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19,233,846 | 19,233,672 | 1 | 2 | 19,233,284 | train | <story><title>Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Drinking Water Leave Military Families Reeling</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/22/us/military-water-toxic-chemicals.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>caseymarquis</author><text>I wonder if there&#x27;s a way to democratize inexpensive health testing and see these trends faster? Imagine a world where you&#x27;re testing your blood&#x2F;sweat&#x2F;saliva&#x2F;vitals daily and semi-anonymously sending the results to be analysed using statistical methods. A doctor can give you a one time use current diagnoses voucher to add into the system for serious diseases. The whole thing is voluntary. There&#x27;s definitely some dystopian abuse potential, but in the US healthcare is already a disaster for a large portion of the population, and this could lessen that. Is it possible for something like this to be created?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>agumonkey</author><text>I so wish states were massive scale testing device machines&#x2F;manufacturer.<p>ps: a lot of systemic issues are due to lack of information and trust. To exemplify, there was a story about people electricity consumption. Those with a counter in the basement used a lot more than those with the counter near the front door.</text></comment> | <story><title>Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Drinking Water Leave Military Families Reeling</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/22/us/military-water-toxic-chemicals.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>caseymarquis</author><text>I wonder if there&#x27;s a way to democratize inexpensive health testing and see these trends faster? Imagine a world where you&#x27;re testing your blood&#x2F;sweat&#x2F;saliva&#x2F;vitals daily and semi-anonymously sending the results to be analysed using statistical methods. A doctor can give you a one time use current diagnoses voucher to add into the system for serious diseases. The whole thing is voluntary. There&#x27;s definitely some dystopian abuse potential, but in the US healthcare is already a disaster for a large portion of the population, and this could lessen that. Is it possible for something like this to be created?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rum3</author><text>The US health care system is dystopian. These are just challenges that are not possible to ignore.</text></comment> |
31,649,420 | 31,649,388 | 1 | 2 | 31,644,990 | train | <story><title>Running Intel Binaries in Linux VMs with Rosetta</title><url>https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/running_intel_binaries_in_linux_vms_with_rosetta?language=objc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jordemort</author><text>This in combination with the 3D acceleration work going into QEMU [1] could end up being a pretty compelling solution for running the x86 Linux version of Steam on macOS.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;akihikodaki&#x2F;87df4149e7ca87f18dc56807ec5a1bc5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;akihikodaki&#x2F;87df4149e7ca87f18dc56807...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>58028641</author><text>I&#x27;m hoping Alyssa Rosenzweig and Hector Martin&#x27;s work will allow Linux to access the GPU directly.</text></comment> | <story><title>Running Intel Binaries in Linux VMs with Rosetta</title><url>https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/running_intel_binaries_in_linux_vms_with_rosetta?language=objc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jordemort</author><text>This in combination with the 3D acceleration work going into QEMU [1] could end up being a pretty compelling solution for running the x86 Linux version of Steam on macOS.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;akihikodaki&#x2F;87df4149e7ca87f18dc56807ec5a1bc5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;akihikodaki&#x2F;87df4149e7ca87f18dc56807...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CraftThatBlock</author><text>Games on Proton (WINE) on Linux on Rosetta on macOS?</text></comment> |
12,332,106 | 12,331,818 | 1 | 3 | 12,330,311 | train | <story><title>Introducing OpenStreetView</title><url>https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mvexel/diary/39274</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>andrewljohnson</author><text>Similar to <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mapillary.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mapillary.com</a>.<p>It&#x27;s great to see more open data like this, lots of uses for creating maps by hand or even machine learning.</text></comment> | <story><title>Introducing OpenStreetView</title><url>https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mvexel/diary/39274</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nixos</author><text>I understand that it&#x27;s a volunteer effort, and volunteers don&#x27;t have the hardware required for even 180 degree view, but most pictures are taken out of the front of the car, limiting its worth (2&#x2F;3 of the picture is road, not the houses on the side).<p>It would be more useful if people stuck two phones (one on each side of the car) to take pictures of the passing buildings rather than road</text></comment> |
35,476,774 | 35,476,127 | 1 | 3 | 35,474,895 | train | <story><title>Illustrations of Japan’s “unseen” workforce of trains that work at night (2019)</title><url>https://www.spoon-tamago.com/toei-project-unseen-maintenance-trains/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deebosong</author><text>I gotta agree with this.<p>If I&#x27;m waiting at 2am for a subway in NYC for 1 hr, versus waiting 6 hours for the first subway to kick back in if it&#x27;s say, 12:01am in Japan or South Korea? Then IMHO it&#x27;s better to just eat the cost, take a taxi, feel the burn of $100 to get home vs. say $2-4 for a 3am subway ride, and give the NYC MTA subway system time to work on repairs, renovations, additions, etc.<p>24 hour subway leaves no time at all to do any maintenance.<p>I really, really, really really really wish that NYC would just straight up plagiarize Japan or South Korea for their metro systems. Even their &quot;next stop&quot; displays are far superior than what NYC currently has.<p>One can dream...</text></item><item><author>decafninja</author><text>NYC is proud of its 24&#x2F;7 subway service. Tell a NYer another city’s subways are better because of XYZ and they’ll shake their fist and say “but we have 24&#x2F;7 service and they don’t!”<p>But I can’t feel part of the reason for the NYC subways many woes is because of the 24&#x2F;7 service and the lack of maintenance and cleanup.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway2037</author><text><p><pre><code> 24 hour subway leaves no time at all to do any maintenance.
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This is incorrect. The NYC subway has a huge amount of extra tracks (side tracks and local&#x2F;express tracks). I would hazard a guess to say more than any other system in the world. (How many other systems in the world have so many local &amp; express tracks? It is incredibly rare.) This allows them to run maintenance at night, while there are much fewer regular trains running. This is partly why you need to wait so long for a train between 2 AM and 6 AM. A long time ago when I lived in NYC, during these &quot;dead hours&quot;, waiting at a station, I would frequently see maintenance trains passing through the station.<p>To me, the real purpose of 24 hour train service is make the city a &quot;24 hour city&quot; -- for economic purposes. People working late shifts in office buildings (cleaners, maintenance) or factories (food, clothing, whatever) or restaurants&#x2F;bars&#x2F;nightlife can all use a very cheap, albeit slow, delayed, and low quality, metro 24 hours a day. What is strange to me: Why not replace nice service with bus service? It would be cheaper to run and they could spend more time maintaining the tracks below.<p>Last question: How many 24x7x365 metro systems exist in the world? I struggle to think of five.</text></comment> | <story><title>Illustrations of Japan’s “unseen” workforce of trains that work at night (2019)</title><url>https://www.spoon-tamago.com/toei-project-unseen-maintenance-trains/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deebosong</author><text>I gotta agree with this.<p>If I&#x27;m waiting at 2am for a subway in NYC for 1 hr, versus waiting 6 hours for the first subway to kick back in if it&#x27;s say, 12:01am in Japan or South Korea? Then IMHO it&#x27;s better to just eat the cost, take a taxi, feel the burn of $100 to get home vs. say $2-4 for a 3am subway ride, and give the NYC MTA subway system time to work on repairs, renovations, additions, etc.<p>24 hour subway leaves no time at all to do any maintenance.<p>I really, really, really really really wish that NYC would just straight up plagiarize Japan or South Korea for their metro systems. Even their &quot;next stop&quot; displays are far superior than what NYC currently has.<p>One can dream...</text></item><item><author>decafninja</author><text>NYC is proud of its 24&#x2F;7 subway service. Tell a NYer another city’s subways are better because of XYZ and they’ll shake their fist and say “but we have 24&#x2F;7 service and they don’t!”<p>But I can’t feel part of the reason for the NYC subways many woes is because of the 24&#x2F;7 service and the lack of maintenance and cleanup.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>decafninja</author><text>NYC recently replaced some of their subway cars with brand new ones.<p>I’m in Seoul right now as I type this. Was in Taipei a few days ago too. The brand new NYC subway cars are already filthier than the older Seoul and Taipei ones.</text></comment> |
21,817,778 | 21,817,717 | 1 | 3 | 21,816,726 | train | <story><title>NextDNS Joins Firefox’s Trusted Recursive Resolver</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/12/17/firefox-announces-new-partner-in-delivering-private-and-secure-dns-services-to-users/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>3xblah</author><text>“For most users, it’s very hard to know where their DNS requests go and what the resolver is doing with them.” said Eric Rescorla, Firefox CTO. “Firefox’s Trusted Recursive Resolver program <i>allows Mozilla to negotiate with providers on your behalf</i> and require that they have strong privacy policies before handling your DNS data. We’re excited to have NextDNS partner with us in our work <i>to put people back in control of their data and privacy online</i>.”<p>It sounds more like the work is to put Mozilla and their partners in control of users&#x27; data and privacy online.<p>Let&#x27;s be honest. This is really a transfer of control from one third party, e.g., a company providing internet service (ISP), to another third party, e.g., a company&#x2F;organization providing a browser (Mozilla, Google, etc.), not to mention their &quot;TRR&quot; partners.<p>Surely it is only a fortuitous coincidence, but DOH in the browser makes it easier to track users <i>by device</i>, which appears to be the Holy Grail of the internet ad industry.<p>Putting Mozilla (and their partners) in charge of user privacy is different from putting users in charge of their own privacy.<p>Also, the &quot;back in control&quot; language is interesting. It implies the author believes users were &quot;in control&quot; in the past.</text></comment> | <story><title>NextDNS Joins Firefox’s Trusted Recursive Resolver</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/12/17/firefox-announces-new-partner-in-delivering-private-and-secure-dns-services-to-users/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>heavyset_go</author><text>I&#x27;m a fan of DoH, but I&#x27;m also a Chromecast owner, so I get to experience the downsides of application-level DNS resolvers. Chromecasts will ignore the DNS servers set by DHCP, and will cease to function if they cannot communicate with Google&#x27;s DNS servers[1].<p>That means my network-enforced DNS preferences that block ad and malware sources are ignored, and I see more ads than I want to. It also means that when Google drops support for my Chromecast model like they did with the older Chromecast models, I&#x27;ll be slightly less secure than I would be if I could enforce my own DNS preferences.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19170671" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19170671</a></text></comment> |
17,486,704 | 17,486,647 | 1 | 3 | 17,485,893 | train | <story><title>My favorite apps on F-Droid</title><url>http://quaap.com/D/use-fdroid</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blfr</author><text>NewPipe: a YouTube client, as mentioned in the thread, that allows you to play videos in the background, in a small popout over something else, adjust the playback speed, and also download videos for later. Great for lectures.<p>AdAway: it makes the ads go away by adjusting your hosts file (may require root) so it works both for in-app ads and web ads. I first installed it out of spite when Google failed my LineageOS on SafetyNet and blocked Android Pay even though it wasn&#x27;t rooted but it made using the system so much more enjoyable I would now root it regardless.<p>FBReader: a pretty decent ebook reader although the complexity makes it feel like a 2006 Linux app.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zizek23</author><text>Newpipe and Redreader for reddit are my 2 favourite apps on Fdroid. Amaze file manager is also pretty sleek for an Fdroid app. Dns66 is great for adblocking when you are not rooted. Termux is a must have for those who need a terminal. Osm+ is a decent maps option and Mupdf is a fast and minimal reader for pdf files.<p>Fdroid is great for open source apps especially when you are trying to avoid shady behavior by apps, but since Android itself is full of shady behavior and dark patterns it&#x27;s at best a bandage on a severely wounded patient.</text></comment> | <story><title>My favorite apps on F-Droid</title><url>http://quaap.com/D/use-fdroid</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blfr</author><text>NewPipe: a YouTube client, as mentioned in the thread, that allows you to play videos in the background, in a small popout over something else, adjust the playback speed, and also download videos for later. Great for lectures.<p>AdAway: it makes the ads go away by adjusting your hosts file (may require root) so it works both for in-app ads and web ads. I first installed it out of spite when Google failed my LineageOS on SafetyNet and blocked Android Pay even though it wasn&#x27;t rooted but it made using the system so much more enjoyable I would now root it regardless.<p>FBReader: a pretty decent ebook reader although the complexity makes it feel like a 2006 Linux app.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>avel</author><text>If you want easy system-wide ad-blocking without root, take a look into Blokada. Also in F-Droid. Implements a vpn through which the traffic is routed, and this way the DNS blacklists can be enforced. Note that, due to android limitations, you can only use only one vpn connection at a time.</text></comment> |
7,273,435 | 7,273,266 | 1 | 2 | 7,273,037 | train | <story><title>The Rent Is Too Damn High: The Enormous Cost of Letting Finance Rule</title><url>https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/02/the-rent-is-too-damn-high-2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>api</author><text>The rich are simply not smart enough to intelligently allocate their capital. Things like rent extraction schemes (formulaic investment patterns) and bubbles (indicative of simple herd behavior) dominate because they are easy, dumb ways to make more money off existing money. You don&#x27;t see big investments in new technology, science, infrastructure, or other complex and difficult areas because by and large the financiers do not <i>understand</i> these things. But they do understand finance itself, as well as big dumb markets like real estate.<p>These schemes are dumb because they contain the seeds of their own destruction. Rent extraction eventually kills the golden goose or provokes a populist revolt, while bubbles are basically casino gambling.<p>The libertarian anti-tax&#x2F;anti-government revolution was largely predicated on the idea that private capital would be so much smarter and more agile than state capital. What we&#x27;re seeing is that this isn&#x27;t the case. Private capital is every bit as stupid as the state; Goldman Sachs is not that different from a Soviet planning bureau.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>enoch_r</author><text>If the market is &quot;stupid&quot;, what testable results do we expect? Here&#x27;s one: smart people who figure out <i>better</i> ways to allocate money should be able to consistently beat the market performance.<p>Great--now let&#x27;s test that hypothesis! Studies have consistently shown there is very little or no autocorrelation between excess returns--that is, someone who beats the market in year n is essentially no more likely to beat the market in year n+1 than anyone else. This is very different than a field like programming or basketball, where someone who performs well one year will probably perform well the next year.<p>To me, this is absurdly good evidence that the market is not &quot;stupid,&quot; even when I think it is.<p>Worse, arguments like this don&#x27;t merely say that the market is stupid and <i>could be beaten</i>--they use the <i>author&#x27;s personal views</i> on the stupidity of particular market movements to make that claim. In other words, to accept this argument, I need to believe that you are one of the (maybe) few people on the planet who can consistently beat the market. I don&#x27;t believe that.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Rent Is Too Damn High: The Enormous Cost of Letting Finance Rule</title><url>https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/02/the-rent-is-too-damn-high-2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>api</author><text>The rich are simply not smart enough to intelligently allocate their capital. Things like rent extraction schemes (formulaic investment patterns) and bubbles (indicative of simple herd behavior) dominate because they are easy, dumb ways to make more money off existing money. You don&#x27;t see big investments in new technology, science, infrastructure, or other complex and difficult areas because by and large the financiers do not <i>understand</i> these things. But they do understand finance itself, as well as big dumb markets like real estate.<p>These schemes are dumb because they contain the seeds of their own destruction. Rent extraction eventually kills the golden goose or provokes a populist revolt, while bubbles are basically casino gambling.<p>The libertarian anti-tax&#x2F;anti-government revolution was largely predicated on the idea that private capital would be so much smarter and more agile than state capital. What we&#x27;re seeing is that this isn&#x27;t the case. Private capital is every bit as stupid as the state; Goldman Sachs is not that different from a Soviet planning bureau.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jbellis</author><text>No, the libertarian political philosophy is that incentives matter, so that if companies <i>can</i> make easy money by getting the government to play favorites (primarily by regulating smaller competitors out of the market, as well as straightforward politically connected loans), they will. The solution is therefore to make it so the government can&#x27;t play favorites.</text></comment> |
33,100,817 | 33,100,908 | 1 | 2 | 33,100,130 | train | <story><title>macOS scanning and following downloaded QR codes has been retracted</title><url>https://twitter.com/hodgesmr/status/1577739222412312578</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chrononaut</author><text>Prior discussions (when macOS was presumed at fault):<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33095608" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33095608</a> (83 comments)<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33096540" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33096540</a> (102 comments)</text></comment> | <story><title>macOS scanning and following downloaded QR codes has been retracted</title><url>https://twitter.com/hodgesmr/status/1577739222412312578</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>johnklos</author><text>It&#x27;s nice to see people clarify when they make mistakes.<p>I&#x27;m still REALLY curious about the Facebook useragent. Where was that from, specifically? Firefox?</text></comment> |
29,718,319 | 29,718,395 | 1 | 3 | 29,716,900 | train | <story><title>“Play-to-Earn” and Bullshit Jobs</title><url>https://paulbutler.org/2021/play-to-earn-and-bullshit-jobs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>58x14</author><text>In the late 2000s, as a teenager, I was gifted a Runescape account. This account had level 80+ woodcutting, allowing one to chop magic trees - which would produce the most expensive lumber in the game. It took a staggering number of real hours to achieve this skill level, we&#x27;re talking several hundred hours minimum.<p>At some point I had realized that there were different sketchy websites that would buy and sell the in-game currency, gold pieces or GP. It was something like $10 to 1M GP. I could chop enough magic logs in about 4-6 hours to make $10.<p>I had a breakthrough. What if I wrote a macro to record my cursor and clicks during my route from the &#x27;bank&#x27; (where you can deposit any amount of any material) to the nearby respawning magic tree forest?<p>Weeks went by and I had passive income. Runescape eventually introduced the Grand Exchange, a literal in-game stock market that allowed power users like me to sell much larger quantities of certain items instantly, across all Runescape servers (referred to as Worlds) simultaneously. This required a standardized pricing mechanism, like an order book, where prices of any item would fluctuate based on buy and sell orders.<p>Suddenly, I now could see a +-10% change on the value of my digital assets, on which my passive income was built.<p>I could go on; Runescape in fact taught me much about economics. What&#x27;s extraordinary is selling Runescape gold led me to Bitcoin, and I&#x27;ve watched cryptocurrency for nearly a decade, seeing trends from a MMO propagate throughout the world. It seems human nature to innovate and stagnate, and the more immediate our collective feedback loops, the quicker these cycles are.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danShumway</author><text>I know a lot of people have fond memories of this kind of thing, but from a designer perspective, is it good that a game is so boring that players are willing to pay real-world money to skip parts of it? Runescape set up a system that was so grind-heavy that players broke server rules and wrote automated scripts to grind for them, and other players gave them money to do that. Because the minute-to-minute gameplay of Runescape was bad; people were willing to pay $10 of real money to remove 4-6 hours of gameplay from the game.<p>Well frankly, that&#x27;s 4-6 hours of gameplay should never have been in the game in the first place. Players should not feel bored playing your game for that long, certainly not bored enough to pay money to get out of it.<p>I have no doubt that learning how to exploit these systems was really fun for people, because learning how to exploit systems and build macros and read economic signals and avoid detection from a company is genuinely really interesting, fascinating work. It&#x27;s just a shame that the only way Runescape could (inadvertently) enable that experience for people was to make a crappy grind process for an even larger portion of their playerbase.<p>I can&#x27;t get away from thinking of the experience 58x14 is describing is a failure of game design. 58x14 has fond memories of this because they were playing an entirely different much more exciting hacking game than the crappy grind that Runescape&#x27;s designers had built and intended for the majority of their playerbase.<p>And I think that perspective is worth keeping when we look at play-to-earn games. These are boring games, and some people are doing some fun economics stuff on top of them. That doesn&#x27;t make the core gameplay any less boring though, and the fun economics stuff only works because a lot of other players are having a miserable time with the intended mechanics. I don&#x27;t like praising a design ethos that says that a nontrivial portion of your players will be bored and will pay someone else to play the game for them.</text></comment> | <story><title>“Play-to-Earn” and Bullshit Jobs</title><url>https://paulbutler.org/2021/play-to-earn-and-bullshit-jobs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>58x14</author><text>In the late 2000s, as a teenager, I was gifted a Runescape account. This account had level 80+ woodcutting, allowing one to chop magic trees - which would produce the most expensive lumber in the game. It took a staggering number of real hours to achieve this skill level, we&#x27;re talking several hundred hours minimum.<p>At some point I had realized that there were different sketchy websites that would buy and sell the in-game currency, gold pieces or GP. It was something like $10 to 1M GP. I could chop enough magic logs in about 4-6 hours to make $10.<p>I had a breakthrough. What if I wrote a macro to record my cursor and clicks during my route from the &#x27;bank&#x27; (where you can deposit any amount of any material) to the nearby respawning magic tree forest?<p>Weeks went by and I had passive income. Runescape eventually introduced the Grand Exchange, a literal in-game stock market that allowed power users like me to sell much larger quantities of certain items instantly, across all Runescape servers (referred to as Worlds) simultaneously. This required a standardized pricing mechanism, like an order book, where prices of any item would fluctuate based on buy and sell orders.<p>Suddenly, I now could see a +-10% change on the value of my digital assets, on which my passive income was built.<p>I could go on; Runescape in fact taught me much about economics. What&#x27;s extraordinary is selling Runescape gold led me to Bitcoin, and I&#x27;ve watched cryptocurrency for nearly a decade, seeing trends from a MMO propagate throughout the world. It seems human nature to innovate and stagnate, and the more immediate our collective feedback loops, the quicker these cycles are.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rapind</author><text>In my early 20s I played an MMO called Asherons Call. I discovered a vendor in one high level area that would sell bows for less than a specific vendor in a low level area would buy them, netting you a small margin per bow.<p>Being a programmer I wrote a script that used two different teleport skills (lifestone and portal recall I think?) and a bit of movement and clicking based on pixel (Color) matching to deal with latency, tweaking it over time, and started printing in game money. I would come home from work to a backpack full of D notes (unit of currency I adapted my script to convert).<p>Then I would sell these D notes on eBay. Did this for a few months. First month I made over 7k USD (I shit you not). 2nd month about 3.5k, maybe 1k third month, so basically the market collapsed and I moved on (to other fun exploits… once you’ve been bitten by the exploit bug…).<p>In retrospect I regret it.<p>I’m a total hypocrite saying this, but I think this sort of crap has ruined MMOs, and gotten far more advanced and efficient over the years.<p>The fun I had in AC before I started doing this stuff is something I wish more people could experience, but I suspect has been lost.</text></comment> |
20,178,812 | 20,178,657 | 1 | 2 | 20,175,304 | train | <story><title>Dear Bureaucrat, my job wants me to lie</title><url>https://www.federaltimes.com/your-career/the-bureaucrat/2019/03/07/dear-bureaucrat-my-job-wants-me-to-lie/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gradys</author><text>IANAL, but I took a commerical law class in college. I feel like I remember there being a doctrine that if there&#x27;s a written contract, agreements outside of the contract don&#x27;t matter. (Which is not to say that verbal contracts aren&#x27;t real contracts, but that if there&#x27;s also a written contract, they overrule any unwritten agreements.)</text></item><item><author>thrpythrwaway33</author><text>All of this conversation was over their secure internet chat system, so it was logged that way.</text></item><item><author>papln</author><text>&gt; So I said, if you&#x27;re comfortable with the clause meaning the interpretation earlier in chat, that it just means to follow directions about alcohol interactions with meds, then I&#x27;ll sign, and he agreed.<p>Did you document that modification in in writing or recording?</text></item><item><author>thrpythrwaway33</author><text>Similar horror story. When I went to get therapy for depression, they gave me a contract to read and sign for therapy agreement. I got to page 11 which said that I will not consume alcoholic beverages while under treatment at all.<p>It seemed to be a rather overbroad ask for what I was coming for, so I objected (over their secure PM system). They tried to object that &quot;well, you need to follow your doctor&#x27;s directions because there can be interactions between the medicine and alcohol.&quot;<p>I said &quot;The clause doesn&#x27;t say &#x27;I will follow the psychiatrist&#x27;s direction about drug interactions.&#x27; It says I will unconditionally refrain from all alcohol.&quot;<p>Then the main doctor entered the thread and really blew my mind. He said, basically, a) no one in 5 years has objected to that clause, and b) it&#x27;s common to have a clinic policy like and it&#x27;s like an EULA.<p>b) was weird because EULA&#x27;s are known for being notoriously abusive. a) was weird because he seems to genuinely think it&#x27;s no big deal that either 1) no one is reading that clause, or 2) all of his patients are apparently teetotalers.<p>(I also felt it was particularly disturbing that he was exploiting the bandwagon effect to intimidate me into signing.)<p>So I said, if you&#x27;re comfortable with the clause meaning the interpretation earlier in chat, that it just means to follow directions about alcohol interactions with meds, then I&#x27;ll sign, and he agreed.</text></item><item><author>andrewla</author><text>I was recently at a medical office (this is in the US), and they had replaced their system, so I had to re-sign the variety of forms that they make you sign, HIPAA disclosure, etc.<p>They gave me an electronic signature pad and asked me to sign. I pointed out that I did not have a document in front of me, and they said that they would give me a copy of the signed form after I signed it. I once again attempted to point out that I was being asked to sign a form that I couldn&#x27;t read, and they said, &quot;oh, it&#x27;s just a privacy disclosure&quot;.<p>A superviser (who was overseeing the migration to the new system) came by and asked what the issue was, and I said I was being asked to sign a form without seeing what I was signing. They very patiently explained to me that it was a HIPAA disclosure, and I said that if I could sign their description, I would be happy to, but I&#x27;m not going to sign a more formal document having only been given a summary of it. They further explained that if I wanted, they could print out a copy of the form after I signed it for my records.<p>Nobody at the office seemed to understand here what my objection was. I overheard other patients saying things like &quot;I&#x27;m not signing something I haven&#x27;t seen&quot;, so I know that I wasn&#x27;t crazy. Eventually I convinced the person I was working with to turn their monitor around so that I could read the documents before signing them.<p>The thing is that everyone knows that these forms are completely meaningless anyway. I probably would have been better off just signing the forms so that if they ever came up in a court case I could just honestly say that I had never seen the form before.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Guvante</author><text>&gt; if there&#x27;s also a written contract, they overrule any unwritten agreements<p>That typically only applies in situations where the agreement is otherwise ambiguous. The most common example being &quot;A: We verbally agreed to $1 and I signed. B: But what you signed say $1.10&quot; often in these situations the written contract win.<p>However in this case they are in a written format explicitly clarifying the contents of the contract which you are allowed to do as long as the interpretation you agree to doesn&#x27;t meaningfully diverge from what was written in a way that doesn&#x27;t follow standard practice. As the doctor said it is common practice to avoid consuming alcohol with medicine that has known interactions with it. Even if the original contract is unambiguous no one is going to side against OP on the topic of &quot;we both agreed that it meant when taking certain medicines&quot; since the original verbiage didn&#x27;t follow standard practice by the clarified verbiage did.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dear Bureaucrat, my job wants me to lie</title><url>https://www.federaltimes.com/your-career/the-bureaucrat/2019/03/07/dear-bureaucrat-my-job-wants-me-to-lie/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gradys</author><text>IANAL, but I took a commerical law class in college. I feel like I remember there being a doctrine that if there&#x27;s a written contract, agreements outside of the contract don&#x27;t matter. (Which is not to say that verbal contracts aren&#x27;t real contracts, but that if there&#x27;s also a written contract, they overrule any unwritten agreements.)</text></item><item><author>thrpythrwaway33</author><text>All of this conversation was over their secure internet chat system, so it was logged that way.</text></item><item><author>papln</author><text>&gt; So I said, if you&#x27;re comfortable with the clause meaning the interpretation earlier in chat, that it just means to follow directions about alcohol interactions with meds, then I&#x27;ll sign, and he agreed.<p>Did you document that modification in in writing or recording?</text></item><item><author>thrpythrwaway33</author><text>Similar horror story. When I went to get therapy for depression, they gave me a contract to read and sign for therapy agreement. I got to page 11 which said that I will not consume alcoholic beverages while under treatment at all.<p>It seemed to be a rather overbroad ask for what I was coming for, so I objected (over their secure PM system). They tried to object that &quot;well, you need to follow your doctor&#x27;s directions because there can be interactions between the medicine and alcohol.&quot;<p>I said &quot;The clause doesn&#x27;t say &#x27;I will follow the psychiatrist&#x27;s direction about drug interactions.&#x27; It says I will unconditionally refrain from all alcohol.&quot;<p>Then the main doctor entered the thread and really blew my mind. He said, basically, a) no one in 5 years has objected to that clause, and b) it&#x27;s common to have a clinic policy like and it&#x27;s like an EULA.<p>b) was weird because EULA&#x27;s are known for being notoriously abusive. a) was weird because he seems to genuinely think it&#x27;s no big deal that either 1) no one is reading that clause, or 2) all of his patients are apparently teetotalers.<p>(I also felt it was particularly disturbing that he was exploiting the bandwagon effect to intimidate me into signing.)<p>So I said, if you&#x27;re comfortable with the clause meaning the interpretation earlier in chat, that it just means to follow directions about alcohol interactions with meds, then I&#x27;ll sign, and he agreed.</text></item><item><author>andrewla</author><text>I was recently at a medical office (this is in the US), and they had replaced their system, so I had to re-sign the variety of forms that they make you sign, HIPAA disclosure, etc.<p>They gave me an electronic signature pad and asked me to sign. I pointed out that I did not have a document in front of me, and they said that they would give me a copy of the signed form after I signed it. I once again attempted to point out that I was being asked to sign a form that I couldn&#x27;t read, and they said, &quot;oh, it&#x27;s just a privacy disclosure&quot;.<p>A superviser (who was overseeing the migration to the new system) came by and asked what the issue was, and I said I was being asked to sign a form without seeing what I was signing. They very patiently explained to me that it was a HIPAA disclosure, and I said that if I could sign their description, I would be happy to, but I&#x27;m not going to sign a more formal document having only been given a summary of it. They further explained that if I wanted, they could print out a copy of the form after I signed it for my records.<p>Nobody at the office seemed to understand here what my objection was. I overheard other patients saying things like &quot;I&#x27;m not signing something I haven&#x27;t seen&quot;, so I know that I wasn&#x27;t crazy. Eventually I convinced the person I was working with to turn their monitor around so that I could read the documents before signing them.<p>The thing is that everyone knows that these forms are completely meaningless anyway. I probably would have been better off just signing the forms so that if they ever came up in a court case I could just honestly say that I had never seen the form before.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gnopgnip</author><text>Agreements over an electronic messaging system are written agreements, and satisfy the statute of frauds, and are not automatically superseeded.<p>Even if you have a written contract that has boilerplate language saying all future modifications need to be in writing, courts have enforced verbal modifications. A contract can always be modified, what matters is if both parties agree.</text></comment> |
22,551,987 | 22,551,834 | 1 | 3 | 22,550,420 | train | <story><title>Startups threatened by iOS 14’s new features</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/10/all-the-startups-threatened-by-ios-14s-new-features/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>LeoNatan25</author><text>Instead of thinking of this as &quot;sherlocking&quot; or &quot;threatening&quot;, it should be viewed as an opportunity for startups to step out of the comfort zone and offer genuine innovation, which will further benefit the consumer. Having basic features integrated in the OS is essential, and will happen more and more, especially with so many horror stories of seemingly innocent apps brokering user information for cash. Startups need to step up their game in privacy as well as technological and product innovation. Good luck.</text></comment> | <story><title>Startups threatened by iOS 14’s new features</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/10/all-the-startups-threatened-by-ios-14s-new-features/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>matz1</author><text>Still a good strategy to be the first to implement. Collect the profit as much as you can, then move on.</text></comment> |
6,523,433 | 6,522,285 | 1 | 2 | 6,521,522 | train | <story><title>Future instruction set: AVX-512</title><url>http://agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=288</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>carterschonwald</author><text>The AVX &#x2F; SIMD part of x86 instruction set is probably the most understandable subset to focus on learning! And i&#x27;m very excited about AVX-512<p>I&#x27;ll actually going to be spending some of my time over the next year adding proper SIMD support (including all the shuffles) to the main Haskell compiler, GHC!<p>Theres some really interesting constraints on the SIMD shuffle primops that need some type system cleverness to compile correctly!<p>Namely, you need to know &quot;statically, at code gen time&quot;, the shuffle constants that are given as &quot;immediates&quot; to the instructions! Normal values don&#x27;t quite have the right semantics, and accordingly the simd intrinsics in C compilers kinda lie about the types they expect (ie if you give them a variable of the right type, they&#x27;ll give you an error saying they need an actual constant literal).<p>tl;dr I&#x27;m going to make sure the GHC (and haskell) can support AVX 512 by the time thusly equipped CPUs are made available</text></comment> | <story><title>Future instruction set: AVX-512</title><url>http://agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=288</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tachyonbeam</author><text>Seems to me like Intel and AMD aren&#x27;t very forward thinking, adding new instructions and registers every year or two. As if the x86 instruction set wasn&#x27;t bloated enough, now they&#x27;re going to have instructions with 4-byte prefixes, and new registers you can only access with AVX. What&#x27;s next after that, AVX-1024 with 6-byte prefixes? Meanwhile this renders MMX and SSE sort of redundant. Seems to me we might be better served with some kind of vector coprocessor and instructions that can operate directly on large vectors in memory, instead of doubling the size of the vector registers all the time and making x86 an ever harder target to generate efficient code for.<p>Maybe this is another area where ARM can beat x86. Have a better planned out vector instruction set that can be expanded without adding hundreds of new instructions all the time, and more compact machine code.</text></comment> |
