to take in what is happening without being reactive.<p>So I would say the theory doesn&#x27;t work as well as the practice. You barely ever get that! usually it&#x27;s the other way around.</text></comment> | <story><title>Men Are Waiting to Share Some Feelings (2018)</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/08/style/men-emotions-mankind-project.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sabarn01</author><text>Whats wrong with stoicism. Feelings are fleeting in general didn&#x27;t lead me to positive places. I think we should put a high value on people that can handle their own problems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nostromo</author><text>I agree. I find that the healthiest people in my life don&#x27;t seem to be the types prone to endless rumination.<p>I think this is where meditation (and stoicism) deviates from some types of psychotherapy and most support groups. Meditation teaches you to look at feelings dispassionately, which helps you lessen their power. This is very different than treating each emotion as if it is &quot;correct&quot; and in need of resolution via lots of introspection.</text></comment> |
17,169,508 | 17,169,480 | 1 | 2 | 17,169,080 | train | <story><title>Top Mistakes and Learnings from My Startup: Postmortem Samsamia</title><url>https://miguelgfierro.com/blog/2018/top-mistakes-and-learnings-from-my-startup-postmortem-samsamia/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rsp1984</author><text><i>If you are trying to start a startup with a friend, think about this, do you really know this person? are you confident that under high levels of pressure this person is going to help you or is he going to break apart?</i><p>I started a startup with my best friend whom I knew for several years. The startup succeeded (kind of, we got acqui-hired by BigTech) but the friendship turned into a deep alienation in the process.<p>Startup pressure can bring out the true character of a person. The problem though is that you may not know the true character of someone until startup pressure is applied -- even if that someone is your best friend.<p>I&#x27;d actually argue for <i>not</i> starting your startup with a good friend. Friendship bias works against you when your cofounder turns against you under pressure. Instead choose a co-founder that you know professionally and that you have a good gut feeling about.<p>The problem of the story presented is not that he didn&#x27;t start the company with someone he knew better, it&#x27;s that apparently no agreements existed that prevented $ANTISOCIAL_COFOUNDER_BEHAVIOR from happening. I&#x27;m certainly guilty of that as well. The resources spent on setting up those agreements are <i>always</i> worth it. Also not a shame at all to bring in lawyers at this stage.<p><i>It is super common to divide shares generously the first day of the startup, it&#x27;s like marrying a girl the first day you know her. Isn&#x27;t it creepy?</i><p>It&#x27;s common to divide 50&#x2F;50, but with a vesting schedule. If co-founder shows $ANTISOCIAL_COFOUNDER_BEHAVIOR despite agreements made you may kick him&#x2F;her out and will only lose shares that vested.</text></comment> | <story><title>Top Mistakes and Learnings from My Startup: Postmortem Samsamia</title><url>https://miguelgfierro.com/blog/2018/top-mistakes-and-learnings-from-my-startup-postmortem-samsamia/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>heliodor</author><text>Reading the abstract reminded me that so many people don&#x27;t understand effective communication. The academic essay style is a travesty of global proportions. Effective communication would start with the conclusion section, then the body, and leave the intro out. Make your statement quickly, and then expand upon it for whoever wants to keep reading. Saying, &quot;in this essay I will tell you what I learned&quot; is not going to keep me reading. Give me the high level points, then expand upon them!</text></comment> |
9,124,574 | 9,124,617 | 1 | 3 | 9,124,232 | train | <story><title>Router Firmware Backdoor</title><url>http://blog.ensolnepal.com/router_backdoor/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cnvogel</author><text>&gt; Every user need to know their devices and vendor before purchasing.<p>This completely ignores the reality of how the majority of people buy and use their computers. Sure, personally I (as: the HN user typing this comment) can portscan my router, solder in the serial port to get the system console... but that&#x27;s not something that can reasonably be required from any average Joe.<p>Things on that level of negligence should be dealt with just like bare cables touchable from the outside: Have some entity go into stores, buy the box, check it for the worst vulnerabilities, declare it unsuitable for sale and place a ban on the vendor.<p>We do this for childrens&#x27; toys, electrical appliances, ... why not do it for IT equipment? Just to weed out the worst offenders in terms of security holes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>userbinator</author><text>Be careful what you wish for... giving more control to the authorities is something that may have quite oppressive long-term effects.<p>You might solve this problem in the short term, but end up with only being able to buy approved devices containing more obscure, government-sponsored backdoors instead.</text></comment> | <story><title>Router Firmware Backdoor</title><url>http://blog.ensolnepal.com/router_backdoor/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cnvogel</author><text>&gt; Every user need to know their devices and vendor before purchasing.<p>This completely ignores the reality of how the majority of people buy and use their computers. Sure, personally I (as: the HN user typing this comment) can portscan my router, solder in the serial port to get the system console... but that&#x27;s not something that can reasonably be required from any average Joe.<p>Things on that level of negligence should be dealt with just like bare cables touchable from the outside: Have some entity go into stores, buy the box, check it for the worst vulnerabilities, declare it unsuitable for sale and place a ban on the vendor.<p>We do this for childrens&#x27; toys, electrical appliances, ... why not do it for IT equipment? Just to weed out the worst offenders in terms of security holes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jakejake</author><text>I&#x27;m sure somebody will probably point out to me why this is a terrible idea, but I have thought that ISPs probably can detect traffic known to be coming to&#x2F;from bot networks and then send a letter of warning to the customer. They can do it for supposedly illegal file sharing, so why not do something helpful and let customers know that fishy traffic is coming from their system?<p>I don&#x27;t mean they should be able to shut you off or anything, but I personally wouldn&#x27;t mind a notification letting me know that I may have been hacked.</text></comment> |
30,259,738 | 30,259,614 | 1 | 3 | 30,257,978 | train | <story><title>Exposing a web service with Cloudflare Tunnel</title><url>https://erisa.dev/exposing-a-web-service-with-cloudflare-tunnel/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>napkin</author><text>If you have $3-5&#x2F;month to spare on a VPS, a similar but self hosted solution can be achieved- Tunnel&#x2F;VPN and reverse proxy- using Wireguard and Caddy.<p>Caddy in particular is extremely easy to configure, with the bonus that HTTPS&#x2F;Lets Encrypt has never been free&#x27;er. Wireguard configuration is also gloriously minimal but admittedly, potentially tricky to get right the first time.<p>It&#x27;s just good to consider alternatives to Cloudfare&#x27;s network dominance, if you can afford it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gtsteve</author><text>I recently used the same Cloudflare Tunnel project to put an internal hosted service behind Cloudflare access.<p>I chose this over Wireguard because it integrates with our SSO system and users don&#x27;t have to configure a firewall client. In fact, most users don&#x27;t know we even did anything special to secure the service.<p>Secondly, I can set up wireguard, but then I would be responsible for maintenance, keeping the instance up and patched etc. You may save money by using Wireguard, but you pay for it in time, which is the only thing you cannot buy.</text></comment> | <story><title>Exposing a web service with Cloudflare Tunnel</title><url>https://erisa.dev/exposing-a-web-service-with-cloudflare-tunnel/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>napkin</author><text>If you have $3-5&#x2F;month to spare on a VPS, a similar but self hosted solution can be achieved- Tunnel&#x2F;VPN and reverse proxy- using Wireguard and Caddy.<p>Caddy in particular is extremely easy to configure, with the bonus that HTTPS&#x2F;Lets Encrypt has never been free&#x27;er. Wireguard configuration is also gloriously minimal but admittedly, potentially tricky to get right the first time.<p>It&#x27;s just good to consider alternatives to Cloudfare&#x27;s network dominance, if you can afford it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sascha_sl</author><text>The real beauty of cloudflared is that you can just throw it into a sidecar for your k8s pod &#x2F; docker-compose container set and configure the entire thing in one place.</text></comment> |
28,136,058 | 28,135,977 | 1 | 2 | 28,134,714 | train | <story><title>Federal Court Orders BitMEX to Pay $100M over Illegal Crypto Trading</title><url>https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/8412-21</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chowells</author><text>&gt; I am just another guy trying to make a buck like everyone else on this planet.<p>What? Most people aren&#x27;t trying to make a quick buck by rent-seeking in a system based on massive electrical waste.<p>Myself? I cut my work hours recently so that I can live now instead of dreaming of someday. I spend my free time enjoying my life, not trying to figure out who to exploit.<p>That&#x27;s also an option.</text></item><item><author>johnnyApplePRNG</author><text>So I&#x27;m working on a crypto derivatives trading bot... have been for a few years now... it&#x27;s going alright.<p>I am personally situated in Ontario, Canada, and getting more and more anxious by the day as seemingly every major legitimate derivatives trading platform with any volume is banning Ontarians from trading.<p>Kraken, Bitmex, Okex, and Huobi all won&#x27;t even look at me simply because I have a personal address inside Ontario.<p>I can trade on their spot markets with them, sure... but the fees are MUCH higher than that of derivatives markets and my bot isn&#x27;t THAT good to swallow a 0.3% trade cost when it&#x27;s essentially performing high frequency trading. A fee of 0.075% however is manageable.<p>Binance still allows me to trade derivatives, and I can&#x27;t figure out how or why. They don&#x27;t have any legal authority to allow Ontarians to trade afaik, and they&#x27;re the absolute largest derivatives trading platform on the planet right now.<p>I tried setting up a corporation in the UK back when Bitmex originally banned Ontarians, but when I went to register that corporation as a trader with Bitmex, they demanded to know the identity of all of the owners of the corporation, and if any of them resided inside Ontario then they wouldn&#x27;t work with that corporation as well.<p>(the bot was originally setup to trade on Bitmex as they had the most liquidity at the time, but that has dwindled significantly ever since they banned Ontarians and all of the USA from trading in October 2020)<p>I don&#x27;t have millions of dollars in my pocket, so I don&#x27;t have the money to jump through legal loopholes by registering shell corporations and paying representatives to act as proxy owners in non-banned jurisdictions.<p>I&#x27;m not doing anything wrong imho. I&#x27;m not risking my life savings or going to crash the cryptocurrency market with my derivatives trading ways or whatever the Ontario government is trying to protect me from?<p>I am just another guy trying to make a buck like everyone else on this planet. Why is my government trying to prevent me from doing so at every turn? I just don&#x27;t get it?<p>What are my options if&#x2F;when Binance decides to ban Ontarians as well?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andreilys</author><text><i>I spend my free time enjoying my life, not trying to figure out who to exploit.</i><p>It’s not clear to me why building a derivatives trading bot leads to exploitation but whatever floats your ideological boat I suppose.</text></comment> | <story><title>Federal Court Orders BitMEX to Pay $100M over Illegal Crypto Trading</title><url>https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/8412-21</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chowells</author><text>&gt; I am just another guy trying to make a buck like everyone else on this planet.<p>What? Most people aren&#x27;t trying to make a quick buck by rent-seeking in a system based on massive electrical waste.<p>Myself? I cut my work hours recently so that I can live now instead of dreaming of someday. I spend my free time enjoying my life, not trying to figure out who to exploit.<p>That&#x27;s also an option.</text></item><item><author>johnnyApplePRNG</author><text>So I&#x27;m working on a crypto derivatives trading bot... have been for a few years now... it&#x27;s going alright.<p>I am personally situated in Ontario, Canada, and getting more and more anxious by the day as seemingly every major legitimate derivatives trading platform with any volume is banning Ontarians from trading.<p>Kraken, Bitmex, Okex, and Huobi all won&#x27;t even look at me simply because I have a personal address inside Ontario.<p>I can trade on their spot markets with them, sure... but the fees are MUCH higher than that of derivatives markets and my bot isn&#x27;t THAT good to swallow a 0.3% trade cost when it&#x27;s essentially performing high frequency trading. A fee of 0.075% however is manageable.<p>Binance still allows me to trade derivatives, and I can&#x27;t figure out how or why. They don&#x27;t have any legal authority to allow Ontarians to trade afaik, and they&#x27;re the absolute largest derivatives trading platform on the planet right now.<p>I tried setting up a corporation in the UK back when Bitmex originally banned Ontarians, but when I went to register that corporation as a trader with Bitmex, they demanded to know the identity of all of the owners of the corporation, and if any of them resided inside Ontario then they wouldn&#x27;t work with that corporation as well.<p>(the bot was originally setup to trade on Bitmex as they had the most liquidity at the time, but that has dwindled significantly ever since they banned Ontarians and all of the USA from trading in October 2020)<p>I don&#x27;t have millions of dollars in my pocket, so I don&#x27;t have the money to jump through legal loopholes by registering shell corporations and paying representatives to act as proxy owners in non-banned jurisdictions.<p>I&#x27;m not doing anything wrong imho. I&#x27;m not risking my life savings or going to crash the cryptocurrency market with my derivatives trading ways or whatever the Ontario government is trying to protect me from?<p>I am just another guy trying to make a buck like everyone else on this planet. Why is my government trying to prevent me from doing so at every turn? I just don&#x27;t get it?<p>What are my options if&#x2F;when Binance decides to ban Ontarians as well?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>johnnyApplePRNG</author><text>So what I am doing is wrong, but trading derivatives with less leverage in sanctioned markets is allowed&#x2F;legal?<p>I get it, I could be doing something much more productive with my life.<p>The money this bot makes isn&#x27;t for myself if that&#x27;s any consolation. Not most of it anyways.<p>I have big plans to use the money generated to help the poor.<p>I live very frugally, exclusively shop at thrift stores, drive a 20 year old car that I fix myself, and am frustrated with all of the homelessness I see in my city.<p>In my eyes, this bot is the only way I can stand to make a real dent in that pressing issue. All I know how to do is code.<p>My cryptocurrency of choice is Stellar actually, it doesn&#x27;t use any electricity hardly whatsoever to keep it&#x27;s blockchain safe.<p>Not all cryptocurrencies are hell-bent on destroying the globe. Some of them actually try to solve real problems.</text></comment> |
18,361,142 | 18,360,119 | 1 | 2 | 18,359,603 | train | <story><title>Mexico's Supreme Court rules in favor of allowing recreational marijuana use</title><url>https://aztecreports.com/marijuana-ban-unconstitutional</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>toomanybeersies</author><text>Obviously this isn&#x27;t legalisation. But as more and more countries&#x2F;states legalise recreational marijuana, hopefully politicians will see the light and see that there&#x27;s little demonstrable harm in legalisation, and that legalisation results in far more benefit than harm.<p>Unfortunately, this is unlikely. At least in the UK, New Zealand, and Australia. Politicians aren&#x27;t opposed to drug law reform on the basis of safety, they might say they are, but in reality they&#x27;re opposed to drug law reform because they believe that drug use is a moral sin. There are a significant number of politicians (in particular the religious ones), who believe that it&#x27;s a sin to alter your mind, whether it be by alcohol, marijuana, mushrooms, MDMA, etc. etc. And they believe that it&#x27;s their God-given duty to stop people from committing these sins.<p>The sad thing is that there are a lot of people in society who agree with them, hence they keep getting voted in. Just look at the comments on Facebook on any news story about somebody dying at a festival from drug overdoses, and there will be a slew of people literally saying that they deserved it for taking drugs in the first place.<p>And in Australia, I can&#x27;t help but think that some politicians are using the war on drugs as a weapon in a fight against alternative culture. In Sydney, they have drug dogs at train stations, in particular in the Western Suburbs (the poorer, more ethnic side of the city), despite the fact that drug use is constant through the socioeconomic scale. Run a sniffer dog through the investment bankers&#x27; offices and see how much coke they&#x27;ll pick up. They&#x27;ll also use sniffer dogs at music festivals (especially non-mainstream events, like techno festivals), but they won&#x27;t deploy them for the horse races, despite the fact that drug use is rampant at both.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mexico's Supreme Court rules in favor of allowing recreational marijuana use</title><url>https://aztecreports.com/marijuana-ban-unconstitutional</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>suby</author><text>A step in the right direction, but it&#x27;s not quite there yet. From the article<p>&gt; It would still require individuals to bring their cases before the Supreme Court before the judges can rule whether their case is constitutional, which is still a little different to having the absolute freedom to consume marijuana across the country.<p>It&#x27;s also non-commercial use, which makes me think that the situation would be akin to Washington D.C. where it&#x27;s legal to consume it, but not to sell it.</text></comment> |
16,441,556 | 16,439,506 | 1 | 2 | 16,439,246 | train | <story><title>UPS is working on a fleet of 50 custom-built electric delivery trucks</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/22/ups-is-working-on-a-fleet-of-50-custom-built-electric-delivery-trucks/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jakob</author><text>Germany’s Post Office built and used ~2,000 custom-built electric delivery trucks in 2016 and deployed ~10.000 per year since 2017.<p>UPS’s 50 seems very low for 2018 in comparison.<p>One article about them: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2017-03-24&#x2F;even-germany-s-post-office-is-building-an-electric-car" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2017-03-24&#x2F;even-germ...</a> They are called StreetScooter <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;StreetScooter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;StreetScooter</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jcrawfordor</author><text>I can&#x27;t help but notice that the StreetScooter is significantly smaller than a typical UPS truck. It looks in the size range of a Ford Transit Connect, while most UPS trucks are Utilimaster curb vans that are something like 25&#x27; in length. I suspect that the balance of vehicle size and mileage might make this kind of adoption rather difficult for UPS - I live in a city, but not a very dense one, where I&#x27;m pretty confident that UPS trucks can regularly clock a couple of hundred miles per day.<p>Incidentally this city is also in the process of adopting a fleet of battery-electric transit buses, but it&#x27;s been a very rough process for the same sorts of reasons - very large vehicles that run very long routes in this relatively far-flung city. The buses failure in testing to deliver the promised 270 mile range has been a major issue with them, as the roughly 200 they&#x27;re able to do isn&#x27;t sufficient to complete their planned schedule.</text></comment> | <story><title>UPS is working on a fleet of 50 custom-built electric delivery trucks</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/22/ups-is-working-on-a-fleet-of-50-custom-built-electric-delivery-trucks/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jakob</author><text>Germany’s Post Office built and used ~2,000 custom-built electric delivery trucks in 2016 and deployed ~10.000 per year since 2017.<p>UPS’s 50 seems very low for 2018 in comparison.<p>One article about them: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2017-03-24&#x2F;even-germany-s-post-office-is-building-an-electric-car" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2017-03-24&#x2F;even-germ...</a> They are called StreetScooter <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;StreetScooter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;StreetScooter</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eventualhorizon</author><text>This is a pilot run of 50. Think of them as prototypes. They will use what they learn from these prototypes to build a larger fleet. If they can make these purchase price competitive with their current trucks it will be a huge win.</text></comment> |
29,177,334 | 29,177,636 | 1 | 2 | 29,175,543 | train | <story><title>Uber, DoorDash and similar firms can’t defy the laws of capitalism after all</title><url>https://www.economist.com/business/uber-doordash-and-similar-firms-cant-defy-the-laws-of-capitalism-after-all/21806198</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roystonvassey</author><text>If there was any time to be skeptical of Uber&#x27;s longevity, it is now (at least for me).<p>My experience is anecdotal but I visit my home country every year for a few months and I can clearly notice the declining quality of Uber&#x27;s services:<p>1. Vehicles, on average, take at least 10-15 mins longer to get<p>2. Even if you find a vehicle, 60% of these rides are canceled (either by the driver because they call me and find out they don&#x27;t want to go that way or they just don&#x27;t move at all and I&#x27;m forced to cancel)<p>3. After all this, if I am lucky to get into a commute, every driver has complaints about Uber (complaints include intransparent pricing, delays in payments). Most of these drivers are completely dependent on Uber or similar services and have heavy debts that they are now unable to service.<p>4. Uber&#x27;s app itself appears to get bloated by the day and while they do appear to make an effort collect my feedback when rides get canceled, not once have I got an impression that the feedback matters at all. Additionally, payment options are numerous but they require me to complete multiple steps to finish which puts me off using it (not Uber&#x27;s fault I suppose but is part of the riding experience).<p>Given that they are competing against flag-down autos and rides, not to mention public transport and private vehicles (as electric bikes and cars get more popular), I think their model is not sustainable anymore and I expect them to struggle further as riders withdraw and once the demand-supply gap grows further, it&#x27;s a downward spiral.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bennysomething</author><text>There&#x27;s a shortage of drivers (in the UK at least) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;business-59158230" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;business-59158230</a><p>It&#x27;s actually getting really noticeable. It used to be easy for me to hail a taxi or get an Uber from a pub, it&#x27;s next to impossible now</text></comment> | <story><title>Uber, DoorDash and similar firms can’t defy the laws of capitalism after all</title><url>https://www.economist.com/business/uber-doordash-and-similar-firms-cant-defy-the-laws-of-capitalism-after-all/21806198</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roystonvassey</author><text>If there was any time to be skeptical of Uber&#x27;s longevity, it is now (at least for me).<p>My experience is anecdotal but I visit my home country every year for a few months and I can clearly notice the declining quality of Uber&#x27;s services:<p>1. Vehicles, on average, take at least 10-15 mins longer to get<p>2. Even if you find a vehicle, 60% of these rides are canceled (either by the driver because they call me and find out they don&#x27;t want to go that way or they just don&#x27;t move at all and I&#x27;m forced to cancel)<p>3. After all this, if I am lucky to get into a commute, every driver has complaints about Uber (complaints include intransparent pricing, delays in payments). Most of these drivers are completely dependent on Uber or similar services and have heavy debts that they are now unable to service.<p>4. Uber&#x27;s app itself appears to get bloated by the day and while they do appear to make an effort collect my feedback when rides get canceled, not once have I got an impression that the feedback matters at all. Additionally, payment options are numerous but they require me to complete multiple steps to finish which puts me off using it (not Uber&#x27;s fault I suppose but is part of the riding experience).<p>Given that they are competing against flag-down autos and rides, not to mention public transport and private vehicles (as electric bikes and cars get more popular), I think their model is not sustainable anymore and I expect them to struggle further as riders withdraw and once the demand-supply gap grows further, it&#x27;s a downward spiral.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cryptoz</author><text>It&#x27;s like this in Tacoma, WA right now. An Uber or Lyft may never arrive. 5-10 cancelled drivers before the car arrives is normal. A notice saying &quot;No cars available&quot; is shown 70-80% of the time for XL size cars. Often it takes 1h or so to get a ride. Sometimes it will come in 4 minutes, sometimes it will <i>say</i> 4 minutes but then 5+ drivers cancel and it takes an hour of real time, while the app just says 4 minutes.<p>I have come to depend on Lyft and Uber and they are failing me and have been for a long time now. So long that I now plan to get a driver&#x27;s license and a car. I don&#x27;t know how else to make it in this world. If you&#x27;re at a business and it&#x27;s closing soon, and raining outside, you are likely to be outside in the cold and rain for 30 minutes waiting for a car.<p>It&#x27;s ridiculous. I&#x27;m giving up and have already booked my written drivers test for WA.</text></comment> |
11,043,538 | 11,041,879 | 1 | 3 | 11,033,835 | train | <story><title>The Internet of Things Will Be the World's Biggest Robot</title><url>https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/02/the_internet_of_1.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jefurii</author><text>Rather than IoT, I&#x27;d like to have networked Things under my control. The problem is not that they&#x27;re networked but that they all want to phone home to central services.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Internet of Things Will Be the World's Biggest Robot</title><url>https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/02/the_internet_of_1.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>late2part</author><text>My friend Mike O&#x27;Dell quoted someone as calling it the &quot;Inherently Dangerous Internet Of Things.&quot;</text></comment> |
23,788,698 | 23,788,352 | 1 | 3 | 23,788,003 | train | <story><title>Valve secrets spill over in new Steam documentary app</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/07/valve-secrets-spill-over-including-half-life-3-in-new-steam-documentary-app/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ss3000</author><text>I used to be a huge Valve fanboy, but throughout the years they&#x27;ve managed to burn away all of that goodwill through a combination of not building good games anymore (or at least not releasing them, as I learned in the article), and pioneering microtransactions and loot boxes (read gambling) added to their existing games that profit mainly off of gamers with poor self control (most of whom are literally children).<p>Although I also blame the gaming community as a whole for collectively rejecting the subscription model for games, which made the much more exploitative f2p + microtransaction&#x2F;lootbox business model the only real viable option for games that require ongoing development.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ilugaslifk</author><text>I don&#x27;t know enough about the history of microtransactions and loot boxes to evaluate your charge that they &quot;pioneered&quot; them, and that indeed could be quite important to any calculation of how much goodwill they deserve.<p>But I know that in making that calculation, I personally couldn&#x27;t give less of a shit about whether or not they released Half-Life 3, when they&#x27;ve been <i>the</i> patron saint of gaming on Linux. Which they haven&#x27;t just barely saved from oblivion, but been the biggest single force in turning into an actual viable competitor.<p>I hope I don&#x27;t need to explain why that matters for reasons that go beyond whether or not you are personally directly invested in gaming on Linux.<p>Their strongest recent competition (Epic) has not just been indifferent to gaming on Linux, they&#x27;ve actively done enormous damage to it: they&#x27;ve bought exclusive rights to popular mainstream games which fully supported Linux, and <i>removed that support</i>.<p>Though the picture is further complicated in that the other big competitor, GOG.com (run by CD Projekt, the Polish developers of the Witcher series), are <i>easily</i> the best citizens altogether, most importantly for their commitment to DRM-free distribution. But they also aren&#x27;t the ones doing Proton.</text></comment> | <story><title>Valve secrets spill over in new Steam documentary app</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/07/valve-secrets-spill-over-including-half-life-3-in-new-steam-documentary-app/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ss3000</author><text>I used to be a huge Valve fanboy, but throughout the years they&#x27;ve managed to burn away all of that goodwill through a combination of not building good games anymore (or at least not releasing them, as I learned in the article), and pioneering microtransactions and loot boxes (read gambling) added to their existing games that profit mainly off of gamers with poor self control (most of whom are literally children).<p>Although I also blame the gaming community as a whole for collectively rejecting the subscription model for games, which made the much more exploitative f2p + microtransaction&#x2F;lootbox business model the only real viable option for games that require ongoing development.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shmerl</author><text>I never liked their DRM stance and personally not using Steam and buying games in DRM-free stores instead, but Valve gained a lot of goodwill by backing Linux gaming and important gaming related FOSS projects like Mesa, Wine, dxvk, vkd3d and advancing Vulkan and OpenXR in general.<p>They are still lacking effort in marketing of Linux gaming, but their technical backing is really great.</text></comment> |
17,021,059 | 17,020,922 | 1 | 3 | 17,020,688 | train | <story><title>Using the Web for a Day with JavaScript Turned Off</title><url>https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/05/using-the-web-with-javascript-turned-off/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jakecopp</author><text>Install uBlock Origin and do it every day!<p>I block all JavaScript, then re enable it when needed to fix a site.<p>Often I just need to enable 1st party scripts in the uBlock Origin grid to fix it.<p>Make sure you enable advanced mode to see the grid.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shabbyrobe</author><text>If you&#x27;re serious about giving this a whirl, uMatrix is even better for fine-grained control. I disable everything except first-party images and CSS by default and it&#x27;s like a whole new internet.<p>There&#x27;s a bit of a dance you have to get used to when things don&#x27;t work, but I&#x27;ve got it into muscle memory now so I don&#x27;t even think about it. I tend to click around in there enabling the first few obvious things for about 3 seconds, which works 95% of the time, and for the the remaining 5% the URL gets copy-pasted into Chromium.<p>Wait, what are all these floating obstructions? I thought I disabled all JS... hang on, you mean CSS is now full of animations and distractions too? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;unstickall&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;unstickall&#x2F;</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gagarine&#x2F;no-transition" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gagarine&#x2F;no-transition</a>.<p>What&#x27;s that? Sticky sidebar full of chum? No problem - uBlock Origin&#x27;s &quot;right click, block element&quot; to the rescue.<p>The internet doesn&#x27;t have to be shit any more!</text></comment> | <story><title>Using the Web for a Day with JavaScript Turned Off</title><url>https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/05/using-the-web-with-javascript-turned-off/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jakecopp</author><text>Install uBlock Origin and do it every day!<p>I block all JavaScript, then re enable it when needed to fix a site.<p>Often I just need to enable 1st party scripts in the uBlock Origin grid to fix it.<p>Make sure you enable advanced mode to see the grid.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AdmiralAsshat</author><text>Or install uMatrix alongside uBO.<p>Having just one is certainly less hassle, but uMatrix gives more granular control over what&#x27;s allowed by the first&#x2F;third party domains than uBO&#x27;s advanced mode.</text></comment> |
41,386,278 | 41,383,605 | 1 | 3 | 41,356,415 | train | <story><title>A dishwasher can make or break a restaurant (2017)</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/style/2017/08/07/chefs-say-a-dishwasher-can-make-or-break-a-restaurant-so-i-signed-up-for-a-shift/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aj7</author><text>I have a PhD in Physics from Berkeley. Still, in the strictest real estate sense, my best and highest use is as a dishwasher.<p>I was managing a small optics factory in Livermore. We made laser mirrors to order there — any wavelength, any reflectivity, any angle, any polarization, you name it. I was working my ass off and was unmarried at the time. Thanksgiving came around and I had nowhere to go. But I hooked up with a church in San Jose that had a dinner for poor people and went as a volunteer. After serving the dinner, I wandered back into the dish room. I immediately went over to the sink and kicked out the lady who was pretending to work. I then washed all the dishes and left.<p>Comes one year later. I’m in the exact same situation. I call up that church. The lady says, “Oh, that’s very nice of you. But we don’t need any more volunteers, we have enough.” Oh shit. What to do. I found my old replica army parka I had bought in a Cambridge surplus store 20 years earlier. I went as a poor person. I didn’t want to be alone.<p>The first thing I found out is that poor people are herded, controlled, treated like children. We had to wait outside the church in the mild cold until permitted to enter, in a kind of line. So I sit down. I will never forget the beatific smiles of the volunteers that served us. This was performance art, and they were the stars. Everyone on the supplicant end noticed this, I’m sure. So the meal ends. I walk back into the dish room, survey the situation, once again kick out whoever was pretending to do the dishes, do the dishes, and leave.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>faeriechangling</author><text>&gt; Everyone on the supplicant end noticed this<p>I’ve downright gotten philosophical about it. The way my and other people’s suffering is used as a prop in other people’s stories.<p>The way I see it, if some people get personal satisfaction and a good reputation from being the stars, and their stardom leads to them helping people, I shrug. If you’re in a desperate situation you use the resources you have in front of you, and even say whatever it takes for them to help you more. I just don’t trust their motivations as people who “help the disadvantaged” can have INSANE saviour complexes and hurt those around them so they can heal them. Because they don’t actually care about you - they care about saving and being seen saving.<p>You’re perceptive to have caught on to the game so quickly. It took me years.</text></comment> | <story><title>A dishwasher can make or break a restaurant (2017)</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/style/2017/08/07/chefs-say-a-dishwasher-can-make-or-break-a-restaurant-so-i-signed-up-for-a-shift/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aj7</author><text>I have a PhD in Physics from Berkeley. Still, in the strictest real estate sense, my best and highest use is as a dishwasher.<p>I was managing a small optics factory in Livermore. We made laser mirrors to order there — any wavelength, any reflectivity, any angle, any polarization, you name it. I was working my ass off and was unmarried at the time. Thanksgiving came around and I had nowhere to go. But I hooked up with a church in San Jose that had a dinner for poor people and went as a volunteer. After serving the dinner, I wandered back into the dish room. I immediately went over to the sink and kicked out the lady who was pretending to work. I then washed all the dishes and left.<p>Comes one year later. I’m in the exact same situation. I call up that church. The lady says, “Oh, that’s very nice of you. But we don’t need any more volunteers, we have enough.” Oh shit. What to do. I found my old replica army parka I had bought in a Cambridge surplus store 20 years earlier. I went as a poor person. I didn’t want to be alone.<p>The first thing I found out is that poor people are herded, controlled, treated like children. We had to wait outside the church in the mild cold until permitted to enter, in a kind of line. So I sit down. I will never forget the beatific smiles of the volunteers that served us. This was performance art, and they were the stars. Everyone on the supplicant end noticed this, I’m sure. So the meal ends. I walk back into the dish room, survey the situation, once again kick out whoever was pretending to do the dishes, do the dishes, and leave.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kvakerok</author><text>Hungry people tend to not care at all who smiles for show and who actually cares, as long as the food is served. Just my 2 cents, but I get where you&#x27;re coming from.</text></comment> |
11,973,618 | 11,973,559 | 1 | 2 | 11,971,917 | train | <story><title>Doom, Gloom and Unease: London's Tech Scene Reacts to Brexit</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-24/doom-gloom-and-unease-london-s-tech-scene-reacts-to-brexit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>p4wnc6</author><text>But it&#x27;s unlikely for EU nations to significantly damage trading relationships with the UK. Germany, for example, exports a huge volume of cars to the UK and it comprises a significant portion of German GDP. Yes, there&#x27;s volatility around exactly how such a trade deal will get worked out, but it&#x27;s unrealistic to lump &quot;access to European markets&quot; into one big ball and assume that Brexit means that whole topic will be impacted negatively.<p>In reality, most significant European trading partners with UK just want to keep on trading with them mostly as they have been, and will work out deals that allow such trading to mostly continue. There doesn&#x27;t seem to be much reason to think such trade deals will be radically changed in a way that damages anyone for the long term.</text></item><item><author>mjevans</author><text>I&#x27;ll take your word on those numbers as they sound reasonable.<p>However I do believe you&#x27;ve neglected the other points of the post which were about the value of access to the European market place and that 10% say in how said market is run. Those are costs &#x2F; benefits which are not so easily counted before the painful divorce is complete.</text></item><item><author>evgen</author><text>I think you have fundementally mixed things up here. The UK is (was) the second-largest economy in the EU. If you want to talk about percentage contribution to the EU budget the UK was a net contributor of 8.5 billion pounds (after &quot;rebate&quot;) more than it received from that same EU budget that totals around 125 billion pounds. So they put in about 7% of the budget and get about 10% of the votes. Definitely a deal that favors the UK, but let&#x27;s please stick to reality and facts here.<p>[Expat in the UK who could not vote but followed this all quite closely... All of the numbers I quoted can be found in wikipedia if you want to go digging.]</text></item><item><author>IkmoIkmo</author><text>This really is a key point. The UK contributed a net of something like 140m pounds a week or so to the EU, that&#x27;s about 7b pounds on a 1.8 trillion pound economy, or a small (0.3%) fraction or so of the GDP. For that they got 10% or so of the votes in all European affairs, and access to a market (50% of UK exports are to the EU) under favourable trade agreements, which are easily worth 0.3% of GDP in and of itself.<p>Now the UK will not contribute 0.3% of its GDP, lose some of its favourable deals that far exceed 0.3% of GDP, and lose the 10% vote in EU affairs, yet will be subjected to those affairs as part of the inevitable effort of negotiating to keep many (though impossibly all) of the benefits the UK now has as a member.<p>That&#x27;s not independence, really. That&#x27;s losing 10% influence in a union which you&#x27;ll still be trading and working with, and who will still be subjecting you to lots of requirements under this new partnership, which you&#x27;ll have a reduced say in.<p>Unless the UK actually wants to be independent in the semantic sense of isolationism, i.e. not deal with the EU at all anymore. Yes, then you&#x27;d have independence, and you&#x27;d also have a country that&#x27;ll be completely wrecked, for the same principles that a broad boycott (e.g. Cuba for many decades, North Korea, Iraq during some of its harshest years etc) is so devastating, because interconnectedness is extremely valuable. That interconnectedness will still be sought for by the UK, but now it can&#x27;t vote and is at the mercy of the largest economy in the world. Obviously the UK&#x27;s economy and power will play a significant role in negotiations, no doubt, but the UK outside of the EU needs the EU more than vice versa.<p>So the independence argument I agree, is quite flimsy.</text></item><item><author>vonnik</author><text>Independence is a mirage, as is control. No individual nor country in the world is independent. We are all interdependent on one another, and ever more so as the movement of data, goods and people accelerates.<p>The EU is a framework is facilitate that interdependence, and while it has many faults, it was created to prevent another world war and in that it has succeeded.<p>Great Britain&#x27;s future is very dependent on the decisions of its neighbors and trade partners, and it has just told those neighbors and trade partners to go to hell. The EU will make the UK pay a price for Brexit, and rightly so, otherwise all member states would leave and still enjoy the free movement of goods and people.<p>Every power structure is co-optable by large corporations and special interests. The Leave leaders are no different. You have swapped out one regrettable elite for another, much as the former British colonies nations did mid-century. There are many problems &quot;independence&quot; doesn&#x27;t solve, and dealing with special interests is one of them.<p>Best of luck.</text></item><item><author>volatilitish</author><text>As a brit, it&#x27;s strange to see how it&#x27;s being spun here.<p>The majority of people voted to leave the EU and to regain independence. There will be a little volatility until some facts about how that divorce happens, emerge.<p>Long term, we now have control of our future.<p>In terms of startups though, the EU is there to serve big businesses and powerful establishment. It&#x27;s there to hinder startups and small businesses. If you&#x27;re pro-small business, then you should be excited about the opportunities we have now.<p>And can anyone on here really stand up for the idiotic cookie law? Can you stand up for the &quot;html link tax&quot;? That&#x27;s just the tip of the iceberg with the meddling from the EU.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheOtherHobbes</author><text>Real numbers here.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;openeurope.org.uk&#x2F;today&#x2F;blog&#x2F;how-would-key-export-sectors-fare-under-brexit&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;openeurope.org.uk&#x2F;today&#x2F;blog&#x2F;how-would-key-export-sec...</a><p>Some key UK export sectors - especially finance - have a very low probability of being able to carry on as normal.<p>The German car industry accounts for around 3% of GDP. Sales to the UK are less than 1% of German GDP.<p>The UK financial industry accounts for around 10% of GDP. Sales to the EU are around 4% of UK GDP.<p>As a rough guess estimate, post-Brexit disruption is going to lose 1-2% of that, and could lose more - because there&#x27;s very little London can do for Europe that can&#x27;t be done just as easily in Frankfurt.<p>The UK has a lot more to lose than Germany does.<p>But the EU traditionally plays hardball with negotiations. Ask Greece.<p>So there is no chance at all the UK isn&#x27;t going to have to make significant - expensive - sacrifices to keep trading.<p>This vote is literally the most staggeringly stupid and self-destructive act I&#x27;ve seen in my lifetime.<p>Take away the jingoism and the flag-waving and the blatant lies about immigration and sovereignty, and you have a country which relies on a huge captive market voting to - at best - change the terms of access to that market in ways that cannot possibly be more advantageous than they are now.<p>Some trade will continue, but the overall effect on the UK is going to be very negative indeed.</text></comment> | <story><title>Doom, Gloom and Unease: London's Tech Scene Reacts to Brexit</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-24/doom-gloom-and-unease-london-s-tech-scene-reacts-to-brexit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>p4wnc6</author><text>But it&#x27;s unlikely for EU nations to significantly damage trading relationships with the UK. Germany, for example, exports a huge volume of cars to the UK and it comprises a significant portion of German GDP. Yes, there&#x27;s volatility around exactly how such a trade deal will get worked out, but it&#x27;s unrealistic to lump &quot;access to European markets&quot; into one big ball and assume that Brexit means that whole topic will be impacted negatively.<p>In reality, most significant European trading partners with UK just want to keep on trading with them mostly as they have been, and will work out deals that allow such trading to mostly continue. There doesn&#x27;t seem to be much reason to think such trade deals will be radically changed in a way that damages anyone for the long term.</text></item><item><author>mjevans</author><text>I&#x27;ll take your word on those numbers as they sound reasonable.<p>However I do believe you&#x27;ve neglected the other points of the post which were about the value of access to the European market place and that 10% say in how said market is run. Those are costs &#x2F; benefits which are not so easily counted before the painful divorce is complete.</text></item><item><author>evgen</author><text>I think you have fundementally mixed things up here. The UK is (was) the second-largest economy in the EU. If you want to talk about percentage contribution to the EU budget the UK was a net contributor of 8.5 billion pounds (after &quot;rebate&quot;) more than it received from that same EU budget that totals around 125 billion pounds. So they put in about 7% of the budget and get about 10% of the votes. Definitely a deal that favors the UK, but let&#x27;s please stick to reality and facts here.<p>[Expat in the UK who could not vote but followed this all quite closely... All of the numbers I quoted can be found in wikipedia if you want to go digging.]</text></item><item><author>IkmoIkmo</author><text>This really is a key point. The UK contributed a net of something like 140m pounds a week or so to the EU, that&#x27;s about 7b pounds on a 1.8 trillion pound economy, or a small (0.3%) fraction or so of the GDP. For that they got 10% or so of the votes in all European affairs, and access to a market (50% of UK exports are to the EU) under favourable trade agreements, which are easily worth 0.3% of GDP in and of itself.<p>Now the UK will not contribute 0.3% of its GDP, lose some of its favourable deals that far exceed 0.3% of GDP, and lose the 10% vote in EU affairs, yet will be subjected to those affairs as part of the inevitable effort of negotiating to keep many (though impossibly all) of the benefits the UK now has as a member.<p>That&#x27;s not independence, really. That&#x27;s losing 10% influence in a union which you&#x27;ll still be trading and working with, and who will still be subjecting you to lots of requirements under this new partnership, which you&#x27;ll have a reduced say in.<p>Unless the UK actually wants to be independent in the semantic sense of isolationism, i.e. not deal with the EU at all anymore. Yes, then you&#x27;d have independence, and you&#x27;d also have a country that&#x27;ll be completely wrecked, for the same principles that a broad boycott (e.g. Cuba for many decades, North Korea, Iraq during some of its harshest years etc) is so devastating, because interconnectedness is extremely valuable. That interconnectedness will still be sought for by the UK, but now it can&#x27;t vote and is at the mercy of the largest economy in the world. Obviously the UK&#x27;s economy and power will play a significant role in negotiations, no doubt, but the UK outside of the EU needs the EU more than vice versa.<p>So the independence argument I agree, is quite flimsy.</text></item><item><author>vonnik</author><text>Independence is a mirage, as is control. No individual nor country in the world is independent. We are all interdependent on one another, and ever more so as the movement of data, goods and people accelerates.<p>The EU is a framework is facilitate that interdependence, and while it has many faults, it was created to prevent another world war and in that it has succeeded.<p>Great Britain&#x27;s future is very dependent on the decisions of its neighbors and trade partners, and it has just told those neighbors and trade partners to go to hell. The EU will make the UK pay a price for Brexit, and rightly so, otherwise all member states would leave and still enjoy the free movement of goods and people.<p>Every power structure is co-optable by large corporations and special interests. The Leave leaders are no different. You have swapped out one regrettable elite for another, much as the former British colonies nations did mid-century. There are many problems &quot;independence&quot; doesn&#x27;t solve, and dealing with special interests is one of them.<p>Best of luck.</text></item><item><author>volatilitish</author><text>As a brit, it&#x27;s strange to see how it&#x27;s being spun here.<p>The majority of people voted to leave the EU and to regain independence. There will be a little volatility until some facts about how that divorce happens, emerge.<p>Long term, we now have control of our future.<p>In terms of startups though, the EU is there to serve big businesses and powerful establishment. It&#x27;s there to hinder startups and small businesses. If you&#x27;re pro-small business, then you should be excited about the opportunities we have now.<p>And can anyone on here really stand up for the idiotic cookie law? Can you stand up for the &quot;html link tax&quot;? That&#x27;s just the tip of the iceberg with the meddling from the EU.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hsitz</author><text>&quot;In reality, most significant European trading partners with UK just want to keep on trading with them mostly as they have been, and will work out deals that allow such trading to mostly continue.&quot;<p>Do you know what you&#x27;re talking about? That&#x27;s a sincere question. My understanding is that the UK&#x27;s significant trading partners are members of the EU, and that it&#x27;s the EU, not the individual partners, who will have to decide on any new trade deals with the UK. As others have said, what sort of precedent would the EU be setting if they gave a withdrawing member the same benefits it had as an actual member? The EU does not want more members withdrawing.</text></comment> |
