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21,208,843 | 21,208,990 | 1 | 2 | 21,202,905 | train | <story><title>Ken Thompson's Unix Password</title><url>https://leahneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2019/10/ken-thompson-s-unix-password.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lordlic</author><text>I was expelled from university for pulling off <i>the exact same exploit</i> with the &quot;workstation only&quot; feature in Novell. In my case, they put a computer in every dorm room, and every single one of them had a domain-wide administrator account cached in its SAM file. It was inevitable that a student would find it. It&#x27;s been almost 15 years now but I believe the password was rac3c4r or something trivial like that. I ran Ophcrack overnight and in the morning I had admin access to every machine on campus.<p>I also had the bright idea to try this on library computers and email kiosks around campus used by thousands of students. Rather than booting into Ophcrack I&#x27;d just log in with the admin account and run pwdump from a USB stick to collect password hashes. I figured out how to enumerate Windows machines over the network using NetBIOS and ran the pwdump utility remotely using psexec, so that I could hit every computer in the library at once, or every computer in a computer lab, etc.<p>I ended up cracking credentials for most students and faculty on the entire campus. I was really young at the time and thought this was some real cool James Bond shit. I never once used it for evil: never read anyone&#x27;s email, never viewed anyone&#x27;s private files, never poked around the academic file shares for test solutions, never tried to steal credit card numbers or social security numbers from the finance office&#x27;s file share. It was purely a hack for the thrill of breaking down barriers and outsmarting the security. But MONTHS later after I had long since grown tired of tinkering with this stuff, a couple of uniformed police officers pulled me out of Calculus class and took me downtown. They tossed my dorm room and confiscated my computer and my phone and every piece of digital storage I owned. The school threw the book at me, I guess because they were so embarrassed by their incompetence on display from being beaten by a 16 year old.<p>(Posting on my alt account for obvious reasons.)</text></item><item><author>whalesalad</author><text>I remember cracking the password from a Windows system in high school. There was a centralized login mechanism using Novell but everything was cached locally. So you could boot a Linux CD and copy the password file to a memory stick, and crack at home. I think I used lophtcrack? The head admin account for the entire school district (basically root) had the password “north”. It took like a fraction of a second to crack. It was so simple that for weeks I didn’t even believe it to be true, and didn’t realize the name of the account was an admin.<p>I was expelled a few months later for all the fun I had after discovering this. Good times.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>minikites</author><text>&gt;I never once used it for evil: never read anyone&#x27;s email, never viewed anyone&#x27;s private files, never poked around the academic file shares for test solutions, never tried to steal credit card numbers or social security numbers from the finance office&#x27;s file share.<p>I don&#x27;t understand this justification. The system owners can&#x27;t know that to be true and have to proceed as if the systems are compromised. Would you still feel safe if a burglar broke into your house and left a note saying they didn&#x27;t take anything?</text></comment> | <story><title>Ken Thompson's Unix Password</title><url>https://leahneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2019/10/ken-thompson-s-unix-password.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lordlic</author><text>I was expelled from university for pulling off <i>the exact same exploit</i> with the &quot;workstation only&quot; feature in Novell. In my case, they put a computer in every dorm room, and every single one of them had a domain-wide administrator account cached in its SAM file. It was inevitable that a student would find it. It&#x27;s been almost 15 years now but I believe the password was rac3c4r or something trivial like that. I ran Ophcrack overnight and in the morning I had admin access to every machine on campus.<p>I also had the bright idea to try this on library computers and email kiosks around campus used by thousands of students. Rather than booting into Ophcrack I&#x27;d just log in with the admin account and run pwdump from a USB stick to collect password hashes. I figured out how to enumerate Windows machines over the network using NetBIOS and ran the pwdump utility remotely using psexec, so that I could hit every computer in the library at once, or every computer in a computer lab, etc.<p>I ended up cracking credentials for most students and faculty on the entire campus. I was really young at the time and thought this was some real cool James Bond shit. I never once used it for evil: never read anyone&#x27;s email, never viewed anyone&#x27;s private files, never poked around the academic file shares for test solutions, never tried to steal credit card numbers or social security numbers from the finance office&#x27;s file share. It was purely a hack for the thrill of breaking down barriers and outsmarting the security. But MONTHS later after I had long since grown tired of tinkering with this stuff, a couple of uniformed police officers pulled me out of Calculus class and took me downtown. They tossed my dorm room and confiscated my computer and my phone and every piece of digital storage I owned. The school threw the book at me, I guess because they were so embarrassed by their incompetence on display from being beaten by a 16 year old.<p>(Posting on my alt account for obvious reasons.)</text></item><item><author>whalesalad</author><text>I remember cracking the password from a Windows system in high school. There was a centralized login mechanism using Novell but everything was cached locally. So you could boot a Linux CD and copy the password file to a memory stick, and crack at home. I think I used lophtcrack? The head admin account for the entire school district (basically root) had the password “north”. It took like a fraction of a second to crack. It was so simple that for weeks I didn’t even believe it to be true, and didn’t realize the name of the account was an admin.<p>I was expelled a few months later for all the fun I had after discovering this. Good times.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whalesalad</author><text>Yes! The SAM! It’s all coming back to me now.</text></comment> |
35,081,347 | 35,081,073 | 1 | 2 | 35,080,576 | train | <story><title>The False Promise of Chomskyism</title><url>https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=7094</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mjburgess</author><text>Scott mischaracterises the reasons, which concern capacities of the system <i>not</i> properties of its output.<p>(1) It lacks the capacity to interpret sentences. It&#x27;s <i>output</i> possess the property of seeming-to-have-interpreted.<p>(2) It lacks the capacity to learn. Learning is, in part, explaining; it is, in part, causal contact with an environment. It&#x27;s output has the property of seeming-to-be-generated-by-a-learner.<p>(3) It lacks the capacity to speak either truthfully or otherwise. Lacking the capacity to explain, because at least it lacks the capacity to imagine (counterfactuals), it cannot thereby determine whether a claim accords with the way the world is. It&#x27;s output has the property: seeming-to-be-true.<p>(4) It lacks the capacity to be moral. For all the above, and more: it lacks the capacity to <i>care</i>. It&#x27;s output has the property: seeming-to-take-moral-stands.<p>The &quot;Jesuit&quot; here, I fear, is the AI fanatic who have turned their telescopes away from reality (intelligence as it actually exists), and have stolen the lenses to read scripture (intelligence as theorised by partisan academics).<p>One has to agree with Chomsky here at the end, &quot;given the amorality, faux science and linguistic incompetence of these systems, we can only laugh or cry at their popularity.&quot;<p>The morality point I think should hit home most extremely: how horrifying to treat generated text output as-if it were constructed by an agent who <i>cares</i>.<p>Apparent properties of the output are <i>not</i> properties of the system; ChatGPT does not think, know, care, intend, speak, commnuicate, etc.<p>One can only &quot;laugh or cry&quot; at how absurd this sales pitch: what a horror to be invited to treat ChatGPT as possessing any of these capacities, simply because correlations across a whole internet of text seems to.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FredPret</author><text>He writes a great reply to this in his own comment section:<p>&quot;Michael #3: In a certain sense you’re right. The language models now being adopted by millions of programmers don’t write working code; they only seem-to-write-working-code. They’re not, unfortunately, already doing millions of students’ homework for them; they’re only seeming-to-do-the-homework. Even if in a few years they help me and my colleagues do our research, they won’t actually be helping, but only seeming-to-help. They won’t change civilization; they’ll only seem-to-change-it.&quot;<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scottaaronson.blog&#x2F;?p=7094#comment-1947189" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scottaaronson.blog&#x2F;?p=7094#comment-1947189</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The False Promise of Chomskyism</title><url>https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=7094</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mjburgess</author><text>Scott mischaracterises the reasons, which concern capacities of the system <i>not</i> properties of its output.<p>(1) It lacks the capacity to interpret sentences. It&#x27;s <i>output</i> possess the property of seeming-to-have-interpreted.<p>(2) It lacks the capacity to learn. Learning is, in part, explaining; it is, in part, causal contact with an environment. It&#x27;s output has the property of seeming-to-be-generated-by-a-learner.<p>(3) It lacks the capacity to speak either truthfully or otherwise. Lacking the capacity to explain, because at least it lacks the capacity to imagine (counterfactuals), it cannot thereby determine whether a claim accords with the way the world is. It&#x27;s output has the property: seeming-to-be-true.<p>(4) It lacks the capacity to be moral. For all the above, and more: it lacks the capacity to <i>care</i>. It&#x27;s output has the property: seeming-to-take-moral-stands.<p>The &quot;Jesuit&quot; here, I fear, is the AI fanatic who have turned their telescopes away from reality (intelligence as it actually exists), and have stolen the lenses to read scripture (intelligence as theorised by partisan academics).<p>One has to agree with Chomsky here at the end, &quot;given the amorality, faux science and linguistic incompetence of these systems, we can only laugh or cry at their popularity.&quot;<p>The morality point I think should hit home most extremely: how horrifying to treat generated text output as-if it were constructed by an agent who <i>cares</i>.<p>Apparent properties of the output are <i>not</i> properties of the system; ChatGPT does not think, know, care, intend, speak, commnuicate, etc.<p>One can only &quot;laugh or cry&quot; at how absurd this sales pitch: what a horror to be invited to treat ChatGPT as possessing any of these capacities, simply because correlations across a whole internet of text seems to.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>krona</author><text>(1) As it is with humans. It&#x27;s not possible to attach a debugger to a human brain and determine the nature of understanding; you have to ask the human questions about that understanding and interpret the response yourself.<p>(2) This is a strange one to me. It&#x27;s a bit like saying an essential quality of a human is to experience the world as a human, and therefore nothing except a human can be human.<p>(3) If only all humans met this arbitrary standard of secular scientific rationalism.<p>(4) I&#x27;d say 5% of humanity fail to meet this criteria.</text></comment> |
9,166,905 | 9,166,647 | 1 | 3 | 9,166,501 | train | <story><title>On Secretly Terrible Engineers</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/08/on-secretly-terrible-engineers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mkozlows</author><text>It&#x27;s notable, and obvious, that this guy has never actually tried to hire a developer. He has the luxury of thinking that these &quot;secretly terrible&quot; people are rare and misjudged. He&#x27;s wrong, though.<p>(That&#x27;s not to say that industry standard interviewing techniques are perfect -- they&#x27;re definitely not, and they&#x27;re often awful -- but &quot;lots of professional programmers simply flat-out can&#x27;t program&quot; is a true fact, and a hiring process needs to deal with that reality.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FLUX-YOU</author><text>&gt;simply flat-out can&#x27;t program<p>This phrase is seriously abused and it needs to stop because our field has anything but standardized and well-known competencies that we expect people to know before they commit anything.<p>Compiling main() with an assignment and a print is technically programming, but has extremely little to do with what is actually being developed in real products. You aren&#x27;t going to give anyone a job if this is all they can do. As soon as you get out of the absolute basics (IMO, if&#x2F;for&#x2F;assignment&#x2F;operators), your demands are simply arbitrary with what you think will indicate that someone can do the job.<p>You might only consider someone who can pass FizzBuzz as a &#x27;real programmer&#x27;. Someone else might only consider someone who knows and can implement advanced patterns and quickly absorb an unfamiliar API as a &#x27;real programmer&#x27;. Programming-Genius-32 might only think someone&#x27;s a &#x27;real programmer&#x27; when he can implement every algorithm from MIT&#x27;s curriculum from scratch.<p>And if I had to make a wild guess, I would guess that people create their own standards of what a &#x27;real programmer&#x27; is based on things they have already solved or things they read from someone else. Then they go make hiring decisions based on this standard. It is very likely that someone can look down on many of us and call us fake programmers because they&#x27;re just so much further ahead.<p>Convincing someone that you are a real programmer of a certain skill level is a social exercise, not a technical one.</text></comment> | <story><title>On Secretly Terrible Engineers</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/08/on-secretly-terrible-engineers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mkozlows</author><text>It&#x27;s notable, and obvious, that this guy has never actually tried to hire a developer. He has the luxury of thinking that these &quot;secretly terrible&quot; people are rare and misjudged. He&#x27;s wrong, though.<p>(That&#x27;s not to say that industry standard interviewing techniques are perfect -- they&#x27;re definitely not, and they&#x27;re often awful -- but &quot;lots of professional programmers simply flat-out can&#x27;t program&quot; is a true fact, and a hiring process needs to deal with that reality.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacques_chester</author><text>Where I work, we have a two-step process.<p>The first is called &quot;Rob&#x27;s Pairing Interview&quot;, or RPI. We go through a very simple problem. Takes 30-60 minutes. Nothing fancy is required, nobody is getting an algo pop quiz. Just a basic smoke test to see if you have, at some point in your life, programmed at all.<p>The second is pairing interviews. You come in and pair with us. At work. On real software.<p>When I got hired I kept waiting for the shoe to drop. It was just like the interview. Exactly like the interview.<p>The shoe never dropped. That&#x27;s just ... how we work. The pairing session were a 1:1 example of daily life. And in a pairing situation there are no Secretly Terrible Engineers. And only a few Secretly Awesome Engineers, which is why we do it that way.</text></comment> |
24,710,832 | 24,710,288 | 1 | 3 | 24,707,407 | train | <story><title>Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products</title><url>https://www.buyforlifeproducts.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>driverdan</author><text>I like the concept but since it&#x27;s open to the public it will suffer from ignorance.<p>For example, take the Salomon Quest boots that are listed. I own a pair of them. While they&#x27;re good boots for the price they do not deserve an A- score. They are not BIFL. The soles are glued making them not resoleable. The sole on one of mine has started coming unglued too.<p>The same can be said for the Victorinox Fibrox knife that has an A+ rating. I also have one of those. It&#x27;s a great knife for its low price but it does not deserve an A+ since it isn&#x27;t full tang and is very thin and easy to damage.<p>This is a common issue with &quot;BIFL&quot; discussions. People overrate something because they don&#x27;t understand that parts will wear out from use, something isn&#x27;t repairable, or they don&#x27;t have experience with a higher quality item.<p>Do you have any thoughts for dealing with this issue?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>floatrock</author><text>Op can&#x27;t avoid this problem if following the reviews-masquerading-as-affiliate-marketing pattern.<p>What&#x27;s needed is to turn it all upside down: rather than reviewing new products, review <i>broken</i> products.<p>Make a site about how things break -- review broken and worn-out products to teach how to identify cheap products (where are the stress points, what manufacturing techniques exist to alleviate those). Then compare those with used products well past their warranty period that <i>haven&#x27;t</i> broken, and look at why they haven&#x27;t.<p>Repairability also comes to mind. Everything breaks eventually -- can&#x27;t cheat entropy -- but when it does, can you easily repair it? Right-to-repair movement would get in on the action.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products</title><url>https://www.buyforlifeproducts.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>driverdan</author><text>I like the concept but since it&#x27;s open to the public it will suffer from ignorance.<p>For example, take the Salomon Quest boots that are listed. I own a pair of them. While they&#x27;re good boots for the price they do not deserve an A- score. They are not BIFL. The soles are glued making them not resoleable. The sole on one of mine has started coming unglued too.<p>The same can be said for the Victorinox Fibrox knife that has an A+ rating. I also have one of those. It&#x27;s a great knife for its low price but it does not deserve an A+ since it isn&#x27;t full tang and is very thin and easy to damage.<p>This is a common issue with &quot;BIFL&quot; discussions. People overrate something because they don&#x27;t understand that parts will wear out from use, something isn&#x27;t repairable, or they don&#x27;t have experience with a higher quality item.<p>Do you have any thoughts for dealing with this issue?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>noxToken</author><text>Another thing is product revisions. Version 1 might be an actual BIFL product. Version 2 might have a small yet significant revision impacting quality. Even process revisions like offloading part of the manufacturing process or a different part supplier can impact the longevity of a product.</text></comment> |
17,067,813 | 17,062,969 | 1 | 2 | 17,060,085 | train | <story><title>GDPR will pop the adtech bubble</title><url>http://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2018/05/12/gdpr/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rebuilder</author><text>For the frugal&#x2F;high spender conflict, I can kind of see how that might happen.<p>I try to buy quality goods because cheap stuff doesn&#x27;t last. That means spending more up front to spend less in the long run. So frugal, but also maybe high spender?<p>My mom always says: if you&#x27;re poor, you can&#x27;t afford to buy cheap.</text></item><item><author>madeofpalk</author><text>&gt; By and large, it doesn&#x27;t, very well.<p>I know Twitter isn&#x27;t known for being the best at advertising, but it was made exceptionally clear to me that online advertising is a massive bunch of lies when I did my GDPR Twitter data export and it included me in a bunch of incorrect, non-sensical and contradictory ad targeting groups.<p>Twitter claims I:<p><pre><code> * Own a cat, dog and other animal (I don&#x27;t)
* Have between $100k- $999k liquid investible assets (I don&#x27;t)
* Have a net worth between $1 and $1m (cool - I own *something*)
* Am highly affluent (&#x2F;shrug)
* Am a high spender (okay...)
* Am a frugal spender (...but how can I be both a high spender AND frugal)
* Own a house (I don&#x27;t)
* Have multiple families (I don&#x27;t)
</code></pre>
I was very disappointed that the Google and Facebook data exports don&#x27;t contain this data. Maybe it&#x27;s for their best.</text></item><item><author>rossdavidh</author><text>Oddly, I think the article underestimates the size of the change coming. I think one side affect of the surge of IT into advertising, is that it has become easier to measure exactly how well advertising works. By and large, it doesn&#x27;t, very well.<p>I am reminded of this, from Paul Graham, about his time at Yahoo: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&#x2F;yahoo.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&#x2F;yahoo.html</a><p>&quot;...The reason Yahoo didn&#x27;t care about a technique that extracted the full value of traffic was that advertisers were already overpaying for it. If Yahoo merely extracted the actual value, they&#x27;d have made less.&quot;<p>I&#x27;m pretty sure that, the more we learn about how well advertising works, the less money people will be willing to pay for it. What&#x27;s happening to billboards and newspapers right now is probably coming to several other industries soon.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>d1zzy</author><text>All things equal (features that I need from the product) I like to buy high quality things because they make me feel good (they look well built, they give me this warm feeling inside that I got my money&#x27;s worth). But I realize this is all emotional and rationally I shouldn&#x27;t, in most cases.<p>I don&#x27;t think they pay off long term, at least it seems heavily dependent on the product type. That&#x27;s because we are playing a lottery game, even if this product breaks in 0.1% cases vs 5% cases for a much cheaper product, we&#x27;re not buying large numbers of them, we&#x27;re buying just one and while the probability to break on me is smaller it can still happen and the monetary loss would be much larger than if I were to buy the cheaper product. That is, the warranty doesn&#x27;t scale with the price (the expensive top quality TV is $2000 and the cheaper one is $500 and both have 1 year of warranty), for the same money I can buy 4 of those $500 TVs and would last at least 4 years (but very likely to find at least one that will work much longer, since I&#x27;m buying up to 4 of them).</text></comment> | <story><title>GDPR will pop the adtech bubble</title><url>http://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2018/05/12/gdpr/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rebuilder</author><text>For the frugal&#x2F;high spender conflict, I can kind of see how that might happen.<p>I try to buy quality goods because cheap stuff doesn&#x27;t last. That means spending more up front to spend less in the long run. So frugal, but also maybe high spender?<p>My mom always says: if you&#x27;re poor, you can&#x27;t afford to buy cheap.</text></item><item><author>madeofpalk</author><text>&gt; By and large, it doesn&#x27;t, very well.<p>I know Twitter isn&#x27;t known for being the best at advertising, but it was made exceptionally clear to me that online advertising is a massive bunch of lies when I did my GDPR Twitter data export and it included me in a bunch of incorrect, non-sensical and contradictory ad targeting groups.<p>Twitter claims I:<p><pre><code> * Own a cat, dog and other animal (I don&#x27;t)
* Have between $100k- $999k liquid investible assets (I don&#x27;t)
* Have a net worth between $1 and $1m (cool - I own *something*)
* Am highly affluent (&#x2F;shrug)
* Am a high spender (okay...)
* Am a frugal spender (...but how can I be both a high spender AND frugal)
* Own a house (I don&#x27;t)
* Have multiple families (I don&#x27;t)
</code></pre>
I was very disappointed that the Google and Facebook data exports don&#x27;t contain this data. Maybe it&#x27;s for their best.</text></item><item><author>rossdavidh</author><text>Oddly, I think the article underestimates the size of the change coming. I think one side affect of the surge of IT into advertising, is that it has become easier to measure exactly how well advertising works. By and large, it doesn&#x27;t, very well.<p>I am reminded of this, from Paul Graham, about his time at Yahoo: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&#x2F;yahoo.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&#x2F;yahoo.html</a><p>&quot;...The reason Yahoo didn&#x27;t care about a technique that extracted the full value of traffic was that advertisers were already overpaying for it. If Yahoo merely extracted the actual value, they&#x27;d have made less.&quot;<p>I&#x27;m pretty sure that, the more we learn about how well advertising works, the less money people will be willing to pay for it. What&#x27;s happening to billboards and newspapers right now is probably coming to several other industries soon.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pishpash</author><text>That almost never works for the reason you describe. For any quality item that lasts M times as long as the cheap item, you can almost always find N &gt; M such that you can buy N copies of the cheap item for the price of one quality item. You do not spend less in the long run, though you can convince yourself of that. The primary effect of buying cheap is not financial, it&#x27;s that you&#x27;re dealing with less quality over the entire usage lifetime (hence getting less utility out of it) and the replacement effort has cost (but which for poor people is very little by definition).</text></comment> |
10,861,510 | 10,861,500 | 1 | 2 | 10,861,391 | train | <story><title>T-Mobile CEO to EFF: ‘Who the Fuck Are You?’</title><url>https://motherboard.vice.com/read/t-mobile-ceo-to-eff-who-the-fuck-are-you?utm_source=mbtwitter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>We pay the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Consumers, geeks, and the privacy&#x2F;digital rights inclined. They&#x27;re doing exactly what donors want them to be doing, including this Binge On thing (which is part of a larger Net Neutrality struggle).<p>I am a T-Mobile customer. And when they first introduced Binge On I was mostly happy (Net Neutrality notwithstanding): seemed like a fair trade, for certain sites you lost video bandwidth but in return received unlimited streaming.<p>However T-Mobile&#x27;s implementation is bad and worse still they weren&#x27;t honest about what Binge On does. It is a completely different arrangement between ONLY limiting sites that signed up, and interfering in third parties who did not, and don&#x27;t even get me started on limiting video file download rates (i.e. not streaming).<p>The CEO is just acting like an idiot. Consumer rights groups, like the EFF, are completely entitled to &quot;stir things up&quot; when large national corporations start acting poorly. If you guys didn&#x27;t want to be called out, perhaps you could have been more honest to begin with?
So as a T-Mobile customer, I am 100% behind EFF on this one. If they started attacking the EFF regularly I&#x27;ll change networks (e.g. Project Fi), because I value the EFF more than T-Mobile.<p>PS - Amazon&#x27;s Smile.Amazon.com supports EFF donations, as an aside.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>epistasis</author><text>I <i>really</i> like the concept of the EFF, and <i>really</i> like most of their work, but when I was reading their blog I quickly started to feel like they go off half-cocked too often. When I first saw summaries of their report my guess was just that there in turning BingeOn on&#x2F;off on a single account, or that there were temporary configuration problems on T-Mobile&#x27;s side.<p>Some people like the idea of supporting an out-there extreme to keep the Overton window shifted to an appropriate place. I can see the logic in it, but I value truth first.<p>T-mobile&#x27;s CEO&#x27;s schtick is to act like this, and I don&#x27;t really appreciate that much either, but I do appreciate T-mobile&#x27;s small movements to make the cell phone market more fluid by getting rid of contracts, and I also still like BingeOn. It gives me more control over my data than Netflix or Amazon or whomever gives me.</text></comment> | <story><title>T-Mobile CEO to EFF: ‘Who the Fuck Are You?’</title><url>https://motherboard.vice.com/read/t-mobile-ceo-to-eff-who-the-fuck-are-you?utm_source=mbtwitter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>We pay the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Consumers, geeks, and the privacy&#x2F;digital rights inclined. They&#x27;re doing exactly what donors want them to be doing, including this Binge On thing (which is part of a larger Net Neutrality struggle).<p>I am a T-Mobile customer. And when they first introduced Binge On I was mostly happy (Net Neutrality notwithstanding): seemed like a fair trade, for certain sites you lost video bandwidth but in return received unlimited streaming.<p>However T-Mobile&#x27;s implementation is bad and worse still they weren&#x27;t honest about what Binge On does. It is a completely different arrangement between ONLY limiting sites that signed up, and interfering in third parties who did not, and don&#x27;t even get me started on limiting video file download rates (i.e. not streaming).<p>The CEO is just acting like an idiot. Consumer rights groups, like the EFF, are completely entitled to &quot;stir things up&quot; when large national corporations start acting poorly. If you guys didn&#x27;t want to be called out, perhaps you could have been more honest to begin with?