29,725,718 | 29,725,110 | 1 | 3 | 29,717,615 | train | <story><title>The Ambiguity of Real Work</title><url>https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2021/12/28/the-ambiguity-of-real-work/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>splittingTimes</author><text>In Germany you have basically two education&#x2F;preparation for work life tracks after secondary school ends. One is the very intellectual heavy university education.<p>The other is a dual education system of apprenticeship for Craftsman&#x2F;manual work. For three years You go to school two to three days a week and work at a real craft business. That way you get the theory and it&#x27;s practical application. After your exam you are a certified handy man in your profession with the relevant skills to work professionally. This solves the mentioned ambiguity of real work.<p>University education was associated with staying in higher education or R&amp;D. But the creation of vast PhD programs had created a wave of PhD that cannot be absorbed by the University and research institutions. So it bleeds into &quot;normal&quot; work life.<p>The software profession would benefit from a dual apprenticeship system. But company&#x27;s are not willing to take on the responsibility and train their talent that way. At least not in Germany.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Ambiguity of Real Work</title><url>https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2021/12/28/the-ambiguity-of-real-work/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>onos</author><text>I found the discussion around ambiguity and required group consolidation around a shared understanding pretty interesting. One could imagine that the amount of ambiguity present in a problem could then set the scale of how many people should be working on something: with large ambiguity it becomes hard for a big group to consolidate on a shared understanding, and they might never then align their efforts.<p>Presumably a leader of a large group should set very few and clear goals to align the group around. The tension then I would guess is that this might not best make use of the specific skills of the individuals present.</text></comment> |
22,568,774 | 22,568,423 | 1 | 2 | 22,564,892 | train | <story><title>A Vacancy Has Been Detected (2019)</title><url>https://kellysutton.com/2019/06/19/a-vacancy-has-been-detected.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gherig4</author><text>That email seems very human and reasonable and it did its job perfectly. It warned the student of a potential outcome and the student was able to act on that warning. The alternative of somebody moving in one day without warning would be the real fail case and that didn&#x27;t happen.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SilasX</author><text>At risk of sounding like a jerk, I agree and think this whole reaction is overblown.<p>A vacancy has been opened up. That will trigger numerous consequences across the system. Yes, every time you observe such consequences, you will be reminded of its cause -- the roommate&#x27;s death. But it&#x27;s unrealistic to expect every other subsystem not to do anything that reminds you of that death, which, as far as I can tell, is the extent of this email&#x27;s &quot;wrongdoing&quot;.<p>&quot;Woe is me, how dare you, the housing system, refer to my roommate&#x27;s death as just another vacancy.&quot; Come on, now.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Vacancy Has Been Detected (2019)</title><url>https://kellysutton.com/2019/06/19/a-vacancy-has-been-detected.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gherig4</author><text>That email seems very human and reasonable and it did its job perfectly. It warned the student of a potential outcome and the student was able to act on that warning. The alternative of somebody moving in one day without warning would be the real fail case and that didn&#x27;t happen.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>khawkins</author><text>I agree it was reasonable, but it was written such that it was very recognizable as a non-human automated system response. I&#x27;d make the case that the message should go even further to seem like a robot, because few empathise with mindless automatons. For the same reason, it&#x27;s not clear that serious emotional damage occurred. It wasn&#x27;t cruel or unsympathetic, it was a machine going through its motions.<p>I think it was a simple oversight on behalf of system administrators.</text></comment> |
12,820,226 | 12,819,276 | 1 | 2 | 12,815,948 | train | <story><title>George Hotz cancels his Tesla Autopilot-like ‘comma one’</title><url>https://electrek.co/2016/10/28/george-hotz-cancels-his-tesla-autopilot-like-comma-one-after-request-from-nhtsa/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phasmantistes</author><text>I love this paragraph of the Request:<p>&gt; The singular includes the plural; the plural includes the singular. The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter genders; and the neuter gender includes the masculine and feminine genders. &quot;And&quot; as well as &quot;or&quot; shall be construed either disjunctively or conjunctively, to bring within scope of this Special Order all responses that might otherwise be construed to be outside the scope. &quot;Each&quot; shall be construed to include &quot;every&quot;, and &quot;every&quot; shall be construed to include &quot;each&quot;. &quot;Any&quot; shall be construed to include &quot;all&quot;, and &quot;all&quot; shall be construed to include &quot;any&quot;. The use of a verb in any tense shall be construed as the use of the verb in a past or present tense, whenever necessary to bring within the scope of the document requests all responses which might otherwise be construed to be outside its scope.<p>I&#x27;ve seen similar paragraphs on other legal documents, but this is the most thorough I&#x27;ve seen. It&#x27;s basically just a huge middle finger to all (any?) armchair lawyers who want to weasel out of the order.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AceJohnny2</author><text>See also RFC 2119 that disambiguates the meaning of &quot;must&quot;, &quot;shall&quot;, &quot;may&quot; and others in specs. It&#x27;s because of that RFC that you often see those words in caps in a spec.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ietf.org&#x2F;rfc&#x2F;rfc2119.txt" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ietf.org&#x2F;rfc&#x2F;rfc2119.txt</a></text></comment> | <story><title>George Hotz cancels his Tesla Autopilot-like ‘comma one’</title><url>https://electrek.co/2016/10/28/george-hotz-cancels-his-tesla-autopilot-like-comma-one-after-request-from-nhtsa/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phasmantistes</author><text>I love this paragraph of the Request:<p>&gt; The singular includes the plural; the plural includes the singular. The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter genders; and the neuter gender includes the masculine and feminine genders. &quot;And&quot; as well as &quot;or&quot; shall be construed either disjunctively or conjunctively, to bring within scope of this Special Order all responses that might otherwise be construed to be outside the scope. &quot;Each&quot; shall be construed to include &quot;every&quot;, and &quot;every&quot; shall be construed to include &quot;each&quot;. &quot;Any&quot; shall be construed to include &quot;all&quot;, and &quot;all&quot; shall be construed to include &quot;any&quot;. The use of a verb in any tense shall be construed as the use of the verb in a past or present tense, whenever necessary to bring within the scope of the document requests all responses which might otherwise be construed to be outside its scope.<p>I&#x27;ve seen similar paragraphs on other legal documents, but this is the most thorough I&#x27;ve seen. It&#x27;s basically just a huge middle finger to all (any?) armchair lawyers who want to weasel out of the order.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>Yup, that is the &quot;don&#x27;t try to wiggle out of this with some thin reasoning about scope&quot; paragraph.</text></comment> |
17,391,041 | 17,390,612 | 1 | 3 | 17,389,377 | train | <story><title>OpenBSD chief de Raadt says no easy fix for new Intel CPU bug</title><url>https://www.itwire.com/security/83347-openbsd-chief-de-raadt-says-no-easy-fix-for-new-intel-cpu-bug.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mrec</author><text>Carmack said it best:<p><i>&quot;Putting anything that gets benchmarked in a position of security responsibility is very, very dangerous.&quot;</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;ID_AA_Carmack&#x2F;status&#x2F;395927588108918785" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;ID_AA_Carmack&#x2F;status&#x2F;395927588108918785</a><p>I think the original context was WebGL, but it applies everywhere.</text></comment> | <story><title>OpenBSD chief de Raadt says no easy fix for new Intel CPU bug</title><url>https://www.itwire.com/security/83347-openbsd-chief-de-raadt-says-no-easy-fix-for-new-intel-cpu-bug.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>snvzz</author><text>So, it turns out Intel took every shortcut they could.</text></comment> |
25,826,834 | 25,826,573 | 1 | 2 | 25,825,244 | train | <story><title>Software effort estimation is mostly fake research</title><url>http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2021/01/17/software-effort-estimation-is-mostly-fake-research/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>snarf21</author><text>The issue is that you are being asked to estimate something that has never been done before. Even houses always go over time and money and that is fairly straight forward.<p>These days, I only give estimates in terms of <i>units</i> but without numbers. Hours, days, weeks, months, quarters or years. Some relatively small number of those units. If you want a quote it will take an extra 1&#x2F;4 of the estimate worth of time for an exact timeline. I really wish we would treat sales people the same way. &quot;How much money is this contract for? What date will it be signed?&quot;</text></item><item><author>didibus</author><text>The issue with estimates are expectations. While nobody acknowledges it, you&#x27;re not actually asked for an estimate, you&#x27;re being asked for a quote.<p>The difference is when you&#x27;re asked for a quote, you&#x27;re asked how much you will be charging, with the expectations that you&#x27;ll be willing to eat into your own margins to give a lower quote. That&#x27;s why it&#x27;s a negotiation, where you negotiate how much extra effort, time and headcount you&#x27;re willing to give, how much tech dept you&#x27;re willing to take, etc., for the privilege of getting their business.<p>If you see it for what it really is, you&#x27;ll see that it works pretty well actually. The business gets more out of you for less to them. It was never about having an accurate timeline or helping with planning or prioritizing, and always about negotiating a better contract with the dev team.<p>Now keep in mind that the &quot;business&quot; in this case is a person who need to report that through their amazing prowess of administration and management, they personally managed to get X feature out during their last review cycle at Y cost with impact Z. This person will not need to deal with developer satisfaction, retention and performance. They will not need to deal with the impact the lower margins they pushed for had on the next feature delivery, or the continued maintainance of the systems. And if the dev team had to lower the quality too much in order to meet the quote they put out, that will be 100% their fault, the &quot;business&quot; will know not to use them for their next contract, or they&#x27;ll expect the dev team to take on fixing all the issues at their own expense once more.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dkarl</author><text>&gt; Even houses always go over time and money and that is fairly straight forward.<p>This is an incredibly important point. I was &quot;raised&quot; in commercial software at a time when there was a lot of condescension internally towards ourselves as an industry because we couldn&#x27;t do estimation and planning, and building was the favorite comparison. A $100 million building couldn&#x27;t run late or over budget. That would be unimaginable, and it doesn&#x27;t happen because those people are too serious and professional to let it happen, not like us unserious, immature software doofuses. Turns out that was a complete lie, but at one time it warped the profession, because it made people believe the answers already existed, right around the corner, something you would figure out pretty soon just like last year you didn&#x27;t know regular expressions and now you did.<p>The problem with that was that when somebody walked in with a button-down shirt, oozing confidence and saying they knew exactly how to consistently deliver software on time and bug-free, those people weren&#x27;t laughed out of the room. Elaborate heavyweight processes, and their &quot;lightweight&quot; (hah!) cousins, could sell themselves as proven, established solutions. We could believe that bullshit because we had been fed the lie that other industries had conquered these problems.</text></comment> | <story><title>Software effort estimation is mostly fake research</title><url>http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2021/01/17/software-effort-estimation-is-mostly-fake-research/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>snarf21</author><text>The issue is that you are being asked to estimate something that has never been done before. Even houses always go over time and money and that is fairly straight forward.<p>These days, I only give estimates in terms of <i>units</i> but without numbers. Hours, days, weeks, months, quarters or years. Some relatively small number of those units. If you want a quote it will take an extra 1&#x2F;4 of the estimate worth of time for an exact timeline. I really wish we would treat sales people the same way. &quot;How much money is this contract for? What date will it be signed?&quot;</text></item><item><author>didibus</author><text>The issue with estimates are expectations. While nobody acknowledges it, you&#x27;re not actually asked for an estimate, you&#x27;re being asked for a quote.<p>The difference is when you&#x27;re asked for a quote, you&#x27;re asked how much you will be charging, with the expectations that you&#x27;ll be willing to eat into your own margins to give a lower quote. That&#x27;s why it&#x27;s a negotiation, where you negotiate how much extra effort, time and headcount you&#x27;re willing to give, how much tech dept you&#x27;re willing to take, etc., for the privilege of getting their business.<p>If you see it for what it really is, you&#x27;ll see that it works pretty well actually. The business gets more out of you for less to them. It was never about having an accurate timeline or helping with planning or prioritizing, and always about negotiating a better contract with the dev team.<p>Now keep in mind that the &quot;business&quot; in this case is a person who need to report that through their amazing prowess of administration and management, they personally managed to get X feature out during their last review cycle at Y cost with impact Z. This person will not need to deal with developer satisfaction, retention and performance. They will not need to deal with the impact the lower margins they pushed for had on the next feature delivery, or the continued maintainance of the systems. And if the dev team had to lower the quality too much in order to meet the quote they put out, that will be 100% their fault, the &quot;business&quot; will know not to use them for their next contract, or they&#x27;ll expect the dev team to take on fixing all the issues at their own expense once more.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>corry</author><text>&#x27;I really wish we would treat sales people the same way. &quot;How much money is this contract for? What date will it be signed?&quot;&#x27;.<p>In well-run sales teams, that is exactly what happens. There is a constant move towards more accuracy and tightness in forecasting.<p>In poorly run sales teams, the reps basically set their owns quotas (padded, of course, to mitigate against massive uncertainty) and then are very imprecise at managing the WIP. Which sounds like a poorly run engineering team too. In sales, though, at least there is a very objective measure ($$$ closed) at the end of the period. Also, the period is fixed typically (months, quarters, etc).<p>Engineering is obviously different... what&#x27;s the measure? LOCs? Obviously not...<p>Edit: just to be clear, I&#x27;m saying that well-run sales teams and well-run engineering teams probably have a lot in common, not that they are exactly the same.</text></comment> |
25,474,590 | 25,472,841 | 1 | 3 | 25,472,370 | train | <story><title>I Bought Apple Silicon</title><url>https://honzajavorek.cz/blog/i-bought-apple-silicon/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>0xCMP</author><text>Yes, but that&#x27;s pretty much how it goes. Jonathan Blow had a rant on release of the M1 Macs saying it <i>literally didn&#x27;t matter</i> because computers were <i>already really fast</i> and the problem has been, and will continue to be, that if the processor&#x2F;system is faster then software will be written slower to hit the magical response time expected.<p>Kind of a cynical take... but is he wrong?</text></item><item><author>Apocryphon</author><text>&gt; Spotify, Slack, Discord, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, all the annoying bloated websites, which I used to hate so much for the past months, now run like if they were the most optimized websites on the internet.<p>This is just going to encourage bloat and inefficiency, isn&#x27;t it? Note: this has nothing to do with specifically Apple Silicon but just any computing improvements in general.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>samatman</author><text>We used to have a saying &quot;Moore giveth, and Gates taketh away&quot;.<p>But I see two reasons why the M1 is a big deal, even given the bloat tax.<p>One is simple power efficiency. These chips run cool and fast, and Intel laptop chips don&#x27;t. No amount of hyperefficient code is going to get you a real 18 hours of battery life on last year&#x27;s MacBook Air.<p>The other one is Apple&#x27;s proven track record of integrating custom hardware and software, into something which is greater than the sum of its parts. Ever since I got an iPad Pro, I&#x27;ve been quietly frustrated with the user interface of MacBooks. It&#x27;s just not physics-smooth, and the iPad just is.<p>I just got one of the 16&quot; MacBook Pros for work, and it&#x27;s pretty loaded, and it&#x27;s a good computer— by the standards previous to the M1. Battery life could be better; overheats sometimes with serious fan noise, for no good reason, although each update to Catalina appears to substantially reduce this.<p>I figured I could get five years on this rig. No way. I might make it to 2022, but I know terminal gearlust when I see it. Whatever Apple sticks in the next release of the 16&quot;, I&#x27;m craving it already.</text></comment> | <story><title>I Bought Apple Silicon</title><url>https://honzajavorek.cz/blog/i-bought-apple-silicon/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>0xCMP</author><text>Yes, but that&#x27;s pretty much how it goes. Jonathan Blow had a rant on release of the M1 Macs saying it <i>literally didn&#x27;t matter</i> because computers were <i>already really fast</i> and the problem has been, and will continue to be, that if the processor&#x2F;system is faster then software will be written slower to hit the magical response time expected.<p>Kind of a cynical take... but is he wrong?</text></item><item><author>Apocryphon</author><text>&gt; Spotify, Slack, Discord, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, all the annoying bloated websites, which I used to hate so much for the past months, now run like if they were the most optimized websites on the internet.<p>This is just going to encourage bloat and inefficiency, isn&#x27;t it? Note: this has nothing to do with specifically Apple Silicon but just any computing improvements in general.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pushrax</author><text>Carmack famously also has declared &quot;I would rather have magic software over magic hardware&quot; - the context being that we&#x27;re using current hardware to a small fraction of its potential.<p>Still, I feel there&#x27;s a lot of software I use that is hard to optimize or no longer developed, and I&#x27;m certainly happy to have it run faster given new hardware. As a programmer I also like being able to be lazier and still have usable software. Higher level languages, GC, less thinking about access patterns and debugging prefetch problems, etc.</text></comment> |
38,860,402 | 38,860,641 | 1 | 2 | 38,848,973 | train | <story><title>Ants recognise infected wounds and treat them with antibiotics</title><url>https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-events/news/detail/news/ant-antibiotics/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eigenket</author><text>That&#x27;s insanely impressive and almost scary level of adaptation&#x2F;smart behaviour from the ants.<p>Edit: it feels more like something you&#x27;d read from Adrian Czajkowski&#x2F;Tchaikovsky rather than reality.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>20after4</author><text>Have you seen what else ants can do? They are full of insanely impressive&#x2F;scary&#x2F;smart behaviors.<p>Ants farm aphids. They don&#x27;t just find aphids and collect their &quot;honeydew&quot; excretions. They actually bring the aphids to the plants and then tend to them.<p>Ants harvest the sunflower seeds from my sunflowers. Not just some of the seeds. If I leave the flowers even one day past the time to harvest those seeds, the ants get every single seed. They do it by having some ants up on the flower popping out the seeds, and more ants down below collecting them off the ground. That&#x27;s some incredible coordination. And these are tiny ants, not some big powerful ants. It&#x27;s mind boggling to think any creature is able to pull it off. I&#x27;m honestly surprised they don&#x27;t have megalithic structures built of huge stones. Though their underground colonies are megalithic in scale compared to the ants.<p>Maybe instead of ancient aliens we should look into ants as the actual builders of the pyramids.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ants recognise infected wounds and treat them with antibiotics</title><url>https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-events/news/detail/news/ant-antibiotics/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eigenket</author><text>That&#x27;s insanely impressive and almost scary level of adaptation&#x2F;smart behaviour from the ants.<p>Edit: it feels more like something you&#x27;d read from Adrian Czajkowski&#x2F;Tchaikovsky rather than reality.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bayindirh</author><text>Assuming only the humans have certain traits or level of intelligence&#x2F;knowledge in some areas of life becomes a more foolish act as we discover what other living things are capable of.<p>I, for one, welcome our ant overlords.</text></comment> |
26,489,436 | 26,488,237 | 1 | 2 | 26,478,692 | train | <story><title>Computer tool spots deepfakes via tiny reflections in the eyes</title><url>https://newatlas.com/computers/computer-tool-deepfakes-94-percent-accuracy/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eivarv</author><text>Trying to &quot;solve&quot; deepfakes with recognition is a dead end, as it&#x27;s an arms-race between generators and detectors.<p>We stop treating video as if its some perfect representation of reality that&#x27;s inherently trustworthy, and learn from confronting similar issues with other media earlier in history.<p>Focus on media literacy, critical thinking and digital literacy.</text></comment> | <story><title>Computer tool spots deepfakes via tiny reflections in the eyes</title><url>https://newatlas.com/computers/computer-tool-deepfakes-94-percent-accuracy/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kuu</author><text>&quot;Despite this promising figure, the team notes there are still several limitations to the approach. Among them is the fact that these deviations could be fixed with editing software and that the image must present a clear view of the eye for the technique to work&quot;<p>So interesting idea but really easy for the &quot;deepfakers creators&quot; to fix it</text></comment> |
18,916,567 | 18,916,334 | 1 | 2 | 18,912,656 | train | <story><title>DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps</title><url>https://spreadprivacy.com/duckduckgo-apple-mapkit-js/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bduerst</author><text>How so?<p>Apple shared all their iCloud user data (messages, pics, docs, etc.) and keys with the Chinese government last year. [1] Apple even updated their TOS forcing Chinese users to agree to it or drop service. [2]<p>Google got flak for just <i>considering</i> it with Dragonfly, but Apple actually <i>did it</i>.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mashable.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;china-government-apple-icloud-data&#x2F;#ahDzcDZPeiqd" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mashable.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;china-government-apple-icloud-d...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-china-apple-icloud-insight&#x2F;apple-moves-to-store-icloud-keys-in-china-raising-human-rights-fears-idUSKCN1G8060" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-china-apple-icloud-insigh...</a></text></item><item><author>SEJeff</author><text>That and from a purely data privacy angle, Apple is legitimately better than Google.</text></item><item><author>NicoJuicy</author><text>Or Apple&#x27;s marketing team lead to a donation to DDG to make it possible</text></item><item><author>gowld</author><text>DDG&#x27;s main marketing model is talking about how they believe Google is privacy threat, so they&#x27;ll highlight that angle in any change.</text></item><item><author>mtmail</author><text>Some paint it as if the main reason to switch was privacy (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.imore.com&#x2F;duckduckgo-switches-apple-maps-because-privacy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.imore.com&#x2F;duckduckgo-switches-apple-maps-because...</a> &quot;DuckDuckGo switches to Apple Maps, because privacy&quot;), but the previous map provider was mapbox (openstreetmap plus commercial sources) and I doubt mapbox collected more data than Apple is now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>morganvachon</author><text>&gt; Apple shared all their iCloud user data (messages, pics, docs, etc.) and keys with the Chinese government last year. [1]<p>They shared all their <i>Chinese users&#x27;</i> iCloud data. It&#x27;s a huge distinction and I feel like you paraphrased it deliberately to try to make Apple appear to have sold out all of their users worldwide. While what they did in China is terrifying in general, it doesn&#x27;t compromise security for any Apple user outside of China as you very strongly implied it did.<p>Here&#x27;s the very first sentence from the link you posted (emphasis mine):<p>&gt; A state-owned telecommunications company in China now stores the iCloud data <i>for Apple’s China-based users</i>.</text></comment> | <story><title>DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps</title><url>https://spreadprivacy.com/duckduckgo-apple-mapkit-js/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bduerst</author><text>How so?<p>Apple shared all their iCloud user data (messages, pics, docs, etc.) and keys with the Chinese government last year. [1] Apple even updated their TOS forcing Chinese users to agree to it or drop service. [2]<p>Google got flak for just <i>considering</i> it with Dragonfly, but Apple actually <i>did it</i>.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mashable.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;china-government-apple-icloud-data&#x2F;#ahDzcDZPeiqd" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mashable.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;china-government-apple-icloud-d...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-china-apple-icloud-insight&#x2F;apple-moves-to-store-icloud-keys-in-china-raising-human-rights-fears-idUSKCN1G8060" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-china-apple-icloud-insigh...</a></text></item><item><author>SEJeff</author><text>That and from a purely data privacy angle, Apple is legitimately better than Google.</text></item><item><author>NicoJuicy</author><text>Or Apple&#x27;s marketing team lead to a donation to DDG to make it possible</text></item><item><author>gowld</author><text>DDG&#x27;s main marketing model is talking about how they believe Google is privacy threat, so they&#x27;ll highlight that angle in any change.</text></item><item><author>mtmail</author><text>Some paint it as if the main reason to switch was privacy (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.imore.com&#x2F;duckduckgo-switches-apple-maps-because-privacy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.imore.com&#x2F;duckduckgo-switches-apple-maps-because...</a> &quot;DuckDuckGo switches to Apple Maps, because privacy&quot;), but the previous map provider was mapbox (openstreetmap plus commercial sources) and I doubt mapbox collected more data than Apple is now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sjroot</author><text>This allows Apple to continue selling their hardware and software to people living in China (of which there are a lot). This is not a problem with Apple, but a problem with China.</text></comment> |
41,514,648 | 41,514,111 | 1 | 2 | 41,479,887 | train | <story><title>Openly Licensed Streetview with Panoramax</title><url>https://tzovar.as/open-source-streetview/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>maelito</author><text>In case you wonder, Panoramax instances are 100 % French for now. Even if the OSM-FR instance can be used for photos outside of France, don&#x27;t expect yet to see lots of international photos on it. It takes time to communicate and convince people it&#x27;s a good idea.<p>In France though, a few months ago, there was not really more than one big french city (Strasbourg) captured in 360°.<p>Now, more than ten big cities have interesting coverage. Check out this link to see a map of all the 360° photos <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;api.panoramax.xyz&#x2F;#focus=map&amp;map=7.33&#x2F;47.583&#x2F;0.742&amp;pic_type=equirectangular&amp;speed=250&amp;theme=default" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;api.panoramax.xyz&#x2F;#focus=map&amp;map=7.33&#x2F;47.583&#x2F;0.742&amp;p...</a><p>In fact, lots of municipalities already have 360° photos of their streets... sleeping on their servers.<p>Interesting fact : in France, public funded administrations must open their data, by law, exceptions aside.<p>Disclaimer : I&#x27;m not working on the Panoramax project, but plugged it on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cartes.app&#x2F;?choix+du+style=oui&amp;rue=oui#6.67&#x2F;47.493&#x2F;2.177" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cartes.app&#x2F;?choix+du+style=oui&amp;rue=oui#6.67&#x2F;47.493&#x2F;2...</a> (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;laem&#x2F;cartes">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;laem&#x2F;cartes</a>), the French open source alternative to Google Maps, which is in dire need of good quality 360° photos !</text></comment> | <story><title>Openly Licensed Streetview with Panoramax</title><url>https://tzovar.as/open-source-streetview/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nullc</author><text>Perhaps relevant to this subject, there are now &lt;$400 three-band GNSS compass receivers (e.g. two three band receivers in a single unit so you can run two antennas with a meter or two baseline and get accurate headings in addition to position), based on the Unicorecomm UM982 chipset. E.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ardusimple.com&#x2F;product&#x2F;simplertk3b-compass&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ardusimple.com&#x2F;product&#x2F;simplertk3b-compass&#x2F;</a> (There are other vendors, but I&#x27;ve done business with this one before)<p>I mention it because for imaging, small heading errors have way more impact on where you&#x27;re looking than small position errors but single antenna gps doesn&#x27;t really give you headings except with assumptions from motion.<p>I&#x27;ve got one sitting in a box here, haven&#x27;t tried it out yet but plan to soon...</text></comment> |
3,901,382 | 3,900,887 | 1 | 3 | 3,900,224 | train | <story><title>An employee, whose last name is Null, kills our employee lookup app</title><url>http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4456438/how-can-i-pass-the-string-null-through-wsdl-soap-from-as3-to-coldfusion-web</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wpietri</author><text>Wow. I love that the S stands for Simple. "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."</text></item><item><author>NelsonMinar</author><text>This is funny, but it's also a real world example of the kind of encoding nightmare that made SOAP RPC encoding really awkward. Various SOAP toolkits used to serialize a missing value as the empty string, or a literal value like "null" or 0, or all sorts of awfulness. I think the correct thing for the spec is to set xsi:nil="true" as an attribute on the XML tag in question, but IIRC about half the toolkits didn't understand that.<p>(I speak in the past tense of SOAP because I am an optimist.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>haberman</author><text>Indeed it does: <a href="http://wanderingbarque.com/nonintersecting/2006/11/15/the-s-stands-for-simple/" rel="nofollow">http://wanderingbarque.com/nonintersecting/2006/11/15/the-s-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>An employee, whose last name is Null, kills our employee lookup app</title><url>http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4456438/how-can-i-pass-the-string-null-through-wsdl-soap-from-as3-to-coldfusion-web</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wpietri</author><text>Wow. I love that the S stands for Simple. "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."</text></item><item><author>NelsonMinar</author><text>This is funny, but it's also a real world example of the kind of encoding nightmare that made SOAP RPC encoding really awkward. Various SOAP toolkits used to serialize a missing value as the empty string, or a literal value like "null" or 0, or all sorts of awfulness. I think the correct thing for the spec is to set xsi:nil="true" as an attribute on the XML tag in question, but IIRC about half the toolkits didn't understand that.<p>(I speak in the past tense of SOAP because I am an optimist.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>raverbashing</author><text>The S in SOAP is for Simple as the L in LDAP is for lightweight</text></comment> |
22,528,638 | 22,528,261 | 1 | 2 | 22,527,943 | train | <story><title>Sequoia gives away $21M investment in Finix as it walks away from deal</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/09/sequoia-is-giving-away-21-million-to-a-payments-startup-it-funded-as-it-walks-away-from-deal/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eightysixfour</author><text>&quot;it’s hard to understand why it felt compelled to give away $21 million — money that institutions like Stanford and hospitals give to Sequoia to invest on their behalf.&quot;<p>Does not seem that hard to understand to me. They led the round, that means other investors are in on the deal as a result of Sequoia. If they had taken the money back, they would have lost the trust of other investors in future fundraising rounds that they lead and left the other investors in Finix in a bad spot with a lot of capital in a company that is now, presumably, $21m short of their needs.<p>$21m is nothing compared to the loss of trust in Sequoia that pulling the funding would have caused.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>duxup</author><text>Yeah this seems to be the case.<p>Nobody is going to want to invest with them if they&#x27;re known to round everyone up and ... walk.<p>Presumably the value of being able to call up other investors and get their money, guidance, thoughts in the game too is highly valuable.<p>In business very often the network type stuff is the most valuable. Give me $1B and someone with a good network $1B and we go out investing in startups or such ... dude with the network probabbly does pretty well compared to me.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sequoia gives away $21M investment in Finix as it walks away from deal</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/09/sequoia-is-giving-away-21-million-to-a-payments-startup-it-funded-as-it-walks-away-from-deal/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eightysixfour</author><text>&quot;it’s hard to understand why it felt compelled to give away $21 million — money that institutions like Stanford and hospitals give to Sequoia to invest on their behalf.&quot;<p>Does not seem that hard to understand to me. They led the round, that means other investors are in on the deal as a result of Sequoia. If they had taken the money back, they would have lost the trust of other investors in future fundraising rounds that they lead and left the other investors in Finix in a bad spot with a lot of capital in a company that is now, presumably, $21m short of their needs.<p>$21m is nothing compared to the loss of trust in Sequoia that pulling the funding would have caused.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wmichelin</author><text>Sure, but wouldn&#x27;t it have made more financial sense for them to maintain some kind of position? Even if they gave up their board seat for the conflict of interest reasons, I would imagine that Sequoia has some kind of obligation to their investors to get some kind of return on that $21m.</text></comment> |
27,422,825 | 27,422,680 | 1 | 3 | 27,421,724 | train | <story><title>Chrome is faster in M91</title><url>https://blog.chromium.org/2021/05/chrome-is-faster-in-m91.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nubela</author><text>Maybe consider other browsers now. Yes speed is great and all and as much as I hate the idea of supporting the little guy just because he is a little guy; this is the web at stake. And most of us make our living on the web.<p>It is in my opinion that the gatekeeper of the web (browser) should not also be the one taxing web traffic (via ads).<p>Personally, I am on Microsoft Edge because it was low-effort coming from Chrome. But I have learnt that Microsoft Edge is as bad as Google Chrome (for me) because they are mirroring Google Chrome with regards to Manifest V3. I had thought the only other guy that will stand up to Google is Microsoft but hey, what do I know.<p>Anyways, it seems like Firefox is the last non-chromium browser that has the balls to keep uBlock Origin supported as it is. I&#x27;ll be moving to Firefox as soon as I port my personal productivity extensions over.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hliyan</author><text>I started using Firefox about two years ago. The only time I ever have to launch Chrome now is to specifically test Chrome compatibility. Other than that, I&#x27;ve never missed Chrome.</text></comment> | <story><title>Chrome is faster in M91</title><url>https://blog.chromium.org/2021/05/chrome-is-faster-in-m91.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nubela</author><text>Maybe consider other browsers now. Yes speed is great and all and as much as I hate the idea of supporting the little guy just because he is a little guy; this is the web at stake. And most of us make our living on the web.<p>It is in my opinion that the gatekeeper of the web (browser) should not also be the one taxing web traffic (via ads).<p>Personally, I am on Microsoft Edge because it was low-effort coming from Chrome. But I have learnt that Microsoft Edge is as bad as Google Chrome (for me) because they are mirroring Google Chrome with regards to Manifest V3. I had thought the only other guy that will stand up to Google is Microsoft but hey, what do I know.<p>Anyways, it seems like Firefox is the last non-chromium browser that has the balls to keep uBlock Origin supported as it is. I&#x27;ll be moving to Firefox as soon as I port my personal productivity extensions over.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zamadatix</author><text>Brave&#x2F;Opera&#x2F;Vivaldi all plan on continuing to support the blocking declarativeNetRequest API if you want options for a Chromium based browser.</text></comment> |
34,550,060 | 34,549,128 | 1 | 2 | 34,548,154 | train | <story><title>Show HN: YouTube Summaries Using GPT</title><url>https://www.eightify.app/</url><text>Hi, I&#x27;m Alex. I created Eightify to take my mind off things during a weekend, but I was surprised that my friends were genuinely interested in it. I kept going, and now it&#x27;s been nine weeks since I started.<p>I got the idea to summarize videos when my friend sent me a lengthy video again. This happens to me often; the video title is so enticing, and then it turns out to be nothing. I had been working with GPT for 6 months by the time, so everything looked like a nail to me.<p>It&#x27;s a Chrome extension, and I&#x27;m offering 5 free tries for videos under an hour. After that, you have to buy a package. I&#x27;m not making money yet, but it pays for GPT, which can be pricey for long texts. And some of Lex Fridman&#x27;s podcasts are incredibly long.<p>I&#x27;m one of those overly optimistic people when it comes to GPT. So many people tell me, &quot;Oh, it doesn&#x27;t solve this problem yet; let&#x27;s wait for GPT-4&quot;. The real issue is that their prompts are usually inadequate, and it takes you anywhere from two days to two weeks to make it work. Testing and debugging, preferably with automated tests. I believe you can solve many problems with GPT-3 already.<p>I would love to answer any questions you have about the product and GPT in general. I&#x27;ve invested at least 500 hours into prompt engineering. And I enjoy watching other people&#x27;s prompts too!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>timetraveller26</author><text>I think is funny that in the near future people are going to use ChatGPT to pad their content and then consumers are going to use it reversely to get a summary.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>peter_d_sherman</author><text>&gt;I think is funny that in the near future people are going to use ChatGPT to pad their content and then consumers are going to use it reversely to get a summary.<p>Brilliant observation! It&#x27;s sort of like if you took the most extreme lossy data expansion algorithm -- and then fed the output of that through the most extreme lossy data compression algorithm...<p>User: &quot;Computer, turn binary 1 -- into <i>everything in the Universe</i>...&quot;<p>Computer: &quot;OK, here it is...&quot; (spits out a result which is [exa|zetta|yotta|ronna|quetta|???]bytes long...)<p>User: &quot;Computer, now turn everything in the Universe back into 1...&quot;<p>Computer: &quot;Processing... this may take some <i>time</i>... please wait...&quot; (puts up progress bar that increments so slowly that it appears not to move...)<p>&lt;g&gt;<p>Related quote by Douglas Adams:<p><i>&quot;There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.&quot;</i><p>- Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe<p>Anyway, I could definitely see content creators padding with AI -- and consumers summarizing the content with it...</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: YouTube Summaries Using GPT</title><url>https://www.eightify.app/</url><text>Hi, I&#x27;m Alex. I created Eightify to take my mind off things during a weekend, but I was surprised that my friends were genuinely interested in it. I kept going, and now it&#x27;s been nine weeks since I started.<p>I got the idea to summarize videos when my friend sent me a lengthy video again. This happens to me often; the video title is so enticing, and then it turns out to be nothing. I had been working with GPT for 6 months by the time, so everything looked like a nail to me.<p>It&#x27;s a Chrome extension, and I&#x27;m offering 5 free tries for videos under an hour. After that, you have to buy a package. I&#x27;m not making money yet, but it pays for GPT, which can be pricey for long texts. And some of Lex Fridman&#x27;s podcasts are incredibly long.<p>I&#x27;m one of those overly optimistic people when it comes to GPT. So many people tell me, &quot;Oh, it doesn&#x27;t solve this problem yet; let&#x27;s wait for GPT-4&quot;. The real issue is that their prompts are usually inadequate, and it takes you anywhere from two days to two weeks to make it work. Testing and debugging, preferably with automated tests. I believe you can solve many problems with GPT-3 already.<p>I would love to answer any questions you have about the product and GPT in general. I&#x27;ve invested at least 500 hours into prompt engineering. And I enjoy watching other people&#x27;s prompts too!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>timetraveller26</author><text>I think is funny that in the near future people are going to use ChatGPT to pad their content and then consumers are going to use it reversely to get a summary.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ax8080</author><text>At some point people won&#x27;t be needed in this crazy cycle.</text></comment> |
