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31,088,699 | 31,089,057 | 1 | 2 | 31,086,310 | train | <story><title>Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words”</title><url>https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1516463416885399554</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codesternews</author><text>This is pretty scary. Inclusivity fine but what else can they push and censor.<p>I am from different country and most of the words are gender neutral which in US pretty big deal like (landlord, guys - which is gender neutral in our country).<p>Its like pushing your culture on different countries. I don&#x27;t want to see the Americanisation on our country cultures.<p>There is no issues of inclusivity in our country. Google is pushing their agenda on different groups, cultures and countries,<p>This is how it starts.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;thecitywanderer&#x2F;status&#x2F;1516176983549530122" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;thecitywanderer&#x2F;status&#x2F;15161769835495301...</a></text></item><item><author>2bitencryption</author><text>I think there&#x27;s a valid concern with this; a concern which is not necessarily distilled down to &quot;big brother&quot; or &quot;corporate overlords&quot;.<p>Google is so large that any stance they take, no matter how minuscule, has immense influence.<p>Case in point, from this article:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;08&#x2F;02&#x2F;technology&#x2F;google-maps-neighborhood-names.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;08&#x2F;02&#x2F;technology&#x2F;google-maps-ne...</a><p>&gt; For decades, the district south of downtown and alongside San Francisco Bay here was known as either Rincon Hill, South Beach or South of Market. This spring, it was suddenly rebranded on Google Maps to a name few had heard: the East Cut.<p>&gt; The peculiar moniker immediately spread digitally, from hotel sites to dating apps to Uber, which all use Google’s map data. The name soon spilled over into the physical world, too. Real-estate listings beckoned prospective tenants to the East Cut. And news organizations referred to the vicinity by that term.<p>My point is, it might seem like a small, inconspicuous change. But at Google-scale, this actually has an impact on the real world, and personally I don&#x27;t feel confident with Google deciding what words are the correct words.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colpabar</author><text>&gt;I don&#x27;t want to see the Americanisation on our country cultures.<p>This is something that I just cannot reconcile with the notion that all these measures are meant to make things more inclusive. All I see are groups of rich and powerful people telling people &quot;below them&quot; how to behave, and makings tons of money doing it. D&amp;I is a grift.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words”</title><url>https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1516463416885399554</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codesternews</author><text>This is pretty scary. Inclusivity fine but what else can they push and censor.<p>I am from different country and most of the words are gender neutral which in US pretty big deal like (landlord, guys - which is gender neutral in our country).<p>Its like pushing your culture on different countries. I don&#x27;t want to see the Americanisation on our country cultures.<p>There is no issues of inclusivity in our country. Google is pushing their agenda on different groups, cultures and countries,<p>This is how it starts.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;thecitywanderer&#x2F;status&#x2F;1516176983549530122" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;thecitywanderer&#x2F;status&#x2F;15161769835495301...</a></text></item><item><author>2bitencryption</author><text>I think there&#x27;s a valid concern with this; a concern which is not necessarily distilled down to &quot;big brother&quot; or &quot;corporate overlords&quot;.<p>Google is so large that any stance they take, no matter how minuscule, has immense influence.<p>Case in point, from this article:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;08&#x2F;02&#x2F;technology&#x2F;google-maps-neighborhood-names.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;08&#x2F;02&#x2F;technology&#x2F;google-maps-ne...</a><p>&gt; For decades, the district south of downtown and alongside San Francisco Bay here was known as either Rincon Hill, South Beach or South of Market. This spring, it was suddenly rebranded on Google Maps to a name few had heard: the East Cut.<p>&gt; The peculiar moniker immediately spread digitally, from hotel sites to dating apps to Uber, which all use Google’s map data. The name soon spilled over into the physical world, too. Real-estate listings beckoned prospective tenants to the East Cut. And news organizations referred to the vicinity by that term.<p>My point is, it might seem like a small, inconspicuous change. But at Google-scale, this actually has an impact on the real world, and personally I don&#x27;t feel confident with Google deciding what words are the correct words.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>slg</author><text>&gt;Its like pushing your culture on different countries.<p>I think the original point was there is no way for Google not to do this. Sometimes cultures have opposing viewpoints which makes a neutral decision impossible. One obvious example is with displaying disputed borders in Google Maps. Any decision there is going to be political. Lots of people are going to be upset with Google for making the wrong decision regardless of which decisions they make, but I think that anger is misplaced. The real problem is Google has the power to make this decision for too many people. Companies like Google are simply too powerful and need to be broken up.</text></comment> |
26,443,039 | 26,442,989 | 1 | 2 | 26,441,214 | train | <story><title>CA crews handle tricky fire at Tesla factory</title><url>https://www.firehouse.com/operations-training/news/21214084/ca-crews-handle-tricky-fire-at-tesla-factory</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>I&#x27;m wondering what process uses molten metal. Or if it was another process that ended up creating molten metal (like a battery fire of some sort).<p>Given the hydraulic fluid mention I was also speculating that a gigapress might be involved.<p>Like everyone commenting I am always amazed at exothermic events that can&#x27;t be put out by water or CO2. The only one I&#x27;ve ever seen &quot;in person&quot; (other than the obligatory set some magnesium on fire in chemistry) was a halon dump on an IBM System 370 when the water coolant system burst a pipe and shorted the many bus bars. That one triggered a 15 second siren followed by a halon dump. I found it quite exciting, the plant manager, not so much.</text></comment> | <story><title>CA crews handle tricky fire at Tesla factory</title><url>https://www.firehouse.com/operations-training/news/21214084/ca-crews-handle-tricky-fire-at-tesla-factory</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>olivermarks</author><text>Wondering why Tesla doesn&#x27;t have fire suppression solutions in place ready for this type of danger. Surely major Class D fire suppression would be a prerequisite for this type of process?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.elitefire.co.uk&#x2F;help-advice&#x2F;detect-and-extinguish-class-d-fires&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.elitefire.co.uk&#x2F;help-advice&#x2F;detect-and-extinguis...</a></text></comment> |
8,163,168 | 8,163,148 | 1 | 2 | 8,162,962 | train | <story><title>German armed forces warn that carbon fiber might be cancer-causing</title><url>http://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/niedersachsen/Bundeswehr-warnt-vor-Krebs-durch-Carbonfasern,cfk114.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>exDM69</author><text>Formula 1 and other open wheel racing drivers have been exposed to carbon fiber dust (from the carbon-carbon brakes) for a few decades now. There is some research going on with former racing drivers.<p>E.g. former F1 driver Mika Salo underwent surgery where his lungs were examined to assess the effects of repeated exposure to burned carbon fiber dust (this was several years ago). Unfortunately, I do not have any links to sources nor do I know the results of the research.<p>Another big question mark is the health and environmental effects of graphene. There is a lot of research going on in applications of graphene but only now there have been research projects into possible negative effects on the environment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MrBuddyCasino</author><text>Here is something: <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/4121126.stm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;sport2&#x2F;hi&#x2F;motorsport&#x2F;formula_one&#x2F;41211...</a><p>Apparently the surgery was unrelated, they found lots of carbon brake dust in his lungs purely by chance. No conclusion on whether it is dangerous or not.<p>Edit: grahamel was quicker :)</text></comment> | <story><title>German armed forces warn that carbon fiber might be cancer-causing</title><url>http://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/niedersachsen/Bundeswehr-warnt-vor-Krebs-durch-Carbonfasern,cfk114.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>exDM69</author><text>Formula 1 and other open wheel racing drivers have been exposed to carbon fiber dust (from the carbon-carbon brakes) for a few decades now. There is some research going on with former racing drivers.<p>E.g. former F1 driver Mika Salo underwent surgery where his lungs were examined to assess the effects of repeated exposure to burned carbon fiber dust (this was several years ago). Unfortunately, I do not have any links to sources nor do I know the results of the research.<p>Another big question mark is the health and environmental effects of graphene. There is a lot of research going on in applications of graphene but only now there have been research projects into possible negative effects on the environment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grahamel</author><text>I remember this. Article link <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/4121126.stm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;sport1&#x2F;hi&#x2F;motorsport&#x2F;formula_one&#x2F;41211...</a></text></comment> |
5,190,061 | 5,190,049 | 1 | 3 | 5,189,950 | train | <story><title>Airbnb Annual</title><url>https://www.airbnb.com/annual/#</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nlh</author><text>Really impressive layout and visuals. I know some folks have complained about the "long form scroll" as being less usable than linked pages broken up by section, but I'm a fan nonetheless. The more I use the web / tablet / phone, the more I find I prefer sites that put all of their content on a single scrolling page. It just feels easier to digest.<p>In this case, honestly, I probably wouldn't have clicked through each section if it were in a more traditional layout -- I would have looked, said "cool", and moved on.<p>But as it stands, I scrolled through the whole page from top to bottom and AirBNB delivered the full experience to me, as intended.</text></comment> | <story><title>Airbnb Annual</title><url>https://www.airbnb.com/annual/#</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aviswanathan</author><text>This is one way to replicate the scroll magic from this annual report: <a href="http://prinzhorn.github.com/skrollr/" rel="nofollow">http://prinzhorn.github.com/skrollr/</a>. It's really user-friendly and uses keyframes for timed actions based on scroll position.</text></comment> |
32,955,390 | 32,955,608 | 1 | 2 | 32,951,510 | train | <story><title>Google CEO tells employees not to ‘equate fun with money’ in heated meeting</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/23/google-ceo-pichai-fields-questions-on-cost-cuts-at-all-hands-meeting-.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>neilv</author><text>I wonder whether the mention of swag in the reporting was a red herring.<p>I would&#x27;ve liked to see the full question, and all the other questions, and whatever could be learned from their absolute and relative votings.<p>Questions on my mind:<p>1. How many people are concerned about loss of swag, and if so, why? (Is it because they want the swag, or see it as a canary, or because they simply don&#x27;t understand the belt-tightening when they think the company is doing well, or something else?)<p>2. If some people are concerned about travel, is it because the travel was fun, or effective for project success, or effective for personal advancement, or something else?<p>3. How concerned are people about possible layoffs, possible declining TC, and&#x2F;or possible changing nature of the work lifestyle?<p>4. Are there any pre-existing concerns that talks of belt-tightening are adding to? (For example, were some people already feeling like they were overextending themselves, or stressed over pursuing a promotion, and now they&#x27;re wondering whether changes will make make that situation harder?)<p>(I&#x27;d like to understand how different organizations are feeling, and how that changes with circumstances, and the news article&#x27;s mention of swag might be confusing things. And also, I&#x27;ve always had a soft spot for Google, and I want it to be its best self.)</text></item><item><author>bko</author><text>&gt; Pichai was asked, in a question that was highly rated by staffers on Google’s internal Dory system, why the company is “nickel-and-diming employees” by slashing travel and swag budgets at a time when “Google has record profits and huge cash reserves,” as it did coming out of the pandemic.<p>What you focus on can also help you attract a certain type of employee. The best engineers I know want to work on interesting problems. I know plenty of people (myself included) that took pretty drastic pay cuts to work in a more interesting space. To be fair, we were all making above our needs at the time, but the point remains, good engineers care a lot about the things they working on.<p>As a company becomes successful, they should share the gains with those that helped get them there. But no firm is completely closed, it has to attract new people. And the sell to new employees often overly focuses on money and perks.<p>The other problem I see is that companies can fall into the trap of focusing too much on inner reflection and feedback. This leads to a lot of heavy handed happiness initiatives that end up just being chores (e.g. forced team bonding, endless happiness surveys, feedback, etc). I can&#x27;t speak for non-technical employees, but in my experience the best engineers care most about an interesting product space, autonomy and respect. And colleagues matter as well. So even if you have all this, if your values aren&#x27;t shared by your peers, its a big negative. For instance, if your peers are more interested in advancing politics at work or exploiting perks, it will create tension with those that just want to do meaningful work.<p>So I think Google&#x27;s shift is a net positive. Sure it&#x27;ll upset some employees that care more about catering, travel and perks than their actual work, but that&#x27;s fine.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>batmaniam</author><text>It sounds like a gas lighting attempt to paint employees as selfish and entitled children worried about losing their toys. Most people don&#x27;t care about that stuff, it&#x27;s all superficial anyway. Things like this usually means employees asking about why benefits are cut for them and not for executives.<p>Further down in in the article, if readers made it that far, it implies just that:<p>&gt; Pichai dodged employee questions asking about cost-cutting executive compensation. Pichai brought in total pay last year of $6.3 million, while other top executives made more than $28 million.<p>The later on:<p>&gt; Bret Hill, Google&#x27;s vice president of &quot;total rewards,&quot; fielded a question about raises, equity and bonuses and how they will be affected by the changes. He said the company doesn&#x27;t plan to deviate from paying workers “at the top end of the market so we can be competitive.”<p>Which leads me to believe employees know what they&#x27;re talking about, and the swag question near the top is just clickbait. Employees actually want real answers, and they got none.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google CEO tells employees not to ‘equate fun with money’ in heated meeting</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/23/google-ceo-pichai-fields-questions-on-cost-cuts-at-all-hands-meeting-.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>neilv</author><text>I wonder whether the mention of swag in the reporting was a red herring.<p>I would&#x27;ve liked to see the full question, and all the other questions, and whatever could be learned from their absolute and relative votings.<p>Questions on my mind:<p>1. How many people are concerned about loss of swag, and if so, why? (Is it because they want the swag, or see it as a canary, or because they simply don&#x27;t understand the belt-tightening when they think the company is doing well, or something else?)<p>2. If some people are concerned about travel, is it because the travel was fun, or effective for project success, or effective for personal advancement, or something else?<p>3. How concerned are people about possible layoffs, possible declining TC, and&#x2F;or possible changing nature of the work lifestyle?<p>4. Are there any pre-existing concerns that talks of belt-tightening are adding to? (For example, were some people already feeling like they were overextending themselves, or stressed over pursuing a promotion, and now they&#x27;re wondering whether changes will make make that situation harder?)<p>(I&#x27;d like to understand how different organizations are feeling, and how that changes with circumstances, and the news article&#x27;s mention of swag might be confusing things. And also, I&#x27;ve always had a soft spot for Google, and I want it to be its best self.)</text></item><item><author>bko</author><text>&gt; Pichai was asked, in a question that was highly rated by staffers on Google’s internal Dory system, why the company is “nickel-and-diming employees” by slashing travel and swag budgets at a time when “Google has record profits and huge cash reserves,” as it did coming out of the pandemic.<p>What you focus on can also help you attract a certain type of employee. The best engineers I know want to work on interesting problems. I know plenty of people (myself included) that took pretty drastic pay cuts to work in a more interesting space. To be fair, we were all making above our needs at the time, but the point remains, good engineers care a lot about the things they working on.<p>As a company becomes successful, they should share the gains with those that helped get them there. But no firm is completely closed, it has to attract new people. And the sell to new employees often overly focuses on money and perks.<p>The other problem I see is that companies can fall into the trap of focusing too much on inner reflection and feedback. This leads to a lot of heavy handed happiness initiatives that end up just being chores (e.g. forced team bonding, endless happiness surveys, feedback, etc). I can&#x27;t speak for non-technical employees, but in my experience the best engineers care most about an interesting product space, autonomy and respect. And colleagues matter as well. So even if you have all this, if your values aren&#x27;t shared by your peers, its a big negative. For instance, if your peers are more interested in advancing politics at work or exploiting perks, it will create tension with those that just want to do meaningful work.<p>So I think Google&#x27;s shift is a net positive. Sure it&#x27;ll upset some employees that care more about catering, travel and perks than their actual work, but that&#x27;s fine.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vineyardmike</author><text>can&#x27;t speak for everyone else, but it seems like a canary. They grew really fast the last few years, so many people joined google recently, with all their reputation for tons of perks. Their new perks are going away, that they just joined for. That&#x27;s probably a bit of a shock as well.<p>&gt; they simply don&#x27;t understand the belt-tightening when they think the company is doing well, or something else?<p>When you make a median of $300k, being told you need to cut a $50 sweatshirt this year out of the budget, its pretty confusing and concerning.<p>&gt; is it because the travel was fun, or effective for project success, or effective for personal advancement, or something else?<p>Probably all of the above. With COVID, lots of teams (at lots of companies) became more distributed, and meeting in person is important occasionally (IMO). Travel is fun, and google tends to be in the fun cities with fun offices (SF, NYC, etc) so traveling to those cities is probably an enjoyable trip compared to flying to eg. Milwaukee. With a &quot;fun budget&quot; even if you have to work, you&#x27;ll probably enjoy those trips beyond the work.<p>&gt; How concerned are people about possible layoffs, possible declining TC, and&#x2F;or possible changing nature of the work lifestyle?<p>I imagine considering the the earlier claims of &quot;20% productivity increase&quot;, product cuts and stalled hiring, layoffs probably feel around the corner for many people. Having to output 20% more is no easy feat unless you really weren&#x27;t working very hard.<p>&gt; Are there any pre-existing concerns that talks of belt-tightening are adding to?<p>I think its just that lots of people are new to this lucrative perk-filled rich company and its an affront to their expectations and potentially reason for joining.</text></comment> |
24,617,413 | 24,614,183 | 1 | 3 | 24,610,115 | train | <story><title>Nuclear power: Are we too anxious about the risks of radiation?</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54211450</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BurningFrog</author><text>&gt; <i>securely dump all spent fuel</i><p>Reminder that Coal and oil energy gets to dump <i>their</i> spent fuel in the atmosphere, and thereby our lungs!<p>The uneven treatment of different energy sources really is fantastic!</text></item><item><author>ComputerGuru</author><text>Nuclear is only so relatively expensive because it’s the only fuel source that’s forced to pay up for all the externalities up front (and I’m not saying that is a bad thing to require). A nuclear plant can’t be built if the money to make it safe (as per some specification), insure against all health complications while it’s in operation, decommission it, clean up the site, securely dump all spent fuel, and return the site back to “normal” <i>decades later</i> isn’t put up in escrow from the start: that’s all captured in the price.<p>If we did that for fossil (and other) fuels, you’d bet they would cost more too.</text></item><item><author>Lazare</author><text>Do we stress about the risks nuclear power far out of proportion to how safe it is? Yes. Even accounting for the worst accidents, it kills a very low number of people per TWh.<p>Do we ignore the risks of fossil fuels far out of proportion to how dangerous they are? Also yes. They kill an absurdly high number of people per TWh; by most estimates coal is several hundred times more dangerous than nuclear.<p>Does that mean nuclear is just a totally great idea? No; the issue with nuclear is cost. Historically it has been quite expensive, but subsidised in opaque ways. In a zero carbon world, it might make sense for baseline generation even if it&#x27;s expensive; in the world we live in it needs to compete on price. Can it?<p>The debate about nuclear is never ending, and yet at the same time, seemingly never focused on anything relevant. How many times do we need to go through the same cycle? &quot;But what about Chernobyl?&quot; &quot;But what about deaths due to coal?&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ryathal</author><text>That&#x27;s only about half their waste, the other half gets put into man made ash ponds that eventually become superfund sites, or leak into rivers and cause massive damage.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nuclear power: Are we too anxious about the risks of radiation?</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54211450</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BurningFrog</author><text>&gt; <i>securely dump all spent fuel</i><p>Reminder that Coal and oil energy gets to dump <i>their</i> spent fuel in the atmosphere, and thereby our lungs!<p>The uneven treatment of different energy sources really is fantastic!</text></item><item><author>ComputerGuru</author><text>Nuclear is only so relatively expensive because it’s the only fuel source that’s forced to pay up for all the externalities up front (and I’m not saying that is a bad thing to require). A nuclear plant can’t be built if the money to make it safe (as per some specification), insure against all health complications while it’s in operation, decommission it, clean up the site, securely dump all spent fuel, and return the site back to “normal” <i>decades later</i> isn’t put up in escrow from the start: that’s all captured in the price.<p>If we did that for fossil (and other) fuels, you’d bet they would cost more too.</text></item><item><author>Lazare</author><text>Do we stress about the risks nuclear power far out of proportion to how safe it is? Yes. Even accounting for the worst accidents, it kills a very low number of people per TWh.<p>Do we ignore the risks of fossil fuels far out of proportion to how dangerous they are? Also yes. They kill an absurdly high number of people per TWh; by most estimates coal is several hundred times more dangerous than nuclear.<p>Does that mean nuclear is just a totally great idea? No; the issue with nuclear is cost. Historically it has been quite expensive, but subsidised in opaque ways. In a zero carbon world, it might make sense for baseline generation even if it&#x27;s expensive; in the world we live in it needs to compete on price. Can it?<p>The debate about nuclear is never ending, and yet at the same time, seemingly never focused on anything relevant. How many times do we need to go through the same cycle? &quot;But what about Chernobyl?&quot; &quot;But what about deaths due to coal?&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Cthulhu_</author><text>And that burnt coal leaves a toxic waste product that also needs to be taken care of safely.</text></comment> |
20,466,447 | 20,465,668 | 1 | 3 | 20,464,496 | train | <story><title>DoNotPay's new service auto-cancels free trials</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/free-trial-card/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>koolba</author><text>&gt; The Free Trial Card is a virtual credit card you can use to sign up for free trials of any service anonymously, instead of using your real credit card. When the free trial period ends, the card automatically declines to be charged, thus ending your free trial. You don’t have to remember to cancel anything.<p>That’s not how it works. Just because they can’t bill your card does not mean you’re not on the hook. Anybody that’s forgotten about a gym membership on a expired card knows this first hand. Only reason they won’t go after you is that the LTV and PR isn’t worth it. If it is, they will.<p>&gt; As he sees it, companies that require you to put in a credit card in order to sign up for a free trial are engaging in deceptive practices.<p>There’s nothing deceptive about it if the price is disclosed. Far from it. On the sell side it also has the advantage of filtering out people who cannot or would not pay for the service early on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Waterluvian</author><text>I believe in Quebec it&#x27;s illegal to automatically turn a free trial into a subscription via credit card. I&#x27;d love to see that law proliferate elsewhere.</text></comment> | <story><title>DoNotPay's new service auto-cancels free trials</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/free-trial-card/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>koolba</author><text>&gt; The Free Trial Card is a virtual credit card you can use to sign up for free trials of any service anonymously, instead of using your real credit card. When the free trial period ends, the card automatically declines to be charged, thus ending your free trial. You don’t have to remember to cancel anything.<p>That’s not how it works. Just because they can’t bill your card does not mean you’re not on the hook. Anybody that’s forgotten about a gym membership on a expired card knows this first hand. Only reason they won’t go after you is that the LTV and PR isn’t worth it. If it is, they will.<p>&gt; As he sees it, companies that require you to put in a credit card in order to sign up for a free trial are engaging in deceptive practices.<p>There’s nothing deceptive about it if the price is disclosed. Far from it. On the sell side it also has the advantage of filtering out people who cannot or would not pay for the service early on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rdtwo</author><text>Yeah the gym people from la fitness hounded me for years after 21 year old me thought I could just let it expire and they would auto cancel</text></comment> |
35,365,191 | 35,365,185 | 1 | 2 | 35,364,338 | train | <story><title>Rural children now grow slightly taller than city children in wealthy countries</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rural-children-now-grow-slightly-taller-than-city-children-in-wealthy-countries/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hammock</author><text>The actual paper <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41586-023-05772-8#Sec2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41586-023-05772-8#Sec2</a><p>It does not appear they controlled for ethnicity, race or any other measure of genetic stock. Doing so is important in my view. For example, the oft-cited average US male height 5&#x27;9 or 5&#x27;10&quot;, but for white American men it&#x27;s more like 5&#x27;11&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Rural children now grow slightly taller than city children in wealthy countries</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rural-children-now-grow-slightly-taller-than-city-children-in-wealthy-countries/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>noughtme</author><text>The article weirdly (or unsurprisingly) does not mention diet, but the underlying study does.<p>Immigrants might also be throwing off the average. They tend to grow taller in North America (not just second generation), again, unsurprisingly because of diet.</text></comment> |
39,650,214 | 39,648,440 | 1 | 3 | 39,643,981 | train | <story><title>Epic says Apple will reinstate developer account</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/08/epic-says-apple-will-reinstate-developer-account-clearing-path-for-epic-games-store-on-iphone/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zmmmmm</author><text>When reason fails to explain people&#x27;s actions, it gives you a measure of the strength of their ideology on something. In this case, you can see how deeply they believe in the concept of complete authoritarian control of their ecosystem. Enough that logic and practical outcomes barely matter in comparison.</text></item><item><author>jfoster</author><text>Difficult to imagine what Apple were thinking in the first place. Did they actually think there was a chance the EU would let this slide? Best I can tell, all they&#x27;ve achieved is bringing even greater scrutiny on themselves.</text></item><item><author>overgard</author><text>Definitely just Apple trying to save face. Without the threat of fines and lengthy legal proceedings Apple would not have cared about &quot;epic&#x27;s commitment to follow the rules&quot;</text></item><item><author>nielsbot</author><text>From the article<p>&gt; “Following conversations with Epic, they have committed to follow the rules, including our DMA policies. As a result, Epic Sweden AB has been permitted to re-sign the developer agreement and accepted into the Apple Developer Program.”</text></item><item><author>astlouis44</author><text>Amazing how fast this decision was reversed. It&#x27;s truly awesome to see regulators standing up to walled gardens. This will greatly benefit both developers and consumers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jfoster</author><text>That would be plausible if they stuck to their guns for as long as possible.<p>In this case, they suspended the account, put themselves further into the spotlight, and then reactivated the account.</text></comment> | <story><title>Epic says Apple will reinstate developer account</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/08/epic-says-apple-will-reinstate-developer-account-clearing-path-for-epic-games-store-on-iphone/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zmmmmm</author><text>When reason fails to explain people&#x27;s actions, it gives you a measure of the strength of their ideology on something. In this case, you can see how deeply they believe in the concept of complete authoritarian control of their ecosystem. Enough that logic and practical outcomes barely matter in comparison.</text></item><item><author>jfoster</author><text>Difficult to imagine what Apple were thinking in the first place. Did they actually think there was a chance the EU would let this slide? Best I can tell, all they&#x27;ve achieved is bringing even greater scrutiny on themselves.</text></item><item><author>overgard</author><text>Definitely just Apple trying to save face. Without the threat of fines and lengthy legal proceedings Apple would not have cared about &quot;epic&#x27;s commitment to follow the rules&quot;</text></item><item><author>nielsbot</author><text>From the article<p>&gt; “Following conversations with Epic, they have committed to follow the rules, including our DMA policies. As a result, Epic Sweden AB has been permitted to re-sign the developer agreement and accepted into the Apple Developer Program.”</text></item><item><author>astlouis44</author><text>Amazing how fast this decision was reversed. It&#x27;s truly awesome to see regulators standing up to walled gardens. This will greatly benefit both developers and consumers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cqqxo4zV46cp</author><text>Or the tech gossip scene, sorry, “tech press”, doesn’t have full visibility over the circumstances.</text></comment> |
13,493,594 | 13,493,848 | 1 | 2 | 13,491,058 | train | <story><title>Two Infants Treated with Universal Immune Cells Have Their Cancer Vanish</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603502/two-infants-treated-with-universal-immune-cells-have-their-cancer-vanish/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jackweirdy</author><text>&gt; Although the cases drew wide media attention in Britain, some researchers said that because the London team also gave the children standard chemotherapy, they failed to show the cell treatment actually cured the kids.<p>Could someone explain what the process for proving it would be in this case? I presume some kind of animal testing?<p>Seems pretty immoral to give someone a wildcard treatment and not back it up with something known to work. Not disparaging this treatment but given we don&#x27;t know if it works yet (and how aggressive cancer can be) it seems totally fair to administer it alongside chemo.</text></comment> | <story><title>Two Infants Treated with Universal Immune Cells Have Their Cancer Vanish</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603502/two-infants-treated-with-universal-immune-cells-have-their-cancer-vanish/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>blisterpeanuts</author><text>Happy babies! As a point of interest, this type of engineered T-cell treatment has its roots in research at the Weizmann Institute in Tel Aviv. They demonstrated the use of CARs modified T-cells in curing leukemic disease in rats and mice several years ago.<p>Their research was expanded to human trials at Univ. of Penn. where 27 of 29 patients with incurable leukemia and most of whom had a prognosis of death within a few months went into remission and showed no sign of the disease.<p>This modality may work with other forms of cancer; engineered T-cells that can enter every capillary in the body could potentially wipe out entire colonies of cancer cells. The potential is enormous, as are the challenges; cancers can be very difficult to differentiate from healthy tissue.<p>[1]<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.timesofisrael.com&#x2F;breakthrough-cancer-cure-has-deep-israeli-roots&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.timesofisrael.com&#x2F;breakthrough-cancer-cure-has-de...</a></text></comment> |
22,156,929 | 22,155,569 | 1 | 2 | 22,150,603 | train | <story><title>Ambitions for a Unix Shell</title><url>https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2020/01/ambitions.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>enriquto</author><text>This is some of the most exciting stuff happening in the unix world these days.<p>My mind was blown after reading two posts on Oil&#x27;s author blog, a few years ago:<p>* Shell has a Forth-like Quality: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oilshell.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2017&#x2F;01&#x2F;13.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oilshell.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2017&#x2F;01&#x2F;13.html</a><p>and<p>* Pipelines Support Vectorized, Point-Free, and Imperative Style: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oilshell.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2017&#x2F;01&#x2F;15.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oilshell.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2017&#x2F;01&#x2F;15.html</a><p>Warning: these writings can change your view on the shell language. Now you probably think, as many of us did, that shell is a cute little hack, useful for one-off throwaway stuff, but not really fit for serious work. Afterwards, you will start to see the shell as a glorious, essential element of our civilization, worth of respect and deserving our careful attention. Pipes are an essential programming tool that must be supported by the core language and not by a library construct (as in python).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>braindeath</author><text>&gt; Afterwards, you will start to see the shell as a glorious, essential element of our civilization, worth of respect and deserving our careful attention.<p>Nah.<p>There should be (probably is) a term for the phenomenon&#x2F;trope where you can take something that was not carefully designed in the first place (like basically all of Unix) and then down the line you can hyper-analyze the hell out of certain bits of it and wax poetic about the few elegant bits that are inevitably there (even BASIC will work, yes) - while conveniently ignoring the whole is still a steaming pile. Lord knows that&#x27;s what happened with &quot;Unix&quot; starting in the 90s, and Javascript in the 2000s.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ambitions for a Unix Shell</title><url>https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2020/01/ambitions.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>enriquto</author><text>This is some of the most exciting stuff happening in the unix world these days.<p>My mind was blown after reading two posts on Oil&#x27;s author blog, a few years ago:<p>* Shell has a Forth-like Quality: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oilshell.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2017&#x2F;01&#x2F;13.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oilshell.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2017&#x2F;01&#x2F;13.html</a><p>and<p>* Pipelines Support Vectorized, Point-Free, and Imperative Style: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oilshell.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2017&#x2F;01&#x2F;15.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oilshell.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2017&#x2F;01&#x2F;15.html</a><p>Warning: these writings can change your view on the shell language. Now you probably think, as many of us did, that shell is a cute little hack, useful for one-off throwaway stuff, but not really fit for serious work. Afterwards, you will start to see the shell as a glorious, essential element of our civilization, worth of respect and deserving our careful attention. Pipes are an essential programming tool that must be supported by the core language and not by a library construct (as in python).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jstimpfle</author><text>I&#x27;ve written many, many shell scripts, back as a sysadmin, and because I wanted it to not be a cute little hack. I know all the tricks described on the blogpost and many more. I have an intimate understanding how the quoting works and how we can work around its limitations.<p>Let me tell you: shell is sort of a local optimum for one-off throwaway stuff, because it makes commonly needed thing accessible with so few keystrokes. But also, shell is a cute little hack. It&#x27;s literally impossible to write robust programs in it.</text></comment> |
18,450,303 | 18,448,556 | 1 | 3 | 18,445,714 | train | <story><title>Waymo CEO Says Alphabet Unit Plans to Launch Driverless Car Service</title><url>https://www.marketwatch.com/story/waymo-ceo-says-driverless-car-service-coming-soon-2018-11-13</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Rainymood</author><text>Every motorcyclist knows this, yet, driving a motorcycle is so awesome.<p>The danger are other cars on the road. I&#x27;ve been thinking about creating computer vision tech to spot inattentive drivers, it&#x27;s something I think motorcyclists could really benefit from (myself included)</text></item><item><author>cheeze</author><text>Fun fact, you&#x27;re ~25 times more likely to die on a motorcycle mile for mile than a car.<p>Stay safe out there.</text></item><item><author>extesy</author><text>I ride a motorcycle every day as my primary way of commuting to work. The only time in 10+ years I&#x27;ve been in a serious accident is when inattentive car driver rear-ended me on a highway. In his own words: &quot;but I didn&#x27;t see you&quot;. In the bright daylight. I was wearing hi-viz jacket.<p>So I am super excited about any substantial progress in self-driving cars deployment.</text></item><item><author>edoo</author><text>I&#x27;m excited. If you have been alive a substantial amount of time you are easily running a lifetime average of about 1-2% chance of dying in a car accident in your lifetime. Things have gotten much safer the past couple decades so that number is somewhere around 0.75% or lower now. I want to say being injured in a car accident is somewhere around 20-30% lifetime chance. Cars are incredibly dangerous and this will save a ton of lives.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kurthr</author><text>I&#x27;ve known 3 cyclists killed or severely injured by road debris. At freeway speeds and density there may be no way to avoid going down. It may still be a larger moving vehicle that finishes the job, but once you&#x27;re on the ground you&#x27;re lucky to walk away.</text></comment> | <story><title>Waymo CEO Says Alphabet Unit Plans to Launch Driverless Car Service</title><url>https://www.marketwatch.com/story/waymo-ceo-says-driverless-car-service-coming-soon-2018-11-13</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Rainymood</author><text>Every motorcyclist knows this, yet, driving a motorcycle is so awesome.<p>The danger are other cars on the road. I&#x27;ve been thinking about creating computer vision tech to spot inattentive drivers, it&#x27;s something I think motorcyclists could really benefit from (myself included)</text></item><item><author>cheeze</author><text>Fun fact, you&#x27;re ~25 times more likely to die on a motorcycle mile for mile than a car.<p>Stay safe out there.</text></item><item><author>extesy</author><text>I ride a motorcycle every day as my primary way of commuting to work. The only time in 10+ years I&#x27;ve been in a serious accident is when inattentive car driver rear-ended me on a highway. In his own words: &quot;but I didn&#x27;t see you&quot;. In the bright daylight. I was wearing hi-viz jacket.<p>So I am super excited about any substantial progress in self-driving cars deployment.</text></item><item><author>edoo</author><text>I&#x27;m excited. If you have been alive a substantial amount of time you are easily running a lifetime average of about 1-2% chance of dying in a car accident in your lifetime. Things have gotten much safer the past couple decades so that number is somewhere around 0.75% or lower now. I want to say being injured in a car accident is somewhere around 20-30% lifetime chance. Cars are incredibly dangerous and this will save a ton of lives.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rusticpenn</author><text>Similar tech has been done with cameras places in cars, but from a motorbike to monitor cars nearby would not be so easy, if the goal is to monitor the drivers face position (light reflection on glass is a major hurdle, i think). Perhaps it is possible to get the information based on car movement.</text></comment> |
33,371,597 | 33,370,576 | 1 | 2 | 33,369,961 | train | <story><title>Museum of Failure</title><url>https://museumoffailure.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dorfsmay</author><text>Visited last weekend. Interesting for sure. Funny to see how many times and for how long we&#x27;ve been trying to do VR!<p>Some of the &quot;failures&quot; were unfair IMO, like minitel and Block Buster: It&#x27;s like saying using wind sails on ships was a failure because it was replaced by steam engines.</text></comment> | <story><title>Museum of Failure</title><url>https://museumoffailure.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>salmo</author><text>I love this idea. So many failures follow the “first is not best”, then many failed business tales.<p>But most of these are the expected and the analysis is shallow. Snark added is unnecessary.<p>Many are fad products or acknowledged R&amp;D experiments that I wouldn’t necessarily call “failures.”<p>I expected more when having to give my email. A categorized page of bullets with Wikipedia links would be more useful. The details and references would be higher quality.<p>Cool idea, just needs more development and research to provide real value.</text></comment> |