So as a T-Mobile customer, I am 100% behind EFF on this one. If they started attacking the EFF regularly I&#x27;ll change networks (e.g. Project Fi), because I value the EFF more than T-Mobile.<p>PS - Amazon&#x27;s Smile.Amazon.com supports EFF donations, as an aside.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joezydeco</author><text>@EFF: <i>&quot;T-Mobile&#x27;s CEO is dying to know who EFF is. Friends, please tweet at @JohnLegere with the hashtag #WeAreEFF to enlighten him.&quot;</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;EFF&#x2F;status&#x2F;685216654398099456" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;EFF&#x2F;status&#x2F;685216654398099456</a></text></comment> |
36,179,751 | 36,179,604 | 1 | 2 | 36,176,954 | train | <story><title>Connect to your Raspberry Pi over USB using gadget mode</title><url>https://howchoo.com/pi/raspberry-pi-gadget-mode</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>velcrovan</author><text>Feels like the ubiquity of these kinds of how-tos implies that the Raspberry Pi is an abundant, ready-to-hand device, which hasn&#x27;t been true for a few years now. But maybe we’ll get there again soon? Seems like I’ve read people being optimistic about rpi sourcing but it also hasn’t really materialized yet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>geerlingguy</author><text>The number of people I know who have been waiting to buy a Pi and actually get one has gone from about 1 a month to about 2 a week in the past couple months.<p>It&#x27;s slow but steady, seeing more in stock notifications from authorized resellers on rpilocator.com, and the stock doesn&#x27;t deplete for 30 minutes to an hour now, instead of like 5-10 minutes earlier this year.</text></comment> | <story><title>Connect to your Raspberry Pi over USB using gadget mode</title><url>https://howchoo.com/pi/raspberry-pi-gadget-mode</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>velcrovan</author><text>Feels like the ubiquity of these kinds of how-tos implies that the Raspberry Pi is an abundant, ready-to-hand device, which hasn&#x27;t been true for a few years now. But maybe we’ll get there again soon? Seems like I’ve read people being optimistic about rpi sourcing but it also hasn’t really materialized yet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hinkley</author><text>Would be good if more people called this out. I said something regarding how memory inefficient software is these days and how that makes pi clones difficult to use as a sandbox and someone helpfully responded back about how I should be using some model of RPi for that.<p>First, I already have devices. Second, people are still waiting in like to get Pi’s and based on the last interview I saw the Raspberry people think the system is working. They don’t want to raise their prices.<p>I am fairly sure if you have more money to offer your suppliers that scarce components are easier to get ahold of. They could keep their margins the same and raise their rates and generate a lot more revenue.</text></comment> |
38,914,221 | 38,913,656 | 1 | 3 | 38,911,791 | train | <story><title>What PWA Can Do Today</title><url>https://whatpwacando.today</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>starfox64_</author><text>It&#x27;s kinda sad that the website doesn&#x27;t prominently display which features have &quot;universal&quot; support across iOS and Android. The whole point of PWAs is to provide cross platforms apps so if a feature isn&#x27;t available on all&#x2F;most platforms, I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s fair to say that it&#x27;s really usable at all in your PWA.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>onion2k</author><text><i>The whole point of PWAs is to provide cross platforms apps so if a feature isn&#x27;t available on all&#x2F;most platforms, I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s fair to say that it&#x27;s really usable at all in your PWA.</i><p>You should be delivering the best possible experience for the user based on what their device can do, not the lowest common denominator of some arbitrary set of features. Progressive enhancement, API detection, and polyfilling are all common strategies that can be used to mitigate almost all device differences.</text></comment> | <story><title>What PWA Can Do Today</title><url>https://whatpwacando.today</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>starfox64_</author><text>It&#x27;s kinda sad that the website doesn&#x27;t prominently display which features have &quot;universal&quot; support across iOS and Android. The whole point of PWAs is to provide cross platforms apps so if a feature isn&#x27;t available on all&#x2F;most platforms, I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s fair to say that it&#x27;s really usable at all in your PWA.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwawaymaths</author><text>Depends. What if your PWA is an in-house app for operators in your company? They all have an issued device with MDM, one or a few skus, all apple (or all Google).<p>I think most in-house devs would rather not deal with the app store or the vagaries of getting the MDM side loading pathway working</text></comment> |
10,474,938 | 10,475,079 | 1 | 2 | 10,474,161 | train | <story><title>Facebook Blocks Internet Pioneer “R.U. Sirius”</title><url>http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2015/10/ru-sirius-facebook-ken-goffman.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>habith</author><text>Excuse the poor pun but.. are you serious?<p>Facebook excluded several of your friends based on their terrible name policy. They run their walled garden however they want to. Your participation in it makes you (in your own words) a &quot;peasant&quot;.<p>Yet, you&#x27;re not trying to go all RMS about it and you continue to use it daily to give them more money&#x2F;power?<p>Do you see anything wrong with this picture?<p>Say what you want about RMS, but at least he&#x27;s principled and does&#x2F;says what he thinks instead of conforming to social norms.</text></item><item><author>SwellJoe</author><text>Facebook has kinda chosen a path that sets them apart from, and often in active opposition to, the Internet RU Sirius envisioned. Facebook is antithetical to what a lot of folks wanted to see the Internet become, so it shouldn&#x27;t be surprising that the early visionaries of the Internet find themselves being excluded from participation in facebook on their own terms. Participation in facebook is on facebook&#x27;s terms, always, and it&#x27;s not surprising when they&#x27;re dicks who wield that power arbitrarily.<p>I&#x27;ve had several transgender friends excluded from participation in facebook based on this name policy, and I&#x27;ve known a wide variety of other people who use odd names for a wide variety of reasons (some silly, some deadly serious like trying to hide from an abusive ex) who&#x27;ve also been excluded from participation. Facebook makes pleasant noises about the policy and its implementation, but the reality is they&#x27;re not doing this for us, for the good of the world, or for the good of the open Internet.<p>I&#x27;m not trying to go all RMS about facebook; I have a facebook account, and I use it daily. But, facebook isn&#x27;t the Internet I envisioned, either. It is just another petty little walled garden where we&#x27;re all peasants.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scrollaway</author><text>It&#x27;s not reasonable to expect people to &quot;just not use facebook&quot;. Not that it&#x27;s not possible - it is (and I don&#x27;t use it), but it doesn&#x27;t mean facebook can just do whatever. Reposting an old comment of mine:<p>For a lot of people, Facebook <i>is</i> &quot;The Web&quot;. That&#x27;s all or almost all they use. The less tech-literate ones don&#x27;t even know &quot;the web&quot;, they connect to Facebook. They get their news from Facebook. They communicate on Facebook. Everything they do online, they do on Facebook.<p>Like someone mentioned above, when you get big enough you start to have responsibilities. When your actions affect and your voice is heard by billions of people, you&#x27;re no longer &quot;some random privately-owned website&quot;... you&#x27;re a supergiant with the ability to affect the entire world.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook Blocks Internet Pioneer “R.U. Sirius”</title><url>http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2015/10/ru-sirius-facebook-ken-goffman.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>habith</author><text>Excuse the poor pun but.. are you serious?<p>Facebook excluded several of your friends based on their terrible name policy. They run their walled garden however they want to. Your participation in it makes you (in your own words) a &quot;peasant&quot;.<p>Yet, you&#x27;re not trying to go all RMS about it and you continue to use it daily to give them more money&#x2F;power?<p>Do you see anything wrong with this picture?<p>Say what you want about RMS, but at least he&#x27;s principled and does&#x2F;says what he thinks instead of conforming to social norms.</text></item><item><author>SwellJoe</author><text>Facebook has kinda chosen a path that sets them apart from, and often in active opposition to, the Internet RU Sirius envisioned. Facebook is antithetical to what a lot of folks wanted to see the Internet become, so it shouldn&#x27;t be surprising that the early visionaries of the Internet find themselves being excluded from participation in facebook on their own terms. Participation in facebook is on facebook&#x27;s terms, always, and it&#x27;s not surprising when they&#x27;re dicks who wield that power arbitrarily.<p>I&#x27;ve had several transgender friends excluded from participation in facebook based on this name policy, and I&#x27;ve known a wide variety of other people who use odd names for a wide variety of reasons (some silly, some deadly serious like trying to hide from an abusive ex) who&#x27;ve also been excluded from participation. Facebook makes pleasant noises about the policy and its implementation, but the reality is they&#x27;re not doing this for us, for the good of the world, or for the good of the open Internet.<p>I&#x27;m not trying to go all RMS about facebook; I have a facebook account, and I use it daily. But, facebook isn&#x27;t the Internet I envisioned, either. It is just another petty little walled garden where we&#x27;re all peasants.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PhasmaFelis</author><text>It would be nice if I had the luxury of completely disconnecting from modern society in order to stay true to my principles. But I don&#x27;t. Modern corporations have gone to great to make it extremely inconvenient to not use their services--which is exactly the problem we&#x27;re talking about, isn&#x27;t it? If we didn&#x27;t rely on them for our daily activities, we wouldn&#x27;t care if they had abusive policies.<p>I admire RMS&#x27; ideals, but he famously doesn&#x27;t actually use the internet like anyone else does--he won&#x27;t purchase or pay for anything online, he won&#x27;t browse the web except via wget--which makes his pronouncements about as useful in day-to-day life as a celibate priest giving sex advice.</text></comment> |
17,403,498 | 17,403,161 | 1 | 2 | 17,402,274 | train | <story><title>Wi-Fi Alliance Introduces Wi-Fi Certified WPA3 Security</title><url>https://www.wi-fi.org/news-events/newsroom/wi-fi-alliance-introduces-wi-fi-certified-wpa3-security</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>amluto</author><text>I&#x27;m not optimistic. I believe that the underlying crypto protocol is this:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ieeexplore.ieee.org&#x2F;document&#x2F;4622764&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ieeexplore.ieee.org&#x2F;document&#x2F;4622764&#x2F;</a><p>It&#x27;s &quot;secure authentication of equals&quot;, which is a protocol that kind of looks like it&#x27;s trying to be a PAKE (Password Authenticated Key Exchange), but the paper does not mention PAKE anywhere in its abstract, and I&#x27;m not at all confident that SAE&#x27;s design or analysis takes into account the properties that PAKE protocols should have.<p>I think that the original WPA key exchange was supposed to use the SRP protocol, which is a PAKE, but that was dropped due to patent issues. Since then, as I understand it, quite a few very nice PAKE protocols have had their patents expire, so I don&#x27;t see what the problem is now.<p>So color me extremely skeptical.</text></comment> | <story><title>Wi-Fi Alliance Introduces Wi-Fi Certified WPA3 Security</title><url>https://www.wi-fi.org/news-events/newsroom/wi-fi-alliance-introduces-wi-fi-certified-wpa3-security</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>excalibur</author><text>&gt; Wi-Fi Alliance is also introducing Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Easy Connect™, a new program that reduces the complexity of onboarding Wi-Fi devices with limited or no display interface – such as devices coming to market for Internet of Things (IoT) – while still maintaining high security standards. Wi-Fi Easy Connect™ enables users to securely add any device to a Wi-Fi network using another device with a more robust interface, such as a smartphone, by simply scanning a product quick response (QR) code. Wi-Fi Easy Connect and WPA3 represent the latest evolution in Wi-Fi Alliance programs to ensure users receive a positive experience while remaining securely connected as the security landscape evolves.<p>This is highly reminiscent of WPS. The language indicates that they&#x27;ve learned their lesson and focused on making the standard secure, at least in theory. Time will tell how well it&#x27;s implemented, but history says to be skeptical and disable it for the time being.</text></comment> |
5,982,523 | 5,982,391 | 1 | 2 | 5,981,630 | train | <story><title>Google Reader Founder: I Never Would Have Founded Reader Inside Today's Google</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkantrowitz/2013/07/01/google-reader-founder-i-never-would-have-founded-reader-inside-todays-google/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cocoflunchy</author><text>I feel like the only reason we hear so much about Google Reader is because the main users were either journalists or bloggers, which creates an extremely disproportionate noise &#x2F; (former) user ratio.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Reader Founder: I Never Would Have Founded Reader Inside Today's Google</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkantrowitz/2013/07/01/google-reader-founder-i-never-would-have-founded-reader-inside-todays-google/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mehrdada</author><text>&quot;Google Reader founder Chris Wetherell said that if the idea came to him in today’s Google, he would leave the company and build it on his own rather than put it at the mercy of Google leadership.&quot;<p>Guess what dude?! If I were in that position and I were primarily worried about my project &quot;being at the mercy of Google&quot; (or any company that I don&#x27;t have sufficient control over, for that matter), I would have left _anytime_. It should not be something you realize _today_. This is just whining over a &quot;wrong&quot; (presumably; assuming you would have pulled it off well) tradeoff you, yourself, made back in the day. It&#x27;s not &quot;today&#x27;s Google vs. back then&#x27;s Google&quot;. This is the tradeoff that you make anytime you decide to work for someone else; this is obvious and was obvious back in the day. If you had not seen it, the blame is wholly on you.<p>Google Reader would not have been a guaranteed success that it was without Google&#x27;s resources. If one does not have the balls to take the risk of working at his or her own startup, he or she is not entitled to the benefits either. In hindsight, it&#x27;s too easy to say &quot;I would have gone and pulled it off independently&quot;.<p>I personally think Larry overall has been focusing on what matters and under his awesome leadership, Google is performing far better than Eric&#x27;s time and this whole situation is not dissimilar to what happened at WWDC1997 and Steve&#x27;s response to the random questioner in the audience:<p>&quot;...the hardest thing is how does that fit in to a cohesive larger vision that&#x27;s gonna allow you to sell 8 billion dollars... 10 billion dollars... a product a year.&quot;<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF-tKLISfPE" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=FF-tKLISfPE</a></text></comment> |
25,845,202 | 25,843,175 | 1 | 3 | 25,838,364 | train | <story><title>Java on Truffle – Going Fully Metacircular</title><url>https://medium.com/graalvm/java-on-truffle-going-fully-metacircular-215531e3f840</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>grashalm</author><text>GraalVM dev here. Note that Java on Truffle is fully Open Source and available on Github.<p>If you can read Java code and you are interested in how it is implemented start reading here:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;oracle&#x2F;graal&#x2F;blob&#x2F;espresso&#x2F;espresso&#x2F;src&#x2F;com.oracle.truffle.espresso&#x2F;src&#x2F;com&#x2F;oracle&#x2F;truffle&#x2F;espresso&#x2F;nodes&#x2F;BytecodeNode.java#L634" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;oracle&#x2F;graal&#x2F;blob&#x2F;espresso&#x2F;espresso&#x2F;src&#x2F;c...</a><p>If you are interested in a deep dive into the Truffle technology and are interested in why it makes sense to implement a language on top ofTruffle checkout my recent Rebase talk for a really long answer:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;O4icaN9khp4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;O4icaN9khp4</a><p>If you don&#x27;t have enough time for an 1h talk checkout my summary tweet:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;grashalm_&#x2F;status&#x2F;1212763944043139072" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;grashalm_&#x2F;status&#x2F;1212763944043139072</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Java on Truffle – Going Fully Metacircular</title><url>https://medium.com/graalvm/java-on-truffle-going-fully-metacircular-215531e3f840</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fniephaus</author><text>Espresso&#x27;s README.md contains some interesting details, for example:<p>&gt; ... it already passes &gt;99.99% of the Java Compatibility Kit ...<p>&gt; Running HelloWorld on three nested layers of Espresso takes ~15 minutes.<p>Link: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;oracle&#x2F;graal&#x2F;tree&#x2F;6dd83cd94763b8736b42063f3cbf288b8add4128&#x2F;espresso#espresso-coffee" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;oracle&#x2F;graal&#x2F;tree&#x2F;6dd83cd94763b8736b42063...</a></text></comment> |
2,106,285 | 2,106,049 | 1 | 2 | 2,105,154 | train | <story><title>Chromium Blog: More about the Chrome HTML Video Codec Change</title><url>http://blog.chromium.org/2011/01/more-about-chrome-html-video-codec.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cookiecaper</author><text>I've been trying to refrain from commenting on these stories the last few days, but oh well.<p>This whole debate is stupid and of course WebM exclusivity is the right way to go. Mozilla supports it, Chrome supports it, Opera supports it, Flash will be supporting it in the near future, meaning any of the other desktop browsers will support it.<p>The only reason people are complaining is that their iPhones have H.264 hardware acceleration. Well, dude, you'll just have to deal with software decode for some videos. The world does not revolve around iOS, no matter how much you want it to.<p>There is no good reason to support H.264 -- WebM provides roughly equivalent features and quality and MPEG-LA will be out for blood ever more as the clock ticks down on H.264 patents.<p>Everyone knows that there is no valid argument here for supporting H.264 other than "but... that'll decrease the battery life on my iPad or iPhone! :(". That's life, man; technology moves forward and old things get obsoleted, even mind-blowingly shiny things made by Apple.<p>I find the pointless hipster-fanboy whining to be pretty grating, personally.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bonaldi</author><text>&#62; This whole debate is stupid and of course WebM exclusivity is the right way to go.<p>This whole debate is stupid and of course WebM exclusivity is the wrong way to go.<p>An "of course" is a really lame way to enter a debate, because it says that everyone take the debating so far seriously are idiots, which I don't believe the rest of HN are. The other alternative is that it's much more nuanced than "of course" allows, you just haven't understood the debate.<p>&#62; The only reason people are complaining is that their iPhones have H.264 hardware acceleration<p>No, people are complaining for many other valid reasons. Like: the digital video world runs on H.264, it has deep, complicated, expensive internal toolchains to support it, legacy archives encoded in it, basically entire businesses built around it. The video production world is far larger and more complex than you're picturing it. A "script" isn't nearly enough to do what you're talking about; suggesting you just need to point ffmpeg at a hard drive of stuff has dramatically underestimated the scale of what's involved.<p>Or, reasons like: they want the video tag to succeed, and this decision essentially entrenches Flash for another five years at least.<p>In an h.264 world the video tag had the combined support of three major desktop browsers, iOS, Android, a tonne of shipping mobile and embedded hardware, a Flash fallback and crucially it was an easy implementation for all the video content producers, with no re-encoding required. That's plenty enough to give it a good beachhead and momentum away from all Flash all the time.<p>In a WebM world, you have the support of Firefox, Opera and Chrome. No shipping mobile support. No shipping embedded support. No shipping Flash implementation. No video producer support. No video toolchain support. And it's a small technological step backwards, to boot!<p>&#62; I find the pointless hipster-fanboy whining to be pretty grating, personally.<p>I find underinformed freetard passive-aggression to have no place here, personally.</text></comment> | <story><title>Chromium Blog: More about the Chrome HTML Video Codec Change</title><url>http://blog.chromium.org/2011/01/more-about-chrome-html-video-codec.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cookiecaper</author><text>I've been trying to refrain from commenting on these stories the last few days, but oh well.<p>This whole debate is stupid and of course WebM exclusivity is the right way to go. Mozilla supports it, Chrome supports it, Opera supports it, Flash will be supporting it in the near future, meaning any of the other desktop browsers will support it.<p>The only reason people are complaining is that their iPhones have H.264 hardware acceleration. Well, dude, you'll just have to deal with software decode for some videos. The world does not revolve around iOS, no matter how much you want it to.<p>There is no good reason to support H.264 -- WebM provides roughly equivalent features and quality and MPEG-LA will be out for blood ever more as the clock ticks down on H.264 patents.<p>Everyone knows that there is no valid argument here for supporting H.264 other than "but... that'll decrease the battery life on my iPad or iPhone! :(". That's life, man; technology moves forward and old things get obsoleted, even mind-blowingly shiny things made by Apple.<p>I find the pointless hipster-fanboy whining to be pretty grating, personally.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toddheasley</author><text>I've been trying to refrain from commenting, too, so that's one thing that we have... had in common.<p>&#62; ...of course WebM exclusivity is the right way to go. Mozilla supports it, Chrome supports it, Opera supports it, Flash will be supporting it in the near future...<p>First of all, including Opera in the list of those in favor of WebM is a lot like including Iceland in the Coalition of the Willing. If you live in Iceland, you probably overestimate Iceland's importance, but it undermines the intent of making a list in the first place. The flip side of this is that, while Internet Explorer probably won't support WebM unless Google indemnifies adopters, IE is almost as irrelevant as Opera in the arenas of both web video and The Future. Here's where we really are:<p>* Apple likes H.264 for the following reasons:
* The licensing and liability is known, and Apple can afford to pay. They don't care if web video ends up being a high stakes poker table, because they're a high roller.
* H.264-encoded video looks better than WebM video and takes up slightly less space.
* Most current graphics silicon supports hardware decoding of H.264, which allows for video playback that is both gorgeous and economical.
* Mozilla liked Theora because they can't or won't pay to license H.264, and Theora was the only open source candidate they could find to run in the election. Free is more important than good.
* Google likes WebM for the following reasons:
* They can control its development.