26,702,905 | 26,701,750 | 1 | 2 | 26,700,770 | train | <story><title>Show HN: My personal website is a shell</title><url>https://aava.sh</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tombert</author><text>This if fun, few suggestions.<p>The first command I ran was `ls`, which worked as expected, but then I tried running `.&#x2F;cowsay blah`, which didn&#x27;t work. I wasn&#x27;t sure how to run it until eventually I guessed `sh cowsay blah`, and it worked.<p>Maybe make the `.&#x2F;` shortcut for executing stuff?<p>While I&#x27;m not sure how much work it would be, it might also be kind of cool to implement the `cd` command as well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aavshr</author><text>I implemented &#x27;.&#x2F;&#x27; and it should be live now.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: My personal website is a shell</title><url>https://aava.sh</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tombert</author><text>This if fun, few suggestions.<p>The first command I ran was `ls`, which worked as expected, but then I tried running `.&#x2F;cowsay blah`, which didn&#x27;t work. I wasn&#x27;t sure how to run it until eventually I guessed `sh cowsay blah`, and it worked.<p>Maybe make the `.&#x2F;` shortcut for executing stuff?<p>While I&#x27;m not sure how much work it would be, it might also be kind of cool to implement the `cd` command as well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ed</author><text>I kept trying `.&#x2F;cowsaydo-not-run-me` because `ls` outputs with no separators (`ls -l` fixed me up)</text></comment> |
14,511,314 | 14,511,363 | 1 | 3 | 14,511,009 | train | <story><title>MIT Gets $140M Pledge from Anonymous Donor</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/mit-gets-140-million-pledge-from-anonymous-donor-1496866275</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>finolex1</author><text>It would be interesting to compare the utility of one large $100 million+ grant to an institution like MIT, Yale or Harvard that is already well-endowed, compared to a hundred different million dollar grants to institutions across the USA or the world, where the money might arguably be more effectively used or sorely needed.<p>The counterpoint would be that the money could support fundamental research that eventually results in a much larger payoff to the world at large, but I&#x27;m not convinced that this outweighs the benefits of funding hundreds, or even thousands of students&#x2F;scientists in less prominent schools who might go on to make such discoveries themselves.<p>Of course, all this assumes that donor&#x27;s primary aim is to make the largest possible impact, when in all likelihood it&#x27;s motivated more by an affinity for the school, or in the case of other donors, prestige from having their name on the walls.</text></comment> | <story><title>MIT Gets $140M Pledge from Anonymous Donor</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/mit-gets-140-million-pledge-from-anonymous-donor-1496866275</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>seibelj</author><text>Hey! Ya know what HN? It&#x27;s fucking awesome that $140m was given to one of the finest institutions in the entire world, rather than pissed away like so many other fortunes. I&#x27;m sorry it didn&#x27;t fit [insert pet issue that needs money]. More rich people should do this! And anonymously donated too! Feels good</text></comment> |
14,081,498 | 14,080,728 | 1 | 2 | 14,079,056 | train | <story><title>Minecraft Set to Launch Its Own Currency</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-10/microsoft-s-minecraft-set-to-launch-its-own-currency</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xemoka</author><text>Yeah, this stinks. I despise fake currency created to form a disconnect between the real-world costs of items and their &quot;in-game&quot; price. It&#x27;s used as a form of manipulation—and if that wasn&#x27;t the original intent then they really need to re-think their reasoning.<p>It&#x27;s taking advantage of children and their connection with their funders (parents).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>powvans</author><text>I cannot take my 5 year old son into a supermarket. Entering and exiting requires passing by so much candy and other garbage that it&#x27;s just not worth it. He will invariably pitch a fit when I say no and we will invariably have a tear filled exit from the store. The store is effectively weaponizing my child against me to extract money from my pocket.<p>This is similar. My kids don&#x27;t play video games, but I have friends who will hear no end of whining and crying when their kid needs more Minecraft $$$. Of course they can refuse to participate, but as a parent it&#x27;s frustrating.</text></comment> | <story><title>Minecraft Set to Launch Its Own Currency</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-10/microsoft-s-minecraft-set-to-launch-its-own-currency</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xemoka</author><text>Yeah, this stinks. I despise fake currency created to form a disconnect between the real-world costs of items and their &quot;in-game&quot; price. It&#x27;s used as a form of manipulation—and if that wasn&#x27;t the original intent then they really need to re-think their reasoning.<p>It&#x27;s taking advantage of children and their connection with their funders (parents).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aphextron</author><text>&gt;I despise fake currency created to form a disconnect between the real-world costs of items and their &quot;in-game&quot; price.<p>That&#x27;s the entire point; it&#x27;s a psychological hack. It&#x27;s the same idea as gambling chips at a casino. If they force you to purchase &quot;coins&quot; in bulk, then you are much more likely to spend them freely once you have them than you would with actual cash, as the value is too abstract. They will also set the prices in such a way that you <i>just</i> need
to buy <i>one more</i> &quot;coin pack&quot; even though you only need a few individual coins to get what you want.</text></comment> |
39,609,588 | 39,609,404 | 1 | 3 | 39,607,747 | train | <story><title>Linux Touchpad Like MacBook Update: 2023 Progress on Smooth Scrolling</title><url>https://www.gitclear.com/blog/linux_touchpad_like_macbook_2023_update_smooth_scroll</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TonyTrapp</author><text>&gt; Even more interesting is when I see my partner try to do something on my Mac using a trackpad, he seems... apprehensive? Like he is so afraid of doing the wrong thing and for me this trackpad has never done something I didn&#x27;t want it to do. Like without even thinking about it while I was re-reading this comment, I had fingers just resting on my trackpad.<p>I think I&#x27;ll never &quot;get&quot; drag&amp;drop on MacBook touchpads. Every time I try to do it, I accidentally open the file info, or the touchpad is too small to actually reach the place where I want to drop the file to. It is absolutely doing things I don&#x27;t want it to do. I absolutely dread having to use the touchpad. (that applies to other laptops too, though)</text></item><item><author>nerdjon</author><text>It is an interesting thing to think about, I have friends that use Windows that are shocked that I willingly chose to get an external trackpad when I use my Mac as desktop.<p>Even more interesting is when I see my partner try to do something on my Mac using a trackpad, he seems... apprehensive? Like he is so afraid of doing the wrong thing and for me this trackpad has never done something I didn&#x27;t want it to do. Like without even thinking about it while I was re-reading this comment, I had fingers just resting on my trackpad.<p>It has to be a combination of software and hardware. Likely shared software and hardware.<p>Like is wrist detection on the trackpad the same as the wrist detection on an iPad?<p>I believe that the 3D Touch tech that was once in the iPhone is the same tech that is in the track pad and the Apple Watch.<p>We saw them use the same (or similar) tech on the iPhone home button when they removed the physical button.<p>Is the multitouch functionality of the trackpad the same technology as in iPhones and iPads?<p>I am genuinely curious about some of these because they feel like the same technology from the outside looking in and it would explain a lot about why it works as well as it does.<p>And yeah on the ROI, I mean they sell a $130 external trackpad... that I had zero qualms about buying. Because when using my MacBook Pro as a laptop I heavily rely on gestures. Those gestures only work if the trackpad is as perfect as it can be. But those gestures is also software.</text></item><item><author>al_borland</author><text>Why does this seem like such a hard problem to solve for everyone that isn’t Apple, when Apple seemingly solved the Trackpad over a decade ago?<p>Is this it? An unknown ROI?<p>&gt;the highly uncertain ROI for trying to align touchpad acceleration has prevented us from proposing a system change to the default Linux settings.<p>I can only speak for myself, but I gave up using trackpads on anything that isn’t a MacBook many years ago. Very occasionally I’ll try them and have always been disappointed. This prevents me from buying any laptop that isn’t a Mac and prevents me from running any OS that isn’t macOS on a laptop. I can’t be the only person who prioritizes the quality and feel of input devices when choosing a system. If this can make or break sales and adoption, it seems like the ROI would be pretty good. Even if we are just talking about Java app, if I’m using an obviously Java app that feels like a clunky Java app, I’ll usually find an alternative app that doesn’t feel horrible to use.<p>I’m glad progress is being made, but I struggle to understand why it’s still a problem at all when it’s been so good for so long with Apple. They even sell Bluetooth trackpads for desktops it’s so good.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nerdjon</author><text>Since you mention the touchpad being too small, are you trying to drag and drop with one finger or multiple?<p>What I always just do is click with my thumb and move around with my other fingers. As long as my thumb stays down it stays selected. Then just a few quick swipes with my finger gets whatever it is I am selecting where I want to go.<p>Same works for windows and anything you click and drag. Admittedly there is a quirk here that I have noticed, if for some reason I click and try to drag with the same finger, I then can&#x27;t switch to dragging around with a different finger.<p>But personally I treat my thumb just resting no the track pad as my click finger and move&#x2F;gesture with my other fingers.</text></comment> | <story><title>Linux Touchpad Like MacBook Update: 2023 Progress on Smooth Scrolling</title><url>https://www.gitclear.com/blog/linux_touchpad_like_macbook_2023_update_smooth_scroll</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TonyTrapp</author><text>&gt; Even more interesting is when I see my partner try to do something on my Mac using a trackpad, he seems... apprehensive? Like he is so afraid of doing the wrong thing and for me this trackpad has never done something I didn&#x27;t want it to do. Like without even thinking about it while I was re-reading this comment, I had fingers just resting on my trackpad.<p>I think I&#x27;ll never &quot;get&quot; drag&amp;drop on MacBook touchpads. Every time I try to do it, I accidentally open the file info, or the touchpad is too small to actually reach the place where I want to drop the file to. It is absolutely doing things I don&#x27;t want it to do. I absolutely dread having to use the touchpad. (that applies to other laptops too, though)</text></item><item><author>nerdjon</author><text>It is an interesting thing to think about, I have friends that use Windows that are shocked that I willingly chose to get an external trackpad when I use my Mac as desktop.<p>Even more interesting is when I see my partner try to do something on my Mac using a trackpad, he seems... apprehensive? Like he is so afraid of doing the wrong thing and for me this trackpad has never done something I didn&#x27;t want it to do. Like without even thinking about it while I was re-reading this comment, I had fingers just resting on my trackpad.<p>It has to be a combination of software and hardware. Likely shared software and hardware.<p>Like is wrist detection on the trackpad the same as the wrist detection on an iPad?<p>I believe that the 3D Touch tech that was once in the iPhone is the same tech that is in the track pad and the Apple Watch.<p>We saw them use the same (or similar) tech on the iPhone home button when they removed the physical button.<p>Is the multitouch functionality of the trackpad the same technology as in iPhones and iPads?<p>I am genuinely curious about some of these because they feel like the same technology from the outside looking in and it would explain a lot about why it works as well as it does.<p>And yeah on the ROI, I mean they sell a $130 external trackpad... that I had zero qualms about buying. Because when using my MacBook Pro as a laptop I heavily rely on gestures. Those gestures only work if the trackpad is as perfect as it can be. But those gestures is also software.</text></item><item><author>al_borland</author><text>Why does this seem like such a hard problem to solve for everyone that isn’t Apple, when Apple seemingly solved the Trackpad over a decade ago?<p>Is this it? An unknown ROI?<p>&gt;the highly uncertain ROI for trying to align touchpad acceleration has prevented us from proposing a system change to the default Linux settings.<p>I can only speak for myself, but I gave up using trackpads on anything that isn’t a MacBook many years ago. Very occasionally I’ll try them and have always been disappointed. This prevents me from buying any laptop that isn’t a Mac and prevents me from running any OS that isn’t macOS on a laptop. I can’t be the only person who prioritizes the quality and feel of input devices when choosing a system. If this can make or break sales and adoption, it seems like the ROI would be pretty good. Even if we are just talking about Java app, if I’m using an obviously Java app that feels like a clunky Java app, I’ll usually find an alternative app that doesn’t feel horrible to use.<p>I’m glad progress is being made, but I struggle to understand why it’s still a problem at all when it’s been so good for so long with Apple. They even sell Bluetooth trackpads for desktops it’s so good.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jxdxbx</author><text>I love drag-and-dropping to arbitrary locations in the Finder using spring-loaded folders. I think it is a bit tricky…if you don’t know the trick.</text></comment> |
26,094,459 | 26,094,024 | 1 | 2 | 26,093,778 | train | <story><title>Golang generics proposal has been accepted</title><url>https://github.com/golang/go/issues/43651#issuecomment-776944155</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dcolkitt</author><text>IMO the biggest factors for the success of Go are 1) super-fast compile times, 2) easy to interpret compiler errors, and 3) dead simple shipment of high performance, native static binaries.<p>I think Go has succeeded, despite, not because of the language itself. One very big limitation being the lack of generics or any sort of ability to leverage higher-order types. Sometimes making a small modification to a large codebase can require a huge footprint of lines modified, just because so much code winds up duplicated in slightly different contexts.<p>That being said, I really hope that Go&#x27;s core team understands the drivers of its popularity and doesn&#x27;t compromise the operational side for the sake of language improvements. Although higher-typed languages have no trouble achieving good runtime performance, it seems like there&#x27;s a fundamental tradeoff at compile time. Scala, Haskell, even Typescript have painful compile times. I don&#x27;t know if there&#x27;s any theoretical reason for it to hold, but more typing complexity inevitably leads to slow compile times.<p>And as for the topic of clear error messages, the higher-typed languages are all atrocious at this. Even templates in C++ are notorious for puking near impossible to decipher errors. This is something I&#x27;m sure can be fixed with enough engineering effort, but it would probably take <i>a lot</i> of effort to get there.<p>In general, I bitch about the Go language all the time. But I think we should recognize that the simplicity of the language gives us developers a lot of peripheral really nice usability benefits.</text></comment> | <story><title>Golang generics proposal has been accepted</title><url>https://github.com/golang/go/issues/43651#issuecomment-776944155</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cies</author><text>This was to be expected. But I&#x27;m glad for Go.<p>In some years a language that interops with Go comes out, where all the Go types have a ?-suffix indicating they are nullable. The language will be mostly null-safe. Also it will sport sumtypes and pattern matching&#x2F; destructuring in switch statements.<p>It will be called: Gotlin.</text></comment> |
3,788,564 | 3,786,883 | 1 | 2 | 3,786,624 | train | <story><title>The x86 PlayStation 4 could signal a sea-change in the console industry</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2012/04/the-x86-playstation-4-signals-a-sea-change-in-the-console-industry.ars</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FooBarWidget</author><text>What? The instruction set matters very little. Pretty much all games are written in C++ and last time I checked there are C++ compilers targeting pretty much any architecture in existence. The graphics API is more important than the instruction set.</text></item><item><author>gfodor</author><text>The article fails to mention the audience this is good news for: PC gamers. If next generation consoles are x86 based, expect to see future games being more widely available on PC, and, better yet, expect the "best" versions of those games (in terms of graphics, features, etc.) to be the PC versions. The only catch is if the game developers hold back on PC releases due to fears of piracy, but on the whole this probably will still mean many more releases on PC.<p>That said, most flagship titles (Halo, Metal Gear, Final Fantasy, etc.) will probably stick to a single console due to contractual obligations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>angersock</author><text>How can I get a ticket to the magical land of milk and honey you come from, where C++ performs well on all architectures without extra work?<p>As other posters have mentioned, weird processors (notably freaks like the Cell) can require a lot of knowledge of the instruction set and chip quirks (see <a href="http://www.insomniacgames.com/category/research-development/" rel="nofollow">http://www.insomniacgames.com/category/research-development/</a> for a lot of good info on this), even requiring you to throw away your nice virtual object hierarchies and things to make the SPUs happy ( <a href="http://www.insomniacgames.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/GDC_2009_spugp2.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.insomniacgames.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/GDC...</a> ).<p>Also, just because a compiler targets an architecture doesn't mean that it can optimize code for it worth a damn.<p>EDIT: oh god it may even lie about its program counter ( <a href="http://www.insomniacgames.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/gdc2009_spu_wrangling.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.insomniacgames.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/gdc...</a> )</text></comment> | <story><title>The x86 PlayStation 4 could signal a sea-change in the console industry</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2012/04/the-x86-playstation-4-signals-a-sea-change-in-the-console-industry.ars</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FooBarWidget</author><text>What? The instruction set matters very little. Pretty much all games are written in C++ and last time I checked there are C++ compilers targeting pretty much any architecture in existence. The graphics API is more important than the instruction set.</text></item><item><author>gfodor</author><text>The article fails to mention the audience this is good news for: PC gamers. If next generation consoles are x86 based, expect to see future games being more widely available on PC, and, better yet, expect the "best" versions of those games (in terms of graphics, features, etc.) to be the PC versions. The only catch is if the game developers hold back on PC releases due to fears of piracy, but on the whole this probably will still mean many more releases on PC.<p>That said, most flagship titles (Halo, Metal Gear, Final Fantasy, etc.) will probably stick to a single console due to contractual obligations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>willvarfar</author><text>Apart from the 1st April angle, lets take your point seriously:<p>Actually, toolchain for the PS3 with its Cell processors and unconventional memory / processing model was a major, major pain.<p>Elsewhere, EPIC Itanium failed for the lack of sufficiently smart compilers.</text></comment> |
18,736,636 | 18,735,552 | 1 | 3 | 18,733,824 | train | <story><title>Huawei Could Divide the World</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-20/how-huawei-could-divide-the-world</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xrd</author><text>Can someone explain how a Chinese company is subject to a US embargo?<p>And, at the risk of getting political, whether the idea raised in the article about the success of China in the last forty years being due to abandoning their isolationism is at direct odds with a trade embargo anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xster</author><text>No need to worry about it getting political because it is a political rather than a judicial act. Otherwise, imagine private citizen board members or executives of HSBC being arrested or extradited (US-UK have extradition) for actually &#x27;violating sanctions&#x27; with Iran, Libya, Sudan, Burma and Cuba in 2012.<p>The sanction itself is purely political as well. The US overthrows the Iranian democratically elected government to maintain BP&#x27;s regional dominance because the government threatened to use their country&#x27;s natural resources&#x27; profits to benefit its people. Installs puppet and helps the puppet plan to build 23 nuclear reactors (and the secret police Savak among other things). Puppet gets overthrown by the people and now Iran has &#x27;nuclear ambitions&#x27;. And that&#x27;s after getting the other puppet Saddam to go to war with Iran and then getting rid of the other puppet because now he&#x27;s US armed like ISIS. And now Iran has a sanction and the sanction is used against other countries.<p>This is a pyramid scheme of imperialism.</text></comment> | <story><title>Huawei Could Divide the World</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-20/how-huawei-could-divide-the-world</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xrd</author><text>Can someone explain how a Chinese company is subject to a US embargo?<p>And, at the risk of getting political, whether the idea raised in the article about the success of China in the last forty years being due to abandoning their isolationism is at direct odds with a trade embargo anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mandevil</author><text>She&#x27;s actually accused of fraud, for (allegedly) lying to US companies that what they were doing would not be in violation of any US embargo. The legal theory here is that when she made materially untrue statements that caused US organizations to commit a crime she committed the crime.<p>In broader terms, any financial interaction in dollars likely goes through a US financial institution of some kind, who will be legally obligated to carry out all US embargo rules. There are ways around this, but they are, at present weird hacks that you have to go out of your way to do.</text></comment> |
25,074,520 | 25,074,748 | 1 | 3 | 25,072,644 | train | <story><title>macOS Big Sur</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/11/macos-big-sur-is-here/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spenvo</author><text>PSA: Big Sur forgets where apps&#x27; windows are when plugging back into an external display<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;forums&#x2F;thread&#x2F;651131?answerId=644269022" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;forums&#x2F;thread&#x2F;651131?answerId=64...</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;apple&#x2F;comments&#x2F;jt0gjk&#x2F;big_sur_forgets_where_apps_windows_are_when&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;apple&#x2F;comments&#x2F;jt0gjk&#x2F;big_sur_forge...</a><p>I&#x27;ve been on the public beta of Big Sur for months (and issued Feedback Assistant bug reports on this). As of 11.0.1, there&#x27;s still a dealbreaker bug for people who use external monitors.<p>If you unplug an external display and then plug it back in, none of your apps&#x27; windows (which were on the external display’s Space beforehand) are visible or where they used to be. The external monitor’s Space usually appears completely empty.<p>I genuinely hope Apple fixes this ASAP.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jkcorrea</author><text>If you&#x27;re a stickler for keeping your windows neat and orderly like I am, you may want to check out Yabai (+ skhd):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;koekeishiya&#x2F;yabai" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;koekeishiya&#x2F;yabai</a><p>I used to use BetterTouchTool and Stay to do this, but after a co-worker tipped me off on yabai+skhd, I&#x27;ve been extremely pleased and rarely have to think about window placement (took me a while to get the config &quot;just right&quot;, of course).<p>I haven&#x27;t tried it on Big Sur, but because of the way yabai can assign windows to spaces, I don&#x27;t believe you&#x27;d face this issue.</text></comment> | <story><title>macOS Big Sur</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/11/macos-big-sur-is-here/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spenvo</author><text>PSA: Big Sur forgets where apps&#x27; windows are when plugging back into an external display<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;forums&#x2F;thread&#x2F;651131?answerId=644269022" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;forums&#x2F;thread&#x2F;651131?answerId=64...</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;apple&#x2F;comments&#x2F;jt0gjk&#x2F;big_sur_forgets_where_apps_windows_are_when&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;apple&#x2F;comments&#x2F;jt0gjk&#x2F;big_sur_forge...</a><p>I&#x27;ve been on the public beta of Big Sur for months (and issued Feedback Assistant bug reports on this). As of 11.0.1, there&#x27;s still a dealbreaker bug for people who use external monitors.<p>If you unplug an external display and then plug it back in, none of your apps&#x27; windows (which were on the external display’s Space beforehand) are visible or where they used to be. The external monitor’s Space usually appears completely empty.<p>I genuinely hope Apple fixes this ASAP.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ImaCake</author><text>Thanks, this is actually my favourite MacOS feature and I don&#x27;t wish to go without it until they fix it!</text></comment> |
32,278,912 | 32,278,802 | 1 | 3 | 32,277,109 | train | <story><title>Scientists discover new “origins of life” chemical reactions</title><url>https://www.scripps.edu/news-and-events/press-room/2022/20220728-krishnamurthy-origins-of-life-chemical-reactions.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rmbyrro</author><text>&gt; we can be pretty sure it’s the result of random mumbling<p>If you throw construction materials up 1 quadrillion times, how many times can they randomly fall in the form of a house?<p>My response is zero. Building a house is not a product of randomness, it&#x27;s a product of intelligence and will.<p>Life also can&#x27;t be a product of randomness. There&#x27;s some intelligence and will going on in nature&#x27;s laws to make life happen.</text></item><item><author>oneoff786</author><text>Is that really a staggering gap? The nucleotides jumble together until they randomly hit a config that leads to a pattern that leads to more of that config. We don’t know what that path is exactly but we can be pretty sure it’s the result of random mumbling through a series of random searches in an organic chemistry space.<p>Computers don’t arise randomly (without annoying semantic arguments).</text></item><item><author>Calavar</author><text>I have always felt that applying the label &quot;origins of life&quot; research on amino acid&#x2F;nucleic acid synthesis is extremely misleading.<p>An analogy would be writing an article about the natural abundance of silicon on beaches and calling it &quot;how computers are made.&quot;<p>We have a decent idea of how the first nucleic acids may have been synthesized, and we have a decent framework for how life evolved from protobiont to prokaryote to eukaryote to multicellular organisms. But there is an absolutely staggering gap between the synthesis of individual nucleotides and the synthesis of the first RNA replicase that we know nearly nothing about.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wussboy</author><text>It will never form a house. But it doesn&#x27;t need to, and expecting it to is a misunderstanding of evolutionary processes.<p>What it needs to form is any kind of a shelter that is better than not a shelter. A 4x8 sheet of plywood that happens to lean against a brick forming a roof is all that is required for a first house.<p>Life is a product of randomness. There is no intelligence or will going on in nature&#x27;s laws. Neither of those things are required.</text></comment> | <story><title>Scientists discover new “origins of life” chemical reactions</title><url>https://www.scripps.edu/news-and-events/press-room/2022/20220728-krishnamurthy-origins-of-life-chemical-reactions.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rmbyrro</author><text>&gt; we can be pretty sure it’s the result of random mumbling<p>If you throw construction materials up 1 quadrillion times, how many times can they randomly fall in the form of a house?<p>My response is zero. Building a house is not a product of randomness, it&#x27;s a product of intelligence and will.<p>Life also can&#x27;t be a product of randomness. There&#x27;s some intelligence and will going on in nature&#x27;s laws to make life happen.</text></item><item><author>oneoff786</author><text>Is that really a staggering gap? The nucleotides jumble together until they randomly hit a config that leads to a pattern that leads to more of that config. We don’t know what that path is exactly but we can be pretty sure it’s the result of random mumbling through a series of random searches in an organic chemistry space.<p>Computers don’t arise randomly (without annoying semantic arguments).</text></item><item><author>Calavar</author><text>I have always felt that applying the label &quot;origins of life&quot; research on amino acid&#x2F;nucleic acid synthesis is extremely misleading.<p>An analogy would be writing an article about the natural abundance of silicon on beaches and calling it &quot;how computers are made.&quot;<p>We have a decent idea of how the first nucleic acids may have been synthesized, and we have a decent framework for how life evolved from protobiont to prokaryote to eukaryote to multicellular organisms. But there is an absolutely staggering gap between the synthesis of individual nucleotides and the synthesis of the first RNA replicase that we know nearly nothing about.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oneoff786</author><text>That’s my point. Organic chemistry is not like your construction materials (or silicon computers). The organic chem functionality for nucleotides to begin organizing into repeating patterns exists. We know it does. And while we might not know the exact reactions that it took, they are highly likely to exist, and were arrived upon randomly.<p>If you arrange your biological soup a large number of times randomly, you will eventually land on a pattern that causes other nucleotides to arrange in a similar or improved pattern around it.<p>Not too dissimilar from thinking about the creation of specific atoms through various astronomical processes.<p>Even if you need to believe in god for some reason, it’s not incompatible with god defining the organic chemical reactions that enabled life to form via random interactions of nucleotides until they happened to land on god’s lucky number</text></comment> |
29,277,350 | 29,261,538 | 1 | 2 | 29,255,125 | train | <story><title>Sed challenge: join cal -y months into a single column</title><url>https://jol.dev/blog/2021-11-16-n2-sed-challenge-join-cal-y-months-into-a-single-column.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rak1507</author><text>Just for fun, I tried it in APL.<p><pre><code> cal ← ⎕SH &#x27;cal -y&#x27; ⍝ get output of cal command
bymonth ← {⍵⊂⍨0=23|⍳≢⍵}⍤1↑2↓cal ⍝ partition into month groups
lines ← {⍵⊂⍨0=8|⍳≢⍵}⍤1⍉bymonth ⍝ partition into chunks in each line
months ← ~∘&#x27; &#x27;¨,⍉⊃¨lines ⍝ extract month names and remove spaces
days ← (23⍴1 0 0)⊂⍤1↑⊃,&#x2F;,⌿2↓¨lines ⍝ partition into days
trimmed ← ∊⍤1⍉{⍵&#x2F;⍨(&#x27; &#x27;∨.≠¨⍵)∨∧\&#x27; &#x27;∧.=¨⍵}⍤1⍉¯1↓days ⍝ remove excess spaces
⎕←53↑(¯2↓⍤1⊢trimmed) , ↑months\⍨∨&#x2F;&#x27; 1 &#x27;⍷trimmed ⍝ append months to calendar where the 1s are, and print
</code></pre>
Surprisingly tricky (but still easier than sed IMO :P)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>markjreed</author><text>I attempted to run that APL, and it didn&#x27;t quite work as is on my system (Dyalog on macOS). As written, it seems to be an odd mixture of things that assume ⎕IO 0 and ⎕IO 1, in that with ⎕IO←1, the bymonth assignment only gets two columns instead of three, but with ⎕IO←0, it needs to be 0=22 and 1↓cal instead of 0=23 and 2↓cal.<p>Similarly, the lines assignment needed to be {⍵⊂⍨0=9|⍳≢⍵}⍤1⍉bymonth.<p>After those changes it worked OMM, but the month names were appended directly to the end of the first Saturday&#x27;s date with no space (e.g. &quot;1 2January&quot;). So I changed ↑months to ↑(&#x27; &#x27;,¨months) in the last line to insert a space there (there&#x27;s likely a better way to do that; I&#x27;m still pretty new at APL).<p>I added `-h` to make sure `cal` didn&#x27;t highlight today&#x27;s date, which can throw things off, and eliminated intermediate vars that were only used once; this was what I wound up with (works from a clean ws in Dyalog OMM):<p><pre><code> ⎕io ← 0
lines ← {⍵⊂⍨0=9|⍳≢⍵}⍤1⍉{⍵⊂⍨0=22|⍳≢⍵}⍤1↑1↓⎕sh &#x27;cal -hy&#x27;
months ← ~∘&#x27; &#x27;¨,⍉⊃¨lines
days ← ∊⍤1⍉{⍵&#x2F;⍨(&#x27; &#x27;∨.≠¨⍵)∨∧\&#x27; &#x27;∧.=¨⍵}⍤1⍉¯1↓(23⍴1 0 0)⊂⍤1↑⊃,&#x2F;,⌿2↓¨lines
⎕←53↑(¯2↓⍤1⊢days) , ↑(&#x27; &#x27;,¨months)\⍨∨&#x2F;&#x27; 1 &#x27;⍷days</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>Sed challenge: join cal -y months into a single column</title><url>https://jol.dev/blog/2021-11-16-n2-sed-challenge-join-cal-y-months-into-a-single-column.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rak1507</author><text>Just for fun, I tried it in APL.<p><pre><code> cal ← ⎕SH &#x27;cal -y&#x27; ⍝ get output of cal command
bymonth ← {⍵⊂⍨0=23|⍳≢⍵}⍤1↑2↓cal ⍝ partition into month groups
lines ← {⍵⊂⍨0=8|⍳≢⍵}⍤1⍉bymonth ⍝ partition into chunks in each line
months ← ~∘&#x27; &#x27;¨,⍉⊃¨lines ⍝ extract month names and remove spaces
days ← (23⍴1 0 0)⊂⍤1↑⊃,&#x2F;,⌿2↓¨lines ⍝ partition into days
trimmed ← ∊⍤1⍉{⍵&#x2F;⍨(&#x27; &#x27;∨.≠¨⍵)∨∧\&#x27; &#x27;∧.=¨⍵}⍤1⍉¯1↓days ⍝ remove excess spaces
⎕←53↑(¯2↓⍤1⊢trimmed) , ↑months\⍨∨&#x2F;&#x27; 1 &#x27;⍷trimmed ⍝ append months to calendar where the 1s are, and print
</code></pre>
Surprisingly tricky (but still easier than sed IMO :P)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wahern</author><text>It&#x27;s too bad APL never enjoyed ubiquity on Unix-like platforms. The world would have been a better place. Maybe if Stallman or some early GNU participant had championed APL we&#x27;d all be either using APL or constantly excusing ourselves. Like Emacs did for Lisp.<p>I&#x27;m decent with sed. I wouldn&#x27;t call myself an expert, but know how to employ addressing and hold spaces, which are sadly aracana to most people who employ sed. I ended up learning sed because it was there, proved useful, and it fit into the command-line toolkit really well. (In order of importance.) APL would never slot into that toolkit as well as other tools, but it&#x27;s value-add would more than compensate. Unfortunately, the value-add isn&#x27;t enough to compensate for the fact that it&#x27;s not <i>there</i> and in your face every time you&#x27;re exploring a problem and its solution space.</text></comment> |
10,803,082 | 10,803,206 | 1 | 3 | 10,802,192 | train | <story><title>Introducing d3-scale</title><url>https://medium.com/@mbostock/introducing-d3-scale-61980c51545f#.9qmfpjj3d</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mbostock</author><text>Author here, AMA.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>endergen</author><text>Hey Mike,<p>I&#x27;m a huge fan of D3. As I work on multiple platforms not just those involving web tech and javascript, I&#x27;ve often wondered if it would be better to put a lot of work into taking a more cross language, cross rendering system approach to building libraries. I&#x27;m wondering if you&#x27;ve ever thought about how you could design something like or extend d3 to create an ecosystem where assets are shared across platforms&#x2F;runtimes&#x2F;mediums much more easily?<p>I&#x27;m often left frustrated with how much of the visualizations we make are simple in terms of graphical components yet because we mix their implementations unnecessarily in with the development environment (the DOM in d3&#x27;s case). I think you are in the great position to be able to get consensus on something like that. I was thinking some more like a clean file format, runtime, and tooling for building reactive visualizations that can be reused, composed, and embedded into any environment by virtue of having a clean reference runtime that could be ported to many platforms: web, mobile, desktop, vr, and rich publishing&#x2F;printing needs as well.<p>ps. I love how you&#x27;ve pulled out a smaller clean part here.</text></comment> | <story><title>Introducing d3-scale</title><url>https://medium.com/@mbostock/introducing-d3-scale-61980c51545f#.9qmfpjj3d</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mbostock</author><text>Author here, AMA.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zappo2938</author><text>You are one of my technology heroes! Sorry if this is off topic. Language, my own and foreign, were my worst subjects through school. It was a huge accomplishment for me to learn to write grammatically. The tool I used to learn was a systematic approach to graphing sentences. Now I&#x27;ve stopped everything and set out on a journey to learn write software to help younger students learn to analyze grammar, to understand the parts of a sentence, and to isolate the parts to understand the semantic meaning from structure. More importantly, to help students learn to create semantic meaning from composition.<p>My goal requires a drag and drop user interface to build tree visualizations. Starting from zero I&#x27;ve been focused on learning Javascript. I&#x27;m not interested in natural language processing with machines and machine learning. The best I&#x27;ve seen on this subject is Ben Podgursky&#x27;s nlpviz[1] which uses Stanford&#x27;s CoreNLP service with d3.js to create a parse tree visualization.<p>Do you know anybody who is working on this, English grammar visualization? And, if there are resources available on the web? What I need is an interactive tree visualization builder.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bpodgursky&#x2F;nlpviz" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bpodgursky&#x2F;nlpviz</a></text></comment> |
9,644,815 | 9,641,840 | 1 | 3 | 9,640,218 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Viktor NV-1 Synthesizer</title><url>http://nicroto.github.io/viktor/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tsenkov</author><text>I would like to thank everyone for the kind words. You guys are absolutely amazing! In my wildest expectations, I didn&#x27;t see such a warm response and wide audience.