41,178,379 | 41,178,335 | 1 | 3 | 41,178,092 | train | <story><title>Gangs in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangs_in_the_Los_Angeles_County_Sheriff%27s_Department</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>OutOfHere</author><text>Police are well known to rob citizens that make the mistake of driving with a lot of cash or valuables or their car. This civil forfeiture is under the guise of blocking drug money, but we know what it really is... simple highway robbery. The US is not a country with very many property rights. It&#x27;s increasingly a stagnated country risking a downward trajectory.</text></comment> | <story><title>Gangs in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangs_in_the_Los_Angeles_County_Sheriff%27s_Department</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>monero-xmr</author><text>For the wealthy here, it&#x27;s very useful to be friends with the local police. In a city it&#x27;s a bit more complex, but in a rural area - say, a place where you have a vacation home - it&#x27;s quite easy. Every police department in the US has the equivalent of a &quot;benevolent association&quot;.<p>Here is the Los Angeles benevolent association <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;larfpa.org&#x2F;benevolent-association&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;larfpa.org&#x2F;benevolent-association&#x2F;</a><p>Donations to these organizations are not usually tax deductible. Giving them a relatively small amount of money, say $10,000 per year, goes a <i>very long way</i> to making you friendly with them and the chief of police &#x2F; sheriff &#x2F; etc.<p>These organizations are basically slush funds. The money is used to throw parties at best, or enrich retired and connected police at worst. The state police have one as well, and they are supra-entities across the state. Donating to these organizations is one way Jeffrey Epstein was able to avoid prison for the sexual assault charges in Palm Beach.<p>If you are a wealthy person that likes to party, do hard drugs, or throw your own events, I highly recommend engendering yourselves with the local and state police via money donations. It goes a long way to solving problems.<p>My father (RIP) was a musician who played at many police events in the city I grew up. Police are people, and generally average intelligence people. They are no better or worse than other people, except they have the benefit of being above the law in all cases except those that rise to the level of a public relations disaster. My father was an alcoholic who should have had multiple DUIs, but always got out of it thanks to his local connections, among other legal issues he should have had. He was not a good person.<p>I am not posting this as an advocacy good or bad, I am posting this as advice for the reality we live</text></comment> |
35,831,895 | 35,832,214 | 1 | 2 | 35,829,733 | train | <story><title>Htmx Is the Future</title><url>https://quii.dev/HTMX_is_the_Future</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RHSeeger</author><text>&gt; We moved away for MPAs because they were bloated, slow and difficult to work with. SPAs have definitely become what they sought to replace.<p>Plus we now get the benefit of people trying to &quot;replace&quot; built in browser functionality with custom code, either<p>The SPA broke it... Back button broken and a buggy custom implementation is there instead? Check.<p>or<p>They&#x27;re changing things because they&#x27;re already so far from default browser behavior, why not? ... Scrolling broken or janky because the developer decided it would be cool to replace it? Check.<p>There is a time and place for SPA (mail is a great example). But using them in places where the page reload would load in completely new content for most of the page anyways? That&#x27;s paying a large cost for no practical benefit; and your users are paying some of that cost.</text></item><item><author>obpe</author><text>It&#x27;s kinda funny to me that many of the &quot;pros&quot; of this approach are the exact reasons so many abandoned MPAs in the first place.<p>For instance, a major selling point of Node was running JS on both the client and server so you can write the code once. It&#x27;s a pretty shitty client experience if you have to do a network request for each and every validation of user input.<p>Also, there was a push to move the shitty code from the server to the client to free up server resources and prevent your servers from ruining the experience for everyone.<p>We moved away for MPAs because they were bloated, slow and difficult to work with. SPAs have definitely become what they sought to replace.<p>But that isn&#x27;t because of the technology, it&#x27;s because all the devs writing shitty MPAs are now writing shitty SPAs. If this becomes popular, they will start writing shitty MPAs again. Nothing about this technology will stop that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yellowapple</author><text>&gt; There is a time and place for SPA (mail is a great example). But using them in places where the page reload would load in completely new content for most of the page anyways? That&#x27;s paying a large cost for no practical benefit; and your users are paying some of that cost.<p>Yep. It&#x27;s bonkers to me that a page consisting mostly of text (say, a Twitter feed or a news article) takes even so much as <i>a</i> second (let alone multiple!) to load on any PC&#x2F;tablet&#x2F;smartphone manufactured within the last decade. That latency is squarely the fault of heavyweight SPA-enabling frameworks and their encouragement of replacing the browser&#x27;s features with custom JS-driven versions.<p>On the other hand, having to navigate a needlessly-elongated history due to every little action producing a page load (and a new entry in my browser&#x27;s history, meaning one more thing to click &quot;Back&quot; to skip over) is no less frustrating. Neither is wanting to reload a page only for the browser to throw up scary warnings about resending information simply because that page happened to result from some POST&#x27;d form submission.<p>Everything I&#x27;ve seen of HTMX makes it seem to be a nice middle-ground between full-MPA v. full-SPA: each &quot;screen&quot; is its own page (like an MPA), but said page is rich enough to avoid full-blown reloads (with all the history-mangling that entails) for every little action within that page (like an SPA). That it&#x27;s able to gracefully downgrade back to an ordinary MPA should the backend support it and the client require it is icing on the cake.<p>I&#x27;m pretty averse to frontend development, especially when it involves anything beyond HTML and CSS, but HTMX makes it <i>very</i> tempting to shift that stance from absolute to conditional.</text></comment> | <story><title>Htmx Is the Future</title><url>https://quii.dev/HTMX_is_the_Future</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RHSeeger</author><text>&gt; We moved away for MPAs because they were bloated, slow and difficult to work with. SPAs have definitely become what they sought to replace.<p>Plus we now get the benefit of people trying to &quot;replace&quot; built in browser functionality with custom code, either<p>The SPA broke it... Back button broken and a buggy custom implementation is there instead? Check.<p>or<p>They&#x27;re changing things because they&#x27;re already so far from default browser behavior, why not? ... Scrolling broken or janky because the developer decided it would be cool to replace it? Check.<p>There is a time and place for SPA (mail is a great example). But using them in places where the page reload would load in completely new content for most of the page anyways? That&#x27;s paying a large cost for no practical benefit; and your users are paying some of that cost.</text></item><item><author>obpe</author><text>It&#x27;s kinda funny to me that many of the &quot;pros&quot; of this approach are the exact reasons so many abandoned MPAs in the first place.<p>For instance, a major selling point of Node was running JS on both the client and server so you can write the code once. It&#x27;s a pretty shitty client experience if you have to do a network request for each and every validation of user input.<p>Also, there was a push to move the shitty code from the server to the client to free up server resources and prevent your servers from ruining the experience for everyone.<p>We moved away for MPAs because they were bloated, slow and difficult to work with. SPAs have definitely become what they sought to replace.<p>But that isn&#x27;t because of the technology, it&#x27;s because all the devs writing shitty MPAs are now writing shitty SPAs. If this becomes popular, they will start writing shitty MPAs again. Nothing about this technology will stop that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>com2kid</author><text>&gt; The SPA broke it... Back button broken and a buggy custom implementation is there instead? Check.<p>MPAs break back buttons all the damn time, I&#x27;d say more often than SPAs do.<p>Remember the bad old days when websites would have giant text &quot;DO NOT USE YOUR BROWSER BACK BUTTON&quot;? That is because the server had lots of session state on it, and hitting the browser back button would make the browser and server be out of sync.<p>Or the old online purchase flows where going back to change the order details would completely break the world and you&#x27;d have to re-enter all your shipping info. SPAs solve that problem <i>very</i> well.<p>Let&#x27;s think about it a different way.<p>If you are making a phone app, would you EVER design it so that the app downloads UI screens on demand as the user explores the app? That&#x27;d be insane.</text></comment> |
12,106,100 | 12,106,054 | 1 | 3 | 12,105,913 | train | <story><title>J-core Open Processor</title><url>http://j-core.org/?HN_20160716</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>raverbashing</author><text>Interesting that&#x27;s still and nommu system. Maybe as soon as the patents expire we can get the mmu system.<p>&quot;Numato provides a GPL-licensed python3 tool to flash bitstreams onto their board. [TODO: port to python 2]&quot;<p>No, please. Don&#x27;t even bother</text></comment> | <story><title>J-core Open Processor</title><url>http://j-core.org/?HN_20160716</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>npx</author><text>Tremendous work as always from Rich Felker, Rob Landley, &amp; co.</text></comment> |
25,146,658 | 25,146,707 | 1 | 3 | 25,142,068 | train | <story><title>Jimmy Wales on Systems and Incentives</title><url>https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler/jimmy-wales-tyler-cowen-wikipedia-610b6e931d20</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>savanaly</author><text>I was interested by the following part:<p>&gt;COWEN: Now, as you know, Wikipedia is open. It’s free. It doesn’t have ads. It’s a dream of the early tech utopians. Why is it the only surviving dream of that kind that has persisted?<p>&gt;WALES: Well, it’s an interesting thing, and I’m not sure it’s the only, but it’s certainly the most famous and the largest.<p>Can HN think of any other examples? Funny enough I immediately thought of HN itself, although it does have some ads and I&#x27;m not sure it qualifies as big enough for what Cowen had in mind.</text></comment> | <story><title>Jimmy Wales on Systems and Incentives</title><url>https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler/jimmy-wales-tyler-cowen-wikipedia-610b6e931d20</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>contingencies</author><text>If Jimmy is such an expert on incentives, why are all the long term editors leaving?</text></comment> |
14,723,904 | 14,720,023 | 1 | 2 | 14,717,684 | train | <story><title>All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (2011)</title><url>http://thoughtmaybe.com/all-watched-over-by-machines-of-loving-grace/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikepurvis</author><text>I had a friend who posited that the Wall-E&#x2F;Inception scenario would have been a far more interesting prequel backstory for The Matrix than what was actually presented in Reloaded and Revolutions.<p>Basically, that the remaining &quot;real world&quot; humans were deluding themselves with this grand narrative of a lost war against the machines, when in fact it was humanity&#x27;s own environmental screwups that blotted out the sky, and most people willingly submitted themselves to a simulated fantasy world that was set right before the collapse of civilization. And if there were multiple &quot;one&quot; persons or matrices or whatever, it was only to keep resetting the simulation and re-playing that golden period. Basically, you would turn the first movie on its head, where Morpheus becomes the character who has to question his world and assumptions, and break free from a tyranny of lies.</text></item><item><author>titzer</author><text>We are not only being colonized by machines, we are becoming machines, and gladly. We are already acting like and being treated like idiots by our technology. In the car it is turn by turn navigation, on foot it is stumbling with our phones in our faces, for music it is auto-tuned, formulaic pop songs, for dance it is the robotic pop-and-lock dubstep moves that amaze us...we defend our heads with noise-canceling headphones the size of earmuffs, are interrupted every moment by smartwatches...we bumble from one mediated moment to the next, always alone, always accompanied by no one--just the glow of a screen or a hum, a talisman. We&#x27;re not sane without checking our notifications, need entertainment...can&#x27;t stand not watching something, can&#x27;t stand dead space, can&#x27;t stand our own thoughts, can&#x27;t stand our own minds.<p>Please take my mind over, AI, we constantly beg. Put us out of our misery and upload us to the digital nirvana.<p>&#x2F;yea I know hackernews ain&#x27;t exactly the right place to blah that out there, but couldn&#x27;t. stop. --karma</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>clouddrover</author><text>&gt; <i>where Morpheus becomes the character who has to question his world and assumptions, and break free from a tyranny of lies.</i><p>Narrative differences aside, this is what happens to Morpheus in the Matrix movies though. In <i>The Matrix Reloaded</i> Morpheus comes to realize that finding Neo doesn&#x27;t end the war with the machines and that the prophecy he believed in was just another system of control. Morpheus says, &quot;I have dreamed a dream, but now that dream is gone from me.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (2011)</title><url>http://thoughtmaybe.com/all-watched-over-by-machines-of-loving-grace/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikepurvis</author><text>I had a friend who posited that the Wall-E&#x2F;Inception scenario would have been a far more interesting prequel backstory for The Matrix than what was actually presented in Reloaded and Revolutions.<p>Basically, that the remaining &quot;real world&quot; humans were deluding themselves with this grand narrative of a lost war against the machines, when in fact it was humanity&#x27;s own environmental screwups that blotted out the sky, and most people willingly submitted themselves to a simulated fantasy world that was set right before the collapse of civilization. And if there were multiple &quot;one&quot; persons or matrices or whatever, it was only to keep resetting the simulation and re-playing that golden period. Basically, you would turn the first movie on its head, where Morpheus becomes the character who has to question his world and assumptions, and break free from a tyranny of lies.</text></item><item><author>titzer</author><text>We are not only being colonized by machines, we are becoming machines, and gladly. We are already acting like and being treated like idiots by our technology. In the car it is turn by turn navigation, on foot it is stumbling with our phones in our faces, for music it is auto-tuned, formulaic pop songs, for dance it is the robotic pop-and-lock dubstep moves that amaze us...we defend our heads with noise-canceling headphones the size of earmuffs, are interrupted every moment by smartwatches...we bumble from one mediated moment to the next, always alone, always accompanied by no one--just the glow of a screen or a hum, a talisman. We&#x27;re not sane without checking our notifications, need entertainment...can&#x27;t stand not watching something, can&#x27;t stand dead space, can&#x27;t stand our own thoughts, can&#x27;t stand our own minds.<p>Please take my mind over, AI, we constantly beg. Put us out of our misery and upload us to the digital nirvana.<p>&#x2F;yea I know hackernews ain&#x27;t exactly the right place to blah that out there, but couldn&#x27;t. stop. --karma</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>titzer</author><text>That&#x27;s a really cool thought. It&#x27;s great that the Matrix is set far in the future, after the rise of the machines. There are a lot of possible tie-ins&#x2F;mashups, e.g. with Terminator.</text></comment> |
19,869,701 | 19,869,207 | 1 | 2 | 19,868,616 | train | <story><title>VW opens preorders for the ID.3, its first long-range electric car</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/8/18536668/vw-volkswagen-id-3-preorders-oelectric-car-long-range-ev</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bdamm</author><text>After the terrible treatment I received as a Volkswagen TDI customer, I will never buy another VW. Period. They fraudulently sold me a car, then managed to finangle their way out of any financial restitution by putting up not only extensive hurdles for customers who wanted to opt for restitution instead of return, they then penalized customers who experienced delays due to their internal system faults by simply rejecting applications for restitution that were even a little bit out of spec.<p>Never. Again.</text></comment> | <story><title>VW opens preorders for the ID.3, its first long-range electric car</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/8/18536668/vw-volkswagen-id-3-preorders-oelectric-car-long-range-ev</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mft_</author><text>Interesting (and great that the bigger manufacturers are starting to come through with their electric offerings) but the price:range ratio doesn&#x27;t seem great compared to the Tesla model 3?<p>It&#x27;s hard to be objective with all of the strongly pro- and anti-Tesla nonsense flying around, but I&#x27;ve had a sneaking suspicion for a while that once the market matures a little (with eg Audi, VW, Porsche all offering their first-gen EVs) Tesla&#x27;s offerings will be seen as more revolutionary (or at least, taken less for granted) than they currently are...</text></comment> |
38,571,981 | 38,571,616 | 1 | 2 | 38,569,240 | train | <story><title>JC converts the output of popular command-line tools to JSON</title><url>https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Mister_Snuggles</author><text>In FreeBSD, this problem was solved with libxo[0]:<p><pre><code> $ ps --libxo=json | jq
{
&quot;process-information&quot;: {
&quot;process&quot;: [
{
&quot;pid&quot;: &quot;41389&quot;,
&quot;terminal-name&quot;: &quot;0 &quot;,
&quot;state&quot;: &quot;Is&quot;,
&quot;cpu-time&quot;: &quot;0:00.01&quot;,
&quot;command&quot;: &quot;-bash (bash)&quot;
},
[...]
</code></pre>
It&#x27;s not perfect though. ls had support, but it was removed for reasons[1]. It&#x27;s not supported by all of the utilities, etc.<p>This seems to be a great stop-gap with parsers for a LOT of different commands, but it relies on parsing text output that&#x27;s not necessarily designed to be parsed. It would be nice if utilities coalesced around a common flag to emit structured output.<p>In PowerShell, structured output is the default and it seems to work very well. This is probably too far for Unix&#x2F;Linux, but a standard &quot;--json&quot; flag would go a long way to getting the same benefits.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.freebsd.org&#x2F;LibXo" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.freebsd.org&#x2F;LibXo</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reviews.freebsd.org&#x2F;D13959" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reviews.freebsd.org&#x2F;D13959</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ekidd</author><text>&gt; <i>In PowerShell, structured output is the default and it seems to work very well.</i><p>PowerShell goes a step beyond JSON, by supporting actual mutable <i>objects</i>. So instead of just passing through structured data, you effectively pass around opaque objects that allow you to go back to earlier pipeline stages, and invoke methods, if I understand correctly: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learn.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;powershell&#x2F;module&#x2F;microsoft.powershell.core&#x2F;about&#x2F;about_methods?view=powershell-7.4" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learn.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;powershell&#x2F;module&#x2F;microsof...</a>.<p>I&#x27;m rather fond of wrappers like jc and libxo, and experimental shells like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nushell.sh&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nushell.sh&#x2F;</a>. These still focus on passing <i>data</i>, not objects with executable methods. On some level, I find this comfortable: Structured data still feels pretty Unix-like, if that makes sense? If I want actual objects, then it&#x27;s probably time to fire up Python or Ruby.<p>Knowing when to switch from a shell script to a full-fledged programming language is important, even if your shell is basically awesome and has good programming features.</text></comment> | <story><title>JC converts the output of popular command-line tools to JSON</title><url>https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Mister_Snuggles</author><text>In FreeBSD, this problem was solved with libxo[0]:<p><pre><code> $ ps --libxo=json | jq
{
&quot;process-information&quot;: {
&quot;process&quot;: [
{
&quot;pid&quot;: &quot;41389&quot;,
&quot;terminal-name&quot;: &quot;0 &quot;,
&quot;state&quot;: &quot;Is&quot;,
&quot;cpu-time&quot;: &quot;0:00.01&quot;,
&quot;command&quot;: &quot;-bash (bash)&quot;
},
[...]
</code></pre>
It&#x27;s not perfect though. ls had support, but it was removed for reasons[1]. It&#x27;s not supported by all of the utilities, etc.<p>This seems to be a great stop-gap with parsers for a LOT of different commands, but it relies on parsing text output that&#x27;s not necessarily designed to be parsed. It would be nice if utilities coalesced around a common flag to emit structured output.<p>In PowerShell, structured output is the default and it seems to work very well. This is probably too far for Unix&#x2F;Linux, but a standard &quot;--json&quot; flag would go a long way to getting the same benefits.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.freebsd.org&#x2F;LibXo" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.freebsd.org&#x2F;LibXo</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reviews.freebsd.org&#x2F;D13959" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reviews.freebsd.org&#x2F;D13959</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>evnp</author><text><i>&gt; In PowerShell, structured output is the default and it seems to work very well. This is probably too far for Unix&#x2F;Linux, but a standard &quot;--json&quot; flag would go a long way to getting the same benefits.</i><p>OP has a blog post[0] which describes exactly this. `jc` is described as a tool to fill this role &quot;in the meantime&quot; -- my reading is that it&#x27;s intended to serve as a stepping stone towards widespread `-j`&#x2F;`--json` support across unix tools.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.kellybrazil.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;11&#x2F;26&#x2F;bringing-the-unix-philosophy-to-the-21st-century&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.kellybrazil.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;11&#x2F;26&#x2F;bringing-the-unix-ph...</a></text></comment> |
4,697,500 | 4,697,163 | 1 | 3 | 4,696,899 | train | <story><title>SSH key and passwordless login basics for developers</title><url>http://opensourcehacker.com/2012/10/24/ssh-key-and-passwordless-login-basics-for-developers/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>apawloski</author><text>This was mentioned before, but if this post gains traction it's worth talking about again:<p>It is almost totally unnecessary to maintain multiple key pairs for multiple purposes if they're going to be stored on the same machine (eg separate key for github). If one of these services is compromised, an adversary will only get your <i>public</i> key, which is useless. This is very different than the security practices of symmetric passwords.</text></comment> | <story><title>SSH key and passwordless login basics for developers</title><url>http://opensourcehacker.com/2012/10/24/ssh-key-and-passwordless-login-basics-for-developers/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thaumaturgy</author><text>Unless I missed something while skimming this, they're suggesting that you set your password to "something random" and then go on to use ssh keys. This means that a brute force attack is still feasible (if super incredibly unimaginably unlikely). Better still is to use, 'passwd -d -l [user]', which will delete the password (it creates a nonsense hash value, "" I think) and then lock it.<p>While you're messing about with config files, make sure that "PermitRootLogin" in /etc/ssh/sshd_config is set to "no" (this is now default in most distributions I think), and also add an "AllowUsers [user] [other user] [...]" line thereabouts, which will help to protect you from misbehaving packages or someone attempting to add remote users to your system without your permission.<p>It should go without saying that if you do all this, and you somehow lose your private key, and you don't have a good backup as the article suggests (for whatever reason), and you don't have some kind of local console access, then you're pooched. Private key management is easy to screw up, so don't scoff. Make sure you have some other way of accessing your machine if you can't get to your private key.</text></comment> |
3,692,908 | 3,692,851 | 1 | 2 | 3,692,653 | train | <story><title>CNN to buy Mashable for $200 million +</title><url>http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/03/12/cnn-to-buy-social-media-blog-mashable-for-200-million-a-little-bird-tells-reuters-reporter/?awesm=tnw.to_1Dcix&utm_campaign=social%20media&utm_medium=Spreadus&utm_source=Twitter&utm_content=CNN%20to%20buy%20social%20media%20blog%20Mashable%20for%20$200%20million%20,%20a%20little%20bird%20tells%20Reuters%20reporter</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>geuis</author><text>I really love things like this. Its old media trying to get in the game on "new" media. It only benefits their eventual demise. There's several things happening here:<p>1) The founders of Mashable, and their stockholders, are earning out on what they've built. That's a good thing, and well deserved.<p>2) Its really Turner Broadcasting that's doing the buying here. Its an old media company again demonstrating that they are unable, or unwilling, to modernize. They are throwing money at a problem rather than innovating.<p>3) Such a large amount of money flowing from old media into the technology sector works to hasten the demise of companies like CNN/Turner Broadcasting. It drains their coffers a bit more, while providing new cash flow to the founders and employees in Mashable and frees them up to pursue new innovative ventures over the next few years.<p>pg really saw something important when he added RFS 9 - Kill Hollywood to the Request for Startups at Ycombinator. While CNN is a "news" company and not directly part of Hollywood, they are most certainly tied at the hip to the same people that run Hollywood. So in that aspect, this is a very good thing.</text></comment> | <story><title>CNN to buy Mashable for $200 million +</title><url>http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/03/12/cnn-to-buy-social-media-blog-mashable-for-200-million-a-little-bird-tells-reuters-reporter/?awesm=tnw.to_1Dcix&utm_campaign=social%20media&utm_medium=Spreadus&utm_source=Twitter&utm_content=CNN%20to%20buy%20social%20media%20blog%20Mashable%20for%20$200%20million%20,%20a%20little%20bird%20tells%20Reuters%20reporter</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jgroome</author><text>Forgive me if I sound ignorant, but... How in the name of everlasting gods can Mashable of all things be worth $200,000,000?</text></comment> |
13,847,306 | 13,847,175 | 1 | 2 | 13,846,835 | train | <story><title>Up to 48M Twitter accounts may be bots</title><url>http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/as-many-as-48-million-twitter-accounts-arent-people-says-study/ar-AAo9e16?li=AA4Zoy&ocid=spartandhp</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Zenst</author><text>Came across one the other day, just by mentioning in a post &quot;blue plaque&quot;, got instant like and retweet.<p>This started me thinking of a little game - what post with the limitations of 140 characters could you post that would trigger the attention of the most bots for automatic retweets&#x2F;likes?<p>It&#x27;s on my to do list, when bored, but I&#x27;d imagine others have had comparable thoughts and may of already had a go.<p>Anybody got any other examples?</text></comment> | <story><title>Up to 48M Twitter accounts may be bots</title><url>http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/as-many-as-48-million-twitter-accounts-arent-people-says-study/ar-AAo9e16?li=AA4Zoy&ocid=spartandhp</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>have_faith</author><text>Better title: &quot;Up to 48 Twitter accounts may be human&quot;<p>Snark aside, there is no way around this. Followers in digital public spaces are representative of social status, the demand for appearing popular will never go away and so neither will the bots.</text></comment> |
39,210,109 | 39,209,996 | 1 | 2 | 39,206,731 | train | <story><title>Testing how hard it is to cheat with ChatGPT in interviews</title><url>https://interviewing.io/blog/how-hard-is-it-to-cheat-with-chatgpt-in-technical-interviews</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elicksaur</author><text>&gt; Interviews should be consistent with what day to day work actually looks like, which today means constantly using LLMs in some form or another.<p>Consider that this may not be typical.</text></item><item><author>babyshake</author><text>IMO asking people to not use available tools in interviews is a bad idea, unless you are trying to do a very basic check that someone knows the fundamentals.<p>Allow them to use the tools, with a screenshare, and adjust the types of tasks you are giving them so that they won&#x27;t be able to just feed the question to the LLM to give them the completed answer.<p>Interviews should be consistent with what day to day work actually looks like, which today means constantly using LLMs in some form or another.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CaptainFever</author><text>&gt; 70% of all respondents are using or are planning to use AI tools in their development process this year. Those learning to code are more likely than professional developers to be using or use AI tools (82% vs. 70%).<p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;survey.stackoverflow.co&#x2F;2023&#x2F;#ai-sentiment-and-usage" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;survey.stackoverflow.co&#x2F;2023&#x2F;#ai-sentiment-and-usage</a><p>To be fair, the number of &quot;Yes&quot; was &quot;just&quot; 43% but that&#x27;s still a very large amount of developers, not including those who plan to use it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Testing how hard it is to cheat with ChatGPT in interviews</title><url>https://interviewing.io/blog/how-hard-is-it-to-cheat-with-chatgpt-in-technical-interviews</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elicksaur</author><text>&gt; Interviews should be consistent with what day to day work actually looks like, which today means constantly using LLMs in some form or another.<p>Consider that this may not be typical.</text></item><item><author>babyshake</author><text>IMO asking people to not use available tools in interviews is a bad idea, unless you are trying to do a very basic check that someone knows the fundamentals.<p>Allow them to use the tools, with a screenshare, and adjust the types of tasks you are giving them so that they won&#x27;t be able to just feed the question to the LLM to give them the completed answer.<p>Interviews should be consistent with what day to day work actually looks like, which today means constantly using LLMs in some form or another.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ilc</author><text>Consider... it might be. Seriously, I work for a company very protective of its IP.<p>And I can still use ChatGPT and similar tools for some of what I do. It is a huge force multiplier.</text></comment> |
34,290,965 | 34,290,911 | 1 | 3 | 34,289,092 | train | <story><title>Universal flu vaccine against all known subtypes takes promising first steps</title><url>https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm0271</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sdo72</author><text>I get flu vaccines yearly, and every time I still get sick. My kids got the vaccine this year, and all of them got sick because of the flu, 3 times. I really don&#x27;t know if the flu vaccine does anything, but it definitely gives me lots of doubts.<p>Then we had a family member who got very sick a month or two ago because of the flu, he was sent to ER, ICU, and eventually didn&#x27;t make it. That sent a shock wave to our family. He planned to get the flu vaccine a bit later but got sick right before.<p>Please get vaccinated, if it doesn&#x27;t work well, it may give us the second chance to survive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grey413</author><text>Something that following the progress of COVID vaccines really taught me is that vaccines have an important role in reducing the <i>severity</i> of a disease in addition to stopping them outright. I&#x27;d much rather get a mild flu than a moderate flu, let alone a severe one.<p>This seems to be particularly true for fast-acting viral respiratory diseases. Our immune systems seem to have soft biological limits on how well they can prevent them.</text></comment> | <story><title>Universal flu vaccine against all known subtypes takes promising first steps</title><url>https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm0271</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sdo72</author><text>I get flu vaccines yearly, and every time I still get sick. My kids got the vaccine this year, and all of them got sick because of the flu, 3 times. I really don&#x27;t know if the flu vaccine does anything, but it definitely gives me lots of doubts.<p>Then we had a family member who got very sick a month or two ago because of the flu, he was sent to ER, ICU, and eventually didn&#x27;t make it. That sent a shock wave to our family. He planned to get the flu vaccine a bit later but got sick right before.<p>Please get vaccinated, if it doesn&#x27;t work well, it may give us the second chance to survive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scotty79</author><text>I think reduction of chance of getting infected that you can get from flu vaccine is very modest and in any single case can be easily drowned in the noise caused by all other factors. But it&#x27;s visible in epidemiological data.</text></comment> |
13,699,733 | 13,699,771 | 1 | 3 | 13,696,004 | train | <story><title>Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters</title><url>http://www.yegor256.com/2017/02/21/say-no-to-google-recruiters.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lwhalen</author><text>I take it one step further: the email address on my resume is a black hole. Its only purpose is to feed an autoresponder who kicks back a warm, generic, email thanking the recruiter for their time, acknowledging they have a difficult job, and lays out my requirements for any position: what I am and am not interested in doing, my salary&#x2F;hourly&#x2F;per-project requirements, my location requirements (100% remote), etc. At the bottom, there&#x27;s <i>another</i> email alias along the lines of &#x27;[email protected]&#x27; that goes straight to me. I ask the recruiters to not email that address unless they&#x27;ve read the whole thing, and their position matches my requirements. I get 200+ emails to the catch-all autoresponder a month, and maybe 1 (qualified!) reply to the &#x27;its really me&#x27; alias every six months. About once a month, I get an email to the &#x27;its really me&#x27; alias from a recruiter expressing joy, amusement, and thanks for spelling out what I&#x27;m looking for so early in the process. All in all, it&#x27;s a far more pleasant way to go about passively searching for The Next Big Role(tm).</text></item><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>Unlike most of HN (it seems), I like hearing from recruiters, because despite the very low signal-to-noise ratio, there&#x27;s always that remote chance that one of them could be able to set me up with a &quot;dream job&quot;. It&#x27;s zero cost to me to politely reply to a recruiter and ask for more info, and I try to at least respond to everyone. What I&#x27;ve found is that they must have a lot of candidates they&#x27;re juggling because falling out of the funnel is surprisingly easy!<p>It&#x27;s amazing how often &quot;Hey, thanks for reaching out, I&#x27;m interested. Can you tell me more about the role?&quot; results in the conversation ending right away. Probably over 50% recruiters that contact me do not reply back after that very polite and neutral response.<p>Many who do keep the conversation going have not read my profile or resume carefully, so I&#x27;ll give them a summary of the types of work I&#x27;m actually interested in, which is never what they contact me for, and politely decline to move forward with the (usually way too junior) role they are looking to fill. That will almost always end the engagement.<p>Sure, it&#x27;s a lot of noise, but filtering is very cheap: the time it takes to reply back. My actual success rate with recruiters probably pretty average. Of the eight or so jobs I&#x27;ve had in my ~20 year career, about three were obtained through recruiters, two times through in-house staff, once through an external recruiter.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ryandrake</author><text>Have you ever actually got a job that you accepted through this method? Also, what wizardry did you use to get 200+ recruiter E-mails a month? Do you just have a highly optimized resume out there on all the job sites or something?</text></comment> | <story><title>Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters</title><url>http://www.yegor256.com/2017/02/21/say-no-to-google-recruiters.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lwhalen</author><text>I take it one step further: the email address on my resume is a black hole. Its only purpose is to feed an autoresponder who kicks back a warm, generic, email thanking the recruiter for their time, acknowledging they have a difficult job, and lays out my requirements for any position: what I am and am not interested in doing, my salary&#x2F;hourly&#x2F;per-project requirements, my location requirements (100% remote), etc. At the bottom, there&#x27;s <i>another</i> email alias along the lines of &#x27;[email protected]&#x27; that goes straight to me. I ask the recruiters to not email that address unless they&#x27;ve read the whole thing, and their position matches my requirements. I get 200+ emails to the catch-all autoresponder a month, and maybe 1 (qualified!) reply to the &#x27;its really me&#x27; alias every six months. About once a month, I get an email to the &#x27;its really me&#x27; alias from a recruiter expressing joy, amusement, and thanks for spelling out what I&#x27;m looking for so early in the process. All in all, it&#x27;s a far more pleasant way to go about passively searching for The Next Big Role(tm).</text></item><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>Unlike most of HN (it seems), I like hearing from recruiters, because despite the very low signal-to-noise ratio, there&#x27;s always that remote chance that one of them could be able to set me up with a &quot;dream job&quot;. It&#x27;s zero cost to me to politely reply to a recruiter and ask for more info, and I try to at least respond to everyone. What I&#x27;ve found is that they must have a lot of candidates they&#x27;re juggling because falling out of the funnel is surprisingly easy!<p>It&#x27;s amazing how often &quot;Hey, thanks for reaching out, I&#x27;m interested. Can you tell me more about the role?&quot; results in the conversation ending right away. Probably over 50% recruiters that contact me do not reply back after that very polite and neutral response.<p>Many who do keep the conversation going have not read my profile or resume carefully, so I&#x27;ll give them a summary of the types of work I&#x27;m actually interested in, which is never what they contact me for, and politely decline to move forward with the (usually way too junior) role they are looking to fill. That will almost always end the engagement.<p>Sure, it&#x27;s a lot of noise, but filtering is very cheap: the time it takes to reply back. My actual success rate with recruiters probably pretty average. Of the eight or so jobs I&#x27;ve had in my ~20 year career, about three were obtained through recruiters, two times through in-house staff, once through an external recruiter.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chadgeidel</author><text>I&#x27;d pay at least a few dollars per month &#x2F; tens of dollars per year for this service.<p>I&#x27;m not kidding. Dear HN reader, please steal this idea!</text></comment> |
39,829,387 | 39,829,052 | 1 | 2 | 39,828,091 | train | <story><title>Visa, Mastercard Agree to Lower Swipe Fees, Settling Long-Running Lawsuit</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/finance/banking/visa-mastercard-agree-to-lower-swipe-fees-settling-long-running-lawsuit-d6e5f0a8</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>losvedir</author><text>As someone who recently went down a rabbit hole into trying to optimize credit card rewards (and opting for cashback in the end), I&#x27;m still kind of perplexed how it all works. Like, who&#x27;s paying for the flights? Consumers, merchants, airlines, banks?<p>Is there a good primer on how all the pieces work and what the various incentives are and such? I found patio11&#x27;s post[0] and this Fed investigation[1], and both were interesting but left me wanting more.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bitsaboutmoney.com&#x2F;archive&#x2F;how-credit-cards-make-money&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bitsaboutmoney.com&#x2F;archive&#x2F;how-credit-cards-make...</a>
[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.federalreserve.gov&#x2F;econres&#x2F;notes&#x2F;feds-notes&#x2F;credit-card-profitability-20220909.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.federalreserve.gov&#x2F;econres&#x2F;notes&#x2F;feds-notes&#x2F;cred...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Visa, Mastercard Agree to Lower Swipe Fees, Settling Long-Running Lawsuit</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/finance/banking/visa-mastercard-agree-to-lower-swipe-fees-settling-long-running-lawsuit-d6e5f0a8</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cornholio</author><text>The likes of Swipe, Venmo, Revolut, Wise etc. should get together and establish a new online payment standard they control, completely outside the reach of the credit card companies. The fees could be near zero and they would still cover the actual costs of running the infrastructure.<p>It&#x27;s incredible this day and age I have a more intuitive, user friendly and secure payment workflow for crypto - just scan a QR code - while for fiat payments I have to jump through hoops, manually copy static numbers and worry that someone else might steal and abuse the static password that secures access to my own money.</text></comment> |
15,820,105 | 15,819,047 | 1 | 3 | 15,817,510 | train | <story><title>The Blockchain Is Bigger Than Any Bubble</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-11-30/the-blockchain-is-bigger-than-any-bubble</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rdslw</author><text>the problem many praising blockchain minus bitcoin people forget, is that blockchain strength (distributed reconciliation) is possible only because of incentive (sth you get in exchange for doing all the etahashes per second).<p>The moment you take incentive (bitcoin) out of the equation, whole blockchain will lose its strenght.<p>You can not take out greed^H^H^Hincentive out of the picture.<p>p.s. this is black and white written in bitcoin whitepaper.</text></item><item><author>olalonde</author><text>&gt; Bitcoin is a poor currency and a crazy investment -- but the technology behind it is a real breakthrough.<p>I feel like that should be the other way around. When all the &quot;blockchain startups&quot; and ICOs blow up, Bitcoin will be left standing. The true innovation behind the &quot;blockchain&quot; was its decentralised consensus mechanism. That mechanism is only secure as long as no single entity controls over 50% of the hash rate. Some of the largest Bitcoin miners have so much hash rate today that they could attack any (SHA-256 based) blockchain but the Bitcoin one.<p>&quot;The Internet is a poor network and a crazy investment -- but TCP&#x2F;IP is a real breakthrough.&quot;... Sure!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>basseq</author><text>The need for incentives is true, but the community has—erroneously, in my opinion—conflated &#x27;incentive&#x27; with &#x27;currency&#x27;.<p>Follow this:<p>- The core technology here is a crypto-backed distributed ledger. We call this the &#x27;blockchain&#x27;.<p>- You need a unit of trust to enable the blockchain to work. We call this unit of trust a &#x27;bitcoin&#x27;, or to be more precise, the smallest divisible unit thereof. (1 Satoshi = 0.00000001 BTC)<p>- These units of trust have value, which also gives you incentive to create (&#x27;mine&#x27;) them.<p>If we stop here, that&#x27;s all well and good. The problem with &#x27;bitcoin&#x27; and the currency argument is that we&#x27;re <i>basically</i> going back to the barter system. Instead of gold or foodstuffs, we&#x27;re trading one good (a unit of trust) for another (whatever you&#x27;re buying with BTC). Then, on top of that (and as a result), we&#x27;ve created a speculative commodities market in BTC. There&#x27;s no true scarcity here.<p>This is why the arguments get so confusing. I could transfer <i>any</i> currency on the blockchain and get the so-called benefits of bitcoin: immutable transactions, low transaction costs, etc.<p>-----<p>Then you also get gems like this, from the article:<p><pre><code> A more radical idea is to use digital currency, issued
and supervised by the central bank, at the retail level
to replace physical cash.
