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28,859,023 | 28,858,811 | 1 | 3 | 28,846,074 | train | <story><title>MoonHome: Remote Development Environment</title><url>https://moonhome.io/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>freemint</author><text>I find the pricing structure surprisingly similar to Hetzner Cloud. There are the same RAM and CPU core tiers running the same AMD EPYC 2nd Gen (one to one and onto mapping).<p>Except prices for storage is almost double. And hourly costs are higher which is kinda hidden by not assuming 24&#x2F;7 operation compared to Hetzners monthly pricing. You will pay less with Hetzner as they also offer hourly billing.<p>More smoking guns, while moonhome.io is hosted by Amazon both app.moonhome.io and alpha.moonhome.io (shared by the founder on Twitter) resolve to 78.47.78.87 which is static.87.78.47.78.clients.your-server.de which is an Hetzner IP. [1]<p>For my own legal safety i am not claiming that this service is just reselling Hetzner Cloud. Just that i found a lot of things that convinced me that that could be reselling Hetzner Cloud. Same disclaimer applies to all comments i made in this thread.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20211014004453&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mxtoolbox.com&#x2F;SuperTool.aspx?action=a%3Aapp.moonhome.io&amp;run=toolpage" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20211014004453&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mxtoolbox...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>MoonHome: Remote Development Environment</title><url>https://moonhome.io/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>boolean</author><text>&gt; Currently, MoonHome is a single-man operation, 100% self-funded.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t highlight this on the homepage as I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s a plus. I personally wouldn&#x27;t want my dev environment to depend on a single person operation.</text></comment> |
18,289,005 | 18,289,077 | 1 | 3 | 18,288,734 | train | <story><title>When Sears Flourished, So Did Workers. At Amazon, It’s More Complicated</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/23/business/economy/amazon-workers-sears-bankruptcy-filing.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>whoisjuan</author><text>Sears&#x27; huge pension liabilities was cited as one of the main reasons that prevented any possible re-structuring that could have saved the company when it was declining and heading to bankruptcy...
I mean, let&#x27;s be realistic here. For how long was Sears in this pitiful state?... Getting all that real estate + semi-established brand was a private equity&#x27;s wet dream, yet nobody ever contemplated that option.<p>And now that Sears is bankrupt, their pension fund is going into default and passed to the government who will need to fulfill those obligations (thankfully the pension benefit guaranty is not funded with tax revenues).<p>Of course, I&#x27;m not blaming Sears retirees. They deserve their pensions as much as any other person. But the reality is that corporate America learned this lesson a while ago and Sears is just one of many examples.<p>Is not about pleasing shareholders and fucking up employees as this article claims. It&#x27;s a problem of business viability and long-term expectations.<p>Wanna increase salaries and stock grants? Sure, do it. Two quarters later Wall Street will fuck you up because your new shiny compensation model just shaved the company revenue. And guess what, they will punish you at much larger magnitude than your declining revenue.
So that 5% of lost revenue is going to cost you 20% or 30% of market value, and now all those stock grants are 30% less valuable. So your great initiative just put you in a negative spiral. And now your employees will be pissed, and the press will come and write an article claiming that your once frugal company is now a money firepit and that morale is low, completely forgetting their initial narrative on how you used to fuck over your employees.</text></comment> | <story><title>When Sears Flourished, So Did Workers. At Amazon, It’s More Complicated</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/23/business/economy/amazon-workers-sears-bankruptcy-filing.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>paulpauper</author><text>Yeah I remember Bernie Sanders praised Amazon&#x27;s decision in a tweet, but only later did people and the media realize that increasing the minimum wage came at a cost to other things, such as stock compensation. no free lunch guys.</text></comment> |
40,209,956 | 40,209,098 | 1 | 3 | 40,207,322 | train | <story><title>Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/apple/2024/04/apple-must-open-ipados-to-sideloading-within-6-months-eu-says/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BillyTheKing</author><text>totally agree - the iPad Pro could be a great second coding&#x2F;programming tool - I&#x27;d love to justify buying myself one, but.. I just don&#x27;t see a use-case if I can&#x27;t work on it. I don&#x27;t design stuff, don&#x27;t really feel like I need a separate browsing device either</text></item><item><author>DCKing</author><text>The iPad App Store is perhaps an even more dysfunctional place than the iPhone in how much it holds hardware and use cases hostage to the manufacturer&#x27;s vision. Just imagine how much more versatile the iPad Pro would be if only you could run Linux VMs on it in the moments you want to do anything remotely tinkery on an iPad.<p>Apple&#x27;s hardware since the 2021 iPad Pro (with M1) has had the ability to do this. The iPads have the RAM (16gb on higher storage models), appropriate keyboard and trackpads, the works. Great hardware being held back by Apple&#x27;s vision people weren&#x27;t allowed to deviate from.<p>A straightforward reading of the DMA suggests that Apple is not allowed to restrict apps from using hardware features. Let&#x27;s hope that means Parallels&#x2F;VMware style VMs are possible without too much of a fight.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lutoma</author><text>I switched from an iPad to a Surface Go 3 running Fedora a while ago and it really transformed my tablet use. I mostly just watched Youtube videos and did some light browsing on my iPad, but never really any serious work. <i>Occcasionally</i> I would ssh into other machines using apps like Blink, but even with the external keyboard the UX just feels ... off. Same for other apps that have IDE-like environments. They work, but they&#x27;re never really great to use.<p>I was skeptical about getting a Linux tablet because of the worse battery life and less polished overall experience, but having a desktop Firefox with all add-ons, my text editor of choice, and the ability to open a terminal and run whatever I want really more than makes up for it (Plus GNOME is a pretty good tablet experience out of the box these days as long as you broadly stick to their &#x27;official&#x27; apps).</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/apple/2024/04/apple-must-open-ipados-to-sideloading-within-6-months-eu-says/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BillyTheKing</author><text>totally agree - the iPad Pro could be a great second coding&#x2F;programming tool - I&#x27;d love to justify buying myself one, but.. I just don&#x27;t see a use-case if I can&#x27;t work on it. I don&#x27;t design stuff, don&#x27;t really feel like I need a separate browsing device either</text></item><item><author>DCKing</author><text>The iPad App Store is perhaps an even more dysfunctional place than the iPhone in how much it holds hardware and use cases hostage to the manufacturer&#x27;s vision. Just imagine how much more versatile the iPad Pro would be if only you could run Linux VMs on it in the moments you want to do anything remotely tinkery on an iPad.<p>Apple&#x27;s hardware since the 2021 iPad Pro (with M1) has had the ability to do this. The iPads have the RAM (16gb on higher storage models), appropriate keyboard and trackpads, the works. Great hardware being held back by Apple&#x27;s vision people weren&#x27;t allowed to deviate from.<p>A straightforward reading of the DMA suggests that Apple is not allowed to restrict apps from using hardware features. Let&#x27;s hope that means Parallels&#x2F;VMware style VMs are possible without too much of a fight.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>d0mine</author><text>iPad (any model) with keyboard-cover can be used as a great portable ssh&#x2F;mosh
terminal (eg with Termius app). I work in Emacs--most functionality is available via terminal.</text></comment> |
8,758,414 | 8,758,240 | 1 | 2 | 8,756,710 | train | <story><title>Federal Court Throws Out Six Weeks of Warrantless Video Surveillance</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/12/federal-court-agrees-eff-throws-out-six-weeks-warrantless-video-surveillance</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PeterisP</author><text>It goes against the US tradition, but I&#x27;d prefer to <i>not</i> have the &#x27;fruit of the poisoned tree&#x27; doctrine but instead direct penalties for violations by police.<p>As it stands, it has the following effect:<p>1. If illegal actions by policemen violates the rights of someone commiting a crime, then the evidence obtained this way is discarded, letting a true criminal go free, assuming that the evidence actually proves guilt.<p>2. If illegal actions by policemen violates the rights and privacy of an innocent person (e.g. me) then nothing happens.<p>In both cases, any benefit of the doctrine goes to people who don&#x27;t deserve it - the lawbreakers with or without badges and uniforms.<p>For most law-abiding people who value their rights and privacy it would be rational to request that the doctrine is &quot;violations by police in gathering evidence get handled by existing law&quot;.<p>If a policeman obtains evidence by breaking down a door without a warrant and taking some documents, despite being a professional with special training on what their specific rights and duties are, then let the evidence stand but let also the policeman stand trial (not disciplinary action, but a proper trial) for breaking and entering. Just as for cases of policemen shooting people - at least worldwide, given the recent events I&#x27;m not sure anymore how it&#x27;s in USA.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>Bivens actions,[1] and suits under 42 U.S.C. 1983,[2] exist precisely to remedy Constitutional violations in situations where the exclusionary rule doesn&#x27;t apply. They allow you to sue for money damages for violations of your Constitutional rights by federal and state actors, respectively. They are very common.<p>However, police have qualified immunity in such suits unless their actions were in violation of &quot;clearly established law.&quot; Under qualified immunity, the police can&#x27;t be penalized for guessing wrong when it comes to unsettled law, or when a court decides to take the law in a new direction.<p>This decision is quite a departure from the general rule that anything visible from public property is outside 4th amendment protection. So the police here would likely be protected by qualified immunity for failing to anticipate that a court would take previously well-established law in this new direction.<p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bivens_v._Six_Unknown_Named_Agents" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bivens_v._Six_Unknown_Named_Age...</a><p>[2] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enforcement_Act_of_1871_(third_act)" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Enforcement_Act_of_1871_(third_...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Federal Court Throws Out Six Weeks of Warrantless Video Surveillance</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/12/federal-court-agrees-eff-throws-out-six-weeks-warrantless-video-surveillance</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PeterisP</author><text>It goes against the US tradition, but I&#x27;d prefer to <i>not</i> have the &#x27;fruit of the poisoned tree&#x27; doctrine but instead direct penalties for violations by police.<p>As it stands, it has the following effect:<p>1. If illegal actions by policemen violates the rights of someone commiting a crime, then the evidence obtained this way is discarded, letting a true criminal go free, assuming that the evidence actually proves guilt.<p>2. If illegal actions by policemen violates the rights and privacy of an innocent person (e.g. me) then nothing happens.<p>In both cases, any benefit of the doctrine goes to people who don&#x27;t deserve it - the lawbreakers with or without badges and uniforms.<p>For most law-abiding people who value their rights and privacy it would be rational to request that the doctrine is &quot;violations by police in gathering evidence get handled by existing law&quot;.<p>If a policeman obtains evidence by breaking down a door without a warrant and taking some documents, despite being a professional with special training on what their specific rights and duties are, then let the evidence stand but let also the policeman stand trial (not disciplinary action, but a proper trial) for breaking and entering. Just as for cases of policemen shooting people - at least worldwide, given the recent events I&#x27;m not sure anymore how it&#x27;s in USA.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pavel_lishin</author><text>Might that not incentivize law enforcement officials to hire a series of scapegoats?<p>&quot;Listen, Mike, we really need this drug dealer in prison. Break into his house, and get use the evidence we need. Penalty for that is, what, a year in county lockup? Plus we&#x27;re just about certain you&#x27;ll get out in six months for good behavior. Plus, hey, it&#x27;s Christmas time, couldn&#x27;t your family use a nice bonus for presents?&quot;</text></comment> |
29,719,500 | 29,719,417 | 1 | 2 | 29,717,028 | train | <story><title>Redo: A recursive, general-purpose build system</title><url>https://redo.readthedocs.io/en/latest/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AceJohnny2</author><text>As an intensive (and reluctant) user of GNU Make, I keep looking for a more modern replacement. Redo is not it.<p>Make is really a complicated combination of these components:<p>- a dependency definition language with in-place evaluation and half-assed wildcards<p>- A functional language with extremely limited datatypes (effectively just space-separated strings)<p>- a clunky macro system<p>- A &quot;distributed&quot; topological execution engine (did you know Make can coordinate job slots across recursive executions of Make? It&#x27;s impressive! And shouldn&#x27;t have to exist!) [1]<p>All the alternative build systems wisely choose to tackle <i>only some</i> of these features. Redo is interesting in that it&#x27;s a minimal system that leans on existing Unix tools to fill the gaps, but I can&#x27;t say I&#x27;m impressed with using Shell as the scripting language, though it is arguably more useful than Make&#x27;s home-grown language that too few people know. Edit: actually, redo&#x27;s doesn&#x27;t enforce Shell, it can be any executable. That&#x27;s more interesting, maybe (flexibility also introduces complexity!)<p>The most interesting development in this space is the paper &quot;Build Systems A La Carte&quot; [2] by Mokhov, Mitchell, &amp; Peyton Jones, who did a great job of breaking down build systems to their fundamental concepts, and along the way found one particular point of the design space that wasn&#x27;t fulfilled (Table 2, p79:16). Unfortunately, I fear it&#x27;ll be some years before something production-ready emerges from that research, (and I&#x27;m sure I&#x27;ll be grumpy about some of their implementation details anyhow! Build systems do not a happy developer make)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;software&#x2F;make&#x2F;manual&#x2F;html_node&#x2F;Job-Slots.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;software&#x2F;make&#x2F;manual&#x2F;html_node&#x2F;Job-Slots...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;research&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;prod&#x2F;2018&#x2F;03&#x2F;build-systems.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;research&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;prod&#x2F;2018&#x2F;0...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>woodruffw</author><text>Not just a functional language -- I found that my ability to write maintainable (and performance) Makefiles drastically improved when I began to think of Make as a Prolog&#x2F;Datalog variant with particularly heinous syntax and <i>very</i> limited constraint resolution.</text></comment> | <story><title>Redo: A recursive, general-purpose build system</title><url>https://redo.readthedocs.io/en/latest/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AceJohnny2</author><text>As an intensive (and reluctant) user of GNU Make, I keep looking for a more modern replacement. Redo is not it.<p>Make is really a complicated combination of these components:<p>- a dependency definition language with in-place evaluation and half-assed wildcards<p>- A functional language with extremely limited datatypes (effectively just space-separated strings)<p>- a clunky macro system<p>- A &quot;distributed&quot; topological execution engine (did you know Make can coordinate job slots across recursive executions of Make? It&#x27;s impressive! And shouldn&#x27;t have to exist!) [1]<p>All the alternative build systems wisely choose to tackle <i>only some</i> of these features. Redo is interesting in that it&#x27;s a minimal system that leans on existing Unix tools to fill the gaps, but I can&#x27;t say I&#x27;m impressed with using Shell as the scripting language, though it is arguably more useful than Make&#x27;s home-grown language that too few people know. Edit: actually, redo&#x27;s doesn&#x27;t enforce Shell, it can be any executable. That&#x27;s more interesting, maybe (flexibility also introduces complexity!)<p>The most interesting development in this space is the paper &quot;Build Systems A La Carte&quot; [2] by Mokhov, Mitchell, &amp; Peyton Jones, who did a great job of breaking down build systems to their fundamental concepts, and along the way found one particular point of the design space that wasn&#x27;t fulfilled (Table 2, p79:16). Unfortunately, I fear it&#x27;ll be some years before something production-ready emerges from that research, (and I&#x27;m sure I&#x27;ll be grumpy about some of their implementation details anyhow! Build systems do not a happy developer make)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;software&#x2F;make&#x2F;manual&#x2F;html_node&#x2F;Job-Slots.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;software&#x2F;make&#x2F;manual&#x2F;html_node&#x2F;Job-Slots...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;research&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;prod&#x2F;2018&#x2F;03&#x2F;build-systems.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;research&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;prod&#x2F;2018&#x2F;0...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lolski</author><text>I second Bazel. People keep on mentioning how steep the learning curve is, but the conceptual model is really simple, elegant, and intuitive.<p>What is steep is the technical know-hows:<p>1. When things don&#x27;t work as expected. For example, while it worked flawlessly with languages that it natively support such as Java, that wasn&#x27;t the case for other languages such as Javascript or Python.<p>2. When you have to do something advanced such as building custom Bazel rule. You&#x27;ll need to understand Bazel internals and unfortunately the documentation isn&#x27;t very intuitive and also somewhat sparse.</text></comment> |
3,163,874 | 3,162,376 | 1 | 2 | 3,160,712 | train | <story><title>Codify: native coding environment for iPad</title><url>http://twolivesleft.com/Codify/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jonbro</author><text>yes yes, a thousand times yes. There is some serious misinformation in this thread though. Apple has allow interpreters on the phone for a while, and the remaining restriction is that you can't download code or bring code in through the app document directory. This app breaks neither of these restrictions. In fact, there have been other lua interpreters running on the ios for a while now, see: <a href="http://www.mobileappsystems.com/products/iluabox" rel="nofollow">http://www.mobileappsystems.com/products/iluabox</a><p>The difference with this app is that the ide is really a labor of love, and it is super fun to code in. Not that iLuaBox isn't, but all of the little features for tweaking colors and editing sprites are brilliant. The graphics and audio engine don't hurt either.<p>For those complaining that there isn't a companion engine that you can take the code out of codify and release actual games, you should take a look a corona. The api in codify is not so big that you wouldn't be able to clone anything that you made in it to another platform relatively easily. I do agree that there should be more lua based gl engines for iphone though. I am working on one, but as of yet it is totally for my own use, but only by virtue of the fact that it doesn't come with nice build scripts.<p>The other thing that some commenters miss is that you can use copy and paste in this app. That will open the gates to sharing code, it is as easy as: select all, copy, switch to safari, go to pastebin, send link to someone else. I suspect that some of the time the app spent in approval was them thinking about that.<p>-- edit for not being a jerk to iluabox</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gernb</author><text>"3.3.2 An Application may not download or install executable code. Interpreted code may only be used in an Application if all scripts, code and interpreters are packaged in the Application and not downloaded. The only exception to the foregoing is scripts and code downloaded and run by Apple's built-in WebKit framework, provided that such scripts and code do not change the primary purpose of the Application by providing features or functionality that are inconsistent with the intended and advertised purpose of the Application as submitted to the App Store."<p>There NO EXCEPTIONS for scripts typed in by users period.<p>Both iLuaBox and Codify are breaking this rule. Of course Apple has a history of ambiguously enforcing their rules.<p>For those thinking that Apple relaxed the rules the rule above is the current license dated 10/4/2011. Apple had a more strict rule at one point that said that apps themselves could only be written in C/C++/ObjC/JavaScript. That rule was relaxed.</text></comment> | <story><title>Codify: native coding environment for iPad</title><url>http://twolivesleft.com/Codify/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jonbro</author><text>yes yes, a thousand times yes. There is some serious misinformation in this thread though. Apple has allow interpreters on the phone for a while, and the remaining restriction is that you can't download code or bring code in through the app document directory. This app breaks neither of these restrictions. In fact, there have been other lua interpreters running on the ios for a while now, see: <a href="http://www.mobileappsystems.com/products/iluabox" rel="nofollow">http://www.mobileappsystems.com/products/iluabox</a><p>The difference with this app is that the ide is really a labor of love, and it is super fun to code in. Not that iLuaBox isn't, but all of the little features for tweaking colors and editing sprites are brilliant. The graphics and audio engine don't hurt either.<p>For those complaining that there isn't a companion engine that you can take the code out of codify and release actual games, you should take a look a corona. The api in codify is not so big that you wouldn't be able to clone anything that you made in it to another platform relatively easily. I do agree that there should be more lua based gl engines for iphone though. I am working on one, but as of yet it is totally for my own use, but only by virtue of the fact that it doesn't come with nice build scripts.<p>The other thing that some commenters miss is that you can use copy and paste in this app. That will open the gates to sharing code, it is as easy as: select all, copy, switch to safari, go to pastebin, send link to someone else. I suspect that some of the time the app spent in approval was them thinking about that.<p>-- edit for not being a jerk to iluabox</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>metachris</author><text>Minor sidenote: The Corona SDK [1] is quite expensive: $350 per year to create both Android and iOS apps. There is a free, open-source alternative which is trying to do the same: Moai [2]. Also using Lua to write the game, then using wrappers for various platforms (iOS, Android, OSX, Windows).<p>[1] <a href="http://www.anscamobile.com/corona/" rel="nofollow">http://www.anscamobile.com/corona/</a><p>[2] <a href="http://getmoai.com/" rel="nofollow">http://getmoai.com/</a></text></comment> |
20,288,046 | 20,287,842 | 1 | 3 | 20,285,669 | train | <story><title>‘Pre-bunk’ game reduces susceptibility to disinformation</title><url>https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/fake-news-vaccine-works-pre-bunk-game-reduces-susceptibility-to-disinformation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>HSO</author><text>Speaking of, I saw a particularly blatant example yesterday:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;scottsantens&#x2F;status&#x2F;1142442971922653184" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;scottsantens&#x2F;status&#x2F;1142442971922653184</a><p>I&#x27;ve been following the Andrew Yang campaign since his appearance on the Joe Rogan show and so far as I can tell MSNBC has been at it for months now.<p>The gall still astonishes me: 20 candidates qualified for the debates, he now polls in the top 8 and betting markets even place him in the top five, and they substitute someone who did not even qualify for the debate for him.</text></item><item><author>deogeo</author><text>Second best. The best is selective reporting. Even if every story is reported 100% accurately and objectively, by choosing <i>which</i> stories are promoted, and which buried, you can set any agenda you want.<p>Edit: See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ourworldindata.org&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2019&#x2F;05&#x2F;Causes-of-death-in-USA-vs.-media-coverage.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ourworldindata.org&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2019&#x2F;05&#x2F;Causes-of-death-i...</a> for an example.</text></item><item><author>gfodor</author><text>The &quot;best&quot; fake news these days is the stuff that doesn&#x27;t register even to people are read-in on the usual anti-patterns.<p>Subtle framing, selective quotation, anonymous sources, &quot;repeat the lie&quot; techniques, and so on, are the ones that I see happening today that are hard to immunize yourself from. Ironically, the people who fall for these are more likely to self-identify as being aware and clued in on how to avoid fake news.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ch4s3</author><text>They didn&#x27;t replace him in the debate, the mistakenly omitted him from a graphic on screen and later corrected it.<p>He only barely cracked the top 8 as of two weeks ago, and with a paltry 2% with a net favorable of +8 in Monmouth&#x27;s latest poll, which is not very good. I don&#x27;t really know much about the guy, but he&#x27;s not making much of a showing in the polls so I&#x27;m not surprised that networks aren&#x27;t focusing on him.</text></comment> | <story><title>‘Pre-bunk’ game reduces susceptibility to disinformation</title><url>https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/fake-news-vaccine-works-pre-bunk-game-reduces-susceptibility-to-disinformation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>HSO</author><text>Speaking of, I saw a particularly blatant example yesterday:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;scottsantens&#x2F;status&#x2F;1142442971922653184" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;scottsantens&#x2F;status&#x2F;1142442971922653184</a><p>I&#x27;ve been following the Andrew Yang campaign since his appearance on the Joe Rogan show and so far as I can tell MSNBC has been at it for months now.<p>The gall still astonishes me: 20 candidates qualified for the debates, he now polls in the top 8 and betting markets even place him in the top five, and they substitute someone who did not even qualify for the debate for him.</text></item><item><author>deogeo</author><text>Second best. The best is selective reporting. Even if every story is reported 100% accurately and objectively, by choosing <i>which</i> stories are promoted, and which buried, you can set any agenda you want.<p>Edit: See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ourworldindata.org&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2019&#x2F;05&#x2F;Causes-of-death-in-USA-vs.-media-coverage.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ourworldindata.org&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2019&#x2F;05&#x2F;Causes-of-death-i...</a> for an example.</text></item><item><author>gfodor</author><text>The &quot;best&quot; fake news these days is the stuff that doesn&#x27;t register even to people are read-in on the usual anti-patterns.<p>Subtle framing, selective quotation, anonymous sources, &quot;repeat the lie&quot; techniques, and so on, are the ones that I see happening today that are hard to immunize yourself from. Ironically, the people who fall for these are more likely to self-identify as being aware and clued in on how to avoid fake news.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hanniabu</author><text>Yup, I&#x27;ve noticed that too. Unfortunately it seems he&#x27;s making too much sense and others are trying to bury him by not covering him. It was a breath of fresh air when I discovered him. I&#x27;m somebody that absolutely hates politics because everyone&#x27;s saying what people want to hear just to get votes rather and only talking about issues at surface level. You can sense the sincerity in Yang&#x27;s voice, he&#x27;s not a lifetime politician, he comes from a social work background, he&#x27;s going after real root-cause issues, provides data to back up his arguments, talks about issues instead of trying to gain popularity by demeaning the opponent, etc etc.</text></comment> |
18,430,604 | 18,428,581 | 1 | 3 | 18,427,626 | train | <story><title>The DEA and ICE are hiding surveillance cameras in streetlights</title><url>https://qz.com/1458475/the-dea-and-ice-are-hiding-surveillance-cameras-in-streetlights/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DenisM</author><text>&gt;being able to select targets after-the-fact at little additional cost<p>Is it a bad thing though? Imagine that everything on all streets is recorded, and when an incident happens a cop goes to the judge and asks for a warrant to view the footage for &quot;Pike St, between 1st and 2nd ave, between 13:00 and 13:35, on Jan 3rd 2019&quot;.<p>Technology changes the balance of power in different directions. The police used to be able to tap phones, but now whatsapp is pretty much out of reach, this hampers one of the venues. To keep up the police would need new methods, and it does not have to be phone intercept, maybe post-factum external surveillance would suffice.</text></item><item><author>0xcde4c3db</author><text>&gt; It doesn’t matter if you’re driving down the street or visiting a friend, if government or law enforcement has a reason to set up surveillance, there’s great technology out there to do it.<p>I think most people understand this concept at some level. This describes the same fundamental pattern as undercover officers and informants: a suspect is identified and assets allocated to the project of going after that person or organization. The scary thing isn&#x27;t so much that surveillance tech <i>exists</i>, but rather the prospect of law enforcement (or others who can obtain access to their systems by various means) being able to select targets after-the-fact at little additional cost because of indiscriminate surveillance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nasrudith</author><text>It is a very bad thing since it gives power to abuse with selectivity. It is just automated enough to maximize the abuse potential essentially to turn into rule of man. If everyone is doing something &#x27;illegal&#x27; than it gives great power to those who can enforce it. Sure everybody smokes a joint after work. But the guy who cut you off in traffic? Check him to see if there is something you can ruin his life for - ah there it is. Bingo. And that is just petty abuse instead of orchestrated ones.
If things were fully automated such that it was impartial it wouldn&#x27;t have those problems. You could be the mayor of New York City and the traffic cameras automatically fined you for going 27mph in a 25mph and an appeal was a process that was absolutely ironclad with no room for judgment (Was the camera accurate? Did you have extenuating circumstance such as fleeing from immediate violence or rushing someone to emergency medical aid? If yes ticket dismissed. If no ticket stands.) that wouldn&#x27;t be abuseable. It may be contrary to intents and would be a royal pain in the ass and may likely get changed to at least give it a margin of 10 mph over the speed limit but it couldn&#x27;t be abused.</text></comment> | <story><title>The DEA and ICE are hiding surveillance cameras in streetlights</title><url>https://qz.com/1458475/the-dea-and-ice-are-hiding-surveillance-cameras-in-streetlights/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DenisM</author><text>&gt;being able to select targets after-the-fact at little additional cost<p>Is it a bad thing though? Imagine that everything on all streets is recorded, and when an incident happens a cop goes to the judge and asks for a warrant to view the footage for &quot;Pike St, between 1st and 2nd ave, between 13:00 and 13:35, on Jan 3rd 2019&quot;.<p>Technology changes the balance of power in different directions. The police used to be able to tap phones, but now whatsapp is pretty much out of reach, this hampers one of the venues. To keep up the police would need new methods, and it does not have to be phone intercept, maybe post-factum external surveillance would suffice.</text></item><item><author>0xcde4c3db</author><text>&gt; It doesn’t matter if you’re driving down the street or visiting a friend, if government or law enforcement has a reason to set up surveillance, there’s great technology out there to do it.<p>I think most people understand this concept at some level. This describes the same fundamental pattern as undercover officers and informants: a suspect is identified and assets allocated to the project of going after that person or organization. The scary thing isn&#x27;t so much that surveillance tech <i>exists</i>, but rather the prospect of law enforcement (or others who can obtain access to their systems by various means) being able to select targets after-the-fact at little additional cost because of indiscriminate surveillance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>clubm8</author><text>&gt;Is it a bad thing though? Imagine that everything on all streets is recorded, and when an incident happens a cop goes to the judge and asks for a warrant to view the footage for &quot;Pike St, between 1st and 2nd ave, between 13:00 and 13:35, on Jan 3rd 2019&quot;.<p>The laws were written assuming that they wouldn&#x27;t be perfectly enforced. We&#x27;d never have consented to many of them if we knew they&#x27;d be 100% enforced.<p>Increasing surveillance is a back-door in democracy that grants the government new powers w&#x2F;o going through the legislature.</text></comment> |
34,733,753 | 34,733,711 | 1 | 2 | 34,733,023 | train | <story><title>Temple Student Strike Turns Ugly as School Ends Some Tuition Aid</title><url>https://www.phillymag.com/news/2023/02/08/temple-strike-philadelphia/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>munk-a</author><text>There are reports from strikers trying to refill medication that the medical benefit suspension has already unilaterally gone into effect. The university has gone ahead with their threats in that regard (which is especially shitty since it&#x27;s pretty standard in the US to give employees a health insurance grace period on termination).<p>I am really confused about what the university thinks they&#x27;re going to get out of these actions.</text></item><item><author>TillE</author><text>As various lawyers have commented on Twitter, this seems like an insanely blatant violation of labor laws. Just a straight up written confession of illegal retaliation.<p>Unless they have some obscure exemption that nobody else knows about, I cannot imagine how the university&#x27;s legal counsel signed off on this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CobrastanJorji</author><text>What do you mean? The university is trying to teach a lesson by inflicting pain on those who stood against it. I thought that was clear.<p>Do you maybe mean &quot;what makes them think that this is legal?&quot; I doubt they do. But they likely decided that value of sending a &quot;don&#x27;t fuck with us&quot; message was higher than the cost of the likely mild consequences.</text></comment> | <story><title>Temple Student Strike Turns Ugly as School Ends Some Tuition Aid</title><url>https://www.phillymag.com/news/2023/02/08/temple-strike-philadelphia/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>munk-a</author><text>There are reports from strikers trying to refill medication that the medical benefit suspension has already unilaterally gone into effect. The university has gone ahead with their threats in that regard (which is especially shitty since it&#x27;s pretty standard in the US to give employees a health insurance grace period on termination).<p>I am really confused about what the university thinks they&#x27;re going to get out of these actions.</text></item><item><author>TillE</author><text>As various lawyers have commented on Twitter, this seems like an insanely blatant violation of labor laws. Just a straight up written confession of illegal retaliation.<p>Unless they have some obscure exemption that nobody else knows about, I cannot imagine how the university&#x27;s legal counsel signed off on this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andrew_</author><text>I&#x27;m confused by that. When my health care ends by termination (of any flavor), I can continue to use that policy number and card for some time. I can then sign up for COBRA and continue my coverage using the same cards. Perhaps there&#x27;s something else at play, but very strange to suddenly not be able to fill prescriptions.</text></comment> |
38,059,023 | 38,057,015 | 1 | 2 | 38,055,947 | train | <story><title>'It's quite soul-destroying': how we fell out of love with dating apps</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/oct/28/its-quite-soul-destroying-how-we-fell-out-of-love-with-dating-apps</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomhoward</author><text>I have a theory that contemporary life causes many people great despair, relating both to dating&#x2F;relationships and career, because our culture is not very supportive or accepting of personal growth.<p>So, if you get off to a good start in your dating life and career from your late teens and early 20s, you get plenty of approval and validation and compounding success as you progress through life, and acceptance that you deserve the success you&#x27;re having (&quot;they were always a high achiever, ever since school days&quot;).<p>Whereas if you&#x27;re not in the top tier of &quot;chosen&quot; people and experience a few painful rejections and setbacks, you&#x27;re made to feel that&#x27;s just what you deserve and what you&#x27;re stuck with, and there&#x27;s not much you can do to improve your lot. I suspect this has become more of an entrenched belief since the discovery of evolution&#x2F;DNA, and the generally accepted belief that most of our life outcomes are predetermined by our inheritance.<p>I think the dating apps (and employment recruitment platforms&#x2F;techniques) intensify this further, by filtering based on a few simple characteristics, some of which really are genetically predetermined (height) and others that are downstream consequences of having had a blessed start in life (income&#x2F;education level&#x2F;job seniority&#x2F;state of health).<p>Society generally, including&#x2F;especially the dating&#x2F;employment spheres, don&#x27;t seem to offer much support for people who really sincerely trying to undertake a journey of personal improvement (outside of mainstream accepted practices like conventional fitness training and education). You&#x27;re just expected to be &quot;good to go&quot;. Someone who may have been dealt a rough hand in life but is trying very hard to improve themselves, including their social skills, their emotions, their health&#x2F;fitness, their career prospects - all of which will lead them to becoming better romantic partners over time - can find themselves getting little support and encouragement along the way, and indeed can get a lot of discouragement from some quarters (including friends and family members).<p>I think a lot about how the world would be better if more people were encouraged and empowered to go on long-term journeys of deep personal growth, and what kinds of social platforms, including dating and employment platforms, could emerge out of that and bring much more opportunity and satisfaction to people who currently feel the despair of being left behind.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>low_tech_love</author><text>Humans are the same as we were for millennia, the problem is that we seem to be having a bit of a self-denial crisis nowadays. We just can’t accept our flaws anymore, apparently, so we build these fake meaningless narratives that “everyone is special” and “all bodies are beautiful” etc. The truth is that dating is brutal; it works very well for a few people, but for the majority of average people it is a hard competition to which nobody actually know the rules. It’s completely asymmetric gender-wise and failing on it is basically failing on being.<p>So you find yourself in this situation where everyone is so nice and polite, so sophisticated and accepting, so inclusive, but for some reason nobody gives a single ** about having a romantic relationship with you. How’s that possible? Well it’s possible because it’s all fake. Deep inside, in our intimacy and our inner circles, we’re the same as we were a thousand years ago. The apps simply make it obvious and pull it to the surface.</text></comment> | <story><title>'It's quite soul-destroying': how we fell out of love with dating apps</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/oct/28/its-quite-soul-destroying-how-we-fell-out-of-love-with-dating-apps</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomhoward</author><text>I have a theory that contemporary life causes many people great despair, relating both to dating&#x2F;relationships and career, because our culture is not very supportive or accepting of personal growth.<p>So, if you get off to a good start in your dating life and career from your late teens and early 20s, you get plenty of approval and validation and compounding success as you progress through life, and acceptance that you deserve the success you&#x27;re having (&quot;they were always a high achiever, ever since school days&quot;).<p>Whereas if you&#x27;re not in the top tier of &quot;chosen&quot; people and experience a few painful rejections and setbacks, you&#x27;re made to feel that&#x27;s just what you deserve and what you&#x27;re stuck with, and there&#x27;s not much you can do to improve your lot. I suspect this has become more of an entrenched belief since the discovery of evolution&#x2F;DNA, and the generally accepted belief that most of our life outcomes are predetermined by our inheritance.<p>I think the dating apps (and employment recruitment platforms&#x2F;techniques) intensify this further, by filtering based on a few simple characteristics, some of which really are genetically predetermined (height) and others that are downstream consequences of having had a blessed start in life (income&#x2F;education level&#x2F;job seniority&#x2F;state of health).<p>Society generally, including&#x2F;especially the dating&#x2F;employment spheres, don&#x27;t seem to offer much support for people who really sincerely trying to undertake a journey of personal improvement (outside of mainstream accepted practices like conventional fitness training and education). You&#x27;re just expected to be &quot;good to go&quot;. Someone who may have been dealt a rough hand in life but is trying very hard to improve themselves, including their social skills, their emotions, their health&#x2F;fitness, their career prospects - all of which will lead them to becoming better romantic partners over time - can find themselves getting little support and encouragement along the way, and indeed can get a lot of discouragement from some quarters (including friends and family members).<p>I think a lot about how the world would be better if more people were encouraged and empowered to go on long-term journeys of deep personal growth, and what kinds of social platforms, including dating and employment platforms, could emerge out of that and bring much more opportunity and satisfaction to people who currently feel the despair of being left behind.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dmarchand90</author><text>The only part I disagree with is the historical perspective. When was this time that people believed in personal growth? For most of history the nobels were nobels, peasants were peasants and that was that. If anything, the sense of having dynamic control of one&#x27;s destiny throughout one&#x27;s lifespan is a recent invention. (Well at least in the west)</text></comment> |
11,095,027 | 11,094,718 | 1 | 3 | 11,094,274 | train | <story><title>3D printed sundial whose precise holes cast a shadow displaying the current time</title><url>http://www.mojoptix.com/2015/10/25/mojoptix-001-digital-sundial/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gulpahum</author><text>Interesting, on the Southern hemisphere, the sundial needs to point to the South Pole and the design needs to be altered:<p>&quot;in the Openscad script you can set a flag that will simply rotate upside-down the whole swiss cheese inside the gnomon, and build a ‘Southern-hemisphere’ version of the gnomon. This way, the ‘roo can simply use this Southern-hemisphere sundial exactly the same way a cow or a penguin would use their Northern-hermisphere version the sundial, with just one difference: the ‘roo will have to point the tip of his sundial toward the <i>South</i> Pole.&quot; [1]<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mojoptix.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;25&#x2F;mojoptix-001-digital-sundial&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mojoptix.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;25&#x2F;mojoptix-001-digital-sund...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>3D printed sundial whose precise holes cast a shadow displaying the current time</title><url>http://www.mojoptix.com/2015/10/25/mojoptix-001-digital-sundial/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ant6n</author><text>Skip the intro and see it in action: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;wrsje5It_UU?t=12m58s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;wrsje5It_UU?t=12m58s</a></text></comment> |
13,089,759 | 13,089,294 | 1 | 3 | 13,088,509 | train | <story><title>Downside of Lower Manhattan’s Boom: It’s Too Crowded</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/02/nyregion/lower-manhattan-crowding.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ghaff</author><text>Except the residents (and workers) use taxis, Ubers, black cars, etc. And, as the article notes, the local businesses need to get deliveries, repair people, etc. I would guess the issue doesn&#x27;t come so much from owners&#x27; private cars traveling through the area.<p>I was adding that I made the mistake of passing through Times Square on my way to some destination a number of months back. As in the article, you literally could not walk on the sidewalk which was effectively blocked by the mass of people. Times Square (like areas of downtown) is an extreme example, but things do get really crowded. (And you can&#x27;t just do away with road traffic there. You&#x27;re at intersection of two major N-S avenues.)</text></item><item><author>baron816</author><text>Residents aren&#x27;t the ones with cars. No one in this area own a car.</text></item><item><author>jinushaun</author><text>I think getting rid of cars isn&#x27;t going to fix the problems the people in this article are complaining about. It&#x27;s the age old problem that plague all popular cities around the world: tourists versus residents. And having visited places like Florence, Paris and Barcelona, I&#x27;d rather see the residents get their way.</text></item><item><author>philipov</author><text>Getting rid of cars is a feature, not a bug.</text></item><item><author>BorisMelnik</author><text>Have you seen the streets in lower Manhattan? If they get any narrower there wouldnt be any room for cars. There are also already tons of bike lanes. Most New Yorker&#x27;s don&#x27;t drive - they walk, bike, take the train, or taxi&#x2F;uber. Don&#x27;t you think if the answers were this simple someone would have done this already?</text></item><item><author>TulliusCicero</author><text>&gt; Just to get to his apartment in the financial district, he has to contend with hordes of commuters and selfie-snapping tourists clogging narrow sidewalks.<p>So make the sidewalks wider. I can think of nowhere in the US more appropriate to allocate more space to sidewalks than Manhattan.<p>&gt; Ms. Starr, for one, has all but stopped using the Citi Bike system to commute. She used to ride from her apartment in TriBeCa to her office on Maiden Lane in the financial district nearly every day. But as more pedestrians and cyclists filled the streets, she had to concentrate to avoid running into anyone or being run into.<p>Sounds like they need separated bike lanes then.<p>Manhattan is the densest major city* in the country. The amount of space allocated to cars on the roads should be the bare minimum: enough for emergency vehicles, business deliveries, surface transit, the handicapped, a limited number of taxis. With only a tiny amount of space per person, you really have to push for denser forms of transportation. Personal vehicle use should be at a minimum in Manhattan.<p>&gt; In Lower Manhattan, people are not the only obstacle. Construction on streets and buildings is everywhere. A labyrinth of imposing metal scaffolding hems in available walkways and forces pedestrians closer together, or into the street.<p>The solution here is to cut into space on the road to provide more walking space.<p>* I know it&#x27;s only part of a city but you know what I mean</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baron816</author><text>I&#x27;m ok with having cars drive through the area. I just don&#x27;t approve of people leaving them idle on the street. Taxis, Ubers, and black cars aren&#x27;t parking. Delivery trucks are stopping, but only for a few minutes. A third (or more) of the street space is devoted to vehicles that aren&#x27;t in use. Those cars could be placed in garages or parked on the street in another part of town where the owner can subway to where they&#x27;re going.<p>Ideally, streets would be used only by pedestrians, but I acknowledge that&#x27;s not feasible.</text></comment> | <story><title>Downside of Lower Manhattan’s Boom: It’s Too Crowded</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/02/nyregion/lower-manhattan-crowding.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ghaff</author><text>Except the residents (and workers) use taxis, Ubers, black cars, etc. And, as the article notes, the local businesses need to get deliveries, repair people, etc. I would guess the issue doesn&#x27;t come so much from owners&#x27; private cars traveling through the area.<p>I was adding that I made the mistake of passing through Times Square on my way to some destination a number of months back. As in the article, you literally could not walk on the sidewalk which was effectively blocked by the mass of people. Times Square (like areas of downtown) is an extreme example, but things do get really crowded. (And you can&#x27;t just do away with road traffic there. You&#x27;re at intersection of two major N-S avenues.)</text></item><item><author>baron816</author><text>Residents aren&#x27;t the ones with cars. No one in this area own a car.</text></item><item><author>jinushaun</author><text>I think getting rid of cars isn&#x27;t going to fix the problems the people in this article are complaining about. It&#x27;s the age old problem that plague all popular cities around the world: tourists versus residents. And having visited places like Florence, Paris and Barcelona, I&#x27;d rather see the residents get their way.</text></item><item><author>philipov</author><text>Getting rid of cars is a feature, not a bug.</text></item><item><author>BorisMelnik</author><text>Have you seen the streets in lower Manhattan? If they get any narrower there wouldnt be any room for cars. There are also already tons of bike lanes. Most New Yorker&#x27;s don&#x27;t drive - they walk, bike, take the train, or taxi&#x2F;uber. Don&#x27;t you think if the answers were this simple someone would have done this already?</text></item><item><author>TulliusCicero</author><text>&gt; Just to get to his apartment in the financial district, he has to contend with hordes of commuters and selfie-snapping tourists clogging narrow sidewalks.<p>So make the sidewalks wider. I can think of nowhere in the US more appropriate to allocate more space to sidewalks than Manhattan.<p>&gt; Ms. Starr, for one, has all but stopped using the Citi Bike system to commute. She used to ride from her apartment in TriBeCa to her office on Maiden Lane in the financial district nearly every day. But as more pedestrians and cyclists filled the streets, she had to concentrate to avoid running into anyone or being run into.<p>Sounds like they need separated bike lanes then.<p>Manhattan is the densest major city* in the country. The amount of space allocated to cars on the roads should be the bare minimum: enough for emergency vehicles, business deliveries, surface transit, the handicapped, a limited number of taxis. With only a tiny amount of space per person, you really have to push for denser forms of transportation. Personal vehicle use should be at a minimum in Manhattan.<p>&gt; In Lower Manhattan, people are not the only obstacle. Construction on streets and buildings is everywhere. A labyrinth of imposing metal scaffolding hems in available walkways and forces pedestrians closer together, or into the street.<p>The solution here is to cut into space on the road to provide more walking space.<p>* I know it&#x27;s only part of a city but you know what I mean</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>imgabe</author><text>Part of the problem is a lack of alleys, so delivery trucks have to park in the street and block traffic. If zoning required an off-street loading dock area for all buildings it would start to help as new buildings are built. I&#x27;m not sure if that&#x27;s a rule or not.</text></comment> |
5,999,423 | 5,999,239 | 1 | 3 | 5,999,148 | train | <story><title>Venezuela, Bolivia offer asylum to U.S. intel leaker Snowden </title><url>http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/05/world/americas/venezuela-snowden/index.html?hpt=hp_t2</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>crazygringo</author><text>It really is the most wonderful irony that the US&#x27;s apparent heavy-handed actions over Morales&#x27; plane ended up biting them in the ass.<p>As an American, I really do want to know, though -- who are the ham-fisted officials in charge of overseeing Snowden&#x27;s prosecution? Who was the actual official who made the decision to tell France and Spain not to let Morales land? And who are the officials in France and Spain who decided to obey? (And are they still denying it?)<p>I mean, regardless of what you think about Snowden, the level of American incompetence here, the way our officials are simply disrespecting other governments and peoples of the world, is really astounding. It&#x27;s shameful, and I wish I knew who the bumbling officials actually are.</text></comment> | <story><title>Venezuela, Bolivia offer asylum to U.S. intel leaker Snowden </title><url>http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/05/world/americas/venezuela-snowden/index.html?hpt=hp_t2</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>marvin</author><text>It&#x27;s so good that at least two states have the balls to stand up to the USA and offer asylum against what is obviously a political manhunt.<p>As a Norwegian, I&#x27;m ashamed that our government and bureaucracy is too scared to stand up for our moral values. If Snowden was from Somalia, we would have granted him asylum with no further discussion. It&#x27;s ridiculous that a (former) &quot;banana republic&quot; is the only nation that dares take this issue seriously. They may have their own agenda, but facts are facts.</text></comment> |
41,345,207 | 41,343,359 | 1 | 3 | 41,341,353 | train | <story><title>Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/aug/24/telegram-app-founder-pavel-durov-arrested-at-french-airport</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>apopapo</author><text>So you endorse governments from the middle-east being in their right to delete anything they see as &quot;illegal&quot; because they are blasphemous for example?</text></item><item><author>sega_sai</author><text>A bunch of people in comments here seem to misunderstand what telegram is. It is <i>not</i> just a messaging app, it is essentially a platform like twitter, with channels, hundreds of thousands of subscribers to those.