Thank you!<p>I am sure there are people who deserve that much and more attention, but aren&#x27;t getting it, so I would like to say something to you guys, working tirelessly, day in and day out, on your projects - keep doing what you love!<p>I am not always talking about synthesizers or music, but you can follow me in these places:<p><pre><code> * Twitter: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;@NikolayTsenkov
* Ello: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ello.co&#x2F;tsenkov
* Facebook: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;facebook.com&#x2F;NikolayTsenkov
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I am also looking into job opportunities (or even if you just want to connect) so here is my LinkedIn: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bg.linkedin.com&#x2F;pub&#x2F;nikolay-tsenkov&#x2F;38&#x2F;754&#x2F;955" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bg.linkedin.com&#x2F;pub&#x2F;nikolay-tsenkov&#x2F;38&#x2F;754&#x2F;955</a><p>Cheers!</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Viktor NV-1 Synthesizer</title><url>http://nicroto.github.io/viktor/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fluxsauce</author><text>That&#x27;s a very cool piece of work! I recorded a brief demo using a MIDI controller - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ZU8FE9xLBdM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ZU8FE9xLBdM</a> and the lack of latency is fantastic.<p>Question - is it possible to do polyphonic sounds?</text></comment> |
13,166,553 | 13,166,449 | 1 | 2 | 13,165,221 | train | <story><title>Google has reportedly stopped developing its own self-driving car</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/12/google-has-reportedly-stopped-developing-its-own-self-driving-car/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Ensorceled</author><text>Sharing isn&#x27;t viable. I don&#x27;t want my 20 minute taxi&#x2F;CaaS ride to become 30+ minutes as we drive off my route to pick up another rider (and wait for them to come downstairs, pick their way across the slush, close their umbrella, and FINALLY get in the god damn cab)</text></item><item><author>petra</author><text>&gt;&gt; Are cars going to be (even more) commoditised<p>Self driving cars as a service are much better deal for the consumer. And they&#x27;ll be more commoditized[1], same as taxis are, from the consumer perspective. On the other hand, building the car with the highest reliability , and the lowest cost of operation , is a hard challenge.<p>But: if electric cars are going to win, cars may become mostly batteries on wheels, so a lot of power will go to the battery companies, maybe even to the point they&#x27;ll build the cars(like Samsung is working on).<p>And about Tesla: a lot of it&#x27;s value is about brand. cars as a service kill branding(if everybody transports with a Tesla,it&#x27;s nothing special) . Maybe that&#x27;s one reason why they don&#x27;t want their vehicle as a service.<p>[1]One thing i&#x27;m curious about : is taxi sharing realistic in a world of self-driven cars ? one guess: to make it viable, someone would have to build cars that are both shareable, but offer privacy for each of the passengers. And actually, this doesn&#x27;t require self-driving to offer great value, so i wonder why aren&#x27;t we seeing work on this?</text></item><item><author>emdowling</author><text>It&#x27;s fascinating to see Google and (purportedly) Apple move in a similar direction away from developing their own actual cars and instead building the software platform. It makes a lot of sense for Google, who have always struggled with selling products direct to consumers. It is more surprising for Apple, but makes sense if you look at how they can add the most value.<p>I&#x27;m looking forward to seeing how this plays out. Are cars going to be (even more) commoditised at the low end and differentiated by the platform on top of it (Apple, Google, Tesla) in the same way phone carriers were commoditised by the iPhone? My gut is that they won&#x27;t (industrial design is a huge part of choosing a car manufacturer), so the dynamics between platform and carrier (Toyota, Fiat Chrysler, etc) are going to be fascinating to see unfold. The traditional car industry moves at such a glacial pace, yet you have two tech titans ceding a lot of control to them.<p>Of course, you then have the &quot;apps&quot; that will run on top of them, like Uber. How they interplay with it all is another dimension too. Tesla has fired the first shot here by restricting usage of non-Tesla car pooling services. It is a worrying thought to think that buying a BMW might mean I&#x27;m locked into only renting out my car through Apple-approved car riding services (and while I can&#x27;t see Apple creating their own car pooling service, never say never).<p>Tesla seems to be the only player doing the entire stack from top to bottom. Very reminiscent of early Apple.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aianus</author><text>&gt; Sharing isn&#x27;t viable. I don&#x27;t want my 20 minute taxi&#x2F;CaaS ride to become 30+ minutes as we drive off my route to pick up another rider<p>I drive for Uber part time and the majority of riders do choose the POOL option so I think you&#x27;re wrong here.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google has reportedly stopped developing its own self-driving car</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/12/google-has-reportedly-stopped-developing-its-own-self-driving-car/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Ensorceled</author><text>Sharing isn&#x27;t viable. I don&#x27;t want my 20 minute taxi&#x2F;CaaS ride to become 30+ minutes as we drive off my route to pick up another rider (and wait for them to come downstairs, pick their way across the slush, close their umbrella, and FINALLY get in the god damn cab)</text></item><item><author>petra</author><text>&gt;&gt; Are cars going to be (even more) commoditised<p>Self driving cars as a service are much better deal for the consumer. And they&#x27;ll be more commoditized[1], same as taxis are, from the consumer perspective. On the other hand, building the car with the highest reliability , and the lowest cost of operation , is a hard challenge.<p>But: if electric cars are going to win, cars may become mostly batteries on wheels, so a lot of power will go to the battery companies, maybe even to the point they&#x27;ll build the cars(like Samsung is working on).<p>And about Tesla: a lot of it&#x27;s value is about brand. cars as a service kill branding(if everybody transports with a Tesla,it&#x27;s nothing special) . Maybe that&#x27;s one reason why they don&#x27;t want their vehicle as a service.<p>[1]One thing i&#x27;m curious about : is taxi sharing realistic in a world of self-driven cars ? one guess: to make it viable, someone would have to build cars that are both shareable, but offer privacy for each of the passengers. And actually, this doesn&#x27;t require self-driving to offer great value, so i wonder why aren&#x27;t we seeing work on this?</text></item><item><author>emdowling</author><text>It&#x27;s fascinating to see Google and (purportedly) Apple move in a similar direction away from developing their own actual cars and instead building the software platform. It makes a lot of sense for Google, who have always struggled with selling products direct to consumers. It is more surprising for Apple, but makes sense if you look at how they can add the most value.<p>I&#x27;m looking forward to seeing how this plays out. Are cars going to be (even more) commoditised at the low end and differentiated by the platform on top of it (Apple, Google, Tesla) in the same way phone carriers were commoditised by the iPhone? My gut is that they won&#x27;t (industrial design is a huge part of choosing a car manufacturer), so the dynamics between platform and carrier (Toyota, Fiat Chrysler, etc) are going to be fascinating to see unfold. The traditional car industry moves at such a glacial pace, yet you have two tech titans ceding a lot of control to them.<p>Of course, you then have the &quot;apps&quot; that will run on top of them, like Uber. How they interplay with it all is another dimension too. Tesla has fired the first shot here by restricting usage of non-Tesla car pooling services. It is a worrying thought to think that buying a BMW might mean I&#x27;m locked into only renting out my car through Apple-approved car riding services (and while I can&#x27;t see Apple creating their own car pooling service, never say never).<p>Tesla seems to be the only player doing the entire stack from top to bottom. Very reminiscent of early Apple.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alexc05</author><text>Though, with a self driving car sharing would not necessarily mean you both need to use it at the same time. The car could pick you up, drive your 20 minutes, then drive to the other person on its own and drive their 20 minutes. &quot;Serial sharing&quot; not &quot;parallel&quot;</text></comment> |
36,708,991 | 36,709,058 | 1 | 2 | 36,708,550 | train | <story><title>B.C. government hit tweet limit amid wildfire evacuations</title><url>https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/highlights/bc-government-hit-tweet-limit-amid-wildfire-evacuations-7268169</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slashdev</author><text>&gt; What governments should be doing is set up their own social media servers sharing across all open protocols.<p>An emergency broadcast that reaches nobody is just as useful as a tweet that doesn&#x27;t go out. Maybe that changes one day, maybe it doesn&#x27;t. But that&#x27;s the reality today.</text></item><item><author>mcv</author><text>&gt; Experts say it spells the end of social media as a reliable platform during an emergency.<p>I&#x27;m glad that the second line of the article already draws the correct conclusion from this.<p>Don&#x27;t rely on proprietary infrastructure you have no control over for essential public functionality. What governments should be doing is set up their own social media servers sharing across all open protocols. The Dutch government is already setting up its own Mastodon instance, which is a start.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reaperducer</author><text><i>An emergency broadcast that reaches nobody is just as useful as a tweet that doesn&#x27;t go out.</i><p>Except that emergency broadcasts (at least where I live) interrupt all television signals, all radio stations, all cable TV channels, all cell phones (unless you&#x27;ve intentionally disabled them), and one place I lived they even appeared on satellite TV channels. They even go out on satellite radio in North America. Then, if things get really bad, klaxons blare.<p>Comparing emergency broadcasts to social media doesn&#x27;t make sense.</text></comment> | <story><title>B.C. government hit tweet limit amid wildfire evacuations</title><url>https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/highlights/bc-government-hit-tweet-limit-amid-wildfire-evacuations-7268169</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slashdev</author><text>&gt; What governments should be doing is set up their own social media servers sharing across all open protocols.<p>An emergency broadcast that reaches nobody is just as useful as a tweet that doesn&#x27;t go out. Maybe that changes one day, maybe it doesn&#x27;t. But that&#x27;s the reality today.</text></item><item><author>mcv</author><text>&gt; Experts say it spells the end of social media as a reliable platform during an emergency.<p>I&#x27;m glad that the second line of the article already draws the correct conclusion from this.<p>Don&#x27;t rely on proprietary infrastructure you have no control over for essential public functionality. What governments should be doing is set up their own social media servers sharing across all open protocols. The Dutch government is already setting up its own Mastodon instance, which is a start.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>verandaguy</author><text>Speaking as someone whose experience with the fediverse has been thus far pretty underwhelming: this could actually be a great use case for activitypub if phone OSes can implement first-class support.<p>I think this could make sense since it&#x27;s effectively an application&#x2F;presentation layer abstraction, platform-agnostic, free to use, and with servers available for licence-fee-free on-prem hosting, e.g. by the governments trying to send these alerts out -- so govts could be responsible for uptime as well as how to present data to users.<p>Of course, this raises in my mind two issues:<p>- How can this clearly improve on the existing emergency alert systems? (I&#x27;m thinking better geographic granularity and rich media, but that might not be a strong argument)<p>- Would most people be ok with having this software on their phones? (This is coming from a place of having friends and relatives who still believe COVID exposure alerts were a government spying program of some kind)<p>This is also working on the assumption that the government is both technically competent and design-minded enough to both have high uptime and present data in a readable way, and I may very well be ignoring some downsides of using ActivityPub that I just don&#x27;t know about.</text></comment> |
18,501,326 | 18,501,297 | 1 | 2 | 18,499,781 | train | <story><title>Container Linux on the Desktop [slides]</title><url>https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17Hml1iFqdXElxOcrh9caQSC5px5mDgaS015Vhaz42ZY</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xte</author><text>In my own personal opinion container idea is &quot;meh&quot; and today&#x27;s usage trends are AWFUL. They serve a sole real purpose, open door to proprietary software on GNU&#x2F;Linux destroying it&#x27;s community model.<p>You can&#x27;t run unsafe software in safety, it&#x27;s a myth. Or worse is giving trust to a specific tech and so ignore both it&#x27;s potential mistrust and other software security implications.<p>The future for me is Nix{,OS}&#x2F;Guix{,SD} certainly not &quot;chroots&quot;&#x2F;&quot;jails&quot;&#x2F;&quot;zones&quot;&#x2F;&quot;lpar&quot;&#x2F;*.</text></comment> | <story><title>Container Linux on the Desktop [slides]</title><url>https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17Hml1iFqdXElxOcrh9caQSC5px5mDgaS015Vhaz42ZY</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>reacharavindh</author><text>Very interesting work.<p>I have seen OpenBSD&#x27;s pledge, and unveil systemcalls that achieve this easily for applications running on OpenBSD. Elegant in the way it&#x27;s done.<p>On the other hand, running container images for wmeverything including text editor seems like a NIMBYism in OS and packages. There is a reason why our OSes evolved with package managers. Sharing and reusing common libraries so that they can be updated once safely. Bug in libsodium? Update libsodium in your system, and all applications that use it automatically get new version.<p>With containers, you have to rely on each and every container to update libsodium...<p>Secondly, it takes away the sharing so you have several copies of libraries for each applications you use as containers.. What does it do to memory usage, and disk usage?<p>Very interesting either way, and got me thinking about using such for specific cases.</text></comment> |
8,023,766 | 8,023,051 | 1 | 3 | 8,023,035 | train | <story><title>Deterministic, bit-identical and/or verifiable Linux builds</title><url>https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=885777</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>indygreg2</author><text>I filed the linked bug and am the technical owner of Firefox&#x27;s build system.<p>There were efforts made and discussions outside of the linked bug. To say &quot;nothing&quot; was done is just not true.<p>It would be more accurate to say that we just can&#x27;t justify working on this right now because the timing isn&#x27;t right and it&#x27;s high cost for perceived low reward. The time of everyone involved to implement this would be better spent on improvements that benefit the general Firefox population. Some of those improvements include overhauling Firefox&#x27;s build automation to better support things like building with Docker. That lays the groundwork for (easier) deterministic builds in the future. Even then, I&#x27;m not sure if this will happen. Brendan&#x27;s post called on the larger community to make requests of Mozilla. That front has been surprisingly quiet. If you really want this, I would suggest making noise on the mozilla.org domain. Even better, contribute some patches, like the Tor Project has done: I will happily review them! #build on irc.mozilla.org.</text></comment> | <story><title>Deterministic, bit-identical and/or verifiable Linux builds</title><url>https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=885777</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zz1</author><text>On January 2014 Brendan Eich [1] called out for organization to build up a system to verify Firefox builds in order to secure the browser can&#x27;t be used as an attack vector being distributed with some malicious feature added to what&#x27;s in the source code.<p>Six months later nothing is done, that is because Firefox build are not deterministic yet. If you think this is an important issue, please vote this bug.<p>Edit: [1] <a href="https://brendaneich.com/2014/01/trust-but-verify/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brendaneich.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;01&#x2F;trust-but-verify&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
20,792,989 | 20,792,747 | 1 | 3 | 20,792,417 | train | <story><title>Instagram influencers: Have we stopped believing?</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49450655</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wcunning</author><text>I hesitate to defend a Facebook property, but here goes anyway...<p>My Instagram feed is 100% welding, machining and a small smattering of woodworking. Literally any project I post gets universally positive feedback, with the occasional constructive suggestion. If I ask for help on a project, I get advice in at most a few hours from someone with 40 years more experience than I have. Contrast this to the forum community for the same thing that has a disturbing tendency to flame out and generally mock newbies.<p>What I take away from this is that Instagram, like all metaphorical tools, is what you make of it. If you only follow beautiful people, you may only get shallow content. If you follow interesting people who share interesting things, you&#x27;ll get interesting content.</text></item><item><author>hiven</author><text>There was a shop that said to influencers they could get a discount only after 30 people used their specific influencer promo code. None of them did (or could do) it.<p>It’s highly ineffective and for the most part it’s just some entitled person with an inflated ego demanding freebies. Madness to think businesses can really believe they are of any real substance or significance.<p>Instagram more and more has become a cesspool of materialism and advertising. It’s hauntingly shallow to witness, and the impact on the younger generation who are trying to “keep up” for their own mental sanity are instead being dragged further and further into it. Instagram isn’t the only offender obviously but I think it is the antithesis of the issue.<p>Having already deleted Facebook, I completely changed up my instagram to show photography photos and things relating to my hobbies, and removed my friends and other “lifestyle” feeds. I can honestly say it felt like an immediate lift of mental
clarity and happiness. I kept my friendships and have nothing to prove about the way I choose I live my life. No more scrutiny, no more pining after validation, and most of all, a bit of well deserved privacy.<p>Bringing up a child in this vapid and self obsessed culture must be like navigating a minefield.<p>Apologises for the rant. I’m only 29 but I sound like I am 90.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dantondwa</author><text>I agree with you. Instagram is the only social media I still use, and it&#x27;s mainly because it&#x27;s so non-toxic. I mostly see stuff related to my hobbies, some comic stripes, some friends I care about. It&#x27;s by definition a bubble, but it&#x27;s one that is actually chosen by me. Mainly, its pleasantness comes from the sensation of not being inundated by contents, by the lack of importance that comments have, etc. I bet it&#x27;s possible to have a different experience, if I followed influencers and whatnot it would be much worst. However, for how I use it, I don&#x27;t mind it and I actually get to know interesting things.</text></comment> | <story><title>Instagram influencers: Have we stopped believing?</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49450655</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wcunning</author><text>I hesitate to defend a Facebook property, but here goes anyway...<p>My Instagram feed is 100% welding, machining and a small smattering of woodworking. Literally any project I post gets universally positive feedback, with the occasional constructive suggestion. If I ask for help on a project, I get advice in at most a few hours from someone with 40 years more experience than I have. Contrast this to the forum community for the same thing that has a disturbing tendency to flame out and generally mock newbies.<p>What I take away from this is that Instagram, like all metaphorical tools, is what you make of it. If you only follow beautiful people, you may only get shallow content. If you follow interesting people who share interesting things, you&#x27;ll get interesting content.</text></item><item><author>hiven</author><text>There was a shop that said to influencers they could get a discount only after 30 people used their specific influencer promo code. None of them did (or could do) it.<p>It’s highly ineffective and for the most part it’s just some entitled person with an inflated ego demanding freebies. Madness to think businesses can really believe they are of any real substance or significance.<p>Instagram more and more has become a cesspool of materialism and advertising. It’s hauntingly shallow to witness, and the impact on the younger generation who are trying to “keep up” for their own mental sanity are instead being dragged further and further into it. Instagram isn’t the only offender obviously but I think it is the antithesis of the issue.<p>Having already deleted Facebook, I completely changed up my instagram to show photography photos and things relating to my hobbies, and removed my friends and other “lifestyle” feeds. I can honestly say it felt like an immediate lift of mental
clarity and happiness. I kept my friendships and have nothing to prove about the way I choose I live my life. No more scrutiny, no more pining after validation, and most of all, a bit of well deserved privacy.<p>Bringing up a child in this vapid and self obsessed culture must be like navigating a minefield.<p>Apologises for the rant. I’m only 29 but I sound like I am 90.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hiven</author><text>Completely agree. I do however think the way the instagram app works you are guided down a path littered with product sales pages, advertising and general mundane materialism. I think at its core this culture is good for their business model.</text></comment> |
17,744,418 | 17,744,250 | 1 | 3 | 17,743,899 | train | <story><title>Two years with CloudFormation: lessons learned</title><url>https://sanderknape.com/2018/08/two-years-with-cloudformation-lessons-learned/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Dunedan</author><text>What I don&#x27;t like about Terraform is that the state of your resources is stored locally, which might lead to consistency problems depending on your setup. With CloudFormation state is handled by CloudFormation itself, so you can be confident that stack updates operate on the latest state.</text></item><item><author>kokey</author><text>The only thing that spending time with Cloudformation teaches me is how much it makes me prefer doing things with Terraform. I think Cloudformation is considerably better than nothing and it was great when there were no alternatives, but that was a while ago.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>liveoneggs</author><text>I store terraform state in s3 with dynamodb locking. It looks like this:<p><pre><code> #backend&#x2F;state uses less priv keys
terraform {
backend &quot;s3&quot; {
bucket = &quot;mystatebucketisunique-tf&quot;
key = &quot;states&#x2F;tf&#x2F;tf.tfstate&quot;
region = &quot;us-east-1&quot;
lock_table = &quot;lock-tf&quot;
profile = &quot;aws_tf_s3-prof&quot;
}
}
</code></pre>
So for an entirely new env I have to setup that bucket and the dynamodb table</text></comment> | <story><title>Two years with CloudFormation: lessons learned</title><url>https://sanderknape.com/2018/08/two-years-with-cloudformation-lessons-learned/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Dunedan</author><text>What I don&#x27;t like about Terraform is that the state of your resources is stored locally, which might lead to consistency problems depending on your setup. With CloudFormation state is handled by CloudFormation itself, so you can be confident that stack updates operate on the latest state.</text></item><item><author>kokey</author><text>The only thing that spending time with Cloudformation teaches me is how much it makes me prefer doing things with Terraform. I think Cloudformation is considerably better than nothing and it was great when there were no alternatives, but that was a while ago.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>artellectual</author><text>You can store the state remotely there are many options for state storage too. You can use s3 or dynamo db or even create your own web service that accepts web hooks from terraform.</text></comment> |
25,861,762 | 25,861,424 | 1 | 2 | 25,858,750 | train | <story><title>New Intel CEO rehiring retired CPU architects</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/16438/new-intel-ceo-making-waves-rehiring-retired-cpu-architects</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>This is an encouraging move.<p>My secondhand understanding was that Intel was losing top talent due to pressure to pay closer to median industry compensation. Top engineers recognized they were underpaid and left the company.<p>I&#x27;ve been part of a similar downhill slide at a smaller company in the billion dollar revenue range. To be blunt, once the [mediocre] MBAs start realizing that the engineers are getting paid more than they are, the pressure to reduce engineering compensation is strong. Frankly, there are plenty of engineering candidates on the market who are happy with median compensation. Many of them are even great engineers and great employees.<p>However, being a top company in a winner-take-all market requires the top engineers. The only way to attract and retain them at scale is to offer high compensation. I&#x27;m hoping that&#x27;s part of what&#x27;s happening here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lmilcin</author><text>I left Intel years ago to get almost 3x the salary as a software developer at... a bank.<p>At Intel engineers are paid supposedly similar rates at similar levels and similar locations. And given my level (two levels above Senior Developer) I estimate I was paid better than at least 90% engineers.<p>Where I worked in R&amp;D the doors were constantly revolving and many people admitted they wait to register enough of prestigious time at Intel on their CV to get hired at a much better rate for another company.<p>--<p>I don&#x27;t see these moves as encouraging, more like signs of complete and utter panic. You go to these moves when whatever you do isn&#x27;t working and you don&#x27;t have strategy to do something new so you try to default on what has worked in the past (this both for the choice of CEO as well as bringing retired people).<p>This doesn&#x27;t necessarily mean it is a wrong move (see Steve Jobs coming back to save Apple as a proof it doesn&#x27;t have to be bad) but I wouldn&#x27;t call it encouraging.<p>Rehiring retired people to me signals the new CEO has no trust in people that already are there. And that is usually bad news.<p>Add to it outsourcing <i>CORE</i> competency to competitor (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eenewseurope.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;intel-TSMC-5nm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eenewseurope.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;intel-TSMC-5nm</a>) and it seems that if there is a plan it is to keep the ship afloat for a little while longer.<p>Hopefully the ship is going to be afloat for as long is necessary to reshape the organization, but I think we haven&#x27;t yet seen any concrete moves to see what is the strategy.</text></comment> | <story><title>New Intel CEO rehiring retired CPU architects</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/16438/new-intel-ceo-making-waves-rehiring-retired-cpu-architects</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>This is an encouraging move.<p>My secondhand understanding was that Intel was losing top talent due to pressure to pay closer to median industry compensation. Top engineers recognized they were underpaid and left the company.<p>I&#x27;ve been part of a similar downhill slide at a smaller company in the billion dollar revenue range. To be blunt, once the [mediocre] MBAs start realizing that the engineers are getting paid more than they are, the pressure to reduce engineering compensation is strong. Frankly, there are plenty of engineering candidates on the market who are happy with median compensation. Many of them are even great engineers and great employees.<p>However, being a top company in a winner-take-all market requires the top engineers. The only way to attract and retain them at scale is to offer high compensation. I&#x27;m hoping that&#x27;s part of what&#x27;s happening here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>langitbiru</author><text>Reading all comments grilling MBAs in HN is one of my guilty pleasures. I think I need to collect them all and put them in one place.</text></comment> |
39,131,955 | 39,131,918 | 1 | 2 | 39,127,897 | train | <story><title>Quicksort with Jenkins for fun and no profit</title><url>https://susam.net/blog/jenkins-quicksort.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>michaelmior</author><text>&gt; …it helps in avoiding wasteful build jobs…<p>I appreciate that the author went to the effort of optimizing this given how terribly this would perform in the first place.</text></comment> | <story><title>Quicksort with Jenkins for fun and no profit</title><url>https://susam.net/blog/jenkins-quicksort.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>binarymax</author><text>Awesome. I’ve seen worse Jenkins pipelines than this.</text></comment> |
38,300,651 | 38,300,363 | 1 | 2 | 38,273,043 | train | <story><title>What Meta learned from Galactica, the doomed model</title><url>https://venturebeat.com/ai/what-meta-learned-from-galactica-the-doomed-model-launched-two-weeks-before-chatgpt/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>janalsncm</author><text>I think the reason is because expectations were different. ChatGPT was released to the general public for general use. Galactica was really only noticed by the egg head press and egg head professionals (like myself) who rightly identified the failure of these statistical language models to have a grounding in facts. People whose job it is to notice details are going to push your model to the limit.<p>But it’s not like ChatGPT was better. If I recall, RLHF actually made hallucinations slightly worse. Even today OpenAI wouldn’t claim to be able to accurately summarize papers. It’s just that there was an endless supply of “write X in the style of Y” that was like catnip for journalists and kept them busy for months.</text></comment> | <story><title>What Meta learned from Galactica, the doomed model</title><url>https://venturebeat.com/ai/what-meta-learned-from-galactica-the-doomed-model-launched-two-weeks-before-chatgpt/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MenhirMike</author><text>Rookie mistake, it should have been named Galactus. Though of course, even though Galactus has omniscience, it doesn&#x27;t have futuresight, so perhaps it would still have been doomed.</text></comment> |
24,409,673 | 24,409,853 | 1 | 2 | 24,407,432 | train | <story><title>Ad Fraud on LinkedIn</title><url>https://www.samueljscott.com/2020/09/08/linkedin-ad-fraud/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>picodguyo</author><text>I observed the same with Google&#x27;s &quot;Smart&quot; display ads. I ran a campaign for a couple of weeks and watched all of the traffic with HotJar. The first fishy thing was 99.9% of the traffic came from foreign countries despite the target being US&#x2F;Canada. When I saw the targeting wasn&#x27;t effective, I even set up specific geographic exclusions for every country != US&#x2F;Canada and still the traffic was from mostly underdeveloped countries. Then there was the behavior of the &quot;users&quot; when they visited the site. A large percentage of them went straight to the search box (which literally no humans do on the site) and typed in something topical but completely unrelated to the site&#x27;s topic, e.g. &quot;covid&quot;. Another large percentage just scrolled up and down randomly. It was interesting to see the size and relative sophistication of the fraud going on but not exactly $500 well spent.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>x86_64Ubuntu</author><text>Wow, I had the same issue. I&#x27;m an ad-noob in the fullest sense of the word, but I tried the Google &quot;Smart Ad&quot;. It turned out the same way you mentioned. I looked at where my clicks were coming from, and they were all pretty much from Hindi oriented Youtube channels. I was baffled at how that happened as I targeted US&#x2F;Canada as you did.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ad Fraud on LinkedIn</title><url>https://www.samueljscott.com/2020/09/08/linkedin-ad-fraud/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>picodguyo</author><text>I observed the same with Google&#x27;s &quot;Smart&quot; display ads. I ran a campaign for a couple of weeks and watched all of the traffic with HotJar. The first fishy thing was 99.9% of the traffic came from foreign countries despite the target being US&#x2F;Canada. When I saw the targeting wasn&#x27;t effective, I even set up specific geographic exclusions for every country != US&#x2F;Canada and still the traffic was from mostly underdeveloped countries. Then there was the behavior of the &quot;users&quot; when they visited the site. A large percentage of them went straight to the search box (which literally no humans do on the site) and typed in something topical but completely unrelated to the site&#x27;s topic, e.g. &quot;covid&quot;. Another large percentage just scrolled up and down randomly. It was interesting to see the size and relative sophistication of the fraud going on but not exactly $500 well spent.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>huac</author><text>the default setting on Google location targeting is&#x2F;was &quot;user in [geo] OR user &#x27;interested&#x27; in [geo].&quot; which is insane! but could explain the location weirdness</text></comment> |
20,206,971 | 20,204,668 | 1 | 2 | 20,189,404 | train | <story><title>Calculators for Contractors, Builders, Remodelers, Carpenters, Woodworkers</title><url>https://www.blocklayer.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AstroJetson</author><text>So for lots of things like stairs and rafters you can use a good framing square <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.johnsonlevel.com&#x2F;News&#x2F;FramingSquare" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.johnsonlevel.com&#x2F;News&#x2F;FramingSquare</a><p>My goto build device is the speed square <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.popularmechanics.com&#x2F;home&#x2F;how-to&#x2F;a3999&#x2F;4306646&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.popularmechanics.com&#x2F;home&#x2F;how-to&#x2F;a3999&#x2F;4306646&#x2F;</a><p>And for fractions, thank you Mr Shimel for teaching how to do fraction math.<p>But I do have a construction calculator that will figure sq feet, cu feet for concrete. It&#x27;s a standalone device for about $30, but there are a ton of builder apps out there.</text></comment> | <story><title>Calculators for Contractors, Builders, Remodelers, Carpenters, Woodworkers</title><url>https://www.blocklayer.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DoofusOfDeath</author><text>I recently wanted something similar to this for drywalling.<p>I&#x27;m a DIY homeowner renovating my basement and adding an office.<p>There were a lot of rules regarding where&#x2F;how to use floating corners, what screw lengths&#x2F;diameters to use, where to place the screws, etc. It was really hard to keep them straight, and in some areas I used way more screws than is ideal.<p>The issue was further complicated by inconsistent advice from the Gypsum Association (the main trade group, AFAICT) and various contractors who post advice on Youtube, diy.stackexchange.com, etc.<p>I really wished for a website that let me enter the shape and framing details of my room, and have it show me an optimal plan for the shape &#x2F; placement of drywall pieces, and the attachment method.</text></comment> |
2,355,957 | 2,355,299 | 1 | 3 | 2,354,354 | train | <story><title>Firefox 4 is here</title><url>http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/new/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>IChrisI</author><text>Personally, I like Chrome's address bar better than Firefox 4's. In Chrome, I can type g-m-&#60;enter&#62; to go to Gmail. In Firefox, it's g-m-&#60;down&#62;-&#60;enter&#62;. It's a little thing, but it makes a difference to me.<p>Can't live without Tree Style Tabs though. Firefox is my "heavy lifting" browser.</text></item><item><author>kristiandupont</author><text>To everybody asking what Firefox has that Chrome lacks: The Awesomebar.<p>I haven't seen it mentioned here but it's by far the thing I miss the most from FF (along with FireBug and TreeStyle Tabs). It practically replaces bookmarks for me because because it searches through the history. In Chrome it feels like I have to re-google everything unless I remember the exact url.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thinkalone</author><text>You can change FF's behavior to match Chrome: setting browser.urlbar.autoFill to true in about:config will enable inline autocomplete in the awesomebar, instead of having to arrow down or tab down.<p>The solution I use is bookmarking sites and aliasing keywords to the bookmark - right click on a bookmark, go to properties, and add a keyword. For example, I have "hn" as the keyword for the Hacker News homepage, so if I type "hn" and hit enter, it expands to the full URL and goes to the page.</text></comment> | <story><title>Firefox 4 is here</title><url>http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/new/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>IChrisI</author><text>Personally, I like Chrome's address bar better than Firefox 4's. In Chrome, I can type g-m-&#60;enter&#62; to go to Gmail. In Firefox, it's g-m-&#60;down&#62;-&#60;enter&#62;. It's a little thing, but it makes a difference to me.<p>Can't live without Tree Style Tabs though. Firefox is my "heavy lifting" browser.</text></item><item><author>kristiandupont</author><text>To everybody asking what Firefox has that Chrome lacks: The Awesomebar.<p>I haven't seen it mentioned here but it's by far the thing I miss the most from FF (along with FireBug and TreeStyle Tabs). It practically replaces bookmarks for me because because it searches through the history. In Chrome it feels like I have to re-google everything unless I remember the exact url.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DEinspanjer</author><text>I greatly prefer being able to hit enter on the first result too. Here is the addon I use to enable that:
<a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mozilla-labs-prospector-speak-/" rel="nofollow">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mozilla-labs-...</a></text></comment> |
10,866,293 | 10,864,781 | 1 | 2 | 10,864,370 | train | <story><title>The big data of bad driving, and how insurers plan to track every turn</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/01/04/the-big-data-of-bad-driving-and-how-insurers-plan-to-track-your-every-turn/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>whack</author><text>Discriminating against insurance customers on the basis of things they cannot control, like their age or gender, is not good.<p>Discriminating against customers on the basis of driving habits that they have control over, like how fast they drive, or how hard they swerve, is completely fine.<p>If driver A drives safely at the speed limit, and driver B constantly pulls stunts at speeds well over the speed limit, B is much more likely to get into an accident than A. Why should A have his premiums raised just to subsidize B&#x27;s voluntary driving habits?<p>By making B pay for the costs of his unsafe driving habits, and rewarding A for his safe driving habits, this feels like a great marketplace improvement.</text></comment> | <story><title>The big data of bad driving, and how insurers plan to track every turn</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/01/04/the-big-data-of-bad-driving-and-how-insurers-plan-to-track-your-every-turn/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>reallydontask</author><text>One can easily see how this will end up being near universal as people will be charged a massive premium if they choose not to use tracking.<p>It will be sold&#x2F;marketed as a discount if you use it, of course, but it&#x27;s the same.<p>It remains to be seen whether it will have any actual effect on the way people drive.<p>Alternatively, self-driving cars take over before we&#x27;re are effectively forced to use tracking</text></comment> |
