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30,920,518 | 30,919,218 | 1 | 2 | 30,918,550 | train | <story><title>'Freeze-thaw battery' stores electricity long-term for seasonal release</title><url>https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2022/04/freeze-thaw-battery-stores-electricity-long-term-for-seasonal-release/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jessriedel</author><text>For more on the general problem of storing thermal (rather than electrical) energy on a seasonal basis see<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Seasonal_thermal_energy_storage" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Seasonal_thermal_energy_storag...</a><p>I was especially surprised to learn that serious attempts at storing heat in <i>soil</i> and <i>rock</i> have been made<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Seasonal_thermal_energy_storage#Underground_thermal_energy_storage" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Seasonal_thermal_energy_storag...</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Drake_Landing_Solar_Community" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Drake_Landing_Solar_Community</a><p>which in the winter is able recover &gt;40% of the energy stored in the ground through boreholes in the summer (&quot;BTES Efficiency&quot;)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dlsc.ca&#x2F;reports&#x2F;swc2017-0033-Mesquita.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dlsc.ca&#x2F;reports&#x2F;swc2017-0033-Mesquita.pdf</a></text></comment> | <story><title>'Freeze-thaw battery' stores electricity long-term for seasonal release</title><url>https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2022/04/freeze-thaw-battery-stores-electricity-long-term-for-seasonal-release/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>phh</author><text>It doesn&#x27;t sound like the improvement of cost is enough the justify using it only for few cycles a year as the title says rather than every other day. That said, I see nothing in this article saying why it would be limited to seasonal release, I&#x27;m guessing it just has a lower self-discharge.<p>The title made me thought of an idea my father had, for which I&#x27;m still totally ambivalent:<p>Freeze water in the cellar (speaking of like 30m^3) using thermal pomp during winter to heat house and when electricity costs little, and use that ice in summer to cool down the house. I didn&#x27;t run the numbers, but I&#x27;d guess that if it was even remotely not a pure energy loss some other people would have already proposed such things.</text></comment> |
36,276,905 | 36,276,795 | 1 | 2 | 36,270,413 | train | <story><title>Mercedes beats Tesla to autonomous driving in California</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/09/mercedes_california_tesla/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bboygravity</author><text>This FUD is insane.<p>You make it sounds like Tesla&#x27;s with FSD on are crashing all the time. This makes no sense at all, because... they aren&#x27;t?</text></item><item><author>BoorishBears</author><text>Working in the AV space, it&#x27;s really frustrating how confidently people who have no idea about what&#x27;s hard and what isn&#x27;t go off about Tesla right now.<p>Mercedes has soundly beaten the last decade of Tesla efforts by reaching L3.<p>I&#x27;ve personally watched FSD go off the rails and into a crash situation within 60 seconds of being turned on three times this month (I have a friend who loves to try it in San Francisco)<p>Had it crashed it&#x27;d be on my friend, not Tesla. The fact Mercedes is taking responsibility puts it in an entirely different level of effectiveness.<p>-<p>People also don&#x27;t seem to understand Mercedes has a separate L2 system that works above 45 mph that already scores better than AP by consumer reports</text></item><item><author>oxfordmale</author><text>Mercedes accepts legal liability for collisions if the system is used under these stringent conditions. Tesla doesn&#x27;t do this.<p>It also doesn&#x27;t mean it doesn&#x27;t have the technical capability to drive through the streets of LA for 60 minutes.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thatcham.org&#x2F;mercedes-to-accept-liability-for-accidents-when-automated-driving-system-engaged&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thatcham.org&#x2F;mercedes-to-accept-liability-for-ac...</a></text></item><item><author>gzer0</author><text>Friendly reminder that this system is HEAVILY limited, with the following restrictions:<p><pre><code> - Must be under 40 mph
- Only during the daylight and only on certain highways
- CANNOT be operated on city&#x2F;country streets
- CANNOT be operated in construction zones
- CANNOT be during heavy rain or fog or flood roads
</code></pre>
And for comparison: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=DjZSZTKYEU4">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=DjZSZTKYEU4</a><p>Tesla FSD navigating the complex city streets of LA for 60 minutes with zero human intervention.<p>This seems like a marketing gimmick by Mercedes at best; the two technologies aren&#x27;t even in the same league. Any comparison is laughable. They are outmatched, outclassed, and absolutely outdone. Karpathy (now @ OpenAI) and the Tesla FSD team have really done an incredible job.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BoorishBears</author><text>Teslas with FSD are <i>disengaging</i> all the time. And even worse, it&#x27;s not always FSD initiating: often times it&#x27;s FSD not realizing it&#x27;s about to do something wrong, the humans take over, and then them brushing it off as &quot;well it&#x27;s a beta&quot; or &quot;I bet it would have gotten it but I wasn&#x27;t so sure&quot;.<p>Getting to a point where Mercedes can guarantee their system will correctly initiate disengagements and do so with a 10 seconds of response time while putting the liability on themselves is a <i>massive</i> leap of anything Tesla has ever put out.<p>Again, this is what happens when you have literally no clue how the space works (and then turn around and accuse people of FUD.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Mercedes beats Tesla to autonomous driving in California</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/09/mercedes_california_tesla/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bboygravity</author><text>This FUD is insane.<p>You make it sounds like Tesla&#x27;s with FSD on are crashing all the time. This makes no sense at all, because... they aren&#x27;t?</text></item><item><author>BoorishBears</author><text>Working in the AV space, it&#x27;s really frustrating how confidently people who have no idea about what&#x27;s hard and what isn&#x27;t go off about Tesla right now.<p>Mercedes has soundly beaten the last decade of Tesla efforts by reaching L3.<p>I&#x27;ve personally watched FSD go off the rails and into a crash situation within 60 seconds of being turned on three times this month (I have a friend who loves to try it in San Francisco)<p>Had it crashed it&#x27;d be on my friend, not Tesla. The fact Mercedes is taking responsibility puts it in an entirely different level of effectiveness.<p>-<p>People also don&#x27;t seem to understand Mercedes has a separate L2 system that works above 45 mph that already scores better than AP by consumer reports</text></item><item><author>oxfordmale</author><text>Mercedes accepts legal liability for collisions if the system is used under these stringent conditions. Tesla doesn&#x27;t do this.<p>It also doesn&#x27;t mean it doesn&#x27;t have the technical capability to drive through the streets of LA for 60 minutes.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thatcham.org&#x2F;mercedes-to-accept-liability-for-accidents-when-automated-driving-system-engaged&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thatcham.org&#x2F;mercedes-to-accept-liability-for-ac...</a></text></item><item><author>gzer0</author><text>Friendly reminder that this system is HEAVILY limited, with the following restrictions:<p><pre><code> - Must be under 40 mph
- Only during the daylight and only on certain highways
- CANNOT be operated on city&#x2F;country streets
- CANNOT be operated in construction zones
- CANNOT be during heavy rain or fog or flood roads
</code></pre>
And for comparison: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=DjZSZTKYEU4">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=DjZSZTKYEU4</a><p>Tesla FSD navigating the complex city streets of LA for 60 minutes with zero human intervention.<p>This seems like a marketing gimmick by Mercedes at best; the two technologies aren&#x27;t even in the same league. Any comparison is laughable. They are outmatched, outclassed, and absolutely outdone. Karpathy (now @ OpenAI) and the Tesla FSD team have really done an incredible job.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cgh</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure what the track record for FSD is so far but Autopilot&#x27;s isn&#x27;t great and inspires little confidence: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;2023&#x2F;06&#x2F;10&#x2F;tesla-autopilot-crashes-elon-musk&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;2023&#x2F;06&#x2F;10&#x2F;tesla-a...</a><p>17 fatalities, 736 crashes.</text></comment> |
35,962,006 | 35,960,623 | 1 | 3 | 35,959,865 | train | <story><title>JPMorgan Chase and Co tracks employees to dystopian extents</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/13ijhae/came_back_to_a_post_here_but_it_was_removed_from/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ericmay</author><text>At JPM a VP isn’t going to have an org of 1,000+. That’s going to be managing director level. There are some VPs on the business side that can have numerous employees but that’s about it. In finance you can equate VP to being senior and line manager level at other companies Google, Meta, etc.<p>One you hit executive director things change a bit. Managing director is the real deal.<p>Agreeing with&#x2F;adding to your post here:<p>With that being said this Reddit post has some fishy elements to me. I wouldn’t doubt the existence of this so called WADU but the capabilities (and laughable suggestions in the Reddit post like “don’t use a corporate laptop” as if JPM issues corporate laptops - most employees use the stupid VDI) seem a little outrageous to me. More likely scenario is they just track badge in and badge out and maybe something like the number of meetings on your calendar and do some super basic reporting up the chain to the HR tech teams who are trying to figure out what to do with the workforce.<p>Now from the article:<p>“Some employees described adopting unusual behaviors to evade the system&#x27;s detection during breaks or interludes throughout the day.”<p>I don’t know where these so called employees work, but at least in the corporate offices uh nobody pays any mind to any breaks you take unless you have some really anal manager. At the Polaris office in Columbus people bring walking shoes and do laps and things. They have lots of space intended for leaving your desk and grabbing coffee or meeting. The Starbucks in there at the time I was there was supposedly one of the most busy Starbucks locations you could find. I don’t think they’re worried about taking breaks.<p>“Another current employee within the firm&#x27;s commercial-banking division said she and her colleagues have resorted to discussing some work-related topics on forums like the iMessage app”<p>You mean like just normal work? You don’t text your colleagues? Since when is iMessage a forum? Dumb.<p>The article is really lacking substance and the Reddit post seems kind of conspiratorial. Is JPM tracking things like how long your VDI session is open and your badge in&#x2F;out? Yea definitely. Is it some big AI conspiracy? No. To what end anyway?<p>Source -&gt; worked in Digital tech for a little over 4 years and have a number of close friends who still work there and numerous colleagues in executive and managing director level roles.</text></item><item><author>shmatt</author><text>Kind of terrifying to see all the comments just believing it as is<p>Line managers, even managers of managers, would have 0 loyalty to the company and could easily prove this is all true. The thousands of employees could prove the webcam flash every laptop login.<p>Things like this would be VP+ (who would have an org of 1000 or more, why would they even look if one of their reports body language is different this morning?) if it even existed under such a secretive blanket. Plus banks are literally known in the tech world as having the absolute oldest and crumbling tech<p>And lastly, as someone who works in the CV world, even having all those cameras up, successfully streaming, uploading, and inferencing as described in that post would be a technological marvel</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JackFr</author><text>&gt; “Another current employee within the firm&#x27;s commercial-banking division said she and her colleagues have resorted to discussing some work-related topics on forums like the iMessage app”<p>Now that&#x27;s amusing and quite a tell as to how much BS the whole thing is.<p>No one at JPM cares how much loafing there is. However:<p>&quot;JPMorgan Chase is paying $200 million in fines to two U.S. banking regulators to settle charges that its Wall Street division allowed employees to use WhatsApp and other platforms to circumvent federal record-keeping laws.&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;12&#x2F;17&#x2F;jpmorgan-agrees-to-125-million-fine-for-letting-employees-use-whatsapp-to-evade-regulators.html#:~:text=JPMorgan%20Chase%20is%20paying%20%24200,circumvent%20federal%20record%2Dkeeping%20laws" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;12&#x2F;17&#x2F;jpmorgan-agrees-to-125-milli...</a>.<p>discussing work related stuff on iText? That will literally get you fired.<p>Update: And if you don&#x27;t think the banks are serious Citi dinged a C-level guy a couple of million for allowing it.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2023-03-15&#x2F;citigroup-trims-ybarra-s-pay-after-staffers-misuse-of-whatsapp#xj4y7vzkg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2023-03-15&#x2F;citigroup...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>JPMorgan Chase and Co tracks employees to dystopian extents</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/13ijhae/came_back_to_a_post_here_but_it_was_removed_from/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ericmay</author><text>At JPM a VP isn’t going to have an org of 1,000+. That’s going to be managing director level. There are some VPs on the business side that can have numerous employees but that’s about it. In finance you can equate VP to being senior and line manager level at other companies Google, Meta, etc.<p>One you hit executive director things change a bit. Managing director is the real deal.<p>Agreeing with&#x2F;adding to your post here:<p>With that being said this Reddit post has some fishy elements to me. I wouldn’t doubt the existence of this so called WADU but the capabilities (and laughable suggestions in the Reddit post like “don’t use a corporate laptop” as if JPM issues corporate laptops - most employees use the stupid VDI) seem a little outrageous to me. More likely scenario is they just track badge in and badge out and maybe something like the number of meetings on your calendar and do some super basic reporting up the chain to the HR tech teams who are trying to figure out what to do with the workforce.<p>Now from the article:<p>“Some employees described adopting unusual behaviors to evade the system&#x27;s detection during breaks or interludes throughout the day.”<p>I don’t know where these so called employees work, but at least in the corporate offices uh nobody pays any mind to any breaks you take unless you have some really anal manager. At the Polaris office in Columbus people bring walking shoes and do laps and things. They have lots of space intended for leaving your desk and grabbing coffee or meeting. The Starbucks in there at the time I was there was supposedly one of the most busy Starbucks locations you could find. I don’t think they’re worried about taking breaks.<p>“Another current employee within the firm&#x27;s commercial-banking division said she and her colleagues have resorted to discussing some work-related topics on forums like the iMessage app”<p>You mean like just normal work? You don’t text your colleagues? Since when is iMessage a forum? Dumb.<p>The article is really lacking substance and the Reddit post seems kind of conspiratorial. Is JPM tracking things like how long your VDI session is open and your badge in&#x2F;out? Yea definitely. Is it some big AI conspiracy? No. To what end anyway?<p>Source -&gt; worked in Digital tech for a little over 4 years and have a number of close friends who still work there and numerous colleagues in executive and managing director level roles.</text></item><item><author>shmatt</author><text>Kind of terrifying to see all the comments just believing it as is<p>Line managers, even managers of managers, would have 0 loyalty to the company and could easily prove this is all true. The thousands of employees could prove the webcam flash every laptop login.<p>Things like this would be VP+ (who would have an org of 1000 or more, why would they even look if one of their reports body language is different this morning?) if it even existed under such a secretive blanket. Plus banks are literally known in the tech world as having the absolute oldest and crumbling tech<p>And lastly, as someone who works in the CV world, even having all those cameras up, successfully streaming, uploading, and inferencing as described in that post would be a technological marvel</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blitzar</author><text>&gt; as if JPM issues corporate laptops<p>Really? You think they dont issue corporate laptops? The suggestion that they do &quot;destroys&quot; the case made?<p>&gt; You mean like just normal work? You don’t text your colleagues? Since when is iMessage a forum? Dumb.<p>At most banks using non monitored communication tools to talk to colleagues would be a fireable offence. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.efinancialcareers.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;2022&#x2F;09&#x2F;whatsapp-banks" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.efinancialcareers.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;2022&#x2F;09&#x2F;whatsapp-ba...</a></text></comment> |
21,437,709 | 21,437,715 | 1 | 2 | 21,437,255 | train | <story><title>Electron apps cannot be submitted to the Apple store</title><url>https://david.dev/you-cannot-submit-an-electron-6-or-7-app-to-the-apple-store</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>plorkyeran</author><text>What&#x27;s bullshit about banning someone who has been notified that they are in violation of the rules and then tries to hide their use of private APIs rather than stop using them? That&#x27;s exactly what I would do in Apple&#x27;s position. Resubmitting the same thing and hoping that it doesn&#x27;t get caught the next time isn&#x27;t an honest mistake.</text></item><item><author>thomascgalvin</author><text>The basic concept isn&#x27;t too disturbing; Apple packages private APIs that have no guaranteed behavior or expectation of support. If you depend on those APIs, it&#x27;s very possible that your app will break in a future OS update.<p>This is conceptually no different than calling something in the sun.* packages in Java. For years it was ok, and then ... it wasn&#x27;t.<p>This, however, is draconian:<p>&gt; Continuing to use or conceal non-public APIs in future submissions of this app may result in the termination of your Apple Developer account, as well as removal of all associated apps from the App Store.<p>&quot;Keep trying to submit, and we might just ban you forever&quot; is insane. Every program of any complexity depends on third party libraries, and many people wouldn&#x27;t be able to tell what arcane APIs their dependencies (or their dependencies&#x27; dependencies) call. &quot;If you continue to have an upstream dependency that violates our terms, we might permaban you&quot; is bullshit.<p>It&#x27;s also completely unsurprising. Apple has no love nor concern for their developers anymore. It used to be the premier development platform in the world. Now it&#x27;s ... I don&#x27;t even know anymore.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MauranKilom</author><text>&gt; then tries to hide their use of private APIs rather than stop using them [...] Resubmitting the same thing and hoping that it doesn&#x27;t get caught the next time isn&#x27;t an honest mistake.<p>This is missing the point of the post you are replying to. Say you identify five closed API dependencies and remove them. Do you resubmit? If you missed any others, you and all your apps might be banned.</text></comment> | <story><title>Electron apps cannot be submitted to the Apple store</title><url>https://david.dev/you-cannot-submit-an-electron-6-or-7-app-to-the-apple-store</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>plorkyeran</author><text>What&#x27;s bullshit about banning someone who has been notified that they are in violation of the rules and then tries to hide their use of private APIs rather than stop using them? That&#x27;s exactly what I would do in Apple&#x27;s position. Resubmitting the same thing and hoping that it doesn&#x27;t get caught the next time isn&#x27;t an honest mistake.</text></item><item><author>thomascgalvin</author><text>The basic concept isn&#x27;t too disturbing; Apple packages private APIs that have no guaranteed behavior or expectation of support. If you depend on those APIs, it&#x27;s very possible that your app will break in a future OS update.<p>This is conceptually no different than calling something in the sun.* packages in Java. For years it was ok, and then ... it wasn&#x27;t.<p>This, however, is draconian:<p>&gt; Continuing to use or conceal non-public APIs in future submissions of this app may result in the termination of your Apple Developer account, as well as removal of all associated apps from the App Store.<p>&quot;Keep trying to submit, and we might just ban you forever&quot; is insane. Every program of any complexity depends on third party libraries, and many people wouldn&#x27;t be able to tell what arcane APIs their dependencies (or their dependencies&#x27; dependencies) call. &quot;If you continue to have an upstream dependency that violates our terms, we might permaban you&quot; is bullshit.<p>It&#x27;s also completely unsurprising. Apple has no love nor concern for their developers anymore. It used to be the premier development platform in the world. Now it&#x27;s ... I don&#x27;t even know anymore.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>freehunter</author><text>Because Electron developers might say &quot;we fixed it&quot; and the app developer might resubmit based on that and now they&#x27;re banned due to a mistake made by an upstream dependency.<p>It&#x27;s not like this app developer is intentionally using private APIs. &quot;Resubmitting the same thing and hoping that it doesn&#x27;t get caught&quot; seems to be a strawman.</text></comment> |
41,509,291 | 41,503,835 | 1 | 2 | 41,502,510 | train | <story><title>Google Illuminate: Books and papers turned into audio</title><url>https://illuminate.google.com/home</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>freefaler</author><text>Great idea.
I wonder how long until we&#x27;d see a lot of &quot;autogenerated&quot; podcasts with syndicated advertising inside spamming the podcast space.<p>Like with robovoiced videos on YT reading some scraped content.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hliyan</author><text>I&#x27;m conflicted about this. On one hand, it makes content more accessible to a larger audience. On the other hand, it leverages copyrighted material without crediting or compensating creators, potentially puts those same creators out of work, and finally, reduces the likelihood of more such (human) creators arising in the future. My worry is that a few generations hence, human beings will forget many skills like this, and if model collapse occurs due to LLMs ingesting their own data over successive iterations, future generations will be in for a difficult time. Reminiscent of Asimov&#x27;s &quot;The Feeling of Power&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Illuminate: Books and papers turned into audio</title><url>https://illuminate.google.com/home</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>freefaler</author><text>Great idea.
I wonder how long until we&#x27;d see a lot of &quot;autogenerated&quot; podcasts with syndicated advertising inside spamming the podcast space.<p>Like with robovoiced videos on YT reading some scraped content.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fallinditch</author><text>Wondercraft have been offering this service for a while, and produce some of their own auto-generated podcasts including the Hacker News Recap which does an excellent job of summarizing the most engaged posts on HN.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wondercraft.ai&#x2F;our-podcasts">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wondercraft.ai&#x2F;our-podcasts</a></text></comment> |
13,821,006 | 13,820,855 | 1 | 3 | 13,817,557 | train | <story><title>Apple starts rejecting apps with “hot code push” features</title><url>https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/73640</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stinkytaco</author><text>This is obviously getting off topic, but in a common law system that interpretation is just wrong. The law is an evolving thing, it is meant to be interpreted, read, and understood, not to be exploited.</text></item><item><author>libertymcateer</author><text>&gt; You blog sounds like the PR spin that came out of Aereo, a company that spent an inordinate amount of effort to stay within the absolute letter of a law.<p>Without reading the blog, I just wanted to comment on Aereo: a lot of us think that this was the wrong decision, and not in a facetious or &#x27;cute&#x27; way.<p>To quote Scalia&#x27;s dissent in the case:<p>&gt; In a dissent that expressed distaste for Aereo’s business model, Justice Antonin Scalia said that the service had nevertheless identified a loophole in the law. “It is not the role of this court to identify and plug loopholes,” he wrote. “It is the role of good lawyers to identify and exploit them, and the role of Congress to eliminate them if it wishes.”<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;06&#x2F;26&#x2F;business&#x2F;media&#x2F;supreme-court-rules-against-aereo-in-broadcasters-challenge.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;06&#x2F;26&#x2F;business&#x2F;media&#x2F;supreme-co...</a></text></item><item><author>macspoofing</author><text>Oh man. You were surprised? Really? You blog sounds like the PR spin that came out of Aereo, a company that spent an inordinate amount of effort to stay within the absolute letter of a law. Predictably they got killed by lawsuits because judges aren&#x27;t idiots and the law isn&#x27;t inflexible to the point where the intent and context isn&#x27;t considered. Your case is even worse because you engineered a solution to adhere to the letter of a EULA of a tightly controlled ecosystem run by a very capricious company.<p>I hate the app store review process and a lot of apple policies around the app store and I feel for you and I totally think there should be a less onerous update&#x2F;review process ... but ... you clearly and blatantly circumvented a core policy, and what happened to you was absolutely predictable.<p>Get your money back from the lawyer that told you Apple wouldn&#x27;t shut you down. You got bad advice.</text></item><item><author>adjunct</author><text>I&#x27;m Erez Rusovsky, the CEO of Rollout.io<p>Rollout&#x27;s mission has always been, and will always be about helping developers create and deploy mobile apps quickly and safely.
Our current product has been a life saver for hundreds of apps by allowing them to patch bugs in live apps.<p>We were surprised by Apple&#x27;s actions today.
From what we&#x27;ve been able to gather, they seem to be rejecting any app which utilizes a mechanism of live patching, not just apps using Rollout.<p>Rollout has always been compliant with Apple&#x27;s guidelines as we&#x27;ve detailed in the past here:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rollout.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;updating-apps-without-app-store&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rollout.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;updating-apps-without-app-store&#x2F;</a><p>Our SDK is installed in hundreds of live apps and our customers have fixed thousands of live bugs in their apps.<p>We are contacting Apple in order to get further clarification on why Rollout doesn&#x27;t fall under the clause that lets developers push JS to live apps as long as it does not modify the original features and functionality of the app.<p>I&#x27;ll post updates as I have them.<p>Erez Rusovsky
CEO Rollout.io</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ballenf</author><text>Disagree -- it&#x27;s not the court&#x27;s job to even categorize a thing as a loophole or not. It simply applies the law. Some actions will fall inside a prohibition and some outside. Divining the intent of the drafters of the law is something fraught with problems considering the process.<p>Just one example -- there may have been a group of supporters of the law in question used against Aereo that <i>only</i> supported the law because they realized it had said &#x27;loophole&#x27;. The rule would not have become law without the &#x27;loophole&#x27;. Now, how should a court interpret those circumstances?</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple starts rejecting apps with “hot code push” features</title><url>https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/73640</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stinkytaco</author><text>This is obviously getting off topic, but in a common law system that interpretation is just wrong. The law is an evolving thing, it is meant to be interpreted, read, and understood, not to be exploited.</text></item><item><author>libertymcateer</author><text>&gt; You blog sounds like the PR spin that came out of Aereo, a company that spent an inordinate amount of effort to stay within the absolute letter of a law.<p>Without reading the blog, I just wanted to comment on Aereo: a lot of us think that this was the wrong decision, and not in a facetious or &#x27;cute&#x27; way.<p>To quote Scalia&#x27;s dissent in the case:<p>&gt; In a dissent that expressed distaste for Aereo’s business model, Justice Antonin Scalia said that the service had nevertheless identified a loophole in the law. “It is not the role of this court to identify and plug loopholes,” he wrote. “It is the role of good lawyers to identify and exploit them, and the role of Congress to eliminate them if it wishes.”<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;06&#x2F;26&#x2F;business&#x2F;media&#x2F;supreme-court-rules-against-aereo-in-broadcasters-challenge.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;06&#x2F;26&#x2F;business&#x2F;media&#x2F;supreme-co...</a></text></item><item><author>macspoofing</author><text>Oh man. You were surprised? Really? You blog sounds like the PR spin that came out of Aereo, a company that spent an inordinate amount of effort to stay within the absolute letter of a law. Predictably they got killed by lawsuits because judges aren&#x27;t idiots and the law isn&#x27;t inflexible to the point where the intent and context isn&#x27;t considered. Your case is even worse because you engineered a solution to adhere to the letter of a EULA of a tightly controlled ecosystem run by a very capricious company.<p>I hate the app store review process and a lot of apple policies around the app store and I feel for you and I totally think there should be a less onerous update&#x2F;review process ... but ... you clearly and blatantly circumvented a core policy, and what happened to you was absolutely predictable.<p>Get your money back from the lawyer that told you Apple wouldn&#x27;t shut you down. You got bad advice.</text></item><item><author>adjunct</author><text>I&#x27;m Erez Rusovsky, the CEO of Rollout.io<p>Rollout&#x27;s mission has always been, and will always be about helping developers create and deploy mobile apps quickly and safely.
Our current product has been a life saver for hundreds of apps by allowing them to patch bugs in live apps.<p>We were surprised by Apple&#x27;s actions today.
From what we&#x27;ve been able to gather, they seem to be rejecting any app which utilizes a mechanism of live patching, not just apps using Rollout.<p>Rollout has always been compliant with Apple&#x27;s guidelines as we&#x27;ve detailed in the past here:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rollout.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;updating-apps-without-app-store&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rollout.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;updating-apps-without-app-store&#x2F;</a><p>Our SDK is installed in hundreds of live apps and our customers have fixed thousands of live bugs in their apps.<p>We are contacting Apple in order to get further clarification on why Rollout doesn&#x27;t fall under the clause that lets developers push JS to live apps as long as it does not modify the original features and functionality of the app.<p>I&#x27;ll post updates as I have them.<p>Erez Rusovsky
CEO Rollout.io</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mi100hael</author><text>Don&#x27;t you think at a certain point, a loophole in a poorly-written law can be too big for the courts to close? When does a judge go from upholding the spirit to assigning new meaning?</text></comment> |
24,460,543 | 24,459,990 | 1 | 3 | 24,449,795 | train | <story><title>Laypeople can predict which social-science studies will replicate successfully</title><url>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2515245920919667</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>science4sail</author><text>According to the &quot;method&quot; section, 138 out of 257 candidate (233 final) participants in the study were first-year psychology students - I can&#x27;t help but wonder if this might have biased the study&#x27;s results. The investigators also classified graduate students as laypeople, which doesn&#x27;t quite feel right to me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>losvedir</author><text>Not exactly the same, but there&#x27;s this interesting quiz that presents a number of studies that appeared in Science and Nature and asks you to guess which failed to replicate: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;80000hours.org&#x2F;psychology-replication-quiz&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;80000hours.org&#x2F;psychology-replication-quiz&#x2F;</a> .<p>After taking that the result in this paper doesn&#x27;t surprise me. I&#x27;m educated, but not in Psychology, and I think most people can tell which studies are more likely to fail to replicate.</text></comment> | <story><title>Laypeople can predict which social-science studies will replicate successfully</title><url>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2515245920919667</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>science4sail</author><text>According to the &quot;method&quot; section, 138 out of 257 candidate (233 final) participants in the study were first-year psychology students - I can&#x27;t help but wonder if this might have biased the study&#x27;s results. The investigators also classified graduate students as laypeople, which doesn&#x27;t quite feel right to me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Xelbair</author><text>Well most social science studies are conducted over the same sample - it just proves that all their results are biased.</text></comment> |
29,167,966 | 29,167,722 | 1 | 3 | 29,163,805 | train | <story><title>USC pushed a $115k online degree – graduates got low salaries, huge debts</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/usc-online-social-work-masters-11636435900</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>999900000999</author><text>Ehh eh.<p>I went to a CSU for like 6k a year.<p>If you want to be elitist and attend the most expensive school possible, you have to eventually pay for it.<p>&gt;
Ms. Fowler, a 2018 graduate, enjoyed the program but owes $307,000 in total student-loan debt, including about $200,000 from the master’s degree. She said she earns $48,000 as a community mental-health therapist in Mount Pleasant, Iowa.<p>This translates into paying 300k to feel prestigious. At dinner parties she gets to tell everyone about how she&#x27;s a USC grad.<p>Adults have a right to make poor choices.<p>That said, having a hard cap of 100k unless enrolling in a high paid field ( Dr , Lawyer, anything that requires a state sanctioned license) would be a good idea.<p>The problem with Student Loan forgiveness is it would typically help the highest paid Americans. Most people with 100k plus in loans also make very good money.<p>Why in God&#x27;s name would you go 300k in debt to make 50k ?<p>I see the same problem with boot camps, instead of accepting that building a six-figure career just takes a while, people want a shortcut. I got to six-figure figures without even having a BA, but it took a long time in a lot of very hard work.<p>Actually it only took me about 3 years from dropping out of college to my first six-figure job, but I was programming at least 40 hours a week back then. This was after work of course. Even now I&#x27;m off and happiest when I&#x27;m building my side projects.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>david38</author><text>Yes, adults can make poor choices. Agreed.<p>Said choices should be constrained though. She wouldn&#x27;t be allowed to buy a 300k car with no possibility of bankruptcy.<p>The lender is made of adults as well. They also made poor choices. Why is a group of adults hiding behind a piece of paper allowed to be saved from their poor choices while an individual not?</text></comment> | <story><title>USC pushed a $115k online degree – graduates got low salaries, huge debts</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/usc-online-social-work-masters-11636435900</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>999900000999</author><text>Ehh eh.<p>I went to a CSU for like 6k a year.<p>If you want to be elitist and attend the most expensive school possible, you have to eventually pay for it.<p>&gt;
Ms. Fowler, a 2018 graduate, enjoyed the program but owes $307,000 in total student-loan debt, including about $200,000 from the master’s degree. She said she earns $48,000 as a community mental-health therapist in Mount Pleasant, Iowa.<p>This translates into paying 300k to feel prestigious. At dinner parties she gets to tell everyone about how she&#x27;s a USC grad.<p>Adults have a right to make poor choices.<p>That said, having a hard cap of 100k unless enrolling in a high paid field ( Dr , Lawyer, anything that requires a state sanctioned license) would be a good idea.<p>The problem with Student Loan forgiveness is it would typically help the highest paid Americans. Most people with 100k plus in loans also make very good money.<p>Why in God&#x27;s name would you go 300k in debt to make 50k ?<p>I see the same problem with boot camps, instead of accepting that building a six-figure career just takes a while, people want a shortcut. I got to six-figure figures without even having a BA, but it took a long time in a lot of very hard work.<p>Actually it only took me about 3 years from dropping out of college to my first six-figure job, but I was programming at least 40 hours a week back then. This was after work of course. Even now I&#x27;m off and happiest when I&#x27;m building my side projects.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alex504</author><text>The school spends 60% of its revenue selling itself as an elite education to people who don&#x27;t qualify or need an elite education. They employ salesmen and incentivize them to be as aggressive as they legally can. They then deliver a subpar education, by every metric, compared to schools that cost half as much.<p>This is a predatory scam that targets low-income individuals who want an education and a career and pretty much guarantees an outcome of long-term financial instability.<p>Of course the victims have some of the responsibility, but<p>&gt;Adults have a right to make poor choices.<p>Puts these supposedly prestigious schools at about the same ethical level as a casino, a tobacco company or a pay day loan operation. What USC is doing is arguably worse than a casino because it&#x27;s using the reputation of a prestigious university to take advantage of people who want an education, while simultaneously siphoning money from taxpayers.</text></comment> |
20,736,653 | 20,735,926 | 1 | 3 | 20,735,353 | train | <story><title>Handler beliefs affect scent detection dog outcomes (2011)</title><url>https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10071-010-0373-2</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>daddylonglegs</author><text>Dogs are very good at reading people and if the handler wants an indication they will get it; they may not even realise that they&#x27;re influencing the dogs. As others have said, this has been known for a long, long time. There was even a book written taking a wry look a scent dogs (and the plans for scent bees etc that were in vogue during the great war on terror) [1].<p>That said, dogs can be fantastic when used for finding threats rather than &#x27;proving&#x27; what the handler already believes. They have a combination of nose and brain that we can&#x27;t replicate any other way and are great for search and rescue, finding explosives and some law enforcement searching.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;headspace-the-book.blogspot.com&#x2F;2008&#x2F;07&#x2F;acpo-police-dog-training-and-care.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;headspace-the-book.blogspot.com&#x2F;2008&#x2F;07&#x2F;acpo-police-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Handler beliefs affect scent detection dog outcomes (2011)</title><url>https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10071-010-0373-2</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>praptak</author><text>I&#x27;ve heard this mentioned a few years ago in a TV report on dogs used in labs that test evidence for criminal trials. Their procedure was to let the dog <i>alone</i> into a special scent-free room that contained the sample being tested, plus a few control ones. The samples were placed into containers that only let the smell out (no visual cues, even though the samples were identical-looking cotton swabs).<p>Also, I vaguely remember a high-profile case where the evidence was dismissed precisely because the procedures for gathering and testing the samples were not followed.</text></comment> |
7,934,912 | 7,934,907 | 1 | 3 | 7,934,548 | train | <story><title>Why C++ Sails When the Vasa Sank [pdf]</title><url>http://files.meetup.com/1455470/Why%20C%2B%2B%20Sails%20When%20the%20Vasa%20Sank.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AnimalMuppet</author><text>To me, the key line was &quot;Most of the complexity of C++ is hidden from most of the users most of the time.&quot;<p>The complexity is there. Trying to understand the whole language at a language-lawyer level is mind-boggling. Trying to write libraries that make proper use of the goodies is very hard.<p>But using C++ isn&#x27;t so bad, as long as you don&#x27;t try to use every aspect of it. Just use the parts you need to be able to do what you&#x27;re really trying to do. You don&#x27;t have to pay for what you don&#x27;t use. That&#x27;s good enough for a huge number of programmers in a wide variety of contexts.<p>There&#x27;s a lot of haters that can point out a huge number of flaws. But here&#x27;s the thing: Most of them, I never run into. I don&#x27;t care if the move syntax is confusing; I don&#x27;t use it. Maybe I never will. If I have to, <i>then</i> I&#x27;ll care about how good or bad the syntax is. In the meantime, the parts I actually use let me get my work done better than any alternatives.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>&gt; The complexity is there. Trying to understand the whole language at a language-lawyer level is mind-boggling.<p>It makes me uncomfortable not to have that level of understanding for a language that&#x27;s so low-level and doesn&#x27;t have the &quot;Do What I Mean&quot; bent of say Python. I&#x27;m &quot;meh&quot; on C++ going forward. I invested a lot of time into my copy of &quot;The C++ Programming Language&quot; (3d Ed.), for C++ 98, but I can&#x27;t motivate myself to get the new edition and learn in the ins-and-outs of C++ 11. It doesn&#x27;t seem worth it to me. I&#x27;m really hoping Rust catches on. It&#x27;s a complex language in the same vein as C++, but the bang-for-buck in terms of expressiveness relative to complexity is better, I think.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why C++ Sails When the Vasa Sank [pdf]</title><url>http://files.meetup.com/1455470/Why%20C%2B%2B%20Sails%20When%20the%20Vasa%20Sank.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AnimalMuppet</author><text>To me, the key line was &quot;Most of the complexity of C++ is hidden from most of the users most of the time.&quot;<p>The complexity is there. Trying to understand the whole language at a language-lawyer level is mind-boggling. Trying to write libraries that make proper use of the goodies is very hard.<p>But using C++ isn&#x27;t so bad, as long as you don&#x27;t try to use every aspect of it. Just use the parts you need to be able to do what you&#x27;re really trying to do. You don&#x27;t have to pay for what you don&#x27;t use. That&#x27;s good enough for a huge number of programmers in a wide variety of contexts.<p>There&#x27;s a lot of haters that can point out a huge number of flaws. But here&#x27;s the thing: Most of them, I never run into. I don&#x27;t care if the move syntax is confusing; I don&#x27;t use it. Maybe I never will. If I have to, <i>then</i> I&#x27;ll care about how good or bad the syntax is. In the meantime, the parts I actually use let me get my work done better than any alternatives.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ef4</author><text>One does not always have the luxury of sticking to the good parts. Code is communication, and you often have no control over who is trying to communicate with you.</text></comment> |
30,744,408 | 30,743,028 | 1 | 2 | 30,742,802 | train | <story><title>Google will soon ask Australian users to show ID to view some content</title><url>https://reclaimthenet.org/google-will-soon-ask-australian-users-to-show-id-to-view-some-content/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LewisVerstappen</author><text>&gt;&quot;If our systems are unable to establish that a viewer is above the age of 18, we will request that they provide a valid ID or credit card to verify their age.”<p>I don&#x27;t think Google is complaining too much. Especially if it gives them an excuse to collect credit card data (reducing a significant amount of friction when they sell YouTube premium &#x2F; google drive subscriptions).</text></item><item><author>asdfasgasdgasdg</author><text>Although the title is correct, it&#x27;s worth noting that Google is not doing this because it thinks it&#x27;s fun to require verification. The Australian government is requiring google to take this action.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jimmaswell</author><text>I had no idea you could actually use a credit card to verify age. I thought that was nothing but a scam employed by fraudulent cam&#x2F;hookup sites and catfishers. Google probably shouldn&#x27;t train people that this is a normal thing to do.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google will soon ask Australian users to show ID to view some content</title><url>https://reclaimthenet.org/google-will-soon-ask-australian-users-to-show-id-to-view-some-content/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LewisVerstappen</author><text>&gt;&quot;If our systems are unable to establish that a viewer is above the age of 18, we will request that they provide a valid ID or credit card to verify their age.”<p>I don&#x27;t think Google is complaining too much. Especially if it gives them an excuse to collect credit card data (reducing a significant amount of friction when they sell YouTube premium &#x2F; google drive subscriptions).</text></item><item><author>asdfasgasdgasdg</author><text>Although the title is correct, it&#x27;s worth noting that Google is not doing this because it thinks it&#x27;s fun to require verification. The Australian government is requiring google to take this action.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whimsicalism</author><text>Not sure how you concluded that from this quote</text></comment> |
34,813,315 | 34,813,539 | 1 | 2 | 34,812,570 | train | <story><title>Zantac’s maker kept quiet about cancer risks for 40 years</title><url>https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/gsk-was-warned-repeatedly-about-zantac-risks-didnt-act-warnings-bloomberg</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bsuvc</author><text>It&#x27;s not just that it causes cancer, but it&#x27;s that improper storage (heat exposure) increases the risk of it causing cancer, and when informed of that, GSK decided it was not worth doing anything about it.<p>&gt; GSK&#x27;s leadership was warned on several occasions about the storage issue, but it opted against making any changes to existing plans.<p>In a way, this makes it worse, because they could have taken action to limit the risk to people, but chose not to, presumably to save money or to avoid bad publicity.</text></comment> | <story><title>Zantac’s maker kept quiet about cancer risks for 40 years</title><url>https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/gsk-was-warned-repeatedly-about-zantac-risks-didnt-act-warnings-bloomberg</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mysterypie</author><text>&gt; <i>Intense public scrutiny on Zantac started in 2019, when an online pharmacy found high levels of a likely carcinogen in the drug and its generics.</i><p>And the linked article says:<p>&gt; <i>Valisure discovered the link of Zantac and its generics to the carcinogen NDMA during its routine testing of every batch of every medication, and first notified the FDA of its initial findings in June of 2019. On September 13th, Valisure filed a detailed petition with the Food and Drug Administration asking the agency to recall all products containing ranitidine.</i><p>How in the world is it profitable for an online pharmacy to do this? It&#x27;s great, but honestly who would pay extra to an online pharmacy to do this testing? Would most people even believe an online pharmacy that said that they did such testing? I&#x27;d love to know how they survive.</text></comment> |