While I fully support E2EE communication with no back-doors, I think it is perfectly fair for governments to have some control to take down large channels that are clearly against the law. I do not know the true cause for the arrest, but I hope it is because of the latter not the former.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kelnos</author><text>I think that interpretation of GP&#x27;s stance is pretty uncharitable.<p>If the thing they want to delete is run by an entity that has a physical presence in that country, then they -- unfortunately -- have the right to get that material deleted.<p>For better or worse, we are all bound by the laws of the place where we physically reside. If we want to do or allow things online that are legal where we are, but are illegal in other countries, then we shouldn&#x27;t visit those countries.<p>It doesn&#x27;t matter if anyone &quot;endorses&quot; repressive governments in doing their repressive things; they are legally able to do those things to people physically present within their borders. That&#x27;s just the reality of the situation.<p>France claims Durov allowed stuff that&#x27;s illegal in France. He went to France, so France has the ability to punish Durov for his alleged misdeeds. It doesn&#x27;t matter if we think that&#x27;s right or wrong; that&#x27;s just how the world works.</text></comment> | <story><title>Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/aug/24/telegram-app-founder-pavel-durov-arrested-at-french-airport</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>apopapo</author><text>So you endorse governments from the middle-east being in their right to delete anything they see as &quot;illegal&quot; because they are blasphemous for example?</text></item><item><author>sega_sai</author><text>A bunch of people in comments here seem to misunderstand what telegram is. It is <i>not</i> just a messaging app, it is essentially a platform like twitter, with channels, hundreds of thousands of subscribers to those.
While I fully support E2EE communication with no back-doors, I think it is perfectly fair for governments to have some control to take down large channels that are clearly against the law. I do not know the true cause for the arrest, but I hope it is because of the latter not the former.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wordpad25</author><text>There is a large spectrum between total anarchy and totalitarian regime, so in the same way there is a spectrum in free speech.</text></comment> |
36,741,400 | 36,740,797 | 1 | 3 | 36,739,920 | train | <story><title>Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website</title><url>https://wiby.me/surprise/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>petetnt</author><text>It&#x27;s awesome how you can stumble upon sites that are so funny or interesting (in multiple ways) that you just want to share them immediately forward. Everyone says it but it&#x27;s true: something just got lost in translation when social media pages ate the whole internet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Youden</author><text>My theory is that it&#x27;s that on many of these sites there&#x27;s no easy way to comment, like or otherwise publicly interact. Sure you could try and email the person but that takes effort and you have to talk directly to them, not to a crowd.<p>When you don&#x27;t have to worry about a mob of negativity, you can write far more freely.</text></comment> | <story><title>Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website</title><url>https://wiby.me/surprise/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>petetnt</author><text>It&#x27;s awesome how you can stumble upon sites that are so funny or interesting (in multiple ways) that you just want to share them immediately forward. Everyone says it but it&#x27;s true: something just got lost in translation when social media pages ate the whole internet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RGamma</author><text>What I&#x27;ve found consistently scarier this past decade+ is the casualness and seeming inevitability with which vast swathes of the population can be captured by unfavorable technology and social spaces or narratives.<p>And yeah, what you and others here often enough describe(d) are the shadows on the wall. Keeping civilization and culture on track really is a constant struggle.</text></comment> |
21,420,062 | 21,419,211 | 1 | 3 | 21,418,033 | train | <story><title>Linus Torvalds: Git proved I could be more than a one-hit wonder</title><url>https://www.techrepublic.com/article/linus-torvalds-git-proved-i-could-be-more-than-a-one-hit-wonder/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cmarschner</author><text>To me the beauty of git stems from the fact that it is an implementation of a functional data structure. It‘s a tree index that is read-only, and updating it involves creating a complete copy of the tree and giving it a new name. Then the only challenge is to make that copy as cheap as possible - for which the tree lends itself, as only the nodes on the path to the root need to get updated. As a result, you get lock-free transactions (branches) and minimal overhead. And through git‘s pointer-to-parent commit you get full lineage.
It is so beautiful in fact that when I think about systems that need to maintain long-running state in concurrent environments, my first reaction is ”split up the state into files, and maintain it through git(hub)“.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>combatentropy</author><text>&quot;. . . unlike every single horror I&#x27;ve ever witnessed when looking closer at SCM products, git actually has a simple design, with stable and reasonably well-documented data structures. In fact, I&#x27;m a huge proponent of designing your code around the data, rather than the other way around, and I think it&#x27;s one of the reasons git has been fairly successful. . . .<p>&quot;I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.&quot;<p>--- Linus Torvalds, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lwn.net&#x2F;Articles&#x2F;193245&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lwn.net&#x2F;Articles&#x2F;193245&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Linus Torvalds: Git proved I could be more than a one-hit wonder</title><url>https://www.techrepublic.com/article/linus-torvalds-git-proved-i-could-be-more-than-a-one-hit-wonder/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cmarschner</author><text>To me the beauty of git stems from the fact that it is an implementation of a functional data structure. It‘s a tree index that is read-only, and updating it involves creating a complete copy of the tree and giving it a new name. Then the only challenge is to make that copy as cheap as possible - for which the tree lends itself, as only the nodes on the path to the root need to get updated. As a result, you get lock-free transactions (branches) and minimal overhead. And through git‘s pointer-to-parent commit you get full lineage.
It is so beautiful in fact that when I think about systems that need to maintain long-running state in concurrent environments, my first reaction is ”split up the state into files, and maintain it through git(hub)“.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>duxup</author><text>I encountered a large company where they had a private git server for their engineering teams.<p>Over time someone discovered that the number of repositories and usage was much greater than they expected. What they found was that non engineering folks who had contact with engineering had asked questions about how they manage their code, what branches were, and etc. Some friendly engineering teams had explained, then some capable non engineering employees discovered that the server was open to anyone with a login (as far as creating and managing your own repositories) and capable employees had started using it to manage their own files.<p>The unexpected users mostly used it on a per user basis (not as a team) as the terminology tripped up &#x2F; slowed down a lot of non engineering folks, but individuals really liked it.<p>IT panicked and wanted to lock it down but because engineering owned it ... they just didn&#x27;t care &#x2F; nothing was done. They were a cool team.</text></comment> |
14,818,000 | 14,817,833 | 1 | 2 | 14,817,671 | train | <story><title>“We currently have no plans to support Xwayland”</title><url>https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/925605/linux/nvidia-364-12-release-vulkan-glvnd-drm-kms-and-eglstreams/post/5188874/#5188874</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>posguy</author><text>For a company that is wholly reliant on Linux to sell quite a few of their products, the lack of support from Nvidia continues to be impressive.<p>Intel is actively trying to kill off lowend and mid-range GPUs in the desktop, and has locked them out in the mobile space, leaving Nvidia with just the high end GPU market and their ventures into the ARM SOC space.<p>By not treating Linux end user devices as first class citizens, I don&#x27;t see how Nvidia intends to have a viable business long term. Who wants a tablet, phone or desktop GPU without drivers?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cthalupa</author><text>A company that is wholly reliant on Linux to sell quite a few of their products?<p>Gaming enthusiasts aren&#x27;t running Linux. The HPC&#x2F;GPU compute market don&#x27;t care about Wayland. Android devices aren&#x27;t using Wayland.<p>What part of their target market runs Linux?<p>What portion of the desktop market runs Linux?<p>If it wasn&#x27;t for Linux, I&#x27;d be in a very different profession, so I&#x27;m a huge fan. But I don&#x27;t understand where you guys that act like the Linux desktop is a big enough market that this will make a material affect on nvidia&#x27;s bottom line is so weird to me.</text></comment> | <story><title>“We currently have no plans to support Xwayland”</title><url>https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/925605/linux/nvidia-364-12-release-vulkan-glvnd-drm-kms-and-eglstreams/post/5188874/#5188874</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>posguy</author><text>For a company that is wholly reliant on Linux to sell quite a few of their products, the lack of support from Nvidia continues to be impressive.<p>Intel is actively trying to kill off lowend and mid-range GPUs in the desktop, and has locked them out in the mobile space, leaving Nvidia with just the high end GPU market and their ventures into the ARM SOC space.<p>By not treating Linux end user devices as first class citizens, I don&#x27;t see how Nvidia intends to have a viable business long term. Who wants a tablet, phone or desktop GPU without drivers?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>binarycrusader</author><text>The reality is all the money they make off Linux is with workstations cards or HPC. Neither of those market niches are likely demanding Wayland support since stability is a hard requirement and Wayland really isn&#x27;t sufficiently mature yet (nor does it really have sufficient market adoption).<p>They&#x27;re a business, so when their customers need it, they&#x27;ll support it. Until then, only hobbyists or an insufficient part of their customer base is interested, so understandably, they&#x27;re not investing in it.</text></comment> |
7,235,428 | 7,234,966 | 1 | 3 | 7,234,010 | train | <story><title>Silk Road 2 Hacked, All Bitcoins Stolen</title><url>http://www.deepdotweb.com/2014/02/13/silk-road-2-hacked-bitcoins-stolen-unknown-amount/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tolmasky</author><text>I think you have a deep misunderstanding of libertarianism (which is your right of course). Libertarians don&#x27;t necessarily not believe in laws, they simply don&#x27;t believe in a monopoly of laws and law enforcers. This is kind of the whole point. Its clear that in your world view &quot;justice&quot; is somehow inexorably tied to government, but there others that disagree (which leads to your confusion in thinking that because someone asks for justice he is necessarily asking for government).<p>To illustrate this a bit better, perhaps using an example that you probably agree with Libertarians on: just because libertarians believe drugs should not be illegal, does not necessarily mean they believe drug use shouldn&#x27;t be discouraged or treated. It is not hypocritical to fight for drug decriminalization but then seek rehabilitation programs for your drug addicted friends. That is in no way acquiescing to the need for drug control -- it is using a <i>different</i> tactic to fight a problem both sides may very well agree exists.<p>Similarly, it is not hypocritical to want the government to stay out of currencies, but still want a method of punishing thieves. You may believe other methods don&#x27;t work (just like there are a lot of red voters who think its naive to think not putting drug users in jails works), but that doesn&#x27;t make the other position inconsistent.</text></item><item><author>zedshaw</author><text>This is seriously the most hilarious thing I have read in a long time. Here we have a group of objectivist libertarians who believe that there should be effectively no laws other than the law of economics and self-interest who run an illegal website devoted to the pure greed of cashing in on contraband, and this is what they write:<p>&quot;I’ve included transaction logs at the bottom of this message. Review the vendor’s dishonest actions and use whatever means you deem necessary to bring this person to justice.&quot; We need the government! Please, come find the guy who took all of our illegal drug money and give it back to us so we can continue to say you aren&#x27;t necessary.<p>&quot;Given the right flavor of influence from our community, we can only hope that he will decide to return the coins with integrity as opposed to hiding like a coward.&quot; Yes, you bad guy, you should do the right thing and think of the community not your self-interests by giving back your illegal gains back to the guy named Dead Pirate Roberts (that&#x27;s totally his real name).<p>&quot;Whoever you are, you still have a chance to act in the interest of helping this community.&quot; In the interest of the community?! Bwahahahaa!<p>&quot;I will fight here by your side, even the greedy bastards amongst us.&quot; Like <i>everyone</i> on the site?!<p>&quot;The only way to reverse a community’s greed is through generosity.&quot; Just like Ayn Rand said my brothers!<p>Then I come here and not a single person on here even notices the massive hypocrisy and lack of self-awareness. Amazing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>EGreg</author><text>I believe I can make the gloating rant a bit more precise.<p>ANARCHO CAPITALISTS say that we don&#x27;t need government for anything and the private market will provide it. True, with smart contracts the theft is infeasible, but it was not always so. These exchanges didn&#x27;t use smart contracts. And there are other crimes than theft of bitcoins.<p>When crimes occur the question is, who considers them crimes? Appealing to the person to PUT THE COMMUNTY AHEAD OF THEIR SELF INTEREST kind of admits that the system failed a whole community which got screwed by an individual.<p>As for MINARCHISTS, they always have a copout that they want SOME government. But it&#x27;s not clear how much or what it should do. Everyone has a different idea or no idea. And even minarchists and Objectivists tout the self reliance and the individual over the community. So why should this individual give stuff back? It was their fault for not securing their site properly. The individual can only be punished BY someone, and then it becomes communities hunting individuals.</text></comment> | <story><title>Silk Road 2 Hacked, All Bitcoins Stolen</title><url>http://www.deepdotweb.com/2014/02/13/silk-road-2-hacked-bitcoins-stolen-unknown-amount/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tolmasky</author><text>I think you have a deep misunderstanding of libertarianism (which is your right of course). Libertarians don&#x27;t necessarily not believe in laws, they simply don&#x27;t believe in a monopoly of laws and law enforcers. This is kind of the whole point. Its clear that in your world view &quot;justice&quot; is somehow inexorably tied to government, but there others that disagree (which leads to your confusion in thinking that because someone asks for justice he is necessarily asking for government).<p>To illustrate this a bit better, perhaps using an example that you probably agree with Libertarians on: just because libertarians believe drugs should not be illegal, does not necessarily mean they believe drug use shouldn&#x27;t be discouraged or treated. It is not hypocritical to fight for drug decriminalization but then seek rehabilitation programs for your drug addicted friends. That is in no way acquiescing to the need for drug control -- it is using a <i>different</i> tactic to fight a problem both sides may very well agree exists.<p>Similarly, it is not hypocritical to want the government to stay out of currencies, but still want a method of punishing thieves. You may believe other methods don&#x27;t work (just like there are a lot of red voters who think its naive to think not putting drug users in jails works), but that doesn&#x27;t make the other position inconsistent.</text></item><item><author>zedshaw</author><text>This is seriously the most hilarious thing I have read in a long time. Here we have a group of objectivist libertarians who believe that there should be effectively no laws other than the law of economics and self-interest who run an illegal website devoted to the pure greed of cashing in on contraband, and this is what they write:<p>&quot;I’ve included transaction logs at the bottom of this message. Review the vendor’s dishonest actions and use whatever means you deem necessary to bring this person to justice.&quot; We need the government! Please, come find the guy who took all of our illegal drug money and give it back to us so we can continue to say you aren&#x27;t necessary.<p>&quot;Given the right flavor of influence from our community, we can only hope that he will decide to return the coins with integrity as opposed to hiding like a coward.&quot; Yes, you bad guy, you should do the right thing and think of the community not your self-interests by giving back your illegal gains back to the guy named Dead Pirate Roberts (that&#x27;s totally his real name).<p>&quot;Whoever you are, you still have a chance to act in the interest of helping this community.&quot; In the interest of the community?! Bwahahahaa!<p>&quot;I will fight here by your side, even the greedy bastards amongst us.&quot; Like <i>everyone</i> on the site?!<p>&quot;The only way to reverse a community’s greed is through generosity.&quot; Just like Ayn Rand said my brothers!<p>Then I come here and not a single person on here even notices the massive hypocrisy and lack of self-awareness. Amazing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ewoodrich</author><text>So if some group decided I was a criminal by their standards (say if I insulted them on the street, or something), they could come to my home in the night and summarily execute me?</text></comment> |
27,538,619 | 27,538,629 | 1 | 3 | 27,537,040 | train | <story><title>PHP has been removed in macOS Monterey</title><url>https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/681907</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mekster</author><text>It&#x27;s still impressive that powerful command line environment and the best GUI are offered in a same OS.<p>Usually it&#x27;s one or the other.</text></item><item><author>tpush</author><text>Genuine question: is there anyone (corporate or not) that cares that macOS is a certified Unix?</text></item><item><author>Stranger43</author><text>Perl is requires for apple to maintain their unix(tm) certification. And while they likely dont see it as core to what they want macos to become it would be an news story in the more sensationalist part of the IT press if they were to drop it. and big sur is still listed as certified
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.opengroup.org&#x2F;openbrand&#x2F;register&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.opengroup.org&#x2F;openbrand&#x2F;register&#x2F;</a>.</text></item><item><author>darrenf</author><text>Regarding Perl, rather than removing it Apple actually <i>upgraded</i> it – from 5.28 to 5.30 – in Big Sur 11.3. I wasn&#x27;t the only one briefly surprised and bitten by it:<p>• <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Homebrew&#x2F;brew&#x2F;issues&#x2F;10127#issuecomment-828121139" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Homebrew&#x2F;brew&#x2F;issues&#x2F;10127#issuecomment-8...</a><p>• <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Homebrew&#x2F;brew&#x2F;issues&#x2F;11275" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Homebrew&#x2F;brew&#x2F;issues&#x2F;11275</a></text></item><item><author>WalterGR</author><text>Xcode 11 Release Notes (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;xcode-release-notes&#x2F;xcode-11-release-notes" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;xcode-release-note...</a>)<p>&quot;Scripting language runtimes such as Python, Ruby, and Perl are included in macOS for compatibility with legacy software. In future versions of macOS, scripting language runtimes won’t be available by default, and may require you to install an additional package. If your software depends on scripting languages, it’s recommended that you bundle the runtime within the app. (49764202)&quot;<p>Found via <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mjtsai.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2019&#x2F;06&#x2F;04&#x2F;scripting-languages-to-be-removed&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mjtsai.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2019&#x2F;06&#x2F;04&#x2F;scripting-languages-to-be...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>akho</author><text>Powerful command-line environments are offered everywhere (wsl, Linux container on Chrome, Linux on Linux). MacOS is actually quite lacking in comparison (being limited wrt licenses and lacking a package manager). So it’s just a GUI question, and I’m not sure there is a definite lead these days.<p>Integration with their other hardware devices is the more important moat right now, as is hardware.</text></comment> | <story><title>PHP has been removed in macOS Monterey</title><url>https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/681907</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mekster</author><text>It&#x27;s still impressive that powerful command line environment and the best GUI are offered in a same OS.<p>Usually it&#x27;s one or the other.</text></item><item><author>tpush</author><text>Genuine question: is there anyone (corporate or not) that cares that macOS is a certified Unix?</text></item><item><author>Stranger43</author><text>Perl is requires for apple to maintain their unix(tm) certification. And while they likely dont see it as core to what they want macos to become it would be an news story in the more sensationalist part of the IT press if they were to drop it. and big sur is still listed as certified
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.opengroup.org&#x2F;openbrand&#x2F;register&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.opengroup.org&#x2F;openbrand&#x2F;register&#x2F;</a>.</text></item><item><author>darrenf</author><text>Regarding Perl, rather than removing it Apple actually <i>upgraded</i> it – from 5.28 to 5.30 – in Big Sur 11.3. I wasn&#x27;t the only one briefly surprised and bitten by it:<p>• <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Homebrew&#x2F;brew&#x2F;issues&#x2F;10127#issuecomment-828121139" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Homebrew&#x2F;brew&#x2F;issues&#x2F;10127#issuecomment-8...</a><p>• <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Homebrew&#x2F;brew&#x2F;issues&#x2F;11275" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Homebrew&#x2F;brew&#x2F;issues&#x2F;11275</a></text></item><item><author>WalterGR</author><text>Xcode 11 Release Notes (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;xcode-release-notes&#x2F;xcode-11-release-notes" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;xcode-release-note...</a>)<p>&quot;Scripting language runtimes such as Python, Ruby, and Perl are included in macOS for compatibility with legacy software. In future versions of macOS, scripting language runtimes won’t be available by default, and may require you to install an additional package. If your software depends on scripting languages, it’s recommended that you bundle the runtime within the app. (49764202)&quot;<p>Found via <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mjtsai.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2019&#x2F;06&#x2F;04&#x2F;scripting-languages-to-be-removed&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mjtsai.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2019&#x2F;06&#x2F;04&#x2F;scripting-languages-to-be...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hnlmorg</author><text>That&#x27;s a hugely subjective comment and there are plenty of instances throughout history of a powerful CLI and sophisticated GUI being included as part of the same OS (Xerox Alto, BeOS, NeXT, Plan 9). Linux and *BSD&#x27;s have plenty of popular WM &#x2F; DEs too: personally I&#x27;d rate KDE above anything commercial I&#x27;ve used but that&#x27;s my subjective preference. Heck these days even Windows can be argued as having a &quot;powerful CLI&quot; with both WSL and Powershell existing, and the Windows UI has it&#x27;s fair share of fans (regardless of what our own personal preferences might be).</text></comment> |
27,751,301 | 27,748,398 | 1 | 2 | 27,740,853 | train | <story><title>The Secret Life of Machines</title><url>https://www.timhunkin.com/a243_Secret-Life-of-Machines-intro.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nieksand</author><text>Mr. Hunkin has been publishing a new Secret Life of Components series to youtube: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=6JAgXz6xO0s&amp;list=PLtaR0lZhSyANYB0Xxb9OSp47pHuQmj3Ol" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=6JAgXz6xO0s&amp;list=PLtaR0lZhSy...</a><p>It is really great stuff if you enjoy building things.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Secret Life of Machines</title><url>https://www.timhunkin.com/a243_Secret-Life-of-Machines-intro.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fanf2</author><text>The Secret Life of Machines is a brilliant classic, and it’s great to hear Tim Hunkin’s behind-the-scenes memories.<p>Also great is Tim Hunkin’s Secret Life of Components which he released on YouTube earlier this year <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.timhunkin.com&#x2F;a241_component-videos.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.timhunkin.com&#x2F;a241_component-videos.htm</a></text></comment> |
23,586,725 | 23,586,450 | 1 | 2 | 23,585,596 | train | <story><title>Executive order expected to suspend H-1B, other visas until end of year</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2020/06/20/881245867/trump-expected-to-suspend-h-1b-other-visas-until-end-of-year</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jusonchan81</author><text>I guess this is indeed an issue. I’m a manager and I am trying to hire. 100% I’d rather find a person who can start in a couple of weeks than several months for a candidate who needs immigration. But there are rarely any local applicants and even when there are they don’t make in the interview. We pay in excess of 300k for all roles so it’s not like we are trying to find cheap talent.</text></item><item><author>dx87</author><text>If H-1B visas were being used how they were intended, they would be a good thing, but we often see them used as a way to get cheap labor, or even directly replace American workers. The company I work at has H-1B junior web developers, hardly &quot;very niche, hard to fill&quot; positions that they can&#x27;t find any qualified Americans to do.</text></item><item><author>awillen</author><text>It&#x27;s just silly... even if you&#x27;re a nationalist, isn&#x27;t the prospect of bringing over talented people from foreign countries to work in America and help our companies profit plus deprive their home countries of their skills a really, really good thing?</text></item><item><author>BolexNOLA</author><text>This has gotten very old very fast (beyond the obvious cruelty). I have several friends who keep watching their colleagues just have to up and leave over this and it’s causing a ton of issues for businesses that employ folks on work visas in general. It’s just disruptive to be disruptive&#x2F;feed the base.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>P_I_Staker</author><text>Something isn&#x27;t adding up here, even in areas with high COL people are clamoring for jobs like that. I&#x27;m not saying it never happens, something just doesn&#x27;t sound right.<p>Also, the vast majority of people on H1-Bs that I&#x27;ve worked with are quite... average. It&#x27;s nothing against them, but I doubt they were blowing people away in the interview. Many of them do have better attitudes, though.<p>That&#x27;s not to say that there aren&#x27;t exceptional examples, or a given candidate was bad, but we absolutely could of hired some kid from university, or a mid-senior level from a US company. They just tend to have more demands.<p>It&#x27;s not exactly a secret the main reason for the program, is to lower wages here. ie. keep the wages of nationals in check. Of course, you also get access to a better deal on labor, and people that want the job very badly.<p>I could be off base, but many of the people I&#x27;ve worked with on H1-Bs simply cause less political problems. It&#x27;s not necessarily a cultural thing, as I&#x27;m including many different countries. They have the threat of deportation hanging over their head.</text></comment> | <story><title>Executive order expected to suspend H-1B, other visas until end of year</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2020/06/20/881245867/trump-expected-to-suspend-h-1b-other-visas-until-end-of-year</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jusonchan81</author><text>I guess this is indeed an issue. I’m a manager and I am trying to hire. 100% I’d rather find a person who can start in a couple of weeks than several months for a candidate who needs immigration. But there are rarely any local applicants and even when there are they don’t make in the interview. We pay in excess of 300k for all roles so it’s not like we are trying to find cheap talent.</text></item><item><author>dx87</author><text>If H-1B visas were being used how they were intended, they would be a good thing, but we often see them used as a way to get cheap labor, or even directly replace American workers. The company I work at has H-1B junior web developers, hardly &quot;very niche, hard to fill&quot; positions that they can&#x27;t find any qualified Americans to do.</text></item><item><author>awillen</author><text>It&#x27;s just silly... even if you&#x27;re a nationalist, isn&#x27;t the prospect of bringing over talented people from foreign countries to work in America and help our companies profit plus deprive their home countries of their skills a really, really good thing?</text></item><item><author>BolexNOLA</author><text>This has gotten very old very fast (beyond the obvious cruelty). I have several friends who keep watching their colleagues just have to up and leave over this and it’s causing a ton of issues for businesses that employ folks on work visas in general. It’s just disruptive to be disruptive&#x2F;feed the base.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hckr_news</author><text>Maybe your recruiting to get interviewers into your pipeline and the interview process just isn&#x27;t that good. Or perhaps nobody wants to work at your company. Bad management? Bad glassdoor reviews? Don&#x27;t engage with the local tech scene?</text></comment> |
4,461,400 | 4,461,262 | 1 | 3 | 4,460,906 | train | <story><title>Valve Finds Value In Open-Source Drivers</title><url>http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel_valve_linux&num=1</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>geoffhill</author><text>&#62; <i>Valve has granted these Intel Linux developers complete access to the game's source-code, including the Source Engine. This has allowed Intel's Linux developers to better investigate possible optimizations and tweaks to their driver in order to enhance Source-powered games. Valve has even given them commit access to push back changes to the game company.</i><p>That sure is something EA and Ubisoft wouldn't do in a million years.</text></comment> | <story><title>Valve Finds Value In Open-Source Drivers</title><url>http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel_valve_linux&num=1</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bryanh</author><text>I'm guessing Valve's foray into Linux is more or less a hedge against Microsoft. If Windows 8 is a massive flop, the next best option is Mac or straight Linux. If Windows 8 is a success, well, I suppose it is business as usual albeit with some extra pressure from the Windows app store.</text></comment> |
36,552,214 | 36,551,860 | 1 | 3 | 36,550,582 | train | <story><title>A child’s privacy is worth more than likes (2022)</title><url>https://www.theprivacywhisperer.com/p/your-childs-privacy-is-worth-more</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chillbill</author><text>I agree with the spirit of the post, but:<p>- You don’t need to be doing a PhD to realize that there’s something weird about sharing your intimate life stories online with strangers. Might be a bit crude, but you’d have to be pretty thick not to consider it.<p>- This part:<p>&gt; Social media companies, these corporate giants that have so much influence in today’s culture and the way we connect with each other, are the ones normalizing oversharing and benefiting from it<p>This is not exactly accurate. Social media companies are not the ones normalizing this behavior, bad parents are. They do benefit from it or even encourage it, but ultimately it’s the parent’s responsibility as they are doing it only for themselves.<p>Bad parents are not the victim, they are the problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pwdisswordfishc</author><text>&gt; Social media companies are not the ones normalizing this behavior, bad parents are. They do benefit from it or even encourage it,<p>Remember, always blame individuals for systemic issues.</text></comment> | <story><title>A child’s privacy is worth more than likes (2022)</title><url>https://www.theprivacywhisperer.com/p/your-childs-privacy-is-worth-more</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chillbill</author><text>I agree with the spirit of the post, but:<p>- You don’t need to be doing a PhD to realize that there’s something weird about sharing your intimate life stories online with strangers. Might be a bit crude, but you’d have to be pretty thick not to consider it.<p>- This part:<p>&gt; Social media companies, these corporate giants that have so much influence in today’s culture and the way we connect with each other, are the ones normalizing oversharing and benefiting from it<p>This is not exactly accurate. Social media companies are not the ones normalizing this behavior, bad parents are. They do benefit from it or even encourage it, but ultimately it’s the parent’s responsibility as they are doing it only for themselves.<p>Bad parents are not the victim, they are the problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Waterluvian</author><text>I don’t disagree, but I feel the need to share a small bit of anecdata for perspective:<p>My kids often say, “this is so cool! Can you get a photo and share it with our friends online?”<p>Of course, anyone can take that last sentence, render it in their own context without the availability of any details to conclude that I’m a terrible parent. But that’s kind of my point: parenting is partly about making informed, nuanced decisions. You never have the information necessary to make an informed, nuanced criticism.</text></comment> |
27,437,928 | 27,437,796 | 1 | 2 | 27,420,959 | train | <story><title>Language learning with Netflix</title><url>https://languagelearningwithnetflix.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sweetheart</author><text>I run a language learning app (leerly.io) which focuses on teaching language through comprehensible input, which seems to be at least somewhat how LLwN is approaching the problem of language acquisition. For those interested in how to get the most out of language learning tools like LLwN, some tips which are backed up by the field of applied linguistics:<p>- Don&#x27;t translate! If you do, do so very sparingly. It sounds counter-intuitive, but stopping to translate often will just slow you down. That&#x27;s because...<p>- The most important thing is just experiencing the language. You need hundreds and hundreds of hours listening to the language to really start to acquire it. Comprehension is inevitable, just optimize for time spent listening&#x2F;reading.<p>- Avoid speaking. This has shown to actually hinder the process of acquiring a language. Speaking is the natural result of having learned a language. You&#x27;ll notice when you&#x27;re ready to start speaking a little because you&#x27;ll occasionally have thoughts in your target language. Until then, speaking practice is virtually useless.<p>Maybe these will help you, as they&#x27;ve definitely helped me learn Spanish. Buena suerte :)<p>Note: These tips are also only for people who want to learn a language to fluency. If you just want to learn enough to order at a restaurant, that&#x27;s a different ballgame.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>solarmist</author><text>&quot;Avoid speaking&quot;
This is 100% a myth. The Defense Language Institute comprehensively disproved this in the mid-1970&#x27;s.<p>I know this because it&#x27;s discussed on the first day of classes at DLI as for why you need to learn to speak the language not just hear and read it. Because my job title was voice intercept operator.<p>Pre-1976 the Defense Language Institute did not score or rate students speaking ability because only reading and listening were considered mission critical skills.<p>Post-1976 it was considered a mission critical skill because it had such a dramatic effect on students final listening and reading abilities during the culminating Defense Language Proficiency Test (DLPT). Subsequently an Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) was developed and is considered an integral part of the DLPT.<p>Note: This was all direct, primary research done at the Defense Language Institute with thousands of participants annually, so it was direct cause and effect experiment.<p>It&#x27;s hard to find the specific research results summarizing this, but here&#x27;s one example from that time period.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;psycnet.apa.org&#x2F;record&#x2F;1975-10458-001" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;psycnet.apa.org&#x2F;record&#x2F;1975-10458-001</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Language learning with Netflix</title><url>https://languagelearningwithnetflix.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sweetheart</author><text>I run a language learning app (leerly.io) which focuses on teaching language through comprehensible input, which seems to be at least somewhat how LLwN is approaching the problem of language acquisition. For those interested in how to get the most out of language learning tools like LLwN, some tips which are backed up by the field of applied linguistics:<p>- Don&#x27;t translate! If you do, do so very sparingly. It sounds counter-intuitive, but stopping to translate often will just slow you down. That&#x27;s because...<p>- The most important thing is just experiencing the language. You need hundreds and hundreds of hours listening to the language to really start to acquire it. Comprehension is inevitable, just optimize for time spent listening&#x2F;reading.<p>- Avoid speaking. This has shown to actually hinder the process of acquiring a language. Speaking is the natural result of having learned a language. You&#x27;ll notice when you&#x27;re ready to start speaking a little because you&#x27;ll occasionally have thoughts in your target language. Until then, speaking practice is virtually useless.<p>Maybe these will help you, as they&#x27;ve definitely helped me learn Spanish. Buena suerte :)<p>Note: These tips are also only for people who want to learn a language to fluency. If you just want to learn enough to order at a restaurant, that&#x27;s a different ballgame.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>emptysongglass</author><text>&gt; - Avoid speaking. This has shown to actually hinder the process of acquiring a language. Speaking is the natural result of having learned a language. You&#x27;ll notice when you&#x27;re ready to start speaking a little because you&#x27;ll occasionally have thoughts in your target language. Until then, speaking practice is virtually useless.<p>This has to be the most counterproductive advice I&#x27;ve ever heard. You need to start speaking as soon as possible. There&#x27;s no other trick to learning a language than forcing yourself to speak.<p>For some it&#x27;s easier because they&#x27;re less socially anxious. For others it will be more difficult. I was in the latter camp learning Danish. You have to make friends with your fear or you will forever be stuck in what many language learners refer to as a &quot;quiet period&quot;. I was for a decade (!!!) If you don&#x27;t start speaking you will forever have only an intellectual understanding of the language.<p>So speak. Please speak. Early and often. Babies sound things out early because they&#x27;re trying to get a hold of it, the vocal contortions required.</text></comment> |
32,586,617 | 32,586,107 | 1 | 2 | 32,584,845 | train | <story><title>Notes on Theory of Distributed Systems [pdf]</title><url>http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/aspnes/classes/465/notes.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phtrivier</author><text>Is anyone teaching &quot;Practice of boring Distributed Systems 101 for dummies on a budget with a tight schedule&quot; ?<p>As in, &quot;we have a PHP monolith used by all of 12 people in the accounting department, and for some reason we&#x27;ve been tasked with making it run on multiple machines (&quot;for redundancy&quot; or something) by next month.<p>The original developpers left to start a Bitcoin scam.<p>Some exec read about the &quot;cloud&quot;, but we&#x27;ll probably get just enough budget to buy a coffee to an AWS salesman.<p>Don&#x27;t even dream of hiring a &quot;DevOps&quot; to deploy a kubernetes cluster to orchestrate anything. Don&#x27;t dream of hiring anyone, actually. Or, paying anything, for that matter.<p>You had one machine ; here is a second machine. That&#x27;s a 100% increase in your budget, now go get us some value with that !<p>And don&#x27;t come back in three months to ask for another budget to &#x27;upgrade&#x27;.&quot;<p>Where would someone start ?<p>(EDIT: To clarify, this is a tongue in cheek hyperbole scenario, not a cry for immediate help. Thanks to all who offered help ;)<p>Yet, I&#x27;m curious about any resource on how to attack such problems, because I can only find material on how to handle large scale multi million users high availability stuff.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>keule</author><text>&gt; As in, &quot;we have a PHP monolith used by all of 12 people in the accounting department, and for some reason we&#x27;ve been tasked with making it run on multiple machines (&quot;for redundancy&quot; or something) by next month.<p>Usually, your monolith has these components: a web server (apache&#x2F;nginx + php), a database, and other custom tooling.<p>&gt; Where would someone start ?<p>I think a first step is to move the database to something managed, like AWS RDS or Azure Managed Databases. Herein lies the basis for scaling out your web tier later. And here you will find the most pain because there are likely: custom backup scripts, cron jobs, and other tools that access the DB in unforeseen ways.<p>If you get over that hump you have done your first big step towards a more robust model. Your DB will have automated backups, managed updates, rollover, read replicas etc. You may or may not see a performance increase, because you effectively split your workload across two machines.<p>_THEN_ you can front your web tier with a load balancer, i.e. you load balance to one machine. This gives you: better networking, custom error pages, support for sticky sessions (you likely need them later), and better&#x2F;more monitoring.<p>From thereon you can start working on removing those custom scripts of the web tier machine and start splitting this into an _actual_ load-balanced infrastructure, going to two web-tier machines, where traffic is routed using sticky-sessions.<p>Depending on the application design you can start introducing containers.<p>Now, this approach will not give you a _cloud-native awesome microservice architecture_ with CI&#x2F;CD and devops. But it will be enough to have higher availability and more robust handling of the (predictable) load in the near future. And on the way, you will remove bad patterns that eventually allow you to go to a better approach.<p>I would be interested in hearing if more people face this challenge. I don&#x27;t know if guides exist around this on the webs.</text></comment> | <story><title>Notes on Theory of Distributed Systems [pdf]</title><url>http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/aspnes/classes/465/notes.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phtrivier</author><text>Is anyone teaching &quot;Practice of boring Distributed Systems 101 for dummies on a budget with a tight schedule&quot; ?<p>As in, &quot;we have a PHP monolith used by all of 12 people in the accounting department, and for some reason we&#x27;ve been tasked with making it run on multiple machines (&quot;for redundancy&quot; or something) by next month.<p>The original developpers left to start a Bitcoin scam.<p>Some exec read about the &quot;cloud&quot;, but we&#x27;ll probably get just enough budget to buy a coffee to an AWS salesman.<p>Don&#x27;t even dream of hiring a &quot;DevOps&quot; to deploy a kubernetes cluster to orchestrate anything. Don&#x27;t dream of hiring anyone, actually. Or, paying anything, for that matter.<p>You had one machine ; here is a second machine. That&#x27;s a 100% increase in your budget, now go get us some value with that !<p>And don&#x27;t come back in three months to ask for another budget to &#x27;upgrade&#x27;.&quot;<p>Where would someone start ?<p>(EDIT: To clarify, this is a tongue in cheek hyperbole scenario, not a cry for immediate help. Thanks to all who offered help ;)<p>Yet, I&#x27;m curious about any resource on how to attack such problems, because I can only find material on how to handle large scale multi million users high availability stuff.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway787544</author><text>If someone would pay for it I&#x27;d write that book. There are lots of different methods for different scenarios. There are some books on it but they&#x27;re either very dry and technical or have very few examples.<p>Here&#x27;s the cliffs notes version for your situation:<p>1. Build a server. Make an image&#x2F;snapshot of it.<p>2. Build a second server from the snapshot.<p>3. Use rsync to copy files your PHP app writes from one machine (&#x27;primary&#x27;) to another (&#x27;secondary&#x27;).<p>4. To make a &quot;safe&quot; change, change the secondary server, test it.<p>5. To &quot;deploy&quot; the change, snapshot the secondary, build a new third server, stop writes on the primary, sync over the files to the third server one last time, point the primary hostname at the third server IP, test this new primary server, destroy the old primary server.<p>6. If you ever need to &quot;roll back&quot; a change, you can do that while there&#x27;s still three servers up (blue&#x2F;green), or deploy a new server with the last working snapshot.<p>7. Set up PagerDuty to wake you up if the primary dies. When it does, change the hostname of the first box to point to the IP of the second box.<p>That&#x27;s just one way that is very simple. It is a redundant active&#x2F;passive distributed system with redundant storage and immutable blue&#x2F;green deployments. It can be considered high-availability although that term is somewhat loaded; ideally you&#x27;d make as much of the system HA as possible, such as independent network connections to the backbone, independent power drops, UPC, etc (both for bare-metal and VMs).<p>You can get much more complicated but that&#x27;s good enough for what they want (redundancy) and it buys you a lot of other benefits.</text></comment> |
34,960,518 | 34,960,821 | 1 | 2 | 34,959,565 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Gitgpt – Natural Language Git</title><url>https://github.com/Hesse/gitgpt</url><text>Hey folks,<p>Here&#x27;s a quick and dirty tool to use natural language to get git to do what you want.<p>Example:
$gitgpt create a new branch called feature&#x2F;test add all the files and commit with msg creating feature test then push to origin<p>I haven&#x27;t put it through the wringer yet, however it&#x27;s worked well with some pretty straight forward day to day git usage.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>gdcbe</author><text>Not sure what value it adds though. Isn’t it easier to type the cmds then to write all that?<p>If there’s a good product in it I’m afraid your examples aren’t selling it :S<p>Was first thinking it could have value for when you forget a cmd or when learning, but I think if you can come up with those technical instructions you can also remember the cmds …</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lolinder</author><text>The thing I&#x27;m most excited for for technology like this is making voice control more feasible for more things. If you plugged a speech to text engine in front of this it could be quite useful.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Gitgpt – Natural Language Git</title><url>https://github.com/Hesse/gitgpt</url><text>Hey folks,<p>Here&#x27;s a quick and dirty tool to use natural language to get git to do what you want.<p>Example:
$gitgpt create a new branch called feature&#x2F;test add all the files and commit with msg creating feature test then push to origin<p>I haven&#x27;t put it through the wringer yet, however it&#x27;s worked well with some pretty straight forward day to day git usage.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>gdcbe</author><text>Not sure what value it adds though. Isn’t it easier to type the cmds then to write all that?<p>If there’s a good product in it I’m afraid your examples aren’t selling it :S<p>Was first thinking it could have value for when you forget a cmd or when learning, but I think if you can come up with those technical instructions you can also remember the cmds …</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kurthr</author><text>Seems like a way to make your CMS even more terrifying.<p>Like, oops not add I meant push, wait remove that! or was it rebase?
