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38,574,157 | 38,574,521 | 1 | 3 | 38,572,675 | train | <story><title>The pro-Israel information war</title><url>https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/inside-the-pro-israel-information</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sertbdfgbnfgsd</author><text>&gt; Pro-Palestinian views outrank Pro-Israeli online by around 36 to 1 on TikTok and 8 to 1 on other online platforms.<p>&gt; If anything the skew within the platforms is to prioritize pro-palestinian views.<p>That platforms prioritize one over the other is just one possible explanation. An alternative explanation is that more people already have those views. And it&#x27;s dishonest to present one explanation and omit the other.<p>Nothing inflames people like injustice.</text></item><item><author>jdross</author><text>Pro-Palestinian views outrank Pro-Israeli online by around 36 to 1 on TikTok and 8 to 1 on other online platforms.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;antgoldbloom&#x2F;status&#x2F;1721561226151612602" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;antgoldbloom&#x2F;status&#x2F;1721561226151612602</a><p>If anything the skew within the platforms is to prioritize pro-palestinian views
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;committeeonccp&#x2F;status&#x2F;1732792434961031436" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;committeeonccp&#x2F;status&#x2F;173279243496103143...</a><p>It also seems like these platforms create (rather than support) anti-Israeli views:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;antgoldbloom&#x2F;status&#x2F;1730255552738201854" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;antgoldbloom&#x2F;status&#x2F;1730255552738201854</a><p>US views skew pro-israel, and GenZ is closer to 50&#x2F;50, so if there&#x27;s something going on online, it&#x27;s not in favor of Israel.<p>It&#x27;s probably relevant that there are 1 billion Muslims to 16 million Jews, and that the largest relevant population of pro-Israeli internationals is India and Indian Hindus, and they are not on TikTok (blocked in India).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Terr_</author><text>&gt; An alternative explanation is that more people already have those views.<p>Treading a fine line here between Bayesian priors and stereotypes, but the worldwide Muslim&#x2F;Jewish population split is something like 112:1. Obviously that&#x27;s not going to be the same proportion on a given media-service, but it should still inform our expectations of what is the &quot;default&quot; state before theorizing about platform algorithm-tweaking or propaganda-campaigns.</text></comment> | <story><title>The pro-Israel information war</title><url>https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/inside-the-pro-israel-information</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sertbdfgbnfgsd</author><text>&gt; Pro-Palestinian views outrank Pro-Israeli online by around 36 to 1 on TikTok and 8 to 1 on other online platforms.<p>&gt; If anything the skew within the platforms is to prioritize pro-palestinian views.<p>That platforms prioritize one over the other is just one possible explanation. An alternative explanation is that more people already have those views. And it&#x27;s dishonest to present one explanation and omit the other.<p>Nothing inflames people like injustice.</text></item><item><author>jdross</author><text>Pro-Palestinian views outrank Pro-Israeli online by around 36 to 1 on TikTok and 8 to 1 on other online platforms.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;antgoldbloom&#x2F;status&#x2F;1721561226151612602" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;antgoldbloom&#x2F;status&#x2F;1721561226151612602</a><p>If anything the skew within the platforms is to prioritize pro-palestinian views
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;committeeonccp&#x2F;status&#x2F;1732792434961031436" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;committeeonccp&#x2F;status&#x2F;173279243496103143...</a><p>It also seems like these platforms create (rather than support) anti-Israeli views:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;antgoldbloom&#x2F;status&#x2F;1730255552738201854" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;antgoldbloom&#x2F;status&#x2F;1730255552738201854</a><p>US views skew pro-israel, and GenZ is closer to 50&#x2F;50, so if there&#x27;s something going on online, it&#x27;s not in favor of Israel.<p>It&#x27;s probably relevant that there are 1 billion Muslims to 16 million Jews, and that the largest relevant population of pro-Israeli internationals is India and Indian Hindus, and they are not on TikTok (blocked in India).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sabarn01</author><text>There is an ocean of injustice in the world and this one issue causes more anger than many that are equally abhorrent.</text></comment> |
10,103,865 | 10,103,825 | 1 | 2 | 10,102,858 | train | <story><title>Feynman's Public Lectures on Quantum Electrodynamics</title><url>http://vega.org.uk/video/subseries/8</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bsaul</author><text>Just saw the first video, but i found his analogy with mayan priests calculating Venus trajectory correctly, having no clue of the &quot;why&quot; quite disturbing.<p>There is a HUGE difference between knowing &quot;why&quot; and not knowing it. Mayans priests couldn&#x27;t guess the real &quot;why&quot;, because they had no notion of gravity or a correct description of the solar system, but now we do and we know.<p>The fact that quantum effects aren&#x27;t grasped right now (at least by me :), means a very different thing whether we believe there will be such an explanation one day, with a more complete description of nature, or if such an explanation is inexistant.<p>Which makes me wonder : i&#x27;ve read that there was a proof that the &quot;hidden variable hypothesis&quot; is wrong. Does anyone know of someone explaining that proof in a comprehensible way ? Has this proof been contested by some parts of the scientist working on the field ?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qwertyboy</author><text>I think Feynman&#x27;s point is that to be a good scientist, you must keep in mind the difference between the map and the territory.<p>You preform observations. You think of explanations (&quot;why&quot;s) and try to fit them in a model. You make testable predictions using your model. You test them. If the experiments support your model, then it&#x27;s a good and useful model. People will use it to achieve cool and terrible things. But it&#x27;s still just a model. And you have to be ready at a moment&#x27;s notice, as soon as the empirical data demands it, to drop your model like a hot potato and start looking for a better one.<p>To do otherwise - to believe that you already know the &quot;why&quot; - is to abandon the scientific method. &quot;Knowing&quot; is the opposite of &quot;learning&quot;, and the antonym of scientific progress.</text></comment> | <story><title>Feynman's Public Lectures on Quantum Electrodynamics</title><url>http://vega.org.uk/video/subseries/8</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bsaul</author><text>Just saw the first video, but i found his analogy with mayan priests calculating Venus trajectory correctly, having no clue of the &quot;why&quot; quite disturbing.<p>There is a HUGE difference between knowing &quot;why&quot; and not knowing it. Mayans priests couldn&#x27;t guess the real &quot;why&quot;, because they had no notion of gravity or a correct description of the solar system, but now we do and we know.<p>The fact that quantum effects aren&#x27;t grasped right now (at least by me :), means a very different thing whether we believe there will be such an explanation one day, with a more complete description of nature, or if such an explanation is inexistant.<p>Which makes me wonder : i&#x27;ve read that there was a proof that the &quot;hidden variable hypothesis&quot; is wrong. Does anyone know of someone explaining that proof in a comprehensible way ? Has this proof been contested by some parts of the scientist working on the field ?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>m1el</author><text>&gt; Has this proof been contested by some parts of the scientist working on the field?<p>Here&#x27;s a story I find interesting.<p>Einstein got his nobel prize for discovering the law of photoelectric effect [1]. This discovery influenced the development of quantum mechanics quite a lot. I&#x27;d say that this discovery alone is enough for the theory of QM to emerge.<p>However, Einstein did not like the &quot;probabilistic&quot; nature of QM, &quot;God doesn&#x27;t play dice with the world.&quot;[2], and he argued against it. Albert Einstein along with Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen have formulated a paradox[3] which was resolved many years later by Bell&#x27;s Theorem and corresponding experiments[4].<p>So yes, there were scientists arguing against the probabilistic nature of QM.<p>&gt; Does anyone know of someone explaining that proof in a comprehensible way?<p>&quot;Comprehensible&quot; explanation in this case mostly depends on the reader. The wiki[4] gives a pretty good explanation of the Bell&#x27;s Theorem and experiments.<p>[1]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nobelprize.org&#x2F;nobel_prizes&#x2F;physics&#x2F;laureates&#x2F;1921&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nobelprize.org&#x2F;nobel_prizes&#x2F;physics&#x2F;laureates&#x2F;192...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;books.google.com.vn&#x2F;books?id=QXCyjj6T5ZUC" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;books.google.com.vn&#x2F;books?id=QXCyjj6T5ZUC</a><p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;EPR_paradox" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;EPR_paradox</a><p>[4]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bell%27s_theorem#Practical_experiments_testing_Bell.27s_theorem" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bell%27s_theorem#Practical_exp...</a></text></comment> |
28,103,886 | 28,103,486 | 1 | 2 | 28,102,843 | train | <story><title>Live the Dream, Make the Change, Move to Pitcairn Island (2018)</title><url>http://www.immigration.gov.pn/immigrate/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>doublec</author><text>I am of Pitcairn descent. My grandmother was born there. I&#x27;m a descendant of the mutineers Fletcher Christian, John Mills and Edward Young, and the Tahitian women who went there, Mauatua, Vahineatua, To&#x27;ofaiti and Teraura.<p>I&#x27;ve been to the island and I&#x27;m active in the Pitcairn community here in New Zealand. The island is a vibrant community of people working. When I was there they were very warm and welcoming. The island itself is small but with mountainous areas and there is much to see and do. The vibe on the island is very similar to any small rural town in New Zealand.<p>I have photos of the trip if anyone is interested <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cd.pn&#x2F;pn2012&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cd.pn&#x2F;pn2012&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>satori99</author><text>Your family history is a fascinating one!<p>Did any of your family take Queen Victoria&#x27;s offer and move to Norfolk Island when things got rough on Pitcairn 165 years ago?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.discovernorfolkisland.com&#x2F;norfolk&#x2F;pitcairn.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.discovernorfolkisland.com&#x2F;norfolk&#x2F;pitcairn.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Live the Dream, Make the Change, Move to Pitcairn Island (2018)</title><url>http://www.immigration.gov.pn/immigrate/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>doublec</author><text>I am of Pitcairn descent. My grandmother was born there. I&#x27;m a descendant of the mutineers Fletcher Christian, John Mills and Edward Young, and the Tahitian women who went there, Mauatua, Vahineatua, To&#x27;ofaiti and Teraura.<p>I&#x27;ve been to the island and I&#x27;m active in the Pitcairn community here in New Zealand. The island is a vibrant community of people working. When I was there they were very warm and welcoming. The island itself is small but with mountainous areas and there is much to see and do. The vibe on the island is very similar to any small rural town in New Zealand.<p>I have photos of the trip if anyone is interested <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cd.pn&#x2F;pn2012&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cd.pn&#x2F;pn2012&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jnord</author><text>It is truly amazing that this extremely remote island can actually be explored via Google street view: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;goo.gl&#x2F;maps&#x2F;Jq2nguTrabm84sKB8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;goo.gl&#x2F;maps&#x2F;Jq2nguTrabm84sKB8</a></text></comment> |
19,099,849 | 19,099,466 | 1 | 3 | 19,096,233 | train | <story><title>Netflix Posted Biggest-Ever Profit in 2018 and Paid $0 in Income Taxes</title><url>https://itep.org/netflix-posted-biggest-ever-profit-in-2018-and-paid-0-in-income-taxes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anigbrowl</author><text>There is no good reason investment income should be privileged over income from labor.</text></item><item><author>OrwellianChild</author><text>If the average worker has any stock or index fund investments, that worker absolutely <i>can</i> take advantage of this (in the U.S.). It&#x27;s called tax-loss harvesting - worth reading about here [1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.madfientist.com&#x2F;tax-loss-harvesting&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.madfientist.com&#x2F;tax-loss-harvesting&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>PurpleBoxDragon</author><text>&gt;Over a reasonable horizon, you weren&#x27;t profitable.<p>The average worker isn&#x27;t allowed to do that even when they lose money in a given year. Why is it so naturally assumed to be acceptable for a business to do it? Maybe the time is to just remove the loopholes in general from both business and personal income taxes.</text></item><item><author>SilasX</author><text>It <i>is</i> that simple (in the sense of the parent&#x27;s post): you need to know the specifics of <i>why</i> they were paying no taxes. If, as in the comment, they were carrying over losses, then there&#x27;s nothing really objectionable. You lost $10 million last year. You profited $10 million this year. Over a reasonable horizon, you weren&#x27;t profitable.<p>Did they get a specific exemption against the public interest that no one else got? Great! Let&#x27;s talk about that!<p>Did they deduct 100% of their costs for sham &quot;IP licensing&quot; from a foreign subsidiary? Great! Let&#x27;s talk about that!<p>But you need to know the <i>why</i> before you conclude there&#x27;s something objectionable going on.<p>Edit: More generally, <i>every</i> headline of this form comes with an implicit statement like &quot;By my model, &lt;company&gt; should be regarded as having a profit of X dollars, but tax law views them as having a taxable profit of Y &lt; X.&quot; That necessitates a good explanation of why you think X is the right value.</text></item><item><author>otachack</author><text>It&#x27;s not that simple. Companies lobby to keep, even coerce, laws that benefit them and allow these sorts of things to happen. What is the common person, or collection of persons, supposed to do when they are against that kind of force? I believe one way is to actually be involved in politics and get into the seats that govern and make the laws. But it&#x27;s easier said than done.</text></item><item><author>driverdan</author><text>Rather than being outraged at the headline, what are the actual details? Why were they able to pay no taxes? Was it due to carried losses or something like that?<p>Anyone mad at a company for not pay taxes is misdirecting their anger. Companies follow the law. If you don&#x27;t like the law elect different politicians. Don&#x27;t get mad at companies that follow the law.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smsm42</author><text>One of the reasons why it makes sense to have different rules for investment income is investment income tax (at least if you&#x27;re investing in a corporative stock) is a double tax - the corporation you invest in is taxed on its profit (so your income from it is less than it would be) and then your income from it is taxed again. It kinda makes sense that parts of the double tax would be less than the single one.<p>Of course, there&#x27;s a political component of it too - taxes are always political, and are used to promote or suppress certain actions. I guess the government does want to promote long-term investment and thus defines lower tax rates for this activity.</text></comment> | <story><title>Netflix Posted Biggest-Ever Profit in 2018 and Paid $0 in Income Taxes</title><url>https://itep.org/netflix-posted-biggest-ever-profit-in-2018-and-paid-0-in-income-taxes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anigbrowl</author><text>There is no good reason investment income should be privileged over income from labor.</text></item><item><author>OrwellianChild</author><text>If the average worker has any stock or index fund investments, that worker absolutely <i>can</i> take advantage of this (in the U.S.). It&#x27;s called tax-loss harvesting - worth reading about here [1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.madfientist.com&#x2F;tax-loss-harvesting&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.madfientist.com&#x2F;tax-loss-harvesting&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>PurpleBoxDragon</author><text>&gt;Over a reasonable horizon, you weren&#x27;t profitable.<p>The average worker isn&#x27;t allowed to do that even when they lose money in a given year. Why is it so naturally assumed to be acceptable for a business to do it? Maybe the time is to just remove the loopholes in general from both business and personal income taxes.</text></item><item><author>SilasX</author><text>It <i>is</i> that simple (in the sense of the parent&#x27;s post): you need to know the specifics of <i>why</i> they were paying no taxes. If, as in the comment, they were carrying over losses, then there&#x27;s nothing really objectionable. You lost $10 million last year. You profited $10 million this year. Over a reasonable horizon, you weren&#x27;t profitable.<p>Did they get a specific exemption against the public interest that no one else got? Great! Let&#x27;s talk about that!<p>Did they deduct 100% of their costs for sham &quot;IP licensing&quot; from a foreign subsidiary? Great! Let&#x27;s talk about that!<p>But you need to know the <i>why</i> before you conclude there&#x27;s something objectionable going on.<p>Edit: More generally, <i>every</i> headline of this form comes with an implicit statement like &quot;By my model, &lt;company&gt; should be regarded as having a profit of X dollars, but tax law views them as having a taxable profit of Y &lt; X.&quot; That necessitates a good explanation of why you think X is the right value.</text></item><item><author>otachack</author><text>It&#x27;s not that simple. Companies lobby to keep, even coerce, laws that benefit them and allow these sorts of things to happen. What is the common person, or collection of persons, supposed to do when they are against that kind of force? I believe one way is to actually be involved in politics and get into the seats that govern and make the laws. But it&#x27;s easier said than done.</text></item><item><author>driverdan</author><text>Rather than being outraged at the headline, what are the actual details? Why were they able to pay no taxes? Was it due to carried losses or something like that?<p>Anyone mad at a company for not pay taxes is misdirecting their anger. Companies follow the law. If you don&#x27;t like the law elect different politicians. Don&#x27;t get mad at companies that follow the law.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>prostoalex</author><text>During low-inflation years - no.<p>The lenient rates were introduced during high-inflation years. If somebody was pursuing a long-term project spanning over several years (let&#x27;s say, building a new apartment complex), high punitive tax rates at liquidity time (let&#x27;s say, 5 years down the road) combined with decreased buying would obliterate any real profitability.<p>The 12-month cut-off window, though, seems completely arbitrary.<p>The argument is kinda moot anyways, as capital gains are completely voluntary - one sells when they want to sell. If they don&#x27;t want to sell, but need liquidity, they can access a bunch of asset-backed loans (HELOCs, PALs, cashout refinance, etc.) Ken Fisher in his book &quot;Debunkery&quot; (and I&#x27;m sure the data exists elsewhere) shows how total revenue figures collected by US government do not change over decades, regardless of the actual capital gains rates.</text></comment> |
1,379,920 | 1,379,387 | 1 | 2 | 1,378,784 | train | <story><title>Hilary Mason: How to Replace Yourself with a Very Small Shell Script</title><url>http://smarterware.org/6172/hilary-mason-how-to-replace-yourself-with-a-small-shell-script</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>RiderOfGiraffes</author><text>Two months ago: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1192790" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1192790</a><p>Three months ago: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1102238" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1102238</a><p>This is a really cool presentation. The idea and technique have their flaws, as are pointed out here by several participants, but what bothers me most is that the last two times this was submitted it sank with no up-votes and no comments. Yet here it as (as I write this) 74 up-votes and 17 comments.<p>How many more brilliant things deserving of our attention do we miss on HN? Is this really a problem? Can it be fixed? Should it be fixed?<p>Hackers Unite! Don't let the good stuff escape you! Find a way to rid yourself of the dross and find the good stuff!</text></comment> | <story><title>Hilary Mason: How to Replace Yourself with a Very Small Shell Script</title><url>http://smarterware.org/6172/hilary-mason-how-to-replace-yourself-with-a-small-shell-script</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mberning</author><text>This might be cool if you are a quasi web-celebrity, but in a business setting it would be downright dangerous. I can't imagine how terrible I would feel if something completely fell through the cracks OR did not receive an adequate response from me. I also can't imagine auto-nagging my boss about ANYTHING.<p>I guess the biggest problem I would have using this at work is that it is fundamentally based on the idea that people are contacting me about stupid stuff (generally not true) and that I'm way too busy/important to respond directly to somebody (also generally not true).</text></comment> |
31,009,702 | 31,008,067 | 1 | 2 | 31,006,003 | train | <story><title>Eden</title><url>https://github.com/facebookexperimental/eden</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jfengel</author><text>A lot of programmers would rather write tools for other programmers than for non-programmer end users. It&#x27;s the target market that they know best, and it&#x27;s most prestigious.<p>I wish more of those bright engineers would try to solve problems for other users rather than re-re-re-re-re-optimizing the life of their colleagues. But writing code for users involves, among other things, knowing something about users, which is more bogged down and less fun.</text></item><item><author>peppertree</author><text>After doing a round of onsite with fb tools team, I got the impression there were lots of bright engineers that wanted fb pay without having to touch fb products.</text></item><item><author>ctur</author><text>The SCM ecosystem at Facebook is tremendously powerful and the result of some of the best minds at Facebook working on those systems for many years. From the scaling of the monorepos to the code review workflows, nothing really matches it. The ergonomics of most of the tooling was simply top notch (which it needed to be... engineers, particularly at Meta, are an opinionated lot who don&#x27;t tolerate poor tools).<p>It&#x27;s great to see this out in the wild now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zem</author><text>I work on developer tools at google, and it&#x27;s not even remotely one of the prestigious teams. it is however the most fun and interesting time I&#x27;ve ever had in a job, and if I left it would only be for the same kind of work.<p>also you seem to have fallen for the same fallacy as the people who complain about open source devs not working on what they consider sufficiently important problems. trust me, there are no shortage of engineers willing and eager to work on end user problems, and the dev tools work enables them to deliver solutions to those problems faster, and makes those solutions work more reliably. it&#x27;s a rising tide that lifts everyone&#x27;s boats, not a zero sum game.</text></comment> | <story><title>Eden</title><url>https://github.com/facebookexperimental/eden</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jfengel</author><text>A lot of programmers would rather write tools for other programmers than for non-programmer end users. It&#x27;s the target market that they know best, and it&#x27;s most prestigious.<p>I wish more of those bright engineers would try to solve problems for other users rather than re-re-re-re-re-optimizing the life of their colleagues. But writing code for users involves, among other things, knowing something about users, which is more bogged down and less fun.</text></item><item><author>peppertree</author><text>After doing a round of onsite with fb tools team, I got the impression there were lots of bright engineers that wanted fb pay without having to touch fb products.</text></item><item><author>ctur</author><text>The SCM ecosystem at Facebook is tremendously powerful and the result of some of the best minds at Facebook working on those systems for many years. From the scaling of the monorepos to the code review workflows, nothing really matches it. The ergonomics of most of the tooling was simply top notch (which it needed to be... engineers, particularly at Meta, are an opinionated lot who don&#x27;t tolerate poor tools).<p>It&#x27;s great to see this out in the wild now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mym1990</author><text>Their colleagues ARE users, they are just a different type, and a type that engineers understand more.<p>I would rather a good engineer put their skills towards helping others use their skills more effectively than put that same engineer in a place where they don&#x27;t like the work and produce below par results.</text></comment> |
14,866,616 | 14,865,319 | 1 | 3 | 14,861,205 | train | <story><title>First Human Embryos Edited in U.S</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608350/first-human-embryos-edited-in-us/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>plaidfuji</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen most of these arguments for and against gene editing before, but the fact of the matter is that it will come down to the economic competitiveness of nations, as always.<p>What concerns me in the long term is that gene editing will cause human genomes to converge to a single gold standard with proven mental and physical benefits, thereby reducing our species&#x27; genetic diversity and leaving us more vulnerable to a mass extinction event. A &quot;zero day exploit&quot; that everyone missed in the popular new cancer-fighting edit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pcnonpc</author><text>From an interview with Geoffrey Miller, an evolutionary psychologist:<p>&quot;Q: What does that mean in human language?
A: Any given couple could potentially have several eggs fertilized in the lab with the dad’s sperm and the mom’s eggs. Then you can test multiple embryos and analyze which one’s going to be the smartest. That kid would belong to that couple as if they had it naturally, but it would be the smartest a couple would be able to produce if they had 100 kids. It’s not genetic engineering or adding new genes, it’s the genes that couples already have.<p>Q: And over the course of several generations you’re able to exponentially multiply the population’s intelligence.
A: Right. Even if it only boosts the average kid by five IQ points, that’s a huge difference in terms of economic productivity, the competitiveness of the country, how many patents they get, how their businesses are run, and how innovative their economy is.<p>Q: How does Western research in genetics compare to China’s?
A: We’re pretty far behind. We have the same technical capabilities, the same statistical capabilities to analyze the data, but they’re collecting the data on a much larger scale and seem to be capable of transforming the scientific findings into government policy and consumer genetic testing much more easily than we are. Technically and scientifically we could be doing this, but we’re not.<p>Q: Why not?
A: We have ideological biases that say, “Well, this could be troubling, we shouldn’t be meddling with nature, we shouldn’t be meddling with God.” I just attended a debate in New York a few weeks ago about whether or not we should outlaw genetic engineering in babies and the audience was pretty split. In China, 95 percent of an audience would say, “Obviously you should make babies genetically healthier, happier, and brighter!” There’s a big cultural difference.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vice.com&#x2F;en_us&#x2F;article&#x2F;5gw8vn&#x2F;chinas-taking-over-the-world-with-a-massive-genetic-engineering-program" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vice.com&#x2F;en_us&#x2F;article&#x2F;5gw8vn&#x2F;chinas-taking-over...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>First Human Embryos Edited in U.S</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608350/first-human-embryos-edited-in-us/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>plaidfuji</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen most of these arguments for and against gene editing before, but the fact of the matter is that it will come down to the economic competitiveness of nations, as always.<p>What concerns me in the long term is that gene editing will cause human genomes to converge to a single gold standard with proven mental and physical benefits, thereby reducing our species&#x27; genetic diversity and leaving us more vulnerable to a mass extinction event. A &quot;zero day exploit&quot; that everyone missed in the popular new cancer-fighting edit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alistairSH</author><text>Will it cause a convergence? Or, a divergence, as we engineer people for specificity? A dedicated military caste, intellectual caste, etc.</text></comment> |
29,875,560 | 29,875,117 | 1 | 3 | 29,874,061 | train | <story><title>Who wrote this shit?</title><url>https://www.heltweg.org/posts/who-wrote-this-shit/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sbarre</author><text>I heard a saying once: &quot;all developers should be embarrassed about code they wrote more than a year ago&quot; as a (cheeky) measure of ongoing growth and development. :-)</text></item><item><author>rozenmd</author><text>My favourite is when you&#x27;re a solopreneur working in your own repos and still asking yourself &quot;who wrote this shit?!&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjerem</author><text>Interestingly, I recently looked back at an old disk drive with my first &quot;real&quot; unfinished side-project which I started as a teen learning to code.<p>And, to my surprise, it was not _that_ bad.<p>Sure, it was full of naively implemented stuff that could have been implemented way better. But, even a decade and a half after, it was pretty clear to read, and it was decently organized.<p>And, in some ways, I preferred this code to the one I&#x27;m writing professionally. I was honestly prouder of myself as a teen than myself as a professional programmer.<p>The difference, I think, is that I had a clear idea of what I wanted to achieve for this project to be considered as definitely finished. Since I started working on code (for money) I&#x27;ve always been working on never ending projects. This industry (and me, as a professional) is obsessed in writing code for long term maintenance and evolution instead of effectively finishing products.<p>So, to get back on topic, I&#x27;m not sure you really write better code with time. I mean, yes, you totally do, but it&#x27;s not as important as learning how to code for others to be able to understand and modify it with constraints you can&#x27;t even imagine.<p>And I saw a lot of people writing super nice open source side project and then, when you work with them on some professional level, well, they still write the same shitty code as everyone else.</text></comment> | <story><title>Who wrote this shit?</title><url>https://www.heltweg.org/posts/who-wrote-this-shit/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sbarre</author><text>I heard a saying once: &quot;all developers should be embarrassed about code they wrote more than a year ago&quot; as a (cheeky) measure of ongoing growth and development. :-)</text></item><item><author>rozenmd</author><text>My favourite is when you&#x27;re a solopreneur working in your own repos and still asking yourself &quot;who wrote this shit?!&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jnsaff2</author><text>Pretty funny, about 15 years ago I started looking back at myself a year ago and decided that until that dude from a year ago looks like an idiot then all is well with my life. Hasn&#x27;t failed yet.</text></comment> |
40,108,605 | 40,108,632 | 1 | 2 | 40,107,787 | train | <story><title>Lossless Acceleration of LLM via Adaptive N-Gram Parallel Decoding</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08698</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SonOfLilit</author><text>Good idea. Generate 8 tokens with a small model, then give them to a large model as one batch (much faster) and if tokens 1..3 are in agreement but 4..8 nut, take only 1..4 and start again. Most tokens are easy to guess so you&#x27;ll get x3.5 gains.<p>I do have a feeling of dejavú, like I&#x27;ve seen this before on hn.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>milkey_mouse</author><text>&gt; I do have a feeling of dejavú, like I&#x27;ve seen this before on hn.<p>You&#x27;re either thinking of speculative encoding more generally, or Medusa: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2401.10774" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2401.10774</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Lossless Acceleration of LLM via Adaptive N-Gram Parallel Decoding</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08698</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SonOfLilit</author><text>Good idea. Generate 8 tokens with a small model, then give them to a large model as one batch (much faster) and if tokens 1..3 are in agreement but 4..8 nut, take only 1..4 and start again. Most tokens are easy to guess so you&#x27;ll get x3.5 gains.<p>I do have a feeling of dejavú, like I&#x27;ve seen this before on hn.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>johntb86</author><text>They mention previous work on speculative decoding using similar techniques, but &quot;ANPD dynamically generates draft outputs
via an adaptive N-gram module using real-time
statistics, after which the drafts are verified by the
LLM. This characteristic is exactly the difference
between ANPD and the previous speculative decoding methods.&quot;</text></comment> |
23,247,214 | 23,246,975 | 1 | 2 | 23,246,734 | train | <story><title>U.S. Birthrates Fall to Record Low</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-birthrates-fall-to-record-low-11589947260</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iandanforth</author><text>Curious how many people share this opinion, but I think this is extremely good news. I would love to see birth rates drop below replenishment across the globe. We simply don&#x27;t need billions of humans. We have done, and continue to do major damage to our environment and historically a tiny minority has benefited from the labor of the majority. The people who benefit most from an increasing population are those who exploit people to increase their quality of life in clean sanctuaries while distancing themselves from the effort and waste required to maintain those lifestyles.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>impendia</author><text>&gt; We simply don&#x27;t need billions of humans.<p>You make an excellent point, and I&#x27;ll raise a counterargument. I would claim, simply, that <i>human life is intrinsically a good thing</i>. I believe that my life is worth living, that it is better that I&#x27;m alive than if I were dead. I&#x27;ll presume that everyone who reads this believes the same about their own lives. In that case, the more people alive, the better -- (if all else is equal).<p>That said, the philosopher Derek Parfit anticipated this and raises a counterargument to my argument above, known as the &quot;mere addition paradox&quot;. [1] Roughly speaking, it goes as follows.<p>1. Suppose you have a population of 1,000,000 people, living happy, healthy, productive lives. Let&#x27;s stipulate that this is a good thing.<p>2. Now, suppose in addition to this, suppose you have a second population of 1,000,000 people, who lead difficult lives with a lot of hardship, but whose lives are (perhaps barely) worth living. Then, if human life is intrisically good, then it is good that these people also exist. (This is the &quot;mere addition&quot; part.)<p>3. Given these two populations, equality is a good thing: lower the standard of living of the first million people ever so slightly, and raise the standard of the second group to match the first. This, too, seems to be a good thing.<p>4. Repeat. Eventually you arrive at a huge population, living lives of misery and squalor which are just slightly better than nothing -- but which one has argued is a better scenario than your original million people. This is the &quot;repugnant conclusion&quot;.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mere_addition_paradox" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mere_addition_paradox</a></text></comment> | <story><title>U.S. Birthrates Fall to Record Low</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-birthrates-fall-to-record-low-11589947260</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iandanforth</author><text>Curious how many people share this opinion, but I think this is extremely good news. I would love to see birth rates drop below replenishment across the globe. We simply don&#x27;t need billions of humans. We have done, and continue to do major damage to our environment and historically a tiny minority has benefited from the labor of the majority. The people who benefit most from an increasing population are those who exploit people to increase their quality of life in clean sanctuaries while distancing themselves from the effort and waste required to maintain those lifestyles.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WhompingWindows</author><text>In this case, it&#x27;s a good thing, because the birthrates declined most for women 24 and younger. Creating another person is one of the most carbon-intensive actions anyone can do, you&#x27;re literally spawning a lifetime of energy use. Best to do that when you&#x27;re SURE they will have all the resources they need to be a productive and helpful member of society...not when you&#x27;re 16 and can&#x27;t care for them properly.<p>I do think there is value to having a balanced aged pyramid, however. We don&#x27;t want a China or Japan situation, where there are far too many old people, which would crush the younger members of society under the burden of caring. The one way to counteract that would be immigration, which has been a hot-button issue and is not a given or perfect remedy for population pyramids.</text></comment> |
13,051,138 | 13,051,062 | 1 | 2 | 13,050,488 | train | <story><title>Blender 2.8 project status</title><url>https://code.blender.org/2016/11/blender-2-8-project-status/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yowlingcat</author><text>&quot;Better news: the Blender Game Engine project might be getting a revival. The UPBGE team is very motivated to keep Blender engine work, and help with aligning BGE with the goals we set for 2.8 – at least to use the new viewport and pbr shader system. A new logic system is still undefined.&quot;<p>Very excited about this. I deeply want to use Py with BGE, but I had been worried about learning a soon to be deprecated game framework. There have been a couple tickets open on the main blender tracker about completely deprecating BGE and it seemed like a lot of core developers were in favor of doing that so as to not divert away valuable dev time from core development.</text></comment> | <story><title>Blender 2.8 project status</title><url>https://code.blender.org/2016/11/blender-2-8-project-status/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>biocomputation</author><text>I know that it&#x27;s not really something that can be changed on a whim, but I feel like Blender&#x27;s UI is deeply strange and often quite dreadful.</text></comment> |
14,974,572 | 14,974,532 | 1 | 2 | 14,973,424 | train | <story><title>uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions</title><url>https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/support-ublock-origin/6746/451</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yborg</author><text>I found this disturbing:<p>&quot;Chromium-based browsers are being “infested” by Instart Logic tech which works around blockers and worst, around browser privacy settings (they may start “infecting” Firefox eventually, but that is not happening now).&quot;<p>From his linked post:<p>&quot;Instart Logic will detect when the developer console opens, and cleanup everything then to hide what it does&quot;<p>Is this implemented via a CDN-delivered script? Why would Chromium-based browsers be more susceptible?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>i2shar</author><text>It is indeed disturbing. Why should a web page be able to detect if dev tools has been opened? Isn&#x27;t this a browser security issue?</text></comment> | <story><title>uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions</title><url>https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/support-ublock-origin/6746/451</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yborg</author><text>I found this disturbing:<p>&quot;Chromium-based browsers are being “infested” by Instart Logic tech which works around blockers and worst, around browser privacy settings (they may start “infecting” Firefox eventually, but that is not happening now).&quot;<p>From his linked post:<p>&quot;Instart Logic will detect when the developer console opens, and cleanup everything then to hide what it does&quot;<p>Is this implemented via a CDN-delivered script? Why would Chromium-based browsers be more susceptible?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ehaughee</author><text>This actually made me try switching to Firefox again. There&#x27;s some minor things missing, but for the most part all the features I want are there.</text></comment> |