10,124,853 | 10,124,906 | 1 | 2 | 10,123,456 | train | <story><title>“I Had a Baby and Cancer When I Worked at Amazon”</title><url>https://medium.com/@jcheiffetz/i-had-a-baby-and-cancer-when-i-worked-at-amazon-this-is-my-story-9eba5eef2976</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tinbad</author><text>This story doesn&#x27;t surprise me at all. My 7 month pregnant wife is currently going through the exact same experience at Google. As soon as she notified her manager of her pregnancy, a week later they are trying to get rid of her. Made her pick between PIP or 2 months severance. Before she could make her decision, luckily, her doctor put her on leave because of a higher risk pregnancy (twins), she was entitled to short term disability but the company that handles Googles disability is a complete mess to deal with. It seems like make it super difficult to make use of these &#x27;perks&#x27; so you just give up and don&#x27;t bother. Anyway, long story short its the same everywhere. Im sure Larry and Jeff had good intentions when they started their companies but now that it&#x27;s in the hands of middle management it&#x27;s no different than any other big corp.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text><i>&quot;I&#x27;m sure Larry and Jeff had good intentions when they started their companies but now that it&#x27;s in the hands of middle management it&#x27;s no different than any other big corp.&quot;</i><p>One of the weird things is &#x27;success metrics telephone tag.&#x27; Basically it works like this; Boss creates a function and defines what it means to be successful. Hires a group to do that function. The group grows and its bifurcated into sub-groups which each have a part of the problem, and each has their own &quot;success metric&quot; which should, in theory, contribute up to the top level metric. However, there are no &#x27;peer ranking&#x27; of the metrics, so if you have one group that is keeping your HR costs under control (success metric is &#x27;cost per employee&#x27;) and you have another group with is keeping your employee&#x27;s happy (success metric is &#x27;employee retention&#x27;) and a third group which is keeping employees productive (success metric &#x27;revenue per employee&#x27;), they all sum up, in theory to success metric &#x27;keeping people happy and productive at the lowest possible cost&#x27;.<p>Now you find an employee who discloses a condition which will both cost the company money (benefit payout), and reduce productivity (external issues, loss of focus at work) and suddenly two parts of the HR group are having their success metric impacted by this event. You can reduce that to only one group making the person quit. So from the top level &quot;we&#x27;re hitting two of our three metrics&quot; is a better report to send up then &quot;we&#x27;re hitting one of our three metrics&quot;.<p>A fix for this is an suitably enlightened senior manager providing scale options, so &quot;retain good employee&quot; gets a weight of &#x27;6&#x27; and &#x27;save money&#x27; 2, and &#x27;productivity&#x27; 3. Now when you score it retaining them gets you 6&#x2F;11 but getting them to quit only gets you 5&#x2F;11. Retaining your best employees becomes the managed-to goal.<p>Understanding how a company approaches those problems will say a lot about the quality of its management and the maturity of its processes.</text></comment> | <story><title>“I Had a Baby and Cancer When I Worked at Amazon”</title><url>https://medium.com/@jcheiffetz/i-had-a-baby-and-cancer-when-i-worked-at-amazon-this-is-my-story-9eba5eef2976</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tinbad</author><text>This story doesn&#x27;t surprise me at all. My 7 month pregnant wife is currently going through the exact same experience at Google. As soon as she notified her manager of her pregnancy, a week later they are trying to get rid of her. Made her pick between PIP or 2 months severance. Before she could make her decision, luckily, her doctor put her on leave because of a higher risk pregnancy (twins), she was entitled to short term disability but the company that handles Googles disability is a complete mess to deal with. It seems like make it super difficult to make use of these &#x27;perks&#x27; so you just give up and don&#x27;t bother. Anyway, long story short its the same everywhere. Im sure Larry and Jeff had good intentions when they started their companies but now that it&#x27;s in the hands of middle management it&#x27;s no different than any other big corp.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>endtime</author><text>Congrats on your twins!<p>I work for Google, and when my wife had twins last October, my team was extremely supportive when I took six weeks of paternity leave - they even threw me a little party and chipped in for an Amazon gift card for diapers etc. It was an entirely positive experience. A female coworker had a baby a week earlier and she was out from mid-September to early February. And she and I both applied for promotion that September, with the full support of our manager and her manager. I&#x27;ve since seen friends at Google have kids and take leave with absolutely no issues.<p>It&#x27;s awful that your wife had this experience - she should escalate it to her boss&#x27;s boss. I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s standard for Google.</text></comment> |
19,429,912 | 19,429,925 | 1 | 2 | 19,428,048 | train | <story><title>Why I believe Rails is still relevant in 2019</title><url>https://devbrett.com/2019/03/why-i-believe-rails-is-still-relevant-in-2019.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danmaz74</author><text>Having worked with many different languages and frameworks over the years, I have to disagree: when creating web applications, starting from scratch or from a minimal base is massively slower, more error prone and less safe than starting from a well developed and maintained framework, where so many of the things you&#x27;re going to need have already been solved and battle tested.</text></item><item><author>mikekchar</author><text>I work on a Rails system. It&#x27;s fine. Just like everything else is fine. I have problems, but I have problems with everything else too (sometimes different problems, but not always...).<p>I think my main complaint about Rails is that it&#x27;s pretty heavy weight. Lately we did a Sinatra app because we didn&#x27;t really need anything that rails was giving us. Fairly quickly I realised that I didn&#x27;t need anything that Sinatra was giving us either. Rack was fine.<p>I think especially after your app gets to be a certain size, you are either writing your own framework, or fighting with the framework you chose at the beginning. It&#x27;s just the nature of the beast. From there it&#x27;s more of a training issue than anything else. You can hire &quot;Rails developers&quot; (or whatever developers), but you can&#x27;t hire people who are specifically trained in a system you&#x27;ve built. Depending on the kinds of developers you hire, this may or may not be a problem.<p>Personally, I like writing code and I like small, light systems that are easy to move around in. Usually that means trying to avoid large frameworks. However, not everybody I&#x27;ve worked with is comfortable with that experience, so normally we pick things people have worked with before. Either way it&#x27;s not a big deal in the end.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lmm</author><text>A summary of my experience would be: libraries are good, frameworks are bad. (Indeed possibly the best &quot;framework&quot; I ever used was TurboGears which is very deliberately just a collection of dedicated libraries, all of which you can replace piecemeal as and when you need to).<p>Rails raised the bar for how little custom configuration should be necessary to do a simple, straightforward thing. But it turns out being a framework is not integral to that; modern libraries have been able to adopt the &quot;opinionated&quot; (which seems to be just a fancy term for having sensible defaults) approach of rails without having to grow into all-encompassing frameworks.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why I believe Rails is still relevant in 2019</title><url>https://devbrett.com/2019/03/why-i-believe-rails-is-still-relevant-in-2019.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danmaz74</author><text>Having worked with many different languages and frameworks over the years, I have to disagree: when creating web applications, starting from scratch or from a minimal base is massively slower, more error prone and less safe than starting from a well developed and maintained framework, where so many of the things you&#x27;re going to need have already been solved and battle tested.</text></item><item><author>mikekchar</author><text>I work on a Rails system. It&#x27;s fine. Just like everything else is fine. I have problems, but I have problems with everything else too (sometimes different problems, but not always...).<p>I think my main complaint about Rails is that it&#x27;s pretty heavy weight. Lately we did a Sinatra app because we didn&#x27;t really need anything that rails was giving us. Fairly quickly I realised that I didn&#x27;t need anything that Sinatra was giving us either. Rack was fine.<p>I think especially after your app gets to be a certain size, you are either writing your own framework, or fighting with the framework you chose at the beginning. It&#x27;s just the nature of the beast. From there it&#x27;s more of a training issue than anything else. You can hire &quot;Rails developers&quot; (or whatever developers), but you can&#x27;t hire people who are specifically trained in a system you&#x27;ve built. Depending on the kinds of developers you hire, this may or may not be a problem.<p>Personally, I like writing code and I like small, light systems that are easy to move around in. Usually that means trying to avoid large frameworks. However, not everybody I&#x27;ve worked with is comfortable with that experience, so normally we pick things people have worked with before. Either way it&#x27;s not a big deal in the end.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smt88</author><text>&gt; <i>starting from scratch or from a minimal base is massively slower</i><p>This isn&#x27;t the better alternative to frameworks.<p>The better alternative is using libraries and optionally a bootstrap code generator, which is not at all &quot;starting from scratch&quot;.<p>The major difference is that you tell the libraries how to work together, rather than the framework telling you how to work.<p>Some frameworks become like a terrible DSL that you could never translate back into idiomatic code.</text></comment> |
33,868,032 | 33,868,432 | 1 | 2 | 33,867,266 | train | <story><title>CVS sued over ‘fraudulent’ donations to American Diabetes Association</title><url>https://lawstreetmedia.com/news/health/cvs-sued-over-fraudulent-donations-to-american-diabetes-association/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>radicaldreamer</author><text>Another reason chains do this is to see if customers have extra disposable income in that locale so they can raise prices on items there.<p>This is the same reason you’ll see this at grocery stores.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cjbgkagh</author><text>Yeah, this is the real reason they do this even though they know it annoys you. It is a very strong signal of price sensitivity, it’s because they can’t ask “do you feel like you still have money left over” after each purchase.<p>Somewhere some data scientist made the world more annoying. Similar to how they figured they could make more money by putting milk in the back of the store.</text></comment> | <story><title>CVS sued over ‘fraudulent’ donations to American Diabetes Association</title><url>https://lawstreetmedia.com/news/health/cvs-sued-over-fraudulent-donations-to-american-diabetes-association/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>radicaldreamer</author><text>Another reason chains do this is to see if customers have extra disposable income in that locale so they can raise prices on items there.<p>This is the same reason you’ll see this at grocery stores.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tqi</author><text>Is there a citation for this? TBH it sounds like a just so story - in my experience, grocery store prices in a city are pretty uniform.</text></comment> |
10,371,939 | 10,371,330 | 1 | 3 | 10,370,669 | train | <story><title>Effective Learning Strategies for Programmers</title><url>http://akaptur.com/blog/2015/10/10/effective-learning-strategies-for-programmers</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xiaoma</author><text>The research promoting a growth mindset hasn&#x27;t proven to be nearly as robust as many had hoped. It&#x27;s starting to look like there&#x27;s a very real possibility it&#x27;s spread so far merely because it&#x27;s something people <i>want</i> to be true.<p>Psychology research has had a pretty dismal track record in terms of reproducibility (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;8&#x2F;27&#x2F;9216383&#x2F;irreproducibility-research" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;8&#x2F;27&#x2F;9216383&#x2F;irreproducibility-resea...</a>) and the growth mindset dogma in particular has been facing more and more robust criticism. Carol Dweck&#x27;s work is far from the final word on the matter that this blog post portrays it to be.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;slatestarcodex.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;08&#x2F;no-clarity-around-growth-mindset-yet&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;slatestarcodex.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;08&#x2F;no-clarity-around-growt...</a>
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amren.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2014&#x2F;04&#x2F;yes-iq-really-matters&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amren.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2014&#x2F;04&#x2F;yes-iq-really-matters&#x2F;</a>
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.co.uk&#x2F;Intelligence-That-Matters-Stuart-Ritchie&#x2F;dp&#x2F;1444791877&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.co.uk&#x2F;Intelligence-That-Matters-Stuart-Rit...</a><p>Ironically, focus on a growth mindset may actually distract people from doing things that actually <i>do</i> have reproducible research showing they lead to more mental horsepower (e.g. regular aerobic exercise).</text></comment> | <story><title>Effective Learning Strategies for Programmers</title><url>http://akaptur.com/blog/2015/10/10/effective-learning-strategies-for-programmers</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tunesmith</author><text>A lot of this advice seems mental&#x2F;emotional, but as far as tactical approaches go, I think it&#x27;s important to actually practice, like how a musician does. Like when you&#x27;re not at work, actually practice doing things like set up a git repo, create a random silly MVP from scratch, solve a one-hour problem in a new language, practice a new programming technique, etc. Or, practice while pretending you have an audience, and if you get hung up on something, learn it until you wouldn&#x27;t get hung up the next time.</text></comment> |
18,740,780 | 18,740,036 | 1 | 2 | 18,738,858 | train | <story><title>Dostoyevsky's “Dream of a Ridiculous Man” (2014)</title><url>https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/11/11/dostoyevsky-dream/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>coleifer</author><text>&gt; I saw and know that men could be beautiful and happy, without losing the capacity to live upon the earth.<p>This struck me as the revelation that changed the protagonist&#x27;s perspective. And Dostoyevsky presents this using the irrational, symbolic language of dreams: a vision of human dignity. He concludes by quoting Christ&#x27;s commandment... showing that this isn&#x27;t new knowledge. It&#x27;s been known for a very long time, but one must experience suffering and a spiritual death before the full significance of the commandment can be understood.<p>Kierkegaard&#x27;s book on Christian love provides an in-depth (and sometimes tedious) discussion of the necessity of love of ones neighbor. Recommend checking it out if you&#x27;re curious to read <i>why</i> one could come to view such love as necessary for life.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dostoyevsky's “Dream of a Ridiculous Man” (2014)</title><url>https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/11/11/dostoyevsky-dream/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Storiesofsome1</author><text>This was an incredible read! This is my first introduction to Dostoyesvky and I’m engrossed.<p>So from these excerpts, his profound writing reminds me of another great writer I admire the most; Poe.
Poe’s writing has had a profound effect on me and so has this story by Dostoyesvky.<p>I see the similarity in the sense that both of these writers seem to distill such great truths about life and translate them into poetical and lyrical writing.<p>The conventional plot is barebones in their stories but their focus lies on the inner turmoil, revolving intensely around a lonesome nihilistic character musing about the existence, human desires and the consequent suffering that results thereafter.<p>I’m a fan now and will definitely be reading more of Dostoyesvky.</text></comment> |
41,063,321 | 41,063,375 | 1 | 2 | 41,042,929 | train | <story><title>Alexa is in millions of households and Amazon is losing billions</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/tech/amazon-alexa-devices-echo-losses-strategy-25f2581a</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>asdasdsddd</author><text>I&#x27;ve interviewed many people on Alexa before. From what I gather, its just a giant switch statement, and each individual &quot;path&quot; takes a bunch of effort to support and there are thousands of paths for music, ordering, commands, etc. It&#x27;s peak AI == if statement architecture.</text></item><item><author>alexathrowawa9</author><text>Throwaway here but I used to work in Alexa org at Amazon and was amazed by how big the org was (thousands and thousands of people) considering it doesn&#x27;t seem to be a big revenue generator<p>I remember constantly hearing about projects other teams were working on thinking &quot;why would anyone use that&quot; or &quot;how would that ever make money&quot;<p>Just trying to shoehorn alexa into as many domains as possible<p>It was like empire building at its finest<p>I would joke that the canary tests were the biggest customer for a lot of services<p>And the way amazon works with SOA even what seems like a small feature ends up being a couple services, a pizza team of 10 devs + SDM, the overhead is huge<p>Back when it was announced alexa org was being hit harder by layoffs that did not surprise me</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ihkasfjdkabnsk</author><text>Throwaway, used to work at the NLU unit of Alexa about 5 years ago. There is some ML going on but as with all ML projects I have worked on people want control. This means you add rules for the &quot;important&quot; stuff. You also add test cases to make sure the ML works. But if you already have those test cases, why not just match on them directly? There are also advanced techniques for generating examples (FST for example).<p>What this culminated in is a platform where 80% of request, and pretty much 99% of &quot;commands&quot; are served by rules built with a team of linguists.</text></comment> | <story><title>Alexa is in millions of households and Amazon is losing billions</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/tech/amazon-alexa-devices-echo-losses-strategy-25f2581a</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>asdasdsddd</author><text>I&#x27;ve interviewed many people on Alexa before. From what I gather, its just a giant switch statement, and each individual &quot;path&quot; takes a bunch of effort to support and there are thousands of paths for music, ordering, commands, etc. It&#x27;s peak AI == if statement architecture.</text></item><item><author>alexathrowawa9</author><text>Throwaway here but I used to work in Alexa org at Amazon and was amazed by how big the org was (thousands and thousands of people) considering it doesn&#x27;t seem to be a big revenue generator<p>I remember constantly hearing about projects other teams were working on thinking &quot;why would anyone use that&quot; or &quot;how would that ever make money&quot;<p>Just trying to shoehorn alexa into as many domains as possible<p>It was like empire building at its finest<p>I would joke that the canary tests were the biggest customer for a lot of services<p>And the way amazon works with SOA even what seems like a small feature ends up being a couple services, a pizza team of 10 devs + SDM, the overhead is huge<p>Back when it was announced alexa org was being hit harder by layoffs that did not surprise me</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>novok</author><text>IMO with my experience with siri being AI-style unreliable in many ways, like bit flips when saying turn off the lights makes the dimmer go to %100, I think it&#x27;s better to do the switch statement for the dozen or so query types that probably represent %90 of traffic, like weather, music, home control, unit conversions, etc in exchange for way more reliability.</text></comment> |
40,535,366 | 40,535,323 | 1 | 2 | 40,528,045 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Every mountain, building and tree shadow mapped for any date and time</title><url>https://shademap.app</url><text>I&#x27;ve been working on this project for about 4 years. It began as terrain only because world wide elevation data was publicly available. I then added buildings from OpenStreetMap (crowd sourced) and more recently from Overture Maps data. Some computer vision&#x2F;machine learning advancements [1] in the past few years have made it possible to estimate tree canopy heights using satellite imagery alone making it possible to finally add trees to the map. The data isn&#x27;t perfect, but it&#x27;s within +&#x2F;- 3 meters of so. Good enough to give a general idea for any location on Earth. Happy to answer any questions.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41559-023-02206-6" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41559-023-02206-6</a></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>wesamco</author><text>How the heck did it automatically pan the map to my current location, my small town, in an Incognito window, on page load?<p>Is IP geolocation this accurate and accessible to every website nowadays?<p>If this website can do this I assume every website I visit can do it too?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LeifCarrotson</author><text>Geo-IP through Cloudflare:<p><pre><code> &lt;script id=&quot;cflocation&quot;&gt;
window.CFLocation = {&quot;lat&quot;:####,&quot;lng&quot;:####};window.CFDsm=null;
&lt;&#x2F;script&gt;
</code></pre>
See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.cloudflare.com&#x2F;network&#x2F;ip-geolocation&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.cloudflare.com&#x2F;network&#x2F;ip-geolocation&#x2F;</a>.<p>Mine&#x27;s off by more than 100 miles (Comcast Business fiber), it&#x27;s not magic.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Every mountain, building and tree shadow mapped for any date and time</title><url>https://shademap.app</url><text>I&#x27;ve been working on this project for about 4 years. It began as terrain only because world wide elevation data was publicly available. I then added buildings from OpenStreetMap (crowd sourced) and more recently from Overture Maps data. Some computer vision&#x2F;machine learning advancements [1] in the past few years have made it possible to estimate tree canopy heights using satellite imagery alone making it possible to finally add trees to the map. The data isn&#x27;t perfect, but it&#x27;s within +&#x2F;- 3 meters of so. Good enough to give a general idea for any location on Earth. Happy to answer any questions.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41559-023-02206-6" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41559-023-02206-6</a></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>wesamco</author><text>How the heck did it automatically pan the map to my current location, my small town, in an Incognito window, on page load?<p>Is IP geolocation this accurate and accessible to every website nowadays?<p>If this website can do this I assume every website I visit can do it too?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ale42</author><text>You should probably try what one of the few online demos of IP geolocation tell about your IP... (just to cite one among many, quality varies a lot across services and geographic zones: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.maxmind.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;locate-my-ip-address" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.maxmind.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;locate-my-ip-address</a>)</text></comment> |
38,964,914 | 38,962,253 | 1 | 2 | 38,961,377 | train | <story><title>Tree.fm: Tune in to Forests Around the World</title><url>https://www.tree.fm/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>WilTimSon</author><text>Nice idea but it&#x27;s a shame the recordings are so short. I&#x27;d love some hours-long version that I could put on in the background and pair with a bit of ambient for fun.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tree.fm: Tune in to Forests Around the World</title><url>https://www.tree.fm/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>throwup238</author><text>The sounds are also available in map format from the original source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;timberfestival.org.uk&#x2F;soundsoftheforest-soundmap&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;timberfestival.org.uk&#x2F;soundsoftheforest-soundmap&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
27,597,298 | 27,597,572 | 1 | 3 | 27,577,601 | train | <story><title>My favourite C++ footgun</title><url>https://dustri.org/b/my-favourite-c-footgun.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>overgard</author><text>My (least) favorite footgun is &quot;auto&quot; when it comes to references.<p>If you want to get a pointer from something, you would write this:<p><pre><code> auto fooPtr = mywidget.getPtr();
fooPtr-&gt;doCoolStuff();
</code></pre>
But we all know references are better than pointers right? So we should just write...<p><pre><code> auto fooRef = myWidget.getRef();
fooRef.doCoolStuff()
</code></pre>
The problem is... this is valid and will probably not do what you want. It will make a copy. What you want is actually<p><pre><code> auto&amp; fooRef = myWidget.getRef();
</code></pre>
I once spent an entire day debugging a bizarre crash because of that. I was asking for a reference to a scene graph, and what was actually happening is I was getting a clone of the scene graph (which was an object that couldn&#x27;t be safely copied), and then destroying a bunch of shared pointers when the function returned. Fun times.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jchw</author><text>As others have pointed out, the idiomatic solution here is to delete the copy constructor if an instance is unsafe to copy — however, I suspect the <i>reason</i> why auto behaves differently from other inference in requiring this to be explicit is probably something along the lines of making it harder to have a dangling reference. It’s shockingly easy to wind up with a dangling reference with fairly innocuous code, something like QString().toUtf8().data() so maybe this makes sense. (Doesn’t help for that case since it’s a pointer to raw data, but you get the picture.)</text></comment> | <story><title>My favourite C++ footgun</title><url>https://dustri.org/b/my-favourite-c-footgun.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>overgard</author><text>My (least) favorite footgun is &quot;auto&quot; when it comes to references.<p>If you want to get a pointer from something, you would write this:<p><pre><code> auto fooPtr = mywidget.getPtr();
fooPtr-&gt;doCoolStuff();
</code></pre>
But we all know references are better than pointers right? So we should just write...<p><pre><code> auto fooRef = myWidget.getRef();
fooRef.doCoolStuff()
</code></pre>
The problem is... this is valid and will probably not do what you want. It will make a copy. What you want is actually<p><pre><code> auto&amp; fooRef = myWidget.getRef();
</code></pre>
I once spent an entire day debugging a bizarre crash because of that. I was asking for a reference to a scene graph, and what was actually happening is I was getting a clone of the scene graph (which was an object that couldn&#x27;t be safely copied), and then destroying a bunch of shared pointers when the function returned. Fun times.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>criddell</author><text>If you develop on Windows and are using Visual Studio 2019
&quot;auto fooRef = myWidget.getRef()&quot; will get a little squiggle under it to warn you that you are making a copy.</text></comment> |
22,594,775 | 22,594,731 | 1 | 3 | 22,594,526 | train | <story><title>2020 Stock Market Crash</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Black_Monday</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nimbius</author><text>im worried this article will eventually get whitewashed into &quot;corona caused the financial crisis.&quot; HN and others have repeatedly pointed out numerous factors in the market that definitely were not corona, that would have caused this crash eventually. untenable levels of credit card debt, automobile debt, and unreformed student loan structures as well as stagnant wages and rollbacks on a number of legislative efforts to police markets and protect investors.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leftyted</author><text>Saying that covid-19 caused the crash is like saying that the assassination of the archduke caused WW1. The accuracy of these kinds of statements depends on how you define &quot;causation&quot;. If you follow this down, it turns into a deep philosophical question.<p>Also, consider that there are always people (especially on HN) predicting stock market crashes. I&#x27;m not sure it makes sense to ascribe the ability to predict the market to people who <i>happened</i> to be right.</text></comment> | <story><title>2020 Stock Market Crash</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Black_Monday</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nimbius</author><text>im worried this article will eventually get whitewashed into &quot;corona caused the financial crisis.&quot; HN and others have repeatedly pointed out numerous factors in the market that definitely were not corona, that would have caused this crash eventually. untenable levels of credit card debt, automobile debt, and unreformed student loan structures as well as stagnant wages and rollbacks on a number of legislative efforts to police markets and protect investors.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kaycebasques</author><text>I&#x27;ve been going back and forth on this for a week. On one hand we&#x27;ve been clearly headed towards a Minsky Moment &#x2F; Big Debt Crisis for years. On the other hand, the impact of COVID-19 on the real economy is <i></i>unprecedented<i></i>. A sudden, global halting of all in-person social interaction??? Wow.</text></comment> |
4,761,403 | 4,761,401 | 1 | 2 | 4,760,995 | train | <story><title>The People's Bailout</title><url>http://howtosharpenpencils.tumblr.com/post/35285338188/the-peoples-bailout</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marknutter</author><text>This may sound harsh, but medical attention isn't free, and crossing that street without medical insurance and getting hit by a car and accepting expensive treatment you can't pay for is still incurring debt which you are obligated to pay back. This is why insurance of all forms exists; to protect us from expensive, catastrophic events. So as far as fault goes, you are very much to blame if you take risks and choose not to pay for insurance, regardless how expensive it is.</text></item><item><author>narcissus</author><text>"Debt isn't some random accident like getting hit by a car while crossing the street."<p>Except debt can be exactly due to some random accident like getting hit by a car while crossing the street and you don't have the insurance to pay for the medical bills.<p>I'm not saying that this is true for all of the OWS debts: probably not even the majority. I'm just saying that it's not as easy as "it's your fault you're in debt".</text></item><item><author>marknutter</author><text>How does OWS think this debt accumulated? Debt isn't some random accident like getting hit by a car while crossing the street. You have to get yourself into debt. It used to be taboo, but it's acceptable to get into debt these days and worse yet, walk away from it. OWS, to me, represents an entitled generation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>esrauch</author><text>It is totally false to assume that anyone with debt from medical bills must be uninsured.<p>I had an appendectomy when I was in college and I had insurance and I still received a bill for something like $8000 <i>after</i> the insurance paid out. I managed to have half of that removed due to my very low income, and I luckily was able to pay the rest of it, but this was literally the simplest possible ER visit and surgery you can have and I was lucky to have savings to cover it. If anything worse had happened to me (say, if I got hit by a car) then I could easily have ended up with more than $10k in debt <i>after</i> insurance and <i>after</i> the follow up negotiations with the hospital.<p>Some insurance would certainly have covered this better, but I had the more expensive of the 2 choices insurance plans that were offered to students at my school. Anyone who is buying their own insurance if it's not provided by their employer isn't going to do much better.</text></comment> | <story><title>The People's Bailout</title><url>http://howtosharpenpencils.tumblr.com/post/35285338188/the-peoples-bailout</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marknutter</author><text>This may sound harsh, but medical attention isn't free, and crossing that street without medical insurance and getting hit by a car and accepting expensive treatment you can't pay for is still incurring debt which you are obligated to pay back. This is why insurance of all forms exists; to protect us from expensive, catastrophic events. So as far as fault goes, you are very much to blame if you take risks and choose not to pay for insurance, regardless how expensive it is.</text></item><item><author>narcissus</author><text>"Debt isn't some random accident like getting hit by a car while crossing the street."<p>Except debt can be exactly due to some random accident like getting hit by a car while crossing the street and you don't have the insurance to pay for the medical bills.<p>I'm not saying that this is true for all of the OWS debts: probably not even the majority. I'm just saying that it's not as easy as "it's your fault you're in debt".</text></item><item><author>marknutter</author><text>How does OWS think this debt accumulated? Debt isn't some random accident like getting hit by a car while crossing the street. You have to get yourself into debt. It used to be taboo, but it's acceptable to get into debt these days and worse yet, walk away from it. OWS, to me, represents an entitled generation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>subsection1h</author><text><p><pre><code> you are very much to blame if you take risks and choose
not to pay for insurance, regardless how expensive it is.
</code></pre>
I think I understand where you're coming from. You must live in a society in which no one has ever been denied health insurance due to pre-existing conditions. If I lived in such a society, I might agree with you.</text></comment> |
3,980,310 | 3,980,210 | 1 | 2 | 3,979,899 | train | <story><title>Judge Alsup learns to code and schools Oracle</title><url>https://plus.google.com/110412141990454266397/posts/fk5VXPpiQZR</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmillikin</author><text>Article appears to be a mis-statment of the actual quote (from <a href="http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120515120106322" rel="nofollow">http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120515120106322</a>)<p><pre><code> &#62; Judge: We heard the testimony of Mr. Bloch. I couldn't
&#62; have told you the first thing about Java before this
&#62; problem. I have done, and still do, a significant amount
&#62; of programming in other languages. I've written blocks of
&#62; code like rangeCheck a hundred times before. I could do
&#62; it, you could do it. The idea that someone would copy that
&#62; when they could do it themselves just as fast, it was an
&#62; accident. There's no way you could say that was speeding
&#62; them along to the marketplace. You're one of the best
&#62; lawyers in America, how could you even make that kind of
&#62; argument?
</code></pre>
It sounds like the judge is saying that he has written code before, just not in Java. Presumably this was some time ago, before he decided to become a judge.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>6ren</author><text>So he was playing dumb earlier for the benefit of the jury - to make the advocates spell out their case clearly. This is what he was responding to:<p><pre><code> &#62; This copying allowed them to use fewer resources and accelerate that. Suppose they
&#62; accelerated it two days. They're making $3 million a day now [...] If you just get
&#62; one or two days' acceleration, that's $6 million
</code></pre>
This is a good point; it's common to underestimate how long it takes to code something. And time to market is often strategically crucial - that is, productivity isn't just efficient, but can be the difference between success and failure. rangeCheck is trivial; but writing, testing, debugging, naming and documenting take time. A trivial typo bug in rangeCheck can cost a disproportionate amount of time - and it's amplified here, when rangeCheck was used to test other code. (Who shall unit test the unit tests?)<p>To answer Groklaw's final question as to why Alsup couldn't decide on API copyrightability yet, he clearly said he needed to do a lot of reading. He not only has to decide according to law, he is in effect creating law, since this specific issue hasn't been decided earlier. His ruling has wider significance than just this particular case. Future potential litigants will read his ruling, and will avoid court if it's clear who would win. Although he is only one judge and so his precedent won't be binding on a full bench/higher court, those judges would also carefully read his judgment. He'd better get it right, not only in the result, but in the reasoning, and integrating it with related cases.<p>It's great that Groklaw is making these transcripts - because the court is a public institution, I think the official transcripts should be available (and why not video too? The emphasis in oral argument sometimes isn't captured in a transcript.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Judge Alsup learns to code and schools Oracle</title><url>https://plus.google.com/110412141990454266397/posts/fk5VXPpiQZR</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmillikin</author><text>Article appears to be a mis-statment of the actual quote (from <a href="http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120515120106322" rel="nofollow">http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120515120106322</a>)<p><pre><code> &#62; Judge: We heard the testimony of Mr. Bloch. I couldn't
&#62; have told you the first thing about Java before this
&#62; problem. I have done, and still do, a significant amount
&#62; of programming in other languages. I've written blocks of
&#62; code like rangeCheck a hundred times before. I could do
&#62; it, you could do it. The idea that someone would copy that
&#62; when they could do it themselves just as fast, it was an
&#62; accident. There's no way you could say that was speeding
&#62; them along to the marketplace. You're one of the best
&#62; lawyers in America, how could you even make that kind of
&#62; argument?