I&#x27;ll just reflog to get back to umm... wait what?<p>I guess the saving grace is that it&#x27;ll do the most common things people usually want to do, but for some things english language just not specific enough (like law).</text></comment> |
9,158,412 | 9,158,507 | 1 | 2 | 9,157,098 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: My startup has concealed from me that it raised funding. What to do?</title><text>I&#x27;m a founding engineer at a startup and just found out that the founders have concealed an investment from me leaving me with a potential tax bill on $10,000s of income that I had not received.<p>I did my best to keep my story within 2000 words but I couldn&#x27;t shorten it anymore without leaving off important details so I posted the full text here: http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pastebin.com&#x2F;xLLNUF0H<p>I feel so disgusted and cheated right now. I had worked for this company for almost 3 years doing everything possible to maximize its chance of success: from working overtime to meet deadlines to answering support emails on weekends, and now I find out that they&#x27;ve kept this investment (and the tax implications that go along with it) hidden from me for over a year. I&#x27;m left thinking that they concealed it so they wouldn&#x27;t have to give me a raise, but I am more concerned about the tax implications of these shares. I had to leave work early yesterday when I found out about this and I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ll be able to come in to work today. What should I do? Should I confront the founders about this? Is there any use in contacting a lawyer?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>smt88</author><text>&gt; and try and blow up the deal or company<p>Never do that. Not only does it create bad blood, which could only be bad for you in the long run, it may also leave you open to a lawsuit.<p>The business world is often about shoveling shit. People who always get their revenge tend to have no friends and lots of burned bridges.</text></item><item><author>aantix</author><text>OP should consider this a good lesson (and one that I learned going through an acquisition); unless you&#x27;re a founder, you cannot control &quot;the deal&quot;.<p>Unless you&#x27;re in the room when the chips are (re)divvied up, you have to trust someone else to advocate for you. And after tolling away for a few years, trading your life for the promise of a better future through being acquired, ultimately you end up in a shitty position.<p>Don&#x27;t be diluted in thinking the founders will &quot;take care of everyone&quot;.<p>Your only leverage in the end is to walk away (and try and blow up the deal or company, if you&#x27;re that critical). And if you do walk and they don&#x27;t stop you and counter offer, you probably weren&#x27;t going to get anything anyway.</text></item><item><author>CPLX</author><text>Well despite the fact that this is very stressful, I would start with the maxim that one should employ Hanlon&#x27;s Razor[0] and not ascribe to malice what can adequately be explained by stupidity.<p>It&#x27;s quite possible, nee probable, that they are just disorganized and genuinely thought you already knew, or that it didn&#x27;t matter, or otherwise were clueless or inexperienced enough to not really understand what had happened.<p>I think it would be a mistake to get into it with them on a war footing. Early stage companies like this make mistakes of this kind all the time, and it&#x27;s not necessarily a sign that the whole ship is doomed. If they have the ability to get revenue and investment and pay salaries and whatnot it&#x27;s possible that there&#x27;s a positive outcome in the future.<p>I would schedule an initial consultation with a lawyer who deals with these kinds of things. Get a referral and schedule an hour or so to go over it with them. They&#x27;ll probably charge you a few hundred bucks, or even waive it if you have a close friend or existing client of theirs refer you.<p>Sit down with a lawyer, bring the docs, and explain what happened and get some sense of the implications. Then approach the founders with the attitude that it must be an administrative mistake or misunderstanding. If they are evasive or otherwise shady that should become clear quickly. If they are genuinely concerned and want to help fix the problem then great. But personally I wouldn&#x27;t blow up your relationship with everyone until you have a better idea which of those two scenarios is more descriptive.<p>[0] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon&#x27;s_razor" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hanlon&#x27;s_razor</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aantix</author><text>&gt;Not only does it create bad blood, which could only be bad for you in the long run, it may also leave you open to a lawsuit.<p>Don&#x27;t buy this fud. There&#x27;s nothing illegal about walking away from a shitty deal. Whatever your motives just plainly state &quot;this deal no longer makes sense for me&quot;.<p>If you&#x27;re a great engineer, then have some self respect, and walk away from a shitty deal. Go somewhere else where they respect the people that build value.<p>And if you aren&#x27;t a great engineer, you weren&#x27;t going to get anything anyways, so go somewhere that will raise your game and better positions you for the future.<p>&gt;People who always get their revenge tend to have no friends and lots of burned bridges<p>There&#x27;s a big difference between being bitter on a daily basis vs coming to terms with your past three years that are basically only going to net you an extra 100K (which you could easily get hustling in a few months consulting in SV).<p>Think deliberately about what you&#x27;re toiling away for. An extra 20K? An extra 100K? REALLY? All the extra weekends for years is worth that? Get mad at yourself. Demand more. And if they deny you, walk, and position yourself better next time.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: My startup has concealed from me that it raised funding. What to do?</title><text>I&#x27;m a founding engineer at a startup and just found out that the founders have concealed an investment from me leaving me with a potential tax bill on $10,000s of income that I had not received.<p>I did my best to keep my story within 2000 words but I couldn&#x27;t shorten it anymore without leaving off important details so I posted the full text here: http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pastebin.com&#x2F;xLLNUF0H<p>I feel so disgusted and cheated right now. I had worked for this company for almost 3 years doing everything possible to maximize its chance of success: from working overtime to meet deadlines to answering support emails on weekends, and now I find out that they&#x27;ve kept this investment (and the tax implications that go along with it) hidden from me for over a year. I&#x27;m left thinking that they concealed it so they wouldn&#x27;t have to give me a raise, but I am more concerned about the tax implications of these shares. I had to leave work early yesterday when I found out about this and I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ll be able to come in to work today. What should I do? Should I confront the founders about this? Is there any use in contacting a lawyer?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>smt88</author><text>&gt; and try and blow up the deal or company<p>Never do that. Not only does it create bad blood, which could only be bad for you in the long run, it may also leave you open to a lawsuit.<p>The business world is often about shoveling shit. People who always get their revenge tend to have no friends and lots of burned bridges.</text></item><item><author>aantix</author><text>OP should consider this a good lesson (and one that I learned going through an acquisition); unless you&#x27;re a founder, you cannot control &quot;the deal&quot;.<p>Unless you&#x27;re in the room when the chips are (re)divvied up, you have to trust someone else to advocate for you. And after tolling away for a few years, trading your life for the promise of a better future through being acquired, ultimately you end up in a shitty position.<p>Don&#x27;t be diluted in thinking the founders will &quot;take care of everyone&quot;.<p>Your only leverage in the end is to walk away (and try and blow up the deal or company, if you&#x27;re that critical). And if you do walk and they don&#x27;t stop you and counter offer, you probably weren&#x27;t going to get anything anyway.</text></item><item><author>CPLX</author><text>Well despite the fact that this is very stressful, I would start with the maxim that one should employ Hanlon&#x27;s Razor[0] and not ascribe to malice what can adequately be explained by stupidity.<p>It&#x27;s quite possible, nee probable, that they are just disorganized and genuinely thought you already knew, or that it didn&#x27;t matter, or otherwise were clueless or inexperienced enough to not really understand what had happened.<p>I think it would be a mistake to get into it with them on a war footing. Early stage companies like this make mistakes of this kind all the time, and it&#x27;s not necessarily a sign that the whole ship is doomed. If they have the ability to get revenue and investment and pay salaries and whatnot it&#x27;s possible that there&#x27;s a positive outcome in the future.<p>I would schedule an initial consultation with a lawyer who deals with these kinds of things. Get a referral and schedule an hour or so to go over it with them. They&#x27;ll probably charge you a few hundred bucks, or even waive it if you have a close friend or existing client of theirs refer you.<p>Sit down with a lawyer, bring the docs, and explain what happened and get some sense of the implications. Then approach the founders with the attitude that it must be an administrative mistake or misunderstanding. If they are evasive or otherwise shady that should become clear quickly. If they are genuinely concerned and want to help fix the problem then great. But personally I wouldn&#x27;t blow up your relationship with everyone until you have a better idea which of those two scenarios is more descriptive.<p>[0] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon&#x27;s_razor" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hanlon&#x27;s_razor</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jnbiche</author><text>&gt; People who always get their revenge tend to have no friends and lots of burned bridges.<p>Walking away from a bad deal isn&#x27;t about getting revenge, it&#x27;s about looking out for yourself (because no one else is).</text></comment> |
2,894,099 | 2,894,089 | 1 | 3 | 2,893,449 | train | <story><title>Moving On...</title><url>http://www.thiswebhost.com/blog/2011/08/16/moving-on/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>giberson</author><text><i>I assume everyone will agree with this statement, but I'll state it anyway: You can't cancel valid accounts! If the account is paid in full, and assuming the account isn't being used for nefarious purposes, you cannot cancel valid accounts for any reason.
If I have a Rackspace account, I can go into twitter and say "Rackspace fucking sucks, everyone who works there can go fuck themselves," and there's no chance in hell my account would be canceled. The idea that they are still defending this action is unbelievable.</i><p>You are way off base on this point.<p>Any company can refuse service to an individual for any non discriminatory circumstance. A company can't refuse your business because your race, ethnicity, age or sex or any other determination of discrimination by law but they certainly don't have to do business with you if you're a dick (Pardon my language). If you want to badmouth a company's service or product that you are currently using they certainly can choose to let (force) you to take your business elsewhere (closing your account). You may be entitled to a refund matching the remaining duration on your account, maybe--but as a company they don't have to put up with you forever just because you gave them some money.<p>Now, I'm not defending This*'s customer service or actions, I'm simply pointing out a blatantly false presupposition you are making.</text></item><item><author>gfunk911</author><text>1. Are there seriously smiley faces in this serious post defending your company?<p>2. From what I can understand, they suspended multiple accounts, one of which was paid in full. The paid in full account's owner cursed out the company on twitter.<p>I assume everyone will agree with this statement, but I'll state it anyway: You can't cancel valid accounts! If the account is paid in full, and assuming the account isn't being used for nefarious purposes, you cannot cancel valid accounts for any reason.<p>If I have a Rackspace account, I can go into twitter and say "Rackspace fucking sucks, everyone who works there can go fuck themselves," and there's no chance in hell my account would be canceled. The idea that they are still defending this action is unbelievable.<p>If I hypothetically had an account with This* (which I would never ever have), and there's an outage of some kind and I call to complain, I'm going to be afraid that if I lose my cool for a second, my account's gonna be canceled. I'm not exaggerating, I would legitimately have that fear. And one is supposed to do business with this people? Are they out of their minds?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>raldi</author><text>If you're taking a bus between two cities, can they decide in the middle of the trip that they don't want your business anymore, refund half your money, and leave you at the side of the road?<p>Of course not. That's called breach of contract.<p>And unless This* has a carefully-written escape clause in their service contract, they would be just as liable for canceling service in the middle of a contract period as well.</text></comment> | <story><title>Moving On...</title><url>http://www.thiswebhost.com/blog/2011/08/16/moving-on/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>giberson</author><text><i>I assume everyone will agree with this statement, but I'll state it anyway: You can't cancel valid accounts! If the account is paid in full, and assuming the account isn't being used for nefarious purposes, you cannot cancel valid accounts for any reason.
If I have a Rackspace account, I can go into twitter and say "Rackspace fucking sucks, everyone who works there can go fuck themselves," and there's no chance in hell my account would be canceled. The idea that they are still defending this action is unbelievable.</i><p>You are way off base on this point.<p>Any company can refuse service to an individual for any non discriminatory circumstance. A company can't refuse your business because your race, ethnicity, age or sex or any other determination of discrimination by law but they certainly don't have to do business with you if you're a dick (Pardon my language). If you want to badmouth a company's service or product that you are currently using they certainly can choose to let (force) you to take your business elsewhere (closing your account). You may be entitled to a refund matching the remaining duration on your account, maybe--but as a company they don't have to put up with you forever just because you gave them some money.<p>Now, I'm not defending This*'s customer service or actions, I'm simply pointing out a blatantly false presupposition you are making.</text></item><item><author>gfunk911</author><text>1. Are there seriously smiley faces in this serious post defending your company?<p>2. From what I can understand, they suspended multiple accounts, one of which was paid in full. The paid in full account's owner cursed out the company on twitter.<p>I assume everyone will agree with this statement, but I'll state it anyway: You can't cancel valid accounts! If the account is paid in full, and assuming the account isn't being used for nefarious purposes, you cannot cancel valid accounts for any reason.<p>If I have a Rackspace account, I can go into twitter and say "Rackspace fucking sucks, everyone who works there can go fuck themselves," and there's no chance in hell my account would be canceled. The idea that they are still defending this action is unbelievable.<p>If I hypothetically had an account with This* (which I would never ever have), and there's an outage of some kind and I call to complain, I'm going to be afraid that if I lose my cool for a second, my account's gonna be canceled. I'm not exaggerating, I would legitimately have that fear. And one is supposed to do business with this people? Are they out of their minds?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>utunga</author><text>&#62; Any company can refuse service to an individual for any non discriminatory circumstance.<p>Well, sure, ahead of time, but not after the contract has begun.</text></comment> |
41,708,867 | 41,708,173 | 1 | 3 | 41,707,495 | train | <story><title>YC criticized for backing AI startup that simply cloned another AI startup</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/30/y-combinator-is-being-criticized-after-it-backed-an-ai-startup-that-admits-it-basically-cloned-another-ai-startup/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kibwen</author><text>The problem here is not that they stole the idea, it&#x27;s that they literally just took an open-source codebase and filed off the serial numbers to claim it as their own proprietary work, and they did so in the most comically inept way possible.<p>From the OP:<p><i>PearAI offers an AI coding editor. The startup’s founder Duke Pan has openly said that it’s a cloned copy of another AI editor called Continue, which was covered under the Apache open source license. But PearAI made a major misstep: PearAI originally slapped its own made-up closed license on it, called the Pear Enterprise License, which Pan admitted was written by ChatGPT.</i></text></item><item><author>CharlieDigital</author><text>I&#x27;ve been in the VC-backed startup space as a lead&#x2F;principal engineer or technical advisor for the last 4 years.<p>In that time, I&#x27;ve worked at 1 startup that closed a $100m C, one that closed a multi-million B, one that recently closed a $30m C, and one that started with a $8m seed.<p>I&#x27;ve started my own startup and worked with founders of other startups on the side advising on the technical side (and once in a while building the initial PoCs).<p>Some have failed, some have succeeded wildly, some have hit their limits of growth, some have a great product that solves an obvious problem yet get <i>zero</i> traction.<p>Here is a lesson-learned as far as &quot;copying&quot; goes: <i>it doesn&#x27;t matter</i>. It doesn&#x27;t matter if there are 3 companies in the same domain doing the same thing; then it simply comes down to insider connections, sales, marketing, and pricing.<p>In the end, the team that wins isn&#x27;t always the one with the best product; there is a fair bit of luck and timing, marketing is super important, and having the right leadership team in place makes all the difference. The non-product aspects of a successful business are supremely underappreciated, especially by the technical folks. Bad products can become good products eventually; bad teams can rarely survive turbulence and it is so hard to tell if a team has the right &quot;vibes&quot; or not.<p>So it makes sense for YC or any VC to bet broadly because the reasons why a team succeeds and another fails is so intangible with so much luck and timing involved as well that making broad bets -- even if two YC-batch companies are very similar in terms of domain and product -- is just sound business.<p>Edit: to be clear, these are not my principles (no need to attack me personally); these are simply my observations about teams that have succeeded and teams that have floundered. I left 1 company because because in principle, I disagreed with their loose operational style in a regulated space.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>&gt; <i>PearAI made a major misstep: PearAI originally slapped its own made-up closed license on it</i><p>This is comical but not the core fuck-up: PearAI failed to attribute, thereby violating Community’s license.<p>It <i>might</i> be salvageable if they can convince customers they aren’t dragging everyone who uses them into a legal morass. But that will likely take more funding, and “help me pay lawyers” isn’t a great pitch.<p>Good artist copy, great artists steal. PearAI tried and failed to copy. Y Combinator&#x27;s value-adding play is in striking a licensing and indemnification deal between PearAI and Community. (If Community is smart, they&#x27;ll demand an arm and a leg. They&#x27;re owed it.)</text></comment> | <story><title>YC criticized for backing AI startup that simply cloned another AI startup</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/30/y-combinator-is-being-criticized-after-it-backed-an-ai-startup-that-admits-it-basically-cloned-another-ai-startup/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kibwen</author><text>The problem here is not that they stole the idea, it&#x27;s that they literally just took an open-source codebase and filed off the serial numbers to claim it as their own proprietary work, and they did so in the most comically inept way possible.<p>From the OP:<p><i>PearAI offers an AI coding editor. The startup’s founder Duke Pan has openly said that it’s a cloned copy of another AI editor called Continue, which was covered under the Apache open source license. But PearAI made a major misstep: PearAI originally slapped its own made-up closed license on it, called the Pear Enterprise License, which Pan admitted was written by ChatGPT.</i></text></item><item><author>CharlieDigital</author><text>I&#x27;ve been in the VC-backed startup space as a lead&#x2F;principal engineer or technical advisor for the last 4 years.<p>In that time, I&#x27;ve worked at 1 startup that closed a $100m C, one that closed a multi-million B, one that recently closed a $30m C, and one that started with a $8m seed.<p>I&#x27;ve started my own startup and worked with founders of other startups on the side advising on the technical side (and once in a while building the initial PoCs).<p>Some have failed, some have succeeded wildly, some have hit their limits of growth, some have a great product that solves an obvious problem yet get <i>zero</i> traction.<p>Here is a lesson-learned as far as &quot;copying&quot; goes: <i>it doesn&#x27;t matter</i>. It doesn&#x27;t matter if there are 3 companies in the same domain doing the same thing; then it simply comes down to insider connections, sales, marketing, and pricing.<p>In the end, the team that wins isn&#x27;t always the one with the best product; there is a fair bit of luck and timing, marketing is super important, and having the right leadership team in place makes all the difference. The non-product aspects of a successful business are supremely underappreciated, especially by the technical folks. Bad products can become good products eventually; bad teams can rarely survive turbulence and it is so hard to tell if a team has the right &quot;vibes&quot; or not.<p>So it makes sense for YC or any VC to bet broadly because the reasons why a team succeeds and another fails is so intangible with so much luck and timing involved as well that making broad bets -- even if two YC-batch companies are very similar in terms of domain and product -- is just sound business.<p>Edit: to be clear, these are not my principles (no need to attack me personally); these are simply my observations about teams that have succeeded and teams that have floundered. I left 1 company because because in principle, I disagreed with their loose operational style in a regulated space.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CharlieDigital</author><text>It doesn&#x27;t matter so long as they didn&#x27;t violate any licenses.<p>Where the product starts and where it ends will be two totally different endpoints that are sure to diverge once they find their domain and business model.</text></comment> |
29,875,912 | 29,875,669 | 1 | 2 | 29,875,007 | train | <story><title>Milan confirms new cycling network linking 80% of the city to bike paths</title><url>https://road.cc/content/news/milan-confirms-new-bike-network-289375</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lobochrome</author><text>I&#x27;m a road biker and would love fully separated bikeways wherever possible. The scheme in Milano sounds exciting and full of the right spirit.<p>That being said, painted lines, in reality, do positively affect safety, both perceived (at least by me) and in accident statistics. Rethinking our cities towards multi-modal transportation will take time.<p>I believe maximalist positions (&quot;only physically separated bike lanes are acceptable!&quot; probably don&#x27;t lead to better results, faster.</text></item><item><author>Doctor_Fegg</author><text>Meanwhile our idiot city (Oxford, UK) is spending £1.2m on &quot;Quickways&quot;, which are painted lines on existing roads... guaranteed to keep cyclists 0% safe. This in the face of national Government guidance in favour of physical segregation from cars. (Plans at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;letstalk.oxfordshire.gov.uk&#x2F;quickway-cycle-route-oxford-2021" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;letstalk.oxfordshire.gov.uk&#x2F;quickway-cycle-route-oxf...</a>: the promise of &quot;segregation where possible&quot; in reality means about 5% of the network.)<p>It is really frustrating how highway engineers, as a profession, are unwilling to consistently learn lessons from the Netherlands in designing cycle infrastructure. Many cities seem to delight in half-assing their own solutions. So congratulations to Milan, who look like they may have got it right.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mathieuh</author><text>I have the opposite opinion of painted-line bike paths: I&#x27;d rather they not be there at all. If they are there I feel forced to use them by drivers punishment passing me, despite the fact that the so-called bike lanes are full of glass, potholes and cars.<p>If they aren&#x27;t there I feel like I get treated with more patience when I ride in my normal road position, about 75 cm from the kerb.</text></comment> | <story><title>Milan confirms new cycling network linking 80% of the city to bike paths</title><url>https://road.cc/content/news/milan-confirms-new-bike-network-289375</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lobochrome</author><text>I&#x27;m a road biker and would love fully separated bikeways wherever possible. The scheme in Milano sounds exciting and full of the right spirit.<p>That being said, painted lines, in reality, do positively affect safety, both perceived (at least by me) and in accident statistics. Rethinking our cities towards multi-modal transportation will take time.<p>I believe maximalist positions (&quot;only physically separated bike lanes are acceptable!&quot; probably don&#x27;t lead to better results, faster.</text></item><item><author>Doctor_Fegg</author><text>Meanwhile our idiot city (Oxford, UK) is spending £1.2m on &quot;Quickways&quot;, which are painted lines on existing roads... guaranteed to keep cyclists 0% safe. This in the face of national Government guidance in favour of physical segregation from cars. (Plans at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;letstalk.oxfordshire.gov.uk&#x2F;quickway-cycle-route-oxford-2021" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;letstalk.oxfordshire.gov.uk&#x2F;quickway-cycle-route-oxf...</a>: the promise of &quot;segregation where possible&quot; in reality means about 5% of the network.)<p>It is really frustrating how highway engineers, as a profession, are unwilling to consistently learn lessons from the Netherlands in designing cycle infrastructure. Many cities seem to delight in half-assing their own solutions. So congratulations to Milan, who look like they may have got it right.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Doctor_Fegg</author><text>I do have some sympathy with your latter point, but there comes a point where you have to say &quot;if not now, when?&quot;. Oxford built one world-class segregated track in the 70s (Marston Ferry Road) and has basically regressed since then. I&#x27;d be a bit more forgiving if it were Piddleton-on-the-Marsh, but Oxford has &quot;A Cycling City&quot; signs at every entrance to the city...</text></comment> |
37,235,165 | 37,232,828 | 1 | 2 | 37,232,229 | train | <story><title>Enhance Rust errors with file and line details</title><url>https://crates.io/crates/wherr</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>afdbcreid</author><text>I don&#x27;t like having to wrap my function with a macro, with all disadvantages (e.g. worse IDE support), just to get error location. Especially given we can do this without macros at all:<p><pre><code> use std::error::Error as StdError;
use std::panic::Location;
use std::fmt;
#[derive(Debug)]
pub struct MyError {
pub error: Box&lt;dyn StdError + Send + Sync&gt;,
pub location: &amp;&#x27;static Location&lt;&#x27;static&gt;,
}
impl&lt;E: StdError + Send + Sync + &#x27;static&gt; From&lt;E&gt; for MyError {
#[track_caller]
#[inline]
fn from(error: E) -&gt; Self {
Self {
error: Box::new(error),
location: Location::caller(),
}
}
}
impl fmt::Display for MyError {
fn fmt(&amp;self, f: &amp;mut fmt::Formatter&lt;&#x27;_&gt;) -&gt; fmt::Result {
write!(f, &quot;{}, {}&quot;, self.error, self.location)
}
}
</code></pre>
We can also optimize this more (e.g. a simple optimization to be two words instead of three: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.rust-lang.org&#x2F;?version=stable&amp;mode=debug&amp;edition=2021&amp;gist=2a46e8a71103b4a2f432defc320dc06a" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.rust-lang.org&#x2F;?version=stable&amp;mode=debug&amp;editio...</a>. Also allows opting `Send` and `Sync` out or using non-`&#x27;static` lifetimes), but this works as a baseline. The only disadvantage is that if called in a function with `#[track_caller]` this will report the location of the caller... But this is something I can live with.</text></comment> | <story><title>Enhance Rust errors with file and line details</title><url>https://crates.io/crates/wherr</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>diarrhea</author><text>Reminds me of `diags` from [0].<p>Side note: can we make &#x27;file not found&#x27; errors that fail to mention <i>what</i> wasn&#x27;t found illegal? What&#x27;s the point of &#x27;file not found&#x27;, then keeping silent about the exact file? Seen it in various ecosystems now.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lurklurk.org&#x2F;effective-rust&#x2F;macros.html#when-to-use-macros" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lurklurk.org&#x2F;effective-rust&#x2F;macros.html#when-to-...</a></text></comment> |
33,153,427 | 33,151,552 | 1 | 2 | 33,150,642 | train | <story><title>Starting a food co-op: Year 1</title><url>https://quaran.to/starting-a-food-co-op-year-1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jpm_sd</author><text>Given that Harvest shut down &quot;after years of financial instability&quot;, what&#x27;s the strategy for this new co-op to survive? If you can&#x27;t run a successful co-op in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where can you?</text></item><item><author>neilv</author><text>This seems to be in the Boston, Mass., area.<p>Some related local background is that there was the Harvest Co-op chain until a few years ago: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.boston.com&#x2F;food&#x2F;food&#x2F;2018&#x2F;10&#x2F;04&#x2F;harvest-co-op-markets-closing&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.boston.com&#x2F;food&#x2F;food&#x2F;2018&#x2F;10&#x2F;04&#x2F;harvest-co-op-ma...</a><p>There&#x27;s also the Market Basket for-profit regional chain, where employees and customers successfully stood up against some family business maneuvers to force out the head, and it&#x27;s once again generally well-regarded AFAIK (including profit-sharing for employees). <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Market_Basket_(New_England)#2014_firing_of_Arthur_T._Demoulas_and_protests" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Market_Basket_(New_England)#20...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kjbreil</author><text>Seattle area has the nations largest and oldest grocery co-op - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pccmarkets.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pccmarkets.com</a>. 16 stores and generally doing well. The answer to how to keep it going is to run it like a grocery chain with experienced leaders and good board governance. In my experience a lot of the smaller coops I&#x27;ve seen have a problem separating the ideology from the need to run a business, grocery is notoriously low margin so a little waste is all that is needed to sink the buisness. Check <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncg.coop&#x2F;find-co-op" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncg.coop&#x2F;find-co-op</a> to find a co-op near you.</text></comment> | <story><title>Starting a food co-op: Year 1</title><url>https://quaran.to/starting-a-food-co-op-year-1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jpm_sd</author><text>Given that Harvest shut down &quot;after years of financial instability&quot;, what&#x27;s the strategy for this new co-op to survive? If you can&#x27;t run a successful co-op in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where can you?</text></item><item><author>neilv</author><text>This seems to be in the Boston, Mass., area.<p>Some related local background is that there was the Harvest Co-op chain until a few years ago: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.boston.com&#x2F;food&#x2F;food&#x2F;2018&#x2F;10&#x2F;04&#x2F;harvest-co-op-markets-closing&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.boston.com&#x2F;food&#x2F;food&#x2F;2018&#x2F;10&#x2F;04&#x2F;harvest-co-op-ma...</a><p>There&#x27;s also the Market Basket for-profit regional chain, where employees and customers successfully stood up against some family business maneuvers to force out the head, and it&#x27;s once again generally well-regarded AFAIK (including profit-sharing for employees). <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Market_Basket_(New_England)#2014_firing_of_Arthur_T._Demoulas_and_protests" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Market_Basket_(New_England)#20...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>socialismisok</author><text>Most places I&#x27;ve lived on the west coast have grocery co-ops. Often they stand out in the market by carrying high quality, locally produced, or &quot;hippie&quot; food.<p>Some folks prefer to shop there because they like the model - co-op businesses generally seem to be more invested in local communities.</text></comment> |
14,288,145 | 14,287,667 | 1 | 2 | 14,287,235 | train | <story><title>Wikimedia Foundation spending</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2017-02-27/Op-ed</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rspeer</author><text>That gives you Wikitext encapsulated in XML. How do you get at the <i>content</i> of the Wikitext?<p>I work on a Wikitext parser [1]. So do many other people, in different ways. Wikitext syntax is horrible and it mixes content and presentation indiscriminately (for example, it contains most of HTML as a sub-syntax).<p>The problem is basically unsolvable, as the result of parsing a Wiki page is defined only by a complete implementation of MediaWiki (with all its recursively-evaluated template pages, PHP code, and Lua code), but if you run that whole stack what you get in the end is HTML -- just the presentation, not the content you presumably wanted.<p>So people solve various pieces of the problem instead, creating approximate parsers that oversimplify various situations to meet their needs.<p>One of these solutions is DBPedia [2], but if you use DBPedia you have to watch out for the parts that are false or misleading due to parse errors.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;LuminosoInsight&#x2F;wikiparsec" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;LuminosoInsight&#x2F;wikiparsec</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.dbpedia.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.dbpedia.org&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>&gt; and it&#x27;s still hard to get any sort of machine readable data out of it.<p>Huh? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dumps.wikimedia.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dumps.wikimedia.org&#x2F;</a><p>Doesn&#x27;t that qualify?</text></item><item><author>avar</author><text>I was very actively involved in MediaWiki development &amp; Wikimedia ops (less so though) in 2004-2006 back when IIRC there were just 1-4 paid Wikimedia employees.<p>It was a very different time, and the whole thing was run much more like a typical open source project.<p>I think the whole project has gone in completely the wrong direction since then. Wikipedia itself is still awesome, but what&#x27;s not awesome is that the typical reader &#x2F; contributor experience is pretty much the same as it was in 2005.<p>Moreover, because of the growing number of employees &amp; need for revenue the foundation&#x27;s main goal is still to host a centrally maintained site that must get your pageviews &amp; donations directly.<p>The goal of Wikipedia should be to spread the content as far &amp; wide as possible, the way OpenStreetMap operates is a much better model. Success should be measured as a function of how likely any given person is to see factually accurate content sourced from Wikipedia, and it shouldn&#x27;t matter if they&#x27;re viewing it on some third party site.<p>Instead it&#x27;s still run as one massive monolithic website, and it&#x27;s still hard to get any sort of machine readable data out of it. This IMO should have been the main focus of Wikimedia&#x27;s development efforts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>10165</author><text>&quot;That gives you Wikitext encapsulated in XML.&quot;<p>avar: &quot;The goal of Wikipedia should be to spread the content as far &amp; wide as possible, the way OpenStreetMap operates is a better model.&quot;<p>I am confused.<p>Doesn&#x27;t OSM data come encapsulated in XML or some binary format?<p>As for dispersion of content, I could have sworn I have seen Wikipedia content on non-Wikipedia websites. Is there some restriction that prohibits this?<p>I have seen Wikipedia data offered in DNS TXT records as well.</text></comment> | <story><title>Wikimedia Foundation spending</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2017-02-27/Op-ed</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rspeer</author><text>That gives you Wikitext encapsulated in XML. How do you get at the <i>content</i> of the Wikitext?<p>I work on a Wikitext parser [1]. So do many other people, in different ways. Wikitext syntax is horrible and it mixes content and presentation indiscriminately (for example, it contains most of HTML as a sub-syntax).<p>The problem is basically unsolvable, as the result of parsing a Wiki page is defined only by a complete implementation of MediaWiki (with all its recursively-evaluated template pages, PHP code, and Lua code), but if you run that whole stack what you get in the end is HTML -- just the presentation, not the content you presumably wanted.<p>So people solve various pieces of the problem instead, creating approximate parsers that oversimplify various situations to meet their needs.<p>One of these solutions is DBPedia [2], but if you use DBPedia you have to watch out for the parts that are false or misleading due to parse errors.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;LuminosoInsight&#x2F;wikiparsec" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;LuminosoInsight&#x2F;wikiparsec</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.dbpedia.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.dbpedia.org&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>&gt; and it&#x27;s still hard to get any sort of machine readable data out of it.<p>Huh? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dumps.wikimedia.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dumps.wikimedia.org&#x2F;</a><p>Doesn&#x27;t that qualify?</text></item><item><author>avar</author><text>I was very actively involved in MediaWiki development &amp; Wikimedia ops (less so though) in 2004-2006 back when IIRC there were just 1-4 paid Wikimedia employees.<p>It was a very different time, and the whole thing was run much more like a typical open source project.<p>I think the whole project has gone in completely the wrong direction since then. Wikipedia itself is still awesome, but what&#x27;s not awesome is that the typical reader &#x2F; contributor experience is pretty much the same as it was in 2005.<p>Moreover, because of the growing number of employees &amp; need for revenue the foundation&#x27;s main goal is still to host a centrally maintained site that must get your pageviews &amp; donations directly.<p>The goal of Wikipedia should be to spread the content as far &amp; wide as possible, the way OpenStreetMap operates is a much better model. Success should be measured as a function of how likely any given person is to see factually accurate content sourced from Wikipedia, and it shouldn&#x27;t matter if they&#x27;re viewing it on some third party site.<p>Instead it&#x27;s still run as one massive monolithic website, and it&#x27;s still hard to get any sort of machine readable data out of it. This IMO should have been the main focus of Wikimedia&#x27;s development efforts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shshhdhs</author><text>Thanks for working on that! Didn&#x27;t know it was so bad. The following is a possibly stupid idea, but I&#x27;d like to hear your thoughts:<p>What if you just render the content into HTML and then &quot;screen scraped&quot; the text, and then convert into a more useful format (MarkDown, JSON, etc). Is that plausible?</text></comment> |
8,048,552 | 8,048,509 | 1 | 2 | 8,048,083 | train | <story><title>Malaysia B772 has crashed near Donetsk</title><url>http://avherald.com/h?article=47770f9d&opt=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slg</author><text>&gt;Number of civilian casualties is roughly comparable to those in the past few weeks in Gaza.<p>That comparison is interesting. What is it about planes that draws so much attention when something like this happens? It is barely news when a couple hundred civilians die on the ground in a war zone, but put the same civilians in the air and the whole world pays attention.<p>EDIT: Some people have mentioned that Gaza is all over the news but I would make the argument that the civilian casualties aren&#x27;t what is making news. What is making news is the eruption of hostilities in the first place. For example, compare the coverage of Gaza to Iraq, Ukraine, etc. There have been several times more civilian casualties in numerous other active war zones this month, but they aren&#x27;t new conflicts so news agencies aren&#x27;t focusing on them.</text></item><item><author>pjc50</author><text>It&#x27;s overwhelmingly likely to have been shot down by &quot;Ukrainian rebels&quot;, who are Russian-backed.<p>It&#x27;s not going to be the end of the world unless someone very high profile was on board, but it will further worsen relations with Russia. Malaysia isn&#x27;t exactly a nuclear superpower. A US airliner would be a lot closer to end of the world territory.<p>Number of civilian casualties is roughly comparable to those in the past few weeks in Gaza.</text></item><item><author>peterjancelis</author><text>Interfax said it was shot down. Russia - via their ambassador at the United Nations - denied involvement already.<p>Let&#x27;s hope this plane won&#x27;t be the Franz Ferdinand 100 years later.<p>Edit: I am talking about the US-Russian relationship deteriorating because of the (blamed) intent, not the number of casualties or the strength of the Malaysian army.<p>Edit 2: Thanks for the links on previous situations like this. Reassuring.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lionheart</author><text>Two things I think:<p>1. Almost everyone has an intrinsic fear of flying and any accidents in the air hit that nerve.<p>2. Everybody knows that living in a war zone is dangerous. Conversely, you know whether you&#x27;re living in a war zone or not, so most people don&#x27;t see deaths in war zones as related to their everyday lives.<p>However, in this case, these people were on a flight between Amsterdam and Malaysia. They weren&#x27;t involved in a war in any way. So that really hits a nerve. You can image yourself in their place.</text></comment> | <story><title>Malaysia B772 has crashed near Donetsk</title><url>http://avherald.com/h?article=47770f9d&opt=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slg</author><text>&gt;Number of civilian casualties is roughly comparable to those in the past few weeks in Gaza.<p>That comparison is interesting. What is it about planes that draws so much attention when something like this happens? It is barely news when a couple hundred civilians die on the ground in a war zone, but put the same civilians in the air and the whole world pays attention.<p>EDIT: Some people have mentioned that Gaza is all over the news but I would make the argument that the civilian casualties aren&#x27;t what is making news. What is making news is the eruption of hostilities in the first place. For example, compare the coverage of Gaza to Iraq, Ukraine, etc. There have been several times more civilian casualties in numerous other active war zones this month, but they aren&#x27;t new conflicts so news agencies aren&#x27;t focusing on them.</text></item><item><author>pjc50</author><text>It&#x27;s overwhelmingly likely to have been shot down by &quot;Ukrainian rebels&quot;, who are Russian-backed.<p>It&#x27;s not going to be the end of the world unless someone very high profile was on board, but it will further worsen relations with Russia. Malaysia isn&#x27;t exactly a nuclear superpower. A US airliner would be a lot closer to end of the world territory.<p>Number of civilian casualties is roughly comparable to those in the past few weeks in Gaza.</text></item><item><author>peterjancelis</author><text>Interfax said it was shot down. Russia - via their ambassador at the United Nations - denied involvement already.<p>Let&#x27;s hope this plane won&#x27;t be the Franz Ferdinand 100 years later.<p>Edit: I am talking about the US-Russian relationship deteriorating because of the (blamed) intent, not the number of casualties or the strength of the Malaysian army.<p>Edit 2: Thanks for the links on previous situations like this. Reassuring.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>caio1982</author><text>A bunch of random people with different life stories together inside a tin can flying thanks to physics&#x27; magic exploding fuel at 800km&#x2F;h. It&#x27;s something that a lot of people can relate to as millions fly every single day not really expecting to die, specially over a war zone. That&#x27;s why we pay attention. The massacre in Gaza is pretty important as well, but an entirely different story.</text></comment> |
34,451,764 | 34,451,527 | 1 | 2 | 34,450,059 | train | <story><title>SSHD: Random boot time relinking, OpenBSD</title><url>https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230119075627</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nine_k</author><text>I remember how back in MS DOS days polymorphic viruses first appeared, in an attempt to avoid detection by antivirus software (useful and essential back then).<p>Now the tables have turned, and legitimate software has to become somehow polymorphic to thwart attacks by malware.</text></comment> | <story><title>SSHD: Random boot time relinking, OpenBSD</title><url>https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230119075627</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rfoo</author><text>Does anyone know an actually-happened example case where a fine-grained ASLR (like the OpenBSD relink one) successfully mitigates or significantly hinders an exploit, and the usual ASLR doesn&#x27;t?<p>I&#x27;m curious because years ago the academic strongly pushes the FG ASLR story, then OpenBSD did kernel relinking, but I haven&#x27;t heard any industry story on how effective this is.</text></comment> |
4,548,383 | 4,548,414 | 1 | 3 | 4,548,071 | train | <story><title>New Apple maps app under fire from users</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19659736</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rmc</author><text><i>I expect within a short time we will see an iOS Google Maps that is on par with the Android app.</i><p>I wonder if Google will do that. Surely they want people to use Android, and "better maps on Android", would be a nice selling point.</text></item><item><author>Apreche</author><text>Just add maps.google.com to your home screen. I was doing that even before the new iOS. It's better than the new Maps app or the old one. Bicycle directions!<p>Also, FYI, the previous Maps app did use Google Maps, but the app itself was written by Apple. I once was at a Google event and asked a Googler who works on Maps about it. They have been frustrated for years that they could not update that app when they added new features to Google Maps. I expect within a short time we will see an iOS Google Maps that is on par with the Android app.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anextio</author><text>No. Google want people using their services. They don't care if people are using Android or not - Android is simply a platform upon which they can get users to use their services. That is their only vested interest.</text></comment> | <story><title>New Apple maps app under fire from users</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19659736</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rmc</author><text><i>I expect within a short time we will see an iOS Google Maps that is on par with the Android app.</i><p>I wonder if Google will do that. Surely they want people to use Android, and "better maps on Android", would be a nice selling point.</text></item><item><author>Apreche</author><text>Just add maps.google.com to your home screen. I was doing that even before the new iOS. It's better than the new Maps app or the old one. Bicycle directions!<p>Also, FYI, the previous Maps app did use Google Maps, but the app itself was written by Apple. I once was at a Google event and asked a Googler who works on Maps about it. They have been frustrated for years that they could not update that app when they added new features to Google Maps. I expect within a short time we will see an iOS Google Maps that is on par with the Android app.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AnthonyMouse</author><text>&#62;I wonder if Google will do that. Surely they want people to use Android, and "better maps on Android", would be a nice selling point.<p>The more difficult problem will be getting the app past Apple when it so clearly 'duplicates functionality in iOS.' My understanding is that one of the main drivers behind the change on Apple's part is that they wanted to collect user location data (and deprive Google of it), which doesn't do the job if 95% of the user base switches to the Google app straight away.</text></comment> |
5,825,502 | 5,825,475 | 1 | 3 | 5,824,736 | train | <story><title>Evidence of Turkish state violence in pictures</title><url>http://roarmag.org/2013/06/explicit-evidence-of-turkish-police-brutality-in-pictures/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Jun8</author><text>Just to give you a glimpse of better things than saddening photos of police brutality, here is what people did at the Gezi Park in the past 2-3 days:<p>* An impromptu library was built, here are some photos: <a href="http://gezikutuphanesi.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://gezikutuphanesi.blogspot.com/</a> (scroll down) with books donated by people and many publishers.<p>* Women doing yoga at Gezi Park: <a href="http://imgur.com/3kubMll?tags" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/3kubMll?tags</a>: <a href="http://imgur.com/3kubMll?tags" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/3kubMll?tags</a> (FYI, it is <i>not</i> common to see people, let alone young women, doing yoga in public parks in Istanbul!)<p>* A number of orchestras giving a classical concert at Gezi: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/dutchrevolution/posts/580100478677437" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/dutchrevolution/posts/5801004786774...</a><p>I am left speechless by these events, never seen anything like this in any protest in Istanbul.<p>And there has many, many really funny graffiti and signs, here's an example: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151695543624468&#38;set=a.10150304191624468.382994.665339467&#38;type=1&#38;ref=nf" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151695543624468&#3...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Evidence of Turkish state violence in pictures</title><url>http://roarmag.org/2013/06/explicit-evidence-of-turkish-police-brutality-in-pictures/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>Shocking pictures.<p>This is converging with alarming speed on an all out confrontation. Turkey is a very beautiful country balancing on the Europe-Asia divide with a lot of internal pressure built up over a long time. If the government keeps pushing like this it will likely reap a lot more than they've bargained for.<p>The Turks that I've known in my life are tremendously proud and very hard working people, push enough of them around for long enough and all that energy will be directed back at the one doing the pushing.<p>I really hope that the Turkish government will read the writing on the wall and will change course, if they don't do that then I fear that a lot more lives will be lost.</text></comment> |