17,602,569 | 17,601,325 | 1 | 3 | 17,600,713 | train | <story><title>EU fines Asus, Denon-Marantz, Philips and Pioneer $130M for online price fixing</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/24/eu-fines-asus-denon-marantz-philips-and-pioneer-130m-for-online-price-fixing/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ge0rg</author><text>It&#x27;s funny how almost one hundred years after the Phoebus cartel[0], Philips is still participating in anti-competitive behavior. Apparently the invisible hand of the market is not so well suited after all.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Phoebus_cartel" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Phoebus_cartel</a></text></comment> | <story><title>EU fines Asus, Denon-Marantz, Philips and Pioneer $130M for online price fixing</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/24/eu-fines-asus-denon-marantz-philips-and-pioneer-130m-for-online-price-fixing/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JazCE</author><text>This doesn&#x27;t surprise me. Having been in the market for a AV Receiver recently, I was amazed at how little fluctuation in price there was between all the online stores for the likes of Denon and Marantz equipment.</text></comment> |
4,320,295 | 4,319,396 | 1 | 2 | 4,318,516 | train | <story><title>Samsung reveals its pre-iPhone concepts: 10 touchscreen devices</title><url>http://www.osnews.com/story/26230/Samsung_reveals_its_pre-iPhone_concepts_10_touchscreen</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Tloewald</author><text>"The 'invention' of the GUI was a very long process, which, in my view, started with Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad (1st generation GUI), and ended with the work done at Xerox (3rd generation GUI)."<p>The article loses credibility when it suggests that the invention of the GUI stops at Xerox, when Apple invented (among many other things) drag and drop, overlapping windows, a practical mouse (that could track diagonally, didn't break down, and did more with one button than xerox did with three).<p>But what would I know?<p>"The Macintosh was the first computer worth criticizing." Alan Kay<p>I'm totally on board with apple not owning rounded rectangles, but Samsung's copying of Apple has extended to literally using Apple's UI graphics in store displays.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>equalarrow</author><text>&#62; I'm totally on board with apple not owning rounded rectangles..<p>This isn't a question about Apple owning rounded rectangles - unless they happen to be phones and tablets. This rounded rectangle thing has gotten a little out of hand. It's easy to see why Samsung has framed it in this manner; because, of course, Apple couldn't 'own a rectangle with rounded corners', how absurd! Does that mean Apple owns tv remote controls, or keyboards or all the other rectangles with rounded corners on them?!<p>But that's a false argument and analogy. Apple is not going after keyboards, tv remotes, etc. They are going after Samsung's copied phones and tablets. It's that simple and to dream up analogies is to try to derail the real issue.<p>However, if some still feel that Samsung is an inventive company that would never outright steal any ideas, all you have to do is look at some of these examples:<p>App store icons:<p><a href="http://obamapacman.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Samsung-Mobile-Italy-store-copies-Apple-App-Store-Safari-Icons-Euronics-Centro-Sicilia-580x433.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://obamapacman.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Samsung-Mo...</a><p>Black iphone cables:<p><a href="http://cdn.mactrast.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Samsung-Apple-Cable-Copy.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://cdn.mactrast.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Samsung-A...</a><p>Black iphone square charger:<p><a href="http://site.accessorygeeks.com/yswimages/samsung-micro-usb-data-cable-travel-adapter-etaou80jbe-blk.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://site.accessorygeeks.com/yswimages/samsung-micro-usb-d...</a><p>These are just a few things but it's pretty clear that Samsung has no problem just copying outright. I don't think they're going to win this trial and I don't think Apple is going to own all black rectangles.</text></comment> | <story><title>Samsung reveals its pre-iPhone concepts: 10 touchscreen devices</title><url>http://www.osnews.com/story/26230/Samsung_reveals_its_pre-iPhone_concepts_10_touchscreen</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Tloewald</author><text>"The 'invention' of the GUI was a very long process, which, in my view, started with Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad (1st generation GUI), and ended with the work done at Xerox (3rd generation GUI)."<p>The article loses credibility when it suggests that the invention of the GUI stops at Xerox, when Apple invented (among many other things) drag and drop, overlapping windows, a practical mouse (that could track diagonally, didn't break down, and did more with one button than xerox did with three).<p>But what would I know?<p>"The Macintosh was the first computer worth criticizing." Alan Kay<p>I'm totally on board with apple not owning rounded rectangles, but Samsung's copying of Apple has extended to literally using Apple's UI graphics in store displays.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Symmetry</author><text>Xerox actually wasn't limited to non-overlapping windows, the Xerox Alto which was demoed to Apple had them, it was only the Xerox Star that was sold outside the company that couldn't manage those.</text></comment> |
30,112,851 | 30,112,939 | 1 | 2 | 30,112,595 | train | <story><title>Apple contributes to OBS to support screen capture using ScreenCaptureKit</title><url>https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/5875/commits/551c54ba8440fcdf4cdc221f5d50a30a68b87a7e</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yellow_lead</author><text>It&#x27;s a bit strange to open a pull request from &quot;Developer-Ecosystem-Engineering&quot; instead of an individual account. I wonder if every interaction from this account has to be approved by a board or something.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>onion2k</author><text>Don&#x27;t Apple have a policy that their developers aren&#x27;t supposed to contribute to Open Source without explicit permission (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22935263" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22935263</a>)? I imagine this is the result of that policy - if Apple wants to contribute to something <i>as a business</i> there isn&#x27;t really anyone who would be able to use their individual account to do it without lots of people questioning why that person can when others can&#x27;t.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple contributes to OBS to support screen capture using ScreenCaptureKit</title><url>https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/5875/commits/551c54ba8440fcdf4cdc221f5d50a30a68b87a7e</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yellow_lead</author><text>It&#x27;s a bit strange to open a pull request from &quot;Developer-Ecosystem-Engineering&quot; instead of an individual account. I wonder if every interaction from this account has to be approved by a board or something.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iSnow</author><text>Could be related to the decision to remove individual names from the product about boxes back when Jobs came back to better control leaking of internal information and cut down on poaching. I would think that Apple does not want anyone to know who is working on the screen capture APIs as this PR would probably come from one member of that group<p>&quot;When Steve came back, one of his company-wide edicts was that the names of individuals must be removed from about boxes.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitsplitting.org&#x2F;2014&#x2F;01&#x2F;24&#x2F;cant-take-that-away&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitsplitting.org&#x2F;2014&#x2F;01&#x2F;24&#x2F;cant-take-that-away&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
27,599,072 | 27,599,251 | 1 | 2 | 27,598,292 | train | <story><title>Effects of cat ownership on the gut microbiota of owners</title><url>https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0253133</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gcheong</author><text>&quot;Sixty percent of cat owners sleep with their cats, which may enhance their sense of security and improve their quality of sleep&quot;<p>Maybe, but now only between the hours of 10pm - 5:30am, for me anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gilbetron</author><text>We learned years ago that our cats get put in the lower part of our house with the door closed at night. We felt bad about it, but being able to sleep all night made up for it.<p>Quick story: for several nights, I&#x27;d wake up in the middle of the night with horrendous stomach pains. I was thinking I needed to see the doctor it was so painful. Then on the fourth night when the pain hit I woke up fast enough to notice our cat walking off of my stomach. Turns out he (a 15 lb cat) had been jumping off a shelf through the air about 6 feet and landing directly on my gut. This was instrumental in the decision to keep them away from us ;)</text></comment> | <story><title>Effects of cat ownership on the gut microbiota of owners</title><url>https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0253133</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gcheong</author><text>&quot;Sixty percent of cat owners sleep with their cats, which may enhance their sense of security and improve their quality of sleep&quot;<p>Maybe, but now only between the hours of 10pm - 5:30am, for me anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eyelidlessness</author><text>My most recent cat, who sadly died a couple years ago, was unusually snuggly. We slept in physical contact, often spooning some or all of the night, for most of the 12 years I had her. She was particularly well adapted to me, my habits and my schedule… I was very fortunate!<p>I had a really rough bout of insomnia, along with a bad mental health stretch not long after she died. I didn’t make the connection until recently that sleep without my cat might have contributed.<p>But now I have a particularly snuggly pup, which has improved my quality of sleep beyond even that previous high point. We definitely have to adapt more to each other’s schedule. But it’s surprisingly mutual adaptation, and surprisingly malleable.<p>Sorry for the long personal response. I have no idea how much wiggle room there is with your cat(s), but I hope you find the benefits of the relationship worth whatever tradeoffs come with the sleep schedule.</text></comment> |
22,869,580 | 22,869,393 | 1 | 3 | 22,867,503 | train | <story><title>UTF-8 Everywhere</title><url>http://utf8everywhere.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>legulere</author><text>&gt; In the UNIX world, narrow strings are considered UTF-8 by default almost everywhere. Because of that, the author of the file copy utility would not need to care about Unicode<p>It couldn’t be further from the truth. Unix paths don’t need to be valid UTF-8 and most programs happily pipe the mess through into text that should be valid. (Windows filenames don’t have to be proper UTF-16 either)<p>Rust is one of the few programming languages that correctly doesn’t treat file paths as strings.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jcranmer</author><text>&gt; It couldn’t be further from the truth. Unix paths don’t need to be valid UTF-8 and most programs happily pipe the mess through into text that should be valid. (Windows filenames don’t have to be proper UTF-16 either)<p>A decent fraction of software can impose rules on the portion of the filesystem within their control. A tool like mv or vim has to be prepared to handle any filepath encoding. But something like a VCS could reasonably insist that they only support filetrees with normalized UTF-8 encoding and no case-insensitive conflicts as the only things reliably working cross-platform.</text></comment> | <story><title>UTF-8 Everywhere</title><url>http://utf8everywhere.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>legulere</author><text>&gt; In the UNIX world, narrow strings are considered UTF-8 by default almost everywhere. Because of that, the author of the file copy utility would not need to care about Unicode<p>It couldn’t be further from the truth. Unix paths don’t need to be valid UTF-8 and most programs happily pipe the mess through into text that should be valid. (Windows filenames don’t have to be proper UTF-16 either)<p>Rust is one of the few programming languages that correctly doesn’t treat file paths as strings.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DannyB2</author><text>&gt; Rust is one of the few programming languages that correctly doesn’t treat file paths as strings.<p>Imagine if languages allowed subtypes of strings which are not directly assignment compatible.<p>HtmlString<p>SqlString<p>String<p>A String could be converted to HtmlString not by assignment, but through a function call, which escapes characters that the browser would recognize as markup.<p>Similarly a String would be converted to a SqlString via a function.<p>It would be difficult to accidentally mix up strings because they would be assignment incompatible without the functions that translate them.<p>There could be mixed &quot;languages&quot; within a string. Like a JSP or PHP that might contain scripting snippets, and also JavaScript and CSS snippets, each with different syntax rules and escaping conventions.</text></comment> |
28,567,680 | 28,568,013 | 1 | 3 | 28,564,021 | train | <story><title>A Go Package for Building Progressive Web Apps</title><url>https://go-app.dev/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oefrha</author><text>One problem with golang&#x27;s wasm target is that the generated binary is huge. For instance, I checked app.wasm of this documentation site and the four examples listed at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;go-app.dev&#x2F;built-with" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;go-app.dev&#x2F;built-with</a>:<p>0. This site: 14.9MB, 3.4MB gzipped;<p>1. 13.5MB, 3.2MB gzipped;<p>2. 15.4MB, 3.2MB gzipped;<p>3. 4.7MB, 1.2MB gzipped (this is an extremely bare bones demo);<p>4. 25.0MB, 5.4MB gzipped.<p>You can save a bit more with brotli, but not much more. I built an app with golang wasm last year, but ended up rewriting everything in good old TS since I couldn&#x27;t justify the ~15MB raw, ~2.7MB brotli&#x27;ed payload.<p>I guess you can make some huge savings if tinygo has enough capabilities to cover all your needs. Not sure if it&#x27;s possible with this library, but if it is, they certainly haven&#x27;t explored it, hence the 3.4MB gzipped wasm for a documentation site.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>void_mint</author><text>&gt; but ended up rewriting everything in good old TS since I couldn&#x27;t justify the ~15MB raw, ~2.7MB brotli&#x27;ed payload.<p>What were the size improvements?</text></comment> | <story><title>A Go Package for Building Progressive Web Apps</title><url>https://go-app.dev/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oefrha</author><text>One problem with golang&#x27;s wasm target is that the generated binary is huge. For instance, I checked app.wasm of this documentation site and the four examples listed at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;go-app.dev&#x2F;built-with" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;go-app.dev&#x2F;built-with</a>:<p>0. This site: 14.9MB, 3.4MB gzipped;<p>1. 13.5MB, 3.2MB gzipped;<p>2. 15.4MB, 3.2MB gzipped;<p>3. 4.7MB, 1.2MB gzipped (this is an extremely bare bones demo);<p>4. 25.0MB, 5.4MB gzipped.<p>You can save a bit more with brotli, but not much more. I built an app with golang wasm last year, but ended up rewriting everything in good old TS since I couldn&#x27;t justify the ~15MB raw, ~2.7MB brotli&#x27;ed payload.<p>I guess you can make some huge savings if tinygo has enough capabilities to cover all your needs. Not sure if it&#x27;s possible with this library, but if it is, they certainly haven&#x27;t explored it, hence the 3.4MB gzipped wasm for a documentation site.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nikki93</author><text>When I&#x27;ve tried it out for wasm game development, the biggest issue I had was frequent GC pauses (was a few every second) causing frame drops. TinyGo gets at this issue. I&#x27;ve used C++ since then, focusing on a small subset that keeps things flexible and compiling fast. Been hacking on a Go -&gt; C++ compiler lately that produces that subset.</text></comment> |
5,415,705 | 5,415,652 | 1 | 2 | 5,415,256 | train | <story><title>PyCon Code of Conduct changed to avoid public shaming</title><url>https://github.com/python/pycon-code-of-conduct/commit/500a3d25c27065598002f7c999de3fdfb7ab18b1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>imsofuture</author><text>1) You don't get to tell someone what is offensive to them.
2) Totally agree, it was not a wise choice.
3) You don't get to tell someone what is offensive to them.
4) You don't get to tell someone what is offensive to them.
5) You don't get to tell someone what is offensive to them.
6) It's true, not all the best choices were made.</text></item><item><author>OoTheNigerian</author><text>After reading all sides of the story, I see why there is so much anger towards Adria. However, it is unacceptable for her or SendGrid to be attacked digitally.<p>Adria did an arguably right thing in a wrong way at the wrong time.<p>1. Assuming the way she said it happened is correct, the guys behind her made a <i>sexual</i> (forking/fucking; Dongle/Penis) not sexist joke. If it were even to be seen as sexist, it was towards men.<p>2. I find it hard to see how taking their pictures and "shaming" them would have made anything thing better. It only set them up to be lynched verbally or otherwise.<p>3. It was a PRIVATE conversation in a public setting that was overheard. It happens to the best of us. There are 100s of bloopers on YouTube of broadcasters saying embarrassing things when the mic was supposed to be off.<p>4. She appears hypocritical because at the same PYCON she sexual jokes on Twitter (far much more public) while representing her company (having your company on your profile is almost same as wearing a badge at a conference. Not to include the use of the PYCON hashtag)<p>5. As a DEVELOPER evangelist for her company, she should be more patient with developers by a massive factor compared to people in other roles. It makes no sense evangelizing for/to people that would be uncomfortable dealing with you. Appeal to understanding, not fear.<p>6. It is good to know she can stand for herself. Unfortunately, I have to say she got the incident and methodology wrong.<p>All this will pass, and hopefully serve as a lesson for participants and us observers.<p><i>Edited: Spelling of Adria</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drharris</author><text>You seem to believe that offense is subjective to the individual. Should we then be responsible for everything we do that offends others? What level of recourse should they have for being offended? If we think that punitive action is appropriate given an offense, how do we determine what a legitimate offense is, versus a non-legitimate offense?</text></comment> | <story><title>PyCon Code of Conduct changed to avoid public shaming</title><url>https://github.com/python/pycon-code-of-conduct/commit/500a3d25c27065598002f7c999de3fdfb7ab18b1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>imsofuture</author><text>1) You don't get to tell someone what is offensive to them.
2) Totally agree, it was not a wise choice.
3) You don't get to tell someone what is offensive to them.
4) You don't get to tell someone what is offensive to them.
5) You don't get to tell someone what is offensive to them.
6) It's true, not all the best choices were made.</text></item><item><author>OoTheNigerian</author><text>After reading all sides of the story, I see why there is so much anger towards Adria. However, it is unacceptable for her or SendGrid to be attacked digitally.<p>Adria did an arguably right thing in a wrong way at the wrong time.<p>1. Assuming the way she said it happened is correct, the guys behind her made a <i>sexual</i> (forking/fucking; Dongle/Penis) not sexist joke. If it were even to be seen as sexist, it was towards men.<p>2. I find it hard to see how taking their pictures and "shaming" them would have made anything thing better. It only set them up to be lynched verbally or otherwise.<p>3. It was a PRIVATE conversation in a public setting that was overheard. It happens to the best of us. There are 100s of bloopers on YouTube of broadcasters saying embarrassing things when the mic was supposed to be off.<p>4. She appears hypocritical because at the same PYCON she sexual jokes on Twitter (far much more public) while representing her company (having your company on your profile is almost same as wearing a badge at a conference. Not to include the use of the PYCON hashtag)<p>5. As a DEVELOPER evangelist for her company, she should be more patient with developers by a massive factor compared to people in other roles. It makes no sense evangelizing for/to people that would be uncomfortable dealing with you. Appeal to understanding, not fear.<p>6. It is good to know she can stand for herself. Unfortunately, I have to say she got the incident and methodology wrong.<p>All this will pass, and hopefully serve as a lesson for participants and us observers.<p><i>Edited: Spelling of Adria</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aviraldg</author><text>Then that someone doesn't get to publicly shame me for what is offensive to them, and doesn't have the right to ask me to stop.<p>My joke. Not meant for you. Stop listening.</text></comment> |
6,163,351 | 6,163,499 | 1 | 3 | 6,162,813 | train | <story><title>Washington Post to be sold to Jeff Bezos</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/washington-post-to-be-sold-to-jeff-bezos/2013/08/05/ca537c9e-fe0c-11e2-9711-3708310f6f4d_story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>untog</author><text>Can we have just one thread in HN that doesn&#x27;t mention Snowden?</text></item><item><author>miles</author><text><i>Few people were aware that a sale was in the works for the paper, whose reporters have broken such stories as the Pentagon Papers, the Watergate scandals and disclosures about the National Security Administration’s surveillance program in May.</i><p>Claiming credit for the NSA story seems disingenuous at best, especially given their antagonism towards Snowden:<p><a href="http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/06/how-washington-post-lost-prism-exclusive/66048/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlanticwire.com&#x2F;national&#x2F;2013&#x2F;06&#x2F;how-washingt...</a><p><a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130702/11474423694/washington-post-stop-us-before-we-do-any-more-real-journalism-like-that-cute-little-guardian-paper.shtml" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techdirt.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;20130702&#x2F;11474423694&#x2F;washin...</a><p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jul/10/washington-post-walter-pincus-correction" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;commentisfree&#x2F;2013&#x2F;jul&#x2F;10&#x2F;washing...</a><p>EDIT: While acknowledging the WaPo&#x27;s significant contributions in the early 70s, it seems like they lost their way somewhere along the line:<p><i>Washington Post Kills Account of Its Failures in Iraq Reporting and Runs a Defense Instead</i>
<a href="http://gawker.com/5992158/washington-post-kills-account-of-its-failures-in-iraq-reporting-and-runs-a-defense-instead" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gawker.com&#x2F;5992158&#x2F;washington-post-kills-account-of-i...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>willurd</author><text>Please redirect your shock toward the US government.<p>And by the way, at the time of writing 27 of the top 30 articles don&#x27;t mention Snowden in the comments, so...</text></comment> | <story><title>Washington Post to be sold to Jeff Bezos</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/washington-post-to-be-sold-to-jeff-bezos/2013/08/05/ca537c9e-fe0c-11e2-9711-3708310f6f4d_story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>untog</author><text>Can we have just one thread in HN that doesn&#x27;t mention Snowden?</text></item><item><author>miles</author><text><i>Few people were aware that a sale was in the works for the paper, whose reporters have broken such stories as the Pentagon Papers, the Watergate scandals and disclosures about the National Security Administration’s surveillance program in May.</i><p>Claiming credit for the NSA story seems disingenuous at best, especially given their antagonism towards Snowden:<p><a href="http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/06/how-washington-post-lost-prism-exclusive/66048/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlanticwire.com&#x2F;national&#x2F;2013&#x2F;06&#x2F;how-washingt...</a><p><a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130702/11474423694/washington-post-stop-us-before-we-do-any-more-real-journalism-like-that-cute-little-guardian-paper.shtml" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techdirt.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;20130702&#x2F;11474423694&#x2F;washin...</a><p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jul/10/washington-post-walter-pincus-correction" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;commentisfree&#x2F;2013&#x2F;jul&#x2F;10&#x2F;washing...</a><p>EDIT: While acknowledging the WaPo&#x27;s significant contributions in the early 70s, it seems like they lost their way somewhere along the line:<p><i>Washington Post Kills Account of Its Failures in Iraq Reporting and Runs a Defense Instead</i>
<a href="http://gawker.com/5992158/washington-post-kills-account-of-its-failures-in-iraq-reporting-and-runs-a-defense-instead" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gawker.com&#x2F;5992158&#x2F;washington-post-kills-account-of-i...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philwelch</author><text>I miss when people would submit articles about Erlang to flood out the politics.</text></comment> |
26,172,195 | 26,169,814 | 1 | 3 | 26,166,556 | train | <story><title>Coronavirus human challenge study gets green light in UK</title><url>https://www.politico.eu/article/worlds-first-coronavirus-human-challenge-study-gets-green-light-in-uk/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>handmodel</author><text>I signed up for human challenge trials last spring so had lots of debates on this - it usually ended with the person saying directly or indirectly &quot;Bioethicists have discussed this for decades and understand it more than you&quot;.<p>I found this extremely unconvincing. A group of unelected people, mostly from the same social class, being able to determine the rules of something so important seemed inherently flawed to me.<p>In this particular situation, I saw it as signing up to be a soldier for my country (which always covers some personal risk) - with the number of lives that could have been saved by April 2020 human challenge trial being in the tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>akiselev</author><text>Human medical experimentation has a horrifying history and <i>in living memory alone</i> we have the atrocities during WWII, MK ultra, Tuskegee experiment, past (and ongoing) experiments on aboriginal populations, Operation Whitecoat, the Ohio prison experiments, and the entire pharma industry pre-Kefauver-Harris Drug Amendment but the Beecher paper really drove home how widespread the practice was in regular medical research. Unethical experimentation wasn&#x27;t the stuff of war crimes, it was a relatively common practice for everyday medical researchers even a few decades ago with dire consequences for medicine.<p>It&#x27;s no more elitist than an electrician telling someone that they can&#x27;t wire their house themselves &quot;because construction and safety organizations have studied this for decades and understand it more than you&quot; when burning down the entire block is a very real possibility.<p>The consequences of breaches in medical ethics have been dire: to this day minority and aboriginal populations have worse health outcomes because they have lower trust in the medical establishment and even relatively small breaches in trust like the CIA vaccination program in Pakistan can have devastating effects like the revival of polio.<p>Bioethics and &quot;modern&quot; medicine are relative new so we&#x27;re well into the conservative whiplash stage of the natural &quot;boom and bust cycle&quot; but for a damn good reason. You&#x27;re not going to appreciate the seriousness of the subject without really digging into the very recent history of bioethics.</text></comment> | <story><title>Coronavirus human challenge study gets green light in UK</title><url>https://www.politico.eu/article/worlds-first-coronavirus-human-challenge-study-gets-green-light-in-uk/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>handmodel</author><text>I signed up for human challenge trials last spring so had lots of debates on this - it usually ended with the person saying directly or indirectly &quot;Bioethicists have discussed this for decades and understand it more than you&quot;.<p>I found this extremely unconvincing. A group of unelected people, mostly from the same social class, being able to determine the rules of something so important seemed inherently flawed to me.<p>In this particular situation, I saw it as signing up to be a soldier for my country (which always covers some personal risk) - with the number of lives that could have been saved by April 2020 human challenge trial being in the tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tyho</author><text>I agree. The Moderna vaccine was created in a weekend, it took many months to run trials in a way that compiled with bioethicist diktat to prove efficacy . The limiting factor in the speed of the clinical trials is the rate at which people acquire COVID naturally. During the summer there were serious worries that the vaccine trials would fail due to low transmission rates.<p>Had the clinical trials run in a &quot;less ethical&quot; way, say by taking young and healthy people like myself, vaccinating them and then deliberately exposing them to COVID, then we might have seen vaccination start much sooner. Far fewer would have died and the colossal impact of lockdowns would have been mostly avoided.</text></comment> |
7,566,490 | 7,565,988 | 1 | 2 | 7,565,546 | train | <story><title>Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/09/condoleezza-rice-joins-dropboxs-board</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cryoshon</author><text>Well, that&#x27;s the end of my usage of Dropbox, effective immediately. I&#x27;ll make sure to mention Condi&#x27;s association with them in every conversation involving Dropbox, in hope of spreading knowledge about their profane selection of board members.<p>It&#x27;s a shame that they had to pick a Bush crony. These people should be in prison for malevolently misleading the public in order to start a for-profit war which killed hundreds of thousands of people.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>at-fates-hands</author><text>&gt;&gt;&gt; It&#x27;s a shame that they had to pick a Bush crony.<p>Another great example of how partisanship and shitty double standards have ruined our country. The fact is, the vote to invade Iraq was a bi-partisan vote:<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Resolution_to_Authorize_the_Use_of_United_States_Armed_Forces_Against_Iraq" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Joint_Resolution_to_Authorize_t...</a><p>&quot;Introduced in Congress on October 2, 2002, in conjunction with the Administration&#x27;s proposals,[2][7] H.J.Res. 114 passed the House of Representatives on Thursday afternoon at 3:05 p.m. EDT on October 10, 2002, by a vote of 296-133,[8] and passed the Senate after midnight early Friday morning, at 12:50 a.m. EDT on October 11, 2002, by a vote of 77-23.[9] It was signed into law as Pub.L. 107–243 by President Bush on October 16, 2002.&quot;<p>82 Democrats in the house and 29 in the Senate voted for the resolution. If you&#x27;re against Rice for her actions leading up the war, then maybe you should take some action against the prominent Democrats who voted for the resolution as well:<p>Chuck Schumer<p>Joe Biden<p>Hilary Clinton<p>John Kerry<p>Harry Reid<p>The fact is, BOTH parties are to blame for Iraq. Too bad most Liberals just like to point the finger at Bush and his administration, when in fact there were plenty of Democrats to blame as well. Pretty sure you&#x27;re not going to boycott any company if one of the democrats listed above lands on a board somewhere are you?</text></comment> | <story><title>Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/09/condoleezza-rice-joins-dropboxs-board</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cryoshon</author><text>Well, that&#x27;s the end of my usage of Dropbox, effective immediately. I&#x27;ll make sure to mention Condi&#x27;s association with them in every conversation involving Dropbox, in hope of spreading knowledge about their profane selection of board members.<p>It&#x27;s a shame that they had to pick a Bush crony. These people should be in prison for malevolently misleading the public in order to start a for-profit war which killed hundreds of thousands of people.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JabavuAdams</author><text>Good for you for standing by your principles.<p>This definitely puts a taint on Dropbox, for me. We&#x27;ll see if that leads to action. Sometimes it sucks to be a pragmatist.</text></comment> |
24,180,084 | 24,179,975 | 1 | 3 | 24,178,614 | train | <story><title>Bjarne Stroustrup had his Reddit account suspended</title><url>https://twitter.com/blelbach/status/1295018218298335232</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gentleman11</author><text>I made a twitter account once. I followed maybe 4 people basically as a way to subscribe to whatever they were saying, then liked a few posts.<p>I got banned the same day and told that I had violated their tos in an undefined way and that attempts to contact support would be ignored. My only tweet was to say that I had finally made a dumb twitter account.<p>Maybe the assumption was that every human on earth must already have a twitter account, so any new account must be a bot?<p>These platforms are just ridiculous and we shouldn’t use them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>derbOac</author><text>I got banned before I even posted anything. I had the account, then the third time I logged in it locked me out because of unspecified suspicious behavior. It was baffling.<p>Later I tried again with a different account and they wanted a phone number. It was a huge turnoff.<p>People give Signal heat about wanting a number but they won&#x27;t even bat an eye at the same behavior from Twitter.<p>Frustrating to say the least.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bjarne Stroustrup had his Reddit account suspended</title><url>https://twitter.com/blelbach/status/1295018218298335232</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gentleman11</author><text>I made a twitter account once. I followed maybe 4 people basically as a way to subscribe to whatever they were saying, then liked a few posts.<p>I got banned the same day and told that I had violated their tos in an undefined way and that attempts to contact support would be ignored. My only tweet was to say that I had finally made a dumb twitter account.<p>Maybe the assumption was that every human on earth must already have a twitter account, so any new account must be a bot?<p>These platforms are just ridiculous and we shouldn’t use them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>patrickaljord</author><text>Were you using tor, brave, strong adblocking or a disposable email and refused to give your phone number? All these things will get you banned now when trying to open a new account.</text></comment> |
3,997,918 | 3,997,910 | 1 | 2 | 3,997,664 | train | <story><title>Hacker Typer</title><url>http://hackertyper.com/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jaredsohn</author><text>Previous posting of the original hackertyper.net from a year ago: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2485159" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2485159</a><p>CodeTyper (a fork that added sounds) was posted a few days later. <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2499883" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2499883</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Hacker Typer</title><url>http://hackertyper.com/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Rhapso</author><text>Yay! Now I can mash the keys as fast as possible and look like a bit of an idiot, yet still somehow magically be typing the code to a program I have yet to discern the purpose of!<p>Where does this get it's source? can we set it?<p>--EDIT-- seems it might be a fork of: <a href="http://hackertyper.net/" rel="nofollow">http://hackertyper.net/</a> but that is a guess. and that is the linux kernel I was typing...</text></comment> |
15,965,022 | 15,964,465 | 1 | 3 | 15,963,117 | train | <story><title>How to not waste time on a side project when trying to get a job</title><url>http://hackcareer.com/side-project/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jefe78</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand the logic of this article. My side projects tend to be efforts in self employment, not &#x27;click bait&#x27; for an employer. While not everyone has the same approach, this article seems to imply the only value of side projects is for future employers. I&#x27;d hate for people to get the wrong impression about the value of these projects.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dheera</author><text>And many times, my side projects are my way of relaxing. Some people relax by partying, some relax by walking their dog, some relax by spending time with their kids. And my choice of relaxation time is often just building something interesting that has zero self-employment or market value, but is just funny or cool. It is refreshing to do something for pure happiness and fun, after dealing with the unhappy real world, is all about traction and money and not happiness.<p>I also have another set of side projects with specific intent to learn something new, which I consider an educational time investment in myself.<p>Neither is &quot;click bait&quot; for employers, and I consider neither to be a &quot;waste of time&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to not waste time on a side project when trying to get a job</title><url>http://hackcareer.com/side-project/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jefe78</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand the logic of this article. My side projects tend to be efforts in self employment, not &#x27;click bait&#x27; for an employer. While not everyone has the same approach, this article seems to imply the only value of side projects is for future employers. I&#x27;d hate for people to get the wrong impression about the value of these projects.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pipio21</author><text>Agreed.<p>Everything that I have, my companies, my capital, my house, comes from my side projects being transformed into self employment, recurring revenue or reputation for me or my team.<p>You have to consider that side projects will start small, like a plant, they are very easy to squash and destroy, but takes an enormous effort, and your rewards come later, when you have a tree.<p>Even a company like Apple could not make something like the App Store earn more than a couple millions the first year. Larry and Sergei tried to sell google for just a million dollars and could not.<p>A side project takes so much effort that I would have never ever considered making the effort just to show off to companies, then abandoning those(as you will be forced as you have a job that takes most of your efforts). Side project is like your children if you create them.<p>It is a big error to try to make companies value your projects. They will pay you 0$ if they can(even if they know it is a great project, more benefit for them).<p>There are much better ways to show off in front of companies if that is what you want.</text></comment> |
37,950,692 | 37,950,767 | 1 | 2 | 37,949,899 | train | <story><title>Please Pay for a Year of Nothing</title><url>https://joe-steel.com/2023-10-19-Please-Pay-For-a-Year-of-Nothing.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cortesoft</author><text>My roommate in college watched Gladiator every single night for like a full year.</text></item><item><author>geph2021</author><text><p><pre><code> kids love repeat content
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This is very true, to a certain age. My kids would watch some things over and over again, until they reached a certain age when there was an abrupt change. Once that change happens it&#x27;s polar opposite, they could not fathom watching something a second time.</text></item><item><author>ryanisnan</author><text>One counter point to why I personally pay for Disney+ is that I have kids, and kids <i>love</i> repeat content. I don&#x27;t think new content particularly matters to them, at least not at their age.<p>I wonder how much Disney+&#x27;s numbers will be helped by that tranche of subscribers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WXLCKNO</author><text>Were you not entertained?</text></comment> | <story><title>Please Pay for a Year of Nothing</title><url>https://joe-steel.com/2023-10-19-Please-Pay-For-a-Year-of-Nothing.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cortesoft</author><text>My roommate in college watched Gladiator every single night for like a full year.</text></item><item><author>geph2021</author><text><p><pre><code> kids love repeat content
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This is very true, to a certain age. My kids would watch some things over and over again, until they reached a certain age when there was an abrupt change. Once that change happens it&#x27;s polar opposite, they could not fathom watching something a second time.</text></item><item><author>ryanisnan</author><text>One counter point to why I personally pay for Disney+ is that I have kids, and kids <i>love</i> repeat content. I don&#x27;t think new content particularly matters to them, at least not at their age.<p>I wonder how much Disney+&#x27;s numbers will be helped by that tranche of subscribers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>codetrotter</author><text>One of my flatmates was watching GoT on max volume, one or more episodes every night. I got pretty darn tired of the intro jingle blasting every damn night at like 3am.<p>I can’t even imagine how crazy it wouldve driven me if it was the same movie every night instead. Different episodes of the same show was bad enough. I probably would have moved out.</text></comment> |
28,750,088 | 28,749,335 | 1 | 2 | 28,748,203 | train | <story><title>Facebook-owned sites were down</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kossTKR</author><text>Reddit r&#x2F;Sysadmin user that claims to be on the &quot;Recovery Team&quot; for this ongoing issue:<p>&gt;<i>As many of you know, DNS for FB services has been affected and this is likely a symptom of the actual issue, and that&#x27;s that BGP peering with Facebook peering routers has gone down, very likely due to a configuration change that went into effect shortly before the outages happened (started roughly 1540 UTC).
