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37,503,147 | 37,502,755 | 1 | 2 | 37,500,895 | train | <story><title>When MFA isn't MFA, or how we got phished</title><url>https://retool.com/blog/mfa-isnt-mfa/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dataflow</author><text>&gt; this scenario is why I really try to drive home, in all of my security trainings, the idea that you should instantly short circuit any situation where you receive a phone call (or other message) and someone starts asking for information.<p>The trouble is, calling the number on the back of your card requires actually taking out your card, dialing it, wading through a million menus, and waiting who-knows-how-long for someone to pick up, and hoping you&#x27;re not reaching a number that&#x27;ll make you go through fifteen transfers to get to the right agent. People have stuff to do, they don&#x27;t want to wait around with one hand occupied waiting for a phone call to get picked up for fifteen minutes. When the alternative is just telling your information on the phone... it&#x27;s only natural that people do it.<p>Of course it&#x27;s horrible for security, I&#x27;m not saying anyone should just give information on the phone. But the reality is that people will do it anyway, because the cost of the alternative isn&#x27;t necessarily negligible.</text></item><item><author>macNchz</author><text>Beyond having hardware keys, this scenario is why I really try to drive home, in all of my security trainings, the idea that you should instantly short circuit any situation where you <i>receive</i> a phone call (or other message) and someone starts asking for information. It&#x27;s always okay to say, &quot;actually, let me get back to you in a minute&quot; and hang up, calling back on a known phone number from the employee directory, or communicate on different channel altogether.<p>Organizationally, everyone should be prepared for and encourage that kind of response as well, such that employees are never scared to say it because they&#x27;re worried about a snarky&#x2F;angry&#x2F;aggressive response.<p>This also applies to non-work related calls: someone from your credit card company is calling and asking for something? Call back on the number on the back of your card.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>strken</author><text>I say &quot;If this is a scam call please hang up now, otherwise give me an invoice or ticket number or name and department and I&#x27;ll get back to you,&quot; and they usually <i>do</i> hang up. The case where you need to actually call your bank is really rare.<p>Note that it&#x27;s very important not to let them give you an actual phone number to call on. This sounds obvious but I know someone who hung up but called back <i>on a number given by the scammers</i>, which was of course controlled by them and not the bank.</text></comment> | <story><title>When MFA isn't MFA, or how we got phished</title><url>https://retool.com/blog/mfa-isnt-mfa/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dataflow</author><text>&gt; this scenario is why I really try to drive home, in all of my security trainings, the idea that you should instantly short circuit any situation where you receive a phone call (or other message) and someone starts asking for information.<p>The trouble is, calling the number on the back of your card requires actually taking out your card, dialing it, wading through a million menus, and waiting who-knows-how-long for someone to pick up, and hoping you&#x27;re not reaching a number that&#x27;ll make you go through fifteen transfers to get to the right agent. People have stuff to do, they don&#x27;t want to wait around with one hand occupied waiting for a phone call to get picked up for fifteen minutes. When the alternative is just telling your information on the phone... it&#x27;s only natural that people do it.<p>Of course it&#x27;s horrible for security, I&#x27;m not saying anyone should just give information on the phone. But the reality is that people will do it anyway, because the cost of the alternative isn&#x27;t necessarily negligible.</text></item><item><author>macNchz</author><text>Beyond having hardware keys, this scenario is why I really try to drive home, in all of my security trainings, the idea that you should instantly short circuit any situation where you <i>receive</i> a phone call (or other message) and someone starts asking for information. It&#x27;s always okay to say, &quot;actually, let me get back to you in a minute&quot; and hang up, calling back on a known phone number from the employee directory, or communicate on different channel altogether.<p>Organizationally, everyone should be prepared for and encourage that kind of response as well, such that employees are never scared to say it because they&#x27;re worried about a snarky&#x2F;angry&#x2F;aggressive response.<p>This also applies to non-work related calls: someone from your credit card company is calling and asking for something? Call back on the number on the back of your card.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>macNchz</author><text>I don&#x27;t think most people who get scammed this way pause to say &quot;oh, this might be someone stealing my credit card number&quot;, then disregard that thought because it&#x27;s too much of a pain to call back on an official line. Instead I think they don&#x27;t question the situation at all, or the scammer has enough information to sound sufficiently authoritative. Most non-technical people I&#x27;ve talked to about this are pretty scared of getting scammed, but tell me the thought never crossed their mind they could call back on a trusted number.<p>I like the &quot;hang up, call back&quot; approach because it takes individual judgment out of the equation: you&#x27;re not trying to evaluate in real time whether the call is legit, or whether whatever you&#x27;re being asked to share is actually sensitive. That&#x27;s the vulnerable area in our brains that scammers exploit.</text></comment> |
9,088,464 | 9,087,219 | 1 | 2 | 9,087,078 | train | <story><title>How a Handgun Works: 1911 .45</title><url>http://animagraffs.com/how-a-handgun-works-1911-45/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sandworm</author><text>There are some slight errors in the animation. Details, but those are important when talking about classics.<p>Better animation:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6SmlOEzNBs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=E6SmlOEzNBs</a><p>Watch the barrel. In the OP the entire barrel floats up and down slightly. That&#x27;s incorrect. The breech end of the barrel moves up and down, the other end not so much. This is important because the angle between the barrel and the next round doesn&#x27;t change in the former. Check the vid at about 3:24, after the assembly, to see what I&#x27;m talking about.<p>Also: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKRMcTlbWTs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=YKRMcTlbWTs</a><p>And the recoil animation is wrong. The gun in the OP is recoiling while the bullet is still in the barrel. That&#x27;s logical, but in reality recoil only gets going after the bullet is away. Once it&#x27;s out of the way the remaining propellants really accelerate, causing the bulk of the recoil. That&#x27;s why recoil doesn&#x27;t impact accuracy. Flinching in anticipation of recoil is another matter.<p>Watch this gun at 00:10 and note it doesn&#x27;t move until the bullet is long gone.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um9Eos9bJDk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Um9Eos9bJDk</a><p>Proper 1911 recoil animation: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H3IFJXxyEs&amp;list=PL1469B47BBD916A46" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=1H3IFJXxyEs&amp;list=PL1469B47BB...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How a Handgun Works: 1911 .45</title><url>http://animagraffs.com/how-a-handgun-works-1911-45/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ghshephard</author><text>Somewhat related to another thread today - if I was creating a series of knowledge resources that would describe how to rebuild the world&#x27;s technology from scratch, in addition to the detailed blueprints, and background descriptions - I&#x27;d also have a series of animagraffs included with each one - these animations tell a very complex story very quickly.</text></comment> |
11,629,926 | 11,627,721 | 1 | 2 | 11,626,967 | train | <story><title>Google: End of the Online Advertising Bubble</title><url>https://kalkis-research.com/google-end-of-the-online-advertising-bubble</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Udik</author><text>&gt; Google ads in search will always be valuable because you can advertise nail varnish to people who have just searched for &quot;buy nail varnish&quot;<p>Yes, how dumb is that? A few weeks ago I googled for a company I was going to interview with. Since then the ad spaces in my web pages have been filled with ads of this company, which sells IT services for logistics.<p>I&#x27;m a sort of atypical consumer - not very willing to spend money on gadgets, for example; but I&#x27;m surprised nonetheless that with all this talk of &quot;big data&quot;, they can&#x27;t do a better job at figuring out the things I&#x27;m really interested in and instead keep bombarding me with ads related to any random search I&#x27;ve made. That&#x27;s silly and a big waste of money.</text></item><item><author>red_admiral</author><text>&quot;Facebook on the other hand, has a better control of who is actually seeing its ads, and will benefit from the turmoil by gaining market share.&quot;<p>Did they pay you to write this?<p>Google ads in search will always be valuable because you can advertise nail varnish to people who have just searched for &quot;buy nail varnish&quot;.<p>This is also about the millionth post I&#x27;ve read which assumes that companies simply throw money at advertising and don&#x27;t run any statistics of their own. Simply, if you spend a lot on an ad campaign for a product and your sales don&#x27;t go up, you notice that and rethink your next campaign. CPM and all that are at best proxy metrics for the thing you really care about, &quot;are our profits&#x2F;sales up&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nostrademons</author><text>When a random person searches for a company, it&#x27;s probably &gt; 100:1 odds that they&#x27;re interested in the company&#x27;s product, not in a job at the company. That&#x27;s why companies put their products on the landing page and not their job openings.<p>You have to understand that whenever you do anything as a consumer in modern corporatism, you are part of a numbers game. The company does not care about <i>you</i>, they care about the aggregate &quot;you&quot; that represents the average of millions of consumers. If 100x as many people search for a company hoping to buy its product, then it only becomes rational to spend engineering effort if the opportunity cost of losing the one customer who is job-searching is 100x greater the lift that can be achieved by fine-tuning the product-buying case. Retargeting would have to be pretty tapped-out for that to be the case.<p>I face a similar problem - as an entrepreneur, when I Google a company, it&#x27;s usually because it&#x27;s a potential competitor that I want to learn about. As a result, my YouTube &amp; AdSense feeds are filled up with ads for competitors. Which is kinda handy, in a way, but probably not why those competitors are buying ads.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google: End of the Online Advertising Bubble</title><url>https://kalkis-research.com/google-end-of-the-online-advertising-bubble</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Udik</author><text>&gt; Google ads in search will always be valuable because you can advertise nail varnish to people who have just searched for &quot;buy nail varnish&quot;<p>Yes, how dumb is that? A few weeks ago I googled for a company I was going to interview with. Since then the ad spaces in my web pages have been filled with ads of this company, which sells IT services for logistics.<p>I&#x27;m a sort of atypical consumer - not very willing to spend money on gadgets, for example; but I&#x27;m surprised nonetheless that with all this talk of &quot;big data&quot;, they can&#x27;t do a better job at figuring out the things I&#x27;m really interested in and instead keep bombarding me with ads related to any random search I&#x27;ve made. That&#x27;s silly and a big waste of money.</text></item><item><author>red_admiral</author><text>&quot;Facebook on the other hand, has a better control of who is actually seeing its ads, and will benefit from the turmoil by gaining market share.&quot;<p>Did they pay you to write this?<p>Google ads in search will always be valuable because you can advertise nail varnish to people who have just searched for &quot;buy nail varnish&quot;.<p>This is also about the millionth post I&#x27;ve read which assumes that companies simply throw money at advertising and don&#x27;t run any statistics of their own. Simply, if you spend a lot on an ad campaign for a product and your sales don&#x27;t go up, you notice that and rethink your next campaign. CPM and all that are at best proxy metrics for the thing you really care about, &quot;are our profits&#x2F;sales up&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ssharp</author><text>A few comments on this:<p>1) The company might be better off capping their impressions to you.<p>2) The company might be better off focusing on setting their remarketing pixels further down the funnel (unless you entered their funnel as part of the process).<p>3) How do you reasonably expect the company to treat you differently than they do actual leads? I&#x27;ll assume the majority of traffic that goes to their website is interested in their services and not researching for a job interview, so unless there is some way they could reasonably figure out you&#x27;re not interested and exclude you, I don&#x27;t think what&#x27;s happening here is that wrong. Marketing to people who already visited your site is almost certainly going to be worth more money to advertisers who are prospecting based solely on your interests.</text></comment> |
12,314,708 | 12,314,728 | 1 | 2 | 12,314,235 | train | <story><title>Introducing the Qt Lite project – Qt for any platform, any thing, any size</title><url>http://blog.qt.io/blog/2016/08/18/introducing-the-qt-lite-project-qt-for-any-platform-any-thing-any-size/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>newsat13</author><text>The amount of editorial in this post is mind blowing. Am I the only one who found it extremely hard (yes, extremely) to sift through all the blurb of text. In the end, I am not even sure what is being released.</text></comment> | <story><title>Introducing the Qt Lite project – Qt for any platform, any thing, any size</title><url>http://blog.qt.io/blog/2016/08/18/introducing-the-qt-lite-project-qt-for-any-platform-any-thing-any-size/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>n00b101</author><text><i>The new configuration system in Qt, allows your define the content you need from each module in much more detail for your project and easily allows for feature based tailoring of the Qt modules. We are starting with enabling this fully for Qt Core, Qt Network, Qt GUI, Qt QML and Qt Quick. You can now fine tune which features from these modules you want to include in your project. There is no longer any need to include unnecessary features.</i><p>To be clear, this potentially reduces binary sizes, but it does not by itself change run-time performance.<p><i>No Open GL Requirement ... The Qt Quick 2D renderer can work in software only, but it is also designed to utilize accelerated 2D operations, for devices that packs a little bit more punch, but still doesn’t have full OpenGL support.</i><p>I wonder what kinds of devices this is intended for? Presumably, they are a very important market for Qt to have implemented this? And these devices have graphics displays but they lack GPUs? What device could that be?<p>CPU software rendering seems like a step backwards for performance. GPUs and OpenGL must be more energy efficient at this task than software rendering, and I would imagine that important embedded devices with graphics displays must all have GPUs or will in the future?<p>I would have thought that &quot;Qt for any platform&quot; would include web browser (WebAssembly &#x2F; Emscripten &#x2F; WebGL) but no such luck. Based on the title, I thought this was going to be some drastic optimization of Qt&#x27;s GUI. It doesn&#x27;t sound like that&#x27;s the case.<p>I haven&#x27;t used Qt on embedded devices, but I&#x27;ve looked at several demos of Qt compiled to JavaScript with Emscripten [1] and the results seem very slow. Part of the reason seems to be that these Emscripten demos have Qt falling back to software rendering, instead of using WebGL accelerated rendering ... I don&#x27;t think that another software rendering backend for Qt solves this problem.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;vps2.etotheipiplusone.com:30176&#x2F;redmine&#x2F;projects&#x2F;emscripten-qt&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Demos" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;vps2.etotheipiplusone.com:30176&#x2F;redmine&#x2F;projects&#x2F;emsc...</a></text></comment> |
30,685,609 | 30,685,703 | 1 | 2 | 30,682,137 | train | <story><title>Cities should not pay for new stadiums</title><url>https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mje/2022/01/15/cities-should-not-pay-for-new-stadiums/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rascul</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure if it&#x27;s still the case but from what I understand the NFL used to prohibit local games from being shown in the local area to encourage ticket sales.</text></item><item><author>jedberg</author><text>What really upsets me about public stadiums is when the locals can&#x27;t even watch the game. Take the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. That stadium is 100% publicly funded by the taxpayers.<p>Since 2011 the Rose Bowl game on Jan 1 has been on ESPN. So two colleges, the majority of which have been public schools, play in a public stadium and the locals can&#x27;t even watch for free.<p>I think at the very least they need to make a law that says all events that take place in a publicly funded stadium need to be broadcast on a free local channel that reaches all of the taxpayers who paid for the stadium.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jedberg</author><text>Not just the NFL but also MLB. Usually the rule is that it has to be a near sell out crowd so it isn’t blacked out.<p>But they’ve gotten more lax about that after they realized that the trick doesn’t work — blackouts don’t really increase attendance.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cities should not pay for new stadiums</title><url>https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mje/2022/01/15/cities-should-not-pay-for-new-stadiums/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rascul</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure if it&#x27;s still the case but from what I understand the NFL used to prohibit local games from being shown in the local area to encourage ticket sales.</text></item><item><author>jedberg</author><text>What really upsets me about public stadiums is when the locals can&#x27;t even watch the game. Take the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. That stadium is 100% publicly funded by the taxpayers.<p>Since 2011 the Rose Bowl game on Jan 1 has been on ESPN. So two colleges, the majority of which have been public schools, play in a public stadium and the locals can&#x27;t even watch for free.<p>I think at the very least they need to make a law that says all events that take place in a publicly funded stadium need to be broadcast on a free local channel that reaches all of the taxpayers who paid for the stadium.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bombcar</author><text>Exactly - the &quot;blackout&quot; sales level - if not enough tickets were sold, the game wouldn&#x27;t be available locally.<p>Sometimes a local entity (city, owner of the team, local businessman) would buy blocks of 10k+ tickets to ensure it could be shown locally.</text></comment> |
4,464,056 | 4,464,036 | 1 | 2 | 4,463,637 | train | <story><title>Neil Armstrong, Neal Stephenson, Neil Gaiman</title><url>http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2012/08/neil-armstrong.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>loboman</author><text>Ok, question. How do you develop the skill of keeping calm under that kind of pressure? I get stressed for the silliest things, I'm sure there is a way to fix that.</text></item><item><author>tmhedberg</author><text>Among other things, he managed to land <i>Eagle</i> with only seconds of fuel remaining, having manually maneuvered it to an alternative landing site after the computer had navigated to a primarly landing area covered with boulders. All this while several unexpected computer alarms were going off.<p>Maybe others could have done that as well, but Armstrong actually <i>did</i> it, staying calm under unimaginable pressure and averting disaster.</text></item><item><author>dag11</author><text>He was the <i>chosen one</i>, but can someone inform me of the major achievements he himself did? As far as I know, many others could have been chosen to make the historic first steps.<p>Note: I'm not trying to make a comment phrased as a question here. It's truly a question.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>patrickyeon</author><text>The best way I know of to deal situations that make you uncomfortable is to expose yourself to them, often but at low intesity, and build up a tolerance. Start small, and as you handle each issue, you'll find yourself thinking "I've got this, can't be much worse than [x] that I did last week."<p>I used to be a really heavy traveller, carry everything I could possibly need with me, just in case. I gradually whittled that down, and now when I get nervous about forgetting something when I pack, I just tell myself that so long as I have essentials (eg wallet, passport/ticket, change of clothes, netbook), I can fix everything else. So set yourself up with small stressful situations, know that you have a relatively painless way to back out of them, and talk yourself through it.<p>Have faith that you can fix whatever situation you find yourself in. You may have to start out by lying to yourself in saying that, but as you try (and succeed) you'll find that yes, you can handle things. Even the ones that really worry you.</text></comment> | <story><title>Neil Armstrong, Neal Stephenson, Neil Gaiman</title><url>http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2012/08/neil-armstrong.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>loboman</author><text>Ok, question. How do you develop the skill of keeping calm under that kind of pressure? I get stressed for the silliest things, I'm sure there is a way to fix that.</text></item><item><author>tmhedberg</author><text>Among other things, he managed to land <i>Eagle</i> with only seconds of fuel remaining, having manually maneuvered it to an alternative landing site after the computer had navigated to a primarly landing area covered with boulders. All this while several unexpected computer alarms were going off.<p>Maybe others could have done that as well, but Armstrong actually <i>did</i> it, staying calm under unimaginable pressure and averting disaster.</text></item><item><author>dag11</author><text>He was the <i>chosen one</i>, but can someone inform me of the major achievements he himself did? As far as I know, many others could have been chosen to make the historic first steps.<p>Note: I'm not trying to make a comment phrased as a question here. It's truly a question.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rquantz</author><text>I'm sure it can be helped, but I'm not sure if the kind of cool Neil Armstrong displayed can really be developed. If you want a good illustration of this, hang out with pilots and listen to their stories. I recall one pilot friend of mine, a flight instructor, describing an incident when he was guiding a student to landing in a small plane, when something malfunctioned and the plane started to tilt a hundred or so feet off the ground. My friend shouted "my plane" and took control, correctly diagnosed what had malfunctioned, and guided the plane to a safe landing.<p>Analyzing what happened afterwards, a few things were determined: first, given the altitude at which the malfunction occurred, my friend must have seen the problem, correctly diagnosed it, and acted in less than a second, and the total amount of time from when it offered until touchdown was something like four seconds. Second, this particular failure had occurred on this model of plane a handful of other times at such a low altitude, and had resulted in fatal crashes every other time.<p>So, being able to do that comes from a combination of a few things: tremendous rote training and knowledge of the plane, the ability to act calmly when your life is in peril, and an extremely efficient nervous system. Some of that can be developed, particularly the first one, and response to negative stimuli can probably be improved if you have time to think rationally, but in emergency circumstances like what an astronaut or a pilot go through, I have to say I think you're probably born that way, baby.</text></comment> |
23,457,836 | 23,454,648 | 1 | 3 | 23,447,413 | train | <story><title>VS Code without Microsoft branding/telemetry/licensing</title><url>https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ohthehugemanate</author><text>See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.visualstudio.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;remote&#x2F;faq#_why-arent-the-remote-development-extensions-or-their-components-open-source" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.visualstudio.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;remote&#x2F;faq#_why-arent-the...</a><p>I love that post, because it encapsulates exactly the kind of internal logic that traps not-fully-open organizations.<p>MS can&#x27;t open source the remote Dev extensions, because the service that runs it (and much of the client code) comes from other, proprietary offerings and codebases. More concretely, they come from other teams that aren&#x27;t used to open source, are discouraged from getting used to it, and&#x2F;or don&#x27;t have approval from legal to release code in the open.<p>This is not an EEE trap, this is normal bureaucracy for an organization the size of MS. Consider that for almost all of VSCode&#x27;s lifetime, the OSS version has been perfectly full featured, only missing telemetry and copyrighted brand marks. Remote Dev extensions are less than a year old.<p>They have the same problem with the C# debugger: owned by a proprietary team, can&#x27;t get permission to open source it.<p>It is extremely hard to open source &quot;some&quot; or &quot;most&quot; of your code, especially in a company whose USP is tight integration between pieces. The legal quagmires are horrendous. A tool that crosses so many lines, like an integrated IDE, are backed into positions like this.<p>Disclosure: I work for Microsoft in a totally unrelated department.<p>Also, fwiw i&#x27;m a lifetime vim devotee... used it as my primary IDE for a long time and still use it daily. But vscode won me over exactly with the remote code extensions. Now it&#x27;s the only proprietary software on my toolchain (apart from my BIOS).</text></item><item><author>hardwaresofton</author><text>Forgive the kneejerk reaction but it sounds like we&#x27;ve come full circle back to closed source IDEs. For what reason are any of those extensions closed source? Why are people using and championing tools with closed source extensions that check what they&#x27;re running on (in order to force you to use&#x2F;buy the original thing) in 2020?<p>You can pry emacs&#x2F;vim from my cold dead hands -- Microsoft is trying (and succeeding) in google-chrome-ing it&#x27;s way into the productive developer space. If that&#x27;s true, I wonder what the Firefox in this analogy is? Atom? Emacs&#x2F;Vim?</text></item><item><author>cercatrova</author><text>Note that this doesn&#x27;t work with VSCode&#x27;s Remote extensions, such as for SSH, Docker containers, and WSL. Those extensions are closed source and explicitly check that they&#x27;re running on only VSCode. I thought of using this but since I mainly use WSL, this doesn&#x27;t work for me. Still, a laudable effort.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Wowfunhappy</author><text>&gt; This is not an EEE trap, this is normal bureaucracy for an organization the size of MS. [...] They have the same problem with the C# debugger: owned by a proprietary team, can&#x27;t get permission to open source it.<p>&gt; It is extremely hard to open source &quot;some&quot; or &quot;most&quot; of your code, especially in a company whose USP is tight integration between pieces. The legal quagmires are horrendous. A tool that crosses so many lines, like an integrated IDE, are backed into positions like this.<p>Whatever the underlying cause, this strikes me as a perfectly good reason to be skeptical of Microsoft&#x27;s forays into open source. It doesn&#x27;t really matter what their intentions are—what you&#x27;re describing is a company that can&#x27;t do open source properly.</text></comment> | <story><title>VS Code without Microsoft branding/telemetry/licensing</title><url>https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ohthehugemanate</author><text>See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.visualstudio.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;remote&#x2F;faq#_why-arent-the-remote-development-extensions-or-their-components-open-source" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.visualstudio.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;remote&#x2F;faq#_why-arent-the...</a><p>I love that post, because it encapsulates exactly the kind of internal logic that traps not-fully-open organizations.<p>MS can&#x27;t open source the remote Dev extensions, because the service that runs it (and much of the client code) comes from other, proprietary offerings and codebases. More concretely, they come from other teams that aren&#x27;t used to open source, are discouraged from getting used to it, and&#x2F;or don&#x27;t have approval from legal to release code in the open.<p>This is not an EEE trap, this is normal bureaucracy for an organization the size of MS. Consider that for almost all of VSCode&#x27;s lifetime, the OSS version has been perfectly full featured, only missing telemetry and copyrighted brand marks. Remote Dev extensions are less than a year old.<p>They have the same problem with the C# debugger: owned by a proprietary team, can&#x27;t get permission to open source it.<p>It is extremely hard to open source &quot;some&quot; or &quot;most&quot; of your code, especially in a company whose USP is tight integration between pieces. The legal quagmires are horrendous. A tool that crosses so many lines, like an integrated IDE, are backed into positions like this.<p>Disclosure: I work for Microsoft in a totally unrelated department.<p>Also, fwiw i&#x27;m a lifetime vim devotee... used it as my primary IDE for a long time and still use it daily. But vscode won me over exactly with the remote code extensions. Now it&#x27;s the only proprietary software on my toolchain (apart from my BIOS).</text></item><item><author>hardwaresofton</author><text>Forgive the kneejerk reaction but it sounds like we&#x27;ve come full circle back to closed source IDEs. For what reason are any of those extensions closed source? Why are people using and championing tools with closed source extensions that check what they&#x27;re running on (in order to force you to use&#x2F;buy the original thing) in 2020?<p>You can pry emacs&#x2F;vim from my cold dead hands -- Microsoft is trying (and succeeding) in google-chrome-ing it&#x27;s way into the productive developer space. If that&#x27;s true, I wonder what the Firefox in this analogy is? Atom? Emacs&#x2F;Vim?</text></item><item><author>cercatrova</author><text>Note that this doesn&#x27;t work with VSCode&#x27;s Remote extensions, such as for SSH, Docker containers, and WSL. Those extensions are closed source and explicitly check that they&#x27;re running on only VSCode. I thought of using this but since I mainly use WSL, this doesn&#x27;t work for me. Still, a laudable effort.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nullabillity</author><text>As a user it&#x27;s still the same EEE trap, regardless of whether it comes from outright malice or is disguised as incompetence.</text></comment> |
21,968,745 | 21,966,149 | 1 | 2 | 21,961,231 | train | <story><title>Intel Has PCIe 4.0 Optane SSDs Ready, but Nothing to Plug Them Into</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-has-pcie-40-optane-ssds-ready-but-nothing-to-plug-them-in-to</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Jonnax</author><text>Would their Optane department care as long as they&#x27;re selling SSDs?<p>What&#x27;s the business dynamic of Intel like? Would they be fine with customers using them with AMD CPUs or would they delay the product?</text></comment> | <story><title>Intel Has PCIe 4.0 Optane SSDs Ready, but Nothing to Plug Them Into</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-has-pcie-40-optane-ssds-ready-but-nothing-to-plug-them-in-to</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Newtonip</author><text>You could always plug them into an AMD based system.</text></comment> |
11,579,865 | 11,579,852 | 1 | 2 | 11,579,021 | train | <story><title>Future Screens Are Mostly Blue</title><url>http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/future-screens-are-mostly-blue/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GFischer</author><text>It&#x27;s been several years since I moved to a touchscreen phone, and I still hate them for the &quot;making calls and answering&quot; workflow - I used to be able to make calls and answer without having to physically look at the phone - the StarTac&#x27;s flick to open would be a good example of that.<p>Of course, touchscreen phones make great computing devices, which makes their inadequacy as phones irrelevant.</text></item><item><author>asimuvPR</author><text>I have a friend who used the starTac until AT&amp;T forced him into something else. He fought for months trying to keep his old phone working. He moved to an iPhone but says it doesn&#x27;t compare.</text></item><item><author>anexprogrammer</author><text>&quot;Consider the MicroTAC, one of Motorola’s first cell phones. It did not sell well.&quot;<p>It was nothing to do with the MicroTAC being £3,000? No, it was the direction of the flip. Right.<p>The later MicroTACs with LCD sold loads. At the time, most people seemed to <i>prefer</i> them to the early StarTAC.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anexprogrammer</author><text>Same. I used to be able to text without ever looking at the screen<p>I seem to have passed peak-smartphone, I check it much less often, and phone more. I&#x27;ve been tempted a few times by the flip-smartphones that exist in the Far East - I wish they were available here so I could trial one in a store. Don&#x27;t want to buy until I decide if they&#x27;re best of both worlds, or worst...</text></comment> | <story><title>Future Screens Are Mostly Blue</title><url>http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/future-screens-are-mostly-blue/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GFischer</author><text>It&#x27;s been several years since I moved to a touchscreen phone, and I still hate them for the &quot;making calls and answering&quot; workflow - I used to be able to make calls and answer without having to physically look at the phone - the StarTac&#x27;s flick to open would be a good example of that.<p>Of course, touchscreen phones make great computing devices, which makes their inadequacy as phones irrelevant.</text></item><item><author>asimuvPR</author><text>I have a friend who used the starTac until AT&amp;T forced him into something else. He fought for months trying to keep his old phone working. He moved to an iPhone but says it doesn&#x27;t compare.</text></item><item><author>anexprogrammer</author><text>&quot;Consider the MicroTAC, one of Motorola’s first cell phones. It did not sell well.&quot;<p>It was nothing to do with the MicroTAC being £3,000? No, it was the direction of the flip. Right.<p>The later MicroTACs with LCD sold loads. At the time, most people seemed to <i>prefer</i> them to the early StarTAC.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>asimuvPR</author><text>Four or five years ago I used a cheap-o flip phone and loved it. Been thinking about going back to it but don&#x27;t want to lose the ability to take really nice pictures at any moment. :&#x2F;</text></comment> |
34,282,376 | 34,281,049 | 1 | 2 | 34,274,510 | train | <story><title>How to Build an Exchange (2017)</title><url>https://www.janestreet.com/tech-talks/building-an-exchange/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hardwaregeek</author><text>I&#x27;ve always been curious whether someone will succeed in using the same development strategy as Jane Street, namely using a non-C++ language as their primary language. I suspect OCaml may have been a very good choice back in the early 2000&#x27;s simply because C++ was a much different language and there weren&#x27;t many options for other languages. Building up an ecosystem was not a bad plan because most languages did not have much of an ecosystem anyways. Nowadays ecosystems are a lot more developed. But on the flip side, that could mean you could stand to use a language like Rust that has an ecosystem and interoperability with C++. I know Tsuru Capital uses Rust but I&#x27;m not familiar with any other firms.<p>It also could be that Jane Street succeeded regardless or even despite OCaml. At the end of the day OCaml isn&#x27;t going to ensure that your trading strategies work. It&#x27;s not going to suddenly create alpha. But I do suspect they&#x27;ve gotten serious hiring and marketing returns by using OCaml. And benefited the OCaml ecosystem as a byproduct, which is a pretty solid side-effect, even if side effects are not very functional :D</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>signify1121</author><text>I have worked for a big (probably more successful) competitor to Jane Street, that uses in its different offices C#, C++, possibly some Java that I&#x27;m unaware of, and for non-production systems a very large mix of everything under the sun (Python, R, etc.)<p>The idea that the language is part of their success is simply absurd. If anything having to have to develop and maintain an entire ecosystem probably slowed them down more than anything.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to Build an Exchange (2017)</title><url>https://www.janestreet.com/tech-talks/building-an-exchange/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hardwaregeek</author><text>I&#x27;ve always been curious whether someone will succeed in using the same development strategy as Jane Street, namely using a non-C++ language as their primary language. I suspect OCaml may have been a very good choice back in the early 2000&#x27;s simply because C++ was a much different language and there weren&#x27;t many options for other languages. Building up an ecosystem was not a bad plan because most languages did not have much of an ecosystem anyways. Nowadays ecosystems are a lot more developed. But on the flip side, that could mean you could stand to use a language like Rust that has an ecosystem and interoperability with C++. I know Tsuru Capital uses Rust but I&#x27;m not familiar with any other firms.<p>It also could be that Jane Street succeeded regardless or even despite OCaml. At the end of the day OCaml isn&#x27;t going to ensure that your trading strategies work. It&#x27;s not going to suddenly create alpha. But I do suspect they&#x27;ve gotten serious hiring and marketing returns by using OCaml. And benefited the OCaml ecosystem as a byproduct, which is a pretty solid side-effect, even if side effects are not very functional :D</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>codetrotter</author><text>&gt; whether someone will succeed in using the same development strategy as Jane Street, namely using a non-C++ language as their primary language<p>It’s gonna happen and it’s gonna be Rust<p>&gt; you could stand to use a language like Rust that has an ecosystem and interoperability with C++.<p>Indeed :)</text></comment> |
