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15,395,398 | 15,395,318 | 1 | 3 | 15,394,551 | train | <story><title>Judge Recommends ISP and Search Engine Blocking of Sci-Hub in the US</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/judge-recommends-isp-search-engine-blocking-sci-hub-us-171003/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alexandercrohde</author><text>For those with any moral ambiguity around sci-hub, as an american citizen simply trying to research questions like &quot;What chemicals that act like estrogens are in my public water, and in what dose?&quot; you unfortunately cannot effectively without either purchasing articles at $45 each or using sci-hub.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trendia</author><text>A similar question I had (and found on NCBI):<p>&quot;Which BPA-free plastics have effects similar to BPA?&quot;<p>Answer: nearly all of them</text></comment> | <story><title>Judge Recommends ISP and Search Engine Blocking of Sci-Hub in the US</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/judge-recommends-isp-search-engine-blocking-sci-hub-us-171003/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alexandercrohde</author><text>For those with any moral ambiguity around sci-hub, as an american citizen simply trying to research questions like &quot;What chemicals that act like estrogens are in my public water, and in what dose?&quot; you unfortunately cannot effectively without either purchasing articles at $45 each or using sci-hub.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eesmith</author><text>&gt; &quot;What chemicals that act like estrogens are in my public water, and in what dose?&quot;<p>I&#x27;m not sure that&#x27;s a good example.<p>Is that information actually in the peer-reviewed literature? I tried looking for those numbers for Tallahassee, FL but failed miserably.<p>I did find <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC2854760&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC2854760&#x2F;</a> which says &quot;Predicted concentrations in drinking water were used instead of measured concentrations because few studies have measured estrogen concentrations in U.S. drinking water, and those that are available report primarily nondetected concentrations [see Supplemental Material, available online (doi:10.1289&#x2F;ehp.0900654.S1 via <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dx.doi.org&#x2F;);" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dx.doi.org&#x2F;);</a> see also Hannah et al. 2009].&quot;<p>The supplemental information says &quot;The consistently large MOEs and MOSs strongly suggest that prescribed and total estrogens that may potentially be present in drinking water in the United States are not causing adverse effects in U.S. residents, including sensitive subpopulations.&quot;<p>So that&#x27;s one answer. Why go further (assuming you trust it)?<p>Of course, that&#x27;s for estrogens, not the wider category of &quot;chemicals that act like estrogens&quot;, but 1) what do you mean by that phrase?, and 2) is anyone measuring these values for every water system?<p>Public water systems do measure some values. I believe they are required to publish a report every year. Here&#x27;s the recent one for Tallahassee <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.talgov.com&#x2F;Uploads&#x2F;Public&#x2F;Documents&#x2F;you&#x2F;learn&#x2F;library&#x2F;documents&#x2F;wqr.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.talgov.com&#x2F;Uploads&#x2F;Public&#x2F;Documents&#x2F;you&#x2F;learn&#x2F;li...</a> . You&#x27;ll note they don&#x27;t measure the potentially large number of chemicals you mention. There <i>are</i> people that measure concentration levels of possible hormone disruptors, but as far as I can tell these are spot checks, and not done at a system-wide level that someone could simply look up in a published paper.<p>In any case, that sort of reporting information doesn&#x27;t go into the scientific literature, but rather into a scientific database. Here&#x27;s one, for example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.waterqualitydata.us" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.waterqualitydata.us</a> .<p>I can be wrong. Which $45 paper will tell me the answer to your question, for the public water system in Tallahassee?</text></comment> |
6,252,137 | 6,252,060 | 1 | 3 | 6,251,790 | train | <story><title>Cassandra vs MongoDB For Time Series Data</title><url>http://relistan.com/cassandra-vs-mongo/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>arohner</author><text>One thing I always find interesting about these kinds of problems is that most DBs don&#x27;t describe how they&#x27;re implemented. It&#x27;s easy to use the wrong tool, and then once you learn how e.g. Mongo is implemented, it&#x27;s obvious, &quot;oh, that&#x27;s why things are slow&quot;.<p>I&#x27;d love to see <a href="http://eagain.net/articles/git-for-computer-scientists/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;eagain.net&#x2F;articles&#x2F;git-for-computer-scientists&#x2F;</a>, but for every DB technology.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cassandra vs MongoDB For Time Series Data</title><url>http://relistan.com/cassandra-vs-mongo/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>espeed</author><text>KariosDB (<a href="https://github.com/proofpoint/kairosdb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;proofpoint&#x2F;kairosdb</a>) is a time-series database for Casssandra. It&#x27;s an OpenTSDB (<a href="http://opentsdb.net" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;opentsdb.net</a>) rewrite that supports sub-second precision.</text></comment> |
34,583,256 | 34,580,883 | 1 | 2 | 34,577,844 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Why does every package+module system become a Rube Goldberg machine?</title><text>A programming language has a &quot;core language&quot; plus a package&#x2F;module system.
In each successful language, the core language is neat-and-tidy,
but the package&#x2F;module system is a Rube Goldberg machine.
See JavaScript&#x2F;TypeScript, Python, or C&#x2F;C++.<p>Lots of brain cycles are spent on &quot;programming language theory&quot;.
We&#x27;ve roughly figured out the primitives required to express real-world computation.<p>In contrast, we apparently have no &quot;package management theory&quot;.
We have not figured out the primitives required to express dependencies.
As a result, we keep building new variants and features,
until we end up with &lt;script&gt;, require(), import, npm, yarn, pnpm, (py)?(v|virtual|pip)?env, (ana)?conda, easy_install, eggs and wheels ...<p>Is it just a &quot;law of software&quot; that this must happen to any successful language?
Or are there examples of where this it has not happened, and what can we learn from them?
Is there a &quot;theory of package management&quot;, or a &quot;lambda calculus of package management&quot; out there?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>tazjin</author><text>&gt; In contrast, we apparently have no &quot;package management theory&quot;. We have not figured out the primitives required to express dependencies<p>We have a good hunch. The basic theory behind Nix definitely goes in the right direction, and if we look away from all the surface-level nonsense going on in Nix, it&#x27;s conceptually capable (e.g. [0]) of being a first-class language dependency manager.<p>For this to work at scale we&#x27;d need to overcome a couple of large problems though (in ascending order of complexity):<p>1. A better technical implementation of the model (working on it [1]).<p>2. A mindset shift to make people understand that &quot;binary distribution&quot; is not a goal, but a side-effect of a reasonable software addressing and caching model. Without this conceptual connection, everything is 10x harder (which is why e.g. Debian packaging is completely incomprehensible - their fundamental model is wrong).<p>3. A mindset shift to make people understand that their pet programming language is not actually a special snowflake. No matter what the size of your compilation units is, whether you call modules &quot;modules&quot;, &quot;classes&quot; or &quot;gorboodles&quot;, whether you allow odd features like mutually-recursive dependencies and build-time arbitrary code execution etc.: Your language fits into the same model as every other language. You don&#x27;t have to NIH a package manager.<p>This last one is basically impossible at the current stage. Maybe somewhere down the line, if we manage to establish such a model successfully in a handful of languages and people see for themselves, but for now we have to just hold out.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.tvl.fyi&#x2F;about&#x2F;nix&#x2F;buildGo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.tvl.fyi&#x2F;about&#x2F;nix&#x2F;buildGo</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cs.tvl.fyi&#x2F;depot&#x2F;-&#x2F;tree&#x2F;tvix&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cs.tvl.fyi&#x2F;depot&#x2F;-&#x2F;tree&#x2F;tvix&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jnxx</author><text>And Guix has put that in an beautiful form. There are two things which make Guix special:<p>1. The package definitions are just a normal, battle-proven, very well defined general-purpose, functional-style supporting programming language (Scheme).<p>2. There is no conceptual difference between a package definition in the public Guix system, and a self-written package definition which a developers makes to build and test his own package, or to build and run a specific piece of software. The difference is equally small as between using an Emacs package, and configuring that package in ones .emacs configuration file.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Why does every package+module system become a Rube Goldberg machine?</title><text>A programming language has a &quot;core language&quot; plus a package&#x2F;module system.
In each successful language, the core language is neat-and-tidy,
but the package&#x2F;module system is a Rube Goldberg machine.
See JavaScript&#x2F;TypeScript, Python, or C&#x2F;C++.<p>Lots of brain cycles are spent on &quot;programming language theory&quot;.
We&#x27;ve roughly figured out the primitives required to express real-world computation.<p>In contrast, we apparently have no &quot;package management theory&quot;.
We have not figured out the primitives required to express dependencies.
As a result, we keep building new variants and features,
until we end up with &lt;script&gt;, require(), import, npm, yarn, pnpm, (py)?(v|virtual|pip)?env, (ana)?conda, easy_install, eggs and wheels ...<p>Is it just a &quot;law of software&quot; that this must happen to any successful language?
Or are there examples of where this it has not happened, and what can we learn from them?
Is there a &quot;theory of package management&quot;, or a &quot;lambda calculus of package management&quot; out there?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>tazjin</author><text>&gt; In contrast, we apparently have no &quot;package management theory&quot;. We have not figured out the primitives required to express dependencies<p>We have a good hunch. The basic theory behind Nix definitely goes in the right direction, and if we look away from all the surface-level nonsense going on in Nix, it&#x27;s conceptually capable (e.g. [0]) of being a first-class language dependency manager.<p>For this to work at scale we&#x27;d need to overcome a couple of large problems though (in ascending order of complexity):<p>1. A better technical implementation of the model (working on it [1]).<p>2. A mindset shift to make people understand that &quot;binary distribution&quot; is not a goal, but a side-effect of a reasonable software addressing and caching model. Without this conceptual connection, everything is 10x harder (which is why e.g. Debian packaging is completely incomprehensible - their fundamental model is wrong).<p>3. A mindset shift to make people understand that their pet programming language is not actually a special snowflake. No matter what the size of your compilation units is, whether you call modules &quot;modules&quot;, &quot;classes&quot; or &quot;gorboodles&quot;, whether you allow odd features like mutually-recursive dependencies and build-time arbitrary code execution etc.: Your language fits into the same model as every other language. You don&#x27;t have to NIH a package manager.<p>This last one is basically impossible at the current stage. Maybe somewhere down the line, if we manage to establish such a model successfully in a handful of languages and people see for themselves, but for now we have to just hold out.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.tvl.fyi&#x2F;about&#x2F;nix&#x2F;buildGo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.tvl.fyi&#x2F;about&#x2F;nix&#x2F;buildGo</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cs.tvl.fyi&#x2F;depot&#x2F;-&#x2F;tree&#x2F;tvix&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cs.tvl.fyi&#x2F;depot&#x2F;-&#x2F;tree&#x2F;tvix&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>noobermin</author><text>I think 3 is probably true for language developers, but for users, language repos feel like they are needed because like none of the linux distros really ship everything you need, or even a reliable fraction without installing a bunch of dumb hacks to get it to work. It&#x27;s much easier just to do &quot;pip install&quot; so that&#x27;s where the demand is.<p>And sure, may be you&#x27;re right that distro packaging is the &quot;wrong model,&quot; again, that is the problem then for distros, users are stuck using ubuntu or whatever so they don&#x27;t have the option to do the &quot;right&quot; thing, so they do use the mishmash of packaging&#x2F;repo systems as just the cost of doing business.</text></comment> |
10,157,570 | 10,157,344 | 1 | 3 | 10,155,801 | train | <story><title>Ants are as Effective as Pesticides</title><url>http://scitech.au.dk/en/roemer/5-2015/ants-are-as-effective-as-pesticides/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lutorm</author><text>It seems defining what &quot;native&quot; means on Hawaii is a bit sketchy. Clearly <i>no</i> animals were on the islands when they first were created, so everything is more or less &quot;invasive&quot;.<p>Speaking of ants that live in trees, the Big Island is being overrun by the Little Fire Ant, which has already spread across much of the rainy side. I&#x27;m sure it protects the trees from pests, too, but in this case that unfortunately also includes humans. They have a nasty bite, and are very hard to control, which is making farming in infested areas hell. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;littlefireants.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;littlefireants.com&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>ggchappell</author><text>Just a wee bit off-topic, but:<p>The situation with the native species of Hawaii is actually much worse than most people are aware -- even people who live in Hawaii. I read somewhere[1] that, if you walk around a typical coastal town in Hawaii, and look at the lawns &amp; gardens &amp; parks, and watch the birds &amp; whatnot, that you will generally not see <i>any native species at all</i>. The ones big enough to see are all confined to the interior.<p>EDIT. And, by the way, the rats weren&#x27;t native, either. Hawaii has exactly two native mammals: the Hawaiian Hoary Bat and the Hawaiian Monk Seal.<p>[1] I think it was in <i>Remains of a Rainbow</i>, by D. Liittschwager &amp; S. Middleton. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;amazon.com&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0792264126&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;amazon.com&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0792264126&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>gnufrra</author><text>Biological pest control is not a silver bullet. We have a history littered with biological pest control disasters. These studies need to take into account effect on native biodiversity. For example Hawaii introduce mongoose to control rats as it turn out they will kill native birds more than the rats.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hyperbovine</author><text>&gt; so everything is more or less &quot;invasive&quot;.<p>That&#x27;s simply not true. I&#x27;m not so familiar with the fauna of Hawaii, but you can consider the moa which was happily ensconced in New Zealand for about 20 million years, and extinct within 200 years of the Polynesian settlement in the late 13th century. It&#x27;s pretty clear to me in a situation like that what was native and who the invaders were, and I&#x27;d be surprised if the situation in Hawaii were very different.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ants are as Effective as Pesticides</title><url>http://scitech.au.dk/en/roemer/5-2015/ants-are-as-effective-as-pesticides/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lutorm</author><text>It seems defining what &quot;native&quot; means on Hawaii is a bit sketchy. Clearly <i>no</i> animals were on the islands when they first were created, so everything is more or less &quot;invasive&quot;.<p>Speaking of ants that live in trees, the Big Island is being overrun by the Little Fire Ant, which has already spread across much of the rainy side. I&#x27;m sure it protects the trees from pests, too, but in this case that unfortunately also includes humans. They have a nasty bite, and are very hard to control, which is making farming in infested areas hell. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;littlefireants.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;littlefireants.com&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>ggchappell</author><text>Just a wee bit off-topic, but:<p>The situation with the native species of Hawaii is actually much worse than most people are aware -- even people who live in Hawaii. I read somewhere[1] that, if you walk around a typical coastal town in Hawaii, and look at the lawns &amp; gardens &amp; parks, and watch the birds &amp; whatnot, that you will generally not see <i>any native species at all</i>. The ones big enough to see are all confined to the interior.<p>EDIT. And, by the way, the rats weren&#x27;t native, either. Hawaii has exactly two native mammals: the Hawaiian Hoary Bat and the Hawaiian Monk Seal.<p>[1] I think it was in <i>Remains of a Rainbow</i>, by D. Liittschwager &amp; S. Middleton. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;amazon.com&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0792264126&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;amazon.com&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0792264126&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>gnufrra</author><text>Biological pest control is not a silver bullet. We have a history littered with biological pest control disasters. These studies need to take into account effect on native biodiversity. For example Hawaii introduce mongoose to control rats as it turn out they will kill native birds more than the rats.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oh_sigh</author><text>They are native, because they existed in no other place than Hawaii. The species literally did not exist until Hawaii made it so. The first species to come to Hawaii were invasive.</text></comment> |
7,599,383 | 7,598,341 | 1 | 3 | 7,596,984 | train | <story><title>Creating a Bare Bones Bootloader</title><url>http://www.reinterpretcast.com/creating-a-bare-bones-bootloader</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>heywire</author><text>If this type of thing interests you, check out <a href="http://wiki.osdev.org" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.osdev.org</a>. I cannot recommend this site enough for someone who is interested in writing their own toy OS.</text></comment> | <story><title>Creating a Bare Bones Bootloader</title><url>http://www.reinterpretcast.com/creating-a-bare-bones-bootloader</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CocaKoala</author><text>I&#x27;m really digging the systems posts that have been cropping up on HN recently; this and the toy OS post that was floating around are both really interesting.</text></comment> |
22,525,882 | 22,525,833 | 1 | 2 | 22,525,494 | train | <story><title>Robinhood goes down again, during another historic trading day</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/09/robinhood-app-down-again-during-another-historic-trading-day.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>I just feel for the smart investors calling up because they want to BUY everything... and can&#x27;t get through :P</text></item><item><author>chasingthewind</author><text>Matt Levine had some interesting (and funny!) insights the last time [0]<p>&gt; It is well known that one of the best services a retail broker can provide is not answering the phones during a crash. The market is down, the customers panic, their timing is terrible, they want to sell at the bottom, they call you up to say “sell everything,” you say “we’re sorry all our representatives are assisting other customers, your call is important to us,” they hang up and get distracted, the market rallies, they forget about selling, you have saved them a fortune, good work.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2020-03-03&#x2F;robinhood-picked-a-bad-day-to-break" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2020-03-03&#x2F;robinh...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>totalZero</author><text>Buying the dip always feels intelligent in a bull market. In a bear market, it&#x27;s not so wise.<p>The future is unknown to all of us. In some cases, looks are not deceiving. When the market appears to be on the cusp of freefall, it can in fact accelerate downward.</text></comment> | <story><title>Robinhood goes down again, during another historic trading day</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/09/robinhood-app-down-again-during-another-historic-trading-day.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>I just feel for the smart investors calling up because they want to BUY everything... and can&#x27;t get through :P</text></item><item><author>chasingthewind</author><text>Matt Levine had some interesting (and funny!) insights the last time [0]<p>&gt; It is well known that one of the best services a retail broker can provide is not answering the phones during a crash. The market is down, the customers panic, their timing is terrible, they want to sell at the bottom, they call you up to say “sell everything,” you say “we’re sorry all our representatives are assisting other customers, your call is important to us,” they hang up and get distracted, the market rallies, they forget about selling, you have saved them a fortune, good work.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2020-03-03&#x2F;robinhood-picked-a-bad-day-to-break" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2020-03-03&#x2F;robinh...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blantonl</author><text>Yep, that&#x27;s me. I&#x27;m pissed that my trading platform is completely hosed this morning.<p>I want to be on the other side of a LOT of trades today and I&#x27;m unable.</text></comment> |
15,450,357 | 15,450,342 | 1 | 2 | 15,448,996 | train | <story><title>Firefox Send: Private, Encrypted File Sharing</title><url>https://send.firefox.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zeveb</author><text>&gt; one has to trust Mozilla not to do that.<p>Exactly. One has to trust Mozilla <i>every time one visits the page</i>. They could <i>easily</i> configure it to be malicious one time out of a million (say); what are the odds that they would be caught?<p>Web-page-based crypto is fundamentally insecure, and Mozilla is committing an extremely grave error in encouraging users to trust it (as they also do with their Firefox Accounts). Security is <i>important</i>, and snake-oil solutions are worse than worthless.</text></item><item><author>KwanEsq</author><text>The key is the hash, which isn&#x27;t sent over the wire when loading a page. Now granted it&#x27;s accessible via location.hash in the client, but one has to trust Mozilla not to do that.</text></item><item><author>sarabande</author><text>I&#x27;m curious -- Mozilla says it can&#x27;t decrypt the file on their side:<p><pre><code> Mozilla does not have the ability to access the content of your encrypted file [...]
https:&#x2F;&#x2F;testpilot.firefox.com&#x2F;experiments&#x2F;send
</code></pre>
How is the receiver able to decrypt the file -- i.e. what is the decryption key if not the URL slug, which presumably Mozilla has as well?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Yoric</author><text>Send is meant to be an improvement on Dropbox &amp; co for a specific use case.<p>Is it perfect? No, it isn&#x27;t. But it is still a considerable improvement.<p>If you have a better solution in mind for the average user crowd, feel free to suggest it, of course.</text></comment> | <story><title>Firefox Send: Private, Encrypted File Sharing</title><url>https://send.firefox.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zeveb</author><text>&gt; one has to trust Mozilla not to do that.<p>Exactly. One has to trust Mozilla <i>every time one visits the page</i>. They could <i>easily</i> configure it to be malicious one time out of a million (say); what are the odds that they would be caught?<p>Web-page-based crypto is fundamentally insecure, and Mozilla is committing an extremely grave error in encouraging users to trust it (as they also do with their Firefox Accounts). Security is <i>important</i>, and snake-oil solutions are worse than worthless.</text></item><item><author>KwanEsq</author><text>The key is the hash, which isn&#x27;t sent over the wire when loading a page. Now granted it&#x27;s accessible via location.hash in the client, but one has to trust Mozilla not to do that.</text></item><item><author>sarabande</author><text>I&#x27;m curious -- Mozilla says it can&#x27;t decrypt the file on their side:<p><pre><code> Mozilla does not have the ability to access the content of your encrypted file [...]
https:&#x2F;&#x2F;testpilot.firefox.com&#x2F;experiments&#x2F;send
</code></pre>
How is the receiver able to decrypt the file -- i.e. what is the decryption key if not the URL slug, which presumably Mozilla has as well?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>edanm</author><text>The way this gets solved in the real world is through contracts - they have a certain contract with you, and if they break it, they can get sued and lose a lot of money.<p>This is one of the goals of the legal system - make it so we usually trust each other. There are no real long-term technical solutions to this problem.<p>So if you want to make sure you&#x27;re safe, read their EULA or equivalent.</text></comment> |
33,185,669 | 33,182,821 | 1 | 3 | 33,170,608 | train | <story><title>Intel plans thousands of job cuts in face of PC slowdown</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-11/intel-is-planning-thousands-of-job-cuts-in-face-of-pc-slowdown</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tehnub</author><text>I don&#x27;t have any data, but from word of mouth and variously seeing posts and videos online, 12th gen Intel CPUs seem pretty popular for gaming builds. They&#x27;re winning in benchmarks against 50 series AMD (as they should, being newer), but are also cheaper. I&#x27;ll be curious to see how 13th gen Intel vs. 70 series AMD plays out. There are always complicating factors, such as motherboards for 70 series AMD being quite pricey for now.</text></item><item><author>gspencley</author><text>I don&#x27;t know a lot of the details, but everything I&#x27;ve heard over the last couple of years indicated that AMD was absolutely crushing Intel.<p>A recent laptop I purchased, as well as the last desktop I put together (~2 years ago) each have Ryzen chips. I forget the details but in addition to performance issues, didn&#x27;t Intel CPUs also have some major security vulnerabilities? And was it that they were related to instruction-level performance optimizations that, when disabled to address the security vulnerabilities, led to even worse performance?<p>So if AMD isn&#x27;t doing great at the moment either, I can&#x27;t imagine how hard Intel has been hit. I don&#x27;t know <i>anyone</i> who is buying or recommending Intel CPUs at the moment.</text></item><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>I think this is the first major layoff announcement at a big, established tech firm I&#x27;ve heard this year that is anywhere near this size. I mean, there have been loads of &quot;couple hundred&quot; employee layoffs, and certainly a lot of hiring slowdown&#x2F;freezes, but again, haven&#x27;t seen anything else near this big, and the layoffs previously seem to have been concentrated in unprofitable VC-funded companies. I know Tesla laid off a couple thousand people this summer, that&#x27;s the closest thing that comes to mind.<p>Intel certainly has its own unique challenges, but even, for example, AMD had been doing pretty great up until this year, and they also just announced a big shortfall for their 3rd quarter results. Just wondering if this is really the tip of the iceberg for a true, broad retrenchment in tech, after the past 9 months of &quot;Is a recession coming? Is a recession coming?&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AaronFriel</author><text>Intel repeated their Prescott (Pentium 4&#x2F;Pentium D) strategy of completely removing power limitations on their team to beat AMD.<p>As a result, the Intel processors have TDPs and real world power usages &gt;2.5x that of a comparable Ryzen. Sure, they&#x27;re winning, <i>but at what cost</i>? The 12900K at 240 watts pulls almost the same power as a 280W 64-core Threadripper.<p>AMD is responding in kind, with new top-end processors pulling 170W, or higher with their built-in overclocking that pushes the chip to even higher power draws as long as cooling permits. This looks to put them back into the lead, but it&#x27;s just not a sustainable strategy.</text></comment> | <story><title>Intel plans thousands of job cuts in face of PC slowdown</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-11/intel-is-planning-thousands-of-job-cuts-in-face-of-pc-slowdown</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tehnub</author><text>I don&#x27;t have any data, but from word of mouth and variously seeing posts and videos online, 12th gen Intel CPUs seem pretty popular for gaming builds. They&#x27;re winning in benchmarks against 50 series AMD (as they should, being newer), but are also cheaper. I&#x27;ll be curious to see how 13th gen Intel vs. 70 series AMD plays out. There are always complicating factors, such as motherboards for 70 series AMD being quite pricey for now.</text></item><item><author>gspencley</author><text>I don&#x27;t know a lot of the details, but everything I&#x27;ve heard over the last couple of years indicated that AMD was absolutely crushing Intel.<p>A recent laptop I purchased, as well as the last desktop I put together (~2 years ago) each have Ryzen chips. I forget the details but in addition to performance issues, didn&#x27;t Intel CPUs also have some major security vulnerabilities? And was it that they were related to instruction-level performance optimizations that, when disabled to address the security vulnerabilities, led to even worse performance?<p>So if AMD isn&#x27;t doing great at the moment either, I can&#x27;t imagine how hard Intel has been hit. I don&#x27;t know <i>anyone</i> who is buying or recommending Intel CPUs at the moment.</text></item><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>I think this is the first major layoff announcement at a big, established tech firm I&#x27;ve heard this year that is anywhere near this size. I mean, there have been loads of &quot;couple hundred&quot; employee layoffs, and certainly a lot of hiring slowdown&#x2F;freezes, but again, haven&#x27;t seen anything else near this big, and the layoffs previously seem to have been concentrated in unprofitable VC-funded companies. I know Tesla laid off a couple thousand people this summer, that&#x27;s the closest thing that comes to mind.<p>Intel certainly has its own unique challenges, but even, for example, AMD had been doing pretty great up until this year, and they also just announced a big shortfall for their 3rd quarter results. Just wondering if this is really the tip of the iceberg for a true, broad retrenchment in tech, after the past 9 months of &quot;Is a recession coming? Is a recession coming?&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pojzon</author><text>Gamers prefer anything that has better performance for cheaper price.<p>Tho overall having a more stable PC that consumes less electricity is better in long term and ppl really see that.<p>It shows in sale numbers.</text></comment> |
36,941,940 | 36,931,029 | 1 | 2 | 36,929,096 | train | <story><title>Chicago95 – Windows 95 Theme for Linux</title><url>https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>troad</author><text>I&#x27;m a big fan of this aesthetic. If you appreciate the usability of W95 without needing a pixel perfect copy, it&#x27;s very easy to theme KDE to strike a really good balance.<p>As your global theme, use &#x27;Reactionary&#x27;. Set your application style to &#x27;MS Windows 9x&#x27;. For your icons, use &#x27;Memphis98&#x27;. For cursors, &#x27;Hackneyed (scaleable)&#x27;. Your Plasma style, colours, and window decorations should all follow your global theme (Reactionary). I keep the default Noto fonts because I find them quite easy on the eyes, but this is easy to change if you yearn for classic fonts.<p>My task bar (bottom bar) is set to use full names and not combine apps; I also use the application menu that looks like W95, and I&#x27;ve got it set to use a little W95 Start icon for that touch of nostalgia. Otherwise it&#x27;s all very minimalist.<p>I&#x27;ve used this set-up for years and it works really well for me. I find it very conducive to being productive - it&#x27;s stable, unchanging, and respectful of my attention and focus. I also don&#x27;t need to hack away at anything or worry about updates - KDE officially supports theming and handles all of this really seamlessly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qwerty456127</author><text>&gt; If you appreciate the usability of W95 without needing a pixel perfect copy<p>My experience suggests &quot;not pixel perfect&quot; usually means severely imperfect to the point of very ugly when Linux WMs try to imitate Windows 95. &quot;Redmond&quot; themes have been around for decades, always ugly as hell, only reminding of Windows 95 very loosely.</text></comment> | <story><title>Chicago95 – Windows 95 Theme for Linux</title><url>https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>troad</author><text>I&#x27;m a big fan of this aesthetic. If you appreciate the usability of W95 without needing a pixel perfect copy, it&#x27;s very easy to theme KDE to strike a really good balance.<p>As your global theme, use &#x27;Reactionary&#x27;. Set your application style to &#x27;MS Windows 9x&#x27;. For your icons, use &#x27;Memphis98&#x27;. For cursors, &#x27;Hackneyed (scaleable)&#x27;. Your Plasma style, colours, and window decorations should all follow your global theme (Reactionary). I keep the default Noto fonts because I find them quite easy on the eyes, but this is easy to change if you yearn for classic fonts.<p>My task bar (bottom bar) is set to use full names and not combine apps; I also use the application menu that looks like W95, and I&#x27;ve got it set to use a little W95 Start icon for that touch of nostalgia. Otherwise it&#x27;s all very minimalist.<p>I&#x27;ve used this set-up for years and it works really well for me. I find it very conducive to being productive - it&#x27;s stable, unchanging, and respectful of my attention and focus. I also don&#x27;t need to hack away at anything or worry about updates - KDE officially supports theming and handles all of this really seamlessly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>UncleSlacky</author><text>You could also just use the &quot;Redmond&quot; theme with the Trinity DE:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;baloo.neocities.org&#x2F;TheGuide&#x2F;TheGuide-Part1" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;baloo.neocities.org&#x2F;TheGuide&#x2F;TheGuide-Part1</a> (bottom of page)</text></comment> |
19,226,950 | 19,160,184 | 1 | 3 | 19,158,969 | train | <story><title>Amateur astronomers tracking the world’s spy satellites</title><url>https://www.supercluster.com/editorial/meet-the-amateur-astronomers-hunting-for-spy-satellites</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kulahan</author><text>I&#x27;m super late to the party here, but I thought this was an interesting story.<p>I used to work on a space program, and one of the guys on my team had been in the industry for quite some time. He told me he <i>hates</i> these amateurs. Not because they&#x27;re enjoying a hobby, but because they&#x27;re so damn good. Without getting into specifics, his company had launched a spy satellite at one point that was fairly revolutionary in that it was able to perform its task without a formerly necessary (large and expensive) component.<p>These amateurs noticed it and started talking about it online so fast that his company genuinely thought someone had broken their security clearance and told the public about the new development. They investigated a bunch of people at the company before finally being like &quot;holy shit, these guys are just <i>really</i> good&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amateur astronomers tracking the world’s spy satellites</title><url>https://www.supercluster.com/editorial/meet-the-amateur-astronomers-hunting-for-spy-satellites</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aaronbrethorst</author><text>Check out Trevor Paglen for more: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?query=paglen&amp;sort=byPopularity&amp;prefix&amp;page=0&amp;dateRange=all&amp;type=story" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?query=paglen&amp;sort=byPopularity&amp;prefi...</a></text></comment> |