1,398,726 | 1,398,697 | 1 | 2 | 1,398,509 | train | <story><title>Illegal to record an on-duty officer?</title><url>http://www.thefreemanonline.org/headline/are-cameras-the-new-guns/#</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MartinCron</author><text>I'm looking forward to when one of these laws gets challenged in court and finally thrown out for good. There is no reasonable expectation of privacy if you're a public employee, on duty, in a public place. It doesn't matter how much you try to torture the words "reasonable", "private", or "public"<p>If someone really is obstructing police work, then the current statutes against obstructing police work are applicable. Police should be limited to enforcing those and not try to criminalize photography.</text></comment> | <story><title>Illegal to record an on-duty officer?</title><url>http://www.thefreemanonline.org/headline/are-cameras-the-new-guns/#</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mathewgj</author><text>I immediately wondered how the Rodney King case would have been different if it was affected by a law of this kind. Does anyone know if the video footage would have been inadmissable?<p>On a different note, I have spent a lot of time in developing countries, and some of the most consistent hallmarks are ridiculous bans on photographing anything government-related. Laws like this in the US make me worry about the country sliding backwards into dysfunction.</text></comment> |
28,088,083 | 28,088,177 | 1 | 3 | 28,085,887 | train | <story><title>The smart home is flailing as a concept</title><url>https://www.fastcompany.com/90660570/the-smart-home-is-flailing-as-a-concept-because-it-sucks</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lqet</author><text>In our apartment, we have the following smart features:<p>* Multiway light switches [0], which allow switching lights on and off from several different locations.<p>* A boiler, which heats water up automatically should it become too cold.<p>This covers lighting, heating, and supplies water at arbitrary temperatures between around 15 and 60 degrees celsius on demand, at several locations. The features do not require internet connectivity, are vendor-independent and have zero privacy issues. In the last 30 years since their installation, they have <i>not once</i> failed.<p>I am at a complete loss why this should not be smart enough. The technical overhead some people introduce into their lives just to avoid pressing a button to turn of the light is mindblowing to me.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Multiway_switching" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Multiway_switching</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pcwalton</author><text>&gt; I am at a complete loss why this should not be smart enough. The technical overhead some people introduce into their lives just to avoid pressing a button to turn of the light is mindblowing to me.<p>My leg is currently broken and I&#x27;m on crutches. At this point I&#x27;m really glad that I installed voice-controlled lighting in my house. Good reminder that things that seem trivial are very much not to people with disabilities.</text></comment> | <story><title>The smart home is flailing as a concept</title><url>https://www.fastcompany.com/90660570/the-smart-home-is-flailing-as-a-concept-because-it-sucks</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lqet</author><text>In our apartment, we have the following smart features:<p>* Multiway light switches [0], which allow switching lights on and off from several different locations.<p>* A boiler, which heats water up automatically should it become too cold.<p>This covers lighting, heating, and supplies water at arbitrary temperatures between around 15 and 60 degrees celsius on demand, at several locations. The features do not require internet connectivity, are vendor-independent and have zero privacy issues. In the last 30 years since their installation, they have <i>not once</i> failed.<p>I am at a complete loss why this should not be smart enough. The technical overhead some people introduce into their lives just to avoid pressing a button to turn of the light is mindblowing to me.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Multiway_switching" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Multiway_switching</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mumblemumble</author><text>Our new house came with a Nest thermostat. It has some perks. Probably the main one is that we can turn the thermostat down to just warm enough to keep the pipes from freezing when we will be away from the home for a while, and then remotely turn it back up so that the house reaches a comfortable temperature just as we&#x27;re arriving back home.<p>However, I don&#x27;t think that that&#x27;s enough to counteract the many, many UX annoyances we&#x27;ve encountered with it. When it craps out or Google decides to brick it, I intend to replace it with a regular old programmable thermostat.</text></comment> |
27,292,139 | 27,291,783 | 1 | 2 | 27,289,924 | train | <story><title>Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/amazon-snaps-up-james-bond-owner-mgm-845-bln-streaming-war-heats-up-2021-05-26/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kangaroozach</author><text>We have not yet approached the pre-streaming willingness to pay (WTP). People used to pay $150 to $200 plus onDemand for the whole package with their cable provider. Today you can have YouTubeTV, HBO, Netflix, Prime, AppleTV+, Disney+, and Spotify for less than that. So perhaps the average will hover around $100 with many paying closer to $200 a month. We are creeping back up to those numbers because people will pay.</text></item><item><author>DrBazza</author><text>&gt; Piracy is competition to bad content behavior<p>I really wish we had the bandwidth we have now, back in the Napster-era.<p>Napster, and others forced, persuaded and cajoled the music industry to consolidate, whether they liked it or not, on Spotify, and iTunes.<p>If we&#x27;d had easy free sharing of movies, it&#x27;s not hard to envisage something similar to what we see now in the music industry forced on the movie companies. Now it&#x27;s honey pot torrents all over the place.<p>No customer wants to spend X on Shudder, Y on Netflix, and Z on Prime, plus Hulu, HBO, and your cable&#x2F;satellite fee either. Paying 200 GBP&#x2F;USD a month is utterly absurd.<p>Frankly, I&#x27;m glad I have a waning interest in modern movies as I get older, and I&#x27;m actually more interested in watching old black and white movies that are &quot;free to air&quot; in my country.</text></item><item><author>WarOnPrivacy</author><text>&gt; We could really use laws that force, once again, some sort of separation between production and distribution.<p>Piracy is competition to bad content behavior. It&#x27;s a meaningful consumer response to monopoly, balkanization and other anti-consumer practices.</text></item><item><author>scyzoryk_xyz</author><text>So what we&#x27;re seeing is a repeat of the film industry from 1930&#x27;s-1950&#x27;s. You want to see a Paramount movie, you must go to a Paramount theater. Today you want to watch an Apple show you must go to Apple&#x27;s VOD.<p>We could really use laws that force, once again, some sort of separation between production and distribution. Better stuff gets made in this kind of ecosystem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>watwatinthewat</author><text>That&#x27;s a good point, though I think the time&#x2F;generational factor may cause it to trend downward. My parents unhappily paid cable prices their whole life. I&#x27;ve never once paid for cable TV and never will be willing to pay that much for subscription entertainment, but I&#x27;m willing to pay for one streaming service and have considered a second at times. Anecdotally reading places like here, I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;m an uncommon case. Again to your point, even though there&#x27;s fuss every time a streaming provider raises the cost (especially Netflix being one of the larger players and who has been around long enough to have increased prices more than once), it seems each service is viewed as cheap and well under what people are willing to pay.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/amazon-snaps-up-james-bond-owner-mgm-845-bln-streaming-war-heats-up-2021-05-26/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kangaroozach</author><text>We have not yet approached the pre-streaming willingness to pay (WTP). People used to pay $150 to $200 plus onDemand for the whole package with their cable provider. Today you can have YouTubeTV, HBO, Netflix, Prime, AppleTV+, Disney+, and Spotify for less than that. So perhaps the average will hover around $100 with many paying closer to $200 a month. We are creeping back up to those numbers because people will pay.</text></item><item><author>DrBazza</author><text>&gt; Piracy is competition to bad content behavior<p>I really wish we had the bandwidth we have now, back in the Napster-era.<p>Napster, and others forced, persuaded and cajoled the music industry to consolidate, whether they liked it or not, on Spotify, and iTunes.<p>If we&#x27;d had easy free sharing of movies, it&#x27;s not hard to envisage something similar to what we see now in the music industry forced on the movie companies. Now it&#x27;s honey pot torrents all over the place.<p>No customer wants to spend X on Shudder, Y on Netflix, and Z on Prime, plus Hulu, HBO, and your cable&#x2F;satellite fee either. Paying 200 GBP&#x2F;USD a month is utterly absurd.<p>Frankly, I&#x27;m glad I have a waning interest in modern movies as I get older, and I&#x27;m actually more interested in watching old black and white movies that are &quot;free to air&quot; in my country.</text></item><item><author>WarOnPrivacy</author><text>&gt; We could really use laws that force, once again, some sort of separation between production and distribution.<p>Piracy is competition to bad content behavior. It&#x27;s a meaningful consumer response to monopoly, balkanization and other anti-consumer practices.</text></item><item><author>scyzoryk_xyz</author><text>So what we&#x27;re seeing is a repeat of the film industry from 1930&#x27;s-1950&#x27;s. You want to see a Paramount movie, you must go to a Paramount theater. Today you want to watch an Apple show you must go to Apple&#x27;s VOD.<p>We could really use laws that force, once again, some sort of separation between production and distribution. Better stuff gets made in this kind of ecosystem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>llampx</author><text>I have a hard time believing that that was the average monthly cost of a cable subscription. Mine was never more than $30-40 when I needed cable for the internet.</text></comment> |
30,625,584 | 30,625,592 | 1 | 2 | 30,625,218 | train | <story><title>Consent-O-Matic: Automatic handling of GDPR consent forms</title><url>https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eternityforest</author><text>I wish there was a standard browser API for this. If the law is going to force this to be a thing, and it&#x27;s not going away, web standards should respond.<p>It could even just be a flag in the cookie itself declaring that something isn&#x27;t strictly necessary.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sdoering</author><text>It can&#x27;t be. At least not if you want to accept cookies. Declining is easy. You can just decline everything (technically) not necessary.<p>The problem is, that consent must be given freely and fully informed. And this is the catch. Automatic acceptance isn&#x27;t fully informed and with that the consent isn&#x27;t valid.<p>So it would put the companies in danger and therefore no company could honor this standard.<p>Sadly - as it would make live more easy. But it would be enough if companies would just not use dark patterns. If there is a banner the &quot;Accept all&quot; and the &quot;Deny all&quot; must be both be the same level of &quot;easy-ness&quot; and the same amounts of clicks (and wait time). Only if you want to you would need to dive into the detailed categories.<p>And even there: Most sites abuse &quot;legitimate interest&quot;. Everything non essential should by default be inactive. But sadly it isn&#x27;t.<p>Disclaimer: I am a data analyst&#x2F;Web analyst. I do this stuff for a living for clients. Still I value these things highly. And would love for it to be implemented correctly.</text></comment> | <story><title>Consent-O-Matic: Automatic handling of GDPR consent forms</title><url>https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eternityforest</author><text>I wish there was a standard browser API for this. If the law is going to force this to be a thing, and it&#x27;s not going away, web standards should respond.<p>It could even just be a flag in the cookie itself declaring that something isn&#x27;t strictly necessary.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>endless1234</author><text>Like this? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Do_Not_Track" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Do_Not_Track</a><p>It was very ineffective.<p>Something similar but actually enforced (easier said than done) and utilized would be very nice indeed.</text></comment> |
37,358,948 | 37,358,481 | 1 | 3 | 37,347,657 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: What is your policy regarding smartphones for your children?</title><text>Recently, there are more and more studies that smartphones harm learning and not a single study with the opposite results. However, very few parents have the guts not to buy a smartphone for their child. At what age do children in the HN crowd begin to have censored access to proprietary software (personal supervision) and uncensored (smartphone with or without parental controls)? Are there families where children have access to computers with only FOSS before they have access to proprietary software?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>brudgers</author><text>[Random parenting advice from the internet]<p>My child is grown but grew up during the iPhone era.<p>Anyway, I had a policy.<p>It lasted until middle school.<p>Then we had a conversation.<p>And worked things out together.<p>That&#x27;s my recommendation because in the long run, conversation and negotiation are the only tools you really have.<p>Good luck.<p>----<p>Appendix:<p>1. FOSS is your value. Your child is not you. If your child thinks FOSS is cool, it&#x27;s cool. If they think it is lame, you are being lame.<p>2. Parental controls are only as good as someone else&#x27;s parents. Your child can look at naked people on someone else&#x27;s phone.<p>3. Around middle school, your child&#x27;s peers begin to have massive importance. It is not that you cease to be important. But you are going to have to share influence. Even if you try to forbid such sharing.<p>4. It is better if parents grow as their children grow. Growing is on you because you are the adult.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gpt5</author><text>To add to that:<p>1. Technology and screen time aren&#x27;t the problems; it&#x27;s the lack of passion and interests that is the root problem. Cultivate passion in your child and expose them to new things. You&#x27;ll immediately notice a positive change in how they use their screen time to pursue these interests. When they watch gaming videos or unboxing on youtube they do that because that&#x27;s their current passion.<p>2. Your control over your children diminishes over time. Build trust early on and allow them to make mistakes; these are invaluable teaching tools. It&#x27;s better to teach them good habits concerning technology while you still have influence, rather than later when your control is limited.<p>3. There are real costs associated with not allowing your child largely unrestricted access to technology. These costs include social drawbacks, a significantly reduced ability for them to explore their passions independently, and long-term tension between the child and the parents due to a lack of trust.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: What is your policy regarding smartphones for your children?</title><text>Recently, there are more and more studies that smartphones harm learning and not a single study with the opposite results. However, very few parents have the guts not to buy a smartphone for their child. At what age do children in the HN crowd begin to have censored access to proprietary software (personal supervision) and uncensored (smartphone with or without parental controls)? Are there families where children have access to computers with only FOSS before they have access to proprietary software?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>brudgers</author><text>[Random parenting advice from the internet]<p>My child is grown but grew up during the iPhone era.<p>Anyway, I had a policy.<p>It lasted until middle school.<p>Then we had a conversation.<p>And worked things out together.<p>That&#x27;s my recommendation because in the long run, conversation and negotiation are the only tools you really have.<p>Good luck.<p>----<p>Appendix:<p>1. FOSS is your value. Your child is not you. If your child thinks FOSS is cool, it&#x27;s cool. If they think it is lame, you are being lame.<p>2. Parental controls are only as good as someone else&#x27;s parents. Your child can look at naked people on someone else&#x27;s phone.<p>3. Around middle school, your child&#x27;s peers begin to have massive importance. It is not that you cease to be important. But you are going to have to share influence. Even if you try to forbid such sharing.<p>4. It is better if parents grow as their children grow. Growing is on you because you are the adult.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tstrimple</author><text>&gt; And worked things out together.<p>So much this. Kids are living, breathing, thinking human beings. They are immature yes. But that doesn&#x27;t remove the value of their opinions or their agency. And it&#x27;s not to say you give them everything they want, but that you find common ground and aren&#x27;t seen as dictating things without reason. If you can explain your point of view in terms they understand, compliance is far more likely.<p>For the most part, my kids have unlimited access to electronics and the internet. Yeah, sometimes they watch stupid TikTok videos or silly toy reviews on Youtube. Other times they are learning how to code or learning how to knit or how to make slime from common household materials, etc. Last week I baked bread with my daughter because she found a recipe on TikTok she wanted to try out. They sometimes watch content I don&#x27;t like or agree with, but often that&#x27;s resolved just by talking about why I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s good content or sending a good message. I&#x27;ve talked to both of my daughters about why I don&#x27;t like SSSniperWolf content as an example. Usually this works out fine, but none of the things they watch are so egregious I feel like I need to cut them off. And who am I to judge the occasional mindless entertainment when I&#x27;ve always done the same and I can readily see it&#x27;s a small portion of the content they are consuming?<p>When I hear folks talking about zero access and no smart devices until X years, I have to ask myself where the trust and relationship exists between these parents and their children. I just can&#x27;t imagine not having enough of a relationship with my kids to not have a good understanding of what they are up to online and how they are perceiving it. I can&#x27;t imagine not being able to trust the values that I&#x27;ve instilled in my children and having to cut them off from the world to hide that neglect. Further, I feel these sort of blanket bans put kids into a position where they feel they need to hide what they do from their parents online which is the absolute opposite of what they should be thinking.<p>That said, we do have restrictions. No electronics during dinner or shared entertainment sort of things. People scrolling social media during movie time is a pet peeve of mine. The electronic devices are not an escape from small talk during boring family dinners or the slow part of the show we&#x27;re watching.</text></comment> |
32,245,227 | 32,245,153 | 1 | 2 | 32,244,244 | train | <story><title>We don't know how to fix science (2021)</title><url>https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/we-dont-know-how-to-fix-science/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mikkergp</author><text>Science does indeed have a lot of problems, but is the problem really that science is broken, or that our expectations of it are.<p>&gt; Ideally, we’d like to measure the benefit provided by a study to society. We might ask: had this piece of research not been funded, would a given invention have been delayed? If so, for how long? And what was the impact of that on societal welfare? We could also try to estimate intermediate metrics of research usefulness, like whether a given basic research paper will end up being used as input to an application. It is an argument for humility, not epistemic nihilism.<p>The whole promise of basic science research is that it may be valuable in ways that are immeasurable, or certainly uncapitalizable. One major issue with science is that we&#x27;re always hoping that it will say more than it should. I would take a more mindfulness-y approach to science. You do science because it is a good end, and if you do it for that reason, good things will come. If you chase &quot;good science&quot; you get the problems we have.</text></comment> | <story><title>We don't know how to fix science (2021)</title><url>https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/we-dont-know-how-to-fix-science/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fiprofessor</author><text>I see a lot of appeals to &quot;fund people, not projects&quot;, but the main issue I have with it is that I think it strongly biases people to select &quot;super stars&quot; who have impressive credentials &#x2F; come from high status organizations. Of course, there&#x27;s already a lot of &quot;rich get richer&quot; effects in science, as the article points out, but I think it would be nice to try to shift <i>away</i> from those things, not increase them. (Besides, isn&#x27;t the resounding message in academia these days supposed to be that assessing people is full of biases that we ought to avoid? Of course you always assess the people behind a grant application to some extent, but focusing on the project would seem to be better in terms of avoiding these biases.)<p>The other alternative of &quot;funding lotteries&quot; is more suspect. As the article summarizes, the argument for lotteries is:<p>&gt; <i>Advocates of lotteries make two key critiques: a) the current system forces researchers to spend a lot of time preparing grants; and b) peer reviewers cannot reliably identify “good” grant applications. They claim that a lottery system would reduce the time spent on review (because reviewers would mostly skim the proposals to check for minimal scientific robustness) as well as the time spent on preparing proposals (because there would be less of an incentive to meticulously craft proposals, given that no matter how detailed and well written they are, they are going to be chosen at random).</i><p>Of course (a) is true, but as the article suggests, the evidence for (b) is a bit shaky. Moreover, we should have strong priors against (b). To be sure, reviewing is not perfect, far from it! But, scientists must at some level be able to judge the future prospects of work, or else they wouldn&#x27;t be able to make any fruitful decisions about what research to conduct. So the primary plausible way I see that (b) could perhaps be true for a given pool of applications is if all of the ones in the pool pass some thresh-hold bar for quality that makes it hard to further distinguish between them. It&#x27;s not clear to me that that quality level would be maintained if we move to a lottery.</text></comment> |
34,322,096 | 34,322,038 | 1 | 2 | 34,320,319 | train | <story><title>AI-powered lawyer will be first of its kind to represent defendant in court</title><url>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ai-powered-robot-lawyer-takes-its-first-court-case/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paxys</author><text>I disagree. Technology is the perfect solution for problems like these. So many societal issues today arise because systems developed centuries ago cannot keep up with a population that has grown exponentially since then. Tech&#x27;s core feature is being able to scale. There will be more and more systemic reliance on automation and AI as time goes on, since that&#x27;s the only sensible way out.</text></item><item><author>ausbah</author><text>&gt;The ultimate goal, according to Browder, is to democratize legal representation by making it free for those who can&#x27;t afford it, in some cases eliminating the need for pricey attorneys.<p>this is the core issue I have with companies and tech like this: they try to solve social issues with technology and business. the issue of accessible defense is an issue of institutional failure that rests on the shoulders of the state. tech i think may bandage the problem, but just like how Tesla won&#x27;t solve green travel this won&#x27;t fix the underlying issue</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fasthands9</author><text>While I agree that technology is the solution I disagree AI has anything to do with this.<p>This &quot;AI Lawyer&quot; is about a traffic ticket. If we want to make things more fair while also enforcing the laws on the book it seems like the more straightforward tech solution is to improve traffic cameras&#x2F;monitors such that tickets are given out more appropriately. Or, if it still goes to court, why not just have a system where someone can represent themselves with a form or checklist which points out the reasons they were given a ticket by mistake?<p>Perhaps this is a good business model in the current system but its definitely not the best for society as a whole. Why do we need lawyer of any type to handle something as banal as speeding tickets?</text></comment> | <story><title>AI-powered lawyer will be first of its kind to represent defendant in court</title><url>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ai-powered-robot-lawyer-takes-its-first-court-case/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paxys</author><text>I disagree. Technology is the perfect solution for problems like these. So many societal issues today arise because systems developed centuries ago cannot keep up with a population that has grown exponentially since then. Tech&#x27;s core feature is being able to scale. There will be more and more systemic reliance on automation and AI as time goes on, since that&#x27;s the only sensible way out.</text></item><item><author>ausbah</author><text>&gt;The ultimate goal, according to Browder, is to democratize legal representation by making it free for those who can&#x27;t afford it, in some cases eliminating the need for pricey attorneys.<p>this is the core issue I have with companies and tech like this: they try to solve social issues with technology and business. the issue of accessible defense is an issue of institutional failure that rests on the shoulders of the state. tech i think may bandage the problem, but just like how Tesla won&#x27;t solve green travel this won&#x27;t fix the underlying issue</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>somenameforme</author><text>Tech often misses obvious downsides, especially human, in pursuit of unrealistic idealism.<p>A good lawyer is not just knowledgeable of law, but of people. He needs to get 12 people in front of him to agree with him. And he may even be actively misleading them when he&#x27;s defending a someone whom he knows to be guilty. This comes down to reading people, reading reactions, and understanding what each of those 12 people needs to hear to have them act like he wants. Not coincidentally, the most common background of politicians: lawyers.<p>I&#x27;d argue that the most likely scenario here is not closing the divide but widening it. Instead of public defenders, poor people will just get the bot, while those of means will get lawyers. It&#x27;s akin to tech support today. In the not so distant past, it was easy to get a human on the line. Now in many cases unless you&#x27;re a &quot;special&quot; client, or get your issue on the front page of some big social media site, you get the bot. And it sucks.</text></comment> |
40,787,182 | 40,787,230 | 1 | 2 | 40,786,644 | train | <story><title>Microsoft removes documentation for switching to a local account in Windows 11</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/microsoft-removes-documentation-for-switching-to-a-local-account-in-windows-11/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>darkteflon</author><text>I made the switch. It’s fantastic. Pop with the pre-packaged Nvidia drivers.<p>Other than Warzone and Tarkov (for which I keep a separate drive with Win10), the only things I haven’t quite managed to get sorted yet are (i) a convenient system-wide replacement for the frame limiter in RTSS, and (ii) relatedly, proper frame-pacing when streaming using Sunshine.<p>Also, Steam seems to have a weird and widespread bug where if you use Big Screen, exit to the desktop mode, then launch BS again, you get like 5fps in the BS front-end itself (after launching a game, it’s fine). The workaround is to just kill the client when you exit Big Screen (usually when your gaming is done anyway).<p>Really happy I made the switch and fully expect those niggles to get sorted (or my aptitude to improve) in due course. Windows has been shit for a while but recently it’s really crossed over into unbelievably shit.</text></item><item><author>xlii</author><text>Geez, the more I read about it the more I think about migrating my gaming machine to something like Pop_OS. I heard people are having great experience, and Steam through Steam Deck has considerably improved gaming on Linux experience.<p>I think I get it - there are plenty of people using Windows as their primary OS and they want bells and whistles while not caring about telemetry. But just.. let people disable things.<p>IMO fact, that Microsoft is pushing spyware on their users and make it harder and harder to disable it is much more important topic than EU focusing on Apple (which is monopoly inside their ecosystem, but not a provider of &quot;default&quot; software used in offices etc.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KronisLV</author><text>&gt; a convenient system-wide replacement for the frame limiter in RTSS<p>My budget gaming PC is still on Windows and RTSS is a lifesaver: I couldn&#x27;t stream or record some games with my Intel Arc A580 otherwise, since titles that use DX11 or older rendering technologies typically have worse performance than the more recent ones, ergo I have to stream&#x2F;record at 30 and cap the framerate anywhere between 30-60 depending on the title, otherwise things get unstable.<p>Of course, it&#x27;s not ideal, but is at least workable. A bit odd that the card struggles with games like Ghost Recon Wildlands (DX11, 2017), but not Ghost Recon Breakpoint (Vulkan, 2019) or ones that use DX12 etc. Either that, or when there&#x27;s a title that&#x27;s badly coded and doesn&#x27;t lock framerate properly to the screen refresh rate.<p>Aside from that, around 90% of the 500ish Steam games I have would actually run on Linux (various indie titles, mostly), at least according to ProtonDB: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.protondb.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.protondb.com</a> which is pretty nice to see, except for the fact that last I checked something like GOG doesn&#x27;t run on Linux natively, though thankfully something like Lutris exists.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft removes documentation for switching to a local account in Windows 11</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/microsoft-removes-documentation-for-switching-to-a-local-account-in-windows-11/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>darkteflon</author><text>I made the switch. It’s fantastic. Pop with the pre-packaged Nvidia drivers.<p>Other than Warzone and Tarkov (for which I keep a separate drive with Win10), the only things I haven’t quite managed to get sorted yet are (i) a convenient system-wide replacement for the frame limiter in RTSS, and (ii) relatedly, proper frame-pacing when streaming using Sunshine.<p>Also, Steam seems to have a weird and widespread bug where if you use Big Screen, exit to the desktop mode, then launch BS again, you get like 5fps in the BS front-end itself (after launching a game, it’s fine). The workaround is to just kill the client when you exit Big Screen (usually when your gaming is done anyway).<p>Really happy I made the switch and fully expect those niggles to get sorted (or my aptitude to improve) in due course. Windows has been shit for a while but recently it’s really crossed over into unbelievably shit.</text></item><item><author>xlii</author><text>Geez, the more I read about it the more I think about migrating my gaming machine to something like Pop_OS. I heard people are having great experience, and Steam through Steam Deck has considerably improved gaming on Linux experience.<p>I think I get it - there are plenty of people using Windows as their primary OS and they want bells and whistles while not caring about telemetry. But just.. let people disable things.<p>IMO fact, that Microsoft is pushing spyware on their users and make it harder and harder to disable it is much more important topic than EU focusing on Apple (which is monopoly inside their ecosystem, but not a provider of &quot;default&quot; software used in offices etc.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Macha</author><text>Similarly, my Windows 10 install on my primary PC is basically a Destiny 2 launcher at this point</text></comment> |
15,647,943 | 15,647,229 | 1 | 2 | 15,646,550 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: What is your favorite place to find work?</title><text>Do you have a favorite job board?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>fecak</author><text>The problem with job boards is that unless they are rather unknown, everyone is using them. Applying through boards is essentially like getting into the back of a line and hoping you get noticed.<p>When I coach job seekers on finding new work, I typically encourage them to be careful not to spend too much time on the boards, and instead rely on their networks&#x2F;meetups or personal research.<p>Using LinkedIn to search for open jobs is similar to using any other site, but it&#x27;s greatest value is as a research tool.<p>Say you&#x27;re a Python programmer in a suburb somewhere and you&#x27;re looking for a new gig. If you use LinkedIn to search &quot;Python&quot; and set a geographic preference, your results will likely be other Python programmers in the area. Where do they work? Where did they used to work? Sometimes LinkedIn will offer other profiles in the sidebar (&quot;people also viewed&quot;) - click those and see where they worked. Now you&#x27;ve got a list of companies that have employed Python devs, so you can do a bit more research to see if they are the type of place you might want to work - and pay no attention to whether or not they have any jobs listed on their site.<p>Once you found some companies that interest you, use LinkedIn to figure out the best person to reach out to. Might be their CTO if it&#x27;s a small shop, could be an internal recruiter or hiring manager for a larger firm. Make the approach, tell them why you&#x27;re interested in the company, and make a soft close to try and get them to agree to a conversation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iridium</author><text>Something I read a while ago that stuck with me - ‘When you are looking for a new opportunity, you are really just looking for a person.’<p>This reframing totally changed how I look for new jobs, and what suprised me more was how willing people were to refer me, even if they had never met me.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: What is your favorite place to find work?</title><text>Do you have a favorite job board?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>fecak</author><text>The problem with job boards is that unless they are rather unknown, everyone is using them. Applying through boards is essentially like getting into the back of a line and hoping you get noticed.<p>When I coach job seekers on finding new work, I typically encourage them to be careful not to spend too much time on the boards, and instead rely on their networks&#x2F;meetups or personal research.<p>Using LinkedIn to search for open jobs is similar to using any other site, but it&#x27;s greatest value is as a research tool.<p>Say you&#x27;re a Python programmer in a suburb somewhere and you&#x27;re looking for a new gig. If you use LinkedIn to search &quot;Python&quot; and set a geographic preference, your results will likely be other Python programmers in the area. Where do they work? Where did they used to work? Sometimes LinkedIn will offer other profiles in the sidebar (&quot;people also viewed&quot;) - click those and see where they worked. Now you&#x27;ve got a list of companies that have employed Python devs, so you can do a bit more research to see if they are the type of place you might want to work - and pay no attention to whether or not they have any jobs listed on their site.<p>Once you found some companies that interest you, use LinkedIn to figure out the best person to reach out to. Might be their CTO if it&#x27;s a small shop, could be an internal recruiter or hiring manager for a larger firm. Make the approach, tell them why you&#x27;re interested in the company, and make a soft close to try and get them to agree to a conversation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>henrik_w</author><text>I know LinkedIn isn&#x27;t particularly popular here at HN, but I think the job adds I get shown there are quite good. Even if I am not looking for work I get a sense of what companies there are, and what kind of positions they are looking to fill.</text></comment> |
33,869,622 | 33,864,158 | 1 | 3 | 33,862,768 | train | <story><title>How to estimate an SSD’s working life</title><url>https://eclecticlight.co/2022/12/05/how-to-estimate-an-ssds-working-life/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drooopy</author><text>According to the guy behind Asahi Linux, there was no misreporting. It was an actual bug and those excessive write operations happened. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;marcan42&#x2F;status&#x2F;1396374313591140357?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;marcan42&#x2F;status&#x2F;1396374313591140357?ref_...</a><p>While I don&#x27;t like it being that way, I can definitely see the benefits of non-upgradeable RAM. The performance of the SOC on my &quot;lowly&quot;, entry-level M1 Air is out of this world.<p>But an SSD that&#x27;s glued on to the motherboard has 0 benefits that I can think of and basically only serves to give any computer a hard coded expiration date. And thinness is not an excuse. There are computers as thin as the Air that have removable storage drives.</text></item><item><author>tokamak-teapot</author><text>Did the question about Apple’s new laptops and their apparently high writes in general usage get resolved? And was it incorrect&#x2F;misleading reporting, or somehow not a problem (life of SSD still likely to be ‘long enough’) or is it still potentially the case that the machines will be ‘bricked’ due to the non-replaceable SSD dying early?<p>I don’t mind having to have the SSD replaced by Apple if the cost is reasonable, just as I do with batteries, but would be good to know what to expect.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AceJohnny2</author><text>&gt; <i>But an SSD that&#x27;s glued on to the motherboard has 0 benefits</i><p>It&#x27;s because, since the T2 chip and going on with Apple Silicon, they&#x27;re not SSDs in the NVMe sense. They&#x27;re an Apple-specific technology derived from their Anobit acquisition, that only look like an NVMe device to the upper layers.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to estimate an SSD’s working life</title><url>https://eclecticlight.co/2022/12/05/how-to-estimate-an-ssds-working-life/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drooopy</author><text>According to the guy behind Asahi Linux, there was no misreporting. It was an actual bug and those excessive write operations happened. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;marcan42&#x2F;status&#x2F;1396374313591140357?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;marcan42&#x2F;status&#x2F;1396374313591140357?ref_...</a><p>While I don&#x27;t like it being that way, I can definitely see the benefits of non-upgradeable RAM. The performance of the SOC on my &quot;lowly&quot;, entry-level M1 Air is out of this world.<p>But an SSD that&#x27;s glued on to the motherboard has 0 benefits that I can think of and basically only serves to give any computer a hard coded expiration date. And thinness is not an excuse. There are computers as thin as the Air that have removable storage drives.</text></item><item><author>tokamak-teapot</author><text>Did the question about Apple’s new laptops and their apparently high writes in general usage get resolved? And was it incorrect&#x2F;misleading reporting, or somehow not a problem (life of SSD still likely to be ‘long enough’) or is it still potentially the case that the machines will be ‘bricked’ due to the non-replaceable SSD dying early?<p>I don’t mind having to have the SSD replaced by Apple if the cost is reasonable, just as I do with batteries, but would be good to know what to expect.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yakubin</author><text>Not to mention that thinness is not a thing in case of Mac Mini.</text></comment> |
14,580,915 | 14,580,280 | 1 | 2 | 14,580,095 | train | <story><title>The Mammoth Pirates</title><url>https://www.rferl.org/a/the-mammoth-pirates/27939865.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>adamnemecek</author><text>Sales of mammoth ivory should be banned, just like the sales of elephant ivory. Distinguishing mammoth ivory from elephant ivory is pretty hard and as a result sales of mammoth ivory can act as a cover for sales of illegal elephant ivory.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Mammoth Pirates</title><url>https://www.rferl.org/a/the-mammoth-pirates/27939865.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>morsch</author><text>Can&#x27;t help but think that this is one of the utterly bizarre and wide ranging consequences of extreme income disparity.<p>The original article is at [1] (they link to it, but it&#x27;s kinda easy to miss); the post on Bored Panda does contain additional photos.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rferl.org&#x2F;a&#x2F;the-mammoth-pirates&#x2F;27939865.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rferl.org&#x2F;a&#x2F;the-mammoth-pirates&#x2F;27939865.html</a></text></comment> |
37,394,523 | 37,394,272 | 1 | 2 | 37,391,934 | train | <story><title>ZSA Voyager: Low profile split keyboard</title><url>https://www.zsa.io/voyager/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>egypturnash</author><text>This is lovely and kind of tempting but, like every keyboard-nerd keyboard, it&#x27;s made by and for someone who wants the smallest possible number of keys in front of them and a bunch of toggleable modes.<p>I want <i>more</i> keys. I want my dedicated f-keys back so that when I launch an action in Illustrator I don&#x27;t have to hold down the fn key, along with whatever other modifier key I may be using to distinguish between a couple other action assigned to that key. I have turned my capslock into command-alt-shift and that helps a lot, I want additional meta keys that I can use for command-shift and command-alt while still having the existing meta keys, not less - this has nine unmarked keys in the default layout, and two of those are probably slated for becoming space and return; my Mac has <i>exactly</i> the same number of meta keys if I count capslock, <i>and</i> dedicated space&#x2F;return buttons.<p>Their Moonlander&#x27;s much more sensible, with a baker&#x27;s dozen of meta keys around each half&#x27;s keyboard block. Hitting a little one-handed chord almost seems reasonable, compared to all the one-handed stretches I&#x27;ve got in my daily art routine. I&#x27;d be super-tempted by this or an Ergodox EZ if they were putting them on sale because they are no longer the new hotness, they might actually see integration into my workflow, but there&#x27;s absolutely no price difference.<p>Maybe I&#x27;ll just get baked and spend an hour futzing with this idea I just had to make the f-keys of my Mac&#x27;s keyboard accessible by having Karabiner translate a chord of (fkey)+(the key to its left) into (fkey). I already have the baked part. And that works on my existing laptop keyboard as well as the 90%-identical Apple wireless board on my desk...<p>EDIT:<p>I did indeed spend an hour swearing at Karabiner&#x27;s config file and make f(n)+f(-1) into f(n) and it is <i>wonderful</i>, and I am going to make a fn+f(n)=(nothing) rule to train myself to use it. Thanks for the inspiration, keyboard with too few bucky bits!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rince</author><text>The [Kinesis Freestyle Edge](<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gaming.kinesis-ergo.com&#x2F;edge&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gaming.kinesis-ergo.com&#x2F;edge&#x2F;</a>) is what you want. It&#x27;s a full keyboard, with extra keys you can map, and you can choose what switch you want. It&#x27;s marketed for gamers, but it&#x27;s good for everyone.<p>My one complaint is I find the space bar too large. I started used the Freestyle after decades of MS Natural keyboards. It took a while to get used to the size of the space bar.</text></comment> | <story><title>ZSA Voyager: Low profile split keyboard</title><url>https://www.zsa.io/voyager/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>egypturnash</author><text>This is lovely and kind of tempting but, like every keyboard-nerd keyboard, it&#x27;s made by and for someone who wants the smallest possible number of keys in front of them and a bunch of toggleable modes.<p>I want <i>more</i> keys. I want my dedicated f-keys back so that when I launch an action in Illustrator I don&#x27;t have to hold down the fn key, along with whatever other modifier key I may be using to distinguish between a couple other action assigned to that key. I have turned my capslock into command-alt-shift and that helps a lot, I want additional meta keys that I can use for command-shift and command-alt while still having the existing meta keys, not less - this has nine unmarked keys in the default layout, and two of those are probably slated for becoming space and return; my Mac has <i>exactly</i> the same number of meta keys if I count capslock, <i>and</i> dedicated space&#x2F;return buttons.<p>Their Moonlander&#x27;s much more sensible, with a baker&#x27;s dozen of meta keys around each half&#x27;s keyboard block. Hitting a little one-handed chord almost seems reasonable, compared to all the one-handed stretches I&#x27;ve got in my daily art routine. I&#x27;d be super-tempted by this or an Ergodox EZ if they were putting them on sale because they are no longer the new hotness, they might actually see integration into my workflow, but there&#x27;s absolutely no price difference.<p>Maybe I&#x27;ll just get baked and spend an hour futzing with this idea I just had to make the f-keys of my Mac&#x27;s keyboard accessible by having Karabiner translate a chord of (fkey)+(the key to its left) into (fkey). I already have the baked part. And that works on my existing laptop keyboard as well as the 90%-identical Apple wireless board on my desk...<p>EDIT:<p>I did indeed spend an hour swearing at Karabiner&#x27;s config file and make f(n)+f(-1) into f(n) and it is <i>wonderful</i>, and I am going to make a fn+f(n)=(nothing) rule to train myself to use it. Thanks for the inspiration, keyboard with too few bucky bits!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RobertRoberts</author><text>&gt; I want <i>more keys</i>. I want my dedicated f-keys back...<p>This is my issue as well. I want a &quot;normal&quot; keyboard, only ergonomic, split, with all the fancy joint happiness that brings.<p>It seems these are impossible to find without some kind of 3d printing and DIY from scratch.<p>I am not able to invest in learning a new keyboarding process because I have to work on too many different computers over a year span that I have no control over, and I don&#x27;t want my muscle memory to erode because of one special keyboard on my home workstation.</text></comment> |
9,889,939 | 9,889,794 | 1 | 2 | 9,887,728 | train | <story><title>Swift Functors, Applicatives, and Monads in Pictures</title><url>http://mokacoding.com/blog/functor-applicative-monads-in-pictures</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jbooth</author><text>Follow-on question, are there any useful monadic constructs <i>not</i> tied to collections (including optional as you said)?</text></item><item><author>dragonwriter</author><text>&gt; flatMap is really tied to List<p>Its tied to <i>collections</i>, not specifically to List. A number of (but certainly not all!) important monads are (or can be viewed as) collections, including Optional&#x2F;Maybe (which can be viewed as a collection with cardinality restricted to being either 0 or 1.)</text></item><item><author>jerf</author><text>Honest question: Is there a reason &#x27;flatmap&#x27; is any better other than it is what you learned it as somewhere?<p>I&#x27;m not convinced English has a word or convenient phrase for &quot;monad&quot;, and it doesn&#x27;t strike me that &quot;flatMap&quot; is it. How do I &quot;flatMap&quot; Haskell&#x27;s STM monad? Or a probability monad? (I know the mechanics of the answer, I am specifically referring to the English-induced intution.) I don&#x27;t see the intuition being particularly correct; flatMap is really tied to List, which isn&#x27;t a particularly great thing to be tied to since it isn&#x27;t very used. List&#x27;s monadic interface is cute for some little algorithms, sure, which makes it disproportionately appear in examples, but list&#x27;s monad implementation has complexity O(m^n) (where m is the size of the lists and n the number of lists you&#x27;re going to consider) and you need some algorithm that gives you some <i>serious</i> culling on that before it&#x27;s practical for very much.</text></item><item><author>skybrian</author><text>If functional languages had called them the Mappable, Applicable, and FlatMappable interfaces, and used map(), apply(), and flatMap() instead of operators, it would have avoided a lot of confusion. But I guess that&#x27;s how you avoid success at all costs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>IO, State, Parsers, and STM are useful monads for which the collection metaphor doesn&#x27;t seem to be particularly helpful.</text></comment> | <story><title>Swift Functors, Applicatives, and Monads in Pictures</title><url>http://mokacoding.com/blog/functor-applicative-monads-in-pictures</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jbooth</author><text>Follow-on question, are there any useful monadic constructs <i>not</i> tied to collections (including optional as you said)?</text></item><item><author>dragonwriter</author><text>&gt; flatMap is really tied to List<p>Its tied to <i>collections</i>, not specifically to List. A number of (but certainly not all!) important monads are (or can be viewed as) collections, including Optional&#x2F;Maybe (which can be viewed as a collection with cardinality restricted to being either 0 or 1.)</text></item><item><author>jerf</author><text>Honest question: Is there a reason &#x27;flatmap&#x27; is any better other than it is what you learned it as somewhere?<p>I&#x27;m not convinced English has a word or convenient phrase for &quot;monad&quot;, and it doesn&#x27;t strike me that &quot;flatMap&quot; is it. How do I &quot;flatMap&quot; Haskell&#x27;s STM monad? Or a probability monad? (I know the mechanics of the answer, I am specifically referring to the English-induced intution.) I don&#x27;t see the intuition being particularly correct; flatMap is really tied to List, which isn&#x27;t a particularly great thing to be tied to since it isn&#x27;t very used. List&#x27;s monadic interface is cute for some little algorithms, sure, which makes it disproportionately appear in examples, but list&#x27;s monad implementation has complexity O(m^n) (where m is the size of the lists and n the number of lists you&#x27;re going to consider) and you need some algorithm that gives you some <i>serious</i> culling on that before it&#x27;s practical for very much.</text></item><item><author>skybrian</author><text>If functional languages had called them the Mappable, Applicable, and FlatMappable interfaces, and used map(), apply(), and flatMap() instead of operators, it would have avoided a lot of confusion. But I guess that&#x27;s how you avoid success at all costs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>efnx</author><text>Is Maybe tied to collections? State? Reader? Cont?