There are people now trying to gain access to the peering routers to implement fixes, but the people with physical access is separate from the people with knowledge of how to actually authenticate to the systems and people who know what to actually do, so there is now a logistical challenge with getting all that knowledge unified.
Part of this is also due to lower staffing in data centers due to pandemic measures.</i><p>User is providing live updates of the incident here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;sysadmin&#x2F;comments&#x2F;q181fv&#x2F;looks_like_facebook_is_down&#x2F;hfd4dyv&#x2F;?context=3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;sysadmin&#x2F;comments&#x2F;q181fv&#x2F;looks_like...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>guidopallemans</author><text>He just deleted all his updates.<p>user:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;user&#x2F;ramenporn" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;user&#x2F;ramenporn</a><p>some messages:<p>* This is a global outage for all FB-related services&#x2F;infra (source: I&#x27;m currently on the recovery&#x2F;investigation team).<p>* Will try to provide any important&#x2F;interesting bits as I see them. There is a ton of stuff flying around right now and like 7 separate discussion channels and video calls.<p>* Update 1440 UTC: \<p><pre><code> As many of you know, DNS for FB services has been affected and this is likely a symptom of the actual issue, and that&#x27;s that BGP peering with Facebook peering routers has gone down, very likely due to a configuration change that went into effect shortly before the outages happened (started roughly 1540 UTC).
There are people now trying to gain access to the peering routers to implement fixes, but the people with physical access is separate from the people with knowledge of how to actually authenticate to the systems and people who know what to actually do, so there is now a logistical challenge with getting all that knowledge unified.
Part of this is also due to lower staffing in data centers due to pandemic measures.</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook-owned sites were down</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kossTKR</author><text>Reddit r&#x2F;Sysadmin user that claims to be on the &quot;Recovery Team&quot; for this ongoing issue:<p>&gt;<i>As many of you know, DNS for FB services has been affected and this is likely a symptom of the actual issue, and that&#x27;s that BGP peering with Facebook peering routers has gone down, very likely due to a configuration change that went into effect shortly before the outages happened (started roughly 1540 UTC).
There are people now trying to gain access to the peering routers to implement fixes, but the people with physical access is separate from the people with knowledge of how to actually authenticate to the systems and people who know what to actually do, so there is now a logistical challenge with getting all that knowledge unified.
Part of this is also due to lower staffing in data centers due to pandemic measures.</i><p>User is providing live updates of the incident here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;sysadmin&#x2F;comments&#x2F;q181fv&#x2F;looks_like_facebook_is_down&#x2F;hfd4dyv&#x2F;?context=3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;sysadmin&#x2F;comments&#x2F;q181fv&#x2F;looks_like...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pmlnr</author><text>&gt; the people with physical access is separate from the people with knowledge of [...]<p>Welcome to the brave new world of troubleshooting. This will seriously bite us one day.</text></comment> |
24,136,373 | 24,136,478 | 1 | 2 | 24,132,722 | train | <story><title>Uber CEO says its service will probably shut down temporarily in California</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/12/uber-may-shut-down-temporarily-in-california.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adrianN</author><text>Here in Germany proper Taxis have to pick you up (as far as I know, I almost never need one). That&#x27;s apparently the main reason they offer why they should be protected against services like Uber.</text></item><item><author>rubatuga</author><text>This is horrible for customers, the worst part is when drivers don&#x27;t want to pick you up.</text></item><item><author>pininja</author><text>I work at Uber outside of the rides&#x2F;eats business and observed many feature releases to adjust the business after AB5.<p>What I saw released:<p>- Enabling drivers to see where a rider is going before accepting the trip [0] [2]<p>- Removed a main penalty for declining rides, “No More 85% Acceptance Rate Requirement For Uber Pro” [2]<p>- Drivers get set their own fare with a multiplier [1] (the article details screenshots and backend balance rules)<p>Now every dollar coming in seems to very clearly go from rider to driver.<p>- removed upfront pricing in California and once again charging riders the precise trip amount based on time and distance. [0] [2]<p>- A new driver incentive was released too tied to purchasing the service fee at a lower rate [3] (since every dollar is supposed to flow clearly from the price breakdown)<p>- “Favorite Driver Feature”, so even if they set higher fares, riders will be able to request one of their favorite drivers if they’re nearby [2]<p>These seemed primarily to try to address the flexibility evaluated by “Prong A” of AB5, however some public experts were concerned it wouldn’t address “Prong B”, which requires the “drivers’ work is outside ‘the usual course of the company’s business,’” [0]. This might have been where the judge focused their ruling.<p>Other companies didn’t make changes for drivers, “Lyft [also afaik Postmates, and DoorDash] continues to operate as if it’s business as usual.” [0]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.latimes.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;technology&#x2F;story&#x2F;2020-02-03&#x2F;uber-ab5-driver-app" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.latimes.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;technology&#x2F;story&#x2F;2020-02-03...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;therideshareguy.com&#x2F;set-your-own-rates-uber-feature&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;therideshareguy.com&#x2F;set-your-own-rates-uber-feature&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;therideshareguy.com&#x2F;uber-rolling-out-new-driver-features&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;therideshareguy.com&#x2F;uber-rolling-out-new-driver-feat...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;therideshareguy.com&#x2F;uber-drive-pass&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;therideshareguy.com&#x2F;uber-drive-pass&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CountSessine</author><text>Yes, here in Canada too. It just wasn&#x27;t enforceable and taxi drivers regularly refused fares and kicked out passengers if they weren&#x27;t lucrative enough.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;globalnews.ca&#x2F;news&#x2F;3907475&#x2F;taxi-driver-refuses-to-drive-man-home-because-new-westminster-is-too-far" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;globalnews.ca&#x2F;news&#x2F;3907475&#x2F;taxi-driver-refuses-to-dr...</a><p>Medallion-taxis are comprehensively awful, and California seems determined to regress to where they&#x27;re the only choice for riders again.</text></comment> | <story><title>Uber CEO says its service will probably shut down temporarily in California</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/12/uber-may-shut-down-temporarily-in-california.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adrianN</author><text>Here in Germany proper Taxis have to pick you up (as far as I know, I almost never need one). That&#x27;s apparently the main reason they offer why they should be protected against services like Uber.</text></item><item><author>rubatuga</author><text>This is horrible for customers, the worst part is when drivers don&#x27;t want to pick you up.</text></item><item><author>pininja</author><text>I work at Uber outside of the rides&#x2F;eats business and observed many feature releases to adjust the business after AB5.<p>What I saw released:<p>- Enabling drivers to see where a rider is going before accepting the trip [0] [2]<p>- Removed a main penalty for declining rides, “No More 85% Acceptance Rate Requirement For Uber Pro” [2]<p>- Drivers get set their own fare with a multiplier [1] (the article details screenshots and backend balance rules)<p>Now every dollar coming in seems to very clearly go from rider to driver.<p>- removed upfront pricing in California and once again charging riders the precise trip amount based on time and distance. [0] [2]<p>- A new driver incentive was released too tied to purchasing the service fee at a lower rate [3] (since every dollar is supposed to flow clearly from the price breakdown)<p>- “Favorite Driver Feature”, so even if they set higher fares, riders will be able to request one of their favorite drivers if they’re nearby [2]<p>These seemed primarily to try to address the flexibility evaluated by “Prong A” of AB5, however some public experts were concerned it wouldn’t address “Prong B”, which requires the “drivers’ work is outside ‘the usual course of the company’s business,’” [0]. This might have been where the judge focused their ruling.<p>Other companies didn’t make changes for drivers, “Lyft [also afaik Postmates, and DoorDash] continues to operate as if it’s business as usual.” [0]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.latimes.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;technology&#x2F;story&#x2F;2020-02-03&#x2F;uber-ab5-driver-app" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.latimes.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;technology&#x2F;story&#x2F;2020-02-03...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;therideshareguy.com&#x2F;set-your-own-rates-uber-feature&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;therideshareguy.com&#x2F;set-your-own-rates-uber-feature&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;therideshareguy.com&#x2F;uber-rolling-out-new-driver-features&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;therideshareguy.com&#x2F;uber-rolling-out-new-driver-feat...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;therideshareguy.com&#x2F;uber-drive-pass&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;therideshareguy.com&#x2F;uber-drive-pass&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sneak</author><text>That’s the law in most places in the US, too. Uber was founded because it wasn’t really true in practice. You couldn&#x27;t order a taxi in most places without giving your destination, and frequently they just wouldn&#x27;t show.<p>Uber was, and remains, a huge improvement over the pre-Uber status quo.</text></comment> |
23,129,567 | 23,129,703 | 1 | 2 | 23,128,321 | train | <story><title>If someone asks if you have any questions, ask a question</title><url>https://kevin.burke.dev/kevin/ask-questions-during-interviews/?hn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>burlesona</author><text>Haha, wow. No sense of humor? As a hiring manager I’ve run somewhere north of a hundred interviews, and honestly they get so boring and repetitive. I love it when people have questions because it shows you something about them which wasn’t on the script.<p>If someone’s question was “what did you have for lunch?” and they asked with a smile, I would laugh out loud and then tell them about my lunch, and probably write something like “likeable candidate, has good people skills,” in my review.</text></item><item><author>wccrawford</author><text>&gt; Even asking &quot;what did you have for lunch&quot; is better than asking nothing; the interviewer might start talking about whether the company pays for lunch, whether it&#x27;s any good.<p>No, it&#x27;s not. I&#x27;m pretty sure anyone who asked that in an interview would be bottom of the list, regardless of how I felt about their interview otherwise. It&#x27;s flippant and shows a lack of care about what&#x27;s going on.<p>Iv&#x27;e never been upset with someone for not asking questions. Interviews are tense and we <i>do</i> try to answer the most common questions before they are asked. If they have no questions, we extend and offer to email us later and we&#x27;ll answer any questions they come up with later.<p>Stupid question affect the interview. Lack of questions doesn&#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wenc</author><text>Eh. I think it&#x27;s a risky gamble.<p>It does depend on the context. If it was asked in the context of a casual conversation, say in between sessions -- it&#x27;s ok.<p>But when I, the interviewer, am asking &quot;do you have any questions for me?&quot; during an interview, I invariably mean it in a professional context. Answering with &quot;what did you have for lunch?&quot; seems to cross the professionalism line somewhat (why the hell do you need to know what I ate?), and may not be appreciated by many. I wouldn&#x27;t go as far as to outright dismiss the candidate&#x27;s viability, but for me personally, it&#x27;s comes across as weird and non-self-aware rather than funny.<p>(also, as someone who watches a lot of stand-up, I also have a high threshold for humor -- I&#x27;m kinda of a humor snob. I like light-heartedness, but contrived failed attempts at humor are grating to me because they often indicate someone&#x27;s trying too hard. There&#x27;s an inauthenticity there that rubs me the wrong way.)<p>So even if you&#x27;re right, the trouble is an interviewee might not be able to tell a priori if they got someone like you or someone like me. So it&#x27;s risky.<p>(otoh, &quot;what are some good lunch spots around here, in your opinion?&quot;, mentioned by another commenter, is almost always positive and indicates a candidate&#x27;s interest in the workplace environment)</text></comment> | <story><title>If someone asks if you have any questions, ask a question</title><url>https://kevin.burke.dev/kevin/ask-questions-during-interviews/?hn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>burlesona</author><text>Haha, wow. No sense of humor? As a hiring manager I’ve run somewhere north of a hundred interviews, and honestly they get so boring and repetitive. I love it when people have questions because it shows you something about them which wasn’t on the script.<p>If someone’s question was “what did you have for lunch?” and they asked with a smile, I would laugh out loud and then tell them about my lunch, and probably write something like “likeable candidate, has good people skills,” in my review.</text></item><item><author>wccrawford</author><text>&gt; Even asking &quot;what did you have for lunch&quot; is better than asking nothing; the interviewer might start talking about whether the company pays for lunch, whether it&#x27;s any good.<p>No, it&#x27;s not. I&#x27;m pretty sure anyone who asked that in an interview would be bottom of the list, regardless of how I felt about their interview otherwise. It&#x27;s flippant and shows a lack of care about what&#x27;s going on.<p>Iv&#x27;e never been upset with someone for not asking questions. Interviews are tense and we <i>do</i> try to answer the most common questions before they are asked. If they have no questions, we extend and offer to email us later and we&#x27;ll answer any questions they come up with later.<p>Stupid question affect the interview. Lack of questions doesn&#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>meddlepal</author><text>HackerNews has a pretty notorious lack of humor. I agree with your assessment and I&#x27;d probably write something similar.<p>On the other hand, definitely on the candidate to gauge whether the person they&#x27;re asking is a total curmudgeon or not before asking.</text></comment> |
2,212,992 | 2,212,882 | 1 | 2 | 2,212,555 | train | <story><title>Stephen Elop is the 7th biggest individual shareholder of Microsoft</title><url>http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=69745</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>powertower</author><text>So now Nokia's decision to replace Symbian has nothing to do with a careful analysis of the situation, but everything to do with keeping $3 million dollars worth of Microsoft stock on the up for 1 man?<p>I have not seen 1 insightful post since this FUD has been spreading. It's amazing how much petty hatred is out there towards Microsoft...<p>I don't even think this has anything to do with Microsoft itself, but rather with people's psychological need to create conspiracies, to see themselves as the little guy fighting the big guy, and pretend that they have knowledge / can see what other's can't.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>portman</author><text>And by the way, the ownership table that is linked to isn't even CORRECT. Not even remotely.<p>Sinofsky isn't listed, and just 2 weeks ago he reported 737,000 shares, which would make him #4 on that list. [1]<p>Ray Ozzie has just under 1 million shares, and again he's not listed. [2]<p>The way you assemble these kinds of tables is by mining the SEC filing Form 4, "Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership of Securities". But you have to include <i>every</i> Form 4 for your data to be at all accurate.<p>So already we can see that Elop is #9, and that's just by me guessing two people who seemed conspicuously absent. There could be dozens of others. And don't forget that non-executives don't have to report their shares. I would bet a few grands that there are senior developers who have been working at Microsoft for 15 or 20 years who own more than $3M in stock.<p>In fact, I just cast my first ever "flag" vote on HN. (With gusto, I might add.) This doesn't deserve the #1 slot.<p>[1] <a href="http://google.brand.edgar-online.com/displayfilinginfo.aspx?FilingID=7676817-1025-11161&#38;type=sect&#38;TabIndex=2&#38;companyid=8528&#38;ppu=%252fdefault.aspx%253fsym%253dmsft" rel="nofollow">http://google.brand.edgar-online.com/displayfilinginfo.aspx?...</a><p>[2] <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/t/12/7827.html" rel="nofollow">http://biz.yahoo.com/t/12/7827.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Stephen Elop is the 7th biggest individual shareholder of Microsoft</title><url>http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=69745</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>powertower</author><text>So now Nokia's decision to replace Symbian has nothing to do with a careful analysis of the situation, but everything to do with keeping $3 million dollars worth of Microsoft stock on the up for 1 man?<p>I have not seen 1 insightful post since this FUD has been spreading. It's amazing how much petty hatred is out there towards Microsoft...<p>I don't even think this has anything to do with Microsoft itself, but rather with people's psychological need to create conspiracies, to see themselves as the little guy fighting the big guy, and pretend that they have knowledge / can see what other's can't.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kashif</author><text>Seriously? This is a clear case of conflict of interest. The scary thing is that you might be right about<p><pre><code> 'So now Nokia's decision to replace Symbian has nothing to do with a careful analysis of the situation, but everything to do with keeping $3 million dollars worth of Microsoft stock on the up for 1 man'</code></pre></text></comment> |
30,504,416 | 30,504,493 | 1 | 2 | 30,503,337 | train | <story><title>Russia 'Likely' to Default on Debts</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/ukraine-russia-sanctions-iif-idINKBN2KX240</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>enkid</author><text>So the West should just let Russia invade Ukraine? The reason Japan attacked Pearl Harbor was because of the oil embargo, sure. But the oil embargo was in place because of their aggression against China. Should the US have kept selling oil to a country that was killing 100,000&#x27;s of people in China? If is, where is the line drawn? When should the US have stopped supporting the Japanese war(which is what they were doing by selling the oil needed to carry it out)?</text></item><item><author>hollerith</author><text>I just hope the West didn&#x27;t miscalculate Russian response to their economy&#x27;s violent contraction.<p>Some say that if the US had never imposed sanctions on Japan in the 1930s, Japan wouldn&#x27;t&#x27;ve attacked Pearl Harbor.<p>In that case, the sanctions made it hard for Japan to import petroleum with the result that the Japanese chose to secure their supply by conquest of countries with petroleum reserves (mainly Indonesia IIRC).</text></item><item><author>duxup</author><text>I wonder if Russian leadership miscalculated the scale of international response &#x2F; the international community’s will to act &#x2F; coordinate.<p>Word has it Russia has been trying to insulate themselves in case of sanctions for a while now … but things have moved very quickly and Russia seems way more isolated than before.<p>Even China seems more uncomfortable with the situation as time goes on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eezurr</author><text>Professor John Mearsheimer (a distinguished professor of political science) gave an inciteful talk regarding these events after Russia first invaded Ukraine in 2014[1]. He places the blame squarely on the US for these events. The US would react just the same if Russia started expanding its military operations on our boarders [2]. I am deeply concerned that the West keeps upping the confrontation instead of backing down. Russia is sending some of its nuclear arsenal to Belarus as we speak [3]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cuban_Missile_Crisis" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cuban_Missile_Crisis</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;duckduckgo.com&#x2F;?q=belarus+nuclear" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;duckduckgo.com&#x2F;?q=belarus+nuclear</a><p>Also, please don&#x27;t flag my comment again. Everyone who&#x27;s replied to you so far has had their comment flagged.</text></comment> | <story><title>Russia 'Likely' to Default on Debts</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/ukraine-russia-sanctions-iif-idINKBN2KX240</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>enkid</author><text>So the West should just let Russia invade Ukraine? The reason Japan attacked Pearl Harbor was because of the oil embargo, sure. But the oil embargo was in place because of their aggression against China. Should the US have kept selling oil to a country that was killing 100,000&#x27;s of people in China? If is, where is the line drawn? When should the US have stopped supporting the Japanese war(which is what they were doing by selling the oil needed to carry it out)?</text></item><item><author>hollerith</author><text>I just hope the West didn&#x27;t miscalculate Russian response to their economy&#x27;s violent contraction.<p>Some say that if the US had never imposed sanctions on Japan in the 1930s, Japan wouldn&#x27;t&#x27;ve attacked Pearl Harbor.<p>In that case, the sanctions made it hard for Japan to import petroleum with the result that the Japanese chose to secure their supply by conquest of countries with petroleum reserves (mainly Indonesia IIRC).</text></item><item><author>duxup</author><text>I wonder if Russian leadership miscalculated the scale of international response &#x2F; the international community’s will to act &#x2F; coordinate.<p>Word has it Russia has been trying to insulate themselves in case of sanctions for a while now … but things have moved very quickly and Russia seems way more isolated than before.<p>Even China seems more uncomfortable with the situation as time goes on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>x86_64Ubuntu</author><text>The West didn&#x27;t expect anyone to intervene when we attacked Iraq over false claims about WMDs.</text></comment> |
25,168,639 | 25,168,596 | 1 | 2 | 25,165,195 | train | <story><title>Transitioning from Docker to Podman</title><url>https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2020/11/19/transitioning-from-docker-to-podman/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zelly</author><text>It&#x27;s compatible with cgroups v2 unlike the standard Docker. If you&#x27;re using Fedora, you have to add a kernel parameter to Grub to use cgroups v1 instead.<p>RedHat seems to be pushing a standard ecosystem for Linux: systemd, Wayland, SELinux, GNOME, and now maybe podman. I&#x27;ve been on Linux for a while; it&#x27;s a welcome change from all the fragmentation I&#x27;m used to. Whereas others try to work around the kernel and implement their own things in parallel (see: Canonical&#x27;s AppArmor, LXC, OpenZFS), RedHat just goes with what Linux already has like SELinux&#x2F;cgroups v2&#x2F;btrfs, which I think is more likely to last and just feels better. If RedHat goes away, I&#x27;m fine since I&#x27;m ultimately only relying on Linux features. If Canonical goes away, then I&#x27;d have to switch to a different stack. That&#x27;s probably why government, enterprises, Amazon, etc. still prefer RedHat.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Shakahs</author><text>What you are noticing is the RedHat “upstream first” policy, and it’s very practical. They try to minimize RedHat specific modifications and instead contribute improvements directly to the original projects.<p>This reduces the amount of code they are responsible for maintaining, and everyone involved gets the benefit of open source collaboration.<p>They have a blog post about it here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.redhat.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;blog&#x2F;what-open-source-upstream" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.redhat.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;blog&#x2F;what-open-source-upstream</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Transitioning from Docker to Podman</title><url>https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2020/11/19/transitioning-from-docker-to-podman/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zelly</author><text>It&#x27;s compatible with cgroups v2 unlike the standard Docker. If you&#x27;re using Fedora, you have to add a kernel parameter to Grub to use cgroups v1 instead.<p>RedHat seems to be pushing a standard ecosystem for Linux: systemd, Wayland, SELinux, GNOME, and now maybe podman. I&#x27;ve been on Linux for a while; it&#x27;s a welcome change from all the fragmentation I&#x27;m used to. Whereas others try to work around the kernel and implement their own things in parallel (see: Canonical&#x27;s AppArmor, LXC, OpenZFS), RedHat just goes with what Linux already has like SELinux&#x2F;cgroups v2&#x2F;btrfs, which I think is more likely to last and just feels better. If RedHat goes away, I&#x27;m fine since I&#x27;m ultimately only relying on Linux features. If Canonical goes away, then I&#x27;d have to switch to a different stack. That&#x27;s probably why government, enterprises, Amazon, etc. still prefer RedHat.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tannhaeuser</author><text>&gt; <i>RedHat just goes with what Linux already has</i><p>More like, Redhat&#x2F;IBM defines what Linux has simply by paying most Linux devs, and of course they take advantage of it in userspace and sys management.<p>cgroups&#x2F;namespaces, systemd, gnome (and it&#x27;s integration with systemd) plus others are two-sided swords: one one hand they create new functionality, but on the other hand the price to pay is concentrating Linux know-how in one place, and greatly diminishing portability of Linux apps vs other Unix O&#x2F;Ses and even other Linuxes that don&#x27;t want to go with the program of absorbing ever more functionality into kernels and system frameworks for no real reason other than monopolization.<p>Unix was designed as a <i>simple</i> portable operating system in very short time. With 30 years of development, the situation today could also be interpreted in such a way that Linux devs just can&#x27;t stop to add code. Time will tell if Linux can be maintained if the original generation of devs step down. I&#x27;d feel more comfortable if we&#x27;ve let kernels stay minimal rather than becoming kitchen sinks. Apart from better portability, this would&#x27;ve also enabled younger devs to start from scratch rather than having to maintain daddy-o&#x27;s monstrosity.</text></comment> |
20,294,798 | 20,294,483 | 1 | 2 | 20,293,897 | train | <story><title>Cypherpunks Tapping Bitcoin via Ham Radio</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/cypherpunks-bitcoin-ham-radio/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Stratoscope</author><text>Much of the article is about Brian Goss&#x27;s setup. Goss is not using ham radio. He is receiving satellite broadcasts and re-transmitting them with a goTenna device into the goTenna mesh network.<p>goTenna is a Part 15 (unlicensed) device, like a Wi-Fi router or Bluetooth device. It does not transmit on Amateur Radio frequencies. Unless I missed something, there is no connection with ham radio here.<p>The article also mentions how Elaine Ou sent a Lightning payment over the 40 meter amateur radio band. This may have been a violation of the Part 97 Amateur Radio regulations, as noted by other commenters.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cypherpunks Tapping Bitcoin via Ham Radio</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/cypherpunks-bitcoin-ham-radio/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ihuman</author><text>I don&#x27;t think this is allowed under USA Amateur radio rules.<p>&gt; §97.113 Prohibited transmissions.<p>&gt; (b) An amateur station shall not engage in any form of broadcasting, <i>nor may an amateur station transmit one-way communications except as specifically provided in these rules</i>; nor shall an amateur station engage in any activity related to program production or news gathering for broadcasting purposes, except that communications directly related to the immediate safety of human life or the protection of property may be provided by amateur stations to broadcasters for dissemination to the public where no other means of communication is reasonably available before or at the time of the event.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ecfr.gov&#x2F;cgi-bin&#x2F;text-idx?SID=3fe986fb082211e7284fe51ba0367f0a&amp;node=47:5.0.1.1.6&amp;rgn=div5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ecfr.gov&#x2F;cgi-bin&#x2F;text-idx?SID=3fe986fb082211e728...</a></text></comment> |
10,764,493 | 10,764,334 | 1 | 3 | 10,763,566 | train | <story><title>Fairphone 2: world's first modular phone goes on sale</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-34982724</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rsync</author><text>I&#x27;ve been browsing their (extremely heavy, intensive) website trying to figure out &quot;what are the modules&quot; ... and all I can see is that there is a removable battery and that I could replace&#x2F;repair parts like camera and speaker and so on.<p>But it looks to me that all of the actual functions of the phone are integrated into one big SoC.<p>That misses the entire point of a modular computing device - phone or otherwise.<p>I want a wireless comms module (which contains not just the wifi&#x2F;bt&#x2F;cellular antennas, but the chipset itself) that I can remove or <i>hard</i> disable with a switch.<p>I want an inputs module that contains <i>not just</i> the mic and speaker, but their enabling circuitry so I can remove it or <i>hard</i> disable it with a switch.<p>I want a GPS module ... a USB ports module ... a camera module.<p>That&#x27;s what a modular smartphone is all about. There&#x27;s nothing modular about a big monster (closed, telco-owned, user-hostile) SoC that contains all of the actual functions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Brakenshire</author><text>&gt; That misses the entire point of a modular computing device<p>The point with Fairphone is repairability - their purpose is to lower impact on the environment, and improve the social outcome of the trade along the supply chain. It&#x27;s really the same sort of modularity for repair as the old Thinkpads. It&#x27;s not supposed to be something like Project Ara.<p>This is why, I saw the other week, Fairphone 2 had been given a 10&#x2F;10 score by iFixit:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ifixit.com&#x2F;Teardown&#x2F;Fairphone+2+Teardown&#x2F;52523" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ifixit.com&#x2F;Teardown&#x2F;Fairphone+2+Teardown&#x2F;52523</a><p>And you can see on that page, you can break the phone down into:<p>* Case<p>* Screen<p>* Battery<p>* Main antenna<p>* Headphone jack, earpiece speaker, and front-facing camera module<p>* Rear-facing camera module<p>* Microphone module<p>* Main circuitboard, with extra USB device interface for future extensions.<p>It may be that calling it the first modular smartphone is taking it too far, it depends really on what you mean by the word. Although I doubt there had been a phone like this before, designed to be taken apart and reconstructed. These days most phones don&#x27;t even have a removable battery.<p>Edit: FWIW, I think this also has benefits for software. Given the difficulties of phone hardware, if you can keep the phone going for longer, it makes a more stable base for ROM development. They also make it easy to root the device (and I think that will not void the warranty), and provide the code and instructions to build and flash their AOSP-derived OS in its entirety. They still have binary blobs unfortunately (you can read their various struggles with hardware supplier around this on their blog), but it&#x27;s all a step in the right direction.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.fairphone.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;fp-osos&#x2F;dev&#x2F;fairphone-os-build-instructions.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.fairphone.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;fp-osos&#x2F;dev&#x2F;fairphone-os-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Fairphone 2: world's first modular phone goes on sale</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-34982724</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rsync</author><text>I&#x27;ve been browsing their (extremely heavy, intensive) website trying to figure out &quot;what are the modules&quot; ... and all I can see is that there is a removable battery and that I could replace&#x2F;repair parts like camera and speaker and so on.<p>But it looks to me that all of the actual functions of the phone are integrated into one big SoC.<p>That misses the entire point of a modular computing device - phone or otherwise.<p>I want a wireless comms module (which contains not just the wifi&#x2F;bt&#x2F;cellular antennas, but the chipset itself) that I can remove or <i>hard</i> disable with a switch.<p>I want an inputs module that contains <i>not just</i> the mic and speaker, but their enabling circuitry so I can remove it or <i>hard</i> disable it with a switch.<p>I want a GPS module ... a USB ports module ... a camera module.<p>That&#x27;s what a modular smartphone is all about. There&#x27;s nothing modular about a big monster (closed, telco-owned, user-hostile) SoC that contains all of the actual functions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nickpsecurity</author><text>&quot;That misses the entire point of a modular computing device - phone or otherwise.&quot;<p>No it doesn&#x27;t. One major use of a more modular device is easier repairs. Many devices are difficult to repair to increase support or replacement revenue. A device whose modules are easy to replace is a differentiator and benefit as it let&#x27;s us just use Google. :)<p>Of course, the modularity needs to focus on the devices that will break the most often. In mobile, I&#x27;d say it&#x27;s screens, buttons, speakers, mic&#x27;s, connectors, and maybe batteries.</text></comment> |
38,958,573 | 38,958,505 | 1 | 2 | 38,954,730 | train | <story><title>Microsoft overtakes Apple as most valuable company</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-overtakes-apple-worlds-most-valuable-company-2024-01-11/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scottyah</author><text>The main things I see lately are: Apple is creating VR headsets and new chip technology, Microsoft is buying up AI companies and injecting ads&#x2F;spyware into their operating systems. Also Microsoft is getting big into cloud.<p>Interesting to see what Wall Street rewards.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paxys</author><text>Microsoft is one of the most diversified companies in existence. Pretty much every business, every government and most consumers around the world are directly or indirectly paying them money for <i>something</i>, whether software, devices, consulting, cloud, data. On the other hand Apple&#x27;s success for the last 15 years has relied on a single device. Now that the device is running into some issues (dropping sales in China, general stall in innovation, regulatory hurdles) their stock price is reacting accordingly.<p>Of course investors aren&#x27;t rewarding them for an upcoming VR headset which is yet to be proven. Why would they?</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft overtakes Apple as most valuable company</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-overtakes-apple-worlds-most-valuable-company-2024-01-11/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scottyah</author><text>The main things I see lately are: Apple is creating VR headsets and new chip technology, Microsoft is buying up AI companies and injecting ads&#x2F;spyware into their operating systems. Also Microsoft is getting big into cloud.<p>Interesting to see what Wall Street rewards.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bmitc</author><text>Microsoft is <i>much</i> more diversified than that. They have entire consulting services and a world class research arm and many other things that Apple has no analog of.</text></comment> |