14,748,623 | 14,748,550 | 1 | 3 | 14,748,144 | train | <story><title>Lifesaving advice from a black woman held at gunpoint by police</title><url>https://theundefeated.com/features/lifesaving-advice-from-a-black-woman-held-at-gunpoint-by-police/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>weberc2</author><text>This article makes a lot of claims about innocent black people being gunned down by police, but is there any actual evidence of this happening disproportionately to white people? Last year I trawled the 2015 Washington Post police shooting dataset and couldn&#x27;t find any evidence, and a couple months later a black Harvard economist released a paper saying he couldn&#x27;t find any evidence in the data he looked at. Between that and all of the bad reporting around the Michael Brown shooting, I&#x27;m beginning to believe that the only disparity is in media coverage... This story and its interest don&#x27;t depend on this (in)accuracy, but it&#x27;s such a common talking point and it doesn&#x27;t seem to be substantiated.<p>In particular, I was expecting a lot more drama from a story of a black woman &quot;surviving&quot; an encounter with police. Here&#x27;s a similar story about a white man in San Fran: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;indian-thoughts&#x2F;good-samaritan-backfire-9f53ef6a1c10" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;indian-thoughts&#x2F;good-samaritan-backfire-9...</a>. This sort of stuff makes me think that race is perhaps a red herring, and that the quality of police (or police training) simply vary a lot in our country.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DaiPlusPlus</author><text>I understand the issue is the loose definition of &quot;innocent&quot; - if you take it to mean someone shot by police who is absolutely innocent of any charge - or if you define it as someone who was doing something criminal or suspect but the situation did not initially warrant their shooting. Hence the emphasis on deescalation training.<p>Consider a hypothetical: two separate scenarios of kids shoplifting, one white the other black: the white kid gets called out by an officer, is pursued and apprehended without arms drawn, the police officer writes-up a citation and the kid spends the night in jail as a warning before being released. A black kid does the same thing, but the officer decides to draw their sidearm and orders them to freeze - the kid turns around to look and is immediately shot by the officer (search online for &quot;shot for turning around police&quot;). The officer can (at present, justifiably) say they feared for their life because they thought they were about to be charged or expected their target to draw their own firearm. Or take the same scenario but both kids do actually fight back somehow - I believe the average white police officer would still be more hesitant to use lethal force against a white assailant than a black one.<p>I won&#x27;t deny the usual statistics (&quot;blacks commit more crimes per-capita&quot;, etc) but don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s where I believe the problem is. I&#x27;m not content with the sentiment that &quot;black lives matter&quot; - I&#x27;d much rather it be &quot;criminals&#x27; lives matter&quot; (I&#x27;m aware of the straightforward racist implication - that&#x27;s why I dare not say it too loudly).</text></comment> | <story><title>Lifesaving advice from a black woman held at gunpoint by police</title><url>https://theundefeated.com/features/lifesaving-advice-from-a-black-woman-held-at-gunpoint-by-police/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>weberc2</author><text>This article makes a lot of claims about innocent black people being gunned down by police, but is there any actual evidence of this happening disproportionately to white people? Last year I trawled the 2015 Washington Post police shooting dataset and couldn&#x27;t find any evidence, and a couple months later a black Harvard economist released a paper saying he couldn&#x27;t find any evidence in the data he looked at. Between that and all of the bad reporting around the Michael Brown shooting, I&#x27;m beginning to believe that the only disparity is in media coverage... This story and its interest don&#x27;t depend on this (in)accuracy, but it&#x27;s such a common talking point and it doesn&#x27;t seem to be substantiated.<p>In particular, I was expecting a lot more drama from a story of a black woman &quot;surviving&quot; an encounter with police. Here&#x27;s a similar story about a white man in San Fran: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;indian-thoughts&#x2F;good-samaritan-backfire-9f53ef6a1c10" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;indian-thoughts&#x2F;good-samaritan-backfire-9...</a>. This sort of stuff makes me think that race is perhaps a red herring, and that the quality of police (or police training) simply vary a lot in our country.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>asdfpoiuqwer</author><text>Even if you believe that, the two core points of the experience stand:<p>&gt; My behavior is how everyone should act in those situations: comply, survive and complain later.<p>&gt; I don’t have de-escalation training. I’m the one being held at gunpoint. I’m the one thinking my life could end if he panics. Yet, I’m the one who must remain calm. The legal system is asking untrained civilians to de-escalate panicky cops.</text></comment> |
10,013,919 | 10,013,907 | 1 | 2 | 10,013,598 | train | <story><title>Hawaii Bans Non-Compete and Non-Solicit Clauses in High-Tech Employment</title><url>https://casetext.com/posts/hawaii-bans-non-compete-and-non-solicit-clauses-in-high-tech-employment</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gtrubetskoy</author><text>As I understand it, non-competes are very hard to enforce and are more of an intimidation tactic than anything else. You cannot be prevented from earning a living the only way you know how given the demand for your skills. If you&#x27;re bound by a non-compete and the only (or the best) job available is with the competition, you shouldn&#x27;t be afraid to take it, and the courts will side with you if someone goes after you (well, unless you&#x27;re in Hawaii according to the article!).<p>An agreement is not enforceable if it is unreasonable, and denying someone the opportunity to make a living is pretty much unreasonable out of the box. Of course it&#x27;s not true in every case, but it is mostly true for &quot;techie jobs&quot;.<p>(I am not a laywer, the above is not legal advice).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tomasien</author><text>They&#x27;re hard to enforce, but I can tell you from experience (current) that it doesn&#x27;t matter - their existence and enforceability in ANY way in a given state is harmful in a big way. California has basically done the right thing and decided to ignore them, but my home state only has rendered them ALMOST entirely unenforceable. That almost leaves a lot of room for the casual observer to judge - and it stings.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hawaii Bans Non-Compete and Non-Solicit Clauses in High-Tech Employment</title><url>https://casetext.com/posts/hawaii-bans-non-compete-and-non-solicit-clauses-in-high-tech-employment</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gtrubetskoy</author><text>As I understand it, non-competes are very hard to enforce and are more of an intimidation tactic than anything else. You cannot be prevented from earning a living the only way you know how given the demand for your skills. If you&#x27;re bound by a non-compete and the only (or the best) job available is with the competition, you shouldn&#x27;t be afraid to take it, and the courts will side with you if someone goes after you (well, unless you&#x27;re in Hawaii according to the article!).<p>An agreement is not enforceable if it is unreasonable, and denying someone the opportunity to make a living is pretty much unreasonable out of the box. Of course it&#x27;s not true in every case, but it is mostly true for &quot;techie jobs&quot;.<p>(I am not a laywer, the above is not legal advice).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sib</author><text>Washington and Massachusetts (states with significant high-tech employee bases) are also very friendly to employers in enforcing non-competes. (IANAL)</text></comment> |
29,553,202 | 29,551,489 | 1 | 2 | 29,549,392 | train | <story><title>Sublime Clojure</title><url>https://tonsky.me/blog/sublime-clojure/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nightwolf</author><text>Happy to see both my favorite editor and my favorite programming language hit the front page of Hacker News! FWIW, I responded to some of the points regarding Tutkain over at reddit[1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;Clojure&#x2F;comments&#x2F;rflhxf&#x2F;comment&#x2F;hoi250s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;Clojure&#x2F;comments&#x2F;rflhxf&#x2F;comment&#x2F;hoi...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Sublime Clojure</title><url>https://tonsky.me/blog/sublime-clojure/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ReleaseCandidat</author><text>&gt; get rid of the extra “REPL” panel for good. Why do you need it if you can see your results inline?<p>But I do not want them inline. I want to use the REPL as a _interactive_ REPL, where I can write my code and later copy that to the file. That&#x27;s actually one of the reasons I still use Emacs: Common Lisp with Sly and Clojurescript with Cider.</text></comment> |
9,246,159 | 9,245,880 | 1 | 3 | 9,242,971 | train | <story><title>The Little “Fighter” That Couldn’t: Moral Hazard and the F-35</title><url>http://www.jqpublicblog.com/the-little-fighter-that-couldnt-moral-hazard-and-the-f-35/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Silhouette</author><text><i>Have you considered the gigantic military requirements that are placed on the United States?</i><p>Placed by whom, exactly? It&#x27;s not as if the US took on those treaty commitments involuntarily or expecting no benefits in return, and it&#x27;s not as if the rest of the world would not adapt if the US reduced its military commitments over time.<p>For example, you talk about the US being required by treaty to defend almost all of Europe, but Europe already has collective defence agreements that are becoming stronger over time, over a million active military service personnel, thousands of aircraft, thousands of heavy armoured vehicles, hundreds of ships, special forces to rival any in the world, and two independent nuclear powers. There is exactly one sovereign state on earth that could single-handedly give the combined forces of Europe a serious fight today, and the consequences for all concerned would be so devastating that such a conflict is almost inconceivable.<p>There is a reasonable school of thought that argues the world would be a much safer place if the number of military superpowers in it was zero, and that as the only old-school military superpower remaining, the US is therefore a negative factor on global stability and peaceful relations.<p>Given the recent track record of the US, both acting as an aggressor under often dubious conditions and failing to act as a defender when weaker nations faced aggression by others, there seems little no moral high ground for the US to take here, nor any general mandate to act as the world&#x27;s policeman. The alarming frequency with which the US military and its political leadership presume to take such positions anyway brings me back to the previous point about the world being better off in the long run with no military superpowers at all.</text></item><item><author>philwelch</author><text>Gigantic? <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/24/us/politics/pentagon-plans-to-shrink-army-to-pre-world-war-ii-level.html?_r=0" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;02&#x2F;24&#x2F;us&#x2F;politics&#x2F;pentagon-plans...</a><p>Have you considered the gigantic military requirements that are placed on the United States? By treaty alone, the US is required to defend almost all of Europe, Japan, and South Korea. These are not easy requirements to disentangle from; if Japan alone were allowed and required to rearm, it could lead to an arms race that would destabilize all of East Asia and either stall or undo the tremendous economic gains that have been achieved in that region. If it wasn&#x27;t for US obligations towards NATO, most of Eastern Europe would suffer the same fate that Ukraine is facing from Russia. If it wasn&#x27;t for the US Navy enforcing freedom of navigation (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_navigation#United_States_.22Freedom_of_Navigation.22_program" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Freedom_of_navigation#United_St...</a>), tinpot dictators could shut down international trade by making and enforcing illegal claims on international waters.<p>Maintaining the Pax Americana is a hard, unappreciated task.</text></item><item><author>Tloewald</author><text>The basic perversity is building a gigantic military in peacetime because the arms companies have enormous lobbying power. Everything else flows from and is secondary to that.</text></item><item><author>feedjoelpie</author><text>The author mentions &quot;perverse&quot; incentives in Congress, but what he doesn&#x27;t mention (because it&#x27;s a very politically difficult subject) is the perverse incentives afforded military officers. When you have a system in which it&#x27;s so common as to be expected that the officers who influence your purchasing will in a couple years retire into a job with the private contractor from whom you&#x27;re purchasing, you have a recipe for bias. Even from really standup people who don&#x27;t recognize their own vulnerability to influence. It&#x27;s just such a common thing to work in the private sector for the same office as you did when you were enlisted that nobody blinks an eye. Because it&#x27;s often really good to still have those people around.<p>But at the same time, I think that&#x27;s a pretty untenable situation. The military needs to do something to balance the career mobility of their officers with the ethical hazards of the current system. Without some rules to prevent the scenarios that have the most potential for abuse, the situation is not unlike the flow of Congress members into lobbying. Except we don&#x27;t elect military officers.<p>It&#x27;s a tough balance. Part of the promise of the military&#x27;s recruiting is that you&#x27;ll advance your career. They should fulfill that promise. At the same time, they need to make sure that the ways in which they fulfill that promise don&#x27;t incentivize poor judgment on behalf of the public interest.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philwelch</author><text>The last time the US followed an isolationist foreign policy, the Europeans got themselves into two world wars in a row. It&#x27;s true that Europe has a continent-wide mutual defense agreement now. What you didn&#x27;t mention is that it&#x27;s called NATO and the US is the backbone of it. That&#x27;s part of how it works. Otherwise you don&#x27;t get the combined forces of Europe, you get indifference at best and European war at worst.<p>Look at East Asia. South Korea can&#x27;t afford to defend itself from the North and hope to maintain their standard of living, Japan is barred by their own constitution from rearming (and if they did, that would start a regional arms race), and Taiwan would have no hope of maintaining their self-determination by themselves.<p>I will be the first to say that the U.S. has followed an unnecessarily aggressive foreign policy. But a very large part of how the world works depends upon the American military, and if it just went away, we would all be poorer and less safe for it.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Little “Fighter” That Couldn’t: Moral Hazard and the F-35</title><url>http://www.jqpublicblog.com/the-little-fighter-that-couldnt-moral-hazard-and-the-f-35/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Silhouette</author><text><i>Have you considered the gigantic military requirements that are placed on the United States?</i><p>Placed by whom, exactly? It&#x27;s not as if the US took on those treaty commitments involuntarily or expecting no benefits in return, and it&#x27;s not as if the rest of the world would not adapt if the US reduced its military commitments over time.<p>For example, you talk about the US being required by treaty to defend almost all of Europe, but Europe already has collective defence agreements that are becoming stronger over time, over a million active military service personnel, thousands of aircraft, thousands of heavy armoured vehicles, hundreds of ships, special forces to rival any in the world, and two independent nuclear powers. There is exactly one sovereign state on earth that could single-handedly give the combined forces of Europe a serious fight today, and the consequences for all concerned would be so devastating that such a conflict is almost inconceivable.<p>There is a reasonable school of thought that argues the world would be a much safer place if the number of military superpowers in it was zero, and that as the only old-school military superpower remaining, the US is therefore a negative factor on global stability and peaceful relations.<p>Given the recent track record of the US, both acting as an aggressor under often dubious conditions and failing to act as a defender when weaker nations faced aggression by others, there seems little no moral high ground for the US to take here, nor any general mandate to act as the world&#x27;s policeman. The alarming frequency with which the US military and its political leadership presume to take such positions anyway brings me back to the previous point about the world being better off in the long run with no military superpowers at all.</text></item><item><author>philwelch</author><text>Gigantic? <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/24/us/politics/pentagon-plans-to-shrink-army-to-pre-world-war-ii-level.html?_r=0" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;02&#x2F;24&#x2F;us&#x2F;politics&#x2F;pentagon-plans...</a><p>Have you considered the gigantic military requirements that are placed on the United States? By treaty alone, the US is required to defend almost all of Europe, Japan, and South Korea. These are not easy requirements to disentangle from; if Japan alone were allowed and required to rearm, it could lead to an arms race that would destabilize all of East Asia and either stall or undo the tremendous economic gains that have been achieved in that region. If it wasn&#x27;t for US obligations towards NATO, most of Eastern Europe would suffer the same fate that Ukraine is facing from Russia. If it wasn&#x27;t for the US Navy enforcing freedom of navigation (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_navigation#United_States_.22Freedom_of_Navigation.22_program" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Freedom_of_navigation#United_St...</a>), tinpot dictators could shut down international trade by making and enforcing illegal claims on international waters.<p>Maintaining the Pax Americana is a hard, unappreciated task.</text></item><item><author>Tloewald</author><text>The basic perversity is building a gigantic military in peacetime because the arms companies have enormous lobbying power. Everything else flows from and is secondary to that.</text></item><item><author>feedjoelpie</author><text>The author mentions &quot;perverse&quot; incentives in Congress, but what he doesn&#x27;t mention (because it&#x27;s a very politically difficult subject) is the perverse incentives afforded military officers. When you have a system in which it&#x27;s so common as to be expected that the officers who influence your purchasing will in a couple years retire into a job with the private contractor from whom you&#x27;re purchasing, you have a recipe for bias. Even from really standup people who don&#x27;t recognize their own vulnerability to influence. It&#x27;s just such a common thing to work in the private sector for the same office as you did when you were enlisted that nobody blinks an eye. Because it&#x27;s often really good to still have those people around.<p>But at the same time, I think that&#x27;s a pretty untenable situation. The military needs to do something to balance the career mobility of their officers with the ethical hazards of the current system. Without some rules to prevent the scenarios that have the most potential for abuse, the situation is not unlike the flow of Congress members into lobbying. Except we don&#x27;t elect military officers.<p>It&#x27;s a tough balance. Part of the promise of the military&#x27;s recruiting is that you&#x27;ll advance your career. They should fulfill that promise. At the same time, they need to make sure that the ways in which they fulfill that promise don&#x27;t incentivize poor judgment on behalf of the public interest.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sremani</author><text>So will Germans fight for Greece ? I doubt so, so what if Poland is attacked are the Spainyards willing to fight and die for that. We all know, the answer, and its a resounding NO. Italians are not going to fight for estonians. When it hits the fan, and I am sure it will, Americanos will come to rescue and lead the charge. You have to not look beyond the late 90s and Kosovo, to look at the collective action, or should we say the inaction of European states.</text></comment> |
16,154,289 | 16,154,229 | 1 | 2 | 16,154,058 | train | <story><title>Uber remotely locked down offices during police raids, shutting off computers</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-01-12/uber-looks-great-when-the-police-barge-in</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Spivak</author><text>I honestly don&#x27;t see a problem with this. If it weren&#x27;t for the fact that it&#x27;s a company this this site hates it would be hailed as a marvel innovation against states that are increasingly cavalier about disrespecting people&#x27;s digital rights and privacy. If the police have all the proper warrants there&#x27;s no reason they can&#x27;t seize the locked servers and workstations and compel them to unlock them after the fact.<p>To me this just falls under the category of unauthorized access. If my threat model included people physically present using force to access my sysadmins&#x27; computers I would be implementing the same security with a company-wide lock-down triggered by a panic button on every machine.</text></comment> | <story><title>Uber remotely locked down offices during police raids, shutting off computers</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-01-12/uber-looks-great-when-the-police-barge-in</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ejcx</author><text>Or with a different spin.<p>Locking your computers that are no longer in company possession is a common Enterprise control. They take protecting your data seriously!<p>If the authorities need the data on the computers the will surely present a properly scoped warrant!</text></comment> |
2,422,663 | 2,422,588 | 1 | 2 | 2,421,943 | train | <story><title> Why do apps from the same company look worse on Android than on iPhone?</title><url>http://android-gripes.tumblr.com/post/4409289546/why-do-apps-from-the-same-company-look-worse-on-android</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>MichaelApproved</author><text>That doesn't excuse the apps that actually write an entire UI from scratch. As I mentioned before, the CNBC app is all custom UI, beautiful and mostly entirely self-contained. However, the android version is a POS thats essentially just a mobile webpage.<p>Built in OS UI is not a factor here. I suspect budget isn't either.<p>Edit: Here's the link to their Android app. The screen you see is basically the whole app. Click on anything and you're sent to their mobile web <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/37130092/" rel="nofollow">http://www.cnbc.com/id/37130092/</a><p>Here's the iPhone app <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cnbc-real-time/id334125582?mt=8" rel="nofollow">http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cnbc-real-time/id334125582?mt...</a> It's hard to believe the same company released both apps.<p>Even their official "Apps" page has little mention of the Android app <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/33077961" rel="nofollow">http://www.cnbc.com/id/33077961</a> It's just a tiny link at the bottom that I didn't notice the first time.</text></item><item><author>flyosity</author><text>I think it's the standard that is set by the original creator of the UI widgets available on the platform, in this case, Apple vs. Google.<p>I'm an iPhone UI designer/developer and you can make a really nice looking app without doing any custom design work just by using the widgets that Apple provides. A good example of an app that was nearly all stock is Tweetie 1 for iPhone and it won an Apple Design Award. Apple has put an incredible amount of polish (single-pixel highlights and shadows, consistent sheen/gloss across elements, built-in animations for common interactions) into the widgets as part of UIKit, and then the apps that are included on the iPhone are also incredibly polished. This sets the bar very high and also gives a quality of UI design that developers can look up to and try to emulate.<p>The apps that Google built for Android (Maps in particular) are very clean and elegant but I would hesitate to call them beautiful or extremely polished. Google's design aesthetic typically eschews gradients, sheen, highlights and shadows in favor of a flatter, cleaner look and feel. Although Google's Android apps are well-designed, they don't look like a team of visual designers hand-crafted each and every corner like Apple's apps and UIKit widgets seem to be. Because of this cleaner, simpler aesthetic, the bar for "good-looking" on Android is a lot lower than for iPhone and it seems companies will cut corners on Android app UI design &#38; visual polish because of it.<p>Another theory is that companies might feel that Android phone owners are more technical, more geeky, and thus "don't need" a really polished interface so they spend fewer resources on it. Once a few big companies release Android apps with a sub-par design, other companies see this and follow suit, continuing the trend forwards. Obviously this is a difficult stigma to get out of, but some companies are putting out great Android apps -- Gowalla comes to mind -- so there is hope.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wvenable</author><text>&#62; Built in OS UI is not a factor here. I suspect budget isn't either.<p>The difference is possibly <i>talent</i>. They likely outsource the development to different companies; one who develops exclusively for the iPhone and the other for Android. Different teams of developers producing vastly different results. The iPhone ecosystem is more mature (and more picky) which could easily explain the differences.</text></comment> | <story><title> Why do apps from the same company look worse on Android than on iPhone?</title><url>http://android-gripes.tumblr.com/post/4409289546/why-do-apps-from-the-same-company-look-worse-on-android</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>MichaelApproved</author><text>That doesn't excuse the apps that actually write an entire UI from scratch. As I mentioned before, the CNBC app is all custom UI, beautiful and mostly entirely self-contained. However, the android version is a POS thats essentially just a mobile webpage.<p>Built in OS UI is not a factor here. I suspect budget isn't either.<p>Edit: Here's the link to their Android app. The screen you see is basically the whole app. Click on anything and you're sent to their mobile web <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/37130092/" rel="nofollow">http://www.cnbc.com/id/37130092/</a><p>Here's the iPhone app <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cnbc-real-time/id334125582?mt=8" rel="nofollow">http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cnbc-real-time/id334125582?mt...</a> It's hard to believe the same company released both apps.<p>Even their official "Apps" page has little mention of the Android app <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/33077961" rel="nofollow">http://www.cnbc.com/id/33077961</a> It's just a tiny link at the bottom that I didn't notice the first time.</text></item><item><author>flyosity</author><text>I think it's the standard that is set by the original creator of the UI widgets available on the platform, in this case, Apple vs. Google.<p>I'm an iPhone UI designer/developer and you can make a really nice looking app without doing any custom design work just by using the widgets that Apple provides. A good example of an app that was nearly all stock is Tweetie 1 for iPhone and it won an Apple Design Award. Apple has put an incredible amount of polish (single-pixel highlights and shadows, consistent sheen/gloss across elements, built-in animations for common interactions) into the widgets as part of UIKit, and then the apps that are included on the iPhone are also incredibly polished. This sets the bar very high and also gives a quality of UI design that developers can look up to and try to emulate.<p>The apps that Google built for Android (Maps in particular) are very clean and elegant but I would hesitate to call them beautiful or extremely polished. Google's design aesthetic typically eschews gradients, sheen, highlights and shadows in favor of a flatter, cleaner look and feel. Although Google's Android apps are well-designed, they don't look like a team of visual designers hand-crafted each and every corner like Apple's apps and UIKit widgets seem to be. Because of this cleaner, simpler aesthetic, the bar for "good-looking" on Android is a lot lower than for iPhone and it seems companies will cut corners on Android app UI design &#38; visual polish because of it.<p>Another theory is that companies might feel that Android phone owners are more technical, more geeky, and thus "don't need" a really polished interface so they spend fewer resources on it. Once a few big companies release Android apps with a sub-par design, other companies see this and follow suit, continuing the trend forwards. Obviously this is a difficult stigma to get out of, but some companies are putting out great Android apps -- Gowalla comes to mind -- so there is hope.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trythis</author><text>Actually, there are quite a lot of standard UIKit objects used in the iPhone version, so it definitely isn't written from scratch. Granted, it doesn't explain why the Android version makes such a poor showing, since I'm pretty sure Android has equivalents for a lot of those elements.<p>There are, however, so many possible reasons why Android versions get the shaft that it's nearly impossible to say why any given pair of apps are so different in quality. It could be that it's easier to find iOS devs that really care about UX and polish (lots of self-selection going on here, similar to Mac/Windows third-party devs). It could be that a company asks their iOS dev to knock out an Android version, when they're not competent at developing for the platform. It could be that the folks in charge of getting mobile apps made for their company just like iPhones more (not a stretch, given demographic differences) or see them as more hip or marketable and funnel more money that way. Or, it could be that, after spending lavish amounts of money on the iPhone app and seeing it not set the world on fire, they scale back to merely "establishing a presence" on Android instead of making the same effort.<p>A lot of these behaviors wouldn't surprise me, particularly from companies whose primary business is not creating software.</text></comment> |
36,970,554 | 36,968,269 | 1 | 3 | 36,965,545 | train | <story><title>Electronic Structure of LK-99</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.00676</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>weinzierl</author><text>This is probably a very stupid question, but why is simply measuring resistance not enough to conclusively prove that it is a superconductor. I mean, isn&#x27;t zero resistance the defining property?</text></item><item><author>bluecoconut</author><text>I got my PhD studying band structure of high-tc superconductors (experimentalist, ARPES). These Cu d-d interactions right at the fermi energy give me huge hope. Feels very familiar to other superconductors (re: all the cuprates). (Note: I specifically worked in a lab that was measuring a lot of the d-wave character &#x2F; gap-energies of various superconductors)<p>All in all, I&#x27;m now much more bullish on LK-99 being real superconductivity after seeing multiple different labs compute similar band structures. The video of multiple directions of magnet showing some levitation also inspires a lot of hope.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mensetmanusman</author><text>Because materials interfaces create weird effects.<p>You would use metals as your leads and create Josephson-junctions-like interfaces.<p>Basically the abrupt change in electron mobility across materials can cause knock on effects that dominate what you are trying to measure.<p>Interfacial engineering is one term in materials science that implements best practices for dealing with such challenges.</text></comment> | <story><title>Electronic Structure of LK-99</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.00676</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>weinzierl</author><text>This is probably a very stupid question, but why is simply measuring resistance not enough to conclusively prove that it is a superconductor. I mean, isn&#x27;t zero resistance the defining property?</text></item><item><author>bluecoconut</author><text>I got my PhD studying band structure of high-tc superconductors (experimentalist, ARPES). These Cu d-d interactions right at the fermi energy give me huge hope. Feels very familiar to other superconductors (re: all the cuprates). (Note: I specifically worked in a lab that was measuring a lot of the d-wave character &#x2F; gap-energies of various superconductors)<p>All in all, I&#x27;m now much more bullish on LK-99 being real superconductivity after seeing multiple different labs compute similar band structures. The video of multiple directions of magnet showing some levitation also inspires a lot of hope.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vrotaru</author><text>Well, I guess, that are islands of superconductivity and normal conductivity in the same sample.<p>This gives a low resistance and diamagnetism which is used as proxy to real superconductivity.<p>I may be wrong though.</text></comment> |
25,585,225 | 25,584,189 | 1 | 2 | 25,581,064 | train | <story><title>Emotional headlines have an impact regardless of the credibility of the source</title><url>https://www.hu-berlin.de/en/press-portal/nachrichten-en/december-2020/nr-201221</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>crmd</author><text>The only solution is not to engage with emotionally manipulative content. Even, for example, with nerdy YouTube channels that I love, if a video shows up in my feed:<p>* with a title $villain $unflattering_third_person_present_verb $something<p>* with the format $hero $flattering_third_person_present_verb $something<p>* a person in the thumbnail making an o-face[1] for any reason<p>Then I simply don’t click on it.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vice.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;article&#x2F;zme97a&#x2F;inside-the-strange-world-of-youtube-thumbnails" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vice.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;article&#x2F;zme97a&#x2F;inside-the-strange-wo...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Emotional headlines have an impact regardless of the credibility of the source</title><url>https://www.hu-berlin.de/en/press-portal/nachrichten-en/december-2020/nr-201221</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nerdponx</author><text><i>The subjects&#x27; brain activity was recorded using an electroencephalogram (EEG) while they made judgments about the individuals. Fast, involuntary brain responses can be distinguished here from slower, more controlled responses. The researchers had expected the latter to involve consideration of the source&#x27;s credibility in addition to emotion, and thus that credibility might factor into people’s judgments, whereas emotion should dominate in early and more involuntary responses. However, both late and early brain responses showed dominant influences of headline emotionality independent of credibility.</i><p>In the spirit of being critical even when we want to agree with or believe the conclusion: how &quot;good&quot; are these EEG studies?<p>I recall some scandal several years ago in which fMRI data was being promoted as far more useful than it really was, due to some buggy clustering software and maybe also p-hacking.<p>Are these types of results generally reproducible? How do we know they are valid?</text></comment> |
15,554,199 | 15,554,139 | 1 | 2 | 15,552,574 | train | <story><title>The fight over preserving public land takes a twist in Montana’s mountains</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-10-25/this-land-is-no-longer-your-land</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jandrewrogers</author><text>This is a complicated topic. I used to own the lower part of a mountain valley (out west but not in Montana). There were two dirt &quot;roads&quot; into the valley, both immediately against the titled property; the rest of the valley was Federal (BLM) land encircled by mountains that were effectively impassable. Americans generally have a right to use and temporarily occupy these Federal lands without permission, so if I put up a gate&#x2F;sign it would effectively be like owning the entire valley.<p>There are three big issues when you own land like this that people overlook, both of which can be described as &quot;tragedy of a pseudo-commons&quot;:<p>- The Federal government likes to use these roads across private and public land but not only doesn&#x27;t do maintenance but enforces a stack of regulations that actively prohibits others from doing repairs to damage caused by their traffic. Filling in a pothole requires environmental impact studies, archaeological assessments, thousands of dollars in fees, etc. The nice dirt roads you find up in ranch country in Federal wilderness areas <i>are often maintained illegally by locals</i> because the government won&#x27;t do it and the cost of doing it legally is completely unjustifiable. For some people, it is easier to just disallow road access.<p>- Most ranchers do not own the mineral rights of the land, and mineral rights come with privileges that allow mineral exploration companies to abuse your land for the purpose of mineral extraction with little recourse. An effective strategy to prevent this is to actively prohibit the mineral exploration companies from trespassing to establish that there is mineral worth extracting. I&#x27;ve dealt with this twice. Among other things, it requires aggressive enforcement of a &quot;no trespassing&quot; policy that mineral companies will try to ignore or subvert.<p>- People thinking that the private land is Federal and acting under those assumptions, including vandalizing, stealing from, and generally trashing things as Federal agencies do very little to police this. Unfortunately, this is a really common problem in wilderness areas. They tend to avoid areas that look like they are actively managed lest a rancher show up -- well-maintained signs and gates are a good proxy.<p>How this plays out in practice when these issues become a big enough problem that the ranchers start putting up signs and gates everywhere, with the common understanding that these are not for the locals.<p>After years dealing with the above issues, we eventually did like everyone else and prohibited use of the roads (except for locals of course). I would say it was only marginally effective but it was better than the previous situation.</text></comment> | <story><title>The fight over preserving public land takes a twist in Montana’s mountains</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-10-25/this-land-is-no-longer-your-land</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>typeformer</author><text>I grew up in Livingston MT just a 20 min drive from the Crazies, I know these trails, and this is one if the saddest things I have ever read on HN. Now I live on the West coast but I miss Montana all the time and visit whenever I can. To be honest, I really can&#x27;t fathom how terrible things have gotten politically with the likes of the despicably corrupt Zinke and Gioforte. Personally, I watched everything change so fast, 7 years maybe, it started with the spec houses and the big money from the Yellowstone Club in Big Sky. My father was a carpenter on a ugly 12 million dollar monstrosity, complete with a heated fucking driveway, cut out of what use to be public land, and used solely by Microsoft execs a for a few days a year. This big money then led to Bozeman blowing up with no smart growth plan, just all sprawl and box stores now. And already it has become the next Boulder, with it slew of bourgeoisie shops downtown, and yes, a great outdoorsy place to live, but only if you&#x27;ve got the Do Re Mi. Oracle is there in Bozeman now, and Google and FB are rumoured to be coming soon too...but tech per se isn&#x27;t the main force killing MT, or the west, it&#x27;s mostly our values that are. Perhaps, I can write a geat Montana story about a forrest service ranger, who leads a double life cutting fences, torching wasteful vacation mansions, and getting into conflicts with poachers, extractors, and rich asshole &quot;ranchers&quot; and developers. Maybe one day soon the beauty, majesty and stillness of MT will only be saved in stories, or maybe there is still a chance we can change out values and change our ways.</text></comment> |
19,564,063 | 19,564,139 | 1 | 3 | 19,562,715 | train | <story><title>Judge orders police to stop collecting data from license plate readers</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/crime-law/2019/04/02/judge-orders-fairfax-police-stop-collecting-data-license-plate-readers</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dsfyu404ed</author><text>What a pleasant surprise this ruling is. The DC area (of which Fairfax county is part) is probably one of the most government tracking heavy regions of the US. This is a curve-ball on par with the CA judge that overturned the mag ban recently. I would never have predicted this ruling.<p>&gt;Nine states have passed laws limiting how long the police can maintain the data, ranging from three minutes (New Hampshire)<p>Now that I could have predicted. If any state is going to proactively curb law enforcement&#x27;s capability to build a dragnet it&#x27;s gonna be NH.</text></comment> | <story><title>Judge orders police to stop collecting data from license plate readers</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/crime-law/2019/04/02/judge-orders-fairfax-police-stop-collecting-data-license-plate-readers</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jermaustin1</author><text>I work in this space, building the tools to help LEAs seach their databases. I also have conflicting feelings about how this could be used. We built in access control down to the specific camera, auditing of every user action, requiring the reason you are performing an action, and mandating the user associate an open case in the same access group as the camera you are querying in order to view the data.<p>Its pretty locked down to help prevent abuse. I&#x27;m not saying abuse is impossible but LEOs or more likely, their administrators, but it is difficult to do it and get away.<p>I&#x27;ve heard from the higher ups, that abuse used to be rampant in other systems, but since switching to our software, only a handful of people have been found to abuse it.</text></comment> |
33,700,492 | 33,698,492 | 1 | 2 | 33,675,503 | train | <story><title>Is our definition of burnout all wrong?</title><url>https://www.bustle.com/wellness/burnout-definition-what-we-get-wrong</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>notacop31337</author><text>I recently read &quot;Lost Connections&quot;, recommended to me after a long few years with depression.<p>I suspect if you&#x27;re commenting in this thread, you&#x27;d probably enjoy it.<p>Anyway, the one thing that seems to always be a consistent theme in discussions of burnout, is work. I&#x27;ve not yet seem a conversation on burnout where an employment scenario is not brought up.<p>One of the chapters in Lost Connections talks about meaningful work, and how a reduction or elimination of personally fulfilling work, can lead to a depression, as can a few other things.<p>I can&#x27;t help but feel at this stage after dealing with a long running depression, that our relationships with work are probably broken, and we&#x27;ve all been sold a lie.<p>My issue with the term &quot;burnout&quot; is that it feels like it&#x27;s loading the topic to be a personal issue (which it technically is), when in reality, it&#x27;s a reaction to a bad external stimuli.<p>I&#x27;d write more, but I feel like I&#x27;m waffling, I&#x27;m happy to discuss more if people want to chat about it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Is our definition of burnout all wrong?</title><url>https://www.bustle.com/wellness/burnout-definition-what-we-get-wrong</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>choxi</author><text>I’ve always thought burnout is the same thing as learned helplessness, which is a pretty well studied phenomenon in psychology. It doesn’t seem mysterious to me that if you repeatedly do a task that is unrewarding for long enough, you no longer want to do it. Then the COVID burnout can be explained by a large scale reduction in the rewards that typically keep people going.</text></comment> |
36,626,527 | 36,626,321 | 1 | 3 | 36,625,270 | train | <story><title>Red flags in the Threads privacy policy</title><url>https://qz.com/threads-meta-delayed-launch-eu-privacy-policy-concerns-1850609340</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>twobitshifter</author><text>If your problem is with the ownership of Twitter, I don’t understand why you would run from the arms of one wannabe cage-fighter into another’s.<p>If your problem is with ethics, FB isn’t a beacon of good behavior.<p>If your problem is getting rate-limited or losing your blue checkmark, I guess go wild, but you probably already loved Twitter too much to leave.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>threeseed</author><text>No my problem with Twitter is that the quality of the discourse is poor and getting worse every day.<p>Which is a direct result of Musk deciding to prioritise blue check comments over others. If you&#x27;re having to pay to have people listen to you then that means you typically don&#x27;t have something worth saying.<p>And we see this manifest in many ways e.g. pages of laughing emojis in response to a tweet.</text></comment> | <story><title>Red flags in the Threads privacy policy</title><url>https://qz.com/threads-meta-delayed-launch-eu-privacy-policy-concerns-1850609340</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>twobitshifter</author><text>If your problem is with the ownership of Twitter, I don’t understand why you would run from the arms of one wannabe cage-fighter into another’s.<p>If your problem is with ethics, FB isn’t a beacon of good behavior.<p>If your problem is getting rate-limited or losing your blue checkmark, I guess go wild, but you probably already loved Twitter too much to leave.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tqi</author><text>I think we spend too much time and mental energy questioning other people&#x27;s reasons for how they spend their free time.</text></comment> |
37,391,622 | 37,391,164 | 1 | 2 | 37,390,075 | train | <story><title>‘I just assumed it would happen’: the unspoken grief of childless men</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/aug/28/unspoken-grief-childless-men</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>em-bee</author><text>i think the smart thing to do is to have kids when you are 20 and then enjoy life when you are 40. at that time you are much better off financially (unless you live in a country where you have to pay for your kids education maybe) which gives you a lot more freedom to explore your interests.</text></item><item><author>basisword</author><text>I feel like most young men have always wanted to extend their youth and avoid the responsibility that family life would bring. However, until recently (with easy access to birth control, abortion, and proper education) this wasn&#x27;t really possible. You would accidentally have a child and be forced into the lifestyle you were trying to avoid. And most of the time things worked out and you were forced into a situation that&#x27;s probably better for you rather than delaying it until it&#x27;s too late. Now that we have &#x27;choice&#x27; things are more difficult because you need to actually commit to something life changing. For most people it&#x27;s impossible to know the &#x27;right time&#x27; to do that or for them to have the courage necessary to take the change.</text></item><item><author>bell-cot</author><text>Geezer* Perspective...<p>[*If not in the USA, read &quot;Old geezer&quot;. Credit: Aachen]<p><i>Many</i> varieties of &quot;I really regret that I [did|didn&#x27;t] do X when I was younger&quot; occur in older humans.<p>The stereotype of young men wanting to avoid all the work and commitment of setting down, marrying, and raising children is older than the pyramids. It is obviously not true of all young men, but there&#x27;s very seldom been a shortage. Sure, their feelings may change as they grow older - but a young man whose main motive for marriage is &quot;so I don&#x27;t regret not having kids when I&#x27;m old&quot; strikes me as a young man who the young women should avoid.<p>In some cases, I get the sense that &quot;I really regret not having children&quot; is mostly a way of articulating &quot;I am old and socially disconnected and feel lonely and depressed&quot;. In the modern world - where kids generally grow up and move far away for jobs - having had children would probably not help much with that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>basisword</author><text>There&#x27;s trades offs either way. Personally, I would rather have had the experiences I had in my 20&#x27;s. Anything you can do in your 40&#x27;s, you can do in your 50&#x27;s or 60&#x27;s. Some of the crazy (good and bad) you can experience in your 20&#x27;s you don&#x27;t get a chance to experience again. But, it&#x27;s a trade off still.</text></comment> | <story><title>‘I just assumed it would happen’: the unspoken grief of childless men</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/aug/28/unspoken-grief-childless-men</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>em-bee</author><text>i think the smart thing to do is to have kids when you are 20 and then enjoy life when you are 40. at that time you are much better off financially (unless you live in a country where you have to pay for your kids education maybe) which gives you a lot more freedom to explore your interests.</text></item><item><author>basisword</author><text>I feel like most young men have always wanted to extend their youth and avoid the responsibility that family life would bring. However, until recently (with easy access to birth control, abortion, and proper education) this wasn&#x27;t really possible. You would accidentally have a child and be forced into the lifestyle you were trying to avoid. And most of the time things worked out and you were forced into a situation that&#x27;s probably better for you rather than delaying it until it&#x27;s too late. Now that we have &#x27;choice&#x27; things are more difficult because you need to actually commit to something life changing. For most people it&#x27;s impossible to know the &#x27;right time&#x27; to do that or for them to have the courage necessary to take the change.</text></item><item><author>bell-cot</author><text>Geezer* Perspective...<p>[*If not in the USA, read &quot;Old geezer&quot;. Credit: Aachen]<p><i>Many</i> varieties of &quot;I really regret that I [did|didn&#x27;t] do X when I was younger&quot; occur in older humans.<p>The stereotype of young men wanting to avoid all the work and commitment of setting down, marrying, and raising children is older than the pyramids. It is obviously not true of all young men, but there&#x27;s very seldom been a shortage. Sure, their feelings may change as they grow older - but a young man whose main motive for marriage is &quot;so I don&#x27;t regret not having kids when I&#x27;m old&quot; strikes me as a young man who the young women should avoid.<p>In some cases, I get the sense that &quot;I really regret not having children&quot; is mostly a way of articulating &quot;I am old and socially disconnected and feel lonely and depressed&quot;. In the modern world - where kids generally grow up and move far away for jobs - having had children would probably not help much with that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tonyedgecombe</author><text>Looking back I don&#x27;t think I would have been ready at twenty. Also I couldn&#x27;t afford a house at the time but could at thirty.</text></comment> |