30,911,169 | 30,910,064 | 1 | 2 | 30,908,084 | train | <story><title>What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists (2016)</title><url>https://aeon.co/ideas/what-i-learned-as-a-hired-consultant-for-autodidact-physicists</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lumost</author><text>This was such a common problem in my undergrad. I&#x27;d say over half of all incoming majors had at least some form of miss-understanding of what physics was and how it really worked coming off of pop sci. Even those who stick it out through Grad School and post docs often lament that they toiled away always believing that the grandiose visions of research presented in pop sci would eventually come true for them.<p>While pop-sci has been radically successful at making physics concepts <i>appear</i> accessible, it has woefully failed at making actual physics accessible. It&#x27;s no wonder that Americans increasingly view science as either the tony stark like practice of wizards - or as a ceremonious endeavor practiced by those whose beliefs are no more testable than a TV pundits.<p>We need to do better at Science writing.</text></item><item><author>overthemoon</author><text>Wow, I love this. What a thoughtful, empathetic project. This passage really stuck out to me--<p>&quot;A typical problem is that, in the absence of equations, they project literal meanings onto words such as ‘grains’ of space-time or particles ‘popping’ in and out of existence. Science writers should be more careful to point out when we are using metaphors. My clients read way too much into pictures, measuring every angle, scrutinising every colour, counting every dash. Illustrators should be more careful to point out what is relevant information and what is artistic freedom. But the most important lesson I’ve learned is that journalists are so successful at making physics seem not so complicated that many readers come away with the impression that they can easily do it themselves. How can we blame them for not knowing what it takes if we never tell them?&quot;<p>Of course, this writing often isn&#x27;t for the layperson, it&#x27;s for an audience who can tell the difference between diagram, artistic license, and metaphor, but even so, it&#x27;s good to think about, especially when communicating science to the general public.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blablabla123</author><text>For me pop sci documentaries were quite a motivation to study Physics though. But yeah, after having studied it I have zero interest in pop sci anymore. It&#x27;s unfortunately not really explaining things but more show casing things. But what I also learned while reading text books, listening and reading lectures: often the most concise explanations are very close to every day language. (In the lines of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.motionmountain.net&#x2F;9lines.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.motionmountain.net&#x2F;9lines.html</a> which was recently also posted on HN) Would be great if such things could be included more into pop sci. Maybe in a way that at least the common notations are put in. That doesn&#x27;t enable you to do meaningful calculations but at least it would be way closer to relevant literature. Unfortunately there&#x27;s also quite a barrier to university literature in terms of pricing and some stuff is just not published on the Internet. E.g. lecture notes are only sporadically available but tend to be more readable than most books. FWIW Feynman&#x27;s lectures on Physics really stand out here</text></comment> | <story><title>What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists (2016)</title><url>https://aeon.co/ideas/what-i-learned-as-a-hired-consultant-for-autodidact-physicists</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lumost</author><text>This was such a common problem in my undergrad. I&#x27;d say over half of all incoming majors had at least some form of miss-understanding of what physics was and how it really worked coming off of pop sci. Even those who stick it out through Grad School and post docs often lament that they toiled away always believing that the grandiose visions of research presented in pop sci would eventually come true for them.<p>While pop-sci has been radically successful at making physics concepts <i>appear</i> accessible, it has woefully failed at making actual physics accessible. It&#x27;s no wonder that Americans increasingly view science as either the tony stark like practice of wizards - or as a ceremonious endeavor practiced by those whose beliefs are no more testable than a TV pundits.<p>We need to do better at Science writing.</text></item><item><author>overthemoon</author><text>Wow, I love this. What a thoughtful, empathetic project. This passage really stuck out to me--<p>&quot;A typical problem is that, in the absence of equations, they project literal meanings onto words such as ‘grains’ of space-time or particles ‘popping’ in and out of existence. Science writers should be more careful to point out when we are using metaphors. My clients read way too much into pictures, measuring every angle, scrutinising every colour, counting every dash. Illustrators should be more careful to point out what is relevant information and what is artistic freedom. But the most important lesson I’ve learned is that journalists are so successful at making physics seem not so complicated that many readers come away with the impression that they can easily do it themselves. How can we blame them for not knowing what it takes if we never tell them?&quot;<p>Of course, this writing often isn&#x27;t for the layperson, it&#x27;s for an audience who can tell the difference between diagram, artistic license, and metaphor, but even so, it&#x27;s good to think about, especially when communicating science to the general public.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nullc</author><text>I bet the bad science writing sells much better-- readers enjoy the Feeling of Knowing. You&#x27;re not going to get much of that feeling from an honest article on a complex subject.</text></comment> |
31,693,537 | 31,693,601 | 1 | 2 | 31,693,287 | train | <story><title>uBlacklist – Block specific sites from appearing in Google search results</title><url>https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ezekg</author><text>Alternatively, you could stop using Google and use Kagi (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kagi.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kagi.com</a>), which offers the same feature. :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lolinder</author><text>Beat me to it!<p>Kagi also goes one step further and allows you to &quot;pin&quot; sites to the top. For example, I&#x27;ve got MDN pinned, so whenever I&#x27;m searching for web stuff they&#x27;re the top result, even if there&#x27;s an SEO&#x27;d blog post that normally would have come first.<p>Abandoning Google is a huge motivator for me, but this feature set is why it&#x27;s my primary search engine. Google tries to guess what I want and just ends up feeding me the same garbage it feeds everyone else. Kagi allows me to correct it when it guesses wrong. That makes all the difference.</text></comment> | <story><title>uBlacklist – Block specific sites from appearing in Google search results</title><url>https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ezekg</author><text>Alternatively, you could stop using Google and use Kagi (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kagi.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kagi.com</a>), which offers the same feature. :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MauranKilom</author><text>Huh, $10 a month is pretty steep. It&#x27;s great that they offer a free plan, but that comes with all the misaligned incentives again. Any reason they don&#x27;t just do pay-per-use (1 cent per query)?</text></comment> |
4,575,589 | 4,575,404 | 1 | 2 | 4,574,907 | train | <story><title>French Government To Use PostgreSQL, LibreOffice In Free Software Adoption Push</title><url>http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/open-source/3400404/french-govt-use-postgresql-libreoficce-in-free-software-adoption-push/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cs702</author><text>The upfront costs of migration (including retraining, coping with missing features, and solving a wide variety of little compatibility issues as they arise) will surely exceed what it would have cost the French Government to stay on Microsoft Office for one or two more waves of upgrades. The important question is: will the upfront cost and disruption be worth it?<p>The data presented by the city of Munich six months ago provides compelling evidence that the answer is a resounding YES: the <i>recurring savings</i> from migration will exceed its upfront costs.[1]<p>The city of Munich identified three types of cost savings: (1) it no longer has to pay for license upgrades, eliminating a significant recurring cost forever; (2) its desktop software and hardware no longer have to be updated as frequently, reducing another significant recurring cost forever; and (3) surprisingly, Munich claims its IT department is fielding fewer user complaints with free software, reducing another major cost forever.<p>--<p>Edit: There's an additional benefit from migration not mentioned by Munich which I think will become very important over time. According to this article, the French government intends to reinvest "between 5 percent and 10 percent of the money they save" on contributing to the development of the applications they use, so they will have <i>direct, hands-on input</i> into which features get added to such applications and even how such features are implemented. The French government, in other words, will become a 'co-owner' of these Free Software applications, giving them more control over their own IT future. How much is <i>that</i> worth?<p>--<p>[1] <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3787539" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3787539</a></text></comment> | <story><title>French Government To Use PostgreSQL, LibreOffice In Free Software Adoption Push</title><url>http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/open-source/3400404/french-govt-use-postgresql-libreoficce-in-free-software-adoption-push/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>debacle</author><text>Why are people shitting so much over LibreOffice? I have both on my machine in the office, and I've set LibreOffice to the default and use it almost exclusively. It's faster than Office, has a better UI, more features I see as essential (save to PDF is nice), and the leap from Office to LibreOffice these days is tiny.</text></comment> |
2,823,191 | 2,823,241 | 1 | 2 | 2,823,039 | train | <story><title>Airbnb Competitor Checks IDs: 'We Don't Want to Trade Security for Volume'</title><url>http://www.betabeat.com/2011/07/29/airbnb-competitor-roomorama-we-dont-want-to-trade-security-for-volume/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>wccrawford</author><text>They have to be careful, though, as this kind of thing can be considered libel or slander if not 100% true, and collusion even if it is true. Having an industry-wide blacklist will almost definitely run afoul of the law.</text></item><item><author>mbreese</author><text>Any of Airbnb's competitors are going to use this to their advantage. Rightfully so too... I didn't even know about Roomorama until this story.<p>The biggest part of the story though was thrown in at the end:<p><i>The harrowing story of the Airbnb user EJ prompted Ms. En Teo to reach out to her competitors in order to set a precedent for sharing information about sketchy users, so if she gets a report about misbehavior she can send an alert to get him or her banned from other sites. Incidents like this hurt the entire market as well as individual users, she said.</i><p>Some kind of data sharing would be a great thing for this industry as they are all vulnerable to the same problems (theft, etc...).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ghshephard</author><text>Bars do this all the time in areas where there are problems - they scan your ID and then share the information with other bars, particularly if you get booted.<p>In the United States, if you make a good faith claim about someone, it's pretty hard to win a libel suit, and, I suspect, it would be even harder to claim that grading an individual rises to the level of slander/libel, particularly if you provide a mechanism to challenge the claims.<p>If this were not the cases, then credit rating agencies would have a difficult time existing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Airbnb Competitor Checks IDs: 'We Don't Want to Trade Security for Volume'</title><url>http://www.betabeat.com/2011/07/29/airbnb-competitor-roomorama-we-dont-want-to-trade-security-for-volume/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>wccrawford</author><text>They have to be careful, though, as this kind of thing can be considered libel or slander if not 100% true, and collusion even if it is true. Having an industry-wide blacklist will almost definitely run afoul of the law.</text></item><item><author>mbreese</author><text>Any of Airbnb's competitors are going to use this to their advantage. Rightfully so too... I didn't even know about Roomorama until this story.<p>The biggest part of the story though was thrown in at the end:<p><i>The harrowing story of the Airbnb user EJ prompted Ms. En Teo to reach out to her competitors in order to set a precedent for sharing information about sketchy users, so if she gets a report about misbehavior she can send an alert to get him or her banned from other sites. Incidents like this hurt the entire market as well as individual users, she said.</i><p>Some kind of data sharing would be a great thing for this industry as they are all vulnerable to the same problems (theft, etc...).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mattdeboard</author><text>Internet attorneys seem to love turning libel laws into this blanket prohibition on ever saying anything negative about someone or something that is not "100% true" and verifiable.<p>This doesn't even touch libel laws, and it certainly wouldn't be a _group_ culpability if there's one purveyor out there intentionally spreading malicious lies about some private person.</text></comment> |
2,190,948 | 2,190,294 | 1 | 3 | 2,189,957 | train | <story><title>FareBot: Read data from public transit cards w/ your NFC-equipped Android phone</title><url>http://codebutler.com/announcing-farebot-for-android</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eik3_de</author><text>If you're interested in reverse engineering RFID payment systems in public transfer, I can recommend you this talk from 27c3: <a href="https://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/events/4036.en.html" rel="nofollow">https://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/events/4036.en....</a>
Video: <a href="http://mirror.fem-net.de/CCC/27C3/mp4-h264-HQ/27c3-4036-en-reverse_engineering_a_real_word_rfid_payment_system.mp4" rel="nofollow">http://mirror.fem-net.de/CCC/27C3/mp4-h264-HQ/27c3-4036-en-r...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>FareBot: Read data from public transit cards w/ your NFC-equipped Android phone</title><url>http://codebutler.com/announcing-farebot-for-android</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zitterbewegung</author><text>This is great! I was wondering if you could read data from RFID chips using the NFC since the protocols are nearly identical. I wonder if you could create an app that just indiscriminately reads data raw from the NFC chip?</text></comment> |
15,353,121 | 15,352,721 | 1 | 2 | 15,350,799 | train | <story><title>Battery-Free Cell Phone</title><url>http://www.techradar.com/news/this-phone-needs-no-battery</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>make3</author><text>Related, this spying microphone bug first used by the Soviets in the 50s that has no battery or electricity wire and can keep listening &quot;forever&quot;, which was discovered by accident in a &quot;gift&quot; eagle sculpture given to the US ambassador, after years of staying in that embassador&#x27;s office, listening <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Thing_(listening_device" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Thing_(listening_device</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Battery-Free Cell Phone</title><url>http://www.techradar.com/news/this-phone-needs-no-battery</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>IncRnd</author><text>There were earlier discussions on this.<p>&gt; <i>Right now the battery-free phone needs a custom base station to transmit and receive calls. But the team says there&#x27;s no reason why the technology couldn&#x27;t be integrated into standard mobile network infrastructure.</i><p>This could only be called a cell phone, if the cell phone network changes to accommodate this radio. It&#x27;s not a cell phone, because it doesn&#x27;t work with cellular phone towers.</text></comment> |
11,381,559 | 11,381,658 | 1 | 2 | 11,380,766 | train | <story><title>Oracle wants $9.3B for Google’s use of Java in Android</title><url>http://www.computerworld.com/article/3048774/android/oracle-wants-93b-for-googles-use-of-java-in-android.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tyingq</author><text>FYI, Oracle is pushing this agenda to squeeze Java shops in other places as well.<p>The tack they are taking is to define any computer that does &quot;one specific thing&quot; as an embedded device and ask you for $300+ per &quot;device&quot;, plus some other lofty fees.
(<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oracle.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;corporate&#x2F;pricing&#x2F;price-lists&#x2F;java-embedded-price-list-1977272.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oracle.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;corporate&#x2F;pricing&#x2F;price-lists&#x2F;java-...</a>)<p>So, if you&#x27;re using Java in a kiosk, ATM, media player, etc, they may be coming for you.<p>My guess is that this just spawns a mass migration to OpenJDK, but perhaps they trap enough Java shops that it&#x27;s worth the effort?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jimbokun</author><text>My guess is this just spawns a mass migration away from Java altogether.<p>Not knowing when Oracle might decide to shake down your business is a massive incentive to use anything else.</text></comment> | <story><title>Oracle wants $9.3B for Google’s use of Java in Android</title><url>http://www.computerworld.com/article/3048774/android/oracle-wants-93b-for-googles-use-of-java-in-android.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tyingq</author><text>FYI, Oracle is pushing this agenda to squeeze Java shops in other places as well.<p>The tack they are taking is to define any computer that does &quot;one specific thing&quot; as an embedded device and ask you for $300+ per &quot;device&quot;, plus some other lofty fees.
(<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oracle.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;corporate&#x2F;pricing&#x2F;price-lists&#x2F;java-embedded-price-list-1977272.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oracle.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;corporate&#x2F;pricing&#x2F;price-lists&#x2F;java-...</a>)<p>So, if you&#x27;re using Java in a kiosk, ATM, media player, etc, they may be coming for you.<p>My guess is that this just spawns a mass migration to OpenJDK, but perhaps they trap enough Java shops that it&#x27;s worth the effort?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>teacurran</author><text>How is this any difference than installing Windows 10 on your Kiosk? You are paying for updates and support. You are free to use Linux and OpenJDK if you don&#x27;t want to pay. Most shops I know of are using OpenJDK for all production deployments at this point unless you have a larger contract with Oracle.</text></comment> |
31,241,314 | 31,238,830 | 1 | 3 | 31,236,274 | train | <story><title>Square-Enix sells all of its Western game studios and their games to Embracer</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/05/embracer-acquires-tomb-raider-deus-ex-and-all-western-square-enix-game-studios/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Reubachi</author><text>I think Deus Ex is done. A finish to the Jensen story would rely upon Eidos Montreal being able to produce more than one game every 5 years. Since Mankind Divided, they&#x27;ve released only a Guardians of the Galaxy game.<p>MD was a great game, which was according to Eidos Montreal kneecapped by &quot;Square rushing it out&quot;. Human Revolution was an even greater game, but still slightly kneecapped by &quot;Square rushing it out&quot;.</text></item><item><author>ianbutler</author><text>Pretty please can we have the final installment of the Adam Jensen Deus Ex trilogy now. Left us hanging in the middle of what might be one of my favorite neo noir, cyberpunk series because open world story driven games were losing out back then. There&#x27;s clearly an appetite now given recent releases and their success.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Melatonic</author><text>People say that every time and (thankfully) so far we have kept getting Deus Ex games. For all their flaws I have enjoyed every single one q uite a bit.<p>Mankind Divided I thought was highly underrated. Cyberpunk 2077 was sort of close to what I think some people wanted out of the ultimate Deus Ex game (depending on your playstyle) but obviously had problems as well.<p>Personally I would like to see something massive and not just another boring &quot;open world&quot; focused game - Deus Ex really shines with a strong story driven plot. I have always wanted to see a true co-op functionality in a Deus Ex game and I think that could be hugely popular online especially if they regularly released new missions and content.</text></comment> | <story><title>Square-Enix sells all of its Western game studios and their games to Embracer</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/05/embracer-acquires-tomb-raider-deus-ex-and-all-western-square-enix-game-studios/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Reubachi</author><text>I think Deus Ex is done. A finish to the Jensen story would rely upon Eidos Montreal being able to produce more than one game every 5 years. Since Mankind Divided, they&#x27;ve released only a Guardians of the Galaxy game.<p>MD was a great game, which was according to Eidos Montreal kneecapped by &quot;Square rushing it out&quot;. Human Revolution was an even greater game, but still slightly kneecapped by &quot;Square rushing it out&quot;.</text></item><item><author>ianbutler</author><text>Pretty please can we have the final installment of the Adam Jensen Deus Ex trilogy now. Left us hanging in the middle of what might be one of my favorite neo noir, cyberpunk series because open world story driven games were losing out back then. There&#x27;s clearly an appetite now given recent releases and their success.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Sakos</author><text>Why would Embracer buy Deus Ex if they had no intention of doing anything with it? They&#x27;re not EA.</text></comment> |
20,033,534 | 20,032,852 | 1 | 3 | 20,031,730 | train | <story><title>Simple Dockerfile examples are often broken by default</title><url>https://pythonspeed.com/articles/dockerizing-python-is-hard/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oconnor663</author><text>&gt; The first version is to lock down every dependency as tightly as you can to avoid accidentally breaking something...The second version is upgrade early, upgrade often...Google is an excellent example of a company that does this.<p>This is misleading. My understanding of Google&#x27;s internal build systems is that they <i>ruthlessly</i> lock down the version of every single dependency, up to and including the compiler binary itself. They then provide tooling on top of that to make it easier to upgrade those locked down versions regularly.<p>The core problem is that when your codebase gets to the kind of scale that Google&#x27;s has, if you can&#x27;t reproduce the entire universe of your dependencies, there is no way any historical commit of anything will ever build. That makes it difficult to do basic things like maintain release branches or bisect bugs.<p>&gt; if you want to lock down version numbers for a specific release, have an automated tool supply the right ones for you. And make it trivial to upgrade early, and upgrade often.<p>This part sounds like a more accurate description of what Google and others do, yes.</text></item><item><author>btilly</author><text>I have a mixed opinion about his first point.<p>There are two basic approaches to take with dependency management.<p>The first version is to lock down every dependency as tightly as you can to avoid accidentally breaking something. Which inevitably leads down the road to everything being locked to something archaic that can&#x27;t be upgraded easily, and is incompatible with everything else. But with no idea what will break, or how to upgrade. I currently work at a company that went down that path and is now suffering for it.<p>The second version is upgrade early, upgrade often. This will occasionally lead to problems, but they tend to be temporary and easily fixed. And in the long run, your system will age better. Google is an excellent example of a company that does this.<p>The post assumes that the first version should be your model. But having seen both up close and personal, my sympathies actually lie with the second.<p>This is not to say that I&#x27;m against reproducible builds. I&#x27;m not. But if you want to lock down version numbers for a specific release, have an automated tool supply the right ones for you. And make it trivial to upgrade early, and upgrade often.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paulddraper</author><text>A larger problem is that Docker is nearly inherently unreproducible.<p>Downloading and installing system packages lists, etc.<p>For this reason, Google doesn&#x27;t use Docker at all.<p>It writes the OCI images more or less directly. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bazelbuild&#x2F;rules_docker" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bazelbuild&#x2F;rules_docker</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Simple Dockerfile examples are often broken by default</title><url>https://pythonspeed.com/articles/dockerizing-python-is-hard/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oconnor663</author><text>&gt; The first version is to lock down every dependency as tightly as you can to avoid accidentally breaking something...The second version is upgrade early, upgrade often...Google is an excellent example of a company that does this.<p>This is misleading. My understanding of Google&#x27;s internal build systems is that they <i>ruthlessly</i> lock down the version of every single dependency, up to and including the compiler binary itself. They then provide tooling on top of that to make it easier to upgrade those locked down versions regularly.<p>The core problem is that when your codebase gets to the kind of scale that Google&#x27;s has, if you can&#x27;t reproduce the entire universe of your dependencies, there is no way any historical commit of anything will ever build. That makes it difficult to do basic things like maintain release branches or bisect bugs.<p>&gt; if you want to lock down version numbers for a specific release, have an automated tool supply the right ones for you. And make it trivial to upgrade early, and upgrade often.<p>This part sounds like a more accurate description of what Google and others do, yes.</text></item><item><author>btilly</author><text>I have a mixed opinion about his first point.<p>There are two basic approaches to take with dependency management.<p>The first version is to lock down every dependency as tightly as you can to avoid accidentally breaking something. Which inevitably leads down the road to everything being locked to something archaic that can&#x27;t be upgraded easily, and is incompatible with everything else. But with no idea what will break, or how to upgrade. I currently work at a company that went down that path and is now suffering for it.<p>The second version is upgrade early, upgrade often. This will occasionally lead to problems, but they tend to be temporary and easily fixed. And in the long run, your system will age better. Google is an excellent example of a company that does this.<p>The post assumes that the first version should be your model. But having seen both up close and personal, my sympathies actually lie with the second.<p>This is not to say that I&#x27;m against reproducible builds. I&#x27;m not. But if you want to lock down version numbers for a specific release, have an automated tool supply the right ones for you. And make it trivial to upgrade early, and upgrade often.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>OJFord</author><text>For an easy open source example of such tooling, see Pyup.<p>We use it to do exactly that: pin down every dependency to an exact version, but automatically build and test with newly released versions of each one. (And then merge the upgrade, after fixing any issue.)</text></comment> |
4,555,343 | 4,555,454 | 1 | 2 | 4,554,996 | train | <story><title>Tent v0.1</title><url>http://tent.io/blog/tent-v01</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whalesalad</author><text>Decentralizing things like this is never <i>ever</i> going to work. In terms of running it... my mom/sister/dad/cousin are not going to host this themselves. They might depend on me to do it, but even I'm not going to run a decentralized social network myself. There's too much liability involved. Not to mention, it's a pain in the ass.<p>I want to hack and work on my own ideas. That's why I trust my mail hosting to Google. Sure, they read all my emails and analyze me for marketing. That's a small price to pay though. I get a rad web client, Apple Mail + iPhone support, and never need to worry about my email server. Anyone remember qmailrocks.org? I used to sit for hours messing with and playing with qMail back in the day. I've done it. I've hosteed mail servers for friends and family. What a pain in the fucking ass!<p>Same for hosting. I <i>love</i> configuring infrastructure. I taught myself HAProxy, load balancing, nginx, and clustering years ago when people were still using mod_python. I built a FreeBSD box for fun with old parts an an old SSD the other weekend. I have quite a few linodes running right now. But it's also a pain in the ass. Because of that, I also enjoy pushing my personal site to Heroku and not worrying about it ever again. git push, boom done.<p>A lot of people take things like Facebook for granted. We all bitch and moan about all kinds of issues it has or features it lacks, but it's a gargantuous network that virtually everyone that I know or care to talk to is on it. My family and friends back home in LA where I grew up, my new friends in Sweden that I met while abroad recently. It's got a handy mobile app (that was luckily redeveloped recently) and best of all it's 100% free.<p>This decentralized stuff is nonsense. There's too many layers of crap. Even if there was a one-click-deploy social network for people where all they needed to do was rent a server somewhere... someone is still running that server and you need to worry about them snooping your data or whatever else the neckbeards are worried about.<p>Remember Diaspora? Hah.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mej10</author><text>You say decentralized services never work, and then give an example of the most successful one: email.<p>I don't know why you are assuming that everyone will have to run their own.<p>Also, it seems very cynical/naive to think that just because such systems aren't currently working/won't currently work with given social structures, that this will always be the case. Do you disagree?</text></comment> | <story><title>Tent v0.1</title><url>http://tent.io/blog/tent-v01</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whalesalad</author><text>Decentralizing things like this is never <i>ever</i> going to work. In terms of running it... my mom/sister/dad/cousin are not going to host this themselves. They might depend on me to do it, but even I'm not going to run a decentralized social network myself. There's too much liability involved. Not to mention, it's a pain in the ass.<p>I want to hack and work on my own ideas. That's why I trust my mail hosting to Google. Sure, they read all my emails and analyze me for marketing. That's a small price to pay though. I get a rad web client, Apple Mail + iPhone support, and never need to worry about my email server. Anyone remember qmailrocks.org? I used to sit for hours messing with and playing with qMail back in the day. I've done it. I've hosteed mail servers for friends and family. What a pain in the fucking ass!<p>Same for hosting. I <i>love</i> configuring infrastructure. I taught myself HAProxy, load balancing, nginx, and clustering years ago when people were still using mod_python. I built a FreeBSD box for fun with old parts an an old SSD the other weekend. I have quite a few linodes running right now. But it's also a pain in the ass. Because of that, I also enjoy pushing my personal site to Heroku and not worrying about it ever again. git push, boom done.<p>A lot of people take things like Facebook for granted. We all bitch and moan about all kinds of issues it has or features it lacks, but it's a gargantuous network that virtually everyone that I know or care to talk to is on it. My family and friends back home in LA where I grew up, my new friends in Sweden that I met while abroad recently. It's got a handy mobile app (that was luckily redeveloped recently) and best of all it's 100% free.<p>This decentralized stuff is nonsense. There's too many layers of crap. Even if there was a one-click-deploy social network for people where all they needed to do was rent a server somewhere... someone is still running that server and you need to worry about them snooping your data or whatever else the neckbeards are worried about.<p>Remember Diaspora? Hah.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>innernette</author><text>&#62; That's why I trust my mail hosting to Google.<p>Imagine if GMail only allowed you to send Google Mail(TM) to other @gmail.com addresses. Email's decentralization allows us to ignore the fact that other people may be reading on an iphone, yahoo mail, or emacs.<p>Decentralization isn't (only) for neckbeards. It's about giving users freedom to socialize with those who choose a different client. Isn't it bizarre that I use LinkedIn, you use Facebook, therefore we can't be friends?<p>First we build the decentralized social network, then I will decide if I want to social network with you via google, yahoo, or emacs.</text></comment> |
30,145,248 | 30,144,005 | 1 | 3 | 30,140,835 | train | <story><title>Hardy, Ramanujan and Taxi No. 1729</title><url>https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2022/01/30/hardy-ramanujan-and-taxi-no-1729/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pdevr</author><text>&gt;&gt;I remember once going to see him when he was lying ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi-cab No. 1729, and remarked that the number seemed to be rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavourable omen. “No,” he replied, “it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways.”<p>The quote above is from G. H. Hardy himself, from the book &quot;Ramanujan: Twelve Lectures on Subjects Suggested by His Life and Work&quot;. There was no need for him to embellish the story while it was published to &quot;cheer up&quot; Ramanujan, since the book was published in 1940 after Ramanujan&#x27;s death.<p>Two great men can have different interests in the same field. It does not mean one of them had less ability. Hardy, since his early days, was fascinated by pure mathematics and rigor. Ramanujan was playing with numbers on pieces of paper since he was a child. That&#x27;s why their contributions and intuitions, even though in the same broad field, are so different.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hardy, Ramanujan and Taxi No. 1729</title><url>https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2022/01/30/hardy-ramanujan-and-taxi-no-1729/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jbandela1</author><text>&gt; Hardy either knew of Ramanujan’s work on this problem or noticed himself that 1729 had a special property. He wanted to cheer up his dear friend Ramanujan, who was lying deathly ill in the hospital. So he played the fool by walking in and saying that 1729 was “rather dull”.<p>If this is the case, it really increases my respect for Hardy. Anybody can brag, but to willingly seem to be the fool, in order to help someone else (and notice how even in his retelling of the story, he still plays the fool for others as foil to Ramanujan) takes a really big person.</text></comment> |
34,620,812 | 34,620,425 | 1 | 3 | 34,617,844 | train | <story><title>Meta Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2022 Results</title><url>https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/2023/Meta-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-and-Full-Year-2022-Results/default.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dsco</author><text>Even Paul Graham tweeted that crypto had a systemic risk. Bitcoin is up like 30% since that tweet.<p>HN != Financial advice</text></item><item><author>deltree7</author><text>HN is the worst place for investment.<p>The smarter the people, the bigger the ego and limited the vision.<p>Between ArsTechnica, HN and reddit and you can bet against popular opinions on this. You can also identify cult formation too.</text></item><item><author>melling</author><text>It feels like only 3 months ago I was repeatedly trying to convince HN readers that Meta was a great investment opportunity at a P&#x2F;E of 9. In fact, it was…:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33572187" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33572187</a><p>Markets aren’t efficient. People are biased and can’t look past them.<p>There’s quite a bit of knowledge on HN. As a group, we could do much better understanding the markets.</text></item><item><author>paulpauper</author><text>Up 17% in AH, on top of huge gains over the past 2 months. Nuts. It looks like it really wants to get back to $300+ It shows how all this talk about metaverse losses was overblown. This is why my best piece of financial advice is to tune out the media. By the time something is a narrative, it&#x27;s too late. If the media is talking about how Facebook peaked or is the next myspace, this is time to buy. Same for Netflix.<p>Metaverse notwithstanding, Facebook and Instagram are still huge cash cows. Ad CPCs are really high, especially mobile ads. Companies, especially in financial services and healthcare, paying so much $ for clicks to target older people, retirees, etc. and also people with medical problems. Obesity epidemic means more healthcare spending, same for people living longer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kosievdmerwe</author><text>This argument is equivalent to saying &quot;Someone told me that Russian Roulette is dangerous, but I didn&#x27;t die when I played it, so they&#x27;re wrong.&quot;<p>Systematic risks are still risks even if they don&#x27;t manifest and if you want to argue Paul Graham is wrong you have to argue why the risks aren&#x27;t risks.<p>(I don&#x27;t know what risks he pointed out, so I don&#x27;t know whether I think he&#x27;s right or not)</text></comment> | <story><title>Meta Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2022 Results</title><url>https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/2023/Meta-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-and-Full-Year-2022-Results/default.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dsco</author><text>Even Paul Graham tweeted that crypto had a systemic risk. Bitcoin is up like 30% since that tweet.<p>HN != Financial advice</text></item><item><author>deltree7</author><text>HN is the worst place for investment.<p>The smarter the people, the bigger the ego and limited the vision.<p>Between ArsTechnica, HN and reddit and you can bet against popular opinions on this. You can also identify cult formation too.</text></item><item><author>melling</author><text>It feels like only 3 months ago I was repeatedly trying to convince HN readers that Meta was a great investment opportunity at a P&#x2F;E of 9. In fact, it was…:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33572187" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33572187</a><p>Markets aren’t efficient. People are biased and can’t look past them.<p>There’s quite a bit of knowledge on HN. As a group, we could do much better understanding the markets.</text></item><item><author>paulpauper</author><text>Up 17% in AH, on top of huge gains over the past 2 months. Nuts. It looks like it really wants to get back to $300+ It shows how all this talk about metaverse losses was overblown. This is why my best piece of financial advice is to tune out the media. By the time something is a narrative, it&#x27;s too late. If the media is talking about how Facebook peaked or is the next myspace, this is time to buy. Same for Netflix.<p>Metaverse notwithstanding, Facebook and Instagram are still huge cash cows. Ad CPCs are really high, especially mobile ads. Companies, especially in financial services and healthcare, paying so much $ for clicks to target older people, retirees, etc. and also people with medical problems. Obesity epidemic means more healthcare spending, same for people living longer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coffeebeqn</author><text>Thinking that anyone knows which way Bitcoin or a stock will go in the short term is foolish (unless they have insider info)</text></comment> |
20,824,053 | 20,820,069 | 1 | 3 | 20,819,237 | train | <story><title>Lessons from Stripe</title><url>https://markmcgranaghan.com/lessons-from-stripe</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kbyatnal</author><text>The point about optimism is very interesting and I completely agree re: ambition - hard problems are more feasible than easy ones. However, I don&#x27;t agree with the point about ad clicks.<p>&gt; &quot;Ambitious problems for Stripe look like enabling more internet businesses and supporting entrepreneurs in more countries, not getting more ad clicks.&quot;<p>I used to have a similar mindset until I actually ended up working on Ads at Google. There are hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of small business merchants, mom and pop stores, etc that rely on ads (be that Google, Facebook, Instagram, whatever) to run their businesses. In fact, these are the vast majority of ad buyers! The huge multi-billion dollar corporations are far and few between.<p>That&#x27;s what drove many of the engineers (including myself). A small increase in conversion ratio (be that through better ranking, filtering, query interpretation, etc) meant a huge deal to these merchants and in some cases, could be the difference between life and death for some of these small companies. And at the scale Google operates at, very small incremental changes = huge impact. The engineers and projects, at least in my team, were driven by exactly the same goals mentioned here - to &quot;enable more businesses&quot; and &quot;support entrepreneurs&quot; all across the world.<p>It&#x27;s easy to get sucked into the hype and blanket statements of &quot;ads are bad&quot; (I was guilty of that too). I&#x27;ve since left Google, but that experience really internalized for me that things like this are never so black and white.</text></comment> | <story><title>Lessons from Stripe</title><url>https://markmcgranaghan.com/lessons-from-stripe</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vfc1</author><text>I don&#x27;t know, this super optimism as a value might lead to situations where something is going clearly in the wrong direction, but people get afraid of pointing it out due to fear of going against the company values, and getting natural overly optimistic personalities out of their delusional high and back into reality.</text></comment> |
24,700,228 | 24,700,163 | 1 | 2 | 24,698,449 | train | <story><title>Hiring for tech jobs has increased more than 100% in these Midwestern cities</title><url>https://www.purpose.jobs/blog/hiring-tech-jobs-has-increased-in-midwestern-cities</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zdragnar</author><text>I&#x27;m white, live in the midwest, and get asked all the time where I&#x27;m from. It&#x27;s a form of small talk around here, where everyone knows everyone, or you might have grown up near someone they knew. Not too different from talking about the weather (though we do that more often, as well).</text></item><item><author>q845712</author><text>I lived in the midwest for over a decade and am married to a midwesterner. I&#x27;m also ethnically one of the &#x27;model minorities&#x27; so to some people I&#x27;m white, while to white supremacists I&#x27;m assuredly not.<p>Most people in most places are basically friendly. However.