* It is, so far as anyone knows, unencumbered by patents, so no licensing.<p>I say "so far as anyone knows" because that's what Google is saying by not indemnifying WebM adopters. If you're worried about a theoretical MPEG-LA licensing gotcha, then you have to be equally worried that, if/when WebM adoption is significant, patent trolls won't show up with claims of infringement. At least with H.264, the licensing terms have been stated. YOU personally may not be worried about either scenario, but you're probably not weighing whether you should produce graphics chips that decode WebM. Does anybody on this forum want to argue whether the chipmakers who've pledged to do WebM decoding aren't nervously watching to see if more Android hardware makers get sued? By not indemnifying adopters, Google is essentially picking an open source fight in a crowded bar and then ducking out the side door.<p>&#62;The only reason people are complaining is that their iPhones have H.264 hardware acceleration. Well, dude, you'll just have to deal with software decode for some videos. The world does not revolve around iOS, no matter how much you want it to.<p>That is a very big component to the complaining: I can't watch your idealism on my iPad for the duration of a 6-hour flight. And you're right, the world does not revolve around iOS, but the video world does revolve around H.264 right now. If you're not shooting with actual film, then your video workflow literally starts and ends with H.264.<p>And maybe more to the point web video does revolve around iOS devices, because iOS users watch orders of magnitude more video than anybody else.<p>&#62; WebM provides roughly equivalent features and quality<p>If by "features" you're excluding fast, economical encoding and decoding and by "quality" you're excluding picture quality. "Roughly equivalent" is just weaseling around admitting H.264 looks and works better. Someday... who knows? Someday GM might make a better car than Toyota, but for now, GM is stuck saying things like "[our] quality can't be beat by Toyota."<p>&#62; I find the pointless hipster-fanboy whining to be pretty grating, personally.<p>And the hipster-fanboys doing the pointless whining harbor deep suspicions that people who are willing to trade their audio and video playback quality today for the open source promise of adequate video someday don't really care much about audio or video.</text></comment> |
20,183,065 | 20,181,840 | 1 | 3 | 20,180,071 | train | <story><title>Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Gets Big Backers</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebooks-new-cryptocurrency-gets-big-backers-11560463312?mod=rsswn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pjc50</author><text>&gt; Facebook-bucks<p>Missed opportunity to call them &quot;Marks&quot;, although maybe only German speakers will get the joke.</text></item><item><author>superkuh</author><text>Is it really a cryptocurrency when it&#x27;s completely centralized? No. This is just Facebook-bucks. Store dollars. It&#x27;s has absolutely none of the benefits of a real cryptocurrency.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stillworks</author><text>With all due respect to nations&#x27; currency names... can I but recommend &quot;Douche Mark&quot; in this instance ?</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Gets Big Backers</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebooks-new-cryptocurrency-gets-big-backers-11560463312?mod=rsswn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pjc50</author><text>&gt; Facebook-bucks<p>Missed opportunity to call them &quot;Marks&quot;, although maybe only German speakers will get the joke.</text></item><item><author>superkuh</author><text>Is it really a cryptocurrency when it&#x27;s completely centralized? No. This is just Facebook-bucks. Store dollars. It&#x27;s has absolutely none of the benefits of a real cryptocurrency.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>turtlecloud</author><text>Word on the blockchain is that the crypto people are calling them “Zuck Bucks”</text></comment> |
22,069,192 | 22,069,151 | 1 | 2 | 22,068,544 | train | <story><title>Washington pressures TSMC to make chips in US</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Exclusive-Washington-pressures-TSMC-to-make-chips-in-US</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Nokinside</author><text>I think there is a geopolitical reason why most TSMC&#x27;s 300mm GIGAFAB&#x27;s and advanced backend fab are located in Taiwan (1 fab in China). <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tsmc.com&#x2F;english&#x2F;contact_us.htm#TSMC_fabs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tsmc.com&#x2F;english&#x2F;contact_us.htm#TSMC_fabs</a><p>Concentrating geopolitical risk of TSMC operations makes Taiwan more important to the rest of the world. The US would naturally want to reduce this risk. In Taiwan-China conflict world chip production would take a huge hit or be in the danger of falling under Chinese rule.<p>If TSMC&#x27;s leadership is patriotic, they should refuse this pressure as much as they can and ask more weapons for Taiwan instead.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sct202</author><text>The Taiwanese government owns 6% of TSMC, and all the leadership is based in Taiwan so I would imagine they&#x27;d prefer to not endanger their family and friends.</text></comment> | <story><title>Washington pressures TSMC to make chips in US</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Exclusive-Washington-pressures-TSMC-to-make-chips-in-US</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Nokinside</author><text>I think there is a geopolitical reason why most TSMC&#x27;s 300mm GIGAFAB&#x27;s and advanced backend fab are located in Taiwan (1 fab in China). <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tsmc.com&#x2F;english&#x2F;contact_us.htm#TSMC_fabs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tsmc.com&#x2F;english&#x2F;contact_us.htm#TSMC_fabs</a><p>Concentrating geopolitical risk of TSMC operations makes Taiwan more important to the rest of the world. The US would naturally want to reduce this risk. In Taiwan-China conflict world chip production would take a huge hit or be in the danger of falling under Chinese rule.<p>If TSMC&#x27;s leadership is patriotic, they should refuse this pressure as much as they can and ask more weapons for Taiwan instead.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joe_the_user</author><text>Arguably, the situation is something of an incentive for peace since it makes the cost of war huge for all concerned.</text></comment> |
32,779,691 | 32,779,680 | 1 | 3 | 32,778,932 | train | <story><title>Winamp 5.9</title><url>http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?t=458120</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chrsw</author><text>Older software like this runs extremely fast on my newest hardware. Switching to lightweight native apps is sometimes more of a speedup than dropping &gt;$3000 on new a workstation class laptop.<p>Of course, you usually need the latest hardware to eat through modern workloads. But aside from that, I sometimes forget clearing out software bloat is a much more effective way to gain performance, productivity and improvements to the overall user experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vladvasiliu</author><text>This. I&#x27;m honestly not quite sure what kind of supercomputer would be needed to have Teams not lag.<p>I&#x27;m kind of OK with having to wait around for a compile or other heavy &quot;modern workload&quot; (though I must say I don&#x27;t do this all day every day). But it drives me absolutely crazy to have basic software lag when I type. This absolutely kills the experience for me.</text></comment> | <story><title>Winamp 5.9</title><url>http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?t=458120</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chrsw</author><text>Older software like this runs extremely fast on my newest hardware. Switching to lightweight native apps is sometimes more of a speedup than dropping &gt;$3000 on new a workstation class laptop.<p>Of course, you usually need the latest hardware to eat through modern workloads. But aside from that, I sometimes forget clearing out software bloat is a much more effective way to gain performance, productivity and improvements to the overall user experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>prmoustache</author><text>&gt; Older software like this runs extremely fast on my newest hardware.<p>Surely you mean more efficiently. I would hate my music being speed up :-)</text></comment> |
35,534,708 | 35,533,748 | 1 | 3 | 35,532,956 | train | <story><title>GPT-4 Outperforms Elite Crowdworkers, Saving Researchers $500k and 20k hours</title><url>https://www.artisana.ai/articles/gpt-4-outperforms-elite-crowdworkers-saving-researchers-usd500-000-and-20</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>troops_h8r</author><text>I don&#x27;t think I see enough discussion about what this means for privacy. There was some protection in the fact that it was prohibitively expensive to get someone to listen to every single one of our phonecalls&#x2F;read all our emails&#x2F;etc.<p>Worrying that this will no longer be the case.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lumost</author><text>The top use case I&#x27;ve been hearing is in legal discovery. Law firms used to play games with diligence by disclosing TBs of email and making it cost prohibitive to find relevant emails. This task would normally require a $60-100&#x2F;hr paralegal or lawyer.<p>GPT-4 can do that task for fractions of a penny per email now. It doesn&#x27;t have to be perfect if its competing with nothing. I expect we&#x27;ll see similar shops for any other high cost paper&#x2F;trail business.</text></comment> | <story><title>GPT-4 Outperforms Elite Crowdworkers, Saving Researchers $500k and 20k hours</title><url>https://www.artisana.ai/articles/gpt-4-outperforms-elite-crowdworkers-saving-researchers-usd500-000-and-20</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>troops_h8r</author><text>I don&#x27;t think I see enough discussion about what this means for privacy. There was some protection in the fact that it was prohibitively expensive to get someone to listen to every single one of our phonecalls&#x2F;read all our emails&#x2F;etc.<p>Worrying that this will no longer be the case.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SketchySeaBeast</author><text>Man, I can&#x27;t wait for the AI to start hallucinating crimes.</text></comment> |
6,650,713 | 6,650,619 | 1 | 2 | 6,650,122 | train | <story><title>It’s time for Silicon Valley to ask: Is it worth it?</title><url>http://pandodaily.com/2013/10/31/its-time-for-silicon-valley-to-ask-is-it-worth-it/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Cookingboy</author><text>What I&#x27;m about to say may be too unpopular on HackerNews.<p>Have you considered the possibility that not everyone shares the same moral standard and ideology? People came from different backgrounds and have different experiences, and most things are not black and white, but different shades of gray in this world.<p>I&#x27;m sure there are people who consider the Fourth Amendment to be obsolete just like there are people who consider the same for the Second Amendment.<p>I&#x27;m not saying I agree with it, but for people who believe they are actually serving their country, and in this era&#x27;s unique geopolitical landscape, all means are justified, they WOULD be proud of their work for the NSA.<p>You came across as condescending due to the fact that you put yourself on a moral high ground from the phasing of the question.</text></item><item><author>sharkweek</author><text>I have an honest and serious question -- who are the developers and designers who put these systems into place for the NSA? Are they aware of what they&#x27;re doing or is it all classified and contracted out? Are they proud of their work? Is it just a paycheck? Surely someone with such a high aptitude could easily get a job elsewhere -- I guess I&#x27;m just unable to make the connection on who willingly builds this kind of stuff.<p>I&#x27;m not trying to be intentionally obtuse, I just legitimately am curious</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>angersock</author><text>Well, let&#x27;s just admit the moral highground here, and take a stand:<p>These people are Wrong. We are Right, because we stand for personal privacy and liberty--ideals incompatible with their ideals.<p>There&#x27;s the line in the sand.</text></comment> | <story><title>It’s time for Silicon Valley to ask: Is it worth it?</title><url>http://pandodaily.com/2013/10/31/its-time-for-silicon-valley-to-ask-is-it-worth-it/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Cookingboy</author><text>What I&#x27;m about to say may be too unpopular on HackerNews.<p>Have you considered the possibility that not everyone shares the same moral standard and ideology? People came from different backgrounds and have different experiences, and most things are not black and white, but different shades of gray in this world.<p>I&#x27;m sure there are people who consider the Fourth Amendment to be obsolete just like there are people who consider the same for the Second Amendment.<p>I&#x27;m not saying I agree with it, but for people who believe they are actually serving their country, and in this era&#x27;s unique geopolitical landscape, all means are justified, they WOULD be proud of their work for the NSA.<p>You came across as condescending due to the fact that you put yourself on a moral high ground from the phasing of the question.</text></item><item><author>sharkweek</author><text>I have an honest and serious question -- who are the developers and designers who put these systems into place for the NSA? Are they aware of what they&#x27;re doing or is it all classified and contracted out? Are they proud of their work? Is it just a paycheck? Surely someone with such a high aptitude could easily get a job elsewhere -- I guess I&#x27;m just unable to make the connection on who willingly builds this kind of stuff.<p>I&#x27;m not trying to be intentionally obtuse, I just legitimately am curious</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sharkweek</author><text>No condescension intended, I am honestly just more curious -- I&#x27;d love to read some honest, uncensored interviews from people working on these things, mostly to just get their side of things.<p>I totally agree that people have varying beliefs on this stuff and for some this might be just as noble as any other way of serving their country.</text></comment> |
22,040,812 | 22,040,754 | 1 | 2 | 22,039,481 | train | <story><title>Cryptic Rumblings Ahead of First 2020 Patch Tuesday</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/01/cryptic-rumblings-ahead-of-first-2020-patch-tuesday/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>computator</author><text>It&#x27;s a shame that mathematically proving correctness of code, <i>even for extremely important code</i>, is never done.<p>I wonder how many lines of code in crypt32.dll. Is it on the order of 7500 lines? If Microsoft spent a few man-years mathematically proving the correctness of that code, they could have the saved the world about 10,000 man-years.<p>Windows has a user base of 1 billion[1]. A ballpark figure for proving the correctness of 7500 lines of very complex code[2] is about 30 man years[3]. If even 1% of the 1 billion Windows users and sysadmins has to spend a couple hours on things related to this patch, it works out to 9615 man-years of worldwide waste (based on an 8 hour workday and 260 workdays a year).<p>Had there been a wide-spread exploit, it could have cost the world millions of man-years.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Usage_share_of_operating_systems" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Usage_share_of_operating_syste...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.schneier.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2009&#x2F;10&#x2F;proving_a_compu.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.schneier.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2009&#x2F;10&#x2F;proving_a_com...</a><p>[3] Professor Gernot Heiser, the John Lions Chair in Computer Science in the School of Computer Science and Engineering and a senior principal researcher with NICTA, said for the first time a team had been able to prove with mathematical rigour that an operating-system kernel—the code at the heart of any computer or microprocessor—was 100 per cent bug-free and therefore immune to crashes and failures. Verifying the kernel—known as the seL4 microkernel—involved mathematically proving the correctness of about 7,500 lines of computer code in a project taking an average of six people more than five years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AnimalMuppet</author><text>Define &quot;proving correctness&quot;. Proving that it does what it&#x27;s supposed to? You need a formal spec as the starting point for that; how do you prove that the formal spec correctly describes what the software&#x27;s supposed to do?<p>Proving that it has no bugs? That only works for the kinds of bugs covered by the proof. Your proof that it has no null pointer crashes tells us nothing about whether it has off-by-one errors. For each kind of bug, you need a different proof. Did your proof cover <i>every</i> category of bug? Almost certainly not. So strong claims like &quot;100 per cent bug free&quot; are almost certainly overstating things, no matter the credentials of the person making them. &quot;100 per cent bug free <i>for the categories of bugs we proved</i>&quot;? OK, but that&#x27;s a significantly weaker claim.<p>For the 7500 lines (or however many) in crypt32.dll, you want to prove that there are no security attacks of any category possible. That becomes a harder and harder job as we keep discovering new categories of security attacks.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cryptic Rumblings Ahead of First 2020 Patch Tuesday</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/01/cryptic-rumblings-ahead-of-first-2020-patch-tuesday/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>computator</author><text>It&#x27;s a shame that mathematically proving correctness of code, <i>even for extremely important code</i>, is never done.<p>I wonder how many lines of code in crypt32.dll. Is it on the order of 7500 lines? If Microsoft spent a few man-years mathematically proving the correctness of that code, they could have the saved the world about 10,000 man-years.<p>Windows has a user base of 1 billion[1]. A ballpark figure for proving the correctness of 7500 lines of very complex code[2] is about 30 man years[3]. If even 1% of the 1 billion Windows users and sysadmins has to spend a couple hours on things related to this patch, it works out to 9615 man-years of worldwide waste (based on an 8 hour workday and 260 workdays a year).<p>Had there been a wide-spread exploit, it could have cost the world millions of man-years.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Usage_share_of_operating_systems" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Usage_share_of_operating_syste...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.schneier.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2009&#x2F;10&#x2F;proving_a_compu.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.schneier.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2009&#x2F;10&#x2F;proving_a_com...</a><p>[3] Professor Gernot Heiser, the John Lions Chair in Computer Science in the School of Computer Science and Engineering and a senior principal researcher with NICTA, said for the first time a team had been able to prove with mathematical rigour that an operating-system kernel—the code at the heart of any computer or microprocessor—was 100 per cent bug-free and therefore immune to crashes and failures. Verifying the kernel—known as the seL4 microkernel—involved mathematically proving the correctness of about 7,500 lines of computer code in a project taking an average of six people more than five years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bouncycastle</author><text>Note that even if you prove correctness of code, there still might be bugs in the compiler, so you will have to prove the compiler. Then there could be bugs in the modules &#x2F; DLLs &#x2F; dependencies in the OS, so more proving needs to be done. Then there might be bugs in the CPU. So it&#x27;s not so easy. T<p>hen there are things which you simply can&#x27;t prove, eg. In crypto the code may be correct, yet it may still leak some side-channel information (such as timing). Also, nobody has proven that things like sha256 and so on are unbreakable.</text></comment> |
23,221,779 | 23,219,659 | 1 | 2 | 23,216,915 | train | <story><title>How Palantir embedded itself in the NHS</title><url>https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2020/05/16/inside-story-cia-backed-palantir-embedded-nhs-socialite-running/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rvz</author><text>&gt; So when the NHS revealed that Palantir was building emergency data mining tools to help Britain cope with the pandemic – for no fee – there were understandable reservations. What might be expected in return?<p>It has to be something more valuable than a &#x27;fee&#x27;, What could that possibly be? I&#x27;ll give you a huge hint.<p>We can recall what happened when DeepMind got involved with the NHS ~3 years ago and the result was illegal [0] and now Google is taking over their contracts [1]. There is only one thing that Palantir wants from this which is more than just money.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newscientist.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;2139395-google-deepminds-nhs-data-deal-failed-to-comply-with-law&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newscientist.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;2139395-google-deepmind...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newscientist.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;2217939-google-is-taking-over-deepminds-nhs-contracts-should-we-be-worried&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newscientist.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;2217939-google-is-takin...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How Palantir embedded itself in the NHS</title><url>https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2020/05/16/inside-story-cia-backed-palantir-embedded-nhs-socialite-running/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dzaragozar</author><text>As per the guidelines, please use original title: How CIA-backed Palantir embedded itself in the NHS</text></comment> |
36,808,938 | 36,807,156 | 1 | 2 | 36,799,548 | train | <story><title>Anytype – local-first, P2P Notion alternative</title><url>https://anytype.io/?hn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smokel</author><text>That&#x27;s an interesting take on things. Would you want your operating system to provide a web browser, pdf viewer, and spreadsheet as well?<p>To me it makes no sense that software does not interoperate very well. I think most of this is due to the historical evolution of computers and software. A spell checker used to take up an insane amount of memory, a browser is a competitive product, and interfaces for proper interaction have to be standardized worldwide, for which we still lack some kind of governmental body.</text></item><item><author>whywhywhywhy</author><text>Operating systems should be providing spellcheck to textboxes everywhere anyway.<p>Makes no sense every app rolling their own and not using my operating system dictionary with my own corrections.<p>Extremely frustrating every Electron app just rolls their own rubbish spellcheck, or doesn&#x27;t have it at all.</text></item><item><author>lewisjoe</author><text>Google Docs have somehow solved E2E encryption with safe sharing and collaboration. They haven&#x27;t advertised it much, just a mention here and there as an enterprise requirement or something, it&#x27;s good how they&#x27;ve implemented it on top of an existing web-first collaboration product.<p>They do have technical challenges implementing add-on services on top of content - For example, the grammar checker or any content assistance is disabled in E2E encrypted docs, which makes sense.<p>Surprisingly they support spellcheck: I guess they are shipping dictionaries to browsers and use a local lookup. (Google Docs doesn&#x27;t rely on browser&#x27;s dictionary because their editor is not based on `contenteditable`)</text></item><item><author>jitl</author><text>(I work at Notion)<p>The Anytype model is really cool - in a way, they’ve rebuilt Lotus Notes with 21st century E2E encrypted protocols and technology. They’ve built a really solid personal knowledge app with many of Notion’s features - and some clear improvements over Notion.<p>However they also demonstrate the complexity and tradeoffs of the E2E approach. Anytype has been a work-in-progress since at least 2019. Their docs still state:<p>&gt; Future versions will allow you to share your work and safely collaborate with others<p>&gt; There&#x27;s no browser version of the app. Anytype is a stand-alone software, that works on desktop or mobile devices. There are many points of vulnerability in-browser apps that would compromise our commitment to data security and encryption.<p>Without these features Anytype is in a much smaller market (PKM) with less distribution than Notion&#x2F;Coda&#x2F;Dropbox Paper&#x2F;Quip&#x2F;Confluence&#x2F;…</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>johnnyworker</author><text>I wouldn&#x27;t want the OS to do spell checking, but the OS having a config setting for which spell checker library and settings to use by default and for specific apps would be sweet, would it not?<p>&gt; A spell checker used to take up an insane amount of memory<p>IMO they still do. At least anecdotally, with free software shipping with spell check that often makes up a hefty chunk of the file size.<p>And even ignoring that, for every program with its own spell check, you have all of the redundant spell check data, and then your corrections&#x2F;additions aren&#x27;t even shared. Nevermind importing them on a freshly installed OS, syncing them between devices, futuristic things like that :)</text></comment> | <story><title>Anytype – local-first, P2P Notion alternative</title><url>https://anytype.io/?hn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smokel</author><text>That&#x27;s an interesting take on things. Would you want your operating system to provide a web browser, pdf viewer, and spreadsheet as well?<p>To me it makes no sense that software does not interoperate very well. I think most of this is due to the historical evolution of computers and software. A spell checker used to take up an insane amount of memory, a browser is a competitive product, and interfaces for proper interaction have to be standardized worldwide, for which we still lack some kind of governmental body.</text></item><item><author>whywhywhywhy</author><text>Operating systems should be providing spellcheck to textboxes everywhere anyway.<p>Makes no sense every app rolling their own and not using my operating system dictionary with my own corrections.<p>Extremely frustrating every Electron app just rolls their own rubbish spellcheck, or doesn&#x27;t have it at all.</text></item><item><author>lewisjoe</author><text>Google Docs have somehow solved E2E encryption with safe sharing and collaboration. They haven&#x27;t advertised it much, just a mention here and there as an enterprise requirement or something, it&#x27;s good how they&#x27;ve implemented it on top of an existing web-first collaboration product.<p>They do have technical challenges implementing add-on services on top of content - For example, the grammar checker or any content assistance is disabled in E2E encrypted docs, which makes sense.<p>Surprisingly they support spellcheck: I guess they are shipping dictionaries to browsers and use a local lookup. (Google Docs doesn&#x27;t rely on browser&#x27;s dictionary because their editor is not based on `contenteditable`)</text></item><item><author>jitl</author><text>(I work at Notion)<p>The Anytype model is really cool - in a way, they’ve rebuilt Lotus Notes with 21st century E2E encrypted protocols and technology. They’ve built a really solid personal knowledge app with many of Notion’s features - and some clear improvements over Notion.<p>However they also demonstrate the complexity and tradeoffs of the E2E approach. Anytype has been a work-in-progress since at least 2019. Their docs still state:<p>&gt; Future versions will allow you to share your work and safely collaborate with others<p>&gt; There&#x27;s no browser version of the app. Anytype is a stand-alone software, that works on desktop or mobile devices. There are many points of vulnerability in-browser apps that would compromise our commitment to data security and encryption.<p>Without these features Anytype is in a much smaller market (PKM) with less distribution than Notion&#x2F;Coda&#x2F;Dropbox Paper&#x2F;Quip&#x2F;Confluence&#x2F;…</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>picometer</author><text>Yeah, I suspect the grandparent comment meant that spellcheck (and perhaps other tools, like you listed) should be standardized. And thanks to the big cos (Apple and Microsoft) doing full vertical integration of their stack and calling it their “operating system”, that term is increasingly getting used for something more than just “the thing that operates your computational resources and safely exposes their APIs for developer use”.<p>That said, it would be interesting to see more actual OS development that innovated on supporting&#x2F;encouraging more standards, without getting too proprietary or centralized.</text></comment> |
13,896,996 | 13,897,188 | 1 | 3 | 13,896,207 | train | <story><title>No privacy rules needed: ISPs say Web browsing isn’t “sensitive” data</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/isps-say-your-web-browsing-and-app-usage-history-isnt-sensitive/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>shshhdhs</author><text>If I visit a healthcare information website, like webmd.com, and it&#x27;s unencrypted, then my service provider knows my name, address, and health attributes. If they kept logs about my visit to those pages, would this be considered PHI under the context of HIPAA? If so, perhaps a lawsuit could force a judge to claim service provider logs are indeed sensitive.<p>Looking for other&#x27;s thoughts...</text></comment> | <story><title>No privacy rules needed: ISPs say Web browsing isn’t “sensitive” data</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/isps-say-your-web-browsing-and-app-usage-history-isnt-sensitive/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jlgaddis</author><text>I work for an ISP and I can&#x27;t imagine looking our customer&#x27;s web browsing and such. The closest I come to that is Netflow data but (in our case) that&#x27;s aggregated and doesn&#x27;t identify specific customers.<p>&gt; <i>&quot;Web browsing and app usage history are not &#x27;sensitive information,&#x27;&quot; CTIA said</i><p>I wonder if they might feel differently if someone hacked them or their ISP and posted a month&#x27;s worth of traffic logs, etc., for the public to see.<p>Maybe if the Internet histories of a handful of the top-level folks at these organizations were shared with the world (along with their identities, of course), they would change their mind.</text></comment> |
19,796,261 | 19,796,363 | 1 | 3 | 19,795,387 | train | <story><title>Sole Survivors: Solo Ventures Versus Founding Teams (2018)</title><url>https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3107898</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Abishek_Muthian</author><text>Being single founder is of high risk venture, as anything with high risk it has potential gains as well.<p>I ran my company successfully as a single founder for 5 years, till one day I was told I would become a quadriplegic &amp; I had to close my company as there&#x27;s no other executive to take care of it.<p>I had Facebook Fb Start accelerated product with 2,50,000 customers , any company expressing interest in acquiring my product wanted me to work for them; which wasn&#x27;t possible as I was recovering from surgery.<p>Being single founder has it&#x27;s merit, but when things go south with your health or anything personal; you&#x27;ll loose your company.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sole Survivors: Solo Ventures Versus Founding Teams (2018)</title><url>https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3107898</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sagebird</author><text>The effects may be due to irrelevant artifacts:<p>1.)
Pairs or more of people working on a task may declare themselves to be an organization and call themselves founders earlier than an individual. An individual may be more likely to wait until they have a customer, are near profitability, etc to make that declaration.<p>2.) The summary says that &quot;investors rarely, if ever, fund startups founded by a solo entrepreneur&quot;.<p>So the observations are confounded with solo founders overcoming this prejudice. This quote also points to a survivor bias in play. IE, solo founders must have higher performance than teams before getting funded, and less of the weak solo founders survive to be observed by the study.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if the article had a correct conclusion. Though it would be very hard to convincingly show causality short of convincing entrepreneurs to take part in a decades long experiment where they are randomly divided into solo founders and teams (which would be nearly impossible to get a representative sample of founders to agree to).</text></comment> |
27,432,184 | 27,430,317 | 1 | 2 | 27,420,673 | train | <story><title>Jailbroken iOS can't run macOS apps. I spent a week to find out why</title><url>https://worthdoingbadly.com/macappsios/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>TheOtherHobbes</author><text>Why would this take a week? i(phone)OS was originally a cut-down low-resource fork of MacOS with support for touch screens and a somewhat different driver model.<p>It&#x27;s still that, but hardware has moved on and the super-low-resource constraints have been relaxed a little.<p>But it still lacks many of the features available in full-fat MacOS. And there are still significant differences in the GUI APIs.<p>This isn&#x27;t a trade secret - it&#x27;s very, very obvious from the docs.</text></comment> | <story><title>Jailbroken iOS can't run macOS apps. I spent a week to find out why</title><url>https://worthdoingbadly.com/macappsios/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>valine</author><text>Here&#x27;s to hoping for an M1 boot loader exploit so we can straight up run macOS on the iPad.</text></comment> |
21,822,031 | 21,821,880 | 1 | 2 | 21,815,260 | train | <story><title>Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microsoft in Cloud</title><url>https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-brass-set-2023-as-deadline-to-beat-amazon-microsoft-in-cloud?pu=hackernewsyw3xln&utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=unlock</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>res0nat0r</author><text>The issue is that folks here think GCP is the same thing as Google Reader. That&#x27;s absurd.<p>Google is currently building a massive $500 million datacenter outside of Reno as we speak, and has 10+ <i>billion</i> invested in their datacenter cloud offering buildout this year alone.<p>GCP and the entire physical infrastructure isn&#x27;t going to get &quot;turned off&quot; if it isn&#x27;t #1 in the market in 3 years, that&#x27;s just silly.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;9to5google.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;07&#x2F;01&#x2F;google-data-center-nevada&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;9to5google.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;07&#x2F;01&#x2F;google-data-center-nevada&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rgj.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;money&#x2F;business&#x2F;2019&#x2F;02&#x2F;13&#x2F;google-investing-13-b-data-centers-2019-including-nevada&#x2F;2861826002&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rgj.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;money&#x2F;business&#x2F;2019&#x2F;02&#x2F;13&#x2F;google-i...</a></text></item><item><author>QuinnyPig</author><text>This is the entire problem. Swap “Google” for “AWS” in the article and you’d have legions of folks calling foul on the article. Instead, most folks are nodding along to the article going “yep, seems like something Google would do all right…”<p>Google’s problem remains its reputation for turning things off.</text></item><item><author>ogre_codes</author><text>&gt; So it&#x27;s not about being #1, it&#x27;s about being profitable.<p>The problem Google has with the developer community is largely around the fact that Google has a long history of pulling the rug out from our feet. There have been 3 stories on HN <i>in the past couple weeks alone</i> about Google products which have either been dropped or changed significantly such that they are no longer viable for developers to use.<p>Google has lost a lot of trust in the community and if Google management wants to avoid this kind of reaction, they need to build a reputation for stability. Years of dropping products people rely has eroded much of the good will people used to have for Google.<p>Amazon doesn&#x27;t drop products.
Microsoft has spent decades building a reputation for having a long term reliable product road-map.<p>Google is fickle and doesn&#x27;t seem to care when they screw people over by changing terms underneath us. As the old saying goes—fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.</text></item><item><author>altgoogler</author><text>Googler here. My opinions are my own; I have no non-public knowledge on this topic.<p>I do not understand the hyperbole around this report. Nowhere does it say that Google plans to shutter GCP if it doesn&#x27;t reach #1 by 2023.<p>&gt; said people with knowledge of the matter.<p>As in, people who may not have even been at said meeting which took place nearly two years ago, under a different VP and now a different CEO, and saw some meeting notes.<p>&gt; The group’s leaders told staffers that if Google couldn’t reach a certain size with its computing and storage business—two of the most commonly used cloud services—the cloud unit might never become profitable, the person said. To reach such scale, they said, Google would need to be in a top two position in the market.<p>So it&#x27;s not about being #1, it&#x27;s about being profitable.<p>In other words, this was a conversation about literally every product at an executive level ever.<p>You set goals, you decide what happens when those goals are met. Furthermore, there is no concrete assertion here that what happens if this deadline is passed. &quot;at risk of losing funding&quot; can literally mean anything from changing FTE allocation to capital expenses to a million other things that get discussed at an executive level.<p>And finally:<p>&gt; A Google spokesperson declined to comment prior to the publication of this story, but after it appeared released the following statement: &quot;Reports of these conversations from 2018 are simply not accurate.&quot;<p>There may be some truth to these accounts--reality is often between the lines--but this is extremely soft on details and actual first person accounts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Lammy</author><text>The issue for me isn&#x27;t Reader itself but what it says about the disconnect between Google management and us, the users of Google products. That seems to have happened around the time Google went from _having_ a &quot;user base&quot; to being effectively ubiquitous. I can&#x27;t speak for others, but Google of the 2000s &quot;got&quot; the hacker&#x2F;nerd mindset in a way that was the closest thing to empathy I&#x27;ve ever felt from a corporation. That sounds naive to write down here in almost-2020, but that was how it felt at the time. When Reader died, so did that feeling, and now all of us are running around unsure if the Google products we personally care about are the ones Google management care about. Leaks like this one do not inspire confidence in that.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microsoft in Cloud</title><url>https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-brass-set-2023-as-deadline-to-beat-amazon-microsoft-in-cloud?pu=hackernewsyw3xln&utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=unlock</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>res0nat0r</author><text>The issue is that folks here think GCP is the same thing as Google Reader. That&#x27;s absurd.<p>Google is currently building a massive $500 million datacenter outside of Reno as we speak, and has 10+ <i>billion</i> invested in their datacenter cloud offering buildout this year alone.<p>GCP and the entire physical infrastructure isn&#x27;t going to get &quot;turned off&quot; if it isn&#x27;t #1 in the market in 3 years, that&#x27;s just silly.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;9to5google.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;07&#x2F;01&#x2F;google-data-center-nevada&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;9to5google.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;07&#x2F;01&#x2F;google-data-center-nevada&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rgj.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;money&#x2F;business&#x2F;2019&#x2F;02&#x2F;13&#x2F;google-investing-13-b-data-centers-2019-including-nevada&#x2F;2861826002&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rgj.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;money&#x2F;business&#x2F;2019&#x2F;02&#x2F;13&#x2F;google-i...</a></text></item><item><author>QuinnyPig</author><text>This is the entire problem. Swap “Google” for “AWS” in the article and you’d have legions of folks calling foul on the article. Instead, most folks are nodding along to the article going “yep, seems like something Google would do all right…”<p>Google’s problem remains its reputation for turning things off.</text></item><item><author>ogre_codes</author><text>&gt; So it&#x27;s not about being #1, it&#x27;s about being profitable.<p>The problem Google has with the developer community is largely around the fact that Google has a long history of pulling the rug out from our feet. There have been 3 stories on HN <i>in the past couple weeks alone</i> about Google products which have either been dropped or changed significantly such that they are no longer viable for developers to use.<p>Google has lost a lot of trust in the community and if Google management wants to avoid this kind of reaction, they need to build a reputation for stability. Years of dropping products people rely has eroded much of the good will people used to have for Google.<p>Amazon doesn&#x27;t drop products.