34,908,605 | 34,907,453 | 1 | 3 | 34,906,593 | train | <story><title>Introduction to Data-Centric AI</title><url>https://dcai.csail.mit.edu/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yeldarb</author><text>Love it; one of the biggest things we&#x27;ve preached to users of our computer vision dev-tool is: it doesn&#x27;t matter how much time you spend on your model if your data is bad.<p>When you&#x27;re trying to get a first version of your CV project launched, you can usually pretty much ignore the model (and pick one up off the shelf) because the time you spend on improving your data is orders of magnitude higher leverage.<p>Someday the model might become the limiting re-agent but it&#x27;s much, much later than people assume (if at all). But the model is the &quot;fun&quot; part for technical people to play with (and academia encourages treating your data as an immutable constant) so it gets a lot of attention at the expense of the data.</text></comment> | <story><title>Introduction to Data-Centric AI</title><url>https://dcai.csail.mit.edu/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>doctoboggan</author><text>&gt; Anyone is welcome to take this course, regardless of background. To get the most out of this course, we recommend that you:<p>&gt; Completed an introductory course in machine learning (like 6.036 &#x2F; 6.390). To learn this on your own, check out Andrew Ng’s ML course, fast.ai’s ML course, or Dive into Deep Learning.<p>Does anyone have a recommendation for one of these options over the others?</text></comment> |
24,339,088 | 24,338,402 | 1 | 2 | 24,337,798 | train | <story><title>A grim outlook on the future of browser add-ons</title><url>https://palant.info/2020/08/31/a-grim-outlook-on-the-future-of-browser-add-ons/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>IainIreland</author><text>Mozilla employee here (albeit not on the mobile team):<p>Relax, everybody. Fenix is a major rewrite. It takes time to reimplement all the WebExtension APIs. Nevertheless, the intent is to eventually add support for all the APIs that make sense on mobile. (See here, for example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugzilla.mozilla.org&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=1632626#c1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugzilla.mozilla.org&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=1632626#c1</a>, or just scroll through the list of bugs here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugzilla.mozilla.org&#x2F;buglist.cgi?product=GeckoView&amp;component=Extensions&amp;resolution=---&amp;list_id=15396111" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugzilla.mozilla.org&#x2F;buglist.cgi?product=GeckoView&amp;c...</a>)<p>If you go back and read old HN threads from the first public release of Fenix, people were afraid that the lack of extension support was a sign that Mozilla had given up on adblockers. I hope it&#x27;s clear by now that&#x27;s not true. (From what I recall of lunchtime conversations, back when those were a thing, the plan for extensions was &quot;well, we&#x27;re <i>definitely</i> not shipping without uBlock Origin, and we&#x27;ll see what else we can get working from there&quot;.) Similarly, the fact that parts of the WebExtension API are not currently available doesn&#x27;t mean Mozilla has given up on it. It just means that things take time. (If it were easy, other mobile browsers might support add-ons!)<p>It takes a lot of resources to support two parallel codebases. At some point you have to rip off the band-aid. The sooner Fennec is cut loose, the more effort we can dedicate to Fenix improvements (like improving WebExtension support). The transition was always going to be a bit bumpy, but things should hopefully get better from here.</text></comment> | <story><title>A grim outlook on the future of browser add-ons</title><url>https://palant.info/2020/08/31/a-grim-outlook-on-the-future-of-browser-add-ons/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>causality0</author><text><i>no technical reason why none of the other add-ons are allowed any more, it being merely a policy decision. I already verified that my add-ons can still run on Firefox for Android but aren’t allowed to</i><p>That makes me almost incoherently furious. I understand if you rebuild the foundation of a browser for better performance and that breaks all the extensions until the developers can rewrite them for the new model. I get it if one of my favorite extensions is no longer under active development and will never have a version released for the new model. But how fucking dare you gatekeep what I install on my own browser? Freedom from this walled-garden bullshit is the <i>only</i> reason I run Firefox instead of Chrome. Google&#x27;s twice as good at UI as you. They&#x27;re faster, look better, and miraculously I never have to swipe five times trying to dismiss a Chrome tab.<p>I get that Mozilla is drowning, flailing around trying to create a future where they aren&#x27;t irrelevant. This is just ugly, though.</text></comment> |
14,327,375 | 14,327,429 | 1 | 2 | 14,326,505 | train | <story><title>Guaranteed Minimum What?</title><url>https://granolashotgun.com/2017/05/05/guaranteed-minimum-what/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chris_va</author><text>I realize that UBI is a very popular position on HN, so I am hoping someone here has given this more thought and can comment.<p>My problem with UBI is that all tests to date look great, but have only been done on a micro level. The fundamental issue I would like addressed is the macro scale inflation you would expect when redistributing trillions of dollars without commensurate economic value being created directly.<p>Money is a complicated subject, but essentially it represents a transfer of a future scarce resource. For commodities, the cost is essentially the sum of labor to generate it (either to mine the raw resources, build the factory, etc).<p>If no economic resource is being added to the economy, then you are just devaluing money. That is usually very regressive, and in this case could be made worse by people slightly reducing their economic labor because of the extra income stream. I could see this leading to a bad cycle, where any economic gains due to increasing UBI are later undermined.<p>Anyway, it would be nice if it worked, but I&#x27;ve seen no evidence that it will in a large system. Comments appreciated.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bryanlarsen</author><text>Why would you expect inflation? All sane UBI proposals don&#x27;t create money, they just move money from rich people to poor people. If you&#x27;re a Friedman disciple, then &quot;inflation is a monetary phenomenon&quot; and we can stop there.<p>If we&#x27;re moving money from rich people to poor people, perhaps we&#x27;ll see the prices of stuff rich people buy go down and the prices of stuff poor people buy go up.<p>The vast majority of stuff poor people buy is demand limited, not supply limited, so if poor people start buying more PS4&#x27;s, Sony will just make more.<p>I&#x27;ll also assert that food is demand limited, we have lots more capacity to increase production than people think. It doesn&#x27;t matter though; the problem with poor people in the United States is that they eat too much, not that they eat too little.<p>The only thing that might see price movement is housing. That&#x27;s definitely supply limited in many places. But maybe UBI will encourage people to move from high cost areas where UBI isn&#x27;t sufficient to live on to low cost areas where it is. And movement will only happen in the margins -- most of the poor in the States already have a place to live, so demand shouldn&#x27;t increase that much.</text></comment> | <story><title>Guaranteed Minimum What?</title><url>https://granolashotgun.com/2017/05/05/guaranteed-minimum-what/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chris_va</author><text>I realize that UBI is a very popular position on HN, so I am hoping someone here has given this more thought and can comment.<p>My problem with UBI is that all tests to date look great, but have only been done on a micro level. The fundamental issue I would like addressed is the macro scale inflation you would expect when redistributing trillions of dollars without commensurate economic value being created directly.<p>Money is a complicated subject, but essentially it represents a transfer of a future scarce resource. For commodities, the cost is essentially the sum of labor to generate it (either to mine the raw resources, build the factory, etc).<p>If no economic resource is being added to the economy, then you are just devaluing money. That is usually very regressive, and in this case could be made worse by people slightly reducing their economic labor because of the extra income stream. I could see this leading to a bad cycle, where any economic gains due to increasing UBI are later undermined.<p>Anyway, it would be nice if it worked, but I&#x27;ve seen no evidence that it will in a large system. Comments appreciated.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drxzcl</author><text>Most western social democracies already have an overlapping network of benefit systems that are essentially a patchwork UBI in disguise. The system is designed not to go without food and shelter, but the exact mechanism varies depending on what population group you belong to. There&#x27;s assistance for the temporary unemployed, for students, for people with disabilities, people with long-term illnesses, etc. There&#x27;s pensions for those that have aged out of the workforce, there&#x27;s assistance for children. And this is only scratching the surface. Even working people get a fixed basic tax deduction under most taxation systems.<p>I&#x27;m not convinced that the sum total of all these benefits plus the current infrastructure that is needed to maintain, dispense and detect&#x2F;punish abuse on them is significantly larger than the total expenditure on UBI.<p>Of course, all the people that you let go from the benefits departments initially will end up on UBI, so that&#x27;s not really a big win. But eventually they will find employment elsewhere, hopefully.</text></comment> |
15,988,692 | 15,988,505 | 1 | 3 | 15,987,573 | train | <story><title>Three Delusions: Paper Wealth, a Booming Economy, and Bitcoin</title><url>https://www.hussmanfunds.com/comment/mmc171218/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>philiphodgen</author><text>I look beyond the “there’s a crash coming” sentiment. In that opinion, he is like all other pundits yammering on CNBC: entertaining rather than enlightening.<p>What I like about his article is the insight — new to me — about the nature of paper wealth vs real wealth. He described it in a way that is useful and enlightening to me. The assertion that a security (stock, bond) is not an addition to net wealth — just a zero sum transfer between individuals over time — is a provocative statement that I will ponder for some time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lmm</author><text>Trade is a wealth creation mechanism, because different people assign different values to things. When a baker exchanges some loaves of bread with a carpenter for a table, wealth is created: they&#x27;re both rational actors who know that the thing they&#x27;re getting is worth more (to them) than the thing they&#x27;re giving away. The same is true when the baker sells bread for money. The same is true when they issue a bond for their baking business. Of course the bond just moves money around, but a lot of wealth creation consists of moving things around rather than directly building a physical thing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Three Delusions: Paper Wealth, a Booming Economy, and Bitcoin</title><url>https://www.hussmanfunds.com/comment/mmc171218/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>philiphodgen</author><text>I look beyond the “there’s a crash coming” sentiment. In that opinion, he is like all other pundits yammering on CNBC: entertaining rather than enlightening.<p>What I like about his article is the insight — new to me — about the nature of paper wealth vs real wealth. He described it in a way that is useful and enlightening to me. The assertion that a security (stock, bond) is not an addition to net wealth — just a zero sum transfer between individuals over time — is a provocative statement that I will ponder for some time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>psyc</author><text>It’s zero sum for the individual buyer and seller, but in aggregate it’s how the economy decides what work to do.</text></comment> |
41,344,406 | 41,343,352 | 1 | 3 | 41,341,817 | train | <story><title>Birds aren't real – how to create your own "bird"</title><url>https://www.lampysecurity.com/post/birds-aren-t-real-how-to-create-your-own-bird</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Loughla</author><text>The problem with this is when the idea gets taken over by people who aren&#x27;t in on the joke. . . Remember how flat earth used to be a gag?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>IncreasePosts</author><text>When was flat earth <i>only</i> a gag?<p>People were adamantly trying to prove a flat earth at least 150 years ago, and even got the co-discoverer of evolution via natural selection(Wallace) roped into the controversy: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bedford_Level_experiment" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bedford_Level_experiment</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Birds aren't real – how to create your own "bird"</title><url>https://www.lampysecurity.com/post/birds-aren-t-real-how-to-create-your-own-bird</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Loughla</author><text>The problem with this is when the idea gets taken over by people who aren&#x27;t in on the joke. . . Remember how flat earth used to be a gag?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Quarrelsome</author><text>mad people don&#x27;t need reasons to be mad; but rather excuses. If not flat earthism then something else like aliens or smth.</text></comment> |
12,485,901 | 12,485,945 | 1 | 2 | 12,485,650 | train | <story><title>Advancing in the Bash Shell</title><url>http://samrowe.com/wordpress/advancing-in-the-bash-shell/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pmoriarty</author><text>I virtually never use !! any more. Instead I just type control-r followed by a portion of the command in my history that I&#x27;m interested in.<p>That&#x27;s a much more interactive way of getting to the command I want, and if the first match isn&#x27;t what I want I can either keep typing more of the command or type control-r for the next match. I can also type control-s to go to the previous match. For that last trick to work, you need to do something like this first: stty stop &quot;&quot;<p>Granted, I use zsh, but I think it works pretty much the same in bash.<p>Another trick I really like, which I&#x27;ve only used in zsh, but which might exist in bash too (since bash and zsh have so much feature parity these days) is to bind a keystroke to &quot;insert-last-word&quot;. When this keystroke is hit, it appends the last argument of the previous command to the end of the current line, further typing of this same keystroke will remove the appended argument and instead append the last argument of the previous command, and so on. I use this <i>all the time</i> and therefore never have to type !$<p>And my favorite shell trick of all time: set -o vi</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Myrmornis</author><text>Agreed, but even nicer than control-r are the readline functions `history-search-backward` and `history-search-forward`.<p>Personally I bind them to up&#x2F;down which on OS X at least involves:<p><pre><code> # Put this in some file like ~&#x2F;.readline-bindings
&quot;\e[A&quot;: history-search-backward
&quot;\e[B&quot;: history-search-forward
# And this in your ~&#x2F;.bashrc or ~&#x2F;.zshrc
bind -f ~&#x2F;.readline-bindings
</code></pre>
That way if you haven&#x27;t typed any input it behaves like normal up (previous command), but if you&#x27;ve typed some characters it only retrieves matching commands.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;codeinthehole.com&#x2F;writing&#x2F;the-most-important-command-line-tip-incremental-history-searching-with-inputrc&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;codeinthehole.com&#x2F;writing&#x2F;the-most-important-command-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Advancing in the Bash Shell</title><url>http://samrowe.com/wordpress/advancing-in-the-bash-shell/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pmoriarty</author><text>I virtually never use !! any more. Instead I just type control-r followed by a portion of the command in my history that I&#x27;m interested in.<p>That&#x27;s a much more interactive way of getting to the command I want, and if the first match isn&#x27;t what I want I can either keep typing more of the command or type control-r for the next match. I can also type control-s to go to the previous match. For that last trick to work, you need to do something like this first: stty stop &quot;&quot;<p>Granted, I use zsh, but I think it works pretty much the same in bash.<p>Another trick I really like, which I&#x27;ve only used in zsh, but which might exist in bash too (since bash and zsh have so much feature parity these days) is to bind a keystroke to &quot;insert-last-word&quot;. When this keystroke is hit, it appends the last argument of the previous command to the end of the current line, further typing of this same keystroke will remove the appended argument and instead append the last argument of the previous command, and so on. I use this <i>all the time</i> and therefore never have to type !$<p>And my favorite shell trick of all time: set -o vi</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jerry2</author><text>&gt;Granted, I use zsh, but I think it works pretty much the same in bash.<p>I also use zsh and I don&#x27;t even use ctrl+r anymore. I just type a portion of the command I remember and hit the up arrow key. Almost always the command I want is only one to three arrow keys away. zsh matches partial commands really well.</text></comment> |
15,160,447 | 15,160,341 | 1 | 2 | 15,159,551 | train | <story><title>Delete Facebook Account</title><url>http://www.deletefacebook.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PrimeDirective</author><text>I &quot;deleted&quot; my account on Facebook about 7 years ago. This January they randomly reactivated it just like that. It&#x27;s public and visible. I haven&#x27;t logged in there, because that would just show them I want it back.
I&#x27;m pretty sure this is in breach with their own terms. And maybe even illegal in the EU. I haven&#x27;t had the time to take any action not am I sure what should I even do. Maybe report this to some EU watchdog?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dbrgn</author><text>To avoid that kind of stuff, when I deleted my account a few years back, I used an automated script to delete all my posts. Then I went through my profile and replaced all fields with empty or no fake data.<p>If they ever reactivate my account, there&#x27;s not much left to see.<p>By the way, I thought quitting Facebook was going to be hard. But I haven&#x27;t regretted it a second. Same thing with Whatsapp.</text></comment> | <story><title>Delete Facebook Account</title><url>http://www.deletefacebook.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PrimeDirective</author><text>I &quot;deleted&quot; my account on Facebook about 7 years ago. This January they randomly reactivated it just like that. It&#x27;s public and visible. I haven&#x27;t logged in there, because that would just show them I want it back.
I&#x27;m pretty sure this is in breach with their own terms. And maybe even illegal in the EU. I haven&#x27;t had the time to take any action not am I sure what should I even do. Maybe report this to some EU watchdog?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kayoone</author><text>absolutely illegal in the EU, learn more about their countless violations on <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;europe-v-facebook.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;europe-v-facebook.org&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
11,085,248 | 11,085,294 | 1 | 2 | 11,084,944 | train | <story><title>Netflix Shuts Down Final Bits of Own Data Center Infrastructure</title><url>http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2016/02/11/netflix-shuts-down-final-bits-of-own-data-center-infrastructure/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>danhou</author><text>Is it just me, or is it a massive risk to have your entire infrastructure hosted by a company who is also one of your chief competitors?</text></comment> | <story><title>Netflix Shuts Down Final Bits of Own Data Center Infrastructure</title><url>http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2016/02/11/netflix-shuts-down-final-bits-of-own-data-center-infrastructure/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>trequartista</author><text>Actual blog post on the Netflix site - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;media.netflix.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;company-blog&#x2F;completing-the-netflix-cloud-migration" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;media.netflix.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;company-blog&#x2F;completing-the-net...</a></text></comment> |
19,454,826 | 19,454,997 | 1 | 2 | 19,454,469 | train | <story><title>So Long, MSDN Blog</title><url>https://ericlippert.com/2019/03/21/so-long-msdn-blog/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MrRadar</author><text>In addition to this, on the blogs that were migrated to the new platform (such as Raymond Chen&#x27;s Old New Thing) all of the comments have been purged. That&#x27;s extremely unfortunate because those comments had a lot of useful technical commentary on the blog posts.</text></comment> | <story><title>So Long, MSDN Blog</title><url>https://ericlippert.com/2019/03/21/so-long-msdn-blog/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AndrewStephens</author><text>The is highly unfortunate and a bone-headed move by Microsoft. But it does highlight two points that often get missed now that we rely on the web.<p>1 - If you don&#x27;t host your own content then you have no control over it. Microsoft deleted all their blogs. YouTube and Facebook will one day cease to exist. This comment and all of yours will disappear once news.ycombinator.com is defunct. If you want something to last, host it yourself or be prepared to recreate it somewhere else every few years.<p>2 - Once you publish something at a URL you control (see point 1), you have a responsibility to keep it available at the same URL. Nobody is going to hold you to it but you will break 3rd party sites that link to you. Microsoft really dropped the ball here.</text></comment> |
12,707,081 | 12,706,725 | 1 | 3 | 12,705,816 | train | <story><title>Flynn: open source PaaS</title><url>https://flynn.io/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>corobo</author><text>I&#x27;ve been using Flynn for a while now. Unfortunately there&#x27;s always something that entirely bricks the cluster eventually. Sometimes a node will reboot unexpectedly (as happens with servers) and the cluster slowly implodes from there, sometimes I&#x27;ll just get a monitoring alert that all the sites hosted on it have gone down for no apparent reason.<p>They announced during their 1.0 release that Flynn is now production ready but I have to disagree at this time. I do honestly love the idea of running my own Heroku but it&#x27;s just not stable enough and doesn&#x27;t recover well if a node goes offline without manual intervention using the flynn-host fix command (and sometimes that command just chokes up completely).<p>Next time it happens (when, not if, at this rate) I&#x27;ll try to set aside some time to gather up the logs to help debug the problem but I&#x27;m using Flynn to avoid the sysadmin side of things and just build my product. In my opinion Flynn is tinker-ready, not production-ready. It&#x27;s infuriating that it has these random problems because like I say I really _really_ love the product and desperately want to be able to use it reliably.</text></comment> | <story><title>Flynn: open source PaaS</title><url>https://flynn.io/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>erowtom</author><text>Experienced Flynn last year, we spent about 2 weeks making it work properly with our solution (We had a complex SaaS solution hosted on Heroku, with tons of addons).<p>We had some very bad bug that happened at the time (like deploying a new version made the dyno crash and we had to deploy a completly new environment).<p>Other than pretty bad bug, it was working properly, and did what they sell.<p>Good point is that the dev team is very responsive and we reported a bunch of bug that got fixed in no time. They also have a smooth updater when a new Flynn release came out, side bad note is at this time, it was kinda bugged (because of our specific setup).<p>For all those reasons, we choose to stick with Heroku at that time (we also tried Doku <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dokku&#x2F;dokku" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dokku&#x2F;dokku</a>, various AWS services such as BeanStalk, and DEIS <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;deis.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;deis.io&#x2F;</a>), but for sure it was the best candidate out there and I would love to give it a try again.</text></comment> |
33,308,491 | 33,307,846 | 1 | 2 | 33,306,945 | train | <story><title>How Rust 1.64 became faster on Windows</title><url>https://tomaszs2.medium.com/how-rust-1-64-became-10-20-faster-on-windows-3a8bb5e81d70</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>Unfortunately, many projects never benefit from PGO, because there is quite a lot of complexity involved in setting up a profiling workload, storing the profile somewhere, and using it for future builds.<p>I&#x27;d like compiler writers to embed a &#x27;default profile&#x27; into the compiler, which uses data from as much opensource code as they can find all over github etc.<p>This default profile will improve the performance of lots of libraries that everyone uses, and will probably still help closed source code (since it will probably be written in a similar style to opensource code).</text></item><item><author>wongarsu</author><text>Great to see how huge the benefit of profile-guided optimization is. I feel it&#x27;s one of the more underappreciated techniques. Rust adding support for it on windows, and showcasing what a big improvement it makes on the compiler is pretty big (in addition to just having a faster compiler)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andrewaylett</author><text>The &quot;default&quot; profile &quot;for PGO&quot; is the compiler on its own -- folk put a <i>lot</i> of effort into making sure it will generally compile arbitrary code well. And a big part of that is lots of people running lots of open source code and measuring how well it performs.<p>The difficulty with &quot;as much open source code as they can find&quot; is that we need to execute the code to make a profile. And unless we&#x27;re running the code under real-world conditions, there&#x27;s no guarantee that we&#x27;ll generate a useful profile. So we need to be a little careful about which code we look at from a performance perspective. Even when we have a profile, it&#x27;s a count of branches taken for the specific code that was compiled, and it&#x27;s not normally applicable to either a different version of the compiler or any input that&#x27;s not identical to the input used for profiling. With link-time optimisations, even a &quot;common&quot; profile for library code isn&#x27;t necessarily going to be useful: which bits of a library we&#x27;ll try to inline will vary according to the code that&#x27;s calling it.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Rust 1.64 became faster on Windows</title><url>https://tomaszs2.medium.com/how-rust-1-64-became-10-20-faster-on-windows-3a8bb5e81d70</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>Unfortunately, many projects never benefit from PGO, because there is quite a lot of complexity involved in setting up a profiling workload, storing the profile somewhere, and using it for future builds.<p>I&#x27;d like compiler writers to embed a &#x27;default profile&#x27; into the compiler, which uses data from as much opensource code as they can find all over github etc.<p>This default profile will improve the performance of lots of libraries that everyone uses, and will probably still help closed source code (since it will probably be written in a similar style to opensource code).</text></item><item><author>wongarsu</author><text>Great to see how huge the benefit of profile-guided optimization is. I feel it&#x27;s one of the more underappreciated techniques. Rust adding support for it on windows, and showcasing what a big improvement it makes on the compiler is pretty big (in addition to just having a faster compiler)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bruce343434</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;d like compiler writers to embed a &#x27;default profile&#x27; into the compiler, which uses data from as much opensource code as they can find all over github etc.<p>What would be the point? The whole thing about PGO is that it measures which paths of _your_ code are &quot;hot&quot;.</text></comment> |
38,683,505 | 38,682,988 | 1 | 2 | 38,681,672 | train | <story><title>Wasm3 entering a minimal maintenance phase</title><url>https://github.com/wasm3/wasm3</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vshymanskyy</author><text>OP here, ready to answer questions</text></comment> | <story><title>Wasm3 entering a minimal maintenance phase</title><url>https://github.com/wasm3/wasm3</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wortelefant</author><text>twitter post from Wasm3 with more context <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;wasm3_engine&#x2F;status&#x2F;1736712528883769670?s=20" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;wasm3_engine&#x2F;status&#x2F;1736712528883769670?s=20</a></text></comment> |
10,763,212 | 10,760,789 | 1 | 3 | 10,759,164 | train | <story><title>Reflecting on Haskell in 2015</title><url>http://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/haskell_2016.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PopsiclePete</author><text>I&#x27;ve tried Haskell 4 times. No joke. I have no problem with currying, higher-order functions, foldl, etc., but Monads. Get. Me. Every. Time.<p>My brain just refuses to fully &quot;grok&quot; them. I still don&#x27;t see why they&#x27;re so awesome. I know I use them day-to-day - LINQ, the &quot;List&quot; abstraction (supposedly also a monad??) but I just don&#x27;t see why it&#x27;s important to understand them on this whole new fundamentally different level.<p>It&#x27;s like - loops. I use loops every day. But if someone were to say - &quot;Hey, did you know that loops are just the Andifuncsplursx abstraction applied on Crazofors?? This is why Crazofors in Haskell are so awesome&quot; I still wouldn&#x27;t &quot;get&quot; Crazofors or why I should care enough to attempt to &quot;get&quot; them.<p>I&#x27;ve just given up at this point.</text></item><item><author>baldfat</author><text>For learning functional programming I find Racket to be the best for teaching functional programming. I think I took 4 tries at teaching myself Haskell and then learning Racket really helped me to get over the learning curve of Haskell though i still consider myself a beginner.</text></item><item><author>dcre</author><text>I really enjoyed this. Just wanted to comment on the author&#x27;s brief comments on Elm.<p>&gt; As of yet, there is no rich polymorphism or higher-kinded types. As such a whole family of the usual functional constructions (monoids, functors, applicatives, monads) are inexpressible.<p>I completely understand that this make Elm quite limited compared to Haskell as the author uses it, but these limitations are precisely what makes Elm accessible to newcomers. I think it&#x27;s a great way to get people into Haskell syntax like partial application and into the functional way of thinking in general.<p>I have learned Haskell very gradually over the past 6 years, and I still find advanced Haskell with all the language extensions very daunting to get into.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vans</author><text>Like Erik Meijer said in his course : there is nothing special or magic about monads. They don&#x27;t deserve all the fuzz arround them. If you don&#x27;t get why monads are so awesome, maybe that&#x27;s a proof that you understood them. Because there is nothing special !!<p>A monad is just a type with 2 functions defined. Like an interface with two methods in OO langages. The 2 functions have to respect some laws but you can imagine whatever implementation for the 2 functions as long as the laws are observed (et type signature of course).<p>You could invent a total different implementation for the list monad, for the maybe monad, etc (if you respect the laws). There is no hidden ultra powerfull meaning which implies only one implementation.<p>The best paper on monads i ever read is an ascii art one, by Graham Hutton :
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.nott.ac.uk&#x2F;~pszgmh&#x2F;monads" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.nott.ac.uk&#x2F;~pszgmh&#x2F;monads</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Reflecting on Haskell in 2015</title><url>http://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/haskell_2016.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PopsiclePete</author><text>I&#x27;ve tried Haskell 4 times. No joke. I have no problem with currying, higher-order functions, foldl, etc., but Monads. Get. Me. Every. Time.<p>My brain just refuses to fully &quot;grok&quot; them. I still don&#x27;t see why they&#x27;re so awesome. I know I use them day-to-day - LINQ, the &quot;List&quot; abstraction (supposedly also a monad??) but I just don&#x27;t see why it&#x27;s important to understand them on this whole new fundamentally different level.<p>It&#x27;s like - loops. I use loops every day. But if someone were to say - &quot;Hey, did you know that loops are just the Andifuncsplursx abstraction applied on Crazofors?? This is why Crazofors in Haskell are so awesome&quot; I still wouldn&#x27;t &quot;get&quot; Crazofors or why I should care enough to attempt to &quot;get&quot; them.<p>I&#x27;ve just given up at this point.</text></item><item><author>baldfat</author><text>For learning functional programming I find Racket to be the best for teaching functional programming. I think I took 4 tries at teaching myself Haskell and then learning Racket really helped me to get over the learning curve of Haskell though i still consider myself a beginner.</text></item><item><author>dcre</author><text>I really enjoyed this. Just wanted to comment on the author&#x27;s brief comments on Elm.<p>&gt; As of yet, there is no rich polymorphism or higher-kinded types. As such a whole family of the usual functional constructions (monoids, functors, applicatives, monads) are inexpressible.<p>I completely understand that this make Elm quite limited compared to Haskell as the author uses it, but these limitations are precisely what makes Elm accessible to newcomers. I think it&#x27;s a great way to get people into Haskell syntax like partial application and into the functional way of thinking in general.<p>I have learned Haskell very gradually over the past 6 years, and I still find advanced Haskell with all the language extensions very daunting to get into.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thinkpad20</author><text>In my opinion, the only way to understand monads is to use them. They&#x27;ll be a little weird at first, but the type system will guarantee you&#x27;re using them in the right way. The thing is that you don&#x27;t really need to understand how a given monad works under the hood; you just need to know how it&#x27;s going to act when you use it. For example, I couldn&#x27;t write the State monad instance right now, not without quite a bit of puzzling anyway. But I use the State monad all the time, because I know how it&#x27;s going to act:<p><pre><code> addToState :: Int -&gt; State Int ()
addToState number = do
currentState &lt;- get
put $ number + currentState
</code></pre>
How is this working exactly? Well who cares. I know that once this function is called, my state will have been incremented by the given amount.</text></comment> |
31,997,033 | 31,997,181 | 1 | 2 | 31,994,223 | train | <story><title>I don't care how you web dev; I just need more better web apps</title><url>https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2022/more-better-web-apps/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>croes</author><text>I disagree.
Web devs aren&#x27;t discussing characters and plots but instead argue which typewriter to use.<p>Better tools don&#x27;t make better apps just like word processors don&#x27;t make better books.
The best web dev tools are worthless if the UX is bad.</text></item><item><author>omarhaneef</author><text>The author complains that developers argue about their tools and methods, insist on their favorite techniques, but produce (more) worse apps. Particularly for the amount of time and effort expended on developing the apps.<p>The thing is: the debates aren’t naive. They’re exactly trying to workout the details.<p>When someone says, hey forget postgresql and just use SQLite, and someone else says good luck if you hit n rows, and someone says it can easily handle n+m rows with x memory …<p>Well they’re trying to solve the problem of (more) better apps with their limited resources. That’s essentially the problem of development.<p>Asking people to solve development without discussing the tools and methods is to misunderstand the nature of the discussion.<p>It’s like telling authors to get on and write better novels and not waste time with their opinions on character and plot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>taeric</author><text>Web devs are typically arguing which produced assembly is better. Granted, we have come a long way, as the typical react site gave up on terse html a long time ago.<p>But, consider, dream weaver and early design tools were ridiculously advanced compared to what most of us are creating in web sites. Flash tooling was a whole other level.</text></comment> | <story><title>I don't care how you web dev; I just need more better web apps</title><url>https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2022/more-better-web-apps/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>croes</author><text>I disagree.
Web devs aren&#x27;t discussing characters and plots but instead argue which typewriter to use.<p>Better tools don&#x27;t make better apps just like word processors don&#x27;t make better books.