20,995,381 | 20,995,650 | 1 | 2 | 20,994,076 | train | <story><title>Catastrophic effects of working as a Facebook moderator</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/17/revealed-catastrophic-effects-working-facebook-moderator</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TheOperator</author><text>&gt;They also said others were pushed towards the far right by the amount of hate speech and fake news they read every day.<p>There&#x27;s something wrong with mainstream reporting if mere exposure to social media turns people far right. It really strikes me that people are trapped in some pretty strong filter bubbles to the point mere exposure is enough to change political belief.<p>Spend a week on a far right community and you&#x27;ll be shown more stats that point to a far-right conclusion than you can critically evaluate. In any internet discussion of police racism for instance FBI crime stats will be mentioned in a heartbeat but I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve seen a mainstream journo bring them up once. Social media and mainstream media fundamentally follows different schemas of information simply because even bringing up certain data can cause a mainstream journo reputational damage.<p>This is also causing an inverse filter bubble where hateful ideas which actually have refutations don&#x27;t get refuted because people refuse to discuss the ideas on principle. Much of the data cited is crap and much of the interpretations are crap but they&#x27;re not meaningfully contested.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>caconym_</author><text>&gt; There&#x27;s something wrong with mainstream reporting if mere exposure to social media turns people far right. It really strikes me that people are trapped in some pretty strong filter bubbles to the point mere exposure is enough to change political belief.<p>A different conclusion to draw from this is that far-right interests are responsible for the majority of the objectionable content on social media. One might further suggest that said content is deliberate propaganda, designed to push people to the right, and that this is a central pillar of their strategy that isn&#x27;t shared to the same degree or extreme by other political factions.<p>This isn&#x27;t &quot;mere exposure&quot;. I haven&#x27;t read the article so please correct me if I&#x27;m wrong but this is a job, a place they go to sit every day to be bombarded with this crap. To some extent they <i>have</i> to sit and let it wash over them—I don&#x27;t imagine the people doing these jobs have much career mobility. IMO it&#x27;s not realistic to suggest that if they were just better-informed, they wouldn&#x27;t suffer these effects. The mind is not an inviolable fortress—no matter how strong you think your defenses are, they can be worn down.</text></comment> | <story><title>Catastrophic effects of working as a Facebook moderator</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/17/revealed-catastrophic-effects-working-facebook-moderator</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TheOperator</author><text>&gt;They also said others were pushed towards the far right by the amount of hate speech and fake news they read every day.<p>There&#x27;s something wrong with mainstream reporting if mere exposure to social media turns people far right. It really strikes me that people are trapped in some pretty strong filter bubbles to the point mere exposure is enough to change political belief.<p>Spend a week on a far right community and you&#x27;ll be shown more stats that point to a far-right conclusion than you can critically evaluate. In any internet discussion of police racism for instance FBI crime stats will be mentioned in a heartbeat but I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve seen a mainstream journo bring them up once. Social media and mainstream media fundamentally follows different schemas of information simply because even bringing up certain data can cause a mainstream journo reputational damage.<p>This is also causing an inverse filter bubble where hateful ideas which actually have refutations don&#x27;t get refuted because people refuse to discuss the ideas on principle. Much of the data cited is crap and much of the interpretations are crap but they&#x27;re not meaningfully contested.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Timshel</author><text>I took it more as an extrem application of : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Illusory_truth_effect" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Illusory_truth_effect</a><p>&gt; In a 2015 study, researchers discovered that familiarity can overpower rationality and that repetitively hearing that a certain fact is wrong can affect the hearer&#x27;s beliefs.</text></comment> |
28,581,236 | 28,579,772 | 1 | 2 | 28,579,069 | train | <story><title>Why the American shoe disappeared and is hard to bring back (2019)</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2019/06/19/731268823/why-the-american-shoe-disappeared-and-why-its-so-hard-to-bring-it-back</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tfehring</author><text>&gt; <i>For a shoe-factory job paying $12 an hour, the actual cost of shoemaking — when adding benefits — grows to $16 an hour, compared with about $3 an hour in China, said Mike Jeppesen, head of global operations at Wolverine Worldwide, which owns brands like Merrell, Sperry and Keds. And that cost quadruples after wholesale and retail markups, he said, ballooning into a $50 price difference between a pair made in the U.S. versus in China.</i><p>This strikes me as a naive way to think about pricing (though it&#x27;s probably consistent with the way finance people think about it). The only reason to charge that same ~4x markup on the additional labor cost is to keep gross margins (as a percentage) unchanged, but that would actually <i>increase</i> profit (as a dollar amount). If you just want to keep the same profit you&#x27;d get from offshoring, you can probably increase the price by much less - $13 if demand were perfectly inelastic, somewhat more in practice.<p>Also, that sentence shifts from cost per hour to cost per pair without an explanation. Is 1 pair&#x2F;worker&#x2F;hour a realistic estimate? That seems way lower than I&#x27;d expect. Surprisingly I couldn&#x27;t find a good answer to this in 30 seconds of searching.<p>After learning how many manufacturers essentially use slave labor for their products, I&#x27;ve stopped buying clothes manufactured outside the US and EU. I&#x27;m sure there are better ways to do this, but that&#x27;s the simplest reliable one - even e.g. Patagonia, which seems to be trying its best to maintain an ethical supply chain in developing countries, has had its share of issues. The price difference hurts a little bit when I actually make a purchase, but clothes are cheap enough to begin with that the difference ends up being a pretty negligible piece of my overall spending, probably something like $100&#x2F;year on average.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway91321</author><text>&gt; Also, that sentence shifts from cost per hour to cost per pair without an explanation. Is 1 pair&#x2F;worker&#x2F;hour a realistic estimate?<p>I did some work with manufacturers who were in the process of moving manufacturing overseas some years ago. From my experience, the way the article presents the issue is detached from what really happens.<p>For instance, people look at a labor difference of $3 and $12, and assume that if these things were manufactured in the U.S. they would cost five times as much. But the thing is, labor is just one part of the cost. You also have things like R&amp;D, advertising, raw materials, transportation, machinery, the cost of the manufacturing plant, etc. Some of those (like advertising) are going to stay the same no matter where you make your product, some would probably cost less overseas (real estate needed for factories), some would cost more overseas (transportation cost). There are also other issues that come up (like quality control issues) that come up when moving operations overseas that can be quite costly.<p>Here&#x27;s the thing, though - let&#x27;s say that a manufacturer makes a product for $10 and sells it for $12.50 - they&#x27;re making $2.50 per unit sold. Now let&#x27;s say that moving things overseas, when everything is taken into consideration, they can now make a product for $9.50, of which they keep 25 cents and pass the remainder 25 cents forward. Now they&#x27;ve increased their profit 10%, which is pretty big for them.<p>But what about the consumer? For simplicity, let&#x27;s say that the 25 cents goes directly to them and the middlemen don&#x27;t take a cut. And let&#x27;s say that the final retail price doubles (the results would be even more extreme if they quadrupled like the article says). So the price goes down from $25.00 to $24.75 - they save 1%.<p>Now, obviously things are a lot more complex, and things are going to vary greatly depending on what&#x27;s being manufactured. But from my experience, moving manufacturing overseas can often be profitable for companies while being only negligibly beneficial - or even detrimental (for instance, with poorer quality control) - for the consumers.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why the American shoe disappeared and is hard to bring back (2019)</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2019/06/19/731268823/why-the-american-shoe-disappeared-and-why-its-so-hard-to-bring-it-back</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tfehring</author><text>&gt; <i>For a shoe-factory job paying $12 an hour, the actual cost of shoemaking — when adding benefits — grows to $16 an hour, compared with about $3 an hour in China, said Mike Jeppesen, head of global operations at Wolverine Worldwide, which owns brands like Merrell, Sperry and Keds. And that cost quadruples after wholesale and retail markups, he said, ballooning into a $50 price difference between a pair made in the U.S. versus in China.</i><p>This strikes me as a naive way to think about pricing (though it&#x27;s probably consistent with the way finance people think about it). The only reason to charge that same ~4x markup on the additional labor cost is to keep gross margins (as a percentage) unchanged, but that would actually <i>increase</i> profit (as a dollar amount). If you just want to keep the same profit you&#x27;d get from offshoring, you can probably increase the price by much less - $13 if demand were perfectly inelastic, somewhat more in practice.<p>Also, that sentence shifts from cost per hour to cost per pair without an explanation. Is 1 pair&#x2F;worker&#x2F;hour a realistic estimate? That seems way lower than I&#x27;d expect. Surprisingly I couldn&#x27;t find a good answer to this in 30 seconds of searching.<p>After learning how many manufacturers essentially use slave labor for their products, I&#x27;ve stopped buying clothes manufactured outside the US and EU. I&#x27;m sure there are better ways to do this, but that&#x27;s the simplest reliable one - even e.g. Patagonia, which seems to be trying its best to maintain an ethical supply chain in developing countries, has had its share of issues. The price difference hurts a little bit when I actually make a purchase, but clothes are cheap enough to begin with that the difference ends up being a pretty negligible piece of my overall spending, probably something like $100&#x2F;year on average.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lowercased</author><text>Most of the players in the chain in terms of percentages. &quot;We need to make x% profit&quot; and &quot;we have to sell at x% markup&quot;, etc. If I buy something wholesale for $27, I want to retail it for $54 (or more)... because... ? Rather than &quot;I need to make at least $10 per item to be profitable&quot;, it&#x27;s percentages. At least... that&#x27;s the little I&#x27;ve seen.</text></comment> |
26,409,272 | 26,408,737 | 1 | 3 | 26,402,682 | train | <story><title>UK businesses caught buying five-star Google reviews</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56321576</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>agsamek</author><text>My personal experience as a business owner. We do not care about reviews since we are a B2B software house. Our customers are mid- to large-size companies so they do not play reviews but lawyers if our service wasn&#x27;t of highest quality :) My personal preference would be to prevent 3rd party companies like google from publishing reviews if the business owner doesn&#x27;t want them.<p>Anyway - no customer gave us any review on google and our website is full of recommendation letters. But at some point google started nagging our employees to put reviews since they visited our office.<p>Guess what happened. We got our first review from an employee we were not happy with and planned to gracefully close our cooperation with.<p>This is against Google policy. So we complained. We had to spend significant time to get to a real person at Google and get this removed.<p>After a year similar situation happened. I thought ok - this should be easy the second time. No way - this time all the emails we knew did not respond, we could not reach anybody. We flagged the review several times. We could not do anything about that.<p>It is like a person can just put a shit on your office wall and you could not clean it. And shit owner - Google doesn&#x27;t care.<p>We were forced to play by the rules and we bought 50 reviews to paint our wall. The company that provided this service was a Google partner. They explained that 80-90% of reviews of everything is written for money.<p>And the best thing - once we started getting our reviews, the flagged reviews were finally removed. Seems like AI decided the we are a good company.<p>Do you think we did something wrong? Immoral? Or just played business on a not leveled field?<p>And to summarize. I do not care about reviews. And we have money to fight back with lawyers or PR. But it is sad that some businesses don&#x27;t have this option and somebody (Google) can harm them through reviews they did not ask for.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ficklepickle</author><text>Imagine you operate in an industry where these reviews are not permitted. You have your regulator telling you to remove them with no means of actually achieving that.<p>I saw this first-hand in finance. They ended up &quot;disavowing&quot; the listings so they had no control over them. Now the individual offices can&#x27;t set their hours, but I guess it made compliance happy.</text></comment> | <story><title>UK businesses caught buying five-star Google reviews</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56321576</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>agsamek</author><text>My personal experience as a business owner. We do not care about reviews since we are a B2B software house. Our customers are mid- to large-size companies so they do not play reviews but lawyers if our service wasn&#x27;t of highest quality :) My personal preference would be to prevent 3rd party companies like google from publishing reviews if the business owner doesn&#x27;t want them.<p>Anyway - no customer gave us any review on google and our website is full of recommendation letters. But at some point google started nagging our employees to put reviews since they visited our office.<p>Guess what happened. We got our first review from an employee we were not happy with and planned to gracefully close our cooperation with.<p>This is against Google policy. So we complained. We had to spend significant time to get to a real person at Google and get this removed.<p>After a year similar situation happened. I thought ok - this should be easy the second time. No way - this time all the emails we knew did not respond, we could not reach anybody. We flagged the review several times. We could not do anything about that.<p>It is like a person can just put a shit on your office wall and you could not clean it. And shit owner - Google doesn&#x27;t care.<p>We were forced to play by the rules and we bought 50 reviews to paint our wall. The company that provided this service was a Google partner. They explained that 80-90% of reviews of everything is written for money.<p>And the best thing - once we started getting our reviews, the flagged reviews were finally removed. Seems like AI decided the we are a good company.<p>Do you think we did something wrong? Immoral? Or just played business on a not leveled field?<p>And to summarize. I do not care about reviews. And we have money to fight back with lawyers or PR. But it is sad that some businesses don&#x27;t have this option and somebody (Google) can harm them through reviews they did not ask for.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blub</author><text>If you&#x27;re in the EU, maybe you can sue Google?<p>I read about a case of (I think it was) a hair salon owner where Facebook automatically created a Facebook business page for them. They sued and they were forced to delete it.</text></comment> |
2,365,551 | 2,364,659 | 1 | 2 | 2,363,628 | train | <story><title>41,000,006 reasons why I think we're in a bubble</title><url>http://jacquesmattheij.com/41000006+reasons+why+I+think+we+are+in+a+bubble</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>patio11</author><text>To add, approximately one half of people in the real world share a common demographic category with a sliver of HN users and a fraction of a sliver of what we create.<p>Women have money. Go take it. Nobody else wants it in tech. (Well, aside from Groupon, Zynga, and a few other companies that missed the opportunity to make an iPhone app that you could wiggle to share photos.)</text></item><item><author>edw519</author><text>I don't know about the rest of the world, but we sure are in a bubble here at Hacker News. There seems to be a real disconnect between what people want to build/invest in and what people in the real world actually need and want to pay for. Just as sample of what I've witnessed in the past few years:<p><pre><code> Ask HN: How do you like my file sharing app?
Ask HN: How do you like my social app for niche &#60;x&#62;?
Ask HN: How do you like my twitter app?
Ask HN: How do you like my facebook app?
Ask HN: How do you like my iphone app?
Ask HN: How do you like my facebook app that writes twitter apps?
Ask HN: How do you like my game?
Ask HN: How do you like my photo sharing app?
Ask HN: How do you like my video sharing app?
Ask HN: How do I monetize my free flashcard app?
Ask HN: How do you like my app that helps other hackers to do &#60;x&#62;?
Ask HN: How do I get traffic to my freemium app?
Ask HN: How do I get angels/VCs interested?
Ask HN: Look what I wrote this weekend!
Ask HN: Look what I wrote in one night!
Ask HN: Look what I wrote in 7 seconds!
Customer 1: How can we sell through Amazon.com?
Customer 2: How can we reduce inventory by $300 million?
Customer 3: How can we increase conversion from 2% to 4%?
Customer 4: How can we use software to reduce energy costs?
Customer 5: How can we migrate one app into another?
Customer 6: How can we get our phones to talk to our legacy apps?
Customer 7: How can we take orders through the internet?
Customer 8: How can we get our software package to do &#60;x&#62;?
Customer 9: How can we reduce credit card fraud?
Customer 10: How can we increase SEO effectiveness?
Customer 11: How can we connect fulfillment and ecommerce?
Customer 12: How can we increase revenue?
Customers 13-200: How can we increase profitability?</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bambax</author><text>&#62; <i>Women have money. Go take it.</i><p>What do they want?!? I could never figure that one out.</text></comment> | <story><title>41,000,006 reasons why I think we're in a bubble</title><url>http://jacquesmattheij.com/41000006+reasons+why+I+think+we+are+in+a+bubble</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>patio11</author><text>To add, approximately one half of people in the real world share a common demographic category with a sliver of HN users and a fraction of a sliver of what we create.<p>Women have money. Go take it. Nobody else wants it in tech. (Well, aside from Groupon, Zynga, and a few other companies that missed the opportunity to make an iPhone app that you could wiggle to share photos.)</text></item><item><author>edw519</author><text>I don't know about the rest of the world, but we sure are in a bubble here at Hacker News. There seems to be a real disconnect between what people want to build/invest in and what people in the real world actually need and want to pay for. Just as sample of what I've witnessed in the past few years:<p><pre><code> Ask HN: How do you like my file sharing app?
Ask HN: How do you like my social app for niche &#60;x&#62;?
Ask HN: How do you like my twitter app?
Ask HN: How do you like my facebook app?
Ask HN: How do you like my iphone app?
Ask HN: How do you like my facebook app that writes twitter apps?
Ask HN: How do you like my game?
Ask HN: How do you like my photo sharing app?
Ask HN: How do you like my video sharing app?
Ask HN: How do I monetize my free flashcard app?
Ask HN: How do you like my app that helps other hackers to do &#60;x&#62;?
Ask HN: How do I get traffic to my freemium app?
Ask HN: How do I get angels/VCs interested?
Ask HN: Look what I wrote this weekend!
Ask HN: Look what I wrote in one night!
Ask HN: Look what I wrote in 7 seconds!
Customer 1: How can we sell through Amazon.com?
Customer 2: How can we reduce inventory by $300 million?
Customer 3: How can we increase conversion from 2% to 4%?
Customer 4: How can we use software to reduce energy costs?
Customer 5: How can we migrate one app into another?
Customer 6: How can we get our phones to talk to our legacy apps?
Customer 7: How can we take orders through the internet?
Customer 8: How can we get our software package to do &#60;x&#62;?
Customer 9: How can we reduce credit card fraud?
Customer 10: How can we increase SEO effectiveness?
Customer 11: How can we connect fulfillment and ecommerce?
Customer 12: How can we increase revenue?
Customers 13-200: How can we increase profitability?</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elai</author><text>I know what you mean. When I've suggested targeting a female demographic with things that are somewhat silly, but most women just go crazy over (seen by how many women get into similar thing in several businesses) I was dismissed out of hand.</text></comment> |
22,185,457 | 22,185,545 | 1 | 3 | 22,181,873 | train | <story><title>Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native</title><url>https://engineering.shopify.com/blogs/engineering/react-native-future-mobile-shopify</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anon9001</author><text>Shopify is right to use React Native.<p>I build an app with React Native Web and we produce Android&#x2F;iOS&#x2F;web from the same code base with 3 developers.<p>No, it&#x27;s not perfect. Yes, JS can be awkward and confusing. Yes, a truly native app built by expert platform-specific developers would be better.<p>But I&#x27;m able to ship this product with less than half the team size I would need for native development. JavaScript developers are cheap to hire, and they don&#x27;t need to know any objc&#x2F;swift&#x2F;java&#x2F;kotlin to build the product.<p>Our product is consistent, because it&#x27;s the same code across platforms. The business people paying us to build the app are thrilled at how quickly we can turn around features.<p>We&#x27;ve been shipping this way for 2 years and I would strongly recommend it to everyone.<p>Also, before people jump in with &quot;But RN is slow and bloated!&quot;, it&#x27;s actually not. The performance is just as good as truly native and the binary is small. The real downside is having the app not feel native, but only developers seem to notice. Pragmatically, most apps are so bad that if your Android app has an iOS look-and-feel nobody seems to care.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fingerlocks</author><text>&gt; they don&#x27;t need to know any objc&#x2F;swift&#x2F;java&#x2F;kotlin to build the product.<p>I have a hard time believing this, and I&#x27;ve been making apps on both platforms for &gt;10 years. And I <i>love</i> react-native. My latest day job is basically forking popular react-native packages, often rewriting them in Swift, fixing numerous bugs, and adding features specific for our company.<p>And all this experience has taught me that in no way can you expect anything but the most basic, ugly CRUD app from a JS dev. I have tried many times to assign &quot;just&quot; the cross-platform code to a javascript person and it never works.<p>What do you do when there are native build errors? Xcode needs to be upgraded, or parts of your RN modules are deprecated? Gradle files need to be actively maintained. There are features and UI behaviors that are difficult to grok without some background on the individual platforms (e.g., push-notifications). There&#x27;s also <i>combinations</i> of packages that can break your app- &quot;react-native-sound&quot; and &quot;react-native-audio&quot;, the sound and microphone packages respectively, modify the same singleton on iOS. Adjusting settings in one breaks the behavior in the other! How could a JS dev possibly hope to solve something like that?</text></comment> | <story><title>Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native</title><url>https://engineering.shopify.com/blogs/engineering/react-native-future-mobile-shopify</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anon9001</author><text>Shopify is right to use React Native.<p>I build an app with React Native Web and we produce Android&#x2F;iOS&#x2F;web from the same code base with 3 developers.<p>No, it&#x27;s not perfect. Yes, JS can be awkward and confusing. Yes, a truly native app built by expert platform-specific developers would be better.<p>But I&#x27;m able to ship this product with less than half the team size I would need for native development. JavaScript developers are cheap to hire, and they don&#x27;t need to know any objc&#x2F;swift&#x2F;java&#x2F;kotlin to build the product.<p>Our product is consistent, because it&#x27;s the same code across platforms. The business people paying us to build the app are thrilled at how quickly we can turn around features.<p>We&#x27;ve been shipping this way for 2 years and I would strongly recommend it to everyone.<p>Also, before people jump in with &quot;But RN is slow and bloated!&quot;, it&#x27;s actually not. The performance is just as good as truly native and the binary is small. The real downside is having the app not feel native, but only developers seem to notice. Pragmatically, most apps are so bad that if your Android app has an iOS look-and-feel nobody seems to care.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crystaldev</author><text>&gt; No, it&#x27;s not perfect. Yes, JS can be awkward and confusing. Yes, a truly native app built by expert platform-specific developers would be better.<p>This can&#x27;t be understated. You can always tell when you&#x27;ve opened a React-Native (or similar &quot;portable&quot;) app. It always feels like shit.</text></comment> |
18,526,295 | 18,525,769 | 1 | 3 | 18,525,511 | train | <story><title>LinkedIn violated data protection by using 18M email addresses of non-members</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/24/linkedin-ireland-data-protection/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whiddershins</author><text>I am 99% sure LinkedIN used my IP address to match with my second floor neighbor, despite their claims that they would never use IP address as a connection data point.<p>I was sharing my wifi for a brief period with my neighbors on the second floor. My neighbor had a new room mate. The guy was from another country. He didn&#x27;t work in the same industry I do. I didn&#x27;t have any of his contact information anywhere on any of my devices, and afaik, vice versa. We had no formal contact in any fashion, monetary or electronic communication or any other kind of contact other than passing each other in the hall. I didn&#x27;t even know his name. He&#x27;s just one of millions of people who live in my region.<p>Yet they suggested him as a possible contact.<p>If they weren&#x27;t using IP address, they were using black magic.<p>edit:
to clarify, i forgot to mention that i had no linkedin connection to my neighbor, afaik he didn&#x27;t have a linkedin account, he definitely doesn&#x27;t have one currently. He was sort of a luddite, barely used his computer, and i don&#x27;t believe we ever emailed each other, or even had each other&#x27;s email, I just searched my mail and have record of any.<p>And I very much doubt my neighbor had any obviously traceable connection with the roomate anyway, at most a phone number and received rent through cash or check.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>I_am_tiberius</author><text>That&#x27;s creepy. Different topic: I think the biggest connection business is whatsapp. If a person does not use whatsapp but a friend of that person does, whatsapp knows the person&#x27;s phone number anyway. If &gt;= 2 whatsapp users have that person&#x27;s phone number stored with the same name in the contact list, whatsapp even knows the person&#x27;s name (and other information). With that information they can accurately identify the person&#x27;s facebook profile. Horror!</text></comment> | <story><title>LinkedIn violated data protection by using 18M email addresses of non-members</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/24/linkedin-ireland-data-protection/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whiddershins</author><text>I am 99% sure LinkedIN used my IP address to match with my second floor neighbor, despite their claims that they would never use IP address as a connection data point.<p>I was sharing my wifi for a brief period with my neighbors on the second floor. My neighbor had a new room mate. The guy was from another country. He didn&#x27;t work in the same industry I do. I didn&#x27;t have any of his contact information anywhere on any of my devices, and afaik, vice versa. We had no formal contact in any fashion, monetary or electronic communication or any other kind of contact other than passing each other in the hall. I didn&#x27;t even know his name. He&#x27;s just one of millions of people who live in my region.<p>Yet they suggested him as a possible contact.<p>If they weren&#x27;t using IP address, they were using black magic.<p>edit:
to clarify, i forgot to mention that i had no linkedin connection to my neighbor, afaik he didn&#x27;t have a linkedin account, he definitely doesn&#x27;t have one currently. He was sort of a luddite, barely used his computer, and i don&#x27;t believe we ever emailed each other, or even had each other&#x27;s email, I just searched my mail and have record of any.<p>And I very much doubt my neighbor had any obviously traceable connection with the roomate anyway, at most a phone number and received rent through cash or check.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cpeterso</author><text>Maybe LinkedIn matched you by geolocation? That would be closely related to sharing the same IP address or Wi-Fi network.</text></comment> |
18,005,742 | 18,005,456 | 1 | 2 | 18,004,379 | train | <story><title>Apple now strives to design and build products that last as long as possible</title><url>http://www.asymco.com/2018/09/13/lasts-longer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>beloch</author><text>You know what helps products last longer and reduces waste at the same time?<p><i>Repairability</i>.<p>The repairability of apple products is so poor that even Apple can&#x27;t fix most of their own products without replacing surprisingly large portions of any given Apple device. End user repairability has been utterly neglected. Disassembly is frequently impossible without causing damage, and components such as batteries are frequently soldered on.<p>Are other manufacturers better? They <i>used</i> to be. Apple leads the way, and now the average phone is nearly as difficult to repair as an iPhone.<p>Hey, it&#x27;s great that they managed to get iOS 12 to run on a 5S. It probably runs like an absolute dog, but it runs! Just wonderful. How easy is it for end-users to replace the battery in that off-warranty 5S? Oh. I see. Well, running iOS 12 on a 5S isn&#x27;t so practical then, is it?<p>Repairability. I&#x27;ll believe point #2 when Apple stops making every succeeding generation of their products harder for end-users to repair.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>the_solenoid</author><text>I think if you try to extrapolate your or my willingness to repair something to the overall market for the iphone, it would be an error.<p>What are the tradeoffs for a user replaceable battery? (really, this is something we should all know if we are arguing FOR replaceable batteries - maybe it&#x27;s not the best idea?<p>I would wager 99%+ of sales go to people who never want to touch the innards of a phone.<p>And anecdotally, my SO&#x27;s father got a cheap battery for his iphone and it ballooned up and almost destroyed his phone.<p>He also asked me if he should get a 3rd party power adaptor for his macbook (I said no, he ignored me because his wife is cheap), and it was this cheap POS that actually ended up forcing him to doa $600 repair AND get an apple power supply.<p>I spent years working on consumer PCs - normal people dont have time or inclination to deal with all this crap, just like they don&#x27;t want to learn to repair their own air conditioner.<p>Consumers who want&#x2F;need easily replaceable batteries already don&#x27;t choose an iPhone, so all this in mind, I suspect the numbers don&#x27;t add up for this argument.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple now strives to design and build products that last as long as possible</title><url>http://www.asymco.com/2018/09/13/lasts-longer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>beloch</author><text>You know what helps products last longer and reduces waste at the same time?<p><i>Repairability</i>.<p>The repairability of apple products is so poor that even Apple can&#x27;t fix most of their own products without replacing surprisingly large portions of any given Apple device. End user repairability has been utterly neglected. Disassembly is frequently impossible without causing damage, and components such as batteries are frequently soldered on.<p>Are other manufacturers better? They <i>used</i> to be. Apple leads the way, and now the average phone is nearly as difficult to repair as an iPhone.<p>Hey, it&#x27;s great that they managed to get iOS 12 to run on a 5S. It probably runs like an absolute dog, but it runs! Just wonderful. How easy is it for end-users to replace the battery in that off-warranty 5S? Oh. I see. Well, running iOS 12 on a 5S isn&#x27;t so practical then, is it?<p>Repairability. I&#x27;ll believe point #2 when Apple stops making every succeeding generation of their products harder for end-users to repair.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>prepend</author><text>Repairabiliy is important. But I think durability is more important as it requires no action by the user. iPhones are pretty solid as far as lasting a long time. I’m using a 5S that is 3 years old and it’s my daily driver.<p>I passed on my old 4 that is still being used as a Netflix&#x2F; web browser.<p>This is contrary to competitor phones that have hardware issues as well as ability to keep getting software updates.<p>Nexus 5x released sep 2015 and selling used for $85 with original retail [0] compared to 6s released at the same dome that is now selling used for $165 despite an original price of $650 and worse specs [1].<p>Certainly some of this price difference is due to Apple as a luxury product. But it may also be due to new OS releases not being supported on the 5X, but are on the 6S.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;gp&#x2F;offer-listing&#x2F;B0178GEA04&#x2F;ref=mw_dp_olp?ie=UTF8&amp;condition=all" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;gp&#x2F;offer-listing&#x2F;B0178GEA04&#x2F;ref=mw_dp...</a>
[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;gp&#x2F;offer-listing&#x2F;B015E8TYHW&#x2F;ref=mw_dp_olp?ie=UTF8&amp;condition=all" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;gp&#x2F;offer-listing&#x2F;B015E8TYHW&#x2F;ref=mw_dp...</a></text></comment> |
29,346,782 | 29,344,752 | 1 | 3 | 29,343,255 | train | <story><title>Amazon Linux 2022</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/linux/amazon-linux-2022/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>linpack21</author><text>As a happy user of AWS Linux 2, it is extremely disappointing that they&#x27;re no longer providing a drop-in RHEL replacement for EC2. I don&#x27;t see any mention of things we and many large shops like ours care about - long term support and RHEL compatibility.<p>We&#x27;ve been very vocal to AWS product managers and solution architects about our needs for an Amazon Linux 3 that is a refresh over AWS Linux 2 (at least 5 years support with RHEL 8 compatibility, free kernel patching w&#x2F;o reboots, official support from datadog, vmware images). Sad that we haven&#x27;t been heard. We&#x27;ll now need to plan to move over 20k instances to Rocky Linux.<p>I suspect that the move to using Fedora has something to do with changes to the CentOS project that AWS Linux 2 forked. Let&#x27;s hope the beancounters at IBM doesn&#x27;t have other plans for Fedora.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon Linux 2022</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/linux/amazon-linux-2022/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>iou</author><text>I&#x27;m a big SELinux fan and user.<p>Enabling it won&#x27;t in itself secure your company&#x27;s applications, as the default policies in Fedora only apply to installed services (e.g ssh) that have a policy written for them.<p>This is probably right on the boundary of the shared-security-model, but I think it would be great if they also offered easier ways for application developers to leverage the advertised feature.</text></comment> |
38,870,392 | 38,870,640 | 1 | 3 | 38,856,412 | train | <story><title>23andMe tells victims it's their fault that their data was breached</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/03/23andme-tells-victims-its-their-fault-that-their-data-was-breached/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dekhn</author><text>To be honest it&#x27;s amazing they are still in business.<p>The company was originally founded on unreasonable goals in the health industry, using DNA array testing to identify risky variants in individuals to help produce better treatments.<p>It took the CEO about a decade to learn enough to acknowledge that their approach would never have achieved this, because the mapping from genome to risk&#x2F;treatment is a highly complex function and their mechanism was underpowered and they also repeatedly pissed off and ignored the FDA who then shut them down for a while. The only reason they survived this was, afaict, the CEO&#x27;s ability to extract money from google to keep operating.<p>Eventually, the company found that they could do identity by descent really well, much more useful to customers than telling them their earwax properties, and their &quot;recreational genomics&quot; products were extremely popular- enough to sustain a service, but not really enough to sustain advanced research.<p>They finally got some pharma to give them a bunch of money for their data (basically all the genomic and phenotype data that they collected on their users) ostensibly to do translational health research, but this has not been very productive (and seems unlikely to be truly transformative).<p>In the meantime they have to keep runing their consumer platform and it clearly had security issues that permitted a large scale data extraction (that&#x27;s on them, not the customers) and I jusrt can&#x27;t see how they keep getting money to operate, because their track record in translating data to profit&#x2F;medicine has been so skimpy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shmatt</author><text>It cost me about $99 to get my DNA mapped by them a decade ago. I used a 3rd party service to sync my results with SNPedia which returned a pretty cool report, at the top of the report was a very dangerous gene I was the first in my family to discover, and has since saved lives. 23andme added that gene to their reports at least 5 years if not more later<p>My doctor scoffed at 23andme finding a dangerous genetic mutation and said its probably just a false positive. I had to spend $500 to get a single gene tested in a hospital, still came out positive.<p>So bang for your buck that $99 was a great deal for a full mapping, it feels like most of their issue is what the government allows them to show. Im pretty sure that SNPedia syncer isn&#x27;t online anymore, but that was what made 23andme a great service for me</text></comment> | <story><title>23andMe tells victims it's their fault that their data was breached</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/03/23andme-tells-victims-its-their-fault-that-their-data-was-breached/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dekhn</author><text>To be honest it&#x27;s amazing they are still in business.<p>The company was originally founded on unreasonable goals in the health industry, using DNA array testing to identify risky variants in individuals to help produce better treatments.<p>It took the CEO about a decade to learn enough to acknowledge that their approach would never have achieved this, because the mapping from genome to risk&#x2F;treatment is a highly complex function and their mechanism was underpowered and they also repeatedly pissed off and ignored the FDA who then shut them down for a while. The only reason they survived this was, afaict, the CEO&#x27;s ability to extract money from google to keep operating.<p>Eventually, the company found that they could do identity by descent really well, much more useful to customers than telling them their earwax properties, and their &quot;recreational genomics&quot; products were extremely popular- enough to sustain a service, but not really enough to sustain advanced research.<p>They finally got some pharma to give them a bunch of money for their data (basically all the genomic and phenotype data that they collected on their users) ostensibly to do translational health research, but this has not been very productive (and seems unlikely to be truly transformative).<p>In the meantime they have to keep runing their consumer platform and it clearly had security issues that permitted a large scale data extraction (that&#x27;s on them, not the customers) and I jusrt can&#x27;t see how they keep getting money to operate, because their track record in translating data to profit&#x2F;medicine has been so skimpy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ravenstine</author><text>It&#x27;s all about branding. They got in early and really got their name out there. Everyone has heard of 23 And Me. Off the top of my head, I can&#x27;t think of another brand (though I know they exist), and people I know IRL still refer to 23 And Me.</text></comment> |
36,448,933 | 36,447,910 | 1 | 3 | 36,447,433 | train | <story><title>Two US lawyers fined for submitting fake court citations from ChatGPT</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jun/23/two-us-lawyers-fined-submitting-fake-court-citations-chatgpt</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jeroenhd</author><text>LegalEagle did a video on this case two weeks ago, digging into it in some more depth: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;oqSYljRYDEM" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;oqSYljRYDEM</a><p>They lied to a judge, doubled down, showed further incompetence by admitting to not knowing how the legal reference they supposedly quoted was even structured, then lied to a judge again trying to get more time to get their story straight, and all it cost them was $5000? And even then they have the guts to say they disagree with the judge?<p>Levidow, Levidow &amp; Oberman must either be run by fools or take the rest of the world for fools.<p>I can understand how the rubber stamping lawyer signing all the paperwork got off easy; he was just signing documents because the lawyer who supposedly did all the work for the case couldn&#x27;t operate in the court the case was transfered to.<p>The other lawyer, the one who did the AI equivalent from copy pasting from the summary page of Google, should not be deemed fit to practice law.</text></comment> | <story><title>Two US lawyers fined for submitting fake court citations from ChatGPT</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jun/23/two-us-lawyers-fined-submitting-fake-court-citations-chatgpt</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>isp</author><text>Related:<p>- &quot;A man sued Avianca Airline – his lawyer used ChatGPT&quot; (27 days ago, 139 comments): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=36095352">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=36095352</a><p>- &quot;Lawyer who used ChatGPT faces penalty for made up citations&quot; (15 days ago, 128 comments): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=36242462">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=36242462</a><p>- &quot;Lawyers blame ChatGPT for tricking them into citing bogus case law&quot; (14 days ago, 175 comments): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=36257545">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=36257545</a><p>Original court documents: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.courtlistener.com&#x2F;docket&#x2F;63107798&#x2F;mata-v-avianca-inc&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.courtlistener.com&#x2F;docket&#x2F;63107798&#x2F;mata-v-avianca...</a><p>The full document from the federal judge on sanctions: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;storage.courtlistener.com&#x2F;recap&#x2F;gov.uscourts.nysd.575368&#x2F;gov.uscourts.nysd.575368.54.0_5.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;storage.courtlistener.com&#x2F;recap&#x2F;gov.uscourts.nysd.57...</a><p>One of many highlights: dismissing the lawyer&#x27;s bad-faith argument with a footnote quoting Alice in Wonderland (footnote 12, page 18).</text></comment> |
3,944,438 | 3,944,267 | 1 | 3 | 3,943,406 | train | <story><title>The Avengers: Why Pirates Failed To Prevent A Box Office Record</title><url>http://torrentfreak.com/the-avengers-why-pirates-failed-to-prevent-a-box-office-record-120508/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nextparadigms</author><text>Imagine how much money they could make if they released a 1080p HD version online, globally, 4 weeks at most after the launch in cinemas, and for a price of $5.<p>That may or may not kill the cinemas in the long term, depending on how hard they fight to become more competitive and unique compared to watching the movie at home, but it would definitely not hurt the studios and movie makers. If anything, they stand to make a lot more money on average for every released movie.</text></item><item><author>bobsy</author><text>A thing to note is that it was a CAM recording of the film that was leaked.<p>I have only ever watched one cam recording of a movie before. I think it was 'The Illusionist.' I was at a friends house, he slapped it on. The color saturation was wrong, the sound was like mono and the camera appeared slightly off so the very top or bottom of the screen was cut off. It wasn't completely unwatchable but it spoiled the movie. Its like watching a film through a neighbours window.. crap.<p>Piracy has far more effect on DVD sales. This is for 4 reasons. The price of DVD's, the inconvenience of going out and getting the DVD, the bullshit adverts and unskipable junk before the film and the menu which takes 20 seconds to display before you can press PLAY.<p>If there was a DVD quality recording of the avengers I think it would have easily had 5x more downloads, probably 10x. However, realistically the cinema is an experience. If you enjoy the cinema you are going to watch a film like this at the cinema - then maybe download it. I am firmly of the opinion that if you make a blockbuster film, whether it leaks or not it will do well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikeryan</author><text>Interesting hypothetical.<p>Lets take a recent blockbuster. The first Twilight movie made $392,616,625 in the box office, $194,881,773 in DVD sales for a total of $587,498,398 (almost 600M - pretty good rake)<p>In your $5 they'd have to sell 117,499,679 of those $5 streams in order to make that equivalent revenue (so roughly one in every 60 people in the world need to buy a stream).<p>For more fun take the last Twilight Movie (Eclipse) which was a bigger draw ($826,423,724 total revenue). Then you'd have to sell 165M streams to get to those numbers.<p>Considering the $5 stream scenario could be shared across a family - I honestly am not sure your assumption that a studio could make <i>more</i> money is correct. The real X-Factor here is the cut the various distribution chains take.<p>I'm not sure your price point is right, but would you perhaps pay $20 for the same stream?<p>EDIT: Also I don't think the 4-weeks after theatrical release is going to work I don't think theaters are going to show your movie if you're going to kneecap them 4 weeks out.<p>[0] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twilight_Saga_(film_series)#Box_office_performance" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twilight_Saga_(film_series)...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Avengers: Why Pirates Failed To Prevent A Box Office Record</title><url>http://torrentfreak.com/the-avengers-why-pirates-failed-to-prevent-a-box-office-record-120508/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nextparadigms</author><text>Imagine how much money they could make if they released a 1080p HD version online, globally, 4 weeks at most after the launch in cinemas, and for a price of $5.<p>That may or may not kill the cinemas in the long term, depending on how hard they fight to become more competitive and unique compared to watching the movie at home, but it would definitely not hurt the studios and movie makers. If anything, they stand to make a lot more money on average for every released movie.</text></item><item><author>bobsy</author><text>A thing to note is that it was a CAM recording of the film that was leaked.<p>I have only ever watched one cam recording of a movie before. I think it was 'The Illusionist.' I was at a friends house, he slapped it on. The color saturation was wrong, the sound was like mono and the camera appeared slightly off so the very top or bottom of the screen was cut off. It wasn't completely unwatchable but it spoiled the movie. Its like watching a film through a neighbours window.. crap.<p>Piracy has far more effect on DVD sales. This is for 4 reasons. The price of DVD's, the inconvenience of going out and getting the DVD, the bullshit adverts and unskipable junk before the film and the menu which takes 20 seconds to display before you can press PLAY.<p>If there was a DVD quality recording of the avengers I think it would have easily had 5x more downloads, probably 10x. However, realistically the cinema is an experience. If you enjoy the cinema you are going to watch a film like this at the cinema - then maybe download it. I am firmly of the opinion that if you make a blockbuster film, whether it leaks or not it will do well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andrewljohnson</author><text>When I imagine that much money, I imagine it is much less than what they make now. That's the nature of a disrupted industry.</text></comment> |