What about Eff from extensible-effects? I use these every day.</text></comment> |
29,373,080 | 29,373,236 | 1 | 2 | 29,371,940 | train | <story><title>BMW removing touchscreen from a bunch of models due to chip shortage</title><url>https://www.autoblog.com/2021/11/05/bmws-losing-touchscreen-functionality/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cronix</author><text>Whatever touchscreen you provide, my phone will be better, smoother, have a more polished UI and easily upgradable to stay current. Navigation apps are infinitely better than what you get stuck with, and I can navigate by voice using state of the art tech that keeps getting better with updates. Just give me a decent phone holder (upgradable) and bluetooth, and make that bluetooth a module that can be swapped out as newer bluetooth versions become available like swapping out an old ISA card on a PC. Same with usb. You buy a 10 year old car and get stuck with ancient USB ports with very low charging rates that don&#x27;t really interface with modern equipment. All this &quot;modern&quot; crap dates the car before the actual utility of the car (a thing to get you places) does.<p>I am thankful for the physical audio volume knob on the dashboard. I literally don&#x27;t even use the touchscreen (except to change the clock 2x a year), as I have a lovely 12&quot; tablet that does everything I want with a large beautiful display that is easy to read, blocking it. That&#x27;s on a 2019 model.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pkulak</author><text>I was on that train for a long time, but I&#x27;ve swung all the way around to the other side now. I want my nav available without me having to take my phone out of my pocket and hook it up (even if it&#x27;s wireless, which comes with its own issues). Like, I want to sit in the seat, then scroll through recent destinations with a button on the steering wheel and be done.<p>Also, and this is huge, I want the turns in the HUD. Before you have one, a HUD is a dumb gimmick. I got one on my current car just because that&#x27;s what was on the lot... and boy oh boy, I&#x27;m not going back to looking next to my knee before every turn. Not gonna lie, I&#x27;m an average driver at best. I need to be focused on the road at all times. Glancing away is all the time the car in front needs to slam on its brakes.<p>The trade off is not the absolute, most accurate turn by turn directions; not taking the best and latest traffic into account at all times. But I&#x27;ve also found that I&#x27;m not cool with weaving through neighborhoods to save 3 minutes. Putting on a good podcast and sitting on the freeway is okay with me.</text></comment> | <story><title>BMW removing touchscreen from a bunch of models due to chip shortage</title><url>https://www.autoblog.com/2021/11/05/bmws-losing-touchscreen-functionality/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cronix</author><text>Whatever touchscreen you provide, my phone will be better, smoother, have a more polished UI and easily upgradable to stay current. Navigation apps are infinitely better than what you get stuck with, and I can navigate by voice using state of the art tech that keeps getting better with updates. Just give me a decent phone holder (upgradable) and bluetooth, and make that bluetooth a module that can be swapped out as newer bluetooth versions become available like swapping out an old ISA card on a PC. Same with usb. You buy a 10 year old car and get stuck with ancient USB ports with very low charging rates that don&#x27;t really interface with modern equipment. All this &quot;modern&quot; crap dates the car before the actual utility of the car (a thing to get you places) does.<p>I am thankful for the physical audio volume knob on the dashboard. I literally don&#x27;t even use the touchscreen (except to change the clock 2x a year), as I have a lovely 12&quot; tablet that does everything I want with a large beautiful display that is easy to read, blocking it. That&#x27;s on a 2019 model.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maxdo</author><text>Whatever you refer is a bad implementation of your car. They not able to supply you with decent update system and maps. I never use a phone in my car, and that&#x27;s the best thing I experience in the car since 3g start working good during trip. You have good big screen for navigation, you don&#x27;t need this ugly phone mounts in the car, it doesn&#x27;t fall-off during turns, you don&#x27;t need stupid wires. That&#x27;s a right way to implement it. When car manufacture put a big decent screen with good brightness and willing to pay tiny fraction of the car price to maps API provider. If BMW is not willing to do that in 2021 they are bad manufacture that it.</text></comment> |
33,758,196 | 33,758,399 | 1 | 3 | 33,757,107 | train | <story><title>It’s Time to Reaffirm Our First Amendment Right to Boycott</title><url>https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/its-time-to-reaffirm-our-first-amendment-right-to-boycott</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>connicpu</author><text>I still cannot wrap my head around the idea of making a boycott illegal. If it&#x27;s not accompanied by speech, what is the difference between someone who actively avoids a product or one who simply would not have purchased it in the first place? How can that possibly be enforced? If I sign that form and then happen to not buy any of the products I&#x27;m not supposed to boycott, have I violated the contract?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jawns</author><text>Here&#x27;s the way it works, in practice.<p>Legislators who propose and pass this legislation use it to demonstrate their support for Israel, or coal mining, or gun rights, or whatever anti-boycotting cause they&#x27;re advancing. They are the primary beneficiaries here, because it helps them get donations and get re-elected.<p>Entities who are forced to sign these pledges generally put as much thought into it as you or I put into agreeing to a TOS with a binding arbitration agreement. In other words, not very much thought at all.<p>Because ... As you&#x27;ve pointed out, the government cannot, in practice, prove that those entities are actually boycotting unless the entities come right out and say it. So if the entities actually want to boycott Israel, they can continue to do so without announcing it. The law doesn&#x27;t actually stop anyone from boycotting Israel; at best, it merely stops them from publicizing what they&#x27;re doing.<p>The reason this doesn&#x27;t get much push-back from most people who are forced to sign the pledge is because they weren&#x27;t actually planning to boycott anyway. But there&#x27;s a small number, such as the publisher who&#x27;s at the heart of this case, who had no plans to boycott Israel, but who isn&#x27;t going to let those legislators bully them.</text></comment> | <story><title>It’s Time to Reaffirm Our First Amendment Right to Boycott</title><url>https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/its-time-to-reaffirm-our-first-amendment-right-to-boycott</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>connicpu</author><text>I still cannot wrap my head around the idea of making a boycott illegal. If it&#x27;s not accompanied by speech, what is the difference between someone who actively avoids a product or one who simply would not have purchased it in the first place? How can that possibly be enforced? If I sign that form and then happen to not buy any of the products I&#x27;m not supposed to boycott, have I violated the contract?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SpicyLemonZest</author><text>The original antiboycott laws were an unfortunate response to an otherwise intractable issue. Until recently, most countries in the Arab world had both a primary boycott on Israel and a secondary boycott on any company that does business with Israel. So there was a real and pressing concern that some companies might feel they <i>have</i> to boycott Israel, not because they themselves have an issue with the country but because they can&#x27;t afford to sacrifice the rest of the Middle East market for it. Antiboycott laws were a solution, and a solution that seems to have worked pretty well - the Arab League never explicitly revoked their boycott, but it&#x27;s virtually unenforced and nobody has to choose between doing business with Israel and doing business with the Arab world.<p>The new wave of antiboycott laws this article is referring to are much less justified, I think, but you&#x27;ll note that they&#x27;re on the same topic in response to still-ongoing efforts by the BDS movement to promote a secondary boycott. So it&#x27;s not as unreasonable as it would first seem.</text></comment> |
20,630,936 | 20,630,562 | 1 | 2 | 20,630,489 | train | <story><title>Side channel that leaked data from Intel CPUs patched by silent Windows update</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/08/silent-windows-update-patched-side-channel-that-leaked-data-from-intel-cpus/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tinco</author><text>I know these problems are serious, but I feel there is a fun and reassuring aspect to them. Back in the 90s and early 2000s we thought anything can be hacked by any clever person. Then the 2010s happened and almost all software, even Windows, became near unassailable fortresses, especially systems like iOS with their tight control of the OS. Sure, a 0day drops every now and then, but we all know that it&#x27;s basically impossible to attack a modern well configured system.<p>These hardware bugs turn that idea on its head, suddenly the whole ghost in the shell hacker style dream is again a possibility. A motivated person or group of persons might go and hack any system out there. And that&#x27;s really a bit reassuring, it&#x27;s a little bit scary to think about how our lives might be ruled by these systems that are unassailable. I&#x27;d like to at least stand a chance when technology turns on us.</text></comment> | <story><title>Side channel that leaked data from Intel CPUs patched by silent Windows update</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/08/silent-windows-update-patched-side-channel-that-leaked-data-from-intel-cpus/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>edwintorok</author><text>As mentioned in the article more technical details can be found in the linked article: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bitdefender.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;swapgs-attack.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bitdefender.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;swapgs-attack.html</a><p>Worth pointing out that Xen is not vulnerable to the swapgs attack due to a lucky design decision from a decade ago: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lists.xenproject.org&#x2F;archives&#x2F;html&#x2F;xen-devel&#x2F;2019-08&#x2F;msg00507.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lists.xenproject.org&#x2F;archives&#x2F;html&#x2F;xen-devel&#x2F;2019-08...</a></text></comment> |
3,247,120 | 3,247,087 | 1 | 2 | 3,246,957 | train | <story><title>Stanford to host more online classes</title><url>http://www.cs101-class.org/#</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>karpathy</author><text>I get easily excited about education-related topics so I may be over-reacting, but I think these classes will jump-start an educational revolution, and that people will start to fully appreciate just how inefficient traditional teaching methods are.<p>Some people like to say that this is nothing new because video lectures were posted on the internet for several years now (for example MIT Open Courseware etc.), but I think this misses the point entirely. There is a huge difference between low-quality video/audio recording of a prof mumbling for an hour and post-processed, perfected snippets of videos presented in a coherent fashion, and most importantly with supplementary materials that encourage people to actually apply their knowledge and get feedback. In addition, the fact that many people take the class at the same time also enhances the experience for everyone, and we've seen study groups form everywhere around internet.<p>Full disclosure, by the way, I'm a CS PhD student at Stanford and I am a (voluntary) co-creator of the programming assignments for the current ML class. It is a lot of work, but the way I see it, we only have to put great assignments together a single time, and thousands of people can enjoy them and benefit from them for years and years to come. That is what I call time well spent.<p>I hope all these classes go well, and I'm looking forward to telling my kids about what education used to be like in the old days. I have a feeling that they'll find it hard to believe me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>plinkplonk</author><text>" I'm a CS PhD student at Stanford and I am a (voluntary) co-creator of the programming assignments for the current ML class. It is a lot of work, but the way I see it, we only have to put great assignments together a single time, and thousands of people can enjoy them and benefit from them for years and years to come. That is what I call time well spent."<p>As a consumer of Stanford's online classes(though not the ML class. I'm waiting for the CS 229 - vs the CS 229A - version), let me take the opportunity to thank you. Your efforts are totally appreciated. You are right, this is revolutionary. Glad to see that Stanford is keeping up (and building!) momentum rather than this being a one off effort.</text></comment> | <story><title>Stanford to host more online classes</title><url>http://www.cs101-class.org/#</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>karpathy</author><text>I get easily excited about education-related topics so I may be over-reacting, but I think these classes will jump-start an educational revolution, and that people will start to fully appreciate just how inefficient traditional teaching methods are.<p>Some people like to say that this is nothing new because video lectures were posted on the internet for several years now (for example MIT Open Courseware etc.), but I think this misses the point entirely. There is a huge difference between low-quality video/audio recording of a prof mumbling for an hour and post-processed, perfected snippets of videos presented in a coherent fashion, and most importantly with supplementary materials that encourage people to actually apply their knowledge and get feedback. In addition, the fact that many people take the class at the same time also enhances the experience for everyone, and we've seen study groups form everywhere around internet.<p>Full disclosure, by the way, I'm a CS PhD student at Stanford and I am a (voluntary) co-creator of the programming assignments for the current ML class. It is a lot of work, but the way I see it, we only have to put great assignments together a single time, and thousands of people can enjoy them and benefit from them for years and years to come. That is what I call time well spent.<p>I hope all these classes go well, and I'm looking forward to telling my kids about what education used to be like in the old days. I have a feeling that they'll find it hard to believe me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amirmc</author><text>The homework and in-video questions are what keep me involved. I have such a busy schedule that its difficult to maintain the discipline to simply keep up if there were only videos. However, having external deadlines and practical things have encouraged me to <i>make</i> the time (and I'm very happy about it).<p>I agree that this is potentially revolutionary. Before these courses, I couldn't have imagined doing a 'distance-learning' course. I suspect there are many other folks that feel the same.<p>Also, thank you for your work on the ML programming exercises! I've found them fantastic in getting my head around how to practically 'encode' the things from the videos. Much appreciated.</text></comment> |
2,685,468 | 2,685,567 | 1 | 2 | 2,684,406 | train | <story><title>My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant</title><url>http://mobile.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/magazine/my-life-as-an-undocumented-immigrant.xml</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>haberman</author><text>I have no beef with this guy who was basically forced into breaking the law before he could have responsibility for his actions.<p>But overall I just feel that the compassion about immigration is misplaced. I don't understand why all the pro-immigration people say "look at these poor undocumented immigrants -- we should make life better for them." I think the people we should have compassion for are the people who are trying to do things the right way but running into headaches. <i>Those</i> are the people we should make things easier for, not the people who are willing to break the law to get what they want.<p>I really don't think we want a situation where breaking the law is the best way to get ahead. If I was waiting to get into the US, I would be pretty upset to see all the benefits going to the people who cut in line.<p>I don't understand why it's so controversial among the pro-immigration crowd to say that people shouldn't come here illegally. Naturally more leniency should be extended to children.<p>EDIT: It is stories like this that I feel we should be solving with immigration reform: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2685261" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2685261</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tokenadult</author><text>Spouse of first-generation immigrant to the United States here. And back in the 1990s I used to be an immigration lawyer for a small law firm on the west coast. Yes, the personal story of Jose Antonio Vargas is rough on him personally, but a better basis for setting the policy of immigration in the United States would be the stories of the many people who patiently wait in line to be admitted to the United States through legal channels. Look at their stories, and figure out what change of rules and incentives would bring in what subset of those people to become new Americans.<p>Every country on the planet appears to have restrictions on immigration. Most of the time we don't discuss the policies of countries other than the United States in new submissions to HN, even though HN is an international forum, because most countries are lousy enough to be entrepreneurs in and lousy enough to live in that no one on HN wants to immigrate to those countries. (Instead, most people on HN discuss how to get OUT of dozens of other countries around the world, and in many cases how to immigrate to the United States.) When we consider that the actual number of legally authorized immigrants to the United States each year is one of the highest such numbers in the world (does ANY country have more legal immigrants each year?), it's hard to make a case that the United States is missing out on immigrants by its current policies. Perhaps there are some policy changes to be made on the margins, and on my own part my policy preference would be to make immigration to the United States legally easier and much more commonplace, but the way to make the case for policy reform is to show law-abiding Americans that the policy changes help their lives. The Americans I know, including many law-abiding first-generation immigrants, want policy reform that makes like better in general for all people already in America, as well as for people intending to immigrate here.</text></comment> | <story><title>My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant</title><url>http://mobile.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/magazine/my-life-as-an-undocumented-immigrant.xml</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>haberman</author><text>I have no beef with this guy who was basically forced into breaking the law before he could have responsibility for his actions.<p>But overall I just feel that the compassion about immigration is misplaced. I don't understand why all the pro-immigration people say "look at these poor undocumented immigrants -- we should make life better for them." I think the people we should have compassion for are the people who are trying to do things the right way but running into headaches. <i>Those</i> are the people we should make things easier for, not the people who are willing to break the law to get what they want.<p>I really don't think we want a situation where breaking the law is the best way to get ahead. If I was waiting to get into the US, I would be pretty upset to see all the benefits going to the people who cut in line.<p>I don't understand why it's so controversial among the pro-immigration crowd to say that people shouldn't come here illegally. Naturally more leniency should be extended to children.<p>EDIT: It is stories like this that I feel we should be solving with immigration reform: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2685261" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2685261</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nick-dap</author><text>How is living in limbo for a decade, with literally no single piece of paper identifying you as a human being is "cutting in line?"<p>And why can't we tackle these problems at the same time? Why can't we even tackle these problems _one_ at a time? The Dream Act has been under review since 2001. It is a bill that can be voted on and passed in literally two days. Why not? ... I'll answer. Our impotent Congress, two year election cycles, and media that no longer holds anybody accountable.</text></comment> |
41,031,699 | 41,031,745 | 1 | 2 | 41,030,352 | train | <story><title>CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor also linked to Linux kernel panics and crashes</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/21/crowdstrike_linux_crashes_restoration_tools/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>roblabla</author><text>This is some very poor journalism. The linux issues are so, so very different from the windows BSOD issue.<p>The redhat kernel panics were caused by a bug in the kernel ebpf implementation, likely a regression introduced by a rhel-specific patch. Blaming crowdstrike for this is stupid (just like blaming microsoft for the crowdstrike bsod is stupid).<p>For background, I also work on a product using eBPFs, and had kernel updates cause kernel panics in my eBPF probes.<p>In my case, the panic happened because the kernel decided to change an LSM hook interface, adding a new argument in front of the others. When the probe gets loaded, the kernel doesn’t typecheck the arguments, and so doesn’t realise the probe isn’t compatible with the new kernel. When the probe runs, shit happens and you end up with a kernel panic.<p>eBPF probes causing kernel panics are almost always indication of a kernel bug, not a bug in the ebpf vendor. There are exceptions of course (such as an ebpf denying access to a resource causing pid1 to crash). But they’re very few.</text></comment> | <story><title>CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor also linked to Linux kernel panics and crashes</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/21/crowdstrike_linux_crashes_restoration_tools/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yftsui</author><text>Not surprising at all. My work issued MacBook top CPU time has been always `com.crowdstrike.falcon.Agent`, before Apple M1 released my Intel 2019 MacBook Pro can barely do any everyday task with that Agent running in the background. It crashed video calls, crashed the entire OS, I couldn&#x27;t even smoothly type in an IDE back then.</text></comment> |
2,311,007 | 2,310,837 | 1 | 2 | 2,310,310 | train | <story><title>Google: Hide sites to find more of what you want</title><url>http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/hide-sites-to-find-more-of-what-you.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>Ah, good to see Google following our lead :-) (Disclaimer I work at Blekko and we've had this feature from launch, and we don't limit you to 500 sites either)<p>On a more serious note though, its nice to see Google validate our assertion, that un-modified Google search results are getting poorer and poorer. Not that they would actually say it directly like that of course. Now lets see if they are willing to drop over a million crappy sites out of their index ...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>FWIW, in my experience one of the more difficult aspects of starting and growing a company is knowing if what you believe is true, or just something you want to be true.<p>So you go to start a company and you say that you believe the search experience is getting worse and worse. That you believe the leader in the market place is fighting a losing battle of trying to algorithmically determine relevance in a world where humans will actively work to subvert the algorithms. That the world would be a better place if a more customizable search experience existed.<p>A common response is "Well if this is such an important idea they would already be doing it."<p>So as an entrepreneur you deal with the naysayers and you build something which other people have "... been clamoring for a blacklist for years" and yet has never materialized. And you put it out into the market.<p>Right up until you deliver your product, nobody knows who is 'right' in this back and forth. It is all academic. You've built the best product you know how to build, you offer it up to the world, and when you ship the debate stops being academic and starts becoming empirical.<p>When the market leader adds features that mimic ones you've launched with several months ago, it can be simply timing (they may have been going to do it all along and it just happens that they did it now), it can be a response, it can be random I suppose. Regardless of why they did it, it seems to be an unequivocal damnation of pure algorithmic search.<p>As one of Blekko's founding concepts was that the search experience can be made better by human curation, I choose to interpret it as validation. Not that I expect Google to join in and adopt the "web search bill of rights" anytime soon of course.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google: Hide sites to find more of what you want</title><url>http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/hide-sites-to-find-more-of-what-you.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>Ah, good to see Google following our lead :-) (Disclaimer I work at Blekko and we've had this feature from launch, and we don't limit you to 500 sites either)<p>On a more serious note though, its nice to see Google validate our assertion, that un-modified Google search results are getting poorer and poorer. Not that they would actually say it directly like that of course. Now lets see if they are willing to drop over a million crappy sites out of their index ...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rsoto</author><text>I just lost a little of respect from you guys with this comment.</text></comment> |
18,989,749 | 18,989,368 | 1 | 3 | 18,988,774 | train | <story><title>Why are pianos traditionally tuned “out of tune” at the extremes?</title><url>https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/14244/why-are-pianos-traditionally-tuned-out-of-tune-at-the-extremes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bloak</author><text>It seems that no one objected to the (slightly off-topic) claim that &quot;the vast majority of western music uses equal temperament&quot;. As I understand it, equal temperament is just a way of tuning keyboard instruments so that they sound the same in every key; a string quartet or a choir doesn&#x27;t use equal temperament. (And some people claim that J. S. Bach, who insisted on tuning his own keyboards, didn&#x27;t use equal temperament, either.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>systoll</author><text>It&#x27;s a way of tuning so that all semitone intervals are an equal [2^(1&#x2F;12)] frequency ratio. The vast majority of western music, <i>today</i>, uses equal temperament. This includes most recorded performances of JS Bach&#x27;s pieces.<p>It wasn&#x27;t particularly common in Bach&#x27;s time, though, and the math to do it &#x27;properly&#x27; wasn&#x27;t even known outside of China.<p>Today, though, it&#x27;s everywhere. Modern Woodwinds are equal temperament due to the placement of the holes. To match that, the entire orchestra is in equal temperament, regardless of the requirements of the instrument.<p>Guitars are in equal temperament due to the placement of their frets -- to do otherwise would require frets that bend between strings.<p>In isolation, people will [attempt to] sing in equal temperament, because that&#x27;s what &#x27;all&#x27; accompaniment is like.<p>Barbershop quartets, acapella groups, and to some extent string quartets have a tendency to shift <i>harmony notes</i> toward simple fractions of the root note of the chord, on the fly, even as the overall melody runs in equal temperament. This isn&#x27;t a different &#x27;tuning&#x27;, per se, but it is a thing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why are pianos traditionally tuned “out of tune” at the extremes?</title><url>https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/14244/why-are-pianos-traditionally-tuned-out-of-tune-at-the-extremes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bloak</author><text>It seems that no one objected to the (slightly off-topic) claim that &quot;the vast majority of western music uses equal temperament&quot;. As I understand it, equal temperament is just a way of tuning keyboard instruments so that they sound the same in every key; a string quartet or a choir doesn&#x27;t use equal temperament. (And some people claim that J. S. Bach, who insisted on tuning his own keyboards, didn&#x27;t use equal temperament, either.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jerf</author><text>&quot;a string quartet or a choir doesn&#x27;t use equal temperament.&quot;<p>But they are still fairly deeply influenced by the fact all our ears are generally tuned to equal temperament, so I think it&#x27;s still fair to say they use equal temperament + some local deviations, rather than some other tuning. Music that is &quot;truly&quot; not based on equal temperament sounds &quot;wrong&quot; to most people nowadays, or at least requires a significant adjustment period.</text></comment> |
2,790,757 | 2,790,429 | 1 | 3 | 2,789,709 | train | <story><title>33GB of public domain JSTOR articles, and a manifesto</title><url>http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6554331/Papers_from_Philosophical_Transactions_of_the_Royal_Society__fro</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>giberson</author><text>If I weren't too timid to risk doing so, I would do the following (read I hope someone else does this).<p>Process the pdf's with an OCR program to extract as much text from each document as possible. The extraction should be done page by page, so the extracted text can be referenced to a PDF page#.<p>Then, provide a searchable/browse-able directory of the extracted content. Each page of text has link to the original PDF page so you can easily open up the PDF to the page the text was extracted from.<p>I'd also make all text user editable wiki style. Combined with the inline PDF page references it would be super easy for any user to fix up translation errors from the OCR process. Tie in a karma system to the users profile so that edits can be thanked/kudos on a job well done to help with automating moderation of user edits by rating the user's current karma to decide if the edit should be accepted automatically or provided as an alternate version other users can check and rate up if they think it should replace current version.<p>Maybe mash in an image cropping service so diagrams can be cropped from the PDF and inserted inline with the translated text. Provide simple wiki formatting markup to allow users to format the articles.<p>Use ad revenue/donations to alleviate/cover hosting costs.<p>1, 2, 3, go.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anigbrowl</author><text>Well, most of this already exists in Google books, where I'm reading some of these particular scientific journals right now, can switch to OCRed text at any time (albeit with ftrange contemporarie fpelling), or download a facsimile of any public domain work in PDF format. The only thing they don't have in place (and should add) is the wiki-style crowd editing.<p>So the guy has basically built a 33gb torrent of stuff that was already freely available to the public, just from a different source.</text></comment> | <story><title>33GB of public domain JSTOR articles, and a manifesto</title><url>http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6554331/Papers_from_Philosophical_Transactions_of_the_Royal_Society__fro</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>giberson</author><text>If I weren't too timid to risk doing so, I would do the following (read I hope someone else does this).<p>Process the pdf's with an OCR program to extract as much text from each document as possible. The extraction should be done page by page, so the extracted text can be referenced to a PDF page#.<p>Then, provide a searchable/browse-able directory of the extracted content. Each page of text has link to the original PDF page so you can easily open up the PDF to the page the text was extracted from.<p>I'd also make all text user editable wiki style. Combined with the inline PDF page references it would be super easy for any user to fix up translation errors from the OCR process. Tie in a karma system to the users profile so that edits can be thanked/kudos on a job well done to help with automating moderation of user edits by rating the user's current karma to decide if the edit should be accepted automatically or provided as an alternate version other users can check and rate up if they think it should replace current version.<p>Maybe mash in an image cropping service so diagrams can be cropped from the PDF and inserted inline with the translated text. Provide simple wiki formatting markup to allow users to format the articles.<p>Use ad revenue/donations to alleviate/cover hosting costs.<p>1, 2, 3, go.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crocowhile</author><text>That is what jstor is about actually: full text search of a number of articles.</text></comment> |
11,236,191 | 11,236,135 | 1 | 2 | 11,233,898 | train | <story><title>Why I think Tesla is building throwaway cars</title><url>http://syonyk.blogspot.com/2016/03/is-tesla-building-throwaway-cars.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maratd</author><text>&gt; Oh yeah we had to sacrifice tactile feedback<p>Nonsense. You need tactile feedback while driving. You will not be using the center console while driving. You will not even be <i>looking</i> at it. All of the stuff you need while driving <i>is</i> tactile.<p>&gt; trying to be a fast car but only really good for 0-60 in a straight line<p>LOL. I sense hurt feelings.<p>&gt; no OBD-2 port as another poster pointed out<p>Why would it need an OBD-2 port when it has an API?<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.timdorr.apiary.io&#x2F;#" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.timdorr.apiary.io&#x2F;#</a><p>&gt; bad resale value as this article points out<p>Article is wrong. The prices for used vehicles are quite good. Confirm yourself.<p>&gt; literally having your head touch the car roof if you&#x27;re over five foot eight and sitting in the back<p>Get a Model X if Model S is too small for you.<p>&gt; can you please give us a rational reason except zero tailpipe emissions for buying a Model S over, say, a Mercedes S-class or a BMW 7-series?<p>I&#x27;m not a huge fan on the S, prefer the X.<p>1. Twice the storage of an ICE vehicle. No engine block = FRUNK.<p>2. Safety. It is the safest vehicle on the road. Period. Because there is no engine block slamming in your face during a front-end collision.<p>3. I never have to go to a dirty gas station again. I fill up at home.<p>4. No oil changes. No transmission failures. Fewer moving parts = less maintenance needed.<p>5. American designed, American built, no $$$ going to questionable oil interests.<p>6. That center console? Fucking awesome. Enjoy your 8 inch joke.<p>7. Over-The-Air software updates that actually add useful features. No, I don&#x27;t need to go to the service center to update my software. LOL!<p>8. It drives itself? Autopilot! Nice!<p>9. It parks itself. Even parallel parking. Will even open the garage, drive itself in, and then close the garage after itself.<p>10. Supercharger network. Free juice all over the country and beyond. Fills up in 20-30 min.<p>I can keep going, but I think you get the gist.<p>&gt; Tesla will even refuse to sell you parts<p>Ok. Ever hear of eBay?<p>&gt; call you talking about industrial espionage, if you try and tinker with their cars<p>Don&#x27;t fuck with cars that drive themselves. Please.<p>&gt; Seriously, WTF?<p>I wouldn&#x27;t mind having more control over software updates and generally having more control over the vehicle, but I <i>understand</i> why they made the decisions they did. If you don&#x27;t, it&#x27;s because you were never driven in an autonomous vehicle.<p>Tesla FTW.</text></item><item><author>semi-extrinsic</author><text>Between the touch screen control screaming &quot;Look! Cool! Future! Oh yeah we had to sacrifice tactile feedback and usability when driving while ignoring fifty years of safety research but Cool!&quot;, trying to be a fast car but only really good for 0-60 in a straight line (and literally incapable of doing five laps at Laguna Seca without overheating and going into limp home mode), no OBD-2 port as another poster pointed out meaning you can&#x27;t even fire up Torque to check an error code before having to go to the garage, bad resale value as this article points out, literally having your head touch the car roof if you&#x27;re over five foot eight and sitting in the back, etc.: can you please give us a rational reason <i>except zero tailpipe emissions</i> for buying a Model S over, say, a Mercedes S-class or a BMW 7-series?<p>I completely get that there are irrational reasons for buying things, not least of which is &quot;OMG teh shiny future!!1!&quot;, but these aren&#x27;t really suitable for debate here because they&#x27;re so hugely subjective.<p>Edit: having read through entire TFA: Tesla will even refuse to sell you parts, and call you talking about industrial espionage, if you try and tinker with their cars. Seriously, WTF?</text></item><item><author>maratd</author><text>&gt; The aftermarket community for existing cars basically doesn&#x27;t care about emissions --- one of the biggest attractions of an electric.<p>You&#x27;ve clearly never been behind the wheel of a Tesla. Please go drive one. Emissions were literally the very last reason for buying the car for me.</text></item><item><author>userbinator</author><text><i>You&#x27;d think that out of the thousands of people who have already bought one of these cars, there might be one out there with both the skills and desire to actually own what they paid for</i><p>On the other hand, it could just be that those who want to really own their cars would not consider buying a Tesla anyway, and those who have the skills are too scared of the legal aspects. I think at the moment, electric cars are still somewhat niche and don&#x27;t really appeal to the demographic who would be modding their cars. The aftermarket community for existing cars basically doesn&#x27;t care about emissions --- one of the biggest attractions of an electric. As a bit of a car-geek myself, I&#x27;ll admit that electrics are rather &quot;boring&quot; and for the same reason I&#x27;m not so interested in the newer super-computerised vehicles either; it&#x27;s the noisy, smelly, smoky, aggressive, obnoxious-mechanical-monster nature of petrol&#x2F;diesel engines that&#x27;s the really &quot;fun&quot; part. Batteries, electronics, and motors just don&#x27;t evoke quite the same feeling.</text></item><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>One of the things that makes a car valuable is having a healthy aftermarket. It looks like, from this article anyway, Tesla is doing anything they can to make sure there is no aftermarket for their vehicles.<p>To me, a car that you can&#x27;t service yourself is worthless. A car that needs the manufacturer&#x27;s permission to activate is not your car--it&#x27;s owned by the manufacturer. And, when the manufacturer places a threatening call to the &quot;owner&quot; after he tries to get diagnostic information from his own car [1], well that&#x27;s so far beyond crossing the line it&#x27;s not even funny.<p>I think we&#x27;re going to start seeing &quot;jailbroken&quot; Teslas soon after they start falling out of their warranty period. I&#x27;m surprised it hasn&#x27;t happened already. You&#x27;d think that out of the thousands of people who have already bought one of these cars, there might be one out there with both the skills and desire to actually own what they paid for.<p>1: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gas2.org&#x2F;2014&#x2F;04&#x2F;14&#x2F;road-slightly-traveled-hacking-tesla-model-s&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gas2.org&#x2F;2014&#x2F;04&#x2F;14&#x2F;road-slightly-traveled-hacking-te...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tclmeelmo</author><text>&gt; &gt; trying to be a fast car but only really good for 0-60 in a straight line<p>&gt; LOL. I sense hurt feelings.<p>A Model S weighs something like 4700lbs, depending on battery? I suppose it depends on one&#x27;s definition of &quot;fast car&quot;, but I personally consider more than straight line performance, and lighter cars have a distinct advantage. I agree with Lotus&#x27;s Colin Chapman: &quot;performance through low weight&quot;.<p>&gt; &gt; no OBD-2 port as another poster pointed out<p>&gt; Why would it need an OBD-2 port when it has an API?