The best web dev tools are worthless if the UX is bad.</text></item><item><author>omarhaneef</author><text>The author complains that developers argue about their tools and methods, insist on their favorite techniques, but produce (more) worse apps. Particularly for the amount of time and effort expended on developing the apps.<p>The thing is: the debates aren’t naive. They’re exactly trying to workout the details.<p>When someone says, hey forget postgresql and just use SQLite, and someone else says good luck if you hit n rows, and someone says it can easily handle n+m rows with x memory …<p>Well they’re trying to solve the problem of (more) better apps with their limited resources. That’s essentially the problem of development.<p>Asking people to solve development without discussing the tools and methods is to misunderstand the nature of the discussion.<p>It’s like telling authors to get on and write better novels and not waste time with their opinions on character and plot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ketzo</author><text>This is assuming that software quality is purely a function of the software engineer’s mind and creative ability, almost like art or writing.<p>Many - most? - software devs know multiple ways they could make their apps higher quality, but they just don’t have the time or ability right now, or they have other priorities, or so on.<p>Better tools can, and do, enable engineers to simply do <i>more</i> than they otherwise could, and sometimes “more” actually does mean “better.”</text></comment> |
23,421,812 | 23,421,839 | 1 | 2 | 23,421,067 | train | <story><title>More than half of American retailers didn't pay their rent in April and May</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/retailers-didnt-pay-rent-may-upset-the-entire-economy-2020-6</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chkaloon</author><text>I am afraid we are in a real Wile E Coyote moment here. You know, where he&#x27;s suspended in air for a few seconds before he goes crashing to the ground?<p>Our crash may come in the fall when UI payments stop and the rent floats become unsustainable. About the time the second wave hits.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;66.media.tumblr.com&#x2F;bbbf0aec68490ae2679ef489709c3d18&#x2F;tumblr_nhuh59FSDw1r2ad2vo1_500.gif" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;66.media.tumblr.com&#x2F;bbbf0aec68490ae2679ef489709c3d18...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>More than half of American retailers didn't pay their rent in April and May</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/retailers-didnt-pay-rent-may-upset-the-entire-economy-2020-6</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aazaa</author><text>&gt; Bed Bath &amp; Beyond, Famous Footwear, H&amp;M, and the Gap, AMC and Regal movie theaters, and 24 Hour Fitness gyms have all missed payments, jeopardizing the stability of their property management companies and municipal governments that rely on property taxes, The Post&#x27;s Heather Long reported.<p>All roads lead to the Federal Reserve. Stores defaulting on rent payments starves landlords for cash. Landlords unable to service mortgages or pay taxes starves banks and state&#x2F;local governments. Banks starved for money turn to the Fed for bailouts. States starved for cash turn to Washington. Washington issues bonds which the Fed buys because nobody in their right mind would buy 10 or 30 year Treasuries with the goal of holding to maturity.<p>The Fed&#x27;s balance sheet has exploded higher (&gt;20% GDP), with no end in sight:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;WALCL" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;WALCL</a><p>Where does it all lead? There are two options:<p>1. Default on the national debt.<p>2. Currency depreciation.<p>The most likely outcome is (2). One way or another, the dollar is headed lower. Perversely, this could be great for stocks, bonds, and other assets nominally. The problem is the size of the dollar depreciation that would be required to bring the Fed&#x27;s balance sheet back under control.<p>The only problem is that the dollar happens to be the world&#x27;s reserve currency. As the Fed does its best to slaughter the dollar bull, every other country is printing money as fast as possible to depreciate their own currencies.<p>Nobody knows where this mess ends.</text></comment> |
37,189,482 | 37,189,686 | 1 | 3 | 37,188,791 | train | <story><title>AI-generated art lacks copyright protection, D.C. court says</title><url>https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/ai-generated-art-lacks-copyright-protection-d-c-court-rules</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thrill</author><text>Previous rulings had found that when code itself was copyrighted due to being a work of art (of human labor), the output of that code was indeed copyrightable if the program did the majority of the work in producing that output. This ruling seems at odds with that previous interpretation.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mwhlawgroup.com&#x2F;can-copyright-in-software-extend-to-its-output&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mwhlawgroup.com&#x2F;can-copyright-in-software-extend-to-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nerdponx</author><text>That&#x27;s a fascinating ruling.<p>Forget AI for a minute. Let&#x27;s say I write a program to generate cool images using Penrose tiles or space filling curves or some other algorithmic process, maybe deterministic, maybe (pseudo-)random. Under that ruling, it sounds like all of the outputs of my program would also fall under the copyright of the original program, unless the creator could prove that they did substantial work in addition to what the program did.<p>Which then leads to the next question of: what is the &quot;lion&#x27;s share&quot;? Does it matter if I randomly punch in some parameters and get a nice result on the first try, or if I spend hours trying different parameter combinations to find some thing that looks the way I want it to? Even if the outcome is still considered owned by the software author, is my particular parameter choice copyrightable by me, being my own creative output?<p>If you think about it, the modern generative &quot;AI&quot; systems are more or less the same thing, but where the input parameter space is something like the entire space of written language, rather than a couple drop-down menus with algorithm settings and a seed for a PRNG. Does it matter if I slap in a simple prompt and get a nice result, or if I spent hours engineering a perfect prompt?<p>If anything, it should be unambiguous that the prompts are copyrightable just like any other written work, being actual free-form human-readable text. So at least AI artists have that going for them.<p>It will be really interesting to see what happens as more court rulings unfold.</text></comment> | <story><title>AI-generated art lacks copyright protection, D.C. court says</title><url>https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/ai-generated-art-lacks-copyright-protection-d-c-court-rules</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thrill</author><text>Previous rulings had found that when code itself was copyrighted due to being a work of art (of human labor), the output of that code was indeed copyrightable if the program did the majority of the work in producing that output. This ruling seems at odds with that previous interpretation.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mwhlawgroup.com&#x2F;can-copyright-in-software-extend-to-its-output&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mwhlawgroup.com&#x2F;can-copyright-in-software-extend-to-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>It is not, the filer here claimed no role in the creation except as the employer of the AI in a work for hire, and was attempting to overturn the Registrar of Copyrights determination that AI could not be an author and that a registration listing the AI as the author was facially invalid.<p>This case is fundamentally <i>not</i> about whether art in which AI is used as a tool by a human (even if the human role is entirely in programming the AI) is copyrightable as a work of the human, it is solely about whether a piece of software can be an author under copyright law, a <i>very</i> different question.</text></comment> |
28,924,439 | 28,923,899 | 1 | 2 | 28,923,536 | train | <story><title>$1M bounty for details on Tether’s backing</title><url>https://hindenburgresearch.com/tether/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>graeme</author><text>This is very interesting. Hindenburg is the real deal.<p>One challenge may be that, like the Mafia, Tether keeps its inner circle and employs family members. They have ~15 employees for a 70 billion dollar operation.<p>The CTO’s wife is a manager, and the CEO’s daughter works for an unnamed crypto family office, which may be related.<p>Their counterparties in Chinese commercial paper may not know they are counterparties due to proxies.<p>Still, the statements are out there. Zeke Faux from Bloomberg got a copy of their records somehow. They’ve had to give them to the New York Attorney General, and their accountants in the Cayman Islands, among others. And other counterparties may have bits and pieces.<p>Someone may be tempted by this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fnordfnordfnord</author><text>&gt;Hindenburg is the real deal.<p>Hindenburg is not the real deal. If you think Hindenburg is the real deal you should pay closer attention to their activities. They (he) are one of a number of noisy short sellers who try to drive stock prices with their tweets&#x2F;reports. SEC should be doing things to these people.<p>That said, he is probably right about Tether. Tether should make every crypto speculator or holder very nervous.</text></comment> | <story><title>$1M bounty for details on Tether’s backing</title><url>https://hindenburgresearch.com/tether/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>graeme</author><text>This is very interesting. Hindenburg is the real deal.<p>One challenge may be that, like the Mafia, Tether keeps its inner circle and employs family members. They have ~15 employees for a 70 billion dollar operation.<p>The CTO’s wife is a manager, and the CEO’s daughter works for an unnamed crypto family office, which may be related.<p>Their counterparties in Chinese commercial paper may not know they are counterparties due to proxies.<p>Still, the statements are out there. Zeke Faux from Bloomberg got a copy of their records somehow. They’ve had to give them to the New York Attorney General, and their accountants in the Cayman Islands, among others. And other counterparties may have bits and pieces.<p>Someone may be tempted by this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shoo</author><text>not clear if it is the easiest target to short, given that many people who use tether are fairly skeptical about how&#x2F;if the tokens are backed by assets but use it anyway (if the recent Bloomberg story is accurate).</text></comment> |
20,105,754 | 20,104,215 | 1 | 2 | 20,103,292 | train | <story><title>Bees can link symbols to numbers, study finds</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2019-06-bees-link.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>YeGoblynQueenne</author><text>&gt;&gt; Researchers have trained honeybees to match a character to a specific quantity, revealing they are able to learn that a symbol represents a numerical amount.<p>I don&#x27;t know if this is very convincing. From what I see in the images shown in the article, the &quot;specific quantities&quot; are represented by different arrangements of various symbols- squares, stars etc.<p>The article doesn&#x27;t say whether these arrangements were randomised in each image.<p>For instance - the number &quot;3&quot; could be _always_ associated with the same arrangement of any symbol. Say, a triangle formed by three identical symbol. In that case it would be impossible to know whether the bees learned to count the shapes or just identify their arrangment. Learning to identify a triangle doesn&#x27;t say anything about the ability to identify quantities.<p>The fact that neither of the two groups trained on the two different tasks (character-to-quantity and quantity-to-character) could generalise their learning to the opposite task also doesn&#x27;t bode well. It is exactly what you would expect to see if the setup for each task had some other, uncontrolled for, variable that the bees &quot;overfitted&quot; to, rather than learning what is theorised they did learn.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bees can link symbols to numbers, study finds</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2019-06-bees-link.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>empath75</author><text>Seems like one set of researchers has had two breakthrough studies of bee intelligence. Has anyone reproduced this? I feel like for something this incredible, we should perhaps wait until another team can reproduce the results before getting too excited.</text></comment> |
37,617,451 | 37,616,873 | 1 | 3 | 37,616,171 | train | <story><title>CFPB kicks off rulemaking to remove medical bills from credit reports</title><url>https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-kicks-off-rulemaking-to-remove-medical-bills-from-credit-reports/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>seatac76</author><text>Tangential but kudos to Rohit Chopra, he has done a stellar job at CFPB, between the credit reporting changes and the elimination of bank fees alone he has had quite the impact. Just a few years it looked more likely that the CFPB would be dissolved.</text></comment> | <story><title>CFPB kicks off rulemaking to remove medical bills from credit reports</title><url>https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-kicks-off-rulemaking-to-remove-medical-bills-from-credit-reports/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>adamsb6</author><text>What are going to be the second-order consequences of such a policy?<p>Are providers going to run credit checks on you before they agree to take you on as a patient?<p>Require that you sign a document that gives them the right to garnish your wages for non-payment?<p>Require up-front payment for services?<p>Increase prices to cover the revenue lost to people that realize how little consequence there is for non-payment?</text></comment> |
5,926,552 | 5,926,544 | 1 | 3 | 5,926,328 | train | <story><title>Chinese students and families fight for the right to cheat their exams</title><url>http://www.smh.com.au/world/chinese-students-and-families-fight-for-the-right-to-cheat-their-exams-20130621-2oo6o.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>istorical</author><text>I&#x27;m a spring 2013 undergraduate in CS, and this goes on in America just as it does in China. (the entire process is a charade.) I will admit it without hesitation.<p>It&#x27;s incredibly interesting that not a single party in the process sees actual knowledge as the value gained. Everyone sees the piece of paper as the value: the box that&#x27;s checked. How long can such an illusion continue? Your guess is as good as mine. At the end of the day though, you either learn what you need to learn or you don&#x27;t. Industry isn&#x27;t too terrible at calling out those who can&#x27;t produce value, but can only cross their t&#x27;s and dot their i&#x27;s.<p>EDIT: I should definitely draw a distinction between the magnitude of cheating&#x2F;carelessness described in the article and what I encountered at an American university. The article describes a situation that is much worse.</text></item><item><author>spikels</author><text>Cargo Cult Education - Schools are built, students attend, teachers lecture, assignments turned in, tests taken and degrees granted. Everyone gets what they want: politicians, students, staff and parents. Yet nothing needs to be taught and nothing needs to be learned.<p>Doesn&#x27;t this go on a lot more often then we want to admit?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>glesica</author><text>This has most to do with the student. If the student wishes to acquire knowledge, most American universities can provide the student with a great deal of knowledge. If you are not at such a university (unlikely, though some schools are significantly weaker in some disciplines than other schools, so YMMV), then such a university is generally just a transfer application away (protip: admissions standards are different for transfer applicants, it is <i>generally</i>, though not universally, easier to get into a more prestigious school as a transfer, having already shown an aptitude for college work).<p>No student at an American university can honestly claim not to have learned anything and yet be blameless for not having learned anything.<p>I will admit that many students are not ready to attend college at the age of 18. I think we should do more to allow students the freedom to take some time to explore their options and possibly even take a year or two off of school before deciding whether or not to attend college, where to attend college, and what to study once there.</text></comment> | <story><title>Chinese students and families fight for the right to cheat their exams</title><url>http://www.smh.com.au/world/chinese-students-and-families-fight-for-the-right-to-cheat-their-exams-20130621-2oo6o.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>istorical</author><text>I&#x27;m a spring 2013 undergraduate in CS, and this goes on in America just as it does in China. (the entire process is a charade.) I will admit it without hesitation.<p>It&#x27;s incredibly interesting that not a single party in the process sees actual knowledge as the value gained. Everyone sees the piece of paper as the value: the box that&#x27;s checked. How long can such an illusion continue? Your guess is as good as mine. At the end of the day though, you either learn what you need to learn or you don&#x27;t. Industry isn&#x27;t too terrible at calling out those who can&#x27;t produce value, but can only cross their t&#x27;s and dot their i&#x27;s.<p>EDIT: I should definitely draw a distinction between the magnitude of cheating&#x2F;carelessness described in the article and what I encountered at an American university. The article describes a situation that is much worse.</text></item><item><author>spikels</author><text>Cargo Cult Education - Schools are built, students attend, teachers lecture, assignments turned in, tests taken and degrees granted. Everyone gets what they want: politicians, students, staff and parents. Yet nothing needs to be taught and nothing needs to be learned.<p>Doesn&#x27;t this go on a lot more often then we want to admit?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gems</author><text>&quot;I&#x27;m a spring 2013 undergraduate in CS, and this goes on in America just as it does in China. (the entire process is a charade.) I will admit it without hesitation.&quot;<p>www.de.ufpe.br&#x2F;~toom&#x2F;my-articles&#x2F;engeduc&#x2F;ARUSSIAN.PDF<p>The article is about a Russian mathematician who starts teaching in American universities. The same thing already happens in America with these &#x27;business calculus&#x27; courses.</text></comment> |
11,611,550 | 11,610,979 | 1 | 2 | 11,609,308 | train | <story><title>RIP Kuro5hin</title><url>http://www.kuro5hin.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Pxtl</author><text>Except that Reddit is gradually turning into 4chan. Every time I see &#x2F;r&#x2F;all, it&#x27;s a little more mean-spirited, a little younger, a little more toxic.<p>Outsourcing moderation and libertarian ideals all sound nice, but when the rubber hits the road it gradually chases normal people away. Reddit just did it it slower because the strengths of their platform and content overwhelmed it... but it&#x27;s getting there eventually.</text></item><item><author>brianberns</author><text>First there was Slashdot, but CmdrTaco insisted on picking the stories for us. He called it an &quot;omelet&quot;.<p>Kuro5hin came along to fix this, but discouraged posts that were just links to pages elsewhere on the web. IIRC, this was called &quot;link farming&quot;. How many users had the talent and time to create original content, and then survive the ridiculous Kuro5shin editing process? Not many.<p>Digg then encouraged links, but shot itself in the foot with a stupid redesign.<p>Nowadays, reddit is king because it avoided the obvious mistakes of its predecessors.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>surge</author><text>The default sub-reddit&#x27;s turn into what happens when you have a site populated mostly by the lowest common denominator and posts that appeal to the same. Once it became mainstream the defaults just fell into an Eternal September cycle (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Eternal_September" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Eternal_September</a>) that most sites never recover from. However, reddit had a defense mechanism against this in that there are many, many subsections and almost hidden communities or &quot;True*&quot; sub-reddit&#x27;s for the core&#x2F;original users who prefer some semblance of thought provoking content or discussion, or at least pretend to.<p>I generally unsubscribe from all of those defaults (except maybe &#x2F;r&#x2F;WorldNews) and almost never look at them, have some lists of subject related sub-reddits I like (ex: tech). There are sub-reddits that have communities in them I haven&#x27;t found a replacement for elsewhere aside from maybe some private FB groups. There is something to be said for exclusivity or staying obscure. For every &#x2F;r&#x2F;The_Donald there is a &#x2F;r&#x2F;Sweden, or for &#x2F;r&#x2F;SRS and &#x2F;r&#x2F;RedPill there is &#x2F;r&#x2F;TwoXChromosomes and &#x2F;r&#x2F;AskMen. You aren&#x27;t going to read about the good communities in the news, as polite people having interesting level headed discussions rarely makes headlines.<p>To me Hacker News is just another sub-reddit like site. I usually see the same links posted in my sub-reddit&#x27;s as I do HN, and I&#x27;d wager the discussion is sometimes better in the sub-reddit&#x27;s than it is here, it&#x27;s at least on par.</text></comment> | <story><title>RIP Kuro5hin</title><url>http://www.kuro5hin.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Pxtl</author><text>Except that Reddit is gradually turning into 4chan. Every time I see &#x2F;r&#x2F;all, it&#x27;s a little more mean-spirited, a little younger, a little more toxic.<p>Outsourcing moderation and libertarian ideals all sound nice, but when the rubber hits the road it gradually chases normal people away. Reddit just did it it slower because the strengths of their platform and content overwhelmed it... but it&#x27;s getting there eventually.</text></item><item><author>brianberns</author><text>First there was Slashdot, but CmdrTaco insisted on picking the stories for us. He called it an &quot;omelet&quot;.<p>Kuro5hin came along to fix this, but discouraged posts that were just links to pages elsewhere on the web. IIRC, this was called &quot;link farming&quot;. How many users had the talent and time to create original content, and then survive the ridiculous Kuro5shin editing process? Not many.<p>Digg then encouraged links, but shot itself in the foot with a stupid redesign.<p>Nowadays, reddit is king because it avoided the obvious mistakes of its predecessors.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MustardTiger</author><text>Reddit is overwhelmingly &quot;normal people&quot;. Mean spirited and &quot;toxic&quot; is normal people. Go look at twitter, and tumblr and facebook. They all have the same thing. These sites didn&#x27;t chase normal people away, they attracted them.</text></comment> |
32,181,506 | 32,181,171 | 1 | 2 | 32,180,196 | train | <story><title>Most Americans think NASA’s $10B space telescope is a good investment</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/19/23270396/nasa-james-webb-space-telescope-online-poll-investment</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>2OEH8eoCRo0</author><text>How many factory or construction jobs does &quot;hard-science&quot; funding create? I love science but defense invests in the entire &quot;stack&quot;. It creates factory jobs but it also creates jobs for basically every STEM field.<p>From a practicality standpoint- military spending is difficult to beat. Improves defense, improves the defense of allies, creates factory jobs, creates science and engineering jobs. It has everything.<p>The only thing that comes close is if there were some green arms race where we are funding and building wind, solar, nuclear, fusion, etc.</text></item><item><author>paulmd</author><text>It is - and that&#x27;s $10b upfront cost for an asset that will operate for a decade. $1b a year is a steal for that compared to the other shit the US wastes federal money on.<p>I&#x27;d personally vote to 10x or 100x our hard-science funding in general, we spend an absolute pittance compared to military funding or corn subsidies or whatever other bullshit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danny_codes</author><text>Eh, everything except useful output. Sure, a by-product of military research could be something useful, but that money would go a lot further if we just went for the useful thing immediately. The F35 is a good example. Whatever technology gains came out of that project are likely useful in general, but presumably it&#x27;d have been several orders of magnitude cheaper to just directly invest in that tech instead of building a weapon.</text></comment> | <story><title>Most Americans think NASA’s $10B space telescope is a good investment</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/19/23270396/nasa-james-webb-space-telescope-online-poll-investment</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>2OEH8eoCRo0</author><text>How many factory or construction jobs does &quot;hard-science&quot; funding create? I love science but defense invests in the entire &quot;stack&quot;. It creates factory jobs but it also creates jobs for basically every STEM field.<p>From a practicality standpoint- military spending is difficult to beat. Improves defense, improves the defense of allies, creates factory jobs, creates science and engineering jobs. It has everything.<p>The only thing that comes close is if there were some green arms race where we are funding and building wind, solar, nuclear, fusion, etc.</text></item><item><author>paulmd</author><text>It is - and that&#x27;s $10b upfront cost for an asset that will operate for a decade. $1b a year is a steal for that compared to the other shit the US wastes federal money on.<p>I&#x27;d personally vote to 10x or 100x our hard-science funding in general, we spend an absolute pittance compared to military funding or corn subsidies or whatever other bullshit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xg15</author><text>If job creation is the only factor, why not invest the 10B into digging holes and filling them up again?</text></comment> |
20,065,936 | 20,065,274 | 1 | 3 | 20,064,169 | train | <story><title>"DigitalOcean Killed Our Company"</title><url>https://twitter.com/w3Nicolas/status/1134529316904153089</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>znpy</author><text>I have interviewed with DO and they tried diverting me towards a support position.<p>They told me that on a single day a support engineer was supposed to help&#x2F;advice customers on pretty much whatever the customer was having issue with and also handle something between 80-120 tickets per day.<p>It&#x27;s nice to see that DO is willing to help on pretty much anything they (read: their team) has knowledge about, but with 80-120 tickets per day I cannot expect to give meaningful help.<p>Needed EDIT: it seems to me that this comments is receiving more attention than it probably deserves, and I feel it&#x27;s worth clarifying some things:<p>1. I decided not to move forward with the interview as I was not interested in that support position, so I have not verified that&#x27;s the volume of tickets.<p>2. From their description of tickets, such tickets can be anything from &quot;I cannot get apache2 to run&quot; to &quot;how can I get this linucs thing to run Outlook?&quot; (&#x2F;s) to &quot;my whole company that runs on DO is stuck because you locked my account&quot;.</text></item><item><author>thaumaturgy</author><text>Some people on HN hate Linode because of their past security screwups (which is valid), but having used both DO and Linode quite a lot, the support on Linode is way, way, way better than DO&#x27;s.<p>DO&#x27;s tier 1 support is almost useless. I set up a new account with them recently for a droplet that needed to be well separated from the rest of my infrastructure, and ran into a confusing error message that was preventing it from getting set up. I sent out a support request, and a while later, over an hour I think, I got an equally unhelpful support response back.<p>Things got cleared up by taking it to Twitter, where their social media support folks have got a great ground game going, but I really don&#x27;t want to have to rely on Twitter support for critical stuff.<p>DO seems to have gone with the &quot;hire cheap overseas support that almost but doesn&#x27;t quite understand English&quot; strategy, whereas the tier 1 guys at Linode have on occasion demonstrated more Linux systems administration expertise than I&#x27;ve got.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hackermailman</author><text>I once worked for eBay a long time ago, and support consisted of 4 concurrent chats, offering pre-programmed macros often pointing to terribly written documentation the person had already read and was confused about. If you took the time to actually assist somebody you were chastised in a weekly review where they went over your chat support. The person doing mine told me I had the highest satisfaction record in the entire company, and a &#x27;unique gift of clear and concise conversation, like you&#x27;re actually talking to them face to face&#x27; then said I&#x27;d be fired next week because my coworkers were knocking off hundreds of tickets a day just using automated responses, leaving their customers fuming in anger with low satisfaction ratings, as people are very aware of being fed automated responses but the goal was not real support, it was just clearing the tickets by any means possible. I decided to try half and half, so if the support question was written by somebody who obviously would not understand the documentation (grandma trying to sell a car), I would help them but just provide shit support to everybody else in the form of macros like my coworkers. Of course this was unacceptable and I got canned the next week as promised. Was an interesting experience, I can imagine DO having an insane scope to their support requests like &#x27;what is postgresql&#x27;.<p>Anyway imho you should have taken the support position and schemed your way into development internally. This was my plan at eBay before they fired me, though they shut down the branch here a few months later and moved to the Philippines anyway so I wouldn&#x27;t have lasted long regardless.</text></comment> | <story><title>"DigitalOcean Killed Our Company"</title><url>https://twitter.com/w3Nicolas/status/1134529316904153089</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>znpy</author><text>I have interviewed with DO and they tried diverting me towards a support position.<p>They told me that on a single day a support engineer was supposed to help&#x2F;advice customers on pretty much whatever the customer was having issue with and also handle something between 80-120 tickets per day.<p>It&#x27;s nice to see that DO is willing to help on pretty much anything they (read: their team) has knowledge about, but with 80-120 tickets per day I cannot expect to give meaningful help.<p>Needed EDIT: it seems to me that this comments is receiving more attention than it probably deserves, and I feel it&#x27;s worth clarifying some things:<p>1. I decided not to move forward with the interview as I was not interested in that support position, so I have not verified that&#x27;s the volume of tickets.<p>2. From their description of tickets, such tickets can be anything from &quot;I cannot get apache2 to run&quot; to &quot;how can I get this linucs thing to run Outlook?&quot; (&#x2F;s) to &quot;my whole company that runs on DO is stuck because you locked my account&quot;.</text></item><item><author>thaumaturgy</author><text>Some people on HN hate Linode because of their past security screwups (which is valid), but having used both DO and Linode quite a lot, the support on Linode is way, way, way better than DO&#x27;s.<p>DO&#x27;s tier 1 support is almost useless. I set up a new account with them recently for a droplet that needed to be well separated from the rest of my infrastructure, and ran into a confusing error message that was preventing it from getting set up. I sent out a support request, and a while later, over an hour I think, I got an equally unhelpful support response back.<p>Things got cleared up by taking it to Twitter, where their social media support folks have got a great ground game going, but I really don&#x27;t want to have to rely on Twitter support for critical stuff.<p>DO seems to have gone with the &quot;hire cheap overseas support that almost but doesn&#x27;t quite understand English&quot; strategy, whereas the tier 1 guys at Linode have on occasion demonstrated more Linux systems administration expertise than I&#x27;ve got.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>giggles_giggles</author><text>This is appalling. I worked as a L1 ticket tech for an old LAMP host back in the day where probably half of the tickets required nothing more than a password reset or a IP removal from our firewall, very easy stuff, and was proud if I got over 60 responses out in a 8 hour shift. And that time was spent mostly just typing a response to the customer. I really expected higher standards out of DO.</text></comment> |
21,378,283 | 21,378,264 | 1 | 2 | 21,377,207 | train | <story><title>I got 40 paying customers in 6 months with 0 dollars spent</title><url>https://blog.pixelixe.com/2019/10/24/how-I-got-40-paying-customers-in-6-months-with-0-dollars-spent/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>umvi</author><text>&gt; Another 100% free technique that still requires effort and time to set up is to answer Quora questions where your website and product will be the answer.<p>No wonder Quora is such garbage now. It&#x27;s basically a self-promotion platform.</text></comment> | <story><title>I got 40 paying customers in 6 months with 0 dollars spent</title><url>https://blog.pixelixe.com/2019/10/24/how-I-got-40-paying-customers-in-6-months-with-0-dollars-spent/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ivanstojic</author><text>You may have spent $0, as in that&#x27;s the amount that left your pocket. However, you invested your time, your skills and expertise.<p>While it&#x27;s cool that you are making headway, a better question is: does this financially make sense in the long run.</text></comment> |
30,670,057 | 30,669,039 | 1 | 2 | 30,666,809 | train | <story><title>Fresno lost $400k to a phishing scam in 2020 and never told the public</title><url>https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article259205608.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dataflow</author><text>If you think <i>that</i>&#x27;s bad: <i>&quot;California EDD admits paying as much as $31 billion in unemployment funds to criminals&quot;</i>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;abc7news.com&#x2F;california-edd-unemployment-fraud-ca-scam-insurance&#x2F;10011810&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;abc7news.com&#x2F;california-edd-unemployment-fraud-ca-sc...</a></text></item><item><author>csharpminor</author><text>I will say if you think this is bad, you ought to read about Washington State’s loss of $650M to organized cyber crime: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seattletimes.com&#x2F;seattle-news&#x2F;auditor-state-unemployment-system-wholly-unprepared-for-fraud-one-agency-employee-under-criminal-investigation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seattletimes.com&#x2F;seattle-news&#x2F;auditor-state-unem...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>That sounds so large it has to be overstated?<p>I&#x27;m always a little suspicious of claims of benefit fraud that aren&#x27;t backed up by court cases. They&#x27;re very easy to inflate. Someone loses their job, fills in a form incorrectly, gets paid, the error is discovered a year later: was there really fraudulent intent, or is it just the combination of means-testing and the difficulty of discovering someone&#x27;s true circumstances?</text></comment> | <story><title>Fresno lost $400k to a phishing scam in 2020 and never told the public</title><url>https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article259205608.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dataflow</author><text>If you think <i>that</i>&#x27;s bad: <i>&quot;California EDD admits paying as much as $31 billion in unemployment funds to criminals&quot;</i>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;abc7news.com&#x2F;california-edd-unemployment-fraud-ca-scam-insurance&#x2F;10011810&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;abc7news.com&#x2F;california-edd-unemployment-fraud-ca-sc...</a></text></item><item><author>csharpminor</author><text>I will say if you think this is bad, you ought to read about Washington State’s loss of $650M to organized cyber crime: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seattletimes.com&#x2F;seattle-news&#x2F;auditor-state-unemployment-system-wholly-unprepared-for-fraud-one-agency-employee-under-criminal-investigation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seattletimes.com&#x2F;seattle-news&#x2F;auditor-state-unem...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PeterisP</author><text>I&#x27;d bet that at least a significant part of that fraud went not simply to criminals but to some state-level activity. $31 B is so huge that it is meaningful at very high levels (e.g. it&#x27;s much larger than all the assistance, goods, weapons and financing provided to support Ukraine in the ongoing war), and for places like North Korea fraud and hacking is a large part of their foreign currency income (technically speaking, that would probably count as &quot;export of services&quot;).</text></comment> |
24,341,071 | 24,341,228 | 1 | 2 | 24,340,958 | train | <story><title>Apple Accidentally Approved Malware to Run on macOS</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/apple-approved-malware-macos-notarization-shlayer/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jibcage</author><text>Since the whole point of notarization is to give Apple the power to revoke malicious binaries on its system after-the-fact, this seems like it works by design, no? Apple quickly revoked the notarization once they were alerted of the malware.<p>Otherwise Apple would have to scan every single binary submitted for notarization, which then puts a pretty large onus on them should anything slip through.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple Accidentally Approved Malware to Run on macOS</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/apple-approved-malware-macos-notarization-shlayer/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gregoriol</author><text>Those news about Apple approving malware are so wrong: the notarization is not an approval, it&#x27;s more like a registration.<p>It would be news if it was on the App Store, which has a review.</text></comment> |
26,139,932 | 26,138,655 | 1 | 3 | 26,137,893 | train | <story><title>Ercot nearly at capacity for Texas power grid</title><url>http://www.ercot.com/content/cdr/html/real_time_system_conditions.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cameronh90</author><text>Preface: I know very little about power grids, but had a couple thoughts.<p>In the UK, there is a system of load shedding that is tied to the grid frequency. My understanding is that some industrial users agree terms where they get cheaper rates but if the demand outstrips supply, they are first to be cut. This load shedding is implemented by components that monitor the grid frequency, and if it drops below a fixed value, it disconnects. It seemed a nice system to me as in theory it operates just based on the principles of an AC power supply.<p>Secondly, the UK has its own grid but is linked up to the EU grid with asynchronous HVDC connectors. We get a lot of our energy though those. Is this inefficient?</text></item><item><author>don-code</author><text>Some time ago, I worked for a defunct energy company that provided demand-side relief in exactly this scenario - when total system load outstrips total system capacity, we&#x27;d begin taking actions on behalf of end users, not the utility. Lights would turn off, generators would spin up, fridge temperatures would be raised.<p>ERCOT (Texas) is an interesting case in that it can&#x27;t import power from other states as easily - it has its &quot;own grid&quot; at 60Hz, but not necessarily in phase with either of the other two major grids in the country (there&#x27;s eastern US, western US, and &quot;most of Texas&quot;). So to import power, it first has to convert grid-scale amounts of energy from AC to DC, then back to AC, which incurs a pretty significant loss.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eigenvector</author><text>The technical term for what you&#x27;re describing is under-frequency load shedding (UFLS) and it is part of most modern power systems around the world, including all of the North American grids. It is an important safeguard against system collapse, however, the goal of system operators is to avoid reaching this stage. In fact, resolving contingency events without interruption of &quot;firm load&quot; (that is, loads that have not previously agreed to be interrupted) is an important performance metric for any grid operator.<p>UFLS is mostly intended to buffer transient loss of power supply (for instance, tripping of several large generators). If the grid operator knows they are facing an inadequacy of generation supply and all resources have already been called in, they will start to shed load under manual operator action to avoid UFLS activation. Before doing this they will declare an emergency which, generally speaking, requires all generators to make best efforts to supply as much energy as they can to the system.<p>Think of it like automated emergency braking on a car vs driver braking. AEB is great, but if you can already see that you&#x27;re gonna hit something, just hit the brakes right now instead of waiting for AEB. By the time UFLS kicks in, you&#x27;re already in dire straits and have only moments before reaching an unrecoverable state.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ercot nearly at capacity for Texas power grid</title><url>http://www.ercot.com/content/cdr/html/real_time_system_conditions.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cameronh90</author><text>Preface: I know very little about power grids, but had a couple thoughts.<p>In the UK, there is a system of load shedding that is tied to the grid frequency. My understanding is that some industrial users agree terms where they get cheaper rates but if the demand outstrips supply, they are first to be cut. This load shedding is implemented by components that monitor the grid frequency, and if it drops below a fixed value, it disconnects. It seemed a nice system to me as in theory it operates just based on the principles of an AC power supply.<p>Secondly, the UK has its own grid but is linked up to the EU grid with asynchronous HVDC connectors. We get a lot of our energy though those. Is this inefficient?</text></item><item><author>don-code</author><text>Some time ago, I worked for a defunct energy company that provided demand-side relief in exactly this scenario - when total system load outstrips total system capacity, we&#x27;d begin taking actions on behalf of end users, not the utility. Lights would turn off, generators would spin up, fridge temperatures would be raised.<p>ERCOT (Texas) is an interesting case in that it can&#x27;t import power from other states as easily - it has its &quot;own grid&quot; at 60Hz, but not necessarily in phase with either of the other two major grids in the country (there&#x27;s eastern US, western US, and &quot;most of Texas&quot;). So to import power, it first has to convert grid-scale amounts of energy from AC to DC, then back to AC, which incurs a pretty significant loss.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bombcar</author><text>Load shedding exists in the USA - however industrial customers who can shut off probably already have given the rise in spot prices.<p>I know the Datacenter we were in years ago would be asked to go to generators during CA power crisis.</text></comment> |