28,834,759 | 28,833,922 | 1 | 3 | 28,831,031 | train | <story><title>Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefinitely</title><url>https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazon-will-allow-many-employees-to-work-remotely-indefinitely/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mabbo</author><text>I quit Amazon 3 weeks ago after nearly a decade. Work from home was one of the biggest reasons.<p>In my view, the personality traits that are conducive to promotion up the Amazon leadership ladder are strongly aligned with loving work-from-office. Most people L10 and higher not only don&#x27;t understand the desire for permanent work from home, I think maybe they cannot understand it. It&#x27;s just too foreign to many of them.<p>The first announcement was &quot;We can&#x27;t wait to be back in the office, and we know you can&#x27;t either&quot;. Senior engineers started quitting. Then it was &quot;Okay, okay, you can work from home 2-3 days per week, but only with your L10&#x27;s approval&quot;. The exodus continued.<p>Now it&#x27;s &quot;Fine, you can work from home with your L8&#x27;s approval, but you better be ready to show up on 24 hour notice if we say so!&quot;. The biggest benefit of work from home is not needing to commute, and lower cost of living by leaving the HCOL cities.<p>They don&#x27;t get it. Other companies do. And anyone who has spent 5 or more years working for Amazon is well-trained enough to get a better paying job with a company that understands the cultural shift that just happened to the developer world.<p>Edit: I know not all developers are anti-office. But for those of us who <i>are</i>, working for people who don&#x27;t understand us, who make policies based on what works best for them, is a problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baby</author><text>I have this theory that one of the contributing factors to the &quot;I don&#x27;t want to go to the office&quot; trend in the US (which I&#x27;m part of), is that cities are also not made for commuting. Coming from Europe, where public transport is really practical, and cities are built for density, your commute is often much less cumbersome AND you can enjoy some social life after work since you&#x27;re in the city. Here (the bay) it was just the worst. Companies can&#x27;t build in cities so they build large offices in suburbs. There&#x27;s a lack of housing so no matter where you live you&#x27;ll end up paying like crazy. And there&#x27;s pretty much no practical public transport so you&#x27;re just going to live through hell. I spent some time in LA and I can&#x27;t even imagine how people deal with that there. I&#x27;m never going to commute ever again after that experience, unless I&#x27;m back to Europe.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefinitely</title><url>https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazon-will-allow-many-employees-to-work-remotely-indefinitely/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mabbo</author><text>I quit Amazon 3 weeks ago after nearly a decade. Work from home was one of the biggest reasons.<p>In my view, the personality traits that are conducive to promotion up the Amazon leadership ladder are strongly aligned with loving work-from-office. Most people L10 and higher not only don&#x27;t understand the desire for permanent work from home, I think maybe they cannot understand it. It&#x27;s just too foreign to many of them.<p>The first announcement was &quot;We can&#x27;t wait to be back in the office, and we know you can&#x27;t either&quot;. Senior engineers started quitting. Then it was &quot;Okay, okay, you can work from home 2-3 days per week, but only with your L10&#x27;s approval&quot;. The exodus continued.<p>Now it&#x27;s &quot;Fine, you can work from home with your L8&#x27;s approval, but you better be ready to show up on 24 hour notice if we say so!&quot;. The biggest benefit of work from home is not needing to commute, and lower cost of living by leaving the HCOL cities.<p>They don&#x27;t get it. Other companies do. And anyone who has spent 5 or more years working for Amazon is well-trained enough to get a better paying job with a company that understands the cultural shift that just happened to the developer world.<p>Edit: I know not all developers are anti-office. But for those of us who <i>are</i>, working for people who don&#x27;t understand us, who make policies based on what works best for them, is a problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>christophilus</author><text>If you’re going to work from home, do so for a company where WFH is first class. I’ve worked for remote-only companies and for mixed companies. The mixed ones were really terrible WFH experiences. The remote-only &#x2F; remote-first ones were excellent. It really makes a difference.<p>&#x2F;anecdote</text></comment> |
3,802,665 | 3,802,605 | 1 | 2 | 3,802,180 | train | <story><title>You should be using Google Analytics to log your startup's client-side errors</title><url>http://www.thetaboard.com/blog/client-side-error-logging-with-google-analytics?r=378</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dminor</author><text>I did something similar on our site a couple years ago. One nice thing about tying it into Google Analytics is you can analyze the effect of each type of error on your conversion rate, which helps prioritize your fixes.</text></comment> | <story><title>You should be using Google Analytics to log your startup's client-side errors</title><url>http://www.thetaboard.com/blog/client-side-error-logging-with-google-analytics?r=378</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dmethvin</author><text>Google Analytics works for summary-level error reporting (file, line, error message) but not very well if you want to know the details like a stack trace which can change on each occurrence. That's where the other solutions are much better. GA is certainly better than closing your eyes though.</text></comment> |
25,646,215 | 25,645,336 | 1 | 3 | 25,644,056 | train | <story><title>GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in Iran</title><url>https://twitter.com/sebslomski/status/1344219609923276801</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elmo2you</author><text>I would go quite a step further than that. If this was not an unfortunate incident&#x2F;mistake, then GitHub&#x2F;Microsoft has become quite the active enforcer of US (legal) foreign policy.<p>If they do that within the US market, that might be justifiable. But in this particular case, GitHub appears to enforce US foreign policy on what appears to be a company on the EU market. Also in what to me appears to be a rather ruthless, totalitarian, maybe even draconian way.<p>I&#x27;m pretty certain that absent this US law within the EU market, this action is arbitrarily discriminatory, and very likely constitutes inflicting serious damage on another company without a legal basis (within the US, yes .. outside the US, no).<p>GitHub may find itself stuck, between adhering to US laws and laws elsewhere (in this case EU, but China is probably a good example too). Still, is ultimately is a choice for GitHub to offer their products on multiple markets. If they have issues with that, they are free to exit a particular market. It certainly is never a valid excuse to start violating law in any market outside whatever country your headquarter might be located.<p>Tangentially, this rather typical popular belief that US companies can simply absolve themselves from legal liability, just by crafting clever TOS&#x2F;EULA that supposedly does just that, has always confused to me. It was always my understanding that you can not create contracts that violate laws. In most countries with a somewhat sane state of law, governments really do not like or tolerate when companies start essentially making their own law in parallel. But apparently you can rewrite (even basic) law in the USA, as long as you can somehow get both parties to agree on it. Be that by free will or coercion.<p>Maybe it&#x27;s time, for other parts of the world to no longer put up with this kind of bullshit, and demand that US companies actually adhere to the laws (and legal protections) that exist within their markets, or be free to buzz off and only operate on the US market alone.<p>With US foreign policy becoming increasingly self-serving, legally dubious, and in some case downright insane, having internationally operating companies enforcing those policies is becoming a seriously risky proposition for anyone outside the USA.</text></item><item><author>cies</author><text>&gt; Ironically, Git is a decentralized version control system.<p>And Git is open source.<p>Github is a US-registered company under MS. The US has a history of weaponizing its economic power.<p>Stallman (RMS) was right once again.</text></item><item><author>factorialboy</author><text>So many dimensions come to play here.<p>1. There&#x27;s the obvious legal aspect i.e. how these laws are framed and interpreted.<p>2. Then there&#x27;s the geopolitical aspect. Is it fair to impose sanctions on Iran.<p>3. There&#x27;s another aspect around GitHub policy that asks if an entire organization be banned for the location of one team member.<p>4. Finally, there&#x27;s the aspect of relinquishing control. Your app development is on the cloud. IDEs are on the cloud. Deployments are on the cloud. App stores are on the cloud.<p>You have relinquished so much control, why be surprised if that stares you back in the face?<p>Ironically, Git is a decentralized version control system.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>A4ET8a8uTh0</author><text>&quot;I would go quite a step further than that. If this was not an unfortunate incident&#x2F;mistake, then GitHub&#x2F;Microsoft has become quite the active enforcer of US (legal) foreign policy.&quot;<p>I am not sure if most people realize this, but OFAC compliance is rather rigid with no room for error (&#x27;strict liability&#x27;). And US treasury enforces it hard. Recently, Amazon got caught in its cross-hairs ( though it managed to get away with a low fine relative to its size ).<p>I guess what I am saying, according to OFAC, everyone is responsible for enforcing US foreign policy.<p>edit: Everyone as in US person, person on US soil or someone using US dollar. I really should avoid exaggeration.</text></comment> | <story><title>GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in Iran</title><url>https://twitter.com/sebslomski/status/1344219609923276801</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elmo2you</author><text>I would go quite a step further than that. If this was not an unfortunate incident&#x2F;mistake, then GitHub&#x2F;Microsoft has become quite the active enforcer of US (legal) foreign policy.<p>If they do that within the US market, that might be justifiable. But in this particular case, GitHub appears to enforce US foreign policy on what appears to be a company on the EU market. Also in what to me appears to be a rather ruthless, totalitarian, maybe even draconian way.<p>I&#x27;m pretty certain that absent this US law within the EU market, this action is arbitrarily discriminatory, and very likely constitutes inflicting serious damage on another company without a legal basis (within the US, yes .. outside the US, no).<p>GitHub may find itself stuck, between adhering to US laws and laws elsewhere (in this case EU, but China is probably a good example too). Still, is ultimately is a choice for GitHub to offer their products on multiple markets. If they have issues with that, they are free to exit a particular market. It certainly is never a valid excuse to start violating law in any market outside whatever country your headquarter might be located.<p>Tangentially, this rather typical popular belief that US companies can simply absolve themselves from legal liability, just by crafting clever TOS&#x2F;EULA that supposedly does just that, has always confused to me. It was always my understanding that you can not create contracts that violate laws. In most countries with a somewhat sane state of law, governments really do not like or tolerate when companies start essentially making their own law in parallel. But apparently you can rewrite (even basic) law in the USA, as long as you can somehow get both parties to agree on it. Be that by free will or coercion.<p>Maybe it&#x27;s time, for other parts of the world to no longer put up with this kind of bullshit, and demand that US companies actually adhere to the laws (and legal protections) that exist within their markets, or be free to buzz off and only operate on the US market alone.<p>With US foreign policy becoming increasingly self-serving, legally dubious, and in some case downright insane, having internationally operating companies enforcing those policies is becoming a seriously risky proposition for anyone outside the USA.</text></item><item><author>cies</author><text>&gt; Ironically, Git is a decentralized version control system.<p>And Git is open source.<p>Github is a US-registered company under MS. The US has a history of weaponizing its economic power.<p>Stallman (RMS) was right once again.</text></item><item><author>factorialboy</author><text>So many dimensions come to play here.<p>1. There&#x27;s the obvious legal aspect i.e. how these laws are framed and interpreted.<p>2. Then there&#x27;s the geopolitical aspect. Is it fair to impose sanctions on Iran.<p>3. There&#x27;s another aspect around GitHub policy that asks if an entire organization be banned for the location of one team member.<p>4. Finally, there&#x27;s the aspect of relinquishing control. Your app development is on the cloud. IDEs are on the cloud. Deployments are on the cloud. App stores are on the cloud.<p>You have relinquished so much control, why be surprised if that stares you back in the face?<p>Ironically, Git is a decentralized version control system.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mc32</author><text>...” , this action is arbitrarily discriminatory, and very likely constitutes inflicting serious damage on another company without a legal basis...”<p>Isn’t that what YouTube and FaceBook do day in day out when their influencers run afoul of policy?</text></comment> |
5,316,034 | 5,315,932 | 1 | 2 | 5,315,740 | train | <story><title>James while John had had had ... had had had a better effect on the teacher</title><url>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_while_John_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_a_better_effect_on_the_teacher</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gruseom</author><text>A friend of mine tells a story that's about as close as real life gets to this kind of language trick. He was helping a friend in college study for her Test of English as a Foreign Language. She was working on past tenses and, sincerely attempting to explain a mistake she'd made, he told her: "If you had had 'had' here, you would have had to have had 'had' there as well." Whereupon she screamed.</text></comment> | <story><title>James while John had had had ... had had had a better effect on the teacher</title><url>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_while_John_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_a_better_effect_on_the_teacher</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>slurgfest</author><text>As English, this stuff is totally incomprehensible and unusable. Absolutely nothing is conveyed to actual human English speakers by saying the word 'buffalo' 400 times in a row.<p>If it is 'grammatical' then it is grammatical by virtue of conforming to some idealized grammar. But when this grammar is so far off not just from anything people say, but anything they can actually understand, it really only means that the idea that this grammar models real English has been reduced to total absurdity.</text></comment> |
7,859,339 | 7,859,368 | 1 | 3 | 7,859,084 | train | <story><title>Uber Sets Valuation Record of $17B in New Funding</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-06/uber-sets-valuation-record-of-17-billion-in-new-funding.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>quaunaut</author><text>Prepending Edit: If you&#x27;re reading this and have a lot more familiarity in how investments of this kind are made, and what kinds of things these investors are thinking, I really am making this post looking for education. I didn&#x27;t finish college, and don&#x27;t know a lot, but I&#x27;m trying. If you&#x27;d rather not stir the pot by talking here, my e-mail is in my profile.<p>The one thing that makes me skeptical about this, is historical data. From what I&#x27;m seeing, the <i>entire</i> US Taxi&#x2F;Limo market is $11bn in value. So for them to achieve this, they&#x27;d need ~80%+ market share in the US, plus a high market share in both Europe and Asia. This is a valuation that smells similar to the WhatsApp deal, where the timeline to succeeding this valuation is 15-20 years out.<p>Is there some data I&#x27;m missing here that implies my data(from [1] for example) is flawed? Or that maybe this isn&#x27;t such an out-there valuation, by way of possible growth from ridesharing, or other avenues Uber could explore without straying too far from their primary purpose?<p><a href="http://www.ibisworld.com/industry/default.aspx?indid=1951" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ibisworld.com&#x2F;industry&#x2F;default.aspx?indid=1951</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>runako</author><text>A couple of points, without having closely looked at the Uber financing:<p>1) $11B is the estimate of the revenues of the <i>US</i> taxi &amp; limo market. Uber aims to expand the size of that market, by drawing in people who otherwise would not have taken a taxi or limo.<p>2) Uber is global today, and can expand much faster than traditional T&amp;L companies given its model. Global taxi &amp; limo revenues are certainly higher than $11B.<p>3) Using $11B as the estimate of the US taxi &amp; limo revenues, it is reasonable to assume that the market value of all US taxi &amp; limo companies is larger than $11B. This assumption rests on the premise that if one owned all US taxi &amp; limo services, one could generate ~$11B in cash annually. I don&#x27;t know what revenue multiple is typical in this industry, but I&#x27;d be somewhat surprised to learn that it&#x27;s &lt;= 1. (Not to mention the monopoly licenses, brands, customer relationships, autos and other physical plant etc. that comes from owning these assets.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Uber Sets Valuation Record of $17B in New Funding</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-06/uber-sets-valuation-record-of-17-billion-in-new-funding.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>quaunaut</author><text>Prepending Edit: If you&#x27;re reading this and have a lot more familiarity in how investments of this kind are made, and what kinds of things these investors are thinking, I really am making this post looking for education. I didn&#x27;t finish college, and don&#x27;t know a lot, but I&#x27;m trying. If you&#x27;d rather not stir the pot by talking here, my e-mail is in my profile.<p>The one thing that makes me skeptical about this, is historical data. From what I&#x27;m seeing, the <i>entire</i> US Taxi&#x2F;Limo market is $11bn in value. So for them to achieve this, they&#x27;d need ~80%+ market share in the US, plus a high market share in both Europe and Asia. This is a valuation that smells similar to the WhatsApp deal, where the timeline to succeeding this valuation is 15-20 years out.<p>Is there some data I&#x27;m missing here that implies my data(from [1] for example) is flawed? Or that maybe this isn&#x27;t such an out-there valuation, by way of possible growth from ridesharing, or other avenues Uber could explore without straying too far from their primary purpose?<p><a href="http://www.ibisworld.com/industry/default.aspx?indid=1951" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ibisworld.com&#x2F;industry&#x2F;default.aspx?indid=1951</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fnbr</author><text>Assuming your figures are correct, $11bn in annual revenue allows for a much higher valuation than $17bn. One of the main methods of valuing a company is the &quot;multiples&quot; approach [1], which values the company at a multiple of it&#x27;s annual revenue, with the multiple typically falling between 5-15.<p>A commonly used multiple is the price to earnings multiple of the entire industry, which is absurdly high for major tech companies- Google, for example, has a P&#x2F;E ratio of ~30 [2], and Facebook has a P&#x2F;E ratio of ~80 [3]. For non-tech companies, the average ratio is roughly 15.<p>So if we want to use the average P&#x2F;E ratio, we can say that a very very very rough price for the entire Taxi&#x2F;Limo market is $150bn.<p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valuation_using_multiples" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Valuation_using_multiples</a>
[2] <a href="http://ycharts.com/companies/GOOG/pe_ratio" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ycharts.com&#x2F;companies&#x2F;GOOG&#x2F;pe_ratio</a>
[3] <a href="http://ycharts.com/companies/FB/pe_ratio" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ycharts.com&#x2F;companies&#x2F;FB&#x2F;pe_ratio</a></text></comment> |
6,303,694 | 6,303,389 | 1 | 2 | 6,303,151 | train | <story><title>It's a Dumbphone, But It's the Nicest Dumbphone You Can Buy</title><url>http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/08/nokias-nicest-dumbphon/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>heterogenic</author><text>I&#x27;m sticking with my MOTOFONE F3 (The &quot;Zombie Apocalypse&quot; phone: e-ink display and a 2-week battery life.)<p>It feels like Nokia&#x27;s missing the mark here though. Once you get below a certain threshold, you hit customers who are prioritizing price, simplicity, size or battery life. The Nokia 515 is pretty good on all of those, but not the leader on any. It&#x27;s sort of the least dumb dumbphone, but not necessarily a <i>great</i> dumbphone.<p>I don&#x27;t quite know who this is for... but I sure wish they&#x27;d applied the same energy to optimizing for size or battery life in a beautiful container. Something that can fit in my smaller pockets and has a great antenna would be amazing as a &quot;going out&quot; phone, even if it only did voice &amp; SMS.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Meai</author><text>It may be perfect for me. Smartphones are a strange thing, they are just the wrong mix of everything: Can&#x27;t rely on it as a phone, (too big, too expensive when stolen, low battery life), and they are not great at user input either: Want to write down some notes? Oh well, use this tiny screen. Oh and you can&#x27;t do it while talking to someone over the phone.. because you know why. Wan&#x27;t to find your way to a target destination? Go read your directions on a tiny screen, possibly with sunlight on a glossy screen.<p>Today I had the idea of buying a feature phone or dumbphone in addition to a tablet. The tablet would ideally still be able to fit into my pocket and have a portable keyboard. Not sure where to find something like that, but I haven&#x27;t looked yet.<p>Ideally this dumbphone would still be able to sync seemlessly with the tablet and I could write apps for it.</text></comment> | <story><title>It's a Dumbphone, But It's the Nicest Dumbphone You Can Buy</title><url>http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/08/nokias-nicest-dumbphon/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>heterogenic</author><text>I&#x27;m sticking with my MOTOFONE F3 (The &quot;Zombie Apocalypse&quot; phone: e-ink display and a 2-week battery life.)<p>It feels like Nokia&#x27;s missing the mark here though. Once you get below a certain threshold, you hit customers who are prioritizing price, simplicity, size or battery life. The Nokia 515 is pretty good on all of those, but not the leader on any. It&#x27;s sort of the least dumb dumbphone, but not necessarily a <i>great</i> dumbphone.<p>I don&#x27;t quite know who this is for... but I sure wish they&#x27;d applied the same energy to optimizing for size or battery life in a beautiful container. Something that can fit in my smaller pockets and has a great antenna would be amazing as a &quot;going out&quot; phone, even if it only did voice &amp; SMS.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anigbrowl</author><text>According to the article, it has a 38 day battery life, which is more than double yours and as high as any phone that I&#x27;m aware of. I&#x27;m not sure what point you&#x27;re making here.</text></comment> |
24,712,456 | 24,712,360 | 1 | 3 | 24,711,659 | train | <story><title>XB-1 Supersonic Rollout</title><url>https://boomsupersonic.com/xb-1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>How does this seek to overcome the problem that killed Concorde: Civilian sonic booms over populations are <i>illegal</i>, and most places aircraft want to fly to&#x2F;from are cities?<p>Concorde found a kinda niche between the East Coast of the US and European cities near the sea, but it really doesn&#x27;t feel sustainable for an entire aircraft class to be limited to only that route (and wasn&#x27;t for Concorde).<p>If it doesn&#x27;t go supersonic then what is the USP?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gok</author><text>Primarily they are targeting transoceanic routes. Transoceanic demand has increased substantially in recent years. Transatlantic traffic has doubled since Concorde went out of service. Transpacific travel has grown even more, and Concorde was unable to compete there.</text></comment> | <story><title>XB-1 Supersonic Rollout</title><url>https://boomsupersonic.com/xb-1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>How does this seek to overcome the problem that killed Concorde: Civilian sonic booms over populations are <i>illegal</i>, and most places aircraft want to fly to&#x2F;from are cities?<p>Concorde found a kinda niche between the East Coast of the US and European cities near the sea, but it really doesn&#x27;t feel sustainable for an entire aircraft class to be limited to only that route (and wasn&#x27;t for Concorde).<p>If it doesn&#x27;t go supersonic then what is the USP?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jagger27</author><text>Their FAQ section^0 says this:<p>&gt; Overture flights will focus on 500+ primarily transoceanic routes that benefit from supersonic speeds—such as New York to London or San Francisco to Tokyo. Overture won&#x27;t generate a sonic boom over land cruising at subsonic speeds. Its passengers won&#x27;t even notice breaking through the &quot;sound barrier,&quot; which will be inaudible and uneventful.<p>So I guess they haven&#x27;t really solved physics. edit: in an economic way.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;boomsupersonic.com&#x2F;contact#faq-section" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;boomsupersonic.com&#x2F;contact#faq-section</a></text></comment> |
13,242,894 | 13,242,965 | 1 | 3 | 13,239,604 | train | <story><title>GitLab 8.15 Released</title><url>https://about.gitlab.com/2016/12/22/gitlab-8-15-released/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>contingencies</author><text>@Gitlab: The features are great but the interface setup is shocking. That whole video assumes you have a K-cluster going already, and is a maze of this-thing, that-thing, auth-thing, copy-thing, etc. Have you guys ever tried interviewing users who are new or maintaining a Gitlab instance over major version upgrades? It&#x27;s painful.<p>The &#x27;quick fix&#x27; for setup these days is supposed to be to use a docker image... but the docker image most people use is unofficial, the maintainer is swamped and has a policy of ignoring problems, and although it runs it doesn&#x27;t work well with real IPs&#x2F;DNS&#x2F;SSL&#x2F;etc. for common cases (eg. email setup silently fails for many and has for ages - see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sameersbn&#x2F;docker-gitlab&#x2F;issues&#x2F;596" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sameersbn&#x2F;docker-gitlab&#x2F;issues&#x2F;596</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sameersbn&#x2F;docker-gitlab&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1005" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sameersbn&#x2F;docker-gitlab&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1005</a> which I recently opened) and adds the docker-is-a-moving-target complexity issue to the potential user&#x27;s stack.<p>Normally I am based in China. Given that Github access is not super fast or stable there, you guys have a great opportunity to take that market. I&#x27;d personally love to use Gitlab both for my own business and those I consult for, but I can&#x27;t get past go with mail on real infrastructure, and experiences with upgrades to date have been terrible.<p>Just offering my own recent experiences as a point of reference.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Cidan</author><text>Pardon me here, but I don&#x27;t understand what you mean by &quot;the docker image most people use is unofficial.&quot;<p>I was under the impression that everyone used the fully featured official docker image (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hub.docker.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;gitlab&#x2F;gitlab-ee&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hub.docker.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;gitlab&#x2F;gitlab-ee&#x2F;</a>). We&#x27;ve been using this for over a year without issues now. Is there a reason you need the unofficial version? Does it do something different?</text></comment> | <story><title>GitLab 8.15 Released</title><url>https://about.gitlab.com/2016/12/22/gitlab-8-15-released/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>contingencies</author><text>@Gitlab: The features are great but the interface setup is shocking. That whole video assumes you have a K-cluster going already, and is a maze of this-thing, that-thing, auth-thing, copy-thing, etc. Have you guys ever tried interviewing users who are new or maintaining a Gitlab instance over major version upgrades? It&#x27;s painful.<p>The &#x27;quick fix&#x27; for setup these days is supposed to be to use a docker image... but the docker image most people use is unofficial, the maintainer is swamped and has a policy of ignoring problems, and although it runs it doesn&#x27;t work well with real IPs&#x2F;DNS&#x2F;SSL&#x2F;etc. for common cases (eg. email setup silently fails for many and has for ages - see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sameersbn&#x2F;docker-gitlab&#x2F;issues&#x2F;596" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sameersbn&#x2F;docker-gitlab&#x2F;issues&#x2F;596</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sameersbn&#x2F;docker-gitlab&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1005" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sameersbn&#x2F;docker-gitlab&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1005</a> which I recently opened) and adds the docker-is-a-moving-target complexity issue to the potential user&#x27;s stack.<p>Normally I am based in China. Given that Github access is not super fast or stable there, you guys have a great opportunity to take that market. I&#x27;d personally love to use Gitlab both for my own business and those I consult for, but I can&#x27;t get past go with mail on real infrastructure, and experiences with upgrades to date have been terrible.<p>Just offering my own recent experiences as a point of reference.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CSDude</author><text>We have been using the official Docker image without any problems so far.</text></comment> |
27,376,602 | 27,376,309 | 1 | 2 | 27,374,840 | train | <story><title>Wyoming site of new nuclear power plant from Bill Gates' TerraPower</title><url>https://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/wyoming-selected-as-site-of-new-nuclear-power-plant-in-partnership-with-bill-gates-terrapower/article_ab632119-c5c5-53b0-9468-677ef87fd80a.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SavantIdiot</author><text>Perfect location: Wyoming is already the biggest net energy supplier in the country [1] so it has the required grid access, and also the 2nd lowest population density [2], next to Alaska (excluding Jackson which has become a mecca for billionaires for some reason).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eia.gov&#x2F;state&#x2F;?sid=WY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eia.gov&#x2F;state&#x2F;?sid=WY</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_states_and_territories_of_the_United_States_by_population_density" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_states_and_territories...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cjonas</author><text>Teton county manages to simultaneously have a very low population density, yet feel extremely overcrowded for a few reasons:<p>1. Only something like 2% of the land in the county is privately owned. Most land is NP or NFS. Also, the super rich have created land trusts in the name of &quot;the environment&quot; to prevent development encroaching on their estates*.<p>2. We get millions of tourist per year on their way to GTNP &amp; Yellowstone.<p>3. People from outside communities drive hours to fill a endless supply of &quot;good paying&quot; jobs fueled by the tourist &amp; ultra-rich. At anytime in the local classified, you&#x27;ll find 4-5 pages of &quot;help wanted&quot; and maybe only 1-3 &quot;for rent&quot; listing</text></comment> | <story><title>Wyoming site of new nuclear power plant from Bill Gates' TerraPower</title><url>https://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/wyoming-selected-as-site-of-new-nuclear-power-plant-in-partnership-with-bill-gates-terrapower/article_ab632119-c5c5-53b0-9468-677ef87fd80a.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SavantIdiot</author><text>Perfect location: Wyoming is already the biggest net energy supplier in the country [1] so it has the required grid access, and also the 2nd lowest population density [2], next to Alaska (excluding Jackson which has become a mecca for billionaires for some reason).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eia.gov&#x2F;state&#x2F;?sid=WY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eia.gov&#x2F;state&#x2F;?sid=WY</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_states_and_territories_of_the_United_States_by_population_density" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_states_and_territories...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jdhn</author><text>&gt;for some reason<p>Wyoming has no state income tax, and the Tetons are beautiful.</text></comment> |
15,058,864 | 15,058,694 | 1 | 2 | 15,056,795 | train | <story><title>Anger, Anxiety, Resentment, Stress, and Basic Humanity</title><url>https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/anger-in-the-age-entitlement/201708/anger-anxiety-resentment-stress-and-basic-humanity</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>grondilu</author><text>The ancients thought a lot about what makes a human &quot;good&quot;, and they came up with the notion of virtues[1]. If I&#x27;m not mistaken, none of them was particularly oriented towards altruism. It seems to me altruism was very much introduced by Christianism. I vaguely recall that Nietzsche analyzed the subject in details, for instance in &#x27;&#x27;On the Genealogy of Morality&#x27;&#x27;[2].<p>Now, I&#x27;m not saying one of this point of view is right and the other is wrong, but at the very least there is a debate to have. Therefore it seems presumptuous to me to call one of them &quot;basic humanity&quot;.<p>Philosophy, or in the present case psychology, should use accurate words as much as possible. IMHO &quot;Basic humanity&quot; is not satisfactory in that regard.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Virtue" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Virtue</a><p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;On_the_Genealogy_of_Morality" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;On_the_Genealogy_of_Morality</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Anger, Anxiety, Resentment, Stress, and Basic Humanity</title><url>https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/anger-in-the-age-entitlement/201708/anger-anxiety-resentment-stress-and-basic-humanity</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>roceasta</author><text>I&#x27;ve come to realise that if I&#x27;m run down or hungover or guilty in some way then my mind automatically starts to relive old resentments. I think it&#x27;s a form of projection. There&#x27;s a bad feeling internally and so memories are activated to &#x27;explain&#x27; the badness and direct blame elsewhere.</text></comment> |
12,940,922 | 12,941,014 | 1 | 2 | 12,940,581 | train | <story><title>Apple is doubling down on open source</title><url>http://www.techrepublic.com/google-amp/article/apple-is-doubling-down-on-open-source/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>forgettableuser</author><text>The only thing that has doubled down here is the marketing of the fact they are contributing to open source. They have both been large users and contributors to open source since the switch to OS X (NeXT acquisition).<p>Just off the top of my head, projects they have had a large hand in: WebKit &amp; JavaScriptCore, Objective-C, CUPS, LLVM, Clang, Bonjour&#x2F;Zeroconf, Darwin, launchd, libdispatch, CoreFoundation, dtrace.<p>And more recently Apple Lossless Encoder, LZFSE compression, and of course Swift.<p>And this is only a tiny fraction of what they are users of.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple is doubling down on open source</title><url>http://www.techrepublic.com/google-amp/article/apple-is-doubling-down-on-open-source/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>skissane</author><text>If they are &quot;doubling down on open source&quot;, maybe they could get open source Darwin working again? From what I&#x27;ve heard, while they still release some of the source code, it is no longer in a form in which it can easily be compiled into a usable operating system – e.g. some of the components they release source for can&#x27;t even be built because they rely on unreleased Apple private header files – basically, things have gone backwards on this front compared to earlier versions of OS X.<p>(From what I&#x27;ve heard, I don&#x27;t know how true it is, Apple became less open with Darwin, around the time of the PPC-Intel transition, out of fear it was making life easier for people trying to use OS X on non-Apple hardware easier.)</text></comment> |
23,863,279 | 23,863,346 | 1 | 3 | 23,858,662 | train | <story><title>When your coworker does great work, tell their manager</title><url>https://jvns.ca/blog/2020/07/14/when-your-coworker-does-great-work-tell-their-manager/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jedberg</author><text>It&#x27;s not as bad as it sounds. Yes, it certainly happens and it sucks for the good person that it happens to. But managers like that don&#x27;t last very long.<p>When you get let go, they ask in the exit interview if you were warned, if your manager gave you any feedback leading up to it, etc. And then they follow up if the person says, &quot;it was a total shock&quot;. I&#x27;ve definitely seen managers make some bad firing decisions, but they were let go soon afterwards. Word gets around quickly to their manager that they let go someone who was a strong contributor.</text></item><item><author>xvector</author><text>That&#x27;s a massive amount of trust placed in managers. I&#x27;ve had asshole managers before that didn&#x27;t have this much power thanks to company structure.<p>Honestly I would never work at a place like this. Maybe it&#x27;s lean and efficient for the company, but it definitely doesn&#x27;t sound fun for the employee.</text></item><item><author>sleepydog</author><text>I agree, but in the specific case of Netflix, people are let go <i>all the time</i>, and managers have a lot of authority to make the decision to fire someone. Tenure doesn&#x27;t matter, either -- you could work there for 6 years and end up getting fired when you get a new manager or the existing one decides you&#x27;re phoning it in.</text></item><item><author>Traster</author><text>I think this culture is often the difference between a company that&#x27;s in exponential growth mode - where you care more about velocity than costs. When a company becomes a stable giant, the engineering department is no longer necessarily creating value in the same way it was before and often slowly becomes bloated.</text></item><item><author>jedberg</author><text>This is what I loved about working at Netflix. We didn&#x27;t have performance reviews. It was assumed that your performance was good to excellent, otherwise you wouldn&#x27;t be working there anymore. You had a constant feedback loop with your manager on performance, but nothing was ever formal.<p>Raises were completely divorced from any performance assessment. You were paid whatever they thought the max was for your skillset, based on a bunch of data they had on what people at other companies got paid for similar work.<p>What we did have was 360 reviews once a year. It was basically a small survey you could fill out about anyone in the company, which they and their manager would see. You could evaluate your boss, your VP, or people who worked for you, or anyone else you worked with anywhere in the company. It was expected that managers do a 360 review for all of their reports, but beyond that you could do as few or as many as you wanted to. It was basically a start&#x2F;stop&#x2F;continue kind of thing.<p>It was such a refreshing change from the stack ranking at eBay, which forced good people to get shitty reviews just so they could &quot;fit the bell curve&quot;. And as you said, it incentivized you to not praise coworkers and some people even actively sabotaged their coworkers to get a better rank.</text></item><item><author>ping_pong</author><text>This is the biggest problem with stack ranking software engineers, the practice I had to endure while at a well known software company. All it does is create a zero-sum game, so I have no incentive to compliment anyone else. I needed to make sure that my rank was as high as I could make it, which really sucked during performance time. It was very stressful, even though I was a high performer, because it didn&#x27;t foster the type of environment I wanted to work at, which is collaborative.<p>I heard from my friends at Facebook that the environment there is equally crazy. Everyone knows that the performance reviews are based on lazy stats, so they game the stats. Every time someone requests a meeting, they are expected to give a &quot;thank you&quot; which is one of the measures for performance. Also, things like the number of reviews commented on could be easily gamed by adding a &quot;+1!&quot; as a comment which sounds like another undesirable place to work at. Maybe current Facebook employees can comment, however.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>HarryHirsch</author><text><i>When you get let go, they ask in the exit interview if you were warned</i><p>Why would anyone give any kind of useful information in the exit interview? The only one who benefits is the company, they need to cover their back in case a suit over harassment comes up. If anyone wants revenge over poor management, keep silent, let the fellow continue to lose the company money and set them up for a lawsuit.<p>HR is not on your side. The company is not on your side. The union would be, but in software we can&#x27;t have that.</text></comment> | <story><title>When your coworker does great work, tell their manager</title><url>https://jvns.ca/blog/2020/07/14/when-your-coworker-does-great-work-tell-their-manager/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jedberg</author><text>It&#x27;s not as bad as it sounds. Yes, it certainly happens and it sucks for the good person that it happens to. But managers like that don&#x27;t last very long.<p>When you get let go, they ask in the exit interview if you were warned, if your manager gave you any feedback leading up to it, etc. And then they follow up if the person says, &quot;it was a total shock&quot;. I&#x27;ve definitely seen managers make some bad firing decisions, but they were let go soon afterwards. Word gets around quickly to their manager that they let go someone who was a strong contributor.</text></item><item><author>xvector</author><text>That&#x27;s a massive amount of trust placed in managers. I&#x27;ve had asshole managers before that didn&#x27;t have this much power thanks to company structure.<p>Honestly I would never work at a place like this. Maybe it&#x27;s lean and efficient for the company, but it definitely doesn&#x27;t sound fun for the employee.</text></item><item><author>sleepydog</author><text>I agree, but in the specific case of Netflix, people are let go <i>all the time</i>, and managers have a lot of authority to make the decision to fire someone. Tenure doesn&#x27;t matter, either -- you could work there for 6 years and end up getting fired when you get a new manager or the existing one decides you&#x27;re phoning it in.</text></item><item><author>Traster</author><text>I think this culture is often the difference between a company that&#x27;s in exponential growth mode - where you care more about velocity than costs. When a company becomes a stable giant, the engineering department is no longer necessarily creating value in the same way it was before and often slowly becomes bloated.</text></item><item><author>jedberg</author><text>This is what I loved about working at Netflix. We didn&#x27;t have performance reviews. It was assumed that your performance was good to excellent, otherwise you wouldn&#x27;t be working there anymore. You had a constant feedback loop with your manager on performance, but nothing was ever formal.<p>Raises were completely divorced from any performance assessment. You were paid whatever they thought the max was for your skillset, based on a bunch of data they had on what people at other companies got paid for similar work.<p>What we did have was 360 reviews once a year. It was basically a small survey you could fill out about anyone in the company, which they and their manager would see. You could evaluate your boss, your VP, or people who worked for you, or anyone else you worked with anywhere in the company. It was expected that managers do a 360 review for all of their reports, but beyond that you could do as few or as many as you wanted to. It was basically a start&#x2F;stop&#x2F;continue kind of thing.<p>It was such a refreshing change from the stack ranking at eBay, which forced good people to get shitty reviews just so they could &quot;fit the bell curve&quot;. And as you said, it incentivized you to not praise coworkers and some people even actively sabotaged their coworkers to get a better rank.</text></item><item><author>ping_pong</author><text>This is the biggest problem with stack ranking software engineers, the practice I had to endure while at a well known software company. All it does is create a zero-sum game, so I have no incentive to compliment anyone else. I needed to make sure that my rank was as high as I could make it, which really sucked during performance time. It was very stressful, even though I was a high performer, because it didn&#x27;t foster the type of environment I wanted to work at, which is collaborative.<p>I heard from my friends at Facebook that the environment there is equally crazy. Everyone knows that the performance reviews are based on lazy stats, so they game the stats. Every time someone requests a meeting, they are expected to give a &quot;thank you&quot; which is one of the measures for performance. Also, things like the number of reviews commented on could be easily gamed by adding a &quot;+1!&quot; as a comment which sounds like another undesirable place to work at. Maybe current Facebook employees can comment, however.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kingbirdy</author><text>That still sounds pretty bad. The person who fired you getting fired doesn&#x27;t get you your job back.</text></comment> |
23,615,757 | 23,615,369 | 1 | 2 | 23,614,601 | train | <story><title>Chrome killed my extension and won’t tell me why</title><url>https://blog.lipsurf.com/part-ii-after-3-years-of-work-chrome-killed-my-extension-and-wont-tell-me-why/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gwd</author><text>What people seem to be missing is that this isn&#x27;t a complaint -- it&#x27;s a call to form effectively a union:<p><i>Therefore, we are starting a group today for Chrome Extension developers to work together in check with CWS. It&#x27;s not a technical support channel, nor a platform to get attention when CWS is unresponsive. It&#x27;s a place for Chrome Extension developers to rally together and discuss improving the foundation we stand on (it also won&#x27;t be hosted nor managed by Google).<p>United, we can have a stronger, common voice to:<p>Pressure Google Chrome to allow for 3rd party extension stores.