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.timdorr.apiary.io&#x2F;#" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.timdorr.apiary.io&#x2F;#</a><p>Because OBD-2 is a standard with an entire ecosystem built around it.<p>&gt; 2. Safety. It is the safest vehicle on the road. Period. Because there is no engine block slamming in your face during a front-end collision.<p>That is an advantage (also, it&#x27;s on the heavy side and mass helps a lot) and it certainly tests well in crashes. IIHS statistics for injury and medical payments don&#x27;t however support your statement that it is the &quot;safest vehicle on the road&quot;. Porsche&#x27;s 911 and Boxster have lower Personal Injury Claim frequencies (and the Boxster doesn&#x27;t even have a roof!).<p>&gt; 4. No oil changes. No transmission failures. Fewer moving parts = less maintenance needed.<p>There might be less maintenance needed on some of the drivetrain leading to a more convenient service interval, but there still is maintenance (tires, brakes, brake fluid, HVAC, battery, suspension, steering, etc.) to be done, and the longer service interval might make it more likely for problems to increase in severity before they&#x27;re noticed. It&#x27;s kind of a moot point, modern cars have overall excellent reliability on the drivetrain; luxury cars tend to have problems with the electrical system and associated accessories, especially after the lease period is up, and Tesla is no different.<p>&gt; 5. American designed, American built, no $$$ going to questionable oil interests.<p>Overall design and final assembly, perhaps, but are you saying that the subsystem vendors are American too, to some degree larger than other manufacturers?<p>&gt; 10. Supercharger network. Free juice all over the country and beyond. Fills up in 20-30 min.<p>It&#x27;s not free, it&#x27;s incorporated into the cost of the purchase.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why I think Tesla is building throwaway cars</title><url>http://syonyk.blogspot.com/2016/03/is-tesla-building-throwaway-cars.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maratd</author><text>&gt; Oh yeah we had to sacrifice tactile feedback<p>Nonsense. You need tactile feedback while driving. You will not be using the center console while driving. You will not even be <i>looking</i> at it. All of the stuff you need while driving <i>is</i> tactile.<p>&gt; trying to be a fast car but only really good for 0-60 in a straight line<p>LOL. I sense hurt feelings.<p>&gt; no OBD-2 port as another poster pointed out<p>Why would it need an OBD-2 port when it has an API?<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.timdorr.apiary.io&#x2F;#" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.timdorr.apiary.io&#x2F;#</a><p>&gt; bad resale value as this article points out<p>Article is wrong. The prices for used vehicles are quite good. Confirm yourself.<p>&gt; literally having your head touch the car roof if you&#x27;re over five foot eight and sitting in the back<p>Get a Model X if Model S is too small for you.<p>&gt; can you please give us a rational reason except zero tailpipe emissions for buying a Model S over, say, a Mercedes S-class or a BMW 7-series?<p>I&#x27;m not a huge fan on the S, prefer the X.<p>1. Twice the storage of an ICE vehicle. No engine block = FRUNK.<p>2. Safety. It is the safest vehicle on the road. Period. Because there is no engine block slamming in your face during a front-end collision.<p>3. I never have to go to a dirty gas station again. I fill up at home.<p>4. No oil changes. No transmission failures. Fewer moving parts = less maintenance needed.<p>5. American designed, American built, no $$$ going to questionable oil interests.<p>6. That center console? Fucking awesome. Enjoy your 8 inch joke.<p>7. Over-The-Air software updates that actually add useful features. No, I don&#x27;t need to go to the service center to update my software. LOL!<p>8. It drives itself? Autopilot! Nice!<p>9. It parks itself. Even parallel parking. Will even open the garage, drive itself in, and then close the garage after itself.<p>10. Supercharger network. Free juice all over the country and beyond. Fills up in 20-30 min.<p>I can keep going, but I think you get the gist.<p>&gt; Tesla will even refuse to sell you parts<p>Ok. Ever hear of eBay?<p>&gt; call you talking about industrial espionage, if you try and tinker with their cars<p>Don&#x27;t fuck with cars that drive themselves. Please.<p>&gt; Seriously, WTF?<p>I wouldn&#x27;t mind having more control over software updates and generally having more control over the vehicle, but I <i>understand</i> why they made the decisions they did. If you don&#x27;t, it&#x27;s because you were never driven in an autonomous vehicle.<p>Tesla FTW.</text></item><item><author>semi-extrinsic</author><text>Between the touch screen control screaming &quot;Look! Cool! Future! Oh yeah we had to sacrifice tactile feedback and usability when driving while ignoring fifty years of safety research but Cool!&quot;, trying to be a fast car but only really good for 0-60 in a straight line (and literally incapable of doing five laps at Laguna Seca without overheating and going into limp home mode), no OBD-2 port as another poster pointed out meaning you can&#x27;t even fire up Torque to check an error code before having to go to the garage, bad resale value as this article points out, literally having your head touch the car roof if you&#x27;re over five foot eight and sitting in the back, etc.: can you please give us a rational reason <i>except zero tailpipe emissions</i> for buying a Model S over, say, a Mercedes S-class or a BMW 7-series?<p>I completely get that there are irrational reasons for buying things, not least of which is &quot;OMG teh shiny future!!1!&quot;, but these aren&#x27;t really suitable for debate here because they&#x27;re so hugely subjective.<p>Edit: having read through entire TFA: Tesla will even refuse to sell you parts, and call you talking about industrial espionage, if you try and tinker with their cars. Seriously, WTF?</text></item><item><author>maratd</author><text>&gt; The aftermarket community for existing cars basically doesn&#x27;t care about emissions --- one of the biggest attractions of an electric.<p>You&#x27;ve clearly never been behind the wheel of a Tesla. Please go drive one. Emissions were literally the very last reason for buying the car for me.</text></item><item><author>userbinator</author><text><i>You&#x27;d think that out of the thousands of people who have already bought one of these cars, there might be one out there with both the skills and desire to actually own what they paid for</i><p>On the other hand, it could just be that those who want to really own their cars would not consider buying a Tesla anyway, and those who have the skills are too scared of the legal aspects. I think at the moment, electric cars are still somewhat niche and don&#x27;t really appeal to the demographic who would be modding their cars. The aftermarket community for existing cars basically doesn&#x27;t care about emissions --- one of the biggest attractions of an electric. As a bit of a car-geek myself, I&#x27;ll admit that electrics are rather &quot;boring&quot; and for the same reason I&#x27;m not so interested in the newer super-computerised vehicles either; it&#x27;s the noisy, smelly, smoky, aggressive, obnoxious-mechanical-monster nature of petrol&#x2F;diesel engines that&#x27;s the really &quot;fun&quot; part. Batteries, electronics, and motors just don&#x27;t evoke quite the same feeling.</text></item><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>One of the things that makes a car valuable is having a healthy aftermarket. It looks like, from this article anyway, Tesla is doing anything they can to make sure there is no aftermarket for their vehicles.<p>To me, a car that you can&#x27;t service yourself is worthless. A car that needs the manufacturer&#x27;s permission to activate is not your car--it&#x27;s owned by the manufacturer. And, when the manufacturer places a threatening call to the &quot;owner&quot; after he tries to get diagnostic information from his own car [1], well that&#x27;s so far beyond crossing the line it&#x27;s not even funny.<p>I think we&#x27;re going to start seeing &quot;jailbroken&quot; Teslas soon after they start falling out of their warranty period. I&#x27;m surprised it hasn&#x27;t happened already. You&#x27;d think that out of the thousands of people who have already bought one of these cars, there might be one out there with both the skills and desire to actually own what they paid for.<p>1: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gas2.org&#x2F;2014&#x2F;04&#x2F;14&#x2F;road-slightly-traveled-hacking-tesla-model-s&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gas2.org&#x2F;2014&#x2F;04&#x2F;14&#x2F;road-slightly-traveled-hacking-te...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>overgard</author><text>&gt; Nonsense. You need tactile feedback while driving. You will not be using the center console while driving. You will not even be looking at it. All of the stuff you need while driving is tactile.<p>Right, because nobody has ever adjusted the air conditioning or radio while driving...</text></comment> |
8,009,565 | 8,009,154 | 1 | 2 | 8,008,944 | train | <story><title>Anti-Patterns in Python Programming</title><url>http://lignos.org/py_antipatterns/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tribaal</author><text>The more frequent and dangerous pitfalls are, in my humble opinion:<p>- Bare except: statements (that catches <i>everything</i>, even Ctrl-C)<p>- Mutables as default function&#x2F;method arguments<p>- Wildcard imports!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SEJeff</author><text>Couldn&#x27;t agree more! One of my all time new python interview questions gets a surprisingly large number of developers.<p>Given a function like:<p><pre><code> def append_one(l=[]):
l.append(1)
return l
</code></pre>
What does this return each time?<p><pre><code> &gt;&gt;&gt; append_one()
&gt;&gt;&gt; append_one()
&gt;&gt;&gt; append_one()</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>Anti-Patterns in Python Programming</title><url>http://lignos.org/py_antipatterns/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tribaal</author><text>The more frequent and dangerous pitfalls are, in my humble opinion:<p>- Bare except: statements (that catches <i>everything</i>, even Ctrl-C)<p>- Mutables as default function&#x2F;method arguments<p>- Wildcard imports!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scott_w</author><text>Possibly the most interesting anti-pattern I saw was:<p>a_list_of_words = &quot;my list of words&quot;.split(&quot; &quot;)<p>I never enquired why, since there were bigger issues in the code e.g. &quot;unit testing&quot; by running the code, taking the result and putting it as the check value. By running repr(value), copying out the string then comparing self.assertEqual(repr(value), &#x27;[&lt;Object1: unicode_value&gt;, ...]&#x27;)</text></comment> |
9,990,020 | 9,989,349 | 1 | 3 | 9,988,073 | train | <story><title>Disney's Practical Guide to Path Tracing [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frLwRLS_ZR0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>solidangle</author><text>The video was made for this article:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.disneyanimation.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;innovations&#x2F;hyperion" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.disneyanimation.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;innovations&#x2F;hyperi...</a><p>If you want to learn more about rendering then here is some more info:<p>Stanford CS348b course notes:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;candela.stanford.edu&#x2F;cs348b&#x2F;doku.php" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;candela.stanford.edu&#x2F;cs348b&#x2F;doku.php</a><p>Cornell CS6630 course notes:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.cornell.edu&#x2F;Courses&#x2F;cs6630&#x2F;2012sp&#x2F;schedule.stm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.cornell.edu&#x2F;Courses&#x2F;cs6630&#x2F;2012sp&#x2F;schedule.stm</a><p>Eric Veach&#x27;s Phd thesis:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;graphics.stanford.edu&#x2F;papers&#x2F;veach_thesis&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;graphics.stanford.edu&#x2F;papers&#x2F;veach_thesis&#x2F;</a><p>Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation by Matt Pharr, Greg Humphreys and Wenzel Jakob (book and open source implementation of a state of the art renderer):<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pbrt.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pbrt.org&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Disney's Practical Guide to Path Tracing [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frLwRLS_ZR0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>billbail</author><text>For optimised ray tracing you don&#x27;t beam the light from the camera as that has the same chance to bounce to the sun through indirect illumination as a ray from the sun has if it is going to bounce to the camera.<p>What they are saying here is wrong or rather extremely simplified for a younger audience.</text></comment> |
8,225,082 | 8,225,077 | 1 | 3 | 8,224,059 | train | <story><title>Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They Are from Nigeria? (2012)</title><url>http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=167719</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kinkora</author><text>I can&#x27;t remember what the website is exactly and I am currently at work now so I won&#x27;t be able to google it up but there was a person that use to do this except that he didn&#x27;t use a bot but &quot;bait&quot; the scammers himself.<p>It is utterly hilarious. What he does is he replies to a &quot;scam email&quot; and most of the scammers will do anything once they see an actual human being replying to their spam email. He obviously leads them on and his signature move is to always try to get the scammer to post a picture of themselves with a card held up (for verification purposes of course) and the cards usually say stupid things like &quot;ilikebukake&quot;. He collates all the emails, replies, pictures, etc and puts it up on the internet.<p>When I get home later, I will try and dig that site up.</text></item><item><author>S4M</author><text>One thing I have been wanting to do for a long time about Nigerian like scams, but never got around doing it, was the following:
1. create some bait email accounts from gmail, yahoo, and so on, and expose them somewhere on internet so they get harvested by scammers.
2. write a dumb program that is able to do some primitive parsing of the emails from the scammers, and reply to them. For example, let&#x27;s say the email from the scammer is:<p><pre><code> Dear friend,
I am the widow of the former Prime Minister of Nigeria and I need your help to get out of Nigeria where my life is threatened, along with the $50M currently in my bank account. If you help me I am willing to give you 30% of that money, please reply me to see how we can proceed.
Regards,
Mrs Mary Noscam
</code></pre>
The program would have just to reply something like:<p><pre><code> Dear Mary,
I am very interested to help you, how can I help you to get out of Nigeria?
Regards,
Mr John Victim.
</code></pre>
The point would be to make the scammer spend 10 minutes to read the reply and answer to it. After couple of emails, he will probably realize that he has been wasting his time with a bot, and just move on, but with lots of emails responding, he will have much less time to deal with actual victims, making his time worthless. I think writing a bot that is able to reply to the scammer is quite doable, since:<p><pre><code> 1. There are example of bots having actual conversation, such as SHRDLU (http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;SHRDLU) that was recently submitted here.
2. The answer doesn&#x27;t have to be very elaborate.
</code></pre>
Now I think I got blocked by the fact of having to make the bot be able to receive and send emails... maybe I will start that project some day...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thmorton</author><text>419 Eaters, possibly? There are quite a few people who contribute their stories there: <a href="http://www.419eater.com/html/letters.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.419eater.com&#x2F;html&#x2F;letters.htm</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They Are from Nigeria? (2012)</title><url>http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=167719</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kinkora</author><text>I can&#x27;t remember what the website is exactly and I am currently at work now so I won&#x27;t be able to google it up but there was a person that use to do this except that he didn&#x27;t use a bot but &quot;bait&quot; the scammers himself.<p>It is utterly hilarious. What he does is he replies to a &quot;scam email&quot; and most of the scammers will do anything once they see an actual human being replying to their spam email. He obviously leads them on and his signature move is to always try to get the scammer to post a picture of themselves with a card held up (for verification purposes of course) and the cards usually say stupid things like &quot;ilikebukake&quot;. He collates all the emails, replies, pictures, etc and puts it up on the internet.<p>When I get home later, I will try and dig that site up.</text></item><item><author>S4M</author><text>One thing I have been wanting to do for a long time about Nigerian like scams, but never got around doing it, was the following:
1. create some bait email accounts from gmail, yahoo, and so on, and expose them somewhere on internet so they get harvested by scammers.
2. write a dumb program that is able to do some primitive parsing of the emails from the scammers, and reply to them. For example, let&#x27;s say the email from the scammer is:<p><pre><code> Dear friend,
I am the widow of the former Prime Minister of Nigeria and I need your help to get out of Nigeria where my life is threatened, along with the $50M currently in my bank account. If you help me I am willing to give you 30% of that money, please reply me to see how we can proceed.
Regards,
Mrs Mary Noscam
</code></pre>
The program would have just to reply something like:<p><pre><code> Dear Mary,
I am very interested to help you, how can I help you to get out of Nigeria?
Regards,
Mr John Victim.
</code></pre>
The point would be to make the scammer spend 10 minutes to read the reply and answer to it. After couple of emails, he will probably realize that he has been wasting his time with a bot, and just move on, but with lots of emails responding, he will have much less time to deal with actual victims, making his time worthless. I think writing a bot that is able to reply to the scammer is quite doable, since:<p><pre><code> 1. There are example of bots having actual conversation, such as SHRDLU (http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;SHRDLU) that was recently submitted here.
2. The answer doesn&#x27;t have to be very elaborate.
</code></pre>
Now I think I got blocked by the fact of having to make the bot be able to receive and send emails... maybe I will start that project some day...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vitamen</author><text>One example: <a href="http://oddorama.com/2008/02/11/scamming-the-scammers-5-brilliant-419-reverse-scams/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;oddorama.com&#x2F;2008&#x2F;02&#x2F;11&#x2F;scamming-the-scammers-5-brill...</a></text></comment> |
35,699,041 | 35,699,204 | 1 | 2 | 35,698,834 | train | <story><title>Aspiring partners accuse Apple of copying their ideas</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-watch-patents-5b52cda0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bejd</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;XTm5v" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;XTm5v</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Aspiring partners accuse Apple of copying their ideas</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-watch-patents-5b52cda0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>acegopher</author><text>This was true of Microsoft in the 1990&#x27;s. Just ask Gary Kildall among others.<p>My personal brush with this was in a startup I was at 3 years before RFC 2616 (HTTP compression). We had developed a client proxy and server that would not only compress HTML pages but also bundle in a zip file all the images (TCP connection ramp up time was a thing) and it dramatically sped up page load on what was then a slow internet.<p>Microsoft came sniffing, on the pretense they were interested in buying our company or at least licensing. But then they ghosted us, and if I recall correctly, those features ended up in IIS and Internet Explorer as proprietary extensions, when Microsoft was trying to embrace and extend the web to beat Netscape.</text></comment> |
2,880,920 | 2,880,859 | 1 | 2 | 2,880,016 | train | <story><title>C++ 11 Approved</title><url>http://herbsutter.com/2011/08/12/we-have-an-international-standard-c0x-is-unanimously-approved/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vog</author><text><i>&#62; explicit strong nullptr constant; no more NULL macro nonsense</i><p>What is the point of this? C++ defines the null pointer to be always 0. So I never needed the NULL macro in C++ anyway, as I'm allowed to simply type 0 instead.<p>In how far is that new nullptr constant preferable to writing simply 0?</text></item><item><author>Animus7</author><text>Awesome! I've been looking forward to the day I'm no longer relying on "experimental" C++0x support! Here's a smaller tl;dr for those who want it:<p>-foreach loop<p>-first-class rvalue ("temporary") types<p>-lambda functions + closures<p>-implicit typing (auto keyword)<p>-decltype(), getting "declared type" of any expression<p>-variadic ... templates<p>-expanded STL -- incl. threading and RNG's<p>-construction from C-style initializer list<p>-Unicode literals<p>-enum class that doesn't auto-decay to int, enums with configurable base type<p>-explicit strong nullptr constant; no more NULL macro nonsense<p>The rest of the stuff is (in my opinion) less general/noteworthy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Someone</author><text>The standard example is:<p><pre><code> void f(int x);
void f(char *x);
...
f(0); // calls void f(int)
</code></pre>
That may seem contrived, but you may not know of the f(int) overload, especially in combination with templates.<p>NULL, if #define'd as (void *)0, prevents that error.</text></comment> | <story><title>C++ 11 Approved</title><url>http://herbsutter.com/2011/08/12/we-have-an-international-standard-c0x-is-unanimously-approved/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vog</author><text><i>&#62; explicit strong nullptr constant; no more NULL macro nonsense</i><p>What is the point of this? C++ defines the null pointer to be always 0. So I never needed the NULL macro in C++ anyway, as I'm allowed to simply type 0 instead.<p>In how far is that new nullptr constant preferable to writing simply 0?</text></item><item><author>Animus7</author><text>Awesome! I've been looking forward to the day I'm no longer relying on "experimental" C++0x support! Here's a smaller tl;dr for those who want it:<p>-foreach loop<p>-first-class rvalue ("temporary") types<p>-lambda functions + closures<p>-implicit typing (auto keyword)<p>-decltype(), getting "declared type" of any expression<p>-variadic ... templates<p>-expanded STL -- incl. threading and RNG's<p>-construction from C-style initializer list<p>-Unicode literals<p>-enum class that doesn't auto-decay to int, enums with configurable base type<p>-explicit strong nullptr constant; no more NULL macro nonsense<p>The rest of the stuff is (in my opinion) less general/noteworthy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FrankBooth</author><text>Consider:<p><pre><code> int execl(const char *path, const char *arg, ...);
</code></pre>
called like so:<p><pre><code> execl("foo", "bar", 0);
</code></pre>
Particularly when sizeof(int) != sizeof(void *).</text></comment> |
21,236,994 | 21,236,127 | 1 | 2 | 21,234,489 | train | <story><title>Prusa MINI: Smart and compact 3D printer</title><url>https://blog.prusaprinters.org/original-prusa-mini-is-here-smart-and-compact-3d-printer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>j-pb</author><text>I&#x27;m glad that prusa has stayed true to his open hardware pledge all these years, while continuing to push the reprap ideals.<p>Everybody is complaining about the price, but c&#x27;mon this thing is designed printed and assembled in Prague, the EU.
It creates local jobs for people with fair wages, social security and good quality of life, we should strive to have more of our stuff produced in the west.<p>Happy to see him design another printer, I really love my MK3.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jrockway</author><text>The price seems fine to me. This is going to print a lot of useful parts for people and comes with great software for both your computer and the printer that you can hack and modify. If this is anything like my i3, then it&#x27;s going to have high quality parts (Noctua fans!) and come in kit form to let you assemble it yourself so you know where everything is if something breaks and you need to repair it.<p>I am surprised that they switched to a more powerful microcontroller. While it is something Reddit endlessly complains about (despite having no software engineering experience), a lot of engineering is invested into their existing 8-bit platform which works perfectly fine. You don&#x27;t need 32-bit pointers to read a string like &quot;G1 X42&quot; and pulse an I&#x2F;O pin a couple times ;)</text></comment> | <story><title>Prusa MINI: Smart and compact 3D printer</title><url>https://blog.prusaprinters.org/original-prusa-mini-is-here-smart-and-compact-3d-printer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>j-pb</author><text>I&#x27;m glad that prusa has stayed true to his open hardware pledge all these years, while continuing to push the reprap ideals.<p>Everybody is complaining about the price, but c&#x27;mon this thing is designed printed and assembled in Prague, the EU.
It creates local jobs for people with fair wages, social security and good quality of life, we should strive to have more of our stuff produced in the west.<p>Happy to see him design another printer, I really love my MK3.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hevi_jos</author><text>Prusa cares about quality. Chinese mostly about price.<p>For example, Prusa filaments are perfectly rewind, so the possibility of the filament making a knot and stopping the print like has happened to me with other filaments in 14h printing sessions does not exist.<p>Or chinese aluminium printing beds, with 0.3-0.4 mms differences along the printer, that even with a touch probe you can&#x27;t print big things over.<p>Those beds are so cheap, and you could print small pieces with them, but anything serious in size like 18x18 cms will fail. Prusa warrantees it.<p>Quality control is the great advantage that Prusa has over the Chinese(that love lying). He knows it, and sends you a report of the QA of your specific machine.</text></comment> |
29,993,843 | 29,993,525 | 1 | 3 | 29,991,674 | train | <story><title>Designing for a right to repair</title><url>https://interactionmagic.com/Design-for-repair</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>disruptiveink</author><text>My issue with most repair jobs as a hobbyist who can do amateur level of soldering is, oddly enough, stripped screws. No matter what I&#x27;m trying to do and despite my best efforts, there&#x27;s a very high chance of me stripping a screw, which is something that can happen in seconds and then either becomes very hard to recover or impossible. At some point, I either have leave it alone or destroy the casing altogether.<p>They show a Playstation 3 controller in the article, which is actually easy to get into... if you don&#x27;t strip the screws. Just a few seconds of using a PH0 bit instead of the required PH00 the other day lost me a controller that probably could have been saved. Is this a case of bad tools? I can definitely believe that when tackling rusty, big screws: larger and higher quality screwdrivers with good grips definitely made the difference for me in the past. But for precision jobs, I have no clue what I&#x27;m doing wrong. I was using an iFixit driver kit for this job. How do you avoid this? Do you absolutely have to know the exact bit to use for every screw beforehand? Is just guessing &quot;eh, this looks about right&quot; just asking for trouble?<p>The much maligned in right-to-repair circles Torx and Apple pentalobe screws are actually great for me. Never in my life I ruined one of those, where sometimes I feel like I damage one out of five Philips or flat head screws I attempt to unscrew.</text></comment> | <story><title>Designing for a right to repair</title><url>https://interactionmagic.com/Design-for-repair</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lisper</author><text>I recently had the unfortunate experience of attempting to recycle a Sonicair toothbrush. The &quot;disassembly&quot; process to extract the (dead) battery did not work as advertised, and I had to attack the case with several additional implements of destruction besides a hammer. I was shocked at how difficult it was. There is absolutely no way that the average consumer is going to succeed in extracting the battery, and so all those toxic materials are going to end up in landfills. Unfortunately, I&#x27;ve also tried many other electric toothbrushes and none of them work as well as my Sonicair. So I&#x27;m left with the horrible choice of either polluting the environment or settling for substandard care for my teeth.<p>:-( :-( :-(</text></comment> |
8,981,577 | 8,980,951 | 1 | 2 | 8,979,886 | train | <story><title>Croatia just canceled the debts of its poorest citizens</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/01/31/croatia-just-canceled-the-debts-of-its-poorest-citizens/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>popee</author><text>Hi, croat here. Just one detail, this year there will be elections in Croatia and current gov didn&#x27;t do anything useful for our economy, so this is kind of popular measure. Don&#x27;t get me wrong, it&#x27;s always nice to help, but situation is little bit complicated, taxes are very high and in some way this is not fair to people that are paying everything. Also, there are huge number of people living and exploiting social measures, so ... In this context it&#x27;s impossible to help those who really need help.<p>You know what is the saddest part? Opposition party (conservatives that ruled from 2007-2011) is convicted for criminality and they are atm most popular, so for <i>common</i> and <i>independent</i> people there is no light at the end of the tunnel. If someone can solve this chaos he&#x2F;she will be candidate for Nobel&#x27;s price.<p>P.S. Sorry on bad english</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ricardobeat</author><text>These exact same words could come out of a Brazilian. Word by word. I don&#x27;t know about Croatia, but in that case they are only half-truths. The idea that there are &#x27;people who pay for everything&#x27; is usually misguided. There are the exploited, and the less exploited. Both pay in one way or another, and only a very small elite group is actually well off.<p>You say &quot;the situation is complicated&quot; and &quot;this is not fair&quot;, but how exactly do you think this measure will fail? From a distance it sounds like it would boost the economy by allowing people to prosper, while debt is written off mostly by private entities, not the tax payers directly. Even if it was, it might still be a win.</text></comment> | <story><title>Croatia just canceled the debts of its poorest citizens</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/01/31/croatia-just-canceled-the-debts-of-its-poorest-citizens/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>popee</author><text>Hi, croat here. Just one detail, this year there will be elections in Croatia and current gov didn&#x27;t do anything useful for our economy, so this is kind of popular measure. Don&#x27;t get me wrong, it&#x27;s always nice to help, but situation is little bit complicated, taxes are very high and in some way this is not fair to people that are paying everything. Also, there are huge number of people living and exploiting social measures, so ... In this context it&#x27;s impossible to help those who really need help.<p>You know what is the saddest part? Opposition party (conservatives that ruled from 2007-2011) is convicted for criminality and they are atm most popular, so for <i>common</i> and <i>independent</i> people there is no light at the end of the tunnel. If someone can solve this chaos he&#x2F;she will be candidate for Nobel&#x27;s price.<p>P.S. Sorry on bad english</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>byoogle</author><text>Interesting, this quote comes to mind:<p>“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.” – Alexis de Tocqueville</text></comment> |
9,749,346 | 9,748,875 | 1 | 2 | 9,748,746 | train | <story><title>EBay Inc. Sells Equity Interest in Craigslist</title><url>http://www.ebayinc.com/node/7885</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>anant90</author><text><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.craigslist.org&#x2F;2015&#x2F;06&#x2F;19&#x2F;exit-stage-left&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.craigslist.org&#x2F;2015&#x2F;06&#x2F;19&#x2F;exit-stage-left&#x2F;</a><p>Blog post on Craigslist&#x27;s blog quoting Shakespeare.</text></comment> | <story><title>EBay Inc. Sells Equity Interest in Craigslist</title><url>http://www.ebayinc.com/node/7885</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kethinov</author><text>I wonder if this deal is designed to make eBay an easier acquisition target for Amazon or Alibaba?</text></comment> |
26,511,218 | 26,510,947 | 1 | 2 | 26,510,633 | train | <story><title>It's Never a Bicycle Accident</title><url>https://slate.com/business/2021/03/shawn-bradley-bicycle-hit-by-car.html?ck_subscriber_id=1208045072</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>albertgoeswoof</author><text>One of the linked accidents in the article looks terrible, a man is cycling along the road, a bus overtakes him and clips his handlebars, knocking him to the ground and then running over his torso with the rear wheels of the bus.<p>What a lot of people don’t realise is that you can’t overtake bicycles in a single lane. If there’s no cycle path&#x2F;markings a bicycle takes up the full lane for exactly this reason. Bicycles can’t cycle close to parked cars due to passenger doors opening up randomly, and the sides of the road by the curb is generally not maintained enough to cycle in.<p>Cars&#x2F;buses&#x2F;trucks have to wait until they can safely overtake.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jillesvangurp</author><text>The solution to this is fixing local legislation. As a car driver your risk is asymmetric: you will have a few scratches&#x2F;dents on your car and the other side ends up in hospital (or worse). So, it&#x27;s important to bias traffic rules to protecting more vulnerable participants like cyclists or pedestrians.<p>Here are some examples of things that work in various countries:<p>The Netherlands fixed this ages ago. You hit a cyclist with a car, it&#x27;s your fault regardless of the circumstances for the insurers. The net result is a country where drivers are very mindful of cyclists and check their right side mirrors before turning right and their left side mirror before &#x27;dooring&#x27; a passing cyclist. Failing to do that is expensive and there are so many cyclists that it is in any case a good idea. Besides, nobody wants it on their conscience to have people hospitalized because of inattention, sloppiness, or incompetence.<p>France at some point introduced a simple traffic rule that states that when over taking cyclists you need to give them a lot of space. So, now you see cars slowing down and overtaking cyclists properly on two lane country roads: i.e. waiting for the left lane to clear and then using that and giving the cyclist at least a meter or so of clearance. It&#x27;s kind of funny to see that in action but it works. Failing to do that has hefty fines associated with it if you get caught. So drivers actually do this. France has a lot of cyclists on country roads training and getting taken over by cars doing 90 km&#x2F;hour is not risk free unless they keep their distance. So, a completely sane rule. Any accidents tend to be very nasty. And again, nobody wants that on their conscience anyway.<p>London introduced fees for entering the downtown area. Unless you have to be there, you&#x27;ll want to avoid that because it&#x27;s expensive. It also has cameras all over the place so if you mess up, it will be on camera. That was mainly done for pollution and security reasons but it also made it a safer place to bike around.</text></comment> | <story><title>It's Never a Bicycle Accident</title><url>https://slate.com/business/2021/03/shawn-bradley-bicycle-hit-by-car.html?ck_subscriber_id=1208045072</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>albertgoeswoof</author><text>One of the linked accidents in the article looks terrible, a man is cycling along the road, a bus overtakes him and clips his handlebars, knocking him to the ground and then running over his torso with the rear wheels of the bus.<p>What a lot of people don’t realise is that you can’t overtake bicycles in a single lane. If there’s no cycle path&#x2F;markings a bicycle takes up the full lane for exactly this reason. Bicycles can’t cycle close to parked cars due to passenger doors opening up randomly, and the sides of the road by the curb is generally not maintained enough to cycle in.<p>Cars&#x2F;buses&#x2F;trucks have to wait until they can safely overtake.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kennywinker</author><text>This 10,000x! The people who tell cyclists they need to “follow the rules of the road” are the same ones who will tailgate you and yell at you when you take up the full lane.</text></comment> |
32,131,999 | 32,132,016 | 1 | 2 | 32,130,393 | train | <story><title>Trends in menstrual bleeding changes after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination</title><url>https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abm7201</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>in_cahoots</author><text>As someone who was trying to conceive while the vaccine rolled out, this isn’t surprising. People were regularly reporting basal temperature spikes, delayed ovulation, and delayed periods. This is a community that is extremely data-oriented, since with the right measurements you’re able to predict your fertile (or non-fertile) window.<p>I was disappointed to see how little research there was into menstruation at the time. We were told that the vaccine was perfectly safe, and even questioning the vaccine made you ‘anti-vax.’ Now over a full year later the scientific community is confirming what random message boards have been saying all along. It may be safe, but nobody really cared to look at the impact on menstruation or pregnancy beyond confirming that the rate of miscarriage is unchanged.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>abathur</author><text>I think (at least) three big problems intersect here:<p>1. the sci&#x2F;med establishment seems to have some ongoing ~bias issues that I don&#x27;t fully understand when it comes to listening to and taking lay people seriously (especially women)<p>2. it&#x27;s hard to do complex synthesis of relative risks and rewards across different studies measuring different things for different reasons<p>3. we&#x27;ve had a lot of uninformed and malicious actors splashing about in the information ecosystem<p>It&#x27;s a two-way street. Researchers and public health officials both need to take women seriously <i>and</i> they need to have faith that they can research or discuss details like this frankly through their normal semi-public publication channels without people who don&#x27;t grok or don&#x27;t care about the nuance of their research using it as an info-cudgel to induce FUD that ruins lives.<p>To toss in the requisite anecdata, my sister got pregnant this past fall. She was due for a booster but FUD about it hurting the baby swayed her mind. She got omicron in late December, post-covid complications nearly took her and the baby in late February, and she had to live in the hospital until she delivered in June.</text></comment> | <story><title>Trends in menstrual bleeding changes after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination</title><url>https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abm7201</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>in_cahoots</author><text>As someone who was trying to conceive while the vaccine rolled out, this isn’t surprising. People were regularly reporting basal temperature spikes, delayed ovulation, and delayed periods. This is a community that is extremely data-oriented, since with the right measurements you’re able to predict your fertile (or non-fertile) window.<p>I was disappointed to see how little research there was into menstruation at the time. We were told that the vaccine was perfectly safe, and even questioning the vaccine made you ‘anti-vax.’ Now over a full year later the scientific community is confirming what random message boards have been saying all along. It may be safe, but nobody really cared to look at the impact on menstruation or pregnancy beyond confirming that the rate of miscarriage is unchanged.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>c7DJTLrn</author><text>Many people had concerns about the vaccine rollout. Not because we were worried about some 5G nanoparticle Bill Gates conspiracy nonsense but because of the potential unknown side effects. Doing a trial on a few hundred thousand and then rolling out to billions is like testing your changes locally and then pushing them straight to production.<p>&quot;But human bodies are not anything like software dev&quot; I hear you say. You&#x27;re right. Biology is way more complicated and we know less about the mechanics of our own bodies than the computers we designed.<p>If we go forward assuming everything we do is infallible and silencing anybody with concerns, someday we will have a real disaster.</text></comment> |
23,748,556 | 23,747,369 | 1 | 3 | 23,746,067 | train | <story><title>Brython – A Python 3 implementation for client-side web programming</title><url>https://brython.info/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>linkdd</author><text>What is this monstrosity in the tutorial ?<p>&gt;&gt;&gt; document &lt;= &#x27;Hello!&#x27; # write in the DOM<p>Since when the __le__ method has any side effects?<p>So to sum it up:<p>- it runs inside the Javascript VM<p>- you change the syntax by breaking the semantics<p>- the import mechanisms is completely different<p>Is it still Python then ?<p>NB: Still, it&#x27;s a fun project and hope you had fun making it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wenc</author><text>Looks like the FAQ covers this question:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brython.info&#x2F;static_doc&#x2F;en&#x2F;faq.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brython.info&#x2F;static_doc&#x2F;en&#x2F;faq.html</a><p>Quote:<p>Q: why use the operator &lt;= to build the tree of DOM elements? This is not pythonic!<p>A: Python has no built-in structure to manipulate trees, ie to add &quot;child&quot; or &quot;sibling&quot; nodes to a tree node. For these operations, functions can be used; the syntax proposed by Brython is to use operators: this is easier to type (no parenthesis) and more readable<p>To add a sibling node, the operator + is used.<p>To add a child, the operator &lt;= was chosen for these reasons:<p>* it has the shape of a left arrow; note that Python function annotations use a new operator -&gt; that was chosen for its arrow shape<p>* it looks like an augmented assignment because of the equal sign<p>* it can&#x27;t be confused with &quot;lesser or equal&quot; because a line with document &lt;= elt would be a no-op if it was &quot;lesser or equal&quot;, which is always used in a condition or as the return value of a function<p>* we are so used to interpret the 2 signs &lt; and = as &quot;lesser or equal&quot; that we forget that they are a convention for programming languages, to replace the real sign ≤<p>* in Python, &lt;= is used as an operator for sets with a different meaning than &quot;lesser or equal&quot;<p>* the sign &lt; is often used in computer science to mean something else than &quot;lesser than&quot;: in Python and many other languages, &lt;&lt; means left shift; in HTML tags are enclosed with &lt; and &gt;<p>* Python uses the same operator % for very different operations: modulo and string formatting</text></comment> | <story><title>Brython – A Python 3 implementation for client-side web programming</title><url>https://brython.info/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>linkdd</author><text>What is this monstrosity in the tutorial ?<p>&gt;&gt;&gt; document &lt;= &#x27;Hello!&#x27; # write in the DOM<p>Since when the __le__ method has any side effects?<p>So to sum it up:<p>- it runs inside the Javascript VM<p>- you change the syntax by breaking the semantics<p>- the import mechanisms is completely different<p>Is it still Python then ?<p>NB: Still, it&#x27;s a fun project and hope you had fun making it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mjburgess</author><text>It&#x27;s still python; you can overload operators and give them side-effects in any conforming implementation.<p>It may not be &quot;pythonic&quot;, but there&#x27;s an established tradition of operator methods and there&#x27;s no requirement that python code conform to any particular tradition.</text></comment> |
15,922,379 | 15,921,278 | 1 | 2 | 15,920,976 | train | <story><title>HTML 5.2 Recommendation</title><url>https://www.w3.org/TR/html52/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>masswerk</author><text>Hm – I&#x27;m not too happy to see most of the original HTML-elements marked &quot;not conforming&quot; and &quot;must not be used&quot;, thus preparing for browsers to eventually drop the support. There are still lots of web-sites and valuable information stored and archived in this format. Back in the day, it was thought that basic HTML was a format to last. Who is going to update these documents in order to make them conforming to future browsers? Or are we just dropping a decade of documentation? Is it worth it?<p>(Consider: Apparently, MS-Word docs or PDF prove longer lived than basic HTML documents! Who would have thought of this?)</text></comment> | <story><title>HTML 5.2 Recommendation</title><url>https://www.w3.org/TR/html52/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>taspeotis</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.w3.org&#x2F;TR&#x2F;html52&#x2F;changes.html#changes" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.w3.org&#x2F;TR&#x2F;html52&#x2F;changes.html#changes</a></text></comment> |
37,853,071 | 37,852,107 | 1 | 3 | 37,844,536 | train | <story><title>Modern Pascal is still in the race (2022)</title><url>https://blog.synopse.info/?post/2022/11/26/Modern-Pascal-is-Still-in-the-Race</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deergomoo</author><text>I&#x27;m very much not a C programmer, but I&#x27;ve never understood why it seems far more common to write `float *foo` instead of `float* foo`. The &quot;pointerness&quot; is part of the type and to me the latter expresses that far more clearly.</text></item><item><author>nine_k</author><text>One huge difference between C and Pascal grammars us that Pascal is LR(1), so it can be parsed easily, which helps one-pass translation. It also helps humans read it.<p>C, on the other hand, has needlessly complicated syntax; a function definition is hard to detect, and a pointer to a function is hard to interpret, because it&#x27;s literally convoluted: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;c-faq.com&#x2F;decl&#x2F;spiral.anderson.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;c-faq.com&#x2F;decl&#x2F;spiral.anderson.html</a><p>Sadly, this is a general stylistic difference: where Pascal tries to go for clarity, C makes do with cleverness, which is more error-prone.</text></item><item><author>PumpkinSpice</author><text>I&#x27;m surprised that you draw a sharp distinction between C and Pascal syntax. They have a shared lineage and are really very close to each other. Yeah, curly braces won over &quot;begin&quot; and &quot;end&quot;, but that&#x27;s not a matter of some huge conceptual rift, just convenience.<p>There are numerous languages today, including Haskell and Ocaml, that are far more removed from the Algol lineage than these two. Heck, the differences between Rust and C are probably more pronounced than between C and Pascal.</text></item><item><author>runlaszlorun</author><text>I def have a soft spot for Pascal. And I think Niklaus Wirth deserves more recognition in broader circles for his foundational work with pcode, compilers, Oberon, etc. I learned Pascal like many of us growing up in the early PC era and never could look at BASIC the same way again (or respect Gates for his love of it, lol). I think having such a highly structured language at a young age did wonders.<p>But these days folks are mostly used to the C style syntax. And I&#x27;m not even arguing that it is a better language than C or others. But the whole industry has gone overall into believing that anything newly &#x27;invented&#x27; is good and anything that&#x27;s been around a while is passé. Ironically, at the same time as the core technologies we use are based on decades old tech like Unix, relational databases, TCP&#x2F;IP, etc. And many others like Lisp and Smalltalk fell by the wayside at least partly due to performance issues that were made irrelevant by Moore&#x27;s law long ago.<p>Oh humans... :)<p>Btw, Logo is another one that&#x27;s under appreciated. Seymour Papert was brilliant in making programming more visual and intuitive for kids. And I didn&#x27;t actually know until recently it&#x27;s actually a Lisp based language with a lot of power. Who knew?<p>In some parallel universe, I&#x27;d love to see folks like those, along with many others from that era, as the ones we heap recognition on instead of our worship of current tech billionaires. Those guys generally understood the hardware, software, and core theory. Given the mess that is computing and the internet, it&#x27;s a shame that we&#x27;ll be losing them over the next few decades.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kazinator</author><text>Because the syntax is:<p><pre><code> &lt;specifiers&gt; &lt;declarator&gt; {, &lt;declarator&gt;, ...} ;