15,105,059 | 15,104,745 | 1 | 3 | 15,103,654 | train | <story><title>Is There Any Point to Protesting?</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/08/21/is-there-any-point-to-protesting</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paganel</author><text>It depends on how you protest and who does the protesting. The lame-ass protests you see happening in most of the United States are ineffectual because they don&#x27;t threaten those in power, because they&#x27;re either holiday-looking marches or they&#x27;re staged by students&#x2F;young people, who are easy to ignore.<p>The only way you can change something by protesting is by projecting power. You do that either by the way you do the protesting, i.e. by actively engaging the police forces in trying to reach the seats of power (Parliament, Government&#x27;s buildings) or by taking up in the streets the people who have the most power come election day, i.e. lots and lots of middle class people.<p>Movements like BLM are ineffectual when protesting because they do neither of the 2 things I mentioned above: they don&#x27;t actively engage the powers in Washington and they are not joined by lots and lots of middle class people. As such, they&#x27;ll remain ineffectual as long as nothing changes.<p>Source: me, a guy living in Eastern Europe who has grown-up by watching protests toppling Governments and who has actively joined those kind of protests once I grew up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>will_brown</author><text>Well the article mentions one of my favorite protests, the Montgomery bus protests&#x2F;boycott, that was ultimately started by Rosa Parks, history may remember her as some grand civil rights leader, but that wasn&#x27;t her intent she was just a tired black woman going home from work who refused to give up her seat to a white person. That was a successful protest&#x2F;boycott without a bunch of middle class people or engaging Washington.<p>The majority of the article is about the Vietnam War, but do a search and you won&#x27;t find either Muhammad Ali or even the word &quot;draft&quot;. Muhammad Ali was an outspoken, black, Muslim who refused the draft, again history might pretend he had the love and support of the people, but he didn&#x27;t at least at the time. The War still had the full support of the American people, and Ali was persecuted, striped of his championship title&#x2F;livelihood, labeled Anti-American in the media, he was also prosecuted by the Government, and convicted of draft dodging and sentenced to 5 years of prison. But he continued to fight, the Country began shifting its attitude about the War and the draft, and Ali prevailed in the Courts.<p>Obviously Ali wasn&#x27;t alone, just look at some of the most famous 1st Amendment cases at the time. The Government prosecuting a guy for wearing a jacket that read &quot;Fuck the Draft&quot; in a Courtroom trying to chill his speech, eventually the Supreme Court agreed that was protected speech. Or the Government prosecuting protesters for burning their draft cards, ultimately they lost and the Supreme Court ruled burning draft cards is not protected speech. All these anti-war protests were done majorly by students, granted to your point their message and goal was much clearer than protests of today. Never mind the individual wins and loses, they were done by students, not middle class, and still they won overall because there hasn&#x27;t been a draft in the US since, because its become politically untenable. Students, racial minorities, religious minorities...not the middle class.</text></comment> | <story><title>Is There Any Point to Protesting?</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/08/21/is-there-any-point-to-protesting</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paganel</author><text>It depends on how you protest and who does the protesting. The lame-ass protests you see happening in most of the United States are ineffectual because they don&#x27;t threaten those in power, because they&#x27;re either holiday-looking marches or they&#x27;re staged by students&#x2F;young people, who are easy to ignore.<p>The only way you can change something by protesting is by projecting power. You do that either by the way you do the protesting, i.e. by actively engaging the police forces in trying to reach the seats of power (Parliament, Government&#x27;s buildings) or by taking up in the streets the people who have the most power come election day, i.e. lots and lots of middle class people.<p>Movements like BLM are ineffectual when protesting because they do neither of the 2 things I mentioned above: they don&#x27;t actively engage the powers in Washington and they are not joined by lots and lots of middle class people. As such, they&#x27;ll remain ineffectual as long as nothing changes.<p>Source: me, a guy living in Eastern Europe who has grown-up by watching protests toppling Governments and who has actively joined those kind of protests once I grew up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ismail-s</author><text>BLM entered the social conscience of plenty of people, and managed to influence discussions in the media, even in some countries outside the US. That in itself is a pretty strong form of power.</text></comment> |
4,126,874 | 4,126,606 | 1 | 2 | 4,126,370 | train | <story><title>More Unfunny Junk</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/06/funnyjunks-lawyer-personally-sues-the-oatmeal-creator/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>bradleyland</author><text>Watching this situation unfold is especially poignant for me. I'm also being sued personally -- despite my acting within the confines of a corporation -- by a lawyer working on contingency. Suing someone personally is one of the least scrupulous things that these litigious assholes (lawyers like Carreon) do. They do it because it's unnerving. Everything you have, plus anything you do in the future is put on the table, and clawing it back off of the table is expensive and difficult. It's a shake down, plain and simple.<p>Reading all the comments on HN is such an emotional roller coaster for me. Prior to my current legal situation, I held many of the same view points that I read here; e.g., "A judge is going to throw this out of court! This is absurd!" I've heard this same sentiment over, and over, and over from friends and lawyers with regard to my case, but guess what? We're about 2.5 years in to litigation, and only a handful of allegations have been dismissed. Several personal allegations are still in the complaint (a complaint is a legal filing in civil cases), so I still face losing everything, depending on the outcome of a jury trial.<p>The reality is that judges frequently cannot "throw this out of court" because it's not within their power. Judges can only rule on the letter of the law, and civil law is written to give plaintiffs their day in court without much consideration for the accused (yes, I'm a bit biased here). It's disgusting to watch all this play out with other people involved, but it's gut wrenching when it's your $100k+ hard earned cash that has been spent fending off this type of bullshit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>buro9</author><text>Also being sued at the moment. I'm in the UK.<p>It's only pre-action at the moment, so there's a chance to still avoid full on action.<p>I'm well aware of how real and serious this is though. That it could bankrupt me if only the slightest thing goes wrong (for me).<p>This is when being a bootstrapped sole founder is no fun... there is no safety net, nothing to catch you. I can't even afford representation, so I'm representing myself (nightmare!). I'm spending more time reading and researching rather than coding.<p>What I've learned most of all, is that right and wrong don't really matter.<p>If it's going to go to court, if it involves a jury (the action I'm involved in definitely would)... then all bets are off.<p>And all the while life goes on hold and projects are put on pause.<p>From the outside everyone has their views and express them frequently. This is all detached and partisan though, the reality is that it really can bankrupt you, or takeaway your future, or drain your current assets and reserves. It demands being treated with respect even if you believe your position is sound and the case unfounded.<p>The hardest bit, as you rightly say, is the gut wrenching fear and stress. The way it affects your sleep. The way it's hard to work or relax because your thoughts are always on the legal action. It affects everything.</text></comment> | <story><title>More Unfunny Junk</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/06/funnyjunks-lawyer-personally-sues-the-oatmeal-creator/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>bradleyland</author><text>Watching this situation unfold is especially poignant for me. I'm also being sued personally -- despite my acting within the confines of a corporation -- by a lawyer working on contingency. Suing someone personally is one of the least scrupulous things that these litigious assholes (lawyers like Carreon) do. They do it because it's unnerving. Everything you have, plus anything you do in the future is put on the table, and clawing it back off of the table is expensive and difficult. It's a shake down, plain and simple.<p>Reading all the comments on HN is such an emotional roller coaster for me. Prior to my current legal situation, I held many of the same view points that I read here; e.g., "A judge is going to throw this out of court! This is absurd!" I've heard this same sentiment over, and over, and over from friends and lawyers with regard to my case, but guess what? We're about 2.5 years in to litigation, and only a handful of allegations have been dismissed. Several personal allegations are still in the complaint (a complaint is a legal filing in civil cases), so I still face losing everything, depending on the outcome of a jury trial.<p>The reality is that judges frequently cannot "throw this out of court" because it's not within their power. Judges can only rule on the letter of the law, and civil law is written to give plaintiffs their day in court without much consideration for the accused (yes, I'm a bit biased here). It's disgusting to watch all this play out with other people involved, but it's gut wrenching when it's your $100k+ hard earned cash that has been spent fending off this type of bullshit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>citricsquid</author><text>I've seen a lot of comments online talk about how in the US people are very litigation-happy and the law enables it. Does your situation exist because you're located in the US or is your situation something that would happen anywhere in the world?</text></comment> |
3,080,581 | 3,080,643 | 1 | 3 | 3,079,567 | train | <story><title>Occupying Wall Street</title><url>http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/laurie-penny/2011/10/wall-street-york-police-bridge</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>exit</author><text>to whoever responded with:<p><i>"But anyways. Like most of us, I am also very fortunate to be in tech, and have a passion for programming. But I do not pretend that my good fortune some how means I work or harder or am smarter than other people in our society."</i>,<p>but then deleted their comment:<p>you really should repost it. it captures my feelings too and i wanted to thank you for putting them into words.<p>again and again, i encounter people in my circles of well-employed colleagues who do not realize how lucky they are to have interests coinciding with aptitudes coinciding with particular economic demands in their productive years.<p>and it makes them sickeningly self congratulatory.</text></item><item><author>rick888</author><text>"We are getting kicked out of our homes."<p>..and why is that? I want to see how many of these people protesting actually got kicked out of their homes and why.<p>"We are forced to choose between groceries and rent."<p>Do you have a cell phone? Do you have cable? Where do you live?<p>"We are denied quality medical care."<p>Interesting how this is somehow wall street's problems. Can I blame them for tax increases too?<p>"We are suffering from environmental pollution."<p>lol?<p>"We are working long hours for little pay and no rights, if we are working at all. We are getting nothing while the other 1 percent is getting everything."<p>If you can't find a job..you need to ask yourself why. I lost my job a little over a year ago and then started my own company. Since then, I've had tons of recruiters and other companies emailing me because they want me to work for them. There are still plenty of jobs out there. You just need to bust your ass to get them. Most people aren't willing to put in the work.<p>I saw the start of this entitlement mentality with music and software piracy. Many people from this generation feel it's their "right" to be able to download these things for free. Now they are entitled to a home, a college education, and a job.<p>They want equality, but the problem isn't we aren't all equal. I work 12 hours a day. As a result, I have more money in the bank than someone that works part-time. Why should I be limited or penalized for this?<p>"So far, it's pick-your-own cause, with grievances ranging from bank bail-outs to animal testing, and yet what most of the mainstream media seems to have missed is the fact that the occupation itself is its own demand"<p>This is why I find the entire "occupation" to be a joke. Every left-wing asshole with a grievance against big business is out there protesting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>abalashov</author><text><i>again and again, i encounter people in my circles of well-employed colleagues who do not realize how lucky they are to have interests coinciding with aptitudes coinciding with particular economic demands in their productive years.</i><p><i>and it makes them sickeningly self congratulatory.</i><p>It's one of the things that delayed my entry into the technical profession. I grew up a passionate and involved hobbyist, but seeing this kind of self-aggrandising Randian narrative played out over and over in forums and bodies of knowledge that I considered proxies for the values of the profession (i.e. Slashdot) nauseated me. For a long time, I was determined not to go into tech out of loathing for the idea of working with such people.<p>Ultimately, I went anyway, and realised--as teenagers are wont to do once they grow up--that any world is more diverse than meets the eye. But I can definitely say that the mythos of the well-earning "self-made" IT man was a major blemish on the idea, not an asset.</text></comment> | <story><title>Occupying Wall Street</title><url>http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/laurie-penny/2011/10/wall-street-york-police-bridge</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>exit</author><text>to whoever responded with:<p><i>"But anyways. Like most of us, I am also very fortunate to be in tech, and have a passion for programming. But I do not pretend that my good fortune some how means I work or harder or am smarter than other people in our society."</i>,<p>but then deleted their comment:<p>you really should repost it. it captures my feelings too and i wanted to thank you for putting them into words.<p>again and again, i encounter people in my circles of well-employed colleagues who do not realize how lucky they are to have interests coinciding with aptitudes coinciding with particular economic demands in their productive years.<p>and it makes them sickeningly self congratulatory.</text></item><item><author>rick888</author><text>"We are getting kicked out of our homes."<p>..and why is that? I want to see how many of these people protesting actually got kicked out of their homes and why.<p>"We are forced to choose between groceries and rent."<p>Do you have a cell phone? Do you have cable? Where do you live?<p>"We are denied quality medical care."<p>Interesting how this is somehow wall street's problems. Can I blame them for tax increases too?<p>"We are suffering from environmental pollution."<p>lol?<p>"We are working long hours for little pay and no rights, if we are working at all. We are getting nothing while the other 1 percent is getting everything."<p>If you can't find a job..you need to ask yourself why. I lost my job a little over a year ago and then started my own company. Since then, I've had tons of recruiters and other companies emailing me because they want me to work for them. There are still plenty of jobs out there. You just need to bust your ass to get them. Most people aren't willing to put in the work.<p>I saw the start of this entitlement mentality with music and software piracy. Many people from this generation feel it's their "right" to be able to download these things for free. Now they are entitled to a home, a college education, and a job.<p>They want equality, but the problem isn't we aren't all equal. I work 12 hours a day. As a result, I have more money in the bank than someone that works part-time. Why should I be limited or penalized for this?<p>"So far, it's pick-your-own cause, with grievances ranging from bank bail-outs to animal testing, and yet what most of the mainstream media seems to have missed is the fact that the occupation itself is its own demand"<p>This is why I find the entire "occupation" to be a joke. Every left-wing asshole with a grievance against big business is out there protesting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>srdev</author><text>I am fully aware that I'm "lucky" that I have an interest in computer programming -- a highly marketable skill. But when people harp on that fortune, it really comes across as trying to devalue the effort I put into developing those skills. Just as an idea has no value without execution, luck is worthless unless you put in the hard work to exercise it. People are emphasizing the former at the expense of the latter to make others feel guilty about their successes and obligated towards the "less fortunate," and that's why people push back.</text></comment> |
21,132,126 | 21,132,244 | 1 | 3 | 21,129,654 | train | <story><title>Federal Judge Upholds Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions Process</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2019/10/01/730386096/federal-judge-rules-in-favor-of-harvard-in-admissions-case</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomschlick</author><text>&gt; but the justification is that these classes are&#x2F;have been historically discriminated against and constitutional admissions which take race into consideration are a temporary measure to right these historical wrongs by leveling the playing field.<p>So under that thought process... when does the temporary measure end? Is there a specific goal? Or is it something unachievable like &quot;when income inequality is fixed&quot;.</text></item><item><author>throwaway_law</author><text>&gt; It is very clear that race-conscious admissions are systematically racist and discriminatory.<p>Every time the SCOTUS hears one of these cases they acknowledge that, but the justification is that these classes are&#x2F;have been historically discriminated against and constitutional admissions which take race into consideration are a temporary measure to right these historical wrongs by leveling the playing field. So the end goal even according to SCOTUS is for these measures to eventually become unconstitutional.</text></item><item><author>throwawaysea</author><text>This ruling is a travesty and I hope the Supreme Court overturns it when this is appealed. It is very clear that race-conscious admissions are systematically racist and discriminatory. Take a look at the distribution of students by race in the University of California system, where they&#x27;re not permitted to discriminate in this manner, thanks to Prop 209 (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1996_California_Proposition_209" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1996_California_Proposition_20...</a>) - it is very different (more Asians) compared to private schools like Harvard.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bigendian1234</author><text>FWIW, I&#x27;m a white person who used to think of affirmative action as unfair discrimination. That was true until I spent time volunteering teaching technical skills to kids in poor immigrant neighborhoods. Now that I have had an up close experience with these communities, I&#x27;m here to tell you institutional racism is real and we&#x27;re far from it making sense to end these programs.<p>There simply is not a quick easy solution and those who are not oppressed simply have no real frame of reference to understand the problem. I encourage every person who feels these programs are unfair to spend time volunteering in poor minority communities.</text></comment> | <story><title>Federal Judge Upholds Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions Process</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2019/10/01/730386096/federal-judge-rules-in-favor-of-harvard-in-admissions-case</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomschlick</author><text>&gt; but the justification is that these classes are&#x2F;have been historically discriminated against and constitutional admissions which take race into consideration are a temporary measure to right these historical wrongs by leveling the playing field.<p>So under that thought process... when does the temporary measure end? Is there a specific goal? Or is it something unachievable like &quot;when income inequality is fixed&quot;.</text></item><item><author>throwaway_law</author><text>&gt; It is very clear that race-conscious admissions are systematically racist and discriminatory.<p>Every time the SCOTUS hears one of these cases they acknowledge that, but the justification is that these classes are&#x2F;have been historically discriminated against and constitutional admissions which take race into consideration are a temporary measure to right these historical wrongs by leveling the playing field. So the end goal even according to SCOTUS is for these measures to eventually become unconstitutional.</text></item><item><author>throwawaysea</author><text>This ruling is a travesty and I hope the Supreme Court overturns it when this is appealed. It is very clear that race-conscious admissions are systematically racist and discriminatory. Take a look at the distribution of students by race in the University of California system, where they&#x27;re not permitted to discriminate in this manner, thanks to Prop 209 (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1996_California_Proposition_209" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1996_California_Proposition_20...</a>) - it is very different (more Asians) compared to private schools like Harvard.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rtkwe</author><text>For starters I&#x27;d say when the racial wealth gap has closed and when racial outcomes in education even out. So many of the factors that feed back into keeping those gaps alive can be traced directly back to racist policies like red lining that only ended less than a human life time ago.</text></comment> |
3,142,446 | 3,142,336 | 1 | 3 | 3,142,196 | train | <story><title>The Greatest Game You Will Ever Play</title><url>http://thegreatestgameyouwilleverplay.com</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eropple</author><text>Eh. I've ascended in NetHack four times. It is a good game. It might even be a great game. But to call it "the greatest game you will ever play" is hubris; the game has really serious problems once you figure out how to reliably get past the first ten dungeon levels or so. It picks back up again by the time you're going back up with the amulet, but almost all of Gehennom is just a grind. I've lost more characters to boredom than I have to deaths when in Gehennom. I think that a lot of people conflate an RNG with potentially nasty outcomes with depth or intricacy, which, coupled with the game's age, gives NetHack a bit more of a shine than it'd otherwise get.<p>This is, however, a really fantastically designed website.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Greatest Game You Will Ever Play</title><url>http://thegreatestgameyouwilleverplay.com</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jdludlow</author><text>After reading the headline, my reaction was "Yeah right. It's not better than NetHack."<p><i>click</i><p>"Oh"</text></comment> |
19,519,797 | 19,519,644 | 1 | 3 | 19,515,362 | train | <story><title>An amphibian fungus has become “the most deadly pathogen known”</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/science/frogs-fungus-bd.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vichu</author><text>Just thinking about how much work and research from organizations like the CDC put in to preventing another Spanish flu-like pandemic for humans, it seems shockingly obvious that pandemics would be occurring for other species where technology and quarantine are not as strictly used. Its only through observations like this that I&#x27;ve realized how devastating the impact of contaminated ecosystems must be. I suppose that&#x27;s why I&#x27;ve needed to check all those boxes about visiting farms&#x2F;smuggling produce whenever I go through customs.<p>Since this article is specifically about frogs, I can&#x27;t help but wonder if the drastic reduction of insect biomass isn&#x27;t contributing to their decline. With numbers as drastic as a 75% decline in certain areas[0], it&#x27;s hard to imagine frogs&#x2F;birds&#x2F;etc. aren&#x27;t suffering from population decline due to reduced food availability.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;as-insect-populations-decline-scientists-are-trying-to-understand-why&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;as-insect-populat...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Ultimatt</author><text>Its worse than a pandemic because its across so many species simultaneously. Imagine if a flesh eating fungus was killing all mammals around you. What would be the human response to this? It would be a lot stronger than quarantine.<p>We would immediately slaughter all mammal pets. All rodents would be fumegated from cities whilst everyone wears gas masks in the streets. With children going to school in tented buildings.<p>Consider this has been going on for decades because real immunity is low, just resistance is better with some species. We would have whole generations maimed from amputations to save their life.<p>If this was something that affected us more directly it would be the bleakest existence you could imagine.</text></comment> | <story><title>An amphibian fungus has become “the most deadly pathogen known”</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/science/frogs-fungus-bd.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vichu</author><text>Just thinking about how much work and research from organizations like the CDC put in to preventing another Spanish flu-like pandemic for humans, it seems shockingly obvious that pandemics would be occurring for other species where technology and quarantine are not as strictly used. Its only through observations like this that I&#x27;ve realized how devastating the impact of contaminated ecosystems must be. I suppose that&#x27;s why I&#x27;ve needed to check all those boxes about visiting farms&#x2F;smuggling produce whenever I go through customs.<p>Since this article is specifically about frogs, I can&#x27;t help but wonder if the drastic reduction of insect biomass isn&#x27;t contributing to their decline. With numbers as drastic as a 75% decline in certain areas[0], it&#x27;s hard to imagine frogs&#x2F;birds&#x2F;etc. aren&#x27;t suffering from population decline due to reduced food availability.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;as-insect-populations-decline-scientists-are-trying-to-understand-why&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;as-insect-populat...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ImaCake</author><text>This is a lesson learnt in Australia and even more so in New Zealand. Quarantine upon entry is strict. I returned to Australia from New Zealand with dirty hiking boots and they washed them before letting me carry them through. Not declaring or disposing of plant or animal matter is subject to massive fines.</text></comment> |
12,781,920 | 12,782,056 | 1 | 2 | 12,780,985 | train | <story><title>Can you hurt yourself eating chilli peppers?</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20161020-can-you-hurt-yourself-eating-chilli-peppers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>huherto</author><text>Mexican here. I find it amusing that people focus on how spicy their peppers are. They are missing the point. There are many pepper varieties and each has a different flavor. That is the interesting part and how it mixes with different foods in a variety of recipes. Focus on the flavor, not the burn.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>teaearlgraycold</author><text>The burn is an important part of the pepper experience. For some, building a tolerance to capsaicin is a hobby. They&#x27;re not missing the point, they&#x27;re just eating them for a different reason.<p>And what&#x27;s nice about building up an extreme tolerance to capsaicin is that afterwards you are able to better experience the flavor of peppers, without focusing entirely on the heat.</text></comment> | <story><title>Can you hurt yourself eating chilli peppers?</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20161020-can-you-hurt-yourself-eating-chilli-peppers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>huherto</author><text>Mexican here. I find it amusing that people focus on how spicy their peppers are. They are missing the point. There are many pepper varieties and each has a different flavor. That is the interesting part and how it mixes with different foods in a variety of recipes. Focus on the flavor, not the burn.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>M_Grey</author><text>I used to think that whole idea was crap, until I started seriously eating spicy foods. Now I really love the different flavors, not just heat, you get from peppers. Habanero are almost fruity, Jalapeno more like an amped up bell pepper, and so on. Then you have the differences in quality of burn; is it a numbing burn like szechuan pepper? A &quot;back of the throat, choke you&quot; burn like a Thai chili?<p>It&#x27;s a whole new world of stimulation!</text></comment> |
27,239,211 | 27,229,223 | 1 | 2 | 27,220,941 | train | <story><title>The full story of the RSA hack can finally be told</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/the-full-story-of-the-stunning-rsa-hack-can-finally-be-told/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chinathrow</author><text>&gt; RSA executives told me that the part of their network responsible for manufacturing the SecurID hardware tokens was protected by an “air gap”—a total disconnection of computers from any machine that touches the internet. But in fact, Leetham says, one server on RSA’s internet-connected network was linked, through a firewall that allowed no other connections, to the seed warehouse on the manufacturing side.<p>That&#x27;s not really an air gap, isn&#x27;t it?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PeterWhittaker</author><text>As others have noted, no, it is not. But that doesn&#x27;t boggle my mind...<p>What boggles my mind is that the seed machine and the intervening network and the firewall did not appear to have &quot;scream loudly then shutdown when this threshold is exceeded&quot; mitigations in place.<p>They were wise enough to have a single connection from the seed host to the seed requester. They were wise enough to limit the requester to one request every 15 minutes.<p>They only discovered that threshold was being exceeded when they logged in to that machine.<p>The firewall itself should have had detection and response capabilities to notice when calls were being made faster than that, and it should have had a third, dedicated warning connection to alert humans to the fact. The seed host should have had detection and response capabilities.<p>And, given the value of the asset, it would have been entirely reasonable to have a transparent bit of network gear doing the same, like a custom switch invisible to the request host.<p>Since the article didn&#x27;t mention any of these things, and since it said that the high request rate was detected only by humans on the box, I&#x27;m going to assume they didn&#x27;t have these, for reasons mysterious.<p>EDIT: Come to think of it, since that machine was being used to burn CDs, there should also have been strict limits with appropriate detection mitigations on what that machine could do outbound.</text></comment> | <story><title>The full story of the RSA hack can finally be told</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/the-full-story-of-the-stunning-rsa-hack-can-finally-be-told/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chinathrow</author><text>&gt; RSA executives told me that the part of their network responsible for manufacturing the SecurID hardware tokens was protected by an “air gap”—a total disconnection of computers from any machine that touches the internet. But in fact, Leetham says, one server on RSA’s internet-connected network was linked, through a firewall that allowed no other connections, to the seed warehouse on the manufacturing side.<p>That&#x27;s not really an air gap, isn&#x27;t it?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dredmorbius</author><text>That configuration is more typically referred to as a bastion server (or bastion host, per Wikipedia).<p>Access between network segments, or to a protected host, is through a single specifically-hardened host. Through network traffic (natting or bridging) is typically disabled or at least not provided by default, though in practice, it&#x27;s challenging to entirely prevent tunelling.<p>But no, it is <i>not</i> an air-gapped system. Likely a journalistic compromise as &quot;bastion host&quot; is a less familiar term to the public.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bastion_host" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bastion_host</a></text></comment> |
16,335,311 | 16,335,263 | 1 | 2 | 16,333,550 | train | <story><title>A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript</title><url>https://github.com/captbaritone/winamp2-js</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_diyu</author><text>Wow, it even has skin support! I spent way too many hours developing skins for WinAmp and Trillian back in the late 90s as a teenager. I get why skins fell out of style, but I also kinda wish they didn&#x27;t. Choosing a skin lets you personalize an app, creating a skin does so even more while also letting you express your creativity, and having skins creates a community. If I ever make an app where skinning would make sense, I would 100% go for it. Skinning should make a come-back.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>greymeister</author><text>I always used skins in Winamp&#x2F;XMMS, but I&#x27;m immediately filled with nostalgia upon seeing the default skin. I wonder if people who came to use computers in the last decade will experience the sort of enjoyment I got out of customizing the look and feel of applications. All of the walled gardens have intertwined design with functionality to the point where skinning doesn&#x27;t really exist in the same way. I haven&#x27;t used Windows 10, but I wonder if it&#x27;s possible to replace the Windows shell like I used to in college.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript</title><url>https://github.com/captbaritone/winamp2-js</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_diyu</author><text>Wow, it even has skin support! I spent way too many hours developing skins for WinAmp and Trillian back in the late 90s as a teenager. I get why skins fell out of style, but I also kinda wish they didn&#x27;t. Choosing a skin lets you personalize an app, creating a skin does so even more while also letting you express your creativity, and having skins creates a community. If I ever make an app where skinning would make sense, I would 100% go for it. Skinning should make a come-back.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>weavie</author><text>Absolutely. I don&#x27;t get why skins fell out of style. I remember back in the day when I was working on an accounting app, even that I made skinnable. You may just be reconciling your bank account, but at least you could do it in a form that looked like it was made from marble, or wood, or whatever you wanted! It just made everything feel just a little bit less tedious... at least to me</text></comment> |
5,315,971 | 5,315,550 | 1 | 2 | 5,315,374 | train | <story><title>SpaceX Dragon successfully docks with International Space Station</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/03/spacex-dragon-successfully-docks-with-international-space-station/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>methodin</author><text>Is there any significance to the fact that both major launches had problems but did not hinder a successful mission? Is that a common occurrence as far as missions go to fail (or have failures) while still gracefully completing?</text></comment> | <story><title>SpaceX Dragon successfully docks with International Space Station</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/03/spacex-dragon-successfully-docks-with-international-space-station/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eliben</author><text>It would be interesting to see the total cost of this mission, and compare it to the total cost of similar NASA missions in the past.</text></comment> |
27,889,559 | 27,888,502 | 1 | 2 | 27,886,458 | train | <story><title>A GPIO Driver in Rust</title><url>https://lwn.net/Articles/863459/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>secondcoming</author><text>In the function &#x27;pl061_irq_type&#x27; the original code has (line 224):<p><pre><code> writeb(gpiois, pl061-&gt;base + GPIOIS);
writeb(gpioibe, pl061-&gt;base + GPIOIBE);
writeb(gpioiev, pl061-&gt;base + GPIOIEV);
</code></pre>
but the translated code has a differing order:<p><pre><code> pl061.base.writeb(gpioiev, GPIOIEV);
pl061.base.writeb(gpiois, GPIOIS);
pl061.base.writeb(gpioibe, GPIOIBE);
</code></pre>
Isn&#x27;t the order of operations important when talking to I&#x2F;O?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tialaramex</author><text>In this case GPIOIS, GPIOIBE and GPIOIEV are basically three registers that between them determine how interrupts work for each pin. Do you want edges or level triggered? <i>Both</i> edges or just one? High levels or low? Order likely makes no practical difference whatsoever.<p>The data sheet actually suggests a particular course of action if you desire edge triggered interrupts but that recommendation doesn&#x27;t match what either driver actually does here. Real world experience suggests that &quot;Follow the exact steps from the data sheet&quot; is a worthwhile diagnostic step when the driver <i>doesn&#x27;t</i> work but probably not worth doing if your driver works. AIUI this driver works.<p>It sounds like the worst thing that can go wrong is you eat one spurious interrupt because something happened to the GPIO pin you cared about while you were meddling with the interrupt handling. Confusing for a tightly coded embedded system, but probably unnoticeable in the Linux ecosystem.</text></comment> | <story><title>A GPIO Driver in Rust</title><url>https://lwn.net/Articles/863459/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>secondcoming</author><text>In the function &#x27;pl061_irq_type&#x27; the original code has (line 224):<p><pre><code> writeb(gpiois, pl061-&gt;base + GPIOIS);
writeb(gpioibe, pl061-&gt;base + GPIOIBE);
writeb(gpioiev, pl061-&gt;base + GPIOIEV);
</code></pre>
but the translated code has a differing order:<p><pre><code> pl061.base.writeb(gpioiev, GPIOIEV);
pl061.base.writeb(gpiois, GPIOIS);
pl061.base.writeb(gpioibe, GPIOIBE);
</code></pre>
Isn&#x27;t the order of operations important when talking to I&#x2F;O?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>floatingatoll</author><text>I&#x27;ve read through a chunk of the thread and no one has mentioned that on the list yet.<p>You could, I imagine, submit that as a Pull Request here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;wedsonaf&#x2F;linux&#x2F;tree&#x2F;pl061" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;wedsonaf&#x2F;linux&#x2F;tree&#x2F;pl061</a><p>Or you can email a note about it to the author at the email address shown in the thread archives.<p>Either way, I bet they&#x27;d like to know about the order swap and either add a code comment or unswap it.</text></comment> |
7,048,439 | 7,048,486 | 1 | 2 | 7,048,249 | train | <story><title>A member of our community is missing, help find him</title><url>http://blog.izs.me/post/72990767417/a-member-of-our-community-is-missing-help-find-him</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>8ig8</author><text>Please read this. It seems to be the source of the original post and provides additional details (news articles). It is also easier to read.<p><a href="http://findluk.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;findluk.com</a><p>Edited to better describe the link.</text></comment> | <story><title>A member of our community is missing, help find him</title><url>http://blog.izs.me/post/72990767417/a-member-of-our-community-is-missing-help-find-him</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bazzargh</author><text>Hope Luke turns up ok, here&#x27;s a story of someone local to me who disappeared but came back:
<a href="http://thepopcop.co.uk/2013/12/the-boy-who-went-missing-from-belladrum/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thepopcop.co.uk&#x2F;2013&#x2F;12&#x2F;the-boy-who-went-missing-from...</a><p>The point being (as Tom says in his story), if you feel alone - talk to someone. It&#x27;s ok not to feel ok.</text></comment> |
39,427,947 | 39,427,759 | 1 | 2 | 39,396,373 | train | <story><title>Clean your codebase with basic information theory</title><url>https://taylor.town/compress-code</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>valty</author><text>&gt; In my experience, the key to maintaining readability is developing a healthy respect for locality<p>I think this pursuit of &quot;locality&quot; is what actually causes more complexity. And I think its mainly around our obsession with representing our code as text files in folder hierarchies.<p>&gt; coarsely structure codebases around CPU timelines and dataflow<p>This is why I would prefer code to be in a database, instead of files and folders, so that structure doesn&#x27;t matter, and the tree view UI can be organized based on runtime code paths, and data flow - via value tracing.<p>&gt; don’t pollute your namespace – use blocks to restrict variables&#x2F;functions to the smallest possible scope<p>Everyone likes to be all modular and develop in tiny little pieces that they assemble together. Relying on modularization means that when stuff changes upstream in the call stack, we just hack around these changes adding some conditionals to handle these changes instead of resorting to larger refactors. People like this because things can keep moving instead of everything breaking.<p>Instead, what we need to do is make it easier to trace all the data dependencies in our programs so that when we make a change to anything, we can instantly see what depends on it and needs updating.<p>I have actually started to think that, against conventional wisdom, everything should be a global variable. All the issues with global variables can be solved with better tracing tooling.<p>Instead we end up with all these little mini-databases spread all over our code, when what we should have is one central one from which we can clearly see all the data dependencies.<p>&gt; group related concepts together<p>Instead, we should query a database of code as needed...just like we do with our normalized data.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>verinus</author><text>I was thinking about code along the same lines: we are modeling, not writing text.