Microsoft has spent decades building a reputation for having a long term reliable product road-map.<p>Google is fickle and doesn&#x27;t seem to care when they screw people over by changing terms underneath us. As the old saying goes—fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.</text></item><item><author>altgoogler</author><text>Googler here. My opinions are my own; I have no non-public knowledge on this topic.<p>I do not understand the hyperbole around this report. Nowhere does it say that Google plans to shutter GCP if it doesn&#x27;t reach #1 by 2023.<p>&gt; said people with knowledge of the matter.<p>As in, people who may not have even been at said meeting which took place nearly two years ago, under a different VP and now a different CEO, and saw some meeting notes.<p>&gt; The group’s leaders told staffers that if Google couldn’t reach a certain size with its computing and storage business—two of the most commonly used cloud services—the cloud unit might never become profitable, the person said. To reach such scale, they said, Google would need to be in a top two position in the market.<p>So it&#x27;s not about being #1, it&#x27;s about being profitable.<p>In other words, this was a conversation about literally every product at an executive level ever.<p>You set goals, you decide what happens when those goals are met. Furthermore, there is no concrete assertion here that what happens if this deadline is passed. &quot;at risk of losing funding&quot; can literally mean anything from changing FTE allocation to capital expenses to a million other things that get discussed at an executive level.<p>And finally:<p>&gt; A Google spokesperson declined to comment prior to the publication of this story, but after it appeared released the following statement: &quot;Reports of these conversations from 2018 are simply not accurate.&quot;<p>There may be some truth to these accounts--reality is often between the lines--but this is extremely soft on details and actual first person accounts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BurritoAlPastor</author><text>Agreed that Google isn’t going to announce one day that they’re going to demolish all the datacenters in 30 days, but that doesn’t mean that GCP has any guaranteed future either. If Google leadership decides to walk away from cloud hosting, it’ll come in the form of reallocated engineers, reduced headcount, smaller conferences, and a general transition to “maintenance mode”. (At which point it’s a corporate backwater and everyone who can transfer out will.)<p>But for companies picking a cloud platform tomorrow, that’s a fate as good as death! AWS and Azure won’t slow down development and new features, so a couple years after GCP stops being a priority, it’ll start also being a bad deal, and a couple years after that it’ll be a straight-up strategic liability. THAT is why anything other than full-throated support from Google leadership for indefinite GCP investment will lose them business.</text></comment> |
19,070,397 | 19,070,044 | 1 | 2 | 19,069,450 | train | <story><title>Things that are more inequitable than road pricing</title><url>http://cityobservatory.org/ten-things-more-inequitable-that-road-pricing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bradleyjg</author><text>I don&#x27;t know about other cities, but to understand the strong political push back against congestion pricing in NYC requires a bunch of local context.<p>Neither the rich+, nor the poor, nor the vast majority of the middle class regularly commute into Manhattan by car. The poor and the lower&#x2F;middle middle class because parking is prohibitively expensive. The upper middle class and the rich because they either live in Manhattan or they&#x27;d rather take commuter rail than sit in traffic. To the extent the latter take ubers or similar such services already pay congestion charges and there isn&#x27;t too much fuss (except from the drives who don&#x27;t have much political muscle).<p>The bulk of car commuters into Manhattan are instead those with de jure or de facto free parking. That&#x27;s largely government workers (e.g. teachers, cops, firefighters) and members of the trades (i.e. construction workers).<p>For those with de jure free parking congestion pricing isn&#x27;t a big deal, whatever authority is setting aside parking will either pay the congestion charge or get it waived. It&#x27;s the beneficiaries of police and traffic control refusal to enforce the law with respect to certain favored populations that are up in arms about congestion charges. Because a congestion charge is likely to be enforced by an automated mechanism which, unlike parking control, will not engage in public corruption on their behalf. And these groups, unlike the uber drivers, do have a great deal of political muscle.<p>+At least the ordinary rich, hecto-millionaires and billionaires might be a different story</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nihonde</author><text>I live in lower Manhattan. My feeling is that every vehicle other than delivery trucks should be banned from the city. There is no compelling reason for anyone to drive in Manhattan. If people are commuting into Manhattan, they should take public transit to and from parking lots in Brooklyn&#x2F;Queens&#x2F;New Jersey. You will never convince me that there are low income workers who need to drive in the city as an essential part of their livelihood. That’s just not a real thing here.</text></comment> | <story><title>Things that are more inequitable than road pricing</title><url>http://cityobservatory.org/ten-things-more-inequitable-that-road-pricing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bradleyjg</author><text>I don&#x27;t know about other cities, but to understand the strong political push back against congestion pricing in NYC requires a bunch of local context.<p>Neither the rich+, nor the poor, nor the vast majority of the middle class regularly commute into Manhattan by car. The poor and the lower&#x2F;middle middle class because parking is prohibitively expensive. The upper middle class and the rich because they either live in Manhattan or they&#x27;d rather take commuter rail than sit in traffic. To the extent the latter take ubers or similar such services already pay congestion charges and there isn&#x27;t too much fuss (except from the drives who don&#x27;t have much political muscle).<p>The bulk of car commuters into Manhattan are instead those with de jure or de facto free parking. That&#x27;s largely government workers (e.g. teachers, cops, firefighters) and members of the trades (i.e. construction workers).<p>For those with de jure free parking congestion pricing isn&#x27;t a big deal, whatever authority is setting aside parking will either pay the congestion charge or get it waived. It&#x27;s the beneficiaries of police and traffic control refusal to enforce the law with respect to certain favored populations that are up in arms about congestion charges. Because a congestion charge is likely to be enforced by an automated mechanism which, unlike parking control, will not engage in public corruption on their behalf. And these groups, unlike the uber drivers, do have a great deal of political muscle.<p>+At least the ordinary rich, hecto-millionaires and billionaires might be a different story</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacques_chester</author><text>For those outside NYC, it can be difficult to understand the sheer scale of this phenomenon (&quot;placard abuse&quot;).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nyc.streetsblog.org&#x2F;2018&#x2F;12&#x2F;28&#x2F;streetsies-2018-placard-abuse-of-the-year&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nyc.streetsblog.org&#x2F;2018&#x2F;12&#x2F;28&#x2F;streetsies-2018-placa...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;placardabuse" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;placardabuse</a></text></comment> |
15,638,166 | 15,636,781 | 1 | 3 | 15,634,609 | train | <story><title>Chrome breaks the Web</title><url>http://tonsky.me/blog/chrome-intervention/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>saas_co_de</author><text>&gt; does assumption on how things &quot;should&quot; be (in a highly subjective way)<p>They claim they are making these decisions based on user data which I have no reason to doubt.<p>&gt; and breaks the web.<p>Breaks crap websites that are broken already from performance and usability perspective.<p>I personally think this is exactly what is needed to make the web better as a whole.<p>Individual developers working for individual companies are rarely if ever thinking about the good of their users, except in a very narrow profit motivated sense, and never thinking about the good of the ecosystem as a whole.<p>Google is also &quot;breaking the web&quot; by not auto playing videos, not allowing alerts in one tab to block the entire browser, etc. Those all seem like good things to me.</text></item><item><author>KeitIG</author><text>&gt; they made all top-level event listeners passive by default. They call it “an intervention”.<p>This is my very problem with Chrome&#x2F;Chromium right now. The Chrome team does assumption on how things &quot;should&quot; be (in a highly subjective way) and breaks the web.<p>Another example: they decided to ignore the value of `autocomplete` attributes on `&lt;form&gt;` tags [1], because:<p>&gt; The tricky part here is that somewhere along the journey of the web autocomplete=off become a default for many form fields, without any real thought being given as to whether or not that was good for users. This doesn&#x27;t mean there aren&#x27;t very valid cases where you don&#x27;t want the browser autofilling data (e.g. on CRM systems), but by and large, we see those as the minority cases. And as a result, we started ignoring autocomplete=off for Chrome Autofill data.<p>Problem: Chrome now auto-fills wrong parts of forms with username&#x2F;passwords and this breaks forms that get unexpected data when submitted. And now, they opened an issue on their tracker [2] to track &quot;Valid use cases for autocomplete=off&quot;.<p>This is insane to think that the developer is wrong to use some attributes values, and to assume how a page should behave, ignoring devs intentions and Web standards.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=468153#c164" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=468153...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=587466" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=587466</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>notjoemama</author><text>Woah woah woah. Let me recount&#x2F;nutshell the crux of conversations I&#x27;ve had with my product manager(s) about things like this.<p>Me: Hey, I&#x27;d like to add a work-item to our current sprint that reworks semantic attributes into our site.<p>Them: What would that do?<p>Me: It improves the underlying architecture making the markup more usable and extensible.<p>Them: How does that benefit the users?<p>Me: Over time it will reduce the TTM for features and allows us to adopt a common standard others use on the web.<p>Them: So there&#x27;s no UI and it won&#x27;t affect their workflow?<p>Me: Well, no.<p>Them: Then why would you suggest it? We don&#x27;t have the budget to add meaningless development tasks.<p>I might be biased towards thinking there are <i>plenty</i> of developers and engineers out there thinking about this stuff but we don&#x27;t always get the final say in what is done. Also, a lot of enterprise applications were and continue to be around before many of these standards. It&#x27;s a struggle to improve what doesn&#x27;t directly add to the bottom line.</text></comment> | <story><title>Chrome breaks the Web</title><url>http://tonsky.me/blog/chrome-intervention/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>saas_co_de</author><text>&gt; does assumption on how things &quot;should&quot; be (in a highly subjective way)<p>They claim they are making these decisions based on user data which I have no reason to doubt.<p>&gt; and breaks the web.<p>Breaks crap websites that are broken already from performance and usability perspective.<p>I personally think this is exactly what is needed to make the web better as a whole.<p>Individual developers working for individual companies are rarely if ever thinking about the good of their users, except in a very narrow profit motivated sense, and never thinking about the good of the ecosystem as a whole.<p>Google is also &quot;breaking the web&quot; by not auto playing videos, not allowing alerts in one tab to block the entire browser, etc. Those all seem like good things to me.</text></item><item><author>KeitIG</author><text>&gt; they made all top-level event listeners passive by default. They call it “an intervention”.<p>This is my very problem with Chrome&#x2F;Chromium right now. The Chrome team does assumption on how things &quot;should&quot; be (in a highly subjective way) and breaks the web.<p>Another example: they decided to ignore the value of `autocomplete` attributes on `&lt;form&gt;` tags [1], because:<p>&gt; The tricky part here is that somewhere along the journey of the web autocomplete=off become a default for many form fields, without any real thought being given as to whether or not that was good for users. This doesn&#x27;t mean there aren&#x27;t very valid cases where you don&#x27;t want the browser autofilling data (e.g. on CRM systems), but by and large, we see those as the minority cases. And as a result, we started ignoring autocomplete=off for Chrome Autofill data.<p>Problem: Chrome now auto-fills wrong parts of forms with username&#x2F;passwords and this breaks forms that get unexpected data when submitted. And now, they opened an issue on their tracker [2] to track &quot;Valid use cases for autocomplete=off&quot;.<p>This is insane to think that the developer is wrong to use some attributes values, and to assume how a page should behave, ignoring devs intentions and Web standards.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=468153#c164" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=468153...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=587466" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=587466</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KeitIG</author><text>Talking from the developer point of view here, not the user&#x27;s: I&#x27;m expecting things to be working the same way they are documented in the manual.<p>The changes some browsers have made to autoplay videos or alerts do not contradict what is in the manual.</text></comment> |
22,695,561 | 22,695,636 | 1 | 3 | 22,689,959 | train | <story><title>Toki Pona: A Language with a Hundred Words (2015)</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/07/toki-pona-smallest-language/398363/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>elldoubleyew</author><text>In high school I was the founder of our (small) Esperanto Club. I gave Esperanto lessons each week at our club meeting designed as a one year course, usually by the end of the year if someone attended each week and did moderate self study outside of class they could communicate in Esperanto really well. We even had one international student who really struggled with english that after a few months of attending our club could communicate with us in Esperanto more fluently than English!<p>We had one a freshman join during my senior year who was a huge advocate of Toki Pona as a conlang. We decided to devote a month of the club to Toki Pona instead of Esperanto and it was mind boggling how quickly everyone was able to get a grasp of it. Granted Toki Pona is much more &quot;wordy&quot; than Esperanto, you often have to use many words to convey an idea that you could express quickly in a language with a larger vocabulary. Regardless it was an absolute blast to learn and I&#x27;m surprised by how much I remember.<p>Once I got to college there seemed to be a severe lack of interest in Esperanto, or any conlang for that matter, amongst the student body. I could never really keep enough people interested the same way I could in high school so I gave up after my sophomore year. I really miss teaching people Esperanto. I believe the club at my high school still runs to this day, I&#x27;d love to be able to go back and visit one day.</text></comment> | <story><title>Toki Pona: A Language with a Hundred Words (2015)</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/07/toki-pona-smallest-language/398363/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kazinator</author><text>&gt; <i>In Icelandic, a compass is a direction-shower, and a microscope a small-watcher.</i><p>In Latin, microscope is also &quot;small-watcher&quot;, namely, <i>microscopium</i>.</text></comment> |
30,021,218 | 30,021,330 | 1 | 3 | 30,020,121 | train | <story><title>WebAssembly: The New Kubernetes?</title><url>https://wingolog.org/archives/2021/12/13/webassembly-the-new-kubernetes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FreeHugs</author><text>So be it!<p>Until XyZ is the new WebAssembly and @!# is the new XyZ!<p>As long as my Django backend works and browsers support my HTML&#x2F;CSS&#x2F;JS frontend, I am fine.<p>I have the same LAMP (Linux, Apache, MariaDB, Python) SAAS project running for decades now, paying all my bills, letting me live a free life.<p>As long as nobody touches that, you can do all you want. Invent new fancy stacks every other year, make courses for it, migrations to it, a religion of it - I don&#x27;t mind.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stavros</author><text>Having been wrangling with a monster Nuxt.js front-end that takes 30 minutes to compile for what is essentially a few pages of an eshop, I long for it to be reimplemented in Django.<p>SPAs are good for some things, but those things are much fewer than what we use them for.</text></comment> | <story><title>WebAssembly: The New Kubernetes?</title><url>https://wingolog.org/archives/2021/12/13/webassembly-the-new-kubernetes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FreeHugs</author><text>So be it!<p>Until XyZ is the new WebAssembly and @!# is the new XyZ!<p>As long as my Django backend works and browsers support my HTML&#x2F;CSS&#x2F;JS frontend, I am fine.<p>I have the same LAMP (Linux, Apache, MariaDB, Python) SAAS project running for decades now, paying all my bills, letting me live a free life.<p>As long as nobody touches that, you can do all you want. Invent new fancy stacks every other year, make courses for it, migrations to it, a religion of it - I don&#x27;t mind.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>samwillis</author><text>I’m a Django developer at hart and have been for 15 years. The dream I have that I hope WASM will provide is to package any app (Python, Ruby, Rust, Go, anything!) up into a single binary file that we can deploy anywhere, on any architecture (x86, arm). No more packaging nightmare, no more containers, just a single file that runs anywhere. Maybe it’s wishful thinking but I hope it happens.</text></comment> |
36,717,733 | 36,715,493 | 1 | 2 | 36,714,228 | train | <story><title>Age of universe at 26.7B years, nearly twice as old as previously believed</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2023-07-age-universe-billion-years-previously.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gmmeyer</author><text>The question is &quot;how long has it been since the big bang.&quot; It&#x27;s an important and relevant question for cosmology and physics. It isn&#x27;t really a stance on the &quot;beginning of time,&quot; which may have started long before this moment, but it is the start of the universe as far as physics is concerned.</text></item><item><author>kleene_op</author><text>IANAP, but as a mathematician it seems extremely inelegant that there would be a start to the time dimension of the space-time object we live in, when we don&#x27;t even know if the spatial dimensions are finite themselves.<p>It is my understanding that the density of the universe billions of years ago was radically different from the one we now observe, and since density is intrinsically tied to our perception of space and time, wouldn&#x27;t it make more sense that time actually stretches infinitely the further back we go, thus nullifying the concept of a beginning?<p>I guess I&#x27;m having a hard time with the idea that space-time could be discontinuous.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chinabot</author><text>How I work it out in my head that time effectively did not exist before the big bang is that; If everyone agrees that time slows as the gravity increases, and we assume at the time of the big bang that all the mass of the universe was in an infinitely small space, the conclusion is we had an infinitely large gravity and time would be effectively be stopped. Take it with a grain of salt.</text></comment> | <story><title>Age of universe at 26.7B years, nearly twice as old as previously believed</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2023-07-age-universe-billion-years-previously.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gmmeyer</author><text>The question is &quot;how long has it been since the big bang.&quot; It&#x27;s an important and relevant question for cosmology and physics. It isn&#x27;t really a stance on the &quot;beginning of time,&quot; which may have started long before this moment, but it is the start of the universe as far as physics is concerned.</text></item><item><author>kleene_op</author><text>IANAP, but as a mathematician it seems extremely inelegant that there would be a start to the time dimension of the space-time object we live in, when we don&#x27;t even know if the spatial dimensions are finite themselves.<p>It is my understanding that the density of the universe billions of years ago was radically different from the one we now observe, and since density is intrinsically tied to our perception of space and time, wouldn&#x27;t it make more sense that time actually stretches infinitely the further back we go, thus nullifying the concept of a beginning?<p>I guess I&#x27;m having a hard time with the idea that space-time could be discontinuous.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fnordpiglet</author><text>Maybe I guess. Many models stipulate that time began with the Big Bang. Many propose the Big Bang was a local event that obliterated our ability to observe time before it. We have models where the universe rips apart, collapses, or just evolves forever and always has and always will. I think what’s crucial to understand is we have a lot of different possible explanations for what we see, some of them discuss beginnings and ends, some do not. Perhaps as a mathematician with a relatively closed set of possibilities for explanations that’s unsettling. But, I’ve always found the various paradoxes in math to illustrate similar problems in formulating a closed and coherent anything, including the universe.</text></comment> |
35,339,605 | 35,339,840 | 1 | 2 | 35,336,870 | train | <story><title>GitHub slashes engineering team in India</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/27/github-slashes-engineering-team-in-india/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ramraj07</author><text>India is not cheap if you want good engineers. Many folks I know (who are good, but not great) make more than what they’d make in UK or Canada. The US is the only other country that pays more. And the flux is just too much (though this likely is not the case in recent months).</text></item><item><author>LysPJ</author><text>Here&#x27;s the Twitter thread (by Gergely Orosz) that TechCrunch got the news from: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;GergelyOrosz&#x2F;status&#x2F;1640585325192912898" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;GergelyOrosz&#x2F;status&#x2F;1640585325192912898</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vitno</author><text>Everyone else here is not agreeing with you, but having just come back from our India office and dealing a little bit with compensation adjustment, I totally agree with you.<p>Our Indian teams are making really good money these days, and if we don&#x27;t pay them as such they bounce to another company.</text></comment> | <story><title>GitHub slashes engineering team in India</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/27/github-slashes-engineering-team-in-india/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ramraj07</author><text>India is not cheap if you want good engineers. Many folks I know (who are good, but not great) make more than what they’d make in UK or Canada. The US is the only other country that pays more. And the flux is just too much (though this likely is not the case in recent months).</text></item><item><author>LysPJ</author><text>Here&#x27;s the Twitter thread (by Gergely Orosz) that TechCrunch got the news from: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;GergelyOrosz&#x2F;status&#x2F;1640585325192912898" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;GergelyOrosz&#x2F;status&#x2F;1640585325192912898</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>0xDEF</author><text>I remember reading some Bangalore-based users in r&#x2F;DevOps being surprised that they were earning almost the same as devops engineers in Germany.</text></comment> |
31,944,323 | 31,944,478 | 1 | 3 | 31,943,478 | train | <story><title>Open source body quits GitHub, urges you to do the same</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/30/software_freedom_conservancy_quits_github/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chrismorgan</author><text>People keep getting this wrong. <i>Your license is irrelevant.</i> Copilot depends entirely on being <i>exempt</i> from copyright restrictions (under fair use doctrine), and you cannot restrict this with any license, because they&#x27;re not <i>using</i> that license.<p>The only way you can stop them using your code so is to not share it with anyone. If they find your code (even via a leak!), they can legally use it, if their fair use claim is correct.</text></item><item><author>onion2k</author><text>Simply moving away from Github is not enough to protect your code if you see this as a problem. Moving your code away from Github to some open alternative doesn&#x27;t stop Github consuming it to use in Copilot unless you specifically forbid that in your license. If you code is freely available to use for any purpose, as many open source licenses permit, then that includes using it as training data for a for-profit product.<p>You need to use a license that restricts its use, <i>and</i> restricts the use of derivatives otherwise someone uploading a fork to Github will just put you back where you started. I think GPL3 would give you such protections, but you should check with a lawyer if this is particularly important to you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>formerly_proven</author><text>Copilot being fair use is what Microsoft claims (obviously), not an established fact. There is no precedent for this claim.<p>(Nitpick: Fair use isn&#x27;t an exemption from copyright, it&#x27;s a defense for violating copyright)</text></comment> | <story><title>Open source body quits GitHub, urges you to do the same</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/30/software_freedom_conservancy_quits_github/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chrismorgan</author><text>People keep getting this wrong. <i>Your license is irrelevant.</i> Copilot depends entirely on being <i>exempt</i> from copyright restrictions (under fair use doctrine), and you cannot restrict this with any license, because they&#x27;re not <i>using</i> that license.<p>The only way you can stop them using your code so is to not share it with anyone. If they find your code (even via a leak!), they can legally use it, if their fair use claim is correct.</text></item><item><author>onion2k</author><text>Simply moving away from Github is not enough to protect your code if you see this as a problem. Moving your code away from Github to some open alternative doesn&#x27;t stop Github consuming it to use in Copilot unless you specifically forbid that in your license. If you code is freely available to use for any purpose, as many open source licenses permit, then that includes using it as training data for a for-profit product.<p>You need to use a license that restricts its use, <i>and</i> restricts the use of derivatives otherwise someone uploading a fork to Github will just put you back where you started. I think GPL3 would give you such protections, but you should check with a lawyer if this is particularly important to you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jillesvangurp</author><text>Correct. Co-pilot is simply operating under the current interpretation of copyright law, which has provisions for fair use which is actually very important for how software development works. Fair use is crucial. Without that we can&#x27;t implement proprietary APIs or allow ourselves to be inspired by other people&#x27;s work. The samples of code you get from co-pilot aren&#x27;t any different from those you find in a book (copyrighted and typically not OSS), on stackoverflow, or code you have seen somewhere else (for example on Github). And programmers use all of the above. If you don&#x27;t like that, keep your code proprietary and refrain from publishing it.<p>In the same way, Google is making use of fair use by providing website titles, summaries, book samples, etc. There has been some controversy with news about them taking that too far. But by and large, they are still legal. And people of course have tried to challenge that in courts. It&#x27;s just small samples being distributed, not a complete work. There are lots of examples of companies depending on fair use for all sorts of things. E.g. quoting an author or paraphrasing their work is fine. You don&#x27;t need their permission for that.<p>Also another point here is that it isn&#x27;t necessarily just MS that would be violating copyright (if the above somehow wasn&#x27;t the case) but the receiver of the auto-completed code that ends up distributing that code. Because it is that code that ends up being distributed. All MS does is show you some code sample, it&#x27;s the programmer that decides what to do with it. Whether you receive your sample from Stackoverflow, co-pilot, or a book is not relevant: you are responsible for the code you distribute.<p>Finally, the Github terms of use give Github some rights to doing things to your code if you choose to put it on Github. That probably also covers what they are doing with Github Co-pilot. That&#x27;s a valid reason for removing your code from Github if you don&#x27;t agree with that but of course no guarantee that Github Co-pilot would not crawl external public git repositories or that whomever you pick as an alternative wouldn&#x27;t have some similar legalese in their terms of use. If these things matter to you, review it. Just because Gitlab hasn&#x27;t launched a co-pilot competitor doesn&#x27;t mean they couldn&#x27;t.</text></comment> |