</code></pre>
The star is a type-deriving operator that is part of the &lt;declarator&gt;, not part of the &lt;specifiers&gt;!<p>This declares two pointers to char:<p><pre><code> char *foo, *bar;
</code></pre>
This declares <i>foo</i> as a pointer to char, and <i>bar</i> as a char:<p><pre><code> char* foo, bar;
</code></pre>
We have created a <i>trompe l&#x27;oeil</i> by separating the * from the declarator to which it begins and attaching it to the specifier to which it doesn&#x27;t.</text></comment> | <story><title>Modern Pascal is still in the race (2022)</title><url>https://blog.synopse.info/?post/2022/11/26/Modern-Pascal-is-Still-in-the-Race</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deergomoo</author><text>I&#x27;m very much not a C programmer, but I&#x27;ve never understood why it seems far more common to write `float *foo` instead of `float* foo`. The &quot;pointerness&quot; is part of the type and to me the latter expresses that far more clearly.</text></item><item><author>nine_k</author><text>One huge difference between C and Pascal grammars us that Pascal is LR(1), so it can be parsed easily, which helps one-pass translation. It also helps humans read it.<p>C, on the other hand, has needlessly complicated syntax; a function definition is hard to detect, and a pointer to a function is hard to interpret, because it&#x27;s literally convoluted: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;c-faq.com&#x2F;decl&#x2F;spiral.anderson.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;c-faq.com&#x2F;decl&#x2F;spiral.anderson.html</a><p>Sadly, this is a general stylistic difference: where Pascal tries to go for clarity, C makes do with cleverness, which is more error-prone.</text></item><item><author>PumpkinSpice</author><text>I&#x27;m surprised that you draw a sharp distinction between C and Pascal syntax. They have a shared lineage and are really very close to each other. Yeah, curly braces won over &quot;begin&quot; and &quot;end&quot;, but that&#x27;s not a matter of some huge conceptual rift, just convenience.<p>There are numerous languages today, including Haskell and Ocaml, that are far more removed from the Algol lineage than these two. Heck, the differences between Rust and C are probably more pronounced than between C and Pascal.</text></item><item><author>runlaszlorun</author><text>I def have a soft spot for Pascal. And I think Niklaus Wirth deserves more recognition in broader circles for his foundational work with pcode, compilers, Oberon, etc. I learned Pascal like many of us growing up in the early PC era and never could look at BASIC the same way again (or respect Gates for his love of it, lol). I think having such a highly structured language at a young age did wonders.<p>But these days folks are mostly used to the C style syntax. And I&#x27;m not even arguing that it is a better language than C or others. But the whole industry has gone overall into believing that anything newly &#x27;invented&#x27; is good and anything that&#x27;s been around a while is passé. Ironically, at the same time as the core technologies we use are based on decades old tech like Unix, relational databases, TCP&#x2F;IP, etc. And many others like Lisp and Smalltalk fell by the wayside at least partly due to performance issues that were made irrelevant by Moore&#x27;s law long ago.<p>Oh humans... :)<p>Btw, Logo is another one that&#x27;s under appreciated. Seymour Papert was brilliant in making programming more visual and intuitive for kids. And I didn&#x27;t actually know until recently it&#x27;s actually a Lisp based language with a lot of power. Who knew?<p>In some parallel universe, I&#x27;d love to see folks like those, along with many others from that era, as the ones we heap recognition on instead of our worship of current tech billionaires. Those guys generally understood the hardware, software, and core theory. Given the mess that is computing and the internet, it&#x27;s a shame that we&#x27;ll be losing them over the next few decades.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>badsectoracula</author><text>I think it is a manner of preference, both &quot;float* foo&quot; and &quot;float *foo&quot; are widely used.<p>Personally i used &quot;float *foo&quot; for years until at some point i found &quot;float* foo&quot; more natural (as the pointer is conceptually part of the type) so i switched to that, which i&#x27;ve also been using for years. I&#x27;ve worked on a bunch of codebases which used both though (both in C and C++) - in some cases even mixed because that&#x27;s what you get with a codebase where a ton of programmers worked over many years :-P.<p>I do tend to put pointer variable declarations on their own lines though regardless of asterisk placement.<p>(and of course there is always &quot;float foo[42]&quot; to annoy you with the whole &quot;part of the type&quot; aspect :-P)*</text></comment> |
8,365,698 | 8,365,688 | 1 | 2 | 8,365,110 | train | <story><title>Bash 'shellshock' bug is wormable</title><url>http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/09/bash-shellshock-bug-is-wormable.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cperciva</author><text><i>I run no Linux&#x2F;Unix&#x2F;MacOS&#x2F;compatible&#x2F;etc machine which connects other machines</i><p>How about &quot;I don&#x27;t run bash&quot;? There are other perfectly good shells, you know...</text></item><item><author>patio11</author><text>Yep. We&#x27;re currently <i>basically</i> waiting to see which completes first: a) a patch for bash which actually works gets released and then trickles into the various ways to get it on every machine in the world or b) someone writes ~10 lines of payload code (download rootkit, execute, connect to IRC channel, join botnet, etc) and then just hits everything in IP4 space with a for loop. Optionally, the for loop gets distributed to new nodes joining the bot net.<p>If you cannot say &quot;I run no Linux&#x2F;Unix&#x2F;MacOS&#x2F;compatible&#x2F;etc machine which connects other machines&quot; you should be at battle stations right now. We&#x27;re all racing against a for loop and the for loop will probably have a head start.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>quesera</author><text>Or &quot;I don&#x27;t run UNIXes that default to bash, or hide it under &#x2F;bin&#x2F;sh, etc.&quot;<p>Unfortunately, bash shows up in surprising places, including default Solaris installs nowadays.<p>On OSX and Solaris, I&#x27;ve chmod&#x27;ed 0000 &#x2F;bin&#x2F;bash with no apparent ill effect so far. I&#x27;ll put more effort into establishing its acceptability as a solution tomorrow.<p>BSDs won&#x27;t have bash unless someone has gone out of their way to install it, which can be undone straightforwardly.<p>But it could be a long night for our Linux brethren and sistren.<p>Good luck, and remember to stay hydrated. :)<p>EDIT: obviously, don&#x27;t chmod 0000 your login shell! Fix that first. Make sure whatever you switch to isn&#x27;t a symbolic or hard link to bash.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bash 'shellshock' bug is wormable</title><url>http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/09/bash-shellshock-bug-is-wormable.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cperciva</author><text><i>I run no Linux&#x2F;Unix&#x2F;MacOS&#x2F;compatible&#x2F;etc machine which connects other machines</i><p>How about &quot;I don&#x27;t run bash&quot;? There are other perfectly good shells, you know...</text></item><item><author>patio11</author><text>Yep. We&#x27;re currently <i>basically</i> waiting to see which completes first: a) a patch for bash which actually works gets released and then trickles into the various ways to get it on every machine in the world or b) someone writes ~10 lines of payload code (download rootkit, execute, connect to IRC channel, join botnet, etc) and then just hits everything in IP4 space with a for loop. Optionally, the for loop gets distributed to new nodes joining the bot net.<p>If you cannot say &quot;I run no Linux&#x2F;Unix&#x2F;MacOS&#x2F;compatible&#x2F;etc machine which connects other machines&quot; you should be at battle stations right now. We&#x27;re all racing against a for loop and the for loop will probably have a head start.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>patio11</author><text>You and Thomas can ignore everything I say about security. J. Random Rails Developer, on the other hand, probably gets useful signal if I start panicking. (Am I panicking? YES.)</text></comment> |
7,317,158 | 7,315,994 | 1 | 3 | 7,315,094 | train | <story><title>In Praise of Perl 5</title><url>http://ledgersmbdev.blogspot.com/2014/02/in-praise-of-perl-5.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Pacabel</author><text>But is that really unique to Perl these days? It may have been true in the mid-1990s, but things have changed since then.<p>Python and Ruby both have a much cleaner syntax, yet still offer very comparable functionality, excellent portability, ample standard and third-party libraries, excellent documentation, supportive communities, great regex support, and basically everything else that Perl offers.<p>Since everything positive about Perl is also offered by alternative languages today, and those alternatives are themselves much better than Perl in some respects, Perl seems like a less and less enticing option each day.</text></item><item><author>guylhem</author><text>I don&#x27;t care how un-sexy perl is by current standards. It&#x27;s damn efficient, even for new projects. Also, it&#x27;s not hard for a developper worth its salt to get productive in perl.<p>At the moment I&#x27;m playing with some threaded perl to parse very large text files - part of the code was developed by a C++&#x2F;Java&#x2F;js fan, who just realized it was the best tool for the job, and created that after a few days of playing with perl.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kamaal</author><text>&gt;&gt;But is that really unique to Perl these days?<p>Yes. Scripting powers of Perl are unmatched.<p>&gt;&gt;It may have been true in the mid-1990s, but things have changed since then.<p>Hardly anything has changed. No language has taken scripting that seriously. You are likely confused between dynamic languages and scripting langauges. There is a big difference. If you haven&#x27;t noticed, well then that&#x27;s the whole point behind Perl. You really need to use it to see what it is.<p>&gt;&gt;Python and Ruby both have a much cleaner syntax<p>Its not about having a cleaner syntax. Making it easy to learn, only means the complexity is left to the programmer to handle now. Either way some one needs to handle the complexity, Its either the programmer or the language. If you make the language simpler, the complexity burden shifts to the programmer.<p>&gt;&gt;yet still offer very comparable functionality, excellent portability, ample standard and third-party libraries, excellent documentation, supportive communities, great regex support, and basically everything else that Perl offers.<p>Python takes great care to purposefully avoid offering every thing that Perl offers.<p>&gt;&gt;Since everything positive about Perl is also offered by alternative languages today, and those alternatives are themselves much better than Perl in some respects<p>You will have to substantiate that point with some evidence.<p>&gt;&gt;Perl seems like a less and less enticing option each day.<p>That is being told since what? 1988?</text></comment> | <story><title>In Praise of Perl 5</title><url>http://ledgersmbdev.blogspot.com/2014/02/in-praise-of-perl-5.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Pacabel</author><text>But is that really unique to Perl these days? It may have been true in the mid-1990s, but things have changed since then.<p>Python and Ruby both have a much cleaner syntax, yet still offer very comparable functionality, excellent portability, ample standard and third-party libraries, excellent documentation, supportive communities, great regex support, and basically everything else that Perl offers.<p>Since everything positive about Perl is also offered by alternative languages today, and those alternatives are themselves much better than Perl in some respects, Perl seems like a less and less enticing option each day.</text></item><item><author>guylhem</author><text>I don&#x27;t care how un-sexy perl is by current standards. It&#x27;s damn efficient, even for new projects. Also, it&#x27;s not hard for a developper worth its salt to get productive in perl.<p>At the moment I&#x27;m playing with some threaded perl to parse very large text files - part of the code was developed by a C++&#x2F;Java&#x2F;js fan, who just realized it was the best tool for the job, and created that after a few days of playing with perl.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PuercoPop</author><text>Perl has reader macros and a meta-object protocol upon the object system is built with. Ruby and Python don&#x27;t have either AFAIK. That is an example of what the OP is saying with Perl is an extensible language.</text></comment> |
16,632,999 | 16,628,993 | 1 | 2 | 16,628,274 | train | <story><title>Toxic management cost an award-winning game studio its best developers</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/20/17130056/telltale-games-developer-layoffs-toxic-video-game-industry</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>itamarst</author><text>The extra terrible thing is that this is completely counter-productive. E.g. see this takedown of crunch time by someone who works in the game industry: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.igda.org&#x2F;?page=crunchsixlessons" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.igda.org&#x2F;?page=crunchsixlessons</a><p>But this is a problem outside the game industry too, though it sounds like they&#x27;re even worse than usual. If you&#x27;re a software engineer stuck in one of these jobs, you need to realize working fewer hours is good for you <i>and</i> your employer. More here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codewithoutrules.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;08&#x2F;18&#x2F;productive-programmer&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codewithoutrules.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;08&#x2F;18&#x2F;productive-programme...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>commandlinefan</author><text>You&#x27;re assuming, incorrectly, that management (especially upper management) is worried about producing quality products. They sort of are, but for any of the people who mange to survive in those positions, that&#x27;s a secondary (or even tertiary) concern - their primary concern is survival. The only way to survive has little to do with creating a great product and everything to do with making sure the blame never falls on you.</text></comment> | <story><title>Toxic management cost an award-winning game studio its best developers</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/20/17130056/telltale-games-developer-layoffs-toxic-video-game-industry</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>itamarst</author><text>The extra terrible thing is that this is completely counter-productive. E.g. see this takedown of crunch time by someone who works in the game industry: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.igda.org&#x2F;?page=crunchsixlessons" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.igda.org&#x2F;?page=crunchsixlessons</a><p>But this is a problem outside the game industry too, though it sounds like they&#x27;re even worse than usual. If you&#x27;re a software engineer stuck in one of these jobs, you need to realize working fewer hours is good for you <i>and</i> your employer. More here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codewithoutrules.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;08&#x2F;18&#x2F;productive-programmer&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codewithoutrules.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;08&#x2F;18&#x2F;productive-programme...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vvanders</author><text>Yup, it&#x27;s an endemic problem that has no sign of going away due to the constant influx of young people willing to take it on the nose to get into the industry.<p>Ironically if you look at Gamasutra&#x27;s yearly survey you see a huge cliff of experience right at the ~3 year mark as those people get burned out and the cycle repeats.</text></comment> |
16,662,920 | 16,662,889 | 1 | 3 | 16,659,656 | train | <story><title>Elon Musk Deletes Own, SpaceX and Tesla Facebook Pages After #deletefacebook</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/23/elon-musk-deletes-own-spacex-and-tesla-facebook-pages-after-deletefacebook/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>submeta</author><text>I always felt like doing this (deleting my facebook account), but fear of missing out always kept me from doing it. Whenever I seriously considered leaving the platform, I had a vague sense that I would &quot;not belong to the herd&quot; anymore, that I would lose the option to contact friends &#x2F; family members, that I would be left outdoors.<p>The other day I made the step. I deleted my account. Before I did I exported all my data.<p>Two days past and I have a strange sense of freedom. Previously I would check my FB feed a dozen times a day. Although I deleted the app years ago, never really used Messenger, always had to use different browsers than Safari on my iPhone because FB would not let me read&#x2F;use messages in Safari, instead it wanted me to install Messagner. So previously I would check my feed many times a day to kill time. I was a &quot;lurker&quot;. Never posted anything since years, just used it as a news reader. And glanced over the things that my contacts posted. It gave me an illusionary feeling of connectedness, when in fact I could not be more disconnected from real contacts, quality contacts, and most of all: from myself by fleeing into a dull activity, by entering &quot;the matrix&quot;, killing time.<p>Today I felt like in my childhood, going to appointments, not killing time on my way to my appointment, having seen my surroundings like back in those days without so many distractions. A wonderful feeling.<p>I hope this platform dies, rather quickly. Because it harms society and individuals more than we are aware of.<p>Edit: Grammar</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lphnull</author><text>In your opinion, what is your criteria for declaring that a platform is &quot;bad for you&quot; and &quot;an unhealthy habit&quot;?<p>Personally, I spend ALOT of my free time lurking 4chan&#x27;s &#x2F;g&#x2F; &quot;technology&quot; board, 4chan&#x27;s &#x2F;ck&#x2F; cooking board, and a carefully curated list of my favorite food and technology related subreddits on Reddit. I personally consider my addictions to be quite healthy because I learn and absorb a tremendous amount of information from sites that focus more on &quot;actual content that matters&quot; and less on worshiping the same small group of narcissistic acquaintances that congregate on platforms where &quot;disliking&quot; content is frowned upon.<p>Sure there&#x27;s a lot of stupid crap on 4chan and reddit is full of corporate and government shills, but the internet has grown SO MUCH lately that the signal to noise ratio isn&#x27;t as bad as it was in the early 2000s. My only problem nowadays is that I don&#x27;t have enough time in a day to read&#x2F;watch&#x2F;comment on all the important stuff I find on the net. Compare that to the early 2000&#x27;s, when useful information on the internet was so scarce, that I had to use minesweeper in my highschool computer labs to pass the time.<p>I for one am happy at how much content there is on the internet now. If you&#x27;re smart, you can curate your own nonstop stream of &quot;useful&quot; content without that much effort. Problem is that you have to reject content that is curated by big businesses like Facebook and Instagram and Twitter and program your own method of retrieving things that matter.<p>People will always complain about the exponential growth of information. Look at newspapers and the printing press. I&#x27;m sure that people reacted the same way towards pocket watches and newspapers as people nowadays are reacting to smartphones and social media. Some people just have addictive personalities in general, and will blame not being productive on whoever&#x27;s in charge of &quot;information&quot; at any given moment.</text></comment> | <story><title>Elon Musk Deletes Own, SpaceX and Tesla Facebook Pages After #deletefacebook</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/23/elon-musk-deletes-own-spacex-and-tesla-facebook-pages-after-deletefacebook/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>submeta</author><text>I always felt like doing this (deleting my facebook account), but fear of missing out always kept me from doing it. Whenever I seriously considered leaving the platform, I had a vague sense that I would &quot;not belong to the herd&quot; anymore, that I would lose the option to contact friends &#x2F; family members, that I would be left outdoors.<p>The other day I made the step. I deleted my account. Before I did I exported all my data.<p>Two days past and I have a strange sense of freedom. Previously I would check my FB feed a dozen times a day. Although I deleted the app years ago, never really used Messenger, always had to use different browsers than Safari on my iPhone because FB would not let me read&#x2F;use messages in Safari, instead it wanted me to install Messagner. So previously I would check my feed many times a day to kill time. I was a &quot;lurker&quot;. Never posted anything since years, just used it as a news reader. And glanced over the things that my contacts posted. It gave me an illusionary feeling of connectedness, when in fact I could not be more disconnected from real contacts, quality contacts, and most of all: from myself by fleeing into a dull activity, by entering &quot;the matrix&quot;, killing time.<p>Today I felt like in my childhood, going to appointments, not killing time on my way to my appointment, having seen my surroundings like back in those days without so many distractions. A wonderful feeling.<p>I hope this platform dies, rather quickly. Because it harms society and individuals more than we are aware of.<p>Edit: Grammar</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hanklazard</author><text>&gt;Today I felt like in my childhood, going to appointments, not killing time on my way to my appointment, having seen my surroundings like back in those days without so many distractions. A wonderful feeling.<p>Well put. For me, it’s not FB that is standing in the way ... it’s HN! ;)<p>That being said, this place tends to have much higher caliber comments that what I read on FB, and I learn so much from both articles and discussion. I’ll #neverdeleteHN</text></comment> |
11,967,319 | 11,967,421 | 1 | 3 | 11,966,167 | train | <story><title>UK votes to leave EU</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36615028</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>UK-AL</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand. If they don&#x27;t want job losses, they have to trade with us.<p>I&#x27;m expecting most EU countries wanting avoid as many job losses as possible.<p>Doesn&#x27;t really matter who&#x27;s got the most leverage. The optimum strategy for both is low&#x2F;no tarrifs</text></item><item><author>emn13</author><text>However, the UK economy is relatively small compared to other EU export markets. Specifically, this means that as a percentage of the total, it&#x27;s not going to move the needle nearly as much as it will in the UK.<p>It&#x27;s definitely going to hurt, but it&#x27;s nothing like the pressure that will be on the UK.</text></item><item><author>UK-AL</author><text>UK importing tons of good from EU means that the uk is generating a lot of jobs for EU countries.</text></item><item><author>mrb</author><text><i>&quot;The EU needs the UK&quot;</i><p>Not true. It is the reverse because the UK runs a gigantic trade deficit: in 2014 they exported 472 billion USD, but imported 663 billion USD¹. In fact the UK is the second country in the world with the largest trade deficit (behind the US). A huge portions of UK&#x27;s export go to Europe, therefore the EU has definitely more <i>say</i> when it comes to negotiating trade deals with the UK. I would be very worried for my economic future if I were a UK citizen...<p>¹ <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;atlas.media.mit.edu&#x2F;en&#x2F;profile&#x2F;country&#x2F;gbr&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;atlas.media.mit.edu&#x2F;en&#x2F;profile&#x2F;country&#x2F;gbr&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>beninvalencia</author><text>As other comments have noted, the point is that the EU will not want to give the UK a good deal on leaving, because the EU does not want to give any encouragement to the other countries which want to leave the EU (some of which want to leave more strongly than the UK do - apparently).<p>Secondly, why would the UK end up with a Norway or Switzerland deal, when the UK is the 5th largest economy in the world? This is unprecedented. This isn&#x27;t some one sided negotiation.<p>The EU needs the UK. If you sift through the garbage press, you&#x27;ll see that the BDI in Germany - &quot;The Voice of German Industry&quot; - says that trade curbs against the UK would be &quot;foolish&quot;. Of course they would be! Do you know how many German cars are sold in the UK each year?<p>&quot;About a fifth of all cars produced in Germany last year, or around 820,000 vehicles, were exported to the UK, making it the single biggest destination by volume.&quot; Source: FT.com<p>&quot;The UK is the fourth-biggest export market for German engineering companies, with sales of €6.8bn last year.&quot; Source: FT.com<p>The scaremongering goes on even after the vote has been called...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>notahacker</author><text>Tariffs aren&#x27;t the only factor in the assumed business losses, and they&#x27;re probably not the biggest.<p>It&#x27;s the loss of things like financial services companies based in London being able to readily &quot;passport&quot; their services into other EU countries without relying on local branch offices somewhere in the EU that will really hurt.<p>When it comes to passporting rights, it&#x27;s very much in the interests of the EU to tell the UK to bugger off, and let the London HQs relocate a whole bunch of jobs to Frankfurt or Paris or Tallinn if they want to carry on doing business with EU nationals. This is likely bad if you work in some London-based back office role for a big European bank; <i>really</i> bad if you&#x27;re a London-based fintech startup aiming to serve most European markets.</text></comment> | <story><title>UK votes to leave EU</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36615028</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>UK-AL</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand. If they don&#x27;t want job losses, they have to trade with us.<p>I&#x27;m expecting most EU countries wanting avoid as many job losses as possible.<p>Doesn&#x27;t really matter who&#x27;s got the most leverage. The optimum strategy for both is low&#x2F;no tarrifs</text></item><item><author>emn13</author><text>However, the UK economy is relatively small compared to other EU export markets. Specifically, this means that as a percentage of the total, it&#x27;s not going to move the needle nearly as much as it will in the UK.<p>It&#x27;s definitely going to hurt, but it&#x27;s nothing like the pressure that will be on the UK.</text></item><item><author>UK-AL</author><text>UK importing tons of good from EU means that the uk is generating a lot of jobs for EU countries.</text></item><item><author>mrb</author><text><i>&quot;The EU needs the UK&quot;</i><p>Not true. It is the reverse because the UK runs a gigantic trade deficit: in 2014 they exported 472 billion USD, but imported 663 billion USD¹. In fact the UK is the second country in the world with the largest trade deficit (behind the US). A huge portions of UK&#x27;s export go to Europe, therefore the EU has definitely more <i>say</i> when it comes to negotiating trade deals with the UK. I would be very worried for my economic future if I were a UK citizen...<p>¹ <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;atlas.media.mit.edu&#x2F;en&#x2F;profile&#x2F;country&#x2F;gbr&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;atlas.media.mit.edu&#x2F;en&#x2F;profile&#x2F;country&#x2F;gbr&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>beninvalencia</author><text>As other comments have noted, the point is that the EU will not want to give the UK a good deal on leaving, because the EU does not want to give any encouragement to the other countries which want to leave the EU (some of which want to leave more strongly than the UK do - apparently).<p>Secondly, why would the UK end up with a Norway or Switzerland deal, when the UK is the 5th largest economy in the world? This is unprecedented. This isn&#x27;t some one sided negotiation.<p>The EU needs the UK. If you sift through the garbage press, you&#x27;ll see that the BDI in Germany - &quot;The Voice of German Industry&quot; - says that trade curbs against the UK would be &quot;foolish&quot;. Of course they would be! Do you know how many German cars are sold in the UK each year?<p>&quot;About a fifth of all cars produced in Germany last year, or around 820,000 vehicles, were exported to the UK, making it the single biggest destination by volume.&quot; Source: FT.com<p>&quot;The UK is the fourth-biggest export market for German engineering companies, with sales of €6.8bn last year.&quot; Source: FT.com<p>The scaremongering goes on even after the vote has been called...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AnonymousPlanet</author><text>Who is talking about <i>ceasing</i> all trade with the UK? The biggest changes will not come for net trade volume but more through a shift in supply chains. Politicians on either side will now have to make very bold promises so that businesses don&#x27;t feel things are too much in limbo and pull the plug on their investments into the UK (factories, headquarters, ...).</text></comment> |
2,472,211 | 2,472,213 | 1 | 2 | 2,471,229 | train | <story><title>Thank HN: 127 days since I asked for your advice.</title><text>127 days ago I posted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2005314 which asked for some specific assistance going corporate, and generally stabilizing what was a precarious scenario. (moving to a new city without full-time employment, with $100k in debt hanging over me.)<p>Since that time, things have been going well. One of willheim's suggestions was to reach out to alumni of my alma mater, and that one turned out to be the winner.<p>I felt strange at first, but I started sending emails and LinkedIn messages saying "I'm new to Philadelphia and I see you also graduated from my alma mater. Would you mind grabbing a cup of coffee with me, and maybe giving me a little bit of your local wisdom?"<p>I did this a ton of times, and wound up with three very positive outcomes:<p>1) I got a social life, which was emotionally fantastic.<p>2) One of my fellow alumni works in HR and they gave me great, honest feedback about my resume and some of the cover letters I'd written that (I believe) made it much easier for a hiring manager to understand what I bring to the table.<p>3) Another one of my fellow alumni tipped me off about an unadvertised position in their firm that's a great fit for me as a first step back into corporate life.<p>tldr; 127 days later I have a network of local friends and acquaintances, a great job, and my debt is shrinking at a $6k/month clip. And a large part of this is because I took willheim's advice about reaching out to alumni networks that (honestly) I never would've thought to tap.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway267</author><text>I'm working as an IT Director.<p>We're living extremely frugally when it comes to absolutely everything other than career-related expenses, and my fiancée is covering all of the shared bills.<p>If you saw our apartment, you'd probably guess that our combined income is around 10% of our actual combined income. (It's terrible, but it's a short, well-lit, heavily populated walk to the Broad Street Line, so it seems safe.)</text></item><item><author>danilocampos</author><text>Out of curiosity: Damn, $6k per month? What kind of work are you doing to have that much left over for debts?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mhartl</author><text>This one fact alone means you have <i>WINNER</i> written all over you. Bravo!</text></comment> | <story><title>Thank HN: 127 days since I asked for your advice.</title><text>127 days ago I posted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2005314 which asked for some specific assistance going corporate, and generally stabilizing what was a precarious scenario. (moving to a new city without full-time employment, with $100k in debt hanging over me.)<p>Since that time, things have been going well. One of willheim's suggestions was to reach out to alumni of my alma mater, and that one turned out to be the winner.<p>I felt strange at first, but I started sending emails and LinkedIn messages saying "I'm new to Philadelphia and I see you also graduated from my alma mater. Would you mind grabbing a cup of coffee with me, and maybe giving me a little bit of your local wisdom?"<p>I did this a ton of times, and wound up with three very positive outcomes:<p>1) I got a social life, which was emotionally fantastic.<p>2) One of my fellow alumni works in HR and they gave me great, honest feedback about my resume and some of the cover letters I'd written that (I believe) made it much easier for a hiring manager to understand what I bring to the table.<p>3) Another one of my fellow alumni tipped me off about an unadvertised position in their firm that's a great fit for me as a first step back into corporate life.<p>tldr; 127 days later I have a network of local friends and acquaintances, a great job, and my debt is shrinking at a $6k/month clip. And a large part of this is because I took willheim's advice about reaching out to alumni networks that (honestly) I never would've thought to tap.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway267</author><text>I'm working as an IT Director.<p>We're living extremely frugally when it comes to absolutely everything other than career-related expenses, and my fiancée is covering all of the shared bills.<p>If you saw our apartment, you'd probably guess that our combined income is around 10% of our actual combined income. (It's terrible, but it's a short, well-lit, heavily populated walk to the Broad Street Line, so it seems safe.)</text></item><item><author>danilocampos</author><text>Out of curiosity: Damn, $6k per month? What kind of work are you doing to have that much left over for debts?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KevinEldon</author><text>Congratulations! Way to not only capitalize on your talent, but to make sure you're not encumbered by debt in the future. Best of luck to you and your soon-to-be-wife.</text></comment> |
33,182,415 | 33,182,018 | 1 | 3 | 33,180,711 | train | <story><title>Apple to withhold its latest employee perks from unionized store</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-12/apple-to-withhold-its-latest-employee-perks-from-unionized-store</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GartzenDeHaes</author><text>This is also my experience dealing with unions. Management is legally required to make concessions during collective bargaining, so anything that can be considered an improvement to mandatory bargaining topics (pay, benefits, or working conditions) gets held back for the contract negotiation.<p>In one case, management wanted to purchase sit&#x2F;stand workstations for employees, but HR pointed out that this was a change to working conditions and should be included in the collective bargaining negotiation. However management had already started taking measurements for the tables, so the union knew what management was intending. During the negotiations, the union decided to try and call HR&#x27;s bluff and refused to ask for the workstations as a concession. So in the end, the whole plan was scrapped so that HR would have concessions available for future negotiations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>justizin</author><text>if the belief is that employees using sit&#x2F;stand workstations will improve productivity and output, it&#x27;s a business&#x27; own choice not to do so for employees who have collective bargaining.<p>there is also a cost associated with maintaining different workspaces and equipment for employees of different status, and it&#x27;s a company&#x27;s choice to take that on.<p>typically when discussing working conditions, you&#x27;re talking about minimum standards. it&#x27;s not very smart to refuse to improve working conditions across the board.<p>you said in a reply further down that you were an executive level manager, you should have told HR to shove it because your individual performance would be impacted by the collective output of your employees, and the costs of improving working conditions would be returned in several multiples, some of which you might receive as a bonus.<p>it was, however, your choice and right not to do this. :)</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple to withhold its latest employee perks from unionized store</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-12/apple-to-withhold-its-latest-employee-perks-from-unionized-store</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GartzenDeHaes</author><text>This is also my experience dealing with unions. Management is legally required to make concessions during collective bargaining, so anything that can be considered an improvement to mandatory bargaining topics (pay, benefits, or working conditions) gets held back for the contract negotiation.<p>In one case, management wanted to purchase sit&#x2F;stand workstations for employees, but HR pointed out that this was a change to working conditions and should be included in the collective bargaining negotiation. However management had already started taking measurements for the tables, so the union knew what management was intending. During the negotiations, the union decided to try and call HR&#x27;s bluff and refused to ask for the workstations as a concession. So in the end, the whole plan was scrapped so that HR would have concessions available for future negotiations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pastor_bob</author><text>&gt;Management is legally required to make concession<p>This is false. The NLRB explicitly says so:<p>&gt; It is an unfair labor practice for either party to refuse to bargain collectively with the other, but parties are not compelled to reach agreement or make concessions.[0]<p>They are only required to bargain &#x27;in good faith.&#x27; Withholding benefits they would normally give is an intimidation tactic and an attempt to maintain leverage.<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nlrb.gov&#x2F;about-nlrb&#x2F;rights-we-protect&#x2F;your-rights&#x2F;employer-union-rights-and-obligations" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nlrb.gov&#x2F;about-nlrb&#x2F;rights-we-protect&#x2F;your-right...</a></text></comment> |
32,837,831 | 32,838,188 | 1 | 2 | 32,835,000 | train | <story><title>Google loses challenge against EU antitrust decision, wins 5% fine cut</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/eu-courts-wed-ruling-record-44-bln-google-fine-may-set-precedent-2022-09-14/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AlexanderTheGr8</author><text>This seems to be a very big fine ($4.12B), much bigger than any &quot;cost of business&quot; I can think of. What are the chances that google will actually have to pay it?<p>They could re-appeal [0] or play some other judicial trick. Or maybe they say &quot;enough is enough&quot; and don&#x27;t pay it.<p>They have been appealing the €2.42 billion fine from July 2017 even now[1]. So I don&#x27;t think that they have any intention to pay this much larger fine any time soon.<p>Google&#x27;s stock is already doing bad this year and this will likely make it worse (although the early trading today hasn&#x27;t shown any indication of a change.)<p>[0] &quot;The company can still appeal the ruling in the EU’s highest court.&quot; - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;09&#x2F;14&#x2F;eu-court-backs-antitrust-ruling-against-google-but-reduces-fine.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;09&#x2F;14&#x2F;eu-court-backs-antitrust-rul...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;curia.europa.eu&#x2F;jcms&#x2F;upload&#x2F;docs&#x2F;application&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;2022-09&#x2F;cp220147en.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;curia.europa.eu&#x2F;jcms&#x2F;upload&#x2F;docs&#x2F;application&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;202...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crooked-v</author><text>&gt; Or maybe they say &quot;enough is enough&quot; and don&#x27;t pay it.<p>That just leads to the appropriate government(s) seizing assets until the fines are covered. Even the biggest bigcorps aren&#x27;t actually sovereign.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google loses challenge against EU antitrust decision, wins 5% fine cut</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/eu-courts-wed-ruling-record-44-bln-google-fine-may-set-precedent-2022-09-14/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AlexanderTheGr8</author><text>This seems to be a very big fine ($4.12B), much bigger than any &quot;cost of business&quot; I can think of. What are the chances that google will actually have to pay it?<p>They could re-appeal [0] or play some other judicial trick. Or maybe they say &quot;enough is enough&quot; and don&#x27;t pay it.<p>They have been appealing the €2.42 billion fine from July 2017 even now[1]. So I don&#x27;t think that they have any intention to pay this much larger fine any time soon.<p>Google&#x27;s stock is already doing bad this year and this will likely make it worse (although the early trading today hasn&#x27;t shown any indication of a change.)<p>[0] &quot;The company can still appeal the ruling in the EU’s highest court.&quot; - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;09&#x2F;14&#x2F;eu-court-backs-antitrust-ruling-against-google-but-reduces-fine.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;09&#x2F;14&#x2F;eu-court-backs-antitrust-rul...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;curia.europa.eu&#x2F;jcms&#x2F;upload&#x2F;docs&#x2F;application&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;2022-09&#x2F;cp220147en.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;curia.europa.eu&#x2F;jcms&#x2F;upload&#x2F;docs&#x2F;application&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;202...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tpmx</author><text>Alphabet&#x27;s EMEA revenue last year was $79.1B.<p>EMEA also includes the Middle East and Africa and some non-EU but still European countries, however the bulk of that revenue is realistically from the EU.</text></comment> |
20,752,226 | 20,749,453 | 1 | 3 | 20,748,711 | train | <story><title>IBM Open-Sources Power Chip Instruction Set</title><url>https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/08/20/big-blue-open-sources-power-chip-instruction-set/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kop316</author><text>I own a Talos II (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.raptorcs.com&#x2F;TALOSII&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.raptorcs.com&#x2F;TALOSII&#x2F;</a>) computer. It actually runs an official port of Debian (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.debian.org&#x2F;PPC64" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.debian.org&#x2F;PPC64</a>) on it, which includes a compiler.</text></item><item><author>bem94</author><text>I have so many questions:<p>- Where can I get the ISA specification?[1]<p>- Where can I get a compiler?<p>- Is there a link to the &quot;softcore model&quot;?<p>With RISC-V you can start very simple and small (micro-controller) and work your way up in understanding and implementation to a very large core (application class). POWER is a monster of an architecture, designed more for &quot;big iron&quot;. I guess that might limit the &quot;hobbyist&quot; factor RISC-V has.<p>1. This I think, all 1200 pages of it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openpowerfoundation.org&#x2F;?resource_lib=power-isa-version-3-0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openpowerfoundation.org&#x2F;?resource_lib=power-isa-vers...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cipherboy</author><text>Fedora [0], Red Hat [1], Ubuntu [2], and SUSE [3] all have their own ppc64le ports as well so there are lots of choices out there if anyone is interested.<p>Even Gentoo has one [4][5]!<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;alt.fedoraproject.org&#x2F;alt&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;alt.fedoraproject.org&#x2F;alt&#x2F;</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;access.redhat.com&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;red_hat_enterprise_linux&#x2F;8&#x2F;html-single&#x2F;8.0_release_notes&#x2F;index#architectures" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;access.redhat.com&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;red_hat_enterp...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ubuntu.com&#x2F;download&#x2F;server&#x2F;power" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ubuntu.com&#x2F;download&#x2F;server&#x2F;power</a><p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.suse.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;power&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.suse.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;power&#x2F;</a><p>[4]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.gentoo.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Handbook:PPC64" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.gentoo.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Handbook:PPC64</a><p>[5]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gentoo.org&#x2F;downloads&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gentoo.org&#x2F;downloads&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>IBM Open-Sources Power Chip Instruction Set</title><url>https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/08/20/big-blue-open-sources-power-chip-instruction-set/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kop316</author><text>I own a Talos II (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.raptorcs.com&#x2F;TALOSII&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.raptorcs.com&#x2F;TALOSII&#x2F;</a>) computer. It actually runs an official port of Debian (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.debian.org&#x2F;PPC64" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.debian.org&#x2F;PPC64</a>) on it, which includes a compiler.</text></item><item><author>bem94</author><text>I have so many questions:<p>- Where can I get the ISA specification?[1]<p>- Where can I get a compiler?<p>- Is there a link to the &quot;softcore model&quot;?<p>With RISC-V you can start very simple and small (micro-controller) and work your way up in understanding and implementation to a very large core (application class). POWER is a monster of an architecture, designed more for &quot;big iron&quot;. I guess that might limit the &quot;hobbyist&quot; factor RISC-V has.<p>1. This I think, all 1200 pages of it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openpowerfoundation.org&#x2F;?resource_lib=power-isa-version-3-0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openpowerfoundation.org&#x2F;?resource_lib=power-isa-vers...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mshook</author><text>If I may ask why did you get it, which reasons? I like the cool non x86 factor but it&#x27;s quite expensive...<p>EDIT: Forgot to mention the open argument which is quite amazing as well (I&#x27;ve followed what Talos does).</text></comment> |
20,000,395 | 20,000,477 | 1 | 2 | 20,000,034 | train | <story><title>China unveils 600 kph maglev train prototype</title><url>http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1151282.shtml</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tty2300</author><text>I really wish we had high speed rail in Australia. I&#x27;d pick a 600km&#x2F;h train over a plane any day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GorgeRonde</author><text>High speed train works well in France (and it&#x27;s just 300km&#x2F;h) because the country is small. Australia is huge. And so is the US.<p>This would make sense along coasts though but you wouldn&#x27;t be able to cross the country from sea to sea in a few hours of course.<p>What&#x27;s good with trains is that you can hop in at the very last moment (when the bell rings, happened to me a couple times) and the train stops in the center of cities, instead of the suburbs. This is the main reason why high speed train in France can compete with airplanes when crossing the country.