</code></pre>
It sounds like the judge is saying that he has written code before, just not in Java. Presumably this was some time ago, before he decided to become a judge.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gambler</author><text>Seems like this is a good answer to those asking "how could learning to code help X to do their political job". That's how. By giving them some basic sense of proportions when it comes to software.</text></comment> |
27,515,956 | 27,515,614 | 1 | 2 | 27,514,188 | train | <story><title>Survey shows people no longer believe working hard will lead to a better life</title><url>https://insidermag.net/survey-shows-people-no-longer-believe-working-hard-will-lead-to-a-better-life/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fullstop</author><text>On the flip side there are plenty of examples of kids being pushed into higher education who would have been much better off going to a trade school.<p>Working as a plumber, an electrician, or a carpenter can be quite lucrative, and they are certainly things that society needs.<p>Being pushed into higher ed is so much different than having an internal drive to do it. I&#x27;m glad that she&#x27;s doing well and hopefully they can resolve their differences.<p>I have a number of friends who are teachers, and part of their job is to call the parents if the student is failing, falling behind, or not doing their work. The vast majority of the time the response on the other end of the line is &quot;that&#x27;s their problem, not mine.&quot; If the parents don&#x27;t care, the students don&#x27;t care, and life goes on as it always has for them.</text></item><item><author>jasonkester</author><text>Indeed. I have a friend whos whole extended family kept telling her that she should stop with this fancy expensive state college education and go to a trade school or something that would get her a job. Even when she was working at an engineering firm and starting to see the payoff, her family kept trying to drag her down.<p>Fortunately, she had a particularly strong will, so she spent just as much time telling them where they could stuff their trade school, and ended up doing quite well for herself.<p>I&#x27;m not sure I would have done so well had I come from a family that was that opposed to education on principal. I don&#x27;t have any trouble believing this sort of thing keeps lots of people exactly where they started in life. (Lucky for me, my dad spent several years working at a paper mill out of highschool before going back to get his degree, so I got to hear first hand about what a good idea that was.)</text></item><item><author>fullstop</author><text>Starting conditions help tremendously, and I&#x27;m not doubting that in the least. One other thing which helps, significantly, is how much the parents value education. Most of the people I know who grew up very poor but now have money had parents that valued education, and pushed their kids to learn. They didn&#x27;t have shelves of books at home, but they did visit the library weekly.<p>It has to be extremely difficult to focus on school and education when you don&#x27;t know when your next meal is going to be. It&#x27;s why I find news articles about lunch aids being fired for giving a kid lunch when they have no money so infuriating, and food insecurity is an enormous problem that is likely happening in your neighborhood today, and it&#x27;s often overlooked. It&#x27;s not easy to move upward especially when your choice is between &quot;Do I improve myself by working hard or do I eat?&quot;</text></item><item><author>wishigotitfree</author><text>Starting conditions (where one was born, levels of wealth and opportunity there, one&#x27;s parents&#x27; education and jobs) are shockingly predictive about an individual&#x27;s future. Hard work leading to social mobility has always been the exception, not the rule. Most will not beat the odds since if they did, those wouldn&#x27;t BE the odds. A lot of us are just so deluded by survivorship bias borne of listening only to success stories, but it seems more and more people are seeing through the illusion. In my opinion, that&#x27;s a good thing, as recognizing the true state of things is the first step to improving them, and this combination of consciousness and lived experience can prove to be potent immunization against bad faith actors who want to maintain the illusion of widespread social mobility.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dahart</author><text>&gt; Working as a plumber, an electrician, or a carpenter can be quite lucrative<p>This narrative about wealthy trades people like plumbers and welders is not well supported by any data. The ones who do well are the ones who start businesses and hire people, so they become business owners, but most trades people don’t end up there and they obviously can’t all do it.<p>You should know that the U.S. Fed (St. Louis) published stats on higher education which shows that on <i>average</i> a 4 year degree doubles your income vs anything less. A graduate degree triples it. When I read that, I was blown away that the difference is that high on average. I would have thought maybe 10%, but double the earnings on average for all degree earners is so huge it’s something you can’t ignore.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;publications&#x2F;page1-econ&#x2F;2018&#x2F;10&#x2F;01&#x2F;get-an-education-even-if-it-means-borrowing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;publications&#x2F;page1-econ&#x2F;2018...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;education&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2019&#x2F;09&#x2F;welding-doesnt-pay-as-well-as-republicans-think&#x2F;597733&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;education&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2019&#x2F;09&#x2F;weldin...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Survey shows people no longer believe working hard will lead to a better life</title><url>https://insidermag.net/survey-shows-people-no-longer-believe-working-hard-will-lead-to-a-better-life/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fullstop</author><text>On the flip side there are plenty of examples of kids being pushed into higher education who would have been much better off going to a trade school.<p>Working as a plumber, an electrician, or a carpenter can be quite lucrative, and they are certainly things that society needs.<p>Being pushed into higher ed is so much different than having an internal drive to do it. I&#x27;m glad that she&#x27;s doing well and hopefully they can resolve their differences.<p>I have a number of friends who are teachers, and part of their job is to call the parents if the student is failing, falling behind, or not doing their work. The vast majority of the time the response on the other end of the line is &quot;that&#x27;s their problem, not mine.&quot; If the parents don&#x27;t care, the students don&#x27;t care, and life goes on as it always has for them.</text></item><item><author>jasonkester</author><text>Indeed. I have a friend whos whole extended family kept telling her that she should stop with this fancy expensive state college education and go to a trade school or something that would get her a job. Even when she was working at an engineering firm and starting to see the payoff, her family kept trying to drag her down.<p>Fortunately, she had a particularly strong will, so she spent just as much time telling them where they could stuff their trade school, and ended up doing quite well for herself.<p>I&#x27;m not sure I would have done so well had I come from a family that was that opposed to education on principal. I don&#x27;t have any trouble believing this sort of thing keeps lots of people exactly where they started in life. (Lucky for me, my dad spent several years working at a paper mill out of highschool before going back to get his degree, so I got to hear first hand about what a good idea that was.)</text></item><item><author>fullstop</author><text>Starting conditions help tremendously, and I&#x27;m not doubting that in the least. One other thing which helps, significantly, is how much the parents value education. Most of the people I know who grew up very poor but now have money had parents that valued education, and pushed their kids to learn. They didn&#x27;t have shelves of books at home, but they did visit the library weekly.<p>It has to be extremely difficult to focus on school and education when you don&#x27;t know when your next meal is going to be. It&#x27;s why I find news articles about lunch aids being fired for giving a kid lunch when they have no money so infuriating, and food insecurity is an enormous problem that is likely happening in your neighborhood today, and it&#x27;s often overlooked. It&#x27;s not easy to move upward especially when your choice is between &quot;Do I improve myself by working hard or do I eat?&quot;</text></item><item><author>wishigotitfree</author><text>Starting conditions (where one was born, levels of wealth and opportunity there, one&#x27;s parents&#x27; education and jobs) are shockingly predictive about an individual&#x27;s future. Hard work leading to social mobility has always been the exception, not the rule. Most will not beat the odds since if they did, those wouldn&#x27;t BE the odds. A lot of us are just so deluded by survivorship bias borne of listening only to success stories, but it seems more and more people are seeing through the illusion. In my opinion, that&#x27;s a good thing, as recognizing the true state of things is the first step to improving them, and this combination of consciousness and lived experience can prove to be potent immunization against bad faith actors who want to maintain the illusion of widespread social mobility.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>caf</author><text><i>Working as a plumber, an electrician, or a carpenter can be quite lucrative, and they are certainly things that society needs.</i><p>I hear this kind of thing, but I have to say it is less than convincing when most of the people saying it don&#x27;t seem to be sending <i>their</i> kids to trade school.</text></comment> |
33,250,850 | 33,250,329 | 1 | 3 | 33,249,215 | train | <story><title>Sound</title><url>https://ciechanow.ski/sound/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nonrandomstring</author><text>+1 for the recommendation for &quot;The Scientist and Engineer&#x27;s Guide to
Digital Signal Processing&quot; by Steven W. Smith. I spoke to Steven many
years ago about his putting all of the book PDFs online for free and
since then have recommended at least 5 university libraries to buy it
because the students could get free copies of a great book that can be
referenced in the library.<p>FWIW the The Scientist and Engineer&#x27;s Guide doesn&#x27;t actually cover a
lot on sound. It starts in a particular DSP way with frequency domain
definitions and convolution - and I actually think Steven&#x27;s background
is in medial imaging, though I could be mistaken.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WhitneyLand</author><text>Wow. Such a profound insight could not get published for 15 years because others couldn’t grasp it. Including Lagrange!<p>It’s an uncomfortable reminder of how essential reputation and credibility are in the machinery of science.<p><i>”The paper contained the controversial claim that any continuous periodic signal could be represented as the sum of properly chosen sinusoidal waves. Among the reviewers were two of history&#x27;s most famous mathematicians, Joseph Louis Lagrange (1736-1813), and Pierre Simon de Laplace (1749-1827).
While Laplace and the other reviewers voted to publish the paper, Lagrange adamantly protested. For nearly 50 years, Lagrange had insisted that such an approach could not be used to represent signals with corners, i.e., discontinuous slopes, such as in square waves. The Institut de France bowed to the prestige of Lagrange, and rejected Fourier&#x27;s work. It was only after Lagrange died that the paper was finally published, some 15 years later.“</i><p>from chapter 8
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dspguide.com&#x2F;ch8&#x2F;1.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dspguide.com&#x2F;ch8&#x2F;1.htm</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Sound</title><url>https://ciechanow.ski/sound/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nonrandomstring</author><text>+1 for the recommendation for &quot;The Scientist and Engineer&#x27;s Guide to
Digital Signal Processing&quot; by Steven W. Smith. I spoke to Steven many
years ago about his putting all of the book PDFs online for free and
since then have recommended at least 5 university libraries to buy it
because the students could get free copies of a great book that can be
referenced in the library.<p>FWIW the The Scientist and Engineer&#x27;s Guide doesn&#x27;t actually cover a
lot on sound. It starts in a particular DSP way with frequency domain
definitions and convolution - and I actually think Steven&#x27;s background
is in medial imaging, though I could be mistaken.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>belkarx</author><text>The book is amazing: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dspguide.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dspguide.com&#x2F;</a> (link for the lazy)</text></comment> |
21,205,970 | 21,206,023 | 1 | 2 | 21,205,479 | train | <story><title>NixOS 19.09</title><url>https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/release-notes.html#sec-release-19.09</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Mathnerd314</author><text>My experience is that the rolling &quot;NixOS unstable&quot; channel is more usable. The releases don&#x27;t offer any improvement in security and have less maintenance effort overall. And despite the name &quot;unstable&quot;, the breaking changes typically incubate in the staging branch first for a few months.<p>But that&#x27;s using it on a desktop, maybe on a server releases are more useful.</text></comment> | <story><title>NixOS 19.09</title><url>https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/release-notes.html#sec-release-19.09</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>FRidh</author><text>The release announcement on Discourse:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discourse.nixos.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;nixos-19-09-release&#x2F;4306" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discourse.nixos.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;nixos-19-09-release&#x2F;4306</a></text></comment> |
32,378,489 | 32,378,159 | 1 | 3 | 32,376,696 | train | <story><title>The government is burying the anti-Asian violent hate crime crisis</title><url>https://twitter.com/michaeljburry/status/1556003057699209218</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>It’s part of a broader effort to manipulate Asians’ perceptions about facts relevant to their self interest. Asians are half as likely to be shot by police than whites, and a third less likely to be incarcerated. The cost-benefit curves for Asians when it comes to policing and criminal justice are markedly different than for other voter groups. And that’s a problem for maintaining the Biden coalition.<p>So what happened when attacks on Asians in progressive cities went up in 2020? Purported “asian” activists put solidarity with white progressives ahead of representing the people they claim to represent: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slowboring.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;yang-gang" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slowboring.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;yang-gang</a><p>That makes sense when you think about it. People in Chinatowns don’t identify as “AAPI” and have never heard of these organizations. They exist to raise money from white progressives and put Asian faces on their politics: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;asamnews.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;06&#x2F;17&#x2F;mackenzie-scott-donates-2-7-billion-dollars-to-286-non-profits-including-asian-american-pacific-islander-focused-groups&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;asamnews.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;06&#x2F;17&#x2F;mackenzie-scott-donates-2-7-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The government is burying the anti-Asian violent hate crime crisis</title><url>https://twitter.com/michaeljburry/status/1556003057699209218</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zephrx1111</author><text>Racism in 21st century is a misleading term for social problems. It is barking against the wrong tree.<p>Some people, because their education level, would accept and believe whatever their info source pour to them. I’m from China. I know how aggressive the “little-pinks” would behave online and in real world.<p>Unfortunately, for some reason, this population can roughly map to some races. The political industry is using this issue to rake in their own internet. They are preventing this problem to be fixed.</text></comment> |
35,590,702 | 35,588,614 | 1 | 2 | 35,586,683 | train | <story><title>Dishwasher Salmon</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dishwasher_salmon</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>idk1</author><text>I feel like this page should have a warning, the fantastic Youtuber Ann Reardon investigated lots of cooking &quot;hacks&quot; to see if they were food safe, and she worked out that cooking salmon in a dishwasher does not bring it up to a food safe temperature. [1]<p>Side note - in a different video she also did debunking on other food hacks and ended up investigating Russian bot networks who uploads both food hacks for hits and then slips in propaganda.<p>It&#x27;s one of the best and strangest and best Youtube channels, it has the appearance of a fun cooking channel, and often, 90% of the time, is exactly that, but then occasionally slips into some fascinating areas like, for example, global coco production lines and exploitation.<p>Off the top of my head over the years she has also uncovered some very strange child exploitation videos where the audio is different to the content. She has also almost definitely saved a huge amount of lives with her fractal wood burning debunking videos [2].<p>It&#x27;s a little off topic but I thought you all here would find it interesting that a Youtube channel called How To Cook That with cookies and cakes as it&#x27;s logo has done all of the above [3].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=dSwzau2_KF8">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=dSwzau2_KF8</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.technologyreview.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;09&#x2F;23&#x2F;1059920&#x2F;youtube-deadly-craft-hacks-fractal-burning&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.technologyreview.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;09&#x2F;23&#x2F;1059920&#x2F;youtube-...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;How_to_Cook_That" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;How_to_Cook_That</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mattmaroon</author><text>I disagree with her conclusion. Raw salmon has no inherent pathogens of interest. People eat salmon raw at sushi bars. I’d be pretty unconcerned about the food safety issue. (Like any food there’s some risk of cross contamination, but that’s so rare.)<p>As someone who has dealt with food safety (both as a hobbyist and professionally) a lot I can tell you most of what you read is based on government recommendations, which are designed to keep the dumbest and unhealthiest people from hurting themselves. The government doesn’t get thanked when you eat delicious, not-overcooked food but they do get blamed when people get sick, so their incentive is to tell you to overcook everything. There’s no reason you need to get that thanksgiving turkey to 165 or whatever the hell they recommend, but they do it because they know a lot of people will measure the turkey in the wrong spot so if they told you the actual 145 a lot of people would be eating breasts that never got close to 130.<p>I don’t know why you’d want to cook your salmon in the dishwasher, but the time&#x2F;temp is absolutely fine for anyone not immunocompromised.<p>So I would say that her video showed that it doesn’t bring it up to the temperature recommended by (I assume) the FDA, but not that it is unsafe, as those are two very different things.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dishwasher Salmon</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dishwasher_salmon</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>idk1</author><text>I feel like this page should have a warning, the fantastic Youtuber Ann Reardon investigated lots of cooking &quot;hacks&quot; to see if they were food safe, and she worked out that cooking salmon in a dishwasher does not bring it up to a food safe temperature. [1]<p>Side note - in a different video she also did debunking on other food hacks and ended up investigating Russian bot networks who uploads both food hacks for hits and then slips in propaganda.<p>It&#x27;s one of the best and strangest and best Youtube channels, it has the appearance of a fun cooking channel, and often, 90% of the time, is exactly that, but then occasionally slips into some fascinating areas like, for example, global coco production lines and exploitation.<p>Off the top of my head over the years she has also uncovered some very strange child exploitation videos where the audio is different to the content. She has also almost definitely saved a huge amount of lives with her fractal wood burning debunking videos [2].<p>It&#x27;s a little off topic but I thought you all here would find it interesting that a Youtube channel called How To Cook That with cookies and cakes as it&#x27;s logo has done all of the above [3].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=dSwzau2_KF8">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=dSwzau2_KF8</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.technologyreview.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;09&#x2F;23&#x2F;1059920&#x2F;youtube-deadly-craft-hacks-fractal-burning&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.technologyreview.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;09&#x2F;23&#x2F;1059920&#x2F;youtube-...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;How_to_Cook_That" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;How_to_Cook_That</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tastysandwich</author><text>&gt; and she worked out that cooking salmon in a dishwasher does not bring it up to a food safe temperature.<p>That video was great! Although I notice she cooks it in a large jar of water. I suspect that it would take a long time to heat up all that water, hence it never reaches 62°C. Whereas if you just wrapped it in foil, it might transfer that heat to the fish much quicker.</text></comment> |
34,404,809 | 34,402,973 | 1 | 2 | 34,401,530 | train | <story><title>Godot for AA/AAA game development – What's missing?</title><url>https://godotengine.org/article/whats-missing-in-godot-for-aaa/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lazypenguin</author><text>Godot is a nice engine. I did a 3D project in it during the 3.0.x era and it was by far the friendliest and easiest engine I have used to-date. I think it gets a lot of love from people (myself included) because of that. The node system is absolutely wonderful to work with and GDScript is not bad as well. It&#x27;s the most productive I&#x27;ve been in a game engine and I regularly contemplate going all-in on Godot for the future.<p>However, ultimately I abandoned that project because there were too many papercuts in Godot for me to be satisfied. Godot felt like it was a sort of &quot;jack of all trades master of none&quot;. Everything worked pretty well but not one thing was fully polished for real world usage. There were ultimately at least one or two shortcomings in every system that just made the experience frustrating when trying to deliver a real project. For example, the asset import system is great but it fell down once I imported by 40,000+ assets or there were limited controls for navigating around the 3D viewport or odd behavior in physics functionality like slide and move that basically meant I needed to write my own equivalent. I am more than willing and able to work around limited features or fix bugs but there&#x27;s something about &quot;almost does what I need but it&#x27;s not done yet&quot; that is a real motivation drain. Maybe it&#x27;s unfair of me, the retort is always &quot;it&#x27;s open source, contribute back!&quot; but alas that is how I felt as a USER before I considered being a CONTRIBUTOR.<p>I&#x27;ve been tracking Godot since then and there have been HUGE amounts of work in lots of different systems, it&#x27;s been quite amazing to watch. However, these decisions were quite ambitious as outlined in this blog (rewrite physics, rewrite renderer, massive upgrades to scripting language, etc.) that now the &quot;polished&quot; experience I&#x27;ve been waiting for has been postponed again. I&#x27;m optimistic the day will come where Godot becomes &quot;good ole reliable&quot; but until then I will keep waiting and begrudgingly use something else.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>demindiro</author><text>&gt; Maybe it&#x27;s unfair of me, the retort is always &quot;it&#x27;s open source, contribute back!&quot; but alas that is how I felt as a USER before I considered being a CONTRIBUTOR.<p>Even as a contributor I&#x27;ve found it very frustrating to contribute to Godot.<p>I&#x27;ve found lots and lots of bugs while working on my own projects using Godot. I spent a lot of time digging in the engine code to figure out the cause, make an issue and a patch if I could.<p>However, even small changes take a lot of time and effort. While I used Godot 3 for my own projects most of the PRs had to be based against 4. At the time Godot 4 was in a very sorry state and I ran in many, many issues that made it hard to test if the same fix for Godot 3 also works in Godot 4.<p>I wrote some libraries to work around issues that I (or others) could not get fixed or reverted (e.g. I replaced the physics engine with Rapier3D because I really needed more stable and <i>working</i> joints) but I eventually threw in the towel and decided to focus on other hobbies.</text></comment> | <story><title>Godot for AA/AAA game development – What's missing?</title><url>https://godotengine.org/article/whats-missing-in-godot-for-aaa/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lazypenguin</author><text>Godot is a nice engine. I did a 3D project in it during the 3.0.x era and it was by far the friendliest and easiest engine I have used to-date. I think it gets a lot of love from people (myself included) because of that. The node system is absolutely wonderful to work with and GDScript is not bad as well. It&#x27;s the most productive I&#x27;ve been in a game engine and I regularly contemplate going all-in on Godot for the future.<p>However, ultimately I abandoned that project because there were too many papercuts in Godot for me to be satisfied. Godot felt like it was a sort of &quot;jack of all trades master of none&quot;. Everything worked pretty well but not one thing was fully polished for real world usage. There were ultimately at least one or two shortcomings in every system that just made the experience frustrating when trying to deliver a real project. For example, the asset import system is great but it fell down once I imported by 40,000+ assets or there were limited controls for navigating around the 3D viewport or odd behavior in physics functionality like slide and move that basically meant I needed to write my own equivalent. I am more than willing and able to work around limited features or fix bugs but there&#x27;s something about &quot;almost does what I need but it&#x27;s not done yet&quot; that is a real motivation drain. Maybe it&#x27;s unfair of me, the retort is always &quot;it&#x27;s open source, contribute back!&quot; but alas that is how I felt as a USER before I considered being a CONTRIBUTOR.<p>I&#x27;ve been tracking Godot since then and there have been HUGE amounts of work in lots of different systems, it&#x27;s been quite amazing to watch. However, these decisions were quite ambitious as outlined in this blog (rewrite physics, rewrite renderer, massive upgrades to scripting language, etc.) that now the &quot;polished&quot; experience I&#x27;ve been waiting for has been postponed again. I&#x27;m optimistic the day will come where Godot becomes &quot;good ole reliable&quot; but until then I will keep waiting and begrudgingly use something else.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rstupek</author><text>That&#x27;s one of the issues with open source, polishing isn&#x27;t &quot;fun&quot;, where massive rewrites to a new thing are.</text></comment> |
9,778,701 | 9,778,784 | 1 | 2 | 9,777,829 | train | <story><title>Killing Off Wasabi</title><url>http://blog.fogcreek.com/killing-off-wasabi-part-1/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Alupis</author><text>It <i>is</i> usually a &quot;colossal error&quot; to write your own in-house closed-source&#x2F;proprietary language, no matter how small or large the language is.<p>The main reason is exactly as the article states, maintainability.<p>&gt; As time wore on, our technical debt finally began to come due. Compilers like Wasabi and their associated runtime libraries are highly complex pieces of software. We hadn’t open-sourced it, so this meant any investment had to be done by us at the expense of our main revenue-generating products. While we were busy working on exciting new things, Wasabi stagnated. It was a huge dependency that required a full-time developer — not cheap for a company of our size. It occasionally barfed on a piece of code that was completely reasonable to humans. It was slow to compile. Visual Studio wasn’t able to easily edit or attach a debugger to FogBugz. Just documenting it was a chore</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>It&#x27;s funny because what got me is how <i>dumb</i> it sounded: the words &quot;such a colossal error as writing their own language&quot; made me think &quot;that&#x27;s the kind of thing a mid-level IT manager at an insurance company would say&quot;.</text></item><item><author>hitekker</author><text>I imagine most people upvoted because it sounded smart.<p>It&#x27;s fascinating how easily cruelty can be popularized by using the right, nice-sounding words. Coating&#x2F;mask your bile in a rhetoric popular with a community, indirectly imply some terrible things, perhaps obfuscate anything that could raise any uncomfortable, thoughtful questions, and presto! You&#x27;ll have the right set-up to manufacture consensus.</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>It has always struck me as extremely bizarre that computer science graduates would recoil from someone solving a business problem using what appears to be very basic compiler theory.<p>The second half of your comment transitions from weird to mean-spirited, as you begin speculating about people you don&#x27;t know and their reasons for changing jobs. I&#x27;m a little confused as to why you&#x27;ve been voted up so high on the page.</text></item><item><author>zak_mc_kracken</author><text>It&#x27;s always struck me as extremely bizarre that a company that regularly advertises that it&#x27;s at the bleeding edge of software engineering practices (see Spolsky&#x27;s numerous blog posts on the topic) made such a colossal error as writing their own language, and that it took them a decade to realize this mistake.<p>I also find this kind of phrasing weird:<p>&gt; The people who wrote the original Wasabi compiler moved on for one reason or another. Some married partners who lived elsewhere; others went over to work on other products from Fog Creek.<p>It&#x27;s like the author of this article goes out of their ways to avoid saying that some people left the company, period. It also wouldn&#x27;t surprise me if some of these defections were caused by Wasabi itself. As a software engineer, you quickly start wondering how wise it is to spend years learning a language that will be of no use once you leave your current company (yet another reason why rolling your own language as a critical part of your product is a terrible idea).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>What am I missing? This is an internal language designed as an incremental improvement over VB that gave them cross-platform common codebase. It lasted 10 years: that&#x27;s 19,932 in SaaS years. When they transitioned off of it, they did it not with a rewrite, but with <i>mechanical translation</i>.<p>It seems like a spectacular success story.</text></comment> | <story><title>Killing Off Wasabi</title><url>http://blog.fogcreek.com/killing-off-wasabi-part-1/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Alupis</author><text>It <i>is</i> usually a &quot;colossal error&quot; to write your own in-house closed-source&#x2F;proprietary language, no matter how small or large the language is.<p>The main reason is exactly as the article states, maintainability.<p>&gt; As time wore on, our technical debt finally began to come due. Compilers like Wasabi and their associated runtime libraries are highly complex pieces of software. We hadn’t open-sourced it, so this meant any investment had to be done by us at the expense of our main revenue-generating products. While we were busy working on exciting new things, Wasabi stagnated. It was a huge dependency that required a full-time developer — not cheap for a company of our size. It occasionally barfed on a piece of code that was completely reasonable to humans. It was slow to compile. Visual Studio wasn’t able to easily edit or attach a debugger to FogBugz. Just documenting it was a chore</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>It&#x27;s funny because what got me is how <i>dumb</i> it sounded: the words &quot;such a colossal error as writing their own language&quot; made me think &quot;that&#x27;s the kind of thing a mid-level IT manager at an insurance company would say&quot;.</text></item><item><author>hitekker</author><text>I imagine most people upvoted because it sounded smart.<p>It&#x27;s fascinating how easily cruelty can be popularized by using the right, nice-sounding words. Coating&#x2F;mask your bile in a rhetoric popular with a community, indirectly imply some terrible things, perhaps obfuscate anything that could raise any uncomfortable, thoughtful questions, and presto! You&#x27;ll have the right set-up to manufacture consensus.</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>It has always struck me as extremely bizarre that computer science graduates would recoil from someone solving a business problem using what appears to be very basic compiler theory.<p>The second half of your comment transitions from weird to mean-spirited, as you begin speculating about people you don&#x27;t know and their reasons for changing jobs. I&#x27;m a little confused as to why you&#x27;ve been voted up so high on the page.</text></item><item><author>zak_mc_kracken</author><text>It&#x27;s always struck me as extremely bizarre that a company that regularly advertises that it&#x27;s at the bleeding edge of software engineering practices (see Spolsky&#x27;s numerous blog posts on the topic) made such a colossal error as writing their own language, and that it took them a decade to realize this mistake.<p>I also find this kind of phrasing weird:<p>&gt; The people who wrote the original Wasabi compiler moved on for one reason or another. Some married partners who lived elsewhere; others went over to work on other products from Fog Creek.<p>It&#x27;s like the author of this article goes out of their ways to avoid saying that some people left the company, period. It also wouldn&#x27;t surprise me if some of these defections were caused by Wasabi itself. As a software engineer, you quickly start wondering how wise it is to spend years learning a language that will be of no use once you leave your current company (yet another reason why rolling your own language as a critical part of your product is a terrible idea).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ghshephard</author><text>&quot;It is usually a &quot;colossal error&quot; to write your own in-house closed-source&#x2F;proprietary language&quot;<p>I&#x27;m curious if anybody on this thread who has written more than three or four compilers&#x2F;parsers would agree with you.<p>Depending on the task, the <i>only</i> solution to some problems is to write a custom&#x2F;proprietary language (whether it&#x27;s closed source, of course, is up to the company).</text></comment> |
6,727,886 | 6,727,254 | 1 | 3 | 6,725,291 | train | <story><title>Motorola Makes The Moto G Official, A “Premium” Phone Starting At $179 Unlocked</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/13/motorola-makes-the-moto-g-official-a-premium-phone-at-a-price-more-can-afford/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jonknee</author><text>Note that the iPhone 5s also has 1GB of RAM and has a similar CPU speed (1.3GHz). I feel you on the LTE portion, but much of the targeted market has no opportunity to use LTE. Maybe they could have a Moto G+ that costs $50-75 more and includes LTE.</text></item><item><author>JeremyNT</author><text>It seems capable, but calling it &quot;high end&quot; is quite... generous. No LTE, 1.2 GHz CPU, 1GB RAM, 8GB storage - they made some obvious compromises to hit this price point.<p>I think it&#x27;s probably a smart play for Moto&#x2F;Goog to target this space, but &quot;high end&quot; it ain&#x27;t.</text></item><item><author>cs702</author><text>This phone looks like a game changer to me, because it has the specs of a <i>high-end</i> smartphone but is priced like a crappy <i>low-end</i> one.<p>The cost of an unlocked unit is $300 to $600 LESS than that of other devices with comparable specs, so mobile carriers should be able to offer the Moto G to the masses for <i>hundreds of dollars less</i> than any iPhone or high-end Android device by Samsung, LG, etc.<p>Mobile carriers could offer the Moto G profitably at a <i>negative price</i> -- for example, zero money upfront plus an instant $300 coupon rebate if one commits to a two-year plan. Or they could offer it with much cheaper monthly bills than economically possible with other comparable phones -- for example, 25% off one&#x27;s monthly bill if one commits to a two-year plan.<p>--<p>Edits: added context and examples.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ismail</author><text>LTE is available in Africa. look into the mobile industry in Africa in some ways we have leap frogged . theres an entire generation of tweens whos access to the net is via mobile.<p>I Will never forget my visit to canada in 2009. I get there, purcuase a prepaid sim card, and data does not work. go back to the store, and I am told you have to have a contract for data. wtf? LTE&#x2F;3g all cost the same here both on prepaid and and contract. As long as you have coverage.</text></comment> | <story><title>Motorola Makes The Moto G Official, A “Premium” Phone Starting At $179 Unlocked</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/13/motorola-makes-the-moto-g-official-a-premium-phone-at-a-price-more-can-afford/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jonknee</author><text>Note that the iPhone 5s also has 1GB of RAM and has a similar CPU speed (1.3GHz). I feel you on the LTE portion, but much of the targeted market has no opportunity to use LTE. Maybe they could have a Moto G+ that costs $50-75 more and includes LTE.</text></item><item><author>JeremyNT</author><text>It seems capable, but calling it &quot;high end&quot; is quite... generous. No LTE, 1.2 GHz CPU, 1GB RAM, 8GB storage - they made some obvious compromises to hit this price point.<p>I think it&#x27;s probably a smart play for Moto&#x2F;Goog to target this space, but &quot;high end&quot; it ain&#x27;t.</text></item><item><author>cs702</author><text>This phone looks like a game changer to me, because it has the specs of a <i>high-end</i> smartphone but is priced like a crappy <i>low-end</i> one.<p>The cost of an unlocked unit is $300 to $600 LESS than that of other devices with comparable specs, so mobile carriers should be able to offer the Moto G to the masses for <i>hundreds of dollars less</i> than any iPhone or high-end Android device by Samsung, LG, etc.<p>Mobile carriers could offer the Moto G profitably at a <i>negative price</i> -- for example, zero money upfront plus an instant $300 coupon rebate if one commits to a two-year plan. Or they could offer it with much cheaper monthly bills than economically possible with other comparable phones -- for example, 25% off one&#x27;s monthly bill if one commits to a two-year plan.<p>--<p>Edits: added context and examples.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TylerE</author><text>High-end Android is way past those specs.<p>For instance, my HTC One has a 1080p screen vs 720p, twice the RAM, four times the storage, and a 1.7Ghz quad with twice as much on-die cache as the 1.2GHz Quad in this thing.</text></comment> |
19,186,708 | 19,186,598 | 1 | 2 | 19,185,505 | train | <story><title>OpenAI Trains Language Model, Mass Hysteria Ensues</title><url>http://approximatelycorrect.com/2019/02/17/openai-trains-language-model-mass-hysteria-ensues/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ilyasut</author><text>Ilya from OpenAI here. Here&#x27;s our thinking:<p>- ML is getting more powerful and will continue to do so as time goes by. While this point of view is not unanimously held by the AI community, it is also not particularly controversial.<p>- If you accept the above, then the current AI norm of &quot;publish everything always&quot; will have to change<p>- The _whole point_ is that our model is not special and that other people can reproduce and improve upon what we did. We hope that when they do so, they too will reflect about the consequences of releasing their very powerful text generation models.<p>- I suggest going over some of the samples generated by the model. Many people react quite strongly, e.g., <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;justkelly_ok&#x2F;status&#x2F;1096111155469180928" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;justkelly_ok&#x2F;status&#x2F;1096111155469180928</a>.<p>- It is true that some media headlines presented our nonpublishing of the model as &quot;OpenAI&#x27;s model is too dangerous to be published out of world-taking-over concerns&quot;. We don&#x27;t endorse this framing, and if you read our blog post (or even in most cases the actual content of the news stories), you&#x27;ll see that we don&#x27;t claim this at all -- we say instead that this is just an early test case, we&#x27;re concerned about language models more generally, and we&#x27;re running an experiment.<p>Finally, despite the way the news cycle has played out, and despite the degree of polarized response (and the huge range of arguments for and against our decision), we feel we made the right call, even if it wasn&#x27;t an easy one to make.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Cacti</author><text>&gt; - The _whole point_ is that our model is not special and that other people can reproduce and improve upon what we did. We hope that when they do so, they too will reflect about the consequences of releasing their very powerful text generation models.<p>If this is your whole point, then I think you are missing something fundamental. Implementing these models doesn&#x27;t require reflection, or introspection, or any sort of ethical or moral character whatsoever; and even if it did, all that will happen eventually is someone (without the technical background) will simply throw a lot of money at someone else (with the technical background, but who needs to, you know, eat, and pay rent, and so on) to implement it. You are fooling yourself if you think your stance makes a single mote of difference in this arms race.</text></comment> | <story><title>OpenAI Trains Language Model, Mass Hysteria Ensues</title><url>http://approximatelycorrect.com/2019/02/17/openai-trains-language-model-mass-hysteria-ensues/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ilyasut</author><text>Ilya from OpenAI here. Here&#x27;s our thinking:<p>- ML is getting more powerful and will continue to do so as time goes by. While this point of view is not unanimously held by the AI community, it is also not particularly controversial.<p>- If you accept the above, then the current AI norm of &quot;publish everything always&quot; will have to change<p>- The _whole point_ is that our model is not special and that other people can reproduce and improve upon what we did. We hope that when they do so, they too will reflect about the consequences of releasing their very powerful text generation models.<p>- I suggest going over some of the samples generated by the model. Many people react quite strongly, e.g., <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;justkelly_ok&#x2F;status&#x2F;1096111155469180928" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;justkelly_ok&#x2F;status&#x2F;1096111155469180928</a>.<p>- It is true that some media headlines presented our nonpublishing of the model as &quot;OpenAI&#x27;s model is too dangerous to be published out of world-taking-over concerns&quot;. We don&#x27;t endorse this framing, and if you read our blog post (or even in most cases the actual content of the news stories), you&#x27;ll see that we don&#x27;t claim this at all -- we say instead that this is just an early test case, we&#x27;re concerned about language models more generally, and we&#x27;re running an experiment.<p>Finally, despite the way the news cycle has played out, and despite the degree of polarized response (and the huge range of arguments for and against our decision), we feel we made the right call, even if it wasn&#x27;t an easy one to make.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sigil</author><text>Ok but isn’t this the opposite of OpenAI’s “nukes are safer when multiple actors have them” strategy wrt AI?<p>I’m also confused by the threat models earnestly put forth in your blog post. Are we really concerned about deep faking someone’s writing? The plain word already demands attribution by default: we look for an avatar, a handle, a domain name to prove the person actually said this.</text></comment> |
18,685,816 | 18,685,757 | 1 | 2 | 18,685,296 | train | <story><title>Remote code execution vulnerability in SQLite</title><url>https://blade.tencent.com/magellan/index_en.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>modeless</author><text>SQLite is the most thoroughly tested codebase I&#x27;m aware of [1]. It has seven times more test code than non-test code. 100% branch coverage. If even SQLite can have a RCE vulnerability, I&#x27;m convinced that it is not feasible for <i>anybody</i> to write safe C code.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sqlite.org&#x2F;testing.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sqlite.org&#x2F;testing.html</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>segmondy</author><text>100% branch, line coverage means nothing. It&#x27;s about logical coverage. What are you testing for? You are not testing lines of code, but logic.</text></comment> | <story><title>Remote code execution vulnerability in SQLite</title><url>https://blade.tencent.com/magellan/index_en.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>modeless</author><text>SQLite is the most thoroughly tested codebase I&#x27;m aware of [1]. It has seven times more test code than non-test code. 100% branch coverage. If even SQLite can have a RCE vulnerability, I&#x27;m convinced that it is not feasible for <i>anybody</i> to write safe C code.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sqlite.org&#x2F;testing.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sqlite.org&#x2F;testing.html</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blattimwind</author><text>SQLite can by principle not suffer from a RCE.</text></comment> |
8,602,070 | 8,601,576 | 1 | 3 | 8,600,064 | train | <story><title>The Mercenaries: Ex-NSA hackers are shaping the future of cyberwar</title><url>http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/11/how_corporations_are_adopting_cyber_defense_and_around_legal_barriers_the.single.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>Also: the closing grafs in the article, about Cisco&#x27;s acquisition of Sourcefire, are particularly dumb.<p>Sourcefire is the commercial backer of Snort, the open source network intrusion detection system (and also the owners of ClamAV). The author of this article and his sources express surprise that Cisco would pay big money for an open-source product that anyone can use.<p>Cisco paid just about 10x trailing revenue for Sourcefire, a public company that had managed to dominate enterprise network security and which competed directly with products that had been cash cows for Cisco for over a decade. Cisco has for as long as I&#x27;ve been in the industry --- in fact, for as long as there&#x27;s been that industry --- been the single most important acquirer of network security companies. They acquired security companies with the same fervor in 1998 as they do today.<p>Cisco&#x27;s acquisition of Sourcefire might qualify as the single least interesting story in information security in the last 5 years.<p>Want to make a couple hundred million dollars? You too can do what Sourcefire did: start an open source project that appeals to enterprise teams who spend monopoly money to buy products (that is, start any enterprise-relevant open source project). Get thousands of people to use it. Then start a company and hire an inside sales team. Have them call company after company and ask, &quot;Do you use our open-source project?&quot; Sell extra stuff to the people who say &quot;yes&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Mercenaries: Ex-NSA hackers are shaping the future of cyberwar</title><url>http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/11/how_corporations_are_adopting_cyber_defense_and_around_legal_barriers_the.single.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>&quot;A survey of 181 attendees at the 2012 Black Hat USA conference in Las Vegas found that 36 percent of “information security professionals” said they’d engaged in retaliatory hack-backs.&quot;<p>What? Black Hat attendance is in the high thousands. A plurality of those attending are IT professionals --- people that wouldn&#x27;t have the technical capability to take over a botnet even if they wanted to. Even if you broadened the definition of &quot;hacking back&quot;, as some people do, to recon activities like port scans. No part of this anecdote makes sense.<p>For my part (I&#x27;m a security researcher by background, though that&#x27;s not what I&#x27;m doing now, and I&#x27;ve presented at Black Hat numerous times): not only have I never met a professional who claimed to have &quot;hacked back&quot; anything, but I&#x27;ve never even met one who didn&#x27;t think that was a crazy idea.<p>There is a difference between major organized efforts to bring down botnets and &quot;hackback&quot; the way the term gets associated with Endgame.</text></comment> |