This just happens to be the best way to express our models in a way a computer can be made to understand it, be formal enough and still be understandable by others.<p>What current languages are bad about is expressing architecture, and the problem of having one way to structure our models (domain models) vs. the actions&#x2F;transformations that run on them (flow of execution).<p>I strongly disagree on the global variable side though...</text></comment> | <story><title>Clean your codebase with basic information theory</title><url>https://taylor.town/compress-code</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>valty</author><text>&gt; In my experience, the key to maintaining readability is developing a healthy respect for locality<p>I think this pursuit of &quot;locality&quot; is what actually causes more complexity. And I think its mainly around our obsession with representing our code as text files in folder hierarchies.<p>&gt; coarsely structure codebases around CPU timelines and dataflow<p>This is why I would prefer code to be in a database, instead of files and folders, so that structure doesn&#x27;t matter, and the tree view UI can be organized based on runtime code paths, and data flow - via value tracing.<p>&gt; don’t pollute your namespace – use blocks to restrict variables&#x2F;functions to the smallest possible scope<p>Everyone likes to be all modular and develop in tiny little pieces that they assemble together. Relying on modularization means that when stuff changes upstream in the call stack, we just hack around these changes adding some conditionals to handle these changes instead of resorting to larger refactors. People like this because things can keep moving instead of everything breaking.<p>Instead, what we need to do is make it easier to trace all the data dependencies in our programs so that when we make a change to anything, we can instantly see what depends on it and needs updating.<p>I have actually started to think that, against conventional wisdom, everything should be a global variable. All the issues with global variables can be solved with better tracing tooling.<p>Instead we end up with all these little mini-databases spread all over our code, when what we should have is one central one from which we can clearly see all the data dependencies.<p>&gt; group related concepts together<p>Instead, we should query a database of code as needed...just like we do with our normalized data.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Sakos</author><text>I think the main problem is that we think of code as text. So the only way to determine if code is related is by parsing all of the text again. I&#x27;m not sure if a database representation is really the correct path to take, but I think we need some other way to represent code and give parts of code meaning.</text></comment> |
739,596 | 739,567 | 1 | 3 | 739,371 | train | <story><title>Why I don't find HN useful anymore</title><url>http://imgur.com/OOVSe.jpg</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>there</author><text>Why I don't find HN useful anymore<p><a href="http://imgur.com/8yx0Z.png" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/8yx0Z.png</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>biohacker42</author><text>I never ceases to fascinate me how taboo meta discussions of HN are. We tolerate all kinds of topics, but this one almost everyone viscerally hates. It is as if everyone takes it as a personal insult on their tastes. Odd.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why I don't find HN useful anymore</title><url>http://imgur.com/OOVSe.jpg</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>there</author><text>Why I don't find HN useful anymore<p><a href="http://imgur.com/8yx0Z.png" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/8yx0Z.png</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lucumo</author><text>Ignoring your opinion per se for a minute, I feel you could have chosen a less snide way of expressing it.</text></comment> |
37,444,401 | 37,443,249 | 1 | 3 | 37,413,387 | train | <story><title>Newly discovered comet Nishimura could be visible to naked eye this weekend</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/sep/07/nishimura-comet-could-be-visible-to-naked-eye-this-weekend</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>joshuahedlund</author><text>Whithout expected magnitude, Useless to know whether I can see it bright like Venus in the city or if maybe I might be able to make out a smudge with binoculars if I drive an hour out of town…<p>Found details on spaceweather.com:<p>&gt; There is a bright comet in the morning sky. You probably can&#x27;t see it with the naked eye, but even short exposures with digital cameras are picking up the starlike head and long tail of Comet Nishimura (C&#x2F;2023 P1)<p>&gt; Comet Nishimura is plunging toward the sun for a close encounter inside the orbit of Mercury on Sept. 17th. Increasing heat is causing it to brighten rapidly. Latest estimates of the comet&#x27;s brightness place it at magnitude +4.5. In a dark sky, this would be visible to the unaided eye, but the morning sky is not dark. Cameras are required to observe the comet; a few seconds of exposure time are enough for a very nice picture.</text></comment> | <story><title>Newly discovered comet Nishimura could be visible to naked eye this weekend</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/sep/07/nishimura-comet-could-be-visible-to-naked-eye-this-weekend</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>BossingAround</author><text>This is off topic, but can I just say, the universe, and its vastness, is absolutely incomprehensible and awe inspiring.<p>For example, the distance of earth to moon is ~380 000 kilometres (or ~238 000 miles), depending of course on the current phase of the moon&#x27;s orbit. This is just about enough to stack all planets in our solar system and put them side by side between Earth and moon. The combined diameter of all planets in our solar system is ~384 000 kilometers [1].<p>For fun, the longest flight on earth seems to be Singapore to JFK, which covers ~15k km (or 9.5k miles), which takes us 19 hours. Just in case you want a toy scale to realize how far the big bright object you can commonly see in the sky is.<p>And what&#x27;s crazy is when you realize that our whole galaxy is just a spec of dust in the scale of the universe.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;futurism.com&#x2F;you-can-fit-all-of-the-planets-between-earth-and-the-moon" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;futurism.com&#x2F;you-can-fit-all-of-the-planets-between-...</a></text></comment> |
17,138,432 | 17,138,425 | 1 | 2 | 17,137,932 | train | <story><title>Coinbase acquires decentralized cryptocurrency trading platform Paradex</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/crypto-currencies-coinbase/coinbase-acquires-cryptocurrency-trading-platform-paradex-idUSL2N1SU1KK</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hendzen</author><text>Circle acquiring Poloniex changed the game. The rumored assurances from regulators that Poloniex&#x27;s prior KYC&#x2F;AML transgressions would be ignored as long as Circle fixed them going forward was all it really took. Now we are seeing a huge wave of M&amp;A deals while Coinbase uses its very strong financial position to buy up the the less compliant but cashflow-rich overseas exchanges. In particular I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised to see a huge deal such as Coinbase acquiring BitFinex&#x2F;Tether at a greatly reduced price w&#x2F; some negotiated deal with US regulators to phase out Tether as long as holders can prove their Tether balances were acquired legitimately.<p>That said, if trading is the killer app for Bitcoin&#x2F;Crypto [0] in general - what is the point of this whole business? For example most of the genuinely innovative things I&#x27;ve seen on the ETH blockchain like 0x (the backbone of Paradex), dydx (decentralized derivatives) and related technologies or higher level platforms like relayers and decentralized exchanges involve trading. Which begs the question - what tokens are actually worth trading in the first place? Is all this value really justified by CryptoKitties?<p>Just making HFT bots to trade around a bunch of monopoly money that is useless other than hype-driven speculation? I&#x27;m sure this could continue for way longer than I and other skeptics expect, as it already has before, but the whole cryptocurrency sector seems fairly irrational to me. And I say that as someone who was VERY interested&#x2F;knowledgable about bitcoin during the 2013 bubble, to the point where I was hanging out on IRC channels like #bitcoin-wizards, discussing BIPs etc.<p>[0] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tradingplacesnewsletter.com&#x2F;move-over-crypto-enthusiasts-wall-street-will-take-it-from-here-5b5a9067bc5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tradingplacesnewsletter.com&#x2F;move-over-crypto-enthusi...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Coinbase acquires decentralized cryptocurrency trading platform Paradex</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/crypto-currencies-coinbase/coinbase-acquires-cryptocurrency-trading-platform-paradex-idUSL2N1SU1KK</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>iMuzz</author><text>Paradex is a decentralized exchange that&#x27;s built on top of the 0x protocol.<p>DEXs are great because you can trade cryptocurrency pairs without trusting an intermediary (think Mt. Gox for why this is needed).<p>This move shows that Coinbase is serious about building a decentralized trading platform (unless this is just an acquihire which would be very disappointing).<p>Really exciting news!</text></comment> |
20,374,196 | 20,373,864 | 1 | 3 | 20,372,855 | train | <story><title>Debian 10 “Buster” Released</title><url>https://www.debian.org/News/2019/20190706</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>charlesdaniels</author><text>Congratulations to the Debian team on their new release! I will certainly be upgrading to it soon enough. Just for fun, I downloaded the ISO shortly after it went up and recorded my first impressions of using it on the happy path with the default GNOME environment. I would consider myself a technical user, but I use GNOME rarely and am not familiar with it personally.<p>* I didn&#x27;t notice anything out of place with the Wayland switch. I haven&#x27;t tested suspend&#x2F;resume&#x2F;hibernate&#x2F;external monitors yet though. Personally, I won&#x27;t be using Wayland on my main machine once I update that as I&#x27;m a CWM user, and Wayland support probably isn&#x27;t every going to happen for that.<p>* My user account wasn&#x27;t added to the sudo group by default, and using `su` broke something with PATH (&#x2F;sbin wasn&#x27;t in PATH after running `su`).<p>* GNOME apparently does not support configuring multiple wifi adapters, which was a problem since I had intended to use a USB adapter to download the nonfree drivers for my internal adapter, but GNOME did not have a menu to configure them separately.<p>* The problems that GNOME 3.X has always had continue to be present -- chiefly the UI scale is too large on low-res screens (the machine I was testing with has a 1366x768 display), and graphics performance continues to disappoint (animations stutter very noticeably on the &quot;search&quot; screen for example, this was on a 2nd gen mobile i7).<p>* The much-touted software center seemed to have several polish issues. The first time I launched it it threw a bunch of inscrutable errors and didn&#x27;t work until I re-booted the machine. It still threw inscrutable errors, but worked after this. Lists of software would take 60s+ to download (render? not sure what part was slowing it down).<p>From the perspective of a technical user, I don&#x27;t care about any of these. They either affect software I don&#x27;t use, or could be fixed easily enough. However, if the objective is to support non-technical users who don&#x27;t have the knowledge&#x2F;time&#x2F;interest to troubleshoot, I feel that this release falls short.<p>For reference, the hardware used to test was a ThinkPad X220 with a 2nd gen i7, 12GB RAM, and an SSD.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alxlaz</author><text>&gt; The problems that GNOME 3.X has always had continue to be present -- chiefly the UI scale is too large on low-res screens (the machine I was testing with has a 1366x768 display)<p>It&#x27;s not just Gnome that does that. There&#x27;s an entire generation of designers that&#x27;s cargo-culting mobile designs at the moment. Breeze, KDE&#x27;s default theme, is equally space-wasting. They&#x27;re great if you have a touch screen but it would be really cool if you could turn them off on systems without touch screens, i.e. about 99% of the current Linux installations I&#x27;m guessing :-).<p>If you&#x27;re willing to fiddle around, there are a few good themes that don&#x27;t waste so much space.</text></comment> | <story><title>Debian 10 “Buster” Released</title><url>https://www.debian.org/News/2019/20190706</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>charlesdaniels</author><text>Congratulations to the Debian team on their new release! I will certainly be upgrading to it soon enough. Just for fun, I downloaded the ISO shortly after it went up and recorded my first impressions of using it on the happy path with the default GNOME environment. I would consider myself a technical user, but I use GNOME rarely and am not familiar with it personally.<p>* I didn&#x27;t notice anything out of place with the Wayland switch. I haven&#x27;t tested suspend&#x2F;resume&#x2F;hibernate&#x2F;external monitors yet though. Personally, I won&#x27;t be using Wayland on my main machine once I update that as I&#x27;m a CWM user, and Wayland support probably isn&#x27;t every going to happen for that.<p>* My user account wasn&#x27;t added to the sudo group by default, and using `su` broke something with PATH (&#x2F;sbin wasn&#x27;t in PATH after running `su`).<p>* GNOME apparently does not support configuring multiple wifi adapters, which was a problem since I had intended to use a USB adapter to download the nonfree drivers for my internal adapter, but GNOME did not have a menu to configure them separately.<p>* The problems that GNOME 3.X has always had continue to be present -- chiefly the UI scale is too large on low-res screens (the machine I was testing with has a 1366x768 display), and graphics performance continues to disappoint (animations stutter very noticeably on the &quot;search&quot; screen for example, this was on a 2nd gen mobile i7).<p>* The much-touted software center seemed to have several polish issues. The first time I launched it it threw a bunch of inscrutable errors and didn&#x27;t work until I re-booted the machine. It still threw inscrutable errors, but worked after this. Lists of software would take 60s+ to download (render? not sure what part was slowing it down).<p>From the perspective of a technical user, I don&#x27;t care about any of these. They either affect software I don&#x27;t use, or could be fixed easily enough. However, if the objective is to support non-technical users who don&#x27;t have the knowledge&#x2F;time&#x2F;interest to troubleshoot, I feel that this release falls short.<p>For reference, the hardware used to test was a ThinkPad X220 with a 2nd gen i7, 12GB RAM, and an SSD.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Abishek_Muthian</author><text>Unfortunately the bold decision to take on Wayland (due to Gnome) in the upstream debian buster isn&#x27;t going to propagate to low end hardware like Raspberry Pi incl. Pi4.<p>Though the Buster based raspbian will be available, they will continue using the LXDE version as Gnome is too heavy for the Pi.<p>I had tried Wayland for Pi3 earlier in my effort to get a smoother desktop experience on the Raspberry Pi[1], it was the smoothest desktop environment among other options but unusable due to XWayland apps crashing due to framebuffer issues.<p>I&#x27;ve settled for HW accelerated, Xfce4, Arch Linux (btrfs&#x2F;zswap) on RPi3.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;abishekmuthian.com&#x2F;getting-smoother-desktop-experience-on-raspberry-pi&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;abishekmuthian.com&#x2F;getting-smoother-desktop-experien...</a></text></comment> |
3,405,202 | 3,405,078 | 1 | 2 | 3,404,854 | train | <story><title>Gandi.net will contribute $1 per inbound transfer to EFF until Jan 15th</title><url>https://www.gandi.net/news/en/2011-12-29/539-gandi_supports_the_eff/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pclark</author><text>I am a huge fan of Gandi. Yes, they are slightly more expensive than other services, but I find their user interface not just good, but really quite amazing.<p>One simple but obvious feature they have is the ability to create DNS presets and apply those for new domains, it's really useful. (other people probably offer this)<p>Gandi also has fantastic support; it is slightly sad that they do not have a telephone number, but I get the vibe that Gandi is a real technology company and they believe they can offer premium support with support email. I agree, but I'd still like a telephone number for burning issues.<p>My only real complaint is that they have an unbelievably stupid login system where you log in not with a username, nor with an email address, but with an entirely random username. Mine is: PC5669-GANDI. It's infuriating if you ever need to use Gandi on a different computer. Why they saw it suitable to put <i>their company name</i> at the end of every login is puzzling.<p>Honestly though, its a minor criticism, and I love their "no bullshit" policy: <a href="http://www.gandi.net/no-bullshit" rel="nofollow">http://www.gandi.net/no-bullshit</a><p>In my experience it is true.</text></comment> | <story><title>Gandi.net will contribute $1 per inbound transfer to EFF until Jan 15th</title><url>https://www.gandi.net/news/en/2011-12-29/539-gandi_supports_the_eff/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zbowling</author><text>Gandi.net has revocation polices similar to GoDaddy where they can impose their own morality at revoking your domain.</text></comment> |
18,758,531 | 18,756,722 | 1 | 3 | 18,754,010 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Inside Python Dict – an explorable explanation</title><url>https://just-taking-a-ride.com/inside_python_dict/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stinos</author><text><i>Python lists are actually arrays — contiguous chunks of memory.</i><p>Just wondering here, is this guaranteed to always be the case? Practically it probably is, but does the Python spec (as in: the laguage, not one of it&#x27;s implementations) say a list must be implemented using contiguous memory of slots with Python objects? That seems so low-level and C-ish. Or does the OP actually mean <i>CPython</i> here for instance?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mcguire</author><text>Does Python actually have a spec? AFAIK, it&#x27;s always been &quot;what CPython does.&quot;<p>IIRC, an old joke was that Python lists are arrays and Perl arrays are lists.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Inside Python Dict – an explorable explanation</title><url>https://just-taking-a-ride.com/inside_python_dict/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stinos</author><text><i>Python lists are actually arrays — contiguous chunks of memory.</i><p>Just wondering here, is this guaranteed to always be the case? Practically it probably is, but does the Python spec (as in: the laguage, not one of it&#x27;s implementations) say a list must be implemented using contiguous memory of slots with Python objects? That seems so low-level and C-ish. Or does the OP actually mean <i>CPython</i> here for instance?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lozenge</author><text>Python doesn&#x27;t really have a spec in the way that, say, C# does. The docs are missing things like whether the argument is positional-only, exact exceptions raised in all cases, and time complexity of common operations.<p>That said, I think every implementation uses contiguous memory. PyPy has list &quot;strategies&quot; int[], double[] and PyObject[] and probably more, switching transparently between them.</text></comment> |
11,870,177 | 11,869,538 | 1 | 2 | 11,868,288 | train | <story><title>Larry Page’s startups working on flying cars</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-09/welcome-to-larry-page-s-secret-flying-car-factories</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Nokinside</author><text>Helicopters and small planes already exist. We might have autonomous helicopters and small planes in the future, but flying car concept is flawed and not because it&#x27;s hard to build one.<p>- Preflight checks and flight safety. Larry should first build normal small aircraft that can do without constant manual checks before flight. This is actually good subgoal to work with even without flying cars in mind. Reliable infrastructure that checks and calibrates instruments so reliably that you don&#x27;t need manual checks would be revolution in aerospace. Just walking from your car into your future Cessna-Android and flying off would be sci-fi for aviators.<p>- Energy consumption. No matter how energy efficient the engines are, hovering and short takeoffs use lots of energy. Flying with small wings with little lift is equivalent to driving monster trucks in full power. You don&#x27;t want flying becoming everyday phenomenon until we have abundance of carbon free energy.<p>- Noise and safety regulations, aviation regulations over urban areas. Flying cars are not happening in the suburbs or anyone where lots of people live. In the meantime try to get new helicopter landing sites approved in your neighborhood. If you have to take car to your flying car hangar, just have a small plane instead. Or walk to a buss station.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>outworlder</author><text>&gt; Preflight checks and flight safety. Larry should first build normal small aircraft that can do without constant manual checks before flight.<p>Omg, this. The amount of checks required for any sort of aircraft is ridiculous. A lot of it involves button pushing and checking status. This could be automated.<p>For instance, for a cessna 150:<p>STARTING ENGINE
Mixture – RICH
Carb heat – COLD
Prime – AS REQUIRED
Master switch -- ON
Beacon Light – ON
Throttle – OPEN 1&#x2F;8”
Prop Area – CLEAR
Ignition – START
Oil Pressure – CHK
Radio – ON&#x2F;SET
Transponder – ON &#x2F; STBY
Wing Flaps – UP
Mixture – LEAN 1 INCH
READY TO TAXI<p>Most of these things could be set automatically.</text></comment> | <story><title>Larry Page’s startups working on flying cars</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-09/welcome-to-larry-page-s-secret-flying-car-factories</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Nokinside</author><text>Helicopters and small planes already exist. We might have autonomous helicopters and small planes in the future, but flying car concept is flawed and not because it&#x27;s hard to build one.<p>- Preflight checks and flight safety. Larry should first build normal small aircraft that can do without constant manual checks before flight. This is actually good subgoal to work with even without flying cars in mind. Reliable infrastructure that checks and calibrates instruments so reliably that you don&#x27;t need manual checks would be revolution in aerospace. Just walking from your car into your future Cessna-Android and flying off would be sci-fi for aviators.<p>- Energy consumption. No matter how energy efficient the engines are, hovering and short takeoffs use lots of energy. Flying with small wings with little lift is equivalent to driving monster trucks in full power. You don&#x27;t want flying becoming everyday phenomenon until we have abundance of carbon free energy.<p>- Noise and safety regulations, aviation regulations over urban areas. Flying cars are not happening in the suburbs or anyone where lots of people live. In the meantime try to get new helicopter landing sites approved in your neighborhood. If you have to take car to your flying car hangar, just have a small plane instead. Or walk to a buss station.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jackhack</author><text>&gt;&gt;In the meantime try to get new helicopter landing sites approved in your neighborhood.<p>Which takes us right back to the noise issue which needs to be solved, first. &#x27;Till then, no way.<p>Helicopters (nicknamed &#x27;choppers&#x27; for good reason) buzzing over neighborhoods aren&#x27;t exactly the average homeowner&#x27;s dream. The &quot;whapwhapwhapwhap&quot; of a helicopter overhead, reverberating through a home, is just as desirable as open-pipe Harley Davidson motorbikes or roaring hotrods. That is to say, it&#x27;s not.<p>Other than a crash, I can&#x27;t think of a surer way to put people off from air traffic than noise.<p>(edit: grammatical typo: than-&gt;as)</text></comment> |
4,660,911 | 4,660,469 | 1 | 2 | 4,659,855 | train | <story><title>IBM: The cost difference is too great for business not to look for H1B workers</title><url>http://cis.org/miano/ibm-cost-difference-too-great-business-not-look-h-1b-workers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>greggman</author><text>If there's a smoking gun for IBM great, fine $$$$$$$ IBM. But my personal anecdotal experience is that the companies I've worked for pay the same for HB-1 vs local. They don't look at it as trying to find cheap employees. They look at as trying to find qualified employees anywhere, world wide.<p>Companies I've worked for, Virgin Games (run by a British immigrant), Shiny Entertainment (also run by a British immigrant and seemed like &#62; 50% foreigners). Naughty Dog had at least 5 or 6 foreigners of 30 employees when I was there. The owner even made a point of showing us the first hire's salary and asking us if we knew any locals that were qualified for the job that wanted the job so that he was sure he was above the law.<p>A few years later that hire went on to co-found Ready At Dawn which was founded by 3 immigrants. I have no idea how many of their employees are foreign.<p>I have seen one company, Interplay, abuse their power over a foreign employee by threatening to pull their visa support for him before if he didn't do X (I think X was stop some un-work related outside music activity). He ended up marrying his local GF and then got the hell out of that company.<p>The company I currently work for, as far as can tell, has a similar position. We'll hire anyone that applies that can convince us they can do the job. Finding them is hard. There may be tons of qualified people but either they aren't applying, they can't write a resume that makes it look like they're qualified, or they can't convince us in the interview that they are qualified.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rada</author><text>The H1B issue is not simply salary as measured in absolute numbers. Naked salary numbers may be the visible tip of the iceberg but there are bigger issues to consider.<p>1. Most H1B workers are under 30, and most unemployed American programmers are over 35. This is by far the biggest part of the iceberg, made invisible by the fact that these people drop out of statistics.<p>2. Visa handcuffs are not slavery per say, but close enough. (If you think that's an overly dramatic statement, you are probably not an immigrant from some place you <i>really</i> don't want to be, like me, or someone whose family will quite literally starve if you don't send them money). People endure getting beat up by their husbands for 5 years straight for the sake of a green card, so there is no doubt they will endure long working hours and much more.<p>3. The whole "shortage of IT talent" hysteria is way overblown when you look at the actual numbers. Just one example, latest DICE salary report:<p><a href="http://media.dice.com/report/2012-2011-dice-salary-survey/" rel="nofollow">http://media.dice.com/report/2012-2011-dice-salary-survey/</a><p>Contrast the opening sentence:<p><i>Technology professionals enjoyed their largest annual salary growth since 2008, according to the 2012-2011 Salary Survey from Dice, the leading career site for technology and engineering professionals. </i><p>... with the actual numbers:<p><i>After two straight years of wages remaining nearly flat, tech professionals on average garnered salary increases of more than two percent, boosting their average annual wage to $81,327 from $79,384 in 2010.</i><p>So, let's see. While the inflation is chugging along at ~3% per year, we get 2 flat years, followed by a 1% increase? So basically, we make <i>less</i> money each year?<p>Is the tech industry an economic miracle? Are programmers the one must-have product whose prices get <i>lower</i> when it's in short supply and the buyers have pockets full of cash? Or is there a simpler explanation?</text></comment> | <story><title>IBM: The cost difference is too great for business not to look for H1B workers</title><url>http://cis.org/miano/ibm-cost-difference-too-great-business-not-look-h-1b-workers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>greggman</author><text>If there's a smoking gun for IBM great, fine $$$$$$$ IBM. But my personal anecdotal experience is that the companies I've worked for pay the same for HB-1 vs local. They don't look at it as trying to find cheap employees. They look at as trying to find qualified employees anywhere, world wide.<p>Companies I've worked for, Virgin Games (run by a British immigrant), Shiny Entertainment (also run by a British immigrant and seemed like &#62; 50% foreigners). Naughty Dog had at least 5 or 6 foreigners of 30 employees when I was there. The owner even made a point of showing us the first hire's salary and asking us if we knew any locals that were qualified for the job that wanted the job so that he was sure he was above the law.<p>A few years later that hire went on to co-found Ready At Dawn which was founded by 3 immigrants. I have no idea how many of their employees are foreign.<p>I have seen one company, Interplay, abuse their power over a foreign employee by threatening to pull their visa support for him before if he didn't do X (I think X was stop some un-work related outside music activity). He ended up marrying his local GF and then got the hell out of that company.<p>The company I currently work for, as far as can tell, has a similar position. We'll hire anyone that applies that can convince us they can do the job. Finding them is hard. There may be tons of qualified people but either they aren't applying, they can't write a resume that makes it look like they're qualified, or they can't convince us in the interview that they are qualified.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nullc</author><text>I've seen many kinds of H1B employment. People with excellent skills and experience being paid competitive wages, people with reasonable skills being exploited at low wages at the clear expense of locals, and people who were hardly qualified to warm a seat being pulled in to pad up some contract as cheaply as possible. As usually when you paint with broad strokes you cover some dissimilar surfaces.<p>But at the core the employment market is about supply and demand. Increases in supply relative to some demand decreases what a rational party will pay. It doesn't matter how kind, qualified, equally paid, etc. The increase in supply weakens the employees negotiating position.<p>Are the employees entitled to the 'artificial' supply limitation created by national boundaries? Is it socially beneficial to reduce those barriers? Do increases in supply protect the industry and leave all employees better off in the long run and cause little harm because the demand is already so great? What policy decisions can mitigate the harm and maximize the benefits? These are interesting questions.<p>But I don't think there is any real room to question if H1B's— no matter how well managed— harm employees short to medium term financial interests.</text></comment> |
8,859,546 | 8,859,543 | 1 | 2 | 8,859,199 | train | <story><title>How my life was changed when I began caring about the people I did not hire</title><url>http://brookeallen.com/pages/archives/1234</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FooBarWidget</author><text>My Wordpress blog used to go down because of HN. I fixed that as follows.<p>1. Use the Wordpress supercache plugin.<p>2. Put Apache behind Nginx, and limit the number of Apache processes to ~6. This way you&#x27;re effectively using Apache as a &quot;PHP app server&quot;, simulating an architecture similar to Passenger&#x2F;Unicorn. Nginx acts only as a buffering reverse proxy, shielding Apache from slow clients.<p>Why this instead of running Wordpress&#x2F;PHP through Nginx using php-fpm? It&#x27;s because Apache is just easier: mod_rewrite rules work automatically, etc.</text></item><item><author>JeremyMorgan</author><text>The first time I got a front page link to my site on HN, it did this exact same thing, which prompted me to move away from Wordpress. Static HTML ever since.<p>But to comment on the article, I think this is a fantastic idea. I do wonder though how he found so many enthusiastic people. Maybe it&#x27;s just a new era, but I have a hard time finding people who even want to do a 1 hour coding challenge. He got these folks who were willing to learn something, and build and spend DAYS on it? It&#x27;s awesome but it seems unlikely these days.<p>Taking that kind of time to choose the right person, then helping the other people network with other APL folks... that just spreads good vibes all around. I would like to see the &quot;care more&quot; trend spread in our industry. Even now with a programmer shortage companies are still unicorn hunting and making people jump through stupid hoops for jobs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smacktoward</author><text>I&#x27;m not even sure step 2 is necessary, my WP blog has hit HN a few times and the supercache plugin alone has been more than sufficient to handle it.<p>Really the big problem at this point is that stock WordPress falling over under even moderate traffic is such a common experience that having caching broken out into an optional plugin doesn&#x27;t make a whole lot of sense. WP should probably ship with at least a basic caching solution built in.</text></comment> | <story><title>How my life was changed when I began caring about the people I did not hire</title><url>http://brookeallen.com/pages/archives/1234</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FooBarWidget</author><text>My Wordpress blog used to go down because of HN. I fixed that as follows.<p>1. Use the Wordpress supercache plugin.<p>2. Put Apache behind Nginx, and limit the number of Apache processes to ~6. This way you&#x27;re effectively using Apache as a &quot;PHP app server&quot;, simulating an architecture similar to Passenger&#x2F;Unicorn. Nginx acts only as a buffering reverse proxy, shielding Apache from slow clients.<p>Why this instead of running Wordpress&#x2F;PHP through Nginx using php-fpm? It&#x27;s because Apache is just easier: mod_rewrite rules work automatically, etc.</text></item><item><author>JeremyMorgan</author><text>The first time I got a front page link to my site on HN, it did this exact same thing, which prompted me to move away from Wordpress. Static HTML ever since.<p>But to comment on the article, I think this is a fantastic idea. I do wonder though how he found so many enthusiastic people. Maybe it&#x27;s just a new era, but I have a hard time finding people who even want to do a 1 hour coding challenge. He got these folks who were willing to learn something, and build and spend DAYS on it? It&#x27;s awesome but it seems unlikely these days.<p>Taking that kind of time to choose the right person, then helping the other people network with other APL folks... that just spreads good vibes all around. I would like to see the &quot;care more&quot; trend spread in our industry. Even now with a programmer shortage companies are still unicorn hunting and making people jump through stupid hoops for jobs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nilved</author><text>This is first time I&#x27;ve seen the words &quot;Apache is just easier&quot; in that arrangement. I think php-fpm is significantly easier to set up than Apache and expect it to be more performant with less resources.</text></comment> |
30,607,732 | 30,606,084 | 1 | 3 | 30,603,770 | train | <story><title>AngelList Venture Raises $100M on a $4B Valuation</title><url>https://www.angellist.com/blog/100m-fundraise</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mikeodds</author><text>Funny read in relation to Bitclout’s raise through AngelList and a user getting banned for sharing a screenshot that had been shared to them through telegram<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;cobie&#x2F;status&#x2F;1387037537454026760" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;cobie&#x2F;status&#x2F;1387037537454026760</a></text></comment> | <story><title>AngelList Venture Raises $100M on a $4B Valuation</title><url>https://www.angellist.com/blog/100m-fundraise</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>guessmyname</author><text>I am still salty about a ban AngelList applied on my profile after I reported a (supposedly) CEO of a Los Angeles startup for insulting me when I rejected an invitation to join them. Instead of banning this person’s account, they banned mine. Interestingly, AngelList still sends me emails saying “[User] is interested in your profile”, even though I can’t log into the platform anymore. The unsubscribe button doesn’t even work.</text></comment> |
38,692,234 | 38,691,621 | 1 | 2 | 38,683,594 | train | <story><title>Why are things expensive?</title><url>https://www.why-expensive.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>somberi</author><text>Experiences are expensive. Things are cheap(er).<p>A medium-quality dinner for two in an expensive city costs 100$. A beautiful kitchen knife costs about that much, but lasts 20 years.<p>A Broadway musical for a family of 4 costs about 800$. A good mattress costs about that much, but lasts for 20 years.<p>The given wisdom seems to be that we should value experiences more than things. Good things also cause small dose of repeated joyful experiences.<p>I am 50 years old, and live a reasonably opulent, upper-middle class, big city life. I am guessing here - all the items in my apartment put together, is probably worth 6 months of my work. A bargain, compared to the joy they give me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>strken</author><text>Taking a couple of tennis balls to the local park and throwing them with your kids costs about $5, depending on how many you lose. Going for a run along the beach costs a bus fare. You can camp on the weekend for an initial outlay of a few hundred dollars of secondhand gear plus perhaps $40 a trip. Having everyone bring a plate for a potluck dinner costs slightly more than you&#x27;d normally spend for a meal.<p>I think experiences can be as cheap or as expensive as you like. Essentials are the crux of the article, and without essentials most experiences are harder.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why are things expensive?</title><url>https://www.why-expensive.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>somberi</author><text>Experiences are expensive. Things are cheap(er).<p>A medium-quality dinner for two in an expensive city costs 100$. A beautiful kitchen knife costs about that much, but lasts 20 years.<p>A Broadway musical for a family of 4 costs about 800$. A good mattress costs about that much, but lasts for 20 years.<p>The given wisdom seems to be that we should value experiences more than things. Good things also cause small dose of repeated joyful experiences.<p>I am 50 years old, and live a reasonably opulent, upper-middle class, big city life. I am guessing here - all the items in my apartment put together, is probably worth 6 months of my work. A bargain, compared to the joy they give me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dangus</author><text>Respectfully, this doesn&#x27;t have much relevance to the fact that basic necessities like rent and food are significantly more expensive than they were just two years ago.<p>Housing, transportation, and food account for over 60% of all spending.<p>Experienes and goods aren&#x27;t my problem. My problem is that my dwelling costs $500 a month more than it did in 2021 and I live in the exact same place, and I haven&#x27;t gotten a raise.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bls.gov&#x2F;news.release&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;cesan.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bls.gov&#x2F;news.release&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;cesan.pdf</a></text></comment> |
15,365,690 | 15,365,243 | 1 | 2 | 15,364,305 | train | <story><title>Ubuntu 17.10 Final Beta Is Ready For Testing</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-17.10-Final-Beta</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pasta</author><text>I&#x27;m using (x)ubuntu for over 10 years and every version there are strange problems that still exist today.<p>For example now my volume control uses 5 steps at once instead of one.