12,363,438 | 12,362,506 | 1 | 3 | 12,356,201 | train | <story><title>How to make Slack less bad for you</title><url>http://robertheaton.com/2016/08/23/how-make-slack-slightly-less-bad-for-you/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ktamura</author><text>I cannot recommend using Slack via a browser enough. It achieves several goals:<p>1. It sandboxes resource usage, preventing Slack from being a permanent resource hog. Is your Slack tab running hot on Chrome? Just kill it for now. There are many browser extensions for managing resource usage per tab.<p>2. Closing the Slack browser tab means no disruptive notifications. Sure, you can snooze Slack @-mentions, etc., but that&#x27;s too much of &quot;working hard to make the tool work.&quot;<p>3. Better workflow (seriously) Perhaps this is just me (or my function as a marketing person at a startup), but I work almost entirely inside the browser (GMail, Google Docs, various sites for research, SaaS apps). Using Slack as a standalone desktop app means I have to focus away from the browser. Using Slack as a browser tab means I can treat it just one of several web apps I use regularly.<p>4. Bonus point: No need to update your Slack client =)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikekchar</author><text>I use slack in irssi. I think I actually get better benefits.<p>1. irssi is ridiculously low resource usage. It never melts down.<p>2. No notifications by default. I actually have a script that gives me notifications. It&#x27;s quite cool because I filter the messages by regexp so that I only see what I want to see. Also, it uses my normal desktop notifications which means that they show up where I want them to, with the right font, in the right colour, lasting for the time I want them to. One tip: my default notifications do not stay up long enough to read them. It just gives me an indication that people are talking. I can notice a word or two and if it strikes my interest I can go to irssi and see what they are talking about.<p>3. I&#x27;m a programmer, so I&#x27;m always in my console. Same sauce, different flavour ;-)<p>I occasionally use slack from the browser because it has some features which are useful (like showing images), but I do that only on demand.<p>One of the things that is useful is that the people who like using slack on my team also have a lot of experience with IRC. They have good etiquette. Chatter is kept in the right channels so that it can be ignored easily. Work channels are about work and have a really high signal to noise ratio. Some teams are so good at it that if I want to get an overview of what&#x27;s going on in their project I can simply subscribe to their slack channel. It&#x27;s great for me since I work remote.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to make Slack less bad for you</title><url>http://robertheaton.com/2016/08/23/how-make-slack-slightly-less-bad-for-you/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ktamura</author><text>I cannot recommend using Slack via a browser enough. It achieves several goals:<p>1. It sandboxes resource usage, preventing Slack from being a permanent resource hog. Is your Slack tab running hot on Chrome? Just kill it for now. There are many browser extensions for managing resource usage per tab.<p>2. Closing the Slack browser tab means no disruptive notifications. Sure, you can snooze Slack @-mentions, etc., but that&#x27;s too much of &quot;working hard to make the tool work.&quot;<p>3. Better workflow (seriously) Perhaps this is just me (or my function as a marketing person at a startup), but I work almost entirely inside the browser (GMail, Google Docs, various sites for research, SaaS apps). Using Slack as a standalone desktop app means I have to focus away from the browser. Using Slack as a browser tab means I can treat it just one of several web apps I use regularly.<p>4. Bonus point: No need to update your Slack client =)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maw</author><text><i>There are many browser extensions for managing resource usage per tab.</i><p>Any clues on what to google for? I&#x27;ve tried the Great Suspender and wasn&#x27;t very impressed.</text></comment> |
3,719,754 | 3,719,618 | 1 | 3 | 3,719,481 | train | <story><title>Why software sucks?</title><url>http://www.scottberkun.com/essays/46-why-software-sucks/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>david927</author><text>If we invented the car, but there was no reverse and no left turn, we could say that the problems were due to poor drivers and poor planning, but the problem would clearly be that the car is not sufficiently wieldy.<p>You can say that software sucks because of poor programmers and poor project management, but the truth is that the code is not sufficiently wieldy. There's no way to manage the code. I can't query all places in the code where the UI interacts with a database column. Accounting systems can give you a variety of reports based on abstractions at a variety of layers, slicing the information in different ways (horizontally, vertically, etc). Software systems? Go fish.<p>Software sucks because at some point we got too excited about what we were doing and stopped (sufficiently) caring about how we were doing it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why software sucks?</title><url>http://www.scottberkun.com/essays/46-why-software-sucks/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cubicle67</author><text>We were discussing this recently whilst trying to come up with a guideline about when the computer should "help" and when it should just leave you in peace. We looked at lots of software we hated and loved, and tried to pinpoint the why. One of the things that came up most about hated software was that it had a high frustration level<p>Who's ever wished for a giant red "PLEASE STOP HELPING ME" button on their computer? Everyone, right? One of the causes of frustration we looked at was when the software helps you, but gets it wrong. Frustration is increased when the effort to fix the software's "help" is anything other than minor, and increased again when the computer repeats it's efforts at helping. Throw in no obvious way to get it to stop and you're in for some blood-boiling times.<p>The guideline we came up with was to not concentrate so much on how cool it is when things go well, but think about what happens when the software guesses user intent incorrectly. Consider:<p>* How often is the software likely to get it wrong?<p>* what was the level of irritation is caused by getting it wrong?<p>* How much effort is required to undo the computer's help?<p>and weight it up against how much effort you're saving the user when you get it right.<p>Thinking about this has caused us not to add a particular cool feature we had planned, because even though (we thought) it was very cool, there was about 30% chance or so of it being wrong, and the payoff wasn't worth it.</text></comment> |
27,081,877 | 27,081,839 | 1 | 3 | 27,080,695 | train | <story><title>Be in a field where tech is the limit</title><url>https://mathiaskirkbonde.substack.com/p/be-in-a-field-where-tech-is-the-limit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Judgmentality</author><text>&gt; except perhaps finance it pays far, far better.<p>I hear this a lot, but I&#x27;ve never seen it. I know plenty of people in tech making the better part of $1 MM a year at FAANG, and a few who even breach that. Most people I know in finance never break $500k.<p>So how much do people make in finance?</text></item><item><author>barry-cotter</author><text>No, even after any attempt to account for healthcare, pension and education the US will still look vastly better off. Unfortunately we don’t have figures on average individual consumption but by household Hong Kong consumes about $1,000 more a year than the US and the next closest is Switzerland, consuming about $10,000 a year less[1].<p>Generally the US pays better and at the top of any field you care to mention except perhaps finance it pays far, far better.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_countries_by_household_final_consumption_expenditure_per_capita" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_countries_by_household...</a></text></item><item><author>sho_hn</author><text>I&#x27;m always curious when I hear HN opine on salary levels. Now I understand that in SF &#x2F; at certain FAANG locations you can expect to make far in excess of 80-100k, and that exerts a competitive pressure in the job market - while also being balanced to some extend by extreme CoL. But I always wonder just how small that bubble is and what the trade-offs really are. In essentially all of Central Europe except perhaps, say, Zurich, 80k-110k is a highly-salaried engineer (and affords an upper-middleclass lifestyle with good healthcare, pension, free college education, etc.), and I understand also in many areas of the US that are just fine to live in.<p>It just sounds like completely different systems &#x2F; way to run the numbers to me, not at all apples to apples.</text></item><item><author>d3ntb3ev1l</author><text>I worked in bio tech for 4 years. Amazing people and problems.<p>Worst pay, top heavy salaries.<p>When a phd makes 80k a year and a “ML&#x2F;AI” data scientist is lucky to make 100k you won’t find any progress like software<p>They need to cut the top heavy executive bloat, respect the mid tier with better pay</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ipaddr</author><text>Pre 2008 a lot of people were retiring in 4 years. Things have changed (smaller parties) but people are still getting rich. The top tier are crushing faang salaries. A million a year is a lot but more can be available when you are trading.</text></comment> | <story><title>Be in a field where tech is the limit</title><url>https://mathiaskirkbonde.substack.com/p/be-in-a-field-where-tech-is-the-limit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Judgmentality</author><text>&gt; except perhaps finance it pays far, far better.<p>I hear this a lot, but I&#x27;ve never seen it. I know plenty of people in tech making the better part of $1 MM a year at FAANG, and a few who even breach that. Most people I know in finance never break $500k.<p>So how much do people make in finance?</text></item><item><author>barry-cotter</author><text>No, even after any attempt to account for healthcare, pension and education the US will still look vastly better off. Unfortunately we don’t have figures on average individual consumption but by household Hong Kong consumes about $1,000 more a year than the US and the next closest is Switzerland, consuming about $10,000 a year less[1].<p>Generally the US pays better and at the top of any field you care to mention except perhaps finance it pays far, far better.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_countries_by_household_final_consumption_expenditure_per_capita" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_countries_by_household...</a></text></item><item><author>sho_hn</author><text>I&#x27;m always curious when I hear HN opine on salary levels. Now I understand that in SF &#x2F; at certain FAANG locations you can expect to make far in excess of 80-100k, and that exerts a competitive pressure in the job market - while also being balanced to some extend by extreme CoL. But I always wonder just how small that bubble is and what the trade-offs really are. In essentially all of Central Europe except perhaps, say, Zurich, 80k-110k is a highly-salaried engineer (and affords an upper-middleclass lifestyle with good healthcare, pension, free college education, etc.), and I understand also in many areas of the US that are just fine to live in.<p>It just sounds like completely different systems &#x2F; way to run the numbers to me, not at all apples to apples.</text></item><item><author>d3ntb3ev1l</author><text>I worked in bio tech for 4 years. Amazing people and problems.<p>Worst pay, top heavy salaries.<p>When a phd makes 80k a year and a “ML&#x2F;AI” data scientist is lucky to make 100k you won’t find any progress like software<p>They need to cut the top heavy executive bloat, respect the mid tier with better pay</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ptudan</author><text>Top traders at hedge funds are the people who become billionaires. You can easily make 2, 5, 10m+ once you become a partner.</text></comment> |
24,874,435 | 24,874,235 | 1 | 3 | 24,873,554 | train | <story><title>The Right to Read (1997)</title><url>https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ve55</author><text>I <i>really</i> enjoy having copies of all of the content I consume locally. It feels nice knowing that it cannot be taken away from me by anyone. It&#x27;s there when I lose Internet, it is there if I stop paying for various subscriptions, and it is there even if companies receive takedown notices, or otherwise just remove content for arbitrary reasons with no transparency or warning.<p>It&#x27;s sad how difficult it is becoming for users to actually own any of their own files. We don&#x27;t own our music, we use spotify. We don&#x27;t own our videos, we use Youtube. We don&#x27;t even own <i>the things we write ourselves</i>, we use Twitter, Medium, Facebook, Discord, and more, and as of more recently, we sometimes do not even own hardware that we purchase ourselves (far too many examples)!<p>youtube-dl being taken down today due to DMCA is a great showcase in how user-hostile the end-game here may actually be: you cannot own anything yourself, and must only access it on the terms of <i>many</i> very large parties (corporations, governments, laws, IP, etc), whose interests are not only not aligned with yours, but often completely inversed.<p>You never know when your favorite content on the Internet may completely disappear. Youtube videos get taken down, github repositories and all of their forks get removed, sometimes personal accounts for services such as Facebook or Google are deleted permanently and with no recourse, and sometimes even entire websites and services go dark, whether they shut down, are deplatformed, or get DMCA&#x27;d.<p>While I won&#x27;t be able to convince most of my friends or family to keep their own files for all of their valued content, since it can be a difficult hassle for nontechnical users, I will continue to do so myself until I&#x27;m not longer able to.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Right to Read (1997)</title><url>https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nivenkos</author><text>I&#x27;d recommend reading the whole of Free Software, Free Society: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;philosophy&#x2F;fsfs&#x2F;rms-essays.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;philosophy&#x2F;fsfs&#x2F;rms-essays.pdf</a> (PDF)</text></comment> |
13,456,196 | 13,456,267 | 1 | 3 | 13,455,776 | train | <story><title>Free Software Foundation Priority Projects</title><url>https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority-projects/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mynegation</author><text>This is the right thing to do and I hope it is not too little too late. Free&#x2F;libre OSS won the battle for the server, lost the battle for the desktop, but desktop is not (that) relevant anymore. FLOSS phone ecosystem will be hard to next to impossible, in my opinion, but worth going into. Self-hosted server side software has a very good chance of succeeding. For a long time I essentially wanted something like Synology and QNAP but completely open, with a single package installation interface and ecosystem of phone apps working with my self hosted software.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shmerl</author><text><i>&gt; Free&#x2F;libre OSS won the battle for the server, lost the battle for the desktop, but desktop is not (that) relevant anymore. </i><p>Desktop won&#x27;t stop being relevant in the foreseeable future - there is nothing to replace it with for a whole variety of tasks. And usage of Linux on the desktop is gradually growing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Free Software Foundation Priority Projects</title><url>https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority-projects/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mynegation</author><text>This is the right thing to do and I hope it is not too little too late. Free&#x2F;libre OSS won the battle for the server, lost the battle for the desktop, but desktop is not (that) relevant anymore. FLOSS phone ecosystem will be hard to next to impossible, in my opinion, but worth going into. Self-hosted server side software has a very good chance of succeeding. For a long time I essentially wanted something like Synology and QNAP but completely open, with a single package installation interface and ecosystem of phone apps working with my self hosted software.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brudgers</author><text>If GNU&#x27;s idea of free software and open source are lumped together, I&#x27;m not convinced that the battle for the desktop and mobile are over due to the direction Microsoft is currently heading and the way in which Apple&#x27;s closed source ambitions are increasingly subject to criticism on the basis of being closed source. Of course the caveat is I&#x27;m looking at it more as the 100 Years&#x27; War [1] than the 30 Years&#x27; War [2].<p>The reason I take the long term view is that it seems to me that open source development provides advantages that play out over the long term. At the very least, Google and Red Hat&#x27;s hybrid models look more and more like the main stream default.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hundred_Years%27_War" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hundred_Years%27_War</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Thirty_Years%27_War" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Thirty_Years%27_War</a></text></comment> |
30,956,043 | 30,955,307 | 1 | 3 | 30,942,269 | train | <story><title>Is the DTS vs. Dolby war effectively over?</title><url>https://www.whathifi.com/features/is-the-dts-vs-dolby-war-effectively-over</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fxtentacle</author><text>Yes, Dolby won. By being cheap to implement.<p>I used to work in this space and I&#x27;ve dealt with:<p>- Barco Auro 3D<p>- Frauenhofer MPEG-H<p>- Dolby Atoms<p>- DTS:X<p>The idea behind Auro3D is to just use a lot of discrete channels, which is great for cinemas with a static playback architecture, but there&#x27;s no way to adjust the mixing based on the listener&#x27;s speaker setup. So it is difficult to make sound great for home use unless you have lots of space to hang things on your ceiling. (5 top speakers needed)<p>MPEG-H can do everything but it&#x27;s difficult to configure and was fully specified very late, after Dolby Atmos was already in production. That said, this is the agreed-upon default standard for broadcast, because it supports stuff like 200 language-independent 3D objects + 5 language-dependent voice actor tracks, all positioned in 3D. MPEG-H can also be converted easily to Dolby Atmos and DTS:X.<p>Many professionals agree that DTS:X is the best quality consumer option. It also theoretically supports quite a lot of customization. But ASIC implementations tend to freeze those because otherwise it&#x27;s too expensive. And it still is expensive.<p>Dolby Atmos virtualization is said by gossip to be a few 32-tap IIR filters with delay modules in between. That means it&#x27;s by far the lowest-tech solution on the list. And that means cheap ASIC implementations. I believe this is why Atmos won.<p>If I remember correctly, DTS:X is a $4 chip, Atmos is a $0.5 chip.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>p0larboy</author><text>Do you have an email that I can contact you? I run a headphones magazine, Headphonesty and I will love to publish an article on this topic.</text></comment> | <story><title>Is the DTS vs. Dolby war effectively over?</title><url>https://www.whathifi.com/features/is-the-dts-vs-dolby-war-effectively-over</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fxtentacle</author><text>Yes, Dolby won. By being cheap to implement.<p>I used to work in this space and I&#x27;ve dealt with:<p>- Barco Auro 3D<p>- Frauenhofer MPEG-H<p>- Dolby Atoms<p>- DTS:X<p>The idea behind Auro3D is to just use a lot of discrete channels, which is great for cinemas with a static playback architecture, but there&#x27;s no way to adjust the mixing based on the listener&#x27;s speaker setup. So it is difficult to make sound great for home use unless you have lots of space to hang things on your ceiling. (5 top speakers needed)<p>MPEG-H can do everything but it&#x27;s difficult to configure and was fully specified very late, after Dolby Atmos was already in production. That said, this is the agreed-upon default standard for broadcast, because it supports stuff like 200 language-independent 3D objects + 5 language-dependent voice actor tracks, all positioned in 3D. MPEG-H can also be converted easily to Dolby Atmos and DTS:X.<p>Many professionals agree that DTS:X is the best quality consumer option. It also theoretically supports quite a lot of customization. But ASIC implementations tend to freeze those because otherwise it&#x27;s too expensive. And it still is expensive.<p>Dolby Atmos virtualization is said by gossip to be a few 32-tap IIR filters with delay modules in between. That means it&#x27;s by far the lowest-tech solution on the list. And that means cheap ASIC implementations. I believe this is why Atmos won.<p>If I remember correctly, DTS:X is a $4 chip, Atmos is a $0.5 chip.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CamperBob2</author><text><i>Dolby Atmos virtualization is said by gossip to be a few 32-tap IIR filters</i><p>FIR, right? That&#x27;s crazy long for an IIR filter.</text></comment> |
35,372,886 | 35,372,762 | 1 | 2 | 35,371,182 | train | <story><title>Mach 3.5 Over Libya in an SR-71 Blackbird</title><url>https://www.thesr71blackbird.com/Aircraft/Stories/mach-35-over-libya-in-an-sr-71-blackbird</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scrlk</author><text>It&#x27;s a shame that the book that this story came from - Sled Driver by Brian Shul - is out of print.<p>The SR-71 speed check story is another good read: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thesr71blackbird.com&#x2F;Aircraft&#x2F;Stories&#x2F;sr-71-blackbird-speed-check-story" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thesr71blackbird.com&#x2F;Aircraft&#x2F;Stories&#x2F;sr-71-blac...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brightball</author><text>Still worth it to get Skunk Works by Ben Rich. One of the best books I&#x27;ve ever read.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mach 3.5 Over Libya in an SR-71 Blackbird</title><url>https://www.thesr71blackbird.com/Aircraft/Stories/mach-35-over-libya-in-an-sr-71-blackbird</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scrlk</author><text>It&#x27;s a shame that the book that this story came from - Sled Driver by Brian Shul - is out of print.<p>The SR-71 speed check story is another good read: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thesr71blackbird.com&#x2F;Aircraft&#x2F;Stories&#x2F;sr-71-blackbird-speed-check-story" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thesr71blackbird.com&#x2F;Aircraft&#x2F;Stories&#x2F;sr-71-blac...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TimMeade</author><text>He tells it on stage. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=8AyHH9G9et0">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=8AyHH9G9et0</a></text></comment> |
29,559,136 | 29,559,135 | 1 | 2 | 29,554,461 | train | <story><title>Plans you're not supposed to talk about</title><url>https://dynomight.net/plans/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mjlawson</author><text>This reminds me of a set of poems, Knots, by R.D. Laing, the first of which goes:<p>&gt; They are playing a game<p>&gt; They are playing, at not playing a game<p>&gt; If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me.<p>&gt; I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game.<p>It&#x27;s a lovely collection, and though I haven&#x27;t thought about it recently, I think there&#x27;s a lot of value in considering these kinds of unspoken self&#x2F;group contradictions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JALTU</author><text>Thanks for sharing! Knots has lovely metre, which feels&#x2F;sounds like the famous Bene Gesserit litany against fear.<p>I must not reveal the game &#x2F;
Revelation makes me the rule breaker &#x2F;
Revelation means alienation that brings total ostracization</text></comment> | <story><title>Plans you're not supposed to talk about</title><url>https://dynomight.net/plans/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mjlawson</author><text>This reminds me of a set of poems, Knots, by R.D. Laing, the first of which goes:<p>&gt; They are playing a game<p>&gt; They are playing, at not playing a game<p>&gt; If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me.<p>&gt; I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game.<p>It&#x27;s a lovely collection, and though I haven&#x27;t thought about it recently, I think there&#x27;s a lot of value in considering these kinds of unspoken self&#x2F;group contradictions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yakshaving_jgt</author><text>I lost the game.</text></comment> |
24,333,085 | 24,332,424 | 1 | 2 | 24,331,071 | train | <story><title>Ruby: We have decided to go forward to 3.0 this year</title><url>https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/21c62fb670b1646c5051a46d29081523cd782f11</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tiffanyh</author><text>It appears that Ruby 3 might come short of their 3x speedup goal [1][2] ... has anyone tried out Graal&#x2F;TruffleRuby?<p>Graal&#x2F;TruffleRuby has shown some massive perf increases [3]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pragtob.wordpress.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;01&#x2F;24&#x2F;benchmarking-a-go-ai-in-ruby-cruby-vs-rubinius-vs-jruby-vs-truffle-a-year-later&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pragtob.wordpress.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;01&#x2F;24&#x2F;benchmarking-a-go-a...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pragtob.wordpress.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;08&#x2F;24&#x2F;the-great-rubykon-benchmark-2020-cruby-vs-jruby-vs-truffleruby&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pragtob.wordpress.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;08&#x2F;24&#x2F;the-great-rubykon-b...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;ruby&#x2F;comments&#x2F;b4c2lx&#x2F;truffleruby_being_2x_faster_than_mri_26_a&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;ruby&#x2F;comments&#x2F;b4c2lx&#x2F;truffleruby_be...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Ruby: We have decided to go forward to 3.0 this year</title><url>https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/21c62fb670b1646c5051a46d29081523cd782f11</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mfontani</author><text>What a year!<p>Python 2.x dying; Python 3 becoming the norm; &quot;Perl6&quot; renamed to raku &amp; Perl5 thinking of bumping to v7... and now Ruby going all the way to v3.0!</text></comment> |
27,641,111 | 27,640,974 | 1 | 2 | 27,640,553 | train | <story><title>Microsoft admits to signing rootkit malware in supply-chain fiasco</title><url>https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-admits-to-signing-rootkit-malware-in-supply-chain-fiasco/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lawl</author><text>Microsoft needs to stop signing kernel level anti cheats completely. They are always rootkits by design.<p>No game should require a kernel driver.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>meibo</author><text>It also just keeps happening. A recent game(Genshin Impact) shipped with an Anti-Cheat driver that had unauthenticated read&#x2F;write primitives via IPC for debugging and it&#x27;s been abused since.<p>It&#x27;s a security theater.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft admits to signing rootkit malware in supply-chain fiasco</title><url>https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-admits-to-signing-rootkit-malware-in-supply-chain-fiasco/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lawl</author><text>Microsoft needs to stop signing kernel level anti cheats completely. They are always rootkits by design.<p>No game should require a kernel driver.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>swebs</author><text>Microsoft would not want to stop since it keeps users locked in to Windows. The majority of games now support Linux according to ProtonDB, but the few popular games that don&#x27;t are almost always due to a kernel level anti cheat.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.protondb.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.protondb.com</a></text></comment> |
20,534,152 | 20,533,814 | 1 | 2 | 20,531,955 | train | <story><title>What Stress Does to the Brain</title><url>https://neurosciencenews.com/brain-stress-14580/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>want2know</author><text>Some time ago I had a long period of intense stress. It is amazing how much it changes your mind and body.<p>Muscles contract causing all kinds of insuline problems, your hormones become a mess, and all this is raising stress levels more because you don&#x27;t know what is going on in your body.<p>And then an anxiety disorder is right around the corner.<p>And when everything is ok again your brain produces stress hormones when you hear a sound that would trigger you earlier or just a smell or a color.<p>I think this is the most difficult part to get back to normal:<p>The brain brings you in stress mode for no obvious reason. Then you have to reason about it so the stress goes away and you will slowly reset your brain.<p>But I doubt the paths in the brain will ever go away. It will be like a overgrown path in the end but it is still there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coldcode</author><text>I am in such a period and have been for months. Stupid company demands we ship something no matter what, even though there is insufficient time to do all the work, and they keep adding more on top of it. I work 7 days a week, no vacations, hardly even a weekend day off much less a vacation. I even lost my temper at work and yelled a lot, something I never do. This is no way to do proper work either. At least what little time I have away from this nightmare I do art which helps somewhat.</text></comment> | <story><title>What Stress Does to the Brain</title><url>https://neurosciencenews.com/brain-stress-14580/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>want2know</author><text>Some time ago I had a long period of intense stress. It is amazing how much it changes your mind and body.<p>Muscles contract causing all kinds of insuline problems, your hormones become a mess, and all this is raising stress levels more because you don&#x27;t know what is going on in your body.<p>And then an anxiety disorder is right around the corner.<p>And when everything is ok again your brain produces stress hormones when you hear a sound that would trigger you earlier or just a smell or a color.<p>I think this is the most difficult part to get back to normal:<p>The brain brings you in stress mode for no obvious reason. Then you have to reason about it so the stress goes away and you will slowly reset your brain.<p>But I doubt the paths in the brain will ever go away. It will be like a overgrown path in the end but it is still there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hef19898</author><text>The worst thng about that, at least for me, was that I actually <i>liked</i> it. I felt alert, productive, full of energy. Things moved gast and I felt on top of them, it was just great.<p>When things changed, arguably forvthe better, I kind of wanted the <i>previous</i> status back. Took me quite a while to cool down again, yet I still prefer high pressure high speed environments.<p>Funn thing is, my body felt good too. I was healthy as check ups showned. I even managed to trian more than today. Strange period that was indeed...</text></comment> |
19,619,595 | 19,616,721 | 1 | 2 | 19,616,691 | train | <story><title>Marissa Mayer on career growth and how a revenue guarantee almost killed Google</title><url>https://triplebyte.com/blog/marissa-mayer-interview</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>NelsonMinar</author><text>I was also at Google when the AOL deal was signed and remember the decision and outcome quite differently. It was definitely a high risk deal, deliberately so, but in no way was it only &quot;the best-case scenario had us breaking even&quot;. Nor was it the case that &quot;all of our models were wrong&quot;. The product manager in charge of ads at the time had a clear understanding of exactly how the deal could be hugely profitable for Google because of the value of extra advertisers attracted to the Google platform thanks to the added AOL inventory. It was by no means a sure thing, but it was a likely outcome. Fortunately the decision makers believed him, they took the risk, and it paid off enormously.</text></comment> | <story><title>Marissa Mayer on career growth and how a revenue guarantee almost killed Google</title><url>https://triplebyte.com/blog/marissa-mayer-interview</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Harj</author><text>Marissa described possibly the most thorough and analytical job search process I&#x27;ve heard from anyone, when she was talking about how she joined Google. I really liked her reflection on this in hindsight on how being overly analytical is dangerous and it&#x27;s something I try to remind myself of when I&#x27;m in danger of overthinking a decision:<p>&quot;I think this is a common thing that very analytical people trip themselves up with. They look at things as if there’s a right answer and a wrong answer when, the truth is, there’s often just good choices, and maybe a great choice in there.&quot;</text></comment> |
26,921,721 | 26,921,739 | 1 | 2 | 26,919,197 | train | <story><title>Human-monkey chimera embryos created in lab</title><url>https://newatlas.com/science/human-monkey-chimera-embryos/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PostOnce</author><text>Okay, on day 19 three of them are clusters of cells, how about day 280? How about year 5? I think the argument is that a majority of people would find it unethical to continue to develop viable embryos, and even more unethical to conduct research on them were they to mature.</text></item><item><author>mullingitover</author><text>Did you finish reading the article?<p>&gt; After 10 days, there were 103 of these chimeric embryos remaining, but by day 19 only three still survived. After that, the embryos were terminated before they developed any further.<p>Clusters of cells can&#x27;t be &#x27;tortured in a lab,&#x27; there are plenty of legitimate problems in the world to be outraged about but this really isn&#x27;t one of them.</text></item><item><author>themgt</author><text><i>These chimeras pave the way for more accurate models of human biology and disease</i><p><i>The goal, the team says, is to make better models for studying biological development, evolution, disease progression and treatments. &quot;As we are unable to conduct certain types of experiments in humans, it is essential that we have better models to more accurately study and understand human biology and disease,&quot;</i><p><i>Interestingly, the review paper suggests that perhaps the creation of human-animal chimeras might help people realize that humans don’t necessarily have any higher moral status than any other creature.</i><p>Yeah sorry but fuck off with this. If your explicit goal is to create living organisms for medical research &#x2F; donor organs that would be unethical to perform in humans, don&#x27;t turn around and justify it with &quot;maybe our monkeyman will increase people&#x27;s concern with animal welfare!&quot; If it did then we would turn around and ban your research and&#x2F;or just do it in humans directly.<p>Frankly I&#x27;d find it a lot more ethical to figure out how to grow a brainless human clone for these purposes than a sentient hu-monkey that can be tortured in a lab.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brbsix</author><text>Research is already performed using human fetal tissue obtained from aborted fetuses. How is this significantly different?<p>&quot;A majority of people would find it unethical to continue to develop viable embryos&quot; seems contradictory to the current legal status of abortion in the US. Perhaps it is unethical but worth doing regardless?</text></comment> | <story><title>Human-monkey chimera embryos created in lab</title><url>https://newatlas.com/science/human-monkey-chimera-embryos/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PostOnce</author><text>Okay, on day 19 three of them are clusters of cells, how about day 280? How about year 5? I think the argument is that a majority of people would find it unethical to continue to develop viable embryos, and even more unethical to conduct research on them were they to mature.</text></item><item><author>mullingitover</author><text>Did you finish reading the article?<p>&gt; After 10 days, there were 103 of these chimeric embryos remaining, but by day 19 only three still survived. After that, the embryos were terminated before they developed any further.<p>Clusters of cells can&#x27;t be &#x27;tortured in a lab,&#x27; there are plenty of legitimate problems in the world to be outraged about but this really isn&#x27;t one of them.</text></item><item><author>themgt</author><text><i>These chimeras pave the way for more accurate models of human biology and disease</i><p><i>The goal, the team says, is to make better models for studying biological development, evolution, disease progression and treatments. &quot;As we are unable to conduct certain types of experiments in humans, it is essential that we have better models to more accurately study and understand human biology and disease,&quot;</i><p><i>Interestingly, the review paper suggests that perhaps the creation of human-animal chimeras might help people realize that humans don’t necessarily have any higher moral status than any other creature.</i><p>Yeah sorry but fuck off with this. If your explicit goal is to create living organisms for medical research &#x2F; donor organs that would be unethical to perform in humans, don&#x27;t turn around and justify it with &quot;maybe our monkeyman will increase people&#x27;s concern with animal welfare!&quot; If it did then we would turn around and ban your research and&#x2F;or just do it in humans directly.<p>Frankly I&#x27;d find it a lot more ethical to figure out how to grow a brainless human clone for these purposes than a sentient hu-monkey that can be tortured in a lab.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mullingitover</author><text>What if we gave a dog a human brain? What if we gave a robot a human consciousness? Just offering some more scenarios that didn&#x27;t happen.</text></comment> |
23,002,670 | 23,002,720 | 1 | 2 | 22,995,928 | train | <story><title>A Critique of React Hooks</title><url>https://dillonshook.com/a-critique-of-react-hooks/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>desc</author><text>I&#x27;m going to express something a lot of people are thinking and are being far too diplomatic about.<p>React Hooks are a <i>fucking stupid idea</i> and always were.<p>They&#x27;re basically just adding dynamic scoping to a language and framework which doesn&#x27;t need it, in one of the most &#x27;magical&#x27; and confusing ways possible. You have to care about execution order to understand exactly how they&#x27;ll all work and that <i>will</i> bite you eventually if you&#x27;re building anything without knowledge of all the contexts in which it&#x27;s called.<p>There&#x27;s a reason that most languages stick to lexical scoping: you can <i>see</i> the dependencies, in the same file.<p>And a large portion of the value of functional languages is that they avoid state, making magic-at-a-distance impossible.<p>Boilerplate is not the problem. Magic is the problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>azirbel</author><text>I for one preferred the diplomacy.<p>The &#x27;magic&#x27; involved in hooks is a tradeoff; there are real benefits in the way you can consolidate logic, or mix in behaviors. Personally, I strongly prefer hooks to HOCs.<p>Many technologies have magical behaviors and are still very popular and useful (Rails comes to mind). I&#x27;m really liking the pros and cons being brought up in the rest of this thread.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Critique of React Hooks</title><url>https://dillonshook.com/a-critique-of-react-hooks/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>desc</author><text>I&#x27;m going to express something a lot of people are thinking and are being far too diplomatic about.<p>React Hooks are a <i>fucking stupid idea</i> and always were.<p>They&#x27;re basically just adding dynamic scoping to a language and framework which doesn&#x27;t need it, in one of the most &#x27;magical&#x27; and confusing ways possible. You have to care about execution order to understand exactly how they&#x27;ll all work and that <i>will</i> bite you eventually if you&#x27;re building anything without knowledge of all the contexts in which it&#x27;s called.<p>There&#x27;s a reason that most languages stick to lexical scoping: you can <i>see</i> the dependencies, in the same file.<p>And a large portion of the value of functional languages is that they avoid state, making magic-at-a-distance impossible.<p>Boilerplate is not the problem. Magic is the problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Sophistifunk</author><text>This. So much this. You are 100% correct. Hooks are incredibly stupid. No, your component is not &quot;functional&quot; because you don&#x27;t use the word &quot;this&quot;. You still have a &quot;this&quot;, it&#x27;s just fucking secret now so your debugging is harder. I could go on about all the other reasons hooks are stupid, but JavaScript is largely a cargo cult and I&#x27;m a nobody so I&#x27;d just be wasting my breath.</text></comment> |
13,848,586 | 13,848,083 | 1 | 2 | 13,846,762 | train | <story><title>“Hello, (real) world” in PHP in 2017</title><url>https://kukuruku.co/post/hello-real-world-in-php-in-2017/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vectorpush</author><text>I get that this article is satire, but I think the deepest (perhaps) unintentional insight presented by the author&#x27;s veiled criticism is that the justification for using these tools is presented as &quot;it&#x27;s 2017&quot; and not as a solution to any particular problem. The issue isn&#x27;t the 2017 ecosystem, the issue is the 2017 programmer&#x27;s deference to vanity instead of engineering. All these individual tools exist for a reason, and if your project is already functioning to specification without the use of these tools, <i>you shouldn&#x27;t be using them</i>; doing otherwise is the developer&#x27;s fault, not the tool&#x27;s or the ecosystem&#x27;s.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dheera</author><text>On a similar note, I always find it ridiculous when I have to do things like<p><pre><code> apt-get install npm &amp;&amp; npm install bower &amp;&amp; bower install ...