24,627,392 | 24,626,375 | 1 | 3 | 24,621,479 | train | <story><title>Show HN: A simple way to set goals you actually follow</title><url>https://motion.hoanhan.co/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>learnstats2</author><text>&quot;Don&#x27;t break the chain&quot; is the absolute worst system for me to form a habit.<p>As soon as the chain is broken, I&#x27;m never going to pick it up again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>travisjungroth</author><text>I completely agree. If you just look at it as a system, it’s completely unstable. When do I most need support in my habits? When something goes wrong and I miss a day. When does a streak system completely remove all support and pile on a bunch of negativity? When something goes wrong and I miss a day.<p>Streaks seem to be good at taking you from 99% compliance to 100%, but that’s not the problem most people face.<p>What has worked way better for me is to take the world a week at a time. I track my compliance across all of my habits. It’s usually only like 75%, but I bet you most people aren’t hitting that. Then I meet someone for up to 30 minutes once a week. She’s not an accountability buddy (also an unstable system). She’s a project manager. We talk about what’s going wrong and how to fix it, or what’s going well and how to keep it. Done it all year and it has helped tremendously.<p>Back to streaks, I had an idea for streaks that still give you a goal, but they’re not so huge. So you reach for the next number in the powers of 2 or Fibonacci sequence, and your streak counter starts over when you hit it. Then you’re not trying to preserve your one precious streak, you’re just setting a new record. “I did 128, let’s see if I can hit 256!”.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: A simple way to set goals you actually follow</title><url>https://motion.hoanhan.co/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>learnstats2</author><text>&quot;Don&#x27;t break the chain&quot; is the absolute worst system for me to form a habit.<p>As soon as the chain is broken, I&#x27;m never going to pick it up again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thotsBgone</author><text>For daily habits, I often deliberately exclude one day of the week so I have practice picking up the habit again after a missed day.</text></comment> |
32,729,423 | 32,729,325 | 1 | 2 | 32,727,829 | train | <story><title>FLAC – Format overview</title><url>https://xiph.org/flac/documentation_format_overview.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adgjlsfhk1</author><text>So to start, you should pretty much disregard anyone who thinks CD quality is worse than vinyl. CD quality is 16 bit, 44k samples per second, and despite some audiophile gear now that is 24 bit, 96k samples per second, ABX testing routinely fails to find a difference between them. As such, in terms of music quality and software quality, anything capable of delivering 16 bit, 44k samples should be considered &quot;perfect&quot; (i.e. FLAC&#x2F;CDs). There is some evidence that in studio conditions, people can hear a difference between high bitrate lossy compression and CD quality, but realistically, even Vorbis at 128kbps or other formats at 256kbps or higher will provide a very good listening experience.</text></item><item><author>jansan</author><text>I do not have very sensitive ears, but maybe an audio enthusiast can explain this to me:<p>In the 80s and 90s some people were going crazy over HiFi, only the absolute high end products were just good enough. I remmeber seeing stereo systems for 50,000$ and more. CDs were already seen as inferior to records quality-wise, and speakers had to be huge if possible.<p>Today Wifi speakers are all the rage. The music is downloaded (precompressed) and then sent over Wifi or Bluetooth with (sometimes very) limited bandwidth to a single speaker which has the size of a laptop.<p>How does the audio quality compare? Is it like day and night? Or do the new multi room systems play in the same league as the old system that were used by enthusiasts? I often have the feeling that overall sound quality does not matter anymore as long as the bass is strong enough, but as I said at the beginning, my ears are not very sensitive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>willis936</author><text>I feel it&#x27;s important to explain why &lt;44 kSamp&#x2F;s sample rates are used. No matter what the digital audio signal should have no information above 20 kHz, but running ADCs far above Nyquist lessens the importance of the analog antialiasing filter. You don&#x27;t need to worry about expensive caps and how they age if you sample at 192 kHz but filter to 20 kHz. This drives down the noise floor and increases linearity for essentially free.<p>Please repeat this when people say &quot;there&#x27;s no reason to use sample rates above 44 kHz&quot;. While it&#x27;s true for source material, it should be properly caveated.</text></comment> | <story><title>FLAC – Format overview</title><url>https://xiph.org/flac/documentation_format_overview.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adgjlsfhk1</author><text>So to start, you should pretty much disregard anyone who thinks CD quality is worse than vinyl. CD quality is 16 bit, 44k samples per second, and despite some audiophile gear now that is 24 bit, 96k samples per second, ABX testing routinely fails to find a difference between them. As such, in terms of music quality and software quality, anything capable of delivering 16 bit, 44k samples should be considered &quot;perfect&quot; (i.e. FLAC&#x2F;CDs). There is some evidence that in studio conditions, people can hear a difference between high bitrate lossy compression and CD quality, but realistically, even Vorbis at 128kbps or other formats at 256kbps or higher will provide a very good listening experience.</text></item><item><author>jansan</author><text>I do not have very sensitive ears, but maybe an audio enthusiast can explain this to me:<p>In the 80s and 90s some people were going crazy over HiFi, only the absolute high end products were just good enough. I remmeber seeing stereo systems for 50,000$ and more. CDs were already seen as inferior to records quality-wise, and speakers had to be huge if possible.<p>Today Wifi speakers are all the rage. The music is downloaded (precompressed) and then sent over Wifi or Bluetooth with (sometimes very) limited bandwidth to a single speaker which has the size of a laptop.<p>How does the audio quality compare? Is it like day and night? Or do the new multi room systems play in the same league as the old system that were used by enthusiasts? I often have the feeling that overall sound quality does not matter anymore as long as the bass is strong enough, but as I said at the beginning, my ears are not very sensitive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chongli</author><text>I don’t think that’s giving people enough credit. Sure, if you master for CD to exploit as much dynamic range as possible (as is often done with high end classical music) then CD quality is truly amazing and vinyl can’t even come close.<p>But, a lot of popular music out there isn’t mastered for that use case (high end ABX testing). On the contrary, there are tons of CDs that are extremely compressed (in the dynamic range sense) so as to sound as loud as possible on the radio [1]. If you compare one of these CDs with an earlier (or even contemporary) vinyl release which has been mastered correctly then of course the vinyl will sound better!<p>Unfortunately, because we’re dealing with a Wild West of media, new and old, floating around in the marketplace we don’t have the luxury of a perfect ABX comparison, and so people will continue to buy and prefer old formats. It is for that reason that we can’t dismiss them.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Loudness_war" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Loudness_war</a></text></comment> |
28,200,848 | 28,200,478 | 1 | 2 | 28,199,067 | train | <story><title>Intel’s Arc GPUs will compete with GeForce and Radeon in early 2022</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/intels-arc-gpus-will-compete-with-geforce-and-radeon-in-early-2022/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jeswin</author><text>If Intel provides as much Linux driver support as they do for their current integrated graphics lineup, we might have a new favourite among Linux users.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>r-bar</author><text>They also seem to be the most willing to open up their GPU sharding API, GVTG, based on their work with their existing Xe GPUs. The performance of their implementation in their first generation was a bit underwhelming, but it seems like the intention is there.<p>If Intel is able to put out something reasonably competitive and that supports GPU sharding it could be a game changer. It could change the direction of the ecosystem and force Nvidia and AMD to bring sharding to their consumer tier cards. I am stoked to see where this new release takes us.<p>Level1Linux has a (reasonably) up to date state of the GPU ecosystem that does a much better job outlining the potential of this tech.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=IXUS1W7Ifys" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=IXUS1W7Ifys</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Intel’s Arc GPUs will compete with GeForce and Radeon in early 2022</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/intels-arc-gpus-will-compete-with-geforce-and-radeon-in-early-2022/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jeswin</author><text>If Intel provides as much Linux driver support as they do for their current integrated graphics lineup, we might have a new favourite among Linux users.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stormbrew</author><text>This is the main reason I&#x27;m excited about this. I really hope they continue the very open approach they&#x27;ve used so far, but even if they start going binary blob for some of it like nvidia and (now to a lesser extent) amd have at least they&#x27;re likely to properly implement KMS and other things because that&#x27;s what they&#x27;ve been doing already.</text></comment> |
15,233,116 | 15,233,146 | 1 | 3 | 15,232,147 | train | <story><title>Washington Post integrates Talk – Mozilla’s open-source commenting platform</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/09/06/mozilla-washington-post-reinventing-online-comments/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>richforrester</author><text>That&#x27;s funny. I tend to skip the article and go into the comments.<p>Comments tell me &quot;what&#x27;s wrong with the article&quot;, and in doing so, give you a good picture of what the article is about.<p>As for the &quot;what&#x27;s wrong&quot; part itself: generally speaking, you can really tell by how the comment is written whether it&#x27;s legit or not. That way, you kinda get two sides of the coin, and you can decide for yourself what&#x27;s going on.</text></item><item><author>dionidium</author><text>I read the paper version of the Times most week days. There are no comments (well, I guess there are a <i>few</i> letters to the editor).<p>I don&#x27;t miss them. I&#x27;m sure commentcowboy236523 from Atlanta has some important things to say, but <i>I don&#x27;t need to read them</i>. If I want conversation, I&#x27;ll come to a place like Hacker News or reddit, where conversation is the goal. I can find that when I want it.<p>But I don&#x27;t need it when I&#x27;m trying to relax and enjoy the paper. Comments simply <i>don&#x27;t add any value to the experience</i>. We don&#x27;t need <i>better</i> comments. We don&#x27;t need them at all.</text></item><item><author>creaghpatr</author><text>Can&#x27;t speak for WaPo but the New York Times comments sections are absolutely dominated by a handful of designated &#x27;top commenters&#x27; who rush to post on any major story.<p>Sometimes their comments are good, but then there&#x27;s the guy who writes a poem every single time, or &#x27;Socrates&#x27; who posts the same cookie-cutter &#x27;blame-the-GOP-all-the-way-back-to-bush&#x27; comment with the most dramatic rhetoric possible, trolling for likes of course.<p>Having said that, I&#x27;m pretty satisfied with the Times comment system, everyone does get a voice even though the top comments are absolutely fixed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>StavrosK</author><text>I think you two are thinking of different things, and missing an important point: Comments are only as good as the community that&#x27;s writing them. YouTube comments are the kind of comments you don&#x27;t want to read, HN comments are the kind you skip the article for.<p>Whether comments are valuable very much depends on the kind of people you have writing them, and I believe it&#x27;s worth trying to maintain a good commenting community.</text></comment> | <story><title>Washington Post integrates Talk – Mozilla’s open-source commenting platform</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/09/06/mozilla-washington-post-reinventing-online-comments/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>richforrester</author><text>That&#x27;s funny. I tend to skip the article and go into the comments.<p>Comments tell me &quot;what&#x27;s wrong with the article&quot;, and in doing so, give you a good picture of what the article is about.<p>As for the &quot;what&#x27;s wrong&quot; part itself: generally speaking, you can really tell by how the comment is written whether it&#x27;s legit or not. That way, you kinda get two sides of the coin, and you can decide for yourself what&#x27;s going on.</text></item><item><author>dionidium</author><text>I read the paper version of the Times most week days. There are no comments (well, I guess there are a <i>few</i> letters to the editor).<p>I don&#x27;t miss them. I&#x27;m sure commentcowboy236523 from Atlanta has some important things to say, but <i>I don&#x27;t need to read them</i>. If I want conversation, I&#x27;ll come to a place like Hacker News or reddit, where conversation is the goal. I can find that when I want it.<p>But I don&#x27;t need it when I&#x27;m trying to relax and enjoy the paper. Comments simply <i>don&#x27;t add any value to the experience</i>. We don&#x27;t need <i>better</i> comments. We don&#x27;t need them at all.</text></item><item><author>creaghpatr</author><text>Can&#x27;t speak for WaPo but the New York Times comments sections are absolutely dominated by a handful of designated &#x27;top commenters&#x27; who rush to post on any major story.<p>Sometimes their comments are good, but then there&#x27;s the guy who writes a poem every single time, or &#x27;Socrates&#x27; who posts the same cookie-cutter &#x27;blame-the-GOP-all-the-way-back-to-bush&#x27; comment with the most dramatic rhetoric possible, trolling for likes of course.<p>Having said that, I&#x27;m pretty satisfied with the Times comment system, everyone does get a voice even though the top comments are absolutely fixed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KGIII</author><text>Similar, I skim the article and read the comments. In some cases, I just read the comments. Though, I don&#x27;t do this on any direct media sites, like online newspapers.<p>At Slashdot, chances are that I haven&#x27;t read the article. I go straight to the comments and read those.<p>Curiously, I can&#x27;t do that as often here on HN. Here, the quality of article is often higher and the comments are usually more on-topic and, often, more specialized. I do end up reading many more threads than I comment in.<p>But, yes... I learn a lot more from the comments (frequently) than I ever do from the article. HN is particularly good at this, and it&#x27;s one of the reasons I visit.</text></comment> |
8,683,757 | 8,683,840 | 1 | 2 | 8,683,238 | train | <story><title>DNSimple DDOS Attack</title><url>http://dnsimplestatus.com/incidents/v0x4h75gxf7x</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>whafro</author><text>We&#x27;re kinda tied into DNSimple since we use an ALIAS record for our bare&#x2F;naked&#x2F;root domain. Amazon&#x27;s Route53 supports aliases, but via a 301 redirect, which doesn&#x27;t work in an SSL context (without browser warnings).<p>Nonetheless, we just spun up a Route53 zone, exported our zone from DNSimple, imported to Route53, and hand-migrated our ALIAS records to static A records in the new zone.<p>Not perfect or permanent, but we&#x27;ve gotten around the outage. Also, I just learned that pointhq has (seemingly-undocumented) support for ALIAS records in the same style as DNSimple, so this could be another avenue to explore.</text></comment> | <story><title>DNSimple DDOS Attack</title><url>http://dnsimplestatus.com/incidents/v0x4h75gxf7x</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jameskilton</author><text>We can watch this happen live @ <a href="http://map.ipviking.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;map.ipviking.com&#x2F;</a><p>Fascinating traffic floods from various locations, but the attack is not continuous.</text></comment> |
36,637,412 | 36,636,841 | 1 | 2 | 36,636,039 | train | <story><title>ChatGPT loses users for first time, shaking faith in AI revolution</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/07/chatgpt-users-decline-future-ai-openai/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>The culprit seems to be:<p>&gt; &quot;<i>Chollet thinks he knows what’s going on: summer vacation... a significant portion of students using ChatGPT to do their homework. It’s one of the most common uses for ChatGPT, according to Sam Gilbert, a data scientist and author.</i>&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;finance.yahoo.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;chatgpt-suddenly-isn-t-booming-204632075.html?.tsrc=rss" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;finance.yahoo.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;chatgpt-suddenly-isn-t-boomin...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stubybubs</author><text>Given that ChatGPT was just released last fall and it was expected to revolutionize practically everything, isn&#x27;t it still telling that usage is falling? Where are the scientists, lawyers, doctors, office workers etc? You&#x27;d expect a slowing in the rate of growth, not shrinking.<p>I don&#x27;t know, if high school and undergrad students being off for the summer is enough to shrink your app maybe it&#x27;s not all that?<p>Edit: I understand there are new tools coming, but most of them aren&#x27;t out yet. GPT4 was <i>just</i> released. For the most part, if you want to play with AI, ChatGPT is it. If they&#x27;re really experiencing a decline in users that&#x27;s not great for them.</text></comment> | <story><title>ChatGPT loses users for first time, shaking faith in AI revolution</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/07/chatgpt-users-decline-future-ai-openai/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>The culprit seems to be:<p>&gt; &quot;<i>Chollet thinks he knows what’s going on: summer vacation... a significant portion of students using ChatGPT to do their homework. It’s one of the most common uses for ChatGPT, according to Sam Gilbert, a data scientist and author.</i>&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;finance.yahoo.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;chatgpt-suddenly-isn-t-booming-204632075.html?.tsrc=rss" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;finance.yahoo.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;chatgpt-suddenly-isn-t-boomin...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spullara</author><text>This is like insanely obvious. This is almost as bad as people freaking out that total traffic in Feb is down 10% from Jan.</text></comment> |
35,058,905 | 35,059,028 | 1 | 3 | 35,055,417 | train | <story><title>Mailed asthma, cancer, erectile drugs are seized the most, despite opioid claims</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/07/health/fda-drug-shipments-khn-partner/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gtop3</author><text>Our prescription drug system needs an overhaul. This isn&#x27;t a matter of all drugs are illegal to import because of quality control issues. You can import aspirin, if you are so inclined. This is asthma and cancer medication being seized because of an overly tight control of prescription drugs. I understand that some drugs sold overseas are not suitable for human consumption. I understand that some drugs require close supervision. I argue that many medications are quite safe to take without supervision and using doctors as gatekeepers functions primarily to increase the billings generated by sick people. I think the bar for what medications are prescription and which medications are OTC needs to be reevaluated. Perhaps the way in which we market drugs and disclose there risks should be reevaluated simultaneously.<p>Imagine taking away someone&#x27;s asthma medication and thinking you are making America a safer, better place.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sithadmin</author><text>&gt; I understand that some drugs sold overseas are not suitable for human consumption<p>Frankly, a lot of FDA-approved drugs sold in the US aren&#x27;t suitable for consumption, especially generics manufactured outside the US. The FDA simply doesn&#x27;t have the resources to enforce good manufacturing practices and product consistency, so a lot of subpar medication manages to slip under the radar and into the US market. The situation is much more grim for non-US buyers, who often get products of significantly worse quality.<p>&#x27;Bottle of Lies&#x27; by Katherine Eban[1] provides a thorough and very unsettling exposé on the issue.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;05&#x2F;13&#x2F;books&#x2F;review&#x2F;bottle-of-lies-katherine-eban.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;05&#x2F;13&#x2F;books&#x2F;review&#x2F;bottle-of-li...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Mailed asthma, cancer, erectile drugs are seized the most, despite opioid claims</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/07/health/fda-drug-shipments-khn-partner/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gtop3</author><text>Our prescription drug system needs an overhaul. This isn&#x27;t a matter of all drugs are illegal to import because of quality control issues. You can import aspirin, if you are so inclined. This is asthma and cancer medication being seized because of an overly tight control of prescription drugs. I understand that some drugs sold overseas are not suitable for human consumption. I understand that some drugs require close supervision. I argue that many medications are quite safe to take without supervision and using doctors as gatekeepers functions primarily to increase the billings generated by sick people. I think the bar for what medications are prescription and which medications are OTC needs to be reevaluated. Perhaps the way in which we market drugs and disclose there risks should be reevaluated simultaneously.<p>Imagine taking away someone&#x27;s asthma medication and thinking you are making America a safer, better place.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shagie</author><text>&gt; I argue that many medications are quite safe to take without supervision and using doctors as gatekeepers functions primarily to increase the billings generated by sick people.<p>A may be safe. B may be safe. A + B may very well be deadly.<p>C may be safe, but in combination with grapefruit is ineffective.<p>D may be safe, but interactions with E and F need to be balanced and monitored to ensure that the body&#x27;s systems don&#x27;t get out of whack.<p>G may be safe, but it has recreational use (and abuse) possibilities.<p>H may be safe, but is a precursor to creating Z which is heavily regulated.<p>... and the list goes on.<p>Most drugs have a &quot;this can go wrong&quot; and with the prevalence of people taking whatever they find or people are talking about (see hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin for some widely popularized examples), I am hesitant to suggest that the common person is sufficiently informed about drugs to take that aspect of their medical care into their own hands without oversight.</text></comment> |
28,907,026 | 28,906,388 | 1 | 3 | 28,905,227 | train | <story><title>Arthritis drug that cost $198 in 2008 is now more than $10k</title><url>https://www.axios.com/indocin-suppository-drug-prices-assertio-zyla-egalet-3278e307-d900-475c-92c9-8e5ff828a7da.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brianwawok</author><text>Right, this is the point that is missed in every hacker news &#x2F; reddit post that spends hours making fun of how bad the US is and how some people get stuck with $50,000 hospital bills.<p>If you have good work based coverage, our care is excellent. Fast access, and low out of pocket costs.<p>I do want to improve it for everyone, but I have 0 complaints about my personal access to health care. I cannot imagine living in Canada and being put on a 8 month wait for something important but not urgent...</text></item><item><author>rafale</author><text>&gt; Many Americans have decent coverage from their employer. For them, it’s not worth upending the system for what might be moderate gains.<p>Negative gains I may say. In my experience of the Canadian healthcare and US healthcare systems, the latter, <i>IF</i> you are well insured, feels like a Rolls-Royce whIle the former is like driving a Lada in Pothole City.<p>I remember the first time I called my provider in the US to book an appointment with a dermatologist. She said &quot;Wednesday&quot;, I said &quot;What month?&quot; I couldn&#x27;t believe it was that same week. I used to wait 2-3 months in Canada. And I had to first get a reference from a ER&#x2F;generalist doctor.<p>Also don&#x27;t forget the US spends on medicare&#x2F;medicaid&#x2F;VA about the same % Canada spends on healthcare.</text></item><item><author>MichaelApproved</author><text>&gt; <i>I wonder how Americans can tolerate this situation.</i><p>Several reasons this terrible system continues to exist but it essentially boils down to entrenchment.<p>- The private healthcare industry pays politicians to maintain the status quo. The alternative government run solution does not.<p>- The private healthcare industry creates propaganda and pays the media to spread it. An improved government run solution does not.<p>- Many Americans have <i>decent</i> coverage from their employer. For them, it’s not worth upending the system for what <i>might</i> be moderate gains. More over, propaganda has made them expect worse coverage from any alternatives.<p>- ACA gave many without employer coverage a good enough solution. It’s still expensive as fuck but it subdued enough voters.<p>So, after considering voters who are happy <i>enough</i> with the devil they know, you don’t have enough votes left to overturn the system.</text></item><item><author>otagekki</author><text>... And in the meantime, the same medicine (commercialised there as Indocid) costs €3.78 in France (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vidal.fr&#x2F;medicaments&#x2F;gammes&#x2F;indocid-4902.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vidal.fr&#x2F;medicaments&#x2F;gammes&#x2F;indocid-4902.html</a>) provided you pay the full price.<p>That essentially means it&#x27;s literally 10x cheaper to take a two-way ticket to France, have a doctor prescribe it there, buy 3 months worth of treatment and come back to the US.<p>I wonder how Americans can tolerate this situation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>helsinkiandrew</author><text>&gt; This is the point that is missed in every hacker news &#x2F; reddit post that spends hours making fun of how bad the US is.<p>Mostly of the &#x27;making fun&#x27; is due to the fact that millions of US citizens have no or little health care and choose not to have treatment because they can&#x27;t afford it, are limited about what treatments they can have, or have it and are made homeless or live under huge debts.<p>Just about every country which has some kind of health care system also has private health care&#x2F;insurance that means you don&#x27;t have to wait for treatment or have more choice about what, when and where things happen. Because of the competition of the &#x27;free&#x27; healthcare systems these policies are usually much, much cheaper that the US.<p>I work in a company that gives me private medical insurance (which means I might get treated a little early for a non urgent condition, perhaps in a swanky private hospital) but feel good that people that can&#x27;t afford it won&#x27;t die, and that I can quit my job and not worry about getting ill.</text></comment> | <story><title>Arthritis drug that cost $198 in 2008 is now more than $10k</title><url>https://www.axios.com/indocin-suppository-drug-prices-assertio-zyla-egalet-3278e307-d900-475c-92c9-8e5ff828a7da.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brianwawok</author><text>Right, this is the point that is missed in every hacker news &#x2F; reddit post that spends hours making fun of how bad the US is and how some people get stuck with $50,000 hospital bills.<p>If you have good work based coverage, our care is excellent. Fast access, and low out of pocket costs.<p>I do want to improve it for everyone, but I have 0 complaints about my personal access to health care. I cannot imagine living in Canada and being put on a 8 month wait for something important but not urgent...</text></item><item><author>rafale</author><text>&gt; Many Americans have decent coverage from their employer. For them, it’s not worth upending the system for what might be moderate gains.<p>Negative gains I may say. In my experience of the Canadian healthcare and US healthcare systems, the latter, <i>IF</i> you are well insured, feels like a Rolls-Royce whIle the former is like driving a Lada in Pothole City.<p>I remember the first time I called my provider in the US to book an appointment with a dermatologist. She said &quot;Wednesday&quot;, I said &quot;What month?&quot; I couldn&#x27;t believe it was that same week. I used to wait 2-3 months in Canada. And I had to first get a reference from a ER&#x2F;generalist doctor.<p>Also don&#x27;t forget the US spends on medicare&#x2F;medicaid&#x2F;VA about the same % Canada spends on healthcare.</text></item><item><author>MichaelApproved</author><text>&gt; <i>I wonder how Americans can tolerate this situation.</i><p>Several reasons this terrible system continues to exist but it essentially boils down to entrenchment.<p>- The private healthcare industry pays politicians to maintain the status quo. The alternative government run solution does not.<p>- The private healthcare industry creates propaganda and pays the media to spread it. An improved government run solution does not.<p>- Many Americans have <i>decent</i> coverage from their employer. For them, it’s not worth upending the system for what <i>might</i> be moderate gains. More over, propaganda has made them expect worse coverage from any alternatives.<p>- ACA gave many without employer coverage a good enough solution. It’s still expensive as fuck but it subdued enough voters.<p>So, after considering voters who are happy <i>enough</i> with the devil they know, you don’t have enough votes left to overturn the system.</text></item><item><author>otagekki</author><text>... And in the meantime, the same medicine (commercialised there as Indocid) costs €3.78 in France (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vidal.fr&#x2F;medicaments&#x2F;gammes&#x2F;indocid-4902.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vidal.fr&#x2F;medicaments&#x2F;gammes&#x2F;indocid-4902.html</a>) provided you pay the full price.<p>That essentially means it&#x27;s literally 10x cheaper to take a two-way ticket to France, have a doctor prescribe it there, buy 3 months worth of treatment and come back to the US.<p>I wonder how Americans can tolerate this situation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wing-_-nuts</author><text>&gt;I cannot imagine living in Canada and being put on a 8 month wait for something important but not urgent...<p>We have pretty long wait times in the US for elective surgeries as well. Not as bad as canada, but it can take a bit to get you scheduled for a hip or knee replacement.</text></comment> |
31,204,939 | 31,204,306 | 1 | 2 | 31,203,186 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Dealing with Career Mistakes</title><text>Two years ago I had an option to go into the management path. My leadership was supportive and wanted me to take up the opportunity. I chose to pivot into the product management instead. My peer took that role. My role change didn’t go very well. Personally i was unhappy and felt unfulfilled at work. While I was respected at work and my manager very supportive I didn’t enjoy it. I quit and joined another company and pivoted into program management. Since then my work hours have doubled and while I am earning the highest paycheck I could have dreamed of, I am extremely unhappy being an IC. I have 25 years of industry experience and I feel I should mentor people instead of moving JIRA tickets around.<p>Yesterday I saw my former colleague who grabbed the manager role, got promoted to a director. I was hard working and intelligent than him. I could’ve played my card right and be in that place. Yet here I am being ‘advanced beginner’ in a different role every couple of years doing grunt IC work. How do I turn the wheel of time back and undo my career mistake. I feel incredibly stupid. I am losing confidence in making good decisions.<p>How do I deal with my feelings? Should I seek professional help?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>somehnacct3757</author><text>You have no way of knowing that you would have done well in the manager role and gotten promoted to director like your peer. You claim to be more hard working and intelligent than him but who&#x27;s to say what you view as hard working and intelligent are objectively true? Who&#x27;s to say success in those roles is even a function of hard work or intelligence? Who&#x27;s to say your peer didn&#x27;t have some third skill relevant to managering and directoring that you lack in comparison? Maybe the thing that led to your peer&#x27;s promotion was his boss&#x27;s partner meeting his partner at a holiday party which put him on the radar. Who the heck knows.<p>If a man in line behind you at the convenience store buys a lottery ticket and wins a million dollars, do you kick yourself for not buying that ticket when it was your turn in line? Life is chaos; pretending things like this are in your control is useless. Punishing yourself for not knowing what you didn&#x27;t know in the past is cruel.<p>Your misery comes from your own self-imprisonement. Happiness will not come from a time machine. Rather you should work on keeping your ego out of the driver&#x27;s seat. A therapist might help, to teach you frameworks around catastrophization. Eastern philosophy has a lot of answers for dealing with ego as well. Alan Watts&#x27; The Book is a good way to experiment on that path.<p>Forget the past and focus on the present. If you don&#x27;t like the present, focus on the future.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>moonchrome</author><text>&gt;If a man in line behind you at the convenience store buys a lottery ticket and wins a million dollars, do you kick yourself for not buying that ticket when it was your turn in line?<p>That&#x27;s a very nice analogy - is it something you came up with ? (I am going to steal it so I would like to know who I&#x27;m stealing from :) )</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Dealing with Career Mistakes</title><text>Two years ago I had an option to go into the management path. My leadership was supportive and wanted me to take up the opportunity. I chose to pivot into the product management instead. My peer took that role. My role change didn’t go very well. Personally i was unhappy and felt unfulfilled at work. While I was respected at work and my manager very supportive I didn’t enjoy it. I quit and joined another company and pivoted into program management. Since then my work hours have doubled and while I am earning the highest paycheck I could have dreamed of, I am extremely unhappy being an IC. I have 25 years of industry experience and I feel I should mentor people instead of moving JIRA tickets around.<p>Yesterday I saw my former colleague who grabbed the manager role, got promoted to a director. I was hard working and intelligent than him. I could’ve played my card right and be in that place. Yet here I am being ‘advanced beginner’ in a different role every couple of years doing grunt IC work. How do I turn the wheel of time back and undo my career mistake. I feel incredibly stupid. I am losing confidence in making good decisions.<p>How do I deal with my feelings? Should I seek professional help?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>somehnacct3757</author><text>You have no way of knowing that you would have done well in the manager role and gotten promoted to director like your peer. You claim to be more hard working and intelligent than him but who&#x27;s to say what you view as hard working and intelligent are objectively true? Who&#x27;s to say success in those roles is even a function of hard work or intelligence? Who&#x27;s to say your peer didn&#x27;t have some third skill relevant to managering and directoring that you lack in comparison? Maybe the thing that led to your peer&#x27;s promotion was his boss&#x27;s partner meeting his partner at a holiday party which put him on the radar. Who the heck knows.<p>If a man in line behind you at the convenience store buys a lottery ticket and wins a million dollars, do you kick yourself for not buying that ticket when it was your turn in line? Life is chaos; pretending things like this are in your control is useless. Punishing yourself for not knowing what you didn&#x27;t know in the past is cruel.<p>Your misery comes from your own self-imprisonement. Happiness will not come from a time machine. Rather you should work on keeping your ego out of the driver&#x27;s seat. A therapist might help, to teach you frameworks around catastrophization. Eastern philosophy has a lot of answers for dealing with ego as well. Alan Watts&#x27; The Book is a good way to experiment on that path.<p>Forget the past and focus on the present. If you don&#x27;t like the present, focus on the future.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sph</author><text>Agreed 100%. I had an opportunity for a managerial role, I took it, I thought it would make my career better.<p>It didn&#x27;t. I crashed, burned, couldn&#x27;t write as much code as I wanted and managing people is an entirely other and opposite skill than writing code. I quit, I took a break and I&#x27;m now planning on writing code as an engineer for the rest of my career. I&#x27;ll leave herding cats^H^Hdealing with people to more suited candidates.<p>You can&#x27;t know that your current choice is a mistake. That&#x27;s an unproductive attitude to have in life.</text></comment> |
22,186,966 | 22,186,220 | 1 | 3 | 22,184,052 | train | <story><title>How Sustainable Is a Solar Powered Website?</title><url>https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/01/how-sustainable-is-a-solar-powered-website.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hannob</author><text>This may sound snarky, but...<p>I really wonder how helpful such projects are. Making the Internet greener is undoubtedly an important goal, but I feel this is perpetuating a myth that we&#x27;re gonna fix the climate crisis with small-scale projects from below.<p>Practically this is doing nothing to provide any relevant fix for the problem. What we should be doing is thinking about how we can fix the problem at scale, e.g. pressuring large IT companies to get real about the green image they like to peddle. (i.e. care more about news like this <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22167858" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22167858</a> )</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stevenhuang</author><text>These small-scale projects directly inspires those linked in your article to act. The more we talk about it and try to make a change--any change--the greater the impetus to make greater changes.<p>Large-scale projects don&#x27;t magically wink into existence in a vacuum, the conversation needs to happen and the ball first needs to get rolling.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Sustainable Is a Solar Powered Website?</title><url>https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/01/how-sustainable-is-a-solar-powered-website.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hannob</author><text>This may sound snarky, but...<p>I really wonder how helpful such projects are. Making the Internet greener is undoubtedly an important goal, but I feel this is perpetuating a myth that we&#x27;re gonna fix the climate crisis with small-scale projects from below.<p>Practically this is doing nothing to provide any relevant fix for the problem. What we should be doing is thinking about how we can fix the problem at scale, e.g. pressuring large IT companies to get real about the green image they like to peddle. (i.e. care more about news like this <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22167858" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22167858</a> )</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bacon_waffle</author><text>One benefit of small projects is that they give people a sense of scale, and a better mental framework for thinking about energy use. Electrical power is something we don&#x27;t (usually) see or physically interact with, this project gives an idea of what a PV panel or battery that can run a tiny computer looks and feels like.</text></comment> |
5,166,959 | 5,166,657 | 1 | 2 | 5,166,238 | train | <story><title>College was my biggest mistake (2012)</title><url>http://stevecorona.com/college-was-my-biggest-mistake/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stevencorona</author><text>Hey guys, author here- this is an older post that someone reposted. I get alot of hate for this post, so let me sum it up here:<p>College was my biggest mistake. Not your biggest mistake. I'm not giving advice, just being honest about my experience. You have to "pay to play". Who knows if I would have been able to bootstrap myself without a year of college. All I know is I can't imagine the ridiculous amount of debt I'd be in if I finished.<p>It boils down to this: I wish that when I was 18 someone told me college wasn't the only option.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>notlisted</author><text>What worked in (y)our field, would not work elsewhere.<p>I'm the product of a Western-European system. Yearly tuition was like $2k. Your 44k would have covered 4 years in college including housing, food and ample beer.<p>IMHO, the real problem lies in the acceptance of the status quo in the American educational system and the unwillingness to let government play a role (through taxation, grants, etc). It's baffling to me that a first-world country like the USA doesn't want to invest in education. If you don't pay for the education, you'll pay for the unemployment benefits and/or lack of innovation.<p>I make a good living, but still I worry greatly about my daughter's future. Avg college tuition supposedly will reach 90k/yr by the time she's ready to attend, unless something is done about this madness.<p>Bill Gates has the right idea with his 10K BA challenge and I like what I see:
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/01/opinion/my-valuable-cheap-college-degree.html?_r=0" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/01/opinion/my-valuable-cheap-...</a>
<a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/335522/10000-degree-katrina-trinko" rel="nofollow">http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/335522/10000-degree-k...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>College was my biggest mistake (2012)</title><url>http://stevecorona.com/college-was-my-biggest-mistake/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stevencorona</author><text>Hey guys, author here- this is an older post that someone reposted. I get alot of hate for this post, so let me sum it up here:<p>College was my biggest mistake. Not your biggest mistake. I'm not giving advice, just being honest about my experience. You have to "pay to play". Who knows if I would have been able to bootstrap myself without a year of college. All I know is I can't imagine the ridiculous amount of debt I'd be in if I finished.<p>It boils down to this: I wish that when I was 18 someone told me college wasn't the only option.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sliverstorm</author><text>On the bright side, now you know <i>definitively</i> that it wasn't the right option for you. You won't spend the rest of your life wondering, "what if I had gone to college instead...?"<p>I am of the opinion that some mistakes are worth making.</text></comment> |
34,818,353 | 34,818,012 | 1 | 3 | 34,817,391 | train | <story><title>IKEA made a smart air quality sensor to track indoor pollution</title><url>https://www.engadget.com/ikea-vindstyrka-indoor-air-quality-sensor-195810594.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ikekkdcjkfke</author><text>Why isn&#x27;t my 1000$ smartphone loaded with sensors, infrared camera, decibel meter etc.</text></item><item><author>netrus</author><text>What does it take to produce cheap CO2 sensors? Ikea would be my best bet to provide a large enough market for good-enough sensors to bring prices down. A CO2 sensor should be in every classroom and every office, but it&#x27;s not affordable enough yet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jve</author><text>... yeah, apart from gyroscope, pressure, proximity, light, position, magnetic, accelerometer, g, fingerprint, blood oxygen, internal temp and IR sensors.</text></comment> | <story><title>IKEA made a smart air quality sensor to track indoor pollution</title><url>https://www.engadget.com/ikea-vindstyrka-indoor-air-quality-sensor-195810594.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ikekkdcjkfke</author><text>Why isn&#x27;t my 1000$ smartphone loaded with sensors, infrared camera, decibel meter etc.</text></item><item><author>netrus</author><text>What does it take to produce cheap CO2 sensors? Ikea would be my best bet to provide a large enough market for good-enough sensors to bring prices down. A CO2 sensor should be in every classroom and every office, but it&#x27;s not affordable enough yet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>varjag</author><text>&gt; decibel meter<p>You have the microphone in your smartphone.</text></comment> |
39,841,725 | 39,841,655 | 1 | 2 | 39,841,390 | train | <story><title>Claude 3 surpasses GPT-4 on Chatbot Arena for the first time</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/03/the-king-is-dead-claude-3-surpasses-gpt-4-on-chatbot-arena-for-the-first-time/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrbishalsaha</author><text>I use claude sonnet for coding and it&#x27;s better than GPT4 most of the time. Something I am realising is that LLMs doesn&#x27;t have any moat. Today OpenAI, tomorrow someone else.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thomasahle</author><text>I agree. My personal experience is that 80% of the time Opus is better than GPT-4 on coding.<p>Honestly the only thing that keeps me to sometimes prefer GPT-4 now is the UI. I like being able to Edit my messages, and to Stop the model if I gave it the wrong prompt. Please improve Claude&#x27;s UI!<p>The interoperability between LLMs right now is amazing. When I write a program I can quickly test it with each of GPT, Claude and Gemini to see which work better for what I&#x27;m doing. Here&#x27;s to hoping nobody figure out how to create a moat any time soon!</text></comment> | <story><title>Claude 3 surpasses GPT-4 on Chatbot Arena for the first time</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/03/the-king-is-dead-claude-3-surpasses-gpt-4-on-chatbot-arena-for-the-first-time/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrbishalsaha</author><text>I use claude sonnet for coding and it&#x27;s better than GPT4 most of the time. Something I am realising is that LLMs doesn&#x27;t have any moat. Today OpenAI, tomorrow someone else.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Buttons840</author><text>Tomorrow my desktop computer hopefully</text></comment> |