So every version I have to search the net for some command line command to fix things.<p>I wont leave Linux anytime soon but I can imagine people get sick of this.<p>Ubuntu is great, but maybe the priority should be flawless instead of yet another window manager&#x2F;desktop environment.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ubuntu 17.10 Final Beta Is Ready For Testing</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-17.10-Final-Beta</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dis-sys</author><text>10+ years full time Ubuntu user here, I have to say that although I am happy for the fact that Unity is gone, it is too late as I have moved to xfce4.<p>The decision to move to Unity was bad, users choose Linux desktop because they want something simple, something more under their control. The whole unity desktop experience together with that everything is searchable promise is just not the right selling point for that audience.<p>Now many many years in xfce4, that is the exact desktop environment I want. no over engineering rubbish, no forced features, no fancy UI pretending to be cool&#x2F;smart, just the essential stuff that actually work. If I am going to spend most of time in terminals + chrome, why forcing me to have a fat desktop environment? gnome seems to be fine, used it for many many years before the Unity joke&#x2F;xfce4, but it is still too fat and it is too late.</text></comment> |
39,659,867 | 39,659,928 | 1 | 2 | 39,659,781 | train | <story><title>Yi: Open Foundation Models by 01.AI</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04652</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>helsinkiandrew</author><text>The Github repository, gives a better introduction&#x2F;howto:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;01-ai&#x2F;yi">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;01-ai&#x2F;yi</a><p>&gt; Yi-34B-Chat model landed in second place (following GPT-4 Turbo), outperforming other LLMs (such as GPT-4, Mixtral, Claude) on the AlpacaEval Leaderboard (based on data available up to January 2024).<p>&gt; Yi-34B model ranked first among all existing open-source models (such as Falcon-180B, Llama-70B, Claude) in both English and Chinese on various benchmarks, including Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard (pre-trained) and C-Eval (based on data available up to November 2023).</text></comment> | <story><title>Yi: Open Foundation Models by 01.AI</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04652</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>orra</author><text>The repo source code is Apache 2.0 licensed, but the weights are not.<p>Just in case anybody else is excited then misled by their tagline &quot;Building the Next Generation of Open-Source and Bilingual LLMs&quot;.</text></comment> |
25,767,947 | 25,767,608 | 1 | 3 | 25,767,030 | train | <story><title>Ten years without Elixir</title><url>http://blog.cretaria.com/posts/ten-years-without-elixir.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mmcclure</author><text>From the perspective of someone coming the other direction (a developer working almost entirely with Elixir that needed to jump to Erlang docs occasionally), it&#x27;s interesting to see the note on docs, and honestly the vibe I get from this blog post feels related to my personal overall gripe with the Erlang community.<p>To be blunt, I really dreaded needing to jump to the Erlang documentation, largely because of a perceived gap in developer empathy. Elixir documentation feels like it&#x27;s written in a way that wants you to be successful and enjoy the process, while Erlang documentation feels very perfunctory. Where Elixir documentation is rife with examples and hints, Erlang documentation almost makes you feel like an idiot for wanting to see similar examples.<p>I wonder how much of that vibe is more due to priming because of community perception more than anything else. There&#x27;s a distinct stereotype of Erlangers having a strong &quot;I am very smart&quot; vibe. That&#x27;s not fair to a lot of the wonderful Erlang fans I&#x27;ve met that are extremely welcoming, but the wider Erlang community has a strong perception of gatekeeping where they almost don&#x27;t seem like they <i>want</i> the language to be more accessible.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ten years without Elixir</title><url>http://blog.cretaria.com/posts/ten-years-without-elixir.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>richardfey</author><text>This must be the most unflattering congratulations I have ever read. Sounds to me like Elixir should feel guilty of being successful despite not being Erlang.</text></comment> |
7,754,562 | 7,754,314 | 1 | 3 | 7,753,863 | train | <story><title>Young people 'feel they have nothing to live for'</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/education-25559089</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vacri</author><text>The thing is that the current young ones are still of the belief that no-one has had it hard before; that it was cruisy and easy for everyone before (repeating the pattern of this thought - this isn&#x27;t unique to gen Y, but to young gens). One gen Y person in my office repeated the mantra to me that &quot;jobs were handed out like candy for the boomers&quot;... yeah, if you were male... and liked working in a factory or other menial jobs. If you were female there was a stigma to working, options were pretty limited, and usually it was legal to be explicitly paid a lower hourly rate.<p>The Western world we live in is safer in most regards than previously, whether it&#x27;s food or medical or military. Ten years of war in the middle east killed only a tenth of the US soldiers killed in Vietnam, and there was <i>no conscription</i>. Before the downfall of the USSR, there was a very palpable fear of nuclear war in the West (justified or not) or a sizeable military invasion. Civil and social rights for minorities and women were far, far behind where they are now. In the consumer world, shit is cheaper and more disposable than ever before. Much less need to put effort into maintaining things, just get another one. Hell, even going to the dentist is far easier today with improvements in pain control. What about support services for victims of domestic abuse? Or rape? At least now there are some systems in place where people can get support sometimes (if not always) and it&#x27;s a recognised problem, rather than in the boomer&#x27;s youth, when it was a taboo subject and there were no services.<p>So sure, complain about the current situation of Gen Y folks, but when people complain about how &#x27;easy&#x27; previous generations had it, these kinds of things are why it sounds like self-indulgent whining - because they only focus on the good things the boomers had and never recognise the bad things. Not to mention the things that the Boomers did build and give to us.<p>Gen Y does have hurdles to face, but those hurdles don&#x27;t have to be defined in <i>how much worse it is than previous generations had it</i>.</text></item><item><author>whbk</author><text>I&#x27;m a couple years out of college and can&#x27;t overstate how real this is (in America, though I know the article is focused on the UK). Last summer I flew back to my Midwestern hometown for a concert, and I still remember being introduced to a friend of a friend. She was a college graduate one year removed, vastly &#x27;underemployed&#x27; [1], and living in her parents basement.<p>When my friend mentioned that I was just in town from SF for the weekend, she asked what I did and after telling her, her reaction was something along the lines of &#x27;oh you&#x27;re like a real grown up!&#x27; Her tone was one of embarrassment and a begrudging acceptance of where she was, and it&#x27;s one I&#x27;ve seen a fair bit despite going to a pretty solid school. Not Ivy League, mind you, but a reasonably high-ranked state school.<p>I really have no idea what the solution is, but I&#x27;ve thought a fair bit about the as of yet unrealized ripple effects: Many of these people are in debt up to their eyeballs. Given that, they&#x27;re going to be much less likely to (or at least will significantly delay) purchases of cars and real estate. Dating is a lot harder when you&#x27;re living at your parents&#x27;, and I&#x27;m sure we&#x27;ll see an impact in the ratio of singles&#x2F;families among my generation as a result. Then there&#x27;s the whole psychological impact of feeling they have nothing going for them that the article focuses on. Pretty dismal scene.<p>[1] Honestly, I hate this term. It shouldn&#x27;t be any surprise to us that when we promote an &#x27;everyone goes to college!&#x27; culture a la &#x27;everyone&#x27;s a home owner!&#x27;, coupled with an insidious lowering of standards in our education system starting in the lower rungs of K-12, we&#x27;ll have a mass of college-educated individuals who can&#x27;t find gainful employment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tomp</author><text>I&#x27;m from Gen Y. I don&#x27;t think that previous generations <i>had</i> it easier than we do, but I think it&#x27;s an undeniable fact that you <i>have</i> it easier.<p>Except for the past few years, the world has been constantly improving all your life; USSR, Berlin Wall, computers, internet, technology, ... In contrast, most of my adult life has been nothing but shit (objectively; things have been quite good for me, but I&#x27;m a programmer, so...): financial crisis, terrorism, low employment, home foreclosures, high tuition. It doesn&#x27;t seem to be improving for the average person. Furthermore, things have turned to shit almost <i>exactly</i> when we became adults; when we were children, we were brought up in a time of abundance, when life was easy, and hopes for the future were high. Now, life is hard, especially for people with no homes and no jobs and no work experience, and there is nothing to look forward to, except global warming.</text></comment> | <story><title>Young people 'feel they have nothing to live for'</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/education-25559089</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vacri</author><text>The thing is that the current young ones are still of the belief that no-one has had it hard before; that it was cruisy and easy for everyone before (repeating the pattern of this thought - this isn&#x27;t unique to gen Y, but to young gens). One gen Y person in my office repeated the mantra to me that &quot;jobs were handed out like candy for the boomers&quot;... yeah, if you were male... and liked working in a factory or other menial jobs. If you were female there was a stigma to working, options were pretty limited, and usually it was legal to be explicitly paid a lower hourly rate.<p>The Western world we live in is safer in most regards than previously, whether it&#x27;s food or medical or military. Ten years of war in the middle east killed only a tenth of the US soldiers killed in Vietnam, and there was <i>no conscription</i>. Before the downfall of the USSR, there was a very palpable fear of nuclear war in the West (justified or not) or a sizeable military invasion. Civil and social rights for minorities and women were far, far behind where they are now. In the consumer world, shit is cheaper and more disposable than ever before. Much less need to put effort into maintaining things, just get another one. Hell, even going to the dentist is far easier today with improvements in pain control. What about support services for victims of domestic abuse? Or rape? At least now there are some systems in place where people can get support sometimes (if not always) and it&#x27;s a recognised problem, rather than in the boomer&#x27;s youth, when it was a taboo subject and there were no services.<p>So sure, complain about the current situation of Gen Y folks, but when people complain about how &#x27;easy&#x27; previous generations had it, these kinds of things are why it sounds like self-indulgent whining - because they only focus on the good things the boomers had and never recognise the bad things. Not to mention the things that the Boomers did build and give to us.<p>Gen Y does have hurdles to face, but those hurdles don&#x27;t have to be defined in <i>how much worse it is than previous generations had it</i>.</text></item><item><author>whbk</author><text>I&#x27;m a couple years out of college and can&#x27;t overstate how real this is (in America, though I know the article is focused on the UK). Last summer I flew back to my Midwestern hometown for a concert, and I still remember being introduced to a friend of a friend. She was a college graduate one year removed, vastly &#x27;underemployed&#x27; [1], and living in her parents basement.<p>When my friend mentioned that I was just in town from SF for the weekend, she asked what I did and after telling her, her reaction was something along the lines of &#x27;oh you&#x27;re like a real grown up!&#x27; Her tone was one of embarrassment and a begrudging acceptance of where she was, and it&#x27;s one I&#x27;ve seen a fair bit despite going to a pretty solid school. Not Ivy League, mind you, but a reasonably high-ranked state school.<p>I really have no idea what the solution is, but I&#x27;ve thought a fair bit about the as of yet unrealized ripple effects: Many of these people are in debt up to their eyeballs. Given that, they&#x27;re going to be much less likely to (or at least will significantly delay) purchases of cars and real estate. Dating is a lot harder when you&#x27;re living at your parents&#x27;, and I&#x27;m sure we&#x27;ll see an impact in the ratio of singles&#x2F;families among my generation as a result. Then there&#x27;s the whole psychological impact of feeling they have nothing going for them that the article focuses on. Pretty dismal scene.<p>[1] Honestly, I hate this term. It shouldn&#x27;t be any surprise to us that when we promote an &#x27;everyone goes to college!&#x27; culture a la &#x27;everyone&#x27;s a home owner!&#x27;, coupled with an insidious lowering of standards in our education system starting in the lower rungs of K-12, we&#x27;ll have a mass of college-educated individuals who can&#x27;t find gainful employment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scobar</author><text>I agree with you; especially your last statement. I believe that the arguing between generations spawns from the differences in the challenges each has faced. Those challenges may be nearly equal in difficulty, but the difference is great enough that each generation has a difficult time empathizing with the others. We should restore hope in those (of any generation) who are struggling against terrible adversity rather than assure them that everyone else had it just as hard.</text></comment> |
13,435,860 | 13,434,197 | 1 | 2 | 13,433,840 | train | <story><title>Theranos closes last blood-testing lab after reportedly failing an inspection</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/17/theranos-last-lab-inspection-test-fail/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&utm_content=FaceBook&sr_share=facebook</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cixin</author><text>I&#x27;d love to have more insight into how this happened.<p>It seems like there&#x27;s a pattern of high profile failures of highly funded science-based startups.<p>From the outside the science seems faulty from the start, the management team seems to have no strong scientific background.<p>Do investors really fund purely based on their force of personality? Personal connections? Do they see a big market and then ignore the scientific DD?<p>I&#x27;d love to understand this better.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>metaphorm</author><text>&gt; Personal connections?<p>In the case of Theranos I believe it was this. Elizabeth Holmes seemed to have an &quot;in&quot; with a lot of Washington D.C. influencers and I&#x27;m pretty sure her pitch was based on using those connections to score lucrative DoD contracts.</text></comment> | <story><title>Theranos closes last blood-testing lab after reportedly failing an inspection</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/17/theranos-last-lab-inspection-test-fail/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&utm_content=FaceBook&sr_share=facebook</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cixin</author><text>I&#x27;d love to have more insight into how this happened.<p>It seems like there&#x27;s a pattern of high profile failures of highly funded science-based startups.<p>From the outside the science seems faulty from the start, the management team seems to have no strong scientific background.<p>Do investors really fund purely based on their force of personality? Personal connections? Do they see a big market and then ignore the scientific DD?<p>I&#x27;d love to understand this better.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>frisco</author><text>I think this is availability bias. Many large (&gt; $100M) deals happen all the time in early stage life sciences but don&#x27;t get picked up by the tech press or covered as &quot;startups&quot;. A few high profile stories flame out spectacularly like this but they are typically already the outsiders to the industry.<p>To the specific scenario, when N is small all kinds of idiosyncratic bad decision making can happen.</text></comment> |
15,227,856 | 15,226,697 | 1 | 2 | 15,225,289 | train | <story><title>Topicbox – FastMail’s new product for teams</title><url>https://blog.fastmail.com/2017/09/12/announcing-topicbox-our-new-product-for-teams/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cpr</author><text>Would there be any way to turn this into a Zendesk-like solution, using threads for each support inquiry, and assignments of some sort?<p>We&#x27;re happy Fastmail email users, and can <i>almost</i> live with email for support, and barely use any Zendesk features other than assignments, internal notes, and various views. But those three simple ZD features we do use are critical.</text></comment> | <story><title>Topicbox – FastMail’s new product for teams</title><url>https://blog.fastmail.com/2017/09/12/announcing-topicbox-our-new-product-for-teams/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mxuribe</author><text>I&#x27;m always a big fan of org. wikis...but the challenge is some users slack off on creating&#x2F;posting content...but this topicbox seems like users can simply draft&#x2F;send an email, and bam its content for a sort of &quot;wiki&quot;. This is a great idea, even if only for the low curve of easily &quot;creating&quot; organizational content! Kudos to fastmail!</text></comment> |
12,802,018 | 12,802,072 | 1 | 2 | 12,801,852 | train | <story><title>Debunking Misleading Benchmarks Of Redshift vs BigQuery</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/fact-or-fiction-google-big-query-outperforms-amazon-redshift-as-an-enterprise-data-warehouse/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Cidan</author><text>&quot;...8-node DC1.8XL Amazon Redshift cluster for the tests.&quot;<p>Well, yeah. That&#x27;s 28,108.80 a month if you&#x27;re running queries on demand and don&#x27;t want a delay&#x2F;coordination in Amazon instance creation&#x2F;destruction.<p>BQ may or may not be as fast, but it&#x27;s truly a managed service; I give it our data and it just works. I don&#x27;t have to worry about instances, boot up time, maintenance, hourly costs, etc. It&#x27;s silly to focus just on query speed when there&#x27;s a whole layer of management and cost that comes with it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Debunking Misleading Benchmarks Of Redshift vs BigQuery</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/fact-or-fiction-google-big-query-outperforms-amazon-redshift-as-an-enterprise-data-warehouse/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ktamura</author><text>Before this thread turns into a vim-v-emacs-esque flame war.<p>I really think it&#x27;s a good thing that AWS and GCP are punching each other in the cloud data warehousing market. It means that the market is maturing, and we are all benefiting from their arms race against each other.<p>I am of the opinion that Redshift and BigQuery are philosophically different enough that performance differences, while important, shouldn&#x27;t be the deciding factor. I&#x27;ve written about this in a blog post awhile back, and it might be relevant for folks weighing their options<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.treasuredata.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2016&#x2F;06&#x2F;09&#x2F;redshift-bigquery-similarities-differences-and-serverless-future&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.treasuredata.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2016&#x2F;06&#x2F;09&#x2F;redshift-bigqu...</a><p>Disclosures:<p>1. I don&#x27;t work at either.<p>2. My employer, however, partners with both.</text></comment> |
18,326,545 | 18,326,605 | 1 | 3 | 18,326,335 | train | <story><title>Microsoft Sandboxes Windows Defender</title><url>https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-sandboxes-windows-defender/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>youdontknowtho</author><text>I know that sandboxing is desirable here, but it runs as SYSTEM. How do you sandbox something running as SYSTEM? They must have changed the identity of Defender. That&#x27;s all I can come up with. Anyone else know how this works?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>staticassertion</author><text>I can&#x27;t speak to the exact implementation here, but you can just run specific components as system, and then the dangerous stuff (parsers, decompression, possibly emulation) as unprivileged.<p>Here&#x27;s one approach.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.trailofbits.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;08&#x2F;02&#x2F;microsoft-didnt-sandbox-windows-defender-so-i-did&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.trailofbits.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;08&#x2F;02&#x2F;microsoft-didnt-sand...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft Sandboxes Windows Defender</title><url>https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-sandboxes-windows-defender/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>youdontknowtho</author><text>I know that sandboxing is desirable here, but it runs as SYSTEM. How do you sandbox something running as SYSTEM? They must have changed the identity of Defender. That&#x27;s all I can come up with. Anyone else know how this works?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>userbinator</author><text>I believe it runs with even higher privileges than SYSTEM --- a while ago I had to deal with an unresponsive and 100%-CPU-consuming scanner process, which I tried to kill it from a command prompt running as SYSTEM, and it still said &quot;access denied&quot;.<p>I know the reasoning is &quot;if SYSTEM can kill it then so can malware&quot;, but still a bit unsettling that there&#x27;s processes running on your system that even the owner doesn&#x27;t have privilege to control.</text></comment> |
22,099,673 | 22,099,516 | 1 | 2 | 22,099,335 | train | <story><title>Actix Web – Project Future</title><url>https://github.com/actix/actix-web/issues/1289</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>_han</author><text>Earlier discussion for context: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22075076" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22075076</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Actix Web – Project Future</title><url>https://github.com/actix/actix-web/issues/1289</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nobleach</author><text>I&#x27;m certainly glad that given a bit of time, cooler heads have prevailed. I completely understand the shear frustration one must endure when managing any open source library&#x2F;framework. There is a huge sense of entitlement among consumers... but this should not translate to any responsibility on the part of the author. Throughout this process, I&#x27;ve seen comments about how simply forking the repo would be considered hostile... yet, I always felt that was part of the beauty of open source. Use what is available, and &quot;stand on the shoulders of giants&quot; when you wish to see something go in a different direction. Instead of viewing it as, &quot;what you built is terrible, here, let me fix that for you&quot;. We should strive to see it as a tree that has much potential, some branches may be more favored. Some may collapse. Alliances may be formed. But it&#x27;s all in the name of building cool stuff. I get how some may consider that nothing would ever get finished using that model... but, therein is again, the beauty of open source. If someone wants to &quot;finish&quot; something, they are free to do so.</text></comment> |
30,697,903 | 30,697,326 | 1 | 2 | 30,693,301 | train | <story><title>Hot Dog Linux – Horrible Obsolete Typeface and Dreadful Onscreen Graphics</title><url>https://hotdoglinux.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>karteum</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why people keep using CSV today while SQLite is MIT-licenced and can be used everywhere, has a very portable and lightweight implementation, has a stable file format with long-term commitment, and a good compromise on the type system that gives enough flexibility to be on par with CSV if some entries happen to have a different type...</text></item><item><author>alcover</author><text>This is nice. But less space-efficient than CSV when its strictly tabular, since CSV has columns legend on first row allowing &#x27;pure&#x27; rows, whereas JSON will have to key every field, on every row.</text></item><item><author>hnlmorg</author><text>I use jsonlines on those occasions <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jsonlines.org&#x2F;examples&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jsonlines.org&#x2F;examples&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>layer8</author><text>&gt; CSV files.... that encode JSON?!<p>We need a new schema language with the ability to specify such cross-format …formats.</text></item><item><author>0xbadcafebee</author><text>It&#x27;s terrible, I love it. I also love that all the setup scripts are badly-written Perl scripts, and even some custom C code just to change the mixer rather than use alsactl. This is 1000% something I would have made years ago. <i>edit</i> Holy moly, the configs are CSV files.... that encode JSON?!<p>And hey, Slack 15 is out! If they do a new release they won&#x27;t need to release again for another 6 years!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mason55</author><text>Are you suggesting sending around SQLite dbs as a data interchange format? Or to replace some other csv use case?</text></comment> | <story><title>Hot Dog Linux – Horrible Obsolete Typeface and Dreadful Onscreen Graphics</title><url>https://hotdoglinux.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>karteum</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why people keep using CSV today while SQLite is MIT-licenced and can be used everywhere, has a very portable and lightweight implementation, has a stable file format with long-term commitment, and a good compromise on the type system that gives enough flexibility to be on par with CSV if some entries happen to have a different type...</text></item><item><author>alcover</author><text>This is nice. But less space-efficient than CSV when its strictly tabular, since CSV has columns legend on first row allowing &#x27;pure&#x27; rows, whereas JSON will have to key every field, on every row.</text></item><item><author>hnlmorg</author><text>I use jsonlines on those occasions <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jsonlines.org&#x2F;examples&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jsonlines.org&#x2F;examples&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>layer8</author><text>&gt; CSV files.... that encode JSON?!<p>We need a new schema language with the ability to specify such cross-format …formats.</text></item><item><author>0xbadcafebee</author><text>It&#x27;s terrible, I love it. I also love that all the setup scripts are badly-written Perl scripts, and even some custom C code just to change the mixer rather than use alsactl. This is 1000% something I would have made years ago. <i>edit</i> Holy moly, the configs are CSV files.... that encode JSON?!<p>And hey, Slack 15 is out! If they do a new release they won&#x27;t need to release again for another 6 years!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>genericacct</author><text>Installed base. You can bet there are thousands of AS&#x2F;400s and similar architectures putting out CSVs. Also you cant get more lightweight than CSV, i have several microcontroller projects that output CSV.</text></comment> |
39,246,861 | 39,245,497 | 1 | 2 | 39,244,601 | train | <story><title>Researchers taking on fraudulent science</title><url>https://www.analystnews.org/posts/plagiarism-paper-mills-and-profit-these-scientists-are-fighting-the-epidemic-of-fraudulent-science-research</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>derbOac</author><text>I love these people&#x27;s work.<p>At the same time I don&#x27;t think any of this really addresses the root causes of the problems, which are career, university administrative, and field (i.e., recognition and attention) incentives. The whole paradigm we use, and the way we treat scientists and fund research, is broken. It feels a little bit like bailing water out of your boat with teacup on one side while ignoring the gaping hole letting rushing water in on the other side.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gmd63</author><text>The solution is unfortunately for everyone, more transparency in research. When you conduct an experiment, why on earth is the report composed months, sometimes years later, instead of being streamed live and recorded?<p>Just the same as in business. We need a new more prestigious stock exchange for companies that are willing to open their books up to continual audit.<p>The government can step in to aid businesses and researchers that act openly, in the form of grants to researchers or tax breaks for members of the more restrictive stock exchange, and shift the cost of policing destructive fraud to rewards for constructive conduct.</text></comment> | <story><title>Researchers taking on fraudulent science</title><url>https://www.analystnews.org/posts/plagiarism-paper-mills-and-profit-these-scientists-are-fighting-the-epidemic-of-fraudulent-science-research</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>derbOac</author><text>I love these people&#x27;s work.<p>At the same time I don&#x27;t think any of this really addresses the root causes of the problems, which are career, university administrative, and field (i.e., recognition and attention) incentives. The whole paradigm we use, and the way we treat scientists and fund research, is broken. It feels a little bit like bailing water out of your boat with teacup on one side while ignoring the gaping hole letting rushing water in on the other side.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>armchairhacker</author><text>But how do we “solve” those incentives? There will always be winners and losers, and since successful fraud is by definition indistinguishable from genuine success, there will always be people trying to game the system.<p>The only effective solution I see is making fraud harder to hide. (There’s also making the penalty for fraud higher and trying to instill integrity, but the problem is some people will still take the risk.)</text></comment> |
40,665,406 | 40,665,074 | 1 | 2 | 40,662,176 | train | <story><title>Japan enacts law to promote competition in smartphone app stores</title><url>https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2024/06/bc2d7f45d456-japan-enacts-law-to-curb-apple-googles-app-dominance.html#google_vignette</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alwayslikethis</author><text>Realistically, no hardware manufacturer of a significant size (let&#x27;s say 100k total devices) should be allowed to dictate what software can be distributed to users. It opens up all kinds of unfair business practices.</text></item><item><author>arrosenberg</author><text>The answer is obvious, because you can’t fairly resolve a conflict of interest like that - alignment between publishers and distributors in the same vertical should be banned.</text></item><item><author>BadHumans</author><text>I read this as Apple can&#x27;t ban Spotify because they have Apple Music. The question is what happens when an app is competing with Apple but also is breaking Apple&#x27;s TOS?</text></item><item><author>Johnny555</author><text><i>The law will prohibit the providers of Apple&#x27;s iOS and Google&#x27;s Android smartphone operating systems, app stores and payment platforms from preventing the sale of apps and services that directly compete with the native platforms&#x27; own.</i><p>I&#x27;m not sure what this means -- does this just mean that Apple can&#x27;t prevent a third party from selling an app that does something an Apple app does, or does it mean they have to allow third party app stores? Or is it more about opening the payment platform so an app can take direct payments instead of having to go through Apple?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gwbas1c</author><text>Careful: Before web apps were common, 3rd party applications on Windows would break all kinds of things.<p><i>The hardware manufacturer needs to ensure that software doesn&#x27;t break the device.</i><p>Apple and Google are going well beyond any reasonable grey area, though. Demanding a cut if I buy a book through the Kindle app is absurd and has nothing to do with ensuring that Kindle doesn&#x27;t break my smartphone.</text></comment> | <story><title>Japan enacts law to promote competition in smartphone app stores</title><url>https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2024/06/bc2d7f45d456-japan-enacts-law-to-curb-apple-googles-app-dominance.html#google_vignette</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alwayslikethis</author><text>Realistically, no hardware manufacturer of a significant size (let&#x27;s say 100k total devices) should be allowed to dictate what software can be distributed to users. It opens up all kinds of unfair business practices.</text></item><item><author>arrosenberg</author><text>The answer is obvious, because you can’t fairly resolve a conflict of interest like that - alignment between publishers and distributors in the same vertical should be banned.</text></item><item><author>BadHumans</author><text>I read this as Apple can&#x27;t ban Spotify because they have Apple Music. The question is what happens when an app is competing with Apple but also is breaking Apple&#x27;s TOS?</text></item><item><author>Johnny555</author><text><i>The law will prohibit the providers of Apple&#x27;s iOS and Google&#x27;s Android smartphone operating systems, app stores and payment platforms from preventing the sale of apps and services that directly compete with the native platforms&#x27; own.</i><p>I&#x27;m not sure what this means -- does this just mean that Apple can&#x27;t prevent a third party from selling an app that does something an Apple app does, or does it mean they have to allow third party app stores? Or is it more about opening the payment platform so an app can take direct payments instead of having to go through Apple?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>InitialLastName</author><text>Realistically, including avionics and medical devices where the software is restricted by regulation (in theory) and where the manufacturer is legally liable for failure of their device?<p>More specifically, the radio in an iPhone can almost certainly be made to operate outside of licensed&#x2F;compliant limits by tweaking the software. Should they be forced to allow that but still held accountable when their device is noncompliant?</text></comment> |
22,557,868 | 22,558,023 | 1 | 2 | 22,557,065 | train | <story><title>Why soap works so well on most viruses</title><url>https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1236549305189597189.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>koeng</author><text>I work with some groups trying to build synthetic cells, and honestly there isn’t even a good definition for what a “cell” is or what “life” is in the scientific communities. The best proxy I can come up with, which is universally true on earth, is that life is anything that fully encodes ribosomes and can replicate (there aren’t any discovered exceptions to that yet, though some are close). Very intellectually unsatisfying, but so far factually true for anything generally considered “living”.<p>Evolution&#x2F;competition between ribosome encoding and capsid encoding organisms[1] has driven a lot of cool stuff to be developed: for example, bacteria and archaea (+ eukaryotes) gained DNA separately (presumably from viral infection) and retroviruses enables placentas.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;m&#x2F;pubmed&#x2F;19845628&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;m&#x2F;pubmed&#x2F;19845628&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>Anthony-G</author><text>&gt; The soap dissolves the fat membrane and the virus falls apart like a house of cards and &quot;dies&quot;, or rather, we should say it becomes inactive as viruses aren’t really alive.<p>I always presumed that viruses, similar to other microorganisms, are alive. Until reading the above quote, I had never considered the idea there was any question about this. I was intrigued by the concept that they many not really be alive so looked up the Wikipedia article [1] which says that<p>&gt; Viruses are considered by some to be a life form, because they carry genetic material, reproduce, and evolve through natural selection, although they lack key characteristics (such as cell structure) that are generally considered necessary to count as life. Because they possess some but not all such qualities, viruses have been described as &quot;organisms at the edge of life&quot;, and as replicators.<p>One of the Wikipedia references is <i>Are viruses alive? The replicator paradigm sheds decisive light on an old but misguided question</i> [2] which looks at different replication mechanisms as a continuum rather than a simple “life vs non-life” dichotomy.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Virus" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Virus</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC5406846&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC5406846&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>azeirah</author><text>It reminds me of a philosophy class where the goal is to find an accurate and all-capturing definition of what a chair is.<p>It is tremendously difficult, perhaps impossible.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why soap works so well on most viruses</title><url>https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1236549305189597189.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>koeng</author><text>I work with some groups trying to build synthetic cells, and honestly there isn’t even a good definition for what a “cell” is or what “life” is in the scientific communities. The best proxy I can come up with, which is universally true on earth, is that life is anything that fully encodes ribosomes and can replicate (there aren’t any discovered exceptions to that yet, though some are close). Very intellectually unsatisfying, but so far factually true for anything generally considered “living”.<p>Evolution&#x2F;competition between ribosome encoding and capsid encoding organisms[1] has driven a lot of cool stuff to be developed: for example, bacteria and archaea (+ eukaryotes) gained DNA separately (presumably from viral infection) and retroviruses enables placentas.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;m&#x2F;pubmed&#x2F;19845628&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;m&#x2F;pubmed&#x2F;19845628&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>Anthony-G</author><text>&gt; The soap dissolves the fat membrane and the virus falls apart like a house of cards and &quot;dies&quot;, or rather, we should say it becomes inactive as viruses aren’t really alive.<p>I always presumed that viruses, similar to other microorganisms, are alive. Until reading the above quote, I had never considered the idea there was any question about this. I was intrigued by the concept that they many not really be alive so looked up the Wikipedia article [1] which says that<p>&gt; Viruses are considered by some to be a life form, because they carry genetic material, reproduce, and evolve through natural selection, although they lack key characteristics (such as cell structure) that are generally considered necessary to count as life. Because they possess some but not all such qualities, viruses have been described as &quot;organisms at the edge of life&quot;, and as replicators.<p>One of the Wikipedia references is <i>Are viruses alive? The replicator paradigm sheds decisive light on an old but misguided question</i> [2] which looks at different replication mechanisms as a continuum rather than a simple “life vs non-life” dichotomy.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Virus" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Virus</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC5406846&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC5406846&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>angel_rs</author><text>The boundary between &quot;life&quot; and &quot;not life&quot; has some fascinating organisms&#x2F;structures[0]:<p><pre><code> Virions
Viroids
Satellites
Prions
Defective interfering particles (DIPs)
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I would also add t-RNA[1] to that list. It can almost replicate by itself, and sits right in the middle between &quot;data&quot; (DNA&#x2F;RNA) and &quot;code&quot; (a small machine that can selectively hold an amino acid)<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Virus_classification#Subviral_agents" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Virus_classification#Subviral_...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Transfer_RNA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Transfer_RNA</a></text></comment> |
2,910,193 | 2,910,155 | 1 | 3 | 2,909,811 | train | <story><title>A Simple Explanation for Why HP Abandoned Palm</title><url>http://daringfireball.net/2011/08/hp_apotheker</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>acangiano</author><text>I think his interpretation of the facts is very plausible. Sadly, Larry Ellison was absolutely right when he said, at the time of Hurd's scandal, "the HP Board just made the worst personnel decision since the idiots on the Apple Board fired Steve Jobs many years ago."<p>Good CEOs who can revamp stagnant companies are hard to come by, particularly in the consumer space. Hurd was that CEO, Apotheker is not. And getting out of the consumer space, at a time when there are several paradigm shifts going on, means missing huge opportunities.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blinkingled</author><text>Firing Hurd was the right thing to do - I will argue that they were late. Hurd was seen as aligning with Oracle and making decisions that did not conflict with Oracle. EDS, conveniently missed Sun acquisition, consumer focus in lieu of enterprise paints a consistent picture. There is a reason Hurd now works at Oracle and Larry did not like him getting fired. Besides show me what he did apart from cost cutting.<p>Apotheker comes from Oracle's competitor SAP. To that effect he isn't shy of focusing on interests that happen to conflict with Oracle's. To that end, what Gruber is saying is right - the board always wanted more Enterprise focus and that required going against Oracle. That's what Apotheker is doing.<p>As for missed opportunities - it does not matter. HP just does not have the DNA to do great in the already saturated PC and phone/tablets market. Not having to deal with that means they can focus their resources and capital where they are well oiled to do great. It only mattered if HP managed to get a CEO that can change its DNA - Neither Hurd nor Apotheker were into that. If they could have found a great consumer focused CEO with proven and relevant record, then it would have been worthwhile to risk competing in consumer space when it meant losing focus on Enterprise. Otherwise its just not really smart.<p>And they are still not giving up on webOS. But the only catches here are they don't yet know what to do with webOS and the Oracle/Itanium problem. With PSG off their bottom line they could now afford to ignore webOS until they find the right thing for it and focus their hardware resources to sell more proliants and fix the Itanium problem. That's the idea.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Simple Explanation for Why HP Abandoned Palm</title><url>http://daringfireball.net/2011/08/hp_apotheker</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>acangiano</author><text>I think his interpretation of the facts is very plausible. Sadly, Larry Ellison was absolutely right when he said, at the time of Hurd's scandal, "the HP Board just made the worst personnel decision since the idiots on the Apple Board fired Steve Jobs many years ago."<p>Good CEOs who can revamp stagnant companies are hard to come by, particularly in the consumer space. Hurd was that CEO, Apotheker is not. And getting out of the consumer space, at a time when there are several paradigm shifts going on, means missing huge opportunities.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>runjake</author><text>Firing Steve Jobs was the best thing Apple could have done, long term.<p>Apple is where it's at today because of what Steve Jobs learned and grew from his "failures".</text></comment> |
33,821,633 | 33,819,034 | 1 | 2 | 33,818,693 | train | <story><title>Experiment with Penrose Tilings and other patterns</title><url>https://aatishb.com/patterncollider/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>diydsp</author><text>Just in case you missed the subtle question mark of help in the top right corner, the author&#x27;s explanation here is stunningly clear:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;aatishb&#x2F;patterncollider#readme" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;aatishb&#x2F;patterncollider#readme</a><p>Kudos to aatishb. I&#x27;ve been fascinated by this generations since approx 1995 when there was a webpage at a university with webcgi script to transmit the params to a server to render a .gif. I&#x27;ve read many explanations since then, but it&#x27;s only this time around that I get it!</text></comment> | <story><title>Experiment with Penrose Tilings and other patterns</title><url>https://aatishb.com/patterncollider/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dvh</author><text>Just mentioned in minute physics video:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;-eqdj63nEr4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;-eqdj63nEr4</a></text></comment> |
20,537,117 | 20,536,000 | 1 | 2 | 20,533,026 | train | <story><title>Users hate change</title><url>https://gist.github.com/sleepyfox/a4d311ffcdc4fd908ec97d1c245e57dc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yoz-y</author><text>Subscription model is actually way better if you don&#x27;t want to end up with feature bloat. Because you actually get money from users even if you only ever fix bugs and improve performance.<p>If you freeze your features you will soon arrive at a point where everybody who wanted your software bought it and then the revenue stops.</text></item><item><author>flohofwoe</author><text>My pet theory is that every software product has a &quot;peak version&quot;. Before that peak version, the product is not yet in a complete state, and it is fairly obvious, both for the developer and user, what features are missing. Once the peak version is reached, new features are not added because they improve the product, but to justify selling the product again to existing customers, and to &#x27;keep the team busy&#x27;.<p>Instead of really improving the product, features become checkboxes on the roadmap. Which eventually results in degrading the quality of the product, it becomes bloated, the UX becomes confusing (especially to new users), and existing features start to suffer because the &quot;maintenance surface&quot; becomes bigger and bigger.<p>What <i>should</i> happen of course is that the product&#x27;s feature set is frozen at the &quot;peak version&quot;, and only bug fixes and optimizations are happening, that&#x27;s a hard sell to the bean counters of course, especially with subscription models and &quot;software as a service&quot; which they like so much. From the customer&#x27;s point of view, bug fixes and optimizations are expected to come for free, because they are fixing defects in the original product and don&#x27;t add any value, right?<p>Eventually progress and success is measured in features added, not in satisfaction of individual customers. And as long as KPIs are looking alright - meaning the &#x27;average customer&#x27; (which doesn&#x27;t exist btw) isn&#x27;t pissed off enough to look elsewhere, all is good, even though everything is terrible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nofunsir</author><text>&quot;everybody who wanted your software bought it and then the revenue stops.&quot;<p>That&#x27;s... how it should work. You don&#x27;t get to hook into their wallets for time and all eternity.<p>everybody who wanted your &lt;shovel&gt; bought it and then the revenue stops.<p>everybody who wanted your &lt;light bulb&gt; bought it and then the revenue stops.<p>everybody who wanted your &lt;real estate&gt; bought it and then the revenue stops.<p>... and then you go do something else!<p>That is the precise mechanism that drives the economy forward.</text></comment> | <story><title>Users hate change</title><url>https://gist.github.com/sleepyfox/a4d311ffcdc4fd908ec97d1c245e57dc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yoz-y</author><text>Subscription model is actually way better if you don&#x27;t want to end up with feature bloat. Because you actually get money from users even if you only ever fix bugs and improve performance.<p>If you freeze your features you will soon arrive at a point where everybody who wanted your software bought it and then the revenue stops.</text></item><item><author>flohofwoe</author><text>My pet theory is that every software product has a &quot;peak version&quot;. Before that peak version, the product is not yet in a complete state, and it is fairly obvious, both for the developer and user, what features are missing. Once the peak version is reached, new features are not added because they improve the product, but to justify selling the product again to existing customers, and to &#x27;keep the team busy&#x27;.<p>Instead of really improving the product, features become checkboxes on the roadmap. Which eventually results in degrading the quality of the product, it becomes bloated, the UX becomes confusing (especially to new users), and existing features start to suffer because the &quot;maintenance surface&quot; becomes bigger and bigger.<p>What <i>should</i> happen of course is that the product&#x27;s feature set is frozen at the &quot;peak version&quot;, and only bug fixes and optimizations are happening, that&#x27;s a hard sell to the bean counters of course, especially with subscription models and &quot;software as a service&quot; which they like so much. From the customer&#x27;s point of view, bug fixes and optimizations are expected to come for free, because they are fixing defects in the original product and don&#x27;t add any value, right?<p>Eventually progress and success is measured in features added, not in satisfaction of individual customers. And as long as KPIs are looking alright - meaning the &#x27;average customer&#x27; (which doesn&#x27;t exist btw) isn&#x27;t pissed off enough to look elsewhere, all is good, even though everything is terrible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>la_barba</author><text>That&#x27;s a good point. I&#x27;m overall positive about subscription software, but I don&#x27;t like the fact that it always seems to go hand in hand with DRM and other nonsense. I&#x27;d rather they take some modest amount per year and let me do whatever I want with the software. Its a headache to make the software work when the computer is on an isolated network and will never be connected to the internet. Office 365 I&#x27;m looking at you.. :P</text></comment> |
19,106,288 | 19,105,489 | 1 | 2 | 19,103,557 | train | <story><title>Sweden's leave of absence system helps workers launch their own business</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20190206-swedens-surprising-rule-for-time-off</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wjjdjw</author><text>So would you assume you can work 40 hr and trade secrets from your employer as a side hustle, just because it&#x27;s not happening within the work time?</text></item><item><author>maxxxxx</author><text>When I first learned about this type of contract I couldn’t even believe the concept. How can anybody think it’s ok that a company can claim and kind of ownership over things an employee does in his free time? I have signed up for 40 hours a week and not for being fully owned by the company.<p>What happens if you work another job and invent things there? Do the companies own each other’s stuff?</text></item><item><author>adetrest</author><text>Meanwhile, in the US and Canada, you are forced to sign clauses that gives your employer full ownership of anything you invent ever while employed and you have to ask your ~parents~ employer if you could please do something else on the side. Good for Sweden, these feodal rules are dragging everyone down.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adetrest</author><text>You can do work on the side without disclosing your employers trade secrets, I would hope. There is nothing mysterious about yet another CRUD web application. Besides, confidentiality is covered separately and an NDA can stand on its own.<p>I suspect employers love restricting your right to have a side hustle so that they absolutely totally own you. If you have no other means of income besides your job they can lean on you pretty hard and there isn&#x27;t much you can do about it if you like having a roof over your head.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sweden's leave of absence system helps workers launch their own business</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20190206-swedens-surprising-rule-for-time-off</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wjjdjw</author><text>So would you assume you can work 40 hr and trade secrets from your employer as a side hustle, just because it&#x27;s not happening within the work time?</text></item><item><author>maxxxxx</author><text>When I first learned about this type of contract I couldn’t even believe the concept. How can anybody think it’s ok that a company can claim and kind of ownership over things an employee does in his free time? I have signed up for 40 hours a week and not for being fully owned by the company.<p>What happens if you work another job and invent things there? Do the companies own each other’s stuff?</text></item><item><author>adetrest</author><text>Meanwhile, in the US and Canada, you are forced to sign clauses that gives your employer full ownership of anything you invent ever while employed and you have to ask your ~parents~ employer if you could please do something else on the side. Good for Sweden, these feodal rules are dragging everyone down.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cr1895</author><text>You&#x27;re presumably already bound to confidentiality.</text></comment> |
23,059,709 | 23,057,866 | 1 | 2 | 23,052,433 | train | <story><title>Rust in an Instant</title><url>https://fnordig.de/2020/05/02/rust-in-an-instant/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pornel</author><text>People often mistake Rust&#x27;s safety guarantees for a sandbox like JavaScript. &quot;Safe&quot; Rust code is still on the trusted side of the airtight hatchway[1], so hacks like that are a class of &quot;arbitrary code execution leads to arbitrary code execution&quot;.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;devblogs.microsoft.com&#x2F;oldnewthing&#x2F;20060508-22&#x2F;?p=31283" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;devblogs.microsoft.com&#x2F;oldnewthing&#x2F;20060508-22&#x2F;?p=31...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Rust in an Instant</title><url>https://fnordig.de/2020/05/02/rust-in-an-instant/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Gaelan</author><text>Wait, isn’t this a soundness issue? Couldn’t you, say, replace malloc with a safe function that always returned 0x4 [0], causing segfaults with no unsafe?<p>[0]: chosen by fair dice roll<p>EDIT: yep, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;rust&#x2F;issues&#x2F;28179" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;rust&#x2F;issues&#x2F;28179</a></text></comment> |
40,327,791 | 40,327,225 | 1 | 2 | 40,315,686 | train | <story><title>So We've Got a Memory Leak</title><url>https://stevenharman.net/so-we-have-a-memory-leak</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>smallstepforman</author><text>I just dont understand the fear with manual memory management. With RAII and and simple diligance (clear ownership rules), managing memory is an easy engineering task. I actually find it *more* challenging to deal with frameworks that insist or reference counting and shared pointers since ownership is now obscure.<p>I create it, I free it. I transfer, I no longer care. Its part of engineering discipline. Memory bugs are no worse than logic bugs, we fix the logic bugs, makes sense to fix the memory bugs. Disclaimer: I do embedded complex systems that run 24&#x2F;7.<p>We do the same for OS resources (handles, sockets, etc) and dont use automatic resource managers, we do it manually. So why complicate the design with automatic memory management?</text></comment> | <story><title>So We've Got a Memory Leak</title><url>https://stevenharman.net/so-we-have-a-memory-leak</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DonHopkins</author><text>&quot;I&#x27;m not a real programmer. I throw together things until it works then I move on. The real programmers will say &#x27;Yeah it works but you&#x27;re leaking memory everywhere. Perhaps we should fix that.&#x27; I’ll just restart Apache every 10 requests.&quot; -Rasmus Lerdorf, PHP Non-Designer<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikiquote.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rasmus_Lerdorf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikiquote.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rasmus_Lerdorf</a></text></comment> |
28,665,120 | 28,664,602 | 1 | 2 | 28,663,848 | train | <story><title>Frustrated dev drops three zero-day vulns affecting Apple iOS 15</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/24/apple_zeroday/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JonathanBeuys</author><text>I am always shocked when I find out how lax security is handled even by parties of whom I thought they would take security very serious.<p>Did you know that you can bypass the lockscreen on Linux Mint by plugging in an external monitor?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;linuxmint&#x2F;cinnamon&#x2F;issues&#x2F;9123" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;linuxmint&#x2F;cinnamon&#x2F;issues&#x2F;9123</a><p>Did you know that when you use Chromium on an up-to-date Debian stable, it has over 100 unpatched security holes?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;security-tracker.debian.org&#x2F;tracker&#x2F;status&#x2F;release&#x2F;stable" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;security-tracker.debian.org&#x2F;tracker&#x2F;status&#x2F;release&#x2F;s...</a><p>If you cannot trust Debian - whom can you trust? Any suggestions which distro takes security serious?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WastingMyTime89</author><text>&gt; If you cannot trust Debian - whom can you trust?<p>When did Debian become a model of trustworthiness regarding software security?<p>We are talking about one of the distributions applying the most patches to its repository for reasons which are often dubious and with little general oversight.<p>Debian is famous for being run by volunteers but it has always been kind of dodgy. We are talking about the distribution which made it&#x27;s version of openssl vulnerable by breaking its random generator in order to silence a Valgrind warning.</text></comment> | <story><title>Frustrated dev drops three zero-day vulns affecting Apple iOS 15</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/24/apple_zeroday/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JonathanBeuys</author><text>I am always shocked when I find out how lax security is handled even by parties of whom I thought they would take security very serious.<p>Did you know that you can bypass the lockscreen on Linux Mint by plugging in an external monitor?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;linuxmint&#x2F;cinnamon&#x2F;issues&#x2F;9123" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;linuxmint&#x2F;cinnamon&#x2F;issues&#x2F;9123</a><p>Did you know that when you use Chromium on an up-to-date Debian stable, it has over 100 unpatched security holes?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;security-tracker.debian.org&#x2F;tracker&#x2F;status&#x2F;release&#x2F;stable" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;security-tracker.debian.org&#x2F;tracker&#x2F;status&#x2F;release&#x2F;s...</a><p>If you cannot trust Debian - whom can you trust? Any suggestions which distro takes security serious?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dharmab</author><text>Foxboron on the Arch team is very serious about security. Check out the Security page on the archwiki for guidance on building your own hardened Arch system.</text></comment> |
30,854,337 | 30,854,348 | 1 | 3 | 30,853,778 | train | <story><title>Stackit: Cloud and Colocation</title><url>https://www.stackit.de/en</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gpjanik</author><text>Wasn&#x27;t sure if April fools or not. German companies have launched so many of those &quot;rivals&quot; to AWS by now, all of them require you to call someone&#x2F;send a letter&#x2F;FAX to create a VM. I wonder if they understand that the success of cloud, SaaS and generally majority of modern, scalable businesses comes from the fact that it _can_ be self-served.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KingOfCoders</author><text>&quot;all of them require you to call someone&#x2F;send a letter&#x2F;FAX to create a VM.&quot;<p>Have ordered servers from Hetzner online for the last 20 years, since their cloud offering via API&#x2F;cli.</text></comment> | <story><title>Stackit: Cloud and Colocation</title><url>https://www.stackit.de/en</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gpjanik</author><text>Wasn&#x27;t sure if April fools or not. German companies have launched so many of those &quot;rivals&quot; to AWS by now, all of them require you to call someone&#x2F;send a letter&#x2F;FAX to create a VM. I wonder if they understand that the success of cloud, SaaS and generally majority of modern, scalable businesses comes from the fact that it _can_ be self-served.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>flexie</author><text>We&#x27;ve used Hetzner for years. We never called or faxed them.