By plane I must first reach the airport (30 mins), have some time ahead before embarking (30 mins), the flight is 1 hour long but the time to actually take off and pick back your luggages it&#x27;s almost 2 hours long, and then you have to reach the center of your destination city (30 mins). By my generous estimates, it takes 3h30 to travel by plane North&#x2F;South in France vs 4 hours by train.<p>And because currently not every railroad segment can support high speed trains going at full velocity (but work is in progress) it could take 3 hours. 300 km&#x2F;h<p>Also note that Amdahl&#x27;s law [1] applies in this context (there are diminishing returns in optimizing the speed of only one segment of the full path) and travelling the last kilometers accounts for a significant portion of the travel time.<p>For instance the TGV has to slow down when entering cities (because of the noise) and at some point in the development of the high speed rail network, it might become more interesting to dig long tunnels under cities for these trains rather than increasing the train&#x27;s maximum speed.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Amdahl%27s_law" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Amdahl%27s_law</a></text></comment> | <story><title>China unveils 600 kph maglev train prototype</title><url>http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1151282.shtml</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tty2300</author><text>I really wish we had high speed rail in Australia. I&#x27;d pick a 600km&#x2F;h train over a plane any day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>awiesenhofer</author><text>I always wondered about this as well. It seems like a nobrainer especially in SE Australia. Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, up to Brisbaine. Although 600km&#x2F;h would probably be unnecessarily fast and not economically viable on these routes, a normal 300+ HSR would surely provide huge benefits.</text></comment> |
35,467,132 | 35,463,996 | 1 | 3 | 35,459,333 | train | <story><title>Programmer interrupted: The cost of interruption and context switching (2022)</title><url>https://contextkeeper.io/blog/the-real-cost-of-an-interruption-and-context-switching/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wpietri</author><text>&gt; no slack, no zooms, no one tapping your shoulder, no conversations about the weekend distracting you on the periphery<p>My teen jobs were in stores, restaurants, and manufacturing. In those contexts, everybody understands that when you&#x27;re working, you&#x27;re actually working. Even managers understand that even small discussions need to be fit neatly into the flow of the work, and actual meetings require careful planning to not disrupt operations. The space too was carefully designed to maximize effectiveness.<p>So American office culture seems absolutely wild to me. Especially in software, where we are expected to fit our actual work into a sort of calendar Tetris. Oh, a grand poobah would like another status meeting, plus a lot of time spent coming up with estimates that are not going to change anybody&#x27;s behavior in the slightest? Gosh, do you think that might have an effect on the completion date? And sure, why don&#x27;t you put me next to the salespeople making calls all day. I&#x27;m not making any progress anyhow.<p>The only conclusion I can come to is that in a lot of places, productivity is much lower on the list of observed priorities than stated priorities.</text></item><item><author>asdff</author><text>If I know I am going to have my day broken into sub 1hr chunks thanks to meetings and such, I pretty much write off the day entirely. It takes time to get into the flow state, some studies cite over 20 minutes, and once you are in it you want to stay in it for like four hours. No emails to follow up with, no slack, no zooms, no one tapping your shoulder, no conversations about the weekend distracting you on the periphery, just you and your task at hand.<p>It&#x27;s pretty ironic, because this is how a lot of people study in the library at college,show up and stay all night grinding in the flow state with your phone shut off. Yet when you graduate to the work place, you seldom have the opportunity to work like how you&#x27;ve been training to work for all your advanced schooling ever again.<p>With respect to the article and maintaining context while coding for different projects, I find having a tmux session for each individual project super helpful.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>klibertp</author><text>And then you&#x27;re finally fed up with all this and go full remote, if the company allows it. Congrats, now you lost access to 80% of what is going on and fell out of the loop for anything important, and you&#x27;re now guaranteed to lose in any power struggle that could happen.<p>In one of the companies I worked for, it was comfortable in the beginning - there were offices, 2-3 programmers in each, not too crowded, but close enough to see when the coworkers were focusing on something and when it would be ok to do a quick &quot;hey, do you know how to...&quot;. The company grew, moved to a bigger building, rooms became larger, now there were 4-5 programmers in each. It was still OK then. Calls and longer talks were done in separate rooms, and a quick chat with the guy next to you could be done like you&#x27;d do it in a cinema - quietly.<p>When I was leaving the company years later, it was after it moved to a place with one huge open space and a set of rooms that you needed to book days in advance to use. Some of them were permanently occupied by &quot;important&quot; people even though they had their own offices. That resulted in everybody and they&#x27;re cat making calls and meetings and sometimes even plannings right in the middle of the open space or in the kitchen. Finally, a &quot;hot desk&quot; system was implemented, and you had to <i>book your desk days in advance</i>.<p>I asked the CTO who I&#x27;ve know for quite some time - WTF man? He said that he likes it, because he can see at a glance that everybody is working. I was reminded of storehouses with special elevated rooms that had a view on all that happens on the floor. Saying that I got disillusioned doesn&#x27;t even begin to describe what I&#x27;ve felt then...</text></comment> | <story><title>Programmer interrupted: The cost of interruption and context switching (2022)</title><url>https://contextkeeper.io/blog/the-real-cost-of-an-interruption-and-context-switching/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wpietri</author><text>&gt; no slack, no zooms, no one tapping your shoulder, no conversations about the weekend distracting you on the periphery<p>My teen jobs were in stores, restaurants, and manufacturing. In those contexts, everybody understands that when you&#x27;re working, you&#x27;re actually working. Even managers understand that even small discussions need to be fit neatly into the flow of the work, and actual meetings require careful planning to not disrupt operations. The space too was carefully designed to maximize effectiveness.<p>So American office culture seems absolutely wild to me. Especially in software, where we are expected to fit our actual work into a sort of calendar Tetris. Oh, a grand poobah would like another status meeting, plus a lot of time spent coming up with estimates that are not going to change anybody&#x27;s behavior in the slightest? Gosh, do you think that might have an effect on the completion date? And sure, why don&#x27;t you put me next to the salespeople making calls all day. I&#x27;m not making any progress anyhow.<p>The only conclusion I can come to is that in a lot of places, productivity is much lower on the list of observed priorities than stated priorities.</text></item><item><author>asdff</author><text>If I know I am going to have my day broken into sub 1hr chunks thanks to meetings and such, I pretty much write off the day entirely. It takes time to get into the flow state, some studies cite over 20 minutes, and once you are in it you want to stay in it for like four hours. No emails to follow up with, no slack, no zooms, no one tapping your shoulder, no conversations about the weekend distracting you on the periphery, just you and your task at hand.<p>It&#x27;s pretty ironic, because this is how a lot of people study in the library at college,show up and stay all night grinding in the flow state with your phone shut off. Yet when you graduate to the work place, you seldom have the opportunity to work like how you&#x27;ve been training to work for all your advanced schooling ever again.<p>With respect to the article and maintaining context while coding for different projects, I find having a tmux session for each individual project super helpful.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ashton314</author><text>&gt; And sure, why don&#x27;t you put me next to the salespeople making calls all day.<p>I’ve worked next to people with zero volume control and who like to take calls on speakerphone.<p>I decided there and then that cubicles has material benefits over open offices.</text></comment> |
16,091,773 | 16,091,031 | 1 | 2 | 16,089,435 | train | <story><title>Hacking a Google Interview (2009)</title><url>http://courses.csail.mit.edu/iap/interview/index.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rajathagasthya</author><text>These are useful tips, although the example questions are extremely outdated. I found one tip &quot;interesting&quot; though.<p>&gt; If you already know the answer, don&#x27;t just blurt it out! They will suspect that you already knew the answer and didn&#x27;t tell them you&#x27;ve seen the question before. At least pretend to be thinking though the problem before you give the answer!<p>Most interview questions are taken from sites like Leetcode. So you would have come across some of them if you work through those problems. Is it really that bad if you give the solution quickly? Some problems have specific &quot;techniques&quot; to solve them which you would likely only know if you solved it before. Are you expected to come up with a completely new algorithm to solve a problem?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bogomipz</author><text>&gt;&quot;&gt; If you already know the answer, don&#x27;t just blurt it out! They will suspect that you already knew the answer and didn&#x27;t tell them you&#x27;ve seen the question before. At least pretend to be thinking though the problem before you give the answer!&quot;<p>This to me epitomizes the absurdity of this whole &quot;leet code, cracking the algorithm&quot; mania that has blighted the tech interview process. The only way to pass these types of tests is to spend time studying them. But then if you have studied and therefore know the tricks(use two pointers etc.) its seen as unacceptable enough that you should either lie or tell your interviewer &quot;I know the trick&quot; to solving this so ask me something else.&quot; The whole thing has become a scripted charade.<p>I get it that these types of tests and interviews work for Google but it&#x27;s absurd when small startups still building a product adopt these tests simply because Google and FB do it.<p>There&#x27;s a sad corporate uniformity to it that feels very much at odds with the hacker ethos.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hacking a Google Interview (2009)</title><url>http://courses.csail.mit.edu/iap/interview/index.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rajathagasthya</author><text>These are useful tips, although the example questions are extremely outdated. I found one tip &quot;interesting&quot; though.<p>&gt; If you already know the answer, don&#x27;t just blurt it out! They will suspect that you already knew the answer and didn&#x27;t tell them you&#x27;ve seen the question before. At least pretend to be thinking though the problem before you give the answer!<p>Most interview questions are taken from sites like Leetcode. So you would have come across some of them if you work through those problems. Is it really that bad if you give the solution quickly? Some problems have specific &quot;techniques&quot; to solve them which you would likely only know if you solved it before. Are you expected to come up with a completely new algorithm to solve a problem?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aphextron</author><text>&gt; If you already know the answer, don&#x27;t just blurt it out! They will suspect that you already knew the answer and didn&#x27;t tell them you&#x27;ve seen the question before. At least pretend to be thinking though the problem before you give the answer!<p>Ah yes, deceit and trickery, the basis of any solid future working relationship.</text></comment> |
20,998,509 | 20,997,316 | 1 | 2 | 20,996,756 | train | <story><title>Firefox moving to 4 week releases</title><url>https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/09/moving-firefox-to-a-faster-4-week-release-cycle/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chaosmachine</author><text>According to my calculations, this means Firefox 100 will be released on 2022-03-08.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zepearl</author><text>In general I like more the classic&#x2F;old way of versioning the releases, like for example &quot;1.2.2&quot; which has some embedded meaning of what is changing (e.g. &lt;major_change&gt;.&lt;minor_change&gt;.&lt;bugfix&gt;) which hints at how potentially dangerous an upgrade might be or if some new exciting stuff has been included. Jumping directly from 10 to 11 to 12 leaves me clueless without reading all release notes :(</text></comment> | <story><title>Firefox moving to 4 week releases</title><url>https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/09/moving-firefox-to-a-faster-4-week-release-cycle/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chaosmachine</author><text>According to my calculations, this means Firefox 100 will be released on 2022-03-08.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cozzyd</author><text>And in 2702 we will see Firefox 9001. A long time to wait for a silly joke :(</text></comment> |
18,362,994 | 18,362,092 | 1 | 3 | 18,361,631 | train | <story><title>Diaspora: Hello and a big welcome to everyone arriving from Google+</title><url>https://joindiaspora.com/posts/12865334</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>9712263</author><text>The most successful decentralized communication system - email as it turned out, people would concentrated to large free provider like Google. Decentralized server does not protect privacy for normal user because not most people could handle owning their server.<p>The most success decentralized service is BitTorrent. It is decentralized and it is decentralized in client level. Though it also caused uncontrollable piracy, since it is too easy to spread any data using Bittorrent. I think a true decentralized social network to protect privacy should be a p2p app, not server to server federation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>optimuspaul</author><text>Playing devils advocate here, but I also kind of believe this... There is no such thing as privacy in the social network. It is foolhardy to assume it is even possible. Even a real life social network relies on trust, trust that can be broken very easily and totally outside of your control. Maybe the answer is to accept that privacy isn&#x27;t a real thing and stop sharing things, even in what you assume is a protected environment, that you don&#x27;t wish to be public. I don&#x27;t think there is a technical solution to &quot;people can&#x27;t keep secrets&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Diaspora: Hello and a big welcome to everyone arriving from Google+</title><url>https://joindiaspora.com/posts/12865334</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>9712263</author><text>The most successful decentralized communication system - email as it turned out, people would concentrated to large free provider like Google. Decentralized server does not protect privacy for normal user because not most people could handle owning their server.<p>The most success decentralized service is BitTorrent. It is decentralized and it is decentralized in client level. Though it also caused uncontrollable piracy, since it is too easy to spread any data using Bittorrent. I think a true decentralized social network to protect privacy should be a p2p app, not server to server federation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ForHackernews</author><text>Maybe. But then there&#x27;s a question of where does the content live? Most people don&#x27;t have a desktop they leave connected all the time, and don&#x27;t want to be hosting videos and photos off their mobile device.<p>So you&#x27;re stuck with replicating that data out to all the peers, which means you&#x27;ve just lost control of &quot;your&quot; data again.</text></comment> |
26,245,093 | 26,245,204 | 1 | 2 | 26,244,528 | train | <story><title>GameStop, Bitcoin and the Commoditization of Populist Rage</title><url>https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/gamestop.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Clewza313</author><text>&gt; <i>Everyday I see a world where many in my generation have simply given up all hope for opportunity of a family, a house, a stable career and forced to confront an uncertain future in a world that is slowly boiling itself to death.</i><p>South Korea and Japan are 10-20 years ahead of the same curve here. However, the result has been resignation and stagnation, not revolution.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sampo_generation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sampo_generation</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Satori_generation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Satori_generation</a></text></comment> | <story><title>GameStop, Bitcoin and the Commoditization of Populist Rage</title><url>https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/gamestop.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>seaourfreed</author><text>The US Congress sells out all citizens, via lobbyists. Populist rage comes a rigged economy, where they are losing money.<p>Rigged pharma. Unethical medical billing. Out of control healthcare costs. 2008 mortgage crisis. High Frequency trading firms front running trades. Panama Papers. Libor. And a million more.<p>Citizens won&#x27;t have it any more. Fixing congress (so they don&#x27;t sell us out), and congress CAN would WOULD fix this.</text></comment> |
17,443,925 | 17,443,636 | 1 | 2 | 17,441,060 | train | <story><title>The advantages of an email-driven Git workflow</title><url>https://drewdevault.com/2018/07/02/Email-driven-git.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cryptonector</author><text>That&#x27;s all true, but (and note: I didn&#x27;t downvote you) the problem I have with email for code review is that finding all the comments made over time on one patch is... a chore. Mind you, for many years I did code review over email, so I&#x27;m used to it, and since I&#x27;m a TUI sort of person, it works very very well for me <i>except</i> for the chore that is finding and collating all comments.<p>This chore is very real, and very time consuming. Reviewers need to make sure that new versions of a patch are responsive to past [accepted] commentary. Authors need to find all commentary when updating patches in order to be responsive to it.<p>Not that code review tools from GitHub, GitLab, and others, are all that good. I&#x27;ve yet to find a code review tool that really works for me and the people I work with.<p>Whether you use email as a transport and&#x2F;or interface, or something more weby, or whatever, at the end of the day, for me, the real win lies in code review and commentary management and UIs. Because I&#x27;m a TUI person, my approach would be to build a code&#x2F;patch+commentary format, something like (designing on the fly here):<p><pre><code> - foo.c
| &#x2F;* This is code (or patch) *&#x2F;
? jane ^^^^^^^^^^^^
? jon The above is code, yes, but this is commentary!
| while (!review_done)
| ...;
</code></pre>
or<p><pre><code> - 0001-This-is-a.patch
| diff ...
...
</code></pre>
Something more markdown-y would work too.<p>An XML version wouldn&#x27;t be a bad idea, provided a) that the schema is trivial, b) that there are tools for converting between a simple text format (e.g., like the above), c) preferably things round-trip. Obviously, with XSLT&#x2F;XPath, (b) should be feasible, especially if we heed (a). And (c) should be possible if the XML schema is kept simple enough (but see below).<p>What&#x27;s nice about this is that as long as there is version information we can merge commentary from many emails into one document (per file&#x2F;patch), which then could make automation of commentary collation possible.<p>This needs lots more thought, I grant that. For example: how to cut-down quoted text without losing the ability to trivially merge commentary? Also, it would be very tempting to add lots of metadata, which would drive one to XML. I&#x27;m not a huge fan of XML, mostly due to lack of TUI editors for it... but XML does have the advantage of XSLT&#x2F;XPath.<p>It seems to me that this is a problem that can be solved reasonably well, and that this is a problem worth solving. If we can solve it in a way that works well with TUIs, it will also work well with email, so this should be of interest to you (I hope so as you seem to have the time and energy to work on this!).<p>Thoughts?</text></item><item><author>ddevault</author><text>Author here. I didn&#x27;t load all of the advantages into a single conveniently-quotable part of the article, but I think I covered them all the same. In addition to what you quoted:<p>&gt;reviewing patches is quite easy with the email approach as well [...] It’s just email - you can reply, forward the message, Cc interested parties, start several chains of discussion, and so on<p>The quote you gave also misses an important point directly preceeding it, which is that email is decentralized and federated. I also wouldn&#x27;t understate the importance of all of it being open source.</text></item><item><author>matharmin</author><text>The article describes a lot about the workflow, but only two sentences about the advantages:<p>&gt; A very large body of email-related software exists and is equally reliable and well-understood. You can interact with email using only open source software and customize your workflow at every level of the stack - filtering, organizing, forwarding, replying, and so on; in any manner you choose.<p>Using email software in general is well-understood, but using it for Git is much harder than using GitHub. Customizing the workflow is also something you probably shouldn&#x27;t want to do unless you&#x27;re really working with a massive project such as the Linux kernel.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Sir_Cmpwn</author><text>Thanks for your detailed thoughts, I&#x27;m taking all of this down and using it to influence my work on lists.sr.ht (the mailing list and code review tool I&#x27;m building).<p>The chores of this approach - finding and collating feedback, sheparding a patch through the flow, and so on - are all things I&#x27;m acutely aware of. I don&#x27;t think we need to throw the baby out with the bathwater like GitHub does, though, and I see these as places to improve our tools rather than replace them.<p>Take a look at this here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;git.sr.ht&#x2F;~emersion&#x2F;python-emailthreads&#x2F;tree&#x2F;test&#x2F;data&#x2F;multiple-replies&#x2F;output3.txt" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;git.sr.ht&#x2F;~emersion&#x2F;python-emailthreads&#x2F;tree&#x2F;test&#x2F;da...</a><p>The specific output format you see here is just a testing tool, this isn&#x27;t the final user-facing product. The important part is ingesting a bunch of emails and creating a thread where you can associate all of the responses over time with the particular parts of the patch. Combining this with a gerrit-like tool which tracks new patches over time and avoids duplicating review work is planned.</text></comment> | <story><title>The advantages of an email-driven Git workflow</title><url>https://drewdevault.com/2018/07/02/Email-driven-git.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cryptonector</author><text>That&#x27;s all true, but (and note: I didn&#x27;t downvote you) the problem I have with email for code review is that finding all the comments made over time on one patch is... a chore. Mind you, for many years I did code review over email, so I&#x27;m used to it, and since I&#x27;m a TUI sort of person, it works very very well for me <i>except</i> for the chore that is finding and collating all comments.<p>This chore is very real, and very time consuming. Reviewers need to make sure that new versions of a patch are responsive to past [accepted] commentary. Authors need to find all commentary when updating patches in order to be responsive to it.<p>Not that code review tools from GitHub, GitLab, and others, are all that good. I&#x27;ve yet to find a code review tool that really works for me and the people I work with.<p>Whether you use email as a transport and&#x2F;or interface, or something more weby, or whatever, at the end of the day, for me, the real win lies in code review and commentary management and UIs. Because I&#x27;m a TUI person, my approach would be to build a code&#x2F;patch+commentary format, something like (designing on the fly here):<p><pre><code> - foo.c
| &#x2F;* This is code (or patch) *&#x2F;
? jane ^^^^^^^^^^^^
? jon The above is code, yes, but this is commentary!
| while (!review_done)
| ...;
</code></pre>
or<p><pre><code> - 0001-This-is-a.patch
| diff ...
...
</code></pre>
Something more markdown-y would work too.<p>An XML version wouldn&#x27;t be a bad idea, provided a) that the schema is trivial, b) that there are tools for converting between a simple text format (e.g., like the above), c) preferably things round-trip. Obviously, with XSLT&#x2F;XPath, (b) should be feasible, especially if we heed (a). And (c) should be possible if the XML schema is kept simple enough (but see below).<p>What&#x27;s nice about this is that as long as there is version information we can merge commentary from many emails into one document (per file&#x2F;patch), which then could make automation of commentary collation possible.<p>This needs lots more thought, I grant that. For example: how to cut-down quoted text without losing the ability to trivially merge commentary? Also, it would be very tempting to add lots of metadata, which would drive one to XML. I&#x27;m not a huge fan of XML, mostly due to lack of TUI editors for it... but XML does have the advantage of XSLT&#x2F;XPath.<p>It seems to me that this is a problem that can be solved reasonably well, and that this is a problem worth solving. If we can solve it in a way that works well with TUIs, it will also work well with email, so this should be of interest to you (I hope so as you seem to have the time and energy to work on this!).<p>Thoughts?</text></item><item><author>ddevault</author><text>Author here. I didn&#x27;t load all of the advantages into a single conveniently-quotable part of the article, but I think I covered them all the same. In addition to what you quoted:<p>&gt;reviewing patches is quite easy with the email approach as well [...] It’s just email - you can reply, forward the message, Cc interested parties, start several chains of discussion, and so on<p>The quote you gave also misses an important point directly preceeding it, which is that email is decentralized and federated. I also wouldn&#x27;t understate the importance of all of it being open source.</text></item><item><author>matharmin</author><text>The article describes a lot about the workflow, but only two sentences about the advantages:<p>&gt; A very large body of email-related software exists and is equally reliable and well-understood. You can interact with email using only open source software and customize your workflow at every level of the stack - filtering, organizing, forwarding, replying, and so on; in any manner you choose.<p>Using email software in general is well-understood, but using it for Git is much harder than using GitHub. Customizing the workflow is also something you probably shouldn&#x27;t want to do unless you&#x27;re really working with a massive project such as the Linux kernel.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pm215</author><text>My solution to the &quot;find all the comments made on one patch&quot; is variously (a) look at that email subthread only or (b) use a webinterface like patchwork (eg <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;patchwork.ozlabs.org&#x2F;patch&#x2F;938069&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;patchwork.ozlabs.org&#x2F;patch&#x2F;938069&#x2F;</a>) or patchew (eg <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;patchew.org&#x2F;QEMU&#x2F;[email protected]&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;patchew.org&#x2F;QEMU&#x2F;20180629162122.19376-1-peter.maydell...</a>). patches (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;stefanha&#x2F;patches" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;stefanha&#x2F;patches</a>) can handle the tedious bit of collecting up all the Reviewed-by: tags people sent for you.<p>The key thing about any tool that&#x27;s trying to improve an email-based workflow is that it has to interoperate with people still using the traditional &quot;just an email client&quot; tools. Better web UIs for people who want to use web UIs are something I&#x27;d love to see, but a big-bang switchover to a completely different format won&#x27;t work for large projects, where mandating changes of tooling is a really hard sell. All the three tools I list above take the &quot;interoperate with the existing patches-in-email transport&quot; approach.</text></comment> |
16,285,630 | 16,285,790 | 1 | 2 | 16,285,192 | train | <story><title>The full-time job of keeping up with Kubernetes</title><url>https://gravitational.com/blog/kubernetes-release-cycle/#</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tw1010</author><text>There aught to be a name to the tendency that as tools get better and better, the more your time goes from having your mind in technical-space to social and news-space. It&#x27;s like the authority to create goes from the individual first-principles (by necessity) maker, to the control over development being in the hands of an external group, and then all your time is spent keeping up with what they&#x27;re doing. A similar thing happened with a lot of javascript frameworks. It also happened with the transition from building servers from the ground up, to it all being managed by AWS.</text></comment> | <story><title>The full-time job of keeping up with Kubernetes</title><url>https://gravitational.com/blog/kubernetes-release-cycle/#</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hueving</author><text>This reads like a giant ad for GKE. It emphasizes several times to just use GKE for pretty lame reasons (Google has good SREs and Google started the project).<p>The people that work on upstream k8s in Google (Tim et al) have a pretty limited overlap with the Google Cloud people that run GKE. Upstream k8s is a full time job so they are most certainly not spending their time also writing internal GKE code.<p>I don&#x27;t have an issue with GKE, but this article uses little evidence to recommend it when it seems the conclusion should have been &quot;maintaining a k8s cluster requires a full time sysadmin. If your company has a culture of pretending sysadmins are pointless, then you should pay another company offering k8s sysadmin-as-a-service hosted on their hardware.&quot;</text></comment> |
25,508,548 | 25,507,774 | 1 | 2 | 25,506,998 | train | <story><title>Tillis Releases Text of Bipartisan Legislation to Fight Illegal Streaming</title><url>https://www.tillis.senate.gov/2020/12/tillis-releases-text-of-bipartisan-legislation-to-fight-illegal-streaming-by-criminal-organizations</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seanc</author><text> - Everyone discussing this law should really read the text<p>The difficulty in doing so is a big part of the problem. As per AOC&#x27;s comments on twitter yesterday, at 2PM Members of Congress got 5000 pages of bill dropped on their desk with a vote call at 4PM.<p>The whole thing needs to be much more transparent.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>infogulch</author><text>The whole problem is enormous &quot;conglomerate&quot; bills in the first place. It&#x27;s absurd that everyone is forced to evaluate and have a single opinion&#x2F;vote on all these completely separate issues as a unit. How much political BS is hiding in these massive bills, quid-pro-quo, back scratching, intentionally opaque text that nobody can understand the implications of until long after it&#x27;s been jammed through... its <i>disgusting</i><p>We should outlaw bills like these.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tillis Releases Text of Bipartisan Legislation to Fight Illegal Streaming</title><url>https://www.tillis.senate.gov/2020/12/tillis-releases-text-of-bipartisan-legislation-to-fight-illegal-streaming-by-criminal-organizations</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seanc</author><text> - Everyone discussing this law should really read the text<p>The difficulty in doing so is a big part of the problem. As per AOC&#x27;s comments on twitter yesterday, at 2PM Members of Congress got 5000 pages of bill dropped on their desk with a vote call at 4PM.<p>The whole thing needs to be much more transparent.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>setr</author><text>Shouldn’t the collective default be to simply vote “no” if it’s given like this<p>I don’t know why the behavior would exist otherwise..</text></comment> |
28,345,258 | 28,345,316 | 1 | 2 | 28,344,744 | train | <story><title>Three Super-Massive Black Holes Merging Together in Our Nearby Universe</title><url>https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1749437</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>88840-8855</author><text>What I just realised - imagine we are living in the future and have colonized distant planets. We might need a new tense that indicates that an event has already happened on that distant planet, but due to speed of light limitations, this information has not yet arrived at the observer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>diegoperini</author><text>Turkish has such flavors of past tenses. They are called &quot;observed past&quot; and &quot;learned past&quot; tenses.<p>As the names imply, one is used when you witness the event. The other is used when you forget that you witnessed or you heard it from someone else.</text></comment> | <story><title>Three Super-Massive Black Holes Merging Together in Our Nearby Universe</title><url>https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1749437</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>88840-8855</author><text>What I just realised - imagine we are living in the future and have colonized distant planets. We might need a new tense that indicates that an event has already happened on that distant planet, but due to speed of light limitations, this information has not yet arrived at the observer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>glandium</author><text>Wasn&#x27;t there a paragraph or two about making up a tense for that in the Hitchhiker&#x27;s Guide to the Galaxy?<p>Edit: found it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sites.google.com&#x2F;site&#x2F;h2g2theguide&#x2F;Index&#x2F;t&#x2F;956236" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sites.google.com&#x2F;site&#x2F;h2g2theguide&#x2F;Index&#x2F;t&#x2F;956236</a> (it was about time travel, close enough)</text></comment> |
24,192,151 | 24,191,842 | 1 | 2 | 24,184,470 | train | <story><title>A $10B Experimental City Nearly Got Built in Rural Minnesota (2018)</title><url>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-10-billion-experimental-city-nearly-got-built-rural-minnesota-180968617/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>spankalee</author><text>I would love to see a city like this built today, but with a little less emphasis on experimental and more on starting with the best practices we know today, and designing for a large scale from the outset like China does.
Things like being designed around pervasive rail-based mass transit, and that being cheaper to build when you don&#x27;t have to put it in an existing city. Pedestrian optimized streets with much less parking than today&#x27;s cities. Little-to-no single family zoning, replaced with missing-middle apartment and mixed used neighborhoods. Large parks. Plazas and outdoor dining. Buried utilities. Either rooftop solar, or green roofs everywhere. Modern underground trash collection. Cut-and-cover highway tunnels.<p>There&#x27;s a lot of space in Montana, Wyoming, the Dakaotas, and we&#x27;ll need more space for population there as we have to migrate north.</text></comment> | <story><title>A $10B Experimental City Nearly Got Built in Rural Minnesota (2018)</title><url>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-10-billion-experimental-city-nearly-got-built-rural-minnesota-180968617/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>shiftpgdn</author><text>This is remarkably similar to Walt Disney&#x27;s EPCOT plan: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;EPCOT_(concept)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;EPCOT_(concept)</a> . I wonder what was in the water in the 60s since the Astrodome actually got built in 1965:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Astrodome" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Astrodome</a></text></comment> |
14,846,084 | 14,846,105 | 1 | 2 | 14,845,225 | train | <story><title>MS Paint is here to stay</title><url>https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2017/07/24/ms-paint-stay/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skrebbel</author><text>&gt; <i>Also my corporate windows 10 laptop has the entire window store and modern app infrastructure disabled</i><p>Wow that&#x27;s... What?<p>For all its warts, the Windows Store is a secure app delivery platform. Doesn&#x27;t disabling it merely encourage downloading zipped executables from sleazy unencrypted websites?</text></item><item><author>OkGoDoIt</author><text>Additionally you can&#x27;t download apps off the windows store unless you sign up for &#x2F;into a Microsoft account, which is a much bigger pain than simply downloading the first app you find searching on Google. Also my corporate windows 10 laptop has the entire window store and modern app infrastructure disabled, meaning I would not be able to access MS Paint.</text></item><item><author>opdahl</author><text>What is, and has been great about MS Paint is that no matter what Windows machine I have been on, I know that I have had it available. No matter if it&#x27;s my old grandma&#x27;s computer, if I have needed to quickly do something simple with an image, MS Paint has always been there for me. Now that will no longer be the case. If I have to download and install it on the computer before I use it, then what is the point? It will be faster to just google &quot;MS paint online free&quot; and click the first link.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>morrbo</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand the shock here? Large corporations don&#x27;t want users installing random apps. I don&#x27;t see why an NHS laptop, for example, should have Bejewelled installed, or some dodgy app which gives permissions to the user&#x27;s drives, and uploads files.<p>Similarly, though admittedly not a problem in the same way with Windows store apps, to Chrome extensions. Those working in secretive environments with naive users shouldn&#x27;t have something like &quot;Youtube auto-hd&quot; installed, which will feedback every single website they visit to some shady third party analytics company. IMO this is why having even the concept of these apps inside a &quot;secure&quot; (re. enterprise) version of Windows is a massive oversight. I will admit that this is not a problem in the LTSB branch of Windows 10 Enterprise; I had the disabled apps magically re-enable themselves 3 times after &quot;updates&quot; on non-LTSB before switching back over.<p>Sorry to rant, but in summation, don&#x27;t be shocked when corporate users want their laptops to be as restricted and purely for work as possible.</text></comment> | <story><title>MS Paint is here to stay</title><url>https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2017/07/24/ms-paint-stay/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skrebbel</author><text>&gt; <i>Also my corporate windows 10 laptop has the entire window store and modern app infrastructure disabled</i><p>Wow that&#x27;s... What?<p>For all its warts, the Windows Store is a secure app delivery platform. Doesn&#x27;t disabling it merely encourage downloading zipped executables from sleazy unencrypted websites?</text></item><item><author>OkGoDoIt</author><text>Additionally you can&#x27;t download apps off the windows store unless you sign up for &#x2F;into a Microsoft account, which is a much bigger pain than simply downloading the first app you find searching on Google. Also my corporate windows 10 laptop has the entire window store and modern app infrastructure disabled, meaning I would not be able to access MS Paint.</text></item><item><author>opdahl</author><text>What is, and has been great about MS Paint is that no matter what Windows machine I have been on, I know that I have had it available. No matter if it&#x27;s my old grandma&#x27;s computer, if I have needed to quickly do something simple with an image, MS Paint has always been there for me. Now that will no longer be the case. If I have to download and install it on the computer before I use it, then what is the point? It will be faster to just google &quot;MS paint online free&quot; and click the first link.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wolfgke</author><text>&gt; For all its warts, the Windows Store is a secure app delivery platform. Doesn&#x27;t disabling it merely encourage downloading zipped executables from sleazy unencrypted websites?<p>In a corporate environment in many cases it is undesired that users install applications. So of course one disables Windows Store. Additionally one prohibits downloading zips etc. I have read of a way how in Windows one can set that files created&#x2F;downloaded by users cannot be executed, which is also a desired configuration in many corporate environments.</text></comment> |
20,666,917 | 20,665,511 | 1 | 3 | 20,652,981 | train | <story><title>How shrinkflation is playing havoc with economists’ models</title><url>https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2019/08/06/how-shrinkflation-is-playing-havoc-with-economists-models</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chewz</author><text>Shrinking portions is the simplest way. The other is replacing products.<p>Say supermarket bakery introduces new bread with seasame seeds only 25¢ more. Then slowly there is only new seasame seeds bread on shelves and regular bread becomes rare. Later seasame seeds is slowly dispearing from bread and voila - you have made regular bread 25¢ more expensive.<p>The other way is lowering quality of products. Inflation basket still contains basic bread, tomatoes and plain sausage. The problem is that the quality of these products tanked and to buy a bread of a quality of simple bread from 40 years ago you must shop in some premium, organic, hipsters bakery where it costs 10 times more then simple bread. Same goes for tomatoes and sausage.<p>And electric drills or washing maschines? Don&#x27;t get me started. Today&#x27;s Bosch electric drill lasts one building season, my fathers Bosch electric drill lasted 35 years. Price is the same or lower but you get way less for it.<p>But the inflation headline number stays low. And that matters as you can keep wages low (many pensions are inflation indexed). And as people used to say under communism -&quot;Bread is more expensive but locomotives got cheaper&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>How shrinkflation is playing havoc with economists’ models</title><url>https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2019/08/06/how-shrinkflation-is-playing-havoc-with-economists-models</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>forinti</author><text>This is a process Brazilians know well.<p>Chocolate bars used to have 200g. Some now have less than 100g. Toilet paper rolls used to have 50m; most now have 30m and some have only 10m.<p>This sort of thing started happening in the 1980s, because the government had frozen prices (that always works well). It became such a problem that now the law says that the packaging must clearly point out if the quantity inside has changed.</text></comment> |
27,872,613 | 27,872,350 | 1 | 3 | 27,872,116 | train | <story><title>GitHub Copilot: First Impressions</title><url>https://vladiliescu.net/github-copilot-first-impressions/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>blunte</author><text>The AI coding approach is solving the wrong problem. The problem isn&#x27;t with the low level detailed work. That problem should be solved by building composable, tested, audited libraries. Legos, if you will.<p>If the problem is trivial enough that you can completely trust the AI coded solution, then you could have either done it yourself very easily or used a premade solution from a good library or toolkit.<p>If the problem is not trivial, then you have the outsourcing challenges (which apply to a lot more scenarios than using AI to help you code).<p>If you are not personally capable of judging the outsourced work, then whether you use AI or type it yourself, you will end up with errors or misfeatures.<p>If you are capable of judging, then you must pay attention and read&#x2F;review. So your job shifts from defining the problem and programming a solution to defining the problem and reviewing potential solution(s). Either way, you must focus and think. But again, perhaps you would be better off building a solution composed of known good blocks. &lt;- This should be the future of software development...<p>Sadly, I think that open source and freedom to (re)invent has worked against us in the long run. If instead of each of us going off and thinking, &quot;I can make a better language&#x2F;framework&quot;, we had built on existing technologies, I daresay we would be further along. To be fair of course, some level of dissatisfaction and divergence would be necessary or we would still be using assembly.<p>Github does have one thing right though (from a business perspective) - they are making a remedy to a symptom, and in that they can expect longer term revenue than if they actually solved the core problem.</text></comment> | <story><title>GitHub Copilot: First Impressions</title><url>https://vladiliescu.net/github-copilot-first-impressions/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ekster</author><text>For me the AI part of this is all the bad parts. What would really be cool is better search, templating, and best practices at your fingertips in the IDE.<p>Exact same problem to solve, because it is an important an interesting one, but a totally different approach. Maybe AI assisted somehow, but human curated.<p>Otherwise, imagine how bad legacy codebases of the future will be when they are full of autocomplete code that nobody understands or cared enough to think through even originally.</text></comment> |
31,060,278 | 31,059,144 | 1 | 2 | 31,037,971 | train | <story><title>Crossbeam – Tools for concurrent programming in Rust</title><url>https://github.com/crossbeam-rs/crossbeam</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pornel</author><text>To give more background on this:<p>· crossbeam is a building block used in Rayon, which is Rust&#x27;s main data parallelism library, roughly similar to OpenMP.<p>· crossbeam channels are very fast. They&#x27;re in the same league as golang, sometimes faster (depending how you measure of course).<p>· crossbeam is an order of magnitude faster than channels in the Rust&#x27;s standard library, while being more powerful and simpler to use. This is an example where experimentation in a 3rd party crate paid off compared to the standard library where a basic implementation went to die.<p>· it integrates with Rust&#x27;s borrow checker of course, so you can use complex multi-threaded constructs (e.g. share stack-allocated objects between threads) without fear of data races or use-after-free.</text></comment> | <story><title>Crossbeam – Tools for concurrent programming in Rust</title><url>https://github.com/crossbeam-rs/crossbeam</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jeffreygoesto</author><text>Phantastic reading list [0] as well! Big thank you to the authors for curating it!<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;crossbeam-rs&#x2F;rfcs&#x2F;wiki" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;crossbeam-rs&#x2F;rfcs&#x2F;wiki</a></text></comment> |
5,358,939 | 5,355,932 | 1 | 3 | 5,355,560 | train | <story><title>Why I'm switching back to Firefox</title><url>http://www.campaul.net/blog/2013/03/10/why-im-switching-back-to-firefox/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hosay123</author><text>Just to add, users rarely choose their software at all. If we're talking about the unwashed masses here, then the primary reason Chrome, Internet Explorer, or Safari are popular at all is almost entirely due to placement.<p>Joe consumer, comprising an ever increasing majority of the Internet population, simply doesn't care about which browser she is using. More often it is a result of what randomly got installed as the default through their last foray of random clicking and purchases. As a result, Chrome's regular placement on the Google homepage (and IE's default-installation) give it obvious "competitive" edges.<p>Of course when discussing browser market share this is rarely mentioned, instead popularity is usually attributed to fractional nanosecond differences in rendering time and so on that 99% of users never notice, and simply won't care about even if you told them.<p>(Edit: there is another reason to appreciate Mozilla in here, in that their efforts seem less focused on branding and positioning than they are much more so on function and vision. Mozilla's endgame shares a certain utilitarian theme compatible with what the masses seem to expect from technology (it's a "computer" with the "Internet" on it, not a "Chromebook" with "Google" on it), than does just about every other company in this space who are using their platforms to sell people more shit they don't need)</text></item><item><author>stroboskop</author><text>The post is spot on. Firefox is a great browser, but reading the OP's last paragraphs, users rarely choose software for quality <i>alone</i>.<p>The most popular alternatives to Firefox are Google's Chrome and Microsoft's Internet Explorer. I doubt these alternative browsers would exist if they were not useful for Google's and Microsofts main businesses. These companies produce web browsers to support their main products/services. The rationale behind AOL Explorer (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_Browser" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_Browser</a>) was similar. In settings like those privacy and other interests of web users are easily sacrificed.<p>Out of all the big browsers, Mozilla Firefox comes closest to being a web browser for the sake of web browsing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Justsignedup</author><text>Well said. in 2008 i was a big advocate for firefox. Yet my clients knew about chrome and wanted to use it. But nobody aside from technies stuck with it. My wife still uses FF exclusively.<p>However chrome became stable. And then it built on it -- multi processing made one site not crash the browser. Startup speeds were fast, etc. Eventually I switched. It was a minimalistic interface that I could teach to my grandparents. And performance was ALWAYS great.<p>So the question remains: Switch back to FF? I vote no, until they finally implement what IE has done since IE9 -- multi processing, or solve the damn problem in other ways. Also chrome's sandbox is pretty much unbypassed except for a couple of times in pwn2own (all the exploits are already patched)<p>Mozilla focusing on the user while google on profit is a point, but it is not a selling point. Show me features. So far chrome's porn mode has been an innovator in the space, and firefox had to hack that mode on to their browser. So from an objective perspective... idk.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why I'm switching back to Firefox</title><url>http://www.campaul.net/blog/2013/03/10/why-im-switching-back-to-firefox/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hosay123</author><text>Just to add, users rarely choose their software at all. If we're talking about the unwashed masses here, then the primary reason Chrome, Internet Explorer, or Safari are popular at all is almost entirely due to placement.<p>Joe consumer, comprising an ever increasing majority of the Internet population, simply doesn't care about which browser she is using. More often it is a result of what randomly got installed as the default through their last foray of random clicking and purchases. As a result, Chrome's regular placement on the Google homepage (and IE's default-installation) give it obvious "competitive" edges.<p>Of course when discussing browser market share this is rarely mentioned, instead popularity is usually attributed to fractional nanosecond differences in rendering time and so on that 99% of users never notice, and simply won't care about even if you told them.<p>(Edit: there is another reason to appreciate Mozilla in here, in that their efforts seem less focused on branding and positioning than they are much more so on function and vision. Mozilla's endgame shares a certain utilitarian theme compatible with what the masses seem to expect from technology (it's a "computer" with the "Internet" on it, not a "Chromebook" with "Google" on it), than does just about every other company in this space who are using their platforms to sell people more shit they don't need)</text></item><item><author>stroboskop</author><text>The post is spot on. Firefox is a great browser, but reading the OP's last paragraphs, users rarely choose software for quality <i>alone</i>.<p>The most popular alternatives to Firefox are Google's Chrome and Microsoft's Internet Explorer. I doubt these alternative browsers would exist if they were not useful for Google's and Microsofts main businesses. These companies produce web browsers to support their main products/services. The rationale behind AOL Explorer (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_Browser" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_Browser</a>) was similar. In settings like those privacy and other interests of web users are easily sacrificed.<p>Out of all the big browsers, Mozilla Firefox comes closest to being a web browser for the sake of web browsing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ferongr</author><text>When it comes to Chrome, in many cases it's not even conscious or explicit user choice. Chrome is aggressively pushed as opt-out shovelware with installers of unrelated software (e.g. CCleaner) and is set up as the default browser if the user doesn't deselect the options.</text></comment> |
36,353,324 | 36,350,616 | 1 | 2 | 36,349,208 | train | <story><title>Generating Income from Open Source</title><url>https://vadimdemedes.com/posts/generating-income-from-open-source</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ThinkBeat</author><text>[old person rant]<p>There is nothing wrong with developing software and selling it.
It used to be the norm and it is still quite common.<p>These days &quot;open source&quot; is virtue signaling and expected &quot;to be cool&quot;.
That people then grump about not being paid shows that they
are not particularly interested in the concept of open source.<p>However, the term open source has been used for so many different things
that is has lost most shared coherent meaning.
I guess that is why &quot;Libre Software&quot; is now being used by some.<p>What is plain hypocrisy to me are the people who developed &quot;for profit&quot;
open source projects, and are angry when they dont get paid enough,
when the projects they have created rely on GNU tools, the Linux kernel
(Perhaps Debian), a libre software database on so on.<p>Their product is built on the shoulders and sacrifice of other open-source folks that often is not getting paid or not paid enough.<p>For profit open source should have clause of donating X% of profits
downstream to the open-source projects they rely on.
(Since they would have no product without them)<p>There are some core and vital open-source projects that have enormous
importance for millions.
I think supporting them should be a priority.<p>A lot of modern software is &quot;open source&quot; until it become inconvenient
and they introduce &quot;Pro&quot;, or &quot;see source&quot;, or shift license entirely.<p>A lot of companies should just be &quot;for profit&quot;.
There is nothing wrong with it
and nothing wrong with making money,
or making money off of open source.
I do nitpick on people who see open source as a way to get
paid and they are angry if they dont get it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Generating Income from Open Source</title><url>https://vadimdemedes.com/posts/generating-income-from-open-source</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Buttons840</author><text>I recently ran across the the license for Dragonfly [1] which has some restrictions (rights reserved), but 5 years after the license date the license switches to Apache 2.0. Basically a time-limited rights reservation. I don&#x27;t hate it. I might even contribute to such a project for free.<p>I propose something like this: When I release code, it&#x27;s rights-reserved for 5 years, then open-source (and this particular clause would be irrevocable). Anyone may use the software for non-commercial purposes. Anyone may contribute, those who contribute will be granted permission for commercial use if I deem their contributions significant enough. Anyone may distribute the software under these terms.<p>If such a model became popular, I have a hard time imagining it could make things any worse. It might even accelerate open-source development by shifting societies resources to those who are actually producing this valuable software.<p>You might say, &quot;but it&#x27;s not open-source&quot;, fair enough, but we can view it as open-source contribution with a delay. For example, if this model became widely popular this year, and we saw great progress with this model, then come 2028 we would be flooded with new open-source software and ultimately might be better off than we would have been without this model.<p>Ultimately people choose to make their software open-source for moral reasons, and because they hope that by giving they might receive in turn--I contribute, you contribute, and we share freely (and we&#x27;re both poor). This model I&#x27;ve talked about still achieves similar goals. People might still be willing to contribute, even for free, because I have given them an irrevocable legal promise that their contributions will be made available to all at a specific time.<p>(This whole thing makes me rethink copyright and patents and how much they really contribute to society. Perhaps their terms should be shortened?)<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dragonflydb&#x2F;dragonfly&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;LICENSE.md">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dragonflydb&#x2F;dragonfly&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;LICENSE.m...</a></text></comment> |
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