</code></pre>
What percentage of retail transactions <i>today</i> are in physical cash? What percentage of USD holdings (bank deposits, etc.) can be backed up with physical notes and coins? (Hint: not 100%). USD is already a digital currency.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Blockchain Is Bigger Than Any Bubble</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-11-30/the-blockchain-is-bigger-than-any-bubble</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rdslw</author><text>the problem many praising blockchain minus bitcoin people forget, is that blockchain strength (distributed reconciliation) is possible only because of incentive (sth you get in exchange for doing all the etahashes per second).<p>The moment you take incentive (bitcoin) out of the equation, whole blockchain will lose its strenght.<p>You can not take out greed^H^H^Hincentive out of the picture.<p>p.s. this is black and white written in bitcoin whitepaper.</text></item><item><author>olalonde</author><text>&gt; Bitcoin is a poor currency and a crazy investment -- but the technology behind it is a real breakthrough.<p>I feel like that should be the other way around. When all the &quot;blockchain startups&quot; and ICOs blow up, Bitcoin will be left standing. The true innovation behind the &quot;blockchain&quot; was its decentralised consensus mechanism. That mechanism is only secure as long as no single entity controls over 50% of the hash rate. Some of the largest Bitcoin miners have so much hash rate today that they could attack any (SHA-256 based) blockchain but the Bitcoin one.<p>&quot;The Internet is a poor network and a crazy investment -- but TCP&#x2F;IP is a real breakthrough.&quot;... Sure!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ambicapter</author><text>My roommate gave me a book to read about blockchain yesterday, and that was my thought exactly. A lot of &#x27;advocates&#x27; like to tout the decentralized consensus as useful for all kinds of application, but imo they constantly overlook the -financial- incentive that supports the bitcoin network (you could attack the network with a bunch of hashpower...but it would be more profitable for you to mine).</text></comment> |
13,600,742 | 13,599,670 | 1 | 3 | 13,597,949 | train | <story><title>The most mentioned books on Stack Overflow</title><url>http://www.dev-books.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>curuinor</author><text>I heard a story from an AI professor a few years ago, who had an interesting heuristic for picking grad student applications to trash: if it mentions GEB, off it goes into the circular file.<p>Fun book. Hofstadter actually doesn&#x27;t like computers, apparently: this is in the record, and I&#x27;ve heard him mention that fact multiple times. He just likes playing with ideas.</text></item><item><author>JelteF</author><text>Although not directly development related. The most impressive book I&#x27;ve had the pleasure of reading is &quot;Gödel Escher Bach: An eternal golden braid&quot; (also known as GEB) from Douglas Hofstadter.<p>It&#x27;s hard to explain what it is about exactly, but it contains ideas and concepts from mathematics, computer science, philosophy and conscience. All of it is explained in very clear and interesting way. I can recommend it to anyone interested in these topics.<p>The book won a Pulitzer and to take a quote from the Scientific American about it: &quot;Every few decades, an unknown author brings out a book of such depth, clarity, range, wit, beauty and originality that it is recognized at once as a major literary event.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mathetic</author><text>He likes computers, he even likes AI. He doesn&#x27;t buy into Ray Kurzweil&#x27;s ideas about singularity [0,1]. He also (as I understand) is in Chomsky school of statistical learning as opposed to Peter Norvig (or Google) school [1,2]. Those two are highly unpopular stances to have these days, so I can see how that can be confused with not liking computers&#x2F;AI.<p>If you read GEB, you can see in different chapters that he is a big fan of computers, simulations, attempts at AI, and the such.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Nhj6fDDnckE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Nhj6fDDnckE</a><p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.americanscientist.org&#x2F;bookshelf&#x2F;pub&#x2F;douglas-r-hofstadter" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.americanscientist.org&#x2F;bookshelf&#x2F;pub&#x2F;douglas-r-hof...</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;norvig.com&#x2F;chomsky.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;norvig.com&#x2F;chomsky.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The most mentioned books on Stack Overflow</title><url>http://www.dev-books.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>curuinor</author><text>I heard a story from an AI professor a few years ago, who had an interesting heuristic for picking grad student applications to trash: if it mentions GEB, off it goes into the circular file.<p>Fun book. Hofstadter actually doesn&#x27;t like computers, apparently: this is in the record, and I&#x27;ve heard him mention that fact multiple times. He just likes playing with ideas.</text></item><item><author>JelteF</author><text>Although not directly development related. The most impressive book I&#x27;ve had the pleasure of reading is &quot;Gödel Escher Bach: An eternal golden braid&quot; (also known as GEB) from Douglas Hofstadter.<p>It&#x27;s hard to explain what it is about exactly, but it contains ideas and concepts from mathematics, computer science, philosophy and conscience. All of it is explained in very clear and interesting way. I can recommend it to anyone interested in these topics.<p>The book won a Pulitzer and to take a quote from the Scientific American about it: &quot;Every few decades, an unknown author brings out a book of such depth, clarity, range, wit, beauty and originality that it is recognized at once as a major literary event.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Kiro</author><text>&gt; if it mentions GEB, off it goes into the circular file<p>Why?</text></comment> |
10,240,940 | 10,240,541 | 1 | 3 | 10,240,295 | train | <story><title>Just doesn’t feel good</title><url>http://www.marco.org/2015/09/18/just-doesnt-feel-good</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cjensen</author><text>Lots of people here trying to infer motives. Why not just believe what he says? He&#x27;s a guy who has enough money, wants to do what he loves, and doesn&#x27;t enjoy controversy. He&#x27;s hacker enough to want to muck about with how to make a blocker, but it&#x27;s not his joy.<p>Basically, he&#x27;s what many of us aspire to be.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bcrescimanno</author><text>I don&#x27;t want to infer motives because I don&#x27;t know. I will say that I am among those who doesn&#x27;t really believe this is simply a morality tale. There are several folks here, like yourself, who are basically saying, &quot;yeah, I can understand the mentality of not wanting to do and ad-blocker because of the moral grey area&quot; I can understand that as well.<p>What I <i>can&#x27;t</i> understand is the quite sudden change of heart 2 days after launching the product. I don&#x27;t think people here are questioning whether developers are willing to forego their own financial gain for their moral ease (the very existence of the FSF makes it clear that there is a willingness). It&#x27;s simply a very sudden turn for someone who previously demonstrated no such compunction.</text></comment> | <story><title>Just doesn’t feel good</title><url>http://www.marco.org/2015/09/18/just-doesnt-feel-good</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cjensen</author><text>Lots of people here trying to infer motives. Why not just believe what he says? He&#x27;s a guy who has enough money, wants to do what he loves, and doesn&#x27;t enjoy controversy. He&#x27;s hacker enough to want to muck about with how to make a blocker, but it&#x27;s not his joy.<p>Basically, he&#x27;s what many of us aspire to be.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chucknelson</author><text>Agreed - I think the key point is where he says he&#x27;s fortunate enough to be able to do this (sacrifice the possible income of this app).<p>Why bother with all of the political mess (much of it from &quot;the internet&quot; I&#x27;m sure) when you could just apply your effort elsewhere and avoid a ton of physical and emotional stress? Focusing on Overcast sounds just fine.</text></comment> |
19,222,341 | 19,222,054 | 1 | 2 | 19,220,518 | train | <story><title>Segment Is Now Free for Early-Stage Startups</title><url>https://segment.com/startups/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nlh</author><text>I have to say, a few years ago I was the world’s biggest Segment evangelist. My absolutely favorite analytics service, and for any web project I worked on, installing Segment was step 1. I ran it primarily on my own company’s site (100k visitors&#x2F;month, most of whom were not monetized) and I think I paid them $79&#x2F;month. Worth every penny as a router to send up to GA, Heap, and others. Their data warehouse became a wonderful adjunct part of my analytics stack (and maybe my bill went up to $200 or so when they added that.)<p>Then they changed their pricing so that bill became $1200 (per month!). Total insanity. When I did some consulting work for another startup that had even higher traffic numbers (150k-200k uniques) but was also very lightly monetized, I actually lost some serious political capital with the CEO when he saw the Segment price quote of nearly $2000 per month. He thought I was trying to fleece them.<p>Sorry guys. I think you’ve built a REALLY awesome product and I &#x2F; similarly small businesses are clearly not the target demographic anymore, and I’m sure you’re now making metric boatloads of money from big enterprise customers who don’t care about a $20k annual bill for analytics, but man, it’s disappointing to be so priced out of what was once a great part of my toolkit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chanfest22</author><text>100% agree. We are working on a YC W18 company (www.cointracker.io) and loved that Segment made it easy to get up and running on a bunch of metrics platforms. Really slick product!<p>Unfortunately, the recent price hikes are <i>completely</i> out of line with the value we are getting with the product and we are being financially forced to stop using the service. Chatting with the sales team has been extremely painful and unhelpful. It has been incredibly validating to hear that everyone else here is feeling the same way.<p>@Ilya — I really hope you&#x27;ll consider taking this feedback to heart. You have absolutely nailed the product. The pricing needs a complete overhaul.</text></comment> | <story><title>Segment Is Now Free for Early-Stage Startups</title><url>https://segment.com/startups/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nlh</author><text>I have to say, a few years ago I was the world’s biggest Segment evangelist. My absolutely favorite analytics service, and for any web project I worked on, installing Segment was step 1. I ran it primarily on my own company’s site (100k visitors&#x2F;month, most of whom were not monetized) and I think I paid them $79&#x2F;month. Worth every penny as a router to send up to GA, Heap, and others. Their data warehouse became a wonderful adjunct part of my analytics stack (and maybe my bill went up to $200 or so when they added that.)<p>Then they changed their pricing so that bill became $1200 (per month!). Total insanity. When I did some consulting work for another startup that had even higher traffic numbers (150k-200k uniques) but was also very lightly monetized, I actually lost some serious political capital with the CEO when he saw the Segment price quote of nearly $2000 per month. He thought I was trying to fleece them.<p>Sorry guys. I think you’ve built a REALLY awesome product and I &#x2F; similarly small businesses are clearly not the target demographic anymore, and I’m sure you’re now making metric boatloads of money from big enterprise customers who don’t care about a $20k annual bill for analytics, but man, it’s disappointing to be so priced out of what was once a great part of my toolkit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ivolo</author><text>Hey, just wanted to let you know that we&#x27;re reading&#x2F;listening and this is really helpful feedback. I&#x27;d love to do a phone call, and get your feedback on a few pricing&#x2F;packaging changes we&#x27;re working on. If you&#x27;re willing, my email is ilya @segment.com</text></comment> |
30,628,338 | 30,627,857 | 1 | 2 | 30,624,644 | train | <story><title>You Don't Know GIF – An analysis of a GIF file and some weird GIF features</title><url>https://blog.darrien.dev/posts/you-dont-know-gif</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Hitton</author><text>&gt;Now the first line ends like this which is still a perfectly valid gif. How might that look?<p>&gt;Amazing! Stupendous! Wonderful! As of the time of this writing, it’s just a perfectly black square. And this is the case in every single renderer I’ve tried. Gimp, Chrome, Firefox, Preview, gifiddle, you name it.<p>Funnily enough in my browser (Firefox on Ubuntu) it&#x27;s transparent, but it&#x27;s level of transparency I have never seen before - I can see the window below.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>OscarCunningham</author><text>I&#x27;ve reported this as a bug here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugzilla.mozilla.org&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=1758975" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugzilla.mozilla.org&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=1758975</a></text></comment> | <story><title>You Don't Know GIF – An analysis of a GIF file and some weird GIF features</title><url>https://blog.darrien.dev/posts/you-dont-know-gif</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Hitton</author><text>&gt;Now the first line ends like this which is still a perfectly valid gif. How might that look?<p>&gt;Amazing! Stupendous! Wonderful! As of the time of this writing, it’s just a perfectly black square. And this is the case in every single renderer I’ve tried. Gimp, Chrome, Firefox, Preview, gifiddle, you name it.<p>Funnily enough in my browser (Firefox on Ubuntu) it&#x27;s transparent, but it&#x27;s level of transparency I have never seen before - I can see the window below.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kevincox</author><text>If Firefox is maximized I just see other text on the page as I scroll. If I make it a floating window I sometimes see other page content and sometimes see the window below. Very strange.<p>I wonder if this could be used for some sort of phishing attack by tricking the user into thinking it is some OS trusted dialog or just showing that you know something secret so you should be trusted (would be hard to set up to work with any sort of probability though).</text></comment> |
16,819,030 | 16,815,696 | 1 | 2 | 16,815,276 | train | <story><title>1Password for Open Source Projects</title><url>https://github.com/1Password/1password-teams-open-source</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mrunkel</author><text>Hacker news, never change. Company gives away product for free to opensource teams... and almost all of the comments are complaints. :)<p>I get it. For some this will never be an acceptable solution. As a happy subscriber of the family plan, I can only say that this has appreciably improved the security of my family online. I&#x27;m happy to pay the subscription fee because I think that&#x27;s the most sustainable business model for a software company.<p>In any case: &quot;Hey 1Password, thanks for giving away free licenses to opensource projects.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>1Password for Open Source Projects</title><url>https://github.com/1Password/1password-teams-open-source</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kcmastrpc</author><text>considering using and supporting the open source bitwarden project instead.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitwarden.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitwarden.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
2,970,177 | 2,969,190 | 1 | 3 | 2,969,008 | train | <story><title>Faster pathfinding using Jump Point Search</title><url>http://harablog.wordpress.com/2011/09/07/jump-point-search/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>praeclarum</author><text>"speeds up pathfinding on uniform-cost grid maps"<p>How useful are uniform-cost grids? Every implementation of A* I've ever used has been applied to varying-cost grids.</text></comment> | <story><title>Faster pathfinding using Jump Point Search</title><url>http://harablog.wordpress.com/2011/09/07/jump-point-search/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wingerlang</author><text>Is it just me or does the Vanilla-A* algorithms look too bad? I mean especailly in the second image [(d) A* (Adaptive Depth)], why does it search behind itself?</text></comment> |
10,497,872 | 10,497,901 | 1 | 3 | 10,497,287 | train | <story><title>5K iMac Gets 10-Bit Color</title><url>https://www.cinema5d.com/5k-imac-10-bit-color/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ryandamm</author><text>In some ways, this is Apple pushing things forward... but in other ways, it&#x27;s just them catching up. Until this update, there was no way to get 10-bit displays working with Apple products <i>at all</i>, even third-party monitors that were 10-bit capable. The OS simply wouldn&#x27;t support 10-bit display. I know you could get it in Windows, and almost certainly in Linux with the correct voodoo.<p>My post guys wanted to stay on the Mac platform, so we dealt with 8-bit displays (color wasn&#x27;t a huge part of our workflow -- but 10 bit would&#x27;ve been nice). But it was one of those head-smacking moments for a platform that was supposedly media-friendly.<p>Note, there&#x27;s some confusion in the comments so far -- 10 bit is a professional display, and is extremely uncommon. Pro cameras and software can usually handle higher bit depths -- 16 for DSLRs, 10-12+ for pro video cameras -- but you&#x27;re probably not seeing it unless you&#x27;ve carefully set up your computer. Those bits are still useful: they&#x27;re the raw material for generating your 8-bit final image, so you don&#x27;t get banding when adjusting color or exposure. And they&#x27;re essential for containing a wider range of possible values, letting pro cameras represent a wider dynamic range than is possible in 8 bit systems.<p>And 8 bits is more typical -- it&#x27;s literally baked into many file formats, like JPEG. Some crappy screens on consumer electronics can&#x27;t even represent the full 8 bits per channel; 6 bits + dithering is sadly really common, even in screens that advertise themselves as 8&#x2F;24-bit. Also, color depth can be reported both in bits-per-channel and total bit depth; a 10 bit-per-channel display is 30 bits of color information per RGB pixel, 10 each for red, green, and blue.<p>(Some of the confusion is probably intentional; I had a hardware partner brag about their &#x27;15 bit display,&#x27; which sounded very weird to me... until I realized it was really 5 bits <i>per channel</i>, which is roughly bad-ATM-screen quality.)</text></comment> | <story><title>5K iMac Gets 10-Bit Color</title><url>https://www.cinema5d.com/5k-imac-10-bit-color/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DAddYE</author><text>From a comment in the article:<p><pre><code> Hey guys, it appears it’s not just for the 5K iMac,
I have tested this on 2013 Mac Pro with an Eizo CS230
monitor and can confirm that you can get 10bit output.
</code></pre>
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lsdigi.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;el-capitan-10bit-display-support&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lsdigi.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;el-capitan-10bit-display-suppo...</a></text></comment> |
36,049,809 | 36,050,045 | 1 | 2 | 36,047,524 | train | <story><title>Nginx 1.25.0: experimental HTTP/3 support</title><url>http://nginx.org/en/CHANGES</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>heipei</author><text>And, come to think of it, some additional great features would be automatic TLS certs via Let&#x27;s Encrypt and maybe even being able to use a shared cache with multiple instances of nginx.</text></item><item><author>heipei</author><text>I still love nginx, but it&#x27;s a damn shame they gate some really useful features behind their nginx plus license, namely service discovery via DNS SRV records, cache purge requests and request queueing for upstreams.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dangerlibrary</author><text>I put off adding TLS certs to my personal website for years. It&#x27;s just a few static files served by nginx on a server - there wasn&#x27;t a great reason to bother, I thought.<p>It took me almost exactly 3 minutes start to finish with letsencypt. Where &#x27;start&#x27; was &quot;I should stop putting that off&quot; and typing &quot;letsencrypt.com&quot; into a browser, and &#x27;finish&#x27; was nginx serving up <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;</a> on all my domains. I&#x27;m genuinely curious what nginx could possibly do to improve the situation there.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nginx 1.25.0: experimental HTTP/3 support</title><url>http://nginx.org/en/CHANGES</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>heipei</author><text>And, come to think of it, some additional great features would be automatic TLS certs via Let&#x27;s Encrypt and maybe even being able to use a shared cache with multiple instances of nginx.</text></item><item><author>heipei</author><text>I still love nginx, but it&#x27;s a damn shame they gate some really useful features behind their nginx plus license, namely service discovery via DNS SRV records, cache purge requests and request queueing for upstreams.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>madspindel</author><text>Try Caddy. I was mind blown when I fired up a simple Caddyfile + Docker and got SSL out of the box.</text></comment> |
35,654,487 | 35,654,115 | 1 | 3 | 35,653,125 | train | <story><title>AI is taking the jobs of Kenyans who write essays for U.S. college students</title><url>https://restofworld.org/2023/chatgpt-taking-kenya-ghostwriters-jobs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ghiculescu</author><text>I can’t believe all the comments arguing that this is good for the Kenyans.<p>Yes, obviously this industry shouldn’t exist. But it does. Lots of industries exist purely to fix inefficiencies in others.<p>If there was other global knowledge work available to Kenyans I’m sure they’d take it. These people are writing college level essays! They are probably better writers than most of us.<p>When futurists talk about industrial revolutions they all agree that in the long term it works out but in the short term it causes lots of pain and suffering for those whose work is displaced.<p>If you’re an AI futurist you should be intellectually honest and admit that chatGPT is probably not going to be good for Kenya. Trying to dress it up as if there’s absolutely no downside to this is just lying to yourself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>carlosjobim</author><text>&gt; If there was other global knowledge work available to Kenyans I’m sure they’d take it. These people are writing college level essays! They are probably better writers than most of us.<p>Shouldn&#x27;t they be employed at improving their own country, since they are this smart? Instead of gaining from corruption and fraud on another continent?<p>If the smartest young people in your country have to move abroad or work remotely for foreign companies in order to make the most of their skills, then your country and society is a total failure - ask me if you want, I&#x27;m from one of those places.</text></comment> | <story><title>AI is taking the jobs of Kenyans who write essays for U.S. college students</title><url>https://restofworld.org/2023/chatgpt-taking-kenya-ghostwriters-jobs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ghiculescu</author><text>I can’t believe all the comments arguing that this is good for the Kenyans.<p>Yes, obviously this industry shouldn’t exist. But it does. Lots of industries exist purely to fix inefficiencies in others.<p>If there was other global knowledge work available to Kenyans I’m sure they’d take it. These people are writing college level essays! They are probably better writers than most of us.<p>When futurists talk about industrial revolutions they all agree that in the long term it works out but in the short term it causes lots of pain and suffering for those whose work is displaced.<p>If you’re an AI futurist you should be intellectually honest and admit that chatGPT is probably not going to be good for Kenya. Trying to dress it up as if there’s absolutely no downside to this is just lying to yourself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>automatic6131</author><text>Can&#x27;t you see how bad it for Kenya - or anywhere - for people bright enough to write college level essays to be wasting their time writing them for rich people studying in Western colleges?<p>What you do for a living isn&#x27;t neutral, there&#x27;s an opportunity cost. That person in Kenya writing an essay for someone else isn&#x27;t doing journalism or writing a great novel, or starting a business or whatever. Now, for sure, Kenya isn&#x27;t the best place for doing those things anyway, but it&#x27;s never going to be if a whole pool of labor is doing bullshit work like grinding out college-level essays. There&#x27;s no path from where Kenya is today (not great, not as bad as you might think though) to where the West is where work like that is a part of its economy, is there?</text></comment> |
32,921,074 | 32,920,659 | 1 | 2 | 32,915,263 | train | <story><title>EU Open Web Search project kicked off</title><url>https://openwebsearch.eu/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>margarina72</author><text>Interesting to see the amount of negative comments.<p>Most of the negativity seems to come from the following points:<p>- EU-funded project cannot succeed in tech because previous EU-funded projects have failed in tech in the past (and generally government-funded project in tech are suspicious)<p>- Search is hard, and therefore it will fail<p>- The project is underfunded<p>Even if the points above can all be valid (though the obvious US-funded startup launched by a bunch of uni students seemed to have fared pretty well) it seems we are missing the point of this project.<p>The proposal is to contribute to the creation of open building blocks necessary to enable others (including private US companies) to make better search products.<p>Better search product are needed.<p>Shall we remember HN of some of the intense conversations that happened here about Google failing us:<p>- Google Search is Dying [1]<p>- Every Google result now looks like an ad [2]<p>- Google no longer producing high quality search results in significant categories [3]<p>So while, yes search is a hard topic, we should welcome initiatives aiming at improving the ground infrastructure needed to lower the barrier to entry on this subject and hope it will allow many companies to build better search products (or inspire other initiatives to contribute in similar and even more successful way)<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30347719" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30347719</a><p>2: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22107823" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22107823</a><p>3: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29772136" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29772136</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wbl</author><text>One reason search is hard is people are very motivated to game your system. That makes being transparent about how it works a fool&#x27;s errand. It also isn&#x27;t clear how the economic structure works: improving search relevance by x% is tremendously socially valuable, but probably makes Google&#x27;s bottom line go up by a thousandth of x, and they have a very direct understanding of the connection. Without that money, how will this get the resources to succeed given the adversaries are learning from the people with a lot more?</text></comment> | <story><title>EU Open Web Search project kicked off</title><url>https://openwebsearch.eu/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>margarina72</author><text>Interesting to see the amount of negative comments.<p>Most of the negativity seems to come from the following points:<p>- EU-funded project cannot succeed in tech because previous EU-funded projects have failed in tech in the past (and generally government-funded project in tech are suspicious)<p>- Search is hard, and therefore it will fail<p>- The project is underfunded<p>Even if the points above can all be valid (though the obvious US-funded startup launched by a bunch of uni students seemed to have fared pretty well) it seems we are missing the point of this project.<p>The proposal is to contribute to the creation of open building blocks necessary to enable others (including private US companies) to make better search products.<p>Better search product are needed.<p>Shall we remember HN of some of the intense conversations that happened here about Google failing us:<p>- Google Search is Dying [1]<p>- Every Google result now looks like an ad [2]<p>- Google no longer producing high quality search results in significant categories [3]<p>So while, yes search is a hard topic, we should welcome initiatives aiming at improving the ground infrastructure needed to lower the barrier to entry on this subject and hope it will allow many companies to build better search products (or inspire other initiatives to contribute in similar and even more successful way)<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30347719" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30347719</a><p>2: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22107823" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22107823</a><p>3: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29772136" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29772136</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kazinator</author><text>Speaking of Google and ads; I witnessed a new low today.<p>My 3 going on 4 kid was watching a cartoon on Youtube: Curious George.<p>An ad popped up promoting some show, featuring foul language and sexual intercourse.<p>Yagoddabekidding.</text></comment> |
25,270,501 | 25,269,896 | 1 | 2 | 25,268,914 | train | <story><title>Wyze $20 Smart Watch</title><url>https://wyze.com/wyze-watch.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>umeshunni</author><text>How is Wyze churning out so many new hardware devices so rapidly?<p>I hadn&#x27;t heard of them till this year when I saw their camera on sale, but now they have a full suite of hardware products with ~50 employees.<p>Are they essentially rebranding some Chinese manufacturer?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>delfinom</author><text>This watch is potentially a rebranded Xiaomi Redmi Watch, with minor modification to the sensor plate maybe.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fdn2.gsmarena.com&#x2F;vv&#x2F;pics&#x2F;xiaomi&#x2F;xiaomi-redmi-watch-1.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fdn2.gsmarena.com&#x2F;vv&#x2F;pics&#x2F;xiaomi&#x2F;xiaomi-redmi-watch-...</a><p>Otherwise there other very similar looking watches in the Chinese market as well.</text></comment> | <story><title>Wyze $20 Smart Watch</title><url>https://wyze.com/wyze-watch.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>umeshunni</author><text>How is Wyze churning out so many new hardware devices so rapidly?<p>I hadn&#x27;t heard of them till this year when I saw their camera on sale, but now they have a full suite of hardware products with ~50 employees.<p>Are they essentially rebranding some Chinese manufacturer?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>untog</author><text>When it comes to their webcam: absolutely yes. You can get the exact camera they sell on Alibaba. That said, the software on the Alibaba versions is awful. I think their business model makes sense here: buy commodity hardware, make your own, better, software.<p>(though to be honest their iOS app isn&#x27;t great. But still)</text></comment> |
26,786,744 | 26,784,711 | 1 | 3 | 26,780,848 | train | <story><title>OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/introducing-opensearch/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amzn-throw</author><text>&gt; they can invest more resources into developing it than the original team ever could.<p>I know this is a popular narrative, but as someone who works on AWS, I think you would be shocked by how small the individual dev teams are that build and maintain the services that everyone uses.<p>I&#x27;m not going to downplay the network effects involved. Of course AWS has a tremendous advantage in being able to standardize the customer billing, IAM, and EC2 Usage.<p>And there are economies of scale.<p>But individual AWS service teams are:
* incredibly lean and focused
* still have to make a profit on their own terms based on the infrastructure they build and the fees they charge customers
* laser customer obsessed to solve people&#x27;s (developer&#x27;s) direct needs.<p>I understand the community&#x27;s concern about AWS investment and approach to OSS. But I can assure you (though you have no reason to believe me) that the goal is never to embrace, extend, then extinguish. It&#x27;s all in the service of going where the customers are, and solving problems that they tell us they have. The profits are a byproduct. The &quot;working backwards&quot; process is no joke. We spend a lot of time figuring out what is the right thing for customers to build, start building it, and THEN we think about how do we make money from it.</text></item><item><author>TechBro8615</author><text>It&#x27;s hard for me to know whether to feel bad for ES in this case. Did they bring it on themselves? Is Amazon too big and a bully?<p>From my perspective, Amazon has made most of its profit price gouging consumers on bandwidth after vendor locking them into their ecosystem, where they bootstrap new services by wrapping open source software with some provisioning scripts, management dashboards and cookie-cutter API &#x2F; console templates. Indeed, most of this is templated -- AFAIU, for example, each AWS service autogenerates its Boto bindings and parts of its console frontend via code generators. Amazon has really mastered the factory process of churning out new services, and when they find a popular one, they can invest more resources into developing it than the original team ever could.<p>And therein lies the rub. If Amazon is improving the software in a way that the original team couldn&#x27;t, it&#x27;s hard to say that the community isn&#x27;t benefiting. I think what strikes me the wrong way is that Amazon is not doing it for any altruistic reason. In fact, Amazon contributes very little to open source in general, considering how much they take from it. Compare them to Facebook (React, etc) or Google (tons of dev tools) or Microsoft (VSC, TypeScript). What does Amazon have? Firecracker, kind of? And now a fork of ES because that&#x27;s the only way they could continue making money off it without violating the license a small startup put in place to stop them?<p>Well, good for Amazon, I suppose, but I find myself instinctively disliking them for this. I&#x27;m not sure what the solution is. Hopefully technologies like Kubernetes and Terraform will encourage big customers to become at least cloud-agnostic, if not cloud-independent. At the very least it would be great if Amazon &#x2F; Google &#x2F; Microsoft stopped gouging bandwidth at such absurd margins. Or not. Maybe it will be their downfall as startups differentiate along those lines. That would be ironic, coming from the originators of &quot;your margin is my opportunity.&quot;<p>Personally I&#x27;m doing my part by not building anything with vendor lock-in. It&#x27;s great to be able to deploy to any cloud, if you value either robustness or flexibility.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwdbaaway</author><text>I was nodding along until this:<p>&gt; and THEN we think about how do we make money from it<p>Do you really need to think? Looking at the on-demand pricing in US East, a m5.4xlarge.elasticsearch instance costs $1.133 an hour, while a m5.4xlarge instance costs $0.768 an hour. That&#x27;s 47.53% of extra money. And like you said, it only requires a small team to build and maintain the service.<p>It is no coincidence that all cloud providers are trying to ramp up their hosted services for open source software, even GCP, who historically only focused on their own proprietary stack. There&#x27;s a lot of money to be made.</text></comment> | <story><title>OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/introducing-opensearch/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amzn-throw</author><text>&gt; they can invest more resources into developing it than the original team ever could.<p>I know this is a popular narrative, but as someone who works on AWS, I think you would be shocked by how small the individual dev teams are that build and maintain the services that everyone uses.<p>I&#x27;m not going to downplay the network effects involved. Of course AWS has a tremendous advantage in being able to standardize the customer billing, IAM, and EC2 Usage.<p>And there are economies of scale.<p>But individual AWS service teams are:
* incredibly lean and focused
* still have to make a profit on their own terms based on the infrastructure they build and the fees they charge customers
* laser customer obsessed to solve people&#x27;s (developer&#x27;s) direct needs.<p>I understand the community&#x27;s concern about AWS investment and approach to OSS. But I can assure you (though you have no reason to believe me) that the goal is never to embrace, extend, then extinguish. It&#x27;s all in the service of going where the customers are, and solving problems that they tell us they have. The profits are a byproduct. The &quot;working backwards&quot; process is no joke. We spend a lot of time figuring out what is the right thing for customers to build, start building it, and THEN we think about how do we make money from it.</text></item><item><author>TechBro8615</author><text>It&#x27;s hard for me to know whether to feel bad for ES in this case. Did they bring it on themselves? Is Amazon too big and a bully?<p>From my perspective, Amazon has made most of its profit price gouging consumers on bandwidth after vendor locking them into their ecosystem, where they bootstrap new services by wrapping open source software with some provisioning scripts, management dashboards and cookie-cutter API &#x2F; console templates. Indeed, most of this is templated -- AFAIU, for example, each AWS service autogenerates its Boto bindings and parts of its console frontend via code generators. Amazon has really mastered the factory process of churning out new services, and when they find a popular one, they can invest more resources into developing it than the original team ever could.<p>And therein lies the rub. If Amazon is improving the software in a way that the original team couldn&#x27;t, it&#x27;s hard to say that the community isn&#x27;t benefiting. I think what strikes me the wrong way is that Amazon is not doing it for any altruistic reason. In fact, Amazon contributes very little to open source in general, considering how much they take from it. Compare them to Facebook (React, etc) or Google (tons of dev tools) or Microsoft (VSC, TypeScript). What does Amazon have? Firecracker, kind of? And now a fork of ES because that&#x27;s the only way they could continue making money off it without violating the license a small startup put in place to stop them?<p>Well, good for Amazon, I suppose, but I find myself instinctively disliking them for this. I&#x27;m not sure what the solution is. Hopefully technologies like Kubernetes and Terraform will encourage big customers to become at least cloud-agnostic, if not cloud-independent. At the very least it would be great if Amazon &#x2F; Google &#x2F; Microsoft stopped gouging bandwidth at such absurd margins. Or not. Maybe it will be their downfall as startups differentiate along those lines. That would be ironic, coming from the originators of &quot;your margin is my opportunity.&quot;<p>Personally I&#x27;m doing my part by not building anything with vendor lock-in. It&#x27;s great to be able to deploy to any cloud, if you value either robustness or flexibility.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>waynesonfire</author><text>they have as many people dedicated to the capability as needed. at least the capabilities have owners, which from my experience is not trivial for an organization to achieve.<p>curious if others have noticed this as well (capabilities without clear owners)? what does this depend on? time? company size? both?</text></comment> |