Great service, by the way.</text></comment> |
7,519,125 | 7,518,990 | 1 | 2 | 7,517,644 | train | <story><title>One Page R: A Survival Guide to Data Science with R</title><url>http://onepager.togaware.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pvnick</author><text>Does anybody with experience doing analysis in both R and python have any insight as to whether one can replace the other, or do they significantly supplement each other? I get the impression that python with pandas&#x2F;scikit-learn&#x2F;scipy&#x2F;numpy&#x2F;matplotlib can be used almost completely in lieu of both R and matlab, but I don&#x27;t feel that I have enough experience in R or matlab to make such a claim.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chubot</author><text>I am a pretty die hard Python person, having used it as my main language for over 10 years. I think there is a tendency to make that claim because we want it to be true :)<p>Python is such a nice language that we want to use it for everything. But I found I became more productive once I got out of that mindset. Right now, I have a very multilingual workflow including Python, R, shell scripts, C++, and a handful of other DSLs (various sql dialects, html templating, etc.)<p>I feel like I am finally productive working with data; I was always astounded by how MUCH code you have to write to work with data. There is a pretty big cost to learning all of that, and I won&#x27;t lie and say I learned R quickly, but it was worth it.<p>I use Python to interface with MANY systems, often to generate cleanly formatted CSV files. R reads the CSV files and does data slicing and dicing (using the data.table package, an enhanced data frame). And then ggplot2 for plotting. And C++ for the big data stuff, and shell scripts to glue it all together (with concurrent processes, importantly).<p>I find that this Unix-style architecture is actually more maintainable in the long run. Parts of your analysis and data cleaning become more modular and reusable. There are a lot of reasons why a boatload of Python packages aren&#x27;t very cleanly reusable. You also end up with MUCH less code using the multi-language strategy vs. trying to do it all in one language (I&#x27;ve seen people try to do that both with Python and R).<p>ggplot2 is unrivaled; Python and Julia people are busily trying to copy it. Python and Julia are both also copying R&#x27;s data frame structure. The area is moving extremely quickly now, so I&#x27;ll be interested to see what progress they make. But there are actually areas where R the language is more suited to data analysis (has more of a Scheme core than Python, more appropriate data structures, lazy expression evaluation, etc.)<p>In the end I am using R for the same reason I chose to use Python over C&#x2F;C++ -- because it enables you to write 5x less code (in the domain of data analysis, compared with Python). And once you use other tools, you see Python&#x27;s flaws, like bad package management (R&#x27;s is actually better), and a relatively bad REPL. And Python&#x27;s C++-inspired class system is often a hindrance for data analysis; R is a more data-oriented language.<p>R definitely has its problems, including a lot of horrible R code out there. But it also has a lot more books and so forth. IMO data.table + ggplot2 alone make it worth it. I recommend reading Hadley Wickam&#x27;s papers on &quot;tidy data&quot; and the &quot;split-apply-combine&quot; style of analysis. In that sense learning R actually helps you learn how to do data analysis properly.</text></comment> | <story><title>One Page R: A Survival Guide to Data Science with R</title><url>http://onepager.togaware.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pvnick</author><text>Does anybody with experience doing analysis in both R and python have any insight as to whether one can replace the other, or do they significantly supplement each other? I get the impression that python with pandas&#x2F;scikit-learn&#x2F;scipy&#x2F;numpy&#x2F;matplotlib can be used almost completely in lieu of both R and matlab, but I don&#x27;t feel that I have enough experience in R or matlab to make such a claim.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whyenot</author><text>It depends. R has many, many more packages and those packages tend to be more extensively peer-reviewed. If the sort of analysis you are doing wanders out of the mainstream, you are less likely having to code something up from scratch than is the case with python&#x2F;*. I also find R is a lot more enjoyable to use interactively and for exploring data than python. On the other hand, python is fantastic for larger pieces of code, data wrangling, and any tasks where you can make use of python&#x27;s massive number of (non-statistical) modules.</text></comment> |
12,234,613 | 12,234,359 | 1 | 2 | 12,231,818 | train | <story><title>Find a new city</title><url>http://austinkleon.com/2016/08/03/find-a-new-city/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rpazyaquian</author><text>This jumped out at me:<p>&gt; “I’m trans, so I need to live somewhere progressive so I feel safe day-to-day and don’t feel like I’m going to get beat up for using the wrong restroom.”<p>This is a pretty damn good reason to live somewhere like Seattle or Boston, and a pretty damn good reason not to live somewhere like (edit:) North Carolina or Tennessee or Georgia. The reality is that many of us are limited by not wanting to live in a city or state that basically wants us dead. The fact that tech companies tend to be clustered around progressive, blue areas is a major advantage.<p>It&#x27;s easy to say &quot;just move to the middle of nowhere!&quot; if you&#x27;re privileged enough to not worry about these things. But some of us kind of want to keep our asses safe and, honestly, alive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nostromo</author><text>Have you actually spent time in Raleigh or Atlanta? The idea that trans people are getting murdered in the street is just not correct.<p>I&#x27;m gay and I&#x27;ve spent a lot of fun nights in Boise, Idaho because a gay friend of mine lives there with her wife. We always have a blast. She has a great career in Boise and I don&#x27;t think she&#x27;s experienced more homophobia there than when she lived in New York City. (I know she had at least one bad experience in NYC as she was cat-called once right before I met her and her then girlfriend.)<p>I think a lot of coastal elites have no idea what they&#x27;re talking about when they speak about the extreme danger of being different in middle-America.</text></comment> | <story><title>Find a new city</title><url>http://austinkleon.com/2016/08/03/find-a-new-city/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rpazyaquian</author><text>This jumped out at me:<p>&gt; “I’m trans, so I need to live somewhere progressive so I feel safe day-to-day and don’t feel like I’m going to get beat up for using the wrong restroom.”<p>This is a pretty damn good reason to live somewhere like Seattle or Boston, and a pretty damn good reason not to live somewhere like (edit:) North Carolina or Tennessee or Georgia. The reality is that many of us are limited by not wanting to live in a city or state that basically wants us dead. The fact that tech companies tend to be clustered around progressive, blue areas is a major advantage.<p>It&#x27;s easy to say &quot;just move to the middle of nowhere!&quot; if you&#x27;re privileged enough to not worry about these things. But some of us kind of want to keep our asses safe and, honestly, alive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>initram</author><text>For me it&#x27;s not only about being safe. I don&#x27;t have to worry too much about that sort of thing because I blend in most places in my country. But I&#x27;ve lived where people had different values than me and it just gets exhausting. Constantly being bombarded with messages you fundamentally disagree with 24&#x2F;7. Billboards; local TV; newpapers&#x2F;web sites; overhearing conversations of the people around you; having odd things said to you; day in and day out. I don&#x27;t mind that other people have different values than me. But I do mind having to be constantly surrounded by it and having nowhere to go to get away from it.<p>I can&#x27;t imagine what it&#x27;s like to have that issue and also fear for your safety on a daily basis. That sucks and I wouldn&#x27;t wish that on anyone.</text></comment> |
37,953,674 | 37,953,681 | 1 | 2 | 37,953,336 | train | <story><title>Alexei Navalny's lawyers are arrested</title><url>https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/10/19/alexei-navalnys-lawyers-are-arrested</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Darmody</author><text>I have a huge respect for Navalny.<p>They tried to murder him and after spending time in a German hospital he decided to go back knowing that they&#x27;ll imprison him or try to kill him again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>r721</author><text>&gt;knowing<p>I think the risk was huge (personally I thought 50-70% at the time), but not 99% or something. Also (in my opinion) people don&#x27;t take into account that alternative was irrelevance in exile, just look at what happened with Kasparov&#x27;s popularity inside Russia, and he was a prominent opposition activist in 2011-2012.</text></comment> | <story><title>Alexei Navalny's lawyers are arrested</title><url>https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/10/19/alexei-navalnys-lawyers-are-arrested</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Darmody</author><text>I have a huge respect for Navalny.<p>They tried to murder him and after spending time in a German hospital he decided to go back knowing that they&#x27;ll imprison him or try to kill him again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>szundi</author><text>I think he miscalculated the degree of cruelty he’ll experience. Also his move itself could be the trigger as if this cruelty would nit be there, then he would have been a hero winning, not a hero losing. Steps “had to be made”, sadly.</text></comment> |
21,727,902 | 21,727,911 | 1 | 2 | 21,727,713 | train | <story><title>Android’s Commitment to Kotlin</title><url>https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2019/12/androids-commitment-to-kotlin.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>clumsysmurf</author><text>At this point, I feel no language can compensate for the platform&#x27;s out-of-date java libraries. I think Google has its priorities wrong: first should be recent java, second should be kotlin.</text></comment> | <story><title>Android’s Commitment to Kotlin</title><url>https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2019/12/androids-commitment-to-kotlin.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tlarkworthy</author><text>&gt; Today, we’re proud to say nearly 60% of the top 1,000 Android apps contain Kotlin code<p>^^ This precise phrasing looks like an OKR.</text></comment> |
25,260,631 | 25,260,681 | 1 | 2 | 25,253,471 | train | <story><title>Error Handling Is Hard</title><url>https://www.fpcomplete.com/blog/error-handling-is-hard/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adimitrov</author><text>I really, really dislike exceptions.<p>Unchecked exceptions don&#x27;t tell the caller something might go wrong. Fine for Python, where strong guarantees aren&#x27;t a thing anyway, but any statically typed language cannot be content with essentially adding bottom to every single type.<p>Checked exceptions have failed, or at least I haven&#x27;t seen anybody fix their issues. They proliferate spurious exception types in interfaces. They are inflexible, as they usually can&#x27;t be generic. They suck at typing error cases for higher order functions. They&#x27;re big heavy and expensive, so can&#x27;t be used for hot code paths. They&#x27;re <i>exceptions</i> but more often than not you want to signal expected failure...<p>The list goes on...</text></item><item><author>theamk</author><text>For this case, I actually think Python&#x27;s approach is the best:<p>- Exceptions, so you don&#x27;t need error handling<p>- <i>stack traces</i> so you know the entire call tree. This is pretty important -- without stack traces, it is very hard to make sense of error messages like &quot;Cannot open file &#x27;none&#x27;&quot; -- the filename is clearly wrong, but where did this come from.<p>- <i>chained exceptions</i> so you can add context trivially. Doing &quot;try: ... except: raise Exception(&#x27;Cannot load config&#x27;)&quot; will print both error messages and two stack traces, so you know both original error and better description.<p>- <i>verbose by default</i> so if you don&#x27;t put any effort into error handling, you get lots of details. This is somewhat controversial -- when some people see large stack traces their eyes glaze over and they just stop reading. But as a program&#x27;s author, I love this -- the stack traces are informative enough I can often figure out what&#x27;s wrong immediately.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>barrkel</author><text>Spurious exception specifications are the flip side of avoiding not telling the caller something might go wrong. It&#x27;s a fundamental tension and is unavoidable.<p>Failure modes are an abstraction violation; they&#x27;re a function of implementation. That&#x27;s what makes checked exceptions not work, at the end of the day. Information-carrying exceptions reveal implementation details. So a module author must decide between hiding details and wrapping everything up in module-specific exceptions that user code can&#x27;t actually use to make decisions most of the time, or expose implementation details that turn into a versioning problem over time.<p>There&#x27;s roughly two situations for error handling: near the leaf of the call tree, where you have enough context to deal with an error, and need to switch on error type and take compensating action; or near the root of the call tree, in the main loop, where you log errors and terminate requests etc. in a generic way (e.g. 500 response).<p>Exceptions aren&#x27;t ideal for the first situation but are great for the second. Error codes are adequate for the first situation - monadic error types (Result&lt;T&gt;, Either) are a bit better - but suck horribly for the second, because you need to manually unwind, writing boilerplate that should be automatic.<p>And at the limit, error types are isomorphic to checked exceptions, with the same problems, and more - error types introduce an aggregation problem, where multiple errors need to be joined together. You can still get that with exceptions too but it usually requires parallelism.</text></comment> | <story><title>Error Handling Is Hard</title><url>https://www.fpcomplete.com/blog/error-handling-is-hard/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adimitrov</author><text>I really, really dislike exceptions.<p>Unchecked exceptions don&#x27;t tell the caller something might go wrong. Fine for Python, where strong guarantees aren&#x27;t a thing anyway, but any statically typed language cannot be content with essentially adding bottom to every single type.<p>Checked exceptions have failed, or at least I haven&#x27;t seen anybody fix their issues. They proliferate spurious exception types in interfaces. They are inflexible, as they usually can&#x27;t be generic. They suck at typing error cases for higher order functions. They&#x27;re big heavy and expensive, so can&#x27;t be used for hot code paths. They&#x27;re <i>exceptions</i> but more often than not you want to signal expected failure...<p>The list goes on...</text></item><item><author>theamk</author><text>For this case, I actually think Python&#x27;s approach is the best:<p>- Exceptions, so you don&#x27;t need error handling<p>- <i>stack traces</i> so you know the entire call tree. This is pretty important -- without stack traces, it is very hard to make sense of error messages like &quot;Cannot open file &#x27;none&#x27;&quot; -- the filename is clearly wrong, but where did this come from.<p>- <i>chained exceptions</i> so you can add context trivially. Doing &quot;try: ... except: raise Exception(&#x27;Cannot load config&#x27;)&quot; will print both error messages and two stack traces, so you know both original error and better description.<p>- <i>verbose by default</i> so if you don&#x27;t put any effort into error handling, you get lots of details. This is somewhat controversial -- when some people see large stack traces their eyes glaze over and they just stop reading. But as a program&#x27;s author, I love this -- the stack traces are informative enough I can often figure out what&#x27;s wrong immediately.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>karatinversion</author><text>My hot take on this is that java checked exceptions are bad because their design predates java generics. Because of the lack of generics, authors of packages such as java.io had to create god-types of exceptions for their general interfaces to throw. A good example is<p><pre><code> public int java.io.Reader.read() throws IOException
</code></pre>
As I see it, the purpose of checked exceptions was to allow declaring expected failure modes in the function signature, so that the programmer (and the compiler!) could check against them - but when my StringReader declares itself capable of throwing an SSLException (subclass of IOException), this benefit is lost. Instead, I must rely on other sources to determine which errors may actually occur, and which I can&#x27;t do anything about - and the latter I must swallow or pollute all of my package&#x27;s function signatures with. If the Reader interface had instead been generic<p><pre><code> java.io.Reader&lt;T extends Throwable&gt;
</code></pre>
read() could be declared as<p><pre><code> public int read() throws T
</code></pre>
This would rescue much, and is something that could be done in modern java; but by the time generics were introduced, all the core packages like java.io were written, and the patterns for how to deal with checked exceptions were set.</text></comment> |
10,406,603 | 10,406,433 | 1 | 2 | 10,406,261 | train | <story><title>U.S. Will Require Drones to Be Registered</title><url>http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-will-require-drones-be-registered-n446266</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>neurotech1</author><text>One thing about the RPV&#x2F;Quadcopter debate that is rarely mentioned is the reason why they don&#x27;t use ADS-B transponders.<p>The FAA requires ADS-B trasponders to have high accuracy GPS, and that pushes the cost to over $2,000 per device. It would be logical for the FAA to relax the GPS requirement slightly, so a cheap GPS module is sufficient to alert nearby aircraft of RPV activity over a certain altitude (eg. 200ft AGL) These RPV-grade ADS-B transponders could use a limited signal output, to avoid nuisance pop-ups from longer distances. The transponder Mode-S ID uniquely identifies the RPV.<p>It would be possible for a transponder to use an alternate channel frequency, similar to how many General Aviation aircraft use 978Mhz ADS-B. Even with an alternate RPV channel, the RPV operators would still be alerted to regular aircraft operations.</text></comment> | <story><title>U.S. Will Require Drones to Be Registered</title><url>http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-will-require-drones-be-registered-n446266</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Malstrond</author><text>I&#x27;m wondering how this will be implemented.<p>If used recreationally, they&#x27;re R&#x2F;C flying models, no matter how much the DJI marketing dept likes the term.
So will the the hobby that has been fine for decades be hit too?<p>Will you have to register a Cheerson CX-Stars that weighs 8g?<p>What about the congressional Special Rule for Model Aircraft? &quot;Technically it&#x27;s not the FAA so we can regulate everything!&quot; or what?<p>They&#x27;re also not that hard to build yourself and the components are shared with other things (e.g. motors are shared with R&#x2F;C cars and the first popular flight controller was an Arduino with the sensors from a Wii Motion Plus or Nunchuk) so you can&#x27;t ban the part sales.</text></comment> |
6,336,762 | 6,336,683 | 1 | 2 | 6,336,178 | train | <story><title>N.S.A. Foils Much Internet Encryption</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/us/nsa-foils-much-internet-encryption.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tc</author><text>This is really damaging.<p>Not only will this cause other countries to put up barriers against US (and UK) services and products, it&#x27;s going to affect uptake of standards developed here.<p>On the lighter side, a treasure hunt was just announced. Can you find one of these vulnerabilities, or evidence of the NSA having attacked a particular system to steal keys?<p>----<p>[Edit 1] Some speculation:<p>By careful hardware design -- and lots of it -- the NSA may be able to find keys large enough that we would be mildly surprised but not shocked. It&#x27;s not well known that searching for <i>many</i> keys in parallel amortizes well -- it&#x27;s much cheaper than finding all the keys individually. DJB has a great paper about this:<p><a href="http://cr.yp.to/snuffle/bruteforce-20050425.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cr.yp.to&#x2F;snuffle&#x2F;bruteforce-20050425.pdf</a><p>If I were looking for subverted hardware, I&#x27;d be really interested in reverse engineering Ethernet chips and BMCs. The CPU would be an obvious choice as well -- could there be some sequence of instructions that enables privilege escalation?<p>On protocols, the best sort of vulnerability for the NSA would be the kind that is still somewhat difficult and expensive to exploit. They want the security lowered just far enough that they can get the plaintext, but not so far that our adversaries can.<p>There is some history with not taking timing attacks seriously enough. Perhaps careful timing observation, which the NSA is well positioned to do, could give more of an edge than we suspect. Or perhaps you could push vendors to make their products susceptible to this kind of attack, secure in the belief that it may be difficult for others to detect.<p>[Edit 2]<p>I gave a talk that discussed what I think we as engineers should do here:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7oK59DZwR4#t=1m46s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=c7oK59DZwR4#t=1m46s</a><p>And Phil Zimmermann and I discussed a number of these issues in a Q&amp;A session:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W42i8zCEizI#t=49m55s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=W42i8zCEizI#t=49m55s</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrb</author><text>I think we know very well which encryption has been foiled by the NSA. This is not speculation, but quasi-certainty: 1024-bit RSA.<p>- Crytographers all acknowledge 1024-bit RSA is dead [1].<p>- Attack cost 10 years ago was estimated to be a few million USD to build a device able to crack a 1024-bit key every 12 months [2].<p>- &quot;Much of&quot; the &quot;secure&quot; HTTPS websites use such weak key sizes [3].<p>- NSA had a budget of 10.8 billion USD in 2013.<p>Drawing a conclusion is not very hard.<p>[1] <a href="http://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2007/05/researchers-307-digit-key-crack-endangers-1024-bit-rsa/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;uncategorized&#x2F;2007&#x2F;05&#x2F;researchers-307...</a>
[2] <a href="http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~tromer/twirl/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.tau.ac.il&#x2F;~tromer&#x2F;twirl&#x2F;</a>
[3] <a href="https://www.eff.org/pages/howto-using-ssl-observatory-cloud" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;pages&#x2F;howto-using-ssl-observatory-cloud</a></text></comment> | <story><title>N.S.A. Foils Much Internet Encryption</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/us/nsa-foils-much-internet-encryption.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tc</author><text>This is really damaging.<p>Not only will this cause other countries to put up barriers against US (and UK) services and products, it&#x27;s going to affect uptake of standards developed here.<p>On the lighter side, a treasure hunt was just announced. Can you find one of these vulnerabilities, or evidence of the NSA having attacked a particular system to steal keys?<p>----<p>[Edit 1] Some speculation:<p>By careful hardware design -- and lots of it -- the NSA may be able to find keys large enough that we would be mildly surprised but not shocked. It&#x27;s not well known that searching for <i>many</i> keys in parallel amortizes well -- it&#x27;s much cheaper than finding all the keys individually. DJB has a great paper about this:<p><a href="http://cr.yp.to/snuffle/bruteforce-20050425.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cr.yp.to&#x2F;snuffle&#x2F;bruteforce-20050425.pdf</a><p>If I were looking for subverted hardware, I&#x27;d be really interested in reverse engineering Ethernet chips and BMCs. The CPU would be an obvious choice as well -- could there be some sequence of instructions that enables privilege escalation?<p>On protocols, the best sort of vulnerability for the NSA would be the kind that is still somewhat difficult and expensive to exploit. They want the security lowered just far enough that they can get the plaintext, but not so far that our adversaries can.<p>There is some history with not taking timing attacks seriously enough. Perhaps careful timing observation, which the NSA is well positioned to do, could give more of an edge than we suspect. Or perhaps you could push vendors to make their products susceptible to this kind of attack, secure in the belief that it may be difficult for others to detect.<p>[Edit 2]<p>I gave a talk that discussed what I think we as engineers should do here:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7oK59DZwR4#t=1m46s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=c7oK59DZwR4#t=1m46s</a><p>And Phil Zimmermann and I discussed a number of these issues in a Q&amp;A session:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W42i8zCEizI#t=49m55s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=W42i8zCEizI#t=49m55s</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>I would not be at all surprised to learn that the major advance these disclosures refer to is an on-demand RSA-1024 factoring capability. RSA-1024 is already known to be unsafe (Eran Tromer estimates a 7 figure cost for a dedicated hardware cracker, which is approximately the threshold DES was at in the late &#x27;90s, when nobody believed DES was secure). On-demand offline RSA-1024 attacks would have major implications, would be a huge advance in the state of the art, but also seems feasible given an effectively unlimited budget.</text></comment> |
26,801,242 | 26,800,525 | 1 | 2 | 26,798,982 | train | <story><title>WhatsApp's new privacy policy is so bad it might be illegal</title><url>https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/04/13/whatsapps-new-privacy-policy-is-so-bad-it-might-be-illegal/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>foolinaround</author><text>In Jan, there was a big outcry, i thought all would move to signal.
I have about 25% of the conversations in signal, but especially for groups, whatsapp is so sticky, that they seem to have broadly failed in signal, and are back to whatsapp.<p>I continue to have individual conversations on signal with most friends, but the idea of being able to leave whatsapp seems to be much tougher than I thought.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ryandrake</author><text>The way I see it, you can choose to be part of the problem or not. And with a product that gets stronger the more people use it, then using it is part of the problem. You can’t complain about how So-And-So company’s products are bad, but then say “but I can’t bear to stop using em!”<p>I cut all of FB and their ecosystem out of my life years ago. Can’t say this one person out of billions has had an effect on the company but at least I can honestly say I’m not even a tiny part of the problem.<p>I don&#x27;t proselytize to normal people anymore because most just aren&#x27;t receptive to the message. It&#x27;s like an addiction. Even when they agree with me, everyone has their little excuses as to why they can&#x27;t possibly quit. And at the end of the day your one-one-billionth share of the problem amounts to peanuts, anyway.</text></comment> | <story><title>WhatsApp's new privacy policy is so bad it might be illegal</title><url>https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/04/13/whatsapps-new-privacy-policy-is-so-bad-it-might-be-illegal/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>foolinaround</author><text>In Jan, there was a big outcry, i thought all would move to signal.