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Why can&#x27;t we just use apt-get and Makefiles for everything?<p>Why can&#x27;t npm be turned into ppa:nodejs and pip be turned into ppa:python?</text></comment> | <story><title>“Hello, (real) world” in PHP in 2017</title><url>https://kukuruku.co/post/hello-real-world-in-php-in-2017/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vectorpush</author><text>I get that this article is satire, but I think the deepest (perhaps) unintentional insight presented by the author&#x27;s veiled criticism is that the justification for using these tools is presented as &quot;it&#x27;s 2017&quot; and not as a solution to any particular problem. The issue isn&#x27;t the 2017 ecosystem, the issue is the 2017 programmer&#x27;s deference to vanity instead of engineering. All these individual tools exist for a reason, and if your project is already functioning to specification without the use of these tools, <i>you shouldn&#x27;t be using them</i>; doing otherwise is the developer&#x27;s fault, not the tool&#x27;s or the ecosystem&#x27;s.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rosser</author><text>It&#x27;s called &quot;résumé-driven development.&quot;</text></comment> |
37,022,223 | 37,022,166 | 1 | 2 | 37,021,160 | train | <story><title>Zoom terms now allow training AI on user content with no opt out</title><url>https://explore.zoom.us/en/terms/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jxf</author><text>edit: I&#x27;m retracting my earlier comment. Earlier I wrote that the headline didn&#x27;t seem to match what was in the TOS, since OP never mentioned which part they&#x27;re concerned about.<p>I&#x27;m now assuming the part they don&#x27;t like is §10.4(ii):<p>&gt; 10.4 Customer License Grant. You agree to grant and hereby grant Zoom a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license and all other rights required or necessary to redistribute, publish, import, access, use, store, transmit, review, disclose, preserve, extract, modify, reproduce, share, use, display, copy, distribute, translate, transcribe, create derivative works, and process Customer Content and to perform all acts with respect to the Customer Content: [...] _(ii) for the purpose of product and service development, marketing, analytics, quality assurance, machine learning, artificial intelligence, training, testing, improvement of the Services, Software, or Zoom’s other products, services, and software, or any combination thereof_<p>Notice that 10.4(ii) says they can use Customer Content &quot;for ... machine learning, artificial intelligence, training&quot;, which is certainly allowing training on user content.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jsnell</author><text>But it <i>is</i> saying that your customer content may be used for training AI, in 10.4:<p>&gt; 10.4 Customer License Grant. You agree to grant and hereby grant Zoom a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license and all other rights required or necessary to redistribute, publish, import, access, use, store, transmit, review, disclose, preserve, extract, modify, reproduce, share, use, display, copy, distribute, translate, transcribe, create derivative works, and process <i>Customer Content</i> and to perform all acts with respect to the Customer Content: (i) as may be necessary for Zoom to provide the Services to you, including to support the Services; (ii) for the purpose of product and service development, marketing, analytics, quality assurance, <i>machine learning, artificial intelligence</i>, [...]</text></comment> | <story><title>Zoom terms now allow training AI on user content with no opt out</title><url>https://explore.zoom.us/en/terms/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jxf</author><text>edit: I&#x27;m retracting my earlier comment. Earlier I wrote that the headline didn&#x27;t seem to match what was in the TOS, since OP never mentioned which part they&#x27;re concerned about.<p>I&#x27;m now assuming the part they don&#x27;t like is §10.4(ii):<p>&gt; 10.4 Customer License Grant. You agree to grant and hereby grant Zoom a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license and all other rights required or necessary to redistribute, publish, import, access, use, store, transmit, review, disclose, preserve, extract, modify, reproduce, share, use, display, copy, distribute, translate, transcribe, create derivative works, and process Customer Content and to perform all acts with respect to the Customer Content: [...] _(ii) for the purpose of product and service development, marketing, analytics, quality assurance, machine learning, artificial intelligence, training, testing, improvement of the Services, Software, or Zoom’s other products, services, and software, or any combination thereof_<p>Notice that 10.4(ii) says they can use Customer Content &quot;for ... machine learning, artificial intelligence, training&quot;, which is certainly allowing training on user content.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>westcort</author><text>You will have to excuse me if I don’t trust a company that kicks off users at the behest of the PRC!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;06&#x2F;11&#x2F;zoom-admits-to-shutting-down-activist-accounts-at-the-request-of-the-chinese-government&#x2F;amp&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;06&#x2F;11&#x2F;zoom-admits-to-shutting-do...</a><p>Quibbles over the definition of phrases like “Customer Content” and “Service Generated Data” are designed to obfuscate meaning and confuse readers to think that the headline is wrong. It is not wrong. This company does what it wants to, obviously, given it’s complicity with a regime that is currently engaging in genocide.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-asia-china-22278037.amp" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-asia-china-22278037.amp</a><p>Why do you trust them to generate an AI model of your appearance and voice that could be used to destroy your life? I don’t.</text></comment> |
26,293,244 | 26,292,839 | 1 | 2 | 26,292,299 | train | <story><title>Signal Desktop is corrupting its database</title><url>https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/4513</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>primeos</author><text>This whole thing is especially painful&#x2F;annoying since they neither support backing up the database nor syncing&#x2F;importing old messages from the phone. So if this happens there&#x27;s no known&#x2F;reliable way to recover (even though the data is still on the phone).<p>(In theory it should be possible to recover from this and I can still access my sqlcipher database manually but Electron and the stateful Signal protocol make it extremely difficult so I gave up. Multiple backups of the whole ~&#x2F;.config&#x2F;Signal directory didn&#x27;t help either.)<p>(See: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;signalapp&#x2F;Signal-Desktop&#x2F;issues&#x2F;4513#issuecomment-756830788" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;signalapp&#x2F;Signal-Desktop&#x2F;issues&#x2F;4513#issu...</a> )</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>satysin</author><text>Yes and this has been my biggest complaint for literally <i>years</i> but whenever I say &quot;Signal needs a top tier backup system asap&quot; I get moaned at with responses like &quot;Signal is a messaging app not email, if you want to backup a message just do that one message.&quot; or &quot;Why would you want a <i>whole</i> conversation backup?!&quot; as if I am some weirdo for wanting to have a backup.<p>Does my fucking head in. Yes Signal is about security but that doesn&#x27;t mean it can&#x27;t have a functional backup feature! Honestly it needs to be priority number one imho.<p>This bug shows just how important backups and importing conversations are. Whenever I setup Signal on a new system I <i>hate</i> when I see the message &quot;For your security, conversation history isn&#x27;t transferred to new linked devices.&quot;<p>Signal doesn&#x27;t (or at least shouldn&#x27;t) get to decide what happens here. If I am having to re-register because of a Signal failure my security is not effected by importing the conversation history as it was there two minutes ago before they corrupted the database. At the very least they should make it an option even if it is disabled by default.<p>Apologies for the ranty nature of this comment but I am fed up with this absolutely pathetic denial that backups are important because it is &quot;just a messaging app&quot;. AHHH!<p>Edit: See this reply from when I complained about the lack of backup a month ago <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25687851" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25687851</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Signal Desktop is corrupting its database</title><url>https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/4513</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>primeos</author><text>This whole thing is especially painful&#x2F;annoying since they neither support backing up the database nor syncing&#x2F;importing old messages from the phone. So if this happens there&#x27;s no known&#x2F;reliable way to recover (even though the data is still on the phone).<p>(In theory it should be possible to recover from this and I can still access my sqlcipher database manually but Electron and the stateful Signal protocol make it extremely difficult so I gave up. Multiple backups of the whole ~&#x2F;.config&#x2F;Signal directory didn&#x27;t help either.)<p>(See: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;signalapp&#x2F;Signal-Desktop&#x2F;issues&#x2F;4513#issuecomment-756830788" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;signalapp&#x2F;Signal-Desktop&#x2F;issues&#x2F;4513#issu...</a> )</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ancarda</author><text>&gt;they neither support backing up the database nor syncing&#x2F;importing old messages from the phone<p>Why Signal doesn&#x27;t support this is beyond me. I can basically only use it for scenarios where I don&#x27;t want any chat history, which just isn&#x27;t that common.</text></comment> |
564,724 | 564,594 | 1 | 2 | 564,532 | train | <story><title>4chan hacker discusses the manipulation of the Time poll</title><url>http://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/15/inside-the-precision-hack/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>joshsharp</author><text>I was surprised to read how easy it was to game... at the heart of the success seems to be a real lack of quality coding on Time's behalf.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>extension</author><text>Fair internet voting is generally an unsolvable problem, unless you have a voting list from a more reliable source and you can authenticate people on that list. Despite best practices, any high profile "best person in the world" poll has a pretty good chance of being won by moot/Lowtax/gimmick-meme-of-the-day.</text></comment> | <story><title>4chan hacker discusses the manipulation of the Time poll</title><url>http://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/15/inside-the-precision-hack/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>joshsharp</author><text>I was surprised to read how easy it was to game... at the heart of the success seems to be a real lack of quality coding on Time's behalf.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Frazzydee</author><text>quite surprising, since time's poll has historically been a target of similar attacks.</text></comment> |
34,674,464 | 34,674,317 | 1 | 2 | 34,673,581 | train | <story><title>Path to a free, self-taught education in Computer Science</title><url>https://github.com/ossu/computer-science</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>monero-xmr</author><text>100% possible to be a self-taught software engineer. I have hired many over the years. The hardest part is breaking into the industry, but once you have some experience and references the degree doesn’t matter for many high paying companies (although FAANG and academia might disagree).<p>When I interview ICs it is a very free flowing conversation. When there is a lull I will jump to a new subject. I will just start asking things and keep going deeper until I exhaust your knowledge.<p>“What is the command for listing directories in a terminal? Name a flag you can use - what does it do? How do flags actually work anyway? Do you know any libraries for CLI parameter processing? Ever heard of argc and argv? How do you think those variables are mapped into memory of the forked process?”<p>I go on and on and on. If you just become obsessed with computers and software engineering and put in some years of effort you can beat what school charges you for. Plenty of MIT and Brown and Harvard grads don’t know fuck all about software development. Credentials are a signal for sure but that is all they are.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjmlp</author><text>In many European countries it isn&#x27;t, as being Software Engineer is a proctected title, can only be used in legal contexts if the admission exam was taken, and the university was reckognised by the state as providing a proper Software Engineer degree.</text></comment> | <story><title>Path to a free, self-taught education in Computer Science</title><url>https://github.com/ossu/computer-science</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>monero-xmr</author><text>100% possible to be a self-taught software engineer. I have hired many over the years. The hardest part is breaking into the industry, but once you have some experience and references the degree doesn’t matter for many high paying companies (although FAANG and academia might disagree).<p>When I interview ICs it is a very free flowing conversation. When there is a lull I will jump to a new subject. I will just start asking things and keep going deeper until I exhaust your knowledge.<p>“What is the command for listing directories in a terminal? Name a flag you can use - what does it do? How do flags actually work anyway? Do you know any libraries for CLI parameter processing? Ever heard of argc and argv? How do you think those variables are mapped into memory of the forked process?”<p>I go on and on and on. If you just become obsessed with computers and software engineering and put in some years of effort you can beat what school charges you for. Plenty of MIT and Brown and Harvard grads don’t know fuck all about software development. Credentials are a signal for sure but that is all they are.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>piperswe</author><text>I concur - I&#x27;m completely self taught (my special interest has been computing and software development my whole life) and the first job was the hardest. Now that I have work experience on my resume, nobody asks anything about my education background (or lack thereof), and I&#x27;ve gone from getting an occasional response to applications to consistently getting responses to most of my job applications.</text></comment> |
23,472,876 | 23,472,825 | 1 | 2 | 23,472,571 | train | <story><title>Windows Privacy Dashboard: GUI for Windows 10 Privacy Settings</title><url>https://wpd.app/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xnx</author><text>It is unclear in what ways this is different&#x2F;better than O&amp;O ShutUp10 (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oo-software.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;shutup10" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oo-software.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;shutup10</a>), aside from that tool having a much worse name.</text></comment> | <story><title>Windows Privacy Dashboard: GUI for Windows 10 Privacy Settings</title><url>https://wpd.app/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>whalesalad</author><text>Screenshots are hiding on the press page. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wpd.app&#x2F;press&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wpd.app&#x2F;press&#x2F;</a><p>The rest of the marketing site is well done... surprised screenshots aren’t front and center!</text></comment> |
15,207,625 | 15,206,277 | 1 | 3 | 15,205,363 | train | <story><title>Database Learning: Toward a Database That Becomes Smarter Every Time</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.05468</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Roritharr</author><text>I recently wondered why we still don&#x27;t have self optimizing databases, creating their own indexes and tweaking their settings when needed. Are there such products out there or is there no demand?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jandrewrogers</author><text>Good databases do self-optimize quite a bit but they select where and how they do that optimization carefully. There are two big constraints on practical dynamic optimization: the cost must be less than the benefit and it must be applied to the system incrementally.<p>These constraints have effects that are not always obvious. For example, architecting a database kernel so that it <i>can</i> be dynamically optimized slows down computational throughput in the general case! This means that the benefits of dynamic optimization have to be sufficiently large that it offsets the performance tax of doing dynamic optimization at all. Also, because the performance tax is general, there is an implication that the optimization needs to be general across the set of runtime operations as well i.e. you can&#x27;t optimize one operation at the cost of slowing down others. Nonetheless, there many areas such as cache replacement algorithms where dynamic optimization has big performance payoffs for the added complexity.<p>Second, dynamic optimization needs to be applicable incrementally, otherwise it tends to have a &quot;stop the world&quot; effect on performance when it is being applied, which is bad. A good example of this is dynamically optimizing storage for the actual distribution of queries it sees. Dynamically adding a new secondary index imposes a huge background cost that is visible in performance, so databases don&#x27;t do it. However, dynamically optimizing individual <i>pages</i> for queries is common because it can be applied incrementally for pages you are already accessing anyway for a small one-time cost per page distributed over time as pages are accessed. And it only applies to pages you actually touch; building a new index pulls a lot of cold storage through the cache. Page level query optimization may be less effective overall than adding a second index but the fact that it can be applied incrementally makes it a preferred form of dynamic optimization.<p>In short, dynamic optimization has been studied and tried for many decades. Sophisticated databases do a lot of it but the mechanisms are chosen carefully to minimize adverse side effects in real world conditions.</text></comment> | <story><title>Database Learning: Toward a Database That Becomes Smarter Every Time</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.05468</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Roritharr</author><text>I recently wondered why we still don&#x27;t have self optimizing databases, creating their own indexes and tweaking their settings when needed. Are there such products out there or is there no demand?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bladecatcher</author><text>MonetDB[0] is an open source OLAP engine which does cracking.<p>From the Wikipedia page:<p>&quot;Cracking is a technique that shifts the cost of index maintenance from updates to query processing. The query pipeline optimizers are used to massage the query plans to crack and to propagate this information. The technique allows for improved access times and self-organized behavior.&quot;<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.monetdb.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;column-store-features" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.monetdb.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;column-store-features</a></text></comment> |
31,611,089 | 31,610,135 | 1 | 3 | 31,609,175 | train | <story><title>40k coin tosses yield ambiguous evidence for dynamical bias</title><url>https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/Real-World/coin_tosses.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrandish</author><text>&gt; A first comment is that it would have been better for each individual to have done both &quot;Heads up&quot;and &quot;Tails up&quot; tosses (which was part of the intended protocol, but on this aspect of the protocol there was a miscommunication)<p>That was a pretty unfortunate error in the experiment. Maybe it doesn&#x27;t matter but now we don&#x27;t know. It would also have been nice to have them swap coins halfway to expose any individual per coin biasing. It may seem like an irrelevant thing but I&#x27;ve been a lifelong magician specializing in advanced slight of hand coin magic. I carry a set of coins with me all day, every day and handle them constantly. It started out as practice but evolved into both practice and a kind of fidget toy. I have sets of coins I&#x27;ve probably handled for thousands of hours over decades.<p>Most people think of coins as immutable but they actually change quite a bit after hundreds of hours of handling. Most advanced coin magicians don&#x27;t tend to use &quot;trick&quot; coins from a magic shop because they are actually too limiting. The coins I use are completely normal circulated coins but they are very specific because there are subtle differences in how coins handle which, at the most advanced levels, can matter. I have year-matched sets of coins I&#x27;ve carefully assembled because they have the degree of surface wear (sometimes called &#x27;softness&#x27;) and edge-milling which works best for the style of slights I do. Coins also vary in shape and many aren&#x27;t quite round. I&#x27;ve actually hired a specialized machinist (aka coin-smith) to &#x27;true-up&#x27; the shape and then re-mill the edges of certain coins.<p>Based on my admittedly unusual experience in handling coins, I suspect that weight, edge and surface variations in individual coins could have a material aerodynamic impact at this statistical level (sub-half a percent). BTW, there are coin magicians who have mastered the ability to flip a normal coin and control the outcome to &gt;95%. While the coin is normal in every way, it does need to be a coin they&#x27;ve specifically trained with. Otherwise the hit rate falls considerably.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>the__alchemist</author><text>That&#x27;s super interesting! Of note, the book Quicksilver (First book in the Baroque Cycle) goes into a few diatribes about subtle differences in coins in Europe a few hundred years ago; eg coins being valued by metrics other than their face value.<p>Eg:
&gt; “I say, Daniel, is it true what they say, that those coins are perfectly circular?”<p>&gt; “They are, Isaac—not like the good old English hammered coins that you and I carry in such abundance in our pockets and purses.”
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&gt;“if someone clips or files a bit of metal off the edge of a round coin with a milled edge, it is immediately obvious.”<p>&gt; “That must be why everyone is melting those new coins down as fast as they are minted, and shipping the metal to the Orient…?” Daniel began,<p>&gt; “…making it impossible for the likes of me and my friend to obtain them,” Isaac finished.<p>&gt; “Now there is a good idea—if you can show me coins of a bright silver color—not that black stuff—I’ll weigh them and accept them as bullion.”<p>&gt; “Bullion! Sir!”<p>&gt; “Yes.”<p>&gt; “I have heard that this is the practice in China,” Isaac said sagely. “But here in England, a shilling is a shilling.”<p>&gt; “No matter how little it weighs!?”<p>&gt; “Yes. In principle, yes.”<p>&gt; “So when a lump of metal is coined in the Mint, it takes on a magical power of shillingness, and even after it has been filed and clipped and worn down to a mere featureless nodule, it is still worth a full shilling?”<p>&gt; You exaggerate,” Daniel said. “I have here a fine Queen Elizabeth shilling, for example—which I carry around, mind you, as a souvenir of Gloriana’s reign, since it is far too fine a specimen to actually spend. But as you can see, it is just as bright and shiny as the day it was minted—”<p>&gt; “Especially where it’s recently been clipped there along the side,” the lens-grinder said.<p>&gt; “Normal, pleasing irregularity of the hand-hammered currency, nothing more.”</text></comment> | <story><title>40k coin tosses yield ambiguous evidence for dynamical bias</title><url>https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/Real-World/coin_tosses.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrandish</author><text>&gt; A first comment is that it would have been better for each individual to have done both &quot;Heads up&quot;and &quot;Tails up&quot; tosses (which was part of the intended protocol, but on this aspect of the protocol there was a miscommunication)<p>That was a pretty unfortunate error in the experiment. Maybe it doesn&#x27;t matter but now we don&#x27;t know. It would also have been nice to have them swap coins halfway to expose any individual per coin biasing. It may seem like an irrelevant thing but I&#x27;ve been a lifelong magician specializing in advanced slight of hand coin magic. I carry a set of coins with me all day, every day and handle them constantly. It started out as practice but evolved into both practice and a kind of fidget toy. I have sets of coins I&#x27;ve probably handled for thousands of hours over decades.<p>Most people think of coins as immutable but they actually change quite a bit after hundreds of hours of handling. Most advanced coin magicians don&#x27;t tend to use &quot;trick&quot; coins from a magic shop because they are actually too limiting. The coins I use are completely normal circulated coins but they are very specific because there are subtle differences in how coins handle which, at the most advanced levels, can matter. I have year-matched sets of coins I&#x27;ve carefully assembled because they have the degree of surface wear (sometimes called &#x27;softness&#x27;) and edge-milling which works best for the style of slights I do. Coins also vary in shape and many aren&#x27;t quite round. I&#x27;ve actually hired a specialized machinist (aka coin-smith) to &#x27;true-up&#x27; the shape and then re-mill the edges of certain coins.<p>Based on my admittedly unusual experience in handling coins, I suspect that weight, edge and surface variations in individual coins could have a material aerodynamic impact at this statistical level (sub-half a percent). BTW, there are coin magicians who have mastered the ability to flip a normal coin and control the outcome to &gt;95%. While the coin is normal in every way, it does need to be a coin they&#x27;ve specifically trained with. Otherwise the hit rate falls considerably.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tash9</author><text>Well it&#x27;s not like we&#x27;re gonna run out of undergraduates, just do the experiment again.</text></comment> |
26,017,155 | 26,016,858 | 1 | 3 | 26,016,399 | train | <story><title>AMC, GameStop Give Hedge Fund Mudrick Capital $200M in Gains</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-02/mudrick-capital-gains-200-million-on-amc-gamestop-in-wild-week</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dougmwne</author><text>Watching HN get caught up in this Gamestop bubble over the past week has been eye-opening to me about the community. The kind of information being spread around WSB was fully ridiculous. Wild conspiracy theories, financial advice with no basis in reality, astroturfing, and mob behavior. There has been an incredible amount of bleed-over between the garbage I&#x27;ve seen posted on WSB and the things posted in these HN threads and far too much reverence for a cesspool.<p>I think HN likes to believe it is evidence based and rational instead of emotional and greedy. A more enlightened and civilized corner of the internet. I have not been seeing much of that lately. It turns out the promise of riches is enough to make any community lose it&#x27;s collective mind.<p>Here is a truism for you all: In any casino the players may win or lose, but the house always wins. If you think any bet is a guaranteed win, you have lost your rationality.</text></comment> | <story><title>AMC, GameStop Give Hedge Fund Mudrick Capital $200M in Gains</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-02/mudrick-capital-gains-200-million-on-amc-gamestop-in-wild-week</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Gunax</author><text>To the surprise of no one--the established, well-prepared and well-funded players out-compete Joe and Jane retailer investor.<p>Everyone loves the David defeating Goliath at his own game narrative. I only worry that we are going to forget all of the times that David gets slain.</text></comment> |
32,248,188 | 32,247,001 | 1 | 3 | 32,230,612 | train | <story><title>Having no experience can be better than having the wrong experience</title><url>https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1551662427606986752</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>EdwardDiego</author><text>Is the &quot;state degree&quot; vs. &quot;Ivy League degree&quot; thing that common in US society?<p>I ask because I&#x27;ve just joined an American company, and a person mentioned that they&#x27;d been hired and given a chance to excel &quot;despite only having a state degree, much to my Mom&#x27;s disgust&quot;, which surprised me.<p>In my country, there&#x27;s not much difference between the respective universities in terms of &#x27;prestige&#x27;.</text></item><item><author>anonymoushn</author><text>Colleges are less impactful for trendy tech companies than they are for finance or whatever. I went to a no-name state school and could get into these things. If you really did an internship programming at Walgreens, it&#x27;s easy enough to omit it from your resume.</text></item><item><author>majormajor</author><text>As advice for <i>hiring managers</i> this twitter thread is very actionable: stop judging people harshly for working their way up.<p>As advice for <i>candidates</i> who want to work at TrendyCo outside of what&#x27;s itself a very elite &quot;class&quot; of people he anecdotally knows, it&#x27;s not very useful: &quot;try for that exciting job you want, and if you can&#x27;t get it then, sure, take any job.&quot; Here&#x27;s the problem with that advice: <i>the class system is already in play before even your first job.</i><p>What colleges do you think fancy tech employers hang out at and recruit at? What internships do you think are going to get your resume past their initial screen? Things like &quot;Microsoft stack, not relevant&quot; and &quot;low profile school&quot; are already a problem for many.<p>(The broader problem with wanting to work at TrendyCo is that by definition <i>so does everyone else</i> so they&#x27;re going to be drowning in applications and have to resort to <i>some</i> stupid&#x2F;arbitrary process to filter things down.)</text></item><item><author>jt2190</author><text>&gt; Most people really do have to pivot up through some more average jobs first before landing the Big Tech jobs with huge paychecks.<p>But the assertion here is that too many “pivoting up” jobs are a negative indicator. (An “upper class” programmer wouldn’t spend time in the “lower” classes.)<p>Not saying I agree or disagree with this, but the existence of a class system in tech jobs is the OP’s central point.<p>Edit: The OP says it clearly:<p>&gt; In many ways, having no experience is better than having the wrong experience because people don&#x27;t unfairly prejudge you for having the wrong experience.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;danluu&#x2F;status&#x2F;1551665467864977408?s=21&amp;t=CMXLlvgNYO6mWHRwg31QBQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;danluu&#x2F;status&#x2F;1551665467864977408?s=21&amp;t...</a></text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>I generally enjoy Dan Luu’s advice, but IMO it’s best approached with the understanding that his professional and social network is somewhat of a bubble that doesn’t reflect the average person.<p>Specifically, he cites a statistic that 50% of the people with “no experience” he knows are getting ML and other such jobs at Big Tech companies. In this case, I think he’s likely pre-filtering his sample set to people with significant programming&#x2F;math or other such experience.<p>I do a lot of mentoring of college grads. If anyone shows an interest in Big Tech I always encourage them to apply and help them get the process started. However, it is not my experience that 50% of your average (or even above average as mentoring programs tend to select for the more ambitious) CS grads are walking into something like a Big Tech ML job with no relevant experience.<p>Always apply if you’re curious. If nothing else, you will learn the interview process and see where you need to improve for next time. However, don’t feel bad if you don’t get the dream job right away. Most people really do have to pivot up through some more average jobs first before landing the Big Tech jobs with huge paychecks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nicolas_t</author><text>Anecdotal, but as a hiring manager, I&#x27;ve interacted with only one person from Harvard, he was very impressed with himself and knew how to talk but when we asked him to do a small test project (we paid him for), the work he did was really not great. He took a long time to deliver something that barely worked, didn&#x27;t follow best practices&#x2F;common idioms of the framework he was using (framework that he selected by himself and supposedly had 2 years of experience in). He was also extremely aggressive in salary negotiations which is fine if you can deliver (and I know people who made a lot of money by being good at salary negotiation) but less so when you can&#x27;t.<p>I&#x27;ve worked with quite a few MIT graduates and overall they&#x27;ve all been very good at what they do. So, sample size of one in the case of Harvard but I think Ivy leagues are not all created equal for a given major.</text></comment> | <story><title>Having no experience can be better than having the wrong experience</title><url>https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1551662427606986752</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>EdwardDiego</author><text>Is the &quot;state degree&quot; vs. &quot;Ivy League degree&quot; thing that common in US society?<p>I ask because I&#x27;ve just joined an American company, and a person mentioned that they&#x27;d been hired and given a chance to excel &quot;despite only having a state degree, much to my Mom&#x27;s disgust&quot;, which surprised me.<p>In my country, there&#x27;s not much difference between the respective universities in terms of &#x27;prestige&#x27;.</text></item><item><author>anonymoushn</author><text>Colleges are less impactful for trendy tech companies than they are for finance or whatever. I went to a no-name state school and could get into these things. If you really did an internship programming at Walgreens, it&#x27;s easy enough to omit it from your resume.</text></item><item><author>majormajor</author><text>As advice for <i>hiring managers</i> this twitter thread is very actionable: stop judging people harshly for working their way up.<p>As advice for <i>candidates</i> who want to work at TrendyCo outside of what&#x27;s itself a very elite &quot;class&quot; of people he anecdotally knows, it&#x27;s not very useful: &quot;try for that exciting job you want, and if you can&#x27;t get it then, sure, take any job.&quot; Here&#x27;s the problem with that advice: <i>the class system is already in play before even your first job.</i><p>What colleges do you think fancy tech employers hang out at and recruit at? What internships do you think are going to get your resume past their initial screen? Things like &quot;Microsoft stack, not relevant&quot; and &quot;low profile school&quot; are already a problem for many.<p>(The broader problem with wanting to work at TrendyCo is that by definition <i>so does everyone else</i> so they&#x27;re going to be drowning in applications and have to resort to <i>some</i> stupid&#x2F;arbitrary process to filter things down.)</text></item><item><author>jt2190</author><text>&gt; Most people really do have to pivot up through some more average jobs first before landing the Big Tech jobs with huge paychecks.<p>But the assertion here is that too many “pivoting up” jobs are a negative indicator. (An “upper class” programmer wouldn’t spend time in the “lower” classes.)<p>Not saying I agree or disagree with this, but the existence of a class system in tech jobs is the OP’s central point.<p>Edit: The OP says it clearly:<p>&gt; In many ways, having no experience is better than having the wrong experience because people don&#x27;t unfairly prejudge you for having the wrong experience.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;danluu&#x2F;status&#x2F;1551665467864977408?s=21&amp;t=CMXLlvgNYO6mWHRwg31QBQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;danluu&#x2F;status&#x2F;1551665467864977408?s=21&amp;t...</a></text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>I generally enjoy Dan Luu’s advice, but IMO it’s best approached with the understanding that his professional and social network is somewhat of a bubble that doesn’t reflect the average person.<p>Specifically, he cites a statistic that 50% of the people with “no experience” he knows are getting ML and other such jobs at Big Tech companies. In this case, I think he’s likely pre-filtering his sample set to people with significant programming&#x2F;math or other such experience.<p>I do a lot of mentoring of college grads. If anyone shows an interest in Big Tech I always encourage them to apply and help them get the process started. However, it is not my experience that 50% of your average (or even above average as mentoring programs tend to select for the more ambitious) CS grads are walking into something like a Big Tech ML job with no relevant experience.<p>Always apply if you’re curious. If nothing else, you will learn the interview process and see where you need to improve for next time. However, don’t feel bad if you don’t get the dream job right away. Most people really do have to pivot up through some more average jobs first before landing the Big Tech jobs with huge paychecks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Kon-Peki</author><text>To most people, there really isn&#x27;t much of a distinction - what you accomplish is far more important than where you went to school.<p>To others, it is <i>everything</i>. I know someone whose mother constantly tells her that she is a dumb failure because she didn&#x27;t go to Harvard (she went to Stanford).</text></comment> |
39,833,615 | 39,831,783 | 1 | 2 | 39,827,266 | train | <story><title>Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses</title><url>https://www.wbaltv.com/article/baltimore-bridge-collapse-key-bridge/60303975</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paddy_m</author><text>To anyone reading this who isn&#x27;t an experienced boater:<p>If you are invited onto someone else&#x27;s boat, sit down and shut up during docking, don&#x27;t talk to friends, let the captain concentrate. Don&#x27;t help, if the captain wants you to do something, they will let you know. If you think you know better than the captain, and this advice is unknown to you, you don&#x27;t know better. Being a good guest during docking shows experience and helps get an invite back.</text></item><item><author>deltarholamda</author><text>This disconnect happens with boats quite a lot. For example, I can, by myself, pull a 45 foot grand banks trawler in shallow water. I know because I&#x27;ve done so.<p>But at even very low speeds, I cannot stop it from hitting a pier. I have not tried to do this, but every harbor master has a bunch of stories about people trying to do so and getting a leg or an arm or something squished and pulverized.<p>People who are not boat people rarely recognize these sorts of dangers, which is why so many get hurt on boats. &quot;I can push us off the dock, so I can definitely keep us from hitting it.&quot; Nope, Sir Isaac Newton says you&#x27;re wrong.</text></item><item><author>danpalmer</author><text>It&#x27;s somewhat counterintuitive how much energy can be in something moving so slowly. I say somewhat, because when you&#x27;re up close it&#x27;s much more obvious, but you&#x27;re right that on a video it doesn&#x27;t look like much.</text></item><item><author>bastardoperator</author><text>The video is surreal, it looks like it barely bumps the bridge and 2 seconds later the entire thing is gone. I don&#x27;t know what I was expecting, the bridge just looked extremely fragile, makes me wonder what other bridges are at risk of an event like this.</text></item><item><author>paddy_m</author><text>Youtube tracking analysis from a knowledgeable mariner.<p>He says that at about 1:24 AM the ship loses power (from video feed) while traveling 8.5 knots.<p>at 1:25.30 power is restored.<p>at 12:25.59 the ship shows smoke. The ship has already drifted in the channel. It is believed that at this time the ship applied full reverse power as evidenced by the black smoke. (My analysis: the ship drifted but hasn&#x27;t turned in the channel, more of a translation)<p>By 1:26.45 the ship has obviously turned in the channel pointing at the pier. Full reverse would cause prop walk to change heading angle;<p>1:28.52 impact at 7.6 Knots. Camera says 1:28.52, AIS reports the ship still moving at 1:29:35<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=N39w6aQFKSQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=N39w6aQFKSQ</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jml78</author><text>Take things slow so you aren’t the show.<p>I have a 44ft sailboat. Docking is not easy. People do not realize how difficult it can be</text></comment> | <story><title>Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses</title><url>https://www.wbaltv.com/article/baltimore-bridge-collapse-key-bridge/60303975</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paddy_m</author><text>To anyone reading this who isn&#x27;t an experienced boater:<p>If you are invited onto someone else&#x27;s boat, sit down and shut up during docking, don&#x27;t talk to friends, let the captain concentrate. Don&#x27;t help, if the captain wants you to do something, they will let you know. If you think you know better than the captain, and this advice is unknown to you, you don&#x27;t know better. Being a good guest during docking shows experience and helps get an invite back.</text></item><item><author>deltarholamda</author><text>This disconnect happens with boats quite a lot. For example, I can, by myself, pull a 45 foot grand banks trawler in shallow water. I know because I&#x27;ve done so.<p>But at even very low speeds, I cannot stop it from hitting a pier. I have not tried to do this, but every harbor master has a bunch of stories about people trying to do so and getting a leg or an arm or something squished and pulverized.<p>People who are not boat people rarely recognize these sorts of dangers, which is why so many get hurt on boats. &quot;I can push us off the dock, so I can definitely keep us from hitting it.&quot; Nope, Sir Isaac Newton says you&#x27;re wrong.</text></item><item><author>danpalmer</author><text>It&#x27;s somewhat counterintuitive how much energy can be in something moving so slowly. I say somewhat, because when you&#x27;re up close it&#x27;s much more obvious, but you&#x27;re right that on a video it doesn&#x27;t look like much.</text></item><item><author>bastardoperator</author><text>The video is surreal, it looks like it barely bumps the bridge and 2 seconds later the entire thing is gone. I don&#x27;t know what I was expecting, the bridge just looked extremely fragile, makes me wonder what other bridges are at risk of an event like this.</text></item><item><author>paddy_m</author><text>Youtube tracking analysis from a knowledgeable mariner.<p>He says that at about 1:24 AM the ship loses power (from video feed) while traveling 8.5 knots.<p>at 1:25.30 power is restored.<p>at 12:25.59 the ship shows smoke. The ship has already drifted in the channel. It is believed that at this time the ship applied full reverse power as evidenced by the black smoke. (My analysis: the ship drifted but hasn&#x27;t turned in the channel, more of a translation)<p>By 1:26.45 the ship has obviously turned in the channel pointing at the pier. Full reverse would cause prop walk to change heading angle;<p>1:28.52 impact at 7.6 Knots. Camera says 1:28.52, AIS reports the ship still moving at 1:29:35<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=N39w6aQFKSQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=N39w6aQFKSQ</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CIPHERSTONE</author><text>This is great advice. For myself, docking in windy situations can be nerve racking. The old adage is to only dock as fast as your willing to hit the pier, and for me this means slow as hell.<p>I always let guests know exactly what I want them to do, and to your point, it&#x27;s mainly to sit tight and let me focus.</text></comment> |
10,792,379 | 10,792,299 | 1 | 2 | 10,792,046 | train | <story><title>Oberon System, an OS Written in Oberon</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon_(operating_system)</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nickpsecurity</author><text>Anyone that likes Wirth line of OS&#x27;s and languages should check out the Modula-2 revision:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;modula-2.info&#x2F;m2r10&#x2F;pmwiki.php&#x2F;Project&#x2F;FAQ" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;modula-2.info&#x2F;m2r10&#x2F;pmwiki.php&#x2F;Project&#x2F;FAQ</a><p>FAQ asks good questions and with rational answers. I&#x27;m still going to fight them on uppercase just for sake of adoption and saving pinky fingers. Otherwise, Modula-2 makes a nice C replacement and a start on safer C++ alternative that&#x27;s easy to grok. The language was originally used in Wirth&#x27;s and Jurg&#x27;s first homebrew system, Lilith. I have a link to that and many other Wirth works here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10479213" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10479213</a><p>Anyway, Modula and Oberon have already been used to build a number of maintainable, safer OS&#x27;s and system software. Oberon did it with a GC for most of it while Modula-2 just tried to be safer about memory management. Very easy to compile &amp; optimize. Adding macros for low-overhead abstractions and a solid stdlib to that would give a differentiator in systems programming without learning curve of Rust or C++.<p>Go achieved some of this already in application language space. It was a modern attempt on the Oberon programming experience. So, some precedent for my Modula-2 ideas being able to take off. I&#x27;ll be fine if Modula-2R10 or an Oberon variant ends up a niche language with supported, constantly-enhanced compiler &amp; decent community. It would be another secret weapon for startups like LISP, Ocaml, Haskell, and so on were. This time for systems or embedded use.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.astrobe.com&#x2F;default.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.astrobe.com&#x2F;default.htm</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.cmu.edu&#x2F;~chuck&#x2F;pubpg&#x2F;luv95.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.cmu.edu&#x2F;~chuck&#x2F;pubpg&#x2F;luv95.pdf</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.algo-prog.info&#x2F;ocapic&#x2F;web&#x2F;index.php?id=OCAPIC:OCAPIC" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.algo-prog.info&#x2F;ocapic&#x2F;web&#x2F;index.php?id=OCAPIC:OCA...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackage.haskell.org&#x2F;package&#x2F;atom" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackage.haskell.org&#x2F;package&#x2F;atom</a><p>Ooops, maybe <i>again</i> for embedded use. :)</text></comment> | <story><title>Oberon System, an OS Written in Oberon</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon_(operating_system)</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>__mp</author><text>Here&#x27;s Niklaus Wirth&#x27;s talk about his Project Oberon revival project at his birthday symposium:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.multimedia.ethz.ch&#x2F;conferences&#x2F;2014&#x2F;wirth&#x2F;?doi=10.3930&#x2F;ETHZ&#x2F;AV-d40b0ce9-b9fa-4ba3-8dee-cf9d0c6f01a4&amp;autostart=false" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.multimedia.ethz.ch&#x2F;conferences&#x2F;2014&#x2F;wirth&#x2F;?doi=10...</a><p>I was at that symposium :)</text></comment> |
18,749,130 | 18,748,365 | 1 | 3 | 18,746,980 | train | <story><title>Canada Prohibits Piracy Settlement Demands in ISP Copyright Notices</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/canada-prohibits-piracy-settlement-demands-in-isp-copyright-notices-181218/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>grawprog</author><text>I started getting those emails just after the law changed a few years ago. Multiple emails per day. My ISP was forwarding them from some lawyer in California. I couldn&#x27;t block them because they were coming from the same email that sends my bill. They were for things i&#x27;d never downloaded or even watched. A whole bunch of 8GB files of movies i&#x27;d never even heard of.<p>I called my ISP they said they were forced to send them to me and recommended I stopped downloading things....<p>First of all there&#x27;s no way in hell i&#x27;m gonna download an 8GB video...period...second...i&#x27;d never even heard of those movies...so fuck that...<p>I looked up the lawyer that the letters were coming from, found out he was some random copyright troll and had been harassing people in canada all over the place pretty much the day after the laws changed. So I found a fax number for their office and with a handy little script...I showed them what it was like to be flooded by bullshit.<p>The letters stopped within a day and I haven&#x27;t gotten one since.</text></comment> | <story><title>Canada Prohibits Piracy Settlement Demands in ISP Copyright Notices</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/canada-prohibits-piracy-settlement-demands-in-isp-copyright-notices-181218/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gruez</author><text>seems to be a blogspam of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;torrentfreak.com&#x2F;canada-prohibits-piracy-settlement-demands-in-isp-copyright-notices-181218&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;torrentfreak.com&#x2F;canada-prohibits-piracy-settlement-...</a></text></comment> |