This would break down the walled garden of extensions, give extension developers a leveler playing field, and lower the risk of getting wiped out on CWS&#x27;s whim.<p>2. Pressure CWS to be more fair and communicative with extension publishers.<p>Canned emails about rejections with only general policy information are “lose-lose” for publishers and CWS alike. Both parties waste time because of all the guesswork involved currently — especially when CWS makes a mistake.</i></text></comment> | <story><title>Chrome killed my extension and won’t tell me why</title><url>https://blog.lipsurf.com/part-ii-after-3-years-of-work-chrome-killed-my-extension-and-wont-tell-me-why/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>crazygringo</author><text>It doesn&#x27;t matter if you&#x27;re dealing with a store run by Apple or Google (or presumably anyone else): the stories are all the same.<p>Presumably because to make the economics work, review and approval are done by poorly trained contractors who don&#x27;t have time to do a proper job and need to meet quotas. And with anything security related, there&#x27;s an inherent bias toward not giving information on the <i>exact</i> violations because this can be used to get around the &quot;spirit&quot; of the law while sticking to its &quot;letter&quot; (very true for spam, questionable for app stores).<p>Serious question: is there any better model though? In the non-virtual world, similar standards for the public good are achieved through things like FDA regulations, health inspections, building codes and permits, etc.<p>Since it doesn&#x27;t seem like there&#x27;s any kind of elegant free-market or crowd-sourced solution here, what should the standards be for regulating apps and extensions? What kind of &quot;due process&quot; ought there be, or appeal, or whatever? Is there going to come a point when app stores get regulated by a democratically legislated government agency?</text></comment> |
16,797,503 | 16,797,537 | 1 | 2 | 16,791,940 | train | <story><title>Elm at Pacific Health Dynamics</title><url>https://mordrax.gitbooks.io/elm-at-phd/content/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sridca</author><text>I never enjoyed frontend programming until I came across Elm. Not only that Elm turned out to be a gateway drug to Haskell. Now I write frontend and mobile apps in Haskell using Functional Reactive programming (FRP).</text></comment> | <story><title>Elm at Pacific Health Dynamics</title><url>https://mordrax.gitbooks.io/elm-at-phd/content/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fwip</author><text>The lead paragraph is a bit worrying.<p>&gt; Since July 2017, I’ve been leading the frontend rewrite of their flagship product. The codebase was at 16k LoC when I started. Since then, I’ve rewritten the various subsystems at least once (I&#x27;m looking at you generic form component). Now we hover around 45k LoC with most of the common SPA structures stabilizing. We are about a third of the way to completion.<p>I don&#x27;t know if it&#x27;s common for rewrites to triple the amount of code while being only 1&#x2F;3rd complete, but it certainly doesn&#x27;t feel like &quot;these are the facts I should lead with.&quot;<p>Edit: I read more of the prologue, and it turns out that the initial 16kloc application was not complete.</text></comment> |
14,355,641 | 14,352,203 | 1 | 3 | 14,349,964 | train | <story><title>The Awful Reign of the Red Delicious (2014)</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/09/the-evil-reign-of-the-red-delicious/379892/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>VLM</author><text>The article seems oriented toward raw consumption, I like to experiment with food canning and I&#x27;ve made many single variety batches of applesauce to experiment with. Pure grannies are a little acidic to me. My kids like red delicious applesauce, for something thats basically sweet with a texture its not bad. Ida Red results in an extremely pale nearly white applesauce which is interesting looking but the taste is boring. I&#x27;d have to find my notes I&#x27;ve experimented with most every variety at one time or another. Its a fun relaxing hobby.<p>Something I like about home canning my own applesauce is bug-leg-free applesauce is commercially unavailable in stores, its safe to eat buggy applesauce but pretty gross once you have a source of bug-leg-free applesauce. Also if you follow the USDA&#x2F;BallBook you can&#x27;t vary lemon content for food safety reasons but you can vary cinnamon and its an eternal experiment to try different ratios. Also there are USDA approved low&#x2F;no sugar applesauce recipes but in the store you can only buy corn syrup or artificial sweetener applesauce.<p>Anyway to make a long story short, store applesauce is gross, few hobbies are as delicious as home canning applesauce, and I&#x27;ve had &quot;OK&quot; results with red delicious in applesauce form. Its not pure red evil or whatever as the article claims.<p>Next story, lets debate Concord grapes, vs Flame seedless, in raw and home canned jelly form.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rsync</author><text>&quot;Also there are USDA approved low&#x2F;no sugar applesauce recipes but in the store you can only buy corn syrup or artificial sweetener applesauce.&quot;<p>I don&#x27;t understand what you&#x27;re saying here ... there are <i>many, many</i> national brands of applesauce that consist of just a single ingredient - apples. Santa Cruz is one, as is Cadia, as is the Whole Foods &quot;365&quot; brand ...</text></comment> | <story><title>The Awful Reign of the Red Delicious (2014)</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/09/the-evil-reign-of-the-red-delicious/379892/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>VLM</author><text>The article seems oriented toward raw consumption, I like to experiment with food canning and I&#x27;ve made many single variety batches of applesauce to experiment with. Pure grannies are a little acidic to me. My kids like red delicious applesauce, for something thats basically sweet with a texture its not bad. Ida Red results in an extremely pale nearly white applesauce which is interesting looking but the taste is boring. I&#x27;d have to find my notes I&#x27;ve experimented with most every variety at one time or another. Its a fun relaxing hobby.<p>Something I like about home canning my own applesauce is bug-leg-free applesauce is commercially unavailable in stores, its safe to eat buggy applesauce but pretty gross once you have a source of bug-leg-free applesauce. Also if you follow the USDA&#x2F;BallBook you can&#x27;t vary lemon content for food safety reasons but you can vary cinnamon and its an eternal experiment to try different ratios. Also there are USDA approved low&#x2F;no sugar applesauce recipes but in the store you can only buy corn syrup or artificial sweetener applesauce.<p>Anyway to make a long story short, store applesauce is gross, few hobbies are as delicious as home canning applesauce, and I&#x27;ve had &quot;OK&quot; results with red delicious in applesauce form. Its not pure red evil or whatever as the article claims.<p>Next story, lets debate Concord grapes, vs Flame seedless, in raw and home canned jelly form.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cooperadymas</author><text>I&#x27;ve made apple sauce a few times for near-immediate consumption (over the course of maybe a week). There is a big, notable difference in taste and quality from the store-bought. Might be time to try canning it for longer term consumption.<p>However, stores near here do carry a no sugar added bottle of applesauce. That&#x27;s all we ever buy, and I can&#x27;t imagine why they would even consider adding sugar&#x2F;corn syrup. I like making it at home because I can play with the tartness a little more by adding in some grannies, and I like to leave in the skin for the added nutrients.</text></comment> |
32,460,570 | 32,460,059 | 1 | 2 | 32,424,755 | train | <story><title>The four pillars of data observability: metrics, metadata, lineage, and logs</title><url>https://www.metaplane.dev/blog/the-four-pillars-of-data-observability</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xcambar</author><text>Off topic: there seems to be a growing trend at HN of posts reaching the homepage with a reasonable number of upvotes yet without comments.<p>I don&#x27;t know how to proceed with these posts (and this one), yet the temptation of mentally flagging these as friendly upvotes or point hoarders is strong, and I must admit that such posts receive less attention and more suspicion from me.<p>YMMV.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kzh_</author><text>OP here, I posted this a few days ago and was surprised to see it on the front page this morning. Not sure why it says I submitted 4 hours ago when I wasn’t awake, maybe the second-chance pool (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26998308" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26998308</a>)?<p>But I’m also generally skeptical of high upvote&#x2F;comment ratios, because as a long-time HNer too I also want to read things that are genuinely interesting. In this case, I can promise you neither I nor anyone on the team is soliciting upvotes for this post.<p>On that note, if anyone has any comments about the content itself, happy to discuss further.</text></comment> | <story><title>The four pillars of data observability: metrics, metadata, lineage, and logs</title><url>https://www.metaplane.dev/blog/the-four-pillars-of-data-observability</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xcambar</author><text>Off topic: there seems to be a growing trend at HN of posts reaching the homepage with a reasonable number of upvotes yet without comments.<p>I don&#x27;t know how to proceed with these posts (and this one), yet the temptation of mentally flagging these as friendly upvotes or point hoarders is strong, and I must admit that such posts receive less attention and more suspicion from me.<p>YMMV.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>metadat</author><text>Edit: I went and read TFA, and must say there were some red flags. CS people who add &quot;PhD&quot; beside their name are not only pretentious, but are trying to throw their academic weight around instead of letting their ideas and presentation stand on its own. Filled with more marketing fluff than useful information. Ugh.<p>I&#x27;m siding with you on this. I&#x27;ve &quot;undowned&quot; you and upvoted instead; Sorry xcamber!<p>--<p>If you&#x27;re really concerned, email dang ([email protected]) and ask him to look into it. As a sidenote, if you actually flag out of suspicion of a voting ring or other feelings without real evidence, it is abusing the power you&#x27;ve been entrusted with. Threads like this one are also way off topic, seems more considerate to submit an &quot;Ask HN&quot; post rather than hijack the story discussion.<p>The group dynamics are often surprising on HN.</text></comment> |
22,982,471 | 22,980,437 | 1 | 3 | 22,977,845 | train | <story><title>I translated a simple C program to x86_64 and it was slower</title><url>https://ecc-comp.blogspot.com/2020/04/i-translated-simple-c-program-to-x8664.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jdsully</author><text>The assembly is not bad for a beginner but far from optimal. A few things that stand out from a quick glance:<p>1) Try to load things sequentially don’t load from offset 32, then 0, then 16.<p>2) Don’t use the loop instruction<p>3) this code:<p><pre><code> dec n
cmp n, 0
jne 1b
</code></pre>
Can be replaced with:<p><pre><code> sub n, 1
jnz 1b
</code></pre>
Which will actually be executed by the processor as a single instruction (macro-op fusion).<p>4) Interleave your expensive instructions with less expensive ones. Try to interleave multiple dependency chains to let the processor see more of the parallelism.<p>Your two divisions one after another will be limited by available execution units capable of doing the divide.<p>5) Lastly align your loop labels to 16-byte offsets. The assembler will do this for you with the ALIGN directive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fallat</author><text>Doing most of your changes made essentially no difference X)<p>I suspect the assembly generated by the compiler is pretty fancy.<p>Edit: Just briefly looking at the objdump again, gcc is using a lot of scalar variants of instructions, instead of vector. Maybe this is giving the CPU better hints?<p>Maybe my code would run better on a more modern CPU (while still constraining the original C program to SSE3 only) ?</text></comment> | <story><title>I translated a simple C program to x86_64 and it was slower</title><url>https://ecc-comp.blogspot.com/2020/04/i-translated-simple-c-program-to-x8664.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jdsully</author><text>The assembly is not bad for a beginner but far from optimal. A few things that stand out from a quick glance:<p>1) Try to load things sequentially don’t load from offset 32, then 0, then 16.<p>2) Don’t use the loop instruction<p>3) this code:<p><pre><code> dec n
cmp n, 0
jne 1b
</code></pre>
Can be replaced with:<p><pre><code> sub n, 1
jnz 1b
</code></pre>
Which will actually be executed by the processor as a single instruction (macro-op fusion).<p>4) Interleave your expensive instructions with less expensive ones. Try to interleave multiple dependency chains to let the processor see more of the parallelism.<p>Your two divisions one after another will be limited by available execution units capable of doing the divide.<p>5) Lastly align your loop labels to 16-byte offsets. The assembler will do this for you with the ALIGN directive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>heeen2</author><text>Shouldn&#x27;t a superscalar CPU figure out concurrent execution chains by itself with register renaming</text></comment> |
40,478,558 | 40,478,653 | 1 | 2 | 40,475,355 | train | <story><title>Why is x & -x equal to the largest power of 2 that divides x?</title><url>https://arunmani.in/articles/highest-two-power-to-divide-a-number/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dataflow</author><text>Short explanation:<p>1. The largest power of 2 that divides x is just 2^(number of trailing zeros in x)<p>2. Crucial observation: -x == ~x + 1<p>3. ~x flips all the bits of x bits, so none of the bits of ~x match those of x. (i.e. (x &amp; ~x) == 0)<p>4. When you do +1, all the trailing 1&#x27;s flip AGAIN, becoming zero like they were in x. The next highest 0 (say it was the n&#x27;th) also flips, becoming 1... like it was in x.<p>5. Crucial observation: The n&#x27;th 0 did NOT match the corresponding bit in x prior to the increment, therefore it MUST match after the increment. All higher bits stay as-is.<p>6. This leaves only the n&#x27;th bits matching in x and ~x + 1, isolating the highest power-of-2 divisor of x when you AND them.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why is x & -x equal to the largest power of 2 that divides x?</title><url>https://arunmani.in/articles/highest-two-power-to-divide-a-number/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>o11c</author><text>Or briefly, copied from my StackOverflow answer[1]:<p><pre><code> v 000...00010100
~v 111...11101011 (not used directly, all bits opposite)
-v 111...11101100 (-v == ~v + 1; this causes all low 1 bits to overflow and carry)
v&amp;-v 000...00000100 (has a single 1 bit, from the carry)
</code></pre>
The linked article is wrong in only mentioning 2 signed integer representations. Old versions of C allowed 3 representations for integers, floats use one of those (sign-magnitude, also used widedly by bignum libraries) and one other (offset binary), and base negative-2 is also possible in theory (not sure if practical for anything), for a total of 5.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;63552117&#x2F;1405588" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;63552117&#x2F;1405588</a></text></comment> |
20,169,969 | 20,169,601 | 1 | 2 | 20,167,106 | train | <story><title>Bird Acquires Scoot</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/12/bird-confirms-acquisition-of-scoot/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aresant</author><text>Handful of interesting points:<p>a) Scoot raised something like $47,000,000. This article reports a cash and stock deal of $25,000,000.<p>b) Scoot launched in 2012 and spent their first 6 years renting mopeds and electric bikes, only recently launching what we all think of as &quot;scooters&quot; in late 2018.<p>c) The founder illustrates what Scoot saw as a gigantic problem in the space - theft and vandalism (1). He then wrote a follow-up post a few months later illustrating their solution - a proprietary lock adapter from their bike sharing network (2). I wonder if we&#x27;ll see this technology rolled out @ Bird?<p>(1) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@mbkeating&#x2F;what-we-learned-from-our-first-month-of-operating-scoot-kicks-dcd9a677db15" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@mbkeating&#x2F;what-we-learned-from-our-first...</a><p>(2) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@mbkeating&#x2F;one-of-our-kicks-was-stolen-last-weekend-8cfdf94979b6" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@mbkeating&#x2F;one-of-our-kicks-was-stolen-la...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Bird Acquires Scoot</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/12/bird-confirms-acquisition-of-scoot/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>paxys</author><text>&quot;Bird acquires San Francisco scooter permit&quot;</text></comment> |
21,139,343 | 21,139,571 | 1 | 2 | 21,138,106 | train | <story><title>RxBar co-founder Peter Rahal on life after becoming a millionaire</title><url>https://marker.medium.com/what-really-happens-when-you-become-an-overnight-millionaire-acac42990175</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dvt</author><text>I don&#x27;t like articles like this for two reasons: (1) they trivialize actually building a company, growing it, and selling it, and (2), they provide comfort for those that don&#x27;t have the drive&#x2F;luck&#x2F;privilege of getting there by arguing that &quot;hey, money doesn&#x27;t make you happy!&quot;<p>First of all, as others mention in the thread, this is hardly an example of an &quot;overnight success&quot; -- there are <i>no</i> such examples, barring a few extreme outliers. Not only do the great majority of startups fail, the great majority of successes grind for years and years before seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. It&#x27;s not like some dream-land utopia. If you&#x27;re like me (and I think most HN&#x27;ers are), you continue building stuff in <i>spite</i> of the overwhelming odds. <i>That&#x27;s</i> the real lesson here. Trying, failing, trying, failing, and doing this over and over, even though expecting a different outcome is technically insanity.<p>Secondly, the adage of &quot;money doesn&#x27;t bring happiness&quot; is obvious to anyone that&#x27;s not young or incredibly naive. We <i>get</i> it -- money is not the end-all of life (duh). But at the same time, can we not kid ourselves? Money makes life <i>much</i> easier than the alternative. Anyone that grew up poor and achieved some modicum of success (I grew up in essential poverty in a third world country; now I make a &quot;modest&quot; six figure salary and live in Los Angeles) realizes this. I&#x27;m reminded of a (2008 crash) documentary I saw years ago where a banker says: &quot;I grew up poor, and now I&#x27;m rich; trust me, I&#x27;d rather be rich.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tachyonbeam</author><text>Agreed. I also grew up poor and now live comfortably. Having my own place with no roommates (or mentally ill family members screaming at me) brings me a lot of peace. Being able to just uber somewhere when I have an appointment but feel too tired to take public transit for 45 minutes makes my life easier. There are a lot of problems in life that you can make disappear (or simplify a lot) by throwing a little money at them. You can remove a lot of stress factors. Money gives you more freedom to choose what you want your life to be like.<p>The flipside is that I know very well that, if I&#x27;m in an anxious mindset, my brain will find things to worry and be unhappy about. I know being a multi-millionaire wouldn&#x27;t bring me bliss, but... Being able to work on my own projects, as much as I want, whenever I want. That would be fucking awesome.</text></comment> | <story><title>RxBar co-founder Peter Rahal on life after becoming a millionaire</title><url>https://marker.medium.com/what-really-happens-when-you-become-an-overnight-millionaire-acac42990175</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dvt</author><text>I don&#x27;t like articles like this for two reasons: (1) they trivialize actually building a company, growing it, and selling it, and (2), they provide comfort for those that don&#x27;t have the drive&#x2F;luck&#x2F;privilege of getting there by arguing that &quot;hey, money doesn&#x27;t make you happy!&quot;<p>First of all, as others mention in the thread, this is hardly an example of an &quot;overnight success&quot; -- there are <i>no</i> such examples, barring a few extreme outliers. Not only do the great majority of startups fail, the great majority of successes grind for years and years before seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. It&#x27;s not like some dream-land utopia. If you&#x27;re like me (and I think most HN&#x27;ers are), you continue building stuff in <i>spite</i> of the overwhelming odds. <i>That&#x27;s</i> the real lesson here. Trying, failing, trying, failing, and doing this over and over, even though expecting a different outcome is technically insanity.<p>Secondly, the adage of &quot;money doesn&#x27;t bring happiness&quot; is obvious to anyone that&#x27;s not young or incredibly naive. We <i>get</i> it -- money is not the end-all of life (duh). But at the same time, can we not kid ourselves? Money makes life <i>much</i> easier than the alternative. Anyone that grew up poor and achieved some modicum of success (I grew up in essential poverty in a third world country; now I make a &quot;modest&quot; six figure salary and live in Los Angeles) realizes this. I&#x27;m reminded of a (2008 crash) documentary I saw years ago where a banker says: &quot;I grew up poor, and now I&#x27;m rich; trust me, I&#x27;d rather be rich.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tempsy</author><text>I don&#x27;t really get your point. First of all, this isn&#x27;t an &quot;article.&quot; It&#x27;s a story about one founder and one company. It&#x27;s not supposed to be a middle-of-the-road case study on building startups.<p>Nowhere in the story does he suggest that being poor would be better than being rich or that having financial security isn&#x27;t objectively better than the opposite. He&#x27;s basically saying that the downside of his wealth is living a life without purpose because he can afford to do nothing all day, and how he misses the feeling of having a purpose to wake up to.<p>Even if you aren&#x27;t extremely rich, I think most people can relate to that feeling. The reason why the story resonates is because it&#x27;s a reminder that <i>money does not buy purpose</i> more than anything else.</text></comment> |
27,778,977 | 27,777,119 | 1 | 2 | 27,776,184 | train | <story><title>Death rates are declining for many common cancers in the U.S., report finds</title><url>https://www.statnews.com/2021/07/08/cancer-death-rates-2021/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cancerhacker</author><text>I created this account on July 28, 2014 [1] - I had(have?) stage IV Colon Cancer with liver metastases. I did a FOLFIRI regime with cetaximab, then a colon resection with a general surgeon.<p>My oncologist was great (ucsf medical center) - but the surgeon refused to address my liver mets - they were too large and distributed.<p>My wife found out about a specialist at Sloan-Kettering in Manhattan that uses something called a Hepatic Arterial Infusion Pump - a hockypuck that delivers 50x a chemo dose directly to the liver. That was implanted in my abdomen and I flew between SF and New York to get it refilled every 4 weeks for six months. Their surgeon then resected 75% of my liver. (Skipping a few steps here. I had another met that they couldn’t get surgically and they got it with 10 rounds of radiation.)<p>My company was very supportive and our health insurance picked up most of the cost - over US $2million (so far?)<p>I was hospitalized several times after the surgeries for post operative infections - in a way they seemed far more difficult for the doctors to address than the cancer itself.<p>Oh, while the Cetaximab shrank the tumors, the skin rash it caused was absolutely wretched - my cuticles would bleed and had to wear finger cots and gloves to protect them. And my eyelashes grew about 3x their normal length.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8095321" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8095321</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Death rates are declining for many common cancers in the U.S., report finds</title><url>https://www.statnews.com/2021/07/08/cancer-death-rates-2021/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>opportune</author><text>A close family member has stage 4 cancer.<p>Even if the absolute death rates for some cancers are relatively unchanged, one of the amazing things I’ve observed is that medical advances have increased the long term survival rates of terminal&#x2F;metastaticized cancers. It’s partially due to the development of various drugs that have been identified as effective against various specific mutations. Even if the cancer is incurable with existing technology, they can extend lives by years, which is nothing to sneeze at. Especially considering many people get diagnosed with cancer once they are elderly already, it can mean the difference between dying directly of cancer and living long enough to die of something else - ie the cancer becomes something more like a chronic condition than it does a direct threat (for a period of time).</text></comment> |
5,174,125 | 5,173,939 | 1 | 2 | 5,173,570 | train | <story><title>PBS’s “Silicon Valley” to Debut Tonight</title><url>http://allthingsd.com/20130205/a-little-slice-of-geek-history-pbs-silicon-valley-set-to-debut-tonight-video/?reflink=ATD_myyahoo</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alaskamiller</author><text>In another 5 years they'll finally get around to producing a show about Silicon Valley now.<p>About how the silicon became fabless and offshored. About how Indians took over Koreatown, how all the buildings along the 101 stretch went up then empty.<p>About how the pioneers settled down while the goldrushers came in wanting a piece in San Francisco even though the 49ers came down to Santa Clara. About how the old campuses went away and got replaced by higher density condos since no one could afford houses.<p>About how there were the rich and the other half scrambled. About what happens in the middle of the night in those Sunnyvale corporate parks.<p>About how it's just really bitter and sweet as home.</text></comment> | <story><title>PBS’s “Silicon Valley” to Debut Tonight</title><url>http://allthingsd.com/20130205/a-little-slice-of-geek-history-pbs-silicon-valley-set-to-debut-tonight-video/?reflink=ATD_myyahoo</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rmason</author><text>Saw an early screening in Ann Arbor a few months back. It's definitely worth watching to get an idea of how Silicon Valley was built.<p>Also worth watching is Steve Blank's secret history of Silicon Valley <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo</a></text></comment> |
23,831,651 | 23,830,661 | 1 | 2 | 23,830,432 | train | <story><title>Is It Time to Kill the Penny?</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2020/07/14/890435359/is-it-time-to-kill-the-penny</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>UI_at_80x24</author><text>Yes.<p>Canada stopped producing pennies in the fall of 2012. [0]
The sky didn&#x27;t fall.
There was no great debate, no public opinion polls and politicians swearing heartily about the demise of our great nation. (Ok that&#x27;s probably not true. For too many politicians that&#x27;s all they do.)<p>There was resistance when Canada dropped the $1 bill in favour of a Loonie (a $1 coin with the image of a loon on it). People bitched about having too much change in there pocket, pockets became too heavy, etc. I do however see more coins in tip &amp; donation jars now then I ever saw paper money.<p>This is a key difference between US policy &amp; Canadian policy that I have informally noticed while growing up on the border (with family ties on both sides).<p>Canadian government: We think it&#x27;s a good idea, so we&#x27;re going to do it.<p>US Government: Lets have more opinion polls, and countless politicians swearing against any decent public reform or change to the status quo. Watch the media whip the public up into a frenzy. I guaranty that this will create a more frantic response and airtime then the BLM &amp; Police Reform protests did.<p>Side note: If you drop the penny, for the love of $diety change your sales tax structure so that it&#x27;s a multiple of 5. 5%, 10%, 15%, etc... Since Canada changed but left the taxes the same (14% in Ontario IIRC) there seems to be a lot of rounding-off in favour of companies instead of consumers.
$0.01-$0.02 per transaction * millions of transactions per day has got to make some accountants happy.<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbc.ca&#x2F;news&#x2F;canada&#x2F;canada-s-penny-withdrawal-all-you-need-to-know-1.1174547" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbc.ca&#x2F;news&#x2F;canada&#x2F;canada-s-penny-withdrawal-all...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nayuki</author><text>&gt; Since Canada changed but left the taxes the same (14% in Ontario IIRC) there seems to be a lot of rounding-off in favour of companies instead of consumers. $0.01-$0.02 per transaction<p>This assertion is wrong. If the item you buy is $1.00, then after your 14% tax it will be $1.14, which is rounded up to $1.15. If the item is $2.00, then after tax it is $2.28, which also rounds up to $2.30. But if the item is $3.00, then after tax it is $3.42, which rounds down to $3.40. If the item is $4.00, then after tax it is $4.56, which rounds down to $4.55.<p>Secondly, the rounding to nearest nickel is done per transaction, not per item. So if you go to a supermarket and pick up 3 items costing exactly $1.00, then the total you owe is $3.42 (which becomes $3.40 in cash), and it is that amount that is subjected to rounding, not the individual items (which are $1.13 and would round to $1.15).<p>I live in Toronto and have analyzed my retail receipts. (I&#x27;m aware the HST is currently 13% but that&#x27;s not relevant to this argument.) The rule about rounding to the nearest nickel is sensible enough, but I&#x27;ve witnessed various weird behaviors. For example, each vendor has a different kind of wording to show how they rounded your cash transaction. Some use a negative sign to show that the penny rounding deducted money from your total owed, while some use a negative sign to show that the penny rounding increased your total owed (as if you paid negative money). Also, a few vendors always round down to the nearest 5 cents (to appear nice to the customer), which causes a surprise when I&#x27;m trying to prepare the correct amount of change. Finally, some vendors don&#x27;t display cash rounding on their receipts, so for them it is an oral culture that isn&#x27;t formally written down.</text></comment> | <story><title>Is It Time to Kill the Penny?</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2020/07/14/890435359/is-it-time-to-kill-the-penny</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>UI_at_80x24</author><text>Yes.<p>Canada stopped producing pennies in the fall of 2012. [0]
The sky didn&#x27;t fall.