I have about 25% of the conversations in signal, but especially for groups, whatsapp is so sticky, that they seem to have broadly failed in signal, and are back to whatsapp.<p>I continue to have individual conversations on signal with most friends, but the idea of being able to leave whatsapp seems to be much tougher than I thought.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bla3</author><text>If we&#x27;re doing anecdata: All my contacts are on Signal now. I uninstalled WhatsApp back in Jan.</text></comment> |
30,716,614 | 30,715,760 | 1 | 2 | 30,715,268 | train | <story><title>Intel financialized and lost leadership in semiconductor fabrication (2021)</title><url>https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/how-intel-financialized-and-lost-leadership-in-semiconductor-fabrication</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>p1necone</author><text>Part of the cause is that the people doing this still benefited - if you can cut a bunch of costs and bump profits for the next few years it doesn&#x27;t matter to you as an executive whether those changes ultimately lead to significantly worse outcomes for the company in the longer term.<p>Brand loyalty takes a while to fade, there seems to be a cycle with a large number of successful companies that goes<p>work honestly to build a good product<p>-&gt; generate brand loyalty<p>-&gt; people with integrity get replaced by people who would have had no chance of building that successful product&#x2F;company in the first place<p>-&gt; cut as many corners as possible while riding the brand loyalty to more short term profits<p>-&gt; eventually, on the scale of decades sometimes (because people take a &#x2F;long&#x2F; time to realize that &#x27;well known brand&#x27; !== quality), get out-competed by a small company building the same thing as you with integrity<p>-&gt; return to step one with new company.</text></item><item><author>bin_bash</author><text>It seems both Intel and Boeing had similar paths. They were engineering-first companies that were transformed into profit seeking and while they made a lot of money initially, eventually it failed for both of them.<p>My takeaway is that working hard to build quality products is more likely to be profitable than working hard to make money.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cheriot</author><text>This is why I think we need to figure out executive compensation. Boards just rubber stamp whatever the CEO wants.<p>Tie their compensation to real goals and require them to hold for the next 10 years.</text></comment> | <story><title>Intel financialized and lost leadership in semiconductor fabrication (2021)</title><url>https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/how-intel-financialized-and-lost-leadership-in-semiconductor-fabrication</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>p1necone</author><text>Part of the cause is that the people doing this still benefited - if you can cut a bunch of costs and bump profits for the next few years it doesn&#x27;t matter to you as an executive whether those changes ultimately lead to significantly worse outcomes for the company in the longer term.<p>Brand loyalty takes a while to fade, there seems to be a cycle with a large number of successful companies that goes<p>work honestly to build a good product<p>-&gt; generate brand loyalty<p>-&gt; people with integrity get replaced by people who would have had no chance of building that successful product&#x2F;company in the first place<p>-&gt; cut as many corners as possible while riding the brand loyalty to more short term profits<p>-&gt; eventually, on the scale of decades sometimes (because people take a &#x2F;long&#x2F; time to realize that &#x27;well known brand&#x27; !== quality), get out-competed by a small company building the same thing as you with integrity<p>-&gt; return to step one with new company.</text></item><item><author>bin_bash</author><text>It seems both Intel and Boeing had similar paths. They were engineering-first companies that were transformed into profit seeking and while they made a lot of money initially, eventually it failed for both of them.<p>My takeaway is that working hard to build quality products is more likely to be profitable than working hard to make money.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Pxtl</author><text>How many folks out there got burned by HP products when they were hip-deep in that step 3 step 4 zone of &quot;strip-mine your own brand reputation selling cheap crap&quot;?</text></comment> |
11,084,043 | 11,083,353 | 1 | 3 | 11,081,575 | train | <story><title>Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2016-who-marries-whom/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>casca</author><text>If anyone wants to improve the usability, data files are:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;graphics&#x2F;2016-who-marries-whom&#x2F;job-name.csv" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;graphics&#x2F;2016-who-marries-whom&#x2F;job-...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;graphics&#x2F;2016-who-marries-whom&#x2F;pair-count.csv" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;graphics&#x2F;2016-who-marries-whom&#x2F;pair...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sendos</author><text>I sorted the data by which occupation marries within the same occupation the most:<p><pre><code> 13.9% Physicians and Surgeons
10.7% Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
10.1% none
9.7% Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers
9.7% Lawyers, and judges, magistrates, and other judicial workers
9.5% Miscellaneous Personal Appearance Workers
9.3% Veterinarians
8.8% Dentists
8.5% Miscellaneous agricultural workers including animal breeders
8.4% Postsecondary Teachers
7.6% Software Developers, Applications and Systems Software
7.6% Health Diagnosing and Treating Practitioners, All Other
7.5% Optometrists
7.3% Chiropractors
7.2% Pharmacists
6.7% Elementary and Middle School Teachers
6.4% Food Service Managers
6.2% Agricultural and Food Scientists
6.1% Physical Therapists
6.1% Gaming Services Workers
6.0% Upholsterers
5.9% Communications Equipment Operators, All Other
5.8% Air Traffic Controllers and Airfield Operations Specialists
5.8% Physical Scientists, All Other
5.8% Nurse Anesthetists
5.5% Chief executives and legislators
5.5% Real Estate Brokers and Sales Agents
5.4% Clergy
5.2% Marine Engineers and Naval Architects
5.0% Psychologists
4.9% Lodging Managers
4.8% First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers
4.7% Miscellaneous Managers, Including Funeral Service Managers and Postmasters and Mail Superintendents
4.7% Medical Scientists, and Life Scientists, All Other
4.6% Secondary School Teachers
4.0% Textile Knitting and Weaving Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
4.0% Podiatrists
4.0% News Analysts, Reporters and Correspondents
4.0% Sewing Machine Operators
3.9% Bailiffs, Correctional Officers, and Jailers
3.9% First-Line Supervisors of Personal Service Workers
3.8% Tailors, Dressmakers, and Sewers
3.8% Economists
3.8% Musicians, Singers, and Related Workers
3.8% Environmental Scientists and Geoscientists
3.8% Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Managers
3.7% Insurance Sales Agents
3.5% Agricultural Inspectors
3.3% Butchers and Other Meat, Poultry, and Fish Processing Workers
3.2% Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Directors</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2016-who-marries-whom/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>casca</author><text>If anyone wants to improve the usability, data files are:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;graphics&#x2F;2016-who-marries-whom&#x2F;job-name.csv" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;graphics&#x2F;2016-who-marries-whom&#x2F;job-...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;graphics&#x2F;2016-who-marries-whom&#x2F;pair-count.csv" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;graphics&#x2F;2016-who-marries-whom&#x2F;pair...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amsilprotag</author><text>I&#x27;d recommend popping this into your console.<p>$(&#x27;.job-text&#x27;).css({color: &#x27;black&#x27;})</text></comment> |
13,119,802 | 13,118,612 | 1 | 2 | 13,116,703 | train | <story><title>Dark Patterns – User Interfaces Designed to Trick People [video]</title><url>http://darkpatterns.org</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>artursapek</author><text>Software updates are the rare case where I can forgive it. It&#x27;s annoying to have clients actively resisting updates, especially security updates.</text></item><item><author>cm2187</author><text>And even Apple is doing it. You you want to update your iphone now or tonight?</text></item><item><author>artursapek</author><text>There&#x27;s a tumblr for that! They call it &quot;confirm shaming&quot;.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;confirmshaming.tumblr.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;confirmshaming.tumblr.com&#x2F;</a><p>And yeah, it&#x27;s UX cancer.</text></item><item><author>cle</author><text>One pattern that I consider &quot;dark&quot;, but don&#x27;t see in this list, is using loaded options on a dialog box. One that I often see in apps is like:<p><pre><code> Rate our app!
&lt;OK&gt; &lt;Not Yet&gt;
</code></pre>
Those really get under my skin because the developer is clearly trying to play a psychological trick on me, but it&#x27;s so brazen and obvious that it just pisses me off. And bigger companies do it too (e.g. Google).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wernercd</author><text>Security update? 9.3.4 =&gt; 9.3.5? That&#x27;s an update<p>9.3.5 =&gt; 10.0 is not a &quot;security update&quot;.<p>Constant nagware until you update is asinine. &quot;Update Now or Later?&quot;... f<i></i>* you, I don&#x27;t like what I see in 10... but I&#x27;m stuck with dancing around daily fucking warnings.<p>I swear... I&#x27;m not bitter :) I also won&#x27;t buy another iPhone.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dark Patterns – User Interfaces Designed to Trick People [video]</title><url>http://darkpatterns.org</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>artursapek</author><text>Software updates are the rare case where I can forgive it. It&#x27;s annoying to have clients actively resisting updates, especially security updates.</text></item><item><author>cm2187</author><text>And even Apple is doing it. You you want to update your iphone now or tonight?</text></item><item><author>artursapek</author><text>There&#x27;s a tumblr for that! They call it &quot;confirm shaming&quot;.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;confirmshaming.tumblr.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;confirmshaming.tumblr.com&#x2F;</a><p>And yeah, it&#x27;s UX cancer.</text></item><item><author>cle</author><text>One pattern that I consider &quot;dark&quot;, but don&#x27;t see in this list, is using loaded options on a dialog box. One that I often see in apps is like:<p><pre><code> Rate our app!
&lt;OK&gt; &lt;Not Yet&gt;
</code></pre>
Those really get under my skin because the developer is clearly trying to play a psychological trick on me, but it&#x27;s so brazen and obvious that it just pisses me off. And bigger companies do it too (e.g. Google).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cm2187</author><text>If it was only about the security update. But in the case of iOS it is not. It&#x27;s is the opportunity to start the nagging all over again. Please start using iCloud. Let&#x27;s use Apple Pay now. Let&#x27;s use Apple Music.<p>On every single minor &quot;security&quot; update...</text></comment> |
26,351,124 | 26,350,663 | 1 | 3 | 26,349,857 | train | <story><title>AdGuard publishes a list of 6K+ trackers abusing the CNAME cloaking technique</title><url>https://github.com/AdguardTeam/cname-trackers</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>Related ongoing thread:<p><i>The CNAME of the Game: Large-scale Analysis of DNS-based Tracking Evasion</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26347110" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26347110</a> - March 2021 (51 comments)</text></comment> | <story><title>AdGuard publishes a list of 6K+ trackers abusing the CNAME cloaking technique</title><url>https://github.com/AdguardTeam/cname-trackers</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>endisneigh</author><text>I wonder if the end game of adblocking is simply to proxy the entire page to the client - completely obscuring who you are or where the request originated.<p>edit: I almost wonder if this could be done safely in a decentralized manner. Everyone runs a BitTorrent like service and when you make a request the swarm proxies it to a specific node who then serves the page back to you.<p>Under this scheme it would become impossible to trace who you are.</text></comment> |
12,945,029 | 12,945,084 | 1 | 2 | 12,944,464 | train | <story><title>Diamonds Suck (2006)</title><url>http://diamondssuck.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sametmax</author><text>Seems like an american things really. In France, nobody would expect anyone to buy a certain kind of ring. As long as it&#x27;s pretty, you can go for anything. Or no engagement ring. Some friends of mine don&#x27;t even get wedding rings. And I just met a not married couple wearing rings just because they liked it.<p>Our wedding ceremonies are also usually way cheaper and less show off that the ones your pop culture is selling to you, so I hope you are not actually doing it IRL cause that seems a terrible way to start a long term relationship, money wise.<p>But I guess we don&#x27;t have such a marriage culture here anymore. People do marry, but we also now have something called the PACS, which is a very simple legal union with no bells and whistles that is pretty popular. And of course plenty of people living for ever without a label on their relationship.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>beevai142</author><text>Given that the diamond ring fad apparently originated from a marketing campaign, it would be interesting to see how well the belief that wedding rings should have a diamond correlates with where the ads were run.<p>At least in the nordics, I don&#x27;t think there&#x27;s a specific type of wedding (EDIT: or engagement) ring that you&#x27;re expected to have, and I think many people have no stone of any kind embedded in theirs.</text></comment> | <story><title>Diamonds Suck (2006)</title><url>http://diamondssuck.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sametmax</author><text>Seems like an american things really. In France, nobody would expect anyone to buy a certain kind of ring. As long as it&#x27;s pretty, you can go for anything. Or no engagement ring. Some friends of mine don&#x27;t even get wedding rings. And I just met a not married couple wearing rings just because they liked it.<p>Our wedding ceremonies are also usually way cheaper and less show off that the ones your pop culture is selling to you, so I hope you are not actually doing it IRL cause that seems a terrible way to start a long term relationship, money wise.<p>But I guess we don&#x27;t have such a marriage culture here anymore. People do marry, but we also now have something called the PACS, which is a very simple legal union with no bells and whistles that is pretty popular. And of course plenty of people living for ever without a label on their relationship.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pessimizer</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;archive&#x2F;1982&#x2F;02&#x2F;have-you-ever-tried-to-sell-a-diamond&#x2F;304575&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;archive&#x2F;1982&#x2F;02&#x2F;have-yo...</a><p>&quot;In Europe, where diamond prices had collapsed during the Depression, there seemed little possibility of restoring public confidence in diamonds. In Germany, Austria, Italy, and Spain, the notion of giving a diamond ring to commemorate an engagement had never taken hold. In England and France, diamonds were still presumed to be jewels for aristocrats rather than the masses. Furthermore, Europe was on the verge of war, and there seemed little possibility of expanding diamond sales. This left the United States as the only real market for De Beers&#x27;s diamonds. In fact, in 1938 some three quarters of all the cartel&#x27;s diamonds were sold for engagement rings in the United States. Most of these stones, however, were smaller and of poorer quality than those bought in Europe, and had an average price of $80 apiece. Oppenheimer and the bankers believed that an advertising campaign could persuade Americans to buy more expensive diamonds.&quot;</text></comment> |
12,700,448 | 12,700,306 | 1 | 3 | 12,700,177 | train | <story><title>Analyzing the Patterns of Numbers in 10M Passwords (2015)</title><url>http://minimaxir.com/2015/02/password-numbers/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>minimaxir</author><text>Huh. Of all my old blog posts, this is the last one I expected to randomly resurface at the top of Hacker News.<p>There were a lot of other articles made using this 10M Password dataset at the time it was originally released, which the dataset author aggregated into a subreddit (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;10millionpasswords&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;10millionpasswords&#x2F;</a>). WPEngine, for example, has a much more comprehensive writeup with ad-hoc looks at specific passwords (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wpengine.com&#x2F;unmasked&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wpengine.com&#x2F;unmasked&#x2F;</a>).</text></comment> | <story><title>Analyzing the Patterns of Numbers in 10M Passwords (2015)</title><url>http://minimaxir.com/2015/02/password-numbers/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>markild</author><text>Looks like a few of the patterns in his analysis has a tendency towards Benford&#x27;s Law[1]<p>[1]:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Benford%27s_law" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Benford%27s_law</a></text></comment> |
35,310,062 | 35,310,115 | 1 | 2 | 35,309,653 | train | <story><title>Cargo theft, led by food and beverage, is surging across the U.S.</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/25/cargo-theft-led-by-food-and-beverage-is-surging-across-the-us.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>solatic</author><text>The question is, where is the food and beverage going to? Containers don&#x27;t have $214k of a balanced variety of foods, they have thousands of boxes of cereal. No thief is eating their way through a shipping container&#x27;s worth of cereal.<p>Prior articles (e.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;06&#x2F;17&#x2F;the-fight-against-stolen-products-on-amazon-and-facebook-marketplace.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;06&#x2F;17&#x2F;the-fight-against-stolen-pro...</a> ) have written about how Amazon is turning into a semi-legitimate fence for stolen goods; the seller-thief can list the stolen goods, ship to an Amazon warehouse, where Amazon provides the marketplace for a cut of the proceeds. The FTC may not care enough about Amazon turning into a front for counterfeit goods; will the FTC finally wake up and target Amazon for dealing in stolen goods?</text></comment> | <story><title>Cargo theft, led by food and beverage, is surging across the U.S.</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/25/cargo-theft-led-by-food-and-beverage-is-surging-across-the-us.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>boomboomsubban</author><text>Cargo theft accounts for $15-30 billion dollars lost each year, my quick search says shoplifting accounts for $15-20 billion dollars per year.<p>Why do we hear so much more about shoplifting? Sure it&#x27;s more public, but I&#x27;ve seen dozens of stories about how shoplifting is destroying retail and this is the first one about cargo theft I can recall.</text></comment> |
34,646,766 | 34,643,260 | 1 | 3 | 34,634,056 | train | <story><title>Eton and all the murder (2019)</title><url>https://johnhiggs.com/eton-and-all-the-murder/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DC-3</author><text>An interesting example of how the old English class system wasn&#x27;t <i>just</i> about venal entrenched self-advantage. The upper classes of old really did feel a noblesse oblige, and were killed in the trenches at considerably higher rates in the trenches. Young men of high birth were expected to be officers, and to lead by example - a job that came with a life expectancy measured in days during the darkest hours of the first world war. One doubts if the present bearers of class privilege feel a similar sense of duty.</text></item><item><author>globalise83</author><text>On a side note, it is worth paying a visit to Eton to see the number of old boys killed serving their country in WW1 and WW2: the walls of the old building are literally lined with their names in the thousands.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yamtaddle</author><text>What gets me is religiosity in past ages.<p>You read about the motivations of the elite in supporting religious institutions and dedicating their children to the regular and secular clergy, and you think, well, surely that&#x27;s an arrangement of convenience or mutual advantage, mainly... but no, if you look at the data it really, really wasn&#x27;t. They genuinely believed the whole eternal-damnation thing and took it super-seriously and contributed to the church in ways that were <i>very much</i> net-negative to them and their families (and that some others avoided doing to no clear disadvantage, so it doesn&#x27;t seem to be a harm-avoidance measure, at least not in material or social terms). The <i>norm</i>, at least for a good stretch of centuries, was for these transactions to confer less in material or political benefits than they cost (though, sure, some were political power-plays or otherwise highly beneficial).<p>The thinking seems so alien that it&#x27;s hard to really put myself in their shoes. Even the vast majority of the modern religious, and certainly the <i>elite</i> religious, at least in the US, don&#x27;t act as if they truly believe like the barons and dukes of Europe did. The only place you see that kind of self-sacrificial dedication to religion these days is what we&#x27;d call cults.</text></comment> | <story><title>Eton and all the murder (2019)</title><url>https://johnhiggs.com/eton-and-all-the-murder/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DC-3</author><text>An interesting example of how the old English class system wasn&#x27;t <i>just</i> about venal entrenched self-advantage. The upper classes of old really did feel a noblesse oblige, and were killed in the trenches at considerably higher rates in the trenches. Young men of high birth were expected to be officers, and to lead by example - a job that came with a life expectancy measured in days during the darkest hours of the first world war. One doubts if the present bearers of class privilege feel a similar sense of duty.</text></item><item><author>globalise83</author><text>On a side note, it is worth paying a visit to Eton to see the number of old boys killed serving their country in WW1 and WW2: the walls of the old building are literally lined with their names in the thousands.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eddsh1994</author><text>Most of the Etonian Oxbridge guys I&#x27;m friends with ended up going to the military after graduating (one became a lawyer instead). It&#x27;s still seen as a great job to begin your career with in those circles. I went to a public school (but not Oxbridge) and did a couple years in the Rifles myself.</text></comment> |
14,634,695 | 14,632,678 | 1 | 2 | 14,631,808 | train | <story><title>IPv4 route lookup on Linux</title><url>https://vincent.bernat.im/en/blog/2017-ipv4-route-lookup-linux</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>erikb</author><text>We seriously need more articles like this. As someone who would really like to understand more about the kernel source code, but without prior kernel knowledge (no classes in that direction) and barely any C knowledge the kernel is not the easiest part to read oneself into. Articles like this one help a lot, since they already provide an abstract model of what the code does and intends to do and why.</text></comment> | <story><title>IPv4 route lookup on Linux</title><url>https://vincent.bernat.im/en/blog/2017-ipv4-route-lookup-linux</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>betaby</author><text>Unfortunately IPv6 stack doesn&#x27;t match IPv4 one on features and optimizations.
IPv6 is still using regular radix tree and a route cache.</text></comment> |
39,998,495 | 39,997,320 | 1 | 3 | 39,970,136 | train | <story><title>How does the classic Win32 ListView handle incremental searching?</title><url>https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20240408-00/?p=109627</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_zamorano_</author><text>These are the little things you don&#x27;t notice but make a difference.<p>It&#x27;s a pity this kind of attention to detail is becoming obsolete in favor of flashy but unconvenient UI<p>I expect this behaviour on any list I find in a Windows app. I also expect keystroke consistency, like press F2 to edit... but all this UI things seems old fashioned.<p>I assume I don&#x27;t get that on web apps, but &quot;modern&quot; Windows Apps are also deprecating these conveniences<p>I wonder if in the apple sphere they&#x27;re suffering this kind of degradation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tsimionescu</author><text>The best example of this decline comes from Microsoft itself.<p>Here is how Microsoft recommends you do find-and-replace in their simple user-friendly ~20 year old note-taking app, OneNote [0]:<p>1. On a blank page, type the replacement text to use, or find it on a page.<p>2. Select the replacement text, and press Ctrl+C (⌘+C on Mac) to copy it to the clipboard.<p>3. Press Ctrl+F (⌘+F on Mac) to find on page, or Ctrl+E (⌘ + Option + F on Mac) search all open notebooks.<p>4. In the search box on the top left for Windows, top right for Mac, type the text to find.<p>5. In Windows, you can select Pin Search Results at the bottom of the results list, or press Alt+O to pin the list. Mac is already pinned.<p>6. In the Search Results pane on the side of your window, select a search result (a text link next to a page icon) to jump to the page where OneNote has highlighted the text it has found.<p>7. On the page, double-click or select each highlighted occurrence of the text, and press Ctrl+V (⌘ + V on Mac) to paste your replacement text over it.<p>Note: When you replace a word or phrase in a sentence, you might need to type a space after the new text is pasted.<p>8. Repeat steps 6-7 for each additional page in the search results list.<p>Tip: If you&#x27;ve got a lot of replacements on a single page, copy your text to Word, find and replace the text, and then paste back into OneNote.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;office&#x2F;find-and-replace-text-in-notes-34b1f7f8-d327-40c5-8b0c-8419425ed68b" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;office&#x2F;find-and-replace-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How does the classic Win32 ListView handle incremental searching?</title><url>https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20240408-00/?p=109627</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_zamorano_</author><text>These are the little things you don&#x27;t notice but make a difference.<p>It&#x27;s a pity this kind of attention to detail is becoming obsolete in favor of flashy but unconvenient UI<p>I expect this behaviour on any list I find in a Windows app. I also expect keystroke consistency, like press F2 to edit... but all this UI things seems old fashioned.<p>I assume I don&#x27;t get that on web apps, but &quot;modern&quot; Windows Apps are also deprecating these conveniences<p>I wonder if in the apple sphere they&#x27;re suffering this kind of degradation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AlienRobot</author><text>Because most of the time you didn&#x27;t have to implement this. The UI toolkit implemented this. When you have to do everything from scratch, most people don&#x27;t.<p>Take a simple link navbar with a menu of links on a webpage. This has existed since forever. It should be that you can open the menu with your keyboard and use up&#x2F;down to navigate it. But that means writing JS code. So devs who did it from scratch didn&#x27;t do it, and only those who used an UI library with that already programmed in by someone else got it.</text></comment> |
24,364,082 | 24,363,675 | 1 | 2 | 24,363,261 | train | <story><title>React is becoming a black box</title><url>https://jaredpalmer.com/blog/react-is-becoming-a-black-box</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Exinferis</author><text>Although the article is too generic, or not detailed enough regarding examples of what he states, I have to agree with what he is trying to say.
React hooks are a mess, or at least code based around it tends to be. We have had our share of hooks based applications and they&#x27;ve become unmaintainable when reaching a certain size and I am glad that we are back to class based components wherever we can. In may opinion this comes down to the fact - as he states - that the mental model (what will happen, when I do this) is not simple to grasp, thus not predictable for many people.</text></item><item><author>ritchiea</author><text>This is the kind of post that suffers from lack of specific examples. I would love to see an interesting discussion of how hooks are not in line with most developers mental model of React and what problems it&#x27;s causing (if that is indeed true, or at least true in the eyes of the author). But this post is far too generic to illuminate what the real problems are or convince me that there are any.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wokwokwok</author><text>You realize you&#x27;ve just done exactly what the parent complained about right?<p>- said it was bad<p>- not provided any concrete details<p>&gt; they&#x27;ve become unmaintainable when reaching a certain size<p>How?<p>Did you start getting lot of hard to replicate bugs?<p>Did you find authoring new components was made difficult by your heavy use of custom hooks that were actually not as generic as you thought when you wrote them?<p>Did you find 3rd-party hooks had bugs?<p>Did you find that useRef doesn&#x27;t work like you think it does, and you can&#x27;t mix and match useRef and useEffect? (ouch)<p>What kind components are you writing that you find hooks are such a bad fit for?<p>Be specific.<p>(I&#x27;m not saying hooks are perfect; I&#x27;ve had all of the issues I listed happen to me, but it&#x27;s still quicker to implement new features on a medium sized web app using hooks than with components in my experience; I work on 3 apps, and only one of them still uses components, and it&#x27;s the most annoying to make changes too, simply because for <i>simple business components &amp; forms</i>, hooks seem to reduce the amount of boiler plate, and flat out, reduce the lines of code; less code -&gt; faster changes. It&#x27;s not always that simple (see bugs comment above), but mostly... it is, in my experience: ...HOWEVER, what you&#x27;ve done is just wave your hands vaguely and fail to actually say anything except you don&#x27;t like hooks)</text></comment> | <story><title>React is becoming a black box</title><url>https://jaredpalmer.com/blog/react-is-becoming-a-black-box</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Exinferis</author><text>Although the article is too generic, or not detailed enough regarding examples of what he states, I have to agree with what he is trying to say.
React hooks are a mess, or at least code based around it tends to be. We have had our share of hooks based applications and they&#x27;ve become unmaintainable when reaching a certain size and I am glad that we are back to class based components wherever we can. In may opinion this comes down to the fact - as he states - that the mental model (what will happen, when I do this) is not simple to grasp, thus not predictable for many people.</text></item><item><author>ritchiea</author><text>This is the kind of post that suffers from lack of specific examples. I would love to see an interesting discussion of how hooks are not in line with most developers mental model of React and what problems it&#x27;s causing (if that is indeed true, or at least true in the eyes of the author). But this post is far too generic to illuminate what the real problems are or convince me that there are any.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alfonsodev</author><text>&gt; React hooks are a mess, or at least code based around it tends to be.<p>I&#x27;ve read a lot warnings about the pitfalls, and about hooks not doing what you think they are doing, but honestly, I haven&#x27;t experience any of that, maybe because my use cases are so close to the documented ones, that I don&#x27;t need to stretch the concept, and it just works as intended for me.<p>Could it be, that as with many other programming patterns, some developers are using it as a silver bullet, and trying to solve everything with hooks?<p>Otherwise I&#x27;m failing to understand, it would be useful to see examples as the mentioned above.</text></comment> |
2,004,311 | 2,003,613 | 1 | 2 | 2,003,515 | train | <story><title>Today you, tomorrow me </title><url>http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/elal2/have_you_ever_picked_up_a_hitchhiker/c18z0z2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dazzawazza</author><text>If you live in the UK you will surely know Dave Gorman [1]. He did a TV show called American Unchained [2] where he attempted to get across America without using chain stores. In that series I saw an America that I recognise from the Americans I know and have worked with (I've never visited America). Americans are some of the most friendly, optimistic and outgoing people in the known universe. In the show he experienced many Americans going out of their way to help him, many for little or no financial gain and many lamented the decline of offline, small time, service with a smile, mom and pop America.<p>If I may be so bold as to offer some advice to Americans: Be careful not to lose this side of your culture, sure you've got the biggest army, the biggest economy and more burger stores than any country would ever need but what has been your real strength for the last 100 years has been your welcoming, trusting and honest nature.<p>good luck.<p>[1] - <a href="http://www.davegorman.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.davegorman.com/</a>
[2] - <a href="http://www.davegorman.com/projects_america_unchained.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.davegorman.com/projects_america_unchained.html</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nodata</author><text><i>Americans are some of the most friendly, optimistic and outgoing people in the known universe.</i><p>I'm going to get downvoted to hell, but I have to say this: I agree completely.<p>The reason why Americans believe that they are hating elsewhere is people transferring their strong dislike of American politics ("let's invade/interfere (with) countries and call it freedom") onto the American _people_. It's an emotional and intellectual shortcut.</text></comment> | <story><title>Today you, tomorrow me </title><url>http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/elal2/have_you_ever_picked_up_a_hitchhiker/c18z0z2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dazzawazza</author><text>If you live in the UK you will surely know Dave Gorman [1]. He did a TV show called American Unchained [2] where he attempted to get across America without using chain stores. In that series I saw an America that I recognise from the Americans I know and have worked with (I've never visited America). Americans are some of the most friendly, optimistic and outgoing people in the known universe. In the show he experienced many Americans going out of their way to help him, many for little or no financial gain and many lamented the decline of offline, small time, service with a smile, mom and pop America.<p>If I may be so bold as to offer some advice to Americans: Be careful not to lose this side of your culture, sure you've got the biggest army, the biggest economy and more burger stores than any country would ever need but what has been your real strength for the last 100 years has been your welcoming, trusting and honest nature.<p>good luck.<p>[1] - <a href="http://www.davegorman.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.davegorman.com/</a>
[2] - <a href="http://www.davegorman.com/projects_america_unchained.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.davegorman.com/projects_america_unchained.html</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maguay</author><text>Thank you, and may all fellow Americans take this advice to heart. When it all comes down to it, the greatness of any nation is only the sum total of the greatness of its citizens. If we lose that, we lose what's great about America.</text></comment> |
33,712,826 | 33,710,738 | 1 | 2 | 33,709,013 | train | <story><title>VSCode-Neovim: Use embedded Neovim in VSCode without emulation</title><url>https://github.com/vscode-neovim/vscode-neovim</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>capableweb</author><text>Personally, my problem with trying to use Vim keybindings in VS Code is not about the motions of moving around&#x2F;editing the code itself, but everything else. You end up in plenty of situations where you have to resolve using the mouse because you ended up on some sub-page or whatever, where you either need to resolve using the mouse or keep pressing Tab until you get to where you want to go.<p>Installing plugins is one good example of this, where even if you use a Vim plugin (or this, it seems), you still need to resolve to using the mouse&#x2F;Tabbing to actually install the plugin itself.<p>While with Neo&#x2F;Vim itself, you never need to reach for the mouse, because the entire thing, not just the editing&#x2F;writing, is meant to facilitate keyboard-only usage.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eric-hu</author><text>I do now have memorized some mix of vim and vscode keybindings, but to me it&#x27;s worth it. I&#x27;m not at 100% keyboard navigation because in some cases I&#x27;ve burned 5-10 minutes looking up a shortcut, repeatedly 1&#x2F;mo for 3 months. After so many (overly) spaced repetitions, I recognize the shortcut isn&#x27;t worth memorizing.<p>&gt; Installing plugins is one good example of this, where even if you use a Vim plugin (or this, it seems), you still need to resolve to using the mouse&#x2F;Tabbing to actually install the plugin itself.<p>I agree with you here, but I rarely need to install new plugins. It&#x27;s certainly not a task I repeat for a given plugin. Plugins are actually the reason I do primary development in VSCode instead of Neovim natively. I can set up linters, language highlighters, etc in VSCode much faster than I can in Neovim. The ecosystem in VSCode also seems to be bigger for what I&#x27;ve done in the last few years.<p>---<p>Anyways, here are some VS Code keybindings I&#x27;ve found essential to go hand-in-hand with vscode-neovim. These few probably get me to 90% keyboard navigation for day-to-day editing.<p>cmd-shift-m: toggle the bottom tray problems (works as a universal way to show&#x2F;hide the bottom)<p>cmd-b: toggle the left sidebar (in whatever context it was last in)<p>cmd-shift-e: show the current file in the left sidebar<p>cmd-0: move context&#x2F;focus to the left sidebar
cmd-1: move context&#x2F;focus to the editor
cmd-2: move context&#x2F;focus to the right editor (or open an editor split, if not yet split)<p>ctrl-1,...9: highlight Nth tab from the left
ctrl-0: highlight rightmost tab<p>cmd-p: fuzzy find file
cmd-shift-p: fuzzy find any installed action by description</text></comment> | <story><title>VSCode-Neovim: Use embedded Neovim in VSCode without emulation</title><url>https://github.com/vscode-neovim/vscode-neovim</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>capableweb</author><text>Personally, my problem with trying to use Vim keybindings in VS Code is not about the motions of moving around&#x2F;editing the code itself, but everything else. You end up in plenty of situations where you have to resolve using the mouse because you ended up on some sub-page or whatever, where you either need to resolve using the mouse or keep pressing Tab until you get to where you want to go.<p>Installing plugins is one good example of this, where even if you use a Vim plugin (or this, it seems), you still need to resolve to using the mouse&#x2F;Tabbing to actually install the plugin itself.<p>While with Neo&#x2F;Vim itself, you never need to reach for the mouse, because the entire thing, not just the editing&#x2F;writing, is meant to facilitate keyboard-only usage.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tyr42</author><text>I guess I am the target market. I don&#x27;t mind using the mouse when I&#x27;m not in the &quot;flow&quot; of editing. Even browsing code, scroll wheels are pretty expressive, and clicking to jump to definition is fine. Ok not typing, so I don&#x27;t need to keep my hand on the home row.<p>But the actual editing doesn&#x27;t use the mouse.</text></comment> |
15,397,151 | 15,396,572 | 1 | 3 | 15,396,087 | train | <story><title>What Makes Singapore’s Health Care So Cheap?</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/02/upshot/what-makes-singapores-health-care-so-cheap.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kuwze</author><text>Why is there never a comparison to Japan? They are 1&#x2F;2 the size of the USA, have a privatized health system, and it&#x27;s pretty damn awesome. They also have price controls which make things a lot easier to comprehend.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dv_dt</author><text>I think the essential ingredients for controlled healthcare costs is a) the principle of universal healthcare b) government control of procedure and drug costs. No one is as expensive as the US per capita for healthcare. All the other nations beating us have wildly mixed healthcare delivery systems from full public to hybrid public&#x2F;private - the hybrids are all administered differently. The characteristic they all seem to share in common is those two features. Even the worst of the modern nations systems beats the US cost and universality of coverage, and quality, by a large margin.<p>Japan seems to have a mixed private&#x2F;public insurance system, but has government control of the fee schedule.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Health_care_system_in_Japan" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Health_care_system_in_Japan</a><p>&quot;The government has well controlled cost over decades by using the nationally uniform fee schedule for reimbursement.&quot;<p>&quot;Fees for all health care services are set every two years by negotiations between the health ministry and physicians. The negotiations determine the fee for every medical procedure and medication, and fees are identical across the country. If physicians attempt to game the system by ordering more procedures to generate income, the government may lower the fees for those procedures at the next round of fee setting&quot;<p>&quot;Public health insurance covers most citizens&#x2F;residents and the system pays 70% or more of medical and prescription drug costs with the remainder being covered by the patient (upper limits apply).&quot;<p>For Singapore: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Healthcare_in_Singapore" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Healthcare_in_Singapore</a><p>&quot;Singapore has a non-modified universal healthcare system where the government ensures affordability of healthcare within the public health system, largely through a system of compulsory savings, subsidies, and price controls.&quot;<p>Notice the &quot;price controls&quot;... It really doesn&#x27;t seem to matter strongly exactly what mix of private&#x2F;public does the actual administration. To capture first order cost savings better than what the US pays you need to control the fees.</text></comment> | <story><title>What Makes Singapore’s Health Care So Cheap?</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/02/upshot/what-makes-singapores-health-care-so-cheap.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kuwze</author><text>Why is there never a comparison to Japan? They are 1&#x2F;2 the size of the USA, have a privatized health system, and it&#x27;s pretty damn awesome. They also have price controls which make things a lot easier to comprehend.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>doh</author><text>Spot on. Noah Smith made the comparison couple of months ago [0].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;view&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2017-09-19&#x2F;want-a-better-health-care-system-check-out-japan" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;view&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2017-09-19&#x2F;want-a-be...</a></text></comment> |
8,608,642 | 8,608,598 | 1 | 2 | 8,608,358 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Explained Visually</title><url>http://setosa.io/ev/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JackFr</author><text>Don&#x27;t love the network graph illustrating the spread of a virus.<p>It&#x27;s deceptive and is counter to the purpose of explaining exponential growth. If the people infected are represented by relatively uniform points on a plane, and infection is shown as an ever expanding circle, the growth is geometric, not exponential. I understand that the exponential growth could be captured by the acceleration of the radius, but that is not intuitive.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Explained Visually</title><url>http://setosa.io/ev/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>loco5niner</author><text>Trigonometry please (specifically Sin, Cos, Tan)! I can calculate the values when I need them, but I want to understand the &#x27;why&#x27; and the &#x27;how&#x27; on a fundamental level.</text></comment> |
19,275,950 | 19,275,473 | 1 | 2 | 19,274,406 | train | <story><title>YouTube bans comments on all videos of children</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47408969</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mediocrejoker</author><text>You only think that&#x27;s a good idea because you don&#x27;t believe in flat earth. They could equally put a link to flat earth sites under NASA&#x2F;SpaceX videos. Do you really want to decree that whatever they link is &quot;true&quot; just because you agree with them in this particular instance?</text></item><item><author>brentonator</author><text>God forbid they put a link to Wikipedia under flat earth videos, huh?</text></item><item><author>theNJR</author><text>I, for one, do not want Google deciding what is true.</text></item><item><author>_wmd</author><text>The ramifications of this are profound, at least:<p>- shake the money stick at them and they will dance (thanks, of all people, Nestle!)<p>- they&#x27;ve admitted a serious problem exists that they were unwilling to deal with until external pressure forced them to (i.e. they can&#x27;t be trusted to self regulate)<p>- they&#x27;ve all but admitted they can&#x27;t fix this in reasonable time, if at all<p>This is the first time I can think of where there has been a seriously material chink in Google&#x27;s.. cultural armour? Turns out the advertisers are in control, and turns out they don&#x27;t have a technical cure all. It&#x27;ll be interesting to see how they attempt to reintroduce comments in the long term, no doubt more ML. Of course, this says nothing about a recommendation system that continues to blindly cluster videos of lithe toddlers together. I wonder if any advertisers are making a stink about that<p>Favourite summary: kids are safer on YouTube today because of Disney and Nestle, not because of Google. Let that sink in. The subtext here of course is that Nestle and Disney are some of the most evil companies around, and yet they&#x27;re the ones that were forced to strong-arm Google. The irony of this defies words, and the reality of the only mechanism at play here to protect children is almost as disturbing - these companies don&#x27;t &quot;care about children&quot;, they were only forced into action to maintain their reputation.<p>(gentle reminder: HN punishes highly commented &#x27;controversial&#x27; stories. If you care about this issue being more widely understood, try to limit your commenting)</text></item><item><author>zaroth</author><text>The fact that Google is ceding the fight against toxic comments on YouTube is actually pretty shocking.<p>In a company that knows more about you than you can possibly imagine, and more about automated sentiment analysis than anyone in the world, they couldn’t algorithmically determine who should be allowed to post on certain subsets of videos, or devise a system they thought was worth deploying to ensure comments meet a basic level of decency.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwawaymath</author><text>I try not to consider things in terms of absolutes, so to answer your direct question: yes, I am pretty comfortable believing the vast majority of such links would be substantially factual.<p>Google already does this, I don&#x27;t see the issue with it hypothetically happening on YouTube. If you search for a well-known person, place or thing, you&#x27;ll be presented with information aggregated from trustworthy sources. Can they be wrong? Sure, and it happens. It&#x27;s not sinister.<p>It sounds like you&#x27;re envisioning someone manually tagging things. That would be odd and suboptimal. Instead, just tag helpful Wikipedia pages about the broad scientific consensus of things on relevant videos.</text></comment> | <story><title>YouTube bans comments on all videos of children</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47408969</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mediocrejoker</author><text>You only think that&#x27;s a good idea because you don&#x27;t believe in flat earth. They could equally put a link to flat earth sites under NASA&#x2F;SpaceX videos. Do you really want to decree that whatever they link is &quot;true&quot; just because you agree with them in this particular instance?</text></item><item><author>brentonator</author><text>God forbid they put a link to Wikipedia under flat earth videos, huh?</text></item><item><author>theNJR</author><text>I, for one, do not want Google deciding what is true.</text></item><item><author>_wmd</author><text>The ramifications of this are profound, at least:<p>- shake the money stick at them and they will dance (thanks, of all people, Nestle!)<p>- they&#x27;ve admitted a serious problem exists that they were unwilling to deal with until external pressure forced them to (i.e. they can&#x27;t be trusted to self regulate)<p>- they&#x27;ve all but admitted they can&#x27;t fix this in reasonable time, if at all<p>This is the first time I can think of where there has been a seriously material chink in Google&#x27;s.. cultural armour? Turns out the advertisers are in control, and turns out they don&#x27;t have a technical cure all. It&#x27;ll be interesting to see how they attempt to reintroduce comments in the long term, no doubt more ML. Of course, this says nothing about a recommendation system that continues to blindly cluster videos of lithe toddlers together. I wonder if any advertisers are making a stink about that<p>Favourite summary: kids are safer on YouTube today because of Disney and Nestle, not because of Google. Let that sink in. The subtext here of course is that Nestle and Disney are some of the most evil companies around, and yet they&#x27;re the ones that were forced to strong-arm Google. The irony of this defies words, and the reality of the only mechanism at play here to protect children is almost as disturbing - these companies don&#x27;t &quot;care about children&quot;, they were only forced into action to maintain their reputation.<p>(gentle reminder: HN punishes highly commented &#x27;controversial&#x27; stories. If you care about this issue being more widely understood, try to limit your commenting)</text></item><item><author>zaroth</author><text>The fact that Google is ceding the fight against toxic comments on YouTube is actually pretty shocking.<p>In a company that knows more about you than you can possibly imagine, and more about automated sentiment analysis than anyone in the world, they couldn’t algorithmically determine who should be allowed to post on certain subsets of videos, or devise a system they thought was worth deploying to ensure comments meet a basic level of decency.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ben_w</author><text>When I am objectively wrong, I want my mind to be changed. I expect this to be the case for around 10% of my ‘knowledge’, even on topics I care to educate myself about, and much worse on other issues.<p>Putting a link under the videos isn’t likely to achieve that, but that’s a separate issue.<p>The only problem I have with Google doing this, is that I trust corporations and government about the same — i.e. that both will lie and dissemble as much as they are allowed to get away with for their own or their leader’s benefit, without regard for my interests.</text></comment> |
20,060,600 | 20,060,298 | 1 | 3 | 20,057,907 | train | <story><title>Pilosa: An open source, distributed index</title><url>https://www.pilosa.com/docs/latest/data-model/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>joshuaellinger</author><text>Technically, it is very interesting -- it uses Roaring Bitmaps under the hood and builds a query engine on it. So an easy way to think about it is that it maps categorical data into a giant compressible distributed bitmap.<p>I&#x27;ve been planning to see if I can (mis)use it as an OLAP replacement but I haven&#x27;t had time to get to it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Pilosa: An open source, distributed index</title><url>https://www.pilosa.com/docs/latest/data-model/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eismcc</author><text>&gt;Pilosa is a standalone index for big data. Its goal is to help big data storage solutions support real time, complex queries without resorting to pre-computation or approximation. Pilosa achieves this goal by implementing a distributed bitmap index which provides a compact representation not of the data itself, but of the relationships present in the data.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pilosa.com&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;PILOSA%20-%20Technical%20White%20Paper.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pilosa.com&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;PILOSA%20-%20Technical%20White%20...</a></text></comment> |
12,000,356 | 12,000,288 | 1 | 2 | 11,999,892 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Best place to learn GPU programing?</title></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rdslw</author><text>My advice:
1. buy some cuda GTX from nvidia (second hand ebayish would do)<p>2. install pycuda <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mathema.tician.de&#x2F;software&#x2F;pycuda&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mathema.tician.de&#x2F;software&#x2F;pycuda&#x2F;</a><p>3. dive into excelennt documentation and tutorials: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;documen.tician.de&#x2F;pycuda&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;documen.tician.de&#x2F;pycuda&#x2F;</a><p>Literally in 2h, I had first code on my GTX at standard ubuntu. Being it python (plus obvious cuda code in C) was much easier to grasp.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Best place to learn GPU programing?</title></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>greydius</author><text>Free udacity course: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.udacity.com&#x2F;course&#x2F;intro-to-parallel-programming--cs344" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.udacity.com&#x2F;course&#x2F;intro-to-parallel-programming...</a></text></comment> |
21,859,846 | 21,859,740 | 1 | 3 | 21,858,962 | train | <story><title>Fashionable Problems</title><url>http://paulgraham.com/fp.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rbavocadotree</author><text>Two areas where I have a little experience:<p>Economics: There are surprisingly little people studying very large, grand, topics such an inequality. You&#x27;ve probably heard of the handful of economists that do. It&#x27;s unfashionable due to the influence of the Chicago school and it&#x27;s focus on free market principles, as well as many other factors.<p>Physics: Good luck getting any interest or funding if you are not studying the currently dominant theory in your
field (even if there has been no progress in decades).</text></item><item><author>majos</author><text>This post sorely lacks evidence for its big first claim:<p>&gt; I&#x27;ve seen a similar pattern in many different fields: even though lots of people have worked hard in the field, only a small fraction of the space of possibilities has been explored, because they&#x27;ve all worked on similar things.<p>Anyone want to step in with some examples? Without them, the thrust of the essay seems to be: &quot;If only other people understood what problems are worth working on! Especially in the well-studied areas of essays, Lisp, and venture funding! Too bad they do not. Well, goodbye.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cambalache</author><text>Both examples are wrong. Lots of economists working on inequality , it is even a hot topic.