1,321,154 | 1,321,165 | 1 | 2 | 1,320,949 | train | <story><title>Why Aren't There More Terrorist Attacks?</title><url>http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/05/why_arent_there.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vaksel</author><text>actually I think the smaller terrorist attacks would be much more effective at instilling terror.<p>remember the dc sniper? After the first couple of people were killed, everyone started running in zig zags everywhere they went.<p>blow up a bus or a train once a week, and you'll shut down most cities. It doesn't even have to be a huge bomb. A few fire crackers that kill/wound 1-2 people and the media will do it's job in making people think it's the end of the world.<p>and if they can't get bombs/firecrackers, they can always buy a few automatic weapons at any gun store, and open up on a few trains/buses/malls. Same effect without the boom.<p>Terrorism is just overhyped, since media has nothing better to do.<p>Take 2009..let's list all the terrorist attacks in the United States:<p>2/4/2009 - Chairman of the Arkansas State Medical Board wounded in a car bomb.(probably abortion related)<p>5/25/2009 - someone blows up a starbucks bench(0 casualties)<p>6/1/2009 - a muslim shoots up a recruiting station(1 dead, 1 wounded)<p>12/25/2009 - the underwear bomber(0 casualties)<p>So a total of 4 attacks, 1 dead, 2 wounded. And none of them were organized, terrorists aren't the evil geniuses that the media paints them as. In fact most terrorists. are basically just wannabees who've watched the news and want to be part of the "war".<p>You have a bigger chance of getting killed by a falling tree or getting hit by lighting, than you do of getting hurt in a terrorist attack.<p>Terrorism is just hype, it's a small criminal matter, that's not worth the trillions the United States is spending to fight it. It's all just security theater....make people think something is being done, when in reality nothing they can do can stop any further attacks. But the "terrorists are coming to kill you!" sure does work in getting the public to agree to anything you want.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anamax</author><text>&#62; they can always buy a few automatic weapons at any gun store<p>Actually, you can't, at least not in the US, and that's been true for decades.<p>Thinking that you can is like thinking that you can buy a race car at the local dealer because you see similar looking cars with the same name on TV.<p>&#62; Take 2009..let's list all the terrorist attacks in the United States:<p>The Fort Hood shooting, which killed 13 should be on that list. So much for "all".</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Aren't There More Terrorist Attacks?</title><url>http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/05/why_arent_there.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vaksel</author><text>actually I think the smaller terrorist attacks would be much more effective at instilling terror.<p>remember the dc sniper? After the first couple of people were killed, everyone started running in zig zags everywhere they went.<p>blow up a bus or a train once a week, and you'll shut down most cities. It doesn't even have to be a huge bomb. A few fire crackers that kill/wound 1-2 people and the media will do it's job in making people think it's the end of the world.<p>and if they can't get bombs/firecrackers, they can always buy a few automatic weapons at any gun store, and open up on a few trains/buses/malls. Same effect without the boom.<p>Terrorism is just overhyped, since media has nothing better to do.<p>Take 2009..let's list all the terrorist attacks in the United States:<p>2/4/2009 - Chairman of the Arkansas State Medical Board wounded in a car bomb.(probably abortion related)<p>5/25/2009 - someone blows up a starbucks bench(0 casualties)<p>6/1/2009 - a muslim shoots up a recruiting station(1 dead, 1 wounded)<p>12/25/2009 - the underwear bomber(0 casualties)<p>So a total of 4 attacks, 1 dead, 2 wounded. And none of them were organized, terrorists aren't the evil geniuses that the media paints them as. In fact most terrorists. are basically just wannabees who've watched the news and want to be part of the "war".<p>You have a bigger chance of getting killed by a falling tree or getting hit by lighting, than you do of getting hurt in a terrorist attack.<p>Terrorism is just hype, it's a small criminal matter, that's not worth the trillions the United States is spending to fight it. It's all just security theater....make people think something is being done, when in reality nothing they can do can stop any further attacks. But the "terrorists are coming to kill you!" sure does work in getting the public to agree to anything you want.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pwhelan</author><text>He doesn't argue that small attacks don't instill terror -- it doesn't serve the dual purposes of "inspiring" allies and donors while instilling fear in the target city/nation. Also, you must recall that you actually need people to blow up the bus, train, etc -- which is difficult to get in the US at least and they have to be able to continually do it.<p>I agree that terrorism is often over-hyped by the media, but that doesn't mean the threat is something to be ignored. The 4 pathetic attacks you bring up do show the current state of impotence, however we have to be vigilant. The opinions presented by many today would be quite different had Time Square been painted with blood.</text></comment> |
21,344,785 | 21,344,952 | 1 | 2 | 21,344,522 | train | <story><title>Congressman's phone password is 111111</title><url>https://gfycat.com/uncommonacclaimedboar</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>duxup</author><text>I tell this story a lot. But I think in the time of smartphones and such it also represents the only real secure site I thought was truly secure from what I knew of it. This was before smartphones were common, but I think it was ahead of its time in that way.<p>I worked for a company that occasionally would service some of our hardware onsite. One customer was a company that did a lot of work for the military and they had &quot;that site&quot; that a few folks visited. Here was how that worked:<p>Nothing except your body and your clothes left the site, anything you brought stayed onsite (laptops that we brought onsite were left behind &#x2F; effectively disposable, later you couldn&#x27;t even bring those, they provided one). All that stuff belonged to the military &#x2F; whomever you interacted with at the site.<p>No electronics, cameras, etc that were not previously improved were allowed and you were told you would not be leaving anytime soon if you had something &quot;unexpected or unauthorized&quot;.<p>It was highly suggested that nothing was in your rental car other than your keys, the equipment you needed as they searched the car and the folks would take what they wished.<p>If you realized you had something you didn&#x27;t want to in the car it was highly suggested you do not turn around if you are at all close to the location and to drive up and immediately tell them you dorked up and brought something. This was a fairly remote location so the probabbly knew you were coming before you saw the gate and the guards didn&#x27;t like surprises.<p>Upon arrival you parked, were blindfolded and driven from the gate to the site, you never actually saw the outside of the site until you were in the building. You were never alone at anytime. Trips to the bathroom while at the site were monitored... in person by a guard with a rifle.<p>Now all that sounds ominous but everyone reported that the folks there were very professional (not friendly but professional).<p>The point of that whole story was that even a while ago someone said &quot;any electronics&quot; were a threat and decided that they had to go to extremes to limit their access. Still today I think that was the closest to a &quot;sure&quot; policy.</text></comment> | <story><title>Congressman's phone password is 111111</title><url>https://gfycat.com/uncommonacclaimedboar</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ydnaclementine</author><text>I always thought that Android&#x27;s 3x3 dot pattern draw password thing was superior against these type of over the shoulder attack, as long as you turn off the tracing effect. Without tracing and if you do it quickly, it just looks like you’re dragging your thumb randomly all over the phone.</text></comment> |
21,344,178 | 21,344,289 | 1 | 3 | 21,342,501 | train | <story><title>Rust and C++ on Floating-Point Intensive Code</title><url>https://www.reidatcheson.com/hpc/architecture/performance/rust/c++/2019/10/19/measure-cache.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>diamondlovesyou</author><text>I have some experience with this, ie ensuring LLVM optimizes and codegens the &quot;best&quot;! I have been working to generate <i>target independent</i> &quot;kernels&quot; for the Rav1e AV1 encoder and have had to do a lot of unidiomatic things to get LLVM to generate machine code similar in quality to hand written ASM. Granted, this is on integers and not floats, but the same principles should apply.<p>What I&#x27;ve found is that you need to ignore most of Rust: use&#x2F;load raw pointers, don&#x27;t use slices, unroll manually, vectorize manually, and check preconditions manually. You&#x27;ll still get the amazing type system, but the code will have to be more C-like than Rust-like.<p>* raw pointers: LLVM is pretty good at optimizing C code. Rust specific optimization needs some work. (edit: I assumed arrays here, so you&#x27;ll need the pointer for offsets; references are still okay. You&#x27;d also use the pointers for iterating instead of the usual slice iteration patterns)<p>* no slices: index checking is expensive, not to the CPU, the CPU rarely misses the check branches, but to the optimizer. I&#x27;ve found these are mostly left un-elided, even after inlining.<p>* no slices: slice indexing uses overflow checking. For Rav1e&#x27;s case, the block&#x2F;plane sizes mean that doing the index calculation using `u32` will never overflow, so calculating the offsets using u32 is fine (I&#x27;ll have to switch to using a pseudo u24 integer for GPUs though, because u32 is still expensive on them).<p>* unroll manually: LLVM would probably do more of this with profiling info, but I&#x27;ve never found it (this is subjective!) to do any unrolling w&#x2F;o. Maybe if all the other items here are also done...<p>* vectorize manually: Similar to unrolling. I&#x27;ve observed only limited automatic vectorization.<p>* And to get safety back: check, check, and check before calling the fast kernel! Ie wrap the kernel function with one that does all the checks elided in the kernel.<p>Source: Wrote <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;xiph&#x2F;rav1e&#x2F;pull&#x2F;1716" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;xiph&#x2F;rav1e&#x2F;pull&#x2F;1716</a>, which speeds up the non-asm encodes by over 2x!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gameswithgo</author><text>the first order reason Rust and C++ differ in the article is because Rust will not pass the ffastmath flag to llvm, not because of any of this stuff.</text></comment> | <story><title>Rust and C++ on Floating-Point Intensive Code</title><url>https://www.reidatcheson.com/hpc/architecture/performance/rust/c++/2019/10/19/measure-cache.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>diamondlovesyou</author><text>I have some experience with this, ie ensuring LLVM optimizes and codegens the &quot;best&quot;! I have been working to generate <i>target independent</i> &quot;kernels&quot; for the Rav1e AV1 encoder and have had to do a lot of unidiomatic things to get LLVM to generate machine code similar in quality to hand written ASM. Granted, this is on integers and not floats, but the same principles should apply.<p>What I&#x27;ve found is that you need to ignore most of Rust: use&#x2F;load raw pointers, don&#x27;t use slices, unroll manually, vectorize manually, and check preconditions manually. You&#x27;ll still get the amazing type system, but the code will have to be more C-like than Rust-like.<p>* raw pointers: LLVM is pretty good at optimizing C code. Rust specific optimization needs some work. (edit: I assumed arrays here, so you&#x27;ll need the pointer for offsets; references are still okay. You&#x27;d also use the pointers for iterating instead of the usual slice iteration patterns)<p>* no slices: index checking is expensive, not to the CPU, the CPU rarely misses the check branches, but to the optimizer. I&#x27;ve found these are mostly left un-elided, even after inlining.<p>* no slices: slice indexing uses overflow checking. For Rav1e&#x27;s case, the block&#x2F;plane sizes mean that doing the index calculation using `u32` will never overflow, so calculating the offsets using u32 is fine (I&#x27;ll have to switch to using a pseudo u24 integer for GPUs though, because u32 is still expensive on them).<p>* unroll manually: LLVM would probably do more of this with profiling info, but I&#x27;ve never found it (this is subjective!) to do any unrolling w&#x2F;o. Maybe if all the other items here are also done...<p>* vectorize manually: Similar to unrolling. I&#x27;ve observed only limited automatic vectorization.<p>* And to get safety back: check, check, and check before calling the fast kernel! Ie wrap the kernel function with one that does all the checks elided in the kernel.<p>Source: Wrote <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;xiph&#x2F;rav1e&#x2F;pull&#x2F;1716" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;xiph&#x2F;rav1e&#x2F;pull&#x2F;1716</a>, which speeds up the non-asm encodes by over 2x!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nine_k</author><text>To sum up: LLVM is heavily optimized for C code, not so much for Rust. So Rust code has to imitate certain C mannerisms for the optimizer to kick in.<p>You have to pay the price of compatibility with the existing toolchain even if it&#x27;s not your explicit goal.</text></comment> |
10,662,930 | 10,662,512 | 1 | 2 | 10,661,730 | train | <story><title>Google sheep view</title><url>http://www.googlesheepview.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codeshaman</author><text>After waking up, I watched a video of two cats fighting and screaming for a couple of minutes: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=vEvvRfuVk30" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=vEvvRfuVk30</a><p>The video has 8 million views.<p>Out of all the activities and experiences that our modern world offers, 8 million viewers still chose to watch two cats fighting ... Why ?<p>Projects like these make me both happy and scared - happy, because life is so good that people have nothing better to do than look for photos of sheep on google maps and publish them online.<p>Scared because a lot more people have nothing better to do than visit that page and look at the photos of sheep somewhere in time and space..
Have we all gone mad ?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JohannesH</author><text>I posted a 9 second video of me pushing a coke can over a table making a sound that&#x27;s similar to Chewbacca (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;myhYNsRXYgs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;myhYNsRXYgs</a>) a few days ago. So far it&#x27;s been seen 750.000 times on youtube and about 3.000.000 times on facebook. This is about 416 days worth of people watching this video (wasting time).<p>However, I think it is the wrong perspective to take. People do all sorts of &quot;seemingly&quot; non-productive things (including but not limited to watching stupid youtube videos)... all the time. But I think these activities might have important and positive social properties (people bonding over the video, having a laugh). There are possibly even some positive psychological effects (such as stress relief). Well, that&#x27;s just my thoughts on the matter. :)<p>But of course I&#x27;m not a psychologist, and I don&#x27;t know if this is the case in reality. But it is certainly an interesting topic to explore.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google sheep view</title><url>http://www.googlesheepview.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codeshaman</author><text>After waking up, I watched a video of two cats fighting and screaming for a couple of minutes: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=vEvvRfuVk30" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=vEvvRfuVk30</a><p>The video has 8 million views.<p>Out of all the activities and experiences that our modern world offers, 8 million viewers still chose to watch two cats fighting ... Why ?<p>Projects like these make me both happy and scared - happy, because life is so good that people have nothing better to do than look for photos of sheep on google maps and publish them online.<p>Scared because a lot more people have nothing better to do than visit that page and look at the photos of sheep somewhere in time and space..
Have we all gone mad ?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>comboy</author><text>It&#x27;s really hard to define what&#x27;s good&#x2F;productive and what is not (apart from choosing optimization function, there&#x27;s so many unknowns, like e.g. speeding up technological progress could be leading to our quicker extinction).<p>So if I look at this frustrated guy rewriting app from one JS framework to another, and some other one being happy looking at some pictures of sheep, I&#x27;m really not able to tell which one is spending his time &quot;better&quot;.<p>Of course there&#x27;s also this thing that for one person exploring depths of some computer game may be very exciting and worth spending time, while somebody else may not get his dopamine unless he creates something new. Everything seems to suggest that the there are more consumers than creators out there &lt;insert education system rant here&gt;<p>But what I actually wanted to point out, is that when you look at human history, it seems to me, that even when spending a lot of time watching cats, average Joe is able and is doing a lot more of meaningful stuff today than he was able in the past. Again, meaningful is hard to define, but I mean there&#x27;s more opportunity to do something that no one has ever done before. More niches and small global communities. Less time spent on dull repetitive tasks (yes, I think it does still hold true if you include China).</text></comment> |
2,167,049 | 2,167,161 | 1 | 2 | 2,166,566 | train | <story><title>Apple responds: we want a cut of Amazon, Sony e-book sales</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/02/apple-responds-to-app-store-furor-says-it-wants-a-cut-of-e-book-sales.ars</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cletus</author><text>I think we were all afraid of some move like this. Nobody cares about Sony's ebooks. Everybody (me included) cares about Kindle.<p>I can sort of understand where Apple is coming from in this. They provide an ecosystem and apps live within their ecosystem.<p>That being said, I can't see Amazon or any other big player rolling over on a margin of 30%. This is the problem with one fixed margin: it works well for apps and music but not necessarily for other things.<p>You see the same problem with the Mac App Store: smaller devs love it. Will you see Microsoft Office or Adobe Photoshop on it? I doubt it. 30% is just too much for those big players to hand over.<p>I consider Kindle to be a key part of my iPad experience and I can say if the end result of this is that I can't read my Kindle books on my iPad I will be <i>pissed</i>. I bought them specifically because I could.<p>Ultimately though I think Apple needs to give up control here. They should provide a payment infrastructure and if it's comeplling, people will use it. If it's not, they won't. But don't make me a casualty of war in the names of the the consistency of your 30% cut.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jaaron</author><text>30% can be the entire profit margin for electronic content. The apps themselves are free and the provider has to pay a significant chunk back to the content owner (author, label, studio or publisher), leaving a much smaller margin for the retailer. 30% to Apple simply makes iOS unprofitable.<p>This also extends to subscription services. Do you expect Netflix or Hulu to hand over 30% of subscription revenue? I don't think so.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple responds: we want a cut of Amazon, Sony e-book sales</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/02/apple-responds-to-app-store-furor-says-it-wants-a-cut-of-e-book-sales.ars</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cletus</author><text>I think we were all afraid of some move like this. Nobody cares about Sony's ebooks. Everybody (me included) cares about Kindle.<p>I can sort of understand where Apple is coming from in this. They provide an ecosystem and apps live within their ecosystem.<p>That being said, I can't see Amazon or any other big player rolling over on a margin of 30%. This is the problem with one fixed margin: it works well for apps and music but not necessarily for other things.<p>You see the same problem with the Mac App Store: smaller devs love it. Will you see Microsoft Office or Adobe Photoshop on it? I doubt it. 30% is just too much for those big players to hand over.<p>I consider Kindle to be a key part of my iPad experience and I can say if the end result of this is that I can't read my Kindle books on my iPad I will be <i>pissed</i>. I bought them specifically because I could.<p>Ultimately though I think Apple needs to give up control here. They should provide a payment infrastructure and if it's comeplling, people will use it. If it's not, they won't. But don't make me a casualty of war in the names of the the consistency of your 30% cut.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rbanffy</author><text>&#62; Everybody (me included) care about Kindle.<p>I am very happy with my Nook and the no-DRM policies adopted by O'Reilly, Manning Pragmatic and probably others. I am also delighted with the amount of interesting material freely available on Feedbooks (in Kindle-friendly format too)</text></comment> |
29,339,887 | 29,339,637 | 1 | 2 | 29,338,026 | train | <story><title>Museum of Plugs and Sockets</title><url>https://www.plugsocketmuseum.nl/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>asplake</author><text>As a Brit, got to say that I wish we used Europlugs here. Ours are so bulky (a pain for anything portable), and the US ones seem so flimsy.<p>Also, there ought to be a museum of hotel electrics. Weird light switch behaviour, dumb (pre phone charger) socket placement, heating&#x2F;cooling controls, etc</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smcl</author><text>As a Brit living in the EU, I kinda miss the ones back home - for two reasons, the grip and the orientation. I don&#x27;t know anything about relative safety of either, this is purely about UX :)<p>The UK plugs usually have a very clear way to grip them and pull them out of the socket, and yanking them by the cable neither looks <i>nor</i> feels right. Whereas the Europlug ones I have mostly have a very dainty, slight place to grip with your fingers and are often <i>very</i> tight - often they really invite you to pull by the cable itself.<p>There&#x27;s a little bit of ambiguity about orientation - sometimes the socket has an extra prong sticking out meaning you have to use the plug the right way up, and sometimes there&#x27;s none. But it can sometimes happen that you&#x27;re not sure if you&#x27;re a few degrees out in aligning the prongs in the plug, or if you&#x27;re just the wrong way up and the earth prong is in the way. Obviously if you can see the socket this isn&#x27;t a huge issue, but if you&#x27;re reaching behind a TV unit, or a desk or a counter etc you&#x27;re in for a bit of fumbling.<p>I have a similar feeling around lightswitches - the European ones are large, delicate and a little flimsy and the UK ones are little and compact and feel solid. I think it&#x27;s not allowed to have the UK switches here, which is a shame otherwise I&#x27;d fit out my flat with them :)<p>update: oh speaking of switches I completely forgot that power sockets generally <i>also</i> have an on&#x2F;off switch in the UK. I guess it comes down to personal preference but I liked having the extra &quot;off&quot; switch for reasons that I can&#x27;t quite articulate</text></comment> | <story><title>Museum of Plugs and Sockets</title><url>https://www.plugsocketmuseum.nl/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>asplake</author><text>As a Brit, got to say that I wish we used Europlugs here. Ours are so bulky (a pain for anything portable), and the US ones seem so flimsy.<p>Also, there ought to be a museum of hotel electrics. Weird light switch behaviour, dumb (pre phone charger) socket placement, heating&#x2F;cooling controls, etc</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mytailorisrich</author><text>As an European who&#x27;s travelled and now lives in the UK I find that the British plugs and sockets are the best ones.<p>The metal connectors are big, but that feels like quality, but the plugs are not bulky off the wall because of the overall angled design (European plugs actually eat up more space off the wall because they are straight although of course europlugs take much less surface area on the wall), which is good behind furnitures or where space is tight. There is only one sort of plug and it has a well designed earth connector. Plugs include a fuse and it&#x27;s easily replaceable (this is partly due to the standard use of ring circuits in the UK but I find it a nice feature anyway). They have very good grip and stay in place very well (compare this to europlug...). Sockets have an integrated switch.<p>British plugs are a quiet success (the other one being postcodes).</text></comment> |
21,807,585 | 21,807,715 | 1 | 3 | 21,806,485 | train | <story><title>Amazon Blocks Sellers from Using FedEx Ground for Prime Shipments</title><url>https://www.marketwatch.com/story/amazon-blocks-sellers-from-using-fedex-ground-for-prime-shipments-2019-12-16-15103614</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>behringer</author><text>Fedex is the absolute worst. They&#x27;re never on time and I can&#x27;t even go to a Fedex location to pick up my own fedex packages. They more or less simply get returned to sender if they require any kind of signature.<p>I&#x27;m glad Amazon is finally putting a stop to it.</text></item><item><author>evadne</author><text>This is so strange.<p>- FedEx is slated to report its latest quarterly results on Tuesday (17 December 2019). <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;investors.fedex.com&#x2F;news-and-events&#x2F;upcoming-events&#x2F;default.aspx" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;investors.fedex.com&#x2F;news-and-events&#x2F;upcoming-events&#x2F;d...</a><p>- FedEx ended two big contracts with Amazon earlier this year. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;12&#x2F;06&#x2F;amazon-blames-holiday-delivery-delays-on-winter-storms-and-high-demand.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;12&#x2F;06&#x2F;amazon-blames-holiday-delive...</a><p>Edit: I see many unhappy comments regarding FedEx here. In the UK we have Parcelfarce, which has achieved meme status.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kilo_bravo_3</author><text>Fedex has gotten to the point that if I see a merchant that has an exclusive arrangement with them (mainly suppliers for material I need to buy for work) I try somewhere else.<p>Whenever I don&#x27;t have a choice, they disappoint me.<p>Just last week, I had a Fedex shipment that was late. One of the reasons it was late was that it passed through almost two dozen Fedex locations.<p>Seven in three days.<p>My package spent three days traveling from Coal City, IL (9:11am 11-Dec) to Swatara Township, PA, (10:59pm 13-Dec) a distance of 741 miles, on an EPIC UNFORGETTABLE 12-day adventure on its route from California to Maryland.<p>61.75 hours to travel 741 miles is an average speed of 12 mph.<p>Just a taste of the epic journey: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;C0NlH9K.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;C0NlH9K.png</a><p>Anecdotes are nice but this happens so frequently I&#x27;ve given up on Fedex and will only use them as a last resort.<p>I live in an area where Amazon Prime delivery is so fast that I swear that sometimes they deliver the damned thing I order before I actually order it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon Blocks Sellers from Using FedEx Ground for Prime Shipments</title><url>https://www.marketwatch.com/story/amazon-blocks-sellers-from-using-fedex-ground-for-prime-shipments-2019-12-16-15103614</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>behringer</author><text>Fedex is the absolute worst. They&#x27;re never on time and I can&#x27;t even go to a Fedex location to pick up my own fedex packages. They more or less simply get returned to sender if they require any kind of signature.<p>I&#x27;m glad Amazon is finally putting a stop to it.</text></item><item><author>evadne</author><text>This is so strange.<p>- FedEx is slated to report its latest quarterly results on Tuesday (17 December 2019). <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;investors.fedex.com&#x2F;news-and-events&#x2F;upcoming-events&#x2F;default.aspx" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;investors.fedex.com&#x2F;news-and-events&#x2F;upcoming-events&#x2F;d...</a><p>- FedEx ended two big contracts with Amazon earlier this year. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;12&#x2F;06&#x2F;amazon-blames-holiday-delivery-delays-on-winter-storms-and-high-demand.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;12&#x2F;06&#x2F;amazon-blames-holiday-delive...</a><p>Edit: I see many unhappy comments regarding FedEx here. In the UK we have Parcelfarce, which has achieved meme status.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tempest1981</author><text>I once ordered a Battery-backed UPS, that arrived via FedEx. It wouldn&#x27;t work on small loads, so I arranged to return it. I put it in the original box it came in, and took it to the FedEx store.<p>The worker was very rude, and refused to let me send it, unless I double-boxed it. Company policy? He offered sell me a box and packing material.</text></comment> |
7,504,309 | 7,504,290 | 1 | 3 | 7,503,721 | train | <story><title>Bootstrapping a simple compiler from nothing (2001)</title><url>http://homepage.ntlworld.com/edmund.grimley-evans/bcompiler.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>neotek</author><text>This reminds me of an interesting question posed on reddit in &#x2F;r&#x2F;programming a few years ago: if you were stuck in a room with a blank PC with only a floppy drive and disk, what&#x27;s the bare minimum that would need to be on the disk for you to eventually write a full-fledged operating system[1]? The whole thread is a fascinating read, and features a cameo from lutusp.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9x15g/programming_thought_experiment_stuck_in_a_room/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;programming&#x2F;comments&#x2F;9x15g&#x2F;programmi...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Bootstrapping a simple compiler from nothing (2001)</title><url>http://homepage.ntlworld.com/edmund.grimley-evans/bcompiler.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fiorix</author><text>In 2002 Fabrice Bellard (author of ffmpeg, kvm, etc) won The International Obfuscated C Code Contest with a tiny obfuscated C compiler, which later became tcc, the tiny c compiler: <a href="http://bellard.org/otcc/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bellard.org&#x2F;otcc&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
29,188,037 | 29,187,913 | 1 | 3 | 29,186,222 | train | <story><title>I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old</title><url>https://twitter.com/TheIdOfAlan/status/1458117496087748618</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alpaca128</author><text>Seems like MS had the same idea according to an answer in the link:<p><i>&gt; Microsoft intentionally made programs install to C:\Program Files on Windows 95+ to force programmers to deal with spaces in filenames.</i></text></item><item><author>pimterry</author><text>I work on a complex desktop application, and it&#x27;s been astounding the number of bugs that have appeared over the years triggered by spaces and other unusual characters in file names. If you do anything with subprocesses or path processing, it&#x27;s absurdly easy to hit in a thousand different ways, over and over again.<p>Pro tip: rename your development directory (or even better: the workspace path in CI) to put a space and&#x2F;or special characters in it.<p>Forces you to deal with this properly, and immediately ensures that every automated test checks this case without you having to remember every time. Hasn&#x27;t been particularly inconvenient, since I&#x27;m autocompleting it 99% of the time anyway, and I haven&#x27;t shipped a single path parsing bug since.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ealexhudson</author><text>I wish they did &quot;User Files&quot; instead of &quot;Users&quot; too, because so much software breaks on the home area having a space in it.<p>Not least, it makes writing scripts for various shells and getting the quoting rules right an absolute pain as well...</text></comment> | <story><title>I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old</title><url>https://twitter.com/TheIdOfAlan/status/1458117496087748618</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alpaca128</author><text>Seems like MS had the same idea according to an answer in the link:<p><i>&gt; Microsoft intentionally made programs install to C:\Program Files on Windows 95+ to force programmers to deal with spaces in filenames.</i></text></item><item><author>pimterry</author><text>I work on a complex desktop application, and it&#x27;s been astounding the number of bugs that have appeared over the years triggered by spaces and other unusual characters in file names. If you do anything with subprocesses or path processing, it&#x27;s absurdly easy to hit in a thousand different ways, over and over again.<p>Pro tip: rename your development directory (or even better: the workspace path in CI) to put a space and&#x2F;or special characters in it.<p>Forces you to deal with this properly, and immediately ensures that every automated test checks this case without you having to remember every time. Hasn&#x27;t been particularly inconvenient, since I&#x27;m autocompleting it 99% of the time anyway, and I haven&#x27;t shipped a single path parsing bug since.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lifthrasiir</author><text>And yet they introduced C:\ProgramData in later versions.</text></comment> |
27,691,154 | 27,691,527 | 1 | 3 | 27,690,587 | train | <story><title>Intuit sabotages the Child Tax Credit</title><url>https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/29/three-times-is-enemy-action/#ctc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cmckn</author><text>For sure. The IRS needs to offer a tax preparation platform, the grift in this industry is astounding. I&#x27;ve always had decent experiences with TurboTax, but they&#x27;ve gotten extremely good at making your taxes hell if you want to avoid giving them $89.99.</text></item><item><author>WisNorCan</author><text>Intuit is consistently one of the least ethical actors in tech. They have a monopoly position in many of their products and take advantage of some of the poorest people through misinformation and lobbying.<p>Facebook &amp; Uber have received most of the heat over the past few years. Intuit has strangely avoided the same level of scrutiny.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toomuchtodo</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.propublica.org&#x2F;article&#x2F;inside-turbotax-20-year-fight-to-stop-americans-from-filing-their-taxes-for-free" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.propublica.org&#x2F;article&#x2F;inside-turbotax-20-year-f...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.propublica.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;the-turbotax-trap" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.propublica.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;the-turbotax-trap</a><p>“ProPublica has long detailed how Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, and other companies have worked against making tax preparation easier and less costly. They have lobbied to ban the IRS from offering free, simple tax filing. And they have deceived customers who should qualify for the Free File product.”</text></comment> | <story><title>Intuit sabotages the Child Tax Credit</title><url>https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/29/three-times-is-enemy-action/#ctc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cmckn</author><text>For sure. The IRS needs to offer a tax preparation platform, the grift in this industry is astounding. I&#x27;ve always had decent experiences with TurboTax, but they&#x27;ve gotten extremely good at making your taxes hell if you want to avoid giving them $89.99.</text></item><item><author>WisNorCan</author><text>Intuit is consistently one of the least ethical actors in tech. They have a monopoly position in many of their products and take advantage of some of the poorest people through misinformation and lobbying.<p>Facebook &amp; Uber have received most of the heat over the past few years. Intuit has strangely avoided the same level of scrutiny.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spinax</author><text>H&amp;R Block wanted to upcharge me additional $$ just to fill out a Schedule D on top of the $$ tier fee (the past few years these forms were included in that tier price). They lost a long term (10yr?) customer by trying to grift me this year.<p>I used <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.taxslayer.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.taxslayer.com&#x2F;</a> instead this past year, a bit more DIY but if you&#x27;ve done your taxes for years and they&#x27;re generally the same year after year it&#x27;s not that hard to read your docs and type them in the boxes. You pay for Support level, not tax form access with this service.</text></comment> |
10,035,896 | 10,035,993 | 1 | 2 | 10,035,008 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Big List of Naughty Strings for testing user-input data</title><url>https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rspeer</author><text>Most of what I do involves the messy world of text, and I think this is a great resource. I wish the software I depended on tested against it.<p>I can think of a few more cases that I&#x27;ve seen cause havoc:<p>- U+FEFF in the middle of a string (people are used to seeing it at the beginning of a string, because Microsoft, but elsewhere it may be more surprising)<p>- U+0 (it&#x27;s encoded as the null byte!)<p>- U+1B (the codepoint for &quot;escape&quot;)<p>- U+85 (Python&#x27;s &quot;codecs&quot; module thinks this is a newline, while the &quot;io&quot; module and the Python 3 standard library don&#x27;t)<p>- U+2028 and U+2029 (even weirder linebreaks that cause disagreement when used in JSON literals)<p>- A glyph with a million combining marks on it, but not in NFC order (do your Unicode algorithms use insertion sort?)<p>- The sequence U+100000 U+010000 (triggers a weird bug in Python 3.2 only)<p>- &quot;Forbidden&quot; strings that are still encodable, such as U+FFFF, U+1FFFF, and for some reason U+FDD0<p>People should also test what happens with isolated surrogate codepoints, such as U+D800. But these can&#x27;t properly be encoded in UTF-8, so I guess don&#x27;t put them in the BLNS. (If you put the fake UTF-8 for them in a file, the best thing for a program to do would be to give up on reading the file.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grapeshot</author><text>Isolated UTF-16 surrogate code points definitely crash Unity when it tries to display them. (Seen when I pasted some emoji in a text box in TIS-100 and tried to backspace.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Big List of Naughty Strings for testing user-input data</title><url>https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rspeer</author><text>Most of what I do involves the messy world of text, and I think this is a great resource. I wish the software I depended on tested against it.<p>I can think of a few more cases that I&#x27;ve seen cause havoc:<p>- U+FEFF in the middle of a string (people are used to seeing it at the beginning of a string, because Microsoft, but elsewhere it may be more surprising)<p>- U+0 (it&#x27;s encoded as the null byte!)<p>- U+1B (the codepoint for &quot;escape&quot;)<p>- U+85 (Python&#x27;s &quot;codecs&quot; module thinks this is a newline, while the &quot;io&quot; module and the Python 3 standard library don&#x27;t)<p>- U+2028 and U+2029 (even weirder linebreaks that cause disagreement when used in JSON literals)<p>- A glyph with a million combining marks on it, but not in NFC order (do your Unicode algorithms use insertion sort?)<p>- The sequence U+100000 U+010000 (triggers a weird bug in Python 3.2 only)<p>- &quot;Forbidden&quot; strings that are still encodable, such as U+FFFF, U+1FFFF, and for some reason U+FDD0<p>People should also test what happens with isolated surrogate codepoints, such as U+D800. But these can&#x27;t properly be encoded in UTF-8, so I guess don&#x27;t put them in the BLNS. (If you put the fake UTF-8 for them in a file, the best thing for a program to do would be to give up on reading the file.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zuzun</author><text>BOMs have already caught me off guard at the start of strings.</text></comment> |
27,097,160 | 27,094,140 | 1 | 2 | 27,085,910 | train | <story><title>Child's burial 78k years ago in Kenya was a Homo sapiens milestone</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/childs-burial-78000-years-ago-kenya-was-homo-sapiens-milestone-2021-05-05/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stareatgoats</author><text>Interesting as this is, the article nurtures an old misconception (with roots both in religion and classical philosophy) that there are some traits that distinctly separates humans from other animals, and by extension, finding the time when humans developed that trait is when we became truly humans. In reality the evidence reveals that all such traits, be it burial, toolmaking, artistry, abstract thinking etc, is something we share with other species to varying degrees. To the extent we have any unique such traits currently that radically sets us apart from other species then it has been a long and gradual process over eons.<p>In the case of burials, this old misconception places a ridiculously high bar on proof that other species revere their dead. Case in point being that of Homo Naledi, admittedly a Homo but not a human by a long shot that clearly practiced burials in inaccessible cave structures. [0]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;humangenesis.org&#x2F;2016&#x2F;05&#x2F;18&#x2F;did-homo-naledi-bury-its-dead&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;humangenesis.org&#x2F;2016&#x2F;05&#x2F;18&#x2F;did-homo-naledi-bury-its...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>logicchop</author><text>&quot;an old misconception (with roots both in religion and classical philosophy)&quot;<p>There is also a new misconception (with no real roots except egalitarianism taken too far) that everything is the same as everything else &quot;to varying degrees.&quot; That isn&#x27;t very interesting though. I live in the US. To &quot;some varying degree&quot; I live on the east coast; but that degree is nil because I live far west of the mississippi. Human language, use of tools, artistry etc. are so massively remote from the animal cases that it&#x27;s worth labelling it a &quot;distinction&quot; and not a &quot;difference.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Child's burial 78k years ago in Kenya was a Homo sapiens milestone</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/childs-burial-78000-years-ago-kenya-was-homo-sapiens-milestone-2021-05-05/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stareatgoats</author><text>Interesting as this is, the article nurtures an old misconception (with roots both in religion and classical philosophy) that there are some traits that distinctly separates humans from other animals, and by extension, finding the time when humans developed that trait is when we became truly humans. In reality the evidence reveals that all such traits, be it burial, toolmaking, artistry, abstract thinking etc, is something we share with other species to varying degrees. To the extent we have any unique such traits currently that radically sets us apart from other species then it has been a long and gradual process over eons.<p>In the case of burials, this old misconception places a ridiculously high bar on proof that other species revere their dead. Case in point being that of Homo Naledi, admittedly a Homo but not a human by a long shot that clearly practiced burials in inaccessible cave structures. [0]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;humangenesis.org&#x2F;2016&#x2F;05&#x2F;18&#x2F;did-homo-naledi-bury-its-dead&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;humangenesis.org&#x2F;2016&#x2F;05&#x2F;18&#x2F;did-homo-naledi-bury-its...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ekianjo</author><text>&gt; evidence reveals that all such traits, be it burial, toolmaking, artistry, abstract thinking etc, is something we share with other species to varying degrees<p>If actual achievements speak louder than words, then &quot;varying degrees&quot; is a huge gap between human and other species. Yes, we know that numerous animals exhibit intelligence and emotions, but that does not change the fact that humans are very different when it comes to the understanding of time and everything that goes with it. Also, there is no other animal out there who domesticated fire or developed some kind of societal system to expands its own resources beyond what&#x27;s available in the wild.</text></comment> |
8,730,381 | 8,730,261 | 1 | 3 | 8,729,421 | train | <story><title>What if journalists had story writing tools as powerful as those used by coders?</title><url>http://pudo.org/blog/2014/12/03/newsclipse.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Alex3917</author><text>I&#x27;ve been messing around with something similar, specifically though focused on tracking strengths and weaknesses in US infrastructure:<p><a href="http://www.alexkrupp.com/Citevault.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.alexkrupp.com&#x2F;Citevault.html</a><p>It&#x27;s actually a lot easier than you&#x27;d think, because thanks to Zipf&#x27;s law pretty much every article in these evergreen topic areas is using the same set of 1,000 or so facts. And these facts mostly come from the same set of government or NGE reports, which are updated at most once a year, and often only once every ten years.<p>The cool thing is that you can then use a javascript snippet to track which facts are being used in which documents, automatically mark facts as outdated when they change, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MrBuddyCasino</author><text>Thats a really great idea! We definitely need some primary source of truth to refute all this half-wisdom thats going around, and of course to self-educate.<p>Not to nitpick, but I looked up a single random article, namely <a href="http://www.alexkrupp.com/Citevault.html#parenting" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.alexkrupp.com&#x2F;Citevault.html#parenting</a>, and Wikipedia says its not that simple:<p>&quot;An attempt to replicate this study in 5934 8 year old children failed: No relationship of the common C allele to negative effects of formula feeding was apparent, and contra to the original report, the rare GG homozygote children performed worse when formula fed than other children on formula milk.[5] A study of over 700 families recently found no evidence for either main or moderating effects of the original SNP (rs174575), nor of two additional FADS2 polymorphisms (rs1535 and rs174583), nor any effect of maternal FADS2 status on offspring IQ.[6]&quot;<p>Source: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FADS2" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;FADS2</a></text></comment> | <story><title>What if journalists had story writing tools as powerful as those used by coders?</title><url>http://pudo.org/blog/2014/12/03/newsclipse.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Alex3917</author><text>I&#x27;ve been messing around with something similar, specifically though focused on tracking strengths and weaknesses in US infrastructure:<p><a href="http://www.alexkrupp.com/Citevault.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.alexkrupp.com&#x2F;Citevault.html</a><p>It&#x27;s actually a lot easier than you&#x27;d think, because thanks to Zipf&#x27;s law pretty much every article in these evergreen topic areas is using the same set of 1,000 or so facts. And these facts mostly come from the same set of government or NGE reports, which are updated at most once a year, and often only once every ten years.<p>The cool thing is that you can then use a javascript snippet to track which facts are being used in which documents, automatically mark facts as outdated when they change, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mnarayan01</author><text>Bookmarked. Editing nit in the FAQ.<p><pre><code> C.f. comments on Peter Thiel&#x27;s graph of the year...