19,920,608 | 19,919,584 | 1 | 2 | 19,905,865 | train | <story><title>Mac: Keyboard Shortcuts Killed by Bug</title><url>https://eclecticlight.co/2019/03/03/last-week-on-my-mac-keyboard-shortcuts-killed-by-bug/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jacobsenscott</author><text>I doubt it is developer apathy. It smells like a management issue. iOS is where the money is. I don&#x27;t know anyone at apple, but here&#x27;s how I imagine it is there:<p>Every OSX engineer probably has more bugs on their plate than can be fixed in one career, in addition to feature development tasks. The OSX team is severely understaffed both because it is not a priority at Apple, and because it is getting harder and harder to find engineers that are able to&#x2F;willing to work on this kind of code - a Byzantine labyrinth of C flavors that&#x27;s been accreting lines for decades.<p>The OSX team is in a desperate fight for recognition and status against the iOS team. They believe (and are probably right) that the only way to gain executive mind share there is to build out new visible features, no matter how useless. Witness dark theme, stacks, dynamic desktop, siri on the desktop, a steady stream of useless iPhone integrations, etc. All the troops are ordered to march relentlessly toward feature development. Stability and bug fixes be damned.<p>It bet it takes at least three weeks of focused effort and red tape macheteing to fix this bug and it is way down on someone&#x27;s list. Even if you fix it the change won&#x27;t make the next OSX key note at the annual IOScon or whatever it is called, so it won&#x27;t help your career one iota.<p>Again - this is just how I imagine it is there. I don&#x27;t really know.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mac: Keyboard Shortcuts Killed by Bug</title><url>https://eclecticlight.co/2019/03/03/last-week-on-my-mac-keyboard-shortcuts-killed-by-bug/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>freditup</author><text>It&#x27;s a bug for sure, but conclusions like this are over the top for a single small bug:<p>&gt; This isn’t an Apple which has any concern over the quality of its products, or for its users. It’s just another leviathan corporation which has stopped caring or taking pride. One small bug reveals a deep and pervasive problem.<p>I&#x27;d rather see a more measured approach to drawing conclusions from a single anecdote.</text></comment> |
36,462,373 | 36,448,500 | 1 | 2 | 36,448,466 | train | <story><title>Culture eats policy</title><url>https://www.niskanencenter.org/culture-eats-policy/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bruce511</author><text>I&#x27;m reminded of the adage that to really get things done, you need a small qualified team, and everyone else to get out of their way. (See the original Appke Mac team as an example.)<p>Big projects are hard. They&#x27;re expensive. With large budgets comes lots of oversight, endless second guessing, and a zillion rules, perfected over years, to ensure money is not wasted or stolen.<p>I once pitched an off-the-shelf program to a corporate, which would have cost 10k to roll out company wide. But the procurement process demanded a proper evaluation first, which eould cost about 5 times that. Better that than letting someone later claim that 10k was wasted.<p>Large business wastes just as much money as govt, but when a business makes a mistake they just stop talking about it. In govt it ends up on CSPAN. When it&#x27;s not your money, it&#x27;s easy to spend. Reputation (and blame doging) is far more valuable than cash.<p>Which brings us back to well resourced, small teams, of competent people.</text></comment> | <story><title>Culture eats policy</title><url>https://www.niskanencenter.org/culture-eats-policy/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Symmetry</author><text>A quote:<p>&gt;No one wants to be in the video clip as a stone-faced bureaucrat with no good answers, being yelled at by a righteous—or self-righteous—politician fighting the good fight on behalf of the aggrieved public. In front of the cameras, you can’t say things like “it doesn’t work because we were forced to use an ESB.” You would look like you were trying to throw someone else under the bus, and the legislators wouldn’t understand what you were talking about anyway. Your job is simply to endure the hearing, produce as few viral sound bites as possible, and not incriminate others.<p>&gt;As painful and sometimes humiliating as these hearings are, if you’re a career civil servant, it is the second system of accountability that matters more to you. The legislature can’t fire or officially reprimand you, no matter how bad a job they think you did (although they can put political pressure on the administration to do so). They can’t make you ineligible for promotions and raises. On the other hand, violations of policy, process, and procedure—real or perceived—can do all of that, even if there is no hearing.</text></comment> |
10,893,446 | 10,893,146 | 1 | 3 | 10,880,314 | train | <story><title>Elm in the Real World</title><url>http://futurice.com/blog/elm-in-the-real-world</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kasbah</author><text>I really like Elm and have become an intermediate user of it (as well as Haskell). I felt like I really understood what Elm signals are about and made some optimisations to Helm [0] based on that.<p>I pushed to use it for a contract for an open source application [1]. Ultimately that wasn&#x27;t a success due to various factors but it&#x27;s interesting to note that the client dropped Elm after I left and hired people to re-write everything in JS.<p>In retrospect Elm really wasn&#x27;t the right choice for that project because it wasn&#x27;t mature enough (and maybe I hadn&#x27;t been using it for long enough either). The lack of any kind continuation monad for managing effects at that point (later added to the language as Tasks) and the cumbersome interop with JS (still an issue) were real sticking points. It&#x27;s just frustrating when you have a problem that can be solved trivially with a state-mutating for loop and you have no easy mechanism to do it. The boilerplate required to use Chrome&#x27;s messaging within the app was really painful.<p>I tried to use Elm again for a personal project, a kind of gallery website with a JS search function [2]. After starting an initial prototype in Elm I switched to using React (which I had never used before) and found I was much more productive (even though the code is messier). Having a much bigger repository of re-usable modules and being able to take short cuts is really valuable at this stage of development (and the server-side compilation ability is really cool).<p>These experiences have made me wonder about the real-world place for Elm and how long it would take for it to rival something like React. I definitely think there is a lot of value in learning Elm to help you think about state in your application in a more higher level way but I would really hesitate in advocating to use it for real-world project at this stage (it does depend on the project of course).<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;switchface&#x2F;helm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;switchface&#x2F;helm</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kasbah&#x2F;mooltipass.hid-app" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kasbah&#x2F;mooltipass.hid-app</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;kitnic.it&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;kitnic.it&#x2F;</a> | <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;monostable&#x2F;kitnic" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;monostable&#x2F;kitnic</a> (work in progress)</text></comment> | <story><title>Elm in the Real World</title><url>http://futurice.com/blog/elm-in-the-real-world</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fauria</author><text>For a moment I thought the article would be about the email client: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.instinct.org&#x2F;elm&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.instinct.org&#x2F;elm&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
9,777,860 | 9,777,981 | 1 | 3 | 9,776,263 | train | <story><title>The Unix Philosophy</title><url>http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch01s06.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fauigerzigerk</author><text>I keep wondering about what seems to be the most important component of Unix philosophy: write many small programs that do one thing well and interface using text streams!<p>Yes, modularity is important. However, in some cases, this philosophy has resulted in the &quot;tangled mess held together by duct tape&quot; kind of systems architecture that no one dares to touch for fear of breaking things.<p>I think Unix philosophy is struggling with a fundamental dilemma:<p>On one hand, creating systems from programs written by different people requires stronger formal guarantees in order to make interfaces more reliable, stronger guarantees than interfaces within one large program written by one person or a small team would require.<p>On the other hand, creating systems from programms written by different people requires more flexibile interfaces that can deal with versioning, backward and forward compatibility, etc, something that is extremely difficult to do across programming languages without heaping on massive complexity (CORBA, WS-deathstar, ...)<p>I think HTTP has shown that it can be done. But HTTP is also quite heavy weight. It doesn&#x27;t exactly favor very small programs. Handling HTTP error codes is not something you&#x27;d want to do on every other function call.<p>In any event, I think Unix philosophy is a good place to start but needs a refresh in light of a couple of decades worth of experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ajross</author><text>&gt; in some cases, this philosophy has resulted in the &quot;tangled mess held together by duct tape&quot; kind of systems architecture that no one dares to touch for fear of breaking things.<p>Pretty much, just as Booch&#x27;s philosophy has given us tangled messes of class hierarchies with cross references pointed every which way. And just as The Gang of Four gave us AbstractedTangleMessFactorySingleton.<p>The distinction with the Unix-style pipe mess is that it exists and works an order of magnitude faster than other examples of bad code.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Unix Philosophy</title><url>http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch01s06.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fauigerzigerk</author><text>I keep wondering about what seems to be the most important component of Unix philosophy: write many small programs that do one thing well and interface using text streams!<p>Yes, modularity is important. However, in some cases, this philosophy has resulted in the &quot;tangled mess held together by duct tape&quot; kind of systems architecture that no one dares to touch for fear of breaking things.<p>I think Unix philosophy is struggling with a fundamental dilemma:<p>On one hand, creating systems from programs written by different people requires stronger formal guarantees in order to make interfaces more reliable, stronger guarantees than interfaces within one large program written by one person or a small team would require.<p>On the other hand, creating systems from programms written by different people requires more flexibile interfaces that can deal with versioning, backward and forward compatibility, etc, something that is extremely difficult to do across programming languages without heaping on massive complexity (CORBA, WS-deathstar, ...)<p>I think HTTP has shown that it can be done. But HTTP is also quite heavy weight. It doesn&#x27;t exactly favor very small programs. Handling HTTP error codes is not something you&#x27;d want to do on every other function call.<p>In any event, I think Unix philosophy is a good place to start but needs a refresh in light of a couple of decades worth of experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marcosdumay</author><text>For a while, Linux mostly had the philosophy that your software should come with a text interface, optionally a GUI, and a C library. That library part is for solving the messes created by tangled text interfaces.<p>But nowadays lots of things only come for the GUI.</text></comment> |
22,230,613 | 22,229,724 | 1 | 2 | 22,223,909 | train | <story><title>Null Values in SQL Queries</title><url>https://mitchum.blog/null-values-in-sql-queries/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SigmundA</author><text>No I am tired of this WHERE (a = b) or (a IS NULL AND b IS NULL)<p>Null should equal null like in every other programming language even SQL group by do null equals null which is even more inconsistent.</text></item><item><author>juped</author><text>&gt;For example, Oracle database won’t allow you to have an empty string. Anytime Oracle database sees an empty string, it automatically converts the empty string into a NULL value.<p>Damn. This is how you do enterprise.<p>I might be the only person who likes SQL nulls. If you learn how they work up front, they&#x27;re useful and not really that confusing. But if I ran into weird behaviors like this, I might hate them too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jeltz</author><text>It is quite wordy but the SQL solution for this is &quot;WHERE a IS NOT DISTINCT FROM b&quot;.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;modern-sql.com&#x2F;feature&#x2F;is-distinct-from" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;modern-sql.com&#x2F;feature&#x2F;is-distinct-from</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Null Values in SQL Queries</title><url>https://mitchum.blog/null-values-in-sql-queries/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SigmundA</author><text>No I am tired of this WHERE (a = b) or (a IS NULL AND b IS NULL)<p>Null should equal null like in every other programming language even SQL group by do null equals null which is even more inconsistent.</text></item><item><author>juped</author><text>&gt;For example, Oracle database won’t allow you to have an empty string. Anytime Oracle database sees an empty string, it automatically converts the empty string into a NULL value.<p>Damn. This is how you do enterprise.<p>I might be the only person who likes SQL nulls. If you learn how they work up front, they&#x27;re useful and not really that confusing. But if I ran into weird behaviors like this, I might hate them too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>progval</author><text>&gt; Null should equal null like in every other programming language<p>Think of SQL&#x27;s NULL like it&#x27;s a NaN.</text></comment> |
39,655,925 | 39,655,944 | 1 | 3 | 39,655,783 | train | <story><title>Both pilots of an A320 fell asleep in the cockpit for 28 minutes</title><url>https://airlive.net/reports/2024/03/09/report-both-pilots-of-an-a320-fall-asleep-in-the-cockpit-for-28-minutes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bombcar</author><text>First question - how do we tie this to Boeing? (A joke, of course)<p>Second, interesting to note planes don’t have deadman switches.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>HPsquared</author><text>Unlike trains, there isn&#x27;t one action that is basically always safe (stop the train). A dead man switch activating at the wrong time, could itself cause an accident.</text></comment> | <story><title>Both pilots of an A320 fell asleep in the cockpit for 28 minutes</title><url>https://airlive.net/reports/2024/03/09/report-both-pilots-of-an-a320-fall-asleep-in-the-cockpit-for-28-minutes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bombcar</author><text>First question - how do we tie this to Boeing? (A joke, of course)<p>Second, interesting to note planes don’t have deadman switches.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>firebaze</author><text>Easy:<p>* No wheels fell off (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.independent.co.uk&#x2F;travel&#x2F;news-and-advice&#x2F;united-airlines-plane-tire-blowout-boeing-b2509241.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.independent.co.uk&#x2F;travel&#x2F;news-and-advice&#x2F;united-...</a>)<p>* No doors departed the plane (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnn.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;02&#x2F;06&#x2F;business&#x2F;ntsb-boeing-alaska-door-plug-blowout-faa&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnn.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;02&#x2F;06&#x2F;business&#x2F;ntsb-boeing-alaska-d...</a>)<p>* No anti-ice ignited the engines (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flightglobal.com&#x2F;airframers&#x2F;faa-proposal-targets-787-anti-ice-system-overheating-risk&#x2F;156968.article" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flightglobal.com&#x2F;airframers&#x2F;faa-proposal-targets...</a>)<p>* No gear failure (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39644341">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39644341</a>)<p>* No unintended pitch-down (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Maneuvering_Characteristics_Augmentation_System" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Maneuvering_Characteristics_Au...</a>)<p>* Pilots well rested :)</text></comment> |
35,274,537 | 35,273,770 | 1 | 3 | 35,271,779 | train | <story><title>A CPU is a compiler</title><url>https://outerproduct.net/boring/2023-03-22_cpu-compiler-gc-ohmy.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nickcw</author><text>Chip designers have noticed this similarity in the past have and attempted to push some of the work done by the CPU back into the compiler. Itanium and the Mill CPU both work(ed) like this I believe.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>terafo</author><text>Mill CPU never existed in silicon, so there are questions to that. But IIRC Ivan said that they didn&#x27;t do anything that compilers didn&#x27;t do already for DPSs. He specifically mentioned that they don&#x27;t want to be like Itanic.</text></comment> | <story><title>A CPU is a compiler</title><url>https://outerproduct.net/boring/2023-03-22_cpu-compiler-gc-ohmy.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nickcw</author><text>Chip designers have noticed this similarity in the past have and attempted to push some of the work done by the CPU back into the compiler. Itanium and the Mill CPU both work(ed) like this I believe.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MayeulC</author><text>You can argue that it&#x27;s the RISC approach, to some extent.</text></comment> |
1,410,319 | 1,410,297 | 1 | 3 | 1,410,070 | train | <story><title>Liquid particles in HTML5</title><url>http://spielzeugz.de/html5/liquid-particles.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>thehodge</author><text>Am I missing something or is this just Liquid particles in HTML + JS. The HTML5 tag seems to be getting knocked about quite a bit really... someone said HTML5 is the new AJAX and I am starting to agree</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ashleyw</author><text>It's using Canvas, so yes it's HTML5. And even though it's using Javascript, I've always considered that to be the tool you use to communicate with the HTML API. The same goes for CSS to some extent, too.<p>Anyway, the average joe needs a buzzword to sum up all the new browser advancements. "HTML5" isn't that bad, at least it makes sense.<p>Unless you prefer 'Web 3.0'? :)</text></comment> | <story><title>Liquid particles in HTML5</title><url>http://spielzeugz.de/html5/liquid-particles.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>thehodge</author><text>Am I missing something or is this just Liquid particles in HTML + JS. The HTML5 tag seems to be getting knocked about quite a bit really... someone said HTML5 is the new AJAX and I am starting to agree</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>al_james</author><text>I think we need to accept that the 'HTML5' name will be mis-used to mean 'HTML5 + CSS3 + JS'. It certainly is easier that naming all 3 component technologies and IMO its acceptable as those browsers that support HTML5 typically support some degree of CSS3 as well (and of course JS).</text></comment> |
6,203,257 | 6,202,472 | 1 | 2 | 6,201,586 | train | <story><title>Hyperloop</title><url>http://www.spacex.com/hyperloop</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Anechoic</author><text><i>I don&#x27;t believe that an experimental tube is going to be somehow magically cheaper and easier to route and build than train tracks.</i><p><i>Do you really think the special interests that are making HSR so difficult and expensive would say, &quot;Oh, do whatever you like with your tube.&quot;?</i><p>These are extremely important issues that advocates seem to be glossing over. Putting the guideway on pylons doesn&#x27;t magically eliminate land issues, you will still have to deal with visual impacts, along with any number of anticipated and unanticipated problems.<p>Musk should do what the Germans did with the TR0x series of maglev vehicles, build a 10-20 mile test section someplace and demonstrate that is analysis is sound.<p><i>(perhaps more in the future--why wouldn&#x27;t California design with this goal [350 km&#x2F;h] in mind?)</i><p>There are a variety of reasons, but one important reason I have to deal with is that the speed of shear waves through soil is only on the order of a couple of hundred miles per hour. When a train exceeds the shear wave speed, ground-borne vibration waves &quot;build up&quot; in a manner similar to the shock wave created in air when a plane exceeds the speed of sound, causing a ground-borne vibration equivalent of a &quot;sonic boom&quot; that can cause problems for wayside structures. I believe the French have started to experience this with some of their higher-speed TGV experiments and we don&#x27;t have a good way to handle this yet.</text></item><item><author>goodcanadian</author><text>I am intrigued, but not overwhelmed. Many of his reasons why his hyperloop is superior to high speed rail are not specific to the hyperloop. For example, you can put railway tracks up on pylons, too, with very little impact on the ground. It is common to do this in urban areas, but it is rarely done in rural areas because it is flat out cheaper to put it on the ground. I don&#x27;t believe that an experimental tube is going to be somehow magically cheaper and easier to route and build than train tracks.<p>Now, I am not trying to defend California&#x27;s HSR, specifically. I agree with Musk that it appears to be very poorly done. However, the answer, to my mind, is to do it properly rather than propose a wild experiment with hand-wavy arguments as to why it would be politically easier to do. Do you really think the special interests that are making HSR so difficult and expensive would say, &quot;Oh, do whatever you like with your tube.&quot;?<p>Now, in an attempt to end on a positive note, I do like his proposal as a possible next step beyond HSR. Rail can go up to 350km&#x2F;h currently (perhaps more in the future--why wouldn&#x27;t California design with this goal in mind?), but Musk&#x27;s hyperloop is proposed up to ~1000km&#x2F;hr. It is definitely an idea worth exploring, but I think it falls far short as a serious alternative to the current high speed rail plans.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yk</author><text>&gt; one important reason I have to deal with is that the speed of shear waves through soil is only on the order of a couple of hundred miles per hour.<p>Perhaps a stupid question, but the shock wave forms because the trains is moving continuously over the ground? So if you put the entire thing on stilts, there would be one wave formed at t0, x0 when the train reaches pylon 0 and the next wave would be at t1, x1 etc. So the interference pattern for the waves would look vastly different. ( This holds of course only for point like trains... )</text></comment> | <story><title>Hyperloop</title><url>http://www.spacex.com/hyperloop</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Anechoic</author><text><i>I don&#x27;t believe that an experimental tube is going to be somehow magically cheaper and easier to route and build than train tracks.</i><p><i>Do you really think the special interests that are making HSR so difficult and expensive would say, &quot;Oh, do whatever you like with your tube.&quot;?</i><p>These are extremely important issues that advocates seem to be glossing over. Putting the guideway on pylons doesn&#x27;t magically eliminate land issues, you will still have to deal with visual impacts, along with any number of anticipated and unanticipated problems.<p>Musk should do what the Germans did with the TR0x series of maglev vehicles, build a 10-20 mile test section someplace and demonstrate that is analysis is sound.<p><i>(perhaps more in the future--why wouldn&#x27;t California design with this goal [350 km&#x2F;h] in mind?)</i><p>There are a variety of reasons, but one important reason I have to deal with is that the speed of shear waves through soil is only on the order of a couple of hundred miles per hour. When a train exceeds the shear wave speed, ground-borne vibration waves &quot;build up&quot; in a manner similar to the shock wave created in air when a plane exceeds the speed of sound, causing a ground-borne vibration equivalent of a &quot;sonic boom&quot; that can cause problems for wayside structures. I believe the French have started to experience this with some of their higher-speed TGV experiments and we don&#x27;t have a good way to handle this yet.</text></item><item><author>goodcanadian</author><text>I am intrigued, but not overwhelmed. Many of his reasons why his hyperloop is superior to high speed rail are not specific to the hyperloop. For example, you can put railway tracks up on pylons, too, with very little impact on the ground. It is common to do this in urban areas, but it is rarely done in rural areas because it is flat out cheaper to put it on the ground. I don&#x27;t believe that an experimental tube is going to be somehow magically cheaper and easier to route and build than train tracks.<p>Now, I am not trying to defend California&#x27;s HSR, specifically. I agree with Musk that it appears to be very poorly done. However, the answer, to my mind, is to do it properly rather than propose a wild experiment with hand-wavy arguments as to why it would be politically easier to do. Do you really think the special interests that are making HSR so difficult and expensive would say, &quot;Oh, do whatever you like with your tube.&quot;?<p>Now, in an attempt to end on a positive note, I do like his proposal as a possible next step beyond HSR. Rail can go up to 350km&#x2F;h currently (perhaps more in the future--why wouldn&#x27;t California design with this goal in mind?), but Musk&#x27;s hyperloop is proposed up to ~1000km&#x2F;hr. It is definitely an idea worth exploring, but I think it falls far short as a serious alternative to the current high speed rail plans.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>digikata</author><text>&gt; When a train exceeds the shear wave speed, ground-borne vibration waves &quot;build up&quot; in a manner similar to the shock wave created in air when a plane exceeds the speed of sound...<p>Putting the railway or tubes on pylons would give you an opportunity to dampen or otherwise transform those vibrations wouldn&#x27;t they?</text></comment> |
6,087,893 | 6,086,774 | 1 | 3 | 6,085,768 | train | <story><title>Faster Than the Speed of Light?</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/23/science/faster-than-the-speed-of-light.html?hp</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lisper</author><text>The right way to think of this: the speed of light is not a speed limit, it&#x27;s a speed <i>reference</i>. Everything is always moving at the speed of light through spacetime. When you &quot;move&quot; through space, you&#x27;re not changing the magnitude of your velocity vector, only its direction. So the more you move through space, the less you move through time.<p>If you could move through space at the speed of light your velocity through time would be zero and you would appear (to yourself) to be moving infinitely fast, or equivalently, to be everywhere at once, or (again equivalently) that the universe had no spatial extent in your direction of travel due to an infinitely large Lorenz contraction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>calhoun137</author><text>This explanation is wrong, and is not what the article is talking about at all. This article is about creating a warp bubble using negative energy, which changes the distance between two points. You can think about it sort of like creating a kink in a piece of metal with a piece of dust inside of it, the kink then propagates through the metal by distorting the geometry of the larger object in such a way that the distance traveled by the piece of dust is less than the original distance between the start and end point of the kink. The reason this works has nothing to do with special relativity, it comes from the fact that if you plug negative energy into the equations of general relativity, you get warp bubble solutions which travels between two points faster than light could travel between the two points if there was no warp bubble.<p>A few years ago I actually read through most of the original paper[1], and worked out a lot of the equations.<p>Although I don&#x27;t see it mentioned in the article, and I&#x27;m speculating here, the reason the approach described in the article might work out for photons is that negative energy has been discovered at the quantum scale in something called the Casimir effect[2]. The Casimir effect happens when you have two conducting plates which are placed very very very close to each other, then in the space between the plates, something which behaves exactly like negative energy exists[3], and it causes an attractive force to be exerted between the two plates.<p>A natural thing to try would be to harness this type of negative energy to create a tiny warp bubble, and try somehow to stick a quantum particle like a photon in it.<p>[1] <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/grqc/0009013" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;grqc&#x2F;0009013</a><p>[2] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casimir_effect" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Casimir_effect</a><p>[3] <a href="http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/47922/can-negative-energy-be-created-by-the-casimir-effect" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;physics.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;47922&#x2F;can-negativ...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Faster Than the Speed of Light?</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/23/science/faster-than-the-speed-of-light.html?hp</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lisper</author><text>The right way to think of this: the speed of light is not a speed limit, it&#x27;s a speed <i>reference</i>. Everything is always moving at the speed of light through spacetime. When you &quot;move&quot; through space, you&#x27;re not changing the magnitude of your velocity vector, only its direction. So the more you move through space, the less you move through time.<p>If you could move through space at the speed of light your velocity through time would be zero and you would appear (to yourself) to be moving infinitely fast, or equivalently, to be everywhere at once, or (again equivalently) that the universe had no spatial extent in your direction of travel due to an infinitely large Lorenz contraction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TomGullen</author><text>I really really want to understand this, but I can&#x27;t get past your third sentence. No fault of your own, just me. But if you have anything I can read that explains it better I would be grateful!</text></comment> |
19,590,791 | 19,590,788 | 1 | 3 | 19,590,180 | train | <story><title>Rise of Candida auris embodies a serious and growing public health threat</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/health/drug-resistant-candida-auris.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xoa</author><text>This seems like it ties into an article from The Atlantic last year [1] on the under appreciated threat of increasing antifungal resistance. In particular, there are lots of antifungal agents out there that are fit for use on plants, but only a very small number triazole agents that are safe for humans. It should be completely illegal worldwide to use triazoles in anything except prescription treatments. This isn&#x27;t even like antibiotics where there is necessarily overlap between mammalian usage in agriculture vs humans, there are non-triazole non-human safe agents that won&#x27;t hurt plants one bit.<p>An important takeaway from that article was that it&#x27;s not too late: agricultural azole usage is actually a fairly recent thing in much of the world and hasn&#x27;t been in the US for example long. Quoting:<p>&gt;<i>&quot;Until recently, the United States was exempt from concerns about azole-resistant Aspergillus. Azole use here has historically been low, a small percentage of what happens in Europe—though the numbers that record it, kept by the U.S. Geological Survey, may be incorrect because submitting them is voluntary. Nevertheless, tebuconazole use in the United States rose five times over from 1995 to 2015; the crops that accounted for the most use were wheat and corn. Meanwhile, a Centers for Disease Control (CDC) poll of state health laboratories found no cases of resistance as recently as 2014. But last month, the CDC disclosed that 10 patients treated in the United States have been diagnosed with triazole-resistant Aspergillus bearing the mutations associated with agriculture. In a report in its weekly bulletin, the agency analyzed the records of seven of them. Four of them had never received azoles before they were diagnosed with the resistant strain. Three of the patients died.&quot;</i><p>It&#x27;s worth trying to stamp down on it legally ASAP. But it needs more public attention and political pressure, which makes this report that health authorities have been covering up the seriousness even worse.<p>----<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2018&#x2F;11&#x2F;when-tulips-kill&#x2F;574489&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2018&#x2F;11&#x2F;when-tul...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Rise of Candida auris embodies a serious and growing public health threat</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/health/drug-resistant-candida-auris.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>clord</author><text>It is so incredibly stupid on so many levels to be spraying antifungals into the environment. Not least because of the resistance problem. There are many ways that fungus interacts with plants and animals. Destabilizing the base of some critical food chain to get 10% better crop yields seems like a bad idea for us to do.</text></comment> |
23,966,460 | 23,966,140 | 1 | 3 | 23,962,961 | train | <story><title>Amazon gets priority while mail gets delayed, say US letter carriers</title><url>https://www.pressherald.com/2020/07/21/first-class-and-priority-mail-delayed-in-favor-of-amazon-parcels-according-to-portland-letter-carriers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>caseysoftware</author><text>We&#x27;re 4 months into the pandemic and their workload is only going to get worse if we have nationwide mail in ballots. If they&#x27;re going to do something, they should get on it instead of letting their members suffer.</text></item><item><author>bsanr2</author><text>This is at the direction of a Trump appointee. Career USPS workers are not happy about it and their union is exploring options, last I heard.<p>Unions: They&#x27;re Actually A Good Thing.</text></item><item><author>Spooky23</author><text>You could do all of that, or you could take note that USPS halted overtime during one of the busiest periods of business in recent history.<p>UPS is renting UHauls in my area to replenish delivery trucks in the field. Drivers are working OT as late as 9PM.<p>USPS isn’t backfilling positions or using OT hours!</text></item><item><author>nomercy400</author><text>The real issue here is the fact that the USPS is overloaded and requires extra government attention. If you don&#x27;t properly fund and support you public postal service, you don&#x27;t get on-time mail deliveries. Maybe that is the issue.<p>This has little to do with Amazon. Amazon is paying the USPS according to their contract. If the contract from 2013 is unsatisfactory, then it should be renegotiated by USPS. I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if it is a 10-year deal, and has hefty fines for late deliveries.<p>A journalist should be able to request the contract and see why USPS is now overloaded: Is it because USPS is not receiving enough funding from the government, or because the contract with Amazon is really bad for USPS. It sounds like the fact that Amazon is shipping so many parcels is a symptom, not the (systemic) cause of why parcels aren&#x27;t shipped on time.
If the USPS is to blame, then who made this deal and what were their reasons? Was it a national deal? Why is it a problem now? Why wasn&#x27;t this anticipated? And how can it be avoided in the future?<p>Aren&#x27;t contracts of the government with private parties publically accessible? I mean, you, the taxpayer, pay for the contract so you should have access to it, as well be able to check on the government&#x27;s workings. At least, that&#x27;s how we do things in europe.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cameldrv</author><text>I don&#x27;t think that mail in ballots will significantly affect the USPS. They do about half a billion mail items per day. Ballots for everyone who is registered to vote is mabye 200 million. Ballots are also small. Packages take much more time to handle by the mail carrier.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon gets priority while mail gets delayed, say US letter carriers</title><url>https://www.pressherald.com/2020/07/21/first-class-and-priority-mail-delayed-in-favor-of-amazon-parcels-according-to-portland-letter-carriers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>caseysoftware</author><text>We&#x27;re 4 months into the pandemic and their workload is only going to get worse if we have nationwide mail in ballots. If they&#x27;re going to do something, they should get on it instead of letting their members suffer.</text></item><item><author>bsanr2</author><text>This is at the direction of a Trump appointee. Career USPS workers are not happy about it and their union is exploring options, last I heard.<p>Unions: They&#x27;re Actually A Good Thing.</text></item><item><author>Spooky23</author><text>You could do all of that, or you could take note that USPS halted overtime during one of the busiest periods of business in recent history.<p>UPS is renting UHauls in my area to replenish delivery trucks in the field. Drivers are working OT as late as 9PM.<p>USPS isn’t backfilling positions or using OT hours!</text></item><item><author>nomercy400</author><text>The real issue here is the fact that the USPS is overloaded and requires extra government attention. If you don&#x27;t properly fund and support you public postal service, you don&#x27;t get on-time mail deliveries. Maybe that is the issue.<p>This has little to do with Amazon. Amazon is paying the USPS according to their contract. If the contract from 2013 is unsatisfactory, then it should be renegotiated by USPS. I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if it is a 10-year deal, and has hefty fines for late deliveries.<p>A journalist should be able to request the contract and see why USPS is now overloaded: Is it because USPS is not receiving enough funding from the government, or because the contract with Amazon is really bad for USPS. It sounds like the fact that Amazon is shipping so many parcels is a symptom, not the (systemic) cause of why parcels aren&#x27;t shipped on time.