32,678,105 | 32,677,162 | 1 | 2 | 32,650,996 | train | <story><title>JavaScript hydration is a workaround, not a solution</title><url>https://thenewstack.io/javascript-hydration-is-a-workaround-not-a-solution/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>onion2k</author><text><i>...get a PageSpeed score of 100&#x2F;100</i><p>I&#x27;m slowly coming around to the idea that PageSpeed (or Lighthouse, or Core Web Vitals, or whatever Google has invented this week) is what drives a lot of the complexity in web app dev. People refuse to throw out what they&#x27;ve learned, so every time there&#x27;s a new metric to chase <i>in case you lose SERPS ranking for being slow!</i> devs heap another layer of complexity on to the Webpack bonfire.<p>Hydration is an example of this. People chased &#x27;first contentful paint&#x27; and &#x27;cumulative layout shift&#x27; timings because that&#x27;s what Google told everyone they needed to optimize for. That meant reducing the amount of upfront work done in JS, pushing some barebones HTML and CSS to the client for those sweet, sweet metrics, and <i>then</i> running a massive bundle of deferred JS to make it do anything. Google is pulling that rug with Time to Interactive, First Input Delay and (coming soon) Interaction to Next Paint, so now devs are trying to write the same website but have the server strip out the code they wrote (eg Remix.run).<p>Everyone wants a fast website. No one wants a heap of fragile complex build tooling. The answer to the first problem is to stop trying to solve the second problem with MORE TECH. Go back to fundamentals. Just make something that works with with HTML and CSS alone, and enhance it with JS. You don&#x27;t need to be clever about it, especially if the level of interactivity on your website amounts to basically <i>a form.</i></text></comment> | <story><title>JavaScript hydration is a workaround, not a solution</title><url>https://thenewstack.io/javascript-hydration-is-a-workaround-not-a-solution/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dmix</author><text>The recent evolution of JS frameworks has been really nice. Performance is basically getting identical to desktop.<p>The three recent developments I&#x27;ve noticed:<p>- &quot;Islands&quot; in Deno <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fresh.deno.dev&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fresh.deno.dev&#x2F;</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;remix.run&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;remix.run&#x2F;</a> where only small isolated parts get hydrated, instead of the whole page<p>- Using <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;linear.app" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;linear.app</a> style data-flows ala Replicache (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;replicache.dev&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;replicache.dev&#x2F;</a>) where JSON data is preloaded for all sub-links and stored offline-first like a desktop app, so clicking on anything loads immediately w&#x2F;o waiting for network requests to finish<p>- Now with &#x27;resumability&#x27; where the server-side framework was built with client hydration in mind and delivers the bare minimum event&#x2F;DOM data necessary to make the page interactive (instead of just being a glorified HTML cache load before the usual JS activates)<p>For people not following JS these might all seem like constantly reinventing past lessons, but there is a logical evolution happening here towards desktop-style performance and interactivity on the web. Or pure server-side performance but with full JS interactivity.<p>The next set of frameworks is going to be as big of an evolution the way Angular&#x2F;Backbone-&gt;React&#x2F;Vue was ~8yrs ago. But it&#x27;s going to require new backend server frameworks, not just a new client framework. There&#x27;s probably a big opportunity for the project that can combine this stuff properly.</text></comment> |
25,786,269 | 25,785,403 | 1 | 2 | 25,784,168 | train | <story><title>Facebook sues two Chrome extension devs for scraping user data</title><url>https://about.fb.com/news/2021/01/combating-scraping-by-malicious-browser-extensions/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>1vuio0pswjnm7</author><text>Interesting, now Facebook is trying to portray themselves as some sort of legal watchdog over users&#x27; data, suing weak, non-customer defendants at random. No doubt they&#x27;ll be citing this as evidence of their benevolent corporate mission in the next round of regulatory actions against the company.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.fb.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;tag&#x2F;legal-action&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.fb.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;tag&#x2F;legal-action&#x2F;</a><p>Users&#x27; data is Facebook&#x27;s main asset. They created the danger posed by these defendants by intentionally collecting user data on such a massive scale. They&#x27;re not protecting users, they are protecting their business of creating pools of similarly situated users for advertisers to target. Facebook will never protect users from advertisers. They will not sue their own customers.<p>At least with these defendants one can get a rough idea of what they were trying to do, the methods they were using to collect data. With Facebook, the internal operations of the company, how they solicit, collect and use people&#x27;s data, is deliberately withheld from public scrutiny. &quot;We&#x27;re using your data to make our service better.&quot; For whom? Their customers, which may include political campaigns. Facebook is free. The user is not the customer. &quot;We cannot reveal what we are doing because that would put us at a competitive disadvantage.&quot; Obviously they are doing much more than just storing your data and making it available to your friends list. You are not the customer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>1vuio0pswjnm7</author><text>When Facebook customers, i.e., purchasers of Facebook advertising, filed a class action lawsuit against Facebook recently for fraud^1 (more specifically, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;leginfo.legislature.ca.gov&#x2F;faces&#x2F;codes_displaySection.xhtml?sectionNum=17200.&amp;lawCode=BPC" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;leginfo.legislature.ca.gov&#x2F;faces&#x2F;codes_displaySectio...</a>
), Facebook tried to place their amended complaint under seal, so the public could not see it. In part, because it disclosed what goes on behind the scenes at Facebook, the very things that the plaintiffs are suing over. Facebook has much to hide and litigation is one way some of their shady practices may eventually find themselves under the spotlight of public scrutiny. What goes around comes around.<p>1 <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cases.justia.com&#x2F;federal&#x2F;district-courts&#x2F;california&#x2F;candce&#x2F;4:2018cv05286&#x2F;331306&#x2F;147&#x2F;0.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cases.justia.com&#x2F;federal&#x2F;district-courts&#x2F;california&#x2F;...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook sues two Chrome extension devs for scraping user data</title><url>https://about.fb.com/news/2021/01/combating-scraping-by-malicious-browser-extensions/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>1vuio0pswjnm7</author><text>Interesting, now Facebook is trying to portray themselves as some sort of legal watchdog over users&#x27; data, suing weak, non-customer defendants at random. No doubt they&#x27;ll be citing this as evidence of their benevolent corporate mission in the next round of regulatory actions against the company.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.fb.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;tag&#x2F;legal-action&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.fb.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;tag&#x2F;legal-action&#x2F;</a><p>Users&#x27; data is Facebook&#x27;s main asset. They created the danger posed by these defendants by intentionally collecting user data on such a massive scale. They&#x27;re not protecting users, they are protecting their business of creating pools of similarly situated users for advertisers to target. Facebook will never protect users from advertisers. They will not sue their own customers.<p>At least with these defendants one can get a rough idea of what they were trying to do, the methods they were using to collect data. With Facebook, the internal operations of the company, how they solicit, collect and use people&#x27;s data, is deliberately withheld from public scrutiny. &quot;We&#x27;re using your data to make our service better.&quot; For whom? Their customers, which may include political campaigns. Facebook is free. The user is not the customer. &quot;We cannot reveal what we are doing because that would put us at a competitive disadvantage.&quot; Obviously they are doing much more than just storing your data and making it available to your friends list. You are not the customer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skybrian</author><text>You should have noticed by now that there is widespread, emphatic agreement that Facebook should protect users&#x27; data from third parties.<p>This is why what Cambridge Analytics did was bad, right?</text></comment> |
17,245,471 | 17,244,924 | 1 | 3 | 17,244,395 | train | <story><title>Can Facebook Be Cut Down to Size?</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/05/opinion/facebook-china-privacy-data-security.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zestyping</author><text>This op-ed argues the question &quot;Should Facebook Be Cut Down to Size?&quot; but doesn&#x27;t really address whether it can, or how.<p>Can it? What would work? How would you do it, if you could?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>obelix_</author><text>It can.<p>The root cause of a lot of problems Facebook creates is the like count next to every utterances, article or behaviour on the net. This has to be regulated much more than private data&#x2F;friend graphs&#x2F;location data&#x2F;what you view&#x2F;search for etc etc.<p>Psychologists will tell you the most effective way to influence behaviour of an individual is to show people what the herd around them is thinking, saying or doing. This is how society has always created &quot;social norms&quot;.<p>If people around you don&#x27;t smoke, you are less likely to be a smoker. Teen girls who see other girls get pregnant are more likely to get pregnant. There are literally thousands of examples that can be cited about how seriously we take this signal.<p>In a world with too much info that no one is trained to handle or are too busy or distracted to handle, we look at what what the majority of people around us are doing and do that blindly. This is signal influences behaviour. Both good and bad.<p>Facebook has fucked that signal up for society. In every sphere of life. And we are currently dealing with the fallout. The signal is being delievered too fast and too much imho. And this speed is highly overrated in its value to society.<p>Whether these counts should be displayed, to who, how quickly, next to what type of content, for different communities, education levels etc needs to be debated and regulated.</text></comment> | <story><title>Can Facebook Be Cut Down to Size?</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/05/opinion/facebook-china-privacy-data-security.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zestyping</author><text>This op-ed argues the question &quot;Should Facebook Be Cut Down to Size?&quot; but doesn&#x27;t really address whether it can, or how.<p>Can it? What would work? How would you do it, if you could?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tmalsburg2</author><text>Making WhatsApp and Instagram separate companies would be an easy start. Then you could also separate advertising from social networking, e.g. let advertisers compete on FB. Would it work as in &#x27;would all components survive?&#x27;. That we would find out soon enough.</text></comment> |
3,506,480 | 3,506,113 | 1 | 3 | 3,506,026 | train | <story><title>Twitter's Bootstrap 2 ready for testing and feedback</title><url>http://www.markdotto.com/2012/01/24/bootstrap-2-ready-for-testing-and-feedback/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>Have been using and loving Bootstrap for the past few weeks. Can't recommend it highly enough. I thought Themeforest templates were a great secret weapon, but the thoughtfulness that went into the actual markup in Bootstrap makes working with it fast and painless.<p>That said: no idea what's in Bootstrap 2. Someone got a concise summary?</text></comment> | <story><title>Twitter's Bootstrap 2 ready for testing and feedback</title><url>http://www.markdotto.com/2012/01/24/bootstrap-2-ready-for-testing-and-feedback/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sheraz</author><text>I've been using the new twitter bootstrap with backbonejs for some prototypes and have progressed much faster than I anticipated.<p>The learning curve on this one was not bad at all -- the examples are great!</text></comment> |
10,461,689 | 10,461,728 | 1 | 3 | 10,461,526 | train | <story><title>CISA passes Senate</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/eff-disappointed-cisa-passes-senate</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MikeKusold</author><text>The tech world badly needs the equivalent of the NRA. We need to routinely be grading politician voting records [1] on privacy focused bills. If a politician votes against privacy, then they should be forced to fear a highly contested re-election.<p>If it works for guns and the tea-party, then why can&#x27;t it work for tech?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nrapvf.org&#x2F;grades&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nrapvf.org&#x2F;grades&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jakeogh</author><text>The EFF is already the most reliable org fighting for our digital arms. As far as comparison to the NRA, I suggest GOA[1] is a better model. The NRA is only a fair weather friend of the 2nd.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gunowners.org&#x2F;114hrat.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gunowners.org&#x2F;114hrat.htm</a></text></comment> | <story><title>CISA passes Senate</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/eff-disappointed-cisa-passes-senate</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MikeKusold</author><text>The tech world badly needs the equivalent of the NRA. We need to routinely be grading politician voting records [1] on privacy focused bills. If a politician votes against privacy, then they should be forced to fear a highly contested re-election.<p>If it works for guns and the tea-party, then why can&#x27;t it work for tech?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nrapvf.org&#x2F;grades&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nrapvf.org&#x2F;grades&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mmanfrin</author><text>I&#x27;ve, for the past couple years, had an idea for a PAC specifically for tech issues. The PAC would also monitor and rate politicians stances on tech issues (I have a list of stances that would be part of the mission: net neutrality, privacy protections, data portability, and a few others). I&#x27;ve just never pushed very far with it.</text></comment> |
13,140,788 | 13,140,756 | 1 | 2 | 13,139,978 | train | <story><title>Bose Hearphones</title><url>http://hearphones.bose.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>randlet</author><text>Are you sure you have decent hearing? I thought I could hear what people were saying in noisy environments, but couldn&#x27;t understand anything. This was one of the major symptoms for me before I was diagnosed with moderate&#x2F;severe hearing loss. It&#x27;s very isolating. No problems now with a decent set of hearing aids.<p>Have yourself tested! The quality of life improvement from a set of hearing aids is incredible!<p>edit: I was 31 when I was diagnosed, so don&#x27;t think because you&#x27;re young that you&#x27;re immune. Generally hearing loss is very gradual so you don&#x27;t really notice it. If you frequently have to ask people to repeat themselves though...</text></item><item><author>boobsbr</author><text>Wow, this address a major problem I have.<p>I have decent hearing, but when I&#x27;m in a noisy environment like a bar, I can hear but can&#x27;t understand what other people are saying. It&#x27;s why I don&#x27;t like going to bars&#x2F;pubs with live performances or ambient music.<p>People think I&#x27;m bored or brooding because I&#x27;m not talking to anyone, but I just can&#x27;t understand anything anyone says, so I can&#x27;t participate in a conversation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tibbon</author><text>I have a similar problem in loud spaces. Given my activities (motorcycling, guitar playing, powertools, etc) I had assumed my hearing was bad, but when I went to an ENT&#x2F;audiologist for unrelated things I had them give me a good test on a whim.<p>For me, the results were that I have hearing ability on-par with a ~5 year old, and they only see adults like me every 18 months or so. I&#x27;ve got a printoff of the chart around here somewhere, but it&#x27;s well outside the normal, especially for my activities.<p>On the flipside, I&#x27;m very ADHD, which I think hurts my loud-space conversational abilities some. I always figure my ears are trying to listen to all of it at once.<p>(Most lightbulbs and televisions drive me up a wall, because I can hear them all the time)</text></comment> | <story><title>Bose Hearphones</title><url>http://hearphones.bose.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>randlet</author><text>Are you sure you have decent hearing? I thought I could hear what people were saying in noisy environments, but couldn&#x27;t understand anything. This was one of the major symptoms for me before I was diagnosed with moderate&#x2F;severe hearing loss. It&#x27;s very isolating. No problems now with a decent set of hearing aids.<p>Have yourself tested! The quality of life improvement from a set of hearing aids is incredible!<p>edit: I was 31 when I was diagnosed, so don&#x27;t think because you&#x27;re young that you&#x27;re immune. Generally hearing loss is very gradual so you don&#x27;t really notice it. If you frequently have to ask people to repeat themselves though...</text></item><item><author>boobsbr</author><text>Wow, this address a major problem I have.<p>I have decent hearing, but when I&#x27;m in a noisy environment like a bar, I can hear but can&#x27;t understand what other people are saying. It&#x27;s why I don&#x27;t like going to bars&#x2F;pubs with live performances or ambient music.<p>People think I&#x27;m bored or brooding because I&#x27;m not talking to anyone, but I just can&#x27;t understand anything anyone says, so I can&#x27;t participate in a conversation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>freyr</author><text>I became unable to understand conversations in noisy bars and restaurants. I had my hearing tested, and it was normal. I can hear one person talking quietly from across the house, but can&#x27;t understand a person right next to me in a bar. It&#x27;s very frustrating.</text></comment> |
9,712,196 | 9,712,248 | 1 | 2 | 9,710,950 | train | <story><title>The Difference Between Saying 'Thank You' in Chinese and English</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/06/thank-you-chinese/395660/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>natch</author><text>The one glaring surprise in this article is that the author thinks &quot;excuse me&quot; in US English is used as an expression of politeness. Usually it is used in the opposite way, as an innuendo which pretends to be polite on the surface but really means &quot;hey, you are being rude by blocking the path &#x2F; taking up too much space.&quot; If you don&#x27;t believe me, pay attention to how it is used when walking or standing in a crowded shop, subway platform, or sidewalk in any crowded area of a US city. Especially listen to the tone of the words. When these words are used, it usually is not with anything near a polite tone.<p>&quot;Pardon me&quot; and &quot;sorry&quot; on the other hand are, in my experience, used politely.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>asQuirreL</author><text>Personally, when I say &quot;excuse me&quot; on the pavement, I&#x27;m being sincere :) the space is no more mine than it is their&#x27;s. But, I think all of this varies based on the culture of your immediate surroundings (for context, I live in London, UK). After all, &quot;excuse me&quot; could only be used ironically, if its genuine tone was apologetic (at least <i>somewhere</i>). I also have heard &quot;pardon me&quot; used interchangeably with &quot;excuse me&quot; in the ironic sense (usually to feign not having heard an offensive remark).</text></comment> | <story><title>The Difference Between Saying 'Thank You' in Chinese and English</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/06/thank-you-chinese/395660/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>natch</author><text>The one glaring surprise in this article is that the author thinks &quot;excuse me&quot; in US English is used as an expression of politeness. Usually it is used in the opposite way, as an innuendo which pretends to be polite on the surface but really means &quot;hey, you are being rude by blocking the path &#x2F; taking up too much space.&quot; If you don&#x27;t believe me, pay attention to how it is used when walking or standing in a crowded shop, subway platform, or sidewalk in any crowded area of a US city. Especially listen to the tone of the words. When these words are used, it usually is not with anything near a polite tone.<p>&quot;Pardon me&quot; and &quot;sorry&quot; on the other hand are, in my experience, used politely.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adevine</author><text>As you say, though, it all depends on tone. Excuse me can either be respectful, or it can be an accusation that you&#x27;re being rude. When it&#x27;s the latter, what the speaker really means is &quot;Excuse you!&quot;</text></comment> |
29,576,901 | 29,576,857 | 1 | 2 | 29,576,352 | train | <story><title>Don't start with microservices – monoliths are your friend</title><url>https://arnoldgalovics.com/microservices-in-production/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jhoelzel</author><text>There is a lot of talk about monoliths vs microservices lately.. I just want to throw into the ring that you can do both at the same time. easily. And noone is going to kill you for it either.<p>maybe we are getting caught up in sematics because its christmas, but &quot;monorepo&#x2F;monolith&#x2F;microservices&#x2F;etc&quot; is -just- the way you organize your code.<p>Developing a montolith for years but now you have written a 15 line golang http api that converts pdfs to stardust and put it into on a dedicted server in your office? welp thats a microservice.<p>Did you write a 150 repo application that can not be deployed seperatly anyway? welp thats a monolith.<p>You can also build a microservice ecosystem without kubernetes on your local network. We have done it for years with virtual machines. Software defined networking just makes things more elegant.<p>So dont stop using microservices because its &quot;hard&quot; or start writing monoliths because its &quot;easy&quot;, because none of that is true in the long run.<p>What is true is that you have a group of people trying to code for a common goal. The way you reach that goal together defines how you organize your code.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sdevonoes</author><text>&gt; Developing a montolith for years but now you have written a 15 line golang http api that converts pdfs to stardust and put it into on a dedicted server in your office? welp thats a microservice.<p>But the 15 lines of Golang are not just 15 lines of Golang in production. You need:<p>- auth? Who can talk to your service? Perhaps ip whitelisting?<p>- monitoring? How do you know if you service is up and running? If it&#x27;s down, you need alerts as well. What if there is a memory problem (because code is not optimal)?<p>- how do you deploy the service? Plain ansible or perhaps k8s? Just scp? Depending on your solution, how do you implement rollbacks?<p>- what about security regarding outdated packages the Go app is using? You need to monitor it as well.<p>And so on. The moment you need to store data that somehow needs to be in sycn with the monolith&#x27;s data, everything gets more complicated.<p>Production stuff is not just about lines of code.</text></comment> | <story><title>Don't start with microservices – monoliths are your friend</title><url>https://arnoldgalovics.com/microservices-in-production/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jhoelzel</author><text>There is a lot of talk about monoliths vs microservices lately.. I just want to throw into the ring that you can do both at the same time. easily. And noone is going to kill you for it either.<p>maybe we are getting caught up in sematics because its christmas, but &quot;monorepo&#x2F;monolith&#x2F;microservices&#x2F;etc&quot; is -just- the way you organize your code.<p>Developing a montolith for years but now you have written a 15 line golang http api that converts pdfs to stardust and put it into on a dedicted server in your office? welp thats a microservice.<p>Did you write a 150 repo application that can not be deployed seperatly anyway? welp thats a monolith.<p>You can also build a microservice ecosystem without kubernetes on your local network. We have done it for years with virtual machines. Software defined networking just makes things more elegant.<p>So dont stop using microservices because its &quot;hard&quot; or start writing monoliths because its &quot;easy&quot;, because none of that is true in the long run.<p>What is true is that you have a group of people trying to code for a common goal. The way you reach that goal together defines how you organize your code.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Pamar</author><text>Maybe it is just me, but I always understood that properly designed microservices have <i>their own specific datastore</i>, which is <i>not</i> shared with other microservices even if these all collaborate to the same process.<p>If this is actually (still) true, that means that &quot;the way you organize your code&quot; is a bit simplistic. Your example of an &quot;http api that converts pdfs to ...&quot; is surely a valid example of a microservice, but most business products have to handle much more &quot;state&quot; than those, and this will create further complications which go far beyond &quot;how to organize your code&quot; (and make monoliths more appealing).</text></comment> |
33,927,540 | 33,927,531 | 1 | 3 | 33,926,564 | train | <story><title>The Tesla Semi cab from the practical POV of someone who drives trucks</title><url>https://twitter.com/torynski/status/1600968583055826944</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>themagician</author><text>In an ideal environment the operating cost of a Tesla Semi is about 1&#x2F;3rd (conservative estimate) that of a diesel.<p>That environment is, again, very specific. But if your routes are short and predictable, you have massive warehouse space for solar, and you can get your average electricity cost as low as Tesla can then it pays off. 1 million miles in a diesel is going to cost well over $1 million dollars (including the price of the cab). With a Tesla Semi that cost is at least half… IF you can get the electricity cost low enough.</text></item><item><author>another_devy</author><text>Even in this case what advantage it has over existing electric trucks which don’t have these design flaws?</text></item><item><author>themagician</author><text>Most of the criticism assumes people will be in these cabs for 8 hours at a time. They won&#x27;t. This is for very short trips. We are talking 80-100 mi each way. 2-3 hrs in each direction, max. It&#x27;s not for independent truckers.</text></item><item><author>elijaht</author><text>I don&#x27;t see how that is relevant. Nearly all of the criticisms posed (maybe not the snow one?) would still be relevant to a driver in the situation you describe. This has nothing to do with range or even the fact that it&#x27;s electric</text></item><item><author>themagician</author><text>Tesla knows all this.<p>This truck is for a very specific niche: owned fleets near two warehouses or within a 500 mile round trip from a major port. Basically: all the warehouses in the Inland Empire near LAX and Long Beach and the warehouses in the Newark area that service the NYC metro area. It has the potential to dramatically reduce costs for some routes&#x2F;corridors.<p>It will be a big hit in these areas. It will have a large impact on a very specific niche. There&#x27;s nothing wrong with that. These aren&#x27;t going to be used by independent truckers. It&#x27;s not for them. It&#x27;s for drivers making the same 80-100 mile or so trip from port to warehouse every day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>retromario</author><text>What about the 4 examples of other electric semis shared at the end of the original thread?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;TOrynski&#x2F;status&#x2F;1600970796159336449" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;TOrynski&#x2F;status&#x2F;1600970796159336449</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Tesla Semi cab from the practical POV of someone who drives trucks</title><url>https://twitter.com/torynski/status/1600968583055826944</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>themagician</author><text>In an ideal environment the operating cost of a Tesla Semi is about 1&#x2F;3rd (conservative estimate) that of a diesel.<p>That environment is, again, very specific. But if your routes are short and predictable, you have massive warehouse space for solar, and you can get your average electricity cost as low as Tesla can then it pays off. 1 million miles in a diesel is going to cost well over $1 million dollars (including the price of the cab). With a Tesla Semi that cost is at least half… IF you can get the electricity cost low enough.</text></item><item><author>another_devy</author><text>Even in this case what advantage it has over existing electric trucks which don’t have these design flaws?</text></item><item><author>themagician</author><text>Most of the criticism assumes people will be in these cabs for 8 hours at a time. They won&#x27;t. This is for very short trips. We are talking 80-100 mi each way. 2-3 hrs in each direction, max. It&#x27;s not for independent truckers.</text></item><item><author>elijaht</author><text>I don&#x27;t see how that is relevant. Nearly all of the criticisms posed (maybe not the snow one?) would still be relevant to a driver in the situation you describe. This has nothing to do with range or even the fact that it&#x27;s electric</text></item><item><author>themagician</author><text>Tesla knows all this.<p>This truck is for a very specific niche: owned fleets near two warehouses or within a 500 mile round trip from a major port. Basically: all the warehouses in the Inland Empire near LAX and Long Beach and the warehouses in the Newark area that service the NYC metro area. It has the potential to dramatically reduce costs for some routes&#x2F;corridors.<p>It will be a big hit in these areas. It will have a large impact on a very specific niche. There&#x27;s nothing wrong with that. These aren&#x27;t going to be used by independent truckers. It&#x27;s not for them. It&#x27;s for drivers making the same 80-100 mile or so trip from port to warehouse every day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Chirono</author><text>Yes there are:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.volvotrucks.com&#x2F;en-en&#x2F;trucks&#x2F;alternative-fuels&#x2F;electric-trucks.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.volvotrucks.com&#x2F;en-en&#x2F;trucks&#x2F;alternative-fuels&#x2F;e...</a></text></comment> |
9,047,072 | 9,046,652 | 1 | 2 | 9,045,305 | train | <story><title>Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox</title><url>http://gizmodo.com/fuck-it-im-going-back-to-firefox-1685425815</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jcoffland</author><text>I regularly have several hundred tabs open in Firefox with no problems. Some people may think this is crazy or messy but I find it very useful for organizing the various projects I&#x27;m working on for different clients and my own personal projects. Tab groups and delayed loading make it all very smooth. Such usage is just not possible with Chrome. I tried to switch to Chrome but couldn&#x27;t find the features I needed and did not wish to change my workflow.<p>Back when Chrome came out Firefox was buggy. Since then it has become much more stable. Chrome is the one that&#x27;s buggy now. One process per tab means that a bug in one tab does not take down the whole browser but it is much better to just fix the bugs and not crash at all.</text></item><item><author>FilterJoe</author><text>The problem is using many open tabs with Chrome. If you use no more than 3 or 4 tabs, Chrome is generally fine. If you use more than that, Firefox has some built-in features to help with tabs such as delayed tab loading and tab grouping. It also has more and better extensions for helping with multiple tabs. Furthermore, it doesn&#x27;t launch a new process for each tab.<p>In a browser comparison I wrote last month, I included a section for users who like to keep a lot of tabs open. Even Opera, which uses the same code base as Chrome, does tabs better than Chrome:<p><a href="http://www.filterjoe.com/2015/01/23/best-browsers-2015-which-browser-is-best-for-you/#ManyTabs" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.filterjoe.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;01&#x2F;23&#x2F;best-browsers-2015-which...</a></text></item><item><author>gvb</author><text>I read the article hoping for something insightful, but when I read the paragraph <i>...a half-dozen tabs that auto-open on launch thanks to the dozens of extensions I&#x27;ve accumulated over the years[...]</i> I had to stop and say &quot;wait, what?&quot;<p>To leverage his analogy that it is <i>like coming home to a new house to find that most of your stuff is already there,</i> it is like not cleaning your house and not taking out the trash for three years and then moving into a new house. Yeah, it&#x27;s clean and new, but <i>why</i> is it better and <i>will it stay better?</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zetafunction</author><text>As a Chrome developer, I agree that process-per-tab absolutely should not be a replacement for fixing bugs. However, I think it&#x27;s important to point out that process-per-tab is not just for stability: it&#x27;s also critical for security.</text></comment> | <story><title>Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox</title><url>http://gizmodo.com/fuck-it-im-going-back-to-firefox-1685425815</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jcoffland</author><text>I regularly have several hundred tabs open in Firefox with no problems. Some people may think this is crazy or messy but I find it very useful for organizing the various projects I&#x27;m working on for different clients and my own personal projects. Tab groups and delayed loading make it all very smooth. Such usage is just not possible with Chrome. I tried to switch to Chrome but couldn&#x27;t find the features I needed and did not wish to change my workflow.<p>Back when Chrome came out Firefox was buggy. Since then it has become much more stable. Chrome is the one that&#x27;s buggy now. One process per tab means that a bug in one tab does not take down the whole browser but it is much better to just fix the bugs and not crash at all.</text></item><item><author>FilterJoe</author><text>The problem is using many open tabs with Chrome. If you use no more than 3 or 4 tabs, Chrome is generally fine. If you use more than that, Firefox has some built-in features to help with tabs such as delayed tab loading and tab grouping. It also has more and better extensions for helping with multiple tabs. Furthermore, it doesn&#x27;t launch a new process for each tab.<p>In a browser comparison I wrote last month, I included a section for users who like to keep a lot of tabs open. Even Opera, which uses the same code base as Chrome, does tabs better than Chrome:<p><a href="http://www.filterjoe.com/2015/01/23/best-browsers-2015-which-browser-is-best-for-you/#ManyTabs" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.filterjoe.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;01&#x2F;23&#x2F;best-browsers-2015-which...</a></text></item><item><author>gvb</author><text>I read the article hoping for something insightful, but when I read the paragraph <i>...a half-dozen tabs that auto-open on launch thanks to the dozens of extensions I&#x27;ve accumulated over the years[...]</i> I had to stop and say &quot;wait, what?&quot;<p>To leverage his analogy that it is <i>like coming home to a new house to find that most of your stuff is already there,</i> it is like not cleaning your house and not taking out the trash for three years and then moving into a new house. Yeah, it&#x27;s clean and new, but <i>why</i> is it better and <i>will it stay better?</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yellowapple</author><text>I do the same thing; it&#x27;s incredibly easy to do with the Tree View Tabs extension.<p>For example, while browsing HN, I&#x27;ll frequently just middle-click a bunch of article links and (occasionally) their comments, then read them once I have a sizable queue. Same goes for trying to look up documentation to fix some bug in my code; I&#x27;ll start with a DuckDuckGo search and, suddenly, I have at least a dozen (sometimes multiple dozens) tabs open with Stack Overflow questions and blog posts and official online docs and such with clues pointing me in the right direction.</text></comment> |
31,528,560 | 31,527,517 | 1 | 3 | 31,524,943 | train | <story><title>In search of the least viewed article on Wikipedia</title><url>http://colinmorris.github.io/blog/unpopular-wiki-articles</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>onychomys</author><text>&gt; there’s unfortunately no easy way to sort out the least viewed pages, short of a very slow linear search for the needle in the haystack<p>So this sentence made me wonder why he didn&#x27;t actually just go do it, 6M pages isn&#x27;t really all that big of a data set. Turns out that it&#x27;s a problem of how the data is arranged. The raw files are divided by year&#x2F;month&#x2F;day&#x2F;second[0], and then each of those seconds is a zipped file of about 500MB in size, where pages are listed like this:<p>en.m Alcibiades_(character) 1 0<p>en.m Alcibiades_DeBlanc 2 0<p>en.m Alcibiades_the_Schoolboy 1 0<p>en.m Alcide_De_Gasperi 2 0<p>en.m Alcide_Herveaux 1 0<p>en.m Alcide_Laurin 1 0<p>en.m Alcide_de_Gasperi 1 0<p>en.m Alcides_Escobar 3 0<p>en.m Alcimus_(mythology) 1 0<p>with en.m getting a separate listing from the desktop em, and all the other country codes getting their own listings too. So just collating the data would be a huge job.<p>The API also doesn&#x27;t offer a specific list of all pages by time, so you&#x27;d have to go and make a separate call for each of the 6M pages for a given year and then collate that data too.<p>[0]for example, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dumps.wikimedia.org&#x2F;other&#x2F;pageviews&#x2F;2019&#x2F;2019-01&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dumps.wikimedia.org&#x2F;other&#x2F;pageviews&#x2F;2019&#x2F;2019-01&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>In search of the least viewed article on Wikipedia</title><url>http://colinmorris.github.io/blog/unpopular-wiki-articles</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dmix</author><text>I noticed moths came up a couple times, a brief guess why: Wikipedia says it&#x27;s &quot;one of most speciose orders&quot; (besides flies and beetles). But maybe it has the most pages because they are so easy to catch with a light in your backyard, that it&#x27;s far easier to name them all than something parasitoid wasps [1]?<p>Although this same paper says that &quot;more species of beetles (&gt;350,000) have been described than any other order of animal, insect or otherwise&quot;<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.biorxiv.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;10.1101&#x2F;274431v1.full.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.biorxiv.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;10.1101&#x2F;274431v1.full.pdf</a><p>Just speculation...</text></comment> |
36,440,722 | 36,437,621 | 1 | 2 | 36,437,120 | train | <story><title>Debris Field Confirmed as Titan</title><url>https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/submarine-titantic-missing-submersible-tourists-latest-b2360568.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckNorris89</author><text>Just how instant is that death? Do you die from quickly drowning in the water or is the water pressure enough to also crush your skull quick enough to make sure you die without having the chance to feel anything?<p>Guillotined people can still be alive and feel about 30 second safter their head has been removed from their body.</text></item><item><author>giarc</author><text>Somewhere a redditor did the math and I believe it would have taken 24ms for the glass to break and the water to rush in. Instant death if it was indeed the glass.</text></item><item><author>legitster</author><text>In a weird way, this is almost relieving. The speculation that they were suffocated and entombed in their own filth somewhere on the ocean as they died slowly seemed so, so much worse.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simonblack</author><text>I did read somewhere (I don&#x27;t remember exactly where) that when there is an implosion at great depth the air in the submarine is compressed so quickly that anything flammable (specifically human bodies, plastics, etc) would burn up instantly. So it&#x27;s a bit like the explosion of the fuel-air mixture in a diesel engine.</text></comment> | <story><title>Debris Field Confirmed as Titan</title><url>https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/submarine-titantic-missing-submersible-tourists-latest-b2360568.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckNorris89</author><text>Just how instant is that death? Do you die from quickly drowning in the water or is the water pressure enough to also crush your skull quick enough to make sure you die without having the chance to feel anything?<p>Guillotined people can still be alive and feel about 30 second safter their head has been removed from their body.</text></item><item><author>giarc</author><text>Somewhere a redditor did the math and I believe it would have taken 24ms for the glass to break and the water to rush in. Instant death if it was indeed the glass.</text></item><item><author>legitster</author><text>In a weird way, this is almost relieving. The speculation that they were suffocated and entombed in their own filth somewhere on the ocean as they died slowly seemed so, so much worse.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Merad</author><text>The pressure at that depth is something like 5000 psi. You&#x27;re literally dead before your brain has time to comprehend what&#x27;s happening.</text></comment> |