</code></pre>
Should be &quot;Cf.&quot; -- also I believe &quot;cf.&quot; should be read as &quot;compare&quot;, so really it shouldn&#x27;t even be that (see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cf." rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cf.</a>)</text></comment> |
19,000,677 | 19,000,236 | 1 | 2 | 18,999,758 | train | <story><title>At least 14,000 unpaid IRS workers did not show up for work</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/01/25/least-unpaid-irs-workers-did-not-show-up-work-broad-shutdown-disruption-hits-tax-agency-according-house-aides/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thecolorblue</author><text>Is it better to find short term solutions, like odd jobs, or to find new employment?</text></item><item><author>esotericn</author><text>Good for them!<p>Working without pay is completely nonsensical. The relationship between the employee and employer has been broken.<p>If I were in some of these guys shoes I&#x27;d be working odd jobs to make ends meet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>surge</author><text>&quot;The IRS is also losing 25 IT staffers every week since the shutdown began, with many finding other jobs, one House aide said, citing the IRS officials&#x27; briefing.&quot;<p>At least some are already doing this.</text></comment> | <story><title>At least 14,000 unpaid IRS workers did not show up for work</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/01/25/least-unpaid-irs-workers-did-not-show-up-work-broad-shutdown-disruption-hits-tax-agency-according-house-aides/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thecolorblue</author><text>Is it better to find short term solutions, like odd jobs, or to find new employment?</text></item><item><author>esotericn</author><text>Good for them!<p>Working without pay is completely nonsensical. The relationship between the employee and employer has been broken.<p>If I were in some of these guys shoes I&#x27;d be working odd jobs to make ends meet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikepurvis</author><text>Depending what you were doing for the IRS, there may not be a ton of other employment out there for your skill set, especially on a short time frame.</text></comment> |
29,959,606 | 29,959,611 | 1 | 2 | 29,959,043 | train | <story><title>IETF should keep XMPP as IM standard, instead of Matrix</title><url>https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/tools-discuss/Cj7n-7HwsN8xBzXCjD1pjD1j9Cg/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sascha_sl</author><text>Surprisingly short text for how long it sets up an analogy with little value.<p>The problem with XMPP has always been that it is too extensible with too few guarantees in interoperability. You&#x27;ll know what this means if you ever set up OMEMO over 3 different client implementations. It also does too much, anything from Kafkaesque (pun intended) persistent pubsub to content labels. The quality of clients is simply not good enough, so most XEPs end up in specialized variants of clients or proprietary implementations (Facebook, GTalk, EA Origin) that lean more on ejabberd&#x27;s scalability than other XMPP features like federation.<p>Also, XML is not a good serialization format, and some of the requirements in the protocol are pretty exotic and not trivial to implement in a lot of languages. Like setting up TLS on an existing connection (plus the absolute refusal of the XMPP WG to allow on-connect TLS). JSON over websocket or HTTP are just better at reaching a wide audience of developers.</text></comment> | <story><title>IETF should keep XMPP as IM standard, instead of Matrix</title><url>https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/tools-discuss/Cj7n-7HwsN8xBzXCjD1pjD1j9Cg/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stormbrew</author><text>To me this is the lynchpin:<p>&gt; This is the very situation where matrix devs should have made use of the
properties of XMPP to improve it. Even the outstanding feature (I admit.
its a fantastic idea) of matrix, decentralized conversation store, could
have been implemented in XMPP as an XEP. Imagine the time and effort
spent on improving XMPP, instead of reinventing wheels in matrix. We
could have had a neat ubiquitous IM platform.<p>The approach XMPP took may have made sense when it was created, and it definitely had a lot of success early on at creating a truly federated IM network, but a lot of that evaporated when people and companies started needing more from the system than XMPP could guarantee.<p>XMPP + a bag of XEPs isn&#x27;t a &quot;neat ubuquitous IM platform&quot; unless we get an XMPP2 that mandates certain key modern XEPs. It&#x27;s just a big giant mess, the same one it&#x27;s been for a long time.<p>Maybe that&#x27;s where Matrix should have started, I dunno. But they are where they are and the reality is that it&#x27;s not up to the IETF to dictate how things <i>should</i> evolve. If Matrix supplants XMPP as a dominant open IM federation, and the people behind it want it to be standardized, all the &quot;but XMPP did it first&quot; in the world shouldn&#x27;t prevent that.</text></comment> |
34,589,006 | 34,589,113 | 1 | 3 | 34,588,046 | train | <story><title>FCC proposes $504k fine for broadcaster's misuse of Emergency Alert System tones</title><url>https://www.insideradio.com/free/fox-sports-admits-it-used-fake-eas-tones-on-radio-as-well-as-tv/article_6b18d2f0-9e1c-11ed-ab28-c7b167cea819.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>antiterra</author><text>It looks like this is the incident as broadcast: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;-AKV57rtYfo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;-AKV57rtYfo</a><p>Also: The FCC document references the 18 Fox owned stations and says nothing about the 200+ affiliate stations. Are those stations culpable if they also broadcast Fox produced content that was in violation of EAS rules?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>No low that advertisers won&#x27;t stoop to, apparently. Incredible that they thought this was a good idea and that nobody put a stop to it. Maybe they figured that whatever the penalty they&#x27;ll make it up in sales?</text></comment> | <story><title>FCC proposes $504k fine for broadcaster's misuse of Emergency Alert System tones</title><url>https://www.insideradio.com/free/fox-sports-admits-it-used-fake-eas-tones-on-radio-as-well-as-tv/article_6b18d2f0-9e1c-11ed-ab28-c7b167cea819.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>antiterra</author><text>It looks like this is the incident as broadcast: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;-AKV57rtYfo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;-AKV57rtYfo</a><p>Also: The FCC document references the 18 Fox owned stations and says nothing about the 200+ affiliate stations. Are those stations culpable if they also broadcast Fox produced content that was in violation of EAS rules?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>capableweb</author><text>So just so I don&#x27;t misunderstand, it is illegal to reproduce that sound? Just for TV or in general, literally illegal tones? Seems to be just two tones put together (853 and 960 Hz), weird if you could make such a thing illegal.<p>According to what I can find, it&#x27;s missing something called a SAME header that the tones are supposed to be prefixed by, maybe that&#x27;s why FOX thought they could get away with it?<p>Edit: For clarification, the particular message that needs o be sent to be considered &quot;Emergency Broadcast&quot; is not just the &quot;Attention signal&quot;, it&#x27;s has many other vital parts (like the header in the message that it begins with). Besides that, the Attention Signal has to be at least 8 seconds long as long, otherwise I&#x27;m assuming it should be considered one. The one FOX broadcasted seems to have been ~3 seconds.</text></comment> |
6,508,536 | 6,508,513 | 1 | 3 | 6,507,614 | train | <story><title>FBI struggles to seize 600,000 Bitcoins from alleged Silk Road founder</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/07/fbi-bitcoin-silk-road-ross-ulbricht</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DennisP</author><text>Accused, not convicted, and if he&#x27;s got funds in a brainwallet he can afford a team of good lawyers.</text></item><item><author>bradleyjg</author><text>He&#x27;s accused of at least two capital crimes. What makes you think he&#x27;ll ever get out prison?<p>I imagine that turning over the bitcoins will be a condition of the near inevitable plea bargain.</text></item><item><author>appleflaxen</author><text>Right after the DPR bust there was a lot of discussion about how it was a death knell for bitcoin, but this is exactly why it&#x27;s such a revolutionary type of technology: if DPR had any currency in a paper wallet, he could simply print it out, put it in a safe deposit box, and pick it up once he is out of prison.<p>For a currency to be so secure that a state cannot seize it from a citizen is unprecedented.<p>It will be fascinating to see how this plays out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Cthulhu_</author><text>That is, if he can convert his e-money into real money; I doubt lawyers would accept bitcoins, certainly when they&#x27;re about to work for the guy whose site played an important part in the rise and valuation of bitcoins.</text></comment> | <story><title>FBI struggles to seize 600,000 Bitcoins from alleged Silk Road founder</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/07/fbi-bitcoin-silk-road-ross-ulbricht</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DennisP</author><text>Accused, not convicted, and if he&#x27;s got funds in a brainwallet he can afford a team of good lawyers.</text></item><item><author>bradleyjg</author><text>He&#x27;s accused of at least two capital crimes. What makes you think he&#x27;ll ever get out prison?<p>I imagine that turning over the bitcoins will be a condition of the near inevitable plea bargain.</text></item><item><author>appleflaxen</author><text>Right after the DPR bust there was a lot of discussion about how it was a death knell for bitcoin, but this is exactly why it&#x27;s such a revolutionary type of technology: if DPR had any currency in a paper wallet, he could simply print it out, put it in a safe deposit box, and pick it up once he is out of prison.<p>For a currency to be so secure that a state cannot seize it from a citizen is unprecedented.<p>It will be fascinating to see how this plays out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skwirl</author><text>Apparently not. He is being represented by a public defender.</text></comment> |
38,911,486 | 38,911,442 | 1 | 2 | 38,909,735 | train | <story><title>The phrase "no evidence" is a red flag for bad science communication (2021)</title><url>https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-phrase-no-evidence-is-a-red-flag</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aredox</author><text>Maybe I don&#x27;t speak English well enough, but I thought that &quot;evidence&quot; and &quot;testimony&quot; were clearly different things. E.g. in a judicial setting, a testimony may need to be backed up by &quot;evidence&quot; - the latter implying &quot;physical&quot;, &quot;objective&quot; objects (documents, fingerprints, pictures).</text></item><item><author>roenxi</author><text>The thing is that &quot;No Evidence&quot; is just flat untrue. If Crazy Carl says that aliens abducted his prize turnip, that is in itself evidence that aliens did the deed. It is wildly unpersuasive evidence, but nonetheless evidence. People like to believe that &quot;someone says&quot; isn&#x27;t evidence, which is wildly disconnected from how human society works. Even alleged facts boil down to &quot;someone says&quot;. The vast majority of people who know the constant of gravity never measured it for example, they just work with what someone told them - an authority figure saying something is quite strong evidence.<p>Having evidence for untrue things also turns up naturally because of statistical mirages.<p>&quot;No evidence&quot; is a phrase that gets used in untruthful ways. There usually <i>is</i> evidence, of everything. True, false or irrelevant - there will be evidence of it in some form or another. The question is what standard the evidence reaches, not whether it exists.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tomte</author><text>In German criminal procedure there are five types of evidence, this list is exhaustive:<p>Expert opinion, direct experience by judge, documents, testimony by witnesses, testimony by the accused.<p>So testimony is one type of evidence here.<p>In civil procedure it‘s the dame, just the terms differ slightly.</text></comment> | <story><title>The phrase "no evidence" is a red flag for bad science communication (2021)</title><url>https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-phrase-no-evidence-is-a-red-flag</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aredox</author><text>Maybe I don&#x27;t speak English well enough, but I thought that &quot;evidence&quot; and &quot;testimony&quot; were clearly different things. E.g. in a judicial setting, a testimony may need to be backed up by &quot;evidence&quot; - the latter implying &quot;physical&quot;, &quot;objective&quot; objects (documents, fingerprints, pictures).</text></item><item><author>roenxi</author><text>The thing is that &quot;No Evidence&quot; is just flat untrue. If Crazy Carl says that aliens abducted his prize turnip, that is in itself evidence that aliens did the deed. It is wildly unpersuasive evidence, but nonetheless evidence. People like to believe that &quot;someone says&quot; isn&#x27;t evidence, which is wildly disconnected from how human society works. Even alleged facts boil down to &quot;someone says&quot;. The vast majority of people who know the constant of gravity never measured it for example, they just work with what someone told them - an authority figure saying something is quite strong evidence.<p>Having evidence for untrue things also turns up naturally because of statistical mirages.<p>&quot;No evidence&quot; is a phrase that gets used in untruthful ways. There usually <i>is</i> evidence, of everything. True, false or irrelevant - there will be evidence of it in some form or another. The question is what standard the evidence reaches, not whether it exists.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stuartjohnson12</author><text>Evidence in the scientific sense is something is any information which increases the likelihood of a claim being true. The fact that someone is willing to testify is evidence that the claim is true - not bulletproof evidence, but evidence.<p>Sometimes, people just saying something is extremely good evidence that it&#x27;s true. My name is Stuart. I&#x27;m 22 years old.</text></comment> |
32,526,847 | 32,526,727 | 1 | 2 | 32,526,047 | train | <story><title>App Store doesn't accept “too simple” apps</title><url>https://notes.alinpanaitiu.com/Dealing%20with%20App%20Store%20rejections</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jonovono</author><text>Yep, I got this rejection when I made this tipping app (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apps.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;app&#x2F;tip-69&#x2F;id1460610078" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apps.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;app&#x2F;tip-69&#x2F;id1460610078</a>).<p>I went on to add OCR detection for receipts so you don&#x27;t have to type in the amount, I added more tipping modes, I added split bill functionality, and eventually added an entire social network with the ability to share your receipt for the world to see, like or comment on.<p>Must have spent months trying to get approved by Apple.<p>I&#x27;d rather no one ask me why.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CharlesW</author><text>I&#x27;m honestly blown away that Apple approved an app to suggest &quot;funny&quot; tip amounts in a thread where we&#x27;re complaining that that Apple&#x27;s standards are too high.</text></comment> | <story><title>App Store doesn't accept “too simple” apps</title><url>https://notes.alinpanaitiu.com/Dealing%20with%20App%20Store%20rejections</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jonovono</author><text>Yep, I got this rejection when I made this tipping app (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apps.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;app&#x2F;tip-69&#x2F;id1460610078" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apps.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;app&#x2F;tip-69&#x2F;id1460610078</a>).<p>I went on to add OCR detection for receipts so you don&#x27;t have to type in the amount, I added more tipping modes, I added split bill functionality, and eventually added an entire social network with the ability to share your receipt for the world to see, like or comment on.<p>Must have spent months trying to get approved by Apple.<p>I&#x27;d rather no one ask me why.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jaywalk</author><text>I have no love for Apple&#x27;s walled-garden, and I absolutely appreciate 69 jokes, but this app is stupid.</text></comment> |
11,576,457 | 11,575,444 | 1 | 2 | 11,574,768 | train | <story><title>Mitsubishi: We've been cheating on fuel tests for 25 years</title><url>http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/26/news/companies/mitsubishi-cheating-fuel-tests-25-years/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stegosaurus</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;European_emission_standards#&#x2F;media&#x2F;File:Euronorms_Diesel.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;European_emission_standards#&#x2F;m...</a><p>As a layman these sorts of reductions always seemed pretty strict to me. It seemed like a backdoor way of banning ICE&#x27;s.<p>We know that we need to hit zero CO2. I think that regulations on emissions are the complete wrong way to go about it, though. Health issues in cities are irrelevant if global warming means the cities are underwater.<p>Tax the fuel, give incentives to renewable energies and batteries, and let the market sort it out.<p>Or, have the government seriously attack on the research front.<p>It feels a bit like we&#x27;re sitting here with this &#x27;money&#x27; abstraction and pretending that energy research is too expensive, when realistically, governments across the world have the might to make clean energy the next Apollo project. Why aren&#x27;t they? That would be a fantastic legacy for any president&#x2F;prime minister&#x2F;whatever.<p>The UK could take bits of land it owns, chuck homes there, give some fresh university grads in shit economic situations some research to crunch on. Like Manhattan 2.0.<p>You can&#x27;t just say to people &#x27;oh, your car is impossible, let&#x27;s go and sniff each other&#x27;s armpits on the subway, and you&#x27;ll have to walk to the countryside&#x27;. It just doesn&#x27;t work.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mitsubishi: We've been cheating on fuel tests for 25 years</title><url>http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/26/news/companies/mitsubishi-cheating-fuel-tests-25-years/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>basicplus2</author><text>Perhaps we are at the extreme limits of emissions reductions and no real further gains can be made unless more active equipment is used on the exhaust such as electrostatic precipitators for diesels, and extra direct treatment like catalytic converters do.</text></comment> |
25,009,787 | 25,009,788 | 1 | 3 | 25,007,697 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: As a person, what can I do to improve a city?</title><text>I live in a &quot;Top 10 most dangerous cities in the U.S.&quot; What can I do to help? It seems like the most common solution for people who are educated and well off is to move. To get out of the situation, which is understandable. However, this causes a brain drain and leave the city in a worse place.<p>I don&#x27;t want to do that, I want to uplift if I can. What is the micro thing I can do today, that can have a chance of a macro change tomorrow?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikesabat</author><text>Also in a very objective way, I don&#x27;t understand this reasoning. I&#x27;ve never brought up the question before and hoping that HN can explain it in a logical way that I might understand.<p>Let&#x27;s say that a neighborhood is rated 3 out of 10 - not very good. There is a mix of people that live in this neighborhood. Some people own property and some do not.<p>Then the community makes the neighborhood better and it rises to a 7 out of 10 ranking. The people in the community that own houses costs are fixed and they now recognize the improvement.<p>The part of the community that don&#x27;t own eventually see their costs rise. At some point they can&#x27;t afford to a community that ranks 7, might only be able to afford a community that ranks 3 and would need to move to a community with that ranking.<p>It seems like part of the original set that owns experiences a large and lasting benefit. Another part of the original set experiences a short term benefit, then a transaction cost (moving) and reverts back to the mean.<p>Can someone explain what this description misses and where the harm comes from?</text></item><item><author>Retric</author><text>I mean this in the most objective way possible.<p>The risk with urban improvement is making the area more desirable eventually prices people out of the community. So, the real question is do you help the land or current residents? When you own property it’s seriously worth considering local improvements for several reasons, but it’s also easy to confuse the two. Further, if most people in the community own property then there is a lot of overlap.<p>To be clear both are worthwhile, just be cognizant of what your goals are. Anyway, if you want to help people I suggest either the young as changing the trajectory of someone’s life is easier early on, or the elderly because social inclusion scales well with individual effort.</text></item><item><author>burlesona</author><text>The single best thing you can do is pick a neighborhood - not the whole city - and invest deeply.<p>Get to know everyone in the neighborhood and understand what they want and need, then try to find ways to bring that.<p>When you have a strong network of neighbors and a little bit of cash, you can ramp up investment by cleaning up dirty corners and getting the basic services that a neighborhood is missing.<p>Here’s an example of how folks in Memphis, TN did this Over time: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.strongtowns.org&#x2F;journal&#x2F;2020&#x2F;5&#x2F;21&#x2F;this-is-what-we-can-do-together-md2020" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.strongtowns.org&#x2F;journal&#x2F;2020&#x2F;5&#x2F;21&#x2F;this-is-what-w...</a><p>If you’re interested in connecting with people who already have this mindset, there are a lot of them in Strong Towns, and there may even be a group in your area.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>burlesona</author><text>This is a fair point except that neighborhoods are not fungible and are in short supply.<p>You’re assuming that there is another 3&#x2F;10 neighborhood available for the people who are displaced to move to, and therefore they gain a short term benefit and eventually end up back where they were.<p>In practice it’s typical that older areas which have become run down have ample city services, such as transit, parks, and libraries, which may not be the best quality, but at least exist.<p>Since neighborhoods are no longer built with these amenities, the best available substitute for someone who is displaced from an old neighborhood may be far less desirable than what they had before - a 1&#x2F;10 trailer park, or worse, homelessness.<p>However, if we would continue to build traditional neighborhoods that were walkable, had city services, had transit etc. and built enough of those to keep up with the demand, then it would be much more likely that your scenario would play out. In that case the harm of economic change in neighborhoods would be greatly reduced, perhaps even to the point that it wouldn’t be a problem anymore<p>But that’s quite far from the reality on the ground today.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: As a person, what can I do to improve a city?</title><text>I live in a &quot;Top 10 most dangerous cities in the U.S.&quot; What can I do to help? It seems like the most common solution for people who are educated and well off is to move. To get out of the situation, which is understandable. However, this causes a brain drain and leave the city in a worse place.<p>I don&#x27;t want to do that, I want to uplift if I can. What is the micro thing I can do today, that can have a chance of a macro change tomorrow?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikesabat</author><text>Also in a very objective way, I don&#x27;t understand this reasoning. I&#x27;ve never brought up the question before and hoping that HN can explain it in a logical way that I might understand.<p>Let&#x27;s say that a neighborhood is rated 3 out of 10 - not very good. There is a mix of people that live in this neighborhood. Some people own property and some do not.<p>Then the community makes the neighborhood better and it rises to a 7 out of 10 ranking. The people in the community that own houses costs are fixed and they now recognize the improvement.<p>The part of the community that don&#x27;t own eventually see their costs rise. At some point they can&#x27;t afford to a community that ranks 7, might only be able to afford a community that ranks 3 and would need to move to a community with that ranking.<p>It seems like part of the original set that owns experiences a large and lasting benefit. Another part of the original set experiences a short term benefit, then a transaction cost (moving) and reverts back to the mean.<p>Can someone explain what this description misses and where the harm comes from?</text></item><item><author>Retric</author><text>I mean this in the most objective way possible.<p>The risk with urban improvement is making the area more desirable eventually prices people out of the community. So, the real question is do you help the land or current residents? When you own property it’s seriously worth considering local improvements for several reasons, but it’s also easy to confuse the two. Further, if most people in the community own property then there is a lot of overlap.<p>To be clear both are worthwhile, just be cognizant of what your goals are. Anyway, if you want to help people I suggest either the young as changing the trajectory of someone’s life is easier early on, or the elderly because social inclusion scales well with individual effort.</text></item><item><author>burlesona</author><text>The single best thing you can do is pick a neighborhood - not the whole city - and invest deeply.<p>Get to know everyone in the neighborhood and understand what they want and need, then try to find ways to bring that.<p>When you have a strong network of neighbors and a little bit of cash, you can ramp up investment by cleaning up dirty corners and getting the basic services that a neighborhood is missing.<p>Here’s an example of how folks in Memphis, TN did this Over time: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.strongtowns.org&#x2F;journal&#x2F;2020&#x2F;5&#x2F;21&#x2F;this-is-what-we-can-do-together-md2020" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.strongtowns.org&#x2F;journal&#x2F;2020&#x2F;5&#x2F;21&#x2F;this-is-what-w...</a><p>If you’re interested in connecting with people who already have this mindset, there are a lot of them in Strong Towns, and there may even be a group in your area.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>8note</author><text>&gt; people owning houses<p>This is the part you&#x27;re overlooking. People in undesirable communities are renting because they don&#x27;t have that generational wealth built up<p>Even if people aren&#x27;t renting, once the desirability goes up, developers are going to want to kick you out, and will use the government to do it.</text></comment> |
20,589,922 | 20,589,814 | 1 | 3 | 20,589,234 | train | <story><title>FBI Says QAnon, Internet Conspiracy Theorists Are National Security Threats</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kz4e8n/fbi-says-qanon-internet-conspiracy-theorists-are-national-security-threats</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ColanR</author><text>The article lists specifically 5 conspiracy theories: QAnon, Pizzagate, some kind of “Zionist Occupation Government” theory, Sandy Hook &quot;Crisis Actor&quot;, and New World Order theory. Some of these I&#x27;ve never heard of.<p>I&#x27;m concerned what this will do to squash legitimate criticisms and questions. Recall, Pizzagate accused Epstein and his associates of pedophilia (and described his airplane as well). If the FBI considers accusing epstien and his associates of pedophilia a national security threat, we are in trouble.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>api</author><text>If anything this stuff helps real crooks like Epstein by muddying the water and making the whole subject area look silly. I sometimes wonder if some of it is intentional. Seems like a great way to cover things up in an age where actually keeping secrets is hard.<p>I know if I were running a human trafficking, prostitution, and blackmail operation and wanted to cover it up I&#x27;d start by spreading wild theories and false accusations about elite Satanic cartoon villain cults doing exactly what I&#x27;m doing. That way the whole topic would get an aura of crankiness and reputable media would stay away.<p>Disinformation is like radar chaff. You just blow out a lot of noise and nobody knows where the signal is. The real secrets might leak but it doesn&#x27;t matter because they just merge and blend in with all the bullshit.<p>A grassroots explanation for this stuff is more likely of course, if only for Ockham&#x27;s razor reasons. My point is that no good is accomplished by spreading nonsense.</text></comment> | <story><title>FBI Says QAnon, Internet Conspiracy Theorists Are National Security Threats</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kz4e8n/fbi-says-qanon-internet-conspiracy-theorists-are-national-security-threats</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ColanR</author><text>The article lists specifically 5 conspiracy theories: QAnon, Pizzagate, some kind of “Zionist Occupation Government” theory, Sandy Hook &quot;Crisis Actor&quot;, and New World Order theory. Some of these I&#x27;ve never heard of.<p>I&#x27;m concerned what this will do to squash legitimate criticisms and questions. Recall, Pizzagate accused Epstein and his associates of pedophilia (and described his airplane as well). If the FBI considers accusing epstien and his associates of pedophilia a national security threat, we are in trouble.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MiddleEndian</author><text>Epstein wasn&#x27;t much of a secret, he was convicted (and got a ridiculously favorable plea deal) back in 2008.</text></comment> |
35,939,298 | 35,938,539 | 1 | 2 | 35,937,375 | train | <story><title>The World is Built on Probability (1984)</title><url>https://archive.org/details/lev-tarasov-the-world-is-built-on-probability-mir-2023</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cuttothechase</author><text>MIR publishers (Moscow) published so many high quality books.
They even had the same elegant style, quality and accessibility even in their translated works.<p>The quality of paper used, the typesetting, the cloth binding and in general the physical attributes of their books were a work of art in itself. One can easily fall in love with the physical book just for the way it was designed, let alone the content.<p>The authors used in their translated works were equally exceptional in their translation.<p>I fondly remember reading their &quot;Physics for entertainment&quot; by Perelman as a translated work in good old days and it actually made me fall in love with the text book physics taught at the school level.<p>Given that this was an artifact when USSR made it even more fascinating. Books were priced a trifle over the shipping cost as they were likely subsidized heavily by the government.<p>It is sad to see that they are no more. They were likely defunded&#x2F;dissolved when USSR broke up.<p>Thank you MIR for lighting up my childhood.<p>RIP.<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mirtitles.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mirtitles.org&#x2F;</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mirtitles.org&#x2F;2012&#x2F;04&#x2F;30&#x2F;misha&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mirtitles.org&#x2F;2012&#x2F;04&#x2F;30&#x2F;misha&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>the-mitr</author><text>I am the curator&#x2F;maintainer of the mirtitles.org blog and the typesetter of the books.<p>Thanks for the comment and putting in the perspective. The project started with the idea of preserving this knowledge about 15 years back. I grew up reading those books, but they were nowhere to be found for others to read by the end of 90s. The collection has been a collaborative effort with people from across the globe contributing to it. Though it will take some time (read years&#x2F;decades), hopefully one day the collection will have all the books published during the Soviet era.</text></comment> | <story><title>The World is Built on Probability (1984)</title><url>https://archive.org/details/lev-tarasov-the-world-is-built-on-probability-mir-2023</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cuttothechase</author><text>MIR publishers (Moscow) published so many high quality books.