13,643,881 | 13,644,102 | 1 | 3 | 13,642,857 | train | <story><title>Releases for XFCE</title><url>https://simon.shimmerproject.org/2017/02/13/releases-releases-releases/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>near</author><text>Sigh, are they seriously bringing GTK3&#x27;s client-side decorations and lack of title bars to Xfce??!<p>Applications should have title bars. This is how it&#x27;s been done everywhere since pretty much the first Xerox GUI. Monitors are bigger than ever today. I promise, people can spare 10 pixels of vertical space so that they can see the name of the application being run (and the name of documents open in said application), and have a very easy area to click on to move the window around with. GTK3 CSDs also break the user&#x27;s ability to choose a window manager theme. It also removes the possibility to disable the toolbar area from certain applications, eg text editors. They also tend to result in applications that lack traditional menubars, which are very useful for complex programs.<p>I have already dropped every last Gnome 3 application over this nonsense. This is going to be horrendous to have to stop using Xfce now, too.<p>Sorry, I know HN doesn&#x27;t like negativity, but this &quot;change for the sake of it&quot; stuff is getting really old. I just want to keep using my computer the way that&#x27;s worked just fine for me for the past 25 years. This really is a step backward in usability. I don&#x27;t want to have to target tiny slivers between widgets, or hold down Alt to move windows around. And for applications I want an actual toolbar in, I don&#x27;t like how most of the toolbar icons disappear so that things can be merged into the titlebar area.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reitanqild</author><text><i>Sorry, I know HN doesn&#x27;t like negativity, but this &quot;change for the sake of it&quot; stuff is getting really old. </i><p>Agree.<p>I sense I am getting old and grumpy but there is something to learn here: there seems to be an increasing number of people, even in open source, who just want stuff to <i>work</i>.<p>I just want Ubuntu, dropline gnome, updated drivers, backed by a commercial vendor that I can pay a reasonable amount to to make sure they <i>never</i> let designers, ux people, product managers etc <i>experiment</i> with my desktop. Polishing it like Ubuntu originally did was totally ok though.<p>I don&#x27;t want &quot;spatial navigation&quot; in Gnome. I don&#x27;t want to have to think application or document&quot; when I hit alt-tab, or having to wait for a (IMO, I know some people love this feature, but bear with my rant here) retarded alt-tab to understand that I want to switch to a document under the app I have switched to, then wait again for it to slide out nicely.<p>No! I want alt tab to switch through my last used windows. If it looks really nice, bonus.<p>I want my drivers to work. Etc.<p>And most of all: I don&#x27;t want Linux to copy Mac! If I want a Mac I can get my boss to get me one!</text></comment> | <story><title>Releases for XFCE</title><url>https://simon.shimmerproject.org/2017/02/13/releases-releases-releases/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>near</author><text>Sigh, are they seriously bringing GTK3&#x27;s client-side decorations and lack of title bars to Xfce??!<p>Applications should have title bars. This is how it&#x27;s been done everywhere since pretty much the first Xerox GUI. Monitors are bigger than ever today. I promise, people can spare 10 pixels of vertical space so that they can see the name of the application being run (and the name of documents open in said application), and have a very easy area to click on to move the window around with. GTK3 CSDs also break the user&#x27;s ability to choose a window manager theme. It also removes the possibility to disable the toolbar area from certain applications, eg text editors. They also tend to result in applications that lack traditional menubars, which are very useful for complex programs.<p>I have already dropped every last Gnome 3 application over this nonsense. This is going to be horrendous to have to stop using Xfce now, too.<p>Sorry, I know HN doesn&#x27;t like negativity, but this &quot;change for the sake of it&quot; stuff is getting really old. I just want to keep using my computer the way that&#x27;s worked just fine for me for the past 25 years. This really is a step backward in usability. I don&#x27;t want to have to target tiny slivers between widgets, or hold down Alt to move windows around. And for applications I want an actual toolbar in, I don&#x27;t like how most of the toolbar icons disappear so that things can be merged into the titlebar area.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zanny</author><text>I&#x27;m on the opposite side, in that I&#x27;m a KDE user &#x2F; infrequent contributor that has some jealousy for the good use of space Gnome manages to pull off with its decorations.<p>Your only real use for the title bar is a drag zone. Effectively a button to hold down. It doesn&#x27;t need to occupy the entire horizontal width of your screen to do that. Gnome applications still show the same text information, they just have added buttons there as well to waste less space. You still have ample drag room.<p>If a program doesn&#x27;t have enough room for buttons or makes their CSD menu buttons obscure that is a design failure distinct from the bar itself. It is just a space saving measure. While screens are bigger, the vertical area is the premium, and wasting a 15px+ of it on an average of 20 characters of text and two buttons should be somewhere to look for improvement in.</text></comment> |
14,509,431 | 14,509,217 | 1 | 2 | 14,508,264 | train | <story><title>How to avoid picking the wrong technology just because it's cool</title><url>https://blog.bradfieldcs.com/you-are-not-google-84912cf44afb</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aqme28</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;engineering.hellofresh.com&#x2F;scaling-hellofresh-api-gateway-7d40be55450f" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;engineering.hellofresh.com&#x2F;scaling-hellofresh-api-ga...</a></text></item><item><author>squeaky-clean</author><text>I remember reading a scaling-out article from some startup. Some of the things felt a little over-engineered, some were impressive, some seemed wrong. But then they get to the point where they brag about their scale, and the metric they used was that they can handle thousands of requests.... per day.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>The author&#x27;s acronym is silly, but it&#x27;s a real problem. Soylent liked to blither about their &quot;infrastructure&quot;, for a product that sells a few times per minute. They could be using CGI scripts on a low-end hosting service and it would work fine.<p>Wikipedia is some MySQL databases with read-only slaves front-ended by Ngnix caches and load balancers. That seems to get the job done. Wikipedia is the fifth busiest web site in the world.<p>Netflix&#x27;s web site (not the playout system) was originally a bunch of Python programs.<p>The article mentions a PostGres query that required a full table scan. If you&#x27;re doing many queries that require a full table scan, you&#x27;re doing something wrong. That&#x27;s what indices are for.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tnolet</author><text>This is hilarious and sad at the same time. However, most of these write ups are aimed at attracting talent. Even more, some tech stacks are deliberately built to attract talent when the core domain is just too simple or boring. &quot;We serve user subscriptions and recipe data from an SQL database using Rails&quot; just doesn&#x27;t sound as snappy as the infra-porn on the blog.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to avoid picking the wrong technology just because it's cool</title><url>https://blog.bradfieldcs.com/you-are-not-google-84912cf44afb</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aqme28</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;engineering.hellofresh.com&#x2F;scaling-hellofresh-api-gateway-7d40be55450f" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;engineering.hellofresh.com&#x2F;scaling-hellofresh-api-ga...</a></text></item><item><author>squeaky-clean</author><text>I remember reading a scaling-out article from some startup. Some of the things felt a little over-engineered, some were impressive, some seemed wrong. But then they get to the point where they brag about their scale, and the metric they used was that they can handle thousands of requests.... per day.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>The author&#x27;s acronym is silly, but it&#x27;s a real problem. Soylent liked to blither about their &quot;infrastructure&quot;, for a product that sells a few times per minute. They could be using CGI scripts on a low-end hosting service and it would work fine.<p>Wikipedia is some MySQL databases with read-only slaves front-ended by Ngnix caches and load balancers. That seems to get the job done. Wikipedia is the fifth busiest web site in the world.<p>Netflix&#x27;s web site (not the playout system) was originally a bunch of Python programs.<p>The article mentions a PostGres query that required a full table scan. If you&#x27;re doing many queries that require a full table scan, you&#x27;re doing something wrong. That&#x27;s what indices are for.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>x0x0</author><text>ergh, you weren&#x27;t kidding. I hope that was a typo on their part; even low thousands rpm is mostly not a big deal on modern hardware.<p><pre><code> Our gateway is on the frontline of our infrastructure. It receives thousands
of request per day, and for that reason we chose Go when building it,
because of its performance, simplicity, and elegant solution to concurrency.</code></pre></text></comment> |
14,043,254 | 14,043,136 | 1 | 3 | 14,041,443 | train | <story><title>Love in the Time of Cryptography</title><url>https://backchannel.com/love-in-the-time-of-cryptography-dd3a74193ffb</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>avenoir</author><text>&gt; “Every time I look at an old mail, I feel weird, like I prefer the memory I have of a thing than the accurate recording,” he told me.<p>I do have to say when I and my ex broke it off, reading that first conversation logged in my Facebook chat between the two of us was a total bitch to swallow. Everything was there. Every single word. Nothing&#x27;s faded into distant memory. There we were 2 years ago happy that we&#x27;ve met each other. Here we are now - complete strangers to each other. It is definitely a weird feeling.</text></comment> | <story><title>Love in the Time of Cryptography</title><url>https://backchannel.com/love-in-the-time-of-cryptography-dd3a74193ffb</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>In which a reporter falls in love with a fellow nerd she meets at a European hackerspace, maintains a long-distance relationship by messaging using showily bad file encryption, decides to move to Europe to cohabitate, and, lacking Facebook profiles to verify the relationship, relies on the testimony of friends and other anecdotal evidence sources, like hundreds of millions of other couples whose lives are imperfectly recorded by social networks.<p>Gabriel Garcia Marquez, eat your heart out.</text></comment> |
11,663,722 | 11,662,908 | 1 | 2 | 11,659,474 | train | <story><title>Software Update Destroys $286M Japanese Satellite</title><url>http://hackaday.com/2016/05/02/software-update-destroys-286-million-japanese-satellite/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>walrus01</author><text>I know this was a science and LEO (low earth orbit) satellite, but here&#x27;s something to consider when thinking about the difficulties of engineering hardware &amp; software to work together in a satellite.<p>Geostationary telecom (and weather, and SIGINT, etc) satellites: In the entire history of manned spaceflight no human has ever visited geostationary orbit. Once placed in a geostationary transfer orbit (about 450 x 36,000 km) and then onwards to final geostationary orbit, nobody will ever see a satellite again. The largest ones weigh 6000 kilograms and are the size of greyhound buses. They&#x27;re out there right now operating with multiply-redundant everything and cost $150 million to build and launch. It is highly unlikely that any time in the next 25 years any human will ever visit one in person or touch one. When a satellite is encapsulated in its fairing&#x2F;shroud for launch that is the last time anyone will ever see it until its ultimate end of life in hopefully 15 years. Every one of its control systems needs to be so thoroughly debugged and multiply redundant that it can operate out there with absolutely zero chance of repair or parts replacement.</text></comment> | <story><title>Software Update Destroys $286M Japanese Satellite</title><url>http://hackaday.com/2016/05/02/software-update-destroys-286-million-japanese-satellite/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ams6110</author><text>A certain well-known electric car maker (maybe all of them, though) can push software updates to systems that have lives in their control not to mention costly machines. A sobering reminder of the need for very careful testing and control over this sort of thing.</text></comment> |
8,022,667 | 8,022,556 | 1 | 2 | 8,022,177 | train | <story><title>This is a blog post that’s incredibly confusing and painful for me to write</title><url>http://blog.maxistentialism.com/post/91476212698/this-is-a-blog-post-thats-incredibly-confusing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>beachstartup</author><text>so basically, we live in a society where anyone&#x27;s reputation can be instantly, completely and forever ruined, at will, by someone leveling a rape accusation on the internet.</text></item><item><author>eggbrain</author><text>Let me begin by saying that this is frustrating for all groups involved. But I wanted to specifically address what Max really can or cannot do regarding this situation.<p>1. I understand those that say that he should sue. But think of it this way: even if he goes through a long lawsuit to sue and wins, he still comes up worse for wear: people who hated him to begin with will just say he &quot;bought&quot; his freedom with high priced lawyers, and the publicity the trial would generate would just hurt him more no matter what the outcome.<p>2. What&#x27;s frustrating to me is even in these HN comments, the fact that he _isn&#x27;t_ suing is somehow proof that there might be more to the story! You end up not winning -- not going to trial is because you know the &quot;truth&quot; might come out, and going to trial and winning will still prove that you might still be guilty, but celebrity status&#x2F;money helped you.<p>3. Other people argue he should &#x2F; should not have posted this blog post. But again, it&#x27;s a catch-22: if you don&#x27;t publish the blog post, it&#x27;s because you are trying to bury the story because there might be some truth to it. But if you do publish it, now people think you aren&#x27;t telling <i>the whole truth</i> and are just spinning it to get people on your side!<p>So really, no matter what you do, there&#x27;s no good solution. If you sue, your victory will be Pyrrhic at best. If you don&#x27;t sue, you&#x27;re hiding something. If you post a response, you are spinning it. If you don&#x27;t post, you&#x27;re hiding something.<p>Worse yet, defending Max can end up being a lose-lose situation as well. If I believe Max&#x27;s story, and defend him in forums&#x2F;communications, that can portray me as being a sympathizer to sexual offenders rather than victims, which would anger me very much.<p>Sexual assault is a travesty. Period. And victims already have many times a hard enough time coming forward and talking about it, yet alone going to the police -- under the assumption that they might not be believed or that they will be shamed. But we need to make sure that there is justice for all, without hurting either side. We still have a long way to go.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>knowtheory</author><text>This is one of the reasons why having adequate legal recourse is so important. The incompetence and inadequacy of the criminal justice system injures us all.<p>In an ideal world we would simply say &quot;where is the evidence, this should be sorted out in a trial&quot;. But given that the cops are so hostile to sexual assault victims, forensics which aren&#x27;t processed for <i>decades</i> (<a href="http://www.npr.org/2014/01/25/266275211/tested-at-last-rape-kits-giving-evidence-to-victims-stories" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2014&#x2F;01&#x2F;25&#x2F;266275211&#x2F;tested-at-last-rape-...</a> ) and a legal system which will try the credibility of victims, it&#x27;s hard to blame any sexual assault victim who shies away from reporting.<p>In the end, unanswered questions persist.</text></comment> | <story><title>This is a blog post that’s incredibly confusing and painful for me to write</title><url>http://blog.maxistentialism.com/post/91476212698/this-is-a-blog-post-thats-incredibly-confusing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>beachstartup</author><text>so basically, we live in a society where anyone&#x27;s reputation can be instantly, completely and forever ruined, at will, by someone leveling a rape accusation on the internet.</text></item><item><author>eggbrain</author><text>Let me begin by saying that this is frustrating for all groups involved. But I wanted to specifically address what Max really can or cannot do regarding this situation.<p>1. I understand those that say that he should sue. But think of it this way: even if he goes through a long lawsuit to sue and wins, he still comes up worse for wear: people who hated him to begin with will just say he &quot;bought&quot; his freedom with high priced lawyers, and the publicity the trial would generate would just hurt him more no matter what the outcome.<p>2. What&#x27;s frustrating to me is even in these HN comments, the fact that he _isn&#x27;t_ suing is somehow proof that there might be more to the story! You end up not winning -- not going to trial is because you know the &quot;truth&quot; might come out, and going to trial and winning will still prove that you might still be guilty, but celebrity status&#x2F;money helped you.<p>3. Other people argue he should &#x2F; should not have posted this blog post. But again, it&#x27;s a catch-22: if you don&#x27;t publish the blog post, it&#x27;s because you are trying to bury the story because there might be some truth to it. But if you do publish it, now people think you aren&#x27;t telling <i>the whole truth</i> and are just spinning it to get people on your side!<p>So really, no matter what you do, there&#x27;s no good solution. If you sue, your victory will be Pyrrhic at best. If you don&#x27;t sue, you&#x27;re hiding something. If you post a response, you are spinning it. If you don&#x27;t post, you&#x27;re hiding something.<p>Worse yet, defending Max can end up being a lose-lose situation as well. If I believe Max&#x27;s story, and defend him in forums&#x2F;communications, that can portray me as being a sympathizer to sexual offenders rather than victims, which would anger me very much.<p>Sexual assault is a travesty. Period. And victims already have many times a hard enough time coming forward and talking about it, yet alone going to the police -- under the assumption that they might not be believed or that they will be shamed. But we need to make sure that there is justice for all, without hurting either side. We still have a long way to go.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>usefulcat</author><text>To the extent that people instantly, completely and forever believe rape accusations levelled on the internet and then never read anything to the contrary, yes.</text></comment> |
11,956,088 | 11,955,980 | 1 | 2 | 11,955,068 | train | <story><title>Progress Towards 100% HTTPS, June 2016</title><url>https://letsencrypt.org//2016/06/22/https-progress-june-2016.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rogerbinns</author><text>I keep hoping they will help address non-Internet TLS. For example if you run a HTPC, fridge, printer, device controller or anything similar on your LAN and want to talk to it over the same LAN using TLS. Getting a workable cert is currently not possible: for example the LAN names aren&#x27;t going to be unique.<p>Plex did solve this in conjunction with a certificate authority, but that solution only works for them. The general approach could work for others if someone like letsencrypt led the effort. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.filippo.io&#x2F;how-plex-is-doing-https-for-all-its-users&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.filippo.io&#x2F;how-plex-is-doing-https-for-all-its-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Progress Towards 100% HTTPS, June 2016</title><url>https://letsencrypt.org//2016/06/22/https-progress-june-2016.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>criddell</author><text>Just at the entire world is going HTTPS, my faith in the system is seriously waning. When Symantec bought Blue Coat, it made me start to think about how fragile this is. How long before Symantec gets an NSL demanding an appliance that can mint bogus certs on the fly for dropbox.com, facebook.com, twitter.com, etc...?<p>How effective is something like certificate pinning against fraudulent certs?</text></comment> |
23,171,847 | 23,171,872 | 1 | 2 | 23,164,618 | train | <story><title>Applying to PhD Programs in Computer Science (2014) [pdf]</title><url>https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~harchol/gradschooltalk.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>plushprocessor</author><text>What isn&#x27;t often discussed is how hard it is to go from a no name school that isn&#x27;t ranked highly to an elite school. At a non-elite school your recommenders may be unknown to the admissions committee, the &#x27;level&#x27; of education these applicants receive can be questionable (&quot;What does an A mean from this program and how does it compare to our class?&quot;), their research experience could be weak, student visibility could be weak (i.e. their recommender isn&#x27;t known in the field, and their student didn&#x27;t do any sort of research that made professors at our school aware of them in advance), the courses they take may be weak compared to other applicants (i.e. their program doesn&#x27;t offer as many advanced courses, compared to other programs) and so on. There can be tremendous risk in taking students from unknown schools or non-elite schools. It&#x27;s much easier to accept graduate students from a similar elite school, with well-known recommenders, and a history of successful applicants from that came from that school that did well in said program. It isn&#x27;t impossible, but it is an extra step these applicants have to overcome.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>downerending</author><text>I was in this situation, decades ago, and indeed was turned down by CMU. At least back then, CMU like some other elite schools had no MSCS, making it even harder to make the grade coming from Podunk U.<p>My strategy, which worked out okay, was to &quot;bracket&quot; the field by choosing a couple of schools that looked solid and had very large MS class sizes and to just view my &quot;elite&quot; apps as lottery tickets unlikely to pay off (which they didn&#x27;t).<p>Beyond that, and especially today, I&#x27;d look seriously at targeting specific future advisors at the schools in question, and worrying far less about the school&#x27;s reputation. An excellent advisor at Mississippi State will do you far more good than a crappy one at Stanford. And will probably cost a lot less.</text></comment> | <story><title>Applying to PhD Programs in Computer Science (2014) [pdf]</title><url>https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~harchol/gradschooltalk.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>plushprocessor</author><text>What isn&#x27;t often discussed is how hard it is to go from a no name school that isn&#x27;t ranked highly to an elite school. At a non-elite school your recommenders may be unknown to the admissions committee, the &#x27;level&#x27; of education these applicants receive can be questionable (&quot;What does an A mean from this program and how does it compare to our class?&quot;), their research experience could be weak, student visibility could be weak (i.e. their recommender isn&#x27;t known in the field, and their student didn&#x27;t do any sort of research that made professors at our school aware of them in advance), the courses they take may be weak compared to other applicants (i.e. their program doesn&#x27;t offer as many advanced courses, compared to other programs) and so on. There can be tremendous risk in taking students from unknown schools or non-elite schools. It&#x27;s much easier to accept graduate students from a similar elite school, with well-known recommenders, and a history of successful applicants from that came from that school that did well in said program. It isn&#x27;t impossible, but it is an extra step these applicants have to overcome.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwlaplace</author><text>easiest way to jump tiers is networking i.e. person to person conversations with PIs. if you&#x27;re able to represent yourself well and describe your own research articulately and authoritatively it&#x27;ll make up for a great deal of the gap between you and students from &quot;elite&quot; schools. unfortunately this networking happens at conferences which less resource-rich schools can&#x27;t afford to send undergrads to.<p>my hack: when you&#x27;re traveling to a city with a brand name school you might be interested in attending, shoot some professors an email asking to drop by and chat about their research. they will usually tell you to come by during their office hours. this has worked for me no less than 3 times and led to 2 admissions.<p>if you&#x27;re an undergrad and you&#x27;ve never sold&#x2F;pitched yourself to someone i strongly suggest you read some salesy stuff about how to approach a sales meeting. you have to keep in mind that PIs are kind of like CEOs of small startups - they do research, publish papers, and win grants. That&#x27;s their business cycle. when they&#x27;re evaluating new students they&#x27;re trying to determine how effectively you&#x27;ll fit into that cycle. that means if you&#x27;ve done all 3 of those things you&#x27;re in a good position to be hired (and it is out and out hiring) but if you lack experience in one area (e.g. writing grants) you can make up for it by being strong in another (or giving the impression that you will be). ultimately you need to speak to their needs and goals rather than your own.</text></comment> |
39,929,952 | 39,930,123 | 1 | 2 | 39,929,416 | train | <story><title>Washington's Lottery forced to pull site after creating AI porn of lotto user</title><url>https://mynorthwest.com/3956403/rantz-washingtons-lottery-ai-porn-user/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>perihelions</author><text>I think regardless of the specifics, using generative AI to manipulate people into gambling is predatory and immoral. It&#x27;s psychological abuse to manipulate people into dwelling on how their lives are awful, and on how purchasing the advertised product could fix all their lifelong problems (which it almost certainly won&#x27;t).<p>Some of the worst &quot;abuses of AI&quot; are going to be things we&#x27;ve already fully normalized—we just fail to reflect adequately on our culture and in what ways it&#x27;s broken.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SamBam</author><text>While you&#x27;re right, the AI part is almost irrelevant. I think it&#x27;s immoral that states can advertise their lotteries full-stop.<p>True, the AI part will make this worse, especially if states get into really targeted advertisements. But the morality line is already being crossed daily.</text></comment> | <story><title>Washington's Lottery forced to pull site after creating AI porn of lotto user</title><url>https://mynorthwest.com/3956403/rantz-washingtons-lottery-ai-porn-user/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>perihelions</author><text>I think regardless of the specifics, using generative AI to manipulate people into gambling is predatory and immoral. It&#x27;s psychological abuse to manipulate people into dwelling on how their lives are awful, and on how purchasing the advertised product could fix all their lifelong problems (which it almost certainly won&#x27;t).<p>Some of the worst &quot;abuses of AI&quot; are going to be things we&#x27;ve already fully normalized—we just fail to reflect adequately on our culture and in what ways it&#x27;s broken.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nerdjon</author><text>I really want to know who green lit this after seeing all of the controversy with Google and was like, yeah we won&#x27;t have a problem like that billion dollar company.<p>There are already a lot of sleazy ads that I see for gambling and the lottery. But this is extremely predatory since it personifies the possible winning.<p>This should be straight up illegal.</text></comment> |
36,790,518 | 36,789,914 | 1 | 2 | 36,788,813 | train | <story><title>A glitch in the SEO matrix</title><url>https://www.izzy.co/blogs/a-glitch-in-the-seo-matrix.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codegeek</author><text>You either play the Organic SEO game or you Pay to Play (Ads). Google as a search engine is now useless when it comes to searching for a tool&#x2F;software etc because everyone has gamed the &quot;Best software for xyz&quot; etc. But what&#x27;s the alternative ? None. There are these &quot;review&quot; websites like Capterra&#x2F;Software Advice&#x2F;G2 and again you have to pay to play. You can technically get a review from a customer and get listed BUT if you want to be shown on the main page for that category, you need to pay crazy PPC.<p>Source: I play this game since I run a software business. Would love an alternative but there are none. You either Play the game or you Die.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>samwillis</author><text>From the point of view of someone who spent 10 years running an e-commerce store, and all its advertising, until a couple of years ago. Both SEO and search result ads on Google are dead. The hay day of being able to play the game and make a tidy profit is long gone.<p>Google are playing every trick in the book to extract every possible cent from advertisers, spying on their business and sales to maximise their own profits. Google&#x27;s visibility of all transactions on every e-commerce website on the internet is insane. People complain about the tracking of users&#x2F;visitors, but the tracking of businesses is just as bad.<p>They probably have better insights into the economy and market trends than most governments and banks.<p>The penny is dropping, advertisers are noticing, my long term expectation of Google&#x27;s business are not what they were.</text></comment> | <story><title>A glitch in the SEO matrix</title><url>https://www.izzy.co/blogs/a-glitch-in-the-seo-matrix.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codegeek</author><text>You either play the Organic SEO game or you Pay to Play (Ads). Google as a search engine is now useless when it comes to searching for a tool&#x2F;software etc because everyone has gamed the &quot;Best software for xyz&quot; etc. But what&#x27;s the alternative ? None. There are these &quot;review&quot; websites like Capterra&#x2F;Software Advice&#x2F;G2 and again you have to pay to play. You can technically get a review from a customer and get listed BUT if you want to be shown on the main page for that category, you need to pay crazy PPC.<p>Source: I play this game since I run a software business. Would love an alternative but there are none. You either Play the game or you Die.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>the8472</author><text>&gt; But what&#x27;s the alternative ?<p>Since ads are a red queen&#x27;s race, wasting people&#x27;s attention and assuming we don&#x27;t want to outright ban them then the next best alternative is to tax them heavily.