There was no great debate, no public opinion polls and politicians swearing heartily about the demise of our great nation. (Ok that&#x27;s probably not true. For too many politicians that&#x27;s all they do.)<p>There was resistance when Canada dropped the $1 bill in favour of a Loonie (a $1 coin with the image of a loon on it). People bitched about having too much change in there pocket, pockets became too heavy, etc. I do however see more coins in tip &amp; donation jars now then I ever saw paper money.<p>This is a key difference between US policy &amp; Canadian policy that I have informally noticed while growing up on the border (with family ties on both sides).<p>Canadian government: We think it&#x27;s a good idea, so we&#x27;re going to do it.<p>US Government: Lets have more opinion polls, and countless politicians swearing against any decent public reform or change to the status quo. Watch the media whip the public up into a frenzy. I guaranty that this will create a more frantic response and airtime then the BLM &amp; Police Reform protests did.<p>Side note: If you drop the penny, for the love of $diety change your sales tax structure so that it&#x27;s a multiple of 5. 5%, 10%, 15%, etc... Since Canada changed but left the taxes the same (14% in Ontario IIRC) there seems to be a lot of rounding-off in favour of companies instead of consumers.
$0.01-$0.02 per transaction * millions of transactions per day has got to make some accountants happy.<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbc.ca&#x2F;news&#x2F;canada&#x2F;canada-s-penny-withdrawal-all-you-need-to-know-1.1174547" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbc.ca&#x2F;news&#x2F;canada&#x2F;canada-s-penny-withdrawal-all...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bruce511</author><text>&gt;&gt; $0.01-$0.02 per transaction * millions of transactions per day has got to make some accountants happy.<p>You&#x27;d think, but actually no. That&#x27;s because it&#x27;s per transaction, so the accumulated amount is well pennies compared to the turnover.<p>For example, say you always rounded in favor of the company. That means an average of 2c gain per transaction. If you do 2 million transactions a day that&#x27;s... 40 grand! yay. Except that if the average transaction is say $50 (which seems kinda low) that means your turnover for the day was $100 million.<p>So, in short, if you are making a lot from the rounding error, well you&#x27;re making a lot lot from the actual sales.</text></comment> |
12,132,083 | 12,131,999 | 1 | 3 | 12,106,723 | train | <story><title>How to Keep a Journal</title><url>http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/07/15/how-to-keep-a-journal/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Fraterkes</author><text>This is what I find appealing about journaling, but I just find the thought that someone might find mu journal and read all my thoughts over the years kinda scary. Do you do anything to protect your journal?</text></item><item><author>DarkTree</author><text>When I started journaling, I promised myself that I would be honest with myself, because the purpose of journaling was to chronicle what I was thinking at that time in my life. I not only write out moments that stand out in that day, like things that went wrong or went well, but how I feel about those events. Most of the time this revolves around my interactions with people, or lack of interactions with people. I also write about what I am especially grateful for that day, what I&#x27;m looking forward to, and what I&#x27;m doing today to get me there. It is a very cathartic experience to go back months&#x2F;years later and read it. You get such an insight into the person you were, but more notably, realize that you do actually change over time even if sometimes it doesn&#x27;t feel like it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tgb</author><text>I sometimes write in encrypted files through vim for this reason. :X does the trick.<p>It feels juvenile to hide it when I know no one will care, but the idea that it can be entirely personal opens the option to being more honest. Future self can still be judgemental, but the only way to avoid that is to pipe it to &#x2F;dev&#x2F;null instead.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to Keep a Journal</title><url>http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/07/15/how-to-keep-a-journal/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Fraterkes</author><text>This is what I find appealing about journaling, but I just find the thought that someone might find mu journal and read all my thoughts over the years kinda scary. Do you do anything to protect your journal?</text></item><item><author>DarkTree</author><text>When I started journaling, I promised myself that I would be honest with myself, because the purpose of journaling was to chronicle what I was thinking at that time in my life. I not only write out moments that stand out in that day, like things that went wrong or went well, but how I feel about those events. Most of the time this revolves around my interactions with people, or lack of interactions with people. I also write about what I am especially grateful for that day, what I&#x27;m looking forward to, and what I&#x27;m doing today to get me there. It is a very cathartic experience to go back months&#x2F;years later and read it. You get such an insight into the person you were, but more notably, realize that you do actually change over time even if sometimes it doesn&#x27;t feel like it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Posibyte</author><text>Inside the front cover of my journals, I have written &quot;You wouldn&#x27;t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.&quot;<p>I snatched that from GoodQuotes. I&#x27;m no poet, but I feel like it carries a lot of truth. If somebody wanted to rob my house, if all of my most private thoughts and truths were stacked on the coffee table in the front room, they would still make off with my TV, and those books would still be sitting there when I came back to the aftermath.</text></comment> |
6,067,203 | 6,066,897 | 1 | 2 | 6,066,461 | train | <story><title>Physicists offer new theory on cancer</title><url>https://asunews.asu.edu/20130712_pauldavies_cancer_research</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tokenadult</author><text>Ah, yes, a university press release, with its well known role in the Science News Cycle.<p><a href="http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1174" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.phdcomics.com&#x2F;comics.php?f=1174</a><p>I wish these researchers well. Cancer has been tough to treat,<p><a href="http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/why-havent-we-cured-cancer-yet/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencebasedmedicine.org&#x2F;why-havent-we-cured-canc...</a><p>in large part because &quot;cancer&quot; is not really just one disease, but a general term for a variety of related diseases with many different kinds of outcomes and treatment trade-offs.<p>If someone can find a very general commonality to most cancers, with a treatment for that commonality that is safe and effective (and not too expensive) for human beings around the world, that person will of course win a Nobel Prize in medicine. Here on Hacker News, over the 1704 days that I have been here, I have seen many kind submissions of breathless claims of breakthroughs in cancer research. We all desire that cancer breakthroughs happen. Follow-up, so far, has not suggested that any such cancer breakthrough actually has happened. I wish the researchers well, and I hope to hear later about placebo-controlled multicenter clinical trials that show that this approach is safe and effective for human medicine.</text></comment> | <story><title>Physicists offer new theory on cancer</title><url>https://asunews.asu.edu/20130712_pauldavies_cancer_research</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jforman</author><text>&quot;Davies and Lineweaver are currently testing this prediction by comparing gene expression data from cancer biopsies with phylogenetic trees going back 1.6 billion years, with the help of Luis Cisneros, a postdoctoral researcher with ASU&#x27;s Beyond Center.&quot;<p>Press releases for untested scientific conjectures (further nerd-rage inducing by calling it a &quot;theory&quot; in official communication) raises a red flag for me: it suggests that the investigators aren&#x27;t fully skeptical of whether their conjecture actually represents the real world, and increases the probability that they&#x27;ll introduce bias in their investigation.<p>The article (<a href="http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/indepth/2013/jul/01/exposing-cancers-deep-evolutionary-roots" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;physicsworld.com&#x2F;cws&#x2F;article&#x2F;indepth&#x2F;2013&#x2F;jul&#x2F;01&#x2F;expo...</a>) is 100% hand-waving imo:<p>&quot;Could it be, we wonder, that cancer’s predilection for a hypoxic environment reflects the prevailing conditions on Earth at the time when multicellularity first evolved, before the second great oxygenation event?&quot;<p>&quot;Wondering,&quot; alas, is not science! We need a model, a hypothesis, and a well-controlled experiment to actually discern truth.</text></comment> |
32,528,137 | 32,528,181 | 1 | 2 | 32,526,122 | train | <story><title>Seeing like a state, progress and poverty, and owning land</title><url>http://www.loukidelis.com/on-land-ownership.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>motohagiography</author><text>&gt;<i>I bought my house 55 years ago, and in the time that I’ve lived in it the city has grown up around me so that the plot of land that my house sits on is now extremely valuable.</i><p>Examples like these ignore that the reason the land around them is vaulable is by virtue of the people living there making it a better and more prosperous place. They <i>earn</i> the windfall for the time they spend there without making it worse. Someone who has lived in a house for 55 years didn&#x27;t watch its value appreciate, their lives made the area around them appreciate. The reason neighbourhoods get gentrified is because the residents made them attracitve. The reason neighbourhoods decay is because people don&#x27;t invest themselves in them long enough, or because they don&#x27;t invest in them at all because they want to get out.<p>The ostensible justice of taking this investment from people via high taxes is dispicably cynical. Only a bandit looks at what you have and tells you it&#x27;s theirs. It makes common ground impossible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>swatcoder</author><text>&gt; The reason neighbourhoods get gentrified is because the residents made them attracitve. The reason neighbourhoods decay is because people don&#x27;t invest themselves in them long enough, or because they don&#x27;t invest in them at all because they want to get out.<p>Gentrification isn’t an art project. It’s people with more wealth or income-opportunity coming in and buying up cheap stuff at the prices they can afford. That a prettier coffee shop with gourmet pastries opens up, or that the restaurants have cutesy little parklets, is a second order effect.<p>In most cases, what makes the neighborhood “more attractive” and starts this in motion is either a growing industry within commute distance or that some <i>other</i> neighborhood got too pricey.<p>It has very little to do with the prior or new people in the neighborhood, except that the new people have access to more money than the old people and so price them out. Care for community or other forms of moral character have absolutely zero to do with it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Seeing like a state, progress and poverty, and owning land</title><url>http://www.loukidelis.com/on-land-ownership.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>motohagiography</author><text>&gt;<i>I bought my house 55 years ago, and in the time that I’ve lived in it the city has grown up around me so that the plot of land that my house sits on is now extremely valuable.</i><p>Examples like these ignore that the reason the land around them is vaulable is by virtue of the people living there making it a better and more prosperous place. They <i>earn</i> the windfall for the time they spend there without making it worse. Someone who has lived in a house for 55 years didn&#x27;t watch its value appreciate, their lives made the area around them appreciate. The reason neighbourhoods get gentrified is because the residents made them attracitve. The reason neighbourhoods decay is because people don&#x27;t invest themselves in them long enough, or because they don&#x27;t invest in them at all because they want to get out.<p>The ostensible justice of taking this investment from people via high taxes is dispicably cynical. Only a bandit looks at what you have and tells you it&#x27;s theirs. It makes common ground impossible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>imtringued</author><text>&gt;Examples like these ignore that the reason the land around them is vaulable is by virtue of the people living there making it a better and more prosperous place.<p>You are ignoring that the new arrivals increase the land value of existing residents. You are ignoring that the government uses income taxes etc to invest into the community, not private land owners, effectively punishing the government and renters for good investments as their income taxes improve the value of the land which then results in them paying more rent. Doing the right thing ends up making a lot of people poorer and land owners richer. So now your government is heavily encouraged to do corrupt projects that benefit the politicians rather than the public. Lots of public transportation projects could pay for themselves through an LVT but without an LVT they drain the renter&#x27;s and governments pockets.<p>Honestly, the idea that when a town grows from 10k to 100k that it&#x27;s only the 10k original residents that create the value and those other 90k are just useless deadweights living off the hard work of older residents is ridiculous when land ownership is just about fencing off something that was already there. When you think about it, the real deadweight is someone demanding to get paid for something they didn&#x27;t create. It is the community as a whole that makes land valuable, not the owners of the land.</text></comment> |
24,337,144 | 24,336,946 | 1 | 2 | 24,336,431 | train | <story><title>Cloth masks do protect the wearer</title><url>https://theconversation.com/cloth-masks-do-protect-the-wearer-breathing-in-less-coronavirus-means-you-get-less-sick-143726</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cbsks</author><text>The linked article seems to back it up: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;link.springer.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;10.1007&#x2F;s11606-020-06067-8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;link.springer.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;10.1007&#x2F;s11606-020-06067-8</a><p>&gt; In a more recent report from a different cruise ship outbreak, all passengers were issued surgical masks and all staff provided N95 masks after the initial case of COVID-19 on the ship was detected. In this closed setting with masking, where 128 of 217 passengers and staff eventually tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 via RT-PCR, the majority of infected patients on the ship (81%) remained asymptomatic, compared with 18% in the cruise ship outbreak without masking.<p>&gt; A report from a pediatric hemodialysis unit in Indiana, where all patients and staff were masked, demonstrated that staff rapidly developed antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 after exposure to a single symptomatic patient with COVID-19. In the setting of masking, however, none of the new infections was symptomatic. And in a recent outbreak in a seafood processing plant in Oregon where all workers were issued masks each day at work, the rate of asymptomatic infection among the 124 infected was 95%. An outbreak in a Tyson chicken plant in Arkansas with masking also showed a 95% asymptomatic rate of infection.</text></item><item><author>nostromo</author><text>This article speaks in a very authoritative tone, but the assertions aren&#x27;t fully backed by the research it links to.<p>And it bothers me that the quote, &quot;dramatically less likely&quot; is not a quote from the linked research, but seemingly just a pull quote of the article itself.<p>I support people wearing masks, even if it turned out to only be marginally better than not wearing one, but this article is borderline overreaching.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrisco255</author><text>That cruise ship didn&#x27;t issue masks until after the outbreak had occurred: &quot;The first recorded fever on board the ship was a febrile passenger on day 8. Isolation protocols were immediately commenced, with all passengers confined to cabins and surgical masks issued to all. Full personal protective equipment was used for any contact with any febrile patients, and N95 masks were worn for any contact with passengers in their cabins. The crew still performed duties, including meal services to the cabin doors three times a day, but rooms were not serviced. Expedition staff helped with crew duties at meal service.&quot;<p>So passengers were already infected when that 81% figure was computed.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thorax.bmj.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;75&#x2F;8&#x2F;693" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thorax.bmj.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;75&#x2F;8&#x2F;693</a><p>In a village in Tuscany, over 3000 people were actively tested and 50-75% were asymptomatic: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bmj.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;368&#x2F;bmj.m1165" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bmj.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;368&#x2F;bmj.m1165</a><p>And among NYC labor and delivery patients, 88 percent were asymptomatic: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;outlook&#x2F;2020&#x2F;04&#x2F;20&#x2F;we-tested-all-our-patients-covid-19-found-lots-asymptomatic-cases&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;outlook&#x2F;2020&#x2F;04&#x2F;20&#x2F;we-tested-...</a><p>This number is not at all unusual in the general population, regardless of mask wearing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cloth masks do protect the wearer</title><url>https://theconversation.com/cloth-masks-do-protect-the-wearer-breathing-in-less-coronavirus-means-you-get-less-sick-143726</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cbsks</author><text>The linked article seems to back it up: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;link.springer.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;10.1007&#x2F;s11606-020-06067-8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;link.springer.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;10.1007&#x2F;s11606-020-06067-8</a><p>&gt; In a more recent report from a different cruise ship outbreak, all passengers were issued surgical masks and all staff provided N95 masks after the initial case of COVID-19 on the ship was detected. In this closed setting with masking, where 128 of 217 passengers and staff eventually tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 via RT-PCR, the majority of infected patients on the ship (81%) remained asymptomatic, compared with 18% in the cruise ship outbreak without masking.<p>&gt; A report from a pediatric hemodialysis unit in Indiana, where all patients and staff were masked, demonstrated that staff rapidly developed antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 after exposure to a single symptomatic patient with COVID-19. In the setting of masking, however, none of the new infections was symptomatic. And in a recent outbreak in a seafood processing plant in Oregon where all workers were issued masks each day at work, the rate of asymptomatic infection among the 124 infected was 95%. An outbreak in a Tyson chicken plant in Arkansas with masking also showed a 95% asymptomatic rate of infection.</text></item><item><author>nostromo</author><text>This article speaks in a very authoritative tone, but the assertions aren&#x27;t fully backed by the research it links to.<p>And it bothers me that the quote, &quot;dramatically less likely&quot; is not a quote from the linked research, but seemingly just a pull quote of the article itself.<p>I support people wearing masks, even if it turned out to only be marginally better than not wearing one, but this article is borderline overreaching.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rosywoozlechan</author><text>It makes intuitive sense that a face covering would reduce the viral load one is exposed to. I&#x27;ve heard of other studies that have shown that the degree of virus exposure affects outcomes. Those involved exposure time and exposure distance to symptomatic patients with COVID-19. If a face covering reduces the viral load you get exposed to, seems like it would have the same effect as getting a lower dose exposure due to being a greater distance away or because of a reduced exposure time with a contagious individual. I hope more research supports the benefits of masks as it sounds like good news.</text></comment> |
41,756,442 | 41,756,410 | 1 | 3 | 41,756,209 | train | <story><title>ByteDance is abusing the free video downloading service Cobalt for mass scraping</title><url>https://twitter.com/uwukko/status/1842538843720868016</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Tiberium</author><text>Important to note that the author <i>assumes</i> that this is ByteDance, but the ASN belongs to their cloud solution BytePlus, which could be used by other companies.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;sauceo_&#x2F;status&#x2F;1842866301066518875" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;sauceo_&#x2F;status&#x2F;1842866301066518875</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.byteplus.com&#x2F;en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.byteplus.com&#x2F;en</a></text></comment> | <story><title>ByteDance is abusing the free video downloading service Cobalt for mass scraping</title><url>https://twitter.com/uwukko/status/1842538843720868016</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>conradfr</author><text>Some time ago I noticed the ByteDance spider very aggressively scraping my modest side project and, more importantly, modest server.<p>I wrote to them to please stop (I think the address was in the user agent or something), they replied sorry and actually stopped.<p>Not sure why all these crawlers can&#x27;t pace themselves.</text></comment> |
10,545,148 | 10,544,570 | 1 | 2 | 10,543,938 | train | <story><title>FastMail under DDoS Attack</title><url>http://blog.fastmail.com/2015/11/11/ddos-attack-may-lead-to-potential-service-disruption-this-week/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mmaunder</author><text>We recently were hit by multiple DDoS attacks over a weekend. We have our own servers in a data center with 5 redundant 1 Gbps links. The DDoS was 20Gbps according to the upstream providers.<p>Our upstream implemented layer 7 mitigation which did an unbelievably effective job at stopping the attack in it&#x27;s tracks. I don&#x27;t know the tech that they used, but it performs deep packet inspection up to the application layer and they charge a modest additional fee for passing our traffic through that system.<p>The effect was that our traffic dropped to very slightly below normal levels during the attack, which would indicate that there were probably a few false positives, but we didn&#x27;t have a single customer complaint.</text></comment> | <story><title>FastMail under DDoS Attack</title><url>http://blog.fastmail.com/2015/11/11/ddos-attack-may-lead-to-potential-service-disruption-this-week/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kevinSuttle</author><text>And Protonmail. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;protonmail.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;protonmail-ddos-attacks&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;protonmail.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;protonmail-ddos-attacks&#x2F;</a><p>Fastmail, pro tip: don&#x27;t pay any ransom.</text></comment> |
7,064,414 | 7,064,354 | 1 | 3 | 7,063,703 | train | <story><title>Manifesto for Half-Arsed Agile Software Development</title><url>http://www.halfarsedagilemanifesto.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wpietri</author><text>Beautiful!<p>The thing that really kills me about this is that 90% of the people who are &quot;doing Agile&quot; (which is not a thing that you can do [1]) really believe that they are an Agile shop. And then I will ask as many as 3 questions to find out what they&#x27;re doing is waterfall, or mini-waterfall, or code-n-fix. In the old days I could say, &quot;Hey, you should try one of the Agile processes.&quot; Now they think they are doing that and doing it well (after all, they have certificates!), so what can I even tell them?<p>Everybody I talk to who was involved in the Agile movement in the 2000-2004 time frame has this experience now. Common reactions are rage, tears, and philosophical resignation. (I favor quiet rage, but I suspect resignation would be healthier.) That there are some shops doing very well is consolation, but the early Agile people were hoping for more.<p>For the whippersnappers who are curious about now-ancient history, my theory on how we went wrong is here: <a href="http://agilefocus.com/2011/02/21/agiles-second-chasm-and-how-we-fell-in/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;agilefocus.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;02&#x2F;21&#x2F;agiles-second-chasm-and-how...</a> A big lesson I learned was that if you don&#x27;t have a trademark and use it to keep quality high, your popular term will get buzzworded to death.<p>[1] Agile is an umbrella for actual processes, like Extreme Programming. There is no process called Agile to do. Saying you are &quot;doing Agile&quot; is like somebody saying their house is in America, but not in DC or any of the states, just America. If you point out that it&#x27;s the <i>United States</i> of America and they have to be somewhere; they just shrug.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pyre</author><text>&gt; somebody saying their house is in America, but not in DC or any of the states<p>I live on Midway Atoll, you insensitive clod! ;-)<p>(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territories_of_the_United_States" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Territories_of_the_United_State...</a>)</text></comment> | <story><title>Manifesto for Half-Arsed Agile Software Development</title><url>http://www.halfarsedagilemanifesto.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wpietri</author><text>Beautiful!<p>The thing that really kills me about this is that 90% of the people who are &quot;doing Agile&quot; (which is not a thing that you can do [1]) really believe that they are an Agile shop. And then I will ask as many as 3 questions to find out what they&#x27;re doing is waterfall, or mini-waterfall, or code-n-fix. In the old days I could say, &quot;Hey, you should try one of the Agile processes.&quot; Now they think they are doing that and doing it well (after all, they have certificates!), so what can I even tell them?<p>Everybody I talk to who was involved in the Agile movement in the 2000-2004 time frame has this experience now. Common reactions are rage, tears, and philosophical resignation. (I favor quiet rage, but I suspect resignation would be healthier.) That there are some shops doing very well is consolation, but the early Agile people were hoping for more.<p>For the whippersnappers who are curious about now-ancient history, my theory on how we went wrong is here: <a href="http://agilefocus.com/2011/02/21/agiles-second-chasm-and-how-we-fell-in/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;agilefocus.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;02&#x2F;21&#x2F;agiles-second-chasm-and-how...</a> A big lesson I learned was that if you don&#x27;t have a trademark and use it to keep quality high, your popular term will get buzzworded to death.<p>[1] Agile is an umbrella for actual processes, like Extreme Programming. There is no process called Agile to do. Saying you are &quot;doing Agile&quot; is like somebody saying their house is in America, but not in DC or any of the states, just America. If you point out that it&#x27;s the <i>United States</i> of America and they have to be somewhere; they just shrug.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shubb</author><text>To me, there are a bunch of people who can&#x27;t do Agile. They have huge legacy software projects, with low test coverage. They have customers that want (or can only cope with) traditional requirements based contracts.<p>In situations where agile doesn&#x27;t make sense, do you think &#x27;fake agile&#x27; can be a better way of working than 1990s waterfall?</text></comment> |
30,281,931 | 30,280,218 | 1 | 3 | 30,273,299 | train | <story><title>ASCII art for semantic code commenting</title><url>https://asciiflow.com/#/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>w4rh4wk5</author><text>For what it&#x27;s worth, I keep a file in my home folder containing some box drawing characters. It&#x27;s not super fast to draw by copy-paste but the result usually looks quite nice.<p><pre><code> ─ │ ┌ ┬ ┐
┄ ┆ ├ ┼ ┤ ╲ ╱
┈ ┊ └ ┴ ┘
━ ┃ ┏ ┳ ┓ ┏ ┯ ┓ ┏ ┳ ┓ ┏ ┯ ┓
┅ ┇ ┣ ╋ ┫ ┣ ┿ ┫ ┠ ╂ ┨ ┠ ┼ ┨
┉ ┋ ┗ ┻ ┛ ┗ ┷ ┛ ┗ ┻ ┛ ┗ ┷ ┛</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrismorgan</author><text>Vim has <i>digraphs</i> for all of these characters, which I like to use. e.g. you can get ┌ with &lt;C-K&gt;dr (d = down, r = right), and ┨ with &lt;C-K&gt;Vl (V = heavy vertical, l = left). To find the mappings, :digraphs shows the whole list, or copy this block of text and put the cursor over any of the characters in normal mode and type ga and it’ll echo things like “&lt;┠&gt; 9504, Hex 2520, Oct 22440, Digr Vr”.<p>(I use a Compose key for almost all character composition, with plenty of custom mappings in my ~&#x2F;.XCompose, but box drawing specifically I have skipped and use Vim digraphs, and so drop into Vim any time I want to write any.)</text></comment> | <story><title>ASCII art for semantic code commenting</title><url>https://asciiflow.com/#/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>w4rh4wk5</author><text>For what it&#x27;s worth, I keep a file in my home folder containing some box drawing characters. It&#x27;s not super fast to draw by copy-paste but the result usually looks quite nice.<p><pre><code> ─ │ ┌ ┬ ┐
┄ ┆ ├ ┼ ┤ ╲ ╱
┈ ┊ └ ┴ ┘
━ ┃ ┏ ┳ ┓ ┏ ┯ ┓ ┏ ┳ ┓ ┏ ┯ ┓
┅ ┇ ┣ ╋ ┫ ┣ ┿ ┫ ┠ ╂ ┨ ┠ ┼ ┨
┉ ┋ ┗ ┻ ┛ ┗ ┷ ┛ ┗ ┻ ┛ ┗ ┷ ┛</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sixstringtheory</author><text>For those on macOS&#x2F;iOS, using custom text expansions [0] also helps to do this without having to leave the doc you’re editing. I’ve built up tons of these over the years for things like ⌘ (“commandkey”) → (“rightarrow”) (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ (“tableflip”) and of course, a party parrot wave for Slack (“parrotwave” → :parrotwave1::parrotwave2::parrotwave3::parrotwave4::parrotwave5::parrotwave6::parrotwave7:). They can sync over iCloud and you can export&#x2F;import them with plists.<p>I now want to add table characters like these, just need to come up with a good naming convention…<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;en-gb&#x2F;guide&#x2F;mac-help&#x2F;mh35735&#x2F;12.0&#x2F;mac&#x2F;12.0#apda1248791ae294" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;en-gb&#x2F;guide&#x2F;mac-help&#x2F;mh35735&#x2F;12.0&#x2F;...</a></text></comment> |
9,512,263 | 9,511,769 | 1 | 3 | 9,510,793 | train | <story><title>I have something to hide</title><url>https://ihavesomethingtohi.de/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>juanito</author><text>I really appreciate the resources provided. But I&#x27;m not a fan of the website suggesting that I want&#x2F;need privacy because I have something to hide.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ndarilek</author><text>All of the below examples aside, why not? Why should your wanting to hide something be any more sinister than what you want for dinner? And if you yourself don&#x27;t have anything to hide, awesome. Is it not worth protecting <i>my</i> right to hide things should I want or need to?<p>There are many reasons to desire privacy other than wanting or needing to hide something. The existence of this site does not invalidate those. But one great technique, when someone holds a rhetorical gun to your head, is to just reach up and pluck out the bullets, reclaiming and sanitizing the opposition argument. &quot;If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.&quot; &quot;Guess what, I <i>do</i> have things to hide, and that shouldn&#x27;t get stigmatized.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>I have something to hide</title><url>https://ihavesomethingtohi.de/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>juanito</author><text>I really appreciate the resources provided. But I&#x27;m not a fan of the website suggesting that I want&#x2F;need privacy because I have something to hide.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>egwynn</author><text>Third parties are happy to extract value from data you share. Even if you’re not doing anything <i>wrong</i>, controlling that information has an impact. The way I see it, saying “I have something to hide” is, WLOG, the same as saying “I want to control what gets shared with whom.”<p>EDIT: If the site author is reading this, tip #6 misspells ‘diaspora’ as ‘dispoara’.</text></comment> |
7,144,579 | 7,144,374 | 1 | 3 | 7,143,438 | train | <story><title>Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel peace prize</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/29/edward-snowden-nominated-nobel-peace-prize</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CWuestefeld</author><text>This is clearly something that we as a society are going to have to wrestle with.<p>It seems reasonable to me that this person, having XY chromosomes and all the hardware that go with them, may be correctly referred to using masculine pronouns.<p>There&#x27;s something to be said for respecting the wishes of the individual in how they&#x27;d like to be addressed. But there&#x27;s definitely a point at which that drifts off into absurdity. Just because I can claim descent from Henry VIII doesn&#x27;t mean that I can reasonably expect people to address me as &quot;lord&quot;.<p>So I&#x27;m interested in respecting people, but think we need to let this percolate through society first, and determine where to draw reasonable lines, before you accuse someone of disrespect for failing to honor someone&#x27;s alternate world view.</text></item><item><author>ck2</author><text>If you respect Manning, please stop saying &quot;he&quot; and &quot;guy&quot;.</text></item><item><author>dferlemann</author><text>Fuck the world. He&#x27;s action is true to himself. For that, I respect the guy.</text></item><item><author>swalsh</author><text>Manning released a bunch of documents, but how did he change the world?</text></item><item><author>ck2</author><text>Everyone has already forgotten Pfc. Manning rotting away for 35 years.<p>I saw a &quot;free Snowden&quot; sign the other day which I thought was asinine.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Pxtl</author><text>There&#x27;s a time and a place to be pedantic, and this really isn&#x27;t it.<p>Transgendered people go through a heap of terrible, terrible crap and the least we can all do is give them the dignity of using their identified pronoun. If <i>anybody</i> has earned that respect, it&#x27;s ms. Manning.<p>I mean really, how the heck does it hurt <i>anybody</i> to say &quot;She&quot; instead of &quot;He&quot; after you&#x27;ve been informed that&#x27;s not how she identifies? Does it really matter that much? Obviously the extreme SJW flamewar reaction you usually see on misgendering is excessive, but after being <i>politely</i> informed that&#x27;s not how she identifies, how are you harmed by going along with it?<p>Will the ghost of Plato arise and smite you down for failing to properly class something?</text></comment> | <story><title>Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel peace prize</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/29/edward-snowden-nominated-nobel-peace-prize</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CWuestefeld</author><text>This is clearly something that we as a society are going to have to wrestle with.<p>It seems reasonable to me that this person, having XY chromosomes and all the hardware that go with them, may be correctly referred to using masculine pronouns.<p>There&#x27;s something to be said for respecting the wishes of the individual in how they&#x27;d like to be addressed. But there&#x27;s definitely a point at which that drifts off into absurdity. Just because I can claim descent from Henry VIII doesn&#x27;t mean that I can reasonably expect people to address me as &quot;lord&quot;.<p>So I&#x27;m interested in respecting people, but think we need to let this percolate through society first, and determine where to draw reasonable lines, before you accuse someone of disrespect for failing to honor someone&#x27;s alternate world view.</text></item><item><author>ck2</author><text>If you respect Manning, please stop saying &quot;he&quot; and &quot;guy&quot;.</text></item><item><author>dferlemann</author><text>Fuck the world. He&#x27;s action is true to himself. For that, I respect the guy.</text></item><item><author>swalsh</author><text>Manning released a bunch of documents, but how did he change the world?</text></item><item><author>ck2</author><text>Everyone has already forgotten Pfc. Manning rotting away for 35 years.<p>I saw a &quot;free Snowden&quot; sign the other day which I thought was asinine.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>king_jester</author><text>&gt; It seems reasonable to me that this person, having XY chromosomes and all the hardware that go with them, may be correctly referred to using masculine pronouns.<p>Gender != your chromosomes and gender != your &quot;hardware&quot; or any other body part for that matter. Gender is about social identity and structure.<p>&gt; There&#x27;s something to be said for respecting the wishes of the individual in how they&#x27;d like to be addressed. But there&#x27;s definitely a point at which that drifts off into absurdity. Just because I can claim descent from Henry VIII doesn&#x27;t mean that I can reasonably expect people to address me as &quot;lord&quot;.<p>Laying claim to a royal lineage is not the same as having a gender. Also, lord is a title and we are talking about pronouns, things used when talking about anyone.<p>&gt; So I&#x27;m interested in respecting people, but think we need to let this percolate through society first, and determine where to draw reasonable lines, before you accuse someone of disrespect for failing to honor someone&#x27;s alternate world view.<p>We already know where to draw reasonable lines: Manning has already publicly stated her gender. You have disrespected this person by misgendering them. Manning&#x27;s world view is not an &quot;alternate&quot; world view and you are being incredibly transphobic.</text></comment> |
12,116,505 | 12,116,227 | 1 | 2 | 12,114,185 | train | <story><title>What ever happened to Wordstar?</title><url>http://www.dvorak.org/blog/whatever-happened-to-wordstar-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>technosmurf</author><text>WordStar is popular with science fiction writers for more fundamental reasons. (Not because it doesn&#x27;t have spell check or isn&#x27;t connected to the internet.)<p>Wordstar treats the text like a long-hand manuscript. You can add notes to yourself like &quot;fix this!&quot; and deal with the edits later. Or, you can block copy large sections of text and have the computer keep a reference to it without having to &quot;copy and paste&quot; it immediately. I&#x27;ve seen George RR Martin write that he likes how easy it is to move large sections of text around in WordStar.<p>Here&#x27;s how the SF writer Robert J. Sawyer describes it:<p>&quot;... as a creative writer, I am convinced that the long-hand page is the better metaphor.<p>Consider: On a long-hand page, you can jump back and forth in your document with ease. You can put in bookmarks, either actual paper ones, or just fingers slipped into the middle of the manuscript stack. You can annotate the manuscript for yourself with comments like &quot;Fix this!&quot; or &quot;Don&#x27;t forget to check these facts&quot; without there being any possibility of you missing them when you next work on the document. And you can mark a block, either by circling it with your pen, or by physically cutting it out, without necessarily having to do anything with it right away. The entire document is your workspace...<p>WordStar&#x27;s ^Q (Quick cursor movement) and ^K (block) commands give me more of what I used to have when I wrote in longhand than any other product does. WordStar&#x27;s powerful suite of cursor commands lets me fly all over my manuscript, without ever getting lost. That&#x27;s because WordStar is constantly keeping track of where I&#x27;ve been and where I&#x27;m likely to want to go. ^QB will take me to the beginning of the marked block; ^QK will take me to the end; ^QV will take me to where the marked block was moved from; ^QP will take me to my previous cursor position. And, just as I used to juggle up to ten fingers inserted into various places in my paper manuscript, WordStar provides me with ten bookmarks, set with ^K0 through ^K9, and ten commands to jump to them, ^Q0 to ^Q9...<p>WordStar, with its long-hand-page metaphor, says, hey, do whatever you want whenever you want to. This is a good spot to mark the beginning of a block? Fine. What would you like to do next? Deal with the block? Continue writing? Use the thesaurus?<p>After another half hour of writing, I can say, ah hah!, this is where I want to end that block. And two hours later I can say, and this is where that block should go. I&#x27;m in control, not the program. That&#x27;s clearly more powerful, more intuitive, and more flexible than any other method of text manipulation I&#x27;ve yet seen implemented in a word processor. That WordStar lets me have separate marked blocks in each of its editing windows multiplies that power substantially: imagine doing a cut and paste job between two versions of a paper document, but being told that you could only have one piece cut out at a time. Madness! Yet that&#x27;s what WordPerfect, Microsoft Word, and others would force you to do. (In WordStar 7.0, you can even, in essence, have two marked blocks per window, toggling between them with the &quot;mark previous block&quot; command, ^KU.)&quot;<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sfwriter.com&#x2F;wordstar.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sfwriter.com&#x2F;wordstar.htm</a></text></item><item><author>Evolved</author><text>George R. R. Martin said he still uses it and one of the reasons he cited was that he types all his novels on a computer not connected to the Internet so he doesn&#x27;t have to worry about hackers leaking his material and also because of all the names, places, etc. in the book being made up, it doesn&#x27;t have spell check to keep interfering with his writing.(0)<p>(0) <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slate.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;future_tense&#x2F;2014&#x2F;05&#x2F;14&#x2F;george_r_r_martin_writes_on_dos_based_wordstar_4_0_software_from_the_1980s.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slate.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;future_tense&#x2F;2014&#x2F;05&#x2F;14&#x2F;george_r_...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>atombender</author><text>Borland&#x27;s IDEs (Turbo Pascal, etc.) also implemented the WordStar keyboard shortcuts and block behaviour, and it was amazingly productive.<p>You could mark a block (^KB to start, ^KK to end), and you could move around, find a place to insert it, then hit ^KV to move it there. Borland&#x27;s IDEs also had selecting (using shift+arrows like many UIs today), and didn&#x27;t affect blocks, which meant you could do some really fast editing by combining them.<p>The WordStar keystrokes currently survive in JOE [1], which I use as my $EDITOR. There&#x27;s also a tiny Atom plugin [2] which gives you those block commands.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Joe%27s_Own_Editor" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Joe%27s_Own_Editor</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;iarna&#x2F;atom-joe" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;iarna&#x2F;atom-joe</a></text></comment> | <story><title>What ever happened to Wordstar?</title><url>http://www.dvorak.org/blog/whatever-happened-to-wordstar-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>technosmurf</author><text>WordStar is popular with science fiction writers for more fundamental reasons. (Not because it doesn&#x27;t have spell check or isn&#x27;t connected to the internet.)<p>Wordstar treats the text like a long-hand manuscript. You can add notes to yourself like &quot;fix this!&quot; and deal with the edits later. Or, you can block copy large sections of text and have the computer keep a reference to it without having to &quot;copy and paste&quot; it immediately. I&#x27;ve seen George RR Martin write that he likes how easy it is to move large sections of text around in WordStar.<p>Here&#x27;s how the SF writer Robert J. Sawyer describes it:<p>&quot;... as a creative writer, I am convinced that the long-hand page is the better metaphor.<p>Consider: On a long-hand page, you can jump back and forth in your document with ease. You can put in bookmarks, either actual paper ones, or just fingers slipped into the middle of the manuscript stack. You can annotate the manuscript for yourself with comments like &quot;Fix this!&quot; or &quot;Don&#x27;t forget to check these facts&quot; without there being any possibility of you missing them when you next work on the document. And you can mark a block, either by circling it with your pen, or by physically cutting it out, without necessarily having to do anything with it right away. The entire document is your workspace...<p>WordStar&#x27;s ^Q (Quick cursor movement) and ^K (block) commands give me more of what I used to have when I wrote in longhand than any other product does. WordStar&#x27;s powerful suite of cursor commands lets me fly all over my manuscript, without ever getting lost. That&#x27;s because WordStar is constantly keeping track of where I&#x27;ve been and where I&#x27;m likely to want to go. ^QB will take me to the beginning of the marked block; ^QK will take me to the end; ^QV will take me to where the marked block was moved from; ^QP will take me to my previous cursor position. And, just as I used to juggle up to ten fingers inserted into various places in my paper manuscript, WordStar provides me with ten bookmarks, set with ^K0 through ^K9, and ten commands to jump to them, ^Q0 to ^Q9...<p>WordStar, with its long-hand-page metaphor, says, hey, do whatever you want whenever you want to. This is a good spot to mark the beginning of a block? Fine. What would you like to do next? Deal with the block? Continue writing? Use the thesaurus?<p>After another half hour of writing, I can say, ah hah!, this is where I want to end that block. And two hours later I can say, and this is where that block should go. I&#x27;m in control, not the program. That&#x27;s clearly more powerful, more intuitive, and more flexible than any other method of text manipulation I&#x27;ve yet seen implemented in a word processor. That WordStar lets me have separate marked blocks in each of its editing windows multiplies that power substantially: imagine doing a cut and paste job between two versions of a paper document, but being told that you could only have one piece cut out at a time. Madness! Yet that&#x27;s what WordPerfect, Microsoft Word, and others would force you to do. (In WordStar 7.0, you can even, in essence, have two marked blocks per window, toggling between them with the &quot;mark previous block&quot; command, ^KU.)&quot;<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sfwriter.com&#x2F;wordstar.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sfwriter.com&#x2F;wordstar.htm</a></text></item><item><author>Evolved</author><text>George R. R. Martin said he still uses it and one of the reasons he cited was that he types all his novels on a computer not connected to the Internet so he doesn&#x27;t have to worry about hackers leaking his material and also because of all the names, places, etc. in the book being made up, it doesn&#x27;t have spell check to keep interfering with his writing.(0)<p>(0) <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slate.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;future_tense&#x2F;2014&#x2F;05&#x2F;14&#x2F;george_r_r_martin_writes_on_dos_based_wordstar_4_0_software_from_the_1980s.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slate.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;future_tense&#x2F;2014&#x2F;05&#x2F;14&#x2F;george_r_...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blacksmith_tb</author><text>There are more modern word processors that implement many of these features, for example Scrivener[1] and Ulysses[2]. Clipboard managers also help quite a bit, I can&#x27;t do anything without one these days (but I also have a lot of commonly-used commands and blocks of code stored as snippets in mine, so it isn&#x27;t just for juggling).<p>1: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.literatureandlatte.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.literatureandlatte.com&#x2F;</a><p>2: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ulyssesapp.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ulyssesapp.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