Even just being recognize you as &#x27;other&#x27; can get old, like being asked &quot;where are you from&quot; or riding the bus in Chicago and having to answer questions about my ethnicity from whoever was feeling tipsy enough to ask them.<p>Here&#x27;s one story of folks being un-friendly: I was at a public event, basically a version of a county fair with my wife&#x27;s family somewhere in the rural midwest. There&#x27;s a stage with small-name bands performing, food vendors, and a small carnival-ride section. As the sun sets we lose track of her parents, and as we&#x27;re looking for them I also got separated from my wife. I felt like the crowd was also slowly changing and like I was starting to attract attention in the form of unfriendly looks. I find my wife and try to express this, but her face clearly says it&#x27;s all in my head and why am I talking about anything other than how we can find her parents. Just then a physically imposed man walks up, plants himself firmly in front of me, and asks in the least friendly way possible, &quot;how&#x27;s it going brother?&quot; I answer him in unaccented neutral native-born american english (don&#x27;t remember what i said, but likely something like &quot;good how you doin&quot;), and my wife is like, &quot;ok you&#x27;re right, we have to find my parents and leave.&quot;<p>So just to be clear - I can&#x27;t know what might have been, but I strongly suspect that having grown up here and being a native speaker made that evening simpler. And again, I&#x27;m someone who many people look at and just process as &quot;white&quot; so I can easily take my experiences as a shallow sample from the tip of the iceberg.<p>And that kind of &quot;unfriendly&quot; experience is something that happens more often if i leave coastal metropolitan areas.</text></item><item><author>jacobriis</author><text>&quot;What you will find is that people are friendly, as long as you look like them (white).&quot;<p>Be aware that when people say things like this they often do so to feel virtuous themselves like only they are so enlightened that only they even consider being friendly to non white people.<p>The idea that people in the Midwest (which has a population of over 65 million people similar to France and the UK) are only friendly to white people is pretty crazy.</text></item><item><author>dexwiz</author><text>Moved from the Midwest to the Bay Area, and tech comes in two forms: IT departments at major industrial firms (manufacturing, chemical, pharma, etc), or companies that are eventually bought by West Coast companies. The pay cap is much lower. Becoming a millionaire through stocks and wages is harder, but you will still be in the top 10% of earners overall.<p>If you want to live in a mansion, the Midwest makes this dream obtainable. Buy a 6 bedroom, lake (reservoir) side, 4k sqr ft home for less than a million. Of if you want an acre of lawn, but not live too far in the country.<p>What you will find is that people are friendly, as long as you look like them (white). (EDIT: This gets more pronounced the more rural you are. Cities tend to be more accepting. What you will find is that rural areas have more relative sway on thought compared to the West Coast.) Towns outside of major metropolitan areas are dying as most major industries that supported that last two generations have left. Drugs are a huge issue, but its not as obvious because the floor for homelessness is so much lower. The only major infrastructure and building projects that get approved are sports stadiums, because idiots in local government rather have sports teams than functioning schools.<p>What the Midwest does have is solid engineering and research universities, that graduate thousands of STEM oriented students a year. Unfortunately there are often over an hour from the nearest 250k+ city. I went to one, and I think less than 25% of my friends stayed in state. The brain drain is real.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>HelloFellowDevs</author><text>There&#x27;s the small talk version of that, but then there&#x27;s the following question of &quot;where are you really from?&quot; if you give them a less exotic answer than they were expecting.<p>Edit: wording</text></comment> | <story><title>Hiring for tech jobs has increased more than 100% in these Midwestern cities</title><url>https://www.purpose.jobs/blog/hiring-tech-jobs-has-increased-in-midwestern-cities</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zdragnar</author><text>I&#x27;m white, live in the midwest, and get asked all the time where I&#x27;m from. It&#x27;s a form of small talk around here, where everyone knows everyone, or you might have grown up near someone they knew. Not too different from talking about the weather (though we do that more often, as well).</text></item><item><author>q845712</author><text>I lived in the midwest for over a decade and am married to a midwesterner. I&#x27;m also ethnically one of the &#x27;model minorities&#x27; so to some people I&#x27;m white, while to white supremacists I&#x27;m assuredly not.<p>Most people in most places are basically friendly. However.
Even just being recognize you as &#x27;other&#x27; can get old, like being asked &quot;where are you from&quot; or riding the bus in Chicago and having to answer questions about my ethnicity from whoever was feeling tipsy enough to ask them.<p>Here&#x27;s one story of folks being un-friendly: I was at a public event, basically a version of a county fair with my wife&#x27;s family somewhere in the rural midwest. There&#x27;s a stage with small-name bands performing, food vendors, and a small carnival-ride section. As the sun sets we lose track of her parents, and as we&#x27;re looking for them I also got separated from my wife. I felt like the crowd was also slowly changing and like I was starting to attract attention in the form of unfriendly looks. I find my wife and try to express this, but her face clearly says it&#x27;s all in my head and why am I talking about anything other than how we can find her parents. Just then a physically imposed man walks up, plants himself firmly in front of me, and asks in the least friendly way possible, &quot;how&#x27;s it going brother?&quot; I answer him in unaccented neutral native-born american english (don&#x27;t remember what i said, but likely something like &quot;good how you doin&quot;), and my wife is like, &quot;ok you&#x27;re right, we have to find my parents and leave.&quot;<p>So just to be clear - I can&#x27;t know what might have been, but I strongly suspect that having grown up here and being a native speaker made that evening simpler. And again, I&#x27;m someone who many people look at and just process as &quot;white&quot; so I can easily take my experiences as a shallow sample from the tip of the iceberg.<p>And that kind of &quot;unfriendly&quot; experience is something that happens more often if i leave coastal metropolitan areas.</text></item><item><author>jacobriis</author><text>&quot;What you will find is that people are friendly, as long as you look like them (white).&quot;<p>Be aware that when people say things like this they often do so to feel virtuous themselves like only they are so enlightened that only they even consider being friendly to non white people.<p>The idea that people in the Midwest (which has a population of over 65 million people similar to France and the UK) are only friendly to white people is pretty crazy.</text></item><item><author>dexwiz</author><text>Moved from the Midwest to the Bay Area, and tech comes in two forms: IT departments at major industrial firms (manufacturing, chemical, pharma, etc), or companies that are eventually bought by West Coast companies. The pay cap is much lower. Becoming a millionaire through stocks and wages is harder, but you will still be in the top 10% of earners overall.<p>If you want to live in a mansion, the Midwest makes this dream obtainable. Buy a 6 bedroom, lake (reservoir) side, 4k sqr ft home for less than a million. Of if you want an acre of lawn, but not live too far in the country.<p>What you will find is that people are friendly, as long as you look like them (white). (EDIT: This gets more pronounced the more rural you are. Cities tend to be more accepting. What you will find is that rural areas have more relative sway on thought compared to the West Coast.) Towns outside of major metropolitan areas are dying as most major industries that supported that last two generations have left. Drugs are a huge issue, but its not as obvious because the floor for homelessness is so much lower. The only major infrastructure and building projects that get approved are sports stadiums, because idiots in local government rather have sports teams than functioning schools.<p>What the Midwest does have is solid engineering and research universities, that graduate thousands of STEM oriented students a year. Unfortunately there are often over an hour from the nearest 250k+ city. I went to one, and I think less than 25% of my friends stayed in state. The brain drain is real.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crocodiletears</author><text>This has been exactly my experience. &#x27;Where are you from, where were you raised?&#x27; are the first questions after &#x27;where do you work, what do you do for a living?&#x27;</text></comment> |
12,971,557 | 12,971,087 | 1 | 2 | 12,970,528 | train | <story><title>Announcing SSL Labs Grading Changes for 2017</title><url>https://blog.qualys.com/ssllabs/2016/11/16/announcing-ssl-labs-grading-changes-for-2017</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Panino</author><text>All good changes.<p>I&#x27;d also like to see the Handshake Simulation improved by splitting ancient clients out into their own section. Call it Obsolete or Legacy. Populate it with all the clients that don&#x27;t support ECDHE or TLS 1.2. With that change, people won&#x27;t feel pressured to support IE6 on Windows XP or other such combos. In the real world, a big majority of TLS 1.0 traffic is either 1) unknown web crawlers that don&#x27;t matter, or 2) zombies running on ancient hacked machines looking to replicate. It&#x27;s mostly unwanted traffic.<p>You might say it does no harm to enable connections to IE6 on Windows XP, but I can think of two reasons why it does: First, enabling more ciphersuites in OpenSSL (or other) increases your attack surface, and as for me, I&#x27;m way more interested in reducing my attack surface than in talking to a computer that was last updated in 2001. Second, these XP machines will hang around the Internet so long as they&#x27;re useful. We cancel the driving priveleges of drunk and senile people, and we should do the same at the protocol level for XP machines.<p>And anyway, it&#x27;s incoherent to mark an IE6&#x2F;XP connection failure in red (which means bad), while simultaneosly saying that SSL3 is bad. Some cruft has built up over the years, and it needs to be periodically removed.</text></comment> | <story><title>Announcing SSL Labs Grading Changes for 2017</title><url>https://blog.qualys.com/ssllabs/2016/11/16/announcing-ssl-labs-grading-changes-for-2017</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>meta_AU</author><text>I like how informal systems like this drive feature development in reverse proxies. Nginx has great support for automated OSCP now, but I wonder if that would have come to pass without some group saying it is important and giving it a (somewhat arbitrary) rating.</text></comment> |
37,190,582 | 37,183,302 | 1 | 2 | 37,176,703 | train | <story><title>Ask vs. Guess Culture</title><url>https://jeanhsu.substack.com/p/ask-vs-guess-culture</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>huijzer</author><text>I‘ve gone through a ton of comments below and see a lot of contradicting evidence to your thoughtful suggestion. Also my girlfriend and I are both from north Europe and I notice a similar difference. Maybe the difference is mostly<p>&gt; she had been brought up to feel extreme insecurity<p>This reminds me of a quote from Buffett from about 40 years ago. He said something along the lines of &quot;when women are raised, they hear and see a million reasons why they cannot do things whereas men see and hear a million reasons why they can do things&quot;. If I would be convinced by the world that I am not good, then sure I would treat guests amazingly well. If I would be convinced by the world I‘m amazing, then why bother treating guests well? They can say it if they need anything.<p>I‘m happy to hear counterarguments if you have them</text></item><item><author>quacked</author><text>I am from the northern US (Protestant Scandinavian&#x2F;German) and my wife is from the southern US (Protestant English&#x2F;German) [1]. In the first several years of our relationship, we had several big disputes about how to treat each other, and how to treat guests. After a while we realized that she had been brought up to feel extreme insecurity over responding to the needs of guests, and I had been brought up to be blithely ignorant to the needs of guests.<p>Over the years I definitely insulted several southern guests by mostly ignoring them, and she definitely projected insult onto several northern guests by assuming that they were secretly judging us for not being better hosts. We&#x27;ve since realized that southerners tend to prefer &quot;guess&quot; culture and northerners tend to prefer &quot;ask&quot; culture, to use the terminology from the article. There are certainly many exceptions, but this generalization has taught her to chill out a little over hosting duties, and taught me to pick up some slack when taking care of guests.<p>We still both greatly prefer our native cultures. I don&#x27;t like being fawned over or offered things I don&#x27;t want, and she is extremely recalcitrant when it comes to asking for anything.<p>[1] I mention the distant ancestral backgrounds because it&#x27;s amusing to me how well I get along with northern Europeans who are plainly spoken and &quot;rude&quot; by US standards, and how a lot of proper hosting culture from the UK reminds me of how her family operates. She finds Scandinavians and Dutch incredibly rude, whereas I find the English hilariously polite, even to their own detriment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>quacked</author><text>&gt; I‘ve gone through a ton of comments below and see a lot of contradicting evidence to your thoughtful suggestion.<p>When you make a huge generalization like &quot;the northern states I&#x27;m from primarily developed their culture from Scandinavia and Germany and tend to be more &#x27;ask&#x27; than &#x27;guess&#x27;&quot;, it&#x27;s possible to immediately find tons of counterexamples. It tends to make people feel good to find flaws with generalizations, but they then argue too far the other way. &quot;Since there are many counterexamples, your claim that the North is mostly &#x27;ask&#x27; and the South is mostly &#x27;guess&#x27; doesn&#x27;t hold water.&quot;<p>But what exactly are they saying? The Northern US and the Southern US are exactly the same? There&#x27;s no possible generalization to make about the cultures from either place?<p>Instead, at every possible delineation people have made in their counterarguments (poor vs. rich, urban vs. rural, man vs. woman), I find the same generalizations mostly apply. A poor northerner is likely more &quot;ask&quot; than a poor southerner, based on who I&#x27;ve met. Northern men are generally more &quot;ask&quot; than southern men. My wife&#x27;s father is certainly less intensely curious about my needs than my own mother, but he&#x27;s far, far more curious about my needs than my father, and almost every other northern father I&#x27;ve met. I&#x27;ve met a great many people, and lived all around the US, so I&#x27;m not just shooting from the hip here.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask vs. Guess Culture</title><url>https://jeanhsu.substack.com/p/ask-vs-guess-culture</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>huijzer</author><text>I‘ve gone through a ton of comments below and see a lot of contradicting evidence to your thoughtful suggestion. Also my girlfriend and I are both from north Europe and I notice a similar difference. Maybe the difference is mostly<p>&gt; she had been brought up to feel extreme insecurity<p>This reminds me of a quote from Buffett from about 40 years ago. He said something along the lines of &quot;when women are raised, they hear and see a million reasons why they cannot do things whereas men see and hear a million reasons why they can do things&quot;. If I would be convinced by the world that I am not good, then sure I would treat guests amazingly well. If I would be convinced by the world I‘m amazing, then why bother treating guests well? They can say it if they need anything.<p>I‘m happy to hear counterarguments if you have them</text></item><item><author>quacked</author><text>I am from the northern US (Protestant Scandinavian&#x2F;German) and my wife is from the southern US (Protestant English&#x2F;German) [1]. In the first several years of our relationship, we had several big disputes about how to treat each other, and how to treat guests. After a while we realized that she had been brought up to feel extreme insecurity over responding to the needs of guests, and I had been brought up to be blithely ignorant to the needs of guests.<p>Over the years I definitely insulted several southern guests by mostly ignoring them, and she definitely projected insult onto several northern guests by assuming that they were secretly judging us for not being better hosts. We&#x27;ve since realized that southerners tend to prefer &quot;guess&quot; culture and northerners tend to prefer &quot;ask&quot; culture, to use the terminology from the article. There are certainly many exceptions, but this generalization has taught her to chill out a little over hosting duties, and taught me to pick up some slack when taking care of guests.<p>We still both greatly prefer our native cultures. I don&#x27;t like being fawned over or offered things I don&#x27;t want, and she is extremely recalcitrant when it comes to asking for anything.<p>[1] I mention the distant ancestral backgrounds because it&#x27;s amusing to me how well I get along with northern Europeans who are plainly spoken and &quot;rude&quot; by US standards, and how a lot of proper hosting culture from the UK reminds me of how her family operates. She finds Scandinavians and Dutch incredibly rude, whereas I find the English hilariously polite, even to their own detriment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>morby</author><text>I generally agree. A lot of contradictory statements and I would only add to that. I feel like people tend to pigeonhole each region in the US, the US itself, and indeed any other country into what “people act like”. There might be a common thread that is statistical but it’s not monolithic in any sense. Micro cultures exist and interplay with the macro culture especially in a networked world.</text></comment> |
30,858,774 | 30,857,964 | 1 | 2 | 30,856,434 | train | <story><title>How to compare floats in Python</title><url>https://davidamos.dev/the-right-way-to-compare-floats-in-python/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>daenz</author><text>Floating point numbers are a common source of issues in large open world games. Because of how a float is stored, there is more precision for values closer to the &quot;origin&quot; of the world (0, 0, 0). Which means there is less precision for very far away things. This can result in things like &quot;z-fighting&quot;[0], which I&#x27;m sure most gamers have seen, and also issues with physics.<p>One solution to address some of the precision issues (not necessarily z-fighting, as it operates in a different coordinate system) is to dynamically re-adjust the player&#x27;s world origin as they move throughout the world. This way, they are always getting the highest float precision for things near to them.<p>0. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Z-fighting" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Z-fighting</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jbay808</author><text>Is there a reason that game developers don&#x27;t use fixed-point math for Cartesian coordinates?<p>A 64 bit integer and a 64 bit float both chop up your coordinate system into the same number of points, but with the integer, those points are equally spaced which is the behaviour you&#x27;d expect from a Cartesian coordinate system (based on the symmetry group of translational invariance).<p>And even a 32-bit integer is still fine enough resolution to support four kilometres at one-micrometer resolution. With 64 bits per axis you can represent the entire solar system with 15 nm resolution, while maintaining <i>equal resolution at any location</i>, and exact distance calculations between any points no matter how close or how far.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to compare floats in Python</title><url>https://davidamos.dev/the-right-way-to-compare-floats-in-python/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>daenz</author><text>Floating point numbers are a common source of issues in large open world games. Because of how a float is stored, there is more precision for values closer to the &quot;origin&quot; of the world (0, 0, 0). Which means there is less precision for very far away things. This can result in things like &quot;z-fighting&quot;[0], which I&#x27;m sure most gamers have seen, and also issues with physics.<p>One solution to address some of the precision issues (not necessarily z-fighting, as it operates in a different coordinate system) is to dynamically re-adjust the player&#x27;s world origin as they move throughout the world. This way, they are always getting the highest float precision for things near to them.<p>0. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Z-fighting" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Z-fighting</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cyber_kinetist</author><text>I&#x27;ve heard that the Star Citizen engine devs had to change all of their math operations in CryEngine from single to double precision to add support for seamless large worlds (the player origin hack has limits...) Don&#x27;t even want to imagine how awful of a nightmare that would have been.</text></comment> |
4,158,783 | 4,158,652 | 1 | 3 | 4,157,731 | train | <story><title>Asgard: Web-based Cloud Management and Deployment from Netflix</title><url>http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/06/asgard-web-based-cloud-management-and.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>grhino</author><text>It's cool to see a Grails app even if it's only used internally by netflix.</text></comment> | <story><title>Asgard: Web-based Cloud Management and Deployment from Netflix</title><url>http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/06/asgard-web-based-cloud-management-and.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>justinsb</author><text>I really like the approach of bringing up a second set of systems during an upgrade, so rollback is easy: makes the most of virtual machines. I'll have to add that to PlatformLayer!<p>Asgard looks to be very heavily tied to AWS though, which I guess explains why NetFlix are always pleading with everyone else to stick with the AWS APIs. With the cloud wars getting really interesting (Google's cloud this week, we hope!), locking yourself in to the obscure features of Amazon's cloud seems like a mis-step I wouldn't want to emulate.</text></comment> |
25,522,535 | 25,521,590 | 1 | 2 | 25,508,896 | train | <story><title>Defensive Programming</title><url>https://interrupt.memfault.com/blog/defensive-and-offensive-programming</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tyhoff</author><text>Author here. Firmware, for better and worse, is stuck in C&#x2F;C++ land, so many of the topics here are essential to keep a complex, multi-MCU, multi-board setup in working order.<p>I&#x27;m actually really curious what you all do in C&#x2F;C++ to <i>prevent</i> bad operations from ever being performed in the first place.<p>For example, should we just change our internal malloc &#x2F; free to use double pointers instead?<p><pre><code> bool malloc(size_t n, void **ptr) {
*ptr = &lt;memory&gt;
}
void free(void **ptr) {
... &lt;free&gt;
*ptr = NULL
}
</code></pre>
This way, if anyone actually tries to use that pointer, it will crash the system (hardfault), instead of potentially using corrupted memory, which IMO is much worse.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragontamer</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m actually really curious what you all do in C&#x2F;C++ to prevent bad operations from ever being performed in the first place.<p>1. Go as far as you can with static memory. Don&#x27;t call the allocator: its slow, sometimes requires inter-thread communications.<p>2. Dynamic uses often can use the stack: almost always in L1 of your local core. Stack allocations are self-cleaning, just don&#x27;t pass those pointers to anyone else.<p>3. unique_ptr&lt;blah&gt; covers most of the true dynamic issues.<p>4. shared_ptr&lt;blah&gt; covers the rest of them.<p>---------<p>The above advice is just general-purpose &#x2F; low-performance code.<p>If you&#x27;re entering high performance coding (aka: you&#x27;re actually worried about fragmentation, memory sizes, and such), then things get more complicated. Embedded is often RAM-restricted, so you end up in this complicated place where you need to think of highly-efficient techniques.<p>That&#x27;s almost always a complexity &#x2F; resource tradeoff. Efficient techniques are just innately more complex than general purpose techniques. Try not to reach for efficient coding unless you know its something you need to do</text></comment> | <story><title>Defensive Programming</title><url>https://interrupt.memfault.com/blog/defensive-and-offensive-programming</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tyhoff</author><text>Author here. Firmware, for better and worse, is stuck in C&#x2F;C++ land, so many of the topics here are essential to keep a complex, multi-MCU, multi-board setup in working order.<p>I&#x27;m actually really curious what you all do in C&#x2F;C++ to <i>prevent</i> bad operations from ever being performed in the first place.<p>For example, should we just change our internal malloc &#x2F; free to use double pointers instead?<p><pre><code> bool malloc(size_t n, void **ptr) {
*ptr = &lt;memory&gt;
}
void free(void **ptr) {
... &lt;free&gt;
*ptr = NULL
}
</code></pre>
This way, if anyone actually tries to use that pointer, it will crash the system (hardfault), instead of potentially using corrupted memory, which IMO is much worse.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ffffjfjjfj</author><text>This gives a false sense of security, since the most common use-after-free bugs are if you kept a pointer around. Your method doesn&#x27;t stop things like this:<p><pre><code> void *p1, *p2;
malloc(100, &amp;p1);
p2 = p1;
...
free(&amp;p1);
*p2; &#x2F;&#x2F; oops!
</code></pre>
Obviously its trivial in an example like this, but when p2 leaves the lexical scope then there&#x27;s a problem.</text></comment> |
19,412,932 | 19,412,331 | 1 | 2 | 19,411,336 | train | <story><title>Suse is once again an independent company</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/15/suse-is-once-again-an-independent-company/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gpresot</author><text>Being owned by a Private Equity fund can really not be described as being &quot;independent&quot;. Such funds have a typical investment horizon of 5-7 years, with potential exits being an IPO, a strategic sale (to a bigger company) or a sale to another PE fund, with the strategic sale probably more typical. In the mean time the fund will impose strict growth targets and strong cost cuts.</text></comment> | <story><title>Suse is once again an independent company</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/15/suse-is-once-again-an-independent-company/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mythz</author><text>I can&#x27;t be the only one surprised with the $2.5 billion acquisition?<p>Suse basically fell off my radar a decade ago, I thought the next announcement I was going to hear about them was going bankrupt and being sold off for parts. Guess they&#x27;ve been super quiet achievers and have managed to accrue an Annual Revenue of 300M that I&#x27;ve somehow missed behind the release&#x2F;announcements of flashier distros, but here we are with news of a 2.5B acquisition - congratz to the team.</text></comment> |
13,620,542 | 13,620,225 | 1 | 2 | 13,619,465 | train | <story><title>The Curse of Smart People (2014)</title><url>http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201407#01</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>&gt; very easy to describe all your successes (project not canceled) in terms of your team&#x27;s greatness, and all your failures (project canceled) in terms of other people&#x27;s capriciousness.<p>I see this belief in probably about 80% of people I encounter, and it has little correlation with how smart one is.<p>I like to hang out with people who take responsibility for their failures rather than complaining about how circumstance, &quot;The Man&quot;, or other people have it in for them. Such people are far more interesting. Unsurprisingly, they&#x27;re also far more successful.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cryptica</author><text>This is an inversion of cause an effect.<p>Successful people are emotionally invested in the idea that there is a strong correlation between personal behaviours and outcomes - On the other hand, unsuccessful people are more likely to believe that there is little correlation between the two; that it&#x27;s mostly random and that skill only plays a tiny role.<p>Successful people will often try to argue that unsuccessful people who believe in luck don&#x27;t succeed because their feeling of helplessness inhibits their actions (e.g. makes them lazy). From my personal experience, I think that this is not the case at all - In fact, I know many serial-failures who keep working very hard and are extremely driven in sprite of the terrible odds (and their keen awareness&#x2F;first-hand-experience of those odds)... In fact, I find that serial-failures tend to work harder and smarter (have better critical thinking skills) than people who were successful at some point in the past (probably because unsuccessful people are more hungry for achievements and because they are more likely to identify and acknowledge flaws in their own plans).<p>Humans are hard-wired to gamble and accept terrible odds. People know that it&#x27;s almost impossible to win the lottery and yet so many of them keep buying tickets every week - Terrible odds don&#x27;t inhibit behaviour; especially if the media keeps priming us with the idea that we have full control over our destiny... That&#x27;s pretty much the basis for all the superhero movies which are so popular these days.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Curse of Smart People (2014)</title><url>http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201407#01</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>&gt; very easy to describe all your successes (project not canceled) in terms of your team&#x27;s greatness, and all your failures (project canceled) in terms of other people&#x27;s capriciousness.<p>I see this belief in probably about 80% of people I encounter, and it has little correlation with how smart one is.<p>I like to hang out with people who take responsibility for their failures rather than complaining about how circumstance, &quot;The Man&quot;, or other people have it in for them. Such people are far more interesting. Unsurprisingly, they&#x27;re also far more successful.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arjie</author><text>In psychology, they call this having an internal locus of control: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Locus_of_control" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Locus_of_control</a>. Just in case someone&#x27;s interested in related work.</text></comment> |
29,180,272 | 29,180,534 | 1 | 2 | 29,179,320 | train | <story><title>Rivian valued at over $100B after biggest IPO of 2021</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/ev-maker-rivian-set-high-profile-market-debut-after-mammoth-ipo-2021-11-10/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tw04</author><text>&gt;Tesla has also proven that traditional automakers really struggle to keep up with the electric car race - from software to supply chain.<p>Hardly, Tesla has proven that they were right betting on electric being the future. SuperCruise by most accounts is ahead of &quot;FSD&quot; in real-world driving. GM has pivoted in less than 5 years to what it took Tesla 18 years to build.<p>5 years from now we can have a conversation about whether GM&#x2F;Ford&#x2F;Stellantis can compete or not. Saying that Tesla has some unsurmountable lead when the big 3 have literally just started releasing their first round of EVs is silly. Having test driven a Mach-E and a Model-Y, I would wager the non-tesla fanboy will choose the Mach-E every time. Nicer interior, similar enough performance, and a manufacturer that has a history of actually having parts to fix cars when something breaks. The horror stories of cars sitting for months waiting on basic parts from Tesla is enough to make me think twice about ever owning one.</text></item><item><author>qqtt</author><text>Lots of talk about balking at this valuation, and that is probably a reasonable reaction, but as others have said, I want to point out that companies are valued based on their future and projected growth, not how much they are worth today.<p>Much has been made about Tesla being worth more than all other automakers combined, but let&#x27;s look at the growth.<p>Tesla Q3 Revenue: 13.76B, Year over year growth: 56%<p>Tesla Q3 Net Income: 1.6B, Year over year growth: 388%<p>GM Q3 Revenue: 26.78B, Year over year growth: -24%<p>GM Q3 Net Income: 2.42B, Year over year growth: -40%<p>Tesla is growing like bonkers, wildly more profitable, and has a much brighter future than GM given these trajectories. It&#x27;s almost like either GM is severely overvalued at 90B market cap or Tesla is undervalued at 1T.<p>Tesla has also proven that traditional automakers really struggle to keep up with the electric car race - from software to supply chain. Rivian, like Tesla, is built top to bottom to play in this market, with the added backing of Amazon and products tailor made for enterprise scale needs that companies like Amazon need.<p>Of course Rivian is a risky investment today - their stock is priced for perfection. We saw what happened last quarter when stocks priced for perfection fall short (take a look at Snapchat). But plenty of these arguments &quot;Rivian is only selling 1000 cars!&quot; also applied to Tesla about 10 years ago.<p>A business is valued based on its future prospects. Growth companies are risky.<p>Edit to add Ford numbers:<p>Ford Q3 Revenue: 35.68B , Year over year growth: -4%<p>Ford Q3 Net income: 1.8B, Year over year growth: -23%<p>Also want to point out - all automakers are operating in the same pandemic - Ford, GM, and Tesla are all dealing with supply chain issues and chip shortages.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reacharavindh</author><text>It’s never a single winner in the market. Sure, Tesla may be superior in some regards(battery tech, better motors) that are critical to an EV, but other car makers bring something else to the table while being reasonably close on range. I for one don’t like the Tesla “All in a single touch screen” interface. Neither do I want my car to constantly update its firmware automatically(chasing a wild auto driving fantasy and SV dreams). I just want my car as an effective tool and be open. I’d love to use CarPlay like on other cars… Tesla?<p>Not to say that other car makers are perfect. Competition is always good for the consumer.</text></comment> | <story><title>Rivian valued at over $100B after biggest IPO of 2021</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/ev-maker-rivian-set-high-profile-market-debut-after-mammoth-ipo-2021-11-10/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tw04</author><text>&gt;Tesla has also proven that traditional automakers really struggle to keep up with the electric car race - from software to supply chain.<p>Hardly, Tesla has proven that they were right betting on electric being the future. SuperCruise by most accounts is ahead of &quot;FSD&quot; in real-world driving. GM has pivoted in less than 5 years to what it took Tesla 18 years to build.<p>5 years from now we can have a conversation about whether GM&#x2F;Ford&#x2F;Stellantis can compete or not. Saying that Tesla has some unsurmountable lead when the big 3 have literally just started releasing their first round of EVs is silly. Having test driven a Mach-E and a Model-Y, I would wager the non-tesla fanboy will choose the Mach-E every time. Nicer interior, similar enough performance, and a manufacturer that has a history of actually having parts to fix cars when something breaks. The horror stories of cars sitting for months waiting on basic parts from Tesla is enough to make me think twice about ever owning one.</text></item><item><author>qqtt</author><text>Lots of talk about balking at this valuation, and that is probably a reasonable reaction, but as others have said, I want to point out that companies are valued based on their future and projected growth, not how much they are worth today.<p>Much has been made about Tesla being worth more than all other automakers combined, but let&#x27;s look at the growth.<p>Tesla Q3 Revenue: 13.76B, Year over year growth: 56%<p>Tesla Q3 Net Income: 1.6B, Year over year growth: 388%<p>GM Q3 Revenue: 26.78B, Year over year growth: -24%<p>GM Q3 Net Income: 2.42B, Year over year growth: -40%<p>Tesla is growing like bonkers, wildly more profitable, and has a much brighter future than GM given these trajectories. It&#x27;s almost like either GM is severely overvalued at 90B market cap or Tesla is undervalued at 1T.<p>Tesla has also proven that traditional automakers really struggle to keep up with the electric car race - from software to supply chain. Rivian, like Tesla, is built top to bottom to play in this market, with the added backing of Amazon and products tailor made for enterprise scale needs that companies like Amazon need.<p>Of course Rivian is a risky investment today - their stock is priced for perfection. We saw what happened last quarter when stocks priced for perfection fall short (take a look at Snapchat). But plenty of these arguments &quot;Rivian is only selling 1000 cars!&quot; also applied to Tesla about 10 years ago.<p>A business is valued based on its future prospects. Growth companies are risky.<p>Edit to add Ford numbers:<p>Ford Q3 Revenue: 35.68B , Year over year growth: -4%<p>Ford Q3 Net income: 1.8B, Year over year growth: -23%<p>Also want to point out - all automakers are operating in the same pandemic - Ford, GM, and Tesla are all dealing with supply chain issues and chip shortages.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rajup</author><text>Having driven a Polestar 2 (by Volvo) and a tesla I have to agree. The Polestar was miles (heh) ahead in terms of build quality, interior and polish. The only reason I did not buy the Polestar outright is their still low range. I see that gap closing very quick in the next 3-5 years.</text></comment> |
3,659,682 | 3,659,490 | 1 | 3 | 3,659,317 | train | <story><title>The Little White Box That Can Hack Your Network</title><url>http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/03/pwnie/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>For whatever it's worth, this idea is at least 15 years old; it was a L0pht project that Mudge demo'd at Pumpcon in '97. If I'm remembering it right, it was a Palm device with Ethernet rigged to it and a modem.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Little White Box That Can Hack Your Network</title><url>http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/03/pwnie/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fabricode</author><text>Perhaps we need to move to policy of allowing only known mac addrs on internal networks. But maybe even this would be insufficient since one could sniff packets in order to steal someone else's valid mac address. That too would be insufficient since you can get the mac address off of the menu for most VOIP phones, and off the backsides of of other networked items, ...<p>Perhaps there is no defense against this kind of attack.</text></comment> |
4,911,734 | 4,911,721 | 1 | 2 | 4,911,603 | train | <story><title>Depp to Star as a Supercomputer in Christopher Nolan Film About the Singularity</title><url>http://betabeat.com/2012/12/christopher-nolan-johnny-depp-transcendance-supercomputer-movie/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>raimondious</author><text>&#62; Johnny Depp may seem like a strange casting choice, but given his penchant for bizarre roles, we imagine he’ll play a mad scientist quite convincingly.<p>Actually it seems like a really predictable casting choice. When will people get tired of seeing Depp playing a weirdo? I don't even have to guess that Helena Bonham Carter is going to be bug-eyed with big crazy hair in this one too...</text></comment> | <story><title>Depp to Star as a Supercomputer in Christopher Nolan Film About the Singularity</title><url>http://betabeat.com/2012/12/christopher-nolan-johnny-depp-transcendance-supercomputer-movie/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>polyfractal</author><text>Hopefully it will make an entertaining movie, but man, I really hate all things associated with "The Singularity". Nothing fills me with more irrational (impotent) rage than people babbling on about the Singularity.</text></comment> |
25,016,488 | 25,016,407 | 1 | 2 | 25,016,111 | train | <story><title>Twitter has applied warning labels to 37% of Trump's tweets since polls closed</title><url>https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-biden-election-results-11-07-20/h_4b7431d7ff5ea6dc0fb40e8247492de8</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mmastrac</author><text>He&#x27;s literally lying at this point and putting the democratic system of the US in jeopardy by saying he &quot;won by a lot&quot;. Terminate his account. He doesn&#x27;t have a right to post dangerous falsehoods on a third-party platform.</text></comment> | <story><title>Twitter has applied warning labels to 37% of Trump's tweets since polls closed</title><url>https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-biden-election-results-11-07-20/h_4b7431d7ff5ea6dc0fb40e8247492de8</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>baby</author><text>It is pretty unreal, something like 1 out of 4 of his tweet were hidden, at some point you&#x27;d think they would disable his account but that would probably put them in a dangerous position.</text></comment> |
12,025,772 | 12,025,691 | 1 | 2 | 12,025,309 | train | <story><title>Why is Python slow</title><url>http://blog.kevmod.com/2016/07/why-is-python-slow/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alt_</author><text>Database died. Google cache: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;webcache.googleusercontent.com&#x2F;search?q=cache:5V0TMa0cMecJ:blog.kevmod.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;07&#x2F;why-is-python-slow&#x2F;+&amp;cd=1&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=uk" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;webcache.googleusercontent.com&#x2F;search?q=cache:5V0TMa0...</a><p>The gist of it is:<p>* Python spends almost all of its time in the C runtime<p>This means that it doesn&#x27;t really matter how quickly you execute the &quot;Python&quot; part of Python. Another way of saying this is that Python opcodes are very complex, and the cost of executing them dwarfs the cost of dispatching them. Another analogy I give is that executing Python is more similar to rendering HTML than it is to executing JS -- it&#x27;s more of a description of what the runtime should do rather than an explicit step-by-step account of how to do it.<p>Pyston&#x27;s performance improvements come from speeding up the C code, not the Python code. When people say &quot;why doesn&#x27;t Pyston use [insert favorite JIT technique here]&quot;, my question is whether that technique would help speed up C code. I think this is the most fundamental misconception about Python performance: we spend our energy trying to JIT C code, not Python code. This is also why I am not very interested in running Python on pre-existing VMs, since that will only exacerbate the problem in order to fix something that isn&#x27;t really broken.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smegel</author><text>&gt; This means that it doesn&#x27;t really matter how quickly you execute the &quot;Python&quot; part of Python. Another way of saying this is that Python opcodes are very complex, and the cost of executing them dwarfs the cost of dispatching them.<p>That doesn&#x27;t really explain why Python is slow. Your just explaining how Python works. Why should C code be slow? Usually it is fast. Just saying the opcodes are complex doesn&#x27;t really help, because if a complex opcode takes a long time, it is usually because it is doing a great deal.<p>Java used to have the opposite problem. It was doing too much at the &quot;Java bytecode&quot; level, such as string manipulation - so they added more &quot;complex&quot; opcodes written in C&#x2F;C++ to speed things up, significantly.<p>What you really need to explain is why Python is <i>inefficient</i>. Bloated data structures and pointer hopping for simple things like adding two numbers may be a big reason. I know Perl had many efficiencies built in, and was considered quite fast at some point (90s?).</text></comment> | <story><title>Why is Python slow</title><url>http://blog.kevmod.com/2016/07/why-is-python-slow/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alt_</author><text>Database died. Google cache: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;webcache.googleusercontent.com&#x2F;search?q=cache:5V0TMa0cMecJ:blog.kevmod.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;07&#x2F;why-is-python-slow&#x2F;+&amp;cd=1&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=uk" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;webcache.googleusercontent.com&#x2F;search?q=cache:5V0TMa0...</a><p>The gist of it is:<p>* Python spends almost all of its time in the C runtime<p>This means that it doesn&#x27;t really matter how quickly you execute the &quot;Python&quot; part of Python. Another way of saying this is that Python opcodes are very complex, and the cost of executing them dwarfs the cost of dispatching them. Another analogy I give is that executing Python is more similar to rendering HTML than it is to executing JS -- it&#x27;s more of a description of what the runtime should do rather than an explicit step-by-step account of how to do it.<p>Pyston&#x27;s performance improvements come from speeding up the C code, not the Python code. When people say &quot;why doesn&#x27;t Pyston use [insert favorite JIT technique here]&quot;, my question is whether that technique would help speed up C code. I think this is the most fundamental misconception about Python performance: we spend our energy trying to JIT C code, not Python code. This is also why I am not very interested in running Python on pre-existing VMs, since that will only exacerbate the problem in order to fix something that isn&#x27;t really broken.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Blaisorblade0</author><text>Are you the OP author, or working on Pyston?