9,193,762 | 9,193,746 | 1 | 3 | 9,193,195 | train | <story><title>The most important API you’ve never heard of</title><url>http://rockhealth.com/2015/03/important-api-youve-never-heard/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>floatrock</author><text>ah HL7.<p>&gt; I hope you like XML documents, flat files, pipes and hats, SOAP, and even CORBA.<p>Completely true. But that&#x27;s not really the problem. You can download an HL7 or XML-parsing library and the dirtiness of the representation is converted to JSON or whatever works for you.<p>The problem is API loopholes.<p>HL7 does a pretty fair job defining what concepts get put into which fields. However, many implementations ignore the computer-readable fields and literally dump everything as 80-character human-readable console outputs in the &quot;custom text&quot; fields. Want any structured data? You&#x27;re gonna have to write a text parser specific to the hospital&#x27;s legacy console systems.<p>There&#x27;s also a good deal of standardization over how things SHOULD be presented (ICD-9 etc), but those are ignored. Often times physicians or pharmacists just type the drug into a free-text box. 5 different spellings of Ampicillin are the least of your worries -- it gets bad when the dosage is mixed in with the name, and it gets worse once you get into compounds or mixes. The standard isn&#x27;t the problem, its the data mapping problem for all the human-inputs.<p>And then you get into fun stuff where billing people use different codes than everyone else for the same drugs, procedures, admissions, etc (there&#x27;s a reason billing admins are so highly paid... it&#x27;s a black art where you get creative how you describe things to the insurance companies).<p>All of this is to say that I would love to see a RESTful, well-modelled API over HL7 messages, but the problems go far deeper than the protocol spec (and that&#x27;s just for technical side of things... the politics and business threats of open APIs that the article talks about are completely true as well). It&#x27;s been a couple of years since I&#x27;ve been in the space and not at all familiar with these new FHIR specs, but I wish that process all the best. If you&#x27;re looking for a real challenge, it&#x27;s not picking up Clojure or whatever is the language du jour... a true challenge is doing anything in healthcare.</text></comment> | <story><title>The most important API you’ve never heard of</title><url>http://rockhealth.com/2015/03/important-api-youve-never-heard/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jbob2000</author><text>The one big problem I see with healthcare information is red tape. Independent developers and small shops do not have the resources to deal with lots of red tape. We saw with the recent VAT changes in Europe that it&#x27;s really hard for anyone who isn&#x27;t an enterprise company to deal with lots of regulation.<p>Before we start talking APIs, I want to know the hoops I&#x27;m going to have to jump through before I even git init.</text></comment> |
24,523,604 | 24,522,125 | 1 | 3 | 24,520,757 | train | <story><title>How the US Hacked ISIS</title><url>http://npr.org/2019/09/26/763545811/how-the-u-s-hacked-isis</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>segfaultbuserr</author><text>I fully understand that the operation is classified and details cannot be revealed, but I have to say: the description of the technical details is still a bad Hollywood movie [0]...<p>&gt; After that, the momentum started to build. One team would take screenshots to gather intelligence for later; another would lock ISIS videographers out of their own accounts.<p>&gt; &quot;Reset Successful&quot; one screen would say.<p>&gt; &quot;Folder directory deleted,&quot; said another.<p><i>Folder directory</i>??? Did they also delete the &quot;file document&quot;?<p>&gt; The screens they were seeing on the Ops floor on the NSA campus were the same ones someone in Syria might have been looking at in real time, until someone in Syria hit refresh. Once he did that, he would see: 404 error: Destination unreadable.<p><i>404 error: Destination unreadable</i>??? At least, use &quot;unreachable&quot;...<p>&gt; <i>&quot;Target 5 is done,&quot; someone would yell.</i><p>&gt; <i>Someone else would walk across the room and cross the number off the big target sheet on the wall. &quot;We&#x27;re crossing names off the list. We&#x27;re crossing accounts off the list. We&#x27;re crossing IPs off the list,&quot; said Neil. And every time a number went down they would yell one word: &quot;Jackpot!&quot;</i><p>[0] TV Tropes: Hollywood Hacking is when some sort of convoluted metaphor is used not only to describe hacking, but actually to put it into practice. Characters will come up with rubbish like, &quot;Extinguish the firewall!&quot; and &quot;I&#x27;ll use the Millennium Bug to launch an Overclocking Attack on the whole Internet!&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tvtropes.org&#x2F;pmwiki&#x2F;pmwiki.php&#x2F;Main&#x2F;HollywoodHacking" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tvtropes.org&#x2F;pmwiki&#x2F;pmwiki.php&#x2F;Main&#x2F;HollywoodHacking</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How the US Hacked ISIS</title><url>http://npr.org/2019/09/26/763545811/how-the-u-s-hacked-isis</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>082349872349872</author><text>&gt; &quot;The United States is the country most highly dependent on these technologies,&quot; Deibert said. &quot;And arguably the most vulnerable to these sorts of attacks. I think there should be far more attention devoted to thinking about proper systems of security, to defense.&quot;<p>It&#x27;s all fun and games until someone melts down a reactor.<p>The journalist is probably playing with Cunningham&#x27;s Law, but I distinctly recall the doomsday gap scene ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24481298" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24481298</a> ) as having been closer to the middle of <i>Dr. Strangelove</i>. The end came after the referent of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=K10pdj5YOy0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=K10pdj5YOy0</a> .<p>Bonus clip (note the lack of any source attribution problem in these cases): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=nZ8oA9-OQrg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=nZ8oA9-OQrg</a></text></comment> |
20,302,578 | 20,302,398 | 1 | 3 | 20,300,509 | train | <story><title>One In Five Employees Is Highly Engaged and at Risk of Burnout (2018)</title><url>https://hbr.org/2018/02/1-in-5-highly-engaged-employees-is-at-risk-of-burnout</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jaden</author><text>It can be demoralizing to step back and ask yourself if what you do at work provides real value. And when you feel pressure to perform heroics to meet an arbitrary deadline, burnout is a real possibility.<p>It&#x27;s important make sure you&#x27;re not sacrificing your wellbeing for the benefit of the company. Your physical and mental health are far too important.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CalRobert</author><text>&quot;if what you do at work provides real value&quot;<p>My company makes things that are, I&#x27;d argue, a net good to the world (we help make stuff more secure) - but honestly I find myself struggling more and more to care about anything that isn&#x27;t addressing the climate or democratic breakdown the world faces.<p>Not rhetorical - genuine question: Does anyone else sit at their desk and think &quot;but guys the ship is sinking, maybe we should worry about fixing the holes before we repaint the tennis court? guys? GUYS????&quot;<p>This is my problem really, not the company&#x27;s, but I&#x27;m not sure what to do.</text></comment> | <story><title>One In Five Employees Is Highly Engaged and at Risk of Burnout (2018)</title><url>https://hbr.org/2018/02/1-in-5-highly-engaged-employees-is-at-risk-of-burnout</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jaden</author><text>It can be demoralizing to step back and ask yourself if what you do at work provides real value. And when you feel pressure to perform heroics to meet an arbitrary deadline, burnout is a real possibility.<p>It&#x27;s important make sure you&#x27;re not sacrificing your wellbeing for the benefit of the company. Your physical and mental health are far too important.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pmiller2</author><text>I’ve been there. Now, I’m working on something that is at least interesting, useful, and not fundamentally evil, while at the same time I rarely leave the office after about 6 and the deadlines are reasonable. The difference is night and day.</text></comment> |
25,357,199 | 25,356,620 | 1 | 2 | 25,340,953 | train | <story><title>An Economy of Godzillas: Salesforce, Slack, and Microsoft</title><url>https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/an-economy-of-godzillas-salesforce</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cafed00d</author><text>&gt; it gave away its new product for no or low cost to existing clients, and bundled it with existing product lines. In a society with functional antitrust laws, such activity would be illegal. But alas.<p>I find this statement highly suspect. What kind of world do we want to live in where regulators delineate product areas.<p>I see Microsoft integrating Teams into their productivity product bundle as feature; not a bug. Otherwise, we run the risk of creating separate product areas and none of them working well together — it’a going to be a minor pain in the butt to email &lt;[email protected]&gt; with the pdf tchalla@ shared on Slack; deal with formatted paste&#x2F;copy &amp; whatever else issues.<p>I mean, products being integrated is the whole MO of companies like Apple, Tesla and literally every other company making physical things. Sure, you can sacrifice the integration for other features like breadth of choice, specialized user needs etc, but proposing regulations to keep them distinct and separate?! That modesty sound right, imho</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chii</author><text>&gt; we run the risk of creating separate product areas and none of them working well together<p>or, have mandated open apis that _force_ products to integrate.<p>That&#x27;s what the web is today (mostly). Links, and embedable content (like frames). APIs and data.<p>The reason companies don&#x27;t do this - as demonstrated fairly recently by google with their removal of xmpp protocols from google chat - is that open apis prevent lock. Open apis allows others to compete, and it is not in the interest of the existing incumbent.<p>IBM made a crucial mistake that apple didn&#x27;t make when IBM opened the specs for their IBM compatible machines and drove down the price of PCs to what you see today - otherwise, i would predict that PCs would be just as expensive and incompatible as apple computers were.</text></comment> | <story><title>An Economy of Godzillas: Salesforce, Slack, and Microsoft</title><url>https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/an-economy-of-godzillas-salesforce</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cafed00d</author><text>&gt; it gave away its new product for no or low cost to existing clients, and bundled it with existing product lines. In a society with functional antitrust laws, such activity would be illegal. But alas.<p>I find this statement highly suspect. What kind of world do we want to live in where regulators delineate product areas.<p>I see Microsoft integrating Teams into their productivity product bundle as feature; not a bug. Otherwise, we run the risk of creating separate product areas and none of them working well together — it’a going to be a minor pain in the butt to email &lt;[email protected]&gt; with the pdf tchalla@ shared on Slack; deal with formatted paste&#x2F;copy &amp; whatever else issues.<p>I mean, products being integrated is the whole MO of companies like Apple, Tesla and literally every other company making physical things. Sure, you can sacrifice the integration for other features like breadth of choice, specialized user needs etc, but proposing regulations to keep them distinct and separate?! That modesty sound right, imho</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shp0ngle</author><text>I have no idea how that happened, but one day, I found Teams suddenly automatically installed on my spouses computer; and not only auto-installed, but it auto-started on Windows start.<p>How? Why? It was probably bundled with Office and&#x2F;or Windows.<p>MS got news-breaking fine for far less with Netscape before. But, nobody cares in 2020.</text></comment> |
38,083,970 | 38,083,306 | 1 | 2 | 38,083,045 | train | <story><title>Bcachefs Merged into the Linux 6.7 Kernel</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Merged-Linux-6.7</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sekao</author><text>As I said in the last thread, the author could use support: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.patreon.com&#x2F;join&#x2F;bcachefs" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.patreon.com&#x2F;join&#x2F;bcachefs</a><p>This has been a solitary and largely self-financed effort by Kent over many years. He must feel pretty great to finally see this happen!</text></comment> | <story><title>Bcachefs Merged into the Linux 6.7 Kernel</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Merged-Linux-6.7</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>the_duke</author><text>Exciting!<p>I&#x27;ve played around with it a few times, since it&#x27;s been easily available in NixOS for a while. Didn&#x27;t run into any issues with a few disks and a few hundred GB of data.<p>Some very interesting properties, including (actually efficient) snapshots, spreading data over multiple disks, using a fast SSD as a cache layer for HDDs, built-in encryption (not audited yet though!), automatic deduplication, compression, ...<p>A lot of that is already available through other file systems (btfs, zfs) and&#x2F;or by layering different solutions (LVM, dm-crypt, ...) , but getting all of it out of the box with a single FS that&#x27;s in the mainline kernel is quite appealing.</text></comment> |
35,323,762 | 35,323,948 | 1 | 2 | 35,323,121 | train | <story><title>Windows needs to stop showing tabloid news</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-keeps-feeding-tabloid-news</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kstenerud</author><text>I finally made the switch to Ubuntu Mate on Friday and WOW, color me impressed!<p>The only reason I stuck with Windows on my desktop machine for so long was gaming, and the last time I tried switching over was 10 years ago. Spoiler: it was a shitshow.<p>This time, things are MUCH better! The Mate desktop environment is simple, stable, clean, does the job and gets out of your way (kinda reminds me of Windows 2000). Steam&#x27;s Proton makes running games a breeze. All of my favorites just work. I could even run battle.net as a non-steam game, USING Steam&#x27;s Proton!<p>And the kicker? Blizzard&#x27;s recently opened beta of Diablo 4 just worked. As in, I clicked install, clicked play, and it just worked. Perfectly. As if I were still running under Windows. I&#x27;ve never before seen such sorcery.<p>So bye bye Windows, except when I&#x27;m running one as a VM.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lexandstuff</author><text>This will surely be the year of the Linux desktop.</text></comment> | <story><title>Windows needs to stop showing tabloid news</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-keeps-feeding-tabloid-news</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kstenerud</author><text>I finally made the switch to Ubuntu Mate on Friday and WOW, color me impressed!<p>The only reason I stuck with Windows on my desktop machine for so long was gaming, and the last time I tried switching over was 10 years ago. Spoiler: it was a shitshow.<p>This time, things are MUCH better! The Mate desktop environment is simple, stable, clean, does the job and gets out of your way (kinda reminds me of Windows 2000). Steam&#x27;s Proton makes running games a breeze. All of my favorites just work. I could even run battle.net as a non-steam game, USING Steam&#x27;s Proton!<p>And the kicker? Blizzard&#x27;s recently opened beta of Diablo 4 just worked. As in, I clicked install, clicked play, and it just worked. Perfectly. As if I were still running under Windows. I&#x27;ve never before seen such sorcery.<p>So bye bye Windows, except when I&#x27;m running one as a VM.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>birracerveza</author><text>Sadly there&#x27;s still a few very heavy hitters that make Linux a no-go for some.<p>Genshin Impact and Fortnite are unusable.<p>Unreal Editor requires Windows too.<p>And I don&#x27;t know how usable VR is on Windows.<p>Plus the random assortment of windows programs for which there <i>could</i> be a Linux equivalent but you really need <i>that one that only works on Windows</i> for some reason.<p>But at this point it&#x27;s just a matter of time, I guess.</text></comment> |
35,866,950 | 35,867,069 | 1 | 2 | 35,852,710 | train | <story><title>Casio adds fitness features to original G-Shock digital watch</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/casio-g-shock-digital-watch-fitness-tracking-heart-rate-1850357822</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hiyer</author><text>&gt; On top of the nasty hit to battery life requiring USB charge for advanced functions<p>There&#x27;s a &quot;Tough Solar&quot; G-Shock [1] with fitness features that doesn&#x27;t need manual charging.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.casio.com&#x2F;in&#x2F;watches&#x2F;gshock&#x2F;product.GBD-H2000-1A&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.casio.com&#x2F;in&#x2F;watches&#x2F;gshock&#x2F;product.GBD-H2000-1A...</a></text></item><item><author>MegaDeKay</author><text>On top of the nasty hit to battery life requiring USB charge for advanced functions, this watch loses the 24h count-down timer and multi-band daily time sync from my beloved M5610BC (the latter is worked around with phone syncing but I don&#x27;t generally carry a phone). The new pixelated display looks great though.<p>I love the fact that my watch is this wonderful, self contained unit that I never have to bother with charging or setting. It is in fact my second one - my first one got run over by my tractor and then got a ride through the attached lawnmower. I only found it months later twenty feed away hidden in a patch of zucchini squash. The band was destroyed and the case was mangled, but the display still worked and the time was accurate to the second. Incredible. When Casio says these watches are tough, believe it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lmz</author><text>I&#x27;ve got my doubts about that. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.g-central.com&#x2F;specs&#x2F;g-shock-gbd-h2000&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.g-central.com&#x2F;specs&#x2F;g-shock-gbd-h2000&#x2F;</a> says &quot;Requires wired charging for HR monitor, GPS, and heavy use&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Casio adds fitness features to original G-Shock digital watch</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/casio-g-shock-digital-watch-fitness-tracking-heart-rate-1850357822</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hiyer</author><text>&gt; On top of the nasty hit to battery life requiring USB charge for advanced functions<p>There&#x27;s a &quot;Tough Solar&quot; G-Shock [1] with fitness features that doesn&#x27;t need manual charging.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.casio.com&#x2F;in&#x2F;watches&#x2F;gshock&#x2F;product.GBD-H2000-1A&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.casio.com&#x2F;in&#x2F;watches&#x2F;gshock&#x2F;product.GBD-H2000-1A...</a></text></item><item><author>MegaDeKay</author><text>On top of the nasty hit to battery life requiring USB charge for advanced functions, this watch loses the 24h count-down timer and multi-band daily time sync from my beloved M5610BC (the latter is worked around with phone syncing but I don&#x27;t generally carry a phone). The new pixelated display looks great though.<p>I love the fact that my watch is this wonderful, self contained unit that I never have to bother with charging or setting. It is in fact my second one - my first one got run over by my tractor and then got a ride through the attached lawnmower. I only found it months later twenty feed away hidden in a patch of zucchini squash. The band was destroyed and the case was mangled, but the display still worked and the time was accurate to the second. Incredible. When Casio says these watches are tough, believe it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MegaDeKay</author><text>Whoa. I&#x27;d never seen this one - it looks awesome. Only problem is I&#x27;d need a (much) bigger wrist to wear it.</text></comment> |
36,868,507 | 36,868,390 | 1 | 2 | 36,865,682 | train | <story><title>Octox: Unix-like OS in Rust inspired by xv6-riscv</title><url>https://github.com/o8vm/octox</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Santosh83</author><text>Why does it seem like 80 to 90% of hobby OS projects that are started are &quot;Unix-like?&quot; Don&#x27;t we already have a huge variety of Unix-like OSes out there? Why not explore new models?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>linguae</author><text>Through various market forces, Unix (and its descendants&#x2F;clones) and Windows killed most of the rest of the OS ecosystem over 20 years ago. There are generations of software engineers and computer scientists who’ve never studied operating systems that weren’t Unix- or Windows-based. Most leading OS textbooks (Tanenbaum’s books, the dinosaur book, Three Easy Pieces) have a Unix slant. Even the systems software research community is heavily Unix-centric; I say that as someone who used to be immersed in the research storage systems community. The only non-Unix or Windows operating systems many practitioners and even researchers may have used in their lives are MS-DOS and the classic Mac OS, and there’s a growing number of people who weren’t even born yet by the time these systems fell out of common use.<p>However, the history of computing contains examples of other operating systems that didn’t survive the marketplace but have interesting lessons that can apply to improving today’s operating systems. <i>The Unix Hater’s Handbook</i> is a nice example of alternative worlds of computing that were still alive in the 1980s and early 1990s. VMS, IBM mainframe systems, Smalltalk, Symbolics Genera, Xerox Mesa and Cedar, Xerox Interlisp-D, and the Apple Newton were all real-world systems that demonstrate alternatives to the Unix and Windows ways of thinking. Project Oberon is an entire system developed by Wirth (of Pascal fame) whose design goal is to build a complete OS and development environment that is small enough to be understood for pedagogical purposes, similar to MINIX but without any Unix compatibility. Reading the history of failed Apple projects such as the planned Lisp OS for the Newton and the ill-fated Pink&#x2F;Taligent project are also instructive. Microsoft Research did a lot of interesting research in the 2000s on operating systems implemented in memory-safe languages, notably Singularity and Midori.<p>From learning about these past projects, we can then imagine future directions for OS design.</text></comment> | <story><title>Octox: Unix-like OS in Rust inspired by xv6-riscv</title><url>https://github.com/o8vm/octox</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Santosh83</author><text>Why does it seem like 80 to 90% of hobby OS projects that are started are &quot;Unix-like?&quot; Don&#x27;t we already have a huge variety of Unix-like OSes out there? Why not explore new models?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sneed_chucker</author><text>Because we effectively live in a Unix monoculture world, in terms of operating systems that you can actually use and study the inner workings of.<p>It was a legal anomaly that resulted in early Unix (aka Research Unix) being distributed with its source code for free to universities, which was enough to get the ball rolling on stuff like BSD and Lion&#x27;s annotated V6 source code, that by the time AT&amp;T decided that closed source commercial Unix was the game it wanted to play, the cat was already out of the bag.<p>By the time the free software and open source movements had gained some ground, enough people had studied or worked on some kind of Unix kernel and Userland source code that projects like Linux, Minix, and Free&#x2F;Net&#x2F;Open BSD were feasible. The fact that Linux running on x86 subsequently ate the world was probably something few people saw coming.<p>The other lineages of operating systems, e.g. Windows NT, OpenVMS, IBM&#x27;s various offerings, either never have their source released or only have their source released long after they&#x27;re obsolete.</text></comment> |
38,505,945 | 38,505,659 | 1 | 2 | 38,501,589 | train | <story><title>Multifaceted: The linguistic echo chambers of LLMs</title><url>https://blog.j11y.io/2023-11-22_multifaceted/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yosito</author><text>This is a very interesting observation. It seems like a relatively harmless, though annoying, linguistic evolution. But it highlights what I believe to be one of the biggest dangers of AI, which is that AI content is regurgitated and used everywhere to such a degree that not only are individuals unwittingly consuming AI generated content, but it is actually dramatically affecting the evolution of our collective language and knowledge as a species without us consciously realizing it, and with very little control on our part. This can produce not just annoying linguistic changes, but also changes in collective beliefs and values. Best case scenario, we end up with our culture and values being heavily influenced by random AI artifacts. Worst case scenario, the content policies and training data that companies like OpenAI use can rapidly encode biases, politics, or even nefarious propaganda into our collective consciousness with very little recourse or even awareness on our part.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>laborcontract</author><text>On the flip side, LLM&#x27;s have given me great appreciation for my own writing. I&#x27;m not great at writing, but I&#x27;ve come to appreciate that I really like the stuff that I write. I derive a ton of joy from having a thought, tossing it around, trying to put it on paper, revising it a zillion times, and reading back what I wrote.<p>LLMs have helped me ease a lot of creative frustration because I know there&#x27;s always a way to turn on easy mode and that me staying on hard mode is a choice, not a curse. The alleviation of pressure has helped me put out more natural output.<p>ChatGPT has made mechanical writing punk.</text></comment> | <story><title>Multifaceted: The linguistic echo chambers of LLMs</title><url>https://blog.j11y.io/2023-11-22_multifaceted/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yosito</author><text>This is a very interesting observation. It seems like a relatively harmless, though annoying, linguistic evolution. But it highlights what I believe to be one of the biggest dangers of AI, which is that AI content is regurgitated and used everywhere to such a degree that not only are individuals unwittingly consuming AI generated content, but it is actually dramatically affecting the evolution of our collective language and knowledge as a species without us consciously realizing it, and with very little control on our part. This can produce not just annoying linguistic changes, but also changes in collective beliefs and values. Best case scenario, we end up with our culture and values being heavily influenced by random AI artifacts. Worst case scenario, the content policies and training data that companies like OpenAI use can rapidly encode biases, politics, or even nefarious propaganda into our collective consciousness with very little recourse or even awareness on our part.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tsunamifury</author><text>How is that worse than every gen x girl in the 90s talking like Rachel and every boy taking like Chandlier.<p>Everyone gets their pants in a bunch when a technology does what people already were doing before.</text></comment> |
25,469,057 | 25,465,553 | 1 | 2 | 25,464,475 | train | <story><title>Facebook's Hypocrisy on Apple's New iOS 14 Privacy Feature</title><url>https://thebigtech.substack.com/p/facebook-criticising-apples-ios-14</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sfifs</author><text>There&#x27;s much more to this than meets the eye.<p>I believe the basic reason Apple delayed implemening the proposed iOS 14 IDFA policy change is that Apple has their own ads business for promotion of app store installs which was using a device identifier in exactly the the same way as other publishers for conversion attribution. However permissioning for this sharing with Apple is controlled under a different &quot;default on&quot; setting under Settings &gt; Privacy &gt; Apple Advertising than the one proposed for IDFA which is case by case permissions request. From what i am given to understand, due to this dichotomy, ad networks threatend Apple with anti-trust lawsuits if they went ahead as a classic argument of using an advantage in one market (device and OS they control) to unfairly shut out competition in another (ads) could be made.<p>Now Apple will probably disable or remove this dichotomy in some way before they roll out the policy change but they probably will still have other problems. For instance their skadnetwork API [1] which they use for their app installs ads business and recommend to other ad networks supports only app installs conversion on their own app store and not other forms of conversion (eg. buying in e-commerce etc). But if they now restrict other forms of conversion attribution that used to be possible previously, could an argument again be made that they are using their dominance in one field to unfairly kill competition in another.<p>I think the only way Apple can implement this policy change without wading into an antitrust minefield is to completely give up their own ads business. But i suspect it&#x27;s quite lucrative, otherwise why wouldn&#x27;t they already have shut it down?<p>This is by no means a done deal. Let&#x27;s get out the pop corn and watch the fun.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;storekit&#x2F;skadnetwork" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;storekit&#x2F;skadnetwo...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Despegar</author><text>Apple&#x27;s ads never used the IDFA [1]. They&#x27;ve said this multiple times on the record already.<p>&gt;Apple does not access or use the IDFA on a user’s device for any purpose.<p>The IDFA was only ever used by developers. This change (when users refuse to opt-in) effectively brings everyone up to their level.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scribd.com&#x2F;document&#x2F;485006035&#x2F;Apple-Privacy-Letter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scribd.com&#x2F;document&#x2F;485006035&#x2F;Apple-Privacy-Lett...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook's Hypocrisy on Apple's New iOS 14 Privacy Feature</title><url>https://thebigtech.substack.com/p/facebook-criticising-apples-ios-14</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sfifs</author><text>There&#x27;s much more to this than meets the eye.<p>I believe the basic reason Apple delayed implemening the proposed iOS 14 IDFA policy change is that Apple has their own ads business for promotion of app store installs which was using a device identifier in exactly the the same way as other publishers for conversion attribution. However permissioning for this sharing with Apple is controlled under a different &quot;default on&quot; setting under Settings &gt; Privacy &gt; Apple Advertising than the one proposed for IDFA which is case by case permissions request. From what i am given to understand, due to this dichotomy, ad networks threatend Apple with anti-trust lawsuits if they went ahead as a classic argument of using an advantage in one market (device and OS they control) to unfairly shut out competition in another (ads) could be made.<p>Now Apple will probably disable or remove this dichotomy in some way before they roll out the policy change but they probably will still have other problems. For instance their skadnetwork API [1] which they use for their app installs ads business and recommend to other ad networks supports only app installs conversion on their own app store and not other forms of conversion (eg. buying in e-commerce etc). But if they now restrict other forms of conversion attribution that used to be possible previously, could an argument again be made that they are using their dominance in one field to unfairly kill competition in another.<p>I think the only way Apple can implement this policy change without wading into an antitrust minefield is to completely give up their own ads business. But i suspect it&#x27;s quite lucrative, otherwise why wouldn&#x27;t they already have shut it down?<p>This is by no means a done deal. Let&#x27;s get out the pop corn and watch the fun.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;storekit&#x2F;skadnetwork" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;storekit&#x2F;skadnetwo...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>twsted</author><text>&gt; I think the only way Apple can implement this policy change without wading into an antitrust minefield is to completely give up their own ads business.<p>I strongly agree with you:<p>Apple should stay away from ads business, not only for the antitrust, but to preserve dignity towards its customers and everybody else.</text></comment> |
8,515,193 | 8,515,330 | 1 | 2 | 8,514,990 | train | <story><title>Post Mortem: A single whitespace character</title><url>http://eatabit.com/blog/articles/post-mortem-a-single-whitespace-char.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jrochkind1</author><text>This very example -- requests were technically illegal all the time without devs realizing, but something in the stack changed to start rejecting them -- demonstrates the fallacy of the &quot;be liberal in what you accept, strict in what you issue&quot; principal. If all the web servers involved had been strict in rejecting the illegal request from the start, they would have noticed the bug in development before deploying to firmware in the field.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Xylakant</author><text>I don&#x27;t agree that &quot;be liberal in what you accept, strict in what you issue&quot; is a fallacy. The client actually failed to adhere to the &quot;be strict in what you issue&quot; principal, just as the Cowboy was not liberal in accepting. All software will sooner or later exhibit bugs or be stricter or more lenient about a standard.<p>I think the fallacy is to assume that once stuff works in production, only your changes can trigger a bug. There&#x27;s way too much software involved in a standard webserver stack to assume anything about it. Any patch, any update to software or devices not under your control has the potential to break your stack. The thing the OP did was the right thing: Monitor, monitor, monitor.</text></comment> | <story><title>Post Mortem: A single whitespace character</title><url>http://eatabit.com/blog/articles/post-mortem-a-single-whitespace-char.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jrochkind1</author><text>This very example -- requests were technically illegal all the time without devs realizing, but something in the stack changed to start rejecting them -- demonstrates the fallacy of the &quot;be liberal in what you accept, strict in what you issue&quot; principal. If all the web servers involved had been strict in rejecting the illegal request from the start, they would have noticed the bug in development before deploying to firmware in the field.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>codehero</author><text>I have to agree. I developed a proprietary embedded web server using a streaming HTTP parser. Complying with the HTTP parsing rules is a headache to say the least. Variable amounts of whitespace; 2 variants of line terminators (\r\n or \n) with the provision that the latter SHOULD be accepted by the server and line continuations make complying with the whole specification a real pain if you only have 100 bytes to parse pieces of your request.<p>Maybe for a server with massive resources (I am talking about megabytes of RAM compared to kilobytes I work with) being liberal in what you accept works, but not when you are on a budget.</text></comment> |
38,437,550 | 38,437,851 | 1 | 2 | 38,436,516 | train | <story><title>Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers</title><url>https://futurism.com/sports-illustrated-ai-generated-writers</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xrd</author><text>For years, ESPN has put machine generated predictions of upcoming games.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.espn.com&#x2F;nba&#x2F;preview&#x2F;_&#x2F;gameId&#x2F;401584885" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.espn.com&#x2F;nba&#x2F;preview&#x2F;_&#x2F;gameId&#x2F;401584885</a><p>&quot;The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.&quot;<p>Example paragraph:<p>&quot;The two teams match up for the second time this season. The Nuggets defeated the Clippers 111-108 in their last meeting on Nov. 15. Jokic led the Nuggets with 32 points, and Paul George led the Clippers with 35 points.&quot;<p>100% generated from the stats table, and totally boring and devoid of life. Horrible.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers</title><url>https://futurism.com/sports-illustrated-ai-generated-writers</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>Will the Swimsuit Edition be generated with Stable Diffusion?<p>It certainly could be. Go here.[1] Use prompt &quot;Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition cover.&quot; Under &quot;Advanced&quot;, select model &quot;ICantBelieveItsNotPhotography&quot;. Click Generate.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stable-diffusion.site&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stable-diffusion.site&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
710,458 | 710,358 | 1 | 3 | 709,733 | train | <story><title>Why I won't be at my high school reunion</title><url>http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2009/07/very_off_topic_why_i_wont_be_a.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sofal</author><text>He puts way too much faith in karate to help his kids learn how to fight back. Karate does not teach you that.<p>I was in karate for years as a kid and got a black belt. I took karate for the same reasons he's putting his kids through it. I was tired of being picked on and I wanted to make myself more intimidating. It did not work. You do not learn how to fight in karate. You learn how to perform choreographed moves and routines (like katas and lots of shorter ones that we called 'techniques') and you kick and punch a lot of pads. Sparring is more like a game than a real fight, where you get points by making contact at the right places. Karate gives you good exercise (which is why it can be great for some people), but I did not get out of it what I wanted. I never learned how to fight simply because we never did any real fighting. I had a black belt, yet when it came down to it and someone was physically threatening me, the silly routines that worked against invisible attackers in karate did not work in real life. If you want your kids to learn how to fight and defend themselves, take them to a place where they actually have the kids fight each other. There are no shortcuts.<p>The self-esteem boost that I desperately wanted from karate I was finally able to get in high school by becoming really good at percussion. People finally started respecting me for what I could do. Drumline was where I belonged.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>subwindow</author><text>I joined the wrestling team my freshman year of high school, and it did wonders. All of your practice is against real people, so when you try to do a particular move, you <i>really</i> know how to perform it.<p>The best part of it is that it is generally non-violent. The last real fight I had was the month before I started wrestling. Every other "fight" after that consisted of them throwing a punch and then me getting them into a headlock until they cooled off and backed down. No bloody noses.<p>I'd consider it perfect for anyone seeking real, effective methods of self defense- especially in school, where even if you fight back and end up breaking a nose you can be punished.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why I won't be at my high school reunion</title><url>http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2009/07/very_off_topic_why_i_wont_be_a.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sofal</author><text>He puts way too much faith in karate to help his kids learn how to fight back. Karate does not teach you that.<p>I was in karate for years as a kid and got a black belt. I took karate for the same reasons he's putting his kids through it. I was tired of being picked on and I wanted to make myself more intimidating. It did not work. You do not learn how to fight in karate. You learn how to perform choreographed moves and routines (like katas and lots of shorter ones that we called 'techniques') and you kick and punch a lot of pads. Sparring is more like a game than a real fight, where you get points by making contact at the right places. Karate gives you good exercise (which is why it can be great for some people), but I did not get out of it what I wanted. I never learned how to fight simply because we never did any real fighting. I had a black belt, yet when it came down to it and someone was physically threatening me, the silly routines that worked against invisible attackers in karate did not work in real life. If you want your kids to learn how to fight and defend themselves, take them to a place where they actually have the kids fight each other. There are no shortcuts.<p>The self-esteem boost that I desperately wanted from karate I was finally able to get in high school by becoming really good at percussion. People finally started respecting me for what I could do. Drumline was where I belonged.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Hexstream</author><text>With respect, if you have a black belt yet can't put up a fight I'd seriously question the competence of your teacher, both in the quality of the training and the standards by which belts are awarded.</text></comment> |
13,282,711 | 13,282,636 | 1 | 3 | 13,277,082 | train | <story><title>Dragula: Drag and drop so simple it hurts</title><url>https://github.com/bevacqua/dragula</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Bahamut</author><text>I actually have some experience using this via angular-dragula (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bevacqua&#x2F;angular-dragula" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bevacqua&#x2F;angular-dragula</a>) - it mostly works for us for Angular 1, but when we started doing more complex interactions in a prototype, it showed its warts quickly with model bugs. This library ends up doing basic things pretty nicely, but being able to do more complex interactions like stacking multiple selected items becomes impossible to do right.<p>In our current app my team is working on (Angular 2), I ended up homebrewing selection and drag &amp; drop modules, which I hopefully will take the time to open source at some point when things slow down. It was an interesting exercise, with some work for getting the UX done right (some aspects such as what should happen when the user drags a little on the mouse while holding it down - just dragging as soon as the mousedown event occurs is no good because it turns out users typically will move the mouse a little when pressing the mousedown for a click). It made me appreciate any site that implements non-trivial drag and drop, it is not an easy interaction to get right.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dragula: Drag and drop so simple it hurts</title><url>https://github.com/bevacqua/dragula</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>WikipediasBad</author><text>This looks really interesting wow!! We might give this a try out our startup that me and a friend are doing. We need a type of script that would help users drag and move around pictures&#x2F;gifs in large blocks of text so they can get the perfect desired placement of the media inside their text document to build rich documents that have animations in them I wonder if Dragula would be good for that type of useage? The demo does not really show any situation aside from moving around text based divs around. Does it work just as well for moving around pics&#x2F;gifs in a thick text document? Our startup has around 1-2m users&#x2F;month for reference.</text></comment> |
5,567,501 | 5,567,216 | 1 | 2 | 5,566,716 | train | <story><title>Samsung admits to posting fake user reviews on the web</title><url>http://www.techspot.com/news/52274-samsung-admits-to-posting-fake-user-reviews-on-the-web.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wging</author><text>&#62;perhaps the bigger issue here is this: if Samsung has been using these tactics against HTC, are they also engaged in similar marketing techniques with other rivals?<p>The even bigger issue is, who else is doing this more intelligently than Samsung?</text></comment> | <story><title>Samsung admits to posting fake user reviews on the web</title><url>http://www.techspot.com/news/52274-samsung-admits-to-posting-fake-user-reviews-on-the-web.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lutusp</author><text>The title is a bit misleading -- the story is not that Samsung used devious marketing methods, the story is that they were caught. Any number of companies hire shills to post phony endorsements, the trick is not to get caught.<p>In fairness to companies like Samsung, if everyone is doing it, to stand on principle is to risk being trounced by those who don't.</text></comment> |
26,674,924 | 26,674,643 | 1 | 2 | 26,673,892 | train | <story><title>CEO of Waymo John Krafcik is leaving</title><url>https://blog.waymo.com/2021/04/capstone-of-my-career-email-from-john.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>Having read hundreds of these sorts of CEO leaving letters I&#x27;m a bit jaded and cynical. If you&#x27;re interested in what I see when I read that message, I rewrote it[1] in more plain language.<p>Google demands a lot of its &quot;other bets&quot; companies. Some might say it asks too much. Mostly it seems to me that they want a &#x27;moonshot&#x27; company that has the original profitability of search advertising, full stop. And while it would be great for them if they found it, there is a lot to be said for having a bunch of businesses that just make anywhere from a few million to a billion dollars a year in revenue.<p>I don&#x27;t know if the attitude has changed since I was there but people creating $20M&#x2F;year business revenue streams were not considered &quot;successful&quot; back in the day. I found that somewhat self defeating.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;ChuckM&#x2F;ff5fc8c800c7fe9160483b68ec45aac9" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;ChuckM&#x2F;ff5fc8c800c7fe9160483b68ec45a...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>CEO of Waymo John Krafcik is leaving</title><url>https://blog.waymo.com/2021/04/capstone-of-my-career-email-from-john.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>choppaface</author><text>All of the big players in self-driving have shown that while they can try to solve the tech problem, nobody can solve the <i>team</i> problem. Self-driving brings together people with very diverse backgrounds (perception, planning, controls, hardware, safety, rideshare product, etc), very diverse incentives (established automakers vs start-up founders vs VC investors), and throws them in a pot with a huge amount of money and greed. And does this to serve a public who largely doesn&#x27;t trust self-driving AI today.<p>Waymo has had a ton of notable departures:<p>* Urmson made a good amount of money and left for Aurora.<p>* The founders of Nuro cashed in $40m each and left for their own thing.<p>* Levandowski made nearly a quarter billion and took off.<p>* Drago worked on Streetview and more Google-centric things, then went to Zoox to make about $100k (lol), then returned to Waymo.<p>* Now the era of Krafcik is coming to an end.<p>The perhaps unique thing about the self-driving problem is that all of the above individuals made tons of money without having delivered equitable value to end-users. At least not today. When Google was bleeding headcount to Facebook, both companies were making bank. It&#x27;s surreal to see people minted with money for life and yet deliver so little value. That sort of arbitrage usually only happens on Wall Street.<p>I think it&#x27;s worth reflecting on the era of Krafcik as a general success-- he was brought in to do hard work and he generally did a good job. But by no means did he (nor any of his predecessors) solve the &quot;team&quot; problem. Krafcik himself couldn&#x27;t stick to the team he helped shape, nor the userbase he helped grow, at least nt long enough to actually deliver widespread value on the scale of his own compensation.</text></comment> |
29,854,866 | 29,854,985 | 1 | 3 | 29,853,802 | train | <story><title>A neural network solves and generates mathematics problems by program synthesis</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.15594</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bcaine</author><text>Not to pour too much cold water on this, but the claim of 100% accuracy has a huge caveat. In the paper (Page 4) they state:<p><i>Interaction. The original question may not be a prompt that synthesizes a program whose execution results in the correct answer. In addition, the answer may require multiple steps with clear plots or other modalities. We therefore may interactively prompt Codex until reaching the correct answer or visualizations, making the minimum necessary changes from the original question</i><p>Which to me basically sounds like they had a human in the loop (that knows how to solve these math problems) that kept changing the question until it gave the correct answer. They do measure the distance (using a sentence embedding model) of the original question to the one that yielded the correct answer, but that feels a bit contrived to me.<p>Nevertheless, its still really cool that the correct answer is indeed inside the model.</text></comment> | <story><title>A neural network solves and generates mathematics problems by program synthesis</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.15594</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vanusa</author><text><i>This represents a milestone for higher education.</i><p>Just from that sentence, you know the paper is suspect.<p>Whatever the merits of the algorithm -- there&#x27;s no reason to be believe that what it produces (a set of random auto-generated questions) will be useful for actual <i>education</i> in any way.<p>There are more red flags -- see autogen question U9, for example:<p><pre><code> If f(x) = (x^2 - x) &#x2F; (x^2 + x), what is f(2)?