4,474,482 | 4,474,287 | 1 | 2 | 4,474,059 | train | <story><title>Benjamin Franklin's 13 virtues</title><url>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin#Thirteen_Virtues</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rodly</author><text>Only one I disagree with is #12, "Chastity. Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation.", this is breaking his own moderation virtue and is heavily motivated by social pressures on sex.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colmvp</author><text>Maybe he learned something after frequenting brothels (<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2009/03/were_there_sex_shops_in_the_time_of_george_washington.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/20...</a>) and siring an illegitimate son in his youth (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Franklin" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Franklin</a>).</text></comment> | <story><title>Benjamin Franklin's 13 virtues</title><url>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin#Thirteen_Virtues</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rodly</author><text>Only one I disagree with is #12, "Chastity. Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation.", this is breaking his own moderation virtue and is heavily motivated by social pressures on sex.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dkhenry</author><text>I don't think so. I think he is making a conscious decision to limit something in his life that is not necessary, and that he might find as a distraction. Sexuality for all its enjoyable qualities can be a distraction to the best of us, and there is nothing wrong with taking an attitude towards it that says I will limit something that is good and I enjoy for something I perceive to be better.</text></comment> |
37,863,407 | 37,862,314 | 1 | 2 | 37,861,467 | train | <story><title>Has Play Protect removed KDE Connect from your phone? Let us know</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/175upzi/has_play_protect_removed_kde_connect_from_your/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nologic01</author><text>This is an interesting exhibit as KDE Connect is an example of a <i>powerful</i> app. Powerful apps that do non-trivial things are needed to extract the potential of these wonderful devices. But they sail too close to the wind for the gatekeepers that rather keep them dumb devices locked and &quot;safe&quot;.<p>Over time this is going to stiffle innovation big time.</text></comment> | <story><title>Has Play Protect removed KDE Connect from your phone? Let us know</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/175upzi/has_play_protect_removed_kde_connect_from_your/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wing-_-nuts</author><text>Still seems to be present on my phone.<p>I <i>love</i> that little app. It&#x27;s so dang useful to be able to wirelessly copy files from my pc to my phone and vice versa. I previously tried a sftp client on android (terminus?) to no avail.<p>Edit: I installed via the play store, I see many folks have installed it via fdroid but I&#x27;m not sure why.</text></comment> |
40,640,676 | 40,640,445 | 1 | 2 | 40,637,102 | train | <story><title>Deterioration of local community a major driver of loss of play-based childhood</title><url>https://www.afterbabel.com/p/community-based-childhood</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sircastor</author><text>I think it&#x27;s trying to <i>appear</i> to be science. They want the appearance of legitimacy and objectivity to encourage a particular position.<p>A quick read through of the site shows it&#x27;s a conservative-leaning group, and I&#x27;d be willing to bet that sooner-or-later they&#x27;ll be pushing &quot;a return to traditional values&quot; as the cure for all our ills.</text></item><item><author>WorkerBee28474</author><text>&gt; All in all, this is not science<p>It&#x27;s not trying to be. The intended audience is not peers reading a research journal, it&#x27;s normal folks and policy makers who don&#x27;t know what a confounding variable is but still want to make modern life suck less.</text></item><item><author>chris_va</author><text>Apologies for being critical, but this reads like the author had a conclusion they wanted to reach and worked backward to some flashy graphs to make it work (the right side of the &quot;lies, damn lies, and statistics&quot; spectrum).<p>There is no discussion of confounders, no control groups or paired studies, and there are million things correlated with the last 50 of societal development years besides the topics mentioned here. The mention of phones and other influences in teen behavior is completely unrelated to the main point in the discussion and just serves to provide credibility by association.<p>All in all, this is not science, it is just a reductionist oped presented as fact using classic internet hooks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WorkerBee28474</author><text>&gt; A quick read through of the site shows it&#x27;s a conservative-leaning group<p>While there&#x27;s nothing wrong with being conservative, the group&#x27;s founder is a self-described Democrat.<p>&gt; I&#x27;d be willing to bet that sooner-or-later they&#x27;ll be pushing &quot;a return to traditional values&quot; as the cure for all our ills<p>If &quot;growing up in close-knit communities&quot; (from the article) is a traditional value, then yes, they are saying that would be a good thing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Deterioration of local community a major driver of loss of play-based childhood</title><url>https://www.afterbabel.com/p/community-based-childhood</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sircastor</author><text>I think it&#x27;s trying to <i>appear</i> to be science. They want the appearance of legitimacy and objectivity to encourage a particular position.<p>A quick read through of the site shows it&#x27;s a conservative-leaning group, and I&#x27;d be willing to bet that sooner-or-later they&#x27;ll be pushing &quot;a return to traditional values&quot; as the cure for all our ills.</text></item><item><author>WorkerBee28474</author><text>&gt; All in all, this is not science<p>It&#x27;s not trying to be. The intended audience is not peers reading a research journal, it&#x27;s normal folks and policy makers who don&#x27;t know what a confounding variable is but still want to make modern life suck less.</text></item><item><author>chris_va</author><text>Apologies for being critical, but this reads like the author had a conclusion they wanted to reach and worked backward to some flashy graphs to make it work (the right side of the &quot;lies, damn lies, and statistics&quot; spectrum).<p>There is no discussion of confounders, no control groups or paired studies, and there are million things correlated with the last 50 of societal development years besides the topics mentioned here. The mention of phones and other influences in teen behavior is completely unrelated to the main point in the discussion and just serves to provide credibility by association.<p>All in all, this is not science, it is just a reductionist oped presented as fact using classic internet hooks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jasonfarnon</author><text>A quick read through of the site shows it&#x27;s a conservative-leaning group,<p>this is neat, using guilt by association to support a comment alleging the fallacy of guilt by association</text></comment> |
32,501,650 | 32,501,508 | 1 | 2 | 32,500,944 | train | <story><title>Saudi Arabia sentenced a woman to 34 years in prison for tweeting</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/17/23310126/twitter-saudi-woman-sentenced-34-years-salma-al-shehab</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jfax</author><text>I&#x27;m reminded of how under in the UK a person was made to do community service after making a tweet.[1] Obviously not as steep of a sentencing, but a prosecution nonetheless. I only point that out because reading these headlines now doesn&#x27;t make me feel protective of liberal democracy, it only makes me despair of a global trend.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;3&#x2F;31&#x2F;23004339&#x2F;uk-twitter-user-sentenced-grossly-offensive-tweet-tom-moore-joseph-kelly" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;3&#x2F;31&#x2F;23004339&#x2F;uk-twitter-user-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Saudi Arabia sentenced a woman to 34 years in prison for tweeting</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/17/23310126/twitter-saudi-woman-sentenced-34-years-salma-al-shehab</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jiggawatts</author><text>Any time you read a headline like this, replace the innocuous-sounding non-crime (“tweeting”) with “upsetting people in power.”<p>Suddenly you’ll realise that the same kind of thing happens everywhere in the world.<p>E.g.: Julian Assange, who’s main crime was <i>upsetting people in power</i>.<p>Unless you think it’s a crime worthy of being hounded for over a decade by multiple nations’ security agencies for trying to — and failing — to reverse an NT hash.<p>Because that’s the “crime” they’re extraditing him for.</text></comment> |
28,000,029 | 28,000,026 | 1 | 3 | 27,998,878 | train | <story><title>Activision Blizzard Hires Notorious Union-Busting Firm WilmerHale</title><url>https://www.promethean.news/news/activision-hires-notorious-union-busting-firm-wilmerhale</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kelnos</author><text>I don&#x27;t really understand this attitude, or line of reasoning, or whatever you want to call it.<p>Sure, if a company does something that you find reprehensible, not giving them further money (or attention) is certainly a reasonable -- and honorable! -- thing to do.<p>But if you&#x27;ve already purchased a standalone[0], non-subscription product from that company, and that company doesn&#x27;t gain any benefit from your further use of that product (or lose anything from you stopping use), I feel like you&#x27;re only hurting yourself if you stop using it.<p>I will concede that if the act of playing one of these standalone games makes you think of the bad thing the company did and makes you angry&#x2F;upset, I guess it makes sense to stop playing them. But unless the bad thing they did is something personally&#x2F;viscerally important to you, it feels like that&#x27;s a bit of an odd trigger.<p>[0] If the game is multiplayer, and connects to a company-run server, I guess you could make the argument that they benefit in some way from their active-users numbers being higher. I personally don&#x27;t find that argument all that compelling, but everyone can of course decide where the cutoff of benefit is for them.</text></item><item><author>brainfish</author><text>I cut my teeth on Diablo, and played Diablo II for probably fifteen years after its release off and on as a way to stay connected with a friend who loved it similarly. More recently, I have consistently played Starcraft II since its release and enjoy a sense of mastery over that game unparalleled by my experience in any other.<p>I haven&#x27;t purchased new Blizzard products since the Hong Kong censorship debacle[1] and quit playing Hearthstone at that time. However I had still played some of my other old favorites, reasoning that I was not providing them further financial support. The recent announcements about their terrible, sexist culture had challenged that notion for me, and I was not sure what to do.<p>This news is the straw that breaks <i>my</i> back. That Activision&#x2F;Blizzard would double down on their despicable behavior and stance in this way is completely beyond the pale, and I for one will never again fire up those games that I loved so much.<p>Thanks for ruining that for me, Blizzard.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Blitzchung_controversy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Blitzchung_controversy</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ctrl-j</author><text>One of the things that companies rely on these days is engagement and playerbase. If you don&#x27;t find that compelling, that&#x27;s up to you, but Blizzard invests millions every year into maintaining their playerbase - so at least <i>they</i> find it compelling.<p>Just by being a part of the starcraft community, you are providing support to activision blizzard.<p>If we were talking about offline-only non-community driven content, sure... but this is a company that is almost entirely driven off of multiplayer games.</text></comment> | <story><title>Activision Blizzard Hires Notorious Union-Busting Firm WilmerHale</title><url>https://www.promethean.news/news/activision-hires-notorious-union-busting-firm-wilmerhale</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kelnos</author><text>I don&#x27;t really understand this attitude, or line of reasoning, or whatever you want to call it.<p>Sure, if a company does something that you find reprehensible, not giving them further money (or attention) is certainly a reasonable -- and honorable! -- thing to do.<p>But if you&#x27;ve already purchased a standalone[0], non-subscription product from that company, and that company doesn&#x27;t gain any benefit from your further use of that product (or lose anything from you stopping use), I feel like you&#x27;re only hurting yourself if you stop using it.<p>I will concede that if the act of playing one of these standalone games makes you think of the bad thing the company did and makes you angry&#x2F;upset, I guess it makes sense to stop playing them. But unless the bad thing they did is something personally&#x2F;viscerally important to you, it feels like that&#x27;s a bit of an odd trigger.<p>[0] If the game is multiplayer, and connects to a company-run server, I guess you could make the argument that they benefit in some way from their active-users numbers being higher. I personally don&#x27;t find that argument all that compelling, but everyone can of course decide where the cutoff of benefit is for them.</text></item><item><author>brainfish</author><text>I cut my teeth on Diablo, and played Diablo II for probably fifteen years after its release off and on as a way to stay connected with a friend who loved it similarly. More recently, I have consistently played Starcraft II since its release and enjoy a sense of mastery over that game unparalleled by my experience in any other.<p>I haven&#x27;t purchased new Blizzard products since the Hong Kong censorship debacle[1] and quit playing Hearthstone at that time. However I had still played some of my other old favorites, reasoning that I was not providing them further financial support. The recent announcements about their terrible, sexist culture had challenged that notion for me, and I was not sure what to do.<p>This news is the straw that breaks <i>my</i> back. That Activision&#x2F;Blizzard would double down on their despicable behavior and stance in this way is completely beyond the pale, and I for one will never again fire up those games that I loved so much.<p>Thanks for ruining that for me, Blizzard.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Blitzchung_controversy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Blitzchung_controversy</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>donmcronald</author><text>Maybe it’s just a normal thing as you get older, but knowing the company mistreated people sucks the fun out of it for me. I’m not completely against playing the stuff I’ve already paid for, but they won’t get another penny from me.<p>I’d like to have a database that tracks the C-Suite employees. I’d personally boycott any company that hires any of them. Their careers should be over IMO. I wish we could take away Bobby’s money too, but that’ll never happen.</text></comment> |
23,398,189 | 23,395,417 | 1 | 2 | 23,392,246 | train | <story><title>Dust in the Light</title><url>https://stratechery.com/2020/dust-in-the-light/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmode</author><text>I love Ben Thompson&#x27;s writing and I like how he accurately connects the history of institutional racism to the events of today. I have seen a few articles of this kind, and it seems like in today&#x27;s America vast majority of people (except a few Trump holdouts) have acknowledged that the historical arc of slavery to segregation to white flight to real estate discrimination has led to where we are.<p>However, what I don&#x27;t hear is radical solution to this problem. Even in Obama&#x27;s medium essay, the solution is deep police and criminal justice reform. Which, while important, is incremental. What we need here is a step change to course correct 400 years of history. And incremental changes do not cut it. Here are some step change suggestions<p>1)Trillions of dollars of reparations
2) A generous UBI
3) Free healthcare
4) Trillions of investment in schools in poorer neighborhoods
5) A dramatic rise in minimum wage<p>In pre-COVID world, I would accept a reasonable pushback against this suggestion was &quot;deficit&quot; &quot;debt&quot; etc. But COVID has exposed these pushbacks was hypocritical (puts a stark spotlight on the hypocritical Tea Party movement). We printed trillions of dollars overnight to save small and big businesses, and employees. Why can&#x27;t we move at that scale ? If we can suddenly print that much money, what is stopping us from massive investments in our most disadvantaged communities to undo 400 years of history ?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>twunde</author><text>Tangent:
For anyone who wants to learn more about the history of instutional racism in the US, in particular the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, The Color of Law (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Color-Law-Forgotten-Government-Segregated&#x2F;dp&#x2F;1631492853" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Color-Law-Forgotten-Government-Segreg...</a>) goes into detail about the history of red lining and how it was GOVERNMENT-supported. For those bothered by the curfews imposed across the US, I&#x27;d also recommend Sundown Towns (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Sundown-Towns-Hidden-Dimension-American&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0743294483" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Sundown-Towns-Hidden-Dimension-Americ...</a>), which discusses how many metropolitan areas had unofficial but very much enforced curfews for minorities.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dust in the Light</title><url>https://stratechery.com/2020/dust-in-the-light/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmode</author><text>I love Ben Thompson&#x27;s writing and I like how he accurately connects the history of institutional racism to the events of today. I have seen a few articles of this kind, and it seems like in today&#x27;s America vast majority of people (except a few Trump holdouts) have acknowledged that the historical arc of slavery to segregation to white flight to real estate discrimination has led to where we are.<p>However, what I don&#x27;t hear is radical solution to this problem. Even in Obama&#x27;s medium essay, the solution is deep police and criminal justice reform. Which, while important, is incremental. What we need here is a step change to course correct 400 years of history. And incremental changes do not cut it. Here are some step change suggestions<p>1)Trillions of dollars of reparations
2) A generous UBI
3) Free healthcare
4) Trillions of investment in schools in poorer neighborhoods
5) A dramatic rise in minimum wage<p>In pre-COVID world, I would accept a reasonable pushback against this suggestion was &quot;deficit&quot; &quot;debt&quot; etc. But COVID has exposed these pushbacks was hypocritical (puts a stark spotlight on the hypocritical Tea Party movement). We printed trillions of dollars overnight to save small and big businesses, and employees. Why can&#x27;t we move at that scale ? If we can suddenly print that much money, what is stopping us from massive investments in our most disadvantaged communities to undo 400 years of history ?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>disease</author><text>Economic parity would go a long way towards solving these problems, I don&#x27;t think they can happen before white racial resentment is solved. It&#x27;s interesting that so many working class whites are so willing to vote against their own economic self interest - particular where the possibility of raising the levels of working class blacks is concerned. Last Place Aversion is a very real thing it seems.</text></comment> |
11,844,095 | 11,843,998 | 1 | 2 | 11,843,477 | train | <story><title>Panama Papers Reveal How Wealthy Americans Hid Millions Overseas</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/06/us/panama-papers.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Negative1</author><text>No offense to you but that is absolute and utter bullshit. The tax process being exploited has nothing to do with it being inefficient and burdensome. It is in fact that way to obfuscate the external influences that incorporated all the loopholes that very well trained attorneys that only the wealthy can afford are incentivized to take advantage of.<p>Your &#x27;institute my idea and it will fix everything I promise&#x27; idea has basically been why many Presidents have been elected and yet nothing has really improved.<p>The problem is not simple but the root is; while the wealthy can influence the process of how much they pay in taxes, the system will continue to be in their favor. How do we fix that? Damned if I know.</text></item><item><author>matt_wulfeck</author><text>I really believe the best way to combat tax evasion is to make the tax process easier, more efficient, and less burdensome, especially to wealthy earners.<p>It is <i>insane</i> the amount of work that I put into my taxes each year, only because we have a small business and doing things right versus doing things wrong is a difference in the tens of thousands of dollars. The extraordinary amount of loopholes and special interests means you need experts. And as I&#x27;ve said before here, the current tax system exist in the interest and benefit of large companies, not small companies or individuals.<p>If we instituted an overnight 9%, 9%, 9% &quot;Simcity Tax&quot; system and eliminated the massive tax loopholes that exist in all levels of the tax code, then I guarantee that money would come <i>pouring</i> back into the United States.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smsm42</author><text>It has actually a lot to do with it. For two main reasons:<p>1. All tax complications, special exceptions, special deductions, etc. usually meant to benefit some behaviors and&#x2F;or punish some other behaviors. One can&#x27;t wonder then that some people use these regulations to reduce their tax load - that&#x27;s exactly how they are supposed to work! If you put into the law, say, deduction for making a movie, because you want more movies to be made, and then somebody makes a movie with the purpose of lowering the taxes, you got exactly what you wanted. It may be a crappy movie because its sole purpose was to avoid taxes, but that&#x27;s still how it supposed to work. More you have special regulations, more you have ways to play them to reduce your taxes.<p>2. Tax scheming is not free. It takes a lot of inconveniences, highly paid specialists and paperwork to achieve. If the cost of compliance is high, it makes sense to scheme, but if compliance is very cheap but scheming is expensive, not a lot of people would bother with scheming. Some, of course, still will, but there is still a reverse proportion between cost of compliance and incentive to scheme.<p>&gt; The problem is not simple but the root is; while the wealthy can influence the process of how much they pay in taxes, the system will continue to be in their favor.<p>How is it in their favor exactly? Top quintile has about half of total income in US and pays about 2&#x2F;3 of overall taxes. That&#x27;s some unusual definition of favorable treatment.</text></comment> | <story><title>Panama Papers Reveal How Wealthy Americans Hid Millions Overseas</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/06/us/panama-papers.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Negative1</author><text>No offense to you but that is absolute and utter bullshit. The tax process being exploited has nothing to do with it being inefficient and burdensome. It is in fact that way to obfuscate the external influences that incorporated all the loopholes that very well trained attorneys that only the wealthy can afford are incentivized to take advantage of.<p>Your &#x27;institute my idea and it will fix everything I promise&#x27; idea has basically been why many Presidents have been elected and yet nothing has really improved.<p>The problem is not simple but the root is; while the wealthy can influence the process of how much they pay in taxes, the system will continue to be in their favor. How do we fix that? Damned if I know.</text></item><item><author>matt_wulfeck</author><text>I really believe the best way to combat tax evasion is to make the tax process easier, more efficient, and less burdensome, especially to wealthy earners.<p>It is <i>insane</i> the amount of work that I put into my taxes each year, only because we have a small business and doing things right versus doing things wrong is a difference in the tens of thousands of dollars. The extraordinary amount of loopholes and special interests means you need experts. And as I&#x27;ve said before here, the current tax system exist in the interest and benefit of large companies, not small companies or individuals.<p>If we instituted an overnight 9%, 9%, 9% &quot;Simcity Tax&quot; system and eliminated the massive tax loopholes that exist in all levels of the tax code, then I guarantee that money would come <i>pouring</i> back into the United States.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>um_ya</author><text>You don&#x27;t need to be a millionaire to use these tax loopholes. I calculated that it would take $2600 a year to maintain an offshore structure. That includes an offshore LLC and trust in Belize (the best jurisdiction). The Belize trust owns membership position in your Belize LLC, and your Belize LLC has control over the trust. Then you just appoint yourself as manager of the LLC. Once that&#x27;s done, you can simply open bank accounts or brokerage accounts in the LLC name.</text></comment> |
27,513,968 | 27,513,746 | 1 | 2 | 27,513,037 | train | <story><title>Big tech face EU blow in national data watchdogs ruling</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/top-eu-court-says-national-watchdogs-may-act-against-violations-blow-facebook-2021-06-15/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>axlee</author><text>&gt;How about actually supporting the European Tech industry instead of just adding endless bureaucracy?<p>Why do you make it sound like they don&#x27;t? The EU invests massive amounts in technology (in regards to its paltry investment budget, but that&#x27;s another debate).<p>One does not prevent the other. And calling regulations against clear abuse &quot;endless bureaucracy&quot; is insidious at best.</text></item><item><author>nivenkos</author><text>How about actually supporting the European Tech industry instead of just adding endless bureaucracy?<p>Ban Oracle and Microsoft from public procurement and start supporting the European equivalent of Baidu or Yandex. With ARM (prior to the acquisition), Linux, MariaDB, etc. - Europe was in a great position to do this.<p>We need to stop this digital colonialism where massive, monopolistic US corporations pay no taxes in Europe, and then take all the profits back to the US where they pay 3x the salaries - only supporting the US economy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway12509</author><text>I believe the EU would be better off if it just deleted its technology funding apparatus and tried to rebuild something like DARPA, while focusing on procurement like the poster suggested.<p>There is a huge amount of money available, but it&#x27;s locked behind layers and layers of bureaucracy. It is a huge waste of time on both sides, for some anecdotal I&#x27;m procrastinating from an application as I type. I should be coding or doing something otherwise useful.<p>The situation has devolved to where startups treat public funding as though it were revenue and have dedicated teams to chase it.<p>The Economist had an article here a few days ago lamenting that Europe fails to produce IPOs, which is where the actual problem lies. If ExpectedValue[European Startup] = ExpectedValue[Startup] | No IPO, then it&#x27;s no wonder European startups are valued at 10% of their US counterparts.<p>The EU needs to get out of the way and end its Lots of Little Winners policy, because without winners you just wind up with Lots of Little Losers in a globalised economy.</text></comment> | <story><title>Big tech face EU blow in national data watchdogs ruling</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/top-eu-court-says-national-watchdogs-may-act-against-violations-blow-facebook-2021-06-15/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>axlee</author><text>&gt;How about actually supporting the European Tech industry instead of just adding endless bureaucracy?<p>Why do you make it sound like they don&#x27;t? The EU invests massive amounts in technology (in regards to its paltry investment budget, but that&#x27;s another debate).<p>One does not prevent the other. And calling regulations against clear abuse &quot;endless bureaucracy&quot; is insidious at best.</text></item><item><author>nivenkos</author><text>How about actually supporting the European Tech industry instead of just adding endless bureaucracy?<p>Ban Oracle and Microsoft from public procurement and start supporting the European equivalent of Baidu or Yandex. With ARM (prior to the acquisition), Linux, MariaDB, etc. - Europe was in a great position to do this.<p>We need to stop this digital colonialism where massive, monopolistic US corporations pay no taxes in Europe, and then take all the profits back to the US where they pay 3x the salaries - only supporting the US economy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>YorkshireSeason</author><text>&gt; EU invests massive amounts in technology<p>An interesting question is: what&#x27;s the ROI of this investment. Anecdotally, the over the last 50 years the EU has been loosing their leadership in field after field. First to the US, then Japan, S Korea, Taiwan, now China. With the loss of the UK Arm is no longer an EU company. Have you looked into Linux commits recently [1], or where papers come from in the top CS conferences?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.itsfoss.com&#x2F;huawei-kernel-contribution&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.itsfoss.com&#x2F;huawei-kernel-contribution&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
12,250,007 | 12,249,389 | 1 | 2 | 12,247,306 | train | <story><title>Confirmed: Walmart buys Jet.com for $3B in cash</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/08/confirmed-walmart-buys-jet-com-for-3b-in-cash/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>KenCochrane</author><text>Jet.com ran a contest where they gave 100,000 shares as the top prize for the most signup referrals. This Guy is probably one happy guy right now. He spent $18k and the value of those stocks are probably worth in the millions.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;jet-insiders-referral-program-winner-2015-2" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;jet-insiders-referral-program...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nugget</author><text>The last $350 million round @ a $1.6 billion valuation priced common shares @ $5&#x2F;share implying ~ 320 million common shares (napkin math ignoring a bunch of other variables). 100,000 options would represent .03125% of the company. Assuming the strike price was at least $500 million (maybe more), that&#x27;s a gain of $781,250, or ~ 43x on his initial $18k investment. A great angel investment for sure, but perhaps not millions. If that&#x27;s truly the same number of options that some of the earliest employees were granted (as mentioned in the article), then I feel bad for those employees as they probably deserved a bit more.</text></comment> | <story><title>Confirmed: Walmart buys Jet.com for $3B in cash</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/08/confirmed-walmart-buys-jet-com-for-3b-in-cash/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>KenCochrane</author><text>Jet.com ran a contest where they gave 100,000 shares as the top prize for the most signup referrals. This Guy is probably one happy guy right now. He spent $18k and the value of those stocks are probably worth in the millions.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;jet-insiders-referral-program-winner-2015-2" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;jet-insiders-referral-program...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Zombieball</author><text>I wonder what the specifics are. It says &quot;stock options&quot; in the linked article and &quot;He&#x27;ll be able to vest or exercise his stock options if Jet ever goes public or sells to another company.&quot;<p>I always hear stories about early stage employees getting the short end of the stick during acquisitions. Could there be a chance that this acquisition ends up not in his favor and he is out $18k?</text></comment> |
26,412,272 | 26,411,197 | 1 | 3 | 26,409,820 | train | <story><title>Authelia is an open-source authentication/authorization server with 2FA/SSO</title><url>https://github.com/authelia/authelia</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hardwaresofton</author><text>Personally I think of Authelia and Keratin as really good projects in the don&#x27;t-build-auth-into-your-apps-ever-again space. If auth isn&#x27;t already built into your app gateway&#x2F;mesh&#x2F;proxy, then these services might be something worth dropping alongside.<p>A few more projects in this space:<p>- Keycloak (you won&#x27;t get fired for picking this)[0]<p>- CloudFoundry&#x27;s UAA[1]<p>- Gluu [2]<p>- ORY (Hydra + friends)[3]<p>- Keratin [4]<p>- OpenUnison [5]<p>- Dex[6]<p>- Netlify&#x27;s GoTrue[7]<p>All of these solutions are a bit different but here are some of the axes:<p>- Whether or not they function as an OAuth provider<p>- Whether they&#x27;re centered around application-user-login via mechanisms like email&#x2F;password, application auth, or SSO<p>- Whether or not they serve as a proxy to another down-the-line OAuth provider (Dex, GoTrue)<p>- GUI availability<p>- F&#x2F;OSS-ness (basically all of them have very permissive licenses)<p>[EDIT] More entries for this list in another comment @ <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26411457" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26411457</a><p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.keycloak.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.keycloak.org&#x2F;</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cloudfoundry&#x2F;uaa" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cloudfoundry&#x2F;uaa</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gluu.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;gluu-server&#x2F;4.2&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gluu.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;gluu-server&#x2F;4.2&#x2F;</a><p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ory&#x2F;hydra#what-is-ory-hydra" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ory&#x2F;hydra#what-is-ory-hydra</a><p>[4]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;keratin.github.io&#x2F;authn-server&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;keratin.github.io&#x2F;authn-server&#x2F;</a><p>[5]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tremolosecurity&#x2F;openunison" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tremolosecurity&#x2F;openunison</a><p>[6]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dexidp&#x2F;dex" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dexidp&#x2F;dex</a><p>[7]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;netlify&#x2F;gotrue" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;netlify&#x2F;gotrue</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mamcx</author><text>Exist other 2 major things that I have tried to find but is rarely missed:<p>1- GOOD multi-tenant support.<p>Without extra weird hoops like with ORY.<p>How this must be? Just passing a subdomain is all necessary to route and it need to make easy to create&#x2F;remove tenants as part of MY logic, not need to orchestrate stuff.<p>2- Use my own tables. (or allow to set FX&#x2F;new fields)<p>I appreciate to have automated all the stuff but I have much logic around what is a &quot;user&quot; (and in a recent project, 2 kinds of user in 2 different tables: salesman&#x2F;customers).<p>Ideally, this stuff only need to do &quot;SELECT fields_for_auth FROM my_table&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Authelia is an open-source authentication/authorization server with 2FA/SSO</title><url>https://github.com/authelia/authelia</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hardwaresofton</author><text>Personally I think of Authelia and Keratin as really good projects in the don&#x27;t-build-auth-into-your-apps-ever-again space. If auth isn&#x27;t already built into your app gateway&#x2F;mesh&#x2F;proxy, then these services might be something worth dropping alongside.<p>A few more projects in this space:<p>- Keycloak (you won&#x27;t get fired for picking this)[0]<p>- CloudFoundry&#x27;s UAA[1]<p>- Gluu [2]<p>- ORY (Hydra + friends)[3]<p>- Keratin [4]<p>- OpenUnison [5]<p>- Dex[6]<p>- Netlify&#x27;s GoTrue[7]<p>All of these solutions are a bit different but here are some of the axes:<p>- Whether or not they function as an OAuth provider<p>- Whether they&#x27;re centered around application-user-login via mechanisms like email&#x2F;password, application auth, or SSO<p>- Whether or not they serve as a proxy to another down-the-line OAuth provider (Dex, GoTrue)<p>- GUI availability<p>- F&#x2F;OSS-ness (basically all of them have very permissive licenses)<p>[EDIT] More entries for this list in another comment @ <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26411457" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26411457</a><p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.keycloak.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.keycloak.org&#x2F;</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cloudfoundry&#x2F;uaa" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cloudfoundry&#x2F;uaa</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gluu.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;gluu-server&#x2F;4.2&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gluu.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;gluu-server&#x2F;4.2&#x2F;</a><p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ory&#x2F;hydra#what-is-ory-hydra" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ory&#x2F;hydra#what-is-ory-hydra</a><p>[4]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;keratin.github.io&#x2F;authn-server&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;keratin.github.io&#x2F;authn-server&#x2F;</a><p>[5]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tremolosecurity&#x2F;openunison" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tremolosecurity&#x2F;openunison</a><p>[6]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dexidp&#x2F;dex" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dexidp&#x2F;dex</a><p>[7]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;netlify&#x2F;gotrue" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;netlify&#x2F;gotrue</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mooreds</author><text>One thing that is missing from this list is open source language specific libraries. Projects such as <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;oauthlib.readthedocs.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;oauth2&#x2F;server.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;oauthlib.readthedocs.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;oauth2&#x2F;server.html</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;doorkeeper-gem&#x2F;doorkeeper" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;doorkeeper-gem&#x2F;doorkeeper</a><p>Depending on your use case, for example if you only have one application, you might be better off running something embedded in your app, or independent but using the same runtime&#x2F;deployment environment. Then, when you are ready to add another app or integration, you should be able to introduce a standalone auth system more easily if appropriate (because all your auth interactions should be relatively standardized). I&#x27;m a big fan of standalone auth systems as a way to simplify access control and give a single view of a user&#x2F;customer, but you can also succeed using open source embedded libraries.<p>When the moment comes to introduce a standalone system, you should consider a few dimensions (this list pulled from a previous comment of mine: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26360048" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26360048</a> ):<p><pre><code> * open source or not
* standalone application or library&#x2F;framework you integrate
* self hosted or SaaS
* authentication, authorization, user management or all three?