16,791,598 | 16,791,425 | 1 | 3 | 16,789,866 | train | <story><title>Gut microbes are vulnerable to wide range of drugs</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-02780-x</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Semirhage</author><text>What I want to know is what to do about it by way of probiotic therapy or buffering agents and such. Efficacy of probiotics in practice seems mixed, so what exactly is the takeaway here for the practically minded person who sometimes takes anti-inflammatory medications?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>heymijo</author><text>I suggest reading the current wisdom from Dr. Les Dethlefson, human microbiota researcher at Stanford&#x27;s Relman lab [0].<p>In the link he addresses the difference between addressing an acute condition with probiotics versus long-term maintenance of health. Your question seems to land somewhere in the middle. So see what he has to say and please remember, this is far from settled science!<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;humanmicrobiota.weebly.com&#x2F;prebiotics--probiotics.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;humanmicrobiota.weebly.com&#x2F;prebiotics--probiotics.ht...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Gut microbes are vulnerable to wide range of drugs</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-02780-x</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Semirhage</author><text>What I want to know is what to do about it by way of probiotic therapy or buffering agents and such. Efficacy of probiotics in practice seems mixed, so what exactly is the takeaway here for the practically minded person who sometimes takes anti-inflammatory medications?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>forgotmypw</author><text>I think that the best thing one can do for their microbiome is to stop trying to kill germs in everything around us. Also, when a dog wants to kiss you, accept it. They are good at maintaining theirs.<p>Look at the ingredients on all the products you use. Unless it&#x27;s Dr. Bronner&#x27;s soap or something similar, chances it&#x27;s harmful to both humans and microbes. Just stop using and stop buying that shit!<p>Sterility is good for the operating table, but not for everyday life.</text></comment> |
28,208,497 | 28,207,859 | 1 | 2 | 28,207,168 | train | <story><title>Git 2.33</title><url>https://github.blog/2021-08-16-highlights-from-git-2-33/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chucky</author><text>I think this should link directly to Git&#x27;s release notes (e.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lore.kernel.org&#x2F;git&#x2F;[email protected]&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lore.kernel.org&#x2F;git&#x2F;[email protected]&#x2F;</a>), or the title should be updated to somehow reflect that this is Github&#x27;s blog post about the changes, not Git&#x27;s official announcement.<p>Git is not owned or stewarded by Github, and posts like this reinforce the common and unfortunate image that it is.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jasode</author><text><i>&gt;I think this should link directly to Git&#x27;s release notes (e.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lore.kernel.org&#x2F;git&#x2F;[email protected]&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lore.kernel.org&#x2F;git&#x2F;[email protected]&#x2F;</a>), </i><p>I disagree about that suggestion because I think it&#x27;s less friendly for the <i>wider more generalized</i> HN audience.<p>The very 1st sentence of the blog post already has a helpful hyperlink ref for the <i>&quot;released Git 2.33&quot;</i> that points to the official Git mailing list post.<p><i>&gt;The open source Git project just &lt;released Git 2.33==&quot;lore.kernel.org...&quot;&gt; with features and bug fixes from over 74 contributors, 19 of them new.</i><p>The rationale for why I believe this is better for most <i>casual</i> readers:<p>- The blog post has extra context and nice illustrations and lets more hardcore readers <i>also discover</i> the Junio C Hamano&#x27;s mailing list post for Git.<p>- But the reverse direction of information discovery is not as easy... if HN thread submission was the Junio C Hamano email text, there are no (reciprocal) links to the blog post by Github.<p>Sometimes, the urge to avoid posts from &lt;megacorporation&gt; is <i>reader hostile</i>.<p>ADD EDIT reply to : <i>&gt;OR it can link to the blogpost with a different title.</i><p>I thought this was superfluous&#x2F;redundant since &quot;(github.blog)&quot; in parentheses -- is already the composited title of the thread even if the submitter didn&#x27;t put &quot;Github&quot; in the title.<p><i>&gt;I did not notice an objection to linking to a mega corporation.</i><p>It was a general response to 3 comments (so far) I saw that indirectly complained about this thread being a Github blog post instead of something official from a Git maintainer such as a Junio C Hamano email.</text></comment> | <story><title>Git 2.33</title><url>https://github.blog/2021-08-16-highlights-from-git-2-33/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chucky</author><text>I think this should link directly to Git&#x27;s release notes (e.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lore.kernel.org&#x2F;git&#x2F;[email protected]&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lore.kernel.org&#x2F;git&#x2F;[email protected]&#x2F;</a>), or the title should be updated to somehow reflect that this is Github&#x27;s blog post about the changes, not Git&#x27;s official announcement.<p>Git is not owned or stewarded by Github, and posts like this reinforce the common and unfortunate image that it is.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>remus</author><text>I agree with the principal, but in practice the mailing list post is pretty inscrutable to me (as a casual git user, maybe more experienced users find it more helpful?) On the other hand the github blog post provides a lot of extra context and explanation around the changes which adds a lot of value to me.</text></comment> |
25,256,401 | 25,256,303 | 1 | 2 | 25,255,589 | train | <story><title>Tech’s flight from San Francisco is a relief to some advocates</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/29/good-riddance-techs-flight-from-san-francisco-is-a-relief-to-some.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>subsubzero</author><text>Act two of the tech&#x27;s flight will not be so pretty for SF. I don&#x27;t think the advocates will be thrilled with the results.<p>Given SF has been extremely heavy handed with the lockdowns, and a huge number of people leaving, alot of them well paid. Restaurants and businesses are closing(and moving out of the area) at a rapid pace. Expect a historic drop in revenue for the city, this means less services, less funding for education, more filth, more homeless, more drugs everywhere.<p>The residents who have the means will get fed up with the downward spiral, leading to a negative feedback in life quality and revenue. Politicians in SF always money hungry will then try to hit the &#x27;billionaires&#x27; where it hurts, &#x27;their wallets&#x27;, and try to raise taxes leading to more people leaving. Not everyone who is leaving is because of the cost of living, its also people who are fed up.<p>The quality of life thing is huge, half of my Wife&#x27;s good friends left the bay area the past year or two, a bunch of my co-workers in tech left and alot of it was people are sick of how poorly the place is run and is turning into a dump. I left in the summer and will never return, I grew up in the area so its been bittersweet, but I don&#x27;t regret moving one bit.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tech’s flight from San Francisco is a relief to some advocates</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/29/good-riddance-techs-flight-from-san-francisco-is-a-relief-to-some.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vecinu</author><text>This article is a rehash of existing information and an insult to tech workers that were forced out (such as myself).<p>If the day to day living conditions were actually acceptable, many people would have stayed during the pandemic. The real problem is the sky high cost of housing with a low quality of life.<p>I put up with increasing crime, dangerous grime (such as needles in bike lanes) and tent cities on sidewalks all over the place for a decade until my brain couldn&#x27;t take it anymore.<p>I have no problem paying Zurich level prices to live in SF due to its surrounding beauty, great opportunities and people but the mismanagement of the city has proven the high costs do not come with high quality of life.<p>I would share more but I&#x27;m typing on my phone, I&#x27;m just disappointed to see &quot;techies&quot; still being blamed and called money hungry just because people are looking the other way at other problems.</text></comment> |
5,881,088 | 5,880,359 | 1 | 2 | 5,880,162 | train | <story><title>Microsoft Said To Give Zero Day Exploits To US Government Before It Patches Them</title><url>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130614/02110223467/microsoft-said-to-give-zero-day-exploits-to-us-government-before-it-patches-them.shtml</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dguido</author><text>FFS people, this is called MAPP and the program has been public and a huge security success for the last few years. Microsoft advises lots of security companies about patches slightly before they are issued. That way, everyone has options on day 1 and people aren&#x27;t scrambling for additional mitigations every Patch Tuesday.<p>If you want to be outraged, check out all the Chinese companies on the list of partners!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoft.com&#x2F;security&#x2F;msrc&#x2F;collaboration&#x2F;mapp.aspx" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoft.com&#x2F;security&#x2F;msrc&#x2F;collaboration&#x2F;mapp.a...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft Said To Give Zero Day Exploits To US Government Before It Patches Them</title><url>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130614/02110223467/microsoft-said-to-give-zero-day-exploits-to-us-government-before-it-patches-them.shtml</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nullandnull</author><text>This has been going on for years. It&#x27;s a program that Microsoft created for passing along 0days to AV Vendors and companies so they could create detection mechanisms for it.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoft.com&#x2F;security&#x2F;msrc&#x2F;collaboration&#x2F;mapp.aspx#" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoft.com&#x2F;security&#x2F;msrc&#x2F;collaboration&#x2F;mapp.as...</a></text></comment> |
37,047,785 | 37,047,509 | 1 | 2 | 37,044,820 | train | <story><title>Monitoring your logs is mostly a tarpit</title><url>https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/LogMonitoringTarpit</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sethammons</author><text>Structured logging is my jam. Our unit tests validate error content, errors have all dynamic text in different fields, provide all info to reproduce (including, where appropriate, copy-pastable curl commands to replicate an error to remote api endpoints!) and log aggregators like Splunk can group and aggregate and find relationships.<p>If I see a spike in errors, I can, in real time, count them by user id, group by region, filter out by some other field, then have the table of events generate a live line chart easily showing the error rates over time, and pin pointing the exact moment an error started.<p>Less than five to ten minutes after detection or report and I can be talking with another team about a change they released at time $x, including a list of affected users for product teams to reach out to if needed.</text></comment> | <story><title>Monitoring your logs is mostly a tarpit</title><url>https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/LogMonitoringTarpit</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dale_glass</author><text>Most logging is insanity in action. Behold:<p><pre><code> 1.2.3.4 - - [08&#x2F;Aug&#x2F;2023:12:48:11 +0200] &quot;GET &#x2F;wp-config.php.bak HTTP&#x2F;1.1&quot; 404 196 &quot;-&quot; &quot;Mozilla&#x2F;5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit&#x2F;537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome&#x2F;47.0.2503.0 Safari&#x2F;537.36&quot;
</code></pre>
1. Apache has a perfectly coherent and structured view of the situation: Host 1.2.3.4 made a GET request of this particular URL, with this particular UA, at this particular date.<p>2. Apache proceeds to shove all this into a string, destroying the structure, and probably some of the data (it likely knows the timestamp with &gt;1s precision)<p>3. Then to do some sort of analysis we need to manually reverse this process: write some convoluted regex to match this kind of line, turn an IP address back into a number, turn a timestamp into a number, find the delimiters. We&#x27;re now undoing the damage Apache did. Why!?<p>4. For extra fun this adds extra problems to deal with log rotation, log compression, newlines and special characters in fields, and so on. All kinds of problems that are ultimately unproductive to solve and get in the way of actual useful work.<p>Logging should be structured by nature. I shouldn&#x27;t be writing weird regexps. I should have every message structured from the start, where I can search by &quot;ip_address is in 1.2.3&#x2F;24&quot;, or &quot;request == &#x27;GET&#x27;&quot;, or such. Every bit of data should be logged in its pristine form with zero ambiguity, with its original type, and analyzable accordingly.<p>I think systemd has the beginning of a good idea in here, in that you can actually do this if you care to, and can send arbitrary chunks of data (even binary) to the log if needed.<p>People who complain about journald not logging in plaintext honestly baffle me, because come on, whose idea of fun is it to do log parsing? And why are we spending CPU cycles on converting timestamps to text and parsing them back?</text></comment> |
16,761,007 | 16,760,312 | 1 | 3 | 16,744,575 | train | <story><title>A thread on on the beauty of procedurally generated maps</title><url>https://twitter.com/ptychomancer/status/980968298002006016</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>paxys</author><text>This is amazing, but I <i>really</i> wish people willing to put in this much effort would write a real article on literally any blogging&#x2F;publishing platform vs. an impossible to read Tweetstorm (or whatever this is called).</text></comment> | <story><title>A thread on on the beauty of procedurally generated maps</title><url>https://twitter.com/ptychomancer/status/980968298002006016</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>leeoniya</author><text>did not see this mentioned: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mxgmn&#x2F;WaveFunctionCollapse" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mxgmn&#x2F;WaveFunctionCollapse</a></text></comment> |
28,006,492 | 28,006,015 | 1 | 2 | 27,996,484 | train | <story><title>The fig is an ecological marvel</title><url>https://nautil.us/issue/104/harmony/the-incredible-fig</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>planetis</author><text>Fig producer here, I don&#x27;t get the backslash about fig ...flower, there is no tiny wasp in there, its entirely broken down by the tree&#x27;s enzymes. In ancient Greece it was the most popular and important fruit, a pillar of the economy.<p>...also the &quot;milky latex&quot; (that the tree bleeds) burns your skin and leaves scars. If in contact with my skin, I would wash it immediately and avoid any kind of experiments.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrissoundz</author><text>It is actually a great &quot;home remedy&quot; wart remover. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;17472688&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;17472688&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The fig is an ecological marvel</title><url>https://nautil.us/issue/104/harmony/the-incredible-fig</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>planetis</author><text>Fig producer here, I don&#x27;t get the backslash about fig ...flower, there is no tiny wasp in there, its entirely broken down by the tree&#x27;s enzymes. In ancient Greece it was the most popular and important fruit, a pillar of the economy.<p>...also the &quot;milky latex&quot; (that the tree bleeds) burns your skin and leaves scars. If in contact with my skin, I would wash it immediately and avoid any kind of experiments.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>the-smug-one</author><text>For what it&#x27;s worth I love figs. The varied texture, flavour and beauty. To me it&#x27;s an amazing fruit.</text></comment> |
21,120,581 | 21,120,063 | 1 | 2 | 21,119,553 | train | <story><title>HEAD – A guide to <head> elements</title><url>https://htmlhead.dev/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zmix</author><text>DublinCore[1] is totally missing! It once was <i>the</i> metadata standard, it&#x27;s understood by archives and libraries (including Library of Congress) worldwide, macOS will automatically import them into spotlight, etc.<p>Instead we find many of those tags (title, description, author, etc.) hidden behind the namespace of some corporations.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dublincore.org&#x2F;specifications&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dublincore.org&#x2F;specifications&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>HEAD – A guide to <head> elements</title><url>https://htmlhead.dev/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>saagarjha</author><text>&gt; The above 2 meta tags <i>must</i> come first in the &lt;head&gt; to consistently ensure proper document rendering.<p>It looks like they don&#x27;t follow their own advice:<p><pre><code> &lt;head&gt;
&lt;meta charset=&quot;utf-8&quot;&gt;
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24,588,511 | 24,588,161 | 1 | 3 | 24,565,930 | train | <story><title>Graalphp: An Efficient PHP Implementation Built on GraalVM</title><url>https://github.com/abertschi/graalphp</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sradman</author><text>Truffle is an integration layer for interpreted languages in GraalVM. The canonical Truffle language included in the Graal distribution is GraalJS, a replacement for the now deprecated Nashorn JavaScript engine for the JVM. Similarly, TruffleRuby is an alternative to JRuby and GraalPython is an alternative to Jython. Neither of these Truffle implementations has gained traction and they will not until they fully implement the main frameworks for each ecosystem (Ruby on Rails and Django&#x2F;NumPy respectively).<p>The same will hold true for a Truffle implementation of PHP. It will need to support the C interface components like PDO database drivers and the Laravel web framework.<p>The linked project was created as part of a graduate thesis and demonstrates the feasibility of GraalVM&#x2F;Truffle as a performant polyglot platform. I&#x27;m not convinced that Ruby&#x2F;Python&#x2F;PHP integration with Java Bytecode is an important use case moving forward. It could have been when Rails&#x2F;Django&#x2F;Laravel were on top of the web framework game but the demand for this use case is diminishing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Graalphp: An Efficient PHP Implementation Built on GraalVM</title><url>https://github.com/abertschi/graalphp</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>patates</author><text>What&#x27;s the licensing situation for GraalVM? Do they throw lawyers at you if you are making enough money like with other Oracle products[0]?<p>[0]: Please note that was the impression I got from reading anything Oracle related in HN, not personal experience. I don&#x27;t otherwise know what I&#x27;m talking about.<p>Signed: .NET developer very interested in the new developments in the Java World but heard too many scare stories.</text></comment> |
11,480,852 | 11,479,397 | 1 | 2 | 11,478,556 | train | <story><title>For life expectancy, money matters</title><url>http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/04/for-life-expectancy-money-matters/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AndrewKemendo</author><text>My go-to story whenever anyone says &quot;money can&#x27;t buy happiness&quot; is this:<p>A good friend of mine was diagnosed with Liver Cancer around the same time as Steve Jobs. Both lived near SF, and both were put on the waiting list for transplants around the same time (+- 2 months). She was young, very sick and otherwise healthy so was a good candidate to be high on the list.<p>Then I heard about Steve &quot;moving&quot; to Tennessee [1] to get on a different, shorter transplant list - and thus receiving the transplant needed. She died shortly after, never receiving a transplant, while Jobs lived two more years.<p>This is not a complaint or gripe about fairness, but just a demonstration of how two very different people in a very similar predicament had massively different outcomes based almost entirely on wealth, fame and power. Money buys access, which create options, which enable health, freedom and longevity. It&#x27;s so simple and obvious I don&#x27;t know how people can argue otherwise.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.commercialappeal.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;southern-transplants-how-apple-ceo-steve-jobs-got-the-liver-he-needed-in-memphis-ep-307208860-329010091.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.commercialappeal.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;southern-transplants-ho...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=od6Nq_bN_XY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=od6Nq_bN_XY</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pkaye</author><text>I&#x27;m on a transplant list for a kidney. The wait in the bay area is around 5 years. What I learned is you can be on multiple transplant lists as long as you can travel to the transplant center in under so many hours. Thus those who are rich enough to afford a private jet on-call can be on multiple transplant center lists.</text></comment> | <story><title>For life expectancy, money matters</title><url>http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/04/for-life-expectancy-money-matters/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AndrewKemendo</author><text>My go-to story whenever anyone says &quot;money can&#x27;t buy happiness&quot; is this:<p>A good friend of mine was diagnosed with Liver Cancer around the same time as Steve Jobs. Both lived near SF, and both were put on the waiting list for transplants around the same time (+- 2 months). She was young, very sick and otherwise healthy so was a good candidate to be high on the list.<p>Then I heard about Steve &quot;moving&quot; to Tennessee [1] to get on a different, shorter transplant list - and thus receiving the transplant needed. She died shortly after, never receiving a transplant, while Jobs lived two more years.<p>This is not a complaint or gripe about fairness, but just a demonstration of how two very different people in a very similar predicament had massively different outcomes based almost entirely on wealth, fame and power. Money buys access, which create options, which enable health, freedom and longevity. It&#x27;s so simple and obvious I don&#x27;t know how people can argue otherwise.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.commercialappeal.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;southern-transplants-how-apple-ceo-steve-jobs-got-the-liver-he-needed-in-memphis-ep-307208860-329010091.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.commercialappeal.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;southern-transplants-ho...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=od6Nq_bN_XY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=od6Nq_bN_XY</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chvid</author><text>I always thought that Steve Jobs was a perfect example that even if you were rich, famous, important you can still die very young.<p>I know in Denmark where everything health care is run by the public sector and there is a very egalitarian access; you also have the wealthy living considerable longer than the poor.<p>I think lifestyle factors such as good social life, meaningful professional life matter a lot. Probably more than health care access.</text></comment> |
40,816,850 | 40,815,680 | 1 | 3 | 40,815,130 | train | <story><title>Python grapples with Apple App Store rejections</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/979671/4fb7c1827536d1ae/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>josephcsible</author><text>It&#x27;s not just Python apps. It&#x27;s anything by small-time developers without expensive certificates. I once used MSVC to compile a C program that was little more than a &quot;Hello, World&quot;, and Defender called it the Win32&#x2F;Wacatac Trojan.</text></item><item><author>heavyset_go</author><text>It&#x27;s not just Apple that pulls shenanigans like this.<p>Try building a Python app with PyInstaller while you have Windows Defender live scanning on, which is the default setting. You won&#x27;t even be able to compile a binary without Defender preventing you from doing so.<p>Similarly, try running the binary produced by PyInstaller with Windows Defender on. Defender will say it&#x27;s malicious and won&#x27;t run it.<p>It&#x27;s a bit dystopian that both major OS platforms go out of their way to prevent you from distributing and running your Python apps.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yashg</author><text>The code signing certificates that MS requires are ridiculously expensive. It&#x27;s a cartel of certificate isseuers. It&#x27;s a downright robbery. We need something similar to Let&#x27;s Encrypt for code signing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Python grapples with Apple App Store rejections</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/979671/4fb7c1827536d1ae/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>josephcsible</author><text>It&#x27;s not just Python apps. It&#x27;s anything by small-time developers without expensive certificates. I once used MSVC to compile a C program that was little more than a &quot;Hello, World&quot;, and Defender called it the Win32&#x2F;Wacatac Trojan.</text></item><item><author>heavyset_go</author><text>It&#x27;s not just Apple that pulls shenanigans like this.<p>Try building a Python app with PyInstaller while you have Windows Defender live scanning on, which is the default setting. You won&#x27;t even be able to compile a binary without Defender preventing you from doing so.<p>Similarly, try running the binary produced by PyInstaller with Windows Defender on. Defender will say it&#x27;s malicious and won&#x27;t run it.<p>It&#x27;s a bit dystopian that both major OS platforms go out of their way to prevent you from distributing and running your Python apps.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>heavyset_go</author><text>&gt; <i>It&#x27;s not just Python apps. It&#x27;s anything by small-time developers without expensive certificates.</i><p>This is definitely the case and has been my experience, as well.<p>We live in some dark times when it comes to building and sharing anything as small developers, especially if the things you&#x27;re building are free.<p>I stopped updating my open-source Mac apps because I can&#x27;t justify the cost of jumping over artificial hurdles Apple puts in place that ensure users can&#x27;t run the apps they want to use. I have other hobbies where spending money actually gives me tangible goods and benefits versus paying an arbitrary yearly tax for the privilege to build stuff that ultimately benefits Apple.</text></comment> |
32,473,476 | 32,473,703 | 1 | 2 | 32,471,624 | train | <story><title>Win32 Is the Only Stable ABI on Linux?</title><url>https://blog.hiler.eu/win32-the-only-stable-abi/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LtWorf</author><text>I&#x27;ve been using wine and glibc for almost 20 years now and wine is waaaay more unstable than glibc.<p>Wine is nice until you try to play with sims3 after updating wine. Every new release of wine breaks it.<p>Please use wine for more than a few months before commenting on how good it is.<p>It&#x27;s normal that every new release some game stops working. Which is why steam offers the option to choose which proton version to use. If they all worked great one could just stick to the last.</text></item><item><author>iforgotpassword</author><text>Agree. Had a few games on Steam crap out with the native version, forced it to use proton with the Windows version, everything worked flawlessly. Developers natively porting to linux seem to be wasting their time.<p>Funnily enough with wine we <i>kinda</i> recreated the model of modern windows, where Win32 is a personality on top of the NTAPI which then interfaces with the kernel. Wine sits between the application and the zoo of libraries including libc that change all the time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>noirbot</author><text>As someone who&#x27;s been gaming on Proton or Lutris + Raw Wine, I&#x27;m not sure I agree. I regularly update Proton or Wine without seeing major issues or regressions. It certainly happens sometimes, but I&#x27;m not sure it&#x27;s any worse of a &quot;version binding&quot; problem than a lot of stuff in Linux is. Sure, sometimes you have to specifically use an older version, but getting &quot;native&quot; linux games to work on different GPU architectures or distros is a mess as well, and often involves pinning drivers or dependencies. I&#x27;ve had games not run on my Fedora laptop that run fine on my Ubuntu desktop, but for the most part, Wine or Proton installed things work the same across Linux installs, and often with better performance somehow.</text></comment> | <story><title>Win32 Is the Only Stable ABI on Linux?</title><url>https://blog.hiler.eu/win32-the-only-stable-abi/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LtWorf</author><text>I&#x27;ve been using wine and glibc for almost 20 years now and wine is waaaay more unstable than glibc.<p>Wine is nice until you try to play with sims3 after updating wine. Every new release of wine breaks it.<p>Please use wine for more than a few months before commenting on how good it is.<p>It&#x27;s normal that every new release some game stops working. Which is why steam offers the option to choose which proton version to use. If they all worked great one could just stick to the last.</text></item><item><author>iforgotpassword</author><text>Agree. Had a few games on Steam crap out with the native version, forced it to use proton with the Windows version, everything worked flawlessly. Developers natively porting to linux seem to be wasting their time.<p>Funnily enough with wine we <i>kinda</i> recreated the model of modern windows, where Win32 is a personality on top of the NTAPI which then interfaces with the kernel. Wine sits between the application and the zoo of libraries including libc that change all the time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andai</author><text>I used to say that Wine makes Linux tolerable, but after using it for several years I&#x27;ve concluded that Wine makes <i>Windows</i> tolerable.</text></comment> |
28,811,267 | 28,809,362 | 1 | 2 | 28,808,560 | train | <story><title>A new biography of John von Neumann</title><url>https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/a-new-biography-explains-the-genius-of-john-von-neumann/21805346</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>photochemsyn</author><text>John von Neumann was certainly involved in a lot of scientific discoveries, but from the review this looks more like a hagiography with a goal of rehabilitating the reputation of an incredibly gifted scientist&#x2F;mathematician whose coziness with the military-industrial complex remains controversial to this day. &#x27;John von Neumann, the theorist of mutual assured destruction&#x27;, is how many still view his record.<p>John von Neumann&#x27;s record illustrates why brilliant scientists may not be the best architects of foreign policy.
In particular, von Neumann&#x27;s belief in the inevitability of nuclear war led him to call for a first strike against Soviet cities before they could develop a nuclear arsenal. This is a rather difficult political-moral-ethical position to rehabilitate. One also gets the sense that a JvN was a bit stingy with sharing credit on major breakthroughs in computing.<p>Generally I find these &#x27;heroic genius&#x27; books about scientific personalities to get stale over time, while books that focus on the discoveries themselves and the many people who contributed are far more interesting and historically accurate. Richard Rhodes&#x27;s excellent work on the American and Soviet nuclear weapons programs is an example of the latter approach.</text></comment> | <story><title>A new biography of John von Neumann</title><url>https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/a-new-biography-explains-the-genius-of-john-von-neumann/21805346</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>1cvmask</author><text>The alien rat pack of STEM:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Martians_(scientists)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Martians_(scientists)</a><p>-<p>My favorite interaction is of von Neumann with Shannon regarding the coining of entropy:<p>What von Neumann Said to Shannon
When Shannon first derived his famous formula for information, he asked von Neumann what he should call it and von Neumann replied “You should call it entropy for two reasons: first because that is what the formula is in statistical mechanises but second and more important, as nobody knows what entropy is, whenever you use the term you will always be at an advantage!<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.spatialcomplexity.info&#x2F;what-von-neumann-said-to-shannon&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.spatialcomplexity.info&#x2F;what-von-neumann-said-to-s...</a></text></comment> |
10,126,848 | 10,126,795 | 1 | 2 | 10,126,587 | train | <story><title>Amazon Underground</title><url>https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1003016361</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eloff</author><text>I see this as hugely superior to the freemium model, both from the perspective of the user and the app developers. App developers no longer need to cripple their apps and sell in-app band-aids to make money. The developers of the more entertaining and engaging apps will make more money. End users no longer spend a bunch of time on a game only to find out they need to pay to advance to the next part, or bypass some artificial restriction that shouldn&#x27;t be there.<p>It just seems like a much more civil relationship.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gdeglin</author><text>This model comes with a few problems:<p>1) High quality games that are meant to be completed quickly will make less money relative to poor quality games that stretch out gameplay.<p>2) Developers become incentivized to stretch out gameplay to increase revenue.<p>3) Amazon Underground is covering the costs for now. But if users were asked to pay themselves, I&#x27;m sure many would balk at the idea of paying per-minute to play games.<p>All that aside, this is an interesting idea. I could see episodic games particularly benefiting from this model -- so long as they don&#x27;t fall into the trap of stretching out gameplay to increase revenue.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon Underground</title><url>https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1003016361</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eloff</author><text>I see this as hugely superior to the freemium model, both from the perspective of the user and the app developers. App developers no longer need to cripple their apps and sell in-app band-aids to make money. The developers of the more entertaining and engaging apps will make more money. End users no longer spend a bunch of time on a game only to find out they need to pay to advance to the next part, or bypass some artificial restriction that shouldn&#x27;t be there.<p>It just seems like a much more civil relationship.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Blaaguuu</author><text>I generally agree, but it seems like it could have some bad side-effects if it becomes a popular business model, though.<p>There are a handful of interesting paid apps that are very short, unique experiences - which don&#x27;t try to drag out the game to keep you playing it every day for months.<p>Its already getting harder and harder to actually sell&#x2F;buy apps for money upfront, and this seems like it will make it even harder. And while I seem to be in a tiny minority of &#x27;app&#x27; consumers, that is still my preferred method of obtaining new applications.</text></comment> |
3,874,795 | 3,873,746 | 1 | 3 | 3,872,613 | train | <story><title>The Top Of My Todo List</title><url>http://paulgraham.com/todo.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>edw519</author><text>When I first saw the title of this essay, I thought I already knew what I was going to say...<p>Something about how my own todo this now has only one item on it, the single most important thing to do next. I gravitated to this based on the great quote by chess master Jose Capablanca:<p>[When asked how many moves ahead he looked while playing]: "Only one, but it's always the right one." (from <a href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Ra%C3%BAl_Capablanca" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Ra%C3%BAl_Capablanca</a>).<p>Then I read pg's essay and Bronnie Ware's blog post and realized that this post was less about work and more about life.<p>Then it hit me: My life's todo list <i>still</i> has only one item on it and always has:<p>"Always do the right thing."<p>I realize that this can be very hand wavy because the "right thing" means something different to everyone and even something different to me at different times. But still, it has been the perfect #1 for my todo list.<p>Several years ago, my mother, who lived 1000 miles away, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and could no longer use the phone. So I began flying back to Pittsburgh every other weekend to be with her. After a while, even this wasn't enough. So I moved to Pittsburgh to be with her every day.<p>People tried to say the right thing to me, but it never was right. They'd say things like, "I admire your doing this, but you really don't have to because she doesn't even know who you are," or "You may be making a sacrifice now, but in time you won't regret it; you'll have nothing to be sorry for." And I thought, "How sad. After all these years these people still don't get it. This isn't a sacrifice from me to her. It's a gift from her to me."<p>I'm a little uncomfortable distilling pg's and Bronnie Ware's five thoughts from down into one, but "Always do the right thing" just works for me. I just hope the others in my life find something that works as well for them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>j45</author><text>Ed<p>It really is a gift.<p>Our definition of self has become so short sighted that doing the right thing becomes a challenge for anyone to remember. Imagine trying to do the right thing in a startup, if we aren't practicing it in every day life with every thought and action.<p>Seeing my parents getting a little older is tough. Where they used to take me to all my doctors appointments whenever I needed it, now more and more, I'm taking them.<p>Why's this important? Priorities and balance and making the most of your time is so important.<p>In waiting rooms I see maybe one in 10 adults accompanied by their kids. My parents are comfortable going to appointments without me, so it means a lot they even ask me, maybe to see the same feeling of finding a familiar face in the waiting room, or someone to help remember what the doctor said.<p>Sadly we have a generation that feels its ok to believe everything is about us, at the expense of being there for others who are greatly responsible for our greatness. Some of the deepest, satisfying moments are when I get to be witness to someone's story.<p>Doing the right thing is for the sake of the right thing being done, not how someone takes it, sees it, or expects you to be there for them. There inevitably are things that need to be done regardless of personalities and positions.<p>I hope we never forget to find and live by our values that give us a deep sense of connection with ourselves and through it to those in our lives. All we have at the end of the day is making memories. Everything can go to hell but you can revisit a memory anytime, and keep creating new ones.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Top Of My Todo List</title><url>http://paulgraham.com/todo.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>edw519</author><text>When I first saw the title of this essay, I thought I already knew what I was going to say...<p>Something about how my own todo this now has only one item on it, the single most important thing to do next. I gravitated to this based on the great quote by chess master Jose Capablanca:<p>[When asked how many moves ahead he looked while playing]: "Only one, but it's always the right one." (from <a href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Ra%C3%BAl_Capablanca" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Ra%C3%BAl_Capablanca</a>).<p>Then I read pg's essay and Bronnie Ware's blog post and realized that this post was less about work and more about life.<p>Then it hit me: My life's todo list <i>still</i> has only one item on it and always has:<p>"Always do the right thing."<p>I realize that this can be very hand wavy because the "right thing" means something different to everyone and even something different to me at different times. But still, it has been the perfect #1 for my todo list.<p>Several years ago, my mother, who lived 1000 miles away, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and could no longer use the phone. So I began flying back to Pittsburgh every other weekend to be with her. After a while, even this wasn't enough. So I moved to Pittsburgh to be with her every day.<p>People tried to say the right thing to me, but it never was right. They'd say things like, "I admire your doing this, but you really don't have to because she doesn't even know who you are," or "You may be making a sacrifice now, but in time you won't regret it; you'll have nothing to be sorry for." And I thought, "How sad. After all these years these people still don't get it. This isn't a sacrifice from me to her. It's a gift from her to me."<p>I'm a little uncomfortable distilling pg's and Bronnie Ware's five thoughts from down into one, but "Always do the right thing" just works for me. I just hope the others in my life find something that works as well for them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mattmanser</author><text>Brilliant, always do the right thing. So catchy and yet so utterly useless at the same time.<p>You sound just like the 'seduction' experts, 'confidence, that's what gets the girl'.<p>My mum had an episode where she quite literally went mad. We spent a couple of weeks visiting her every day as she was confused, scared and angry.<p>At some point I turned to my sister and said 'we have to go home, our lives have to go on'.<p>The irony being that 'home' was 100 miles away from where my mum lives as my sister had met her husband a year earlier visiting me.<p>Your story is touching and totally fucking stupid at the same time. My to-do list for tomorrow has 'Get loo roll, book a ticket for Splendour festival, vote'.<p>Your to-do list sucks ass as it doesn't actually meet your real life needs.<p>And did I do the right thing? I'll never know, I still feel like a shit as she screamed that the nurses were hurting her. Humiliated, ignored. Maybe they did? Lies I hope. I will never, ever know. Alzheimer's? She won't even remember what you did, you're doing it for nothing more than your own conscience.<p>We are living in a very, very odd time where our parents are turning into our children.<p>EDIT: The reason I had to write this is that your experience seems to me at odds with points 1, 3 &#38; 5 of the list. And the horrible thing is it's going to get worse for all of us here on HN in the next 40 years. Medicine has put us in a very awkward position, one of being able to maintain the body when the mind went long ago. Or (imo worse) maintaining the body and mind when the reasons to live have gone. My friend's grandma openly talks about wanting to die as all her friends are dead. But does my friend's Mum want her Mum to die? Of course not. This is a <i>very</i> odd time.</text></comment> |
2,347,885 | 2,347,963 | 1 | 3 | 2,347,698 | train | <story><title>Why so little looting in Japan? It's not just about honesty.</title><url>http://www.slate.com/id/2288514</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pwim</author><text><i>They're good at their jobs, too: The clearance rate for murder in 2010 was an unbelievable 98.2 percent, according to West—so unbelievable that some attribute it to underreporting.</i><p>High clearance rates don't mean police are good at their jobs. Police in Japan can hold a suspect for 23 days without charging him. During this period, they try to get a confession out, using techniques such as sleep deprivation. Furthermore, once you get to trial, it is usually with only a judge, not a jury. All levels are pushed to keep up this high conviction rate. So just because the rate is 98%, this doesn't mean justice was actually served at that rate.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why so little looting in Japan? It's not just about honesty.</title><url>http://www.slate.com/id/2288514</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Duff</author><text>These stories have the odor of propaganda to them.<p>I'd argue that there's no looting because refugees are penned up in shelters inland, and the coastal towns are pretty much gone.<p>In Katrina and Haiti, people were stuck in the immediate area of destruction, and didn't have anywhere to go. Remember the guy blogging from the datacenter in New Orleans during the Hurricane? The whole city broke down, there was nowhere to go. In Haiti, the whole place was barely functioning before the earthquake.</text></comment> |
16,870,030 | 16,868,649 | 1 | 2 | 16,868,066 | train | <story><title>Hello wasm-pack</title><url>https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/04/hello-wasm-pack/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>axefrog</author><text>Does anyone have a good sense of the current performance impact of crossing the boundary between JS and WASM? I&#x27;ve often thought it&#x27;d be great to be able to expose high-performance data structures (and other infrastructure-level stuff) via WASM and then make use of them from JavaScript, but I seem to recall that the interop performance cost is currently too high to make it worth doing, which leaves WASM mainly only useful for long-running tasks, such as game engines, expensive graph layout algorithms and so forth.<p><i></i>Edit:<i></i>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hacks.mozilla.org&#x2F;2018&#x2F;04&#x2F;javascript-to-rust-and-back-again-a-wasm-bindgen-tale&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hacks.mozilla.org&#x2F;2018&#x2F;04&#x2F;javascript-to-rust-and-bac...</a><p>&gt; &quot;The wasm-bindgen code generation has been designed with the future host bindings proposal in mind from day 1. <i>As soon as that’s a feature available in WebAssembly</i>, we’ll be able to directly invoke imported functions without any of wasm-bindgen‘s JS shims. Furthermore, this will allow JS engines to aggressively optimize WebAssembly manipulating the DOM as invocations are well-typed and no longer need the argument validation checks that calls from JS need. At that point wasm-bindgen will not only make it easy to work with richer types like strings, but it will also provide best-in-class DOM manipulation performance.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Hello wasm-pack</title><url>https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/04/hello-wasm-pack/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mpolichette</author><text>I cant help but think of the post about stealing password credentials from the site you build by surreptitiously inserting extra code into the published NPM package. Except wasm packages seem like they&#x27;d be even harder to detect.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackernoon.com&#x2F;im-harvesting-credit-card-numbers-and-passwords-from-your-site-here-s-how-9a8cb347c5b5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackernoon.com&#x2F;im-harvesting-credit-card-numbers-and...</a></text></comment> |
3,021,286 | 3,019,575 | 1 | 3 | 3,018,539 | train | <story><title>Quake 2 Source Code Review</title><url>http://fabiensanglard.net/quake2/index.php</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xedarius</author><text>I really respect Carmack, he is one of the few programmers I'd describe as an industry trend setter. I've worked on many games in my career, and seen a lot of engines. When you read through the Q2 and perhaps a better example is the Q3 engine source, you sit there and think, hang on .. where's the rest of the code? He takes a complex problem and reduces it to a set of simple components, and reuses those components. This is incredibly hard to do.<p>What the article doesn't impress upon people is the effect Carmacks code has on the industry. The shaders in Quake 3 were a huge thing, now seems so obvious. I have no evidence for this, however I wouldn't be surprised if Q3 shaders are the reason we have vertex/pixel shaders in hardware today.</text></comment> | <story><title>Quake 2 Source Code Review</title><url>http://fabiensanglard.net/quake2/index.php</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>0x0</author><text>I noticed this comment in the "notes.html":<p><pre><code> // Set the floating point precision ...