I have basically two questions&#x2F;curiosities — I&#x27;m not asking adversarially:
1) For which code is the C runtime most expensive? Typical Python code tries to leave heavy-lifting in libraries, but what if you write your inner loop in Python? Enabling that is (arguably) one goal of JIT compilation, so that you don&#x27;t need to write code in C.
2) What about using Python ports of performance-sensitive libraries?<p>In more detail:
I arrived at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lwn.net&#x2F;Articles&#x2F;691243&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lwn.net&#x2F;Articles&#x2F;691243&#x2F;</a>, but I&#x27;m not sure I&#x27;m convinced. Or rather: with a JIT compiler you probably want to rewrite (parts of) C runtime code into Python so you can JIT it with the rest (PyPy has already replaced C code in their implementation, so maybe there&#x27;s work to reuse). For instance, an optimizing compiler should ideally remove abstractions from here:<p><pre><code> import itertools
sum(itertools.repeat(1.0, 100000000))
</code></pre>
Optimizing that code is not so easy, especially if that involves inlining C code (I wouldn&#x27;t try, if possible), but an easier step is to optimize the same code written as a plain while loop. Does Pyston achieve that? I guess the question applies to the LLVM-based tier, not otherwise.<p>Yes, Python semantics allow for lots of introspection, and that&#x27;s expensive — but so did Smalltalk to a large extent. Yet people managed, for instance, to not allocate stack frames on the heap unless needed (I&#x27;m pointing vaguely in the direction of JIT compilers for Smalltalk and Self, though by now I forgot those details).</text></comment> |
27,602,724 | 27,602,526 | 1 | 3 | 27,602,395 | train | <story><title>Details of yesterday's Bunny CDN outage</title><url>https://bunny.net/blog/the-stack-overflow-of-death-dns-collapse/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ram_rar</author><text>&gt; On June 22nd at 8:25 AM UTC, we released a new update designed to reduce the download size of the optimization database. Unfortunately, this managed to upload a corrupted file to the Edge Storage.<p>I wonder, if simple checksum verification of the file would have helped in avoiding this outage all together.<p>&gt; Turns out, the corrupted file caused the BinaryPack serialization library to immediately execute itself with a stack overflow exception, bypassing any exception handling and just exiting the process. Within minutes, our global DNS server fleet of close to a 100 servers was practically dead<p>This is exactly, why one needs a canary based deployments. I have seen umpteen amounts of issues being caught in canary, which has saved my team tons of firefighting time.</text></comment> | <story><title>Details of yesterday's Bunny CDN outage</title><url>https://bunny.net/blog/the-stack-overflow-of-death-dns-collapse/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>string</author><text>Good and clear explanation. This is a risk you take when you use a CDN, I still think the benefits outweigh the occasional downtime. I&#x27;m a big fan of BunnyCDN, they&#x27;ve saved me a lot of money over the past few years.<p>I&#x27;m sure I&#x27;d be fuming if I worked at some multi-million dollar company but as someone that mainly works for smaller businesses it&#x27;s not the end of the world, I suspect most of my clients haven&#x27;t even noticed yet.</text></comment> |
13,977,649 | 13,977,549 | 1 | 3 | 13,976,707 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Polished – A lightweight toolset for writing styles in JavaScript</title><url>https://github.com/styled-components/polished</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>debaserab2</author><text>This tool seems useful if you buy into the philosophy, but I&#x27;m just not sold yet - component based styling leads to a lot of style duplication and makes it very easy for a developer to go &quot;off the playbook&quot; when it comes to enforcing a consistent styleguide throughout an app.<p>The idea that &quot;globals&quot; in CSS are bad is counter intuitive to my experience that globals in CSS encourage consistency<p>Maybe when you&#x27;re facebook size and you have many product teams all expected to produce something that all works together - I can see how the global namespace would be impossible to manage. For your average website or app? Not even close. It&#x27;ll be awhile before you run into the limitations of CSS that Facebook is running into.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Polished – A lightweight toolset for writing styles in JavaScript</title><url>https://github.com/styled-components/polished</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tobltobs</author><text>The current state of the JS world is getting closer every day to the J2EE craziness about 10 years ago. As an outsider it was nearly impossible to understand for what all those frameworks with funky names were required at all. For an insider every of those new frameworks looked like the solution to a fundamental CS problem. However, those fundamental CS problems where nothing else then some shortcomings introduced by the latest framework before.</text></comment> |
35,386,788 | 35,381,223 | 1 | 2 | 35,368,636 | train | <story><title>Better World Books</title><url>https://www.betterworldbooks.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stinkytaco</author><text>I work at a public library and like any good public library we regularly evaluate our collection, adding new stuff and removing old stuff. We also get a lot of donations that aren&#x27;t really fit for the collection. Our local friends of the library group gets first crack at all weeded and donated items for their on-site bookstore that raises money for the friends (and thus the library, indirectly), but that still leaves us with a lot of stuff.<p>Better World Books sends us a bunch of boxes and we can pack them and ship them whenever we need. They generate the label and all we have to do is tape it to the box and send it out with the UPS truck when it comes. No books in the garbage for people to get upset about and presumably Better World Books can do something useful with at least some of them.</text></comment> | <story><title>Better World Books</title><url>https://www.betterworldbooks.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>crossroadsguy</author><text>I had a few shipped to India. It took around 3-4 weeks (which I don’t mind) but did arrive eventually and it was literally a shiny new hardcover sold as used at an excellent price without any additional shipping cost. Excellent site and service.<p>(Search and filtering could be better with some better pics).</text></comment> |
32,663,127 | 32,662,548 | 1 | 2 | 32,660,443 | train | <story><title>Want to found a startup? Work at one first</title><url>https://blog.lawrencejones.dev/learn-at-scale-up/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jchonphoenix</author><text>I&#x27;ve worked at multiple startups sub 50 to &gt;1000 (unicorn status) and have founded and sold my own company. I&#x27;ve also worked at a few of the FAANGs. This is common advice, especially among VCs since it&#x27;s one of the key benefits used to pitch prospective employees on giving up that fat FAANG salary, but in my personal experience, it&#x27;s not so cut and dry.<p>Working in a startup will brand you as a startup person and help you meet VCs which may make it easier to raise. It&#x27;ll also show you the problems that that particular startup faces and give you n=1 degree of pattern matching. On the flip side, something like YC can give you the same benefit or just shipping a for-profit side project on the side. Additionally, given how poorly run most startups are today, I&#x27;d posit that you&#x27;re actually in more danger of learning the wrong lessons than the right lessons by joining a startup. At the end of the day, the truth is likely to be Peter Thiel&#x27;s observation that joining the right, highly successful, high growth startup as a very early employee is a great way to learn exactly 1 method of starting a successful company--the way that company did it. But if the startup you join isn&#x27;t that rocketship, you&#x27;ve only learned how to (or how not to) achieve that particular path of failure or mediocrity.<p>Not particularly great advice though, because then the challenge becomes identify those startups. And if you could do that reliably, I&#x27;d suggest you switch careers into VC instead :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qqqwerty</author><text>There is way more than one lesson to learn from each startup. You will hopefully learn how to hire (and possibly fire) people. You will get insight into the nitty gritty of keeping the lights on at a company (taxes, payroll, office leases, etc...), and you will get familiar with the typical fundraising cycle. Most people don&#x27;t appreciate how fast 18 months to two years of funding can run out. Going through that stuff once or twice when you don&#x27;t have the pressure of being the founder can be very beneficial. And while going through an accelerator can be a substitute, I can&#x27;t imagine that encountering a lot of this stuff for the first time while trying to start your first company would be anything less then very stressful.<p>For most employees, the best deal for them financially is to go the FAANG route. But I absolutely recommend working at a startup if you are hoping to one day start your own. It should be said that most startup employees are not going to start their own company (even ones who think they will). So certainly keep that in mind. But I suppose another benefit is working at a startup is probably a good way to gauge if starting a startup is something you could handle. After having worked at one for a while, I have certainly come to more realistic understanding of what kind of startup I would be comfortable founding. I almost certainly would prefer to bootstrap a small project rather than go the VC route, but I think I would feel pretty comfortable taking VC money if the opportunity called for it. But I have also come to realize that the best fit for me in my next role is probably not as a founder, but most likely as a very early employee of another startup. But this time around I will have a much better idea of what to look for in the founding team.</text></comment> | <story><title>Want to found a startup? Work at one first</title><url>https://blog.lawrencejones.dev/learn-at-scale-up/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jchonphoenix</author><text>I&#x27;ve worked at multiple startups sub 50 to &gt;1000 (unicorn status) and have founded and sold my own company. I&#x27;ve also worked at a few of the FAANGs. This is common advice, especially among VCs since it&#x27;s one of the key benefits used to pitch prospective employees on giving up that fat FAANG salary, but in my personal experience, it&#x27;s not so cut and dry.<p>Working in a startup will brand you as a startup person and help you meet VCs which may make it easier to raise. It&#x27;ll also show you the problems that that particular startup faces and give you n=1 degree of pattern matching. On the flip side, something like YC can give you the same benefit or just shipping a for-profit side project on the side. Additionally, given how poorly run most startups are today, I&#x27;d posit that you&#x27;re actually in more danger of learning the wrong lessons than the right lessons by joining a startup. At the end of the day, the truth is likely to be Peter Thiel&#x27;s observation that joining the right, highly successful, high growth startup as a very early employee is a great way to learn exactly 1 method of starting a successful company--the way that company did it. But if the startup you join isn&#x27;t that rocketship, you&#x27;ve only learned how to (or how not to) achieve that particular path of failure or mediocrity.<p>Not particularly great advice though, because then the challenge becomes identify those startups. And if you could do that reliably, I&#x27;d suggest you switch careers into VC instead :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xivzgrev</author><text>I agree. I joined a few smaller startups and saw plenty about how NOT to do things. Only one I joined a larger company did I feel happier (in hindsight). And now if I went back to a startup, I’d feel more confident about whether the company is run poorly and how much I can help it.<p>Some problems are organizational immaturity and can be fixed. Some problems come from leadership and won’t change as long as those leaders are there.</text></comment> |
30,493,943 | 30,493,848 | 1 | 2 | 30,492,088 | train | <story><title>Neutral Swiss poised to freeze Russian assets – president</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/very-probable-that-swiss-will-freeze-russian-assets-president-2022-02-27/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>turbinerneiter</author><text>That&#x27;s because of Zelenskyy and what he represents.<p>Usually, you&#x27;d expect a state like Ukraine (ex Sowjet) to be corrupt and run by oligarchs with no support by the populace. In that situation, Russia would waltz in, the old depot would flee the country, Russia would isntall a puppet and the populace would be indefferent to it, since it&#x27;s just more of the same shit.<p>But Zelenskyy was serious in cleaning up the Ukraine, he is not fleeing and he is uniting the nation.<p>This was Putin&#x27;s big mistake. He believed he could scare away a greedy despot to replace him with another one. Instead, the Ukraine has a true leader and developed a real national identity.<p>For Putin, this is a nightmare. For the west, we finally have someone worth supporting (often we have the issue that we don&#x27;t know how is the bad and the good guy, see Syria, Mali).<p>I have nothing to prove it, this is just speculation, taken from some tweets I saw. It makes sense to me, but I have no social insights.<p>This whole thing could have looked very different under any of the former leaders of the Ukraine.</text></item><item><author>monkeybutton</author><text>What I find interesting is that the sanctions of Russia and support of Ukraine is accelerating faster and faster every day. Had the initial plan of decapitating the government and installing a puppet who signs a peace agreement with Russia worked, I doubt we&#x27;d be seeing the same level of support as now. Apparently the EU is now giving them jets in addition to all the small arms, fuel and anti-tank weapons. With all the economic sanctions it seems like they want to collapse the Russian economy and instigate regime change from the inside. Putin made a risky bet by attacking Ukraine, but the EU collapsing Russia with all their nukes still hanging around and hoping the next government in charge is more stable is a way more risky bet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>verisimi</author><text>&gt; But Zelenskyy was serious in cleaning up the Ukraine, he is not fleeing and he is uniting the nation.<p>He&#x27;s not that clean himself, given that he was mentioned as holding offshore finances in the Pandora Papers leak.<p>Also he invested in the production company (Kvartal 95) that then created the show &#x27;Servant of the People&#x27; where he was shot to stardom playing the role of a teacher elected president. The company then also paid to create a real party named &#x27;Servant of the People&#x27; and managed to get him elected as president for real!!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.occrp.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;the-pandora-papers&#x2F;pandora-papers-reveal-offshore-holdings-of-ukrainian-president-and-his-inner-circle" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.occrp.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;the-pandora-papers&#x2F;pandora-papers-r...</a><p>Where he got all that offshore money from is a question we can ponder. But it seems to me that he was primed for the position he is in.</text></comment> | <story><title>Neutral Swiss poised to freeze Russian assets – president</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/very-probable-that-swiss-will-freeze-russian-assets-president-2022-02-27/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>turbinerneiter</author><text>That&#x27;s because of Zelenskyy and what he represents.<p>Usually, you&#x27;d expect a state like Ukraine (ex Sowjet) to be corrupt and run by oligarchs with no support by the populace. In that situation, Russia would waltz in, the old depot would flee the country, Russia would isntall a puppet and the populace would be indefferent to it, since it&#x27;s just more of the same shit.<p>But Zelenskyy was serious in cleaning up the Ukraine, he is not fleeing and he is uniting the nation.<p>This was Putin&#x27;s big mistake. He believed he could scare away a greedy despot to replace him with another one. Instead, the Ukraine has a true leader and developed a real national identity.<p>For Putin, this is a nightmare. For the west, we finally have someone worth supporting (often we have the issue that we don&#x27;t know how is the bad and the good guy, see Syria, Mali).<p>I have nothing to prove it, this is just speculation, taken from some tweets I saw. It makes sense to me, but I have no social insights.<p>This whole thing could have looked very different under any of the former leaders of the Ukraine.</text></item><item><author>monkeybutton</author><text>What I find interesting is that the sanctions of Russia and support of Ukraine is accelerating faster and faster every day. Had the initial plan of decapitating the government and installing a puppet who signs a peace agreement with Russia worked, I doubt we&#x27;d be seeing the same level of support as now. Apparently the EU is now giving them jets in addition to all the small arms, fuel and anti-tank weapons. With all the economic sanctions it seems like they want to collapse the Russian economy and instigate regime change from the inside. Putin made a risky bet by attacking Ukraine, but the EU collapsing Russia with all their nukes still hanging around and hoping the next government in charge is more stable is a way more risky bet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fuoqi</author><text>&gt;But Zelenskyy was serious in cleaning up the Ukraine, he is not fleeing and he is uniting the nation.<p>So much BS... He literally done 180 on his election promises, done a lot of unconstitutional moves, and his public support was continuously dropping to the point of losing to Poroshenko on hypothetical elections.</text></comment> |
853,590 | 853,531 | 1 | 3 | 852,938 | train | <story><title>You're the Smartest Guy In The Room ... but please, try to restrain yourself.</title><url>http://www.plope.com/smartest_guy_in_the_room</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mcantor</author><text>I commend you, good sir, and assert that you are no grammar nazi. A nazi is crude, unreasonable and thoughtless. You are none of these things. You have merely demanded a minimum amount of effort from the people around you, an infinitesimal moment spent in quiet reflection that could perhaps result in a magical epiphany resembling, "Wait a minute, if I could care <i>less</i>, that means I am caring <i>more than the minimum! That is not what I am trying to express!</i> Alack, I must duly backspace."<p>Edit: And to whoever downvoted this man, I officially call you a knave.</text></item><item><author>run4yourlives</author><text>I was with him until he said "I could care less".<p>Couldn't damnit, <i>could not.</i> This irks me to no end.<p>&#60;/grammar nazi&#62;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>noonespecial</author><text>It is important to write correctly. If you allow "I could care less" to congeal on top of "I <i>couldn't</i> care less" in one big idiomatic mess, you more or less lose the ability to express "I could care less".<p>A more extreme example that also bothers me to no end is "begs the question." Its now quite impossible to use this phrase to call out the logic error to which it originally referred as it is now used interchangeably with "raises the question". When I want to call the error, I have to do a mini exposition on circular reasoning. I feel cheated out of this fine piece of language.<p>There's a difference between nazism and simply insisting on correctness. I also commend.</text></comment> | <story><title>You're the Smartest Guy In The Room ... but please, try to restrain yourself.</title><url>http://www.plope.com/smartest_guy_in_the_room</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mcantor</author><text>I commend you, good sir, and assert that you are no grammar nazi. A nazi is crude, unreasonable and thoughtless. You are none of these things. You have merely demanded a minimum amount of effort from the people around you, an infinitesimal moment spent in quiet reflection that could perhaps result in a magical epiphany resembling, "Wait a minute, if I could care <i>less</i>, that means I am caring <i>more than the minimum! That is not what I am trying to express!</i> Alack, I must duly backspace."<p>Edit: And to whoever downvoted this man, I officially call you a knave.</text></item><item><author>run4yourlives</author><text>I was with him until he said "I could care less".<p>Couldn't damnit, <i>could not.</i> This irks me to no end.<p>&#60;/grammar nazi&#62;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TrevorJ</author><text>I think the key metric is that useful grammatical suggestions are ones that make the communication more clear. At the end of the day, clarity should be the focus. It bothers me when people make silly grammatical errors, but many of them end up in the final text because our minds auto-correct for them and as such they rarely pose much of a problem in terms of actual clarity.</text></comment> |
19,480,234 | 19,479,744 | 1 | 2 | 19,479,352 | train | <story><title>Rotating Black Holes May Serve as Gentle Portals for Hyperspace Travel</title><url>https://theconversation.com/rotating-black-holes-may-serve-as-gentle-portals-for-hyperspace-travel-107062</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>imglorp</author><text>I&#x27;m in a more conservative camp than speed limits: the practicality one.<p>Even if we ignore the ponies and rainbows of wormhole travel, if you want to travel to a plain black hole to use the magic teleporter, the nearest two are V616 Mon at 11 solar masses and 3000 LY away, and Cyg X1 at 15 SM and 6000 LY. If you buy into the article&#x27;s assertion that you won&#x27;t get burned or spaghettified on your way to becoming a nucleon paste, and you want a heavier BH, the nearest is Sag A* at 4.1e6 SM and 25000 LY away.<p>Anyway, to travel between the teleporter and Earth, we&#x27;re talking most of the resources of a planet to accelerate a mass to substantial fractions of c. Then you&#x27;ve got thousands of years of collisions, radiation, and maybe (assumption?) cultural and biological challenges of living in space for aeons, plus needing another planet&#x27;s worth of resources to slow down at the destination. All this makes it hard enough even to get a dozen LY to our nearest start system.<p>My opinion is we&#x27;re in something of a Well World universe, where everyone is pretty well travel-isolated from their neighbors.</text></item><item><author>cletus</author><text>Put me firmly in the camp that believes the speed of light is a hard limit on the universe and I&#x27;ll use Isaac Arthur dismissal of FTL travel as to why.<p>He contends that there likely isn&#x27;t a sentient civilization within about a billion light years of us because the signature of Dyson spheres would be unmistabkable and unmissable. Now this isn&#x27;t to say there isn&#x27;t one that&#x27;s say, 600 million light years away that built their first Dyson sphere 500 million years ago although, in practice, this doesn&#x27;t really change the probabilities that much.<p>If there&#x27;s FTL then that billion light year practical limit really goes out the window as you can effectively get anywhere in the universe, making the volume of absence be many, many times the size of the observable universe.<p>I&#x27;m not sure why the author is talking about gravity ripping you apart in a black hole. It Is Known [tm] that larger black holes have pretty gentle event horizons.<p>I&#x27;m not sure why it matters that a black hole would be spinning. You can pretty much assume every significant mass in the universe is spinning to some degree (a state of zero spin being highly unlikely over even small amounts of time).<p>The author talks about the inner event horizon and I guess that&#x27;s the point. But all of that is highly theoretical. Nothing is known about the inner workings of a black hole. It&#x27;s all highly theoretical and beyond the ability of general relativity to describe. No other theory has been able to adequately explain or describe gravity let alone extreme gravity so your view on what&#x27;s within the event horizon probably depends on which unproven theory (eg string theory) you subscribe to.<p>So this is speculation based on speculation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tachyonbeam</author><text>I hear you, but I think colonizing the galaxy might still be feasible. If we can get to the point where we have the technology to colonize Mars, which will hopefully happen this century, then I would imagine it probably won&#x27;t be long after that until we manage to have permanent space habitats that harvest materials from asteroids.<p>If we have fusion power, durable permanent space habitats, and the technology to harvest materials from asteroids, then traveling to the next star system doesn&#x27;t seem so far-fetched anymore. If we could just reach 0.1c, we could make it to Alpha Centauri in less than 50 years. Once we make it there, if we&#x27;re already comfortable living in space, we don&#x27;t even need to worry about terraforming or anything lengthy and complicated like that, we can just harvest asteroids and build more space stations and ships.<p>Not a physicist, but I see Project Orion could have reached 0.33% of the speed of light. Would it be realistic to extend that design to accelerate to 0.1c?</text></comment> | <story><title>Rotating Black Holes May Serve as Gentle Portals for Hyperspace Travel</title><url>https://theconversation.com/rotating-black-holes-may-serve-as-gentle-portals-for-hyperspace-travel-107062</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>imglorp</author><text>I&#x27;m in a more conservative camp than speed limits: the practicality one.<p>Even if we ignore the ponies and rainbows of wormhole travel, if you want to travel to a plain black hole to use the magic teleporter, the nearest two are V616 Mon at 11 solar masses and 3000 LY away, and Cyg X1 at 15 SM and 6000 LY. If you buy into the article&#x27;s assertion that you won&#x27;t get burned or spaghettified on your way to becoming a nucleon paste, and you want a heavier BH, the nearest is Sag A* at 4.1e6 SM and 25000 LY away.<p>Anyway, to travel between the teleporter and Earth, we&#x27;re talking most of the resources of a planet to accelerate a mass to substantial fractions of c. Then you&#x27;ve got thousands of years of collisions, radiation, and maybe (assumption?) cultural and biological challenges of living in space for aeons, plus needing another planet&#x27;s worth of resources to slow down at the destination. All this makes it hard enough even to get a dozen LY to our nearest start system.<p>My opinion is we&#x27;re in something of a Well World universe, where everyone is pretty well travel-isolated from their neighbors.</text></item><item><author>cletus</author><text>Put me firmly in the camp that believes the speed of light is a hard limit on the universe and I&#x27;ll use Isaac Arthur dismissal of FTL travel as to why.<p>He contends that there likely isn&#x27;t a sentient civilization within about a billion light years of us because the signature of Dyson spheres would be unmistabkable and unmissable. Now this isn&#x27;t to say there isn&#x27;t one that&#x27;s say, 600 million light years away that built their first Dyson sphere 500 million years ago although, in practice, this doesn&#x27;t really change the probabilities that much.<p>If there&#x27;s FTL then that billion light year practical limit really goes out the window as you can effectively get anywhere in the universe, making the volume of absence be many, many times the size of the observable universe.<p>I&#x27;m not sure why the author is talking about gravity ripping you apart in a black hole. It Is Known [tm] that larger black holes have pretty gentle event horizons.<p>I&#x27;m not sure why it matters that a black hole would be spinning. You can pretty much assume every significant mass in the universe is spinning to some degree (a state of zero spin being highly unlikely over even small amounts of time).<p>The author talks about the inner event horizon and I guess that&#x27;s the point. But all of that is highly theoretical. Nothing is known about the inner workings of a black hole. It&#x27;s all highly theoretical and beyond the ability of general relativity to describe. No other theory has been able to adequately explain or describe gravity let alone extreme gravity so your view on what&#x27;s within the event horizon probably depends on which unproven theory (eg string theory) you subscribe to.<p>So this is speculation based on speculation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arbuge</author><text>&gt; the nearest two are V616 Mon at 11 solar masses and 3000 LY away, and Cyg X1 at 15 SM and 6000 LY.<p>The nearest known ones, that is. They were detected due to their gravitational effect on binary companions we could more easily detect. By that token, it is quite possible there are nearer ones - it&#x27;s just that detecting them directly if they don&#x27;t have a binary companion is tough.</text></comment> |
27,462,178 | 27,457,186 | 1 | 3 | 27,456,222 | train | <story><title>Always Be Quitting</title><url>https://jmmv.dev/2021/04/always-be-quitting.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dasil003</author><text>You <i>are</i> disposable though, everyone is. It&#x27;s generally a losing game to try to cement your position by playing gatekeeper on institutional knowledge, because at best it will prevent you from ever being promoted, and at worst will peg you as a single-point-of-failure liability that needs to be dealt with proactively. I understand this sort of defensive posture might make sense in some companies&#x2F;situations, but the article is clearly talking about software engineers in large upwardly mobile companies. In those situations it&#x27;s essential to have a non-adversarial and trusting relationship with your boss, if you don&#x27;t trust your boss than that&#x27;s the first thing to address by any means necessary.</text></item><item><author>booleandilemma</author><text><i>Paradoxically, by being disposable, you free yourself.</i><p>No, you just make yourself disposable.<p>War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.<p>Don’t listen to this article. It sounds like something overseers would tell their underlings.<p>And when you’re quitting, that’s the company’s problem, not yours.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>the_jeremy</author><text>I was on a team of 2 and underpaid for my YOE. My boss gave me the standard speech about the company not having the money to increase my comp, and said the company wouldn&#x27;t be able to counteroffer anything I interviewed for.<p>I was doing interview prep and my coworker gave notice. I told my boss the range I was interviewing for, and got a comp adjustment the next day. It was a 60% raise.</text></comment> | <story><title>Always Be Quitting</title><url>https://jmmv.dev/2021/04/always-be-quitting.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dasil003</author><text>You <i>are</i> disposable though, everyone is. It&#x27;s generally a losing game to try to cement your position by playing gatekeeper on institutional knowledge, because at best it will prevent you from ever being promoted, and at worst will peg you as a single-point-of-failure liability that needs to be dealt with proactively. I understand this sort of defensive posture might make sense in some companies&#x2F;situations, but the article is clearly talking about software engineers in large upwardly mobile companies. In those situations it&#x27;s essential to have a non-adversarial and trusting relationship with your boss, if you don&#x27;t trust your boss than that&#x27;s the first thing to address by any means necessary.</text></item><item><author>booleandilemma</author><text><i>Paradoxically, by being disposable, you free yourself.</i><p>No, you just make yourself disposable.<p>War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.<p>Don’t listen to this article. It sounds like something overseers would tell their underlings.<p>And when you’re quitting, that’s the company’s problem, not yours.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mLuby</author><text>Not &quot;if you follow all these rules religiously, you will even guarantee yourself a lifetime of employment, since no one but you has a hope in hell of maintaining the code.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.doc.ic.ac.uk&#x2F;~susan&#x2F;475&#x2F;unmain.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.doc.ic.ac.uk&#x2F;~susan&#x2F;475&#x2F;unmain.html</a></text></comment> |
19,152,881 | 19,152,763 | 1 | 3 | 19,148,983 | train | <story><title>Activision-Blizzard layoffs after reporting record results</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/02/activision-blizzard-lays-off-775-people-after-record-results-in-2018/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasonkester</author><text><i>the basic function of a union is to equalise the power imbalance between employer and employee.</i><p>... which is why good developers are so against unions.<p>The power balance is so skewed in the direction of the <i>employee</i> in the software industry that it would be insane to throw that away and form unions. The industry would be happy to pay us all 70k a year with 3% raises based on seniority, and sure, maybe the bottom third of the talent pool would benefit from that.<p>But the rest of us would see tens of millions of dollars chopped off of our expected lifetime income.</text></item><item><author>EdwardDiego</author><text>Not sure why people are opposed to unions in software dev - the basic function of a union is to equalise the power imbalance between employer and employee.<p>Now, people who question the <i>need</i> for unions in dev, I understand where they&#x27;re coming from.<p>Software development is rather unusual in its lack of unionization, and IMO, that&#x27;s because no-one has properly figured out how to commoditise our labour yet. We&#x27;re the modern equivalent of medieval guilds of craftsmen - we get paid far above the median precisely because we can&#x27;t yet be commoditized or automated.<p>Yet.<p>IOW The lack of a need for unionization in developers shows how lucky we are.</text></item><item><author>cableshaft</author><text>I wonder if this will end up being the straw that breaks the camel&#x27;s back and leads to unionization in the game industry. I&#x27;ve seen a decent uptick in serious discussion about it already this year after so many other dumb decisions by AAA publishers.<p>I know a lot of people here don&#x27;t think there should be unions in software, but I think the game industry is a special case. There&#x27;s enough starry eyed people that love the idea of working on games enough that they are willing to put up with total abuse and just about no one who cares about raising a family can seriously stay in that industry.<p>I myself spent a few years in it, and even though I love making games, it&#x27;s just a serious hobby for me because I can&#x27;t put up with the expected constant crunch, low salaries, and layoffs after every finished project.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>batty_alex</author><text>&gt; The industry would be happy to pay us all 70k a year with 3% raises based on seniority, and sure, maybe the bottom third of the talent pool would benefit from that.<p>Talk about an inflated sense of ego there. Do you not consider the fact that people make less may have nothing to do with where they stand in the talent pool? You&#x27;re suggesting there&#x27;s some sort of logical relationship between income and talent. Does it? Are you sure it&#x27;s not your own cognitive bias at work?<p>Scared that your own workers will unionize? I hate to break it to you, but your workers deserve the right to collectively bargain with you for what they consider to be fair. They are people and they deserve to be treated like humans, not your own expendable labor force.<p>&gt; But the rest of us would see tens of millions of dollars chopped off of our expected lifetime income.<p>Who&#x27;s the &quot;rest of us&quot;? You&#x27;re arguing that we should all not organize because a handful of people might get rich. I hate to break it to you, but that dog-eat-dog mentality isn&#x27;t helpful for workers or humanity. We&#x27;re all in this together, it&#x27;s not just jasonkester&#x27;s world you live in. We&#x27;re all humans living together, not just a salary attached to hands with programming ability.</text></comment> | <story><title>Activision-Blizzard layoffs after reporting record results</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/02/activision-blizzard-lays-off-775-people-after-record-results-in-2018/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasonkester</author><text><i>the basic function of a union is to equalise the power imbalance between employer and employee.</i><p>... which is why good developers are so against unions.<p>The power balance is so skewed in the direction of the <i>employee</i> in the software industry that it would be insane to throw that away and form unions. The industry would be happy to pay us all 70k a year with 3% raises based on seniority, and sure, maybe the bottom third of the talent pool would benefit from that.<p>But the rest of us would see tens of millions of dollars chopped off of our expected lifetime income.</text></item><item><author>EdwardDiego</author><text>Not sure why people are opposed to unions in software dev - the basic function of a union is to equalise the power imbalance between employer and employee.<p>Now, people who question the <i>need</i> for unions in dev, I understand where they&#x27;re coming from.<p>Software development is rather unusual in its lack of unionization, and IMO, that&#x27;s because no-one has properly figured out how to commoditise our labour yet. We&#x27;re the modern equivalent of medieval guilds of craftsmen - we get paid far above the median precisely because we can&#x27;t yet be commoditized or automated.<p>Yet.<p>IOW The lack of a need for unionization in developers shows how lucky we are.</text></item><item><author>cableshaft</author><text>I wonder if this will end up being the straw that breaks the camel&#x27;s back and leads to unionization in the game industry. I&#x27;ve seen a decent uptick in serious discussion about it already this year after so many other dumb decisions by AAA publishers.<p>I know a lot of people here don&#x27;t think there should be unions in software, but I think the game industry is a special case. There&#x27;s enough starry eyed people that love the idea of working on games enough that they are willing to put up with total abuse and just about no one who cares about raising a family can seriously stay in that industry.<p>I myself spent a few years in it, and even though I love making games, it&#x27;s just a serious hobby for me because I can&#x27;t put up with the expected constant crunch, low salaries, and layoffs after every finished project.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>intended</author><text>As mentioned previously here on HN - the coder pool is binomially distributed. Theres the extremely high end coders who will get job offers falling out of the sky, and then there is everyone else. Further, this is only in America - in the EU and the rest of the world, coders don&#x27;t get rock star salaries.<p>I&#x27;d say unions are definitely for everyone else - and <i>especially</i> for people in the Video Games industry.</text></comment> |
10,913,199 | 10,913,194 | 1 | 2 | 10,912,880 | train | <story><title>How Police Officers Seize Cash from Innocent Americans</title><url>http://priceonomics.com/how-police-officers-seize-cash-from-innocent/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sarciszewski</author><text>More dead police officers, and a lesser incentive for the police to rob the commoners, most likely.<p>EDIT: To the multitude of downvoters and angry replies: I didn&#x27;t say I agreed! I&#x27;m just saying where these arguments usually logically end up.</text></item><item><author>NhanH</author><text>&gt; By no means am I a right-wing&#x2F;vigilante militia supporter, but this type of behavior from the police makes me support having a heavily armed citizenry.<p>Do you mind elaborate how firearm would help with combating civil forfeiture?</text></item><item><author>balls187</author><text>John Oliver had a great piece on this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks</a><p>In the US, where the constitution expressly prohibits it: that your property is seized w&#x2F;o due process is complete and utter garbage.<p>By no means am I a right-wing&#x2F;vigilante militia supporter, but this type of behavior from the police makes me support having a heavily armed citizenry.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tehwalrus</author><text>You mean more funding for swat teams and heavier militarisation to defend themselves? Which is the only way such a move would be politically spun in this universe.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Police Officers Seize Cash from Innocent Americans</title><url>http://priceonomics.com/how-police-officers-seize-cash-from-innocent/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sarciszewski</author><text>More dead police officers, and a lesser incentive for the police to rob the commoners, most likely.<p>EDIT: To the multitude of downvoters and angry replies: I didn&#x27;t say I agreed! I&#x27;m just saying where these arguments usually logically end up.</text></item><item><author>NhanH</author><text>&gt; By no means am I a right-wing&#x2F;vigilante militia supporter, but this type of behavior from the police makes me support having a heavily armed citizenry.<p>Do you mind elaborate how firearm would help with combating civil forfeiture?</text></item><item><author>balls187</author><text>John Oliver had a great piece on this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks</a><p>In the US, where the constitution expressly prohibits it: that your property is seized w&#x2F;o due process is complete and utter garbage.<p>By no means am I a right-wing&#x2F;vigilante militia supporter, but this type of behavior from the police makes me support having a heavily armed citizenry.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TallGuyShort</author><text>Which doesn&#x27;t work until we get to the point of all-out civil rebellion. The US has a heavily armed citizenry now and this is obviously happening. And drawing a weapon on a police officer will end badly no matter what the cop was doing. And that&#x27;s not for entirely unreasonable reasons.</text></comment> |