* standards coverage
* SSO support
* integrations with other auth tech (LDAP)
* which OAuth grants are supported
* cost
* operational complexity&#x2F;support for your deployment environment
* specific features if needed (for example, customization of the look and feel with themes, or customization of the login flow with something like Keycloak&#x27;s plugin system)
* documentation and developer experience
</code></pre>
These dimensions all matter to varying degrees depending on your team and needs.<p>Disclosure: I work for <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fusionauth.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fusionauth.io&#x2F;</a> which has open source supporting libraries and docs, but which is itself not open source.<p>EDIT: added cost, operational complexity and customization to the list.</text></comment> |
6,004,066 | 6,003,758 | 1 | 2 | 6,001,843 | train | <story><title>“Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book”</title><url>http://www.salon.com/2013/07/07/%E2%80%9Cwhy_did_you_shoot_me_i_was_reading_a_book_the_new_warrior_cop_is_out_of_control/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryanSrich</author><text>Cops have no legal obligation to protect you.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Warren_v._District_of_Columbia</a></text></item><item><author>sneak</author><text>It&#x27;s shit like this that flies in the face of all those &quot;but most cops are not bad guys&quot; arguments.<p>If an organization fights to protect bad guys, I don&#x27;t care how much good they do: they are complicit in furthering criminal behavior. And they&#x27;re in a position of trust, at that!<p>It&#x27;s an open secret that cops lie to protect other cops.<p>Why do we allow this? Any other person in a special position of trust and responsibility that contravenes their duty gets _extra_ punishment.<p>Lon Horiuchi was an FBI sniper that shot Vicki Weaver in the back while holding her infant daughter in her arms: case dismissed. That cop that pepper sprayed those protesting kids at UC Davis, John Pike, was never even charged for &quot;lack of evidence&quot; (nevermind that video of him doing so was on every news show in the country that week). The FBI and BATFE set the Branch Davidians&#x27; home on fire, burning up the children inside.<p>Instead of meaningful outrage, we simply let cops get away with murder, literally.<p>Fuck the police.</text></item><item><author>Nrsolis</author><text>I knew Sal Culosi.<p>He was a nice enough guy that used to hang out at Fast Eddies Sports Bar in Fairfax, VA. I saw him there often just tending a beer and minding his own business.<p>If you can believe it, he was an optometrist at a Wal-Mart that just measured eyeballs and wrote prescriptions. If he was a bookie (as alleged) then I never saw anything that gave him away.<p>I followed his story in the paper and was surprised to hear that a 17-year veteran of the Fairfax County Police was the one that shot him. Apparently, he said he was bumped and accidentally discharged his gun DIRECTLY INTO SAL&#x27;S CHEST.<p>The police department eventually settled with the family for negligent homicide. That was only after they fought tooth and nail to protect a cop that didn&#x27;t know how to control a deadly weapon.<p>In the end, I think the cop got a 3 week suspension. AFAIK, he&#x27;s still on the FCPD.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wdewind</author><text>You make it sound much worse than it actually is. The court ruled &quot;a government and its agencies are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any particular individual citizen.&quot; If the opposite were held true any person who was ever the victim of a crime could sue the government agency with jurisdiction for damages. Warren does not hold that the police have no duty to protect you if they are witnessing a crime being perpetrated upon you.</text></comment> | <story><title>“Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book”</title><url>http://www.salon.com/2013/07/07/%E2%80%9Cwhy_did_you_shoot_me_i_was_reading_a_book_the_new_warrior_cop_is_out_of_control/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryanSrich</author><text>Cops have no legal obligation to protect you.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Warren_v._District_of_Columbia</a></text></item><item><author>sneak</author><text>It&#x27;s shit like this that flies in the face of all those &quot;but most cops are not bad guys&quot; arguments.<p>If an organization fights to protect bad guys, I don&#x27;t care how much good they do: they are complicit in furthering criminal behavior. And they&#x27;re in a position of trust, at that!<p>It&#x27;s an open secret that cops lie to protect other cops.<p>Why do we allow this? Any other person in a special position of trust and responsibility that contravenes their duty gets _extra_ punishment.<p>Lon Horiuchi was an FBI sniper that shot Vicki Weaver in the back while holding her infant daughter in her arms: case dismissed. That cop that pepper sprayed those protesting kids at UC Davis, John Pike, was never even charged for &quot;lack of evidence&quot; (nevermind that video of him doing so was on every news show in the country that week). The FBI and BATFE set the Branch Davidians&#x27; home on fire, burning up the children inside.<p>Instead of meaningful outrage, we simply let cops get away with murder, literally.<p>Fuck the police.</text></item><item><author>Nrsolis</author><text>I knew Sal Culosi.<p>He was a nice enough guy that used to hang out at Fast Eddies Sports Bar in Fairfax, VA. I saw him there often just tending a beer and minding his own business.<p>If you can believe it, he was an optometrist at a Wal-Mart that just measured eyeballs and wrote prescriptions. If he was a bookie (as alleged) then I never saw anything that gave him away.<p>I followed his story in the paper and was surprised to hear that a 17-year veteran of the Fairfax County Police was the one that shot him. Apparently, he said he was bumped and accidentally discharged his gun DIRECTLY INTO SAL&#x27;S CHEST.<p>The police department eventually settled with the family for negligent homicide. That was only after they fought tooth and nail to protect a cop that didn&#x27;t know how to control a deadly weapon.<p>In the end, I think the cop got a 3 week suspension. AFAIK, he&#x27;s still on the FCPD.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sneak</author><text>No, but they do have a legal obligation to not shoot me for no reason, or to not lie on the stand under oath, et c.</text></comment> |
10,732,093 | 10,731,711 | 1 | 3 | 10,731,360 | train | <story><title>A Collection of CSS Tips</title><url>https://github.com/AllThingsSmitty/css-protips</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>onion2k</author><text>Pro CSS tip #1 (emphasis on the &#x27;Pro&#x27; more than the &#x27;CSS&#x27;): If you want to be a professional and work as part of a team, get better at documenting your code. Write code that other people can maintain when you&#x27;re not available. Comment your code. Write actual docs. Write tests.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Collection of CSS Tips</title><url>https://github.com/AllThingsSmitty/css-protips</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dangamble</author><text>Don&#x27;t think the `:not` tip is good. You&#x27;re adding 1 more level specificity to all of nav items except the last one as opposed to that 1 level to just the last one. Makes it a bit more annoying to overwrite when it comes to it.</text></comment> |
18,930,922 | 18,930,635 | 1 | 3 | 18,928,083 | train | <story><title>What’s Causing the Rise of Hoarding Disorder?</title><url>https://daily.jstor.org/whats-causing-the-rise-of-hoarding-disorder/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jdietrich</author><text><i>&gt;it&#x27;s easier to acquire a large amount of stuff than before</i><p>I suspect this is <i>the</i> factor. A behaviour that is adaptive in an environment of scarcity becomes maladaptive in an environment of abundance.<p>When my grandmother was a child, practically the only thing that genuinely counted as &quot;garbage&quot; was ash from the fire. Pretty much everything else had a meaningful value. Scraps of paper could light the fire. Scraps of cloth could make a quilt or a rug. Vegetable peelings went to the pigs and not a morsel of edible food was wasted. Packaging wasn&#x27;t a word anyone was familiar with, but boxes and tins would be saved for re-use. Furniture was repaired and re-repaired until it was only good for firewood.<p>A lot of people were essentially raised to be hoarders, either through direct experience or transmission of those values from their parents. That mindset isn&#x27;t irrational, but it&#x27;s a poor match for the 21st century. It&#x27;s all too easy to lose sight of the purpose of those values and hoard for the sake of hoarding.<p>I think that similar factors explain a significant part of the obesity epidemic. The scarcity-era virtues of clearing your plate and being a generous host become vices in a world of supersized portions and supermarket offers.</text></item><item><author>im3w1l</author><text>Smaller living space means that you can&#x27;t save the thing you will need once every five year anymore. A previously adaptive behavior becomes poorly adaptive.<p>Cheap disposable items. Where before you would have a few hand made item of high quality, you now get a lot of lower quality items. This is partially related to technological advancement. If things become obsolete fast, it doesn&#x27;t make sense to build with quality. Anyway a consequence is that it&#x27;s easier to acquire a large amount of stuff than before.<p>Anti-landfill propaganda. We are guilt-tripped for throwing stuff in the garbage. We are told to dispose of things in very complicated ways and then it may be easier to just not dispose of it.<p>Breakdown of community and family. Before we might keep things around by giving them away to relatives or friends. There is a satisfaction in passing the torch. But this option isn&#x27;t as available anymore.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mywacaday</author><text>My dad was brought up relatively poor by modern standards, food was on the table but would have went to school barefoot. Never eats less than five large potatoes for dinner and has a large shed(20mx20m) full of mostly metal scrap. He does use it for projects like making trailers&#x2F;wood splitting machines etc but has accumulated more than he could use in a lifetime to the point where the shed is unusable.<p>I definitely believe this behavior comes from his don&#x27;t waste anything childhood and to be fair he probably earned as much from his tinkering as he did from his main job which would have come from the same strong work ethic childhood.</text></comment> | <story><title>What’s Causing the Rise of Hoarding Disorder?</title><url>https://daily.jstor.org/whats-causing-the-rise-of-hoarding-disorder/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jdietrich</author><text><i>&gt;it&#x27;s easier to acquire a large amount of stuff than before</i><p>I suspect this is <i>the</i> factor. A behaviour that is adaptive in an environment of scarcity becomes maladaptive in an environment of abundance.<p>When my grandmother was a child, practically the only thing that genuinely counted as &quot;garbage&quot; was ash from the fire. Pretty much everything else had a meaningful value. Scraps of paper could light the fire. Scraps of cloth could make a quilt or a rug. Vegetable peelings went to the pigs and not a morsel of edible food was wasted. Packaging wasn&#x27;t a word anyone was familiar with, but boxes and tins would be saved for re-use. Furniture was repaired and re-repaired until it was only good for firewood.<p>A lot of people were essentially raised to be hoarders, either through direct experience or transmission of those values from their parents. That mindset isn&#x27;t irrational, but it&#x27;s a poor match for the 21st century. It&#x27;s all too easy to lose sight of the purpose of those values and hoard for the sake of hoarding.<p>I think that similar factors explain a significant part of the obesity epidemic. The scarcity-era virtues of clearing your plate and being a generous host become vices in a world of supersized portions and supermarket offers.</text></item><item><author>im3w1l</author><text>Smaller living space means that you can&#x27;t save the thing you will need once every five year anymore. A previously adaptive behavior becomes poorly adaptive.<p>Cheap disposable items. Where before you would have a few hand made item of high quality, you now get a lot of lower quality items. This is partially related to technological advancement. If things become obsolete fast, it doesn&#x27;t make sense to build with quality. Anyway a consequence is that it&#x27;s easier to acquire a large amount of stuff than before.<p>Anti-landfill propaganda. We are guilt-tripped for throwing stuff in the garbage. We are told to dispose of things in very complicated ways and then it may be easier to just not dispose of it.<p>Breakdown of community and family. Before we might keep things around by giving them away to relatives or friends. There is a satisfaction in passing the torch. But this option isn&#x27;t as available anymore.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reitanqild</author><text>&gt; Pretty much everything else had a meaningful value.<p>My childhood. And I&#x27;m not that old.<p>I still feel the urge to peel wrapping paper carefully off and stash it away for next celebration. (I don&#x27;t do it though :-)<p>Oh, and I&#x27;m hoping to get some animals to eat the peelings and old bread.</text></comment> |
16,675,631 | 16,672,920 | 1 | 2 | 16,672,203 | train | <story><title>Medium suspended our account and blocked access to all our published stories</title><url>https://mastodon.xyz/@Liberapay/99744324870271197</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pjc50</author><text>&gt; more speech, not less<p>When speech can be automated, this turns into a question of who has the largest promotional bot army. True speech can be drowned out with an infinite array of conflicting lies.</text></item><item><author>srslack</author><text>&gt;the understanding of platforms like Medium had been that they will not censor people for ideological reasons<p>They threw out their integrity as a publishing platform when they updated their ToS a month ago: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=16431403" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=16431403</a><p>Indeed, there is not much of a point to their existence when they throw this away, other than being a virtue signalling magazine with unpaid authors that doesn&#x27;t even follow their own vague ToS.<p>This week has been horrible for speech and freedom on the web. But surely a much needed reminder that suppressing speech does not work. The remedy is more speech, not less: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;prospect.org&#x2F;article&#x2F;remedy-more-speech" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;prospect.org&#x2F;article&#x2F;remedy-more-speech</a><p>Without holding this uncompromising stance, I&#x27;m of the opinion that one cannot call themselves a liberal, in a liberal democracy. It is the cornerstone of a functioning, modern liberal democracy, and the recent trend of this self-censorship by big technology companies is worrying.</text></item><item><author>greyman</author><text>&gt; You are trading freedom for convenience and access to an audience.<p>While this is certainly true, the understanding of platforms like Medium had been that they will not censor people for ideological reasons, or will do so only if the content is clearly illegal or disturbing. If they will freely censor people, there&#x27;s not much point of their existence.</text></item><item><author>smg</author><text>A blanket statement like &#x27;Medium is bad&#x27; does not have enough nuance. Medium is for profit centralized service. You are trading freedom for convenience and access to an audience. It is for you to decide if this tradeoff is profitable.<p>For me, having Medium as the sole repository of my content does not seem like the right tradeoff. Maintaining a static site with a CDN costs less than 5$ a month. Having complete control over the content is far more valuable than the audience that Medium brings. Mirroring posts to Medium can still allow me to reach that audience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lopmotr</author><text>You seem to have an assumption that people aren&#x27;t competent to decide their own ideas and only follow what they see the most of. That&#x27;s true to a large extent but you&#x27;d have to ban all religious information too if you really meant it.<p>This whole idea that false information needs to be suppressed only became popular after Trump&#x27;s election win. People needed an excuse to explain that because they couldn&#x27;t imagine so many normal reasonable people could possibly vote for him. The only explanation must be that they were not very intelligent and got suckered by external influence. That&#x27;s a pretty arrogant viewpoint and its conclusion - censorship - is pretty naive direct action that ignores their legitimate concerns as well as the obvious horrible side effects that come with censorship. Since when did &quot;these people aren&#x27;t smart enough to take care of themselves, let&#x27;s tell them what to do because we know what&#x27;s best&quot; ever work on a large population who are different from the &quot;bosses&quot;?</text></comment> | <story><title>Medium suspended our account and blocked access to all our published stories</title><url>https://mastodon.xyz/@Liberapay/99744324870271197</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pjc50</author><text>&gt; more speech, not less<p>When speech can be automated, this turns into a question of who has the largest promotional bot army. True speech can be drowned out with an infinite array of conflicting lies.</text></item><item><author>srslack</author><text>&gt;the understanding of platforms like Medium had been that they will not censor people for ideological reasons<p>They threw out their integrity as a publishing platform when they updated their ToS a month ago: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=16431403" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=16431403</a><p>Indeed, there is not much of a point to their existence when they throw this away, other than being a virtue signalling magazine with unpaid authors that doesn&#x27;t even follow their own vague ToS.<p>This week has been horrible for speech and freedom on the web. But surely a much needed reminder that suppressing speech does not work. The remedy is more speech, not less: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;prospect.org&#x2F;article&#x2F;remedy-more-speech" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;prospect.org&#x2F;article&#x2F;remedy-more-speech</a><p>Without holding this uncompromising stance, I&#x27;m of the opinion that one cannot call themselves a liberal, in a liberal democracy. It is the cornerstone of a functioning, modern liberal democracy, and the recent trend of this self-censorship by big technology companies is worrying.</text></item><item><author>greyman</author><text>&gt; You are trading freedom for convenience and access to an audience.<p>While this is certainly true, the understanding of platforms like Medium had been that they will not censor people for ideological reasons, or will do so only if the content is clearly illegal or disturbing. If they will freely censor people, there&#x27;s not much point of their existence.</text></item><item><author>smg</author><text>A blanket statement like &#x27;Medium is bad&#x27; does not have enough nuance. Medium is for profit centralized service. You are trading freedom for convenience and access to an audience. It is for you to decide if this tradeoff is profitable.<p>For me, having Medium as the sole repository of my content does not seem like the right tradeoff. Maintaining a static site with a CDN costs less than 5$ a month. Having complete control over the content is far more valuable than the audience that Medium brings. Mirroring posts to Medium can still allow me to reach that audience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Zak</author><text>Suppressing an automated service disruption or preventing the spread of spam is different from policing content on topical or ideological grounds.<p>Looking at reddit as an example, I don&#x27;t like where this is headed. First they came for pedos and creepers, and I said nothing because ewww. Then they came for assholes and trolls, and I said nothing because good riddance. Now they&#x27;ve come for gun coupons, and I don&#x27;t want to flee to Voat because it&#x27;s dominated by assholes and trolls.</text></comment> |
15,662,921 | 15,661,420 | 1 | 2 | 15,652,053 | train | <story><title>Google promoted Texas gunman fake tweets</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-41915065</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>colemannugent</author><text>My summary of the article: An algorithm designed by Google engineers to promote upcoming stories does exactly what it was supposed to do, and people who don&#x27;t understand why Google employees did not manually review just one out of one hundred thousand things that the search engine indexed that day are suprised.<p>Google Search is a content aggregator that show you what it thinks you are most likely to click on. It does not know about politics, it cannot fact check, it does not think care about effort journalism, the only thing that matters is what stories generate more ad revenue.<p>Of course, Google will try to police its results better after this incident, but they can&#x27;t effectively do this without mass censorship. If you don&#x27;t believe me, see the recent YouTube drama over monetization.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kadenshep</author><text>&gt;Google will try to police its results better after this incident, but they can&#x27;t effectively do this without mass censorship.<p>It&#x27;s not mass censorship. It&#x27;s editorialization. Something we&#x27;ve lost an appreciation for in our fetishization of a dystopian future that&#x27;s always just over the horizon.<p>Facebook tried doing this to combat <i>actual</i> fake news (the one that ironically comes from the political segment in the U.S. most likely to cry wolf about it). This process was then characterized as facebook policing political content in a biased manner -- despite the fact that blatantly false content happened to continually come from sources with a conservative bent more often than not, which isn&#x27;t Facebook&#x27;s problem to deal with.<p>Point being, it&#x27;s not censorship. And I wish any attempt to fight false information wasn&#x27;t disingenuously painted as these organizations having some kind of political agenda or as &quot;censorship&quot;. We need content aggregators of every kind (facebook, google, reddit, and even HN) to be more editorial, especially and specifically when content is presented in a manner that might help how credible that content looks. This whole wish-washy &quot;oh just let the people decide what they wanna see, it&#x27;ll work out in the end&quot; with a nice touch of &quot;all opinions matter&quot; clearly hasn&#x27;t and isn&#x27;t working.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google promoted Texas gunman fake tweets</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-41915065</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>colemannugent</author><text>My summary of the article: An algorithm designed by Google engineers to promote upcoming stories does exactly what it was supposed to do, and people who don&#x27;t understand why Google employees did not manually review just one out of one hundred thousand things that the search engine indexed that day are suprised.<p>Google Search is a content aggregator that show you what it thinks you are most likely to click on. It does not know about politics, it cannot fact check, it does not think care about effort journalism, the only thing that matters is what stories generate more ad revenue.<p>Of course, Google will try to police its results better after this incident, but they can&#x27;t effectively do this without mass censorship. If you don&#x27;t believe me, see the recent YouTube drama over monetization.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrtksn</author><text>You forget the part where the aggregated content is displayed in a different context than the one it is created for.<p>It&#x27;s perceived as an factual answer to a question because it shows up when googled with keywords other than &quot;Popular on Twitter&quot; : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;justinhendrix&#x2F;status&#x2F;927335154707828736&#x2F;photo&#x2F;1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;justinhendrix&#x2F;status&#x2F;927335154707828736&#x2F;...</a><p>When you see these tweets on Twitter, you&#x27;ll quickly identify them as fake due to the context. On Google on the other hand you will see the false statements but these false statements would not be corrected if these tweets were not the exact content you&#x27;re looking for and you just consumed them and moved on to the content you were searching.</text></comment> |
24,892,220 | 24,892,059 | 1 | 3 | 24,877,034 | train | <story><title>A one-line change decreased our build times by 99%</title><url>https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/how-a-one-line-change-decreased-our-build-times-by-99-b98453265370</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hashkb</author><text>They are a publicly traded company. They have a team dedicated to engineering support. A better article would include a management and hiring postmortem. It&#x27;s shocking, really. Humility is nice, but competency is also nice.</text></item><item><author>JOnAgain</author><text>I think it takes some real humility to post this. No doubt someone will follow up with an “of course...” or “if you don’t understand the tech you use...” comment.<p>But thank you for this. It takes a bit of courage to point out you’ve been doing something grotesquely inefficient for years and years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jedberg</author><text>Why are you so angry about this? You&#x27;ve commented throughout this post about how this is boring and the Pinterest team is incompetent. Why?<p>I found it quite interesting. I&#x27;ve been working in deployments for over 20 years at some pretty big places, and never really though about this before. I now have a new tool in my toolbox, and I&#x27;m quite happy about it.</text></comment> | <story><title>A one-line change decreased our build times by 99%</title><url>https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/how-a-one-line-change-decreased-our-build-times-by-99-b98453265370</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hashkb</author><text>They are a publicly traded company. They have a team dedicated to engineering support. A better article would include a management and hiring postmortem. It&#x27;s shocking, really. Humility is nice, but competency is also nice.</text></item><item><author>JOnAgain</author><text>I think it takes some real humility to post this. No doubt someone will follow up with an “of course...” or “if you don’t understand the tech you use...” comment.<p>But thank you for this. It takes a bit of courage to point out you’ve been doing something grotesquely inefficient for years and years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>argc</author><text>This is neither incompetence nor surprising. Maybe you’ve only worked at large companies who have had time to optimize things for years (and even then, I see grotesque software decisions at my large company quite often). Try accepting that software is often written poorly optimized on the first pass, for good reason, and learn to celebrate the wins without needing to shame someone.</text></comment> |
11,288,657 | 11,288,292 | 1 | 2 | 11,288,030 | train | <story><title>Encryption, Privacy Are Larger Issues Than Fighting Terrorism</title><url>http://www.npr.org/2016/03/14/470347719/encryption-and-privacy-are-larger-issues-than-fighting-terrorism-clarke-says</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>&gt; No, David. If I were in the job now, I would have simply told the FBI to call Fort Meade, the headquarters of the National Security Agency, and NSA would have solved this problem for them. They&#x27;re not as interested in solving the problem as they are in getting a legal precedent.<p>That&#x27;s quite the quote, especially given his history of employment.<p>The weirdest thing about this whole cell-phone saga to me is that the perps are dead, did not appear to be part of some organized group and that very little could be done to them that hasn&#x27;t been done already based on evidence found on the phone.<p>Then there is the bit that a lot of the information that is on the phone is <i>also</i> already in the log files of the carriers. It&#x27;s as if that phone somehow magically is going to yield an entirely new class of information that may not even exist in the first place.<p>To me it has been evident from day one that this is not about this phone or the data that&#x27;s on it but just about the legal precedent, getting it in black-and-white from the former head of counter terrorism is quite an indictment of his successors.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>masklinn</author><text>And IIRC the phone in question is the perp&#x27;s <i>work</i> phone, they also had personal phones <i>which they destroyed</i>, so the perps themselves knew phones could hold valuable data but saw no value in the the phone the FBI wants unlocked.</text></comment> | <story><title>Encryption, Privacy Are Larger Issues Than Fighting Terrorism</title><url>http://www.npr.org/2016/03/14/470347719/encryption-and-privacy-are-larger-issues-than-fighting-terrorism-clarke-says</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>&gt; No, David. If I were in the job now, I would have simply told the FBI to call Fort Meade, the headquarters of the National Security Agency, and NSA would have solved this problem for them. They&#x27;re not as interested in solving the problem as they are in getting a legal precedent.<p>That&#x27;s quite the quote, especially given his history of employment.<p>The weirdest thing about this whole cell-phone saga to me is that the perps are dead, did not appear to be part of some organized group and that very little could be done to them that hasn&#x27;t been done already based on evidence found on the phone.<p>Then there is the bit that a lot of the information that is on the phone is <i>also</i> already in the log files of the carriers. It&#x27;s as if that phone somehow magically is going to yield an entirely new class of information that may not even exist in the first place.<p>To me it has been evident from day one that this is not about this phone or the data that&#x27;s on it but just about the legal precedent, getting it in black-and-white from the former head of counter terrorism is quite an indictment of his successors.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ptaipale</author><text>&gt; <i>the perps are dead, did not appear to be part of some organized group</i><p>A reasonable reason for inquiry here is to actually try to make sure if they were part of some organized group. &quot;Appear not to be&quot; is not quite enough.<p>This is a valid reason to investigate even if they are dead. How did they get radicalized, etc.<p>Not that it is a good enough reason to enforce breaking of encryption in the way proposed, but in a murder inquiry, privacy of the perps has to give way.</text></comment> |
1,912,535 | 1,911,794 | 1 | 2 | 1,910,954 | train | <story><title>When we got to the scanner, I opted out. Then they opted out.</title><url>http://blog.izs.me/post/1591805056/tsa-success-story</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yummyfajitas</author><text><i>(This doesn't take into account other real issues, like 'what if the machine breaks down and we start blasting people with focused beams of radiation'...</i><p>What if my flashlight breaks down and I start blasting people with focused beams of laser light? What if my cell phone breaks down and the microwaves melt the brains of everyone within 6 feet of me?<p>I don't know a great deal about the engineering of MWBS, but I see no reason to believe that your fear is any more likely than mine. Most machines just don't work that way. Do you have evidence that MWBS is different?</text></item><item><author>ohyes</author><text>edit: s/mwbs/bs/g; per comment below<p>Well, X-rays cause cancer. BS uses X-rays So it is a cancer risk.
And it is a little more founded than someone randomly saying' this causes cancer'.<p>In terms of risk...<p>This says dental x-rays are about 2-3 mrem:
<a href="http://www.physics.isu.edu/radinf/dental.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.physics.isu.edu/radinf/dental.htm</a><p>This says BS is about .006-.009 mrem:
<a href="http://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/backscatter.htm" rel="nofollow">http://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/backscatter.htm</a><p>Keep in mind that under certain models (the 'no-threshold model'), any amount of exposure (even a tiny amount) to an X-ray is a slight increase in the chance that that person will get cancer.<p>Now you might think that because dental x-rays are about 300 times more powerful than BS, dental x-rays have a much higher chance to cause cancer. Sure, individually, my chances of getting cancer from a BS are much lower than my chances of getting cancer from a dental x-ray. It is even higher from daily background radiation, or from the radiation that you get from flying in an airplane.<p>But everything is about context. How many people fly each day? 2 million or so? How many people do we propose to put through the BS machine? All of them? (I assume the intent is to eventually replace the metal detectors with these). If you are putting 2 million people through the BS each day, that is actually large amount of radiation exposure. Probabilistically, someone will get cancer from the BS.<p>There are certain types of radiation that you can avoid (x-raying your foot for fun! backscatter machines), and there are certain types of radiation that you cannot avoid (background cosmic).<p>I don't see how the argument that it is 'nothing' in comparison to other forms of radiation really stands up, in that I could potentially avoid backscatter radiation, whereas I couldn't conceivably avoid the other types.<p>(This doesn't take into account other real issues, like 'what if the machine breaks down and we start blasting people with focused beams of radiation'... while trained to run the machine, I doubt that the TSA people are trained to maintain the machine, or would even know if something had gone horribly wrong with it).</text></item><item><author>yummyfajitas</author><text>Just curious, does anyone have some hard evidence that the MWBS is a cancer risk?<p>I ask this simply because anti-X activists have pushed junk science claims of the form "X causes CANCER" many times [1], so I'm a little dubious. I don't think fighting civil liberties violations with junk science is a useful tactic, if that is indeed what is happening here.<p>[1] For example, feminists pushed the "silicone gel implants cause breast cancer", anti-bioscience types push "GMO foods cause cancer". Drug warriors have pushed "pot causes cancer" and anti-abortion crusaders pushed "abortion causes cancer".</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blahblahblah</author><text>The situation is analogous to what happens when a CT machine malfunctions. The basic design of a CT machine has an x-ray source on a rotating ring. The patient lays down on a table and the table is moved through the center of the ring at constant velocity for the duration of the scan.
The overall motion of the x-ray source relative to the patient is helical. If the movement mechanism jams and the table stops moving, the pattern of motion collapses into a circle and the patient receives an excessive radiation dose focused in the region of the body that is in the center of the ring when the table stops. The received dose is a function of the time until the operator notices the malfunction and stops the scan.<p>With a backscatter x-ray system, the person stays motionless and the x-ray source moves. If the x-ray source stops moving, the person receives an excessive dose wherever the source happens to be pointing when it gets stuck. The dose received is, again, a function of how long it takes for the operator to notice the malfunction.<p>With a microwave backscatter system, the radiation used is in the RF range and, therefore, not ionizing. However, if the microwave source stops moving because of malfunction, a portion of the body experiences higher than normal SAR. If the SAR is high enough, significant localized heating may occur, causing burns on the person.</text></comment> | <story><title>When we got to the scanner, I opted out. Then they opted out.</title><url>http://blog.izs.me/post/1591805056/tsa-success-story</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yummyfajitas</author><text><i>(This doesn't take into account other real issues, like 'what if the machine breaks down and we start blasting people with focused beams of radiation'...</i><p>What if my flashlight breaks down and I start blasting people with focused beams of laser light? What if my cell phone breaks down and the microwaves melt the brains of everyone within 6 feet of me?<p>I don't know a great deal about the engineering of MWBS, but I see no reason to believe that your fear is any more likely than mine. Most machines just don't work that way. Do you have evidence that MWBS is different?</text></item><item><author>ohyes</author><text>edit: s/mwbs/bs/g; per comment below<p>Well, X-rays cause cancer. BS uses X-rays So it is a cancer risk.
And it is a little more founded than someone randomly saying' this causes cancer'.<p>In terms of risk...<p>This says dental x-rays are about 2-3 mrem:
<a href="http://www.physics.isu.edu/radinf/dental.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.physics.isu.edu/radinf/dental.htm</a><p>This says BS is about .006-.009 mrem:
<a href="http://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/backscatter.htm" rel="nofollow">http://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/backscatter.htm</a><p>Keep in mind that under certain models (the 'no-threshold model'), any amount of exposure (even a tiny amount) to an X-ray is a slight increase in the chance that that person will get cancer.<p>Now you might think that because dental x-rays are about 300 times more powerful than BS, dental x-rays have a much higher chance to cause cancer. Sure, individually, my chances of getting cancer from a BS are much lower than my chances of getting cancer from a dental x-ray. It is even higher from daily background radiation, or from the radiation that you get from flying in an airplane.<p>But everything is about context. How many people fly each day? 2 million or so? How many people do we propose to put through the BS machine? All of them? (I assume the intent is to eventually replace the metal detectors with these). If you are putting 2 million people through the BS each day, that is actually large amount of radiation exposure. Probabilistically, someone will get cancer from the BS.<p>There are certain types of radiation that you can avoid (x-raying your foot for fun! backscatter machines), and there are certain types of radiation that you cannot avoid (background cosmic).<p>I don't see how the argument that it is 'nothing' in comparison to other forms of radiation really stands up, in that I could potentially avoid backscatter radiation, whereas I couldn't conceivably avoid the other types.<p>(This doesn't take into account other real issues, like 'what if the machine breaks down and we start blasting people with focused beams of radiation'... while trained to run the machine, I doubt that the TSA people are trained to maintain the machine, or would even know if something had gone horribly wrong with it).</text></item><item><author>yummyfajitas</author><text>Just curious, does anyone have some hard evidence that the MWBS is a cancer risk?<p>I ask this simply because anti-X activists have pushed junk science claims of the form "X causes CANCER" many times [1], so I'm a little dubious. I don't think fighting civil liberties violations with junk science is a useful tactic, if that is indeed what is happening here.<p>[1] For example, feminists pushed the "silicone gel implants cause breast cancer", anti-bioscience types push "GMO foods cause cancer". Drug warriors have pushed "pot causes cancer" and anti-abortion crusaders pushed "abortion causes cancer".</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ohyes</author><text>It is hard to think that a flashlight or cellphone would have a power supply strong enough to do that much damage. (Although actually, metal halide lamps can sometimes cause UV radiation burns if they are damaged... <a href="http://archpedi.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/158/4/372" rel="nofollow">http://archpedi.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/158/4/372</a> ).<p>As long as the backscatter machine doesn't run on Double A's, my fears are actually more reasonable than yours.<p>The backscatter machine presumably uses some sort of electrical plug to connect to power. It isn't inconceivable that it could receive more power than intended and produce more x-rays, or that something could go wrong with the shielding allowing x-rays to leak, or that something could go wrong with the x-ray bulb and we could produce the wrong type of radiation.<p>And it doesn't have to be 'burning your head off' to be a problem, it could simple produce an order of magnitude or two more radiation than intended, and be a health risk.</text></comment> |
13,453,398 | 13,452,632 | 1 | 3 | 13,451,161 | train | <story><title>Investing Is More Luck Than Talent</title><url>http://nautil.us/issue/44/luck/investing-is-more-luck-than-talent</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jondubois</author><text>There are plenty of people who disagree about Buffet - Nassim Taleb who wrote &quot;Fooled by Randomness&quot; is among of those. Out of all the people who started investing in stocks in the 50s, it&#x27;s not surprising that at least one of them turned out to be among the richest people in the world and kept getting it right every year.<p>If you have enough people throwing coins, you&#x27;re going to get some people who keep getting heads over and over. Those few people who have a superior coin-tossing technique are probably not going to end up anywhere near the top - This is especially true if you believe in the rhetoric that people of high talent are &quot;very rare&quot;.<p>The sheer masses acting out of randomness will always beat out the few &quot;very talented&quot; individuals.<p>In &quot;Fooled by Randomness&quot;, the author alludes to the idea that the top people at any given time in any given field often got there through very little talent - It just happens that their approach was a good fit for their field at that particular time - As soon as some &quot;black swan&quot; event happens (and they always happen, eventually); these people tend to lose everything very, very quickly.<p>Also, the reason why Buffet gets it right most of the time these days is the same reason why George Soros gets it right most of the time; whenever either of these famous investors buys any stock, it becomes big news then all these other wealthy investors follow suit - Soon enough you have half of humanity rooting for&#x2F;against that specific company&#x2F;security so anything they do becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.</text></item><item><author>valuearb</author><text>This article basically repeats old economic saws of dubious validity. The counter argument is Warren Buffett. Last I looked at it (going back to his Buffett Partnership days), he beat the market every year but one for his first 30 or 40 years. Even better, he was beating the market by an average of 20% a year during his partnership days, and something like 10% a year during his first 20 years running Berkshire Hathaway.<p>It&#x27;s not only statistically impossible for Buffett to be a fluke, it&#x27;s statistically impossible for him not to possess a a skill providing a substantial edge in market investing. Not a &quot;1% a year&quot; type skill.<p>Nowadays and for the last 20 years or so, Buffett has been managing hundreds of billions of dollars. The immense size of his portfolio restricts his opportunities to a far smaller pool of potential investments and his edge over the market has clearly declined because of that restriction. But he&#x27;s still beating the market the vast majority of the time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>graeme</author><text>&gt;There are plenty of people who disagree about Buffet - Nassim Taleb who wrote &quot;Fooled by Randomness&quot; is among of those.<p>I can&#x27;t find the source, but I believe Taleb was misquoted (or misinterpreted) on Buffet. Taleb indeed makes the general argument that most high performers are just lucky. But he doesn&#x27;t say that <i>all</i> are. He just says: you can&#x27;t tell.<p>As for Buffet, he complained he hadn&#x27;t meant Buffet was unskilled. He meant Buffet was skilled <i>and</i> had luck. Which is a plausible interpretation. You likely need skill to get to Buffet&#x27;s level. But those with the skill of Buffet don&#x27;t all end up at Buffet&#x27;s outcomes: Buffet would be at the high end of the distribution of those that had his level of skill to work with.<p>At least that&#x27;s how I interpreted it. I believe Taleb&#x27;s subsequent commentary on this was in Black Swan or Antifragile. It involved the phrase &quot;for Baal&#x27;s sake&quot; when complaining about how people had interpreting him as saying &quot;Buffet is pure luck&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Investing Is More Luck Than Talent</title><url>http://nautil.us/issue/44/luck/investing-is-more-luck-than-talent</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jondubois</author><text>There are plenty of people who disagree about Buffet - Nassim Taleb who wrote &quot;Fooled by Randomness&quot; is among of those. Out of all the people who started investing in stocks in the 50s, it&#x27;s not surprising that at least one of them turned out to be among the richest people in the world and kept getting it right every year.<p>If you have enough people throwing coins, you&#x27;re going to get some people who keep getting heads over and over. Those few people who have a superior coin-tossing technique are probably not going to end up anywhere near the top - This is especially true if you believe in the rhetoric that people of high talent are &quot;very rare&quot;.<p>The sheer masses acting out of randomness will always beat out the few &quot;very talented&quot; individuals.<p>In &quot;Fooled by Randomness&quot;, the author alludes to the idea that the top people at any given time in any given field often got there through very little talent - It just happens that their approach was a good fit for their field at that particular time - As soon as some &quot;black swan&quot; event happens (and they always happen, eventually); these people tend to lose everything very, very quickly.<p>Also, the reason why Buffet gets it right most of the time these days is the same reason why George Soros gets it right most of the time; whenever either of these famous investors buys any stock, it becomes big news then all these other wealthy investors follow suit - Soon enough you have half of humanity rooting for&#x2F;against that specific company&#x2F;security so anything they do becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.</text></item><item><author>valuearb</author><text>This article basically repeats old economic saws of dubious validity. The counter argument is Warren Buffett. Last I looked at it (going back to his Buffett Partnership days), he beat the market every year but one for his first 30 or 40 years. Even better, he was beating the market by an average of 20% a year during his partnership days, and something like 10% a year during his first 20 years running Berkshire Hathaway.<p>It&#x27;s not only statistically impossible for Buffett to be a fluke, it&#x27;s statistically impossible for him not to possess a a skill providing a substantial edge in market investing. Not a &quot;1% a year&quot; type skill.<p>Nowadays and for the last 20 years or so, Buffett has been managing hundreds of billions of dollars. The immense size of his portfolio restricts his opportunities to a far smaller pool of potential investments and his edge over the market has clearly declined because of that restriction. But he&#x27;s still beating the market the vast majority of the time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacques_chester</author><text>A nitpick: Berkshire Hathaway don&#x27;t publicise any stock purchases or sales and they don&#x27;t comment on them. Specifically because they don&#x27;t want to give out information that will drive up the price quickly.<p>I imagine that&#x27;s grown harder and harder as time goes on, given the ability of HFT algorithms to spot big purchases in progress. But Buffett has always preferred outright purchases or special one-off deals (eg. the Bank of America deal or individually-negotiated insurance contracts).</text></comment> |