_controlfp
// Question: Why do that for every frames ? Probably because precision is altered during the loop execution.
// Answer: The is no other call to this function. It appears that floating point precision remains the same during program execution.
</code></pre>
I seem to vaguely recall reading something about some versions of Windows not preserving the FPU state across task switches. Could it be that this call to configure the FPU for every frame is a workaround for that?</text></comment> |
36,557,649 | 36,557,178 | 1 | 2 | 36,553,236 | train | <story><title>Twitter Is DDOSing Itself</title><url>https://sfba.social/@sysop408/110639435788921057</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tmpz22</author><text>Can we please recognize that this is a holiday weekend and Elon rammed a big release forcing his engineers to come in and iterate multiple patches over the last 12 hours.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nashashmi</author><text>The arrogance of the guy is so huge, hubris does not touch him. Thoughts are with the programmers.<p>What I’m more surprised about is how gum and shoestring the twitter engineering is now a days. They put in no emphasis on doing deep divides into the code base and instead opt to do the simplest shortest fix. And it causes problems.</text></comment> | <story><title>Twitter Is DDOSing Itself</title><url>https://sfba.social/@sysop408/110639435788921057</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tmpz22</author><text>Can we please recognize that this is a holiday weekend and Elon rammed a big release forcing his engineers to come in and iterate multiple patches over the last 12 hours.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paxys</author><text>Twitter Engineers have had over a year to get out and find another job. At this point the terms of their employment and the expectations from their boss are all crystal clear. Hard to sympathize with those who continue to stick around for whatever reason.</text></comment> |
25,013,992 | 25,013,648 | 1 | 2 | 25,008,554 | train | <story><title>The Lost Ways of Programming: Commodore 64 Basic</title><url>http://tomasp.net/commodore64/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gnat</author><text>We take it for granted now with the prevalence and acceptance of interpreted languages like Python and Perl, but the radical accessibility of BASIC can&#x27;t be over-emphasized. C, Pascal, FORTRAN, and friends all had a compile step which meant that you had to operate a text editor and command-line... BASIC was so much more immediate and straightforward to learn on.<p>The other great reason so many of us 40-somethings got our start on the BASIC-wielding micros was that our universe was pretty small and the simple things we could make our machines do were still fancy. These days it seems that you won&#x27;t interest kids with anything short of a 40fps multiplayer battle royale game with millions of polygons on screen. Random number guessing games are lame, Dad.<p>The early web was a lot like the early micros -- you had to make your own entertainment as you quickly ran out of things to do, and the things you were able to make were comparable to the things built by well-founded teams. The opportunity to add something new and useful to the web is largely past, and any window is even smaller if you&#x27;re not a venture-backed team.<p>Old man out. &lt;mic drop&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tempodox</author><text>Considering the RAM and storage restrictions of those machines, hosting a compiler would have been quite challenging. Where would it store object files or the final executable? On Datasette? And, the 6502&#x27;s CPU stack is limited to a whopping 256 bytes! With an interpreter burned into ROM, we only needed the BASIC code to reside in RAM. And, of course, the occasional assembly routine to speed things up. I remember how entering a hex dumper (and disassembler, if possible) was always among the first things I did on such a box. I hacked the ROM of the Atari 800 to find out where those BCD floating-point subroutines were located, so I wouldn&#x27;t have to run the computation loop of my Mandelbrot fractal generator from BASIC. That made a hell of a difference. Today&#x27;s sports disciplines are a bit more elaborate. It came to the point where I could enter 6502 instruction codes in hex from memory because the instruction set is so small you could actually have it memorized, just as a side effect of daily use.<p>I still remember the elation I felt when I finally got my hands on a machine that could actually run a C compiler and had “high-resolution” graphics, not to mention an operating system that was documented. It felt like changing from a horse cart to a racing car. Today&#x27;s computers are science-fiction space ships compared to that.<p>Another old man, out.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Lost Ways of Programming: Commodore 64 Basic</title><url>http://tomasp.net/commodore64/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gnat</author><text>We take it for granted now with the prevalence and acceptance of interpreted languages like Python and Perl, but the radical accessibility of BASIC can&#x27;t be over-emphasized. C, Pascal, FORTRAN, and friends all had a compile step which meant that you had to operate a text editor and command-line... BASIC was so much more immediate and straightforward to learn on.<p>The other great reason so many of us 40-somethings got our start on the BASIC-wielding micros was that our universe was pretty small and the simple things we could make our machines do were still fancy. These days it seems that you won&#x27;t interest kids with anything short of a 40fps multiplayer battle royale game with millions of polygons on screen. Random number guessing games are lame, Dad.<p>The early web was a lot like the early micros -- you had to make your own entertainment as you quickly ran out of things to do, and the things you were able to make were comparable to the things built by well-founded teams. The opportunity to add something new and useful to the web is largely past, and any window is even smaller if you&#x27;re not a venture-backed team.<p>Old man out. &lt;mic drop&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_the_inflator</author><text>I always had contempt for BASIC languages in the 80th. Being a tough demo coder in assembler, I thought that this isn&#x27;t the real stuff.<p>Today I agree with you.<p>After re-entering the world of 8bit and 16bit Commodores again, I finally utilized these. Indeed you could do quite a few tricks with them, and they are quite powerful.<p>There is beauty in the ease of use of these languages. And to be honest, there is a lot of hardship in languages like assembler.<p>The whole IDE idea for Java, Kotlin, etc. reminds me more of BASIC than C. Especially that BASIC is somewhat forgiving if you make mistakes, aka bugs, I appreciate. If you make mistakes in assembler on Amiga 500&#x2F;1200, for example, you most often have to reset the machine. If you forgot to save your work before testing, you would suffer even more. And this is not the coolest of all workflows. Even on emulators like WinUAE, where you need timing to hit the debug key.<p>Assembler is complicated (word operations accessing an odd memory address is hard to find) and only useful in very constraint areas like elder computers.<p>BASIC is simple, and therefore fast.<p>With computers doing the heavy lifting nowadays, I keep the speed part to the computers while focusing on fast iterations. Except for the Amiga, where I think that BASIC and assembler can coexist nowadays for me. Should have utilized BASIC back then for simple things.</text></comment> |
25,121,054 | 25,121,157 | 1 | 2 | 25,120,742 | train | <story><title>Ik.me: a free email address for life developed and hosted in Switzerland</title><url>https://www.infomaniak.com/en/free-email</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>p1necone</author><text>Is there a <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;killedbygoogle.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;killedbygoogle.com&#x2F;</a> equivalent for startups that promised &#x27;forever&#x27;&#x2F;&#x27;lifetime&#x27; service and then shut down a few years later?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tluyben2</author><text>It is not easy to do something &#x27;lifetime&#x27; obviously. I set out to create a service &#x27;for life&#x27;[0], it is 15 years old next year, it has loyal clients and it&#x27;s getting an update (rewrite, modern skin, app, modern features, launching 1&#x2F;1&#x2F;&#x27;21) for it&#x27;s 15th birthday. But although I promise never to sell (out; no ads, no data sales etc) and have the entire product (source etc) in escrow, anyone can break their word + contract obviously. I keep promising lifetime anyway and hope that others who do do not break their word easily either.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flexlists.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flexlists.com</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Ik.me: a free email address for life developed and hosted in Switzerland</title><url>https://www.infomaniak.com/en/free-email</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>p1necone</author><text>Is there a <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;killedbygoogle.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;killedbygoogle.com&#x2F;</a> equivalent for startups that promised &#x27;forever&#x27;&#x2F;&#x27;lifetime&#x27; service and then shut down a few years later?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smarx007</author><text>Who said it&#x27;s a startup? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Infomaniak" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Infomaniak</a></text></comment> |
40,092,761 | 40,089,366 | 1 | 3 | 40,066,904 | train | <story><title>Guy Callendar, the engineer who discovered human-caused global warming</title><url>https://nautil.us/the-part-time-climate-scientist-542351/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andrewla</author><text>Just to nitpick, while commonly accepted, the idea that CO2 increase is anthropogenic is routinely disputed by climate skeptics [1].<p>The argument generally is that warming temperatures cause rising CO2. This in turn is a fact not disputed by climate scientists, only that it is not sufficient to explain the current rise in CO2.<p>[1] A pro-AGW debunking of the common argument <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;skepticalscience.com&#x2F;co2-lags-temperature.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;skepticalscience.com&#x2F;co2-lags-temperature.htm</a></text></item><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>This is why I am completely, totally baffled that anyone tries to still deny the anthropogenic source of climate change.<p>I <i>fully</i> understand that climate models are mind boggingly complex, and that it&#x27;s incredibly difficult to predict how all the different intertwined factors will play out in real time. But at a very fundamental level, we&#x27;ve drastically increased one of the primary greenhouse gas concentrations at a rate unseen in Earth&#x27;s history (not to mention many of the other major greenhouse gases like methane and nitrous oxide). Literally no sane person disputes that fact. How could we think that making this major change to Earth&#x27;s climate system <i>wouldn&#x27;t</i> have huge effects?</text></item><item><author>zug_zug</author><text>&gt; he showed [atmospheric CO2] at 315 parts per million in 1958; today it is 421 ppm; in the pre-industrial 19th century, it had rested around 280 ppm)<p>Wow, somehow I was unaware that we had raised atmospheric CO2 by 50% -- that&#x27;s impressive in sense.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>biotinker</author><text>Ya know, I saw this a year ago, and was curious if it actually held up. After all, the amount of CO2 released by humans is only about 4% of all CO2 released, on an annual basis (730 gigatons all sources, ~30 gigatons by humans).<p>But it&#x27;s a pretty simple equation. We know the approximate mass of the atmosphere, and the number of molecules per weight. We know how many molecules are in a unit mass of CO2.<p>Thus we should be able to calculate out &quot;how many gigatons of CO2 are necessary to increase atmospheric CO2 by 1ppm&quot;, and then given measurements of actual CO2 increases, how much CO2 is necessary to increase atmospheric levels by the amounts seen.<p>If the amount of CO2 required to yield the observed increase is greater than annual human emissions, then that&#x27;s a strong signal that CO2 increase is <i>NOT</i> anthropogenic and something else is going on. If it&#x27;s less, then that is a strong signal that humans are the primary culprit.<p>Anyway, I did out all the math and it takes about 8.8 gigatons to increase atmospheric levels by 1ppm, and we&#x27;re netting an increase of about 17gt into the atmosphere per year, for an increase of ~2ppm annually. So it&#x27;s pretty clear that this is anthropogenic.<p>If anyone wants to check my math I wrote it all up here [0]. Numbers are a couple years old at this point but the conclusion still stands.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;biotinker.dev&#x2F;posts&#x2F;climate1.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;biotinker.dev&#x2F;posts&#x2F;climate1.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Guy Callendar, the engineer who discovered human-caused global warming</title><url>https://nautil.us/the-part-time-climate-scientist-542351/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andrewla</author><text>Just to nitpick, while commonly accepted, the idea that CO2 increase is anthropogenic is routinely disputed by climate skeptics [1].<p>The argument generally is that warming temperatures cause rising CO2. This in turn is a fact not disputed by climate scientists, only that it is not sufficient to explain the current rise in CO2.<p>[1] A pro-AGW debunking of the common argument <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;skepticalscience.com&#x2F;co2-lags-temperature.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;skepticalscience.com&#x2F;co2-lags-temperature.htm</a></text></item><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>This is why I am completely, totally baffled that anyone tries to still deny the anthropogenic source of climate change.<p>I <i>fully</i> understand that climate models are mind boggingly complex, and that it&#x27;s incredibly difficult to predict how all the different intertwined factors will play out in real time. But at a very fundamental level, we&#x27;ve drastically increased one of the primary greenhouse gas concentrations at a rate unseen in Earth&#x27;s history (not to mention many of the other major greenhouse gases like methane and nitrous oxide). Literally no sane person disputes that fact. How could we think that making this major change to Earth&#x27;s climate system <i>wouldn&#x27;t</i> have huge effects?</text></item><item><author>zug_zug</author><text>&gt; he showed [atmospheric CO2] at 315 parts per million in 1958; today it is 421 ppm; in the pre-industrial 19th century, it had rested around 280 ppm)<p>Wow, somehow I was unaware that we had raised atmospheric CO2 by 50% -- that&#x27;s impressive in sense.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throw0101c</author><text>&gt; <i>The argument generally is that warming temperatures cause rising CO2. This in turn is a fact not disputed by climate scientists, only that it is not sufficient to explain the current rise in CO2.</i><p>It should also be noted that the type of C in CO2 matters:<p>&gt; <i>In addition, only fossil fuels are consistent with the isotopic fingerprint of the carbon in today’s atmosphere. Different kinds of carbon-containing material have different relative amounts of “light” carbon-12, “heavy” carbon-13, and radioactive carbon-14. Plant matter is enriched in carbon-12, because its lighter weight is more readily used by plants during photosynthesis. Volcanic emissions are enriched in carbon-13. The ratio of carbon-13 to carbon-12 in the atmosphere and the ocean are roughly the same. Since carbon-14 is radioactive, it decays predictably over time. Young organic matter has more carbon-14 than older organic matter, and fossil fuels have no measurable carbon-14 at all.</i><p>&gt; <i>As carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere have risen over the past century or more, the ratio of carbon-13 to carbon-12 has fallen, which means that the source of the extra carbon dioxide must be enriched in &quot;light&quot; carbon-12. Meanwhile, the relative amount of carbon-14—radioactive carbon—has declined. The record of carbon-14 in the atmosphere is complicated by nuclear bomb testing after 1950, which doubled the amount of radioactive carbon in the atmosphere. After the nuclear test ban treaty in 1963, the excess atmospheric carbon-14 began to decline as it dispersed into the oceans and the land biosphere.</i><p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.climate.gov&#x2F;news-features&#x2F;climate-qa&#x2F;how-do-we-know-build-carbon-dioxide-atmosphere-caused-humans" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.climate.gov&#x2F;news-features&#x2F;climate-qa&#x2F;how-do-we-k...</a><p>&gt; <i>In this “Grand Challenges” paper, we review how the carbon isotopic composition of atmospheric CO2 has changed since the Industrial Revolution due to human activities and their influence on the natural carbon cycle, and we provide new estimates of possible future changes for a range of scenarios. Emissions of CO2 from fossil fuel combustion and land use change reduce the ratio of 13C&#x2F;12C in atmospheric CO2 (δ13CO2). This is because 12C is preferentially assimilated during photosynthesis and δ13C in plant-derived carbon in terrestrial ecosystems and fossil fuels is lower than atmospheric δ13CO2. Emissions of CO2 from fossil fuel combustion also reduce the ratio of 14C&#x2F;C in atmospheric CO2 (Δ14CO2) because 14C is absent in million-year-old fossil fuels, which have been stored for much longer than the radioactive decay time of 14C.</i><p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com&#x2F;doi&#x2F;full&#x2F;10.1029&#x2F;2019GB006170" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com&#x2F;doi&#x2F;full&#x2F;10.1029&#x2F;201...</a></text></comment> |
20,029,720 | 20,028,974 | 1 | 3 | 20,028,686 | train | <story><title>React Simple Animate – UI Animation Made Simple</title><url>https://react-simple-animate.now.sh/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>OmarIsmail</author><text>Looks like React animation libraries are popular right now.<p>Here&#x27;s the one that I&#x27;ve been working on recently: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ismailman&#x2F;react-spho" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ismailman&#x2F;react-spho</a><p>My philosophy is different though that I want to make it absolutely dead simple to make UIs animate organically vs being a feature-filled animation library. I think React-SPHO is actually the easiest to use animation library for React available as most things you want to do &quot;just work&quot; and anybody reading the code using the library knows exactly what&#x27;s going on without having to read any documentation so ramp-up for basic use cases is effectively instant.</text></comment> | <story><title>React Simple Animate – UI Animation Made Simple</title><url>https://react-simple-animate.now.sh/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>revskill</author><text>There&#x27;s something about OSS that fails to do (or i&#x27;m not sure if it&#x27;s OSS job): Teach how things work under the hood.<p>Normally, it&#x27;s beneficial 100x times when a OSS project tells how things work in a concise manner.<p>In that way, it made sense for both users (they actually want to contribute back if they figure out how things work).<p>One failure example is Next.JS. You never understand how things work under the hood without digging source code.</text></comment> |
20,873,507 | 20,872,299 | 1 | 3 | 20,871,802 | train | <story><title>Tin Plasma Extreme Ultraviolet Radiation Makes 5nm Integrated Circuits Possible</title><url>https://www.trumpf.com/en_US/applications/euv-lithography/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chc4</author><text>If you&#x27;re interested in chip fabrication, I heartily recommend watching <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;NGFhc8R_uO4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;NGFhc8R_uO4</a> - it goes over the evolution of how they make transistors all the way up to 2009 state of the art, with a follow up talk in 2013 (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;KL-I3-C-KBk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;KL-I3-C-KBk</a>).<p>Both of them mention how Intel is sinking billions of dollars into ASML to try and get this process working, and how impossible everyone thinks it is, so I&#x27;m skeptical that they finally got everything squared away now :)</text></comment> | <story><title>Tin Plasma Extreme Ultraviolet Radiation Makes 5nm Integrated Circuits Possible</title><url>https://www.trumpf.com/en_US/applications/euv-lithography/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>baybal2</author><text>A tidbit, a one of more lunatical proposal for the next gen fab design is to build it around a multimegawatt cyclotron, and have the light source problem &quot;solved for good&quot;<p>The genuine problem with tin plasma laser is its power efficiency. An early adopter runs can bare with 0.02% energy efficiency, but imagine, say, a few 20 line fabs and their power consumption.<p>Another very important advantage of this design would be getting a more stable, easily tunable, and more narrowband light source. Tin plasma has around 1nm deviation in its spectrum, while a cyclotron can get to picometres on an arbitrary wavelength.<p>And with all above, you get a supremely tempting option to try diffractive optics, and do away with all geometry imposes nonsense of EUV reflective optics...</text></comment> |
21,642,974 | 21,642,790 | 1 | 2 | 21,635,939 | train | <story><title>How fast do I talk?</title><url>https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/talk-fast/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Eric_WVGG</author><text>If anyone wants a &quot;weird old tip&quot; for better enunciation: finishing schools had an exercise where students would practice speaking with their mouth full of marbles or gravel. After talking out loud for a few minutes, one can spit them out and have perceptibly better enunciation.<p>You can do this more safely by biting down on a wine cork. Read a page or two out of a book out loud, remove, and then read another. It&#x27;s quite remarkable. (I learned this trick from a theater class back in high school I think…)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.activepresence.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;public-speaking-articulation-exercise" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.activepresence.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;public-speaking-articula...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yesenadam</author><text>It certainly is old – Demosthenes was 4th century BC.<p>The indistinctness and lisping in his speech he used to correct and drive away by taking pebbles in his mouth and then reciting speeches. - Plutarch&#x27;s Lives, <i>Demosthenes</i></text></comment> | <story><title>How fast do I talk?</title><url>https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/talk-fast/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Eric_WVGG</author><text>If anyone wants a &quot;weird old tip&quot; for better enunciation: finishing schools had an exercise where students would practice speaking with their mouth full of marbles or gravel. After talking out loud for a few minutes, one can spit them out and have perceptibly better enunciation.<p>You can do this more safely by biting down on a wine cork. Read a page or two out of a book out loud, remove, and then read another. It&#x27;s quite remarkable. (I learned this trick from a theater class back in high school I think…)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.activepresence.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;public-speaking-articulation-exercise" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.activepresence.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;public-speaking-articula...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amflare</author><text>2-3 fingers vertically in mouth also works in a pinch if you don&#x27;t have anything else handy. It&#x27;s really good for those about-to-walk-on-stage moments to induce enunciation.</text></comment> |
18,883,512 | 18,883,613 | 1 | 3 | 18,882,598 | train | <story><title>A Year-Long Undercover Plot to Blow Up Eve Online's Most Notorious Space Station</title><url>https://kotaku.com/the-year-long-undercover-plot-to-blow-up-eve-onlines-m-1831574442</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nearlyepic</author><text>Don&#x27;t let The Initiative&#x27;s propaganda machine disguise it: At the end of the day the biggest coalition in the game blobbed a smaller alliance, having 10x their total characters in their fleets. Somehow this is a great victory? Doesn&#x27;t add up to me.<p>Only thing this proves is that the problem of gigantic blocks rolling over everybody in their path now extends to wormhole space.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Year-Long Undercover Plot to Blow Up Eve Online's Most Notorious Space Station</title><url>https://kotaku.com/the-year-long-undercover-plot-to-blow-up-eve-onlines-m-1831574442</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mwest</author><text>One of the things about Eve Online that&#x27;s fascinated me is how &quot;open&quot; they make the game for third party developers.<p>Why bother with a spreadsheet, when you can dial it up a level and use their data export and your favourite &quot;Big Data&quot; analysis tools to look for interesting opportunities?<p>Maybe you enjoy blowing up space ships, but can&#x27;t think of an in-game method to fund your habit? Build a tool other Eve players will use (and pay for with Isk) instead.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.eveonline.com&#x2F;resource&#x2F;resources" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.eveonline.com&#x2F;resource&#x2F;resources</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;devfleet&#x2F;awesome-eve" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;devfleet&#x2F;awesome-eve</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fuzzwork.co.uk&#x2F;tweetfleet-slack-invites&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fuzzwork.co.uk&#x2F;tweetfleet-slack-invites&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
10,501,485 | 10,499,695 | 1 | 3 | 10,499,297 | train | <story><title>I Tried to Buy an Actual Barrel of Crude Oil</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-03/that-time-i-tried-to-buy-some-crude-oil</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>comex</author><text>Another notable excerpt from the linked state safety agency document (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.michigan.gov&#x2F;documents&#x2F;cis_wsh_cet5041_90142_7.doc" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.michigan.gov&#x2F;documents&#x2F;cis_wsh_cet5041_90142_7.do...</a>):<p>--<p>Two employees of a fertilizer company in Riga, Michigan, were assigned to install a new float valve in an old 35-foot deep cistern for a new 300-foot well. This cistern was covered with a concrete slab with entry through a covered manhole. The first worker entered the cistern and as he reached a plank platform six feet below the opening, he was instantly overcome and fell unconscious into the water below. The man on the surface immediately ran to the nearby plant for help. Several workmen responded and two of them entered the cistern to render aid. They met the fate of the first worker. A passerby who had been drawn to the scene by the crowd which had gathered was told by an excited bystander that several men in the cistern were drowning. Upon hearing this, he shouted, &quot;I can swim, I can swim&quot; and pulled away from a company employee who was trying to restrain him. Now there were four bodies in the well.<p>Shortly afterward the fire department arrived at the scene with proper rescue equipment. The fire chief entered the cistern wearing a self-contained breathing apparatus. After reaching the plank platform, he removed his face mask to shout instructions to those on the surface and he, too, was instantly overcome. All five persons died in the cistern.<p>Tests of the cistern atmosphere revealed that H2S in a concentration of about 1000 parts per million was present when the five deaths occurred. The water pumped up from the deep well contained dissolved hydrogen sulfide which was released in the unventilated cistern.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BuildTheRobots</author><text>The friends I play Urb-X with are hyper aware that it&#x27;s the heavier-than-air gasses that pool and that kill you. I find it amazing and depressing they didn&#x27;t have any sort of safety gear or air monitoring. In the UK, I&#x27;m sure this would have breached both working at height and enclosed spaces working regulations.<p>Even if we&#x27;re exploring something as pathetic as an old ROC bunker only _one_ of us (usually me) goes down first and is attached to the end of a rope. If I stop talking then the person topside can do what they like to try and get me out, but under no circumstances do they come down behind me. We&#x27;ve also usually got a third person sat in the van (so just off site) communicating with us via radio and with GPS coordinates and road directions written down ready to give to the emergency services should it all go entirely to hell...<p>Sorry for the ramble; It&#x27;s a horrible tragedy, but as what I&#x27;ve stated above is the level I expect for an unplanned slightly drunken Sunday-afternoon explore, I _really_ expect people in a commercial setting to know better. Probably more to the point, whoever ordered them to go in there deserves to be strung over the coals....<p>tldr: it&#x27;s _really_ easy to go from 1 person slightly injured to multiple people dead :(</text></comment> | <story><title>I Tried to Buy an Actual Barrel of Crude Oil</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-03/that-time-i-tried-to-buy-some-crude-oil</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>comex</author><text>Another notable excerpt from the linked state safety agency document (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.michigan.gov&#x2F;documents&#x2F;cis_wsh_cet5041_90142_7.doc" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.michigan.gov&#x2F;documents&#x2F;cis_wsh_cet5041_90142_7.do...</a>):<p>--<p>Two employees of a fertilizer company in Riga, Michigan, were assigned to install a new float valve in an old 35-foot deep cistern for a new 300-foot well. This cistern was covered with a concrete slab with entry through a covered manhole. The first worker entered the cistern and as he reached a plank platform six feet below the opening, he was instantly overcome and fell unconscious into the water below. The man on the surface immediately ran to the nearby plant for help. Several workmen responded and two of them entered the cistern to render aid. They met the fate of the first worker. A passerby who had been drawn to the scene by the crowd which had gathered was told by an excited bystander that several men in the cistern were drowning. Upon hearing this, he shouted, &quot;I can swim, I can swim&quot; and pulled away from a company employee who was trying to restrain him. Now there were four bodies in the well.<p>Shortly afterward the fire department arrived at the scene with proper rescue equipment. The fire chief entered the cistern wearing a self-contained breathing apparatus. After reaching the plank platform, he removed his face mask to shout instructions to those on the surface and he, too, was instantly overcome. All five persons died in the cistern.<p>Tests of the cistern atmosphere revealed that H2S in a concentration of about 1000 parts per million was present when the five deaths occurred. The water pumped up from the deep well contained dissolved hydrogen sulfide which was released in the unventilated cistern.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ptaipale</author><text>Shit kills. I guess this happens everywhere in the world, but over here (Finland), there are the occasional deaths at farms where H2S released from remains of cow manure, stored in a tank, kills people.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mela.fi&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;lietelanta.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mela.fi&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;lietelanta.pdf</a><p>&quot;Description of event<p>A farm-owner suffocated inside a manure tank which was lacking oxygen and contained toxic gases. Also his brother, who went in to help, died.<p>A tank of liquid-form manure was almost empty. A pipe at the bottom of the tank was blocked. The farm owner decided to enter the tank and finalize emptying the tank. However, he lost consciousness and fell to the bottom.<p>His brother, who was close by, saw what happened and went in to save the unconscious man, but he was also overcome in a moment. Four hours later a family member discovered the victims. Fire service was called to help, and with pressure air breathing equipment, they retrieved both men. They were both found to be dead. Cause of death was a poisoning by methane and hydrogen sulfide.&quot;<p>(Taken from farm advisory leaflet on manure <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mela.fi&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;lietelanta.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mela.fi&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;lietelanta.pdf</a> )</text></comment> |
31,503,764 | 31,503,851 | 1 | 3 | 31,502,540 | train | <story><title>Ranked-Choice Voting Is More Democratic, Not Less</title><url>https://www.americanpurpose.com/articles/ranked-choice-voting-is-more-democratic-not-less/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LordKeren</author><text>I view the electoral college system as the canary in the coal mine for voting changes in America. No honest person who is informed about how the electoral college works thinks it’s fair. There are so many possible bad outcomes of it and there are no positives over a direct vote.<p>If we can’t dismantle the most glaring issue in elections that is the electoral college, I’m not holding my breath for the kind of sweeping reform that would be needed for something as foreign (to the American voting base) as the ranked choice voting</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phpisthebest</author><text>&gt;&gt;No honest person who is informed about how the electoral college works thinks it’s fair.<p>I do, because I support the concept of Federalism and I do not believe in a Centralized &quot;America&quot; I believe in 50 independent States, a Republic<p>I also think popular vote for senate was a mistake. The States need to have power over the federal government not just the people.<p>The US Constitution reserves powers and rights to both the people AND the States for a reason, that reason is the fact that our system of government is a Federalist Republic, not a strait representative democracy. Nor would I support a transition to a strait representative democracy as I believe the federal government is far far far too powerful today<p>I would support changes to the Electoral College, like the Wyoming Rule, or requiring all states to delegate their votes Proportionally by congressional district instead of Winner take all, etc but calls for elimination of the Electoral College are short sighted and ill advised</text></comment> | <story><title>Ranked-Choice Voting Is More Democratic, Not Less</title><url>https://www.americanpurpose.com/articles/ranked-choice-voting-is-more-democratic-not-less/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LordKeren</author><text>I view the electoral college system as the canary in the coal mine for voting changes in America. No honest person who is informed about how the electoral college works thinks it’s fair. There are so many possible bad outcomes of it and there are no positives over a direct vote.<p>If we can’t dismantle the most glaring issue in elections that is the electoral college, I’m not holding my breath for the kind of sweeping reform that would be needed for something as foreign (to the American voting base) as the ranked choice voting</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>indymike</author><text>&gt; No honest person who is informed about how the electoral college works thinks it’s fair.<p>Correct. The EC is unfair by design. It was was never about fair for voters, it was about growing and keeping the nation together. The EC and Senate both are to ensure that citizens of less populous states are heard, and without both, the nation would devolve (if you are not from one of the five most populous states) to whatever the five most populous states wanted, every time.</text></comment> |
13,787,534 | 13,785,328 | 1 | 2 | 13,782,333 | train | <story><title>How we secretly introduced Haskell and got away with it</title><url>https://tech.channable.com/posts/2017-02-24-how-we-secretly-introduced-haskell-and-got-away-with-it.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>daxfohl</author><text>I&#x27;m just starting with Haskell and PureScript. So far I&#x27;m liking the latter better. It solves a few of their gripes with respect to strings, laziness and records, plus has a more granular&#x2F;extendable effects system and cleans up the standard typeclass hierarchy. Also `head []` doesn&#x27;t crash.<p>Of course Haskell is more mature, has support for multithreading and STM, compiles to native, so it&#x27;s more performant. But PureScript integrates with JS libraries and seems &quot;fast enough&quot; in many cases. I think it&#x27;s more interesting <i>as a project</i> too: the lack of runtime and laziness means the compiler code is orders of magnitude simpler than Haskell&#x27;s, so I could see a larger community building around it if it catches on.<p>Given that they were on Python earlier, I wonder if PureScript would have been a better choice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrisdone</author><text>I think PureScript should catch on. The runtime performance story is much more predictable than Haskell, it integrates trivially with the most valuable target platform: JS, it has small output, fixes the warts of Haskell and yet is still pure.<p>Aside from apps at work, I made some simple physics demos with it <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrisdone.com&#x2F;toys&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrisdone.com&#x2F;toys&#x2F;</a> Perfomance seems good.</text></comment> | <story><title>How we secretly introduced Haskell and got away with it</title><url>https://tech.channable.com/posts/2017-02-24-how-we-secretly-introduced-haskell-and-got-away-with-it.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>daxfohl</author><text>I&#x27;m just starting with Haskell and PureScript. So far I&#x27;m liking the latter better. It solves a few of their gripes with respect to strings, laziness and records, plus has a more granular&#x2F;extendable effects system and cleans up the standard typeclass hierarchy. Also `head []` doesn&#x27;t crash.<p>Of course Haskell is more mature, has support for multithreading and STM, compiles to native, so it&#x27;s more performant. But PureScript integrates with JS libraries and seems &quot;fast enough&quot; in many cases. I think it&#x27;s more interesting <i>as a project</i> too: the lack of runtime and laziness means the compiler code is orders of magnitude simpler than Haskell&#x27;s, so I could see a larger community building around it if it catches on.<p>Given that they were on Python earlier, I wonder if PureScript would have been a better choice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Karrot_Kream</author><text>&gt; It solves a few of their gripes with respect to strings, laziness and records, plus has a more granular&#x2F;extendable effects system and cleans up the standard typeclass hierarchy. Also `head []` doesn&#x27;t crash.<p>Check out ClassyPrelude[1]. It&#x27;s a (n opinionated) alternate Prelude that wraps many things up into much more &quot;modern&quot; interfaces. `head` has been replaced with `headMay` (which, as you can figure, returns a `Maybe a`). Most functions can now handle `Text` fairly seamlessly. For an application developer, it&#x27;s fantastic.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackage.haskell.org&#x2F;package&#x2F;classy-prelude" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackage.haskell.org&#x2F;package&#x2F;classy-prelude</a></text></comment> |
33,914,752 | 33,913,906 | 1 | 3 | 33,911,694 | train | <story><title>Nearly six in 10 US young adults live within 10 miles of where they grew up</title><url>https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2022/07/theres-no-place-like-home.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fullshark</author><text>A lot of upperwardly mobile, ambitious people don&#x27;t realize this, or they generally understand it only in terms of chastising their high school peers who stayed home. If you build a society based on the assumption everyone will simply move and re-skill to the regions with economic opportunity, you get a lot of regions of bitter people who stayed behind somewhere and watched their local economy get destroyed by trade deals and technological advances, and that&#x27;s how you get an anti-globalization populist political movement.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kaitai</author><text>Two sets of assumptions, though:<p>* The &quot;stay behind&quot; terminology is both evocative and biased. I didn&#x27;t &quot;stay behind&quot;. I moved away several times, thousands of miles, and lived in other places that ambitious people live, and then moved back to within 10 miles of where I grew up because the quality of life is better here. I can afford more, I have cultural amenities like world-class music and art, I&#x27;m near family and old friends as well as new friends, and people aren&#x27;t all totally consumed by their work. The &quot;upwardly mobile ambitious&quot; set can frankly get stultifyingly boring and disconnected. I like having friends in construction, non-profits, pet services, etc.<p>* Like many Americans who really do &quot;stay behind&quot;, I contribute to elder care in my family. A lot of people stay put because they need to care for someone, and America does not make it easy to get vulnerable or ill people services. This is part of what contributes to what you call the &quot;bitterness&quot; -- lack of support for child care, elder care, care for the mentally ill or those struggling with addiction, and in many cases it&#x27;s a vicious circle: gotta stay in Podunkville to take care of grandma and your cousin &#x27;cause you can&#x27;t afford to get grandma other help and your cousin doesn&#x27;t qualify for anything but SSI so he can&#x27;t afford to move either, but staying in Podunkville you tank your own educational and job prospects, therefore keeping you in Podunkville forever. Sometimes it seems you can only truly be upwardly mobile if you can avoid caregiving responsibilities.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nearly six in 10 US young adults live within 10 miles of where they grew up</title><url>https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2022/07/theres-no-place-like-home.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fullshark</author><text>A lot of upperwardly mobile, ambitious people don&#x27;t realize this, or they generally understand it only in terms of chastising their high school peers who stayed home. If you build a society based on the assumption everyone will simply move and re-skill to the regions with economic opportunity, you get a lot of regions of bitter people who stayed behind somewhere and watched their local economy get destroyed by trade deals and technological advances, and that&#x27;s how you get an anti-globalization populist political movement.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>parker_mountain</author><text>Part of it, as well, is that a lot of these regions that people moved out of are the suburbs. Many suburbs are not sustainable, and are degrading.</text></comment> |
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