They even had the same elegant style, quality and accessibility even in their translated works.<p>The quality of paper used, the typesetting, the cloth binding and in general the physical attributes of their books were a work of art in itself. One can easily fall in love with the physical book just for the way it was designed, let alone the content.<p>The authors used in their translated works were equally exceptional in their translation.<p>I fondly remember reading their &quot;Physics for entertainment&quot; by Perelman as a translated work in good old days and it actually made me fall in love with the text book physics taught at the school level.<p>Given that this was an artifact when USSR made it even more fascinating. Books were priced a trifle over the shipping cost as they were likely subsidized heavily by the government.<p>It is sad to see that they are no more. They were likely defunded&#x2F;dissolved when USSR broke up.<p>Thank you MIR for lighting up my childhood.<p>RIP.<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mirtitles.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mirtitles.org&#x2F;</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mirtitles.org&#x2F;2012&#x2F;04&#x2F;30&#x2F;misha&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mirtitles.org&#x2F;2012&#x2F;04&#x2F;30&#x2F;misha&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>themodelplumber</author><text>Since the linked book is at archive.org: I noticed that it is part of the _Mir Titles_ collection there:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;mir-titles" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;mir-titles</a><p>IA&#x27;s browser e-reader is pretty nice to use overall, and the Mir titles seem to have been converted into various downloadable formats as well, in addition to what I&#x27;m guessing is the native PDF.<p>Props to the collection maintainer. This brings back some really good memories.<p>Note--It seems like some additional Mir books, in various states of curation, may be accessible via IA through search:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;search?query=Yakov+Perelman" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;search?query=Yakov+Perelman</a></text></comment> |
12,906,341 | 12,903,890 | 1 | 3 | 12,902,304 | train | <story><title>So you think you know C?</title><url>https://hackernoon.com/so-you-think-you-know-c-8d4e2cd6f6a6</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>awalton</author><text>If you write a quiz like this, and &quot;Don&#x27;t Know&quot; is an answer but &quot;Undefined Behavior&quot; and &quot;Implementation-Dependent&quot; are left off, you&#x27;re doing it wrong.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kmill</author><text>The question is &quot;what would the return value be,&quot; and without knowing which compiler is used you don&#x27;t know what it would return. It doesn&#x27;t make sense to say the program returns &quot;undefined behavior&quot; or &quot;implementation-dependent.&quot;<p>You might be taking issue with the question itself, but I think it&#x27;s a valid question because C compilers tend to be lenient with what they compile.</text></comment> | <story><title>So you think you know C?</title><url>https://hackernoon.com/so-you-think-you-know-c-8d4e2cd6f6a6</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>awalton</author><text>If you write a quiz like this, and &quot;Don&#x27;t Know&quot; is an answer but &quot;Undefined Behavior&quot; and &quot;Implementation-Dependent&quot; are left off, you&#x27;re doing it wrong.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simosx</author><text>People would figure it out from the start if &quot;Implementation-Dependent&quot; was an option. Perhaps a &quot;Something else&quot; would be more appropriate so that the reader would still be surprised at the end and feel it was a decent multiple-choice test.</text></comment> |
24,856,676 | 24,853,332 | 1 | 2 | 24,852,385 | train | <story><title>James Randi Has Died</title><url>https://web.randi.org/home/james-randi-has-died</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tombert</author><text>In January 2010, I went on a binge of every James Randi video I could find on YouTube. Him debunking psychics, talking about religion and faith, talking about magic, the works. I got so obsessed with him, that I found his website, and sent a very generic &quot;fan email&quot; to him, saying that I respect what he did, and think that he should keep up the good work.<p>Much to my surprise, he responded with a very quick &quot;thank you!&quot; message. I told my dad about this, and since we lived in Orlando at the time, and Randi was in Fort Lauderdale, he suggested we ask to buy Randi lunch. I figured there was no harm in sending the email, and much to my surprise, Randi agreed!<p>We drove over to Fort Lauderdale, and he actually spent the whole damn day with us, talking about psychics, doing magic tricks for us, talking about science fiction novels, etc. He was an incredibly awesome guy, and I thought it was beyond cool that he decided to hang out with some dorky fans from the internet.<p>RIP Randi. You made the world a better place, and you will always be missed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>samstave</author><text>This reminds me; i used to email back and forth with Alex Grey, my favorite artist... he was so personable over email.<p>When i was building a datacenter in manhattan i went to his studio - Hall of Mirrors... or whatever its called...<p>I need to reach out to him again before such happens and make sure i talk to him before the world loses him.<p>Thank you for your story.</text></comment> | <story><title>James Randi Has Died</title><url>https://web.randi.org/home/james-randi-has-died</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tombert</author><text>In January 2010, I went on a binge of every James Randi video I could find on YouTube. Him debunking psychics, talking about religion and faith, talking about magic, the works. I got so obsessed with him, that I found his website, and sent a very generic &quot;fan email&quot; to him, saying that I respect what he did, and think that he should keep up the good work.<p>Much to my surprise, he responded with a very quick &quot;thank you!&quot; message. I told my dad about this, and since we lived in Orlando at the time, and Randi was in Fort Lauderdale, he suggested we ask to buy Randi lunch. I figured there was no harm in sending the email, and much to my surprise, Randi agreed!<p>We drove over to Fort Lauderdale, and he actually spent the whole damn day with us, talking about psychics, doing magic tricks for us, talking about science fiction novels, etc. He was an incredibly awesome guy, and I thought it was beyond cool that he decided to hang out with some dorky fans from the internet.<p>RIP Randi. You made the world a better place, and you will always be missed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>badwolf</author><text>That&#x27;s such a fantastic story! He truly inspired so many people worldwide.</text></comment> |
3,793,061 | 3,793,150 | 1 | 3 | 3,792,836 | train | <story><title>This is Why You Spent All that Time Learning to Program</title><url>http://prog21.dadgum.com/132.html#</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>colanderman</author><text>Or you could start your own news channel on YouTube, and advertise it locally (in the local paper / subway / with locally-targeted Internet ads).<p>It's not computer programming that's special. It's computers themselves -- they have greatly lowered the barrier to entry for <i>many</i> creative professions. (For which we must thank programmers, of course!)</text></comment> | <story><title>This is Why You Spent All that Time Learning to Program</title><url>http://prog21.dadgum.com/132.html#</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mseebach</author><text>The analogy doesn't hold up.<p>The equivalent of making fundamental changes to a TV station in IT is to use your CS degree to make Facebook allow customised homepages in the style of MySpace. The fact that you can make a Facebook/MySpace clone at home in a few night compares to buying a video camera and recording your version of the news in your kitchen.<p>Now, I agree with the conclusion: Computer programming is the great equalizer: for the low cost of a computer, a few books and an Internet connection, anyone can build the next Facebook. There are literally no further barriers.</text></comment> |
18,605,297 | 18,604,823 | 1 | 2 | 18,602,843 | train | <story><title>China Announces Punishments for Intellectual-Property Theft</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-04/china-announces-new-punishments-for-intellectual-property-theft</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ggm</author><text>While the world economy worked on real goods property had good understanding. services and intellectual property are challenging because ideas are ephemeral yet persist, and we have only social constructs to constrain them.<p>&quot;I have the cake you don&#x27;t unless you pay me&quot; is very distinct from &quot;You are not allowed to sing happy birthday without paying me&quot;<p>One is an absolute. The cake <i>is</i> and moves. The other is an idea. You get rent from me expressing an Idea. Do I have to pay if I hum it inside my head? Do I have to promise not to tell anyone in written form? What if I change more than 90% of the notes but keep one theme?<p>I know this is a reductionist example, but IPR is like this: it has the terrible quality which goes to Patent process or patents over mathematics or physics. If you discover a specific dopant applied for a specific period of time in a specific way to silicon increases yield by 10%, Once the world knows this, why are you paid for the IPR licence time? If its to profit on the investment for research, remember that a huge amount of research is paid out of tax, not by investment returns. What if the counter parties invent a minor twist, or a related IPR moment? Yes.. people trade IPR rights, and collect IPR rights into agencies like the MP3 assciation.<p>This is a huge cancer on society. Its like CFDs. Its leveraging money moments out of thought.<p>International trade in real goods demands cheap. IPR demands rent which is &quot;not cheap&quot; -So the US demands for IPR rents on goods made in china, is like cutting your nose to spite your face: If you drive China to pay IPR taxes, you will drive china to seek IPR inside itself to avoid the taxes and charge YOU to copy them.<p>Better to have no IPR taxes than enforce payment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>will_brown</author><text>The excuse for a limited copyright in the United States is that an author who has produced a book and has had the benefit of it for that term has had the profit of it long enough, and therefore the Government takes the property, which does not belong to it, and generously gives it to the eighty-eight millions. That is the idea. If it did that, that would be one thing. But it does not do anything of the kind. It merely takes the author’s property, merely takes from his children the bread and profit of that book, and gives the publisher double profit. The publisher, and some of his confederates who are in the conspiracy, rear families in affluence, and they continue the enjoyment of these ill-gotten gains generation after generation. They live forever, the publishers do. -Mark Twain<p>The questions you ask are complex legal questions but they aren’t novel by any means. There is over 100 years of case law in the US and I promise the courts have dealt with more interesting facts, cite more historical perspective, and use better logic and reasoning than you get in this thread.<p>Hell you could read Mark Twain’s entire statement to the House and Senate Committee on patents and walk away with a richer person and in Twain like fashion I’ll even link you his statement in perpetual property rights via <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thepublicdomain.org&#x2F;2014&#x2F;07&#x2F;19&#x2F;mark-twain-on-the-need-for-perpetual-copyright&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thepublicdomain.org&#x2F;2014&#x2F;07&#x2F;19&#x2F;mark-twain-on-the...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>China Announces Punishments for Intellectual-Property Theft</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-04/china-announces-new-punishments-for-intellectual-property-theft</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ggm</author><text>While the world economy worked on real goods property had good understanding. services and intellectual property are challenging because ideas are ephemeral yet persist, and we have only social constructs to constrain them.<p>&quot;I have the cake you don&#x27;t unless you pay me&quot; is very distinct from &quot;You are not allowed to sing happy birthday without paying me&quot;<p>One is an absolute. The cake <i>is</i> and moves. The other is an idea. You get rent from me expressing an Idea. Do I have to pay if I hum it inside my head? Do I have to promise not to tell anyone in written form? What if I change more than 90% of the notes but keep one theme?<p>I know this is a reductionist example, but IPR is like this: it has the terrible quality which goes to Patent process or patents over mathematics or physics. If you discover a specific dopant applied for a specific period of time in a specific way to silicon increases yield by 10%, Once the world knows this, why are you paid for the IPR licence time? If its to profit on the investment for research, remember that a huge amount of research is paid out of tax, not by investment returns. What if the counter parties invent a minor twist, or a related IPR moment? Yes.. people trade IPR rights, and collect IPR rights into agencies like the MP3 assciation.<p>This is a huge cancer on society. Its like CFDs. Its leveraging money moments out of thought.<p>International trade in real goods demands cheap. IPR demands rent which is &quot;not cheap&quot; -So the US demands for IPR rents on goods made in china, is like cutting your nose to spite your face: If you drive China to pay IPR taxes, you will drive china to seek IPR inside itself to avoid the taxes and charge YOU to copy them.<p>Better to have no IPR taxes than enforce payment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baybal2</author><text>&gt; International trade in real goods demands cheap. IPR demands rent which is &quot;not cheap&quot; -So the US demands for IPR rents on goods made in china, is like cutting your nose to spite your face: If you drive China to pay IPR taxes, you will drive china to seek IPR inside itself to avoid the taxes and charge YOU to copy them.<p>Back in Shanzhai days, there was a popular saying about the attitude of American &quot;Big Business&quot; to Chinese industry: &quot;you do all the hard work, and we will do all the money.&quot; That&#x27;s a very equitable separation of labour :) American Big Co. people are mad because they can&#x27;t continue doing that.</text></comment> |
38,182,751 | 38,182,057 | 1 | 2 | 38,181,346 | train | <story><title>Go, Containers, and the Linux Scheduler</title><url>https://www.riverphillips.dev/blog/go-cfs/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dekhn</author><text>The common problem I see across many languages is: applications detect machine cores by looking at &#x2F;proc&#x2F;cpuinfo. However, in a docker container (or other container technology), that file looks the same as the container host (listing all cores, regardless of how few have been assigned to the container).<p>I wondered for a while if docker could make a fake &#x2F;proc&#x2F;cpuinfo that apps could parse that just listed &quot;docker cpus&quot; allocated to the job, but upon further reflection, that probably wouldn&#x27;t work for many reasons.</text></comment> | <story><title>Go, Containers, and the Linux Scheduler</title><url>https://www.riverphillips.dev/blog/go-cfs/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dilyevsky</author><text>This is subtly incorrect - as far as Docker is concerned CFS cgroup extension has several knobs to tune - cfs_quota_us, cfs_period_us (typical default is 100ms not a second) and shares. When you set shares you get weighted proportional scheduling (but only when there&#x27;s contention). The former two enforce strict quota. Don&#x27;t use Docker&#x27;s --cpu flag and instead use --cpu-shares to avoid (mostly useless) quota enforcement.<p>From Linux docs:<p><pre><code> - cpu.shares: The weight of each group living in the same hierarchy, that
translates into the amount of CPU it is expected to get. Upon cgroup creation,
each group gets assigned a default of 1024. The percentage of CPU assigned to
the cgroup is the value of shares divided by the sum of all shares in all
cgroups in the same level.
- cpu.cfs_period_us: The duration in microseconds of each scheduler period, for
bandwidth decisions. This defaults to 100000us or 100ms. Larger periods will
improve throughput at the expense of latency, since the scheduler will be able
to sustain a cpu-bound workload for longer. The opposite of true for smaller
periods. Note that this only affects non-RT tasks that are scheduled by the
CFS scheduler.
- cpu.cfs_quota_us: The maximum time in microseconds during each cfs_period_us
in for the current group will be allowed to run. For instance, if it is set to
half of cpu_period_us, the cgroup will only be able to peak run for 50 % of
the time. One should note that this represents aggregate time over all CPUs
in the system. Therefore, in order to allow full usage of two CPUs, for
instance, one should set this value to twice the value of cfs_period_us.</code></pre></text></comment> |
19,625,726 | 19,625,848 | 1 | 3 | 19,623,785 | train | <story><title>DNS-over-HTTPS Policy Requirements for Resolvers</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2019/04/09/dns-over-https-policy-requirements-for-resolvers/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kodablah</author><text>&gt; Our plan is to select a set of Trusted Recursive Resolvers (TRRs) that we will use for DoH resolution in Firefox. Those resolvers will be required to conform to a specific set of policies that put privacy first.<p>So can I manually set one myself to my local pi-hole instance? I have already been setting the TRR about:config values (ala [0]), will that remain?<p>I am wary of Mozilla becoming the arbiter of acceptable DNS providers for me, so I should be able to override it if I want.<p>0 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.stackpath.com&#x2F;serverless-dns-over-https-at-the-edge-doh" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.stackpath.com&#x2F;serverless-dns-over-https-at-the-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>DNS-over-HTTPS Policy Requirements for Resolvers</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2019/04/09/dns-over-https-policy-requirements-for-resolvers/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rmdoss</author><text>Note that with DoH on Firefox, your intranet domains do not work. Had issues with it before and had to disable DoH just to access our company printer. Also causes issues with DC.<p>That goes into the argument that DNS (domain name lookup) should be a system and network-level setting, not an App-based setting.</text></comment> |
17,343,212 | 17,342,995 | 1 | 2 | 17,342,335 | train | <story><title>Uber is experimenting with letting riders wait longer for a cheaper fare</title><url>https://qz.com/1308173/uber-is-experimenting-with-letting-riders-wait-longer-for-a-cheaper-fare/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chrisabrams</author><text>Based on my rides recently I have seen the quality of drivers plummet on both Uber and Lyft. I&#x27;d be much more willing to wait (and maybe even pay) for a higher quality driver. Having a driver who cannot follow a GPS and takes you in a circle 3-4 times around the airport or does not speak English well enough to understand your request to stop on the right instead of the left like the GPS shows can be quite frustrating depending on the scenario.<p>I wonder if this is the first step towards offering a &quot;limit&quot; option. For example, where I live the average price from our house (Jersey City) to the mall is $7, but some days it jumps up to $15 or more. My wife and I usually choose to walk those days, but it would be nice to say &quot;hey we want to go to the mall today, let&#x27;s set a $7 limit and when that hits we&#x27;ll go.&quot; For the flexible consumer it&#x27;s easy to wait for a better price and not need to constantly look at the phone to see what the current market price is. The limit price could help create a queue which could provide a driver with a continuous supply of rides during non-peak hours.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scrollaway</author><text>Here in Greece, we recently lost Uber. We&#x27;re back to taxis. It&#x27;s incredible how bad an experience those are after going back to them.<p>Cars that smell like cigarette (that&#x27;s if the driver isn&#x27;t outright smoking in your face), don&#x27;t have AC, are old, dirty and with uncomfortable ripped-up seats.<p>Send your lower-quality drivers my way. I miss not wanting to vomit whenever I take a cab.</text></comment> | <story><title>Uber is experimenting with letting riders wait longer for a cheaper fare</title><url>https://qz.com/1308173/uber-is-experimenting-with-letting-riders-wait-longer-for-a-cheaper-fare/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chrisabrams</author><text>Based on my rides recently I have seen the quality of drivers plummet on both Uber and Lyft. I&#x27;d be much more willing to wait (and maybe even pay) for a higher quality driver. Having a driver who cannot follow a GPS and takes you in a circle 3-4 times around the airport or does not speak English well enough to understand your request to stop on the right instead of the left like the GPS shows can be quite frustrating depending on the scenario.<p>I wonder if this is the first step towards offering a &quot;limit&quot; option. For example, where I live the average price from our house (Jersey City) to the mall is $7, but some days it jumps up to $15 or more. My wife and I usually choose to walk those days, but it would be nice to say &quot;hey we want to go to the mall today, let&#x27;s set a $7 limit and when that hits we&#x27;ll go.&quot; For the flexible consumer it&#x27;s easy to wait for a better price and not need to constantly look at the phone to see what the current market price is. The limit price could help create a queue which could provide a driver with a continuous supply of rides during non-peak hours.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elvirs</author><text>well, as a weekend uber driver that drives only when prices go up I have to tell you that those 7-8 dollar trips pay us only 3 dollars and some change. Driving 7-10 minutes to pick you up and then drive for 7-10 minutes to your destination is not worth it because that comes to $10 per hour minus gas and maintenance and depreciation. Drivers have to pay for lease&#x2F;finance, maintenance, insurance and still pay rent on the apt and put food on the table.
Expect the quality of service to go down, not up, if you you think $15 is too much for a trip to the mall.</text></comment> |
17,347,530 | 17,345,742 | 1 | 2 | 17,343,885 | train | <story><title>New US Tariffs are Anti-Maker and Will Encourage Offshoring</title><url>https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5349</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dalbasal</author><text>Out of all possible trade barriers, I think tariffs are generally the better option.<p>The alternative is subsidies, quotas or &quot;unofficial&quot; barriers like product safety rules or other burry-you-in-bureaucracy setups. Tariffs bring in taxes (as opposed to costing the public) They&#x27;re easier to understand. This one makes Chinese microwaves x% more expensive. It&#x27;s clearer who is paying for it (consumers) and who benefits, as opposed to pretending a policy is intended to protect consumers. Importantly, they are easier to change. Politicians can make a decision and do it. With other options, it&#x27;s harder to implement patches or predict the results of any change.<p>Basically, they&#x27;re simpler, more explicit and more honest than any other approach. ..if you&#x27;ve already decided to have trade barriers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>imgabe</author><text> &gt; This one makes Chinese microwaves x% more expensive.<p>Except that&#x27;s not what the article says. The tariffs in question don&#x27;t apply to finished products. So it wouldn&#x27;t make a Chinese microwave more expensive.<p>However, if you want to import components to build a microwave and hire US workers to put it together, <i>that</i> is what these tariffs make much more expensive. So instead of hiring US workers to assemble it in the US, you do the whole thing in China and import it with no tariffs.</text></comment> | <story><title>New US Tariffs are Anti-Maker and Will Encourage Offshoring</title><url>https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5349</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dalbasal</author><text>Out of all possible trade barriers, I think tariffs are generally the better option.<p>The alternative is subsidies, quotas or &quot;unofficial&quot; barriers like product safety rules or other burry-you-in-bureaucracy setups. Tariffs bring in taxes (as opposed to costing the public) They&#x27;re easier to understand. This one makes Chinese microwaves x% more expensive. It&#x27;s clearer who is paying for it (consumers) and who benefits, as opposed to pretending a policy is intended to protect consumers. Importantly, they are easier to change. Politicians can make a decision and do it. With other options, it&#x27;s harder to implement patches or predict the results of any change.<p>Basically, they&#x27;re simpler, more explicit and more honest than any other approach. ..if you&#x27;ve already decided to have trade barriers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maxerickson</author><text>People buying products subject to tariffs (or products made with materials subject to tariffs) pay the majority of the tariff.<p>So they do cost the public.<p>In a functioning market, local suppliers are likely to <i>raise</i> prices in response to the tariffs, as they face less competition.</text></comment> |
20,446,843 | 20,446,608 | 1 | 2 | 20,444,474 | train | <story><title>Let's Build a Compiler</title><url>https://generalproblem.net/lets_build_a_compiler/01-starting-out/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>userbinator</author><text>This looks like something similar to Crenshaw&#x27;s excellent tutorial of the same name:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;compilers.iecc.com&#x2F;crenshaw&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;compilers.iecc.com&#x2F;crenshaw&#x2F;</a><p>and its x86 port: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lotabout&#x2F;Let-s-build-a-compiler" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lotabout&#x2F;Let-s-build-a-compiler</a><p>As interesting as Lisp-family languages are, I still think it&#x27;s better to use something with more traditional syntax and start with parsing, because that both reaches a much wider audience and gives a very early introduction to thinking recursively --- the latter being particularly important for understanding of the process in general. A simple expression evaluator, that you can later turn into a JIT and then a compiler, is always a good first exercise.</text></comment> | <story><title>Let's Build a Compiler</title><url>https://generalproblem.net/lets_build_a_compiler/01-starting-out/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>faitswulff</author><text>Haven&#x27;t started reading yet, but I&#x27;m really digging this trend of syntax-highlighted bare text blogs[0]. Is this a template or is it hand-crafted?<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;christine.website&#x2F;blog&#x2F;h-language-2019-06-30" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;christine.website&#x2F;blog&#x2F;h-language-2019-06-30</a></text></comment> |
27,463,134 | 27,463,118 | 1 | 2 | 27,456,222 | train | <story><title>Always Be Quitting</title><url>https://jmmv.dev/2021/04/always-be-quitting.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>b0afc375b5</author><text>I&#x27;m that guy in my current company. When I get brought in to an existing project, the first thing I look for is the README. To my disappointment, it either doesn&#x27;t exist at all, it&#x27;s the default generated, or it&#x27;s 1 or 2 years outdated. So during project on-boarding, I document everything I can, create or update the README, then commit and push to the repo.<p>In all of my coworkers across all projects, I&#x27;m the only one who does this. I&#x27;m pretty sure nobody reads them either. I don&#x27;t mind though, it has paid for itself countless of times already, since I always reference it.</text></item><item><author>Brajeshwar</author><text>A few years back, I had the opportunity to lead the Product Team of a 200+ people company. It took me over a month to understood who does what, and I tend to try to know things around me and at least have the idea of “what to do in an emergency.”<p>I stumble on one DevOps guy who wrote every bloody thing happening in the system. He likes doing it, but from the way people were asking questions in the common chatrooms, group emails, I knew nobody read them. He loves plain text, nicely formatted with the old-school Unix-styles et al. I had talks with him outside of work and found him fascinating; I asked him help with my hobby, home-lab tinkerings, etc.<p>By that time, I had already started internal blog groups and was encouraging people to write. And indeed, a lot of people came out to write about engineering, marketing, product, and it became a routine for people to show off what they can do, what they love, and what they are good at.<p>In one of my regular company-wide emailers, I dedicated a big piece to the DevOps guy, pointing to his work and the beauty of his documentations. People loved it, and they began reading it. He remained a friend. That mailer was the only way I could highlight people I encounter doing good work, to the whole team up to the CxOs.<p>By the time I left the company, I was responsible for many vital things in the company, but I could transition everything smoothly with the documents and credential details (thanks to 1Password).<p>In the last year or so, I have been thinking more about -- always be dying. I think the similar vein of Always be Quitting; I try to document, write out details, just in case I die and my family has to figure out the intricacies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nickfromseattle</author><text>Building a culture of documentation starts from the top.<p>Today our 40 person org has 1,337 knowledge base articles (as of yesterday, a coincidence, and we probably have a different number today).<p>It started with myself (CEO) creating all of the initial documentation.<p>3 months after my first employee joined, I started holding her accountable to creating and updating documentation.<p>It&#x27;s not a one time thing.<p>You can&#x27;t say, &quot;your job is to do documentation&quot; once.<p>It&#x27;s consistently talking about it.<p>It&#x27;s scoping in documentation updates and refreshes into bi-weekly sprints and quarterly goals.<p>Once she was onboard, we began to hold everyone else in our organization accountable too.<p>Again, it&#x27;s never a one time thing to get anyone bought it.<p>It needs to be constantly discussed and scoped.<p>Today, all of the managers are bought in.<p>Instead of me explaining the importance of documentation, it&#x27;s our org&#x27;s managers embodying and instilling the culture of documentation into everyone new.<p>They understand the value of having their reports check the KB first.<p>They understand the value of being able to link someone to a KB instead of repeating themselves.<p>They understand the value of being able to work more async.<p>They understand the value of not being a bottleneck for someone else.<p>I stopped spending much time creating documentation about 6 months ago - and the number of documents just keeps increasing.<p>Today, I&#x27;ll push documentation forward for new position &#x2F; roles.<p>I&#x27;m working on delegating finance - and spent a bunch of time putting together documentation on how to handle the company&#x27;s money.<p>- Expense policies<p>- Org software purchases<p>- Invoicing and payroll<p>- Phishing and security<p>- etc</text></comment> | <story><title>Always Be Quitting</title><url>https://jmmv.dev/2021/04/always-be-quitting.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>b0afc375b5</author><text>I&#x27;m that guy in my current company. When I get brought in to an existing project, the first thing I look for is the README. To my disappointment, it either doesn&#x27;t exist at all, it&#x27;s the default generated, or it&#x27;s 1 or 2 years outdated. So during project on-boarding, I document everything I can, create or update the README, then commit and push to the repo.<p>In all of my coworkers across all projects, I&#x27;m the only one who does this. I&#x27;m pretty sure nobody reads them either. I don&#x27;t mind though, it has paid for itself countless of times already, since I always reference it.</text></item><item><author>Brajeshwar</author><text>A few years back, I had the opportunity to lead the Product Team of a 200+ people company. It took me over a month to understood who does what, and I tend to try to know things around me and at least have the idea of “what to do in an emergency.”<p>I stumble on one DevOps guy who wrote every bloody thing happening in the system. He likes doing it, but from the way people were asking questions in the common chatrooms, group emails, I knew nobody read them. He loves plain text, nicely formatted with the old-school Unix-styles et al. I had talks with him outside of work and found him fascinating; I asked him help with my hobby, home-lab tinkerings, etc.<p>By that time, I had already started internal blog groups and was encouraging people to write. And indeed, a lot of people came out to write about engineering, marketing, product, and it became a routine for people to show off what they can do, what they love, and what they are good at.<p>In one of my regular company-wide emailers, I dedicated a big piece to the DevOps guy, pointing to his work and the beauty of his documentations. People loved it, and they began reading it. He remained a friend. That mailer was the only way I could highlight people I encounter doing good work, to the whole team up to the CxOs.<p>By the time I left the company, I was responsible for many vital things in the company, but I could transition everything smoothly with the documents and credential details (thanks to 1Password).<p>In the last year or so, I have been thinking more about -- always be dying. I think the similar vein of Always be Quitting; I try to document, write out details, just in case I die and my family has to figure out the intricacies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pwdisswordfish8</author><text>&gt; first thing I look for is the README. To my disappointment, it either doesn&#x27;t exist at all, it&#x27;s the default generated<p>Auto generated READMEs (and their handcrafted equivalents) are worse than useless. Not only are you wasting your time creating one (and giving yourself the sense of having accomplished something when you haven&#x27;t) but the effect of a README creation is one-to-many, so consider that wasted time and then throw a multiplier on it. That&#x27;s the cost of a dummy README. Don&#x27;t create them, people.</text></comment> |
19,297,638 | 19,296,413 | 1 | 3 | 19,295,934 | train | <story><title>Florida prisons sued for erasing $11M worth of prisoner music purchases</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/20/18233317/florida-department-of-corrections-class-action-lawsuit-william-demler-jpay-mp3-song-access</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>est31</author><text>Sadly, disowning the customer is very common in the new age of digital copyright enforcement.<p>For example, your itunes collection is specific to you. If you die, it&#x27;s deleted and is not transfered to your heirs. Similarly, Amazon is removing any books you purchased from your kindles if the seller sold them illegally. Also, if you violate any of their terms of service, they often delete the entire collection as well.<p>IMO there should be a law requiring digital licenses of any content to be fungible similar to physical copies. You should be allowed to transfer them to another service, even if the service stops existing, or they believe you breached some contract.<p>This would make licenses even more fungible than bank money is today: right now if a bank goes bankrupt, you might not see any money in your accounts, even though it&#x27;s <i>your</i> money and you are no investor or anything. It&#x27;s because every bank is &quot;minting&quot; it&#x27;s own currency. There are models which are different where you have a central bank handing out digital money to the banks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>m-p-3</author><text>This is why I do not feel any guilt in acquiring a DRM-free copy of media I purchased digitally (not talking about subscription-based lease like Spotify, etc).<p>If I bought a eBook or any kind of media without an <i>expiration date</i>, I want to be in full control. I will buy first from DRM-free stores like Bandcamp or GOG.</text></comment> | <story><title>Florida prisons sued for erasing $11M worth of prisoner music purchases</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/20/18233317/florida-department-of-corrections-class-action-lawsuit-william-demler-jpay-mp3-song-access</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>est31</author><text>Sadly, disowning the customer is very common in the new age of digital copyright enforcement.<p>For example, your itunes collection is specific to you. If you die, it&#x27;s deleted and is not transfered to your heirs. Similarly, Amazon is removing any books you purchased from your kindles if the seller sold them illegally. Also, if you violate any of their terms of service, they often delete the entire collection as well.<p>IMO there should be a law requiring digital licenses of any content to be fungible similar to physical copies. You should be allowed to transfer them to another service, even if the service stops existing, or they believe you breached some contract.<p>This would make licenses even more fungible than bank money is today: right now if a bank goes bankrupt, you might not see any money in your accounts, even though it&#x27;s <i>your</i> money and you are no investor or anything. It&#x27;s because every bank is &quot;minting&quot; it&#x27;s own currency. There are models which are different where you have a central bank handing out digital money to the banks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ascorbic</author><text>&gt; This would make licenses even more fungible than bank money is today: right now if a bank goes bankrupt, you might not see any money in your accounts, even though it&#x27;s your money and you are no investor or anything. It&#x27;s because every bank is &quot;minting&quot; it&#x27;s own currency. There are models which are different where you have a central bank handing out digital money to the banks.<p>Not true. Banks aren&#x27;t minting their own money, and your money is insured. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fdic.gov&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fdic.gov&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
23,247,259 | 23,247,093 | 1 | 2 | 23,246,734 | train | <story><title>U.S. Birthrates Fall to Record Low</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-birthrates-fall-to-record-low-11589947260</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ZitchDog</author><text>You could also be spawning the person who solves the problem of climate change.</text></item><item><author>WhompingWindows</author><text>In this case, it&#x27;s a good thing, because the birthrates declined most for women 24 and younger. Creating another person is one of the most carbon-intensive actions anyone can do, you&#x27;re literally spawning a lifetime of energy use. Best to do that when you&#x27;re SURE they will have all the resources they need to be a productive and helpful member of society...not when you&#x27;re 16 and can&#x27;t care for them properly.<p>I do think there is value to having a balanced aged pyramid, however. We don&#x27;t want a China or Japan situation, where there are far too many old people, which would crush the younger members of society under the burden of caring. The one way to counteract that would be immigration, which has been a hot-button issue and is not a given or perfect remedy for population pyramids.</text></item><item><author>iandanforth</author><text>Curious how many people share this opinion, but I think this is extremely good news. I would love to see birth rates drop below replenishment across the globe. We simply don&#x27;t need billions of humans. We have done, and continue to do major damage to our environment and historically a tiny minority has benefited from the labor of the majority. The people who benefit most from an increasing population are those who exploit people to increase their quality of life in clean sanctuaries while distancing themselves from the effort and waste required to maintain those lifestyles.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>js8</author><text>I heard this argument many times. Has anyone ever actually done that? IMHO it&#x27;s just a generational procrastination.</text></comment> | <story><title>U.S. Birthrates Fall to Record Low</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-birthrates-fall-to-record-low-11589947260</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ZitchDog</author><text>You could also be spawning the person who solves the problem of climate change.</text></item><item><author>WhompingWindows</author><text>In this case, it&#x27;s a good thing, because the birthrates declined most for women 24 and younger. Creating another person is one of the most carbon-intensive actions anyone can do, you&#x27;re literally spawning a lifetime of energy use. Best to do that when you&#x27;re SURE they will have all the resources they need to be a productive and helpful member of society...not when you&#x27;re 16 and can&#x27;t care for them properly.<p>I do think there is value to having a balanced aged pyramid, however. We don&#x27;t want a China or Japan situation, where there are far too many old people, which would crush the younger members of society under the burden of caring. The one way to counteract that would be immigration, which has been a hot-button issue and is not a given or perfect remedy for population pyramids.</text></item><item><author>iandanforth</author><text>Curious how many people share this opinion, but I think this is extremely good news. I would love to see birth rates drop below replenishment across the globe. We simply don&#x27;t need billions of humans. We have done, and continue to do major damage to our environment and historically a tiny minority has benefited from the labor of the majority. The people who benefit most from an increasing population are those who exploit people to increase their quality of life in clean sanctuaries while distancing themselves from the effort and waste required to maintain those lifestyles.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>derwiki</author><text>.. or the one who ruins the climate forever? Not sure this how you should be thinking of spawning :D</text></comment> |
13,662,150 | 13,661,940 | 1 | 2 | 13,661,218 | train | <story><title>Awless: A Mighty CLI for AWS</title><url>https://github.com/wallix/awless</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hbbio</author><text>Project creator here (but obviously not the OP).<p>Yes, we do collect minimal anonymised statistics in the sole goal of improving awless. All the statistics code is here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;wallix&#x2F;awless&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;stats&#x2F;stats.go" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;wallix&#x2F;awless&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;stats&#x2F;stats.go</a><p>As the project is Apache licensed, you&#x27;re free to modify it if you don&#x27;t want this. Also, if you&#x27;re conscious about privacy you should use application firewalls on your client side like Little Snitch etc. since many software that you install on your machine also do this.</text></item><item><author>heartsucker</author><text>&gt; We also collect a few anonymous data (CLI errors, most frequently used commands and count of resources).<p>Looks cool, but this is an instant no for me. Sorry guys.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>the_duke</author><text>You should at least provide a prompt on first start that asks if participating in analytics collection is acceptable.</text></comment> | <story><title>Awless: A Mighty CLI for AWS</title><url>https://github.com/wallix/awless</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hbbio</author><text>Project creator here (but obviously not the OP).<p>Yes, we do collect minimal anonymised statistics in the sole goal of improving awless. All the statistics code is here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;wallix&#x2F;awless&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;stats&#x2F;stats.go" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;wallix&#x2F;awless&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;stats&#x2F;stats.go</a><p>As the project is Apache licensed, you&#x27;re free to modify it if you don&#x27;t want this. Also, if you&#x27;re conscious about privacy you should use application firewalls on your client side like Little Snitch etc. since many software that you install on your machine also do this.</text></item><item><author>heartsucker</author><text>&gt; We also collect a few anonymous data (CLI errors, most frequently used commands and count of resources).<p>Looks cool, but this is an instant no for me. Sorry guys.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scaryclam</author><text>I like the look of this, so on the software side it&#x27;s a thumbs up.<p>However, the fact that the code is active at all will rule it out for some companies (firewall or not).<p>Perhaps make it something users can turn off in a config file? Not everyone can code in go, especially if their job is as a sysadmin, which isn&#x27;t unlikely given that this is an infrastructure tool, so it might not be as simple as forking and editing the code for them.</text></comment> |
18,610,275 | 18,609,744 | 1 | 2 | 18,607,898 | train | <story><title>Waymo One: The next step on our self-driving journey</title><url>https://medium.com/waymo/waymo-one-the-next-step-on-our-self-driving-journey-6d0c075b0e9b</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>a-wu</author><text>I can’t wait for wheelchair accessible vehicles to be equipped with this technology. It looks like they’re using Chrysler Pacificas which already have wheelchair ramp conversions from VMI and Braun. Since the self driving equipment seems to be on the top of the vehicle, it seems trivial to mount it on a converted Pacifica. As a quadriplegic who doesn’t drive (yet), the possibilities with this excite me greatly.</text></comment> | <story><title>Waymo One: The next step on our self-driving journey</title><url>https://medium.com/waymo/waymo-one-the-next-step-on-our-self-driving-journey-6d0c075b0e9b</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cromwellian</author><text>Keeping the safety drivers in the beginning, scaling up, and getting a year or more worth of actual real world use, before slowly scaling back the drivers is what I&#x27;d call a very responsible choice.<p>IMHO, to do less would be reckless showboating that could do unimaginable damage to the AV industry, as well as end up endangering lives.<p>In the tech industry, we don&#x27;t like to wait, we like moving fast, taking risks, shipping MVPs, learning by shipping, etc. And for the next great Camera filter app, perhaps that makes sense, but not for cars, planes, or medical equipment.</text></comment> |
6,061,553 | 6,061,557 | 1 | 3 | 6,061,138 | train | <story><title>Why Your Dog Can Get Vaccinated Against Lyme Disease And You Can’t</title><url>http://www.wbur.org/2012/06/27/lyme-vaccine</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>newbie12</author><text>There are actually clinical trials underway for a new Lyme vaccine: <a href="http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/260471.php" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.medicalnewstoday.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;260471.php</a><p>The core problem with the original vaccine is that 80% effectiveness is terrible-- that&#x27;s not sufficient, you still need to take all normal precautions. The second problem is that many people at high risk for Lyme may already have it, or have other tick-borne diseases that are difficult to diagnose and can be chronic-- that probably explains the &quot;side effects&quot; problem.<p>Lyme is at the center of a number of nasty bacteria and parasites that you can get from a deer tick. The most effective thing we can do is reduce deer populations.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Your Dog Can Get Vaccinated Against Lyme Disease And You Can’t</title><url>http://www.wbur.org/2012/06/27/lyme-vaccine</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>evincarofautumn</author><text>When she was in high school, my girlfriend contracted Lyme disease unknowingly. By a mad stroke of luck, it was soon killed by a round of antibiotics for an unrelated illness. However, she still suffers from nightly joint pain; having seen the suffering (relatively minor, thank goodness) brought on by such a simple thing to prevent, I would like nothing more than to see a human vaccine become widespread.</text></comment> |