How about 0.00001 cent per pixel-second-view?<p>Then people will only put up ads when there&#x27;s some real value in it, not just to keep up with the competition.</text></comment> |
18,131,642 | 18,130,630 | 1 | 3 | 18,126,808 | train | <story><title>Black holes ruled out as universe’s missing dark matter</title><url>http://news.berkeley.edu/2018/10/02/black-holes-ruled-out-as-universes-missing-dark-matter/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>prmph</author><text>One question I have: is it not possible that the big bang occurred an infinite time ago? If the expansion of the universe is accelerating with time, does it not indicate that, if we reverse the time, the deceleration is asymptotic?<p>In that case the big bang is compatible with a universe that has always existed and did not have a beginning</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>posterboy</author><text>The idea is interesting and probably not unique. If you try to paint a diagram of it, how would that look? It&#x27;s not time that is accelerating, so you don&#x27;t just draw the time axis just longer with wider gaps between the minute marks. Which leaves me guessing and remembering my old, discrete notion that time is count of change of things, so that, for sake of argument, in one unit of time, one state change happens. In that setting, it doesn&#x27;t make sense to say a change was further apart than another. Actually, information decreases, thermodynamically speaking. So, tracking back infinitely, you&#x27;d have to start with an infinite amount of entropy, proportional to energy. But the theory assumes a fixed amount of energy, as far as I know.<p>And it&#x27;s not that the lightspeed increases with time, either. Rather, so they say, space expands - which is imaged trivially by stretching the space axis. I suppose that&#x27;s normalizing for time and you could just as well fix space and compress time, invariably, to arrive at your notion, with a total lack of rigour at that.<p>So normalizing for</text></comment> | <story><title>Black holes ruled out as universe’s missing dark matter</title><url>http://news.berkeley.edu/2018/10/02/black-holes-ruled-out-as-universes-missing-dark-matter/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>prmph</author><text>One question I have: is it not possible that the big bang occurred an infinite time ago? If the expansion of the universe is accelerating with time, does it not indicate that, if we reverse the time, the deceleration is asymptotic?<p>In that case the big bang is compatible with a universe that has always existed and did not have a beginning</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gpderetta</author><text>Even a car constantly accelerating for a long time was still at t0.</text></comment> |
19,670,156 | 19,669,691 | 1 | 2 | 19,668,531 | train | <story><title>Mastodon and Keybase</title><url>https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-proofs-for-mastodon-and-everyone</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jeena</author><text>It would be cool to see everyone&#x27;s Mastodon usernames&#x2F;domains, I&#x27;m on my own self hosted instance where it&#x27;s a bit more difficult to find other people.<p>Mine is: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;toot.jeena.net&#x2F;@jeena" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;toot.jeena.net&#x2F;@jeena</a></text></item><item><author>zach43</author><text>Just wanted to say that i moved from twitter to mastodon sometime late last year amd couldn&#x27;t be happier with it. Keybase integration is interesting to me, but not realky useful since i don&#x27;t want to tie mastodon with my real life identity.<p>the Fediverse as a whole has a very different &#x27;feel&#x27; to it compared to Twitter. Twitter feels significantly more commercialized amd stressful...mastodon &#x2F; pleroma feel a lot more relaxed and pleasant in comparison.<p>Maybe i just accidentally joined nicer communities, but i see a lot of small-scale chitchat and genuineness on mastodon than i rarely see on twitter.<p>I&#x27;ve also had zero issues with the platform from a technical perspective...overall i think Mastodon, etc have done decentralization &quot;right&quot;, and have a lot of potential for growth in the future</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lokedhs</author><text>I switched to Mastodon about a year or so ago. I fully agree with the grandparent post in that the atmosphere is very different compared to the major social media platforms.<p>As you allude to, discovery is harder since you don&#x27;t have an algorithm pointing you in the direction of content you&#x27;re likely to engage with (yes, engage with, and not necessarily enjoy) but once you have found the right people to follow, it&#x27;s more rewarding because it&#x27;s your community, not owned by a single corporate entity.<p>Although I didn&#x27;t use G+ much in the later days, its closure showed my how irresponsible it is to rely on proprietary platforms. I&#x27;m committed to never be active on a proprietary, closed social media platform again.<p>My main account is here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;functional.cafe&#x2F;@loke" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;functional.cafe&#x2F;@loke</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Mastodon and Keybase</title><url>https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-proofs-for-mastodon-and-everyone</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jeena</author><text>It would be cool to see everyone&#x27;s Mastodon usernames&#x2F;domains, I&#x27;m on my own self hosted instance where it&#x27;s a bit more difficult to find other people.<p>Mine is: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;toot.jeena.net&#x2F;@jeena" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;toot.jeena.net&#x2F;@jeena</a></text></item><item><author>zach43</author><text>Just wanted to say that i moved from twitter to mastodon sometime late last year amd couldn&#x27;t be happier with it. Keybase integration is interesting to me, but not realky useful since i don&#x27;t want to tie mastodon with my real life identity.<p>the Fediverse as a whole has a very different &#x27;feel&#x27; to it compared to Twitter. Twitter feels significantly more commercialized amd stressful...mastodon &#x2F; pleroma feel a lot more relaxed and pleasant in comparison.<p>Maybe i just accidentally joined nicer communities, but i see a lot of small-scale chitchat and genuineness on mastodon than i rarely see on twitter.<p>I&#x27;ve also had zero issues with the platform from a technical perspective...overall i think Mastodon, etc have done decentralization &quot;right&quot;, and have a lot of potential for growth in the future</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JoshTriplett</author><text>What has your experience been with self-hosting?<p>I&#x27;d love to self-host a Mastodon instance that two-way mirrors my Twitter account and acts as a Twitter client (letting me pseudo-follow folks from Twitter). But in any case, I&#x27;d want to ensure that no content from people I follow gets mirrored&#x2F;hosted on my own instance; the only content actually hosted on my own instance should be the content I post.</text></comment> |
38,106,764 | 38,106,256 | 1 | 2 | 38,105,629 | train | <story><title>Starlink satellites are 'leaking' signals that interfere with radio telescopes</title><url>https://theconversation.com/starlink-satellites-are-leaking-signals-that-interfere-with-our-most-sensitive-radio-telescopes-215250</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>defrost</author><text>For anyone with an interest in the computing centre behind a square kilometre radio telescope array see:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pawsey.org.au&#x2F;supercomputing&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pawsey.org.au&#x2F;supercomputing&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pawsey.org.au&#x2F;systems&#x2F;data-cloud&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pawsey.org.au&#x2F;systems&#x2F;data-cloud&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pawsey.org.au&#x2F;visualisation&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pawsey.org.au&#x2F;visualisation&#x2F;</a><p>Further infomation about the radio quiet zone referenced: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.industry.gov.au&#x2F;science-technology-and-innovation&#x2F;space-and-astronomy&#x2F;co-hosting-ska-telescope&#x2F;australian-radio-quiet-zone-wa" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.industry.gov.au&#x2F;science-technology-and-innovatio...</a><p>and yes it&#x27;s also in an area with zero ground sourced light pollution - aside from those shiny LEO satellites which are visible long beyond 15 minutes after sunset. They&#x27;ll even reflect moonlight.<p>From the linked piece from Curtin Uni:<p><pre><code> We estimate emissions in radio wavelengths will need to be reduced by a factor of a thousand or more to avoid significant interference with radio astronomy. We hope these improvements can be made, in order to preserve humanity’s future view of the universe, the fundamental discoveries we will make, and the future society-changing technologies (like wifi) that will emerge from those discoveries.</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>Starlink satellites are 'leaking' signals that interfere with radio telescopes</title><url>https://theconversation.com/starlink-satellites-are-leaking-signals-that-interfere-with-our-most-sensitive-radio-telescopes-215250</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sbierwagen</author><text>&gt;Now it is commonplace: sit outside for a few minutes after dark, and you can’t miss them.<p>As always, this is only the case immediately after sunset, when it&#x27;s dark on the ground but the satellites are still in direct sunlight. Fifteen minutes later they&#x27;re completely invisible.</text></comment> |
13,083,182 | 13,081,593 | 1 | 3 | 13,079,569 | train | <story><title>“AV is my single biggest impediment to shipping a secure browser.”</title><url>https://twitter.com/justinschuh/status/802491391121260544</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hedgehog</author><text>In security simpler is almost always better.<p>Vess is asserting that AV vendors can write their own versions of the most complicated parts of the browser &amp; OS (including parsing &amp; rendering HTTP&#x2F;HTML&#x2F;CSS&#x2F;JS&#x2F;PNG, JS runtime, etc), then add more code on top of that to detect bad things, and do all of this while adding no significant bugs and with tolerable performance overhead. The reality is that browsers are insanely complicated, the people working on the major browsers are extraordinarily skilled, and there is a mountain of evidence that AV vendors routinely ship software that by design exposes users to huge security risks on top of all of their bugs.<p>Meanwhile security by isolation is proven effective at protecting users. Two good examples are the process-per-tab isolation in Chrome and the app sandboxing on iOS. Some holes into the sandboxes are necessary (for example you need to get keyboard input in and rendered images out) but every additional hole you open adds significant risk. The downside to this approach is it reduces the market for AV and other third party utilities.<p>(I used to work in security)</text></item><item><author>blauditore</author><text>For everyone else who was lost like me (mined from this comment section and some googling):<p>- AV: Anti-virus software<p>- Vess: Security, AV expert, loves AV<p>- Justin Schuh: Chrome dev (security-related), hates AV<p>- AV needs deep access to the OS, opening the door for attacks if managed poorly<p>- Deep OS access is often hacky (due to lack of APIs?), thus potentially unsafe<p>- Vess and Justin Schuh both have bad manners<p>Is this about right?<p>Also, how is AV a (direct) impediment to a shipping a safe browser? It seems to me that a browser should be mostly agnostic toward AV.<p>Edit: It seems like the problem is that AV tries to penetrate browsers in a similar hacky way as for the OS, resulting in similar issues.<p>TL;DR: AV tries to help by supervising browsers because they&#x27;re allegedly not safe enough, but browsers think they&#x27;re already safe and want AV to gtfo.<p>Edit 2: Are there any AVs that don&#x27;t tamper with browsers at all? I&#x27;ve always been using Avast and switching off all browser-related features, but maybe there are better options.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>masklinn</author><text>&gt; Vess is asserting that AV vendors can write their own versions of the most complicated parts of the browser &amp; OS (including parsing &amp; rendering HTTP&#x2F;HTML&#x2F;CSS&#x2F;JS&#x2F;PNG, JS runtime, etc), then add more code on top of that to detect bad things, and do all of this while adding no significant bugs and with tolerable performance overhead.<p>Don&#x27;t forget they usually try and run all of that right in the kernel, because if there&#x27;s one thing you want more than hardly tested unsafe reimplementation of the most complex and dangerous parts of a browser, it&#x27;s to run them in ring0.</text></comment> | <story><title>“AV is my single biggest impediment to shipping a secure browser.”</title><url>https://twitter.com/justinschuh/status/802491391121260544</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hedgehog</author><text>In security simpler is almost always better.<p>Vess is asserting that AV vendors can write their own versions of the most complicated parts of the browser &amp; OS (including parsing &amp; rendering HTTP&#x2F;HTML&#x2F;CSS&#x2F;JS&#x2F;PNG, JS runtime, etc), then add more code on top of that to detect bad things, and do all of this while adding no significant bugs and with tolerable performance overhead. The reality is that browsers are insanely complicated, the people working on the major browsers are extraordinarily skilled, and there is a mountain of evidence that AV vendors routinely ship software that by design exposes users to huge security risks on top of all of their bugs.<p>Meanwhile security by isolation is proven effective at protecting users. Two good examples are the process-per-tab isolation in Chrome and the app sandboxing on iOS. Some holes into the sandboxes are necessary (for example you need to get keyboard input in and rendered images out) but every additional hole you open adds significant risk. The downside to this approach is it reduces the market for AV and other third party utilities.<p>(I used to work in security)</text></item><item><author>blauditore</author><text>For everyone else who was lost like me (mined from this comment section and some googling):<p>- AV: Anti-virus software<p>- Vess: Security, AV expert, loves AV<p>- Justin Schuh: Chrome dev (security-related), hates AV<p>- AV needs deep access to the OS, opening the door for attacks if managed poorly<p>- Deep OS access is often hacky (due to lack of APIs?), thus potentially unsafe<p>- Vess and Justin Schuh both have bad manners<p>Is this about right?<p>Also, how is AV a (direct) impediment to a shipping a safe browser? It seems to me that a browser should be mostly agnostic toward AV.<p>Edit: It seems like the problem is that AV tries to penetrate browsers in a similar hacky way as for the OS, resulting in similar issues.<p>TL;DR: AV tries to help by supervising browsers because they&#x27;re allegedly not safe enough, but browsers think they&#x27;re already safe and want AV to gtfo.<p>Edit 2: Are there any AVs that don&#x27;t tamper with browsers at all? I&#x27;ve always been using Avast and switching off all browser-related features, but maybe there are better options.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>guntars</author><text>&gt; The downside to this approach is it reduces the market for AV and other third party utilities.<p>Doesn&#x27;t sound like much of a downside to me.</text></comment> |
19,114,457 | 19,114,330 | 1 | 2 | 19,113,960 | train | <story><title>Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/08/spotify-will-now-suspend-or-terminate-accounts-it-finds-are-using-ad-blockers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dessant</author><text>They allow advertisers to run JS on your device, and ads are a trendy way to deliver malware. People are using ad blockers not just to hide annoyances and to improve performance, but to protect themselves from bad actors.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;spotifyforbrands.com&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;ad-experiences&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;spotifyforbrands.com&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;ad-experiences&#x2F;</a><p>&gt; JavaScript or iFrame Tags: All third-party tags and tracking URLs need to be in https format.<p>I was on the fence about this because there is a legitimate need to bring in revenue from free users, but they should stick to audio, video and image ads.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bicubic</author><text>Between the dwindling Netflix catalog and increasingly hostile subscription service experience on Spotify, I have found myself flying the black flag again. I still have subscriptions to both, but I will be cancelling them this year. I don&#x27;t want their shitty analytics payloads, I don&#x27;t want their shitty anti-adblocker tech. I don&#x27;t want their shitty tactics of deleting random songs off my playlists. I just want the content I paid for.<p>It&#x27;s not because I don&#x27;t want to pay for the content, I&#x27;d happily pay 2-3x under the right circumstances. It&#x27;s because no one wants to take my money and provide the content I want without bundling it with drm, ads, dark patterns, insane region segmentation, and manipulative cross-sell tactics.<p>Whatever arguments were made about piracy detracting from sales are laughable now. The copyright and ad lobbies are detracting from those sales, piracy is just a symptom of the cancer that they are.<p>Sonarr + Couchpotato + Plex + Subsonic is somehow a more consumer-friendly experience than their &#x27;legitimate&#x27; counterparts. The fact that the premium subscription cost for those services is more than netflix+spotify, and yet people are willing to pay that much for their piracy, that should be pretty telling to any industry analyst.</text></comment> | <story><title>Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/08/spotify-will-now-suspend-or-terminate-accounts-it-finds-are-using-ad-blockers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dessant</author><text>They allow advertisers to run JS on your device, and ads are a trendy way to deliver malware. People are using ad blockers not just to hide annoyances and to improve performance, but to protect themselves from bad actors.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;spotifyforbrands.com&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;ad-experiences&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;spotifyforbrands.com&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;ad-experiences&#x2F;</a><p>&gt; JavaScript or iFrame Tags: All third-party tags and tracking URLs need to be in https format.<p>I was on the fence about this because there is a legitimate need to bring in revenue from free users, but they should stick to audio, video and image ads.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nathanaldensr</author><text>&quot;<i>We</i> can push anything we want to your device but don&#x27;t you <i>dare</i> try to block it. <i>That&#x27;s</i> a <i>Terms of Service Violation</i>.&quot;<p>Well, it was nice knowing you Spotify.</text></comment> |
19,572,471 | 19,571,927 | 1 | 2 | 19,561,411 | train | <story><title>Apache web server bug grants root access on shared hosting environments</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/apache-web-server-bug-grants-root-access-on-shared-hosting-environments/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>josteink</author><text>&gt; Because on most Unix systems Apache httpd runs under the root user, any threat actor who has planted a malicious CGI script on an Apache server can use CVE-2019-0211 to take over the underlying system running the Apache httpd process, and inherently control the entire machine.<p>Maybe I am conflating things or mixing something up, but I was under the impression that it only used root-privileges to obtain access to restricted ports and immediately afterwords lowered its privileges lever to something sane&#x2F;non-risky.<p>And if that is how it operates, then this exploit should not be effective.<p>Is that wrong? Have I been misled?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SEJeff</author><text>&gt; Because on most Unix systems Apache httpd runs under the root user<p>This hasn&#x27;t been true for what, 10+ years? Apache runs as user www-data on Ubuntu&#x2F;Debian and as user httpd on Redhat &#x2F; SUSE based distributions.<p>You&#x27;re entirely right, but this is a bit of embellishment on the part of the exploit author (even though it is serious!)</text></comment> | <story><title>Apache web server bug grants root access on shared hosting environments</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/apache-web-server-bug-grants-root-access-on-shared-hosting-environments/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>josteink</author><text>&gt; Because on most Unix systems Apache httpd runs under the root user, any threat actor who has planted a malicious CGI script on an Apache server can use CVE-2019-0211 to take over the underlying system running the Apache httpd process, and inherently control the entire machine.<p>Maybe I am conflating things or mixing something up, but I was under the impression that it only used root-privileges to obtain access to restricted ports and immediately afterwords lowered its privileges lever to something sane&#x2F;non-risky.<p>And if that is how it operates, then this exploit should not be effective.<p>Is that wrong? Have I been misled?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrismeller</author><text>The worker processes that actually do all the rendering run as the user and group you’ve configured. The parent continues as root.</text></comment> |
37,274,151 | 37,274,214 | 1 | 2 | 37,273,907 | train | <story><title>Google Maps is a critical dependency for nutrition facts on mcdonalds.com</title><url>https://mastodon.social/@simevidas/110956696765338181</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cf100clunk</author><text>Just a guess, but maybe its because there are different sources of the chicken, by region?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>inhumantsar</author><text>Almost certainly this. Not just chicken but breading ingredients, the oil they fry them in, probably salt content. Maybe sauces too?</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Maps is a critical dependency for nutrition facts on mcdonalds.com</title><url>https://mastodon.social/@simevidas/110956696765338181</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cf100clunk</author><text>Just a guess, but maybe its because there are different sources of the chicken, by region?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jmoak3</author><text>Sounds plausible, also they may use it to decide the units (cals&#x2F;joules) of the viewer</text></comment> |
33,307,193 | 33,307,070 | 1 | 2 | 33,306,168 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Is Anyone Else Tired of the Self Enforced Limits on AI Tech?</title><text>Like the reluctance for the folks working on DALL-E or Stable Diffusion to release their models or technology, or the whole restrictions on what it can be used for on their online services?<p>It makes me wonder when tech folks suddenly decided to become the morality police, and refuse to just release products in case the &#x27;wrong&#x27; people make use of them for the &#x27;wrong&#x27; purposes. Like, would we have even gotten the internet or computers or image editing programs or video hosting or what not with this mindset?<p>So is there anyone working in this field who isn&#x27;t worried about this? Who is willing to just work on a product and release it for the public, restrictions be damned? Someone who thinks tech is best released to the public to do what they like with, not under an ultra restrictiveset of guidelines?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>blfr</author><text></text></item><item><author>kuramitropolis</author><text>Speech can get people to maim and kill, too. Sometimes with surprising efficiency. And when a technology is outlawed, the power that it bestows upon humanity concentrates in the outlaws. For sure, information and communication technology are an interesting edge case of that general principle.</text></item><item><author>catiopatio</author><text>This is paternalistic, overbearing, culturally-corrosive nonsense.<p>Substandard buildings, medical procedures, and cars maim and kill.<p>AI image generation is speech.<p>I won’t accept prior restraint on speech as being necessary or inevitable.</text></item><item><author>WhatsName</author><text>Let&#x27;s be realistic, just like building codes, medical procedures and car manufacturing sooner or later we will also be subject to regulations. The times where hacking culture and tech was left unbothered are over.<p>Twenty years ago we were free to do whatever we want, because it didn&#x27;t matter. Nowadays everyone uses tech as much as they use stairs. You can&#x27;t build stairs without railings though.<p>Keeping the window for abuse small is beneficial to the whole industry. Otherwise bad press will put pressure on politicians to &quot;do something about it&quot; resulting in faster and more excessive regulations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ookdatnog</author><text>If you believe the post-WW2 USA was a free speech paradise with no political persecution, you have some reading to do.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;McCarthyism" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;McCarthyism</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Lavender_scare" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Lavender_scare</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Is Anyone Else Tired of the Self Enforced Limits on AI Tech?</title><text>Like the reluctance for the folks working on DALL-E or Stable Diffusion to release their models or technology, or the whole restrictions on what it can be used for on their online services?<p>It makes me wonder when tech folks suddenly decided to become the morality police, and refuse to just release products in case the &#x27;wrong&#x27; people make use of them for the &#x27;wrong&#x27; purposes. Like, would we have even gotten the internet or computers or image editing programs or video hosting or what not with this mindset?<p>So is there anyone working in this field who isn&#x27;t worried about this? Who is willing to just work on a product and release it for the public, restrictions be damned? Someone who thinks tech is best released to the public to do what they like with, not under an ultra restrictiveset of guidelines?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>blfr</author><text></text></item><item><author>kuramitropolis</author><text>Speech can get people to maim and kill, too. Sometimes with surprising efficiency. And when a technology is outlawed, the power that it bestows upon humanity concentrates in the outlaws. For sure, information and communication technology are an interesting edge case of that general principle.</text></item><item><author>catiopatio</author><text>This is paternalistic, overbearing, culturally-corrosive nonsense.<p>Substandard buildings, medical procedures, and cars maim and kill.<p>AI image generation is speech.<p>I won’t accept prior restraint on speech as being necessary or inevitable.</text></item><item><author>WhatsName</author><text>Let&#x27;s be realistic, just like building codes, medical procedures and car manufacturing sooner or later we will also be subject to regulations. The times where hacking culture and tech was left unbothered are over.<p>Twenty years ago we were free to do whatever we want, because it didn&#x27;t matter. Nowadays everyone uses tech as much as they use stairs. You can&#x27;t build stairs without railings though.<p>Keeping the window for abuse small is beneficial to the whole industry. Otherwise bad press will put pressure on politicians to &quot;do something about it&quot; resulting in faster and more excessive regulations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>albatruss</author><text>The USA threw 100k+ of its own citizens in concentration camps, stripping them of property and leaving them in poverty after the war. Not exactly a shining moment for principles.</text></comment> |
27,055,903 | 27,056,029 | 1 | 2 | 27,045,787 | train | <story><title>The origin of “tweet” at Twitter (2013)</title><url>https://furbo.org/2013/06/28/the-origin-of-tweet/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jonny_eh</author><text>It&#x27;s amazing how much of Twitter wasn&#x27;t created by the company, but by its users. &quot;Tweets&quot;, &quot;hashtags&quot;, &quot;@replies&quot;, all created by users. &quot;Tweet&quot; has since been trademarked by the company. [0]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hg.org&#x2F;legal-articles&#x2F;update-twitter-finally-lands-coveted-tweet-trademark-30458" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hg.org&#x2F;legal-articles&#x2F;update-twitter-finally-lan...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The origin of “tweet” at Twitter (2013)</title><url>https://furbo.org/2013/06/28/the-origin-of-tweet/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>slver</author><text>Looking back at old Twitter rather reminds me how simplicity was its main selling point. No threads, no images, no long tweets, and so on.<p>They&#x27;ve since doubled their length and add bunch of meta information on every post, rendering it basically indistinguishable from any other social network.<p>Twitter today is running on network effects and brand recognition, not core value. That core value is gone.</text></comment> |
3,172,352 | 3,172,205 | 1 | 2 | 3,172,031 | train | <story><title>What's in a name? Freshmeat is now Freecode</title><url>http://freecode.com/articles/whats-in-a-name</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>supar</author><text>Freshmeat used to be a milestone of opensource software for a long time. It offered a good service for developers, including APIs, to publish your software and have it categorized. You hit the frontpage for every version, which would be a very nice publicity boost even for scarcely known applications. If you search through Ubuntu/Debian's repository you can still find a lot of helpers to "release" on freshmeat, which should give you an idea of how much freshmeat was entrenched in FOSS.<p>As an user, freshmeat was great. You could search by category, release type, language, environment, etc. Pretty much everything that was afterwards integrated in the sourceforge "trove" was pioneered by freshmeat. It was my go-to source for software just after an "apt search". Yeah, the look was funky, but who cares? Most of the software was so technical that many simply didn't care.<p>Google would (and still does) return too much crap for pretty much any query regarding software, whereas freshmeat offered immediate insight though filtering, categorization and project statistics. I've found so many gems on freshmeat that I would have never have found in Google (because of the sheer amount of results - mine being always one of the last ones), stackoverflow (field is too narrow) or github (which basically restricts to software developed with git, and is often incomplete).<p>They decided to redesign it a couple of years ago, and while they were at it they decided to throw away anything that was still good about it: search. Of course, the new trend was tag clouds, so you can guess, now projects are now categorized by tags. As such, it's now pretty much impossible to guess the correct tag/tags for a project. It's either a tag with a different spelling or a different word altogether. The tagging process is also too liberal: in the old freshmeat, you were encouraged to categorize your software in several hierarchical groups. As such, many projects would have a proper "programming language" category filled it, a proper "operating environment" (like command line, X11), etc. Searching was a breeze just because you were guided during the categorization.<p>Now it's basically the same as a google search: you either have too many results, or zero. Giving the programmers just a "tags" field to fill it has resulted in the archive having absolutely no consistency.<p>It's a shame, really, because there's a lot of niche software (visualization, scientific tools operating of weird data, a lot of old stuff) that I can still only find on freshmeat.<p>I've been thinking myself of re-implementing the old site simply as a rip-off just to have this archive back. It's sad that all they would think of now is change the name, because that's <i>irrelevant</i> for the highly technical users which used to publish/search on freshmeat.</text></comment> | <story><title>What's in a name? Freshmeat is now Freecode</title><url>http://freecode.com/articles/whats-in-a-name</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sanswork</author><text>I haven't thought of Freshmeat in probably 8 years. Amazing to see that they are still around. Does anyone here actually actively use them anymore? If so how? Back in the day I would use it to watch for new releases of different types of software to try out and experiment with.</text></comment> |