20,759,790 | 20,759,871 | 1 | 2 | 20,759,219 | train | <story><title>Mortgage Market Reopens to Risky Borrowers</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/mortgage-market-reopens-to-risky-borrowers-11566379802?mod=rsswn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>apo</author><text>&gt; Some $2.5 billion worth of subprime loans, those with FICO credit scores below 690, ended up in mortgage bonds in the first quarter of 2019. That is more than double a year earlier and the highest level since the end of 2007, according to Inside Mortgage Finance. There was $1.9 billion worth of subprime mortgage bonds in the second quarter.<p>Statements like this are hard to evaluate without knowing the denominator: the total value of new mortgage bonds in each period.<p>All too often, an author who should know better throws the reader a scrap like the following sentence:<p>&gt; The market for unconventional home loans is still tiny compared with the rest of the mortgage market as well as its precrisis past, when unconventional borrowing peaked at more than $1 trillion.<p>But this still doesn&#x27;t convey what percentage of the loans are to sub-690 FICO borrowers.<p>I see this all the time and wonder to what extent it has contributed to mistrust of the traditional media.<p>If we find out that the percentage in 2019 is 1% but in 2007 it was 56%, that casts the entire story in a different light.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>The problem is that most journalists are innumerate. As Matt Yglesias notes, &quot;many reporters and editors don&#x27;t really understand what they&#x27;re doing. Reputable colleges hand out degrees to people who have almost no understanding of quantitative methods.&quot; [1] These journalists see the numbers as garnishes on a narrative point. They&#x27;re not trying to put the numbers in some sort of mathematical context to draw sound conclusions. They may not even realize that there is a difference between using numbers for garnish and deriving meaning from numbers.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;politics&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2007&#x2F;12&#x2F;innumeracy&#x2F;47581" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;politics&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2007&#x2F;12&#x2F;innumer...</a>.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mortgage Market Reopens to Risky Borrowers</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/mortgage-market-reopens-to-risky-borrowers-11566379802?mod=rsswn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>apo</author><text>&gt; Some $2.5 billion worth of subprime loans, those with FICO credit scores below 690, ended up in mortgage bonds in the first quarter of 2019. That is more than double a year earlier and the highest level since the end of 2007, according to Inside Mortgage Finance. There was $1.9 billion worth of subprime mortgage bonds in the second quarter.<p>Statements like this are hard to evaluate without knowing the denominator: the total value of new mortgage bonds in each period.<p>All too often, an author who should know better throws the reader a scrap like the following sentence:<p>&gt; The market for unconventional home loans is still tiny compared with the rest of the mortgage market as well as its precrisis past, when unconventional borrowing peaked at more than $1 trillion.<p>But this still doesn&#x27;t convey what percentage of the loans are to sub-690 FICO borrowers.<p>I see this all the time and wonder to what extent it has contributed to mistrust of the traditional media.<p>If we find out that the percentage in 2019 is 1% but in 2007 it was 56%, that casts the entire story in a different light.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>js2</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand this criticism of the article. The point of the article is that lending standards are starting to loosen. The article provided a handful of numbers and one anecdote.<p>The article title and first sentence are: <i>Mortgage Market Reopens to Risky Borrowers. Strict lending requirements that were put in place after financial crisis are starting to erode. The risky mortgage is making a comeback.</i><p>Supporting facts are:<p>- <i>&quot;Borrowers took out $45 billion of these unconventional loans in 2018, the most in a decade, and origination is on track to rise again in 2019.&quot;</i><p>- <i>&quot;Unconventional loans are largely being extended by nonbank mortgage lenders. But big banks have found another way in ... Some $2.5 billion worth of subprime loans, those with FICO credit scores below 690, ended up in mortgage bonds in the first quarter of 2019. That is more than double a year earlier and the highest level since the end of 2007.&quot;</i><p>Then there&#x27;s the single anecdote about a borrower with a sub-690 FICO. Is sub-690 arbitrary? Yes. Is this borrower an example of an egregious loan? No. But is this someone who could not have gotten a loan previously? Yes. It supports the article.<p>The article is fair in its assessment:<p>- <i>&quot;Big banks’ mortgage arms are still avoiding riskier borrowers, leaving them to nonbank lenders. Still, the increase in unconventional loans shows that lenders are looking farther afield for customers.&quot;</i><p>Let me put it another way: at what point should the WSJ write an article like this? The 2008 financial crises cratered the economy after previous lending standards became lax. We put regulations in place to prevent that from happening again. Those regulations are starting to be weakened again. I want to know that.</text></comment> |
25,178,493 | 25,177,746 | 1 | 2 | 25,176,911 | train | <story><title>Asus Release Raspberry Pi Competitor Tinkerboard 2 and 2S</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tinkerboard-2-and-tinkerboard-2s-announced</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Havoc</author><text>What OS is it compatible with?<p>I learned from version 1 that even though the specs may beat a rasperry the software eco system is worth a lot too</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>terminalcommand</author><text>I bought the first version.<p>It supports a special version of debian and android. There are third party OSs too, but they don’t have good driver support.<p>The biggest issue is that tinkerboard uses Malİ GPU and its driver is propriatery.<p>I bought the tinkerboard as a media device hyped up about x265 capabilities and 192khz&#x2F;24 bit audio. The x265 playback only worked with the bundled media player, which was buggy.<p>Software-wise I haven’t been happy, hardware-wise it was better than a raspberry pi.</text></comment> | <story><title>Asus Release Raspberry Pi Competitor Tinkerboard 2 and 2S</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tinkerboard-2-and-tinkerboard-2s-announced</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Havoc</author><text>What OS is it compatible with?<p>I learned from version 1 that even though the specs may beat a rasperry the software eco system is worth a lot too</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>msh</author><text>Based on my tinkerboard s it does not really matter. Their software support is just plain bad, even in 3rd party distros.</text></comment> |
17,542,091 | 17,542,005 | 1 | 3 | 17,541,045 | train | <story><title>Why Gov.uk content should be published in HTML and not PDF</title><url>https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2018/07/16/why-gov-uk-content-should-be-published-in-html-and-not-pdf/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reaperducer</author><text>I find irony in the fact that this is a YouTube video with no text transcript, massively reducing its accessibility to both those with disabilities and those who aren&#x27;t in an environment where they can sit and watch a 20-minute video.<p>Does YouTube have the ability for authors to attach or display a text version of their video?</text></item><item><author>_bxg1</author><text>I listened to a talk at a web development conference from one of the UK government&#x27;s accessibility developers. Among other things, they do extensive accessibility testing and discovered things you wouldn&#x27;t expect. For example, to people who didn&#x27;t grow up with them, dropdown boxes are apparently unintuitive, so gov.uk avoids them. I was very impressed.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Q8Mj7_0Lok0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Q8Mj7_0Lok0</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_bxg1</author><text>1) The conference did the uploading, not the speaker<p>2) I think the videos were thrown up on YouTube in a &quot;why not&quot; sort of way, with minimal effort. Notice how the whole channel is just that specific event over that couple of days. I&#x27;m glad they posted them, but it was primarily an in-person event.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Gov.uk content should be published in HTML and not PDF</title><url>https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2018/07/16/why-gov-uk-content-should-be-published-in-html-and-not-pdf/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reaperducer</author><text>I find irony in the fact that this is a YouTube video with no text transcript, massively reducing its accessibility to both those with disabilities and those who aren&#x27;t in an environment where they can sit and watch a 20-minute video.<p>Does YouTube have the ability for authors to attach or display a text version of their video?</text></item><item><author>_bxg1</author><text>I listened to a talk at a web development conference from one of the UK government&#x27;s accessibility developers. Among other things, they do extensive accessibility testing and discovered things you wouldn&#x27;t expect. For example, to people who didn&#x27;t grow up with them, dropdown boxes are apparently unintuitive, so gov.uk avoids them. I was very impressed.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Q8Mj7_0Lok0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Q8Mj7_0Lok0</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lambda</author><text>You can add subtitles or closed captions to the video. It also supports adding a transcript (like subtitles or closed captions, but without timing information), and it will use speech recognition to try to line it up with the video.<p>You can also add a transcript or a link to a transcript in the video description.</text></comment> |
17,353,002 | 17,353,031 | 1 | 2 | 17,351,863 | train | <story><title>Verizon, AT&T and Sprint to Limit Sales of Cellphone Location Data</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/technology/verizon-att-cellphone-tracking.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paulie_a</author><text>Does anyone know of a way to simply fake location data? I genuinely don&#x27;t care if it is technically illegal. Data collection has jumped the shark at this point</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tommyallen</author><text>Have your calls forwarded to a service you can answer from your computer. Securely strap your phone to the back of an outdoor cat. Be sure to set a strong passcode so the cat can&#x27;t use the phone. To keep the phone charged, invent a charger that can convert the kinetic energy of the cat&#x27;s attempts at walking away from the phone. Use the money earned from your invention to buy more phones.</text></comment> | <story><title>Verizon, AT&T and Sprint to Limit Sales of Cellphone Location Data</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/technology/verizon-att-cellphone-tracking.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paulie_a</author><text>Does anyone know of a way to simply fake location data? I genuinely don&#x27;t care if it is technically illegal. Data collection has jumped the shark at this point</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mirimir</author><text>I doubt that there&#x27;s any way to fake location based on cell towers. That&#x27;s all done in the baseband radio, which is not readily user accessible. And even if you could mess with it, it&#x27;s probably very illegal. It&#x27;s certainly illegal to spoof mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) because that allows theft of service.<p>It&#x27;s much easier to disable GPS location capability. But even that&#x27;s not very reliable, because there are multiple software levels, most of which aren&#x27;t user controllable.<p>The best option that I know is turning devices off, and keeping them in Faraday bags, except when in use. So you get to pick which locations get reported. You&#x27;re less reachable, but that&#x27;s a necessary tradeoff. For long-term storage in Faraday bags, it&#x27;s important to remove the battery, because otherwise the device may drain it, trying to ping towers, even though &quot;turned off&quot;.</text></comment> |
3,468,768 | 3,468,391 | 1 | 3 | 3,467,782 | train | <story><title>Typing at 255 WPM shouldn't cost $4000</title><url>http://opensource.com/life/11/12/open-source-changes-face-stenography-and-possibilities-hearing-impaired</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>naner</author><text>How she envisions stenography would be used for programming:<p><a href="http://stenoknight.com/WritingCoding.html" rel="nofollow">http://stenoknight.com/WritingCoding.html</a><p><i>Programming is especially suited for steno, because there's so much boilerplate to write again and again, even in an eloquent language like Python. If I want to define a function, I have to type:</i><p><i>def someFunction(arg): stuff.</i><p><i>That's eight strokes just to get started, plus 20 more strokes to write "someFunction", "arg", and "stuff". In steno, on the other hand, you could write something like D</i>FD in a single stroke, and it would put in the def, the space, the parentheses, the colon and the carriage return automatically, then jump you up to the space after the def to write your function name and arguments, then then drop you back down to the body of the function, all in four strokes. Best of all, once you defined that function name in your steno dictionary, you wouldn't need to worry about remembering to write out the name in camel case each time. Just use a single stroke like SPHU<i>PBGS (pronounced "smunction"), for instance, and start thinking of it as just another word, instead of two words mashed together in a lexically unnatural way.</i><p><i>I love the way Vim has mapped a useful command to each key of the qwerty keyboard. It's immensely powerful once you get used to it. But it's only got 26 keys to choose from, and it takes a long time to learn which key does what, since the correlation between "move one word forward" and the "w" key is pretty abstract and arbitrary. In steno, you could certainly keep using just the w key, if it's what you're used to, but you could also, say, map the "move one word forward" command to a single stroke like "WOFRD" (pronounced "woffered"). That's mnemonically much more useful than just "w", and an even bigger advantage is that the number of possible one-stroke commands is almost infinite. Instead of one stroke equalling one letter, steno lets one stroke equal one syllable, which is about five times more efficient quantitatively. As a qualitative improvement, the advantage is inestimable.</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jerf</author><text>All of that either already exists as described, or keystroke-count equivalents exist, in every programmer editor. If people aren't using it in existing editors they sure aren't going to pick up a radically different keyboard layout to use it.<p>(Said the guy who types in an increasingly-heavily-modified Dvorak layout. I recently mapped Backspace to "change window" (i.e., ALT-Tab in most WMs), since I long since moved Backspace to Caps Lock. You can't be much more willing to fiddle with your keyboard layout than I am.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Typing at 255 WPM shouldn't cost $4000</title><url>http://opensource.com/life/11/12/open-source-changes-face-stenography-and-possibilities-hearing-impaired</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>naner</author><text>How she envisions stenography would be used for programming:<p><a href="http://stenoknight.com/WritingCoding.html" rel="nofollow">http://stenoknight.com/WritingCoding.html</a><p><i>Programming is especially suited for steno, because there's so much boilerplate to write again and again, even in an eloquent language like Python. If I want to define a function, I have to type:</i><p><i>def someFunction(arg): stuff.</i><p><i>That's eight strokes just to get started, plus 20 more strokes to write "someFunction", "arg", and "stuff". In steno, on the other hand, you could write something like D</i>FD in a single stroke, and it would put in the def, the space, the parentheses, the colon and the carriage return automatically, then jump you up to the space after the def to write your function name and arguments, then then drop you back down to the body of the function, all in four strokes. Best of all, once you defined that function name in your steno dictionary, you wouldn't need to worry about remembering to write out the name in camel case each time. Just use a single stroke like SPHU<i>PBGS (pronounced "smunction"), for instance, and start thinking of it as just another word, instead of two words mashed together in a lexically unnatural way.</i><p><i>I love the way Vim has mapped a useful command to each key of the qwerty keyboard. It's immensely powerful once you get used to it. But it's only got 26 keys to choose from, and it takes a long time to learn which key does what, since the correlation between "move one word forward" and the "w" key is pretty abstract and arbitrary. In steno, you could certainly keep using just the w key, if it's what you're used to, but you could also, say, map the "move one word forward" command to a single stroke like "WOFRD" (pronounced "woffered"). That's mnemonically much more useful than just "w", and an even bigger advantage is that the number of possible one-stroke commands is almost infinite. Instead of one stroke equalling one letter, steno lets one stroke equal one syllable, which is about five times more efficient quantitatively. As a qualitative improvement, the advantage is inestimable.</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jach</author><text>An interesting take, though I thought most IDEs have most of those features already? (I personally dislike features that auto-jump me around apart from auto-indent.) It's funny she brought up vim since vim can be made to do those things as well; it's not limited to 26 characters since you can have multicharacter commands in any mode just fine.<p>I still don't really "get" the syllable perspective but it seems like it's just a mapping of one stroke (I think my confusion is what constitutes a "stroke") on specialized hardware to several on a qwerty board? So I guess you're limited to the number of keys on a qwerty board for single-point-of-entry commands with vim, but you could always use the specialty keyboard and map the output of those as multi-character vim commands... It seems the main benefit is having those mappings done for you and available system-wide.</text></comment> |
21,223,279 | 21,222,080 | 1 | 2 | 21,205,021 | train | <story><title>What Happens to the Body on No Sleep</title><url>https://www.outsideonline.com/2292806/your-body-no-sleep</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Zarath</author><text>While I understand why you&#x27;d write something like this, I think that this sort of thinking is the reason people get poor sleep nowadays anyway. This obsession with &quot;efficiency&quot; and &quot;productivity&quot;. <i>Even if</i> it is more productive to get sleep, I believe that thinking about it in terms of hygiene or in terms of quality of life is much healthier.<p>Maybe you disagree but not every minute of life should be devoted to doing the most productive thing you can. Sleeping for sleep&#x27;s sake or because it makes you feel good should be enough reason. I&#x27;d rather turn my attention away from all these life-hack, min-maxing ways of thinking and just listen to my body telling me what it wants.</text></item><item><author>motivic</author><text>In case you feel sleep is a waste of time, it could actually be surprisingly productive to sleep. Once thing I noticed in grad school is that your sub-conscious is passively working on the problems you encountered even if you are not actively thinking about them. And often I would &quot;dream&quot; up a clever solution to a homework problem during my sleep.<p>J.P. Serre, one of the most brilliant mathematician still living today, purportedly &quot;does all his best work in his sleep&quot;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tinyurl.com&#x2F;y25q45ut" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tinyurl.com&#x2F;y25q45ut</a><p>From what I learned in the wonderful Coursera course: &quot;Learning How to Learn&quot;, these are manifestations of the unfocused or diffused mode of the mind, and play a critical role in learning and problem solving.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;learn-love-code&#x2F;learnings-from-learning-how-to-learn-19d149920dc4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;learn-love-code&#x2F;learnings-from-learning-h...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>neuronic</author><text>It&#x27;s a truly mind-boggling feeling when you escape the busy city life and somehow manage to be truly in sync with yourself.<p>I was hiking in Scotland and Iceland over the last two years and either times there was a breaking point when we were in the middle of nowhere. In Iceland some weather forced us to camp near a volcano off-site from the camping zones. In the morning, I got out of our tent and looked across a vast space of grass, rocks and ashes. A creek flowing nearby made the only perceivable noise aside from wind.<p>You take a look left and right. Breathe. A breeze goes over your face and you hear the deafening silence emanating from nature itself.<p>It was then when the usual life all felt like a massive distraction from life itself. It was a nice, calming and deep feeling that it&#x27;s completely enough to just <i>be</i>... hard to convey.</text></comment> | <story><title>What Happens to the Body on No Sleep</title><url>https://www.outsideonline.com/2292806/your-body-no-sleep</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Zarath</author><text>While I understand why you&#x27;d write something like this, I think that this sort of thinking is the reason people get poor sleep nowadays anyway. This obsession with &quot;efficiency&quot; and &quot;productivity&quot;. <i>Even if</i> it is more productive to get sleep, I believe that thinking about it in terms of hygiene or in terms of quality of life is much healthier.<p>Maybe you disagree but not every minute of life should be devoted to doing the most productive thing you can. Sleeping for sleep&#x27;s sake or because it makes you feel good should be enough reason. I&#x27;d rather turn my attention away from all these life-hack, min-maxing ways of thinking and just listen to my body telling me what it wants.</text></item><item><author>motivic</author><text>In case you feel sleep is a waste of time, it could actually be surprisingly productive to sleep. Once thing I noticed in grad school is that your sub-conscious is passively working on the problems you encountered even if you are not actively thinking about them. And often I would &quot;dream&quot; up a clever solution to a homework problem during my sleep.<p>J.P. Serre, one of the most brilliant mathematician still living today, purportedly &quot;does all his best work in his sleep&quot;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tinyurl.com&#x2F;y25q45ut" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tinyurl.com&#x2F;y25q45ut</a><p>From what I learned in the wonderful Coursera course: &quot;Learning How to Learn&quot;, these are manifestations of the unfocused or diffused mode of the mind, and play a critical role in learning and problem solving.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;learn-love-code&#x2F;learnings-from-learning-how-to-learn-19d149920dc4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;learn-love-code&#x2F;learnings-from-learning-h...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nindalf</author><text>Completely agree. I think GP put it this way because it’s easier to convince a “productivity ninja” that sleep is good for productivity than to convince them that productivity shouldn’t be their sole focus. If the goal is for them to get more sleep, this is how to reason with them.</text></comment> |
37,062,170 | 37,062,330 | 1 | 2 | 37,060,269 | train | <story><title>J-CIA64 – Modern spare part for Commodore 64, Commodore 128, SX-64</title><url>https://1nt3r.net/j-cia/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>the_af</author><text>Tangentially related, and given some of the debates in the comments below, I&#x27;m sure I&#x27;ll be burned at the stake for this, but here I go anyway:<p>I&#x27;ve given up on owning a real C64, just to remind me of my childhood. It&#x27;s too convoluted, requires buying replacement parts, and I don&#x27;t own any TV to plug it into. VICE emulation is good enough <i>for me</i>. But I really wanted the keyboard, which was a <i>major</i> part of the experience for me.<p>Out of the box -- no soldering, not buying extra cables or expansions or add-ons -- the most feasible option for me was buying the retroremake TheC64 (&quot;max&quot;, the full version with the working keyboard).<p>Is it perfect? No.<p>Is it a C64? No. It looks like one, but inside there&#x27;s an ARM chip running VICE.<p>Does it <i>look</i> like a convincing C64 &quot;breadbin&quot;, and can I play every game, type BASIC programs, play with PETSCII art, even type assembly code, and generally relive my childhood?<p>YES!</text></comment> | <story><title>J-CIA64 – Modern spare part for Commodore 64, Commodore 128, SX-64</title><url>https://1nt3r.net/j-cia/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stuff4ben</author><text>I question why people go through the trouble of doing this. Then I remember back to when I was a pimply teenager, lugging my C64, 1541, and 13&quot; TV to a user group meeting on a crisp Saturday morning. We would share warez and see awesome demos and oogle the C128&#x27;s and inevitably someone would bring an Amiga. We&#x27;d gather around while they played the latest games and show off the full capabilities of that machine. We had some Apple users there too with their IIe&#x27;s and IIc&#x27;s. I never saw a Mac in real life until much later in college. And that&#x27;s a part of my life I&#x27;ll likely never live again, but now I get why people want to build these machines today, for nostalgia.</text></comment> |
24,067,257 | 24,067,323 | 1 | 2 | 24,066,997 | train | <story><title>Stripe Hires AWS' Mike Clayville as Chief Revenue Officer</title><url>https://stripe.com/en-au/newsroom/news/mike-clayville</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pc</author><text>We&#x27;re excited to hire Mike in part because AWS has been one of the very best examples ever of <i>simultaneously</i> selling to the largest companies in the world while not giving up on a strong self-serve product. So many B2B companies end up with homepages for which the only CTAs are annoying variants of &quot;read case study&quot;, &quot;download whitepaper&quot;, and &quot;request a call&quot;. All stock photography; no product imagery.<p>Stripe&#x27;s growth thus far has been fueled by individual developers and founders signing up and growing with us to billions of revenue. As we scale, the &quot;impatient developer&quot; will remain the focus of our product development.<p>Over time, however, we&#x27;ve been increasingly finding that large organizations (like Zoom&#x2F;Atlassian&#x2F;Maersk) want to adopt Stripe -- Stripe now has a lot of functionality that they can&#x27;t get elsewhere. So, we&#x27;re very eager to continue to grow this side of our business with Mike.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simonebrunozzi</author><text>Congrats, Patrick. The VMware + AWS experience is certainly a big plus for a company like Stripe.<p>I would dare to disagree on, or at least to challenge, the &quot;simultaneously&quot; that you mention, though - in my experience (ex AWS, ex VMware) these two are completely different sales motions, made possible simply by the product itself and how it&#x27;s discovered and consumed... Despite (yes, despite) what enterprise sales wanted to do. In a way, it&#x27;s as if AWS self-serve were one entity, and AWS enterprise sales were another one.<p>In many cases, sales teams were completely not aware of certain things happening, or certain accounts becoming huge overnight, or certain developer behaviors. Some salespeople were handsomely rewarded for having been randomly selected as the sales rep for accounts like, say, Dropbox or AirBnB.<p>It&#x27;s hard to describe properly, I know, but it&#x27;s not as harmonious as one might say at first glance. And I think that the sales team still hasn&#x27;t a good idea of the other side of the coin.<p>In a way, AWS&#x27; merit is to not have let Enterprise Sales screw up the self-serve part, and I think that&#x27;s mainly because AWS was, and still is, so much more metric-driven than any other business I&#x27;m aware of. Enterprise Sales happened gradually, without interrupting a very addictive self-serve machine.<p>Anyway, this could be a long conversation with lots of platitudes, so I&#x27;ll stop here and try to think of better ways to explain what I have in mind.</text></comment> | <story><title>Stripe Hires AWS' Mike Clayville as Chief Revenue Officer</title><url>https://stripe.com/en-au/newsroom/news/mike-clayville</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pc</author><text>We&#x27;re excited to hire Mike in part because AWS has been one of the very best examples ever of <i>simultaneously</i> selling to the largest companies in the world while not giving up on a strong self-serve product. So many B2B companies end up with homepages for which the only CTAs are annoying variants of &quot;read case study&quot;, &quot;download whitepaper&quot;, and &quot;request a call&quot;. All stock photography; no product imagery.<p>Stripe&#x27;s growth thus far has been fueled by individual developers and founders signing up and growing with us to billions of revenue. As we scale, the &quot;impatient developer&quot; will remain the focus of our product development.<p>Over time, however, we&#x27;ve been increasingly finding that large organizations (like Zoom&#x2F;Atlassian&#x2F;Maersk) want to adopt Stripe -- Stripe now has a lot of functionality that they can&#x27;t get elsewhere. So, we&#x27;re very eager to continue to grow this side of our business with Mike.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tylermenezes</author><text>I learned about AWS and Stripe at around the same time, but while AWS&#x27;s dashboard has become truly overwhelming, Stripe has until recently been very focused on your core product.<p>I always imagined that flexibility was a key part of selling to enterprise while competing on something other than price. You also see this in other verticals: Salesforce in sales, Netsuite in finance, Twilio in comms, etc.<p>Stripe has already launched a few new products over the last few years. Is this hire a further indication that Stripe is shifting toward being the provider for everything payments? Is the Stripe dashboard going to be the next to fall to the curse of having a thousand buttons?<p>(I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s a bad thing, it&#x27;s been making everything a lot easier for us. But wow it&#x27;s hard to get students up to speed on AWS compared to when I started using it :-))</text></comment> |
9,448,493 | 9,447,558 | 1 | 2 | 9,445,692 | train | <story><title>Beej's Guide to Network Programming (2012)</title><url>http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/output/html/multipage/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nilliams</author><text>Once upon a time (about 7 years ago) Beej&#x27;s guides saved my life at work when trying to implement network stuff in C for a project at work I was in over my head on.<p>If there was more stuff like this in C-land I probably wouldn&#x27;t have been clambering to get away from C and into more nurturing, sharing communities at the first opportunity.<p>Really cool to see he&#x27;s keeping it up to date.</text></comment> | <story><title>Beej's Guide to Network Programming (2012)</title><url>http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/output/html/multipage/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ndesaulniers</author><text>Definitely a great read, one I recommend frequently. Nowadays, I reach for ASIO. I think I read yesterday it&#x27;s going to be included in C++17? Much more portable than POSIX sockets. After reading this I implemented a multithreaded version [0], then started contributing to h2o [1].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nickdesaulniers&#x2F;c-http-server&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;threaded.c" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nickdesaulniers&#x2F;c-http-server&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;h2o&#x2F;h2o" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;h2o&#x2F;h2o</a></text></comment> |
19,512,127 | 19,512,218 | 1 | 2 | 19,507,447 | train | <story><title>IBM purged ‘gray hairs’ and ‘old heads’ as it launched Millennial Corps: lawsuit</title><url>https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/03/27/ibm-purged-gray-hairs-and-old-heads-as-it-launched-millennial-corps-lawsuit/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gambler</author><text><i>&gt;will be often be outdated and useless in a few years.</i><p>Often it&#x27;s &quot;useless now and outdated in a few years&quot;. It&#x27;s amazing how much software today justifies its existence through a weird self-referential loop that isn&#x27;t connected to solving any problems outside of itself. Complex tools to manage complexity and so on.</text></item><item><author>freyir</author><text>&gt; <i>&quot;why there are such a few percentage of older folks in engineering&quot;</i><p>No, there&#x27;s a small percentage of older folks in <i>software engineering</i>. In almost any other engineering discipline, you&#x27;ll find many older engineers who enjoy long careers, and whose perceived value often grows with age. That&#x27;s because actual engineering principles change very slowly.<p>Most software jobs do not involve much engineering in the traditional sense; most of the effort is keeping up with the constant churn of flavor-of-the-week libraries and frameworks, information that will be often be outdated and useless in a few years.</text></item><item><author>throwaway6497</author><text>Age discrimination for older software engineers is real. It gets enforced in subtle ways. It is up or out culture at the end.<p>Age discrimination doesn&#x27;t get the same coverage as gender, race or sexual orientation discrimination. I wish companies also added age in the diversity reports, and if they did talk about why there are such a few percentage of older folks in engineering. If we wish to make engineering career to span several decades, we should all actively try to get o address this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>barrkel</author><text>The usual pattern is that the generation N - 1 of a tool didn&#x27;t solve for some dimension D_n of the problem, so generation N is created that handles D_n.<p>The usual defect is that generation N isn&#x27;t very good at D_n-x where x is greater than the mean experience of the implementing engineer(s), and often isn&#x27;t even very good at D_n-1.</text></comment> | <story><title>IBM purged ‘gray hairs’ and ‘old heads’ as it launched Millennial Corps: lawsuit</title><url>https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/03/27/ibm-purged-gray-hairs-and-old-heads-as-it-launched-millennial-corps-lawsuit/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gambler</author><text><i>&gt;will be often be outdated and useless in a few years.</i><p>Often it&#x27;s &quot;useless now and outdated in a few years&quot;. It&#x27;s amazing how much software today justifies its existence through a weird self-referential loop that isn&#x27;t connected to solving any problems outside of itself. Complex tools to manage complexity and so on.</text></item><item><author>freyir</author><text>&gt; <i>&quot;why there are such a few percentage of older folks in engineering&quot;</i><p>No, there&#x27;s a small percentage of older folks in <i>software engineering</i>. In almost any other engineering discipline, you&#x27;ll find many older engineers who enjoy long careers, and whose perceived value often grows with age. That&#x27;s because actual engineering principles change very slowly.<p>Most software jobs do not involve much engineering in the traditional sense; most of the effort is keeping up with the constant churn of flavor-of-the-week libraries and frameworks, information that will be often be outdated and useless in a few years.</text></item><item><author>throwaway6497</author><text>Age discrimination for older software engineers is real. It gets enforced in subtle ways. It is up or out culture at the end.<p>Age discrimination doesn&#x27;t get the same coverage as gender, race or sexual orientation discrimination. I wish companies also added age in the diversity reports, and if they did talk about why there are such a few percentage of older folks in engineering. If we wish to make engineering career to span several decades, we should all actively try to get o address this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>revscat</author><text>I see you’ve worked with Angular before.</text></comment> |
28,482,422 | 28,482,351 | 1 | 3 | 28,481,782 | train | <story><title>Nuclear War Survival Skills (1987)</title><url>https://www.oism.org/nwss/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmnicolas</author><text>I know we&#x27;re not supposed to question why a link was posted here, but... why? ;)<p>I mean I thought about a lot of bad scenarios and how to prepare for them, but a nuclear war is probably not survivable, you&#x27;re just going to prolong the pain a few more days &#x2F; months.<p>To have any chance you probably would have to stay at least 5 years in an underground bunker. The guys on the TV shows Alone (I&#x27;m watching the first season now) are getting crazy just after a couple weeks of isolation.<p>The Germans have an excellent saying for these kind of situations: better an horrible end than an horror without end (sorry if my translation isn&#x27;t accurate).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>horsawlarway</author><text>This is addressed right up front in the book, interestingly enough.<p>&gt; &quot;While working with hundreds of Americans building expedient shelters and life-support equipment, I have found that many people at first see no sense in talking about details of survival skills. Those who hold exaggerated beliefs about the dangers from nuclear weapons must first be convinced that nuclear war would not inevitably be the end of them and everything worthwhile. Only after they have begun to question the truth of these myths do they become interested, under normal peacetime conditions, in acquiring nuclear war survival skills. Therefore, before giving detailed instructions for making and using survival equipment, we will examine the most harmful of the myths about nuclear war dangers, along with some of the grim facts.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Nuclear War Survival Skills (1987)</title><url>https://www.oism.org/nwss/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmnicolas</author><text>I know we&#x27;re not supposed to question why a link was posted here, but... why? ;)<p>I mean I thought about a lot of bad scenarios and how to prepare for them, but a nuclear war is probably not survivable, you&#x27;re just going to prolong the pain a few more days &#x2F; months.<p>To have any chance you probably would have to stay at least 5 years in an underground bunker. The guys on the TV shows Alone (I&#x27;m watching the first season now) are getting crazy just after a couple weeks of isolation.<p>The Germans have an excellent saying for these kind of situations: better an horrible end than an horror without end (sorry if my translation isn&#x27;t accurate).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>goda90</author><text>Why try to survive? That&#x27;s something people have to ask themselves individually really.<p>I took a wilderness survival course in college. We were usually out in a park practicing skills, but one day we just stayed in the classroom and our teacher talked about what drives people to survive extreme situations, even when they have little experience or training to do so. He brought up cases of parents going the extra mile to save the child they were lost with. He mentioned Hugh Glass and his drive for revenge after being left for dead from a bear mauling. Viktor Frankl observed a concentration camp prisoner who was always optimistic until the day he saw his family brought into the camp, and then he died soon after. For some people it could be a biological urge to keep living. Or maybe their religious beliefs drive them.</text></comment> |
37,989,764 | 37,985,383 | 1 | 2 | 37,984,404 | train | <story><title>Java implementation of a quantum computing resistant cryptographic algorithm</title><url>https://github.com/mthiim/dilithium-java</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mthiim</author><text>Hello everyone! I&#x27;m thrilled to see my project trending here on Hacker News. It&#x27;s a pure toy implementation inspired by the paper and its reference. While it aligns with all the provided test cases, I wrote it primarily for fun and to see it work seamlessly with the standard JCE interfaces. If you have any questions or feedback, please don&#x27;t hesitate to ask. Thanks for checking it out! Best regards, the author. :-)</text></comment> | <story><title>Java implementation of a quantum computing resistant cryptographic algorithm</title><url>https://github.com/mthiim/dilithium-java</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>simpaticoder</author><text>Most of the &quot;meat&quot; of this toy implementation of Dilithium can be found at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mthiim&#x2F;dilithium-java&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;src&#x2F;main&#x2F;java&#x2F;net&#x2F;thiim&#x2F;dilithium&#x2F;impl&#x2F;Dilithium.java">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mthiim&#x2F;dilithium-java&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;src&#x2F;main&#x2F;...</a></text></comment> |