35,304,747 | 35,303,489 | 1 | 3 | 35,303,391 | train | <story><title>Major shake-up coming for Fermilab, the troubled U.S. particle physics center</title><url>https://www.science.org/content/article/major-shake-coming-fermilab-troubled-u-s-particle-physics-center</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yummypaint</author><text>My Fermilab story: when I was designing my dissertation experiment it became clear that i would need ~$100k in silicon strip charged particle detectors, and that no company would ever microbond the thousands of connections for me due to the low volume. Fermilab gave me detectors that had been QC rejects from the outer barrel of the CMS detector at CERN for free, and bonded them to my boards for essentially materials cost. For my purposes they worked perfectly. The microbonding machines and the wonderful people associated with them are still to the best of my knowledge the only viable place in the US to have 9x9 cm silicon autobonded in small volume.</text></comment> | <story><title>Major shake-up coming for Fermilab, the troubled U.S. particle physics center</title><url>https://www.science.org/content/article/major-shake-coming-fermilab-troubled-u-s-particle-physics-center</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>h2odragon</author><text>One of my great joys as a teenager exploring electronics was the opportunity to clean out an old storage closet at some Fermilab facility with a friend. This was in the late 80s, we got several 1950s oscilloscopes and much other gear of similar era.<p>The room had been overlooked in the usual surplus process for years. My friend was related to someone working for the janitorial services company, and they&#x27;d been told to clean that room out and throw the stuff away. So what we got to do was help with that, and put anything we liked in my car instead of the dumpster.<p>We were stripping stuff there in the parking lot to save space. Crammed that car <i>full</i> of junk. It was a truly wonderful day.</text></comment> |
12,535,913 | 12,535,817 | 1 | 2 | 12,535,415 | train | <story><title>Guanxi</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanxi</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hyh1048576</author><text>As someone who was born and raised in China I just like to remind people that the real meaning of &quot;guanxi&quot; is a function of location and time. i.e. the real meaning of &quot;guanxi&quot; is different from 20 yrs ago to present, and the word has different meaning from small cities to big cities like Beijing and Shanghai, also it doesn&#x27;t mean exactly the same thing from, say, southern China to north east China.<p>In general in big cities &quot;guanxi&quot; plays a smaller role, while in small cities especially the underdeveloped ones it plays a bigger role, to the extent that even doing some fairly trivial business (or even things like getting a passport or going to hospital) needs you to have some &quot;guanxi&quot;. By &quot;needs one to have some &#x27;guanxi&#x27;&quot; I mean it&#x27;s not impossible for one to do without &quot;guanxi&quot; but it&#x27;s just way smoother and faster if you know someone who can help. That&#x27;s also one of the reasons people prefer to live in big cities. It&#x27;s just more fair for young people without acquaintances in every possible field. On the other hand, parents are more familiar with &quot;guanxi&quot;.<p>The existence of &quot;guanxi&quot; also makes people doubt if they have failed to lubricate some &quot;guanxi&quot; if they got rejected or failed for something (e.g. U.S. visa, or a reasonable exam) even if there are other reasons more likely to cause it.<p>&quot;guanxi&quot; sometimes even helps one to pass the test for driver&#x27;s license, oh a big facepalm to road security...<p>(What I said above is not to confuse you guys, the wikipedia page is still worth reading though.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Guanxi</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanxi</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tantalor</author><text><i>Don Corleone: We have known each other many years, but this is the first time you&#x27;ve come to me for counsel or for help. I can&#x27;t remember the last time you invited me to your house for a cup of coffee, even though my wife is godmother to your only child. But let&#x27;s be frank here. You never wanted my friendship. And you feared to be in my debt.</i></text></comment> |
32,055,412 | 32,052,282 | 1 | 2 | 32,048,148 | train | <story><title>SSD will fail at 40k power-on hours (2021)</title><url>https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/field-notices/705/fn70545.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>taneq</author><text>Yowch. The old &quot;stagger your drive replacements, stagger your batches&quot; thing might not be quite as outdated as we&#x27;d like to think...</text></item><item><author>mkl</author><text>Not two SSDs, <i>four</i>: two in the main server, and two in the backup server.</text></item><item><author>solardev</author><text>Wow, thanks for sharing. I didn&#x27;t realize how closely related they were.<p>(TLDR For anyone wondering, &quot;recent HN issues&quot; means HN very likely went down yesterday because of this same bug, when two (edit: two pairs, four total) enterprise SSDs with old firmware died after 40,000 hours close together. An admin of HN and its host both like this theory. See details in that thread.)<p>Edit: If you want to discuss that theory, it&#x27;s probably better to do it in that other thread directly instead... dang and a person from M5 Hosting (HN&#x27;s previous host) are both participating there.</text></item><item><author>dredmorbius</author><text>Possibly related to recent HN issues, see: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32031243" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32031243</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ekidd</author><text>I have definitely seen RAID arrays where the drives were all part of a single manufacturing batch, and multiple drives all failed in rapid succession. I think this can be caused by several things:<p>- Unless you periodically do full-drive reads, you may silently accumulate bad blocks across multiple drives in an array. When you finally detect a failed drive, you discover that other drives have also been failing for months.<p>- A full RAID rebuild is a high-stress event that tries to read every disk block on every drive, as rapidly as possible.<p>- And finally, some drive batches are just dodgy, and it may not take much to push them over. And if identically dodgy drives are all exposed to exactly the same thermal stress and the same I&#x2F;O operations, then I guess they might fail close together?<p>Honestly, RAID arrays only buy you so much reliability. Hardware RAID controllers are another single point of failure. I once lost two drives <i>and</i> a RAID controller all together during Christmas, which was not a fun time.<p>I do like the modern idea of S3-like storage, where data is replicated over several independent machines, and the controlling software can recover from losing entire servers (or even data centers). It&#x27;s not a perfect match for everything, but it works great for lots of things.</text></comment> | <story><title>SSD will fail at 40k power-on hours (2021)</title><url>https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/field-notices/705/fn70545.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>taneq</author><text>Yowch. The old &quot;stagger your drive replacements, stagger your batches&quot; thing might not be quite as outdated as we&#x27;d like to think...</text></item><item><author>mkl</author><text>Not two SSDs, <i>four</i>: two in the main server, and two in the backup server.</text></item><item><author>solardev</author><text>Wow, thanks for sharing. I didn&#x27;t realize how closely related they were.<p>(TLDR For anyone wondering, &quot;recent HN issues&quot; means HN very likely went down yesterday because of this same bug, when two (edit: two pairs, four total) enterprise SSDs with old firmware died after 40,000 hours close together. An admin of HN and its host both like this theory. See details in that thread.)<p>Edit: If you want to discuss that theory, it&#x27;s probably better to do it in that other thread directly instead... dang and a person from M5 Hosting (HN&#x27;s previous host) are both participating there.</text></item><item><author>dredmorbius</author><text>Possibly related to recent HN issues, see: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32031243" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32031243</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hackmiester</author><text>I had no idea anyone thought this was outdated. We certainly never stopped doing it. I think it is a timeless failsafe.</text></comment> |
37,317,710 | 37,317,324 | 1 | 2 | 37,317,055 | train | <story><title>Bad Apple Font</title><url>https://blog.erk.dev/posts/anifont/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>triclops200</author><text>Obviously the thought comes up of the fact that this feels unsafe to have WASM in font files, but, I&#x27;m also aware that font layout engines are already turing complete, which leads me to wonder: have there been any high profile malware font examples? That entire stack feels a lot like an attack surface to me, especially given stuff like the fact that windows used to render fonts in the kernel layer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saurik</author><text>Multiple iOS jailbreaks--both by comex--were buffer overflows of the virtual machine stack due to bugs in how a few instructions were handled in freetype&#x27;s implementation of true type font hinting. The resulting exploit was embedded in a PDF file (which was itself deployed by a website), but that was just a convenient way to embed the font and trigger very deterministic hinting: the bug wasn&#x27;t in the PDF renderer, per se (though I imagine a lot of people were confused on that front in the popular press about the issue).<p>He open sourced the exploit concurrent to the website going up, and it was immediately adjusted for use against different targets (including FoxIt reader or something like that on Windows), and as freetype was used by a lot of Linux distributions in addition to iOS I imagine it was used in a ton of malware (which might or might not have been &quot;high profile&quot;). I actually use those vulnerabilities as a case study in the ethical trade offs of open source weaponization in my talks.<p>(There were two such jailbreaks, as there were&#x2F;are separate implementations of two similar yet slightly different virtual machine versions, each of which had bugs that I remember to be related to the same fundamental mistake; and--as you can read about in another big thread on this website today, most developers think coming up with difficult abstractions isn&#x27;t worth their effort and would rather fix things by playing whack-a-mole.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Bad Apple Font</title><url>https://blog.erk.dev/posts/anifont/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>triclops200</author><text>Obviously the thought comes up of the fact that this feels unsafe to have WASM in font files, but, I&#x27;m also aware that font layout engines are already turing complete, which leads me to wonder: have there been any high profile malware font examples? That entire stack feels a lot like an attack surface to me, especially given stuff like the fact that windows used to render fonts in the kernel layer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LukeShu</author><text>Font layout engines are only Turing-complete if the stack is unbounded (to be fair: that&#x27;s true actual computers too: they&#x27;re not Turing-complete because they don&#x27;t have infinite RAM), and AFAIK the major font engines all impose a quite strict limit on the stack size.</text></comment> |
22,891,445 | 22,891,314 | 1 | 2 | 22,886,988 | train | <story><title>Architects and engineers are turning old shipping containers into mobiled ICUs</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/architects-and-engineers-are-turning-old-shipping-containers-into-mobile-intensive-care-units-1.5527523</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nimbius</author><text>speaking from experience as someone whos worked with shipping containers (tunnel, opentop and swap-body) repurposing these containers can be a bad idea unless you know exactly what was stored in them last.<p>Some containers come with their interior and moving parts slathered in Cosmoline and other toxic corrosion inhibitors. Others may have stored precursor chemicals to industrial adhesives or fertilizers. finally, theres no real regulation on what you can do with an over-iso (super heavy sticker) shipping container and many of them ship metals, or degraded plastics in various stages of recycling. Nuclear? sure. Walk through any port storage facility and theres sure to be a shipping container or two that will light up a geiger counter because the type-A containers inside have cracked from the heat and are leaking thorium tailings or other common low-level waste the USA ships out to third world countries and back.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>orblivion</author><text>&gt; Nuclear? sure. Walk through any port storage facility and theres sure to be a shipping container or two that will light up a geiger counter because the type-A containers inside have cracked from the heat and are leaking thorium tailings or other common low-level waste the USA ships out to third world countries and back.<p>And here I was searching to make sure somebody mentioned methyl bromide. Holy shit.</text></comment> | <story><title>Architects and engineers are turning old shipping containers into mobiled ICUs</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/architects-and-engineers-are-turning-old-shipping-containers-into-mobile-intensive-care-units-1.5527523</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nimbius</author><text>speaking from experience as someone whos worked with shipping containers (tunnel, opentop and swap-body) repurposing these containers can be a bad idea unless you know exactly what was stored in them last.<p>Some containers come with their interior and moving parts slathered in Cosmoline and other toxic corrosion inhibitors. Others may have stored precursor chemicals to industrial adhesives or fertilizers. finally, theres no real regulation on what you can do with an over-iso (super heavy sticker) shipping container and many of them ship metals, or degraded plastics in various stages of recycling. Nuclear? sure. Walk through any port storage facility and theres sure to be a shipping container or two that will light up a geiger counter because the type-A containers inside have cracked from the heat and are leaking thorium tailings or other common low-level waste the USA ships out to third world countries and back.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thaeli</author><text>Yeah. For repurposing, one-trip containers are almost always your best bet. It&#x27;s much easier to know what was in them, and they&#x27;re in great condition - I see people trying to do conversions on a wind&amp;watertight grade container they bought not realizing that grade is still a rusty, dented mess.</text></comment> |
29,160,060 | 29,158,896 | 1 | 2 | 29,158,425 | train | <story><title>liblinux: Architecture-independent access to Linux system calls</title><url>https://github.com/matheusmoreira/liblinux</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wongarsu</author><text>The author of liblinux commented about it a couple days ago on HN [1]<p>The part most relevant to this discussion:<p>&gt; I stopped developing this because I discovered the Linux itself has a better solution that they use for their own tools:<p>&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;torvalds&#x2F;linux&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;tools&#x2F;include&#x2F;nolibc&#x2F;nolibc.h" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;torvalds&#x2F;linux&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;tools&#x2F;include&#x2F;...</a><p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29106179" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29106179</a></text></comment> | <story><title>liblinux: Architecture-independent access to Linux system calls</title><url>https://github.com/matheusmoreira/liblinux</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>funcDropShadow</author><text>Seems, like a very interesting idea, but the readme states:<p>&gt; Currently, the only supported architecture and compiler is x86_64 and GCC, respectively<p>Let&#x27;s wait until its architecture-independence has arrived in practice.</text></comment> |
26,128,964 | 26,128,903 | 1 | 2 | 26,128,388 | train | <story><title>Show HN: M1 Chart – The stock market adjusted for the US-dollar money supply</title><url>https://m1chart.com/?ref=hn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>choxi</author><text>A lot of people say there’s no such thing as asset inflation [1] and I find that very confusing. Hypothetically, if we add $1T to the economy and everyone invests it into stocks, is that not inflation? I guess economists say it’s not, but it feels like a pedantic argument about assets being “overpriced” not “inflated”.<p>I think our current method of measuring inflation against the CPI is nonsense, the basic premise that you can assume the price of e.g. milk is stable doesn’t even make sense. There’s changes in manufacturing, quality, brands, and market demand that aren&#x27;t accounted for in the CPI.<p>Measuring inflation (or whatever you want to call the difference between an asset&#x27;s nominal value and it&#x27;s intrinsic value) is still useful, but the current method of pegging everything against the bag-of-goods in the CPI seems like an overly simplistic model. This approach of normalizing asset prices against the M1 supply seems more reasonable to me. The intrinsic dollar value of an asset is its value relative to how many dollars there are, not relative to whatever the price of milk is.<p>1. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;noahpinionblog.blogspot.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;07&#x2F;asset-price-inflation-is-not-inflation.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;noahpinionblog.blogspot.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;07&#x2F;asset-price-infla...</a><p>Edit: I am clearly not an economist, please see some of the informative comments below. In particular, it sounds like the CPI does account for some complexities, asset inflation is more commonly supported than I thought, but normalizing by M1 might not make any more sense than CPI.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tylerhou</author><text>Mainstream economists know that CPI isn&#x27;t accurate because of changes in demand. So they created other indicators (like chained CPI [0]) to account for changes in the basket of goods.<p>Normalizing against the M1 is an not very meaningful because ignores the fact that the price of a dollar is subject to <i>demand</i> as well. In times of high demand for dollars (like right now), the supply of money (the M1) needs to increase to for the price of a dollar to not rise.<p>In other words, stock prices normalized to the M1 has the same amount of meaning as stock prices normalized to the number of loaves of bread the country produces, or the number of cars. It&#x27;s nonsense — you&#x27;re comparing a price to a metric that only takes into account half of the equation (only supply)!<p>Sidenote: When the price of a dollar rises, that&#x27;s deflation; when it falls, that&#x27;s inflation. That&#x27;s also why &quot;asset price inflation&quot; isn&#x27;t precise — inflation measures the change in price of a currency, not an asset. Maybe individual assets go up or down in price, but that happens in response to consumer demand shift. The Fed&#x27;s mandate is to manage inflation, which is affected by changes in <i>aggregate</i> consumer demand. Therefore, Congress delegated it tools to influence consumer demand as a whole, but not tools to shift demand from one asset to another.<p>The phenomenon you&#x27;re observing is: the Fed&#x27;s monetary policy helps the US grow, which benefits corporations and increases stock prices. The only way the Fed can prevent that is to... stop the economy from growing by letting our currency deflate? Which sounds bad? I.e. the Fed can&#x27;t do anything to shift consumer demand, short of causing a recession.<p>TD;DR: If you think stonks are overvalued, then blame Congress, not the Fed. They&#x27;re the ones who have the power to change that without causing a recession.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.brookings.edu&#x2F;blog&#x2F;up-front&#x2F;2017&#x2F;12&#x2F;07&#x2F;the-hutchins-center-explains-the-chained-cpi&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.brookings.edu&#x2F;blog&#x2F;up-front&#x2F;2017&#x2F;12&#x2F;07&#x2F;the-hutch...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: M1 Chart – The stock market adjusted for the US-dollar money supply</title><url>https://m1chart.com/?ref=hn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>choxi</author><text>A lot of people say there’s no such thing as asset inflation [1] and I find that very confusing. Hypothetically, if we add $1T to the economy and everyone invests it into stocks, is that not inflation? I guess economists say it’s not, but it feels like a pedantic argument about assets being “overpriced” not “inflated”.<p>I think our current method of measuring inflation against the CPI is nonsense, the basic premise that you can assume the price of e.g. milk is stable doesn’t even make sense. There’s changes in manufacturing, quality, brands, and market demand that aren&#x27;t accounted for in the CPI.<p>Measuring inflation (or whatever you want to call the difference between an asset&#x27;s nominal value and it&#x27;s intrinsic value) is still useful, but the current method of pegging everything against the bag-of-goods in the CPI seems like an overly simplistic model. This approach of normalizing asset prices against the M1 supply seems more reasonable to me. The intrinsic dollar value of an asset is its value relative to how many dollars there are, not relative to whatever the price of milk is.<p>1. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;noahpinionblog.blogspot.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;07&#x2F;asset-price-inflation-is-not-inflation.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;noahpinionblog.blogspot.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;07&#x2F;asset-price-infla...</a><p>Edit: I am clearly not an economist, please see some of the informative comments below. In particular, it sounds like the CPI does account for some complexities, asset inflation is more commonly supported than I thought, but normalizing by M1 might not make any more sense than CPI.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>&gt; I think our current method of measuring inflation against the CPI is nonsense,<p>It&#x27;s not nonsense for policies that are directly concerned with consumer prices, which most that the CPI (or, more precisely, any of the CPIs, of which there are several) is used for do. We have lots of other inflation measures (, industry specific PPIs, for instance) for other purposes.<p>&gt; Measuring inflation (or whatever you want to call the difference between an asset&#x27;s nominal value and it&#x27;s intrinsic value) is still useful<p>That&#x27;s not what inflation is supposed to measure, because that&#x27;s a nonsense thing to try to measure, because there is no such thing as intrinsic value.<p>&gt; but the current method of pegging everything against the bag-of-goods in the CPI seems like an overly simplistic model.<p>How? Consumer prices are final prices. Everything else is instrumental to producing final goods and services.<p>&gt; The intrinsic dollar value of an asset is its value relative to how many dollars there are<p>No it&#x27;s not, and even if it was, that wouldn&#x27;t make M1 a sensible measure. Why not the actual number of actual dollars there are: monetary base. Or something that better captures the number of effective dollars, M2.</text></comment> |
22,602,050 | 22,600,932 | 1 | 3 | 22,596,158 | train | <story><title>Outbreak – playable simulations of a disease outbreak</title><url>https://meltingasphalt.com/interactive/outbreak/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nabla9</author><text>Remember pandemic2 flash game?<p>It was almost impossible to kill all humans without starting the infection from Madagascar. If you started from somewhere else Madagascar always had time to close the borders.<p>Lo and behold: Madagascar is one of the few countries without infections in Global Cases tracker. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com&#x2F;apps&#x2F;opsdashboard&#x2F;index.html#&#x2F;bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com&#x2F;apps&#x2F;opsdashboard&#x2F;index.h...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>knzhou</author><text>And lo and behold, again: Madagascar has just closed their borders.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;reuters&#x2F;2020&#x2F;03&#x2F;14&#x2F;world&#x2F;africa&#x2F;14reuters-health-coronavirus-africa.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;reuters&#x2F;2020&#x2F;03&#x2F;14&#x2F;world&#x2F;africa&#x2F;14re...</a><p>&gt; &quot;To prevent the outbreak entering in Madagascar, all flights connecting Madagascar to Europe are suspended for 30 days,&quot; Madagascar President Hery Rajaonarimampianina said in a statement.<p>&gt; Madagascar, one of the world&#x27;s poorest nations where malnutrition is rife and outbreaks of deadly diseases are common, will also suspend air links to the nearby islands of La Reunion and Mayotte, he said.</text></comment> | <story><title>Outbreak – playable simulations of a disease outbreak</title><url>https://meltingasphalt.com/interactive/outbreak/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nabla9</author><text>Remember pandemic2 flash game?<p>It was almost impossible to kill all humans without starting the infection from Madagascar. If you started from somewhere else Madagascar always had time to close the borders.<p>Lo and behold: Madagascar is one of the few countries without infections in Global Cases tracker. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com&#x2F;apps&#x2F;opsdashboard&#x2F;index.html#&#x2F;bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com&#x2F;apps&#x2F;opsdashboard&#x2F;index.h...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>muzani</author><text>The other takeaway from that game was that stealth symptoms with low fatality does the best out of any pandemic.</text></comment> |
39,917,935 | 39,917,810 | 1 | 2 | 39,915,594 | train | <story><title>PyTorch Library for Running LLM on Intel CPU and GPU</title><url>https://github.com/intel-analytics/ipex-llm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vegabook</author><text>The company that did 4-cores-forever, has the opportunity to redeem itself, in its next consumer GPU release, by disrupting the &quot;8-16GB VRAM forever&quot; that AMD and Nvidia have been imposing on us for a decade. It would be poetic to see 32-48GB at a non-eye-watering price point.<p>Intel definitely seems to be doing all the right things on software support.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>riskable</author><text>No kidding... Intel is playing catch-up with Nvidia in the AI space and a big reason for that is their offerings aren&#x27;t competitive. You can get an Intel Arc A770 with 16GB of VRAM (which was released in October, 2022) for about $300 or an Nvidia 4060 Ti with 16GB of VRAM for ~$500 which is <i>twice</i> as fast for AI workloads in reality (see: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net&#x2F;FtXkrY6AD8YypMiHrZuy4K-1200-80.png.webp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net&#x2F;FtXkrY6AD8YypMiHrZuy4K-120...</a> )<p>This is a huge problem because <i>in theory</i> the Arc A770 is faster! It&#x27;s theoretical performance (TFLOPS) is <i>more</i> than twice as fast as an Nvidia 4060 (see: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net&#x2F;Q7WgNxqfgyjCJ5kk8apUQE-1200-80.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net&#x2F;Q7WgNxqfgyjCJ5kk8apUQE-120...</a> ). So why does it perform so poorly? Because everything AI-related has been developed and optimized to run on Nvidia&#x27;s CUDA.<p>Mostly, this is a mindshare issue. If Intel offered a workstation GPU (i.e. <i>not</i> a ridiculously expensive &quot;enterprise&quot; monster) that developers could use that had something like 32GB or 64GB of VRAM it would sell! They&#x27;d sell zillions of them! In fact, I&#x27;d wager that they&#x27;d be <i>so</i> popular it&#x27;d be hard for consumers to even get their hands on one because it would sell out everywhere.<p>It doesn&#x27;t even need to be the fastest card. It just needs to offer more VRAM than the competition. Right now, if you want to do things like training or video generation the lack of VRAM is a bigger bottleneck than the speed of the GPU. How does Intel not see this‽ They have the power to step up and take over a huge section of the market but instead they&#x27;re just copying (poorly) what everyone else is doing.</text></comment> | <story><title>PyTorch Library for Running LLM on Intel CPU and GPU</title><url>https://github.com/intel-analytics/ipex-llm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vegabook</author><text>The company that did 4-cores-forever, has the opportunity to redeem itself, in its next consumer GPU release, by disrupting the &quot;8-16GB VRAM forever&quot; that AMD and Nvidia have been imposing on us for a decade. It would be poetic to see 32-48GB at a non-eye-watering price point.<p>Intel definitely seems to be doing all the right things on software support.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chessgecko</author><text>Going above 24GB is probably not going to be cheap until gddr7 is out, and even that will only push it to 36gb. The fancier stacked gddr6 stuff is probably pretty expensive and you can’t just add more dies because of signal integrity issues.</text></comment> |
13,095,120 | 13,094,937 | 1 | 3 | 13,094,317 | train | <story><title>MakerBot's bold bet that 3D printers would become common</title><url>https://backchannel.com/the-3d-printing-revolution-that-wasnt-60b000c3a3ed#.chdpvs3bi</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sslalready</author><text>OpenSCAD is great for these things. A gasket would be the difference() between two cylinder()s for example. Check this out: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.de&#x2F;amp&#x2F;s&#x2F;cubehero.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;11&#x2F;19&#x2F;know-only-10-things-to-be-dangerous-in-openscad&#x2F;amp&#x2F;?client=safari" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.de&#x2F;amp&#x2F;s&#x2F;cubehero.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;11&#x2F;19&#x2F;know-onl...</a></text></item><item><author>mbrock</author><text>For random DIY stuff you don&#x27;t always need advanced modeling.<p>If I had a 3D printer right now I&#x27;d want to make a circular gasket with an outer diameter of 78 mm. That&#x27;s the simplest modeling imaginable but it would be useful for me.<p>It&#x27;s like how a power saw is useful even if you don&#x27;t know advanced furniture construction...</text></item><item><author>rebootthesystem</author><text>Well, the issue with 3D printing as I see it is 3D modeling.<p>Anyone can fire-up a word processor and produce interesting looking documents and flyers.<p>A lot less people can fire-up a paint program and produce interesting images.<p>A lot less people than that can fire-up a 2D CAD program and produce 2D mechanical or architectural drawings.<p>And yet a lot less people than that can run a 3D modeling program and product much beyond trivial trinkets.<p>Beyond &quot;Look! I printed this tiny Statue of Liberty from a file I got online&quot; and &quot;Check out the letter A I made!&quot; lies real mechanical design. This is where mechanical things start to become useful.<p>At that level you now need far better understanding of how to design multi-component mechanical assemblies, materials, etc. Anyone can do a little pyramid in Sketchup. Not everyone can design a full robotic hand with differential drive and force compliance.<p>I imagine most folks buy 3D printers, print a few things they can get online and that&#x27;s the end of it. A very few are inspired to learn some more and do some basic modeling. I can only see a very, very few go all out, learn advanced modeling and mechanical design and start to extract value out of their 3D printers.</text></item><item><author>wanderingjew</author><text>This gets the current state of 3D printers half right. I wrote the same thing seven months ago <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackaday.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;04&#x2F;28&#x2F;the-makerbot-obituary&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackaday.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;04&#x2F;28&#x2F;the-makerbot-obituary&#x2F;</a>, and yes, the downfall of Makerbot was due to going closed source and shipping faulty &#x27;smart&#x27; extruders.<p>However, the author gets it completely wrong by not looking at any of the other companies shipping reprap designs. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lulzbot.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lulzbot.com&#x2F;</a> has seen consistent yearly growth, from tens of thousands a month when the first MakerBots came out to tens of millions per month today. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;prusaprinters.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;prusaprinters.org&#x2F;</a> is experiencing the same growth, and that&#x27;s despite an obscene number of clones of their machine on the market. The growth of 3D printing never stopped. If you look at the well-respected companies in the field, they&#x27;re seeing consistent, increasing revenue.<p>The trouble with the industry is Makerbot. They burned their community with the change to closed source, they killed their industrial&#x2F;educational market with the Smart Extruder problems, <i>but</i> they were the darling of the media. When Makerbot laid off employees, it made headlines. When manufacturing was outsourced to China, tech bloggers stumbled over themselves to get a post out. As Makerbot went south, so went the perception of the industry.<p>3D printing is still a growing industry, and the tech in low-end printers is getting really, really good. It&#x27;ll never be a printer on every desk, but if you find a household with a circular saw or a soldering iron, you&#x27;ll probably also find a 3D printer. That&#x27;s what it should be, anyway: a tool, and not a fetishized technology.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>IshKebab</author><text>No it isn&#x27;t. OpenSCAD is great for mathematically defined objects, like gears and fasteners.<p>For everything else traditional parametric CAD is a million times better. If you don&#x27;t mind closed source, give AutoCAD 360 a try (make sure you use it in parametric mode; direct modelling is a stupid): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;knowledge.autodesk.com&#x2F;support&#x2F;fusion-360&#x2F;troubleshooting&#x2F;caas&#x2F;sfdcarticles&#x2F;sfdcarticles&#x2F;How-to-switch-between-a-parametric-or-direct-modeling-environment-in-Autodesk-Fusion-360.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;knowledge.autodesk.com&#x2F;support&#x2F;fusion-360&#x2F;troublesho...</a><p>If you can&#x27;t stand closed source then there are not many options. Most open source CAD software is worthless. The only one I&#x27;ve found that works as it should is SolveSpace - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;solvespace.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;solvespace.com&#x2F;</a> - but it does have a slightly 80s interface and... well SolveSpace is to Solidworks what Notepad is to Word. But it does do constraint-based sketching and parametric modelling right.</text></comment> | <story><title>MakerBot's bold bet that 3D printers would become common</title><url>https://backchannel.com/the-3d-printing-revolution-that-wasnt-60b000c3a3ed#.chdpvs3bi</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sslalready</author><text>OpenSCAD is great for these things. A gasket would be the difference() between two cylinder()s for example. Check this out: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.de&#x2F;amp&#x2F;s&#x2F;cubehero.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;11&#x2F;19&#x2F;know-only-10-things-to-be-dangerous-in-openscad&#x2F;amp&#x2F;?client=safari" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.de&#x2F;amp&#x2F;s&#x2F;cubehero.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;11&#x2F;19&#x2F;know-onl...</a></text></item><item><author>mbrock</author><text>For random DIY stuff you don&#x27;t always need advanced modeling.<p>If I had a 3D printer right now I&#x27;d want to make a circular gasket with an outer diameter of 78 mm. That&#x27;s the simplest modeling imaginable but it would be useful for me.<p>It&#x27;s like how a power saw is useful even if you don&#x27;t know advanced furniture construction...</text></item><item><author>rebootthesystem</author><text>Well, the issue with 3D printing as I see it is 3D modeling.<p>Anyone can fire-up a word processor and produce interesting looking documents and flyers.<p>A lot less people can fire-up a paint program and produce interesting images.<p>A lot less people than that can fire-up a 2D CAD program and produce 2D mechanical or architectural drawings.<p>And yet a lot less people than that can run a 3D modeling program and product much beyond trivial trinkets.<p>Beyond &quot;Look! I printed this tiny Statue of Liberty from a file I got online&quot; and &quot;Check out the letter A I made!&quot; lies real mechanical design. This is where mechanical things start to become useful.<p>At that level you now need far better understanding of how to design multi-component mechanical assemblies, materials, etc. Anyone can do a little pyramid in Sketchup. Not everyone can design a full robotic hand with differential drive and force compliance.<p>I imagine most folks buy 3D printers, print a few things they can get online and that&#x27;s the end of it. A very few are inspired to learn some more and do some basic modeling. I can only see a very, very few go all out, learn advanced modeling and mechanical design and start to extract value out of their 3D printers.</text></item><item><author>wanderingjew</author><text>This gets the current state of 3D printers half right. I wrote the same thing seven months ago <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackaday.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;04&#x2F;28&#x2F;the-makerbot-obituary&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackaday.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;04&#x2F;28&#x2F;the-makerbot-obituary&#x2F;</a>, and yes, the downfall of Makerbot was due to going closed source and shipping faulty &#x27;smart&#x27; extruders.<p>However, the author gets it completely wrong by not looking at any of the other companies shipping reprap designs. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lulzbot.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lulzbot.com&#x2F;</a> has seen consistent yearly growth, from tens of thousands a month when the first MakerBots came out to tens of millions per month today. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;prusaprinters.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;prusaprinters.org&#x2F;</a> is experiencing the same growth, and that&#x27;s despite an obscene number of clones of their machine on the market. The growth of 3D printing never stopped. If you look at the well-respected companies in the field, they&#x27;re seeing consistent, increasing revenue.<p>The trouble with the industry is Makerbot. They burned their community with the change to closed source, they killed their industrial&#x2F;educational market with the Smart Extruder problems, <i>but</i> they were the darling of the media. When Makerbot laid off employees, it made headlines. When manufacturing was outsourced to China, tech bloggers stumbled over themselves to get a post out. As Makerbot went south, so went the perception of the industry.<p>3D printing is still a growing industry, and the tech in low-end printers is getting really, really good. It&#x27;ll never be a printer on every desk, but if you find a household with a circular saw or a soldering iron, you&#x27;ll probably also find a 3D printer. That&#x27;s what it should be, anyway: a tool, and not a fetishized technology.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grogenaut</author><text>It&#x27;s even easier in sketchup, inventor, or solidworks. And I don&#x27;t have to feel like I&#x27;m wrestling with an HP calculator when I&#x27;m using it.</text></comment> |
3,214,626 | 3,214,029 | 1 | 2 | 3,212,852 | train | <story><title>Nassim Taleb: End Bonuses For Bankers</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/08/opinion/end-bonuses-for-bankers.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wtvanhest</author><text>I love hacker news for discussions about business and about learning about how the smartest programmers in the world think about programming.<p>When articles that deal with the world outside of startup finance appear on Hacker News, the articles and comments usually have so little knowledge behind them they are practically unreadable.<p>It would be nice if this community could keep the articles they post based on VC funding, angel funding, debt funding for start ups, option pools, etc.<p>The comments here are more representative of political ideals and not based on facts.<p>(Also, I understand that is not entirely true as some comments are actually quit interesting, but I have to wade through so much garbage to find them that it isn't worth it.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bermanoid</author><text><i>When articles that deal with the world outside of startup finance appear on Hacker News, the articles and comments usually have so little knowledge behind them they are practically unreadable.</i><p>Sometimes these issues just don't require that much knowledge to understand, though, and I think this is one of those.<p>When upside returns are based on a percentage of your winnings, and downside is limited to the loss of a job, at worst, the course of action is clear: shoot the moon, take on as much risk as you possibly can. Push the rules as far as they'll go to crank up the variance of your returns, and half the time, it'll pay off.<p>There are no subtleties here, no deep knowledge of banking required to see what's wrong with this picture. I'll agree that finding a solution might be tricky, but the fundamental problem has nothing whatsoever to do with politics, it's simple arithmetic.<p>Hell, even the people that benefit from these sort of incentive schemes - they're most definitely not a stupid lot, if you've ever interacted with them! - tend to think that they're crazy, they <i>agree</i> that what's good for them personally tends to be bad for their companies, and bad for the economy at large. But being fairly rational decision makers, they optimize for personal profit, just as most of us would if we were in their shoes.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nassim Taleb: End Bonuses For Bankers</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/08/opinion/end-bonuses-for-bankers.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wtvanhest</author><text>I love hacker news for discussions about business and about learning about how the smartest programmers in the world think about programming.<p>When articles that deal with the world outside of startup finance appear on Hacker News, the articles and comments usually have so little knowledge behind them they are practically unreadable.<p>It would be nice if this community could keep the articles they post based on VC funding, angel funding, debt funding for start ups, option pools, etc.<p>The comments here are more representative of political ideals and not based on facts.<p>(Also, I understand that is not entirely true as some comments are actually quit interesting, but I have to wade through so much garbage to find them that it isn't worth it.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Dbkasia</author><text>I would tend to disagree that this article is not relevant, startup finance and access to funding for startups is highly dependent on the health of the financial system, and this article deals with the economics and the gaming of that system.</text></comment> |
25,435,966 | 25,436,158 | 1 | 3 | 25,435,603 | train | <story><title>Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding EU privacy rules</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/britain-eu-facebook-exclusive-idUSKBN28P2HH</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrtksn</author><text>How these rules apply for people with multiple citizenships and residence? That’s the case with a lot of people in Europe. How to find out to which jurisdiction my FB data is bound to?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DaiPlusPlus</author><text>Citizenship matters not. Only residency.<p>Just because I&#x27;m a Britsh person living in the US doesn&#x27;t mean I&#x27;m not subject to the death penalty or am exempt from having to buy health insurance, for example.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding EU privacy rules</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/britain-eu-facebook-exclusive-idUSKBN28P2HH</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrtksn</author><text>How these rules apply for people with multiple citizenships and residence? That’s the case with a lot of people in Europe. How to find out to which jurisdiction my FB data is bound to?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>Good question: there will continue to be a lot of EU nationals subject to the GDPR living in the UK. Including Northern Ireland!</text></comment> |
37,925,708 | 37,925,193 | 1 | 3 | 37,924,589 | train | <story><title>Localization Failure: Temperature Is Hard</title><url>https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2023/10/17/localization-failure-temperature-is-hard/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikewarot</author><text>If you want &quot;twice as hot&quot; to be meaningful, you have to use an absolute scale, either Kelvin or Rankine. (1 K = 1.8 °R)
Doubling absolute temperature doubles the pressure (at constant volume) or volume (at constant pressure) of an ideal gas. This gets <i>really important</i> when it comes to compressing and expanding air and other gasses.<p>Room temperature is approximately 293 K, twice that is 586 K &#x2F; 595 °F &#x2F; 313 °C. Hotter than your typical oven cooking temperature.<p>We often don&#x27;t realize how warm the world we live in truly is, from a physics standpoint.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lynguist</author><text>Twice as hot is also useful in Celsius. For every increase of 10C chemical reactions happen twice as fast, it will literally, thermodynamically be twice as hot.<p>Which will probably even match your subjective feeling.<p>Celsius scales thermodynamically logarithmically. You can’t just double the numbers. (The same with sound etc.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Localization Failure: Temperature Is Hard</title><url>https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2023/10/17/localization-failure-temperature-is-hard/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikewarot</author><text>If you want &quot;twice as hot&quot; to be meaningful, you have to use an absolute scale, either Kelvin or Rankine. (1 K = 1.8 °R)
Doubling absolute temperature doubles the pressure (at constant volume) or volume (at constant pressure) of an ideal gas. This gets <i>really important</i> when it comes to compressing and expanding air and other gasses.<p>Room temperature is approximately 293 K, twice that is 586 K &#x2F; 595 °F &#x2F; 313 °C. Hotter than your typical oven cooking temperature.<p>We often don&#x27;t realize how warm the world we live in truly is, from a physics standpoint.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>usui</author><text>Kelvin doesn&#x27;t use degrees</text></comment> |
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