Your physics example is so vague that is meaningless. Name one promising theory&#x2F;approach in physics which is not getting interest because it goes against &quot;the currently dominant theory of the field&quot;.Tip: LQG does not count.</text></comment> | <story><title>Fashionable Problems</title><url>http://paulgraham.com/fp.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rbavocadotree</author><text>Two areas where I have a little experience:<p>Economics: There are surprisingly little people studying very large, grand, topics such an inequality. You&#x27;ve probably heard of the handful of economists that do. It&#x27;s unfashionable due to the influence of the Chicago school and it&#x27;s focus on free market principles, as well as many other factors.<p>Physics: Good luck getting any interest or funding if you are not studying the currently dominant theory in your
field (even if there has been no progress in decades).</text></item><item><author>majos</author><text>This post sorely lacks evidence for its big first claim:<p>&gt; I&#x27;ve seen a similar pattern in many different fields: even though lots of people have worked hard in the field, only a small fraction of the space of possibilities has been explored, because they&#x27;ve all worked on similar things.<p>Anyone want to step in with some examples? Without them, the thrust of the essay seems to be: &quot;If only other people understood what problems are worth working on! Especially in the well-studied areas of essays, Lisp, and venture funding! Too bad they do not. Well, goodbye.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>QuesnayJr</author><text>I genuinely don&#x27;t understand where these ideas about economics come from. Inequality is a hot topic, and it has been for years.</text></comment> |
12,176,856 | 12,176,974 | 1 | 3 | 12,176,179 | train | <story><title>Facebook Posts Strong Profit and Revenue Growth</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-posts-strong-profit-and-revenue-growth-1469650289</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anonymousguy</author><text>&gt; Everyone&#x27;s on Facebook after all<p>I know of several people who choose to not waste their time with Facebook. Seriously, why? Any time I need to nudge somebody, that I don&#x27;t care enough to bother with in the real world, there is Linked In. Everybody else either has my phone number, email address, or they are people I don&#x27;t know.</text></item><item><author>hacker_9</author><text>Facebook managed to beat out it&#x27;s competitors to the top spot, and maintain that spot long enough to the point where it has just become a constant in people&#x27;s minds now. Every other attempt to dethrone has been too technical minded I think. There was that Diaspora that gave users privacy, only to find people didn&#x27;t care about that (the majority). Then there was Google+, who again introduced a whole lot of lingo and looked complicated to use and why bother? Everyone&#x27;s on Facebook after all, and Google = Search, everything else is just riff raff!<p>Once you stop talking to developers and programmers, you find that people don&#x27;t give a shit about things remotely technical, and just use stuff because &#x27;everyone else is using it&#x27;.<p>Saying all that, these days my FB feed has gone advert mad, and I find I mainly use it for event organisation instead. I do get the feeling it is slowly dying though despite being profitable, but whether it will be replaced by a new social networking site, or a set of separate apps with specific functions instead, remains to be seen.</text></item><item><author>kilroy123</author><text>It has been said many times, that something else will come around, become more popular, and overthrow facebook. I just don&#x27;t see that happening now.<p>They&#x27;re still doing well. They bought Instagram. (I think a very smart move.) They&#x27;ll eventually buy the next big thing.<p>I think Facebook is here to stay.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vadym909</author><text>&gt;waste their time with Facebook
That&#x27;s a bold statement. People like me use it as a lightweight option to stay abreast with whats going on with friends and family without having to invest in a long call or email. You may think I don&#x27;t care, but I do- but its hard and time consuming to call 50 people and ask &#x27;Did you go somewhere this summer? How was it? What did you see?&#x27;. Instead I just &#x27;like&#x27; when I see a cool picture they share and when I call them I can start by saying &#x27;Wow- you had such a good time in Paris- why don&#x27;t you visit us next year?&#x27;</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook Posts Strong Profit and Revenue Growth</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-posts-strong-profit-and-revenue-growth-1469650289</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anonymousguy</author><text>&gt; Everyone&#x27;s on Facebook after all<p>I know of several people who choose to not waste their time with Facebook. Seriously, why? Any time I need to nudge somebody, that I don&#x27;t care enough to bother with in the real world, there is Linked In. Everybody else either has my phone number, email address, or they are people I don&#x27;t know.</text></item><item><author>hacker_9</author><text>Facebook managed to beat out it&#x27;s competitors to the top spot, and maintain that spot long enough to the point where it has just become a constant in people&#x27;s minds now. Every other attempt to dethrone has been too technical minded I think. There was that Diaspora that gave users privacy, only to find people didn&#x27;t care about that (the majority). Then there was Google+, who again introduced a whole lot of lingo and looked complicated to use and why bother? Everyone&#x27;s on Facebook after all, and Google = Search, everything else is just riff raff!<p>Once you stop talking to developers and programmers, you find that people don&#x27;t give a shit about things remotely technical, and just use stuff because &#x27;everyone else is using it&#x27;.<p>Saying all that, these days my FB feed has gone advert mad, and I find I mainly use it for event organisation instead. I do get the feeling it is slowly dying though despite being profitable, but whether it will be replaced by a new social networking site, or a set of separate apps with specific functions instead, remains to be seen.</text></item><item><author>kilroy123</author><text>It has been said many times, that something else will come around, become more popular, and overthrow facebook. I just don&#x27;t see that happening now.<p>They&#x27;re still doing well. They bought Instagram. (I think a very smart move.) They&#x27;ll eventually buy the next big thing.<p>I think Facebook is here to stay.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>goldenkey</author><text>LinkedIn is a spammer paradise and a cancer for everybody else though. LinkedIn is designed decently but just as full of spam and overflow as Myspace was. Pretty much only worth using between jobs - but otherwise, I think there are much better platforms. They&#x27;ve become all about upselling: &quot;Buy our premium membership and see the people who&#x27;ve seen your profile!&quot; And they of course, sell your data and viewing habits without care.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;nextavenue&#x2F;2013&#x2F;09&#x2F;03&#x2F;has-linkedin-crossed-an-ethical-line&#x2F;#99b9d64468cc" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;nextavenue&#x2F;2013&#x2F;09&#x2F;03&#x2F;has-linked...</a></text></comment> |
30,669,600 | 30,669,261 | 1 | 3 | 30,631,571 | train | <story><title>The hardest thing about engineering is requirements</title><url>https://jaybs.medium.com/the-hardest-thing-about-engineering-is-requirements-28a6a70c4db4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aldebran</author><text>This is one of those rare articles that points to the need of good Product Managers.<p>As a PM I’ve seen my fair share of “PMs are useless waste of space”.<p>The article doesn’t directly talk about PMs but the role of gathering AND properly unambiguously articulating them is extremely important. It happens to be the primary job of a PM.<p>The challenge is that the difference between bad or poorly written requirements and well written ones isn’t immediately obvious. And the skill and effort required to go from writing okayish requirements to good ones is high. You need to take in to account: actual customer problems, business need, future roadmap, market and cultural shifts amongst other things. Heck, deciding whether this is a problem worth solving itself isn’t easy and frankly a step many people skip.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paxys</author><text>The most dysfunctional engineering organizations I have seen are ones where product managers are embedded at the deepest levels of the team and do everything from defining requirements and handling cross team collaboration all the way to planning and running sprints, bug triage and release management.<p>On the other hand, the effective ones have always had way fewer product managers with a lot more individual authority, who are in charge of the overall product direction but will let the rest of the team execute it to completion.</text></comment> | <story><title>The hardest thing about engineering is requirements</title><url>https://jaybs.medium.com/the-hardest-thing-about-engineering-is-requirements-28a6a70c4db4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aldebran</author><text>This is one of those rare articles that points to the need of good Product Managers.<p>As a PM I’ve seen my fair share of “PMs are useless waste of space”.<p>The article doesn’t directly talk about PMs but the role of gathering AND properly unambiguously articulating them is extremely important. It happens to be the primary job of a PM.<p>The challenge is that the difference between bad or poorly written requirements and well written ones isn’t immediately obvious. And the skill and effort required to go from writing okayish requirements to good ones is high. You need to take in to account: actual customer problems, business need, future roadmap, market and cultural shifts amongst other things. Heck, deciding whether this is a problem worth solving itself isn’t easy and frankly a step many people skip.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>actually_a_dog</author><text>Absolutely 100%. As a senior dev, I’m fairly decent at considering actual customer problems, business need, and the product roadmap for the near future. Start talking about the market as a whole, cultural shifts, and all that jazz, and I’m in very deep and probably reduced to treading water. I suppose that makes me an okay-ish ersatz PM, which has been good enough for me thus far. Unfortunately, the career path of a dev doesn’t seem to reward going very deep into PM type stuff, so I’m probably going to progress fairly slowly on that axis. :&#x2F;</text></comment> |
11,934,750 | 11,934,698 | 1 | 2 | 11,933,113 | train | <story><title>UTF-8 Everywhere (2012)</title><url>http://utf8everywhere.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>The Python problem is amusing. Python 3 has three representations of strings internally (1-byte, 2-byte, and 4-byte) and promotes them to a wider form when necessary. This is mostly to support string indexing. It probably would have been better to use UTF-8, and create an index array for the string when necessary.<p>You rarely need to index a string with an integer in Python. FOR loops don&#x27;t need to. Regular expressions don&#x27;t need to. Operations that return a position into the string could return an opaque type which acts as a string index. That type should support adding and subtracting integers (at least +1 and -1) by progressing through the string. That would take care of most of the use cases. Attempts to index a string with an int would generate index arrays internally. (Or, for short strings, just start at the beginning every time and count.)<p>Windows and Java have big problems. They really are 16-bit char based. It&#x27;s not Java&#x27;s fault; they standardized when Unicode was 16 bits.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>johncolanduoni</author><text>I think it&#x27;s even better to take this one step further and have your default &quot;character&quot; actually be a grapheme[1]. In almost any case where you&#x27;re dealing with individual character boundaries you want to split things on the grapheme level, not the code-point level.<p>This doesn&#x27;t matter much for (normalized) western European text, but if the language in question needs to use separate diacritical code points you&#x27;ll likely end up with hanging accents in the like. Swift is the only language I know of that has grapheme clusters as the default unit of character, I&#x27;d love to see it in more places.<p>[1]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;unicode.org&#x2F;reports&#x2F;tr29&#x2F;#Grapheme_Cluster_Boundaries" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;unicode.org&#x2F;reports&#x2F;tr29&#x2F;#Grapheme_Cluster_Boundaries</a></text></comment> | <story><title>UTF-8 Everywhere (2012)</title><url>http://utf8everywhere.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>The Python problem is amusing. Python 3 has three representations of strings internally (1-byte, 2-byte, and 4-byte) and promotes them to a wider form when necessary. This is mostly to support string indexing. It probably would have been better to use UTF-8, and create an index array for the string when necessary.<p>You rarely need to index a string with an integer in Python. FOR loops don&#x27;t need to. Regular expressions don&#x27;t need to. Operations that return a position into the string could return an opaque type which acts as a string index. That type should support adding and subtracting integers (at least +1 and -1) by progressing through the string. That would take care of most of the use cases. Attempts to index a string with an int would generate index arrays internally. (Or, for short strings, just start at the beginning every time and count.)<p>Windows and Java have big problems. They really are 16-bit char based. It&#x27;s not Java&#x27;s fault; they standardized when Unicode was 16 bits.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dietrichepp</author><text>There are a couple cases for string indexing, usually involving parsing or regular expressions. You might want to slice the quotes off of a quoted string, or slice from one match of a regular expression to a match of a different regular expression starting at a different index. These come up infrequently enough that it doesn&#x27;t make sense to make a better API just for these use cases, but frequently enough that it would be a serious impediment if we didn&#x27;t do <i>some</i> kind of string indexing.<p>I agree, however, that it&#x27;s completely irrelevant whether the indexes correspond to code units (i.e. byte offsets in UTF-8) or whether they correspond to code points (how it works in Python currently), as long as we have some way to store, compare, and otherwise manipulate locations within a string.<p>Some Rust developers at one point proposed making string indexes their own (opaque) type, as you suggest, so that they couldn&#x27;t be confused with integers used for other purposes. The extra complexity of such an API meant that this proposal was never really taken seriously, and it only prevents a small category of programming errors.<p>You might be interested in looking at some string APIs which are mostly without string indexing, like Haskell&#x27;s Data.Text, which is one of the most well-designed string APIs ever made.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackage.haskell.org&#x2F;package&#x2F;text-1.2.2.1&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Data-Text.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackage.haskell.org&#x2F;package&#x2F;text-1.2.2.1&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Data-T...</a><p>As for Windows, my Windows apps use UTF-8 everywhere, and then convert to wchar_t at the last possible moment when interacting with the Windows API. I believe this is what UTF-8 Everywhere suggests.</text></comment> |
40,377,630 | 40,377,934 | 1 | 2 | 40,377,161 | train | <story><title>Why Bad CEOs Fear Remote Work (2021)</title><url>https://scottberkun.com/2021/why-bad-ceos-fear-remote-work/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jawns</author><text>I am at a point in my career where I can be selective and only consider 100% remote roles. I am also a manager, so I understand some of the management challenges that lead people to dismiss or be skeptical of the claim that remote work can be just as effective as office work.<p>One thing I will admit: It is harder, as a remote manager, to manage low performers or people who show signs of disengagement. You can get more out of an office worker who lacks intrinsic motivation than a similar remote worker.<p>But that&#x27;s not a knock on remote work itself. You just have to have the right people on the team, just as in any other circumstance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>the_af</author><text>I agree with you a fair assessment is warranted. Dismissing the downsides of remote work leads to unrealistic expectations&#x2F;conversations.<p>That said,<p>&gt; <i>You can get more out of an office worker who lacks intrinsic motivation than a similar remote worker.</i><p>Is this because for an office worker it&#x27;s harder to disguise the lack of motivation? Or are they pressured into going through the motions even if they don&#x27;t feel like it? I wonder if this is a good thing at all.<p>Let me explain: as a fully remote worker, there are days I don&#x27;t feel like working. On those days, I&#x27;ll slack off. My work won&#x27;t suffer because on the longer term I&#x27;ll achieve my objectives; I&#x27;m just not wasting time pretending to work when I don&#x27;t feel like it. My mental health is better as a result. This wouldn&#x27;t be possible if I was at the office, because this isn&#x27;t a socially acceptable mode of working.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Bad CEOs Fear Remote Work (2021)</title><url>https://scottberkun.com/2021/why-bad-ceos-fear-remote-work/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jawns</author><text>I am at a point in my career where I can be selective and only consider 100% remote roles. I am also a manager, so I understand some of the management challenges that lead people to dismiss or be skeptical of the claim that remote work can be just as effective as office work.<p>One thing I will admit: It is harder, as a remote manager, to manage low performers or people who show signs of disengagement. You can get more out of an office worker who lacks intrinsic motivation than a similar remote worker.<p>But that&#x27;s not a knock on remote work itself. You just have to have the right people on the team, just as in any other circumstance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>willcipriano</author><text>Might be easier to manage if top performers were rewarded in a meaningful way.<p>If the top performer is getting a 3 percent raise this year, the &quot;slacker&quot; is probably higher paid on a per hour basis considering they work less.<p>When the top performers start buying vacation homes and sports cars as a reward for being one, I&#x27;d wager the unmotivated might start moving.</text></comment> |
19,870,194 | 19,870,177 | 1 | 2 | 19,868,644 | train | <story><title>All Chromebooks will also be Linux laptops going forward</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/all-chromebooks-will-also-be-linux-laptops-going-forward/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ilikehurdles</author><text>Those vintage macbook pros are still getting OS and software updates. Hardly &quot;software-defined garbage&quot;. I have a 2012 retina that&#x27;s still chugging along perfectly. Battery life is down from when I bought it, sure, but there&#x27;s still enough juice for a few hours of unplugged work.</text></item><item><author>somerandomness</author><text>Macs considered obsolete after 7 years <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;HT201624" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;HT201624</a></text></item><item><author>p1mrx</author><text>There&#x27;s a still a big catch: normally, when a computer &quot;runs Linux&quot;, you can keep installing new Linux distros until the hardware dies, which could be decades in the future.<p>Chromebooks reach &quot;end of life&quot; after a few (edit: ≤ 6.5) years, effectively becoming software-defined garbage: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.google.com&#x2F;chrome&#x2F;a&#x2F;answer&#x2F;6220366" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.google.com&#x2F;chrome&#x2F;a&#x2F;answer&#x2F;6220366</a><p>You can install Linux on <i>some</i> Chromebooks, but it&#x27;s often a lot of work to disable the &quot;press Space to erase your operating system&quot; prompt. It would be better if all EoL Chromebooks received an update to disable secure boot, because secure boot stops being secure when it boots you to an unpatchable OS.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>golfer</author><text>Macbook Pros cost far more than Chromebooks. MBPs are 4x to 10x the price. They shouldn&#x27;t be compared apples to apples.</text></comment> | <story><title>All Chromebooks will also be Linux laptops going forward</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/all-chromebooks-will-also-be-linux-laptops-going-forward/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ilikehurdles</author><text>Those vintage macbook pros are still getting OS and software updates. Hardly &quot;software-defined garbage&quot;. I have a 2012 retina that&#x27;s still chugging along perfectly. Battery life is down from when I bought it, sure, but there&#x27;s still enough juice for a few hours of unplugged work.</text></item><item><author>somerandomness</author><text>Macs considered obsolete after 7 years <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;HT201624" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;HT201624</a></text></item><item><author>p1mrx</author><text>There&#x27;s a still a big catch: normally, when a computer &quot;runs Linux&quot;, you can keep installing new Linux distros until the hardware dies, which could be decades in the future.<p>Chromebooks reach &quot;end of life&quot; after a few (edit: ≤ 6.5) years, effectively becoming software-defined garbage: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.google.com&#x2F;chrome&#x2F;a&#x2F;answer&#x2F;6220366" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.google.com&#x2F;chrome&#x2F;a&#x2F;answer&#x2F;6220366</a><p>You can install Linux on <i>some</i> Chromebooks, but it&#x27;s often a lot of work to disable the &quot;press Space to erase your operating system&quot; prompt. It would be better if all EoL Chromebooks received an update to disable secure boot, because secure boot stops being secure when it boots you to an unpatchable OS.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TomVDB</author><text>The 2012 retina was released mid-2012, and the 7 year rule starts when it was last produced. So it hasn&#x27;t reached obsolete&#x2F;vintage status yet.<p>(I used the same MacBook, replaced the battery a couple of months ago, and have no plans to replace it anytime soon.)</text></comment> |
13,429,355 | 13,428,541 | 1 | 2 | 13,428,098 | train | <story><title>PyTorch – Tensors and Dynamic neural networks in Python</title><url>http://pytorch.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Smerity</author><text>Only a few months ago people saying that the deep learning library ecosystem was starting to stabilize. I never saw that as the case. The latest frontier for deep learning libraries is ensuring efficient support for dynamic computation graphs.<p>Dynamic computation graphs arise whenever the amount of work that needs to be done is variable. This may be when we&#x27;re processing text, one example being a few words while another being paragraphs of text, or when we are performing operations against a tree structure of variable size. This problem is particularly prominent in particular subfields, such as natural language processing, where I spend most of my time.<p>PyTorch tackles this very well, as do Chainer[1] and DyNet[2]. Indeed, PyTorch construction was directly informed from Chainer[3], though re-architected and designed to be even faster still. I have seen all of these receive renewed interest in recent months, particularly amongst many researchers performing cutting edge research in the domain. When you&#x27;re working with new architectures, you want the most flexibility possible, and these frameworks allow for that.<p>As a counterpoint, TensorFlow does not handle these dynamic graph cases well at all. There are some primitive dynamic constructs but they&#x27;re not flexible and usually quite limiting. In the near future there are plans to allow TensorFlow to become more dynamic, but adding it in after the fact is going to be a challenge, especially to do efficiently.<p>Disclosure: My team at Salesforce Research use Chainer extensively and my colleague James Bradbury was a contributor to PyTorch whilst it was in stealth mode. We&#x27;re planning to transition from Chainer to PyTorch for future work.<p>[1]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;chainer.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;chainer.org&#x2F;</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;clab&#x2F;dynet" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;clab&#x2F;dynet</a><p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;jekbradbury&#x2F;status&#x2F;821786330459836416" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;jekbradbury&#x2F;status&#x2F;821786330459836416</a></text></comment> | <story><title>PyTorch – Tensors and Dynamic neural networks in Python</title><url>http://pytorch.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>smhx</author><text>It&#x27;s a community-driven project, a Python take of Torch <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;torch.ch&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;torch.ch&#x2F;</a>. Several folks involved in development and use so far (a non-exhaustive list):<p>* Facebook
* Twitter
* NVIDIA
* SalesForce
* ParisTech
* CMU
* Digital Reasoning
* INRIA
* ENS<p>The maintainers work at Facebook AI Research</text></comment> |
3,924,703 | 3,924,266 | 1 | 3 | 3,922,419 | train | <story><title>Inbox.py: SMTP for Humans</title><url>https://github.com/kennethreitz/inbox.py</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>illumen</author><text>I'm guessing this is not complete? I'll review it like it is complete though, since it doesn't say anywhere if it is or not.<p>I hope no one uses this in production. Handling SMTP well is all about the edge cases, and this doesn't seem to handle any of them.<p>This is just a thin wrapper on python stdlib smtpd.SMTPServer, which is itself not production ready. It also doesn't really make it easier. The original API is better. Why are magic decorators better than inheritance again?<p>Also, monkey patching? Hidden side effects make sad pandas cry. Let me throw up a little in my mouth.<p>There are zero unit tests for this, and no functional tests.<p>The original API has better documentation. What are the to, sender, and body arguments?<p>Below seems a simpler API, and gives you the subject too. I thought humans would be interested in the subject... but I guess not.<p><pre><code> import inbox
for m in inbox:
toprint = m.to, m.from, m.subject, m.body
print ("to:{} from:{} subject:{} body:{}".format(toprint))</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shazow</author><text>You're right, it's a trivial wrapper with a subjective/opinionated usability improvement.<p>I think the biggest service here is<p>1. Education about Python's pretty decent standard smtpd lib.<p>2. Food for thought about making thin custom interfaces over standard libraries.<p>3. Perhaps inspiration to do more?<p>It's no Linux kernel, but I enjoyed reading through the source and I feel like I have a better understanding of Python's smtpd lib and I've some of my own ideas for future API design.<p>Additionally, I like your generator-based API proposal. Also inspiring. Need to think more about routing in that context, though.</text></comment> | <story><title>Inbox.py: SMTP for Humans</title><url>https://github.com/kennethreitz/inbox.py</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>illumen</author><text>I'm guessing this is not complete? I'll review it like it is complete though, since it doesn't say anywhere if it is or not.<p>I hope no one uses this in production. Handling SMTP well is all about the edge cases, and this doesn't seem to handle any of them.<p>This is just a thin wrapper on python stdlib smtpd.SMTPServer, which is itself not production ready. It also doesn't really make it easier. The original API is better. Why are magic decorators better than inheritance again?<p>Also, monkey patching? Hidden side effects make sad pandas cry. Let me throw up a little in my mouth.<p>There are zero unit tests for this, and no functional tests.<p>The original API has better documentation. What are the to, sender, and body arguments?<p>Below seems a simpler API, and gives you the subject too. I thought humans would be interested in the subject... but I guess not.<p><pre><code> import inbox
for m in inbox:
toprint = m.to, m.from, m.subject, m.body
print ("to:{} from:{} subject:{} body:{}".format(toprint))</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mmerickel</author><text>I don't understand why the library chooses to require gevent. That's a large dependency for an API that might be useful otherwise. That should really be up to the user since it looks like it'd work fine in its own thread or standalone.</text></comment> |
9,784,375 | 9,784,173 | 1 | 2 | 9,783,296 | train | <story><title>Valve has put Ultimate General: Gettysburg on the Steam store main page</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/UltimateGeneralStrategyGames/photos/a.597633186948895.1073741828.558492594196288/907112076001003/?type=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stevehawk</author><text>Apples and oranges, isn&#x27;t it?<p>Hitler began a campaign for global domination and genocide. The South said &quot;Fuck this, we&#x27;re out&quot; and seceded from the Union, then the North attacked it.<p>The South&#x27;s motivation wasn&#x27;t particularly great, but their actions didn&#x27;t exactly tear apart the world and change it&#x27;s development forever.</text></item><item><author>rayiner</author><text>The south lost, but they didn&#x27;t handle it the way say Germany did WWII (internalizing a deep sense of shame for what they did and purging their culture of anything glorifying that period). They lost, but they didn&#x27;t repent. Hence why we&#x27;re still seeing this conflict today.</text></item><item><author>ZeroGravitas</author><text>So, I&#x27;m not american, but I visited that page, and from the comments here I was expecting to see a confederate flag. Instead I see an old C90 style audio cassette?<p>Also, my grasp of American history isn&#x27;t great, but the south lost this war right? And this particular battle at Gettysburg. And the Gettysburg address is fairly famous.<p>So, if not for the context of this being posted and then other comments here, I would assume this was a total non-event. Am I missing something? What&#x27;s the supposed link between this and recent happenings with Apple store regulations and racist symbolism in the US?<p>edit: answering my own question, this particular cross-platform game got removed from the Apple app store as they were unwilling to edit it to remove the confederate flag from the game believing they shouldn&#x27;t fall under the content ban as it was only used in historical context. It&#x27;s not clear to me if it&#x27;s presence is anything but a coincidence as it seems to be a well regarded game anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>The south didn&#x27;t merely say &quot;fuck this we&#x27;re out&quot; and secede. They raised an army and fought viciously to protect human slavery. The Civil War was a war for slavery. Fighting for slavery is shameful.<p>People <i>today</i> shouldn&#x27;t be ashamed of what people in 1864 did; that&#x27;s silly. But they shouldn&#x27;t be <i>proud</i> of it, either.<p>That&#x27;s the point I think &#x27;rayiner is making.</text></comment> | <story><title>Valve has put Ultimate General: Gettysburg on the Steam store main page</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/UltimateGeneralStrategyGames/photos/a.597633186948895.1073741828.558492594196288/907112076001003/?type=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stevehawk</author><text>Apples and oranges, isn&#x27;t it?<p>Hitler began a campaign for global domination and genocide. The South said &quot;Fuck this, we&#x27;re out&quot; and seceded from the Union, then the North attacked it.<p>The South&#x27;s motivation wasn&#x27;t particularly great, but their actions didn&#x27;t exactly tear apart the world and change it&#x27;s development forever.</text></item><item><author>rayiner</author><text>The south lost, but they didn&#x27;t handle it the way say Germany did WWII (internalizing a deep sense of shame for what they did and purging their culture of anything glorifying that period). They lost, but they didn&#x27;t repent. Hence why we&#x27;re still seeing this conflict today.</text></item><item><author>ZeroGravitas</author><text>So, I&#x27;m not american, but I visited that page, and from the comments here I was expecting to see a confederate flag. Instead I see an old C90 style audio cassette?<p>Also, my grasp of American history isn&#x27;t great, but the south lost this war right? And this particular battle at Gettysburg. And the Gettysburg address is fairly famous.<p>So, if not for the context of this being posted and then other comments here, I would assume this was a total non-event. Am I missing something? What&#x27;s the supposed link between this and recent happenings with Apple store regulations and racist symbolism in the US?<p>edit: answering my own question, this particular cross-platform game got removed from the Apple app store as they were unwilling to edit it to remove the confederate flag from the game believing they shouldn&#x27;t fall under the content ban as it was only used in historical context. It&#x27;s not clear to me if it&#x27;s presence is anything but a coincidence as it seems to be a well regarded game anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>po</author><text>I was taught that the southern states were simply for states rights and doing the &quot;fuck this we&#x27;re out&quot; thing but that storyline is highly revisionist. They had dreams of empire as well. If you read what they were saying at the time it&#x27;s scary and enlightening:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;politics&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2015&#x2F;06&#x2F;what-this-cruel-war-was-over&#x2F;396482&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;politics&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2015&#x2F;06&#x2F;what-thi...</a><p>That being said, I think the confederate flag is a terrible symbol to be proud of but the reaction to this game is a huge overcorrection. I have played it and it&#x27;s a great game that gave me a ton of respect and insight into how pivotal that battle was. Leave it to us Americans to focus on learning the wrong lessons and applying simplistic rules to a nuanced situation.</text></comment> |