</code></pre>
When was the last time your human teacher (at university level) handed you a rational polynomial that was not in reduced terms?<p>And my favorite, X7:<p><pre><code> Find the smallest prime number that is divisible by 7 and 13.</code></pre></text></comment> |
3,830,984 | 3,831,060 | 1 | 2 | 3,830,211 | train | <story><title>Geocoder.ca sued by Canada Post for their open database of postal codes</title><url>http://geocoder.ca/?sued=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tyrelb</author><text>Canada Post is pretty stupid on this one. Even if you type a postal code into Google Maps you get a result.<p>I could imagine how old and stupid the gov't official is who filed that claim. Canada's a broke country, and the latest government budget has cut a tonne of government jobs, slashed R&#38;D credits, etc.</text></item><item><author>motti_s</author><text>Things are changing. Technology is cheaper, internet is prevalent and small organizations disrupt the ways of the dinosaurs. We've seen that with newspapers, we are seeing that with Hollywood and we'll soon see it in education. The dinosaurs are big and powerful, but we all know what happens to them eventually. Sooner or later technology wins. Always.<p>Having said that I hope Geocoder gets help with PR. I'm no PR expert but the fact that this post is not on their front page is the first bad sign. And the media, which always loves a David &#38; Goliath story, apparently hasn't covered this; that's another bad sign. Swaying public opinion to your side is the way to win this, not litigation. If Geocoder lets Canada Post drag them to court they've already lost.<p>As a Canadian I'm one of the owners of Canada Post and I hope I lose.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tabbyjabby</author><text>Canada has the lowest debt to GDP ratio in the G7. We've been in surplus for the greater part of the last decade, and are soon to be back in the black. Broke? I'm not so sure about that.</text></comment> | <story><title>Geocoder.ca sued by Canada Post for their open database of postal codes</title><url>http://geocoder.ca/?sued=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tyrelb</author><text>Canada Post is pretty stupid on this one. Even if you type a postal code into Google Maps you get a result.<p>I could imagine how old and stupid the gov't official is who filed that claim. Canada's a broke country, and the latest government budget has cut a tonne of government jobs, slashed R&#38;D credits, etc.</text></item><item><author>motti_s</author><text>Things are changing. Technology is cheaper, internet is prevalent and small organizations disrupt the ways of the dinosaurs. We've seen that with newspapers, we are seeing that with Hollywood and we'll soon see it in education. The dinosaurs are big and powerful, but we all know what happens to them eventually. Sooner or later technology wins. Always.<p>Having said that I hope Geocoder gets help with PR. I'm no PR expert but the fact that this post is not on their front page is the first bad sign. And the media, which always loves a David &#38; Goliath story, apparently hasn't covered this; that's another bad sign. Swaying public opinion to your side is the way to win this, not litigation. If Geocoder lets Canada Post drag them to court they've already lost.<p>As a Canadian I'm one of the owners of Canada Post and I hope I lose.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>3pt14159</author><text>Unlike the States, Canada does not have a cash-in-cash-out system for our version of Social Security, so many debt to gdp figures you look up online are very, very misleading since we will be in much better shape when the baby boomers retire.</text></comment> |
8,953,415 | 8,952,538 | 1 | 3 | 8,950,403 | train | <story><title>U.S. Spies on Millions of Cars</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-spies-on-millions-of-cars-1422314779</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JonCox</author><text>I sometimes feel the Hacker News crowd are a bit out of touch with the rest of the population.<p>Here in the UK most people I know feel safer with surveillance, it&#x27;s used primarily to keep law and order.<p>We don&#x27;t live in some authoritarian state where it&#x27;s used for nefarious means, it&#x27;s used to keep the public safe.<p>And seriously, why would you care if you&#x27;re sitting on a database? What difference does it make to anything?<p>And I want to know when this mythical time was when we all had total privacy? I don&#x27;t understand what bothers people so much about a person in a CCTV monitoring station looking at them sitting on a bus, or a spook reading the emails I send to my parents. Honestly, no-one cares.</text></item><item><author>stegosaurus</author><text>Same deal in the UK with the national ANPR system (Automatic Number Plate Recognition).<p>Ostensibly to reduce the amount of uninsured&#x2F;untaxed drivers on the roads.<p>Don&#x27;t want to sit around in databases? Well, here&#x27;s a nice list of just a few of the things you can&#x27;t have:<p>Bank account; Car&#x2F;motorcycle; Mobile telephone; Internet-connected computer; Credit&#x2F;debit card; Visible face (oh, we might be safe there, for a few years)<p>Unless of course you&#x27;re a criminal, in which case you can handily avoid a lot of this!<p>I used to think we could escape surveillance using technology. Fool&#x27;s errand. We&#x27;d need an entire culture change. It&#x27;s gone.<p>If blanket video coverage of public areas is fine, why not blanket audio coverage? Add in facial and audio recognition. Now consider you&#x27;re running about with a microphone webcam combo in your pocket, the power and battery life of which will only increase.<p>I hate it with every ounce of my being, but I can&#x27;t see a way out here. I can&#x27;t see the &#x27;line&#x27;, any more.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stegosaurus</author><text>The key point is interpretation and use of the data.<p>I don&#x27;t particularly mind CCTV coverage of cities, if we still live in 1970 and technology limits it to essentially manual viewing of feeds to follow criminal suspects. In that world, ordinary citizens walking around a city centre are items of data that are discarded forever as soon as the tape reels run out. Even if they&#x27;re kept, the volumes of data involved are so huge that they&#x27;re effectively lost in time anyway.<p>The world we live in today is not that world. We are not far from being able to use facial recognition to track the whereabouts of every single citizen and save it forever, indexed along with the video recording of them at the time. We already have the capability to do that using cellphones. We can save the entire life history of individuals using these records and collate them into a viewable form near-instantly.<p>As I alluded to in my earlier post, the way we&#x27;re going it&#x27;s not a huge leap to imagine voice recognition allowing for phone calls to follow suit. Why is voice recognition important? Because it turns weeks and weeks of trawling through transcripts into a search query with instant results.<p>It&#x27;s a completely different ball game. It&#x27;s permanent, searchable, indexable super-fast memory. &#x27;Forgetting&#x27; becomes obsolete.<p>In the old world of tape CCTV cameras, my neighbours knew more about me than the Government. Now, it&#x27;s almost certainly the other way around, and if not, only because they&#x27;ve decided not to type &#x27;stegosaurus&#x27; into the Big Database of Everything.</text></comment> | <story><title>U.S. Spies on Millions of Cars</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-spies-on-millions-of-cars-1422314779</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JonCox</author><text>I sometimes feel the Hacker News crowd are a bit out of touch with the rest of the population.<p>Here in the UK most people I know feel safer with surveillance, it&#x27;s used primarily to keep law and order.<p>We don&#x27;t live in some authoritarian state where it&#x27;s used for nefarious means, it&#x27;s used to keep the public safe.<p>And seriously, why would you care if you&#x27;re sitting on a database? What difference does it make to anything?<p>And I want to know when this mythical time was when we all had total privacy? I don&#x27;t understand what bothers people so much about a person in a CCTV monitoring station looking at them sitting on a bus, or a spook reading the emails I send to my parents. Honestly, no-one cares.</text></item><item><author>stegosaurus</author><text>Same deal in the UK with the national ANPR system (Automatic Number Plate Recognition).<p>Ostensibly to reduce the amount of uninsured&#x2F;untaxed drivers on the roads.<p>Don&#x27;t want to sit around in databases? Well, here&#x27;s a nice list of just a few of the things you can&#x27;t have:<p>Bank account; Car&#x2F;motorcycle; Mobile telephone; Internet-connected computer; Credit&#x2F;debit card; Visible face (oh, we might be safe there, for a few years)<p>Unless of course you&#x27;re a criminal, in which case you can handily avoid a lot of this!<p>I used to think we could escape surveillance using technology. Fool&#x27;s errand. We&#x27;d need an entire culture change. It&#x27;s gone.<p>If blanket video coverage of public areas is fine, why not blanket audio coverage? Add in facial and audio recognition. Now consider you&#x27;re running about with a microphone webcam combo in your pocket, the power and battery life of which will only increase.<p>I hate it with every ounce of my being, but I can&#x27;t see a way out here. I can&#x27;t see the &#x27;line&#x27;, any more.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>josephlord</author><text>It doesn&#x27;t make a difference until someone trawls the databases and can reconstruct much of your life. Also even if it doesn&#x27;t matter to you don&#x27;t you want journalists and lawyers free from communication (and who they contact) surveilance?<p>I&#x27;m actually fine with a CCTV operator in a monitoring station viewing the feeds. I&#x27;m also OK with the recordings being kept a short time in case they are needed to investigate something not spotted at the time. What I&#x27;m not comfortable with is them being kept more than a month or so. CCTV footage kept long term may be linked with Face recognition for detailed and personal tracking.<p>Likewise with the ANPR, I would be OK with it kept and accessible for a month or so (although I think a judge should approve searches both on a particular event (time and location) and for searches on a particular number plate.<p>We may not yet live in a authoritarian state but can you rule out one occuring in the next 50 years? What if legal and reasonable things today are outlawed, gay rights roled back and they search the ANPR for people who may have frequented gay bars or the archived communications data for anyone who used Grindr.<p>In my view the collected knowledge is more dangerous than the terrorists to a free society and oversight and limits on retention are required.<p>You are right though that the majority of the public do not feel this way yet. That doesn&#x27;t mean we shouldn&#x27;t oppose the surveilance where not fully justified and try to educate them.<p>I would also note precisely what you said &quot;people I know feel safer with surveilance&quot; and while I think you may be right I&#x27;m really not sure how much safer they actually are.</text></comment> |
10,863,649 | 10,863,583 | 1 | 2 | 10,863,114 | train | <story><title>Why I love Rust</title><url>https://speakerdeck.com/jvns/why-i-rust</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>middleclick</author><text>I want to spend at least 3-4 months learning a new language but just can&#x27;t figure out if I should spent time learning Rust or Go. I am thinking more of it from a career perspective than interest.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pcwalton</author><text>Speaking as someone who has used both languages, I think you should learn both if you can. Rust will give you experience with low level systems programming (memory management, parallelism, etc.) Go will give you experience with network-facing backend code. Both languages will teach you concurrency.<p>Go is significantly more popular than Rust. But if what you want to learn is a popular language, you shouldn&#x27;t be looking at either Go or Rust.<p>Disclaimer: I&#x27;m a Rust developer.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why I love Rust</title><url>https://speakerdeck.com/jvns/why-i-rust</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>middleclick</author><text>I want to spend at least 3-4 months learning a new language but just can&#x27;t figure out if I should spent time learning Rust or Go. I am thinking more of it from a career perspective than interest.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rjayatilleka</author><text>I think you should learn Rust, because there are actually things there that you can&#x27;t learn about in other languages.<p>1. How to manually manage memory more safely with aid from a borrow checker.
2. If you don&#x27;t already have experience with an ML&#x2F;Haskell descent language, it will teach you about more powerful static type systems.
3. General low-level programming concepts that you wouldn&#x27;t know without experience in C&#x2F;C++.<p>Whereas Go doesn&#x27;t really have much to teach you. The community says it themselves: Go is a very simple language. Even if you needed to learn it for a job, onboarding new workers onto a Go project is really easy. So I don&#x27;t think you&#x27;d add much to your resume just by tacking Go onto the list of languages you know. What Go can teach you about:<p>1) CSP - Communicating Sequential Processes. I believe this is the concurrency model behind goroutines and channels. But you can learn about CSP in other languages.</text></comment> |
38,153,544 | 38,149,337 | 1 | 3 | 38,149,093 | train | <story><title>Exclusive access for LLM companies to largest Chinese nonfiction book collection</title><url>https://annas-blog.org/duxiu-exclusive.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tway223</author><text>This collection has been on the internet for quite a while, likely started around 2015-ish. It is highly duplicated and I suspect the total number is around 4 million books. Still a lot.<p>The source was from a company named DuXiu, or previously SuperStar. They collaborated with the libraries around China and scanned their collections since early 2000-ish. Before that I think they just bought some junk books from recycling stations based on the quality of early samples.<p>Many of the books are translated versions of the textbooks from the west (most likely the US) and many are pure political propaganda junk. Some literature and history stuff which were published when censorship wasn&#x27;t so extreme.<p>Many of the Chinese tech companies should have access to this collection (especially Baidu for sure) but the books were not censored based on today&#x27;s standards so I doubt any of them would openly use them not only due to the copyright issue but also the political risks.</text></comment> | <story><title>Exclusive access for LLM companies to largest Chinese nonfiction book collection</title><url>https://annas-blog.org/duxiu-exclusive.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bomewish</author><text>Oh my gosh. Duxiu is an absolutely incredible resource. The prospect that it will be fully searchable in a year is incredible!!</text></comment> |
32,533,553 | 32,533,511 | 1 | 2 | 32,532,438 | train | <story><title>Coping with Copilot</title><url>https://www.sigarch.org/coping-with-copilot/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jcranmer</author><text>There are a few issues with this kind of assignment.<p>The first issue is that it&#x27;s really hell on the TAs with all of the administrative work needed to do the swapping between phases. Software engineering is already one of the more annoying classes to TA, and this makes it even less palatable.<p>The bigger issue is that, on the basis of fairness, you grade in later phases is very heavily dependent on factors that are outside of your control. If you get someone&#x27;s code who just didn&#x27;t complete the assignment--that is probably going to happen once a semester--you are going to be at a disadvantage. Even if there is an option to appeal to the TAs and get the unacceptable code base replaced with an acceptable one, that&#x27;s still likely to be a few days&#x27; worth of work lost learning the codebase, discovering its incompleteness, and now you have to start over <i>again</i>.<p>I&#x27;ll also point out that it&#x27;s not exactly real-world experience. It is extremely rare that someone will be dumped on a codebase without a prior author remaining on to help them ramp up on the code.</text></item><item><author>NikolaNovak</author><text>As I moved as well, I experienced three different Canadian universities&#x27; Computer Science Program.<p>There was only one professor and course that I still remember 20 years later: CS408, Software Engineering, Professor Wortman, UofToronto.<p>Class project was in four phases, cumulative (basic functionality for the application in phase 1, progressively additional functionality in other phases, frequently strongly interacting with previous phase code).<p>Here&#x27;s the kicker: After each phase, you had to <i>swap your code</i> with another team. So you had to pick up somebody else&#x27;s code, figure it out, and then build up on it.<p>Few of us that had real-world working experience loved the course and flourished in it. This is what we are training for! This is what programming is like! You are taking real code and building a real thing with it!<p>About 250 other students signed a petition to the Dean on how this is unfair and awful and they will <i>not</i> put up with it. They were just too used to &#x2F; spoiled by 16 years of 5 assignments per semester with abstract, entirely separate questions of 1.a), 1.b), 1.c), etc.<p>All I could think of - if you did not like this course, you are about to not enjoy next 4-5 decades of your life :D<p>Other than this one course, I can say that I&#x27;m a prolific, enthusiastic, life-long learner, and my university experience was the absolute dumps - it was far less about learning, and far more about bureaucratic hoops and artificial constraints and restrictions. I was top of the class in some hard courses (generative compilers etc), mid-pack in the some of meh courses, but in retrospective, my life opened up when I was done with academia and could work and learn in the &#x27;real world&#x27;.</text></item><item><author>BiteCode_dev</author><text>While it is true code pilot is quite amazing and can produce some very decent snippets, if the exercice you give is specific enought (using a special database schema, file format, or API), with objectives that are not common (ask the user specific questions, and draw conclusions out of it or react to events), then it cannot produce a fully working program. I use code pilot regularly now, and it does speed up my work, but I can&#x27;t do anything with it without understanding the problem at hand.<p>There is nothing wrong with the student assemblings and fixing parts of code that exist. Doing that requires understanding those parts, how they interacts and what you can do with them. It&#x27;s not killing tests. Plus as professionals, we all do that anyway. Heck, I learned doing that. I&#x27;m paid doing that.<p>However, there is something wrong with academic exercices that I see in the wild. Things that are very abstracts, requiring way more than programming knowledge, or stuff that are asked out of context completely. Students are both understimulated, and given too hard bites to chew. It&#x27;s a terrible way to learn, and to be tested IMO.<p>Tests nowaday don&#x27;t tests for knowledge, they test either for compliance, or act as a filter instead of a feedback loop. This is not education.<p>In fact, I&#x27;ve yet to see school IT course that I didn&#x27;t find deeply flawed, and I completely understand the students for cheating at them to that they can suffer as little as possible. They are not given a chance to prove themself or progress, they are not respected. They are forced fed junk and asked to spit it back all shiny.<p>I remember when I was a student, and I went to 11 different schools because of my twisted life. They all sucked. And I say that as I spent half my student life at the top of my class grade ladder.<p>I regret having cheated so rarely now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>x86x87</author><text>I would expect that code you get from Stage N-1 is functional across a range of tests that are agreed upon upfront.<p>For the fairness aspect, I would also let students pick any Stage N-1 that is not their previous N-1. That would also teach em that not all is created equal (and probably identify approaches &#x2F; ideas that they can incorporate in their work)</text></comment> | <story><title>Coping with Copilot</title><url>https://www.sigarch.org/coping-with-copilot/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jcranmer</author><text>There are a few issues with this kind of assignment.<p>The first issue is that it&#x27;s really hell on the TAs with all of the administrative work needed to do the swapping between phases. Software engineering is already one of the more annoying classes to TA, and this makes it even less palatable.<p>The bigger issue is that, on the basis of fairness, you grade in later phases is very heavily dependent on factors that are outside of your control. If you get someone&#x27;s code who just didn&#x27;t complete the assignment--that is probably going to happen once a semester--you are going to be at a disadvantage. Even if there is an option to appeal to the TAs and get the unacceptable code base replaced with an acceptable one, that&#x27;s still likely to be a few days&#x27; worth of work lost learning the codebase, discovering its incompleteness, and now you have to start over <i>again</i>.<p>I&#x27;ll also point out that it&#x27;s not exactly real-world experience. It is extremely rare that someone will be dumped on a codebase without a prior author remaining on to help them ramp up on the code.</text></item><item><author>NikolaNovak</author><text>As I moved as well, I experienced three different Canadian universities&#x27; Computer Science Program.<p>There was only one professor and course that I still remember 20 years later: CS408, Software Engineering, Professor Wortman, UofToronto.<p>Class project was in four phases, cumulative (basic functionality for the application in phase 1, progressively additional functionality in other phases, frequently strongly interacting with previous phase code).<p>Here&#x27;s the kicker: After each phase, you had to <i>swap your code</i> with another team. So you had to pick up somebody else&#x27;s code, figure it out, and then build up on it.<p>Few of us that had real-world working experience loved the course and flourished in it. This is what we are training for! This is what programming is like! You are taking real code and building a real thing with it!<p>About 250 other students signed a petition to the Dean on how this is unfair and awful and they will <i>not</i> put up with it. They were just too used to &#x2F; spoiled by 16 years of 5 assignments per semester with abstract, entirely separate questions of 1.a), 1.b), 1.c), etc.<p>All I could think of - if you did not like this course, you are about to not enjoy next 4-5 decades of your life :D<p>Other than this one course, I can say that I&#x27;m a prolific, enthusiastic, life-long learner, and my university experience was the absolute dumps - it was far less about learning, and far more about bureaucratic hoops and artificial constraints and restrictions. I was top of the class in some hard courses (generative compilers etc), mid-pack in the some of meh courses, but in retrospective, my life opened up when I was done with academia and could work and learn in the &#x27;real world&#x27;.</text></item><item><author>BiteCode_dev</author><text>While it is true code pilot is quite amazing and can produce some very decent snippets, if the exercice you give is specific enought (using a special database schema, file format, or API), with objectives that are not common (ask the user specific questions, and draw conclusions out of it or react to events), then it cannot produce a fully working program. I use code pilot regularly now, and it does speed up my work, but I can&#x27;t do anything with it without understanding the problem at hand.<p>There is nothing wrong with the student assemblings and fixing parts of code that exist. Doing that requires understanding those parts, how they interacts and what you can do with them. It&#x27;s not killing tests. Plus as professionals, we all do that anyway. Heck, I learned doing that. I&#x27;m paid doing that.<p>However, there is something wrong with academic exercices that I see in the wild. Things that are very abstracts, requiring way more than programming knowledge, or stuff that are asked out of context completely. Students are both understimulated, and given too hard bites to chew. It&#x27;s a terrible way to learn, and to be tested IMO.<p>Tests nowaday don&#x27;t tests for knowledge, they test either for compliance, or act as a filter instead of a feedback loop. This is not education.<p>In fact, I&#x27;ve yet to see school IT course that I didn&#x27;t find deeply flawed, and I completely understand the students for cheating at them to that they can suffer as little as possible. They are not given a chance to prove themself or progress, they are not respected. They are forced fed junk and asked to spit it back all shiny.<p>I remember when I was a student, and I went to 11 different schools because of my twisted life. They all sucked. And I say that as I spent half my student life at the top of my class grade ladder.<p>I regret having cheated so rarely now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>haskellandchill</author><text>&gt; It is extremely rare that someone will be dumped on a codebase without a prior author remaining on to help them ramp up on the code.<p>what? I must be living a rare life.</text></comment> |
33,561,863 | 33,560,778 | 1 | 3 | 33,560,092 | train | <story><title>Books recommended by profitable founders</title><url>https://microsaashq.com/insights/founder-insights-books-recommendations</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paulluuk</author><text>Just want to point out that lists like these do suffer from &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Survivorship_bias" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Survivorship_bias</a>&gt;.<p>Also: it&#x27;s quite possible that luck and generational wealth is a huge factor to whether or not you become profitable, in which case their book recommendations may or may not be useful.<p>And finally: did these founders read these books _before_ they became profitable, or afterwards? As the website says: &quot;a few [succesful founders] weren&#x27;t into reading books at all&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DebtDeflation</author><text>This is a good HBR article on the topic, &quot;Stop Reading Lists of Things Successful People Do&quot;:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hbr.org&#x2F;2017&#x2F;03&#x2F;stop-reading-lists-of-things-successful-people-do" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hbr.org&#x2F;2017&#x2F;03&#x2F;stop-reading-lists-of-things-success...</a><p>Most analyses show unsuccessful business people do all of the exact same things that successful business people do, at least when it comes to the sorts of things you find in these books.</text></comment> | <story><title>Books recommended by profitable founders</title><url>https://microsaashq.com/insights/founder-insights-books-recommendations</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paulluuk</author><text>Just want to point out that lists like these do suffer from &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Survivorship_bias" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Survivorship_bias</a>&gt;.<p>Also: it&#x27;s quite possible that luck and generational wealth is a huge factor to whether or not you become profitable, in which case their book recommendations may or may not be useful.<p>And finally: did these founders read these books _before_ they became profitable, or afterwards? As the website says: &quot;a few [succesful founders] weren&#x27;t into reading books at all&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kkoncevicius</author><text>Survivorship bias - yes; but I think it&#x27;s still better than getting recommendations about books and productivity systems from people who do nothing but peddle advice.</text></comment> |
10,487,210 | 10,487,319 | 1 | 2 | 10,485,726 | train | <story><title>The Devastating Effect of Ad-Blockers for Guru3D.com</title><url>http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/the-devastating-effect-of-ad-blockers-for-guru3d-com.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jhall1468</author><text>It&#x27;s exactly this kind of attitude that is going to lead to paywalls for virtually every type of content on the Internet. And the people that use the most heavy-handed approaches with ad-blocking are going to be the same people that are screaming &quot;NOT MY PROBLEM&quot; while the ship goes down.<p>Their business model doesn&#x27;t require changes to reality. Their business model requires the end-user to accept reality for what it is: you can&#x27;t get a bunch of free stuff, ad infinitum, while simultaneously blocking the only feasible revenue model for said free stuff.<p>&gt; It&#x27;s not up to &quot;reality&quot;, us, to change to support your business model.<p>Did you pat yourself on the back while you said that, or right after?<p>We are not reality. The reality is, ad-blocking will be the absolute death of currency-free content. This abuse of the word reality is truly odd to me.<p>You seem to think every choice we make as consumers is the current reality. What you call reality, I call a house of cards.</text></item><item><author>njharman</author><text>If your business model requires changes to reality, then your business model is probably dead. [If you have lobbying power, you can extend your business model for awhile, perhaps indefinitely ala content industry and copyright.]<p>In other words, adapt your business model to change or die.<p>It&#x27;s not up to &quot;reality&quot;, us, to change to support your business model. If there is demand for whatever you produce, someone will create a &quot;business model&quot; to supply it. If there is not enough demand to pay for any business model then so be it, we didn&#x27;t actually need&#x2F;want your product after all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>imgabe</author><text>Most content is worthless. Content that has actual monetary value to someone, market research data for instance, has no trouble finding people willing to pay for it.<p>The fact is most &quot;news&quot; and other article type sites do not serve a purpose other than satisfying some idle curiosity or passing time. Very little of it has a material impact on anyone&#x27;s day to day life. The purpose can easily be filled by some alternate, free material. When the content can be easily leveraged to some profitable goal, people are usually more than willing to pay for it.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Devastating Effect of Ad-Blockers for Guru3D.com</title><url>http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/the-devastating-effect-of-ad-blockers-for-guru3d-com.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jhall1468</author><text>It&#x27;s exactly this kind of attitude that is going to lead to paywalls for virtually every type of content on the Internet. And the people that use the most heavy-handed approaches with ad-blocking are going to be the same people that are screaming &quot;NOT MY PROBLEM&quot; while the ship goes down.<p>Their business model doesn&#x27;t require changes to reality. Their business model requires the end-user to accept reality for what it is: you can&#x27;t get a bunch of free stuff, ad infinitum, while simultaneously blocking the only feasible revenue model for said free stuff.<p>&gt; It&#x27;s not up to &quot;reality&quot;, us, to change to support your business model.<p>Did you pat yourself on the back while you said that, or right after?<p>We are not reality. The reality is, ad-blocking will be the absolute death of currency-free content. This abuse of the word reality is truly odd to me.<p>You seem to think every choice we make as consumers is the current reality. What you call reality, I call a house of cards.</text></item><item><author>njharman</author><text>If your business model requires changes to reality, then your business model is probably dead. [If you have lobbying power, you can extend your business model for awhile, perhaps indefinitely ala content industry and copyright.]<p>In other words, adapt your business model to change or die.<p>It&#x27;s not up to &quot;reality&quot;, us, to change to support your business model. If there is demand for whatever you produce, someone will create a &quot;business model&quot; to supply it. If there is not enough demand to pay for any business model then so be it, we didn&#x27;t actually need&#x2F;want your product after all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bigbugbag</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s exactly this kind of attitude that is going to lead to paywalls for virtually every type of content on the Internet.<p>Except this won&#x27;t free us from ads, actually the contrary as explained here: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;zen.lk&#x2F;2015&#x2F;07&#x2F;19&#x2F;Why-you-will-never-escape-ads-by-paying-for-content&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;zen.lk&#x2F;2015&#x2F;07&#x2F;19&#x2F;Why-you-will-never-escape-ads-by-pa...</a><p>&gt; The reality is, ad-blocking will be the absolute death of currency-free content.<p>The reality is that it&#x27;s not too late to ditch the ad-based business model and build a better web:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2014&#x2F;08&#x2F;advertising-is-the-internets-original-sin&#x2F;376041&#x2F;?single_page=true" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2014&#x2F;08&#x2F;advert...</a></text></comment> |