33,123,782 | 33,123,242 | 1 | 2 | 33,118,994 | train | <story><title>Why Is The Guitar Tuned Like It Is?</title><url>https://library.kiwix.org/music.stackexchange.com_en_all_2022-05/questions/1723/why-is-the-guitar-tuned-like-it-is</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lioeters</author><text>I&#x27;ve always wondered about that kink between the G and B string, a major 3rd gap, when all the other strings are spaced perfect fourth. It bothers me because it&#x27;s an anomaly that breaks the symmetry and increases the number of shapes to keep in mind.<p>The whole thread is an enjoyable read, and the answer seems to be - like many things in Western music theory - it was a design decision, a kind of legacy code, with pros and cons. &quot;Things evolve to meet a need.&quot;<p>One of the answers talked about an all-fourths tuning, that some instruments use such tunings as standard.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;All_fourths_tuning" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;All_fourths_tuning</a><p>Theoretically it&#x27;s more beautiful, and simplifies the shapes and their movements across the fretboard. It might be a pain to overcome years of learning patterns on the guitar <i>with</i> the kink - I&#x27;ll have to try it. Sometimes it&#x27;s good to shake up the foundation and see what new patterns emerge.<p>Similarly, I love the logic (and I&#x27;d say even wisdom) of the piano keyboard - but there are some kinks in there too, which introduce complexity in the patterns and their transformations, making them harder to remember. I&#x27;m curious to try a hexagonal keyboard and other alternative layouts - I imagine the symmetry has practical advantages, and to my mind more aesthetically pleasing.<p>Wicki–Hayden note layout - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Wicki%E2%80%93Hayden_note_layout" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Wicki%E2%80%93Hayden_note_layo...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Isomorphic_keyboard" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Isomorphic_keyboard</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dumpsterlid</author><text>&quot; I&#x27;ve always wondered about that kink between the G and B string, a major 3rd gap, when all the other strings are spaced perfect fourth. It bothers me because it&#x27;s an anomaly that breaks the symmetry and increases the number of shapes to keep in mind.&quot;<p>One of the deeply beautiful things about the guitar is this &quot;ugly&quot; asymmetry. People with analytical minds that desire order always get bothered by this 3rd, why not go to all 4ths and be more elegant???<p>Because art and music arent always about being elegant! Tuning a guitar in all 4ths lets you play like a snooty stuck up jazz musician, but ultimately there are so many richer bar chords available with that 3rd in there that who cares if it is &quot;ugly&quot; to have the 3rd. People forget a plain jane normal guitar chord like a G chord or something is tonally actually very complex. It isn&#x27;t like a basic g chord on a piano G B D. The &quot;basic&quot; G chord on guitar spans many octaves and has a non-obvious combination of notes. The 3rd in there for guitar tuning allows you to explore all those complexities with the given limitations of the human hand best.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Is The Guitar Tuned Like It Is?</title><url>https://library.kiwix.org/music.stackexchange.com_en_all_2022-05/questions/1723/why-is-the-guitar-tuned-like-it-is</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lioeters</author><text>I&#x27;ve always wondered about that kink between the G and B string, a major 3rd gap, when all the other strings are spaced perfect fourth. It bothers me because it&#x27;s an anomaly that breaks the symmetry and increases the number of shapes to keep in mind.<p>The whole thread is an enjoyable read, and the answer seems to be - like many things in Western music theory - it was a design decision, a kind of legacy code, with pros and cons. &quot;Things evolve to meet a need.&quot;<p>One of the answers talked about an all-fourths tuning, that some instruments use such tunings as standard.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;All_fourths_tuning" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;All_fourths_tuning</a><p>Theoretically it&#x27;s more beautiful, and simplifies the shapes and their movements across the fretboard. It might be a pain to overcome years of learning patterns on the guitar <i>with</i> the kink - I&#x27;ll have to try it. Sometimes it&#x27;s good to shake up the foundation and see what new patterns emerge.<p>Similarly, I love the logic (and I&#x27;d say even wisdom) of the piano keyboard - but there are some kinks in there too, which introduce complexity in the patterns and their transformations, making them harder to remember. I&#x27;m curious to try a hexagonal keyboard and other alternative layouts - I imagine the symmetry has practical advantages, and to my mind more aesthetically pleasing.<p>Wicki–Hayden note layout - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Wicki%E2%80%93Hayden_note_layout" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Wicki%E2%80%93Hayden_note_layo...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Isomorphic_keyboard" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Isomorphic_keyboard</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Maciek416</author><text>I use an all-fourths tuning on the Linnstrument and absolutely love it. As a person who approached both music theory and learning to play with their hands for the first time (after clicking around in a piano roll for years) with an all-fourths isomorphic keyboard, it removed whole categories of mental gymnastics and time sucks and let me pick up big chords and bits of jazz&#x2F;rnb much quicker as a result. The benefits of being able to transpose and dance around the keyboard effortlessly without having to account for that major 3rd gap can&#x27;t be overstated. You&#x27;ve got one unified mental model for everything and can skip directly to the good stuff. There are a number of grid instruments on the market that implement all fourths (Push, Launchpad, etc etc). If you have an iPad, Musix Pro can also act as a MIDI output (either for iPadOS instruments or for external hardware) that gives you an equivalent layout, but also many other interesting layouts that may work better for the music you want to play.<p>As a side note, after learning linnstrument, I picked up an 8 string guitar and found it much easier to translate my knowledge by tuning in all-fourths. With all-fourths, you really can learn chords as a set of (essentially) 2D glyphs that interact and fit together like Lego pieces. Inversions are easier to remember, transposition is always effortless, training your hands is quicker. Highly recommended.</text></comment> |
18,353,328 | 18,353,270 | 1 | 2 | 18,352,754 | train | <story><title>Neo4j nabs $80M Series E as graph database tech flourishes</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/01/neo4j-nabs-80m-series-e-as-graph-database-tech-matures/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>motohagiography</author><text>I&#x27;ve been using Neo in production on GrapheneDB with py2neo and Flask for about a year. Love it.<p>The reason I use a graph is for consistency from my product level business logic to my implementation.<p>Basically, to solve my problem, I started with a set of english statements, which yielded a grammar, that I described as &quot;objects and morphisms,&quot; (things and relationships) then implemented it in a graph - put a front end on it and built a product.<p>Graphs provide coherence to my problem. Could an RDBMS do this? Yes, but not without a complex intermediate query layer. I think of using a graph as analogous to specifying your problem in terms of a functional language instead of imperatively. The reason to do that is because your product is the result of maintaining consistency of an abstraction, like a DSL or a game, instead of just retrieving stored values, documents and their variations.<p>It&#x27;s disruptive to a lot of orgs as well, since there is a lot of sunk cost in RDBMS experience, so I think the applications are all net new projects. I don&#x27;t foresee anyone migrating to one, but I do see a point where majority of new products use one.</text></comment> | <story><title>Neo4j nabs $80M Series E as graph database tech flourishes</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/01/neo4j-nabs-80m-series-e-as-graph-database-tech-matures/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>drej</author><text>I had a toy project which housed all its data in Postgres and I needed a bit of graph traversal, really basic stuff. I almost prepared some ETL to load the data into neo4j&#x2F;redisgraph, but then I found out about recursive CTEs in Postgres.<p>Granted, they won&#x27;t let you do nearly as much as some advanced graph algorithms, but the ease with which you can use it in your operational data store is amazing. And with proper indexing, I could do a traversal in hundreds of milliseconds.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.postgresql.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;current&#x2F;static&#x2F;queries-with.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.postgresql.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;current&#x2F;static&#x2F;queries-with....</a></text></comment> |
38,369,778 | 38,369,925 | 1 | 3 | 38,369,570 | train | <story><title>To the Board of Directors of OpenAI from former employees</title><url>https://board.net/p/r.e6a8f6578787a4cc67d4dc438c6d236e</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>BoiledCabbage</author><text>If nobody is willing to put their names on those statements then there is absolutely zero reason to believe it is anything other than one of their competitors trying to take advantage of an opportune time to weaken the forerunner.<p>This is worthless and shouldn&#x27;t be on the HN homepage.</text></comment> | <story><title>To the Board of Directors of OpenAI from former employees</title><url>https://board.net/p/r.e6a8f6578787a4cc67d4dc438c6d236e</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tristor</author><text>These are interesting, because from an outside observer what&#x27;s described as the allegations here don&#x27;t seem particularly damning, with the exception of the hostile work environment allegation against Greg, however the only significant allegation is completely irrelevant to the larger statements made in the letter.<p>It seems like they are making very strong statements but not really supporting them very much in the &quot;details&quot;, and didn&#x27;t sign it. I&#x27;m not sure I can take anonymous allegations with minimum details at face value.</text></comment> |
16,498,007 | 16,497,791 | 1 | 2 | 16,497,551 | train | <story><title>YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asian Males, Lawsuit Says</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/youtube-hiring-for-some-positions-excluded-white-and-asian-males-lawsuit-says-1519948013</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>neerkumar</author><text>Anyone who has worked for a large tech company in SF in the last 3&#x2F;4 years knows that this has happened everywhere.<p>In fairness, Google was one of the very last ones among large tech companies to play the quota game. But the problem is that that&#x27;s a game that once the first company starts playing it, everyone else is forced to play it too.<p>Company X publishes a report with amazing diversity numbers and brands itself as a great company for certain minorities and diversity in general, along with some unbelievable BS about how they achieved that. At that point, you have to introduce quotas too to get similar numbers or your brand and recruiting will be strongly affected.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>netheril96</author><text>This starts with the [diversity pledge](<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thehill.com&#x2F;policy&#x2F;technology&#x2F;284517-white-house-pressures-30-tech-companies-to-sign-diversity-pledge" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thehill.com&#x2F;policy&#x2F;technology&#x2F;284517-white-house-pres...</a>) pushed by Obama administration, including companies like Airbnb, Box, GitHub, GoDaddy, Intel, Lyft, Medium.<p>No wonder many Asians sigh relief when Clinton failed her presidency, or she surely would have pushed for more.</text></comment> | <story><title>YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asian Males, Lawsuit Says</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/youtube-hiring-for-some-positions-excluded-white-and-asian-males-lawsuit-says-1519948013</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>neerkumar</author><text>Anyone who has worked for a large tech company in SF in the last 3&#x2F;4 years knows that this has happened everywhere.<p>In fairness, Google was one of the very last ones among large tech companies to play the quota game. But the problem is that that&#x27;s a game that once the first company starts playing it, everyone else is forced to play it too.<p>Company X publishes a report with amazing diversity numbers and brands itself as a great company for certain minorities and diversity in general, along with some unbelievable BS about how they achieved that. At that point, you have to introduce quotas too to get similar numbers or your brand and recruiting will be strongly affected.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cookiecaper</author><text>It&#x27;s not about recruiting. It&#x27;s about lawsuits. Companies with more than 100 employees are legally obligated to report demographic information to the EEOC. The EEOC reviews this information when someone files a complaint alleging discrimination.<p>If similar companies in the same industry and geography have numbers that show a more diverse demographic profile, the EEOC is much more likely to consider a discrimination complaint non-frivolous, which is required to file a lawsuit alleging employer discrimination (as I understand it; not a lawyer).<p>Companies play this game a) to protect themselves against lawsuits; and b) to potentiate damage to competitors who are not yet explicitly playing this game, and therefore have correspondingly less demographic diversity.</text></comment> |
35,988,850 | 35,985,542 | 1 | 2 | 35,985,285 | train | <story><title>Who wants to be tracked?</title><url>https://www.quantable.com/analytics/who-wants-to-be-tracked/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ajsnigrutin</author><text>Better question here is, why is this not handled through the browser instead of relying on individual web apps to do it.<p>Block third party cookies by default, delete other cookies on the last tab or window closed and prompt user to save cookies on a form submit (&quot;do not delete cookies for this domain when leaving&quot; type of prompt, for pages with logins, settings, etc).<p>Also remove features that make easy fingerprinting possible, the site doesn&#x27;t need to know every font I have installed, just have a &quot;standard set&quot; included with the browser, and use web fonts or whatever for other fonts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pornel</author><text>We had P3P spec for it 20 years ago, even implemented in IE! And Google has been sending intentionally malformed P3P header to bypass it. Their trillion dollar business relies on users having difficulty stopping tracking.</text></comment> | <story><title>Who wants to be tracked?</title><url>https://www.quantable.com/analytics/who-wants-to-be-tracked/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ajsnigrutin</author><text>Better question here is, why is this not handled through the browser instead of relying on individual web apps to do it.<p>Block third party cookies by default, delete other cookies on the last tab or window closed and prompt user to save cookies on a form submit (&quot;do not delete cookies for this domain when leaving&quot; type of prompt, for pages with logins, settings, etc).<p>Also remove features that make easy fingerprinting possible, the site doesn&#x27;t need to know every font I have installed, just have a &quot;standard set&quot; included with the browser, and use web fonts or whatever for other fonts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davedx</author><text>Because the most popular browser is made by an AdTech company</text></comment> |
23,042,903 | 23,041,900 | 1 | 3 | 23,041,602 | train | <story><title>Nvidia Releases Low-Cost, Open-Source Ventilator Design</title><url>https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2020/05/01/low-cost-open-source-ventilator-nvidia-chief-scientist/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rkangel</author><text>There have been a lot of these &#x27;open source ventilators&#x27;, and they kind of miss the point. It&#x27;s easy to make something that performs the basic functionality.<p>I have spent basically every waking hour of the last month and a bit working on a ventilator for my employer (part of Ventilator Challenge UK - project recently suspended). Making something that delivers air in the right duty cycle for breathing is easy. There&#x27;s a few more things you want to do:<p>Blend O2 and Air (&quot;FiO2&quot;). Ventilators need to deliver Oxygen rich air to patients, but not usually 100%. Blenders are harder than you&#x27;d think to make. Note also that having pure O2 in your system means that there&#x27;s a load of stuff you have to get right to prevent fire.<p>Alarms. This is the big one. most of the implementation (even taking account the next feature), was about checks and associated alarms, for blockages, failures etc. Making sure that we beeped loudly if something looked wrong. Note that &#x27;not beeping&#x27; is a much WORSE failure than &#x27;not ventilating&#x27;. If something goes wrong (including complete hardware failure of the ventilator), as long as a healthcare practitioner is aware and responds, then there isn&#x27;t an issue. If the ventilator is happily ventilating away but something is obstructed then the patient might die (there are backup checks like pulse oximetry on the patient, but they&#x27;re slow).<p>Assisted breathing. Driving a solenoid on and off at a particular rate and duty cycle gets you &#x27;mandatory breathing&#x27;. That is great for keeping someone alive. If you&#x27;re not unconscious though, it is both incredibly unpleasant and doesn&#x27;t help you get weaned off and get better. What you want is a device capable of sensing attempted breaths and using the ventilation to &#x27;help&#x27; them. This feature isn&#x27;t 100% necessary - the early plans in the UK were for a massive shortage and for the simplest things we could get in a hurry. It quickly became clear that actually we needed ventilators to help people recover.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nvidia Releases Low-Cost, Open-Source Ventilator Design</title><url>https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2020/05/01/low-cost-open-source-ventilator-nvidia-chief-scientist/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Nokinside</author><text>&gt; Traditional ventilators, by contrast, can cost more than $20,000<p>Traditional ventilators (ventilator) are very different from
bag valve masks, resuscitators, PAP and CPAP, BiPAP machines.<p>This Nvidia design is not alternative to that $20,000 hospital ventilator. It&#x27;s emergency-response ventilator alternative these other cheap designs you can already order from Amazon. You can&#x27;t keep people long time in this kind of device without serious risk of damage to the lungs.</text></comment> |
29,581,752 | 29,581,377 | 1 | 2 | 29,579,362 | train | <story><title>Cryptocurrency scams cost owners $7.7B in 2021, driven by DeFi-based “rug pulls”</title><url>https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/2021-crypto-scam-revenues/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>Scams that will collapse in 2022:<p>* Axie Infinity. That&#x27;s a Ponzi in the collapse phase. Their Smooth Love Potion token is down 90% and in a screaming dive, and their Axie token is down 37% from peak. That one is going to hurt a lot of poor people in the Philippines. Many quit their jobs to play Axie&#x27;s play-to-earn game. All the money comes from later entrants, so it&#x27;s a Ponzi by definition.<p>* OpenSea. The NFT market is in worse shape than it looks. People are minting crap art like crazy, and people are buying it at inflated prices, hoping to flip it to a greater fool. If you look at actual resales on OpenSea, they&#x27;re not happening much. The supply of greater fools is running out. As I&#x27;ve pointed out before, this works just like Beanie Babies on eBay. Asking prices around US$5000, actual sales around $50, most items show zero bids. NFT markets don&#x27;t visibly crash, they just quietly stall. Most NFT markets don&#x27;t show statistics which expose that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whatshisface</author><text>Sometime around 2018, not having a clue about popular culture shifted from making you seem lame at parties to insulating you from pyramid schemes.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cryptocurrency scams cost owners $7.7B in 2021, driven by DeFi-based “rug pulls”</title><url>https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/2021-crypto-scam-revenues/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>Scams that will collapse in 2022:<p>* Axie Infinity. That&#x27;s a Ponzi in the collapse phase. Their Smooth Love Potion token is down 90% and in a screaming dive, and their Axie token is down 37% from peak. That one is going to hurt a lot of poor people in the Philippines. Many quit their jobs to play Axie&#x27;s play-to-earn game. All the money comes from later entrants, so it&#x27;s a Ponzi by definition.<p>* OpenSea. The NFT market is in worse shape than it looks. People are minting crap art like crazy, and people are buying it at inflated prices, hoping to flip it to a greater fool. If you look at actual resales on OpenSea, they&#x27;re not happening much. The supply of greater fools is running out. As I&#x27;ve pointed out before, this works just like Beanie Babies on eBay. Asking prices around US$5000, actual sales around $50, most items show zero bids. NFT markets don&#x27;t visibly crash, they just quietly stall. Most NFT markets don&#x27;t show statistics which expose that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dvt</author><text>&gt; All the money comes from later entrants, so it&#x27;s a Ponzi by definition.<p>Axie is not a Ponzi scheme, but is definitely a pyramid scheme (via their scholarships).</text></comment> |
3,262,172 | 3,261,194 | 1 | 2 | 3,261,088 | train | <story><title>EBay acquires Hunch for $80m</title><url>http://uncrunched.com/2011/11/21/ebays-got-a-hunch-for-around-80-million/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>socratic</author><text>Could someone experienced breakdown what a transaction like this looks like for everyone involved? I'm super curious. I've never been acquired, so I really have no insight into the process other than what I've read.<p>Here's the facts as I see them: Crunchbase says Hunch started in September of 2007 and had 23 employees on LinkedIn when they exited. (TechCrunch calls it a 20-person team, so I'm presuming that's all the employees.) They've gotten $19.2m in funding, let's just say $20m. TechCrunch claims the sale was "around" $80m.<p>So what does the breakdown look like? Who gets what? What are the likely investor terms?<p>My totally naive guess would be that the investors got at least a 1x liquidation preference, maybe more. I mean, did Hunch have any revenue? So there was at most $40m to go around to the people at the company. Of course, most of that probably went to the founders. Would maybe 20% of that have gone to the 20-ish employees? So naively pretending that each of the 20-ish employees got 1% for four years, did they each end up with an extra $100k/year? What's the likely distribution of shares among employees?<p>What are the transaction costs (lawyers, taxes, etc.) for this sort of acquisition? How long will the employees have to be at eBay to get their earn-out, and will that earn-out be in addition to their common stock in Hunch? Will they end up being paid less to work for eBay during their earn-out than if they were on the open market?<p>Of course, their are many other reasons to do a deal like this (passion for improving eBay's recommendations, for example), but let's ignore that for now.</text></comment> | <story><title>EBay acquires Hunch for $80m</title><url>http://uncrunched.com/2011/11/21/ebays-got-a-hunch-for-around-80-million/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jnorthrop</author><text>"It’s been a long journey for Hunch."<p>They were founded in 2008 and sold for $80m 3 years later. That is considered a "long journey" these days? Statements like this give me that "we're in a bubble" feeling.</text></comment> |
16,033,549 | 16,032,340 | 1 | 3 | 16,031,423 | train | <story><title>How Raganwald Lost His Crown</title><url>http://braythwayt.com/2017/12/29/crown.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>braythwayt</author><text>Disclosure: A rare self-post. I&#x27;d be very grateful for any and all corrections to the story, as I am far from an expert is astrophysics, geology, or pretty-much anything else.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gwking</author><text>&gt; At some point, a satellite the size of Mars came crashing into the earth, so hard and so fast that about a third of the earth was blasted into space. It didn’t go far–the debris formed a ring around the earth, and gravity eventually compacted it into a single satellite, our moon, but a satellite much larger than our planet’s gravity would normally be able to capture.<p>Something seems off about &quot;a third&quot;: according to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Moon" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Moon</a>, the Moon&#x27;s radius is a bit less than a third of Earth&#x27;s, but its volume is 2% and its mass is just 1%. I&#x27;m no expert, but &quot;about a hundredth&quot; seems more accurate.<p>For what it&#x27;s worth, I only looked it up because I&#x27;ve come across this discrepancy before, so perhaps I&#x27;m missing something!</text></comment> | <story><title>How Raganwald Lost His Crown</title><url>http://braythwayt.com/2017/12/29/crown.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>braythwayt</author><text>Disclosure: A rare self-post. I&#x27;d be very grateful for any and all corrections to the story, as I am far from an expert is astrophysics, geology, or pretty-much anything else.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WaxProlix</author><text>&gt; I would have found that while my scale tells me that I am about 86 kilograms on Earth, I would have weighed 8.6 trillion kilograms on this neutron star.<p>Kilograms are a measure of mass, not weight. Pounds would be a more appropriate unit there.</text></comment> |
14,997,608 | 14,996,582 | 1 | 3 | 14,992,956 | train | <story><title>Fahrenheit 451: Not About Censorship, But People “Turned Into Morons by TV”</title><url>http://www.openculture.com/2017/08/ray-bradbury-reveals-the-true-meaning-of-fahrenheit-451.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Iv</author><text>Bradbury wanted to write a book about TV turning people into morons, but he failed. He tried to: he wrote about a world where TV is omnipresent and people lack any intellectual cricism and curiosity, and tried to persuade readers that TV was the cause of this intellectual laziness.<p>This is actually a common trick that dystopian SF authors will use: they will create a world with two prominent features (e.g. GMO and caste society in &quot;A Brave New World&quot;) and suggest that they are causally linked.<p>Bradbury failed at that. In his world, books are burnt. He assumed readers would see that as a consequence of TV that made people incurious, instead most readers recognized (correctly IMO) that book burning and censorship was instead the most likely cause of the situation.<p>And actually, as history unfolded (this book dates from 1953), we saw that TV did not replace books and did not actually displace them at all. Internet did, to some extent, but ebooks are pretty popular (and people still <i>read</i> them, despite all the SF predictions about audiobooks becoming the only available medium)<p>Also, in 1949, a famous book, 1984, presented a word full of incurious and frankly intellectually limited people that was caused by propaganda and censorship. It was closer to what was observed in real authoritarian systems and presented much more convincing causal links.<p>To people who had read 1984, the world presented in Fahrenheit 451 is a magnification of a post-propaganda society, not a result of TV taking over the world.<p>This is an interesting case of a book staying relevant despite the original idea of its author being invalidated.</text></comment> | <story><title>Fahrenheit 451: Not About Censorship, But People “Turned Into Morons by TV”</title><url>http://www.openculture.com/2017/08/ray-bradbury-reveals-the-true-meaning-of-fahrenheit-451.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>PhasmaFelis</author><text>Bradbury now insists that Fahrenheit 451 had nothing to do with censorship or McCarthyism, but he used to say just the opposite. In 1956 he said: &quot;I wrote this book at a time when I was worried about the way things were going in this country four years ago. Too many people were afraid of their shadows; there was a threat of book burning. Many of the books were being taken off the shelves at that time. [...] I wanted to do some sort of story where I could comment on what would happen to a country if we let ourselves go too far in this direction, where then all thinking stops, and the dragon swallows his tail, and we sort of vanish into a limbo and we destroy ourselves by this sort of action.&quot;<p>And in 1979: &quot;Only six weeks ago, I discovered that, over the years, some cubby-hole editors at Ballantine Books, fearful of contaminating the young, had, bit by bit, censored some seventy-five separate sections from the novel. Students, reading the novel, which, after all, deals with censorship and book-burning in the future, wrote to tell me of this exquisite irony.&quot;<p>Really not sure what to make of that.</text></comment> |
40,196,407 | 40,196,000 | 1 | 2 | 40,194,622 | train | <story><title>Airline keeps mistaking 101-year-old woman for 1-year-old baby</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9wz7pvvjypo</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TazeTSchnitzel</author><text>Dates in passports&#x27; machine-readable zones only have two-digit years. Another victim: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theguardian.com&#x2F;uk-news&#x2F;2020&#x2F;feb&#x2F;12&#x2F;home-office-tells-man-101-his-parents-must-confirm-id" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theguardian.com&#x2F;uk-news&#x2F;2020&#x2F;feb&#x2F;12&#x2F;home-office-tell...</a>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>miki123211</author><text>The Polish PESEL system, which encodes your birth date in your national identification number, found a nice way around this. We just add 20 to your <i>birth month</i> if you were born in the 21st century or 80 if you were born in the 19th. This exploits the fact that a month is always in the range 1-12, and so using a two-digit number for it wastes a large part of the possible space of dates.<p>We still have the 41-52 and 61-72 ranges unused for the 22rd and 23rd centuries, and then we can re-use 80 (since it&#x27;s extremely unlikely for anybody from the 19th century to survive that long). Now that&#x27;s some long-term planning.<p>However, it&#x27;s often said that no plan survives contact with reality, and that&#x27;s also unfortunately true for this system. All that future proofing, and now it turns out that some assumptions thought inviolable, namely that people are either strictly male or strictly female and never change their gender, aren&#x27;t so inviolable after all. We use a single bit to encode gender (it&#x27;s the evenness or oddness of a particular digit in the number), and we also assume that PESEL numbers never change, to the point of using them as primary keys in some databases. The latter is causing trouble right now, and the former is inevitably going to.</text></comment> | <story><title>Airline keeps mistaking 101-year-old woman for 1-year-old baby</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9wz7pvvjypo</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TazeTSchnitzel</author><text>Dates in passports&#x27; machine-readable zones only have two-digit years. Another victim: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theguardian.com&#x2F;uk-news&#x2F;2020&#x2F;feb&#x2F;12&#x2F;home-office-tells-man-101-his-parents-must-confirm-id" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theguardian.com&#x2F;uk-news&#x2F;2020&#x2F;feb&#x2F;12&#x2F;home-office-tell...</a>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cedilla</author><text>I was about to write that surely, that only applies to the OCR section printed on the physical passport, but if I read ICAO 9303 correctly, it&#x27;s the other way round - the OCR section can include either a four-digit year or a two-digit year, but the chip has only six bytes for the date of birth, representing YYMMDD in digits (plus special characters for an unknown or partially known date of birth).<p>Edit: apparently there&#x27;s an optional section in the chip (data group 11 or DG11) that allows for longer-form data than the ancient machine-readable format, including non-latin letters in the name and a birthdate including the century. I don&#x27;t know how widely used that is though.</text></comment> |
25,962,752 | 25,961,687 | 1 | 2 | 25,958,639 | train | <story><title>Robinhood denies claims that it sold GameStop shares out from under its traders</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/28/22254857/robinhood-gamestop-amc-shares-sold-surprised-users</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nightski</author><text>Obviously the situation needs to be investigated. But I think there is a real possibility they did nothing wrong here.<p>Despite this, the main problem I see with Robinhood is that with it&#x27;s gamified UI, ease of access, etc... these 99.9 percentile events are mainly what it is designed for. It&#x27;s encouraging people to pick up the &quot;hot stock&quot; on social media on a whim.<p>While there may not be legal repercussions for this, it&#x27;s fundamentally incapable of it&#x27;s core purpose. If you are new to RH you might not realize that the platform has outages all the time and it costs its users a lot of money. It is straight up dangerous to trade on this platform for the purpose which the UI glorifies.<p>Index funds have done a lot more to democratize finance than RH in my personal view. While commission free sounds fantastic, it comes with some very large hidden costs.</text></item><item><author>gruez</author><text>If you read the other threads it&#x27;s clear what&#x27;s happening is that robinhood&#x27;s product isn&#x27;t designed to cope with high volatility[1]. Is this a flaw in their product? Yes. But then again, they are a <i>discount</i> brokerage for a reason. It&#x27;s not any different than any other consumer product that shits the bed during 99.9 percentile events.<p>[1] Specifically, they&#x27;re required by the DTCC to put up a deposit on every trade their users make. During periods of low volatility this is fine because they can come up with the money, but when volatility goes up so do the deposit requirements, which can cause them to become insolvent. This is further compounded by the fact that their product invisibly hands out margin, eg. &quot;instant&quot; deposits of $1000, or giving you the money before it settles (2 days later).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mike00632</author><text>There are worse problems with Robinhood, all of which I&#x27;m surprised people aren&#x27;t bringing up more:<p>1) They&#x27;ve had outages where 100% of stocks were unavailable for trading.<p>2) Their business model is to offer their users inferior prices and then collect on the arbitrage (Yes, this is illegal. Yes, they are in trouble with the SEC over it).<p>3) Robinhood isn&#x27;t transparent with their users about the risks of trading options and trading on margin. Some of the barriers they&#x27;ve removed for their users to make risky bets were there for regulatory reasons, it&#x27;s not just a matter of their app being over-gamified.</text></comment> | <story><title>Robinhood denies claims that it sold GameStop shares out from under its traders</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/28/22254857/robinhood-gamestop-amc-shares-sold-surprised-users</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nightski</author><text>Obviously the situation needs to be investigated. But I think there is a real possibility they did nothing wrong here.<p>Despite this, the main problem I see with Robinhood is that with it&#x27;s gamified UI, ease of access, etc... these 99.9 percentile events are mainly what it is designed for. It&#x27;s encouraging people to pick up the &quot;hot stock&quot; on social media on a whim.<p>While there may not be legal repercussions for this, it&#x27;s fundamentally incapable of it&#x27;s core purpose. If you are new to RH you might not realize that the platform has outages all the time and it costs its users a lot of money. It is straight up dangerous to trade on this platform for the purpose which the UI glorifies.<p>Index funds have done a lot more to democratize finance than RH in my personal view. While commission free sounds fantastic, it comes with some very large hidden costs.</text></item><item><author>gruez</author><text>If you read the other threads it&#x27;s clear what&#x27;s happening is that robinhood&#x27;s product isn&#x27;t designed to cope with high volatility[1]. Is this a flaw in their product? Yes. But then again, they are a <i>discount</i> brokerage for a reason. It&#x27;s not any different than any other consumer product that shits the bed during 99.9 percentile events.<p>[1] Specifically, they&#x27;re required by the DTCC to put up a deposit on every trade their users make. During periods of low volatility this is fine because they can come up with the money, but when volatility goes up so do the deposit requirements, which can cause them to become insolvent. This is further compounded by the fact that their product invisibly hands out margin, eg. &quot;instant&quot; deposits of $1000, or giving you the money before it settles (2 days later).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vincentmarle</author><text>&gt; But I think there is a real possibility they did nothing wrong here.<p>They did blatantly lie about their liquidity problems. They didn&#x27;t mention it in their fluff blog post. Their CEO smirked on national TV and insisted it was not about liquidity. Turns out it was. That&#x27;s the problem.</text></comment> |
2,240,903 | 2,240,888 | 1 | 3 | 2,240,780 | train | <story><title>Why Nobody Can Match the iPad’s Price</title><url>http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/02/ipad-price/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gabrielroth</author><text>One factor that the author doesn't mention is Apple's success at lining up deals with component manufacturers. A couple years ago (before anyone had heard of the iPad) they locked in great prices on flash memory and LCD displays. They could do that because they were about to invent a huge market, and they knew it. Anyone trying to get into the tablet business in 2010 had to pay much, much more.<p>Steve Jobs and Johnny Ive are no slouches, but Tim Cook doesn't get enough credit for stuff like that.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Nobody Can Match the iPad’s Price</title><url>http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/02/ipad-price/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fuzzmeister</author><text>"Apple is the most vertically integrated company in the world."<p>I struggle to see how that statement could be true for a company that outsources all of its manufacturing.</text></comment> |
39,245,300 | 39,244,401 | 1 | 3 | 39,242,244 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Simple demo of a cold boot attack using a Raspberry Pi</title><url>https://github.com/anfractuosity/ramrecovery</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mjg59</author><text>This is mitigated by a Trusted Computing Group feature - at boot, the OS sets a non-volatile flag, and clears it again on clean shutdown after wiping any sensitive material from RAM. If the system boots with the flag set then the firmware wipes the RAM before booting anything. This doesn&#x27;t protect you against someone pulling the RAM out of the system and dumping it there, but that&#x27;s a much harder attack.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Simple demo of a cold boot attack using a Raspberry Pi</title><url>https://github.com/anfractuosity/ramrecovery</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>oskarw85</author><text>It&#x27;s nice to recover an image but encryption keys are not that. One bit flip and it&#x27;s game over. This experiment is more useful for human-readable document forensics than anything else.</text></comment> |
37,776,688 | 37,775,637 | 1 | 3 | 37,775,073 | train | <story><title>Delta finds fake jet aircraft engine parts with forged airworthiness documents</title><url>https://fortune.com/2023/10/03/delta-fourth-major-us-airline-fake-jet-aircraft-engine-parts-forged-airworthiness-documents-uk-company-aog/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DoingIsLearning</author><text>Is it though?<p>I never understood Mechanical and Electronic parts counterfeits. The amount of effort to create a forgery of a Louis Vuitton bag seems to have so much less effort&#x2F;payoff ratio than create a fake IC or create parts with low grade steel.<p>Specially considering that you are risking lives and will most likely be chased for liability versus a fake handbag or whatever other luxury item.<p>As another example, the amount of scalpers (due to electronics parts shortage) trying to sell fake ICs to suppliers of medical devices is very scary.</text></item><item><author>s17tnet</author><text>Anecdtoal, my retired relative worked in civil avio jet engine industry and they got reports like that since mid-00.<p>Probably it is more common.<p>Highly regulated, certificated sector where a single bolt can be dozen time expansive &quot;just&quot; for a FAA approval is an honey jar.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NamTaf</author><text>‘Fake’ in this instance isn’t manufacturer B illegitimately cloning manufacturer A’s parts. It’s basically a failure of QA&#x2F;QC processes being papered over.<p>The computing equivalent would be where how CPUs which fail QA are binned to lower spec (e.g. using 6 cores not 8, or underclocked), except in this instance it’s then still sold as the top-end chip even if it’s unstable and crashes under load sometimes.</text></comment> | <story><title>Delta finds fake jet aircraft engine parts with forged airworthiness documents</title><url>https://fortune.com/2023/10/03/delta-fourth-major-us-airline-fake-jet-aircraft-engine-parts-forged-airworthiness-documents-uk-company-aog/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DoingIsLearning</author><text>Is it though?<p>I never understood Mechanical and Electronic parts counterfeits. The amount of effort to create a forgery of a Louis Vuitton bag seems to have so much less effort&#x2F;payoff ratio than create a fake IC or create parts with low grade steel.<p>Specially considering that you are risking lives and will most likely be chased for liability versus a fake handbag or whatever other luxury item.<p>As another example, the amount of scalpers (due to electronics parts shortage) trying to sell fake ICs to suppliers of medical devices is very scary.</text></item><item><author>s17tnet</author><text>Anecdtoal, my retired relative worked in civil avio jet engine industry and they got reports like that since mid-00.<p>Probably it is more common.<p>Highly regulated, certificated sector where a single bolt can be dozen time expansive &quot;just&quot; for a FAA approval is an honey jar.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KeplerBoy</author><text>Just think of russian aviation. They&#x27;re effectively banned from buying spare parts directly from the manufacturers and they don&#x27;t care about certificates as much as they are banned from flying to western nations anyways.<p>They&#x27;re probably building or unknowingly ordering counterfeit parts and naturally those parts pop up elsewhere.</text></comment> |
9,504,131 | 9,504,105 | 1 | 3 | 9,504,028 | train | <story><title>Grepping logs is still terrible</title><url>http://asylum.madhouse-project.org/blog/2015/05/07/grepping-logs-is-still-terrible/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ghshephard</author><text>It&#x27;s beyond me how he doesn&#x27;t understand that text logs are a universal format, easily accessible, that can be instantly turned into whatever binary format you desire with a highly efficient insertion process (Splunk is just one of those that does a great job).<p>Here is the thing he doesn&#x27;t seem to understand - all of us who are sysadmins absolutely understand the value of placing complex and large log files into database so that we can query them efficiently. We also understand why having multi-terabyte text log files is not useful.<p>But what we find totally unacceptable is log files being shoved into binary repositories as the primary storage location. Because you know what <i>everyone</i> has their own idea of what that primary storage location should be, and they are mostly incompatible with each other.<p>The nice thing about text - for the last 40 years it&#x27;s been universally readable, and will be for the next 40 years. Many of these binary repositories will be unreadable within a short period, and will be immediately unreadable to those people who don&#x27;t know the magic tool to open them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scrollaway</author><text>&gt; text logs are a universal format<p>Uh, I don&#x27;t know what world you live in but I&#x27;d like the address because mine sucks in comparison.<p>Text logs are definitely not a &quot;universal format&quot;. Easily accessible, sure. Human readable most of the time? Okay. Universal? Ten times nope.<p>Give you an example: uwsgi logs don&#x27;t even have timestamps, and contain whatever crap the program&#x27;s stdout outputs, so you often end up with three different types of your &quot;universal format&quot; in there. I&#x27;m not giving this example because it&#x27;s contrived, but because I was dealing with it the very moment I read your comment.</text></comment> | <story><title>Grepping logs is still terrible</title><url>http://asylum.madhouse-project.org/blog/2015/05/07/grepping-logs-is-still-terrible/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ghshephard</author><text>It&#x27;s beyond me how he doesn&#x27;t understand that text logs are a universal format, easily accessible, that can be instantly turned into whatever binary format you desire with a highly efficient insertion process (Splunk is just one of those that does a great job).<p>Here is the thing he doesn&#x27;t seem to understand - all of us who are sysadmins absolutely understand the value of placing complex and large log files into database so that we can query them efficiently. We also understand why having multi-terabyte text log files is not useful.<p>But what we find totally unacceptable is log files being shoved into binary repositories as the primary storage location. Because you know what <i>everyone</i> has their own idea of what that primary storage location should be, and they are mostly incompatible with each other.<p>The nice thing about text - for the last 40 years it&#x27;s been universally readable, and will be for the next 40 years. Many of these binary repositories will be unreadable within a short period, and will be immediately unreadable to those people who don&#x27;t know the magic tool to open them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>magnifyingglass</author><text>Agreed. Logs are for when everything and anything is broken. They aren&#x27;t supposed to be pretty or highly functional, they are just meant as a starting point for gathering data.</text></comment> |
11,105,868 | 11,105,907 | 1 | 2 | 11,105,798 | train | <story><title>There is no shortage of STEM workers</title><url>http://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/opinion/contributors/2016/02/08/there-no-shortage-stem-workers/79871624/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>myNXTact</author><text>&gt;The truth, however, is quite different. For example, Clemson’s engineering enrollment has reached almost 5,300 students – an 80 percent increase since 2008!<p>Enrollment numbers for engineering students are not really relevant. It is the graduation numbers. Engineering programs are notorious for &quot;weeding out&quot; large numbers of students. His salary statistics are scary though.</text></comment> | <story><title>There is no shortage of STEM workers</title><url>http://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/opinion/contributors/2016/02/08/there-no-shortage-stem-workers/79871624/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mindcrime</author><text>Part of the problem is this whole thing of use &quot;STEM&quot; as though it identifies a cohesive &#x2F; unified group of employment positions. It&#x27;s too much of a catch-all and there&#x27;s room for TONS of variance <i>within</i> the overall &quot;STEM&quot; rubric. For example, you could have raging demand for software engineers at the same time you&#x27;re having massive layoffs among, say, chemical engineers. So what can you say about &quot;STEM&quot; as a whole in that case? Very little.<p>IOW, precision matters and we should be leery of over-generalizing.</text></comment> |
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