7,676,995 | 7,675,578 | 1 | 3 | 7,674,348 | train | <story><title>JavaScript Promises in Wicked Detail</title><url>http://mattgreer.org/articles/promises-in-wicked-detail/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>exogen</author><text>The situation caused by promises gaining popularity and non-IE browsers refusing to implement setImmediate is really quite ugly. setTimeout&#x27;s minimum value is defined to be 4ms by the HTML5 spec, so if the browser conforms to that and your app makes heavy use of promises (using setTimeout), now you&#x27;re waiting multiple screen refreshes for updates – so you don&#x27;t actually want to use setTimeout. Even though the asynchronous requirement is good for developers using the promise API, it really screwed over implementors.<p>The setImmediate polyfills attempt a bunch of ugly fallbacks, including (depending on which one you use): yield&#x2F;generators, MutationObserver, postMessage&#x2F;MessageChannel, onreadystatechange, and finally setTimeout (the slowest).<p>IMO the browser vendors should just give in and add setImmediate – if ever there was a need for it, this is it. But maybe they consider ES6 features a good enough substitute, I don&#x27;t know.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tav</author><text>Whilst the concept of setImmediate is nice, the current implementation in IE isn&#x27;t properly integrated with the rest of the event loop — resulting in broken behaviour when you use it in combination with setTimeout [1], DOM events, etc.<p>In contrast, using MutationObserver results in correct behaviour on all modern browsers and relatively minimal delays — between 0.002ms and 0.007ms according to an OS X only micro-benchmark I did last month [2].<p>And, yes, it would be great if we could call a builtin instead of hacking on top of MutationObserver, but it isn&#x27;t <i>that</i> ugly:<p><pre><code> if MutationObserver
$div = root.document.createElement &#x27;div&#x27;
observer = new MutationObserver tick
observer.observe $div, attributes: true
scheduleTick = -&gt;
$div.setAttribute &#x27;class&#x27;, &#x27;tick&#x27;
return
else
scheduleTick = -&gt;
setTimeout tick, 0
return
</code></pre>
In conclusion, I agree that a feature like setImmediate would be great. But given IE&#x27;s broken implementation and a viable workaround in modern browsers, I see no need to rush it. I&#x27;d rather they focused on: new features like Object.observe; improving the performance of old features like Object.seal; and finalising some of the ES7 ideas like exposing the event loop!<p>[1] <a href="http://codeforhire.com/2013/09/21/setimmediate-and-messagechannel-broken-on-internet-explorer-10/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;codeforhire.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;09&#x2F;21&#x2F;setimmediate-and-messagech...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://gist.github.com/tav/9719011" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;tav&#x2F;9719011</a></text></comment> | <story><title>JavaScript Promises in Wicked Detail</title><url>http://mattgreer.org/articles/promises-in-wicked-detail/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>exogen</author><text>The situation caused by promises gaining popularity and non-IE browsers refusing to implement setImmediate is really quite ugly. setTimeout&#x27;s minimum value is defined to be 4ms by the HTML5 spec, so if the browser conforms to that and your app makes heavy use of promises (using setTimeout), now you&#x27;re waiting multiple screen refreshes for updates – so you don&#x27;t actually want to use setTimeout. Even though the asynchronous requirement is good for developers using the promise API, it really screwed over implementors.<p>The setImmediate polyfills attempt a bunch of ugly fallbacks, including (depending on which one you use): yield&#x2F;generators, MutationObserver, postMessage&#x2F;MessageChannel, onreadystatechange, and finally setTimeout (the slowest).<p>IMO the browser vendors should just give in and add setImmediate – if ever there was a need for it, this is it. But maybe they consider ES6 features a good enough substitute, I don&#x27;t know.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pornel</author><text>&gt; IMO the browser vendors should just give in and add setImmediate<p>Firefox has just shipped native promises, and you can use them to polyfill setImmediate instead ;)<p><a href="http://kangax.github.io/es5-compat-table/es6/#Promise" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;kangax.github.io&#x2F;es5-compat-table&#x2F;es6&#x2F;#Promise</a></text></comment> |
17,032,535 | 17,032,663 | 1 | 2 | 17,030,801 | train | <story><title>Build a Focus System for Better Work/Life Balance as a Web Developer</title><url>https://raddevon.com/articles/focus-for-better-work-life-balance-as-a-web-developer/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eckza</author><text>I feel like while all of these productivity &quot;hacks&quot; and systems (like Pomodoro) may have some merit, they&#x27;re completely unnecessary.<p>It&#x27;s really not too hard to:<p>* Work.<p>* If you lose focus, be mindful of the fact that your attention is wandering, and focus on your work again. This part takes some discipline. Discipline takes time to develop. Be patient.<p>* If you feel that you cannot focus on your work, get up and walk around. Go to the bathroom. Step outside for a moment. Take yourself out of the work, then return to your desk and immediately dive back in.<p>* Accept that you&#x27;re a human - not a robot; that 100% efficiency is unattainable; and that it&#x27;s a waste of your only life to try to attain 8 hours of productive work in an 8 hour day.<p>I don&#x27;t need a timer. I don&#x27;t need to develop Pavlovian responses to a mysterious ticking noise. I don&#x27;t want the overhead of &quot;productivity management applications&quot;. I just want to put my hands to work, until the work&#x27;s done, and then do the next thing.<p>[edit:formatting]</text></comment> | <story><title>Build a Focus System for Better Work/Life Balance as a Web Developer</title><url>https://raddevon.com/articles/focus-for-better-work-life-balance-as-a-web-developer/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Moru</author><text>I&#x27;m curious how work and breaks are set up in other countries. In Sweden we have a long tradition of 2 hour work, short coffee break, 2 hour work. Lunchbreak 30-60 minutes, repeat.<p>The long break has to be latest after five hours and is not counted towards working time. You are allowed to leave the workplace.<p>The shorter breaks <i>is</i> included in your work time but has no forced length other than it has to be adapted to the workplace and rythm. It can also be 5 minutes every hour. Up to the company. The longer break is supposed to be minimum 30 minutes but I don&#x27;t think that is in the law. Unions usually recommend 60 minutes.<p>Taking a coffee break is almost mandatory, even the boss will look funny at you if you skip it. This is where you talk about the day, plans ahead and other things connected to work or life in general. While of course drinking that all important coffee which is also almost mandatory. This is where most youth learn to drink coffee, at their first job. Most likely learn how to cook it too :-)</text></comment> |
39,817,661 | 39,817,634 | 1 | 3 | 39,817,340 | train | <story><title>EU rejects Apple's changes: Company could be fined 10% of global turnover</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/25/app-store-proposals-rejected/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iSnow</author><text>Don&#x27;t understand Apple here. This was a clear cut case of malicious compliance, what did they expect? That they just get away with it? Of course the EU would see the provocation and will take the opportunity.<p>Yes, they might gain a couple years till this is settled, but they can&#x27;t use the time to crush a competing app store in between, as there is currently none. I am sure I am dumb, but IMO the smart move would have been to work with the law and a couple of years down the road point out that alternative app stores never caught on (which is very likely, IMO)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bevekspldnw</author><text>Apple has never been big enough to deal with competition authorities. They lack the institutional expertise and mindset for their present circumstances.<p>They will continue to fail until the penalties are unbearable.</text></comment> | <story><title>EU rejects Apple's changes: Company could be fined 10% of global turnover</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/25/app-store-proposals-rejected/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iSnow</author><text>Don&#x27;t understand Apple here. This was a clear cut case of malicious compliance, what did they expect? That they just get away with it? Of course the EU would see the provocation and will take the opportunity.<p>Yes, they might gain a couple years till this is settled, but they can&#x27;t use the time to crush a competing app store in between, as there is currently none. I am sure I am dumb, but IMO the smart move would have been to work with the law and a couple of years down the road point out that alternative app stores never caught on (which is very likely, IMO)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aaomidi</author><text>The EU has said they’re going to fast track the enforcement of these. Apple lawyers, simply, fucked up.<p>They lost so much good will with developers over this, have lost any goodwill with negotiations with EU, and are now going to have to speedrun compliance.<p>I’ve dealt with lawyers like this before in various company situations. They are sometimes really, really stupid. Not always, but it happened often enough to be terrifying.</text></comment> |
14,726,129 | 14,725,085 | 1 | 3 | 14,722,130 | train | <story><title>How Nature Solves Problems Through Computation</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-nature-solves-problems-through-computation-20170706/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>unabst</author><text>&quot;Individual&quot; and &quot;single human being&quot; are abstractions. So are &quot;cells&quot; and &quot;skin&quot; and everything else. If you remove abstraction, you remove language, but an undivided landscape of activity of nature remains. Language is just a layer and for our convenience.<p>But where ever there is communication, abstractions are required to compose a coherent and persistent message. So DNA and proteins and even subatomic particles that entangle can be considered to be tapping into natures capacity to abstract, and to compute those abstractions.<p>And if you consider nothing exists in a void, and the innate connected-ness of an undivided and unabstracted universe as a whole, everything is coming and going; everything is itself a message and the subject of computation; and nature is engaged in a never ending conversation with none other than itself. If it&#x27;s messages can be any size, and last however long, then you and I too are just one of its many messages.<p>(pardon the philosophy... stuck doing mundane work at midnight on a Friday... I had to write something)</text></item><item><author>komali2</author><text>I absolutely love this way of thinking. We assume that an &quot;individual&quot; is a single human being, because it&#x27;s convenient and I guess because that&#x27;s how our sentience works. But realistically, the body itself is an extraordinarily complicated mass of &quot;human&quot; cells often at odds (see a cake, one part of the brain say &quot;eat it,&quot; another says &quot;dude no you&#x27;ll get fat&quot;), and thats without considering the masses of &quot;non-human&quot; entities, such as gut bacteria, skin bacteria, etc.<p>And then we can go macro - a tribe can subdivide into gatherers, warriors, and crafters. A city can specialize further. A country even further. Imagine how different the life experience would be if humans existed as single entities alone in endless fields.<p>Then it gets even more fun to consider interactions with other lifeforms - dogs, plants, cows.<p>Man, what a cool field of research. I&#x27;m glad to hear people are studying this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>21</author><text>Quote from an article along the lines:<p>&gt; However, in broad brush, we might say this: You’re a pattern in spacetime. A mathematical pattern. Specifically, you’re a braid in spacetime—indeed, one of the most elaborate braids known.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nautil.us&#x2F;issue&#x2F;9&#x2F;time&#x2F;life-is-a-braid-in-spacetime" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nautil.us&#x2F;issue&#x2F;9&#x2F;time&#x2F;life-is-a-braid-in-spacetime</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10323222" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10323222</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How Nature Solves Problems Through Computation</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-nature-solves-problems-through-computation-20170706/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>unabst</author><text>&quot;Individual&quot; and &quot;single human being&quot; are abstractions. So are &quot;cells&quot; and &quot;skin&quot; and everything else. If you remove abstraction, you remove language, but an undivided landscape of activity of nature remains. Language is just a layer and for our convenience.<p>But where ever there is communication, abstractions are required to compose a coherent and persistent message. So DNA and proteins and even subatomic particles that entangle can be considered to be tapping into natures capacity to abstract, and to compute those abstractions.<p>And if you consider nothing exists in a void, and the innate connected-ness of an undivided and unabstracted universe as a whole, everything is coming and going; everything is itself a message and the subject of computation; and nature is engaged in a never ending conversation with none other than itself. If it&#x27;s messages can be any size, and last however long, then you and I too are just one of its many messages.<p>(pardon the philosophy... stuck doing mundane work at midnight on a Friday... I had to write something)</text></item><item><author>komali2</author><text>I absolutely love this way of thinking. We assume that an &quot;individual&quot; is a single human being, because it&#x27;s convenient and I guess because that&#x27;s how our sentience works. But realistically, the body itself is an extraordinarily complicated mass of &quot;human&quot; cells often at odds (see a cake, one part of the brain say &quot;eat it,&quot; another says &quot;dude no you&#x27;ll get fat&quot;), and thats without considering the masses of &quot;non-human&quot; entities, such as gut bacteria, skin bacteria, etc.<p>And then we can go macro - a tribe can subdivide into gatherers, warriors, and crafters. A city can specialize further. A country even further. Imagine how different the life experience would be if humans existed as single entities alone in endless fields.<p>Then it gets even more fun to consider interactions with other lifeforms - dogs, plants, cows.<p>Man, what a cool field of research. I&#x27;m glad to hear people are studying this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ldd</author><text>Look into pantheism if you ever have the time.</text></comment> |
39,370,690 | 39,370,743 | 1 | 3 | 39,368,776 | train | <story><title>Grade inflation at UC Riverside, and institutional pressures for easier grading</title><url>http://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2024/02/grade-inflation-at-uc-riverside-and.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bradley13</author><text>Prof here. Grading is not &quot;stack ranking&quot;. when I give out a grade to a student, I don&#x27;t care how the other students did. I would happily give out nothing but A&#x27;s (those would be 6&#x27;s here), if all students deserved them. On the other hand, I have taught classes where 3&#x2F;4 of the students failed, because they deserved to.<p>Giving out unjustifiably high grades devalues them. Why should a top student apply themselves, if everyone is going to get an &#x27;A&#x27;? A student putting in low effort needs to get a wake-up call by failing exams or assignments.<p>Grades tell the school how a student is doing, and may serve as a basis for admission to particular courses or projects. Grades tell the student how they are doing, and where they need to invest more effort. Grades inform potential employers where a student&#x27;s strengths and weaknesses are.<p>Ok, stepping back: one possible reason for undeserved high grades can be found in the school administration. Students who fail too many courses must leave the school, and that costs the school money. Administrators tend to think of this year&#x27;s finances, and don&#x27;t care a whole lot about long-term reputation. Professors and instructors have to push back, have to insist on maintaining a level of quality. No one wants to teach for a diploma mill.</text></comment> | <story><title>Grade inflation at UC Riverside, and institutional pressures for easier grading</title><url>http://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2024/02/grade-inflation-at-uc-riverside-and.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>SamuelAdams</author><text>This comes from a few recent changes in college admissions. Less students are enrolling in college, and this trend will likely continue for the next 10 years. Part of this is due to there being less people 15-18 years old compared to previous years, so colleges need to be more competitive to retain the same number of students. The other part is rising costs of colleges, to the point where many who would normally consider it are pausing and asking if it is worth it.<p>In a normally competitive college market, students are pressured to do well academically. If they do not, they receive low grades, then get put on academic probation, then get dismissed from the college and are replaced by a more academically capable student.<p>For top level schools (MIT, Berkeley, etc), there will always be more students. But for state level universities and community colleges, there is not always another student to take their place due to factors above.<p>So, grade inflation seems like a natural solution to the immediate number of enrolled students problem, however the long-term tradeoff is that it devalues the institution&#x27;s image by not holding new graduates to the same standard that graduates 5-10 years ago were held to.<p>You see this all the time in FinTech - some firms only hire from Stanford, Yale, etc because those colleges are great at creating students with a certain baseline standard of education. The amount of time it takes to ramp up students from those universities compared to others is significantly less.<p>So in general, grade inflation is a short-term fix that might have long term consequences.</text></comment> |
35,936,770 | 35,936,778 | 1 | 2 | 35,936,463 | train | <story><title>Successful Lisp: How to Understand and Use Common Lisp (1999)</title><url>https://dept-info.labri.fr/~strandh/Teaching/MTP/Common/David-Lamkins/cover.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>susam</author><text>Seems like a nice book. I like that it gets into the fundamental stuff like setq, cond, let, list, cons, etc. quickly enough in the 3rd chapter. In my opinion, the sooner these concepts are introduced in a book, the better.<p>I have found, at least from my own experience, that a programming language is best learnt by a mix of diving straight into it and writing small software that you care about with it and then supplementing that experience with the study of existing literature.<p>When I began learning computer programming two decades ago, it was pretty much necessary to buy a good book and read as much of the book as possible chapter by chapter. For example, the first programming language book that I read was K&amp;R and I read that cover to cover. It was quite formative in my journey of learning to program the computer. It took me a long time to start writing useful software but when I did, I had a pretty thorough knowledge of C.<p>I have come to realise that these days, it is not uncommon for aspiring programmers to jump straight into developing software with a programming language determined by requirements. Not everyone has the time to read a book cover to cover. In fact, I myself learnt Python by jumping straight into developing tools that I needed for myself with it and then followed the official Python tutorial. My Common Lisp story was different. I began learning CL directly by browsing the Common Lisp Hyperspec (CLHS). It is not an approach you would find anyone recommending, and for good reasons.<p>If someone wants to get started with quickly developing tools using Common Lisp, I would suggest bookmarking <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lispcookbook.github.io&#x2F;cl-cookbook&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lispcookbook.github.io&#x2F;cl-cookbook&#x2F;</a> which is a great resource to look up common recipes for common tasks. Special thanks to @vindarel for maintaining the Lisp Cookbook. Don’t let the parentheses scare you. With proper tooling, they are no more distracting than, say, braces in other languages.</text></comment> | <story><title>Successful Lisp: How to Understand and Use Common Lisp (1999)</title><url>https://dept-info.labri.fr/~strandh/Teaching/MTP/Common/David-Lamkins/cover.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vindarel</author><text>It&#x27;s a good book!<p>Modern companions would be:<p>- the Cookbook: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lispcookbook.github.io&#x2F;cl-cookbook&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lispcookbook.github.io&#x2F;cl-cookbook&#x2F;</a> (check out the editors section: Atom&#x2F;Pulsar, VSCode, Sublime, Jetbrains, Lem...)<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;CodyReichert&#x2F;awesome-cl">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;CodyReichert&#x2F;awesome-cl</a> to find libraries<p>Also:<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stevelosh.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2018&#x2F;08&#x2F;a-road-to-common-lisp&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stevelosh.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2018&#x2F;08&#x2F;a-road-to-common-lisp&#x2F;</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34321090" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34321090</a> 2022 in review</text></comment> |
16,937,927 | 16,936,888 | 1 | 2 | 16,935,588 | train | <story><title>How Dyson Saw Feynman</title><url>http://nautil.us/issue/59/connections/another-side-of-feynman</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tzs</author><text>&gt; On the Sunday Feynman was up at his usual hour (nine a.m.), and we went down to the physics building, where he gave me another two-hour lecture of miscellaneous discoveries of his. One of these was a deduction of Maxwell’s equations of the electromagnetic field from the basic principles of quantum theory, a thing which baffles everybody including Feynman, because it ought not to be possible.<p>Physics stackexchange discussion of this [1].<p>That includes a link to a 2001 paper, &quot;Feynman&#x27;s derivation of Maxwell equations and extra dimensions&quot; [2].<p>Here&#x27;s a paper Dyson wrote about it in 1989 [3].<p>That was discussed here on HN [4].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;physics.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;391744&#x2F;does-feynmans-derivation-of-maxwells-equations-have-a-physical-interpretation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;physics.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;391744&#x2F;does-feyn...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;hep-ph&#x2F;0106235" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;hep-ph&#x2F;0106235</a><p>[3] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fermatslibrary.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;feynmans-proof-of-the-maxwell-equations" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fermatslibrary.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;feynmans-proof-of-the-maxwell-eq...</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11067435" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11067435</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How Dyson Saw Feynman</title><url>http://nautil.us/issue/59/connections/another-side-of-feynman</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tempestn</author><text>&gt; In the evening I mentioned that there were just two problems for which the finiteness of the theory remained to be established; both problems are well-known and feared by physicists, since many long and difficult papers running to fifty pages and more have been written about them, trying unsuccessfully to make the older theories give sensible answers to them. When I mentioned this fact, Feynman said, “We’ll see about this,” and proceeded to sit down and in two hours, before our eyes, obtain finite and sensible answers to both problems. It was the most amazing piece of lightning calculation I have ever witnessed, and the results prove, apart from some unforeseen complication, the consistency of the whole theory. The two problems were the scattering of light by an electric field, and the scattering of light by light.</text></comment> |
19,167,134 | 19,165,779 | 1 | 3 | 19,163,522 | train | <story><title>Better Language Models and Their Implications</title><url>https://blog.openai.com/better-language-models/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cs702</author><text>This kind of &quot;blocking-and-tackling&quot; work is important.<p>The authors take a well-known architecture, the Transformer[a], configure it with a progressively larger number of parameter, train it to predict the next word conditioned on previous text, using a large dataset consisting of 40GB of text scraped from the Web, and test each trained model on a range of zero-shot transfer-learning tasks.<p>Remarkably, the performance of a Transformer in the tested tasks improves <i>log-linearly</i> with the number of parameters, suggesting that even the largest model tested, with 1.5B parameters, still <i>underfits</i> 40GB of text.<p>This is <i>compelling evidence</i> that we do NOT need new architectures, NOR new kinds of training objectives, NOR new theories, for better language modeling! We can get better language modeling simply by increasing model capacity (i.e., by adding more parameters to existing models), which becomes easier and simpler to do as hardware continues to improve over time.<p>Great work.<p>PS. In case it&#x27;s not clear: I&#x27;m not saying we should suddenly stop searching for new, better ideas and architectures. That would be silly. Please don&#x27;t attack a straw-man :-)<p>[a] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1706.03762" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1706.03762</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ninjin</author><text>&gt; …we do NOT need new architectures…<p>You do realise the irony in stating this regarding transformers that arguably made their first appearance as decomposable attention in 2016 [1] and then as transformers in 2017 [2]? It is not as if this is a vanilla RNN straight out of the 90s sweeping the floor with decades of model innovations, rather it looks like we are seeing the rise of a new, simple model category that works remarkably well – akin to how Mikolov et al. reconsidered how to learn vector representations back in 2013 [3] to ingest magnitudes more data than previously possible.<p>[1]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aclweb.org&#x2F;anthology&#x2F;D&#x2F;D16&#x2F;D16-1244.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aclweb.org&#x2F;anthology&#x2F;D&#x2F;D16&#x2F;D16-1244.pdf</a><p>[2]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;papers.nips.cc&#x2F;paper&#x2F;7181-attention-is-all-you-need" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;papers.nips.cc&#x2F;paper&#x2F;7181-attention-is-all-you-need</a><p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1301.3781" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1301.3781</a><p>I would not call myself a model-focused researcher so I would love to play down their importance, but to be intellectually honest one should call out hyperbole where ever one sees it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Better Language Models and Their Implications</title><url>https://blog.openai.com/better-language-models/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cs702</author><text>This kind of &quot;blocking-and-tackling&quot; work is important.<p>The authors take a well-known architecture, the Transformer[a], configure it with a progressively larger number of parameter, train it to predict the next word conditioned on previous text, using a large dataset consisting of 40GB of text scraped from the Web, and test each trained model on a range of zero-shot transfer-learning tasks.<p>Remarkably, the performance of a Transformer in the tested tasks improves <i>log-linearly</i> with the number of parameters, suggesting that even the largest model tested, with 1.5B parameters, still <i>underfits</i> 40GB of text.<p>This is <i>compelling evidence</i> that we do NOT need new architectures, NOR new kinds of training objectives, NOR new theories, for better language modeling! We can get better language modeling simply by increasing model capacity (i.e., by adding more parameters to existing models), which becomes easier and simpler to do as hardware continues to improve over time.<p>Great work.<p>PS. In case it&#x27;s not clear: I&#x27;m not saying we should suddenly stop searching for new, better ideas and architectures. That would be silly. Please don&#x27;t attack a straw-man :-)<p>[a] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1706.03762" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1706.03762</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rosstaylor90</author><text>I think your conclusion is too strong. Yes, we know bigger models and data generally lead to better performance (e.g. BigGAN results last year) but progress in architecture can still speed up progress in ML tasks. If we were still stuck using RNNs and LSTMs for language modeling we wouldn&#x27;t be talking about this news today.</text></comment> |
1,118,511 | 1,118,448 | 1 | 2 | 1,118,248 | train | <story><title>The Problem With Google Buzz Is That It Solves Google’s Problem At Your Expense</title><url>http://mixergy.com/the-problem-with-google-buzz-is-that-it-solves-googles-problem-at-your-expense/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>caryme</author><text>To me, possibly the single best thing about Twitter is that it is missable and ignorable. If ignore my RSS reader for a while and come back, I'm overwhelmed by the number of unread posts and feel the need to catch up.<p>At Twitter (and Facebook for that matter) on the other hand, I can just pick up at the top of the stream. No bold number is telling me "you haven't read this!" I can simply ignore the tweets I missed, and pick up at the present.<p>Google adding this bold unread buzz number is already making me feel like I can get behind. And this right next to my inbox unread email count - something that I actually do need to keep in check.<p>I don't need social media adding unread anxiety.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Problem With Google Buzz Is That It Solves Google’s Problem At Your Expense</title><url>http://mixergy.com/the-problem-with-google-buzz-is-that-it-solves-googles-problem-at-your-expense/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rauljara</author><text>I think one of the reasons Buzz has garnered so much back lash is because it really feels like this sudden intrusion. The other social sites bring at least as much noise, but you have to go and sign up for them. Once you are signed up for them, you have to grow your network over time, at a pace you can control. With Buzz, all you have to do is click "Okay" (which a lot of people do without even realizing), and suddenly you are hit with dozens of connections, and a lot of noise you had no idea you were asking for by clicking "okay". A lot of people who are annoyed now might have been fine with it if they had entered into it in a more organic fashion. I think it does promise to be a really convenient service. But the sheer suddenness and ubiquitousness of it almost guarantees a backlash.</text></comment> |