If the USPS is to blame, then who made this deal and what were their reasons? Was it a national deal? Why is it a problem now? Why wasn&#x27;t this anticipated? And how can it be avoided in the future?<p>Aren&#x27;t contracts of the government with private parties publically accessible? I mean, you, the taxpayer, pay for the contract so you should have access to it, as well be able to check on the government&#x27;s workings. At least, that&#x27;s how we do things in europe.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jeffbee</author><text>You&#x27;d have to be pretty crazy to actually mail your mail-in ballot. What is the only way to expose every election in the country to the meddling of the federal executive branch? Interpose the USPS between the voter and local election officials! Whether by incompetence or malice they&#x27;ll find a way to fuck it up. I intend to carry my own ballot to the county election office.</text></comment> |
31,267,546 | 31,264,835 | 1 | 2 | 31,260,061 | train | <story><title>What are your most used self-hosted applications?</title><url>https://noted.lol/what-are-your-most-used-self-hosted-applications/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>colordrops</author><text>My main goal is to replace cloud services so I can be Google-free. I&#x27;ve also got LineageOS + MicroG on my phone. This is all running in docker containers on NixOS (other than OPNSense), with automated restic backups to a NAS as well as Backblaze. One of my goals is to be able to deploy all this again from scratch with minimal effort, and I think I succeeded, though haven&#x27;t had to test it yet.<p>Nextcloud - for caldav and carddav calendar, contacts, and tasks<p>Xbrowsersync - sync bookmarks across device<p>Synchthing - backup data from my phone. I use Neo Backup to take a snapshot of all apps, so the phone should theoretically be restorable from scratch.<p>Jellyfin - Spotify replacement. The Finamp app is fantastic.<p>Home Assistant - automate my media center, as well as control outdoor lights and door locks, and check if any doors or windows are open or unlocked when I&#x27;m away.<p>OPNSense on a protectli box - amazing open source gateway software that does everything.<p>AdGuard Home (on OPNSense) - DNS based ad blocking<p>Wireguard (on OPNSense) - allows me to have an always on partial tunnel VPN on my phone and laptops that allows access to home services while remote, and also allows me to use my Ad Guard DNS.<p>HAProxy + LetsEncrypt (on OPNSense) - setup to provide subdomains for each of the services at home. Only a couple are public (contacts and calendar), but the rest become available when the VPN is on.<p>Smokeping - use it to collect data to rub into Spectrums face when they go down.<p>Pintry - Pinterest clone</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>akkartik</author><text>How much time do you spend maintaining this stuff every month? Like upgrading versions, etc.? Do you subscribe to any security channels? Do you care what language it&#x27;s built in, try to keep it all on a few languages to minimize maintenance burden, etc.? I&#x27;ve been considering self-hosting, but put off thus far by the above concerns.</text></comment> | <story><title>What are your most used self-hosted applications?</title><url>https://noted.lol/what-are-your-most-used-self-hosted-applications/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>colordrops</author><text>My main goal is to replace cloud services so I can be Google-free. I&#x27;ve also got LineageOS + MicroG on my phone. This is all running in docker containers on NixOS (other than OPNSense), with automated restic backups to a NAS as well as Backblaze. One of my goals is to be able to deploy all this again from scratch with minimal effort, and I think I succeeded, though haven&#x27;t had to test it yet.<p>Nextcloud - for caldav and carddav calendar, contacts, and tasks<p>Xbrowsersync - sync bookmarks across device<p>Synchthing - backup data from my phone. I use Neo Backup to take a snapshot of all apps, so the phone should theoretically be restorable from scratch.<p>Jellyfin - Spotify replacement. The Finamp app is fantastic.<p>Home Assistant - automate my media center, as well as control outdoor lights and door locks, and check if any doors or windows are open or unlocked when I&#x27;m away.<p>OPNSense on a protectli box - amazing open source gateway software that does everything.<p>AdGuard Home (on OPNSense) - DNS based ad blocking<p>Wireguard (on OPNSense) - allows me to have an always on partial tunnel VPN on my phone and laptops that allows access to home services while remote, and also allows me to use my Ad Guard DNS.<p>HAProxy + LetsEncrypt (on OPNSense) - setup to provide subdomains for each of the services at home. Only a couple are public (contacts and calendar), but the rest become available when the VPN is on.<p>Smokeping - use it to collect data to rub into Spectrums face when they go down.<p>Pintry - Pinterest clone</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>avh02</author><text>Funny, I used smokeping to run regular speedtests on top of pings to establish the cable connection in my neighbourhood was oversubscribed (daily slowdown to a crawl during work hours in WFH mandate, order of magnitude increased ping during the day time vs e.g 3 a.m.). Changed connection&#x2F;provider and would consistently get max speeds and more consistent ping.</text></comment> |
19,299,072 | 19,299,020 | 1 | 3 | 19,296,438 | train | <story><title>Sensible Software Engineering</title><url>https://www.scriptcrafty.com/2019/02/sensible-software-engineering/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wildmanx</author><text>&gt; Bugs are correlated with lines of code and TDD forces writing more code so how can it reduce bug counts? If the test code has no bugs then just write the rest of the code in the same style<p>Nobody has pointed out the fault in this reasoning yet, so I will.<p>The linear relationship lines-of-code vs. total-bug-count is based on independence of bug introduction in different parts of the code. That is, introducing a bug in line 10000 is more-or-less independent of adding line 20000. For product code that is arguably the case, but adding test code into the mix, this basic assumption doesn&#x27;t just not hold, but it&#x27;s turned upside down.<p>Test code is not customer-visible, but only dev-visible, with the sole purpose of finding bugs. Thus, adding test code to a code base <i>decreases</i> the average probability of a bug for lines of product code. More formally, if you have N lines of product code and thus c * N bugs for some fraction c, then adding M lines of test code does <i>not</i> increase the number of customer-visible bugs to c * (N + M). Instead, it reduces that number to c&#x27; * N with c&#x27;&lt;c and the difference being caused by your test coverage. (A 100% test coverage, i.e., an exhaustive test without bugs or, equivalently, a formal verification, would bring c&#x27; to 0.) Sure, the M lines of test code may well have bugs on their own, but that only increases c&#x27; slightly while keeping it below c, and more importantly, those test bugs are not customer-visible. They only annoy developers.<p>I agree with the rest of the post though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ericathegreat</author><text>Agree. Consider the situation of data entry professionals, those people who transcribe audio recordings or enter data into databases.<p>If you have one person entering data into a computer, then the odds of them introducing an error and failing to spot it are fairly high.<p>If you have twice as many people entering twice as much data data, then the odds of an error getting introduced are roughly doubled.<p>However, if you have those two people entering <i>the same</i> data, then their mistakes cancel each other out. If person A and person B both entered the same thing, it&#x27;s extremely unlikely that it&#x27;s incorrect. If they differ though, the a problem has been identified, and can now be fixed.<p>The odds of both of those people entering the same piece of data incorrectly is tiny. Likewise, <i>accidentally</i> introducing a bug into both the production code <i>and</i> the test is pretty unlikely.<p>That said though, if those two theoretical data entry people above are given the wrong data to enter, then they the system cannot protect them. They will both correctly enter incorrect data. &quot;Garbage in, garbage out&quot;.<p>Likewise, if the requirements of a piece of software are poorly understood, then it is quite likely that both the test and the production code will implement the same &quot;bug&quot;. Writing tests won&#x27;t fix a failure to understand the problem you&#x27;re trying to solve. And they&#x27;re not supposed to.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sensible Software Engineering</title><url>https://www.scriptcrafty.com/2019/02/sensible-software-engineering/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wildmanx</author><text>&gt; Bugs are correlated with lines of code and TDD forces writing more code so how can it reduce bug counts? If the test code has no bugs then just write the rest of the code in the same style<p>Nobody has pointed out the fault in this reasoning yet, so I will.<p>The linear relationship lines-of-code vs. total-bug-count is based on independence of bug introduction in different parts of the code. That is, introducing a bug in line 10000 is more-or-less independent of adding line 20000. For product code that is arguably the case, but adding test code into the mix, this basic assumption doesn&#x27;t just not hold, but it&#x27;s turned upside down.<p>Test code is not customer-visible, but only dev-visible, with the sole purpose of finding bugs. Thus, adding test code to a code base <i>decreases</i> the average probability of a bug for lines of product code. More formally, if you have N lines of product code and thus c * N bugs for some fraction c, then adding M lines of test code does <i>not</i> increase the number of customer-visible bugs to c * (N + M). Instead, it reduces that number to c&#x27; * N with c&#x27;&lt;c and the difference being caused by your test coverage. (A 100% test coverage, i.e., an exhaustive test without bugs or, equivalently, a formal verification, would bring c&#x27; to 0.) Sure, the M lines of test code may well have bugs on their own, but that only increases c&#x27; slightly while keeping it below c, and more importantly, those test bugs are not customer-visible. They only annoy developers.<p>I agree with the rest of the post though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikekchar</author><text>Bugs in tests exist (and are just as prevalent as bugs in production code in my experience). However, writing production code introduces a kind of constraint on the system. If you run a function with certain program state, then it returns a certain result. No matter what you do, this will happen because that&#x27;s how you wrote the code.<p>A test introduces <i>the same constraint</i>. Instead of implementing the function, it runs the function. No matter what you do, the test will run certain code and get a certain result. Tests pass when the constraints introduced by the production code match the constraints introduced by the tests.<p>Because of this, if there is a software error in the production code, usually you need to have a <i>corresponding</i> error in the tests in order for the test to pass. This definitely happens from time to time, but the odds of it happening are much lower. Similarly, if you have a software error in the tests, you need to have a corresponding software error in the production code in order for the test to pass -- assuming that the test is actually exercising the code (something you can&#x27;t always assume, unfortunately).</text></comment> |
1,050,962 | 1,050,831 | 1 | 3 | 1,050,522 | train | <story><title>Avatar: The Holocaust We Will Not See</title><url>http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2010/01/11/the-holocaust-we-will-not-see/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_h4xr</author><text>I recommend getting over it. You are almost certainly the descendants murderers and conquerors.<p><a href="http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=7819&#38;IBLOCK_ID=35" rel="nofollow">http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=7819&#38;...</a><p>That's just how humans roll.<p>Western Europe had lots of problems, but countries that operate in the European tradition are better places to live. (At least, when you look at the immigration patterns between third-world and first-world countries, it's clear that first world countries export idealism, which is then processed into jaded realism and returned. Meanwhile, poor countries send their top .1% to join the Western world's top 10%; a good deal for both sides).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dschobel</author><text><i>That's just how humans roll.</i><p>Precisely. History is littered with examples of the imperialistic tendencies of man (if you want to see some grade-A imperialism, look into how the Aztecs built their empire, hint: it wasn't by having lots of babies).</text></comment> | <story><title>Avatar: The Holocaust We Will Not See</title><url>http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2010/01/11/the-holocaust-we-will-not-see/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_h4xr</author><text>I recommend getting over it. You are almost certainly the descendants murderers and conquerors.<p><a href="http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=7819&#38;IBLOCK_ID=35" rel="nofollow">http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=7819&#38;...</a><p>That's just how humans roll.<p>Western Europe had lots of problems, but countries that operate in the European tradition are better places to live. (At least, when you look at the immigration patterns between third-world and first-world countries, it's clear that first world countries export idealism, which is then processed into jaded realism and returned. Meanwhile, poor countries send their top .1% to join the Western world's top 10%; a good deal for both sides).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cynicalkane</author><text>I'd like to think modern man is a better class of humans than their murderously genocidal ancestors.<p>With so many of the comments seemingly endorsing manifest destiny on the part of "civilized" people, I'm beginning to reconsider this opinion.</text></comment> |
30,458,438 | 30,458,418 | 1 | 3 | 30,456,510 | train | <story><title>Los Angeles is spending up to $837k to house a single homeless person</title><url>https://ktla.com/news/los-angeles-is-spending-up-to-837000-to-house-a-single-homeless-person/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sfe22</author><text>So CA is too democratic in your opinion? It should slide more towards tyranny?</text></item><item><author>jvanderbot</author><text>Precisely this. In LA there are constant referendums about homelessness, in CA massive budget increases, and yet, nobody will allow a shelter or multi-family unit to be constructed in their neighborhood, lest their soaring land value peak.<p>In CA, it&#x27;s my firm belief that people have a tad too much power over the minutae of government operations. What did we even elect people for if we are going to try to solve everything with referendums and protests?</text></item><item><author>long_time_gone</author><text>More like, we&#x27;d be better off if voters didn&#x27;t demand short-term actions with negative long-term effects.</text></item><item><author>mwint</author><text>Basically, we’d be better off if the government had done nothing. Seems like that happens a lot.</text></item><item><author>legitster</author><text>In the last 50 years, cities across the country closed down over 1 million SROs (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Single_room_occupancy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Single_room_occupancy</a>) in an effort to remove slums or just neglect at increasing property value. There are now over half of a million homeless. It&#x27;s honestly impressive the number is not more.<p>For the 1.2 billion dollars they are spending, if all of the apartments were built to the spec of a roadside motel room (~350 sq ft - or more than double the average SRO), they should realistically be able to build over 10,000 units for that kind of money (that&#x27;s including California&#x27;s exorbitant cost per square foot).<p>It would be like if the government banned motorcycles, and then said &quot;okay, instead we&#x27;ll make you a nice, compact crossover&quot;, and then handed over design and construction of the crossovers to a company that builds snowplows.<p>What&#x27;s frustrating is that SROs used to be provided by the private market, largely free to taxpayers! How much better a use of government money it would have been to just improve the situation in SROs than to quietly let them shutter and hope the poverty they represented just disappeared with them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>setr</author><text>Sounds more like too much direct democracy, and needs to slide further towards representative.</text></comment> | <story><title>Los Angeles is spending up to $837k to house a single homeless person</title><url>https://ktla.com/news/los-angeles-is-spending-up-to-837000-to-house-a-single-homeless-person/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sfe22</author><text>So CA is too democratic in your opinion? It should slide more towards tyranny?</text></item><item><author>jvanderbot</author><text>Precisely this. In LA there are constant referendums about homelessness, in CA massive budget increases, and yet, nobody will allow a shelter or multi-family unit to be constructed in their neighborhood, lest their soaring land value peak.<p>In CA, it&#x27;s my firm belief that people have a tad too much power over the minutae of government operations. What did we even elect people for if we are going to try to solve everything with referendums and protests?</text></item><item><author>long_time_gone</author><text>More like, we&#x27;d be better off if voters didn&#x27;t demand short-term actions with negative long-term effects.</text></item><item><author>mwint</author><text>Basically, we’d be better off if the government had done nothing. Seems like that happens a lot.</text></item><item><author>legitster</author><text>In the last 50 years, cities across the country closed down over 1 million SROs (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Single_room_occupancy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Single_room_occupancy</a>) in an effort to remove slums or just neglect at increasing property value. There are now over half of a million homeless. It&#x27;s honestly impressive the number is not more.<p>For the 1.2 billion dollars they are spending, if all of the apartments were built to the spec of a roadside motel room (~350 sq ft - or more than double the average SRO), they should realistically be able to build over 10,000 units for that kind of money (that&#x27;s including California&#x27;s exorbitant cost per square foot).<p>It would be like if the government banned motorcycles, and then said &quot;okay, instead we&#x27;ll make you a nice, compact crossover&quot;, and then handed over design and construction of the crossovers to a company that builds snowplows.<p>What&#x27;s frustrating is that SROs used to be provided by the private market, largely free to taxpayers! How much better a use of government money it would have been to just improve the situation in SROs than to quietly let them shutter and hope the poverty they represented just disappeared with them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jvanderbot</author><text>Absolutely not. Democracy can be fair and open elections, not crowdsourced legislation.</text></comment> |
38,641,870 | 38,639,825 | 1 | 2 | 38,639,698 | train | <story><title>Deno 1.39: The Return of WebGPU</title><url>https://deno.com/blog/v1.39</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kiwicopple</author><text>This is exciting<p>&gt; <i>The WebGPU API gives developers a low level, high performance, cross architecture way to program GPU hardware from JavaScript. It is the effective successor to WebGL on the Web. The spec has been finalized and Chrome has already shipped the API. Support is underway in Firefox and Safari.</i><p>Interestingly, the Deno team previously attempted[0] this and rolled it back due to instability. Once this is stable, it means that ML&#x2F;AI workloads will be accessible to JS developers:<p>&gt; <i>These days, most neural networks are defined in Python with the computation offloaded to GPUs. We believe JavaScript, instead of Python, could act as an ideal language for expressing mathematical ideas if the proper infrastructure existed. Providing WebGPU support out-of-the-box in Deno is a step in this direction. Our goal is to run Tensorflow.js on Deno, with GPU acceleration. We expect this to be achieved in the coming weeks or months.</i><p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deno.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;v1.8#experimental-support-for-the-webgpu-api" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deno.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;v1.8#experimental-support-for-the-webg...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwawaymaths</author><text>&gt; We believe JavaScript, instead of Python, could act as an ideal language for expressing mathematical ideas if the proper infrastructure existed<p>Outside of &quot;everyone uses js&quot;, why do we believe this? What makes JS &quot;ideal&quot;.<p>I would think for machine learning one would want:<p>- generally default to non-mutating, functional representation of ideas, with convenient escape hatches<p>- treats the GPU as a concurrent (or better yet, distributed) resource<p>- can seamlessly run ML code as either immediate or an optimized graph.<p>- could swap out compute resources as asynchronous rpc, like, flex out to something more powerful if available and needed<p>Certainly most of these are possible in JS, but I would hardly call it &quot;ideal&quot; for these bullet points, not to mention other general concerns like a highly questionable dependency management ecosystem.</text></comment> | <story><title>Deno 1.39: The Return of WebGPU</title><url>https://deno.com/blog/v1.39</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kiwicopple</author><text>This is exciting<p>&gt; <i>The WebGPU API gives developers a low level, high performance, cross architecture way to program GPU hardware from JavaScript. It is the effective successor to WebGL on the Web. The spec has been finalized and Chrome has already shipped the API. Support is underway in Firefox and Safari.</i><p>Interestingly, the Deno team previously attempted[0] this and rolled it back due to instability. Once this is stable, it means that ML&#x2F;AI workloads will be accessible to JS developers:<p>&gt; <i>These days, most neural networks are defined in Python with the computation offloaded to GPUs. We believe JavaScript, instead of Python, could act as an ideal language for expressing mathematical ideas if the proper infrastructure existed. Providing WebGPU support out-of-the-box in Deno is a step in this direction. Our goal is to run Tensorflow.js on Deno, with GPU acceleration. We expect this to be achieved in the coming weeks or months.</i><p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deno.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;v1.8#experimental-support-for-the-webgpu-api" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deno.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;v1.8#experimental-support-for-the-webg...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oritsnile</author><text>Just yesterday I was looking to play around with webGPU and found the 1.8 release page. I had no idea it was removed. I hope that webGPU will gain adaptation as the best cross platform system. The incompatibility between platforms for openGL or Vulkan always made me not want to learn it.</text></comment> |
19,956,808 | 19,956,499 | 1 | 2 | 19,947,851 | train | <story><title>Nets on the outlets of drainage pipes save waterways from pollution</title><url>https://themindcircle.com/save-water-from-plastic-pollution/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>specialp</author><text>I kayak and fish in the bays of NYC. A fact not known by much of the population of the city is that almost every time it rains, the sewage treatment plants release raw sewage into the ocean. This is due to the storm drains being drained by the same system that sewage is treated from. Due to this the water is filled with trash, floating condoms, and wet wipes. So this isn&#x27;t just third world countries. It is bad enough that bacteria and nitrogen wastes get into the water when this happens. They should at least capture the trash and disgusting sewage products.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nets on the outlets of drainage pipes save waterways from pollution</title><url>https://themindcircle.com/save-water-from-plastic-pollution/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>amluto</author><text>This seems worse in almost every respect than a hydrodynamic stormwater separator. With the latter, you pop open a manhole cover and suck out the goo with a vacuum truck. With a net, you have to somehow pick it up without spilling the contents. Then you hope you can empty it without destroying it or you replace it. This sounds much harder.<p>Oh, and hydrodynamic separators claim to catch oils, too.</text></comment> |
2,368,719 | 2,368,662 | 1 | 2 | 2,368,469 | train | <story><title>Android openness withering as Google withholds Honeycomb </title><url>http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/03/android-openness-withering-as-google-withhold-honeycomb-code.ars</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mycroftiv</author><text>I don't understand all the justifications for Google's behavior being posted. I chose to purchase an Android phone because I believed that Google was committed to a truly open source mobile operating system. To me, that means that when I buy a hardware device that runs the OS, I can also download the source code the device uses, modify it, make use of my customized version, and share my changes with others. I feel that Google is trying to have their cake, and eat it too. At this point in time, I regard the Motorola Xoom and other Honeycomb devices as proprietary platforms that should be avoided by those who care about their software freedom.</text></comment> | <story><title>Android openness withering as Google withholds Honeycomb </title><url>http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/03/android-openness-withering-as-google-withhold-honeycomb-code.ars</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>silvestrov</author><text><i>...Google has made the decision to keep the Honeycomb source code under wraps because it doesn't want hardware vendors to adapt it to run on other form factors where it might not function properly.</i><p>This is completely bullshit. If code is really open, it allows everybody to use the code as they see fit, however unfit other users might think it is.<p>The Apache webserver is really open: I can modify it and use it without any restriction from the Apache Foundation just because they might think my modifications "don't function properly".</text></comment> |
7,973,869 | 7,973,819 | 1 | 3 | 7,973,634 | train | <story><title>Comcast executives appear to share cozy relationships with regulators</title><url>https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2014/jul/01/comcast-executives-share-cozy-relationships-regula/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Alex_MJ</author><text>As much as I hate Comcast and occasionally say prayers that a cement truck accidentally crashes into Tom Wheeler&#x27;s house, and I&#x27;d love to see a massive scandal here - these emails don&#x27;t seem incriminating at all.<p>A high level official got invited to a party, and declined because &quot;the rules folks over here tell me I can&#x27;t&quot;. They know each other (makes sense, they&#x27;re both working at a high level in the same industry) and they have people watching their backs to make sure they don&#x27;t do anything that can legally be considered corrupt (again, makes sense, shit&#x27;s a minefield and an ill-defined one at that. If I were in that position I would have people keeping an eye on that whether I was corrupt or pious as a lamb)<p>Am I missing something? I clicked on that link salivating for the political blood of Comcast executives and all I got was a polite grownup email version of &quot;sry bro can&#x27;t come, rules n shyt, sounds bumpin tho&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Comcast executives appear to share cozy relationships with regulators</title><url>https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2014/jul/01/comcast-executives-share-cozy-relationships-regula/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jxf</author><text>A certain level of corruption is perhaps expected in any large bureaucracy. People are, after all, only human.<p>What really galls me, however, is the circumstances. This isn&#x27;t some low-level flunky taking a bribe under the table to move things along. This is a ranking official tasked specifically with overseeing the Comcast merger work, who should have known that they&#x27;d be subjected to extra scrutiny.<p>Also, interestingly, the FOIA response appears not to have redacted the e-mail addresses of a number of very high-ranking public officials in the FTC and FCC.</text></comment> |
20,844,524 | 20,844,482 | 1 | 3 | 20,844,039 | train | <story><title>Telegram moves to protect identity of Hong Kong protesters</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-telegram-exclusive/exclusive-messaging-app-telegram-moves-to-protect-identity-of-hong-kong-protesters-idUSKCN1VK2NI</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spondyl</author><text>re: needing an ID for SIM cards, that&#x27;s interesting!<p>Here in New Zealand, I can freely purchase any prepay SIM without ID and use it straight away. Most, if not all dairies carry them too.</text></item><item><author>Mediterraneo10</author><text>&gt; The app automatically matches phone numbers with the user names in the group. Chinese authorities then only need to request the owners of the phone numbers from the local telecom service in order to learn the users’ true identities.<p>This is a flaw common to services that rely on phone numbers as IDs. In many countries, one cannot purchase a SIM card without showing ID (and the seller makes a photocopy of the ID to provide to the authorities). That means that there cannot be true anonymity. Know the phone number, know the person.<p>I am always baffled when people claim that PGP-encrypted e-mail is passé because it leaks metadata, when Signal and Telegram leak metadata too and, furthermore, metadata that can be immediately associated with a specific person in many countries.</text></item><item><author>myself248</author><text>&gt; Protesters believe Chinese security officials have exploited the function by uploading large quantities of phone numbers.<p>&gt; The app automatically matches phone numbers with the user names in the group. Chinese authorities then only need to request the owners of the phone numbers from the local telecom service in order to learn the users’ true identities.<p>&gt; Telegram has detected evidence that Chinese authorities may have uploaded numbers to identify protesters, said a person with direct knowledge of the situation.<p>Signal does&#x2F;did this too: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12590979" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12590979</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ddeck</author><text>The same is true in Hong Kong, no ID required.<p>You can even purchase cards without ID that also work in Mainland China and aren&#x27;t subject to the great firewall.</text></comment> | <story><title>Telegram moves to protect identity of Hong Kong protesters</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-telegram-exclusive/exclusive-messaging-app-telegram-moves-to-protect-identity-of-hong-kong-protesters-idUSKCN1VK2NI</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spondyl</author><text>re: needing an ID for SIM cards, that&#x27;s interesting!<p>Here in New Zealand, I can freely purchase any prepay SIM without ID and use it straight away. Most, if not all dairies carry them too.</text></item><item><author>Mediterraneo10</author><text>&gt; The app automatically matches phone numbers with the user names in the group. Chinese authorities then only need to request the owners of the phone numbers from the local telecom service in order to learn the users’ true identities.<p>This is a flaw common to services that rely on phone numbers as IDs. In many countries, one cannot purchase a SIM card without showing ID (and the seller makes a photocopy of the ID to provide to the authorities). That means that there cannot be true anonymity. Know the phone number, know the person.<p>I am always baffled when people claim that PGP-encrypted e-mail is passé because it leaks metadata, when Signal and Telegram leak metadata too and, furthermore, metadata that can be immediately associated with a specific person in many countries.</text></item><item><author>myself248</author><text>&gt; Protesters believe Chinese security officials have exploited the function by uploading large quantities of phone numbers.<p>&gt; The app automatically matches phone numbers with the user names in the group. Chinese authorities then only need to request the owners of the phone numbers from the local telecom service in order to learn the users’ true identities.<p>&gt; Telegram has detected evidence that Chinese authorities may have uploaded numbers to identify protesters, said a person with direct knowledge of the situation.<p>Signal does&#x2F;did this too: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12590979" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12590979</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>terrywang</author><text>Not the same crossing the Tasman sea. It&#x27;s mixed in Australia. One can only have 5 pre-paid mobile numbers under 1 name (activation limit). However, you can still buy SIM packs from supermarkets or convenient stores, not sure if activation requires ID, it may depend on provider.<p>NZ is obviously loose due to large number of tourists, I reckon. So easy to get SIM cards, I&#x27;ve got 2 (spark and 2 degrees). US also requires ID to get SIM last time I was in bay area (2016).</text></comment> |
2,782,284 | 2,781,582 | 1 | 2 | 2,781,021 | train | <story><title>Girls sweep at Google Science Fair</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/science/19google.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>emily37</author><text>Hmm. To me, the problem with "girl power", etc. is that, as a young female scientist, you're inundated with suggestions that girls are your "team" and boys are your rivals. If you hear enough about "girl power" growing up, you start to feel that you have to represent your gender well: that you have to beat boys on tests (though it doesn't matter if you beat other girls on tests), or that knowing more than a male colleague is something to be proud of. "Girl power" was what I said in elementary school when the girls beat the guys at soccer or something, but when you start to use that sentiment in relation to intellectual abilities, you foster a hostile work environment and you encourage intellectual competition rather than collaboration across gender.<p>On a related note, here's a NYT blog post that I saw recently that highlights the science fair winners' gender and just goes up in flames: <a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/13/girl-power-wins-at-googles-first-science-fair/" rel="nofollow">http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/13/girl-power-wins-at-...</a>
It ends by suggesting that Google hired Marissa Mayer and Susan Wojcicki because they would help recruit more women, which made me cringe, even though I know that the author probably didn't intend to make exactly that point.</text></comment> | <story><title>Girls sweep at Google Science Fair</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/science/19google.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ricefield</author><text>I didn't read the article in is entirety, but one line popped out at me, where one of the finalists says something like "Yeah! Girl power!"<p>Am I the only one who feels like, although men may 'dominate' the hard sciences, one of the reasons (among many others which I won't discuss) why girls may succeed at stages like this is because of the encouragement from a "girl power!" (perhaps, underdog?) mentality?<p>If boys won and went with "guy power!" they would simply be accused of being sexist or even misogynist rather than fair-minded, or intrinsically motivated.</text></comment> |
33,385,971 | 33,385,541 | 1 | 2 | 33,384,391 | train | <story><title>Why does the US allow a controversial weedkiller banned across the world?</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/28/paraquat-weedkiller-epa-ban</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>epgui</author><text>I’m a biochemist, and it drives me nuts how much the public worries about glyphosate but not really any other herbicides. Glyphosate may not be perfect but I’d worry more about almost any other type of herbicide, most of which are absolutely nasty.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rb229</author><text>I do not really buy this reasoning. Glyphosate has been proven to be harmful [ source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Glyphosate" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Glyphosate</a> ]. Other things might be worse, sure, but that does not mean we can allow Glyohosate to be used without thinking about the risks.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why does the US allow a controversial weedkiller banned across the world?</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/28/paraquat-weedkiller-epa-ban</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>epgui</author><text>I’m a biochemist, and it drives me nuts how much the public worries about glyphosate but not really any other herbicides. Glyphosate may not be perfect but I’d worry more about almost any other type of herbicide, most of which are absolutely nasty.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>orwin</author><text>Yeah, we know, paraquat is 30 times more toxic than glyphosate, and have actual peer-reviewed studies with significant enough numbers to link it to an increase on Parkinson disease. I think there was a preliminary study on its effect on other neurodegenerative sickness, but i can&#x27;t find it, so i guess it was scrapped.<p>Glyphosate at most could maybe increase by 30% the risks of a quite rare cancer for farmers who use it in high dosage (so glyphosate in conservation agriculture is likely to be harmless).<p>[edit] TFA talk about paraquat anyway :P</text></comment> |
1,687,171 | 1,687,001 | 1 | 3 | 1,686,921 | train | <story><title>How two Pythonistas accidentally fell in love with Rails</title><url>http://blog.brandonbloom.name/2010/09/how-two-pythonistas-accidentally-fell.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jnoller</author><text>And based on the author's previous Django and ORM posts, I look forward to the next post in a few months when the black magic stops working and they begin to hate on Rails as a framework.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>snprbob86</author><text>I'm the author.<p>Yeah, there is a non-zero chance of that happening. However, I keep discovering more and more Rails design choices that either match or closely align with my preferences.<p>The three biggies comparing to Django are:<p>1) Powerful templates (including the convenience of "Helpers")<p>2) Non-declarative schema ORM with full migration support<p>3) Form validation and generation with Rails doesn't suck<p>Lastly, Rails feels battle tested and production ready. Everything from the Rake tasks, to the framework surface area, to the plugins available seems tuned for real applications. Python stacks I have tried often require <i>a lot</i> of hackery to handle server configurations, deployment, content builds, template helpers, ... the list goes on and on.</text></comment> | <story><title>How two Pythonistas accidentally fell in love with Rails</title><url>http://blog.brandonbloom.name/2010/09/how-two-pythonistas-accidentally-fell.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jnoller</author><text>And based on the author's previous Django and ORM posts, I look forward to the next post in a few months when the black magic stops working and they begin to hate on Rails as a framework.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mbreese</author><text><i>shh</i> They seem like they are still in the honeymoon period... let them enjoy it.</text></comment> |
40,138,204 | 40,138,255 | 1 | 2 | 40,133,976 | train | <story><title>The man who killed Google Search?</title><url>https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fuzztester</author><text>Same here with YouTube, assuming they use ML, which is likely.<p>They routinely give me brain-dead suggestions such as to watch a video I just watched today or yesterday, among other absurdities.</text></item><item><author>JohnFen</author><text>&gt; where he argued against the other search leads that Google should use less machine-learning<p>This better echoes my personal experience with the decline of Google search than TFA: it seems to be connected to the increasing use of ML in that the more of it Google put in, the worse the results I got were.</text></item><item><author>gregw134</author><text>Ex-Google search engineer here (2019-2023). I know a lot of the veteran engineers were upset when Ben Gomes got shunted off. Probably the bigger change, from what I&#x27;ve heard, was losing Amit Singhal who led Search until 2016. Amit fought against creeping complexity. There is a semi-famous internal document he wrote where he argued against the other search leads that Google should use less machine-learning, or at least contain it as much as possible, so that ranking stays debuggable and understandable by human search engineers. My impression is that since he left complexity exploded, with every team launching as many deep learning projects as they can (just like every other large tech company has).<p>The problem though, is the older systems had obvious problems, while the newer systems have hidden bugs and conceptual issues which often don&#x27;t show up in the metrics, and which compound over time as more complexity is layered on. For example: I found an off by 1 error deep in a formula from an old launch that has been reordering top results for 15% of queries since 2015. I handed it off when I left but have no idea whether anyone actually fixed it or not.<p>I wrote up all of the search bugs I was aware of in an internal document called &quot;second page navboost&quot;, so if anyone working on search at Google reads this and needs a launch go check it out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>998244353</author><text>For what it&#x27;s worth, I do not remember a time when YouTube&#x27;s suggestions or search results were good. Absurdities like that happened 10 and 15 years ago as well.<p>These days my biggest gripe is that they put unrelated ragebait or clickbait videos in search results that I very clearly did not search for - often about American politics.</text></comment> | <story><title>The man who killed Google Search?</title><url>https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fuzztester</author><text>Same here with YouTube, assuming they use ML, which is likely.<p>They routinely give me brain-dead suggestions such as to watch a video I just watched today or yesterday, among other absurdities.</text></item><item><author>JohnFen</author><text>&gt; where he argued against the other search leads that Google should use less machine-learning<p>This better echoes my personal experience with the decline of Google search than TFA: it seems to be connected to the increasing use of ML in that the more of it Google put in, the worse the results I got were.</text></item><item><author>gregw134</author><text>Ex-Google search engineer here (2019-2023). I know a lot of the veteran engineers were upset when Ben Gomes got shunted off. Probably the bigger change, from what I&#x27;ve heard, was losing Amit Singhal who led Search until 2016. Amit fought against creeping complexity. There is a semi-famous internal document he wrote where he argued against the other search leads that Google should use less machine-learning, or at least contain it as much as possible, so that ranking stays debuggable and understandable by human search engineers. My impression is that since he left complexity exploded, with every team launching as many deep learning projects as they can (just like every other large tech company has).<p>The problem though, is the older systems had obvious problems, while the newer systems have hidden bugs and conceptual issues which often don&#x27;t show up in the metrics, and which compound over time as more complexity is layered on. For example: I found an off by 1 error deep in a formula from an old launch that has been reordering top results for 15% of queries since 2015. I handed it off when I left but have no idea whether anyone actually fixed it or not.<p>I wrote up all of the search bugs I was aware of in an internal document called &quot;second page navboost&quot;, so if anyone working on search at Google reads this and needs a launch go check it out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gverrilla</author><text>YT Shorts recommendations are a joke.