37,122,502 | 37,122,142 | 1 | 3 | 37,120,911 | train | <story><title>How to run a miserable code review</title><url>https://badsoftwareadvice.substack.com/p/how-to-run-a-miserable-code-review</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>schwartzworld</author><text>Code review is a flawed process, especially for junior engineers. You spend time and effort, maybe days of work, getting this to work, and then some know-it-all leaves a bunch of nit-picky comments or tells you you&#x27;re doing it wrong.<p>I tell most of the juniors I work with to work defensively against this using a few strategies:<p>- smaller PRs. Break the work up any way you can. Make small tickets or submit your PRs with Part 1, part 2, etc. You can&#x27;t release half-baked work, but you can usually find opportunities to split things up. Nobody should be submitting 20 file PRs and not expecting a lot of comments.<p>- Validate your strategy before building it. If there&#x27;s a senior engineer in your team who nitpicks your code, get their buy-in before writing it.<p>- often bad code is the result of not really knowing how to approach a problem. Don&#x27;t just write the code and slap together a PR. You might need to figure out a working solution, then go back and tweak it and refactor it before submitting it.<p>- review your own PRs and use a critical eye. You&#x27;ll catch the low hanging fruit (like forgetting console.log calls). Every time you have the urge to leave a comment justifying a choice, question whether it&#x27;s the right choice at all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ar_lan</author><text>Everything you listed are exactly what the &quot;know-it-all&quot; senior developer is expecting already, though. If you&#x27;re doing these things before you submit your review for eyes to look at, you&#x27;ll come to a point where your reviews should only go through 0-2 revisions before submission is ready.<p>Personally, if I see a review that is &gt;10 files that isn&#x27;t explicitly a &quot;Refactor&quot; review, or I&#x27;ve been prepped ahead of time, it&#x27;s probably going to take a <i>long</i> time to get the review out, because there are so many things to iterate on. I also have to block out a lot of time to even do the singular review, because it is so long and there is so much cognitive load to carry with it.<p>Smaller reviews are almost always better. If a review really can&#x27;t be &quot;completed&quot; in a single PR, then I&#x27;ve also suggested 1&#x2F;x reviews where bones are placed but gated under an FSS or something similar. This prevents code that shouldn&#x27;t be run from being run until the whole feature (even if small) is complete, and lets the reviews focus on independent parts.<p>--<p>Essentially, I&#x27;m saying I disagree with you placing the &quot;error&quot; on the senior developers in this scenario. Burdening someone with insanely large reviews is the err of the submitter.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to run a miserable code review</title><url>https://badsoftwareadvice.substack.com/p/how-to-run-a-miserable-code-review</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>schwartzworld</author><text>Code review is a flawed process, especially for junior engineers. You spend time and effort, maybe days of work, getting this to work, and then some know-it-all leaves a bunch of nit-picky comments or tells you you&#x27;re doing it wrong.<p>I tell most of the juniors I work with to work defensively against this using a few strategies:<p>- smaller PRs. Break the work up any way you can. Make small tickets or submit your PRs with Part 1, part 2, etc. You can&#x27;t release half-baked work, but you can usually find opportunities to split things up. Nobody should be submitting 20 file PRs and not expecting a lot of comments.<p>- Validate your strategy before building it. If there&#x27;s a senior engineer in your team who nitpicks your code, get their buy-in before writing it.<p>- often bad code is the result of not really knowing how to approach a problem. Don&#x27;t just write the code and slap together a PR. You might need to figure out a working solution, then go back and tweak it and refactor it before submitting it.<p>- review your own PRs and use a critical eye. You&#x27;ll catch the low hanging fruit (like forgetting console.log calls). Every time you have the urge to leave a comment justifying a choice, question whether it&#x27;s the right choice at all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>verall</author><text>&gt; smaller PRs<p>I think the opposite works better - submit thousands of lines of changes, you will get like 10 comments, address all of them, and then you&#x27;re gold. The reviewer has no time to slog through thousands of lines of changes unless the code you&#x27;re touching is their baby.</text></comment> |
12,432,900 | 12,432,964 | 1 | 2 | 12,432,079 | train | <story><title>Legendary Apple Engineer Gets Rejected for Genius Bar Job</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com.au/jk-scheinberg-apple-engineer-rejected-job-apple-store-genius-bar-2016-9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>asuffield</author><text>(Tedious disclaimer: my opinion only, not speaking for anybody else. I&#x27;m an SRE at Google.)<p>We expect and accept a high false-negative rate. Our interview process is optimised for zero false-positives at the cost of many false-negatives. This is a deliberate choice. So yes, I would expect to see a significant rate of rejections of people who are clearly qualified.<p>The sort of people that we want to hire are likely to come back for another try anyway, and the long-term effect of this process seems to be doing what it was supposed to.</text></item><item><author>aluminussoma</author><text>I have wanted to run an experiment of famous programmers or computer scientists applying to jobs at Google&#x2F;Facebook&#x2F;Etc (under an assumed identity) and seeing if they get rejected. My hypothesis is that there would be several notable rejections.<p>Unfortunately, I do not not anyone well enough to conduct this experiment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joosters</author><text>I&#x27;ve often heard this, and it seems a poor excuse for a terrible interview process&#x2F;terrible hiring figures. Why do you not try to improve your interview process to lower the false-negative rate? Doing so in an intelligent way need not raise the false-positives rate (unless you somehow believe that the interview process is already perfected by Google...)</text></comment> | <story><title>Legendary Apple Engineer Gets Rejected for Genius Bar Job</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com.au/jk-scheinberg-apple-engineer-rejected-job-apple-store-genius-bar-2016-9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>asuffield</author><text>(Tedious disclaimer: my opinion only, not speaking for anybody else. I&#x27;m an SRE at Google.)<p>We expect and accept a high false-negative rate. Our interview process is optimised for zero false-positives at the cost of many false-negatives. This is a deliberate choice. So yes, I would expect to see a significant rate of rejections of people who are clearly qualified.<p>The sort of people that we want to hire are likely to come back for another try anyway, and the long-term effect of this process seems to be doing what it was supposed to.</text></item><item><author>aluminussoma</author><text>I have wanted to run an experiment of famous programmers or computer scientists applying to jobs at Google&#x2F;Facebook&#x2F;Etc (under an assumed identity) and seeing if they get rejected. My hypothesis is that there would be several notable rejections.<p>Unfortunately, I do not not anyone well enough to conduct this experiment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joewee</author><text>This explanation summarizes why tech companies lack diversity. Sampling bias at its best. This logic is a smart persons way of saying you only want to hire people similar to those you&#x27;ve already hired.</text></comment> |
5,058,310 | 5,058,301 | 1 | 2 | 5,057,819 | train | <story><title>The Atlantic posts sponsored Scientology story, moderates comments</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/scientology/archive/2013/01/david-miscavige-leads-scientology-to-milestone-year-/266958/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kevinalexbrown</author><text>Without delving into the specifics of Scientology, I am reminded of a grellas quotation: "The most valuable asset of a lawyer is his reputation."<p>This applies to some journalistic endeavors as well. In some cases, I seek out the thoughts of those whose facts are unreliable, because their opinions are interesting or novel. But just as often, I seek out long-form, descriptive pieces to learn what reliable people believe is true. I cannot validate every aspect of the outside world, so I trust others to do this. When they are frequently right, like Nate Silver, say, I trust them more. When they lend their brand to more bizarre groups, I trust them less, not because the sponsored link itself changes the truth of the rest of the articles, but because it signals a lack of judgment that might have a common source with many other important and difficult decisions a magazine or newspaper must make.<p>For instance, when I read the Economist, I feel rather confident in their facts. They have a particular fiscally conservative slant, but in general they have proven to be realistic and relevant. They might not espouse particularly novel solutions, but they lay a solid framework for further thought. As it is, The Atlantic is reasonably trusted. That's almost surely the reason Scientology would like to place a sponsored story there, in addition to, or in lieu of, more popular outlets.<p>In the coming transformation of journalism, institutions like The Atlantic, or newer upstarts like Svbtle, will have to consider sponsored posts and similar "brand-lending." When they do, they'll have to decide whether they want to be a trusted brand, or an interesting one.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cs702</author><text>Judging by this sponsored story, it seems that the people running The Atlantic have already decided to turn this august publication into an "interesting" brand. It's a shame.<p>What doesn't make sense to me is that The Atlantic supposedly became profitable a couple of years ago -- see <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/13/business/media/13atlantic.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/13/business/media/13atlantic....</a> -- which, if true, means they didn't actually need to do this!</text></comment> | <story><title>The Atlantic posts sponsored Scientology story, moderates comments</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/scientology/archive/2013/01/david-miscavige-leads-scientology-to-milestone-year-/266958/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kevinalexbrown</author><text>Without delving into the specifics of Scientology, I am reminded of a grellas quotation: "The most valuable asset of a lawyer is his reputation."<p>This applies to some journalistic endeavors as well. In some cases, I seek out the thoughts of those whose facts are unreliable, because their opinions are interesting or novel. But just as often, I seek out long-form, descriptive pieces to learn what reliable people believe is true. I cannot validate every aspect of the outside world, so I trust others to do this. When they are frequently right, like Nate Silver, say, I trust them more. When they lend their brand to more bizarre groups, I trust them less, not because the sponsored link itself changes the truth of the rest of the articles, but because it signals a lack of judgment that might have a common source with many other important and difficult decisions a magazine or newspaper must make.<p>For instance, when I read the Economist, I feel rather confident in their facts. They have a particular fiscally conservative slant, but in general they have proven to be realistic and relevant. They might not espouse particularly novel solutions, but they lay a solid framework for further thought. As it is, The Atlantic is reasonably trusted. That's almost surely the reason Scientology would like to place a sponsored story there, in addition to, or in lieu of, more popular outlets.<p>In the coming transformation of journalism, institutions like The Atlantic, or newer upstarts like Svbtle, will have to consider sponsored posts and similar "brand-lending." When they do, they'll have to decide whether they want to be a trusted brand, or an interesting one.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>snogglethorpe</author><text>Indeed ... and once lost, trust is very hard to regain.<p>I subscribed to the Economist through most of the '90s, but did not renew my subscription following a rather blithe editorial saying Bill Clinton should resign.<p>I still have a measure of respect for them on non-controversial topics—they're very good at explaining technical details in a simple way, for instance—but my faith in their judgment is gone.</text></comment> |
10,748,366 | 10,748,424 | 1 | 2 | 10,743,432 | train | <story><title>The Reasoned Lisper</title><url>https://chriskohlhepp.wordpress.com/the-reasoned-lisper/</url><text>Bridging Discrete and Continuous Logic in Automated Reasoning Systems<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chriskohlhepp.wordpress.com&#x2F;the-reasoned-lisper&#x2F;</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tlarkworthy</author><text>Wow this is space age stuff. Combining hard logical inference with probability is very exciting. We can codify background knowledge like physical laws to speed up the process of learning. At the moment NN have to have tons of training data just to pin down various truisms we already know. They learn from a blank slate everytime which is not exploiting all the background knowledge we already know. Well, convolution neural nets kind of encode transnational invariance in their architecture, but we should be able to be more general, this is the path to that!</text></comment> | <story><title>The Reasoned Lisper</title><url>https://chriskohlhepp.wordpress.com/the-reasoned-lisper/</url><text>Bridging Discrete and Continuous Logic in Automated Reasoning Systems<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chriskohlhepp.wordpress.com&#x2F;the-reasoned-lisper&#x2F;</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mark_l_watson</author><text>Nice article. I haven&#x27;t experimented with PowerLoom in many years. I will check it out again. I have a JRuby wrapper for PowerLoom on github and I should make sure that works with the latest snapshot.<p>BTW, there was a mention of PowerLoom on the iPad, but I searched for it in the Apple Store and couldn&#x27;t find it.</text></comment> |
38,937,179 | 38,936,830 | 1 | 3 | 38,935,205 | train | <story><title>I quit my job to work full time on my open source project</title><url>https://ellie.wtf/posts/i-quit-my-job-to-work-full-time-on-my-open-source-project</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Brian_K_White</author><text>You don&#x27;t need any of it.<p>History is useful enough to exist as a feature, I up-arrow routinely, but it doesn&#x27;t actually matter when it doesn&#x27;t exist.<p>I find the idea of going out of your way to preserve and migrate years of shell history and make it searchable in a db about like:<p>You have a problem that water is flooding your kitchen floor. Normally you deal with a spill with a mop or towels. There is now too much water and so you decide that your normal towels aren&#x27;t good enough and so you get more &amp; better towels, or even put a sump pump in the corner to keep pumping all this water away.<p>I&#x27;ve written a lot of complicated pipelines and awk and sed etc, but they were either one-offs that are of hardly any value later, or I made a script, and the few things that are neither of those, are so few they automatically don&#x27;t matter because they are few.<p>It&#x27;s not illegal or immoral, just goofy.</text></item><item><author>lanza</author><text>I love the idea of Atuin but it&#x27;s just way too slow with large history files. I&#x27;ve synced my history on my own for the past decade and have like 170k lines and the history search the ctrl-r search just crawls.<p>I don&#x27;t need most of the history, but there&#x27;s 0 chance in hell I&#x27;m auditing that many lines to decide what I need and what I don&#x27;t need.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lanza</author><text>&gt; You don&#x27;t need any of it.
&gt; History is useful enough to exist as a feature, I up-arrow routinely, but it doesn&#x27;t actually matter when it doesn&#x27;t exist.<p>That&#x27;s absurdly naive to think the simplistic constraints of your own workflow is a general rule.</text></comment> | <story><title>I quit my job to work full time on my open source project</title><url>https://ellie.wtf/posts/i-quit-my-job-to-work-full-time-on-my-open-source-project</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Brian_K_White</author><text>You don&#x27;t need any of it.<p>History is useful enough to exist as a feature, I up-arrow routinely, but it doesn&#x27;t actually matter when it doesn&#x27;t exist.<p>I find the idea of going out of your way to preserve and migrate years of shell history and make it searchable in a db about like:<p>You have a problem that water is flooding your kitchen floor. Normally you deal with a spill with a mop or towels. There is now too much water and so you decide that your normal towels aren&#x27;t good enough and so you get more &amp; better towels, or even put a sump pump in the corner to keep pumping all this water away.<p>I&#x27;ve written a lot of complicated pipelines and awk and sed etc, but they were either one-offs that are of hardly any value later, or I made a script, and the few things that are neither of those, are so few they automatically don&#x27;t matter because they are few.<p>It&#x27;s not illegal or immoral, just goofy.</text></item><item><author>lanza</author><text>I love the idea of Atuin but it&#x27;s just way too slow with large history files. I&#x27;ve synced my history on my own for the past decade and have like 170k lines and the history search the ctrl-r search just crawls.<p>I don&#x27;t need most of the history, but there&#x27;s 0 chance in hell I&#x27;m auditing that many lines to decide what I need and what I don&#x27;t need.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>euos</author><text>I use those ! Bash history features all the time. I.e. !?some_test to just rerun a test case I ran several months ago. I don’t need to sync histories between PCs (they are different enough) but history is important.</text></comment> |
7,454,178 | 7,453,816 | 1 | 3 | 7,453,405 | train | <story><title>Top Algorithms in Data Mining (2008) [pdf]</title><url>http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~icdm/algorithms/10Algorithms-08.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>joeblau</author><text>Wow this paper is great. Back in November, I implemented the &quot;Trend or No Trend: A Novel Nonparametric Method for Classifying Time Series&quot;[1] paper in node.js and then I hooked it up to Twitters API. The algorithm was able to find trending topics pretty quickly and accurately. Does anyone know if the source for these algorithms is implemented anywhere?<p>[1] - <a href="http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/85399/870304955.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dspace.mit.edu&#x2F;bitstream&#x2F;handle&#x2F;1721.1&#x2F;85399&#x2F;87030495...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Top Algorithms in Data Mining (2008) [pdf]</title><url>http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~icdm/algorithms/10Algorithms-08.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Anon84</author><text>This article was eventually expanded into a full fledged book with more in depth descriptions of each algorithm:<p><a href="http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781420089646" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.crcpress.com&#x2F;product&#x2F;isbn&#x2F;9781420089646</a></text></comment> |
34,295,718 | 34,293,031 | 1 | 2 | 34,289,138 | train | <story><title>The science of having ideas in the shower</title><url>https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2022/08/the-science-of-why-you-have-great-ideas-in-the-shower</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>boredemployee</author><text>could writing code be considered as an art? genuinely asking</text></item><item><author>diemes1</author><text>Never seen John Carmack described as an artist before</text></item><item><author>mentos</author><text>Its my working theory that artists (The Beatles or John Carmack) are always operating in this type of mental &#x27;shower&#x27; environment. Makes me wonder if maybe there is a &#x27;myaquaguitar.com&#x27; alternative haha</text></item><item><author>gazby</author><text>This effect used to be the bane of my ADHD-addled existence until I found these: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.myaquanotes.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.myaquanotes.com&#x2F;</a>. I buy them in 5 packs now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rolenthedeep</author><text>There is &quot;code as art&quot; where the code itself is art. A while back there was a program floating through the nerd community that was C code laid out in the shape of a giant C, which actually compiles to a valid program.<p>Then there is &quot;code as an artform&quot;. Think code golf, or other such challenges that encourage incredibly creative solutions.<p>Then my personal favorite is simply &quot;beautiful code&quot;. Sometimes an algorithm or a function will just be elegant in its construction or simplicity. Sometimes you have a real hairy problem that seems very complex at first, but the solution ends up as a small, clean function with no frills, no bugs. It&#x27;s about beautiful solutions more than the text of the code.<p>Code can be art, but it usually isn&#x27;t. The first two categories are something done intentionally as a form of expression, but the last is more akin to a sunset or a rainbow. Sometimes beauty appears when we don&#x27;t intend or expect it. But I think that still qualifies as art.</text></comment> | <story><title>The science of having ideas in the shower</title><url>https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2022/08/the-science-of-why-you-have-great-ideas-in-the-shower</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>boredemployee</author><text>could writing code be considered as an art? genuinely asking</text></item><item><author>diemes1</author><text>Never seen John Carmack described as an artist before</text></item><item><author>mentos</author><text>Its my working theory that artists (The Beatles or John Carmack) are always operating in this type of mental &#x27;shower&#x27; environment. Makes me wonder if maybe there is a &#x27;myaquaguitar.com&#x27; alternative haha</text></item><item><author>gazby</author><text>This effect used to be the bane of my ADHD-addled existence until I found these: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.myaquanotes.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.myaquanotes.com&#x2F;</a>. I buy them in 5 packs now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>woodruffw</author><text>Whenever I hear someone describe programming as art, I think of this essay[1].<p>That isn&#x27;t to say it can&#x27;t be art. Only that those with an <i>interest</i> in calling it art usually aren&#x27;t the appropriate authorities.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;idlewords.com&#x2F;2005&#x2F;04&#x2F;dabblers_and_blowhards.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;idlewords.com&#x2F;2005&#x2F;04&#x2F;dabblers_and_blowhards.htm</a></text></comment> |
31,824,163 | 31,824,251 | 1 | 3 | 31,824,096 | train | <story><title>Zoom.us is down</title><url>https://us02web.zoom.us/wc/join/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>maest</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;status.zoom.us" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;status.zoom.us</a> is green, even though service is down&#x2F;severely degraded.</text></comment> | <story><title>Zoom.us is down</title><url>https://us02web.zoom.us/wc/join/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AlecSchueler</author><text>Hooray for centralisation of infrastructure!</text></comment> |
7,297,901 | 7,297,656 | 1 | 3 | 7,297,400 | train | <story><title>Schadenfreude</title><url>http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/02/schadenfreude-1.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>corford</author><text>Rather than enjoying some shadenfreude (directed at MtGox and its users, not Bitcoin itself), I&#x27;m bewildered by the users and upset that their stupidity has allowed this predictable fiasco to happen.<p>Leaving the entirety of your BTC savings on an exchange provided and managed wallet is utterly insane at the best of times but to have done so with MtGox was just asking for it.<p>There are countless examples stretching back years that reveal MtGox was nothing more than a badly run website put together by a bunch of amateurs who took an early bet on Bitcoin and got lucky.<p>It&#x27;s been obvious to anyone who performed even the most basic of research that MtGox would one day blow up spectacularly and there have been vastly better options available for a _long_ time now: <a href="http://www.bitstamp.net" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bitstamp.net</a>, <a href="http://www.kraken.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kraken.com</a> and <a href="http://www.coinbase.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coinbase.com</a><p>It&#x27;s sad people have lost money but MtGox users largely have only themselves to blame. The writing&#x27;s been on the wall since almost forever, better alternatives have been available for a long time now and, regardless of the exchange, they should never, ever have left significant chunks of their BTC net worth on a wallet not under their exclusive control. If you leave all your money on an exchange controlled wallet, you&#x27;ll eventually end up like the poor chumps who bought penny stocks from the Wolf of Wall street: robbed.<p>I just hope the entire BTC ecosystem doesn&#x27;t come crashing down in the fallout.</text></comment> | <story><title>Schadenfreude</title><url>http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/02/schadenfreude-1.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>For me the schadenfreude isn&#x27;t about cryotocurrency versus fiat currency. To me the whole Mt. Gox mess is a reminder that there are enough bad actors in society to screw things up, and combine that with ineptitude and you have a recipe for this sort of event. Sure its just one event, but its also a small community, and the event is quite huge proportionally. And its not going to get better. Indeed, as the stakes get higher, it will get worse. Its a corrolary to the idea that DRM will always be broken, no matter how technically sophisticated you make it.<p>There are a lot of idealists in the anarcholibertarian community who talk about &quot;violence&quot; as something that can be taken off the table. And what this shows is that violence is endemic. You can&#x27;t take it off the table, you can just think of different ways to manage it.<p>I would really like to not see Bitcoin regulated or protected, except to the extent it is used to subvert meatspace laws. I just want to see what would happen if, e.g., it wasn&#x27;t considered a crime to &quot;steal&quot; bitcoin. Ideally, it should also be legal to mug someone in real life for his bitcoin, so long as bitcoin is the only thing taken. Because cryptocurrency or not, holding a gun to someone and asking them to hand over the bitcoins they have under their mattress is always an option. Then we could see if the community came up with non-government based solutions to these problems.</text></comment> |
7,880,779 | 7,880,840 | 1 | 2 | 7,880,379 | train | <story><title>Please Stop Asking Me to Speak About Women in Technology</title><url>http://www.snipe.net/2014/05/please-stop-asking-me-to-speak-about-women-in-technology/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>The industry would be 80-85% men in perpetuity? I can understand the author&#x27;s desire not to have gender be such a big issue. But it is a big issue whether we talk about it or not, and if we don&#x27;t talk about it, we&#x27;ll never fix it.</text></item><item><author>clavalle</author><text>Hear, hear.<p>I wonder what would happen if we all collectively decided to act like the revolution of diversity in tech has already happened?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>clavalle</author><text>How does talking about it fix it?<p>Wouldn&#x27;t <i>behaving</i> as if we are living in a world where there is no underrepresented group in tech be better? Where it is no surprise that a woman be interviewed and hired for a position? That a little girl building robots and taking apart electronics is just kind of the way things go? That encouraging all children to excel in tech is the norm? Where it is a little strange that a women be asked to speak about a social issue at a tech conference?<p>It seems that calling attention to bad actors all of the time is kind of like calling attention to school shooters -- suddenly, to the younger more impressionable generation, there is a new alternative to their behavior that they were previously unaware of.</text></comment> | <story><title>Please Stop Asking Me to Speak About Women in Technology</title><url>http://www.snipe.net/2014/05/please-stop-asking-me-to-speak-about-women-in-technology/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>The industry would be 80-85% men in perpetuity? I can understand the author&#x27;s desire not to have gender be such a big issue. But it is a big issue whether we talk about it or not, and if we don&#x27;t talk about it, we&#x27;ll never fix it.</text></item><item><author>clavalle</author><text>Hear, hear.<p>I wonder what would happen if we all collectively decided to act like the revolution of diversity in tech has already happened?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ctdonath</author><text>Problem is some people won&#x27;t stop talking about &quot;fixing it&quot;, which gets really frustrating to those of us who have already &quot;fixed it&quot; and moved on. There really does come a point where incessant yelling about societal problems <i>becomes</i> a problem and the continuing attempt to &quot;fix&quot; backfires.</text></comment> |
23,260,588 | 23,260,269 | 1 | 3 | 23,258,823 | train | <story><title>The FBI tracking your browsing history without a warrant might be the beginning</title><url>https://cybernews.com/news/the-fbi-monitoring-your-browsing-history-without-a-warrant-might-just-be-the-beginning/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>programmarchy</author><text>If this is true, the silver lining is that it could become an albatross around the Patriot Act; spying on browser history is not a defensible means of preventing terrorism without absurd arguments.<p>But hold up. Has anyone read the bill?<p>I haven&#x27;t read the full text of the bill, but reading the summary [1], parts of the bill actually sound positive to me:<p>&gt; The Federal Bureau of Investigation may not seek certain FISA-authorized orders to obtain (1) call detail records on an ongoing basis, (2) a tangible thing where a person has a reasonable expectation of privacy and a warrant would typically be required, or (3) cellular or GPS location information.<p>&gt; In applications for certain FISA-authorized orders to obtain information or conduct surveillance, the applicant must certify that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has received any information that might raise doubts about the application. The bill imposes additional requirements on FISA-authorized orders targeting a (1) U.S. person, or (2) federal elected official or candidate.<p>&gt; The bill increases criminal penalties for violations related to electronic surveillance conducted under color of law or false statements made to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA court).<p>&gt; The bill broadens the criteria for when a FISA court decision shall be declassified and requires the declassification review and release of such opinions within 180 days of an opinion being issued.<p>&gt; The bill broadens the FISA court&#x27;s authority to appoint an amicus curiae (an outside party that assists in consideration of a case) and expands such amici&#x27;s powers, such as the power to ask the court to review a decision.<p>&gt; Each agency that submits applications to the FISA court shall appoint an officer responsible for compliance with FISA requirements.<p>Looking at the full text of the bill, I can&#x27;t find where there is authorization for tracking browser history without a warrant. Can anyone pinpoint that in the actual text of the bill?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.congress.gov&#x2F;bill&#x2F;116th-congress&#x2F;house-bill&#x2F;6172" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.congress.gov&#x2F;bill&#x2F;116th-congress&#x2F;house-bill&#x2F;6172</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jhelphenstine</author><text>After reviewing the summary, full text, and the article, I also missed the authorization for tracking browser history without a warrant.<p>After making the claim, the article mostly seems an opinion piece; there doesn&#x27;t seem to be a substantiation of the lede.<p>As an aside, Cybernews is a new resource to me; while the author of the article seems a well-established technology writer, Cybernews itself is absent a masthead. All I could discern is that it&#x27;s governed by the laws of the Republic of Lithuania; not much else to go on wrt their values, opinion stance, etc.</text></comment> | <story><title>The FBI tracking your browsing history without a warrant might be the beginning</title><url>https://cybernews.com/news/the-fbi-monitoring-your-browsing-history-without-a-warrant-might-just-be-the-beginning/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>programmarchy</author><text>If this is true, the silver lining is that it could become an albatross around the Patriot Act; spying on browser history is not a defensible means of preventing terrorism without absurd arguments.<p>But hold up. Has anyone read the bill?<p>I haven&#x27;t read the full text of the bill, but reading the summary [1], parts of the bill actually sound positive to me:<p>&gt; The Federal Bureau of Investigation may not seek certain FISA-authorized orders to obtain (1) call detail records on an ongoing basis, (2) a tangible thing where a person has a reasonable expectation of privacy and a warrant would typically be required, or (3) cellular or GPS location information.<p>&gt; In applications for certain FISA-authorized orders to obtain information or conduct surveillance, the applicant must certify that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has received any information that might raise doubts about the application. The bill imposes additional requirements on FISA-authorized orders targeting a (1) U.S. person, or (2) federal elected official or candidate.<p>&gt; The bill increases criminal penalties for violations related to electronic surveillance conducted under color of law or false statements made to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA court).<p>&gt; The bill broadens the criteria for when a FISA court decision shall be declassified and requires the declassification review and release of such opinions within 180 days of an opinion being issued.<p>&gt; The bill broadens the FISA court&#x27;s authority to appoint an amicus curiae (an outside party that assists in consideration of a case) and expands such amici&#x27;s powers, such as the power to ask the court to review a decision.<p>&gt; Each agency that submits applications to the FISA court shall appoint an officer responsible for compliance with FISA requirements.<p>Looking at the full text of the bill, I can&#x27;t find where there is authorization for tracking browser history without a warrant. Can anyone pinpoint that in the actual text of the bill?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.congress.gov&#x2F;bill&#x2F;116th-congress&#x2F;house-bill&#x2F;6172" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.congress.gov&#x2F;bill&#x2F;116th-congress&#x2F;house-bill&#x2F;6172</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eximius</author><text>From memory of articles surrounding this, it was the failure to add a provision preventing warrantless tracking that was scandalous. It is unclear to me if that implies some court decision that allows it without that preventative measure.</text></comment> |
30,053,005 | 30,052,577 | 1 | 2 | 30,051,701 | train | <story><title>Huginn: System for building agents that perform automated tasks online</title><url>https://github.com/huginn/huginn</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tectonic</author><text>Well, it’s fun to see Huginn on HN! I’m the original author, but now it’s maintained by other excellent folks.<p>I still use Huginn almost daily. It’s kind of my exocortex at this point, and the secret sauce for staying abreast of space industry news for Orbital Index (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;orbitalindex.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;orbitalindex.com</a>).</text></comment> | <story><title>Huginn: System for building agents that perform automated tasks online</title><url>https://github.com/huginn/huginn</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>caseysoftware</author><text>I found this a few years ago and was super intrigued JARVIS-like potential and dove into it. There&#x27;s a STEEP learning curve but once you get it figured out a couple times, it&#x27;s really powerful and you can do a lot.<p>My problem is that the things I could do.. didn&#x27;t particularly seem useful. Sure, knowing the weather is useful but I can get a pretty good idea on my own or checking the times I need to know more. Knowing about trends up&#x2F;down in my stock is only useful if I&#x27;m going to act. Now that I have solar, I can see some more use cases but most are also around curiosity vs knowing when to take action.<p>I may come to a different conclusion if I build an armored combat suit.<p>Or for a more realistic and fun story, check out Daniel Suarez&#x27;s Daemon. It&#x27;s great.</text></comment> |
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