18,047,725 | 18,047,555 | 1 | 2 | 18,047,059 | train | <story><title>3D engine entirely made of MS Excel formulae</title><url>https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/CBel/20180213/308549/3D_engine_entirely_made_of_MS_Excel_formulae__Enjoy_this_Doomxls_file_.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>billrobertson42</author><text>Excel w&#x2F;o vba is the ultimate in functional programming.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>infogulch</author><text>If Excel had just a couple more features it could be much more ergonomic and not even need macros. Specifically: anonymous functions&#x2F;lambdas made with just pure formulas. Define a function in a cell like `=($s) =&gt; [expr]` (or something idc). Call it with `=A1(&quot;string arg&quot;, B2:B100)` or by name if you name it via named ranges. Functions are obviously a new data type, so you can pass them as parameters to each other or to relevant builtins. It would turn Excel into some kind of hybrid pure functional&#x2F;spatial language where the code itself is spatial data.</text></comment> | <story><title>3D engine entirely made of MS Excel formulae</title><url>https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/CBel/20180213/308549/3D_engine_entirely_made_of_MS_Excel_formulae__Enjoy_this_Doomxls_file_.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>billrobertson42</author><text>Excel w&#x2F;o vba is the ultimate in functional programming.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MrEldritch</author><text>You jest, but people really do underestimate Excel. Yes, it sucks - but there is a reason that despite all its flaws, <i>people keep trying to use it for things</i>. (And no, that reason is not &quot;they&#x27;re too stupid to learn how to code&quot;)<p>And I&#x27;m not sure the things that make Excel so crappy could really be fixed without sacrificing the things that make it such a flexible and useful tool. For instance, adding the ability to recurse or iterate sanely would remove the transparency of having every iteration of a computation clearly visualized cell-by-copy-pasted-cell.</text></comment> |
11,639,852 | 11,639,801 | 1 | 3 | 11,637,766 | train | <story><title>Cargo: predictable dependency management</title><url>http://blog.rust-lang.org/2016/05/05/cargo-pillars.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lilyball</author><text>Something that I&#x27;m surprised this page doesn&#x27;t talk about, and which is very important considering the recent hubbub over left-pad, is that any dependency you get on Cargo can be relied upon to continue to exist forever (well, as long as the crates.io site still exists, but if that goes away so does the Cargo index). The reason is because you can&#x27;t ever remove a published version of your crate from crates.io. You can yank a version, which tells Cargo not to allow any projects to form new dependencies on that version, but the version isn&#x27;t actually deleted and any projects that have existing dependencies on that version will continue to be allowed to use it. This is documented at <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;doc.crates.io&#x2F;crates-io.html#cargo-yank" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;doc.crates.io&#x2F;crates-io.html#cargo-yank</a>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>incepted</author><text>&gt; Something that I&#x27;m surprised this page doesn&#x27;t talk about, and which is very important considering the recent hubbub over left-pad, is that any dependency you get on Cargo can be relied upon to continue to exist forever<p>Maybe the reason why it&#x27;s hardly talked about is because it&#x27;s common sense and pretty much all dependency managers support it?<p>Except node of course, because they have no idea what they&#x27;re doing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cargo: predictable dependency management</title><url>http://blog.rust-lang.org/2016/05/05/cargo-pillars.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lilyball</author><text>Something that I&#x27;m surprised this page doesn&#x27;t talk about, and which is very important considering the recent hubbub over left-pad, is that any dependency you get on Cargo can be relied upon to continue to exist forever (well, as long as the crates.io site still exists, but if that goes away so does the Cargo index). The reason is because you can&#x27;t ever remove a published version of your crate from crates.io. You can yank a version, which tells Cargo not to allow any projects to form new dependencies on that version, but the version isn&#x27;t actually deleted and any projects that have existing dependencies on that version will continue to be allowed to use it. This is documented at <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;doc.crates.io&#x2F;crates-io.html#cargo-yank" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;doc.crates.io&#x2F;crates-io.html#cargo-yank</a>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kibwen</author><text><p><pre><code> &gt; if that goes away so does the Cargo index
</code></pre>
Not so, the location of the index is independent of crates.io. Currently the index itself is just hosted on Github, whereas all of crates.io is hosted on S3. Which is actually kind of a pain sometimes, since if Github goes down it means that Cargo won&#x27;t be able to find the index and I don&#x27;t know if there&#x27;s an easy way to override the index check. In the future I expect Cargo will gracefully continue if the index can&#x27;t be updated due to connection failure, though I&#x27;d think it would prompt the user to make sure they&#x27;re aware that their local copy of the index might be out of date.</text></comment> |
1,252,797 | 1,252,601 | 1 | 2 | 1,252,438 | train | <story><title>Apple takes stance on consciousness</title><url>http://joeberkovitz.com/blog/2010/04/08/apple-takes-stance-on-consciousness/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>anigbrowl</author><text>Anyone else note the parting observation that if you have accepted the developer agreement you are forbidden from even discussing it in public without Apple's written permission?<p><i>“10.4 Press Releases and Other Publicity. You may not issue any press releases or make any other public statements regarding this Agreement, its terms and conditions, or the relationship of the parties without Apple’s express prior written approval, which may be withheld at Apple’s discretion.”</i><p>As I said yesterday, Apple appears to be pursuing policies that will create a chilling effect on developers. No talk about what tools you used for your app development - anything other than C, C++ or objective C might kill your app. And also, no talk about the license conditions...presumably to include talk about the app store approval process, insofar as it is described in the license agreement. Sure, they won't sue you; but there goes your app store presence if they feel offended by your remarks.<p>That's not a very attractive deal if you ask me.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple takes stance on consciousness</title><url>http://joeberkovitz.com/blog/2010/04/08/apple-takes-stance-on-consciousness/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>siculars</author><text>Apple is clearly in the wrong here. I hate to say it but they seem to be turning into the new "Empire".<p>It is as if AT&#38;T said you could only use a certain phone to make phone calls. Or ConEd said you could only use certain appliances with their electricity. Or Intel said you could only use their compiler to write programs that run on their processors. The list is endless.<p>This is an exercise in futility. Apple really needs to give this a rest and relax. Let the market place determine which application experiences are better than others.</text></comment> |
21,968,661 | 21,968,264 | 1 | 3 | 21,967,668 | train | <story><title>Hobby x86 kernel written with Zig</title><url>https://github.com/jzck/kernel-zig</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>guggle</author><text>&gt; I used to do this in Rust but I switched to zig for maintainability and readability over Rust.<p>Can you expand on this ? I&#x27;m asking out of curiosity because I want to learn a &quot;system&quot; programming language (for whatever definition there is to this term). So far I briefly tried Rust and Nim and found the former more difficult to read. I know nothing about Zig, how would you place it between these two ?</text></item><item><author>jackhalford</author><text>Hi, author here! I&#x27;ve just finished writing the pre-emptive multitasking [0](only round robbin though, nothing fancy).<p>I&#x27;m currently writing an ATA driver [1], the idea is to implement ext2.<p>I used to do this in Rust but I switched to zig for maintainability and readability over Rust. It seems that with `comptime` I&#x27;m able to make a lot of things optimal.<p>Overall I have to say kernel programming is _hard_ but very rewarding when it finally works, it&#x27;s really demystifying computers for me!<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.osdev.org&#x2F;Brendan%27s_Multi-tasking_Tutorial" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.osdev.org&#x2F;Brendan%27s_Multi-tasking_Tutorial</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.osdev.org&#x2F;IDE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.osdev.org&#x2F;IDE</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jackhalford</author><text>In general you&#x27;ll find that zig is easier to read than Rust (see the first version of this project in Rust [0]) because it&#x27;s a simpler language. For kernel programming this is even more so the case:<p>* zig has native support for arbitrary sized integers. In Rust I used to do bitshifts, Now I just have a packed struct of u3&#x2F;u5&#x2F;u7 whatever (see `src&#x2F;pci&#x2F;pci.zig`). Of course Rust has a bitflags crate but I didn&#x27;t find it handy, this is a case where native support vs library support means a world of difference.<p>* zig has native support for freestanding target. I used to have to build with Xargo for cross compiling to a custom target, I also was forced to `[nostd]`, and some features I was using forced me to use nightly Rust. In zig I have a simple `build.zig` and a simple `linker.ld` script, just works.<p>* zig has nicer pointer handling. A lot of kernel programming is stuff that Rust considers unsafe anyway. It&#x27;s not uncommon to have to write lines like `unsafe { <i>(ptr as </i>const u8) }` to deref a pointer in Rust, which is a pain because this kind of thing happens all of the time. Also you have to play around with mut a lot like this: `unsafe { &amp;mut <i>(address as </i>mut _)`. It just felt wrong a lot of the time, where in zig you have either `const` or `var` and that&#x27;s the end of it.<p>* zig is really fun to write! this is something that comes up often in the community, after years of C it&#x27;s just very refreshing.<p>Some things zig is missing:<p>* Package manager, this is coming soon. [1]<p>* Missing documentation for inline assembly (I think this part is going to get overhauled, as Andrew Kelley is writing an assembler in zig atm [2]).<p>I don&#x27;t know Nim, but I believe it has a garbage collector so it could be tricky to use for kernel programming.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jzck&#x2F;kernel-rs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jzck&#x2F;kernel-rs</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ziglang&#x2F;zig&#x2F;issues&#x2F;943" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ziglang&#x2F;zig&#x2F;issues&#x2F;943</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=iWRrkuFCYXQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=iWRrkuFCYXQ</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Hobby x86 kernel written with Zig</title><url>https://github.com/jzck/kernel-zig</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>guggle</author><text>&gt; I used to do this in Rust but I switched to zig for maintainability and readability over Rust.<p>Can you expand on this ? I&#x27;m asking out of curiosity because I want to learn a &quot;system&quot; programming language (for whatever definition there is to this term). So far I briefly tried Rust and Nim and found the former more difficult to read. I know nothing about Zig, how would you place it between these two ?</text></item><item><author>jackhalford</author><text>Hi, author here! I&#x27;ve just finished writing the pre-emptive multitasking [0](only round robbin though, nothing fancy).<p>I&#x27;m currently writing an ATA driver [1], the idea is to implement ext2.<p>I used to do this in Rust but I switched to zig for maintainability and readability over Rust. It seems that with `comptime` I&#x27;m able to make a lot of things optimal.<p>Overall I have to say kernel programming is _hard_ but very rewarding when it finally works, it&#x27;s really demystifying computers for me!<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.osdev.org&#x2F;Brendan%27s_Multi-tasking_Tutorial" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.osdev.org&#x2F;Brendan%27s_Multi-tasking_Tutorial</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.osdev.org&#x2F;IDE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.osdev.org&#x2F;IDE</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simias</author><text>I&#x27;m curious too, I&#x27;m quite familiar with Rust and never written any Zig in my life so I went digging through the source and I find the syntax remarkably similar for the most part. The only thing that stood out is that apparently you can drop the braces for single-line `if` bodies like in C whereas Rust makes them always mandatory but I&#x27;m firmly on Rust&#x27;s side on this one.<p>The part where Rust can get really messy is when you involve generic programing and traits, especially when lifetimes are involved, but I couldn&#x27;t find any obviously generic code in this codebase.<p>EDIT: after digging a bit deeper into Zig it looks like it uses C++&#x27;s style duck typing for metaprograming instead of a trait-based approach like Rust? It definitely removes some overhead to writing generic code but I&#x27;m not sure about readability and maintainability... But I&#x27;m going to stop here because I&#x27;m about to go full fanboy for Rust.</text></comment> |
29,527,684 | 29,525,838 | 1 | 3 | 29,525,519 | train | <story><title>We check our node_modules folder into source control</title><url>https://www.jackfranklin.co.uk/blog/check-in-your-node-dependencies/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ilumanty</author><text>Yarn offers &quot;Plug&#x27;n&#x27;play&quot; mode since v2, which basically promotes what the author says. It takes the idea further: dependencies are stored as zip archives instead of thousands of small files, which reduces the &quot;git noise&quot; and actually makes this viable as a performant workflow.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yarnpkg.com&#x2F;features&#x2F;pnp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yarnpkg.com&#x2F;features&#x2F;pnp</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rarkins</author><text>Yarn’s offline support is not directly tied to PNP. Yarn v1’s support for “offline” installs was a day one requirement, and as I understand it one of the primary drivers for Facebook engineers (at the time) to drive the creation of Yarn.<p>If offline installs is what you want, I don’t see any advantage of node_modules compared to this feature - only disadvantages (size, noise, and cross-platform incompatibilities).</text></comment> | <story><title>We check our node_modules folder into source control</title><url>https://www.jackfranklin.co.uk/blog/check-in-your-node-dependencies/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ilumanty</author><text>Yarn offers &quot;Plug&#x27;n&#x27;play&quot; mode since v2, which basically promotes what the author says. It takes the idea further: dependencies are stored as zip archives instead of thousands of small files, which reduces the &quot;git noise&quot; and actually makes this viable as a performant workflow.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yarnpkg.com&#x2F;features&#x2F;pnp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yarnpkg.com&#x2F;features&#x2F;pnp</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maxpert</author><text>Exactly reading article I for a second felt like author was either not fully aware of tooling, or doesn&#x27;t care about the noise it will cause (potentially complex conflicts) checking node_modules will cause.</text></comment> |
26,477,452 | 26,477,681 | 1 | 3 | 26,472,127 | train | <story><title>Loss of myelin is one of the major factors of age-related brain deterioration</title><url>https://www.port.ac.uk/news-events-and-blogs/news/brains-wiring-insulation-is-one-of-the-major-factors-of-age-related-brain-deterioration</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AnIdiotOnTheNet</author><text>&gt; The doctors were completely dismissive of and uninterested in the symptoms -- it really shook my faith in medical practice.<p>I had a similar experience as a child, where a textbook case of a reasonably common disease went undiagnosed for 2 years by doctors before a toll booth worker at an airport diagnosed me. She recognized the symptoms because her dog had it. Sure enough, after my mother brow-beat a doctor into running the absurdly simple blood test she was proven right.<p>On the one hand, I want to chalk this up to them being like everyone else: 90% of them are just shit at their jobs. On the other hand, I have it on good authority from nearly every nurse I&#x27;ve ever met that doctors are indeed arrogant, dismissive, and often mistaken.</text></item><item><author>ctrlp</author><text>I can attest. This happened to my wife 15+ years ago. The reaction began after two doses of Levaquin and was 3 months of non-stop living hell. Seriously painful neuropathy, burning all over her body. Profuse sweating all night. Brutal nightmares. Brain fog. Crippling pain in her appendages, melting walls. Extremely distressing.<p>The doctors were completely dismissive of and uninterested in the symptoms -- it really shook my faith in medical practice. We were on an oddessey to determine what was wrong and could be done to help. It took her 6 months to resume walking more than a short distance. She still has foot and hand problems from permanent neuropathy that affect her daily.<p>A few years after, Levaquin was black-labelled, and I believe no longer the first line of defense for children at least. The whole thing still burns me.<p>I suspect this sort of information is no longer rare but if anyone is having this experience then a GABA agonist like benzodiazepine may help you, but be extremely careful as they are quickly dependence forming and must be weened. Small dose.</text></item><item><author>stevebmark</author><text>Fluoroquinolone antibiotics like cipro, levaquin, (and generally anything ending in -ofloxacin), can cause permanent nerve damage and one of the presentations is demyelination of the nerves. [1][2][3]<p>Permanent nerve damage (neuropathy, pins and needles, tingling, muscle weakness, spasms, muscle twitches, heart palpitations) is a known side effect. There&#x27;s been no attempt made to study if there&#x27;s any long term delayed brain effects from fluoroquinolones. &quot;Brain fog&quot; is a commonly reported symptom of those who experience fluoroquinolone side effects. I hope there will be more studies on long term brain health from these drugs, as they&#x27;re given out liberally.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC6006604&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC6006604&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC7667412&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC7667412&#x2F;</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;10832955&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;10832955&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adkadskhj</author><text>&gt; On the one hand, I want to chalk this up to them being like everyone else: 90% of them are just shit at their jobs. On the other hand, I have it on good authority from nearly every nurse I&#x27;ve ever met that doctors are indeed arrogant, dismissive, and often mistaken.<p>I think there&#x27;s an extra layer. Any public facing jobs tend to take a toll on you, too. Some more than others. With doctors patients lie to you constantly, for a variety of reasons. Some drug seeking, some simply not wanting to admit it.<p>Yea, i imagine they&#x27;re like everyone else (shit), but i also imagine it is very easy become <i>very</i> dismissive in that line of work.<p>It&#x27;s a fine line to know what to filter and what to ignore, i imagine.</text></comment> | <story><title>Loss of myelin is one of the major factors of age-related brain deterioration</title><url>https://www.port.ac.uk/news-events-and-blogs/news/brains-wiring-insulation-is-one-of-the-major-factors-of-age-related-brain-deterioration</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AnIdiotOnTheNet</author><text>&gt; The doctors were completely dismissive of and uninterested in the symptoms -- it really shook my faith in medical practice.<p>I had a similar experience as a child, where a textbook case of a reasonably common disease went undiagnosed for 2 years by doctors before a toll booth worker at an airport diagnosed me. She recognized the symptoms because her dog had it. Sure enough, after my mother brow-beat a doctor into running the absurdly simple blood test she was proven right.<p>On the one hand, I want to chalk this up to them being like everyone else: 90% of them are just shit at their jobs. On the other hand, I have it on good authority from nearly every nurse I&#x27;ve ever met that doctors are indeed arrogant, dismissive, and often mistaken.</text></item><item><author>ctrlp</author><text>I can attest. This happened to my wife 15+ years ago. The reaction began after two doses of Levaquin and was 3 months of non-stop living hell. Seriously painful neuropathy, burning all over her body. Profuse sweating all night. Brutal nightmares. Brain fog. Crippling pain in her appendages, melting walls. Extremely distressing.<p>The doctors were completely dismissive of and uninterested in the symptoms -- it really shook my faith in medical practice. We were on an oddessey to determine what was wrong and could be done to help. It took her 6 months to resume walking more than a short distance. She still has foot and hand problems from permanent neuropathy that affect her daily.<p>A few years after, Levaquin was black-labelled, and I believe no longer the first line of defense for children at least. The whole thing still burns me.<p>I suspect this sort of information is no longer rare but if anyone is having this experience then a GABA agonist like benzodiazepine may help you, but be extremely careful as they are quickly dependence forming and must be weened. Small dose.</text></item><item><author>stevebmark</author><text>Fluoroquinolone antibiotics like cipro, levaquin, (and generally anything ending in -ofloxacin), can cause permanent nerve damage and one of the presentations is demyelination of the nerves. [1][2][3]<p>Permanent nerve damage (neuropathy, pins and needles, tingling, muscle weakness, spasms, muscle twitches, heart palpitations) is a known side effect. There&#x27;s been no attempt made to study if there&#x27;s any long term delayed brain effects from fluoroquinolones. &quot;Brain fog&quot; is a commonly reported symptom of those who experience fluoroquinolone side effects. I hope there will be more studies on long term brain health from these drugs, as they&#x27;re given out liberally.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC6006604&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC6006604&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC7667412&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC7667412&#x2F;</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;10832955&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;10832955&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rectang</author><text>Doctors operate in an environment of extreme uncertainty, because human biology is so complex and so poorly understood.<p>At the same time, doctors are rewarded for acting as though they are certain.<p>Not unlike internet commenters rewarded with karma for condemning doctors across the board with certainty.<p>Humans crave certainty in an uncertain world.</text></comment> |
26,719,977 | 26,719,917 | 1 | 2 | 26,719,316 | train | <story><title>7% of Americans don’t use the internet. Who are they?</title><url>https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/04/02/7-of-americans-dont-use-the-internet-who-are-they/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xkeysc0re</author><text>Honestly, I wish I could stop using the internet.<p>I make a lot of things and enjoy sharing them because other people might find them useful. It has often led to wonderful and inspiring conversations. Yet it&#x27;s obvious there&#x27;s something very very wrong happening with American culture that began around the time of social media platform consolidation. &quot;Being online&quot; entails a distinct mindset and attitude that is incompatible with in-person socialization, but the two spaces are nonetheless continually mashed together and propagated by various forces in government and media. You have to ask yourself why.<p>I&#x27;m not sure of the answer but it leaves a bad taste in my mouth.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Lammy</author><text>I&#x27;ve lost a few very good friends due to this. In-person and online interactions with the same person would vary wildly in tone and emotional intensity, like speaking to two entirely different people. The online interactions always pushed us apart, and the in-person interactions never failed to mend things, but of course those stopped happening over the previous year. I have to assume it&#x27;s the same way with me toward others.<p>If I may entertain an idea without necessarily believing it, I would not be surprised if many of the accounts on major social-media sites like Reddit, Twitter, etc are non-human persons tasked with pushing one narrative or another (no specific implication intended&#x2F;assumed). The &quot;subreddit simulator&quot; powered by GPT-2 bots has more than enough realistic-seeming conversations to make me not immediately reject the idea, since we&#x27;ve all seen how much better GPT-3 is and I assume private entities have even better language models than that: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;SubSimulatorGPT2&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;SubSimulatorGPT2&#x2F;</a><p>My additional total-speculation is that all the NSA&#x2F;FVEY surveillance of our everyday online conversations and interactions would be an excellent training set for such a hypothetical language model.</text></comment> | <story><title>7% of Americans don’t use the internet. Who are they?</title><url>https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/04/02/7-of-americans-dont-use-the-internet-who-are-they/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xkeysc0re</author><text>Honestly, I wish I could stop using the internet.<p>I make a lot of things and enjoy sharing them because other people might find them useful. It has often led to wonderful and inspiring conversations. Yet it&#x27;s obvious there&#x27;s something very very wrong happening with American culture that began around the time of social media platform consolidation. &quot;Being online&quot; entails a distinct mindset and attitude that is incompatible with in-person socialization, but the two spaces are nonetheless continually mashed together and propagated by various forces in government and media. You have to ask yourself why.<p>I&#x27;m not sure of the answer but it leaves a bad taste in my mouth.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>after_care</author><text>Being on social media is only a subset of being online. Plenty of people are not on social media but still watch tv, bank, and get gps directions online.</text></comment> |
3,514,373 | 3,514,000 | 1 | 3 | 3,513,165 | train | <story><title>Show HN: my database engine for GPU</title><url>https://sourceforge.net/projects/alenka/files/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>breckinloggins</author><text>Excellent work! I have a very small (marketing-related) nitpick:<p>Would you consider hosting your project on github instead of SourceForge? I don't say this to be trendy, github just has a much more pleasing interface in my opinion. It's also faster, subjectively at least.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: my database engine for GPU</title><url>https://sourceforge.net/projects/alenka/files/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>beagle3</author><text>Super cool, and thanks for sharing!<p>Are you familiar with APL/K/Q/J ? These implement column store databases which a programming language significantly more expressive and usable. K and J are also significantly faster than any other SQL database -- it would be interesting to compare K's ultra-optimized in-memory processing to the GPU -- I'm not at all sure GPU is going to win here in practice.<p>See <a href="https://github.com/kevinlawler/kona" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/kevinlawler/kona</a> for an open source K implementation (the wiki has docs). Same language, newer version (with database integration) and english language instead of ascii chars is called Q see <a href="http://kx.com/q/d/" rel="nofollow">http://kx.com/q/d/</a> (kdb1, q1 if you like longer, kdb, q if you like terser), and <a href="http://code.kx.com/wiki/Main_Page" rel="nofollow">http://code.kx.com/wiki/Main_Page</a></text></comment> |
2,347,006 | 2,347,055 | 1 | 2 | 2,346,908 | train | <story><title>AT&T to Acquire T-Mobile USA for $39 Billion</title><url>http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110320005040/en/ATT-Acquire-T-Mobile-USA-Deutsche-Telekom</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cletus</author><text>It's a natural fit for AT&#38;T to buy T-Mobile. They both 3G GSM (UMTS) technology. T-Mobile is probably better in some key markets than AT&#38;T, most notably New York (City).<p>The one issue with T-Mobile is it uses the fairly nonstandard 1870 MHz frequency. I don't know of any other carrier that does (anywhere). I assume this is because AT&#38;T has the rights to the more common frequencies in the relevant markets? I wonder what technical and regulatory hurdles stand in their way for switching T-Mobile infrastructure to also do the "standard" frequencies.<p>Wireless really is a mess in the US. Europe and Australia have really benefited from choosing one technology (GSM). In the US you pick your carrier then pick your phone. Elsewhere you basically pick your phone then pick your carrier. Don't like you carrier? Swap your SIM. Problem solved. The US really suffers (from the consumer point of view) by this lack of carrier mobility.<p>It's my theory that US wireless is so expensive at least in part due to it being the most balkanized market in the developed world (and possibly the entire world).<p>I was hoping LTE would help alleviate this problem as it seemed to be on the road map for 3 out of 4 of the carriers (all but Sprint). Now I guess it's still 2 of 3. Sprint is still the odd man out with the (basically failed) WiMax technology.<p>I can see this acquisition facing some serious regulatory and legislative scrutiny.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Anechoic</author><text>&#62; <i>I can see this acquisition facing some serious regulatory and legislative scrutiny.</i><p>One can hope, but I'm not holding my breath. My guess is that FTC and FCC will make some comments, AT&#38;T will make some small gestures, the deal gets approved and about a year later AT&#38;T's plans increase in price by 15-20%.</text></comment> | <story><title>AT&T to Acquire T-Mobile USA for $39 Billion</title><url>http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110320005040/en/ATT-Acquire-T-Mobile-USA-Deutsche-Telekom</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cletus</author><text>It's a natural fit for AT&#38;T to buy T-Mobile. They both 3G GSM (UMTS) technology. T-Mobile is probably better in some key markets than AT&#38;T, most notably New York (City).<p>The one issue with T-Mobile is it uses the fairly nonstandard 1870 MHz frequency. I don't know of any other carrier that does (anywhere). I assume this is because AT&#38;T has the rights to the more common frequencies in the relevant markets? I wonder what technical and regulatory hurdles stand in their way for switching T-Mobile infrastructure to also do the "standard" frequencies.<p>Wireless really is a mess in the US. Europe and Australia have really benefited from choosing one technology (GSM). In the US you pick your carrier then pick your phone. Elsewhere you basically pick your phone then pick your carrier. Don't like you carrier? Swap your SIM. Problem solved. The US really suffers (from the consumer point of view) by this lack of carrier mobility.<p>It's my theory that US wireless is so expensive at least in part due to it being the most balkanized market in the developed world (and possibly the entire world).<p>I was hoping LTE would help alleviate this problem as it seemed to be on the road map for 3 out of 4 of the carriers (all but Sprint). Now I guess it's still 2 of 3. Sprint is still the odd man out with the (basically failed) WiMax technology.<p>I can see this acquisition facing some serious regulatory and legislative scrutiny.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bjelkeman-again</author><text>&#62; Wireless really is a mess in the US. Europe and Australia have really benefited from choosing one technology (GSM).<p>How are pricing plans in the US when you are roaming beyond your state? I live in Sweden, where I have a decently priced data and call plan.<p>However, as soon as I go outside of Sweden, which is a small country (9M people), I have to pay roaming charges. I don't mind so much the call charges, but they want €4/MB ($5.60/MB) for data. Which essentially means that I don't use data roaming at all when out of town unless on Wifi, and I don't travel much in Sweden. Ok, so I can get calls when I travel, but I hardly use the phone for calls, I use it for the data access.<p>Yes, I can get another SIM, but then I have to tell everyone who may call me that I have changed number for that week, which is not really workable.</text></comment> |
17,814,443 | 17,813,894 | 1 | 2 | 17,813,614 | train | <story><title>China Invests Big in Clean and Cheap Energy from Thorium</title><url>http://www.thoriumenergyworld.com/press-release/china-invests-big-in-clean-and-cheap-energy-from-thorium</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>philipkglass</author><text>AFAICT this article offers no dates, no numbers, and no primary sources. China <i>did</i> announce a thorium research program back in 2011, and continues to publish research, but I don&#x27;t see any notable recent developments reported on other sites.<p>The IAEA does not currently list any reactors matching this description in operation or under construction in China:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pris.iaea.org&#x2F;pris&#x2F;CountryStatistics&#x2F;CountryDetails.aspx?current=CN" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pris.iaea.org&#x2F;pris&#x2F;CountryStatistics&#x2F;CountryDetails....</a><p>World Nuclear News does not have any recent stories about Chinese thorium reactors.<p>Is this article just a rehash of old news? Or has a Chinese thorium reactor achieved criticality recently? Videos of simulations and 3D renderings are a dime a dozen. New reactor concepts are interesting only when someone operates real hardware. China <i>can</i> do so but there&#x27;s nothing in this article that makes me think it <i>has</i> just done so.</text></comment> | <story><title>China Invests Big in Clean and Cheap Energy from Thorium</title><url>http://www.thoriumenergyworld.com/press-release/china-invests-big-in-clean-and-cheap-energy-from-thorium</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>Is there a better source for this than &quot;Thorium Energy World&quot;?</text></comment> |
10,439,206 | 10,439,189 | 1 | 3 | 10,438,240 | train | <story><title>US film of parachuting beavers found after 65 years</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/22/idaho-historic-footage-parachuting-beavers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vessenes</author><text>I had a hard time understanding how and why you&#x27;d drop beavers from a plane when a camera man could clearly get to the same spot, to, you know, make the film.<p>Then I thought that the camera man could have parachuted in, too. But, then I thought that either meant he then hiked out, in which case, why not hike in with beavers, and save the plane time? Or, perhaps, the plane could land on a lake, but in which case, why not land with beavers?<p>I may just be pre-caffeine, but I&#x27;m not sure I understand the point here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>Or you film the landed beaver back where you started an a &quot;scripted&quot; event. Bascially drop one in the original area where a camera is set up, let it film the decent and the beaver getting out. Then you film dropping beavers from the plane as they head down. The viewer can extrapolate that to the rest of the boxes in the back country.<p>Most, if not all, of these films were informational but did not have the full events filmed for technical reasons. Today of course you could just strap a phone to the beaver box and have it broadcast live on YouTube or something, which would have been pretty futuristic for the beavers.</text></comment> | <story><title>US film of parachuting beavers found after 65 years</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/22/idaho-historic-footage-parachuting-beavers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vessenes</author><text>I had a hard time understanding how and why you&#x27;d drop beavers from a plane when a camera man could clearly get to the same spot, to, you know, make the film.<p>Then I thought that the camera man could have parachuted in, too. But, then I thought that either meant he then hiked out, in which case, why not hike in with beavers, and save the plane time? Or, perhaps, the plane could land on a lake, but in which case, why not land with beavers?<p>I may just be pre-caffeine, but I&#x27;m not sure I understand the point here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Splines</author><text>It&#x27;s possible that the on-land shot was staged and taken pre-flight, or maybe it was a test run to show what the landing would look like.<p>Alternately, hiking in with 20 angry beavers is probably a PITA.</text></comment> |
35,801,267 | 35,798,798 | 1 | 3 | 35,782,984 | train | <story><title>OKTO35 3D-Printed Analog Film Movie Camera</title><url>https://blazsemprimoznik.com/okto35/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>achairapart</author><text>This is an impressive project. I wonder about the longevity of the 3d-printed mechanism.<p>Anyway, some years ago I went to a Lumière brothers exhibition. At the end of the exhibition there was an original &quot;Cinematograph&quot; in function.<p>I was astonished by the simplicity of the machine: It was just a little wooden box with a film magazine, a lens and a hand crank.[1][2]<p>And it doubled as a projector, just by placing a lamp behind it[3] (an oil lamp, and film was highly flammable back then, most early motion pictures were lost due to fire).<p>And that was it, it required neither electricity, nor any special or complex operation. I couldn&#x27;t stop thinking how this little device was the start of one of the most important and influential industries of the 20th century.<p>I guess most of the innovation was in the development of the film itself.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wikipedia&#x2F;commons&#x2F;0&#x2F;0a&#x2F;Institut_Lumi%C3%A8re_-_CINEMATOGRAPHE_Camera.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wikipedia&#x2F;commons&#x2F;0&#x2F;0a&#x2F;Institut...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;img.theculturetrip.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2018&#x2F;02&#x2F;1024px-cinematograf-project3.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;img.theculturetrip.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2018&#x2F;02&#x2F;10...</a><p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wikipedia&#x2F;commons&#x2F;7&#x2F;73&#x2F;CinematographeProjection.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wikipedia&#x2F;commons&#x2F;7&#x2F;73&#x2F;Cinemato...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>OKTO35 3D-Printed Analog Film Movie Camera</title><url>https://blazsemprimoznik.com/okto35/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pavlov</author><text>Records 4x32 8mm frames within the surface area of a traditional 35mm film frame. This way you can shoot 67 seconds of 18fps footage into one ordinary film roll available off-the-shelf.<p>The camera also works as a film scanner. This is brilliant because almost always you want to edit in digital.<p>The camera’s mechanical jitter could be stabilized in post, so it doesn’t seem like an enormous problem to me.<p>Impressive project!</text></comment> |
2,706,125 | 2,705,990 | 1 | 2 | 2,705,923 | train | <story><title>Convert Flash to HTML5</title><url>http://swiffy.googlelabs.com/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>benologist</author><text>"Swiffy currently supports a subset of SWF 8 and ActionScript 2.0,"<p>These are years out of date. It would be a lot more interesting if it could support modern versions (ActionScript 3 / FlashPlayer 9/10/10.1/10.2).</text></comment> | <story><title>Convert Flash to HTML5</title><url>http://swiffy.googlelabs.com/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>joejohnson</author><text>Can anyone report on how long this converter takes to run?<p>How feasible would it be for a Chrome extension where Flash elements in wegpages are seamlessly converted and displayed as HTML5 objects?</text></comment> |
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