I&#x27;m an atheist and very rarely watch anything related to religion, and even so Shorts put me in 3 or 4 live prayers&#x2F;scams (not sure) the last few months.</text></comment> |
15,748,192 | 15,747,553 | 1 | 3 | 15,747,313 | train | <story><title>Why does man print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30?</title><url>https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405783/why-does-man-print-gimme-gimme-gimme-at-0030</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>craigc</author><text>I think people here need to lighten up. I know we are all programmers, and we are sometimes portrayed as snobby and entitled, but we don&#x27;t have to live up to those stereotypes.<p>I understand it&#x27;s frustrating when a tool you use is expected to work a certain way and it doesn&#x27;t. I understand it&#x27;s even more frustrating when the output could change depending on the time of day. That doesn&#x27;t mean it is our place to gang up on an open source tool that is designed to make our lives easier.<p>I think we should be allowed to have some fun every once in a while, and this &quot;gimme gimme gimme&quot; easter egg is awesome.<p>It seems the maintainers didn&#x27;t realize that this easter egg was affecting a command that was designed to have a predictable output so that is the real issue here. Just a simple bug. If this was output on some help screen or something like that then no one would be complaining.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why does man print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30?</title><url>https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405783/why-does-man-print-gimme-gimme-gimme-at-0030</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vadimberman</author><text>As an old fart who grew up with 1970s and 1980s music, I didn&#x27;t even have to read the Stackexchange article to know the answer.</text></comment> |
19,079,813 | 19,077,572 | 1 | 3 | 19,075,812 | train | <story><title>Istio – An open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices</title><url>https://github.com/istio/istio</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>olafmol</author><text>Istio adds to Kubernetes:<p>- Automatic load balancing for HTTP, gRPC, WebSockets, and TCP traffic.<p>- Fine-grained control of traffic behaviour with rich routing rules, retries, fail-overs, and fault injection.<p>- A pluggable policy layer and configuration API supporting access controls, rate limits and quotas.<p>- Automatic metrics, logs, and traces for all traffic within a cluster, including cluster ingress and egress.<p>- Secure service-to-service communication in a cluster with strong identity-based authentication and authorization.<p>Istio on its own is powerful and flexible. It can also be hard to understand, setup, and manage, plus can be brittle.<p>(disclaimer: I&#x27;m co-founder of Vamp.io, a canary test &amp; release system for DevOps teams that works with both HAProxy and Istio)<p>What Istio imho misses is a user-friendly way of setting up, managing and automating Istio configurations for microservices topologies to quickly achieve automated canary-releasing and A&#x2F;B testing pipelines. Call Vamp a canary-releasing and A&#x2F;B testing “control plane” for Istio&#x2F;K8s if you will.<p>Basically the potential of service-meshes like Istio lies in &quot;driving&quot; it from higher-level metric&#x2F;KPI-based automation systems.<p>We wrote several blog-posts on how to make use of Istio, starting here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;vamp-io&#x2F;taming-istio-76fab339f685" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;vamp-io&#x2F;taming-istio-76fab339f685</a> (more blogs on Istio can be found here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;vamp-io&#x2F;tagged&#x2F;istio" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;vamp-io&#x2F;tagged&#x2F;istio</a>)<p>Hopefully this gives some more insights in what Istio is, what it isn&#x27;t, and how you can leverage it in your pipelines and architectures.</text></comment> | <story><title>Istio – An open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices</title><url>https://github.com/istio/istio</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>altmind</author><text>Can somebody explain what istio does in simple words?<p>I see that it hooks into micro&#x2F;services communication, but why do we need that? isnt policies enforced by cni plugins? and can microservices communicate already with k8s and mesos default setups?<p>is istio an network abstraction layer for k8s and mesos? why would anyone want that, is there anybody who changes scheduling runtimes often?</text></comment> |
36,497,545 | 36,495,875 | 1 | 2 | 36,492,010 | train | <story><title>FedEx Accused of Largest Odometer Rollback Fraud in History with Used Vans</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/news/fedex-accused-of-largest-odometer-rollback-fraud-in-history-with-used-vans</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crhulls</author><text>I&#x27;d encourage a bit more skepticism to this article. While this accusation could possibly be true, there are two things to keep in mind, which I am sharing having experience as a founder&#x2F;CEO who has gone from startup to IPO:<p>1) This is taken from a complaint in a class action lawsuit. Class action lawyers are very similar to patent trolls whereby they can spin almost any story they want. And journalists go for clicks, so they amplify the sensationalism. It doesn&#x27;t mean this is one of those, but a class action complaint should not just blindly be trusted.<p>2) There is a strong theme of &quot;of course execs lie cheat steal at every turn&quot; and I also think this narrative should be questioned. Ethics aside, the level of compliance in a public company is insanely high. Execs are already rich. To risk jailtime, which fraud can lead to, you&#x27;d need to see something more existential than slightly increasing margins on used van sales.<p>I felt inclined to comment as I&#x27;ve been on the other end of articles like this, and it is astounding the level of mind reading people have done into my intent and actions on things that were factually just not true at all. I also truly would find it very difficult to commit a broad organizational fraud even if I wanted to and my company is only 500 people.<p>If I had to make a prediction, the case is less black and white than it appears, and if there was fraud, it was probably committed at a non-executive level by the person whose P&amp;L was directly tied to these resales. Or, it was done independently by the much smaller leasing company where this was more existential to them. It is highly unlikely to be a Fed Ex executive-level conspiracy.<p>I&#x27;m sure there are a few counter examples, such as say the VW emissions scandal, but I would counter these were the exceptions that proved the rule and in general when the C-level was involved was much higher stakes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>johndhi</author><text>Helpful perspective. As a lawyer who has worked on both sides of class actions, I generally classify these cases in four categories:<p>-Legit cases that describe (or at least ultimately lead to finding) clear and meaningful wrongdoing. There&#x27;s always some room for arguing one way or the other but ultimately there&#x27;s some clarity that something meaningfully wrong happened. I think these are probably ~3-5 percent of cases filed. These cases tend to settle relatively early for high dollar figures.<p>-Cases of clear but unimportant wrongdoing. Technically a statute was violated, but no one was really hurt at all. These tend to settle for small $ figures. Perhaps 20% of cases.<p>-Important but unclear wrongdoing (evidence supports either finding; among one million documents, some look really bad, while others look very exculpatory). These stick around for a long time and ultimately earn lawyers a lot but cost the parties, on average, a lot of money to litigate. Perhaps 30% of cases.<p>-Complete&#x2F;fabricated nonsense and&#x2F;or fishing expeditions. Cost defendants a fair amount (and brutal for small defendants), but not the end of the world for big defendants. Perhaps 50% of cases.</text></comment> | <story><title>FedEx Accused of Largest Odometer Rollback Fraud in History with Used Vans</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/news/fedex-accused-of-largest-odometer-rollback-fraud-in-history-with-used-vans</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crhulls</author><text>I&#x27;d encourage a bit more skepticism to this article. While this accusation could possibly be true, there are two things to keep in mind, which I am sharing having experience as a founder&#x2F;CEO who has gone from startup to IPO:<p>1) This is taken from a complaint in a class action lawsuit. Class action lawyers are very similar to patent trolls whereby they can spin almost any story they want. And journalists go for clicks, so they amplify the sensationalism. It doesn&#x27;t mean this is one of those, but a class action complaint should not just blindly be trusted.<p>2) There is a strong theme of &quot;of course execs lie cheat steal at every turn&quot; and I also think this narrative should be questioned. Ethics aside, the level of compliance in a public company is insanely high. Execs are already rich. To risk jailtime, which fraud can lead to, you&#x27;d need to see something more existential than slightly increasing margins on used van sales.<p>I felt inclined to comment as I&#x27;ve been on the other end of articles like this, and it is astounding the level of mind reading people have done into my intent and actions on things that were factually just not true at all. I also truly would find it very difficult to commit a broad organizational fraud even if I wanted to and my company is only 500 people.<p>If I had to make a prediction, the case is less black and white than it appears, and if there was fraud, it was probably committed at a non-executive level by the person whose P&amp;L was directly tied to these resales. Or, it was done independently by the much smaller leasing company where this was more existential to them. It is highly unlikely to be a Fed Ex executive-level conspiracy.<p>I&#x27;m sure there are a few counter examples, such as say the VW emissions scandal, but I would counter these were the exceptions that proved the rule and in general when the C-level was involved was much higher stakes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Alupis</author><text>&gt; VW emissions scandal<p>VW is in the business of selling vehicles, and has a real interest there to push the envelope as much as possible.<p>FedEx is <i>not</i> in the business of selling used vehicles. These vehicle sales likely don&#x27;t impact their core business in the slightest - making an organization-wide scandal just silly to even think about.<p>Looking online, these types of &quot;vans&quot; sell for anywhere between $5,000 and $30,000 (with 4 digit miles)[1]. Seriously... FedEx isn&#x27;t going to blink at any of this.<p>These class actions are always brought by bottom-feeding lawyers that use serial-plaintiffs. The reality is the class action bit will be retracted, and the lawyers, err, plaintiff will receive a &quot;go the hell away please&quot; payment. That&#x27;s the game here...<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.auctiontime.com&#x2F;listings&#x2F;trucks&#x2F;auction-results&#x2F;219623617&#x2F;2000-freightliner-m-line" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.auctiontime.com&#x2F;listings&#x2F;trucks&#x2F;auction-results&#x2F;...</a></text></comment> |
30,537,557 | 30,536,409 | 1 | 2 | 30,533,540 | train | <story><title>Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other offices from April 4</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-mandates-workers-back-silicon-valley-other-offices-april-4-2022-03-02/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>asdff</author><text>Every single thread I see on this has this exact same comment. It&#x27;s like a bot wrote it. Is it that hard to imagine that an onboarding experience remotely can actually be done well, or that you could actually make friends with people existing solely on zoom? I think people are making that assumption, just because it feels right or maybe because their own org is just throwing juniors by the wayside and hoping covid will end rather than thinking about how to train people electronically from the ground up.<p>Remote work in a lot of roles, especially knowledge working, is just the way forward and will be how these things function in 50 years. Companies that are able to scout talent globally will simply out compete those that insist on a local labor pool. It makes no sense to perpetuate commuting, just in terms of the environmental damage it causes, when we&#x27;ve shown that this work can still be done without having to load a single ~200lb occupant and spend energy moving them + 3000lbs of metal around for two hours a day five days a week. If you are finding your juniors are falling behind, then step up instead of giving up and work hard to come up with a viable pipeline that isn&#x27;t &quot;well hopefully in two months we are back in the office.&quot; Plenty of companies and organizations and research groups have functioned entirely distributed for years now even before covid. It&#x27;s not rocket science.</text></item><item><author>munificent</author><text><i>&gt; We&#x27;ve proven that the big tech companies can go fully remote and not completely crash and burn, that&#x27;s about it.</i><p>Agreed. We&#x27;ve proven that big tech companies can <i>continue</i> to be productive for <i>up to two years</i> going remote.<p>I suspect that that doesn&#x27;t generalize very well to being completely remote over the long term. It works well when you already have a bunch of personal relationships between teammates that were established while the company was in-person. And it works well for experienced people that have ramped up. But I think it&#x27;s probably quite a bit harder for people to be productive when they are new to the company, less experienced, and don&#x27;t have that existing foundation to build on.<p>I think it&#x27;s a solvable problem for companies that want to prioritize remote work, but I definitely don&#x27;t think &quot;managed to get through the past two years&quot; means &quot;it&#x27;s a piece of cake&quot;.</text></item><item><author>librish</author><text>I think anyone who&#x27;s claiming that remote work has been &quot;proven&quot; to be better or worse is wrong. There are some studies but they use estimations and proxies, carrying the same flaws as doing performance reviews based on lines of code.<p>We&#x27;ve proven that the big tech companies can go fully remote and not completely crash and burn, that&#x27;s about it. Some people love the lack of commute and less semi-forced hanging out, some people hate onboarding on a new company as a remote person and so on and so on.<p>I personally prefer a company where everyone&#x27;s on site. I want to be able to quickly resolve any issues in person, not over voice call or slack, and I think that an environment where someone can tap me on the shoulder when they need help leads to overall higher productivity, even if individual productivity suffers temporarily.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>onion2k</author><text><i>Is it that hard to imagine that an onboarding experience remotely can actually be done well, or that you could actually make friends with people existing solely on zoom?</i><p>We don&#x27;t need to imagine it. Those of us who lead teams have tried, and we know it&#x27;s harder to onboard people, and to socialize as a company, when you&#x27;re working remotely.<p>I think the advantages of remote working greatly outweigh the disadvantages, and I will continue to work remotely if I can, but there&#x27;s no need to pretend everything is better. It obviously isn&#x27;t.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other offices from April 4</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-mandates-workers-back-silicon-valley-other-offices-april-4-2022-03-02/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>asdff</author><text>Every single thread I see on this has this exact same comment. It&#x27;s like a bot wrote it. Is it that hard to imagine that an onboarding experience remotely can actually be done well, or that you could actually make friends with people existing solely on zoom? I think people are making that assumption, just because it feels right or maybe because their own org is just throwing juniors by the wayside and hoping covid will end rather than thinking about how to train people electronically from the ground up.<p>Remote work in a lot of roles, especially knowledge working, is just the way forward and will be how these things function in 50 years. Companies that are able to scout talent globally will simply out compete those that insist on a local labor pool. It makes no sense to perpetuate commuting, just in terms of the environmental damage it causes, when we&#x27;ve shown that this work can still be done without having to load a single ~200lb occupant and spend energy moving them + 3000lbs of metal around for two hours a day five days a week. If you are finding your juniors are falling behind, then step up instead of giving up and work hard to come up with a viable pipeline that isn&#x27;t &quot;well hopefully in two months we are back in the office.&quot; Plenty of companies and organizations and research groups have functioned entirely distributed for years now even before covid. It&#x27;s not rocket science.</text></item><item><author>munificent</author><text><i>&gt; We&#x27;ve proven that the big tech companies can go fully remote and not completely crash and burn, that&#x27;s about it.</i><p>Agreed. We&#x27;ve proven that big tech companies can <i>continue</i> to be productive for <i>up to two years</i> going remote.<p>I suspect that that doesn&#x27;t generalize very well to being completely remote over the long term. It works well when you already have a bunch of personal relationships between teammates that were established while the company was in-person. And it works well for experienced people that have ramped up. But I think it&#x27;s probably quite a bit harder for people to be productive when they are new to the company, less experienced, and don&#x27;t have that existing foundation to build on.<p>I think it&#x27;s a solvable problem for companies that want to prioritize remote work, but I definitely don&#x27;t think &quot;managed to get through the past two years&quot; means &quot;it&#x27;s a piece of cake&quot;.</text></item><item><author>librish</author><text>I think anyone who&#x27;s claiming that remote work has been &quot;proven&quot; to be better or worse is wrong. There are some studies but they use estimations and proxies, carrying the same flaws as doing performance reviews based on lines of code.<p>We&#x27;ve proven that the big tech companies can go fully remote and not completely crash and burn, that&#x27;s about it. Some people love the lack of commute and less semi-forced hanging out, some people hate onboarding on a new company as a remote person and so on and so on.<p>I personally prefer a company where everyone&#x27;s on site. I want to be able to quickly resolve any issues in person, not over voice call or slack, and I think that an environment where someone can tap me on the shoulder when they need help leads to overall higher productivity, even if individual productivity suffers temporarily.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BlargMcLarg</author><text>It&#x27;s mostly a realisation most organisations are illogical, bloated, developer unfriendly and&#x2F;or too undocumented.<p>We applaud ourselves for self-studying, being fairly educated on average with backgrounds in being taught to self-study effectively and finding information online. Yet somehow the idea of juniors doing those exact same things, with or without digital aid of seniors, is unthinkable to many.<p>Surely somewhere this story feels off.</text></comment> |
12,810,497 | 12,810,442 | 1 | 3 | 12,809,804 | train | <story><title>FCC Vote Means Internet Providers Need Permission to Share Your Data</title><url>http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/27/499606251/fcc-vote-means-internet-providers-need-permission-to-share-your-data</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ars</author><text>This is completely pointless. They&#x27;ll just add some form you have to sign before giving you service and that&#x27;s about it.<p>After all, do you read and act on the privacy notifications other providers give you?<p>Does this at least require them to provider service irregardless of your consent to share data? If not, this is a pointless law that just makes it look like they did something.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>christianmunoz</author><text>Copied this from another comment of mine on this post, but it answers part of your question. From the FCC fact sheet[0] on the decision:<p>&gt; The Order prohibits “take-it-or-leave-it” offers, meaning that an ISP can’t refuse to serve customers who don’t consent to the use and sharing of their information for commercial purposes.<p>So at least they can&#x27;t cut you off entirely if you don&#x27;t consent&#x2F;opt-in. The fact sheet also touches on the &quot;pay for privacy&quot; issue:<p>&gt; Recognizing that so-called “pay for privacy” offerings raise unique considerations, the rules require heightened disclosure for plans that provide discounts or other incentives in exchange for a customer’s express affirmative consent to the use and sharing of their personal information. The Commission will determine on a case-by-case basis the legitimacy of programs that relate service price to privacy protections. Consumers should not be forced to choose between paying inflated prices and maintaining their privacy.<p>Not an outright ban on discounting service for opt&#x27;ing-in, but looks like they&#x27;re leaning towards not allowing something like that.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;transition.fcc.gov&#x2F;Daily_Releases&#x2F;Daily_Business&#x2F;2016&#x2F;db1027&#x2F;DOC-341938A1.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;transition.fcc.gov&#x2F;Daily_Releases&#x2F;Daily_Business&#x2F;2016...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>FCC Vote Means Internet Providers Need Permission to Share Your Data</title><url>http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/27/499606251/fcc-vote-means-internet-providers-need-permission-to-share-your-data</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ars</author><text>This is completely pointless. They&#x27;ll just add some form you have to sign before giving you service and that&#x27;s about it.<p>After all, do you read and act on the privacy notifications other providers give you?<p>Does this at least require them to provider service irregardless of your consent to share data? If not, this is a pointless law that just makes it look like they did something.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>devindotcom</author><text>You have to opt in and there can&#x27;t be a penalty for opting out, the fact sheet says. That said, there may be a bonus for opting in — perks or whatnot. That will have to be settled separately, probably.</text></comment> |
28,501,327 | 28,498,434 | 1 | 2 | 28,496,349 | train | <story><title>Cross-Account Container Takeover in Azure Container Instances</title><url>https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/azure-container-instances/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ctvo</author><text>What is going on at Azure?! First the Cosmos DB vulnerability [1] three weeks ago and now this?! It’s starting to look like a systemic issue at Microsoft.<p>tl;dr<p>- Microsoft uses an old version of runc (from 20216), with known vulnerabilities. runc is a container runtime. Researchers, using work from 2019, were able to break out of the container into the Kubernetes node.<p>- Microsoft, to fix a known vulnerability (instead of patching!) in Kubernetes with `kubectl exec` has a custom solution (`bridge-pod`) that handles sending `kubectl exec` commands to nodes.<p>- In Microsoft&#x27;s custom solution, the HTTP request to run `kubectl exec` on the node sent from `bridge-pod` includes an access token with overly broad privileges in the header (not necessary in this case). If you monitor traffic once you&#x27;ve escape the container on the node, you can extract this access token if you send a command to your own container from the Azure CLI.<p>- Access token grants `pod&#x2F;exec` rights to anything in the cluster<p>The egregious part is the `bridge-pod` and it&#x27;s implementation. This wasn&#x27;t just outdated software left unpatched, it was badly implemented hacks to work around their inability to patch.<p>1 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wiz.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;chaosdb-how-we-hacked-thousands-of-azure-customers-databases" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wiz.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;chaosdb-how-we-hacked-thousands-of-a...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Cross-Account Container Takeover in Azure Container Instances</title><url>https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/azure-container-instances/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dlor</author><text>The root cause was a chain of known exploits due to very out of date software:<p>* RunC v1.0.0-rc2 was released on Oct. 1, 2016, and was vulnerable to at least two container breakout CVEs.<p>* ACI was hosted on clusters running either Kubernetes v1.8.4, v1.9.10 or v1.10.9. These versions were released between November 2017 and October 2018 and are vulnerable to multiple publicly known vulnerabilities.<p>Running multitenant workloads in Kubernetes is notoriously difficult, and staying on top of patches is simply table-stakes.</text></comment> |
2,146,260 | 2,144,381 | 1 | 2 | 2,144,012 | train | <story><title>The Next Big Language</title><url>http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/02/next-big-language.html?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>david927</author><text>Ahh... I think we all miss Big Stevey. He role was never replaced and it's a shame for our entire community.<p>I'm glad this was posted. It was written four years ago (Feb. 2007), and his quote is, "[The NBL] is going to arrive very soon (timeline: 18-24 months ...)" He later gave away that he was thinking the NBL was to be server-side Javascript. You have to hand it to him; that was a great guess, even if the timeline was off.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>megaduck</author><text>Looking at Yegge's projects, I think NBL was just "javascript". The first big one was a rails clone on Rhino, which he talked about but never released (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QD9XQm_Jd4" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QD9XQm_Jd4</a>).<p>After that, he started building a system for extending emacs with JS, named "ejacs". It never got fully baked, but the effort produced the very nice js2-mode. Details here: <a href="http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/11/ejacs-javascript-interpreter-for-emacs.html" rel="nofollow">http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/11/ejacs-javascript-int...</a><p>So, I think NBL was just "Javascript". Awesome call. Despite the problems with the standards process, JS has <i>exploded</i> in popularity over the past three years.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Next Big Language</title><url>http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/02/next-big-language.html?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>david927</author><text>Ahh... I think we all miss Big Stevey. He role was never replaced and it's a shame for our entire community.<p>I'm glad this was posted. It was written four years ago (Feb. 2007), and his quote is, "[The NBL] is going to arrive very soon (timeline: 18-24 months ...)" He later gave away that he was thinking the NBL was to be server-side Javascript. You have to hand it to him; that was a great guess, even if the timeline was off.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rryyan</author><text>Maybe you're already aware of this, but a few months ago he started occasionally posting again -- here's his "I'm back" post: <a href="http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2010/07/blogger-finger.html" rel="nofollow">http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2010/07/blogger-finger.html</a>.<p>That said, I miss his longer-form and more frequent posts too.</text></comment> |
12,657,460 | 12,656,522 | 1 | 2 | 12,655,114 | train | <story><title>Physicists Create World’s First Time Crystal</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602541/physicists-create-worlds-first-time-crystal/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lisper</author><text>You&#x27;re not that far off. The particles aren&#x27;t really <i>moving</i>, i.e. they are not going from one spatial location to another. What is happening is that they are changing quantum spin states, and the spin states are changing in such a way that it appears that a circular arrangement of atoms is rotating. This is a reflection of the fact that an atom isn&#x27;t really a <i>thing</i> (there are no &quot;things&quot;, i.e. there are no particles) it&#x27;s just a quantum state, so if you have a quantum system A in state 1 and system B in state 2, and system A transitions to state 2 and system B transitions to state 1 then this end result is indistinguishable from the two systems having swapped locations. We call this &quot;moving&quot; because classical motion is the only mechanism we&#x27;re familiar with in everyday life that allows two systems to swap locations. But that kind of moving is not what is happening here.</text></item><item><author>davesque</author><text>I figured this article would fly over my head (which it mostly did), but it was actually a very fun read. My main takeaway was the paradox that the interesting arrangement of matter could be in its lowest energy state, yet still moving. And that no energy could be extracted from this movement. I&#x27;m probably butchering the concept with my misuse of terminology but whatevs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ams6110</author><text>Sounds almost like how words appear to be moving across a scrolling led (or previously, incandescent bulb) display, when nothing is moving it&#x27;s just each led&#x2F;bulb switching from lit to unlit.</text></comment> | <story><title>Physicists Create World’s First Time Crystal</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602541/physicists-create-worlds-first-time-crystal/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lisper</author><text>You&#x27;re not that far off. The particles aren&#x27;t really <i>moving</i>, i.e. they are not going from one spatial location to another. What is happening is that they are changing quantum spin states, and the spin states are changing in such a way that it appears that a circular arrangement of atoms is rotating. This is a reflection of the fact that an atom isn&#x27;t really a <i>thing</i> (there are no &quot;things&quot;, i.e. there are no particles) it&#x27;s just a quantum state, so if you have a quantum system A in state 1 and system B in state 2, and system A transitions to state 2 and system B transitions to state 1 then this end result is indistinguishable from the two systems having swapped locations. We call this &quot;moving&quot; because classical motion is the only mechanism we&#x27;re familiar with in everyday life that allows two systems to swap locations. But that kind of moving is not what is happening here.</text></item><item><author>davesque</author><text>I figured this article would fly over my head (which it mostly did), but it was actually a very fun read. My main takeaway was the paradox that the interesting arrangement of matter could be in its lowest energy state, yet still moving. And that no energy could be extracted from this movement. I&#x27;m probably butchering the concept with my misuse of terminology but whatevs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davesque</author><text>Thanks for the great explanation. Serious question: Can I ask how you happen to know so much about this subject?</text></comment> |
3,845,449 | 3,845,276 | 1 | 3 | 3,844,893 | train | <story><title>No I won't sign your NDA, here's why.</title><url>http://blog.jpl-consulting.com/2012/04/why-i-wont-sign-your-nda/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>huhtenberg</author><text>Frankly, I am getting tired of this "ideas are worthless, execution is golden" mantra. Of course, "let's build a online shop" idea is useless, but it's not really an <i>idea</i> to begin with. An idea that is worth discussing with others would typically include some minimal validation, an execution and marketing plan and, in general, some amount of thought put into it. Because otherwise it's not an idea, but a random brainfart.<p>Moreover, the value of a good idea <i>is</i> in that extra thought that was put into it, something that is well worth a bit of protection. This is not an abstract MBA point. I am involved with a project that can be fully described in just 4 words, and these are plenty sufficient to tip off the competition and loose the first-to-market advantage. Should we not have been careful with how we talked to other people about the idea, we might've lost it to the established players already.<p>(edit) I am not disagreeing that a lot of people asking for an NDA upfront are lunatics, because they are. It's the black and white take on the value of ideas that I have an issue with.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wpietri</author><text>I still think ideas are basically worthless. That's certainly true literally; 20 years in software and I've never heard of anybody selling one for significant money. First-mover advantage can sometimes be helpful, but it rarely determines success. Look at Amazon, Google, and Facebook, for example: leaders in their categories, but none of them was first.<p>A person with a brilliant idea who can't execute well is almost certainly screwed. A company that starts with a bad idea and executes well can turn out fine, though. That's because in the startup context, great execution involves a lot of exploration, validation, and the now-ubiquitous pivoting.<p>Take PayPal. Their first idea was two-factor authentication for handhelds. That turned into money transfer via handhelds. Which turned into a web-based money transfer product. But that wasn't the real deciding factor; the IP that let them win was anti-fraud software. And the reason there's a PayPal Mafia is that the execution-focused culture kept creating successes long after the original idea was played out.<p>Even supposing that there's an occasional rare idea that actually has some value, I think we should still keep the mantra because it's inarguable that there are an ocean of chumps who think that the idea is the hard part.</text></comment> | <story><title>No I won't sign your NDA, here's why.</title><url>http://blog.jpl-consulting.com/2012/04/why-i-wont-sign-your-nda/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>huhtenberg</author><text>Frankly, I am getting tired of this "ideas are worthless, execution is golden" mantra. Of course, "let's build a online shop" idea is useless, but it's not really an <i>idea</i> to begin with. An idea that is worth discussing with others would typically include some minimal validation, an execution and marketing plan and, in general, some amount of thought put into it. Because otherwise it's not an idea, but a random brainfart.<p>Moreover, the value of a good idea <i>is</i> in that extra thought that was put into it, something that is well worth a bit of protection. This is not an abstract MBA point. I am involved with a project that can be fully described in just 4 words, and these are plenty sufficient to tip off the competition and loose the first-to-market advantage. Should we not have been careful with how we talked to other people about the idea, we might've lost it to the established players already.<p>(edit) I am not disagreeing that a lot of people asking for an NDA upfront are lunatics, because they are. It's the black and white take on the value of ideas that I have an issue with.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andrewflnr</author><text>Especially in software, ideas &#60;-----&#62; execution is a continuum. I think an idea, a well-thought-out idea, a spec, a program, maybe even machine code are just more-and-more detailed designs. More (and less obvious) detail is more work, and worth more.<p>Now that I think about it, the transition from program to machine code is interesting. I guess design stops when you can turn the design into a finished product via a mechanical translation. Similarly, a physical engineer's work is done when their design can be executed by "commodity" factories, workers, etc.</text></comment> |
19,134,697 | 19,130,388 | 1 | 2 | 19,128,489 | train | <story><title>On Being a Principal Engineer</title><url>https://blog.dbsmasher.com/2019/01/28/on-being-a-principal-engineer.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>2muchcoffeeman</author><text>&gt; <i>It’s something that comes hard to senior developers, because we’re all aware that every result is a team win. So when you’re asked about a project you worked on, you’ll tell the story all in first person plural: ‘we had to solve this problem, so we decided to use this approach’.</i><p>As you said, good outcomes are <i>team</i> efforts. Even your best developer is not going to do anything great if he’s fixing bugs. Less senior developers prop up the senior ones. So why would we talk as though our specific roles were ‘special’?</text></item><item><author>jameshart</author><text>The challenge I have interviewing people for very senior engineering roles is how to tell the difference between somebody who was <i>nearby</i> when some interesting work got done, and somebody who <i>made something interesting happen</i>. What I’m looking for in a principal engineer is someone who turns good teams into great teams; who steers the organization away from disastrous mistakes; who enables the business to accomplish things that, without them, would not have been done.<p>It’s something that comes hard to senior developers, because we’re all aware that every result is a team win. So when you’re asked about a project you worked on, you’ll tell the story all in first person plural: ‘we had to solve this problem, so we decided to use this approach’.<p>When telling that story in an interview for a principal engineer role, make sure you clarify <i>your</i> role. What was expected of you, and how did you knock it out of the park? What parts of the problem did <i>you</i> have to take personal ownership of? Which decisions did <i>you</i> have to go to the mat for, and why were you right? Convince me you are a differentiating factor in successful projects and we’re going to be interested in hiring you.<p>As an interviewer I try to dig towards these things but it is hard and honestly I need some help from the candidate - and at this seniority level I don’t think that’s unreasonable (the candidate should know how interviews work because they’ll have been in the interview chair themselves, right?)</text></item><item><author>ryanong</author><text>This rings true to my experience.
I&#x27;m a Staff engineer and of my 40 hour week about 10-15 of those hours are interviews, meetings, and answering questions. Questions about technical feasibility, architectural discussions and planning, long term strategic planning, and lots of one offs from other developers.<p>I enjoy the soft work I do, a lot of emotional labor for other developers, soft sells for tech&#x2F;feature work around the company, process strategy and such. I never expected this to be such a large part of my job, and how much value comes from it.<p>But I am also at this weird point where I am not sure if the title of &quot;staff&#x2F;principle&quot; can be transferred to another company. A lot of the value that I add now is because of the historical knowledge I have. What we have tried as a company, what we haven&#x27;t, why we built some things the way we did, how things work currently, how the politics works and the trust I have built.<p>In the past year, I have seen less than 5 job posting for a staff engineer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ryandrake</author><text>&gt; Even your best developer is not going to do anything great if he’s fixing bugs.<p>Honestly, I wish this mentality would go away. Maybe software in general is so &quot;barely shippable&quot; shitty because 95% of everyone&#x27;s engineering effort is spent on cranking out features rather than fixing bugs and improving stability&#x2F;performance. Somehow, feature work is glamorous and gets you promoted and quality is seen as boring, dead-end work. This really needs to change.</text></comment> | <story><title>On Being a Principal Engineer</title><url>https://blog.dbsmasher.com/2019/01/28/on-being-a-principal-engineer.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>2muchcoffeeman</author><text>&gt; <i>It’s something that comes hard to senior developers, because we’re all aware that every result is a team win. So when you’re asked about a project you worked on, you’ll tell the story all in first person plural: ‘we had to solve this problem, so we decided to use this approach’.</i><p>As you said, good outcomes are <i>team</i> efforts. Even your best developer is not going to do anything great if he’s fixing bugs. Less senior developers prop up the senior ones. So why would we talk as though our specific roles were ‘special’?</text></item><item><author>jameshart</author><text>The challenge I have interviewing people for very senior engineering roles is how to tell the difference between somebody who was <i>nearby</i> when some interesting work got done, and somebody who <i>made something interesting happen</i>. What I’m looking for in a principal engineer is someone who turns good teams into great teams; who steers the organization away from disastrous mistakes; who enables the business to accomplish things that, without them, would not have been done.<p>It’s something that comes hard to senior developers, because we’re all aware that every result is a team win. So when you’re asked about a project you worked on, you’ll tell the story all in first person plural: ‘we had to solve this problem, so we decided to use this approach’.<p>When telling that story in an interview for a principal engineer role, make sure you clarify <i>your</i> role. What was expected of you, and how did you knock it out of the park? What parts of the problem did <i>you</i> have to take personal ownership of? Which decisions did <i>you</i> have to go to the mat for, and why were you right? Convince me you are a differentiating factor in successful projects and we’re going to be interested in hiring you.<p>As an interviewer I try to dig towards these things but it is hard and honestly I need some help from the candidate - and at this seniority level I don’t think that’s unreasonable (the candidate should know how interviews work because they’ll have been in the interview chair themselves, right?)</text></item><item><author>ryanong</author><text>This rings true to my experience.