17,850,077 | 17,849,746 | 1 | 2 | 17,847,668 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Which types of tech jobs are best for people that can't handle stress?</title></story><parent_chain><item><author>ioddly</author><text>&gt; have something to do on evenings. Something for yourself, something not related to your job<p>I&#x27;m curious what everyone does for this. I&#x27;ve attempted to find a few things but nothing has strongly clicked with me. Most of my interests right now are on the computer, which makes it hard to disengage, and I definitely need to do more to get a handle on it.</text></item><item><author>gordaco</author><text>If what you want is a low stress environment, you&#x27;re like me. Some pieces of advice:<p>1) This goes without saying, but avoid startups. The more established the company, the better. Big corps are much more likely to respect a 9-to-5 workday and much less likely to call you at 2 am.<p>2) Try to work in a BTB product, not a BTC. BTB means way fewer customers, and fewer customers means fewer eyes looking for bugs, which in turn means a lower probability of finding an unexpected bug that needs to be solved yesterday. This sounds a bit cynical, but really isn&#x27;t because of my next point:<p>3) There is an even better way to avoid bugs in production: have a very good and thorough testing system. When interviewing, ask about the testing process and how likely are they to detect bugs before a client runs the code. If you are looking for a job as a tester, instead ask the following: how automated are the tests and the build system? The more, the better.<p>4) This might sound bad, but it&#x27;s my best piece of advice about jobs: look for a workplace that has lots of women (yes, they exist. For certain charitable definition of &quot;lots&quot;, at least). Especially older women. Bonus points if you see pregnant women. Double bonus points if people are allowed to work less hours in order to take care of their kids, and you know a few people taking advantage of this situation (IDK how frequent is this in the US. Here in Spain it&#x27;s common and regulated by law). Triple bonus points if there are many women in managerial positions. I realize that all of this sounds sexist, but whether we like it or not, the weight of childcare and housekeeping still falls mostly on the shoulders of women. So, if you find a company with lots of women, it usually means that the company offers very good work-life balance. As a bonus, you avoid one common source of stress: the competitiveness that pervades certain brogrammer companies.<p>There are also some points to consider that apply to every job: learn to forget about work the moment you exit the office (have something to do on evenings. Something for yourself, something not related to your job); try to make commute pleasurable (walk to your job, use public transport so you can read, etc); avoid romantic relationships with colleagues, especially people you work closely with; etc.<p>EDIT: typo.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>domepro</author><text>I was always a gamer and therefore a lot of my time at home is spent at my computer.<p>I have a neat trick that I started doing during my university time (ymmv as not everyone will be able to use it). I started with using exclusively linux for any programming and&#x2F;or homework assignments. When I&#x27;m at my personal desktop - it&#x27;s always windows, at work I&#x27;ll use linux or OS X, depending on what my options are.<p>It works pretty well for me, as it&#x27;s a context switch for my brain - native terminal = work, windows = fun.<p>As an additional bonus, a dog which I can&#x27;t reasonably leave home for extended periods of time (bringing her to work would never be an option, even if my workplace is dog-friendly) and have to walk so that gets rid of anyone (including myself) trying to squeeze OT out of me, and gets me out of the house for regular walks.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Which types of tech jobs are best for people that can't handle stress?</title></story><parent_chain><item><author>ioddly</author><text>&gt; have something to do on evenings. Something for yourself, something not related to your job<p>I&#x27;m curious what everyone does for this. I&#x27;ve attempted to find a few things but nothing has strongly clicked with me. Most of my interests right now are on the computer, which makes it hard to disengage, and I definitely need to do more to get a handle on it.</text></item><item><author>gordaco</author><text>If what you want is a low stress environment, you&#x27;re like me. Some pieces of advice:<p>1) This goes without saying, but avoid startups. The more established the company, the better. Big corps are much more likely to respect a 9-to-5 workday and much less likely to call you at 2 am.<p>2) Try to work in a BTB product, not a BTC. BTB means way fewer customers, and fewer customers means fewer eyes looking for bugs, which in turn means a lower probability of finding an unexpected bug that needs to be solved yesterday. This sounds a bit cynical, but really isn&#x27;t because of my next point:<p>3) There is an even better way to avoid bugs in production: have a very good and thorough testing system. When interviewing, ask about the testing process and how likely are they to detect bugs before a client runs the code. If you are looking for a job as a tester, instead ask the following: how automated are the tests and the build system? The more, the better.<p>4) This might sound bad, but it&#x27;s my best piece of advice about jobs: look for a workplace that has lots of women (yes, they exist. For certain charitable definition of &quot;lots&quot;, at least). Especially older women. Bonus points if you see pregnant women. Double bonus points if people are allowed to work less hours in order to take care of their kids, and you know a few people taking advantage of this situation (IDK how frequent is this in the US. Here in Spain it&#x27;s common and regulated by law). Triple bonus points if there are many women in managerial positions. I realize that all of this sounds sexist, but whether we like it or not, the weight of childcare and housekeeping still falls mostly on the shoulders of women. So, if you find a company with lots of women, it usually means that the company offers very good work-life balance. As a bonus, you avoid one common source of stress: the competitiveness that pervades certain brogrammer companies.<p>There are also some points to consider that apply to every job: learn to forget about work the moment you exit the office (have something to do on evenings. Something for yourself, something not related to your job); try to make commute pleasurable (walk to your job, use public transport so you can read, etc); avoid romantic relationships with colleagues, especially people you work closely with; etc.<p>EDIT: typo.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tluyben2</author><text>There are many things; family, friends (go somewhere to meet up, less chance ending up sitting behind a computer if your friends are like mine anyway), read books, sports, electronics (soldering things and testing takes forever and it&#x27;s fun), cooking, ...<p>Even computer stuff can force you to disengage; like gaming (especially on a console; it doesn&#x27;t do mail or anything else productive :). But also, I like, as a hobby to work on small programming languages, type systems, proofs etc. Those things will never make it to production and will never make money, which is the point. I find them a lot of fun and during those it is very hard to get me to do anything work related as they all suck me in and keep me there until I sleep.</text></comment> |
36,420,134 | 36,420,339 | 1 | 2 | 36,419,461 | train | <story><title>Email proves Microsoft's Activision bid is designed to eliminate Playstation</title><url>https://www.axios.com/2023/06/20/exhibit-k-microsoft-activision</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mcpackieh</author><text>Spoilers: <i>&quot;The contents of the message are redacted, but the plaintiffs say [...]&quot;</i><p>The email may well prove that Microsoft has this plan, I certainly wouldn&#x27;t put it past Microsoft. It is in the established nature of Microsoft to behave in such anti-competitive ways, the shoe fits. But when the plantiff is using circumstantial evidence to deduce what the email must have contained, I think it&#x27;s quite a stretch to say the email <i>&quot;proves&quot;</i> anything.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mdasen</author><text>The email is also from 2019. It might still be worthwhile evidence, but it wouldn&#x27;t really pertain to the Activision deal in particular.<p>If someone at Microsoft had sent an email a month before the Activision deal saying, &quot;we want to crush the next-gen Playstation,&quot; that could be evidence that the Activision deal is part of a plan to monopolize the market, but it could also simply be somewhat random nonsense puffery talk like when someone says &quot;our graphics blow away the competition!&quot; Given that it was sent back in 2019, the distance in time from the Activision deal makes it potentially less relevant.<p>The allegation is that the email is &quot;uncontroverted evidence that Microsoft had the intention to put its main competition, the Sony PlayStation, out of the market.&quot; What I want to know is whether the email is a somewhat innocuous, &quot;we want to relegate the PlayStation to the status of an also-ran while we become the premier gaming console&quot; or something more serious like &quot;our strategy to drive Sony out of the market is by buying up independent publishers and then making their games platform-exclusives to the Xbox.&quot; For the first one, I&#x27;m sure I could dredge up communications at any company that are similar. For the second, it shows a clear danger to competition and the market.</text></comment> | <story><title>Email proves Microsoft's Activision bid is designed to eliminate Playstation</title><url>https://www.axios.com/2023/06/20/exhibit-k-microsoft-activision</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mcpackieh</author><text>Spoilers: <i>&quot;The contents of the message are redacted, but the plaintiffs say [...]&quot;</i><p>The email may well prove that Microsoft has this plan, I certainly wouldn&#x27;t put it past Microsoft. It is in the established nature of Microsoft to behave in such anti-competitive ways, the shoe fits. But when the plantiff is using circumstantial evidence to deduce what the email must have contained, I think it&#x27;s quite a stretch to say the email <i>&quot;proves&quot;</i> anything.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>flutas</author><text>&gt; But when the plantiff is using circumstantial evidence to deduce what the email must have contained<p>That&#x27;s not what&#x27;s happening. It&#x27;s sealed to the public, not the lawyers.<p>The article even mentions this:<p>&gt; The passage appears to be from Exhibit K, a sealed document that the gamers’ lawyers and Microsoft’s attorneys have been arguing over.<p>&gt; In legal documents, Microsoft characterized the email as an “internal exchange” that should remain sealed; a Microsoft rep declined to comment further.</text></comment> |
21,683,403 | 21,683,778 | 1 | 2 | 21,682,505 | train | <story><title>California car burglaries are at crisis levels</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-12-02/california-car-burglaries-lawmakers-loophole</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mc32</author><text>At a local Safeway woman loads cart with bottles of liquor. Walks out. She yells “I know my rights, I know my rights”. What are the cashiers and security going to do? Nothing, they let her go.<p>At another place kids get caught stealing they turn over a display and run out. Again, nothing done. All those costs are borne by the paying customers.<p>People are gonna get sick of it; the progressive supes are gonna rue this move. The DA race in SF was close. I think it’s gonna go the other way next election.<p>Also word on the street is apparently thieves prefer SF to Daly City because San Mateo county doesn’t play as nice as SF.</text></item><item><author>Shivetya</author><text>Proposition 47 is the real bugaboo, it moved from felony to misdemeanor thefts under $950 which includes damage caused by them. this made breaking into cars pretty much a free pass because window damage rarely could exceed that. becoming a misdemeanor meant cops have no real reason to follow up. throw in the requirement to prove the doors are locked, well its easy to understand<p>however the real dishonesty is from Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) who claims a bill to at least remove the requirement for prosecutors prove a car was locked before being broken into based on costs. As in, they are very willing to pass the costs onto individuals; hence there still is a cost but to government it does not occur unless on their books. As it was pointed out, how is it never a crime to enter a vehicle you do not own without permission?<p>Prop 47 lead to an increase in shop lifting because it set the limit high enough that it basically insured no one would get prosecuted. the common method is to send a bunch of people into a store at one time to get the goods in volume but with each individual being under the limit in monetary value if being young enough prosecution won&#x27;t work either</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway5752</author><text>What you are describing is a particular sort of story that&#x27;s meant to inflame and probably speaks to where you get you news, which sounds like it&#x27;s political and partisan.<p>Both of the things you describe are corporate policies. They have nothing to do with state law anywhere, and they are there because of liability. Safeway doesn&#x27;t want to get sued for 1) if an employee is an idiot&#x2F;racist and misidentifies someone and harms them 2) employees get harmed substantially trying to stop a shoplifter. In these cases you have rare and small losses that are miniscule compared to bad financial outcomes of intervention.<p>It would be easy to stop, but that costs money. It&#x27;s a very simple business decision for retailers: is the cost of loss prevention higher than the loss.<p>The fact that this surprises you is surprising to me, this problem is many decades old in retail.<p>Car burglaries are a much different dynamic, and another poster mentions that it&#x27;s a felony that was reclassified to a misdemeanor, and that law probably does need to be changed and is a problem for lawmakers.<p>edit: and can we raise the elephant in the room, which is that this is fairly solvable with a national facial recognition database and fairly low end iptv&#x2F;image capture tech?</text></comment> | <story><title>California car burglaries are at crisis levels</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-12-02/california-car-burglaries-lawmakers-loophole</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mc32</author><text>At a local Safeway woman loads cart with bottles of liquor. Walks out. She yells “I know my rights, I know my rights”. What are the cashiers and security going to do? Nothing, they let her go.<p>At another place kids get caught stealing they turn over a display and run out. Again, nothing done. All those costs are borne by the paying customers.<p>People are gonna get sick of it; the progressive supes are gonna rue this move. The DA race in SF was close. I think it’s gonna go the other way next election.<p>Also word on the street is apparently thieves prefer SF to Daly City because San Mateo county doesn’t play as nice as SF.</text></item><item><author>Shivetya</author><text>Proposition 47 is the real bugaboo, it moved from felony to misdemeanor thefts under $950 which includes damage caused by them. this made breaking into cars pretty much a free pass because window damage rarely could exceed that. becoming a misdemeanor meant cops have no real reason to follow up. throw in the requirement to prove the doors are locked, well its easy to understand<p>however the real dishonesty is from Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) who claims a bill to at least remove the requirement for prosecutors prove a car was locked before being broken into based on costs. As in, they are very willing to pass the costs onto individuals; hence there still is a cost but to government it does not occur unless on their books. As it was pointed out, how is it never a crime to enter a vehicle you do not own without permission?<p>Prop 47 lead to an increase in shop lifting because it set the limit high enough that it basically insured no one would get prosecuted. the common method is to send a bunch of people into a store at one time to get the goods in volume but with each individual being under the limit in monetary value if being young enough prosecution won&#x27;t work either</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>undefined1</author><text>&gt; <i>“I know my rights, I know my rights”. What are the cashiers and security going to do? Nothing, they let her go.</i><p>I&#x27;ve seen a shoplifter (also in SF, Safeway) take it to the next level, repeatedly yelling, &quot;I&#x27;m pregnant! The guards are killing me and my baby!&quot;. None of which appeared to be the case, and security was as nervous as you might imagine.<p>This kind of stuff happens a lot at Safeways in SF (also Starbucks and CVS, but mostly Safeway it seems). Other times you&#x27;ll just see someone running out the door, guards look into the distance for a moment and that&#x27;s that.<p>My wife calls them Unsafeway, heh.</text></comment> |
41,645,025 | 41,644,890 | 1 | 3 | 41,643,700 | train | <story><title>NIST to forbid requirement of specific passwords character composition</title><url>https://mastodon.social/@LukaszOlejnik/113193089731407165</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cheriot</author><text>&gt; SHOULD NOT require memorized secrets to be changed arbitrarily (e.g., periodically)<p>Are there employers that follow this advice? Mine won&#x27;t (and won&#x27;t say why).</text></item><item><author>hsdropout</author><text>This has been in their guidance since at least 2017.<p>&quot;Verifiers SHOULD NOT impose other composition rules (e.g., requiring mixtures of different character types or prohibiting consecutively repeated characters) for memorized secrets. Verifiers SHOULD NOT require memorized secrets to be changed arbitrarily (e.g., periodically). However, verifiers SHALL force a change if there is evidence of compromise of the authenticator&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nvlpubs.nist.gov&#x2F;nistpubs&#x2F;SpecialPublications&#x2F;NIST.SP.800-63b.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nvlpubs.nist.gov&#x2F;nistpubs&#x2F;SpecialPublications&#x2F;NIST.S...</a><p>Also worth pointing out that NIST doesn&#x27;t set policy, so unfortunately this doesn&#x27;t directly &quot;forbid&quot; anything, though many other policies reference 800-63.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tialaramex</author><text>The only employer I&#x27;ve had which had a dumb rotation rule was of course a huge American Credit Reference Agency which due to ordinary incompetence lost a lot of people&#x27;s personal information.<p>These days I work in tertiary education, so there&#x27;s a complete spectrum from people who probably have memorised a unique sixteen alphanumerics password twenty years ago to folks who needed a service desk worker to help them walk through resetting after having forgotten their password was the name of one of Henry VIII&#x27;s wives. And there&#x27;s likewise a spectrum between &quot;I hand-built this optical splitter and splice so that I could steal the exam answers without any trace on the network&quot; and &quot;I wrote the formulae on my thigh in permanent marker and then wore a skirt with a big slit down one side&quot; in terms of the technical sophistication of attacks.<p>Edited to add: When I did work for the CRA with the rotation rule I would write down each of the passwords in columns in the back of my log book since otherwise I might forget one and that was a huge pain to get reset, it&#x27;s just not realistic to memorize &quot;random&quot; values you&#x27;ll have to replace frequently. And of course they had two &quot;Single&quot; Sign On systems because of warring management, so that&#x27;s <i>two</i> passwords to rotate.</text></comment> | <story><title>NIST to forbid requirement of specific passwords character composition</title><url>https://mastodon.social/@LukaszOlejnik/113193089731407165</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cheriot</author><text>&gt; SHOULD NOT require memorized secrets to be changed arbitrarily (e.g., periodically)<p>Are there employers that follow this advice? Mine won&#x27;t (and won&#x27;t say why).</text></item><item><author>hsdropout</author><text>This has been in their guidance since at least 2017.<p>&quot;Verifiers SHOULD NOT impose other composition rules (e.g., requiring mixtures of different character types or prohibiting consecutively repeated characters) for memorized secrets. Verifiers SHOULD NOT require memorized secrets to be changed arbitrarily (e.g., periodically). However, verifiers SHALL force a change if there is evidence of compromise of the authenticator&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nvlpubs.nist.gov&#x2F;nistpubs&#x2F;SpecialPublications&#x2F;NIST.SP.800-63b.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nvlpubs.nist.gov&#x2F;nistpubs&#x2F;SpecialPublications&#x2F;NIST.S...</a><p>Also worth pointing out that NIST doesn&#x27;t set policy, so unfortunately this doesn&#x27;t directly &quot;forbid&quot; anything, though many other policies reference 800-63.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ratherbefuddled</author><text>I&#x27;ve found it commonplace these days at least in europe that organisations use SSO via an identity provider that requires MFA for everything they can - even clients who are banks and utilities that usually move at a glacial pace.<p>The last time I worked anywhere with periodic password change was 8 years ago and they were phasing it out. The same place would reset your password to Monday123 if you got locked out (whether you needed a password reset or not) and forget to set the &quot;force change&quot; flag.</text></comment> |
38,371,968 | 38,371,009 | 1 | 2 | 38,366,729 | train | <story><title>Binance founder Changpeng Zhao agrees to step down, plead guilty</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/binance-ceo-changpeng-zhao-step-down-plead-guilty-01f72a40</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blobbers</author><text>SBF decided to testify against CZ to try to save his own ass, giving justice dept and sec something to fine CZ with.<p>Govt collects a big crypto fine, fine makes the big losers in FTX whole, problem solved.<p>CZ should have just bought FTX and closed the deal and made people whole, woulda saved himself some drama.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LandoCalrissian</author><text>Pretty great example of Hacker News when the top comment is &quot;They should have done more crime but in a different way.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Binance founder Changpeng Zhao agrees to step down, plead guilty</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/binance-ceo-changpeng-zhao-step-down-plead-guilty-01f72a40</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blobbers</author><text>SBF decided to testify against CZ to try to save his own ass, giving justice dept and sec something to fine CZ with.<p>Govt collects a big crypto fine, fine makes the big losers in FTX whole, problem solved.<p>CZ should have just bought FTX and closed the deal and made people whole, woulda saved himself some drama.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drited</author><text>Check the Reuters investigative pieces on CZ and Binance from 2022. They had plenty to fine him with before SBF&#x27;s testimony.<p>I actually can&#x27;t believe he didn&#x27;t get jail time given the severity of what was uncovered.</text></comment> |
20,200,087 | 20,199,396 | 1 | 2 | 20,196,061 | train | <story><title>Relearn CSS layout</title><url>https://every-layout.dev/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danShumway</author><text>I work as a web developer for an enterprise-level software company.<p>Experimented a bit with CSS-in-JS, which is designed to get rid of this separation, and I found it to ultimately be harder to maintain than SCSS. This process was also what got me hooked on BEM after being initially pretty skeptical about whether it had any real value.<p>I now believe that BEM would meet the needs of most teams, with the exception of a few massive software houses like Facebook. And most companies don&#x27;t fall into the Facebook category, even if they think they do.<p>I&#x27;ve also taken some time to reflect on older companies I&#x27;ve worked for, particularly some work I did at Oracle, which was for a reasonably large team spread across several continents. I think BEM would have been good enough for us there as well.<p>I would propose the following test: Is your front end in a monorepo? If so, BEM is probably good enough to solve any problems with scope and style conflicts. If your code can fit in a monorepo, I think its <i>unlikely</i> you will ever have a legitimate reason to duplicate a component name in multiple places.<p>Take it or leave it, just my experience, I&#x27;m sure other people would advocate different things. But it&#x27;s by no means a settled debate, different people&#x2F;orgs have come to different conclusions. It&#x27;s just that one side writes a lot more blog posts.</text></item><item><author>sktrdie</author><text>To me an evident thing in UI development is that separating stylesheet from layout isn&#x27;t really a thing anymore and the benefits of this separation aren&#x27;t really that clear.<p>Things like SwiftUI and React are showing that declarative UIs can be built by tying the style to the layout and allow for much better accessibility, tooling, overall thinking of how UIs work.<p>So to me CSS feels a bit outdated since big companies are definitely moving away from this separation. How does HN feel about this?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vlz</author><text>BEM seems to be &quot;Block Element Modifier&quot;[1] if anybody wonders.<p>[1]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;getbem.com&#x2F;introduction&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;getbem.com&#x2F;introduction&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Relearn CSS layout</title><url>https://every-layout.dev/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danShumway</author><text>I work as a web developer for an enterprise-level software company.<p>Experimented a bit with CSS-in-JS, which is designed to get rid of this separation, and I found it to ultimately be harder to maintain than SCSS. This process was also what got me hooked on BEM after being initially pretty skeptical about whether it had any real value.<p>I now believe that BEM would meet the needs of most teams, with the exception of a few massive software houses like Facebook. And most companies don&#x27;t fall into the Facebook category, even if they think they do.<p>I&#x27;ve also taken some time to reflect on older companies I&#x27;ve worked for, particularly some work I did at Oracle, which was for a reasonably large team spread across several continents. I think BEM would have been good enough for us there as well.<p>I would propose the following test: Is your front end in a monorepo? If so, BEM is probably good enough to solve any problems with scope and style conflicts. If your code can fit in a monorepo, I think its <i>unlikely</i> you will ever have a legitimate reason to duplicate a component name in multiple places.<p>Take it or leave it, just my experience, I&#x27;m sure other people would advocate different things. But it&#x27;s by no means a settled debate, different people&#x2F;orgs have come to different conclusions. It&#x27;s just that one side writes a lot more blog posts.</text></item><item><author>sktrdie</author><text>To me an evident thing in UI development is that separating stylesheet from layout isn&#x27;t really a thing anymore and the benefits of this separation aren&#x27;t really that clear.<p>Things like SwiftUI and React are showing that declarative UIs can be built by tying the style to the layout and allow for much better accessibility, tooling, overall thinking of how UIs work.<p>So to me CSS feels a bit outdated since big companies are definitely moving away from this separation. How does HN feel about this?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>steve_taylor</author><text>I have the opposite experience. I’m in a React team that was doing BEM via Sass for a few years. Almost two years ago, we moved to Styled Components. The only real difference is that Styled Components automates<p>* naming of classes<p>* creating components whose sole purpose is styling<p>* eliminating unused stylesheets<p>It’s not like we became any less strict about specificity or used inline styles any more or less than we did with BEM. I find the differences to be purely logistical. Styled Components simply automates a lot of the grunt work and allows us to focus on more important things.</text></comment> |
15,307,395 | 15,306,602 | 1 | 2 | 15,304,139 | train | <story><title>Gonum – Numerical Computing for Go</title><url>http://www.gonum.org/post/introtogonum/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>openasocket</author><text>How does this play with Go&#x27;s scheduler? My understanding is that the Go scheduler is not preemptive, and goroutines are switched out at yield point, like the start of a function body. So tight loops that don&#x27;t call other functions can effectively hog the OS thread until it leaves that loop body (No idea what happens when doing FFI, maybe that&#x27;s done in a separate thread pool?). For most cases where you would use Go you aren&#x27;t generally doing a bunch of CPU-bound work so that doesn&#x27;t matter, but here you might run into some hiccups. I&#x27;m specifically thinking of a case where you use this library to do some heavy matrix operations as part of a web service, and those tight loops hog the OS threads and hurt your bandwidth and p90 latency.<p>My question to the developer: is that issue something you&#x27;ve encountered with this library? If not, did you design the library to periodically yield in tight loops, or am I just completely wrong about the Go scheduler?</text></comment> | <story><title>Gonum – Numerical Computing for Go</title><url>http://www.gonum.org/post/introtogonum/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>paultopia</author><text>A solid, featureful &amp; performant numerics library seems like a really good match for Go---if it can match numpy but also provide benefits like the safety of types, binary compilation, and better performance in non-numeric code, that&#x27;s a really exciting case for sliding away from python?</text></comment> |
26,224,696 | 26,223,582 | 1 | 2 | 26,222,386 | train | <story><title>Korean Air, Asiana to ground Boeing 777 after engine incident</title><url>http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20210222001051</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JCM9</author><text>Technically they’re grounding the Pratt &amp; Whitney engine model that happens to be attached to their aircraft.<p>When one buys a big jet you pick out what engine you want to buy and slap onto it. It’s a particular engine they’re concerned about, not the 777 airframe itself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>4cao</author><text>That&#x27;s a good point.<p>As far as I know, newer B77* generally use GE or RR engines. The PW ones are old at this point, and also represent the smallest and decreasing share, so most planes of this type aren&#x27;t affected. United (or one of its predecessors) was an early customer, and I think PW was the only engine option at launch.<p>(Not my area of expertise, so I&#x27;d appreciate a correction if I got something wrong.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Korean Air, Asiana to ground Boeing 777 after engine incident</title><url>http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20210222001051</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JCM9</author><text>Technically they’re grounding the Pratt &amp; Whitney engine model that happens to be attached to their aircraft.<p>When one buys a big jet you pick out what engine you want to buy and slap onto it. It’s a particular engine they’re concerned about, not the 777 airframe itself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arnon</author><text>The P&amp;W-powered 777 is just one variant.<p>British Airways for example went with GE90s, and some airlines like El Al went with Rolls Royce Trent 800s.</text></comment> |
24,193,992 | 24,193,921 | 1 | 3 | 24,193,278 | train | <story><title>Dependency</title><url>https://xkcd.com/2347/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WrtCdEvrydy</author><text>Honestly, yes, imagemagick is such a ridiculous dependency for everything.</text></item><item><author>outworlder</author><text>Image title:<p>&gt; Someday ImageMagick will finally break for good and we&#x27;ll have a long period of scrambling as we try to reassemble civilization from the rubble.<p>EDIT: don&#x27;t forget to always hover over the image. Half of XKCD&#x27;s fun comes from those tidbits.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>js2</author><text>I would go with sqlite, curl, zlib, or libpng.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sqlite.org&#x2F;mostdeployed.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sqlite.org&#x2F;mostdeployed.html</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ec.haxx.se&#x2F;curl&#x2F;curl-users" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ec.haxx.se&#x2F;curl&#x2F;curl-users</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Dependency</title><url>https://xkcd.com/2347/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WrtCdEvrydy</author><text>Honestly, yes, imagemagick is such a ridiculous dependency for everything.</text></item><item><author>outworlder</author><text>Image title:<p>&gt; Someday ImageMagick will finally break for good and we&#x27;ll have a long period of scrambling as we try to reassemble civilization from the rubble.<p>EDIT: don&#x27;t forget to always hover over the image. Half of XKCD&#x27;s fun comes from those tidbits.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AceJohnny2</author><text>Why is GraphicsMagick [1] not a more popular alternative?<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.graphicsmagick.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.graphicsmagick.org&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
17,527,557 | 17,527,531 | 1 | 3 | 17,525,142 | train | <story><title>Amazon’s share of the US e-commerce market is now 49%</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/13/amazons-share-of-the-us-e-commerce-market-is-now-49-or-5-of-all-retail-spend/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rubicon33</author><text>Would either you, or the post above you, mind sharing where you ended up getting your sheets from?<p>My wife is obsessed with nice sheets, but feels like what we got from Amazon isn&#x27;t what they said it was. I didn&#x27;t even realize until now, how that might be true. So I&#x27;d like to buy some nice sheets from a reputable source. I don&#x27;t mind waiting for shipping.</text></item><item><author>reaperducer</author><text>It was very weird reading your comment, because I went down the same rabbit hole a few months ago. Nothing in BB&amp;B, Target, or Macy&#x27;s. Lots in Amazon, but all looked fake. (3,500 thread count? How dumb do I look?)<p>Ended up getting them in a really weird B&amp;M place. I&#x27;d never buy sheets on Amazon.<p>Also, I&#x27;ll probably never get another calking sized bed.</text></item><item><author>taurath</author><text>I went shopping for some cal king bedsheets last week. Bed Bath &amp; Beyond had 1 set - the warmest sheets possible, in the middle of summer. Macys had 0. Target had 0.<p>Then I went on amazon - the only sheets that were on prime with a good rating were $60 sets of... dubious quality, and half the ratings seemed like they were fake (almost all &quot;recent&quot; reviews were 1 stars). I ended up finding a (much more expensive) specialized sheet co, but am waiting 2 weeks for the delivery (4 day delivery cost $30!!).<p>It really kind of sucks, because I used to rely on Amazon for this sort of stuff - I WANT to buy stuff on Prime but I might as well be shopping at a street market half the time.</text></item><item><author>pnathan</author><text>Time and again I can&#x27;t find what I&#x27;m looking for in brick and mortar, but it&#x27;s on Amazon. Original companies don&#x27;t always have a direct sales arm.<p>I avoid buying gadgets from Amazon, but other than that... ::shrug:: They&#x27;ve got it nailed. Worlds better than brick and mortar for non-boutique goods.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stickfigure</author><text>My wife and I are obsessed with nice sheets. I will give you two recommendations:<p>* Winter - flannel from Land&#x27;s End. Super thick, warm, and comfortable. They feel like felt. $100-$150.<p>* Summer - linen (flax) from Linoto. These sheets are possibly the second thing I would grab in a housefire, after the baby. It takes a little getting used to sleeping on linen but they somehow are always perfectly warm or perfectly cool no matter what the temperature. $400, which sounds crazy for bedsheets but they are worth every single penny. We bought a second set from West Elm for half that but it was a mistake; the difference in thickness and quality is dramatic.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon’s share of the US e-commerce market is now 49%</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/13/amazons-share-of-the-us-e-commerce-market-is-now-49-or-5-of-all-retail-spend/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rubicon33</author><text>Would either you, or the post above you, mind sharing where you ended up getting your sheets from?<p>My wife is obsessed with nice sheets, but feels like what we got from Amazon isn&#x27;t what they said it was. I didn&#x27;t even realize until now, how that might be true. So I&#x27;d like to buy some nice sheets from a reputable source. I don&#x27;t mind waiting for shipping.</text></item><item><author>reaperducer</author><text>It was very weird reading your comment, because I went down the same rabbit hole a few months ago. Nothing in BB&amp;B, Target, or Macy&#x27;s. Lots in Amazon, but all looked fake. (3,500 thread count? How dumb do I look?)<p>Ended up getting them in a really weird B&amp;M place. I&#x27;d never buy sheets on Amazon.<p>Also, I&#x27;ll probably never get another calking sized bed.</text></item><item><author>taurath</author><text>I went shopping for some cal king bedsheets last week. Bed Bath &amp; Beyond had 1 set - the warmest sheets possible, in the middle of summer. Macys had 0. Target had 0.<p>Then I went on amazon - the only sheets that were on prime with a good rating were $60 sets of... dubious quality, and half the ratings seemed like they were fake (almost all &quot;recent&quot; reviews were 1 stars). I ended up finding a (much more expensive) specialized sheet co, but am waiting 2 weeks for the delivery (4 day delivery cost $30!!).<p>It really kind of sucks, because I used to rely on Amazon for this sort of stuff - I WANT to buy stuff on Prime but I might as well be shopping at a street market half the time.</text></item><item><author>pnathan</author><text>Time and again I can&#x27;t find what I&#x27;m looking for in brick and mortar, but it&#x27;s on Amazon. Original companies don&#x27;t always have a direct sales arm.<p>I avoid buying gadgets from Amazon, but other than that... ::shrug:: They&#x27;ve got it nailed. Worlds better than brick and mortar for non-boutique goods.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>loco5niner</author><text>Neither of the above posters, but I&#x27;ve purchased sheets I was pleased with (although expensive) following Wirecutters guide: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thewirecutter.com&#x2F;guides&#x2F;buying-sheets&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thewirecutter.com&#x2F;guides&#x2F;buying-sheets&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
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