I&#x27;m a Staff engineer and of my 40 hour week about 10-15 of those hours are interviews, meetings, and answering questions. Questions about technical feasibility, architectural discussions and planning, long term strategic planning, and lots of one offs from other developers.<p>I enjoy the soft work I do, a lot of emotional labor for other developers, soft sells for tech&#x2F;feature work around the company, process strategy and such. I never expected this to be such a large part of my job, and how much value comes from it.<p>But I am also at this weird point where I am not sure if the title of &quot;staff&#x2F;principle&quot; can be transferred to another company. A lot of the value that I add now is because of the historical knowledge I have. What we have tried as a company, what we haven&#x27;t, why we built some things the way we did, how things work currently, how the politics works and the trust I have built.<p>In the past year, I have seen less than 5 job posting for a staff engineer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Swizec</author><text>&gt; So why would we talk as though our specific roles were ‘special’?<p>Because you’re selling yourself. Interviews are sales. You are the product. Not your team, not your boss, not your company. You.</text></comment> |
38,148,835 | 38,147,399 | 1 | 3 | 38,146,837 | train | <story><title>Daylight saving time can seriously affect your health</title><url>https://apnews.com/article/daylight-saving-2023-fall-back-a3738d5c74301b8068825927c49fc6b4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LeoPanthera</author><text>Why does it matter what number is displayed on the clock? Can&#x27;t you just wake up earlier or later to your preference?</text></item><item><author>hprotagonist</author><text>I cannot stress enough how much i deeply and utterly despise sunset at 16:14.<p>Getting up before dawn? Great, i’m getting the drop on the day!<p>Eating lunch in the fading light of the late afternoon, and dinner in full dark? The absolute pits.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CalRobert</author><text>My kid&#x27;s school isn&#x27;t so accommodating.</text></comment> | <story><title>Daylight saving time can seriously affect your health</title><url>https://apnews.com/article/daylight-saving-2023-fall-back-a3738d5c74301b8068825927c49fc6b4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LeoPanthera</author><text>Why does it matter what number is displayed on the clock? Can&#x27;t you just wake up earlier or later to your preference?</text></item><item><author>hprotagonist</author><text>I cannot stress enough how much i deeply and utterly despise sunset at 16:14.<p>Getting up before dawn? Great, i’m getting the drop on the day!<p>Eating lunch in the fading light of the late afternoon, and dinner in full dark? The absolute pits.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dryheat3</author><text>lol. Sure, as long as you don’t have to report to a job everyday. Very few have the privilege of adjusting their sleep&#x2F;wake cycle to correspond with the changing seasons.</text></comment> |
5,737,927 | 5,737,352 | 1 | 3 | 5,737,163 | train | <story><title>Yahoo to Acquire Tumblr</title><url>http://finance.yahoo.com/news/yahoo-acquire-tumblr-120000116.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Swizec</author><text>Porn. Tumblr has porn.<p>As always, when two technologies are battling, the one porn picks will win.</text></item><item><author>btipling</author><text>Maybe this could have been Posterous had they won that battle with Tumblr. Posterous had the superior product early on, but for some reason it never caught on. I wonder how that works, who wins for what reasons. It does not seem to be for product or technology reasons as I think Posterous had Tumblr beat. It's almost luck and magic who picks up the right kind of early users that lead to success. Admittedly it did seem like a bit of an uphill struggle since Tumblr got started a little earlier? Maybe that's it. Tumblr and Posterous were a new kind of microblog platform a couple of years ago, now Tumblr is massive and Posterious is dead.<p>Another thing that seems interesting to me is that whenever someone exits into an acquisition it's like this space becomes open again for new startups. Someone should make a new microblogging platform that now disrups Tumblr/Yahoo. It's kind of like the dragon Ouroboros, eating its own tail, around here sometimes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>josh2600</author><text>Counter example: HD DVD was selected as the format of choice for next generation porn media. Didn't turn out so well.<p>I think tumblr was easier for people to post stupid pictures of cats and porn. The friction to entry was lower IMHO.</text></comment> | <story><title>Yahoo to Acquire Tumblr</title><url>http://finance.yahoo.com/news/yahoo-acquire-tumblr-120000116.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Swizec</author><text>Porn. Tumblr has porn.<p>As always, when two technologies are battling, the one porn picks will win.</text></item><item><author>btipling</author><text>Maybe this could have been Posterous had they won that battle with Tumblr. Posterous had the superior product early on, but for some reason it never caught on. I wonder how that works, who wins for what reasons. It does not seem to be for product or technology reasons as I think Posterous had Tumblr beat. It's almost luck and magic who picks up the right kind of early users that lead to success. Admittedly it did seem like a bit of an uphill struggle since Tumblr got started a little earlier? Maybe that's it. Tumblr and Posterous were a new kind of microblog platform a couple of years ago, now Tumblr is massive and Posterious is dead.<p>Another thing that seems interesting to me is that whenever someone exits into an acquisition it's like this space becomes open again for new startups. Someone should make a new microblogging platform that now disrups Tumblr/Yahoo. It's kind of like the dragon Ouroboros, eating its own tail, around here sometimes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>freehunter</author><text>Except HD-DVD. In that battle, it was the one who had a video game console backing the standard versus the one with porn but a console maker only paying lip service to the technology.</text></comment> |
11,550,789 | 11,549,510 | 1 | 2 | 11,548,689 | train | <story><title>UK intel agencies spy indiscriminately on millions of innocent folks</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/04/uk-secret-police-surveillance-bulk-personal-datasets/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>btilly</author><text>Do not lose sight of the fact that Britain is one of the Five Eyes.<p>Which means that their data sets include everything that the NSA collects. And they don&#x27;t have pesky (though effectively unenforced) NSA restrictions against spying on Americans.<p>Enjoy your lack of privacy!</text></comment> | <story><title>UK intel agencies spy indiscriminately on millions of innocent folks</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/04/uk-secret-police-surveillance-bulk-personal-datasets/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>elthran</author><text>Hacker, yes. News - probably not.<p>I&#x27;ve depressingly come to accept this as part of being British.</text></comment> |
6,500,664 | 6,499,520 | 1 | 3 | 6,499,203 | train | <story><title>Go vs C++: Ray tracer (part 3)</title><url>https://kidoman.com/programming/go-getter-part-3.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eliasmacpherson</author><text><a href="https://kidoman.com/images/go-vs-cpp-after-both-optimized.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kidoman.com&#x2F;images&#x2F;go-vs-cpp-after-both-optimized.pn...</a><p>In this picture - am I right in interpreting it at 2048x2048 and 8 cores, that the optimised and tuned go code is nearly three times faster than the multithreaded optimised and tuned C++ code? How come the C++ is the same for 1C and 8C? Is this picture from one of the previous articles?<p>EDIT: (No, I&#x27;m wrong, the C++ is single threaded!)<p>It seems it&#x27;s single threaded - and the last graph isn&#x27;t showing the current level of C++ single threaded performance - which is ~36 seconds, with go at 21s for 8 threads. Final state of play is go at 18s multithreaded and C++ at 8s multithread and go at 81s single threaded and C++ at 36s single threaded. I read that from the third last graph.<p>It&#x27;s difficult to understand this ending of the article, as the subtitle is:<p>&quot;Further optimizations and a multi-threaded C++ version&quot;
and
&quot;Hurray multi-threading&quot;<p>I suggest the order of the article be changed around to have a &#x27;recap on single threaded C++&#x27; at the start, and then the new figures - so that it concludes in straightforward manner.<p>This quote from the article is wrong:<p>&quot;C++ is not more than twice as fast than an equivalent Go program at this stage.&quot;<p>Correct me if I&#x27;m wrong, but in every case that I can see the C++ code will execute twice before the Go code is finished. It is more than twice as fast.<p>By the same logic this &quot;almost&quot; is also wrong: &quot;From taking 58.15 seconds (single threaded), it has now dropped to a extremely impressive 36.36 seconds (again single threaded), making it almost twice as fast as the optimized Go version.&quot;<p>36s &lt; 81s&#x2F;2</text></comment> | <story><title>Go vs C++: Ray tracer (part 3)</title><url>https://kidoman.com/programming/go-getter-part-3.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>buster</author><text>This has been circulated on the Rust-dev mailinglist:<p><a href="https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2013-September/005735.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mail.mozilla.org&#x2F;pipermail&#x2F;rust-dev&#x2F;2013-September&#x2F;0...</a><p>Rust did quite well (given that it&#x27;s not even production ready i&#x27;d say it&#x27;s impressive): <a href="https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2013-September/005750.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mail.mozilla.org&#x2F;pipermail&#x2F;rust-dev&#x2F;2013-September&#x2F;0...</a><p>The only thing they noted was that the Go version &quot;cheated&quot; by precomptuing some values which someone removed to make the algorithms the same.. maybe kid0m4n can comment on this :)</text></comment> |
28,001,834 | 28,000,136 | 1 | 2 | 27,996,684 | train | <story><title>How Dwarf Fortress is built</title><url>https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/07/28/700000-lines-of-code-20-years-and-one-developer-how-dwarf-fortress-is-built/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mabbo</author><text>&gt; What’s your favorite bug and what caused it?<p>&gt; A: It’s probably boring for me to say, but I just can’t beat the drunken cat bug... That was the one where the cats were showing up dead all over the tavern floor, and it turned out they were ingesting spilled alcohol when they cleaned their paws.<p>I think that bug explains very well just how deeply complex Dwarf Fortress really is. Drinks can be spilled. Some drinks have alcohol. If cats step in something it sticks to their paws. Cats clean their paws, causing them to ingest what&#x27;s on them. Enough alcohol will kill a cat. Put together: dead drunken cats.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>devenvdev</author><text>Other amusing DF bugs:<p>Dwarfs trying to clean their inner organs (dwarf wounded, doctor closes the wound, dirt stay inside)<p>Undying children in the moat water (for years... just swimming there...)<p>Killer carps (there was a long time during which carps were really overpowered because constant swimming was buffing them up really good, dwarfs getting close to water sources were eaten by carps)<p>Catplosions (Tarn loves cats, cats reproduce, too many cats kills DF performance)</text></comment> | <story><title>How Dwarf Fortress is built</title><url>https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/07/28/700000-lines-of-code-20-years-and-one-developer-how-dwarf-fortress-is-built/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mabbo</author><text>&gt; What’s your favorite bug and what caused it?<p>&gt; A: It’s probably boring for me to say, but I just can’t beat the drunken cat bug... That was the one where the cats were showing up dead all over the tavern floor, and it turned out they were ingesting spilled alcohol when they cleaned their paws.<p>I think that bug explains very well just how deeply complex Dwarf Fortress really is. Drinks can be spilled. Some drinks have alcohol. If cats step in something it sticks to their paws. Cats clean their paws, causing them to ingest what&#x27;s on them. Enough alcohol will kill a cat. Put together: dead drunken cats.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pavel_lishin</author><text>Reminds me a little bit of something strange I saw in Rimworld - all of my dogs were developing liver cirrhosis!<p>It turns out that my dogs weren&#x27;t alcoholics - it just happened to be that beer was the only food source they had zoned access to, so they were drinking it out of hungry desperation, and while it gave them enough calories to live on, it also gave them cirrhosis.</text></comment> |
38,320,572 | 38,318,441 | 1 | 3 | 38,316,497 | train | <story><title>Our structure</title><url>https://openai.com/our-structure</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kasperni</author><text>Worth noting is this clause<p>Fifth, the board determines when we&#x27;ve attained AGI. Again, by AGI we mean a highly autonomous system that outperforms humans at most economically valuable work. Such a system is excluded from IP licenses and other commercial terms with Microsoft, which only apply to pre-AGI technology.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>busyant</author><text>&gt; outperforms humans at most economically valuable work<p>&quot;most&quot; but not all economically valuable work.<p>ChatGPT (or what follows) can&#x27;t swing a hammer and it can&#x27;t apply spackle. Maybe I should start looking into the trades.</text></comment> | <story><title>Our structure</title><url>https://openai.com/our-structure</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kasperni</author><text>Worth noting is this clause<p>Fifth, the board determines when we&#x27;ve attained AGI. Again, by AGI we mean a highly autonomous system that outperforms humans at most economically valuable work. Such a system is excluded from IP licenses and other commercial terms with Microsoft, which only apply to pre-AGI technology.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FirmwareBurner</author><text>So Microsoft only has access to the &quot;chaff&quot; and not the &quot;beans&quot; of OpenAI?</text></comment> |
28,851,087 | 28,849,424 | 1 | 3 | 28,844,101 | train | <story><title>IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district</title><url>https://whitehoodhacker.net/posts/2021-10-04-the-big-rick</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>acidburnNSA</author><text>I &#x27;worked&#x27; for my own high school&#x27;s IT dept, a few hours a week, as a student. It was an amazing experience working with those guys. I learned so many things, from how to punch, terminate, and run cables to how to set up a Ghost image and deploy it en masse across the district.<p>One day one of the old macs was showing the frowny face in a in-session classroom. Boss sent me down there with specific instructions: &quot;pull out the hard drive and beat it really hard with the handle of this screwdriver&quot;. I was like: &quot;?&quot; and he was like, &quot;just do it&quot;.<p>So I go down there and let myself in, trying not to interrupt the class. I climb behind the computer on a cart and pull out the HD. I beat it with the handle, like a good 10 times. Of course this got the class all riled up. I blushed, but told them this was normal operating procedure. Plug it back in and it works. I was (secretly) as amazed as everyone else in the class.<p>Back in the IT office, I say it worked. IT boss smiles and nods. I ask how. Well as it turns out some of those old hard drives used a vegetable oil based lube that seizes up if it&#x27;s not used for a while. So if you bash it it un-seizes and starts turning again.<p>Anyway great times, fun memories. We all got our CompTIA A+ certifications at the end, but don&#x27;t ask me what IRQ number is for the parallel port these days.</text></item><item><author>jimt1234</author><text>Working in IT&#x2F;tech for school district is the worst. My experience from many years ago - around 2002, I think:<p>1. First day on the job, email to boss: &quot;Hey, the computer lab at Springfield High has a ton of known security flaws that are begging to be exploited.&quot;<p>2. Reply, 1 week later: &quot;Sorry, we don&#x27;t have any money for that. Just keep everything up-and-running.&quot;<p>3. 3 weeks later the computer lab at Springfield High got &quot;hacked&quot;. All the computers displayed a popup window that said, &quot;Miss Krabappel is a dyke!&quot; (sorry for the offensive language)<p>4. Next day, email from boss: &quot;The computer lab at Springfield High was hacked! Figure out how to fix this and make sure it doesn&#x27;t happen again!&quot;<p>5. A few days later Miss Krabappel filed to sue the school district. The local newspaper picked up the story.<p>6. Email from boss, in full panic mode: &quot;I need you to figure out who hacked the computer lab at Springfield High so we can report him to the police!&quot;<p>7. A week later an independent consulting firm was brought in to help identify the person behind the &quot;hack&quot;. I heard they were paid $50K and found nothing. However, the kid got ratted out when he told all his friends. (It wasn&#x27;t Bart Simpson! ;) )<p>8. Several weeks later: meeting to discuss working with a consulting firm that&#x27;s gonna fix all the security issues because the current staff (me and my team) lacks the skills.<p>9. About 6 months later, I quit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>specialist</author><text>&gt; <i>...pull out the HD. I beat it with the handle, like a good 10 times...</i><p>Heh. Nice.<p>A coworker&#x27;s Mac wouldn&#x27;t boot. I couldn&#x27;t hear the hard drive. It was a model with the tip of the spindle exposed. I found a pencil with a gummy eraser. Gave the spindle a twist as I turned the power on.<p>Told the amazed user, &quot;Do not turn off your computer until after you have backed up your data. That probably won&#x27;t work twice.&quot;<p>Good times.</text></comment> | <story><title>IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district</title><url>https://whitehoodhacker.net/posts/2021-10-04-the-big-rick</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>acidburnNSA</author><text>I &#x27;worked&#x27; for my own high school&#x27;s IT dept, a few hours a week, as a student. It was an amazing experience working with those guys. I learned so many things, from how to punch, terminate, and run cables to how to set up a Ghost image and deploy it en masse across the district.<p>One day one of the old macs was showing the frowny face in a in-session classroom. Boss sent me down there with specific instructions: &quot;pull out the hard drive and beat it really hard with the handle of this screwdriver&quot;. I was like: &quot;?&quot; and he was like, &quot;just do it&quot;.<p>So I go down there and let myself in, trying not to interrupt the class. I climb behind the computer on a cart and pull out the HD. I beat it with the handle, like a good 10 times. Of course this got the class all riled up. I blushed, but told them this was normal operating procedure. Plug it back in and it works. I was (secretly) as amazed as everyone else in the class.<p>Back in the IT office, I say it worked. IT boss smiles and nods. I ask how. Well as it turns out some of those old hard drives used a vegetable oil based lube that seizes up if it&#x27;s not used for a while. So if you bash it it un-seizes and starts turning again.<p>Anyway great times, fun memories. We all got our CompTIA A+ certifications at the end, but don&#x27;t ask me what IRQ number is for the parallel port these days.</text></item><item><author>jimt1234</author><text>Working in IT&#x2F;tech for school district is the worst. My experience from many years ago - around 2002, I think:<p>1. First day on the job, email to boss: &quot;Hey, the computer lab at Springfield High has a ton of known security flaws that are begging to be exploited.&quot;<p>2. Reply, 1 week later: &quot;Sorry, we don&#x27;t have any money for that. Just keep everything up-and-running.&quot;<p>3. 3 weeks later the computer lab at Springfield High got &quot;hacked&quot;. All the computers displayed a popup window that said, &quot;Miss Krabappel is a dyke!&quot; (sorry for the offensive language)<p>4. Next day, email from boss: &quot;The computer lab at Springfield High was hacked! Figure out how to fix this and make sure it doesn&#x27;t happen again!&quot;<p>5. A few days later Miss Krabappel filed to sue the school district. The local newspaper picked up the story.<p>6. Email from boss, in full panic mode: &quot;I need you to figure out who hacked the computer lab at Springfield High so we can report him to the police!&quot;<p>7. A week later an independent consulting firm was brought in to help identify the person behind the &quot;hack&quot;. I heard they were paid $50K and found nothing. However, the kid got ratted out when he told all his friends. (It wasn&#x27;t Bart Simpson! ;) )<p>8. Several weeks later: meeting to discuss working with a consulting firm that&#x27;s gonna fix all the security issues because the current staff (me and my team) lacks the skills.<p>9. About 6 months later, I quit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sandworm101</author><text>&gt;&gt; un-seizes and starts turning again.<p>More likely an armature rather than a platter. Violence also worked when the drive would get stuck on a bad sector. Bashing the drive horizontally, while it was on, would sometimes move the arm enough for the drive to reacquire and hopefully not hit the same error on the next read attempt.</text></comment> |
39,550,257 | 39,548,974 | 1 | 2 | 39,548,088 | train | <story><title>The KDE desktop gets an overhaul with Plasma 6</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/963851/0c64b8038c62432c/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>haunter</author><text>Personally I feel that KDE is what GNOME wanted to be but can’t. Not just the DE itself but the KDE applications too, just look at Krita for example compared to GIMP. Somehow KDE could accomplish much more and feels more mature and robust too.<p>I loved GNOME2 back then but feels like something went wrong with GNOME3 regarding the whole
project and how users reacted to
the different UI. I’d say the classic Windows NT era UI (95, 98, 2000, Xp) was peak design so I’m glad KDE stick to that more or less and made it even better and modern.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>badsectoracula</author><text>&gt; just look at Krita for example compared to GIMP<p>FWIW technically the programs have different purposes, even if they also have a lot of overlapping functionality: Krita is primarily a digital painting application, which you can also use to do some general image editing while GIMP is primarily an image editing application which you can also use to do some digital painting. However if you compare the focus of each application to the equivalent of the other you&#x27;ll see that Krita&#x27;s image editing functionality - especially on things outside digital painting - is lacking while GIMP is stronger there and at the same time GIMP&#x27;s digital painting functionality much more limited when compared to Krita&#x27;s.</text></comment> | <story><title>The KDE desktop gets an overhaul with Plasma 6</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/963851/0c64b8038c62432c/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>haunter</author><text>Personally I feel that KDE is what GNOME wanted to be but can’t. Not just the DE itself but the KDE applications too, just look at Krita for example compared to GIMP. Somehow KDE could accomplish much more and feels more mature and robust too.<p>I loved GNOME2 back then but feels like something went wrong with GNOME3 regarding the whole
project and how users reacted to
the different UI. I’d say the classic Windows NT era UI (95, 98, 2000, Xp) was peak design so I’m glad KDE stick to that more or less and made it even better and modern.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rtpg</author><text>The simple 2-bit explanation is KDE is following Windows trends, Gnome is following Mac trends. Even the screenshot widgets are both following the closed-source versions (recent Gnome screenshot widget is exactly the new MacOS screenshot widget)<p>I think it&#x27;s a bit of a shame that Ubuntu is the &quot;no headaches&quot; distro, but ships with a DE that will annoy nerds much more than KDE does. My Linux experience got so much better under KDE. I respect what Gnome does a lot but I feel at home in KDE land.</text></comment> |
17,007,783 | 17,007,648 | 1 | 2 | 17,002,527 | train | <story><title>ZSH, tmux, Emacs and SSH: A copy-paste story</title><url>https://blog.d46.us/zsh-tmux-emacs-copy-paste/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dangirsh</author><text>This annoyance is one reason I avoid leaving Emacs. Eshell, tramp, dired, proced, docker-mode, etc... replace most of my terminal needs (including SSH). The same movement, search, and copy&#x2F;paste bindings work everywhere, including in buffers pointing to remote machines.<p>Relevant: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;emacs&#x2F;comments&#x2F;6y3q4k&#x2F;yes_eshell_is_my_main_shell&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;emacs&#x2F;comments&#x2F;6y3q4k&#x2F;yes_eshell_is...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>ZSH, tmux, Emacs and SSH: A copy-paste story</title><url>https://blog.d46.us/zsh-tmux-emacs-copy-paste/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ackyshake</author><text><p><pre><code> &gt; The problem is that pbpaste and pbcopy do not work under tmux
</code></pre>
They do in recent macOS&#x2F;tmux versions. You don&#x27;t need reattach-to-user-namespace anymore.<p>These are my keybindings for copy&#x2F;paste to clipboard:<p><pre><code> bind-key -T copy-mode-vi &#x27;v&#x27; send -X begin-selection
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi &#x27;y&#x27; send -X copy-pipe-and-cancel pbcopy
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi MouseDragEnd1Pane send -X copy-pipe-and-cancel pbcopy
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi MouseDragEnd3Pane send -X copy-pipe-and-cancel pbcopy
</code></pre>
`prefix + ]` then pastes using the clipboard contents</text></comment> |
34,279,141 | 34,275,794 | 1 | 3 | 34,272,834 | train | <story><title>My bad habit of hoarding information</title><url>https://andreisurugiu.com/blog/bad-habit/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lo_zamoyski</author><text>FOMO is a sign of the vice of curiosity[0] and pride[1]. The rosier side of what you&#x27;re doing is that you seem to have a means of at least managing the impulse. Still unfocused, still not perfect, but better than pointless chasing after information.<p>Perhaps a way to break the habit is a kind of fasting and interruption: when you come across the temptation to indulge a distraction or archive that link, cut yourself off and remind yourself that all you&#x27;re doing is dissipating your energies and working against your own good and understanding. Instead of nourishing your mind through sustained commitment, you are choosing to wallow in the shallows of the shoreline. To enter the depths, you must let go the shore. That&#x27;s the decision you face here, and decisions are always a sacrificial act. You give up one thing for another.<p>[0] Curiosity here refers to a kind of &quot;information gluttony&#x2F;lust&quot;, a kind of wandering eye. It&#x27;s the same impulse that afflicts busybodies and gossips in that the desire to know has been unhinged from reason. You don&#x27;t need to know most of that stuff and most of it is of little value to you.<p>[1] Pride because there&#x27;s now way you can know everything, not in this life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dmreedy</author><text>I think there&#x27;s a whole lot of truth in this, but I&#x27;d also like to try to provide a complementary position, for the balance.<p>There is a kind of depth can come from focus, but this is a narrow kind of depth, one that can&#x27;t question its own premises. It&#x27;s directly analogous to the depth of a depth-first search, and has the same upsides and downsides. It&#x27;s really handy when you know your target, and when you think your heuristics for having chosen that target are pretty good.<p>Meanwhile, I think you can look at this kind of broad-spectrum curiosity as a kind of breadth-first search, again, with the same strengths and weaknesses. It definitely takes longer, and it definitely can end up amounting to not much more than wallowing. But it can also serve very well when you&#x27;re not sure what the target is, or if there even is one.<p>Furthermore, it can give access to more <i>possible</i> models, more analogies, more metaphor, more understanding-by-comparison, which in turn grants a depth of its own kind, especially in conjunction with true narrow depth of exploration. Since all models are wrong, and each model explores different facets of an idea, having more models gives you a broader set of tools for taking a given concept and applying it to specific areas. They may not be useful in the given moment, but they may lead to unpredictable and insightful connections later on.<p>But of course, to your point, that all comes at the risk of never getting far enough along to apply anything in the first place. But I do believe there is a place for each. Feynman spinning plates in the cafeteria and all that.</text></comment> | <story><title>My bad habit of hoarding information</title><url>https://andreisurugiu.com/blog/bad-habit/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lo_zamoyski</author><text>FOMO is a sign of the vice of curiosity[0] and pride[1]. The rosier side of what you&#x27;re doing is that you seem to have a means of at least managing the impulse. Still unfocused, still not perfect, but better than pointless chasing after information.<p>Perhaps a way to break the habit is a kind of fasting and interruption: when you come across the temptation to indulge a distraction or archive that link, cut yourself off and remind yourself that all you&#x27;re doing is dissipating your energies and working against your own good and understanding. Instead of nourishing your mind through sustained commitment, you are choosing to wallow in the shallows of the shoreline. To enter the depths, you must let go the shore. That&#x27;s the decision you face here, and decisions are always a sacrificial act. You give up one thing for another.<p>[0] Curiosity here refers to a kind of &quot;information gluttony&#x2F;lust&quot;, a kind of wandering eye. It&#x27;s the same impulse that afflicts busybodies and gossips in that the desire to know has been unhinged from reason. You don&#x27;t need to know most of that stuff and most of it is of little value to you.<p>[1] Pride because there&#x27;s now way you can know everything, not in this life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Mezzie</author><text>&gt; Curiosity here refers to a kind of &quot;information gluttony&#x2F;lust&quot;, a kind of wandering eye. It&#x27;s the same impulse that afflicts busybodies and gossips in that the desire to know has been unhinged from reason. You don&#x27;t need to know most of that stuff and most of it is of little value to you.<p>Ow. I&#x27;m in this picture and don&#x27;t like it. But that is a wonderful phrase, thank you for introducing it to me.</text></comment> |
19,872,745 | 19,872,494 | 1 | 3 | 19,871,989 | train | <story><title>Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage</title><url>https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/05/technical-details-on-the-recent-firefox-add-on-outage/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jzl</author><text>Looks like a good read. I haven&#x27;t finished reading it yet, but there&#x27;s something I still don&#x27;t get ...<p>Windows and macOS both have a signing infrastructure for apps. The rules of that infrastructure dictate only that apps must have been signed by a valid certificate at the time they were signed. That way old app downloads don&#x27;t need to be periodically re-signed just to account for expiring certificates. I can download a 5-year-old version of 7zip or whatever and it runs just fine because it was signed with something valid to the timestamp in the signature. The process of distributing desktop apps would be utterly insane if this were not the case.<p>Not following this model for browser plugins seems unnecessarily cumbersome. Is it really worth requiring all browser plugins to be signed by a <i>currently</i> valid certificate? Is there a document or blog post where this is argued to be more appropriate?<p>I get that it arguably leads to more stringent security, but I&#x27;m not convinced by the delta improvement of that model over the desktop model, given the additional downsides. And the &quot;let everything expire after a few years and resign it&quot; process should not be used as a substitution for revocation. After all, if it were determined retroactively that a malware extension was signed does it really help everyone that it can&#x27;t be loaded in a year or two, given the damage it could cause right now?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>johnp_</author><text>It seems Mozilla is in the process[0] of moving the signature scheme to COSE, which allows timestamping[1]. A code comment[2] says that the current package format doesn&#x27;t allow it.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugzilla.mozilla.org&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=1545836" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugzilla.mozilla.org&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=1545836</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tools.ietf.org&#x2F;html&#x2F;rfc8152#section-4.5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tools.ietf.org&#x2F;html&#x2F;rfc8152#section-4.5</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;searchfox.org&#x2F;mozilla-central&#x2F;rev&#x2F;b9da45f63cb567244933c77b2c7e827a057d3f9b&#x2F;security&#x2F;apps&#x2F;AppSignatureVerification.cpp#644" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;searchfox.org&#x2F;mozilla-central&#x2F;rev&#x2F;b9da45f63cb5672449...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage</title><url>https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/05/technical-details-on-the-recent-firefox-add-on-outage/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jzl</author><text>Looks like a good read. I haven&#x27;t finished reading it yet, but there&#x27;s something I still don&#x27;t get ...<p>Windows and macOS both have a signing infrastructure for apps. The rules of that infrastructure dictate only that apps must have been signed by a valid certificate at the time they were signed. That way old app downloads don&#x27;t need to be periodically re-signed just to account for expiring certificates. I can download a 5-year-old version of 7zip or whatever and it runs just fine because it was signed with something valid to the timestamp in the signature. The process of distributing desktop apps would be utterly insane if this were not the case.<p>Not following this model for browser plugins seems unnecessarily cumbersome. Is it really worth requiring all browser plugins to be signed by a <i>currently</i> valid certificate? Is there a document or blog post where this is argued to be more appropriate?<p>I get that it arguably leads to more stringent security, but I&#x27;m not convinced by the delta improvement of that model over the desktop model, given the additional downsides. And the &quot;let everything expire after a few years and resign it&quot; process should not be used as a substitution for revocation. After all, if it were determined retroactively that a malware extension was signed does it really help everyone that it can&#x27;t be loaded in a year or two, given the damage it could cause right now?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>johncolanduoni</author><text>For the time stamp method to work, you need a trusted mechanism to attest that the timestamp is correct, otherwise the mechanism is useless (an attacker with an outdated private key can just backdate the timestamp in the executable and then sign it). Windows code signing uses a server Microsoft runs to provide this, and Mozilla would need to do the same.<p>I’m not saying they shouldn’t, but it is a significant piece of complexity.</text></comment> |
38,508,877 | 38,508,750 | 1 | 3 | 38,507,381 | train | <story><title>The worst thing about Jenkins is that it works (2019)</title><url>http://twitchard.github.io/posts/2019-06-21-life-is-too-short-for-jenkins.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zdw</author><text>All of the test runners have their issues. I&#x27;ve had as much problems with Jenkins as I&#x27;ve had with Github Runners and similar solutions.<p>The best way out of this is to subdivide responsibilities:<p>- Put all build&#x2F;publish&#x2F;test logic in Makefiles or scripts in the repo. This means that devs can run it locally as well. The only interaction between a test runner and the codebase should be running `make &lt;target&gt;`.<p>- Put all permissions and code checkout and artifact publishing credentials in the test runner, but no logic. At most you would put processing of test output like making junit&#x2F;coverage&#x2F;tap more web-readable.<p>That&#x27;s it. Split the efforts cleanly, and things fall into place. Also, you can switch runners easily - less needs to be reimplemented in whatever runner config DSL is picked.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>john-tells-all</author><text>&gt; - Put all build&#x2F;publish&#x2F;test logic in Makefiles or scripts in the repo. This means that devs can run it locally as well.<p>This is critical!<p>In many teams Devs are &quot;lazy&quot;, if any errors or weirdness happens in CI they just wave their hands and say &quot;not a feature, not my problem&quot;. Even though they know exactly what&#x27;s in the test code, the deploy code, and can see the issue.<p>Letting Devs see and run the CI scripts locally gives them _ownership_. They don&#x27;t have to fix the issues, but they have control and understanding which radically reduces the arguments and pipeline drama :)</text></comment> | <story><title>The worst thing about Jenkins is that it works (2019)</title><url>http://twitchard.github.io/posts/2019-06-21-life-is-too-short-for-jenkins.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zdw</author><text>All of the test runners have their issues. I&#x27;ve had as much problems with Jenkins as I&#x27;ve had with Github Runners and similar solutions.<p>The best way out of this is to subdivide responsibilities:<p>- Put all build&#x2F;publish&#x2F;test logic in Makefiles or scripts in the repo. This means that devs can run it locally as well. The only interaction between a test runner and the codebase should be running `make &lt;target&gt;`.<p>- Put all permissions and code checkout and artifact publishing credentials in the test runner, but no logic. At most you would put processing of test output like making junit&#x2F;coverage&#x2F;tap more web-readable.<p>That&#x27;s it. Split the efforts cleanly, and things fall into place. Also, you can switch runners easily - less needs to be reimplemented in whatever runner config DSL is picked.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sevagh</author><text>&gt;- Put all build&#x2F;publish&#x2F;test logic in Makefiles or scripts in the repo. This means that devs can run it locally as well. The only interaction between a test runner and the codebase should be running `make &lt;target&gt;`.<p>This always breaks because then each platform has a specific way of defining env vars or secrets for those Makefiles and bash scripts. End result is devs still can&#x27;t really run CI &quot;proper&quot; the way it&#x27;s configured in a runner.</text></comment> |
32,830,543 | 32,830,743 | 1 | 2 | 32,827,209 | train | <story><title>Gödel, Escher, Bach: an in-depth explainer</title><url>https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/wwNnzaPnB5a48K86N/book-review-goedel-escher-bach-an-in-depth-explainer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dinobones</author><text>Am I the only one who did not find this book that interesting? I studied CS so it just felt like reading my class textbooks again, except with random trippy stories in between that try to shoehorn theory into a poor metaphor.<p>The fundamentals of CS (strings, automata, graphs) are elementary building blocks. This is by design. You can apply them to almost anything. Almost everything &quot;is a graph&quot;, or &quot;recursion&quot; if you formulate them to be so.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>climate-code</author><text>The point isn&#x27;t that everything is recursive - the point is that systems that are recursive &#x2F; self-referential cause breakdowns in logic (they are incomplete).<p>This is a deep philosophical insight - it rhymes with the Buddhist idea of no-self - the problems that arise because we hold onto a false sense of self.</text></comment> | <story><title>Gödel, Escher, Bach: an in-depth explainer</title><url>https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/wwNnzaPnB5a48K86N/book-review-goedel-escher-bach-an-in-depth-explainer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dinobones</author><text>Am I the only one who did not find this book that interesting? I studied CS so it just felt like reading my class textbooks again, except with random trippy stories in between that try to shoehorn theory into a poor metaphor.<p>The fundamentals of CS (strings, automata, graphs) are elementary building blocks. This is by design. You can apply them to almost anything. Almost everything &quot;is a graph&quot;, or &quot;recursion&quot; if you formulate them to be so.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xiaolingxiao</author><text>I read it before studying cs and I thought it was fascinating and made me want to study it. After studying it at the grad school level I re read it and found the book somewhat pedantic. It’s a bit like the black swan in the regard: it package advanced under grad level stem topics with colorful anecdotes and musings.</text></comment> |
6,956,351 | 6,956,258 | 1 | 2 | 6,956,004 | train | <story><title>Californians: Ashamed of Senator Feinstein's lies on surveillance? Join Us</title><url>https://shameonfeinstein.org</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rosser</author><text>If you really want to get Feinstein&#x27;s attention, an internet petition, even an incredibly well-written one like TFA, isn&#x27;t likely to do much. You need to pick up the phone and interact with a human being in her office, making sure that person understands the importance of this issue to you, one of her constituents.<p>If her staffers start being effectively being DDoSed from doing their jobs by phone calls about NSA surveillance, she <i>will</i> hear about it.<p>Source: my cousin and his wife were both Senate staffers for a number of years.</text></comment> | <story><title>Californians: Ashamed of Senator Feinstein's lies on surveillance? Join Us</title><url>https://shameonfeinstein.org</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>timw6n</author><text>The fact that there&#x27;s an &quot;Is this safe&quot; link next to the button for signing the petition is itself a telling indicator of the chilling effects of this sort of surveillance.<p>A couple of years ago people wouldn&#x27;t even have imagined the possibility that there&#x27;d be consequences from this sort of very low-level, very legitimate, democratic participation.</text></comment> |
38,380,314 | 38,379,253 | 1 | 3 | 38,378,776 | train | <story><title>Writing and linting Python at scale</title><url>https://engineering.fb.com/2023/08/07/developer-tools/fixit-2-linter-meta/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>infocollector</author><text>They are talking about this project : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pypi.org&#x2F;project&#x2F;fixit&#x2F;2.0.0a1&#x2F;#description" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pypi.org&#x2F;project&#x2F;fixit&#x2F;2.0.0a1&#x2F;#description</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;libcst.readthedocs.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;libcst.readthedocs.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;</a> powers Fixit 2. I would love to hear if there are any production users here for this new linter, and how is that working out for them?</text></comment> | <story><title>Writing and linting Python at scale</title><url>https://engineering.fb.com/2023/08/07/developer-tools/fixit-2-linter-meta/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ayhanfuat</author><text>(It&#x27;s a podcast, not an article)</text></comment> |
41,442,324 | 41,442,118 | 1 | 3 | 41,440,021 | train | <story><title>Vue 3.5 released</title><url>https://blog.vuejs.org/posts/vue-3-5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwup238</author><text><i>&gt; Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann</i><p>I take it back. Buster, bullseye, bookworm, gibbon, fawn, eft, fossa, jellyfish, and numbat are amazing release names. What is this!?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ytch</author><text>Vue maintainer are using names from manga and anime all the time:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Vue.js#Versions" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Vue.js#Versions</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Vue 3.5 released</title><url>https://blog.vuejs.org/posts/vue-3-5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwup238</author><text><i>&gt; Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann</i><p>I take it back. Buster, bullseye, bookworm, gibbon, fawn, eft, fossa, jellyfish, and numbat are amazing release names. What is this!?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pupppet</author><text>Don&#x27;t believe in yourself, believe in Evan who believes in you.</text></comment> |
18,860,427 | 18,859,434 | 1 | 3 | 18,857,090 | train | <story><title>What’s the rush? The power of a slow morning</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/whats-the-rush-the-power-of-a-slow-morning-11546958541</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hexo</author><text>I&#x27;m unemployable just because of this. I cannot &quot;work&quot; in the morning or when my employer thinks I have to.</text></item><item><author>ilamont</author><text>I can&#x27;t read TFA, but wanted to note that there&#x27;s an interesting statistic in the book <i>Why We Sleep</i>: Something like 30% of the population are hard-wired to be &quot;night owls&quot; and 20% early risers. The author hypothesized that this may be an evolutionary survival mechanism that allowed bands of humans to always have people who were awake or more likely to wake quickly if threatened after dark or in the early morning.<p>For the natural night owls (I am one) the power of a slow morning is just the way we roll. I am so much more productive at 9pm than 9am, and have reworked my daily schedule accordingly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jen729w</author><text>Okay so hear me out here. You can change. It’s not hard.<p>I am the owliest of owls. All my life, I’ve been up till 2am and struggled to get out of bed, snooze the alarm, last minute, dash through the shower, hurry to work, no time to think, sit down guiltily at 9:01am. I hated that morning rush but whatever, “that’s just who I am”.<p>Now, I’m 42, so maybe age makes this easier. But my girlfriend is an early riser, and she sometimes gets up at 5am. FIVE A.M. What? Mental.<p>Except when you do it a bunch of days in a row, and you see the benefits. You know who else is up at 5am? Nobody, because they’re not idiots. So it’s an <i>amazing</i> time of day. It’s calm, it’s peaceful. Nobody bothers you.<p>The best part by far is right about now. It’s 9:30am here in Australia and I’ve been up for 3.5 hours already (only did 6am this morning). It feels like midday, yet I have the whole day left. It’s amazing.<p>The trade-off? You have to go to bed early, of course. But when you do this regularly, your body just sorts that out for you. You <i>will</i> be tired at 9pm. Just you try not to be, buddy. No amount of telling yourself that you’re an owl will change that. And, help yourself. Put the screen away, read a book, you know all of this.<p>Also, help yourself in the morning. My advice: don’t be a hero. Don’t try and get up and run a marathon. Just get up and put the kettle on. Slouch downstairs. Rub your eyes. It’s okay to be sleepy, it’s 5am and probably dark [0]. Have a cup of tea and a slice of toast. Read HN or Twitter or the paper or a book or whatever. DON’T BE A HERO.<p>Now, it’s 5:45am, maybe 6am. Seriously, don’t rush. But now it’s 6am and you are thoroughly awake and you are ready to go.<p>Enjoy the day. Just try not to be too smug about it, us morning people can be a bit like that. :-)<p>[0]: Added bonus. You get to see sunrise!</text></comment> | <story><title>What’s the rush? The power of a slow morning</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/whats-the-rush-the-power-of-a-slow-morning-11546958541</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hexo</author><text>I&#x27;m unemployable just because of this. I cannot &quot;work&quot; in the morning or when my employer thinks I have to.</text></item><item><author>ilamont</author><text>I can&#x27;t read TFA, but wanted to note that there&#x27;s an interesting statistic in the book <i>Why We Sleep</i>: Something like 30% of the population are hard-wired to be &quot;night owls&quot; and 20% early risers. The author hypothesized that this may be an evolutionary survival mechanism that allowed bands of humans to always have people who were awake or more likely to wake quickly if threatened after dark or in the early morning.<p>For the natural night owls (I am one) the power of a slow morning is just the way we roll. I am so much more productive at 9pm than 9am, and have reworked my daily schedule accordingly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Darkphibre</author><text>Have you considered telecommuting? There&#x27;s got to be a time-zone that may provide optimal alignment with your sleep patterns.</text></comment> |
10,772,459 | 10,771,908 | 1 | 3 | 10,771,627 | train | <story><title>Introducing Lektor – A Static File Content Management System For Python</title><url>http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2015/12/21/introducing-lektor/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>the_mitsuhiko</author><text>Direct links to project:<p>* Website: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.getlektor.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.getlektor.com&#x2F;</a><p>* Github: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lektor&#x2F;lektor" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lektor&#x2F;lektor</a><p>Would be really curious to hear how people like it :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>freyr</author><text><i>You need to make sure you have the following software installed on your computer:</i><p><i>- Python 2.7 (not Python 3.x)</i><p>I&#x27;ve read some of your remarks about Python 3, but it seemed like you were (at least begrudgingly) accepting the shift to Python 3. So why no forwards compatibility here? Any plans to support Python 3 in the future?</text></comment> | <story><title>Introducing Lektor – A Static File Content Management System For Python</title><url>http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2015/12/21/introducing-lektor/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>the_mitsuhiko</author><text>Direct links to project:<p>* Website: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.getlektor.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.getlektor.com&#x2F;</a><p>* Github: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lektor&#x2F;lektor" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lektor&#x2F;lektor</a><p>Would be really curious to hear how people like it :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bliti</author><text>Very nice. I had been building the same thing after wanting something more than pelican and less than wordpress. This seems to fit perfectly.<p>Is there a roadmap for contributing to the project? I failed to see one on github.</text></comment> |
11,690,524 | 11,690,526 | 1 | 2 | 11,687,463 | train | <story><title>AWS IoT Button</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/iot/button/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmritard96</author><text>Our Puck (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flair.co&#x2F;products&#x2F;puck" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flair.co&#x2F;products&#x2F;puck</a>) is sorta like this but with a small display. Instead of a generic button its a bit like a generic knob. So far positioned more as a heating and cooling device but I know I am excited to open it up to developers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ecaron</author><text>Do you have a mailing list where we can sign up to know when you open it up? I almost immediately bought this, but thought &quot;I should read up on the API first...&quot; Reading the FAQ [<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flair.co&#x2F;pages&#x2F;faq" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flair.co&#x2F;pages&#x2F;faq</a>] I see: &quot;Can I write apps for Puck? Not yet. But soon.&quot;<p>I&#x27;ll buy it the moment it lets me program it to suit my needs. It looks incredibly awesome and off the bat I can think of 4 places I&#x27;d love to use it (but none of them, unfortunately, have anything to do with heating or cooling).</text></comment> | <story><title>AWS IoT Button</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/iot/button/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmritard96</author><text>Our Puck (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flair.co&#x2F;products&#x2F;puck" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flair.co&#x2F;products&#x2F;puck</a>) is sorta like this but with a small display. Instead of a generic button its a bit like a generic knob. So far positioned more as a heating and cooling device but I know I am excited to open it up to developers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>feedjoelpie</author><text>Is there at least one button in addition to the knob? How do I get my hands on a dev kit? I have been casually looking for an internet-connected dial + button + display for a long time. I have lots of different productivity uses I want to try out. Badly.<p>Edit: I see now that it does indeed have &quot;click&quot; listed in the specs.</text></comment> |
8,804,229 | 8,804,214 | 1 | 2 | 8,803,498 | train | <story><title>Masscan: Scan the entire Internet in under 5 minutes</title><url>https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/masscan</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ianremsen</author><text>Note: your ISP and third-parties probably won&#x27;t like this very much.</text></comment> | <story><title>Masscan: Scan the entire Internet in under 5 minutes</title><url>https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/masscan</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yzzxy</author><text>There&#x27;s a great talk from Defcon 22 on using Massscan for security research:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOWexFaRylM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=UOWexFaRylM</a></text></comment> |
12,569,196 | 12,569,226 | 1 | 2 | 12,568,414 | train | <story><title>New Draft of “Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction, Second Edition”</title><url>https://www.dropbox.com/s/d6fyn4a5ag3atzk/bookdraft2016aug.pdf?dl=0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sridca</author><text>The submitted link is no longer working:<p>&gt; <i>Dropbox Error (429) This account&#x27;s links are generating too much traffic and have been temporarily disabled!</i></text></comment> | <story><title>New Draft of “Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction, Second Edition”</title><url>https://www.dropbox.com/s/d6fyn4a5ag3atzk/bookdraft2016aug.pdf?dl=0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nicklaf</author><text>I&#x27;ve uploaded a mirror of the PDF:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;instant.io&#x2F;#678d0be07a0f2260ec6f9b134ec0a1d7c4325e99" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;instant.io&#x2F;#678d0be07a0f2260ec6f9b134ec0a1d7c4325e99</a><p>If you can, leave the tab open for a while to keep seeding the file! (It&#x27;s a torrent.)</text></comment> |
12,702,919 | 12,702,324 | 1 | 3 | 12,701,847 | train | <story><title>Inside the New York Public Library's Last, Secret Apartments</title><url>http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/inside-the-new-york-public-librarys-last-secret-apartments</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>In the past I would have loved to live in a library, but now I live in a normal house <i>and</i> it doubles as a library with an almost infinite amount of reading material, and you, reading this <i>also</i> live in a library! What times we live in, such luxury. Surely the ancients would have happily done some murdering for this privilege.<p>As a kid I&#x27;d eat my way through the shelves of the library (it wasn&#x27;t a very big one), anything about physics, electronics, space, crafts and so on. There were days I went twice because I&#x27;d finished the books I was allowed to take out on a subject (sometimes only one).</text></comment> | <story><title>Inside the New York Public Library's Last, Secret Apartments</title><url>http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/inside-the-new-york-public-librarys-last-secret-apartments</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lucideer</author><text>&lt;OT&gt; Is it just me, or does the comma after &quot;last&quot; seem very, very wrong?</text></comment> |
18,984,220 | 18,984,433 | 1 | 2 | 18,980,954 | train | <story><title>Alarming Decline of Quality Youth Playtime</title><url>https://houseoflawandorder.com/the-alarming-decline-of-quality-youth-playtime/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>socrates1998</author><text>It is an issue no doubt because parents just honestly don&#x27;t have the confidence to let their kids go.<p>They are paranoid not just about kidnappers or child molesters, but they are worried about not preparing their kids for school and &quot;getting ahead&quot;, thus the over planned childhoods.<p>I really wish parents would just let go a little.<p>1) Read to your kids at night. Do it as old as they want you to do it.<p>2) Give them unstructured play time with friends consistently. After age 9 or so, they really can go off on their own without parents around.<p>3) Younger kids should experience a variety of things well through middle school. The more things they do, the better. Sure, they should get good grades (A&#x27;s and B&#x27;s), but obsessing over all A&#x27;s in middle school isn&#x27;t worth it.<p>4) High school is when structure starts to be more important IF they want to get into a competitive school. And forcing a high school kid to get a perfect score on his SAT is a recipe for disaster. It should be the kids choice.<p>Way too many parents are obsessed about making sure their son or daughter get into THE college they want. It&#x27;s more about the parent than the student.<p>I wish I could tell more parents to let fucking go. Teenagers go to war, they start businesses, they do all sorts of grown up things.<p>Keep them away from drugs and help them find a passion. That&#x27;s about it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dzdt</author><text>I am not paranoid about kidnappers and child molesters, but I am paranoid about other grownups who are paranoid about kidnappers and child molesters. I fully expect if I let my kids have the freedom previous generations had I would soon be visited by police and CPS because other paranoid do-gooders would report my kids as being in danger.</text></comment> | <story><title>Alarming Decline of Quality Youth Playtime</title><url>https://houseoflawandorder.com/the-alarming-decline-of-quality-youth-playtime/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>socrates1998</author><text>It is an issue no doubt because parents just honestly don&#x27;t have the confidence to let their kids go.<p>They are paranoid not just about kidnappers or child molesters, but they are worried about not preparing their kids for school and &quot;getting ahead&quot;, thus the over planned childhoods.<p>I really wish parents would just let go a little.<p>1) Read to your kids at night. Do it as old as they want you to do it.<p>2) Give them unstructured play time with friends consistently. After age 9 or so, they really can go off on their own without parents around.<p>3) Younger kids should experience a variety of things well through middle school. The more things they do, the better. Sure, they should get good grades (A&#x27;s and B&#x27;s), but obsessing over all A&#x27;s in middle school isn&#x27;t worth it.<p>4) High school is when structure starts to be more important IF they want to get into a competitive school. And forcing a high school kid to get a perfect score on his SAT is a recipe for disaster. It should be the kids choice.<p>Way too many parents are obsessed about making sure their son or daughter get into THE college they want. It&#x27;s more about the parent than the student.<p>I wish I could tell more parents to let fucking go. Teenagers go to war, they start businesses, they do all sorts of grown up things.<p>Keep them away from drugs and help them find a passion. That&#x27;s about it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shioyama</author><text>Completely agree.<p>&gt; After age 9 or so, they really can go off on their own without parents around.<p>I&#x27;d say more like age six, depending on the kid. Kids are much more independent and aware than adults give them credit for.<p>&gt; I wish I could tell more parents to let fucking go.<p>It&#x27;s ironic that just doing this -- <i>letting go</i> -- would probably do more good than any &quot;educational&quot; activity they schedule into their kids&#x27; lives.</text></comment> |
15,700,331 | 15,700,033 | 1 | 2 | 15,699,675 | train | <story><title>“It is never a compiler error”</title><url>https://blog.plover.com/2017/11/12/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cperciva</author><text>Sadly, I&#x27;ve lost count of how many compiler bugs I&#x27;ve tripped over through the years. Often it&#x27;s compiler crashes -- those are usually easy to get fixed, especially when (as tends to be the case with LLVM) they are caused by assertions failing -- but I&#x27;ve also tripped over compiler <i>hangs</i> (there&#x27;s a variable in the tarsnap code with an utterly bogus volatile specifier in order to avoid the problematic optimization on some versions of llvm) and outright <i>miscompilations</i> -- one of which has had several LLVM bug reports opened by different people over the years and remains unfixed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway613834</author><text>To be fair, I&#x27;ve also lost count of the number of times my compiler has compiled things correctly. ;)</text></comment> | <story><title>“It is never a compiler error”</title><url>https://blog.plover.com/2017/11/12/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cperciva</author><text>Sadly, I&#x27;ve lost count of how many compiler bugs I&#x27;ve tripped over through the years. Often it&#x27;s compiler crashes -- those are usually easy to get fixed, especially when (as tends to be the case with LLVM) they are caused by assertions failing -- but I&#x27;ve also tripped over compiler <i>hangs</i> (there&#x27;s a variable in the tarsnap code with an utterly bogus volatile specifier in order to avoid the problematic optimization on some versions of llvm) and outright <i>miscompilations</i> -- one of which has had several LLVM bug reports opened by different people over the years and remains unfixed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>empath75</author><text>If you’re the kind of programmer who is likely to find compiler errors, you probably know who you are. For 99% of programmers, the chances that you have discovered one is small.</text></comment> |
31,799,392 | 31,799,166 | 1 | 2 | 31,797,992 | train | <story><title>Bolt has a cool web interface and they really don't want you to use it</title><url>https://toot.kuba-orlik.name/@kuba/108503475480137792</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Lucasoato</author><text>I really can&#x27;t understand why Reddit is pushing the app so hard. I mean, keep that as an option, but why creating an awful UX for the mobile web users? You gather more data but the product is worse, less users are staying and you&#x27;re losing value at the end...</text></item><item><author>addicted</author><text>My Reddit usage has basically plummeted to 0 at this point because of their pushing me towards an app.<p>I think there are provable cases where an app almost certainly leads to less retention than more and something like Reddit, whose value lies in allowing you to explore the internet is almost certainly one of them.</text></item><item><author>mojuba</author><text>There&#x27;s an (unverified) myth that retention on mobile apps is better. This is one of those things that marketing people keep telling each other without ever verifying the facts. (Unless you deliberately make the web version inferior, of course.)<p>The reasoning behind it is that you should take real estate on the user&#x27;s home screen at all costs, because your app&#x27;s icon will serve as a reminder and people will allegedly come back to it and open more often.<p>But what matters at the end of the day is the product and the value it brings to the users. I&#x27;d argue that deceiving the users to provide real estate for your app does not help your business in the long term. If you get more installs today by coercing them (like Reddit does, for example) you will most definitely see some other metric such as retention decline over time.<p>Broadly, users - us that is - are not idiots. Deception works momentarily and can have an immediate effect on some metrics. Long term though, every user and no matter how smart or dumb, will eventually assess the value it gets them against the money, against their time, or against the &quot;home screen real estate&quot; they provided.<p>Speaking from my own experience with multiple mobile apps: there are many ways you can trick the users but you can&#x27;t trick the longer terms statistics.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>propogandist</author><text>You drive high ad revenue with their mobile app, with all the data mining. The old reddit experience was destroyed to drive ad revenue, they don’t care about UX.<p>also, beware of reddit URLs bouncing through out.reddit.com — which tracks all link clicks on reddit across mobile and desktop (profiling interests), regardless of login state</text></comment> | <story><title>Bolt has a cool web interface and they really don't want you to use it</title><url>https://toot.kuba-orlik.name/@kuba/108503475480137792</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Lucasoato</author><text>I really can&#x27;t understand why Reddit is pushing the app so hard. I mean, keep that as an option, but why creating an awful UX for the mobile web users? You gather more data but the product is worse, less users are staying and you&#x27;re losing value at the end...</text></item><item><author>addicted</author><text>My Reddit usage has basically plummeted to 0 at this point because of their pushing me towards an app.<p>I think there are provable cases where an app almost certainly leads to less retention than more and something like Reddit, whose value lies in allowing you to explore the internet is almost certainly one of them.</text></item><item><author>mojuba</author><text>There&#x27;s an (unverified) myth that retention on mobile apps is better. This is one of those things that marketing people keep telling each other without ever verifying the facts. (Unless you deliberately make the web version inferior, of course.)<p>The reasoning behind it is that you should take real estate on the user&#x27;s home screen at all costs, because your app&#x27;s icon will serve as a reminder and people will allegedly come back to it and open more often.<p>But what matters at the end of the day is the product and the value it brings to the users. I&#x27;d argue that deceiving the users to provide real estate for your app does not help your business in the long term. If you get more installs today by coercing them (like Reddit does, for example) you will most definitely see some other metric such as retention decline over time.<p>Broadly, users - us that is - are not idiots. Deception works momentarily and can have an immediate effect on some metrics. Long term though, every user and no matter how smart or dumb, will eventually assess the value it gets them against the money, against their time, or against the &quot;home screen real estate&quot; they provided.<p>Speaking from my own experience with multiple mobile apps: there are many ways you can trick the users but you can&#x27;t trick the longer terms statistics.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>usrn</author><text>Push notifications. Once someone is hooked on the site a notification can get them back into the dopamine feedback loop very easily. I think this is why restaurant chains have started giving people free food to install their apps too (along with all the data they can sell now.)<p>I think smartphones would be much less popular if people understood why corporations love &quot;apps&quot; so much. It&#x27;s nothing like the older PC world full of software more or less for its own sake.</text></comment> |
12,556,198 | 12,556,301 | 1 | 2 | 12,555,906 | train | <story><title>Principles we use to write CSS for modern browsers</title><url>https://gist.github.com/alekseykulikov/68a5d6ddae569f6d0456b0e9d603e892</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>skrebbel</author><text>A bit meta, but I need this off my chest: I love how this document starts off saying &quot;this is for react apps&quot;. IMO every discussion about CSS coding standards needs to start with context.<p>A lot of old CSS lore came from people who build websites. I mean those fairly uninteractive things, focus on content. Blogs, restaurants, newspapers.<p>Building an application that happens to use the DOM as their UI toolkit is totally different. The whole &quot;reuse the same classes but with different content&quot; thing that CSS classes were designed for becomes less important, and &quot;reuse pieces of <i>behavior</i>&quot; makes a lot more sense.<p>There&#x27;s probably more domains or subdomains that warrant their own CSS best practices. But I&#x27;m totally tired of a blog designer and a react app coder fighting on HN about how the other one is doing it wrong, when really they&#x27;re just solving different problems.</text></comment> | <story><title>Principles we use to write CSS for modern browsers</title><url>https://gist.github.com/alekseykulikov/68a5d6ddae569f6d0456b0e9d603e892</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MatekCopatek</author><text>IMHO, naming conventions such as SUIT, BEM, OOCSS and the like are NOT a good practice, but merely a workaround for dealing with the limitations of a global namespace.<p>My preferred solution are CSS Modules[1], Vue&#x27;s scoped styling[2] or something similar.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;css-modules&#x2F;css-modules" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;css-modules&#x2F;css-modules</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vuejs&#x2F;vue-loader&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;docs&#x2F;en&#x2F;features&#x2F;scoped-css.md" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vuejs&#x2F;vue-loader&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;docs&#x2F;en&#x2F;feat...</a></text></comment> |
18,848,985 | 18,846,895 | 1 | 2 | 18,845,476 | train | <story><title>I learnt C++ in 2018 and have no regrets</title><url>https://vishnubharathi.codes/blog/learning-cpp-2018/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lmm</author><text>Making Rust work nicely with win32 is probably less effort (and more valuable) than getting enough momentum behind a good dependency manager for C++.</text></item><item><author>sl1ck731</author><text>I ran into this trying to get into it about 3 weeks ago. I&#x27;m so used to things like npm, ruby gems, go packages, pip that it felt like a huge task just to get something built or settle on a way for me to build mine.<p>Even grabbing libraries from github, I was unsure if I should grab just the headers and DLLs, or import the entire tree and mashup my build scripts with theirs.<p>I wish I had stayed with it since college but now I feel I have to reach for something like Go or Rust just to get something shareable in reasonable time purely because of the tooling, whereas I would really like to use the C++ language itself specifically for working with win32.</text></item><item><author>anuragsoni</author><text>&quot;To round up, C++ does not dictate about its tooling, which basically gives lot of choices and flexibility. But at the same time it is making it complex for beginners to come in to projects and start projects with it.&quot;<p>This was a big problem for me when I first started using C++. I don&#x27;t remember it being too bad when I was just working on small projects and things I wanted to do at school. The problems started when moving past the &quot;1-person&quot; projects. Want to contribute to other projects? Chances are they all have very different build setups and configurations when it comes to building, testing, dependency management. That adds some friction even before you start taking a look at the actual code-base.<p>I understand that a lot of these problems can occur for languages as old as C++, but I wish the tooling was a little more opinionated and worked a little better at guiding newcomers into doing things in a nicer manner.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Const-me</author><text>&gt; work nicely with win32 is probably less effort<p>Gonna be very hard to do. For the last 15+ years COM is essential part of WinAPI, and too many things in Rust conflict with COM: ownership, OOP, virtual tables, inheritance, they all too different.<p>Not just in Rust, in all languages, actually. You only have 2 good choices for complex platform-dependent windows development: either C++, or a microsoft&#x27;s language with COM support embedded deep in the runtime, like VB6 or VBScript or .NET.</text></comment> | <story><title>I learnt C++ in 2018 and have no regrets</title><url>https://vishnubharathi.codes/blog/learning-cpp-2018/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lmm</author><text>Making Rust work nicely with win32 is probably less effort (and more valuable) than getting enough momentum behind a good dependency manager for C++.</text></item><item><author>sl1ck731</author><text>I ran into this trying to get into it about 3 weeks ago. I&#x27;m so used to things like npm, ruby gems, go packages, pip that it felt like a huge task just to get something built or settle on a way for me to build mine.<p>Even grabbing libraries from github, I was unsure if I should grab just the headers and DLLs, or import the entire tree and mashup my build scripts with theirs.<p>I wish I had stayed with it since college but now I feel I have to reach for something like Go or Rust just to get something shareable in reasonable time purely because of the tooling, whereas I would really like to use the C++ language itself specifically for working with win32.</text></item><item><author>anuragsoni</author><text>&quot;To round up, C++ does not dictate about its tooling, which basically gives lot of choices and flexibility. But at the same time it is making it complex for beginners to come in to projects and start projects with it.&quot;<p>This was a big problem for me when I first started using C++. I don&#x27;t remember it being too bad when I was just working on small projects and things I wanted to do at school. The problems started when moving past the &quot;1-person&quot; projects. Want to contribute to other projects? Chances are they all have very different build setups and configurations when it comes to building, testing, dependency management. That adds some friction even before you start taking a look at the actual code-base.<p>I understand that a lot of these problems can occur for languages as old as C++, but I wish the tooling was a little more opinionated and worked a little better at guiding newcomers into doing things in a nicer manner.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ModernMech</author><text>Rust works <i>great</i> on Windows. I use it every day. Is there anything specifically you had in mind that needs to be improved? Off the top of my head there is some tooling work that needs to be done, but cargo and rustup handle compiling, versioning, and dependency management flawlessly imo.</text></comment> |
30,764,568 | 30,764,008 | 1 | 3 | 30,763,003 | train | <story><title>In Praise of Memorization</title><url>http://www.pearlleff.com/in-praise-of-memorization</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>turboponyy</author><text>I&#x27;ve never regarded memorization highly. Whenever we had to learn the times tables or the squares at school, I would just work them out in my head instead of memorizing them.<p>Of course, I still ended up learning the squares and the times tables by heart, but not because I actively memorized them, but because I just used them so much that I couldn&#x27;t help but remember them eventually.<p>I&#x27;m of the opinion that this leads to a good rule of thumb: never memorize anything - if you use the thing often enough, you can&#x27;t help but memorize it anyway.<p>Of course, you could argue that how often you use something isn&#x27;t necessarily equivalent to how much utility you might get out of memorizing said thing, and I don&#x27;t disagree with that.<p>All that being said, I do agree with the article&#x27;s premise that an expansive knowledge base aids reasoning, which does seem to be in conflict with my principle. I definitely do possess a basic knowledge of geography, and it does definitely aid my reasoning, but I don&#x27;t ever remember actively memorizing that - not at school, nor elsewhere.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>omnicognate</author><text>I had a similar view as a kid, driven mostly by the fact that I wasn&#x27;t very good at memorisation. I found that I could get by in maths without it, eg. deriving the quadratic formula by completing the square rather than memorising it. I didn&#x27;t value memory much as a tool in maths.<p>After having studied maths and physics at university and worked as a programmer in a mathematical field for 20 years (and studied much more maths in my spare time), I now see my poor recall as the limiting factor in my abilities in maths. The main reason I don&#x27;t think I could ever have been a professional mathematician is that I would have reached (and have reached in my own learning as an amateur) a ceiling.<p>I have maths books that are beloved to me, that I have read multiple times (actively, working with pen and paper as one should) and which I will enjoy again in future. But the concepts in those books do not remain in my mind. I don&#x27;t reach a point where the structure of basic linear algebra, say, is baked in.<p>I am good at the problem solving, but maths is an edifice, one people have been building onto for millenia. I explore that edifice, and keep returning to my favourite bits of it, but the portion of that structure that is resident in my mind is, and I think always will be, small. It&#x27;s a window, and as more comes into it, more slides out. Everybody must have such a window, but I know others have much larger windows than me. And that&#x27;s fine - I&#x27;m a programmer, not a mathematician. But I think it&#x27;s something I would have benefitted from understanding earlier in my life. Perhaps I would have set about &quot;learning to learn&quot; differently. Rote memorisation and active curation of memories already formed could have benefitted me greatly.</text></comment> | <story><title>In Praise of Memorization</title><url>http://www.pearlleff.com/in-praise-of-memorization</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>turboponyy</author><text>I&#x27;ve never regarded memorization highly. Whenever we had to learn the times tables or the squares at school, I would just work them out in my head instead of memorizing them.<p>Of course, I still ended up learning the squares and the times tables by heart, but not because I actively memorized them, but because I just used them so much that I couldn&#x27;t help but remember them eventually.<p>I&#x27;m of the opinion that this leads to a good rule of thumb: never memorize anything - if you use the thing often enough, you can&#x27;t help but memorize it anyway.<p>Of course, you could argue that how often you use something isn&#x27;t necessarily equivalent to how much utility you might get out of memorizing said thing, and I don&#x27;t disagree with that.<p>All that being said, I do agree with the article&#x27;s premise that an expansive knowledge base aids reasoning, which does seem to be in conflict with my principle. I definitely do possess a basic knowledge of geography, and it does definitely aid my reasoning, but I don&#x27;t ever remember actively memorizing that - not at school, nor elsewhere.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>samatman</author><text>&gt; <i>I&#x27;ve never regarded memorization highly</i><p>You were probably taught that memorization means &quot;memorization, plus you will be examined and punished and rewarded accordingly, in many cases against any natural inclination to memorize the object of conditioning&quot;.<p>I doesn&#x27;t, but you&#x27;re right to not regard this highly.<p>&gt; <i>never memorize anything - if you use the thing often enough</i><p>You&#x27;ll memorize it, yes.</text></comment> |
19,766,699 | 19,766,698 | 1 | 3 | 19,766,105 | train | <story><title>I'm a Data Scientist and It's Not My Passion</title><url>https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/six-figure-paycheck-data-scientist-nyc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TuringNYC</author><text>It really doesnt matter whether the startup gives you 4500, 1500, or 45000, or a million. You are being given the numerator without knowing the denominator, so it is all worth zero until you get to see the Cap Table. Most startups wont let you see the Cap Table.<p>Even if you saw the Cap Table, there is still a lot of uncertainty, tons of illiquidity, and a long horizon.<p>Options are nice, but they are not cash and do not belong in the same conversation as salary.</text></item><item><author>ilikehurdles</author><text>Yes, it’s 4500 stock options worth $0 each. Pretty generous. Other startups of that size are lucky to get you 1500 stock options at $0 each.</text></item><item><author>asaph</author><text>Is there an equity component in addition to the base salary?</text></item><item><author>paxys</author><text>&gt; I am now working at a tech startup<p>This would explain the salary</text></item><item><author>minimaxir</author><text>Link to original post: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.refinery29.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;six-figure-paycheck-data-scientist-nyc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.refinery29.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;six-figure-paycheck-data-sc...</a> (Edit: URL fixed)<p>The real question is that $125k as a <i>Senior</i> Data Analyst in NYC seems low.<p>&gt; I have this creative side, which comes in handy when thinking through challenging problems, but there is only so much creativity that I can use when in data analysis.<p>This I disagree with; in data analysis&#x2F;science, there&#x27;s more than way to highlight&#x2F;analyze a problem, and more than one way to solve it. In my experience, the best solutions are often the craziest.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>askafriend</author><text>&gt; You are being given the numerator without knowing the denominator, so it is all worth zero until you get to see the Cap Table. Most startups wont let you see the Cap Table.<p>Every single time I&#x27;ve accepted a job at a startup that offered ISO stock options, I knew # of shares outstanding (the denominator), terms of all funding rounds, strike price, exit strategy, total amount of money raised, who the major investors are on the cap table, etc.<p>The jobs were at startups funded by the best investors in the world and high caliber founders who valued transparency. One went on to become a unicorn, and the other is an extremely early seed stage company where I work now.<p>If a startup isn&#x27;t willing to give you information beyond # of options granted, then that is a red flag in my book. Not all startups are like that.</text></comment> | <story><title>I'm a Data Scientist and It's Not My Passion</title><url>https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/six-figure-paycheck-data-scientist-nyc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TuringNYC</author><text>It really doesnt matter whether the startup gives you 4500, 1500, or 45000, or a million. You are being given the numerator without knowing the denominator, so it is all worth zero until you get to see the Cap Table. Most startups wont let you see the Cap Table.<p>Even if you saw the Cap Table, there is still a lot of uncertainty, tons of illiquidity, and a long horizon.<p>Options are nice, but they are not cash and do not belong in the same conversation as salary.</text></item><item><author>ilikehurdles</author><text>Yes, it’s 4500 stock options worth $0 each. Pretty generous. Other startups of that size are lucky to get you 1500 stock options at $0 each.</text></item><item><author>asaph</author><text>Is there an equity component in addition to the base salary?</text></item><item><author>paxys</author><text>&gt; I am now working at a tech startup<p>This would explain the salary</text></item><item><author>minimaxir</author><text>Link to original post: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.refinery29.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;six-figure-paycheck-data-scientist-nyc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.refinery29.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;six-figure-paycheck-data-sc...</a> (Edit: URL fixed)<p>The real question is that $125k as a <i>Senior</i> Data Analyst in NYC seems low.<p>&gt; I have this creative side, which comes in handy when thinking through challenging problems, but there is only so much creativity that I can use when in data analysis.<p>This I disagree with; in data analysis&#x2F;science, there&#x27;s more than way to highlight&#x2F;analyze a problem, and more than one way to solve it. In my experience, the best solutions are often the craziest.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>asaph</author><text>Certainly startup equity is a) a risk and b) sometimes hard to quantify in real dollar terms. But if the startup is successful, equity value is very real and should not be ignored or swept aside. My advice: Don&#x27;t join a startup unless you believe in its growth potential and your compensation package includes equity. Without the equity and the potential that comes with it, there is little reason to join a startup. You might as well just go with an established company instead.</text></comment> |
37,449,881 | 37,449,879 | 1 | 2 | 37,446,083 | train | <story><title>Public restrooms are hard to find in America</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/09/08/public-restrooms-hard-find-comic/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lolinder</author><text>That&#x27;s exactly my point: that is not a problem in most other cities. Which is why other cities can have the bathrooms open. For San Francisco to spend money on truly public bathrooms is putting lipstick on a pig.</text></item><item><author>koolba</author><text>&gt; Maybe instead of spending huge amounts of taxpayer funds treating the symptom, San Francisco should ask itself why local businesses find it impossible to keep their restrooms open?<p>SF businesses already have to deal with a near daily hosing down of human feces from the street in front of their stores. If they opened up their bathrooms to vagrants it would just double the number of places they’re literally cleaning shit up.</text></item><item><author>lolinder</author><text>Most of the US gets by just fine with gas stations and restaurants providing them to the general public with no questions asked. Maybe instead of spending huge amounts of taxpayer funds treating the symptom, San Francisco should ask itself why local businesses find it impossible to keep their restrooms open?</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>San Francisco has tried. The first modern try was the JCDecaux self-cleaning street toilets. (JCDecaux is really an ad company. The street toilets are just a way to get ads on public property.) The first problem was that that the US required them to be wheelchair-accessable. So they were 3x as big and several times more expensive than the smaller units in Paris.[1]<p>They are noted for working fine in tourist areas, and badly in homeless areas. Making them big enough for wheelchair accessibility makes them big enough for drug deals, too.
They&#x27;re also far too expensive. The cleaning machinery is standard industrial automation equipment from Telemechanique. I&#x27;ve seen one opened for servicing. If you built a washing machine that way, it would cost $20,000. It requires power, water, and a phone line.<p>There&#x27;s the Portland Loo.[2] This is designed for maximum homeless proofing. Graffiti-resistant. Gratings at top and bottom instead of solid walls, for reduced privacy.
It&#x27;s not self-cleaning, but can be hosed down or pressure-washed. Only needs a water line; power requirements are low enough to be supplied by a solar panel. “It’s not supposed to be a comfortable place” - Portland Loo sales manager. Seems to work, but $500,000 installed is a bit much, even with all that heavy stainless steel.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sanisette" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sanisette</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;portlandloo.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;portlandloo.com&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>&gt; <i>that is not a problem in most other cities</i><p>The well-meant and originally-necessary drive to end criminalising poverty overcorrected into absurdity by equating poverty with mental illness, and compassion for the mentally ill with not arresting people who smear feces over restroom walls. This fallacy, which dovetailed with anti-police sentiments, is most pronounced in San Francisco. But it’s also present in other American cities.</text></comment> | <story><title>Public restrooms are hard to find in America</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/09/08/public-restrooms-hard-find-comic/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lolinder</author><text>That&#x27;s exactly my point: that is not a problem in most other cities. Which is why other cities can have the bathrooms open. For San Francisco to spend money on truly public bathrooms is putting lipstick on a pig.</text></item><item><author>koolba</author><text>&gt; Maybe instead of spending huge amounts of taxpayer funds treating the symptom, San Francisco should ask itself why local businesses find it impossible to keep their restrooms open?<p>SF businesses already have to deal with a near daily hosing down of human feces from the street in front of their stores. If they opened up their bathrooms to vagrants it would just double the number of places they’re literally cleaning shit up.</text></item><item><author>lolinder</author><text>Most of the US gets by just fine with gas stations and restaurants providing them to the general public with no questions asked. Maybe instead of spending huge amounts of taxpayer funds treating the symptom, San Francisco should ask itself why local businesses find it impossible to keep their restrooms open?</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>San Francisco has tried. The first modern try was the JCDecaux self-cleaning street toilets. (JCDecaux is really an ad company. The street toilets are just a way to get ads on public property.) The first problem was that that the US required them to be wheelchair-accessable. So they were 3x as big and several times more expensive than the smaller units in Paris.[1]<p>They are noted for working fine in tourist areas, and badly in homeless areas. Making them big enough for wheelchair accessibility makes them big enough for drug deals, too.
They&#x27;re also far too expensive. The cleaning machinery is standard industrial automation equipment from Telemechanique. I&#x27;ve seen one opened for servicing. If you built a washing machine that way, it would cost $20,000. It requires power, water, and a phone line.<p>There&#x27;s the Portland Loo.[2] This is designed for maximum homeless proofing. Graffiti-resistant. Gratings at top and bottom instead of solid walls, for reduced privacy.
It&#x27;s not self-cleaning, but can be hosed down or pressure-washed. Only needs a water line; power requirements are low enough to be supplied by a solar panel. “It’s not supposed to be a comfortable place” - Portland Loo sales manager. Seems to work, but $500,000 installed is a bit much, even with all that heavy stainless steel.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sanisette" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sanisette</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;portlandloo.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;portlandloo.com&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ethanbond</author><text>Eh, New York City would absolutely benefit from more public restrooms (paid or not). Central Park is a prime example.</text></comment> |
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