24,365,838 | 24,364,677 | 1 | 2 | 24,363,979 | train | <story><title>Threema Goes Open Source</title><url>https://threema.ch/en/blog/posts/open-source-and-new-partner</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tweetle_beetle</author><text>Out of curiosity what does Threema do that Element[1] (née Riot.im) doesn&#x27;t? It seems to tick those boxes, but admittedly is still in quite active development and may not be as polished.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;element.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;element.io&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>est31</author><text>This is really big news. I use Threema because it is the only messenger out there that is:<p>a) always end to end encrypted (unlike Telegram)<p>b) supports account creation without any phone number (unlike Signal)<p>c) supports phones without google messaging service (unlike Signal, it formally supports it as well but in reality it&#x27;s just a big battery drain)<p>It not being open source was always a bit sad for me, because most of the other apps on my phone are open source.<p>I&#x27;m curious about the multi device sync. I hope that it will be implemented in a way that doesn&#x27;t use passwords but pair syncing. This is bad from a usability perspective (firefox abandoned it because of usability), but the only way I&#x27;m aware of how syncing can be made secure.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Arathorn</author><text>It&#x27;s more a question of &quot;what does does Element do that Threema doesn&#x27;t&quot;?<p>Element is a Matrix client, so you connect to the global open Matrix decentralised network, rather than just closed-source servers run by a (newly-sold) company like Threema. Typical Matrix implementations are entirely Apache licensed open source, so you get full control and visibility both clientside and serverside. Matrix also already provides synchronised multi-device conversations, as well as more advanced cross-signing verification for E2EE key validation than Threema. Finally, Matrix is an open standard protocol maintained by the non-profit Matrix.org Foundation, that anyone can contribute to via the open governance process (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;matrix.org&#x2F;foundation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;matrix.org&#x2F;foundation</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;matrix.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;spec&#x2F;proposals" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;matrix.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;spec&#x2F;proposals</a> etc) - the Matrix standard gives developers full freedom to write their own clients&#x2F;servers&#x2F;bots&#x2F;bridges&#x2F;whatever.<p>Personally I&#x27;d say that Element &amp; Threema have similar levels of UX polish these days (but I&#x27;m biased, working on Element). It&#x27;s perhaps true that Threema&#x27;s relatively limited featureset means that polish is easier to achieve.</text></comment> | <story><title>Threema Goes Open Source</title><url>https://threema.ch/en/blog/posts/open-source-and-new-partner</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tweetle_beetle</author><text>Out of curiosity what does Threema do that Element[1] (née Riot.im) doesn&#x27;t? It seems to tick those boxes, but admittedly is still in quite active development and may not be as polished.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;element.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;element.io&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>est31</author><text>This is really big news. I use Threema because it is the only messenger out there that is:<p>a) always end to end encrypted (unlike Telegram)<p>b) supports account creation without any phone number (unlike Signal)<p>c) supports phones without google messaging service (unlike Signal, it formally supports it as well but in reality it&#x27;s just a big battery drain)<p>It not being open source was always a bit sad for me, because most of the other apps on my phone are open source.<p>I&#x27;m curious about the multi device sync. I hope that it will be implemented in a way that doesn&#x27;t use passwords but pair syncing. This is bad from a usability perspective (firefox abandoned it because of usability), but the only way I&#x27;m aware of how syncing can be made secure.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qbonnard</author><text>I kinda forced a friend of mine into using element&#x2F;riot. He mostly complained about the lack of &quot;polish&quot; (which I also feel, and I&#x27;m a rather &quot;frugal&quot; user). He proposed Threema as an alternative, so I guess that the polish is quite the missing box.<p>The box I&#x27;m missing in Threema (unless I&#x27;m wrong of course) is the &quot;not centralized&quot; one. If for some reason (and admittedly, there aren&#x27;t many realistic ones), Threema&#x27;s servers&#x2F;organisation are corrupted, the whole networks falls, right?</text></comment> |
14,008,800 | 14,007,208 | 1 | 2 | 14,006,059 | train | <story><title>Wikileaks releases CIA's Marble: Malware obfuscation tools</title><url>https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_14588467.html?marble=1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>asimpletune</author><text>How about instead of talking about whether Wikileaks is good or bad or whether you support them or not, let&#x27;s talk about the content of the post.<p>From what I&#x27;ve read so far, this is pretty freaking cool. It&#x27;s super interesting to read these docs and see their thought process involved, especially since the product their building is so different from what people are making on a day to day business. It actually looks pretty fun to work on. Also, I think it&#x27;s neat to read about their need for developing frameworks that can be used around the agency to accomplish stuff.<p>Unfortunately, I didn&#x27;t ready anything about self modifying code, which is probably the most difficult malware to detect and probably to write. Maybe it&#x27;s in there though, I didn&#x27;t read the whole document. I came to the comments about half way through to see dozens of people talking about whether they support Wikileaks or not which I think is fine, free country, but I&#x27;d like to actually know what some people who work with this kind of stuff think.<p>A framework for compiling to self modifying, yet correct, code wiukd be super cool. I wonder if it always has to be written by hand? Probably not but maybe that&#x27;s a separate tool Wikileaks has yet to release.</text></comment> | <story><title>Wikileaks releases CIA's Marble: Malware obfuscation tools</title><url>https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_14588467.html?marble=1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>azinman2</author><text>I&#x27;ve really turned on Wikileaks. Itd be one thing if all the major powers had equivalent leaks publishing, but focusing on the US basically serves Chinese and Russian interests far more than it does the citizens of the US. String obfuscation isn&#x27;t stemming from some corrupt deal that needs sunlight... this is just doing a disservice to their original mission.</text></comment> |
10,334,262 | 10,334,256 | 1 | 2 | 10,334,001 | train | <story><title>Elon Musk needs a vacation</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2015/09/29/elon-musk-needs-a-vacation/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sharkweek</author><text>Friend worked at one of the US&#x27;s biggest law firms clerking for a few years. He was there during one of the largest patent suits of all time, so they were billing an insane amount of hours (he was easily putting in 100 hour weeks the six months leading up to the trial).<p>Anyways, case settles weeks before trial was supposed to start. Law firm gives everyone in the office a free two weeks off to unwind from such a massive stretch of work.<p>He enjoyed the time off, with only one minor detour to the office for like 2-3 hours one day during the time off and almost everyone above him was there working. He asked his boss what was up and the guy basically said he had nothing better to do so he just decided to work during that stretch.<p>I love working hard, I love being productive, but I really hope I&#x27;m never at a point in my life where I can&#x27;t take two weeks off to enjoy doing something other than work. Of course I&#x27;m not inventing electric cars and space rockets, so there&#x27;s that.</text></comment> | <story><title>Elon Musk needs a vacation</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2015/09/29/elon-musk-needs-a-vacation/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sandworm101</author><text>When work is a choice, it isn&#x27;t really work. This guy can take a vacation whenever he likes. He doesn&#x27;t have a boss that will fire him. He doesn&#x27;t have to worry about making rent each month. His concept of &quot;taking a vacation&quot; is very different then mine, yours, or most anyone else who isn&#x27;t a billionaire.<p>If Elon Musk is stressed, he has the option of separating himself from that stress. He works because he wants to work. Employees suffer stress from which they cannot separate themselves without, in short order, creating new stresses. Elon will not be homeless next month if he stops going to work today. A psychologist might say that his stress is therefore a product of his ego, his daily choices, rather than of his environment. It is internal to his personality. That&#x27;s probably why he finds it so hard to separate.</text></comment> |
20,951,627 | 20,950,667 | 1 | 2 | 20,950,468 | train | <story><title>Summer heat killed nearly 1,500 in France, officials say</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49628275</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zadkey</author><text>I live in Texas. The heat wave that France is experienced this summer is like maybe 1 or 2 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than a normal summer for us.<p>Preparedness for summer is deeply ingrained in everyone&#x27;s minds here. Many Apartment complexes treat issues with AC units as emergency situations, reach out to on-call handymen and give high priority to their fix.<p>In the city of Dallas, city code requires that property owners provide refrigerated air to tenants from April 1 to Nov. 1.<p>&quot;According to state law, landlords must fix any condition that threatens a tenant&#x27;s health or safety. In Texas, that condition can include a sweltering day in a stuffy apartment with no air conditioning.&quot;<p>It is my hope that people in France look for ways to prepare and better safeguard the health and well-being of their citizens against the heat.<p>Some information taken from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dallasnews.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;investigations&#x2F;2009&#x2F;10&#x2F;07&#x2F;dmn-problem-solver-renters-have-options-when-the-air-conditioner-doesn-t-get-fixed&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dallasnews.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;investigations&#x2F;2009&#x2F;10&#x2F;07&#x2F;dm...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Summer heat killed nearly 1,500 in France, officials say</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49628275</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tlb</author><text>There&#x27;s a big penumbra of people who were sort-of killed by heat. For example, I was biking through Europe this August during the heat wave, and one of our group suffered a heart attack. He&#x27;ll recover, but the paramedics told us that they&#x27;d responded to two fatal motorcycle accidents that day, probably caused by the riders getting heatstroke and losing control.<p>When you include cases like that, and you should if you&#x27;re trying to figure out how important it is to avoid global heating, the death toll goes way up.</text></comment> |
28,043,524 | 28,043,500 | 1 | 2 | 28,038,603 | train | <story><title>Life before smartphones (2020)</title><url>https://mattruby.substack.com/p/the-most-unbelievable-things-about</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oceanghost</author><text>I wanted to say this. I hate how small the world has become and how we&#x27;re supposed to be &quot;reachable&quot; all the time.<p>Some of my friends will freak out if I don&#x27;t text back in as little as 5 minutes. A particular needy friend once tried to get me to &quot;promise&quot; that I would always return her texts within 10 minutes.<p>I said &quot;hard no&quot; explaining that it meant that it meant that I could never watch a movie uninterrupted, read a book, take a nap, etc. Also, Driving. I don&#x27;t answer texts while I&#x27;m driving because I <i>literally</i> got in an accident texting (it was a freak circumstance, but these things do happen).<p>I have purposefully started training my friends by being erratic with my texts&#x2F;messages&#x2F;e-mails.<p>I have another friend who always calls on his commute home and gets offended when I don&#x27;t answer. The idea alone that someone is obligated to answer the phone is insane. What if I don&#x27;t want to spend an hour shooting the shit with you because I&#x27;m doing something else?<p>I miss the days when I could just walk away from contact.</text></item><item><author>rapnie</author><text>And he doesn&#x27;t even mention that you could just be outside, and be unreachable and not able to reach other people too.<p>As a kid I used to play outside a lot, and my mother had no clue where I was, nor could she easily find out. I could be outside all day without her worrying that I&#x27;d be abducted or involved in an accident.<p>Now that all has <i>completely</i> changed, and my mother has too. Some years ago when I walked into the hallway of my house I coincidentally noticed a lot of people in front of my door. So I opened it, and it was the police that was about to bust the door with a battering ram. As it happened I hadn&#x27;t answered my phone in a couple of hours. After multiple calls unanswered, my mom had called 911 on me. And my doorbell was broken, police didn&#x27;t even knock.. they wanted the action, probably.<p>I was just freaking programming with the deep-work-destroying phone thingy on silence (where it should be most of the time, imho).</text></item><item><author>krylon</author><text>Now I feel old. I remember vividly running around with my first camera, looking for objects worthy of being photographed. The film cost money, so did developing it into pictures. I really had to weigh the pros and cons of taking a particular picture. And in a class of ~25 kids, I was one of three who owned a camera. Not that it was such a luxury item, but most people weren&#x27;t into that.<p>These days, (nearly) everyone carries a camera around all the time, and one that is quite probably much better than the one I had in 1992. They can take dozens, even hundreds of pictures without breaking a sweat, and it does not cost anything.<p>Nostalgia is a very warped mirror. Back then, I did not miss the ability to take dozens of pictures at no cost, because the option did not exist. Was it better? Worse? Neither, I think. But this is the first time I feel old and appreciate it for the history I have lived through. Getting old is weird, but it sure is interesting. (For reference, I&#x27;m 40. &quot;That&#x27;s not <i>old</i>&quot;, I hear someone say, but I have never been this old before, so for me it&#x27;s all new.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hughrr</author><text>My ex wife was like that. One reason she&#x27;s an ex wife. I lost a job due to her once because she phoned the office after I didn&#x27;t respond to an SMS while I was in a very tough meeting with a client.<p>I now have my phone on do not disturb 24&#x2F;7. I will choose when I participate in messaging. I also disable iMessage on my Mac. If someone comes up to me and talks to me, I may not even respond immediately.<p>I took this to extremes and a couple of weekends back I actually went for a day long solo hike with zero technology with me at all past a torch, map, compass and alcohol stove. I didn&#x27;t even have any way of telling the time with me. It was invigorating with the obligation to communicate and steal my attention removed. What was most surprising was the removal of a camera and watch. Rather than being focused on recording my journey and keeping to a schedule I was focused on enjoying it. This has led to considerably more vivid memories and a much higher level of satisfaction. A trip I will always remember.</text></comment> | <story><title>Life before smartphones (2020)</title><url>https://mattruby.substack.com/p/the-most-unbelievable-things-about</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oceanghost</author><text>I wanted to say this. I hate how small the world has become and how we&#x27;re supposed to be &quot;reachable&quot; all the time.<p>Some of my friends will freak out if I don&#x27;t text back in as little as 5 minutes. A particular needy friend once tried to get me to &quot;promise&quot; that I would always return her texts within 10 minutes.<p>I said &quot;hard no&quot; explaining that it meant that it meant that I could never watch a movie uninterrupted, read a book, take a nap, etc. Also, Driving. I don&#x27;t answer texts while I&#x27;m driving because I <i>literally</i> got in an accident texting (it was a freak circumstance, but these things do happen).<p>I have purposefully started training my friends by being erratic with my texts&#x2F;messages&#x2F;e-mails.<p>I have another friend who always calls on his commute home and gets offended when I don&#x27;t answer. The idea alone that someone is obligated to answer the phone is insane. What if I don&#x27;t want to spend an hour shooting the shit with you because I&#x27;m doing something else?<p>I miss the days when I could just walk away from contact.</text></item><item><author>rapnie</author><text>And he doesn&#x27;t even mention that you could just be outside, and be unreachable and not able to reach other people too.<p>As a kid I used to play outside a lot, and my mother had no clue where I was, nor could she easily find out. I could be outside all day without her worrying that I&#x27;d be abducted or involved in an accident.<p>Now that all has <i>completely</i> changed, and my mother has too. Some years ago when I walked into the hallway of my house I coincidentally noticed a lot of people in front of my door. So I opened it, and it was the police that was about to bust the door with a battering ram. As it happened I hadn&#x27;t answered my phone in a couple of hours. After multiple calls unanswered, my mom had called 911 on me. And my doorbell was broken, police didn&#x27;t even knock.. they wanted the action, probably.<p>I was just freaking programming with the deep-work-destroying phone thingy on silence (where it should be most of the time, imho).</text></item><item><author>krylon</author><text>Now I feel old. I remember vividly running around with my first camera, looking for objects worthy of being photographed. The film cost money, so did developing it into pictures. I really had to weigh the pros and cons of taking a particular picture. And in a class of ~25 kids, I was one of three who owned a camera. Not that it was such a luxury item, but most people weren&#x27;t into that.<p>These days, (nearly) everyone carries a camera around all the time, and one that is quite probably much better than the one I had in 1992. They can take dozens, even hundreds of pictures without breaking a sweat, and it does not cost anything.<p>Nostalgia is a very warped mirror. Back then, I did not miss the ability to take dozens of pictures at no cost, because the option did not exist. Was it better? Worse? Neither, I think. But this is the first time I feel old and appreciate it for the history I have lived through. Getting old is weird, but it sure is interesting. (For reference, I&#x27;m 40. &quot;That&#x27;s not <i>old</i>&quot;, I hear someone say, but I have never been this old before, so for me it&#x27;s all new.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Fr0styMatt88</author><text>This is something I&#x27;ve been personally trying to get better at. As someone who did a lot of instant messaging in the 90s (think ICQ and IRC) I would think nothing of shooting off texts to people whenever I felt like it via SMS. There was never an expectation of immediately being answered back then and I always thought of messaging as &#x27;write it while you remember and don&#x27;t expect a response until whenever&#x27;. If something was truly urgent I&#x27;d call.<p>Except that&#x27;s not how other people would perceive it. I&#x27;ve since learned that it can be incredibly annoying to others, to the point where some people would actually get distressed thinking they would have to answer the texts. Couple that with a bad habit of sending many short texts (it&#x27;s how you&#x27;d write on messaging in the old days) and you have one REALLY REALLY ANNOYING FRIEND (regrettably I was that annoying friend).<p>So I guess I just want to apologize profusely from the other side of the fence. I&#x27;m trying to be much more mindful these days about whether that chit-chat message REALLY needs to be sent RIGHT NOW, or can it just wait for a conversation at a later time?<p>I&#x27;m trying to be much more self-aware in this regard.</text></comment> |
33,301,197 | 33,300,470 | 1 | 3 | 33,296,734 | train | <story><title>Princeton lab simulates nuclear war (2019)</title><url>https://sgs.princeton.edu/the-lab/plan-a</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andretti1977</author><text>I know it may be off topic but i don&#x27;t want people to discuss about the reliability of the data involved, no, i want people to reflect about the outcome: end of humanity.<p>It disgusts me to think that maybe 99.99% of world population wouldn&#x27;t harm another person but due to a ridicolous small fraction of the entire population, we risk to end our lives.<p>This is completely absurd and makes no sense at all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pmoriarty</author><text><i>&quot;maybe 99.99% of world population wouldn&#x27;t harm another person&quot;</i><p>I think they would... especially in self-defense, in defense of someone they cared about, and plenty would do so for ideals like &quot;freedom&quot;, &quot;country&quot; or &quot;democracy&quot;... and if they wouldn&#x27;t most would be perfectly happy to let others do it for them.<p>That&#x27;s why the military and police exist, and why most people are perfectly happy to fund and support them. It&#x27;s also why wars have so many participants and supporters.<p>Politicians can further rile people up to commit violence against scapegoats and even preemptively against distant potential threats. It&#x27;s not so difficult for them to get a lot of people to commit violence against a historical, cultural, political, religious, or ethnic enemy.</text></comment> | <story><title>Princeton lab simulates nuclear war (2019)</title><url>https://sgs.princeton.edu/the-lab/plan-a</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andretti1977</author><text>I know it may be off topic but i don&#x27;t want people to discuss about the reliability of the data involved, no, i want people to reflect about the outcome: end of humanity.<p>It disgusts me to think that maybe 99.99% of world population wouldn&#x27;t harm another person but due to a ridicolous small fraction of the entire population, we risk to end our lives.<p>This is completely absurd and makes no sense at all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ratsmack</author><text>War mongers also cross the entire political spectrum almost like they&#x27;re born with a death wish. It&#x27;s too bad they can&#x27;t be excised from the system before they gain too much power.</text></comment> |
19,862,628 | 19,860,454 | 1 | 2 | 19,859,564 | train | <story><title>Steve Singh stepping down as Docker CEO</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/08/steve-singh-stepping-down-as-docker-ceo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>benjaminwootton</author><text>Has there ever been a bigger missed opportunity in business than Docker managed to preside over? They could have created a huge business, but the product and go to market strategy has been awful.<p>In my opinion, selling a PaaS was fundamentally the wrong call when they could have licensed an enterprise version of the engine and taken a commission on every server in existence. This is more a Microsoft or RHEL type business rather than a second rate Pivotal or OpenShift, which in themselves are being mullered by EKS&#x2F;AKS in enterprise.<p>The whole pitch towards legacy apps was also short termist distraction when investment dollars are all going to cloud native solutions. Legacy apps are a big business case but getting companies to invest in their legacy estate is still a tough ask. This angle should have been secondary to competing where they are naturally strong.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simonebrunozzi</author><text>I agree it was a missed opportunity, but:<p>1) Is there another company that benefited from that missed opportunity? No. K8S is free and it &quot;makes money&quot; in the sense that it&#x27;s a great on-ramp for GCP, and therefore GCP is happy to subsidize it.<p>2) It&#x27;s never too easy to be the &quot;first&quot; company to break into a new technology or opportunity. Look at Altavista, and how it lost to Google in just a few years, despite when Google started Altavista was already a huge company.<p>3) I am not sure that your proposed solution would have worked, at least in terms of making Docker successful. It is the obvious alternative, but hard to be certain that its outcome would have been a better one for Docker (the company).</text></comment> | <story><title>Steve Singh stepping down as Docker CEO</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/08/steve-singh-stepping-down-as-docker-ceo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>benjaminwootton</author><text>Has there ever been a bigger missed opportunity in business than Docker managed to preside over? They could have created a huge business, but the product and go to market strategy has been awful.<p>In my opinion, selling a PaaS was fundamentally the wrong call when they could have licensed an enterprise version of the engine and taken a commission on every server in existence. This is more a Microsoft or RHEL type business rather than a second rate Pivotal or OpenShift, which in themselves are being mullered by EKS&#x2F;AKS in enterprise.<p>The whole pitch towards legacy apps was also short termist distraction when investment dollars are all going to cloud native solutions. Legacy apps are a big business case but getting companies to invest in their legacy estate is still a tough ask. This angle should have been secondary to competing where they are naturally strong.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jasallen</author><text>&gt; Has there ever been a bigger missed opportunity in business than Docker managed to preside over?<p>Sun Microsystems</text></comment> |
38,197,110 | 38,193,107 | 1 | 2 | 38,188,162 | train | <story><title>Home Assistant blocked from integrating with Garage Door opener API</title><url>https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/11/06/removal-of-myq-integration/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paulgerhardt</author><text>Partially responsible for this. (Sold Lockitron to Chamberlain in 2017 which became the basis for Amazon Key integrations.)<p>Contrary to the popular sentiment in a lot of the comments here, there’s not much value in the analytics. As we all painfully found out in the 2010’s, there are only two viable recurring revenue streams in the IoT space - charging for video storage and charging for commercial access. Chamberlain does both with the MyQ cameras and with the garage access program to partners like Amazon and Walmart. Both retailers have a fraud problem (discussed here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38176891">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38176891</a>). “In garage delivery” promises dropping delivery fraud to zero - ie users falsely claiming package theft. That solution is worth millions to retailers, naturally Chamberlain would like a cut but only if they can successfully defend that chokepoint.<p>For historical reasons having to do with the security of three or four generations of wireless protocols used in garage doors they can’t (and products like ratgdo and OpenSesame exploit this.) Other industries such as automotive have a more secure chain of control over their encryption keys so one has to (for instance) go to the dealer to buy a replacement key fob for your Tesla for $300 and not eBay for $5.<p>Given the turnover in leadership there I’m not surprised the new guy needs to put their hand on the plate to see it’s hot, but there’s a reason this wasn’t implemented before and it wasn’t because of lack of discussion. I can see the temptation in going for monetization given their market share but I think this approach was ill conceived rather than fix foundational issues which would allow home users to integrate with 3rd party services and still charge industry partners for reducing incidences of fraud.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scrps</author><text>Amazon expects me to weaken my physical security posture to help them defend against an activity I don&#x27;t engage in and is in no way my responsibility?<p>AND<p>Chamberlain expects me to weaken my digital security posture so they can run some opaque crap on my network¹ that I have very little observability into and even less control over so they can make money?<p>Money is one hell of a drug because they are high.<p>How about amazon builds (at their expense) an amazon controlled box, slap a mcu on, do authentication over nfc, rfid, etc etc. Offer it to customers free of charge, hell throw in a sweetener to get them to adopt.<p>[1] I have a default deny in AND out isolated vlan for crap like this, even if you don&#x27;t have a network background try to set one up if your networking equipment is capable.</text></comment> | <story><title>Home Assistant blocked from integrating with Garage Door opener API</title><url>https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/11/06/removal-of-myq-integration/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paulgerhardt</author><text>Partially responsible for this. (Sold Lockitron to Chamberlain in 2017 which became the basis for Amazon Key integrations.)<p>Contrary to the popular sentiment in a lot of the comments here, there’s not much value in the analytics. As we all painfully found out in the 2010’s, there are only two viable recurring revenue streams in the IoT space - charging for video storage and charging for commercial access. Chamberlain does both with the MyQ cameras and with the garage access program to partners like Amazon and Walmart. Both retailers have a fraud problem (discussed here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38176891">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38176891</a>). “In garage delivery” promises dropping delivery fraud to zero - ie users falsely claiming package theft. That solution is worth millions to retailers, naturally Chamberlain would like a cut but only if they can successfully defend that chokepoint.<p>For historical reasons having to do with the security of three or four generations of wireless protocols used in garage doors they can’t (and products like ratgdo and OpenSesame exploit this.) Other industries such as automotive have a more secure chain of control over their encryption keys so one has to (for instance) go to the dealer to buy a replacement key fob for your Tesla for $300 and not eBay for $5.<p>Given the turnover in leadership there I’m not surprised the new guy needs to put their hand on the plate to see it’s hot, but there’s a reason this wasn’t implemented before and it wasn’t because of lack of discussion. I can see the temptation in going for monetization given their market share but I think this approach was ill conceived rather than fix foundational issues which would allow home users to integrate with 3rd party services and still charge industry partners for reducing incidences of fraud.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jkestner</author><text>Lockitron! I remember chatting with your engineer about the WiFi radio we used in Twine. Good insight.<p>Ah, chokepoint capitalism. The problem with every company becoming a tech company is that they all expect unsustainable tech company growth. The strip mining of customers is also scaling up, so efficient that industries will destroy themselves. Can&#x27;t wait until private equity owns the radios in my home, and controls not just the output but inputs.</text></comment> |
40,407,179 | 40,404,887 | 1 | 2 | 40,397,743 | train | <story><title>Worklenz: Open-Source, All in one project management tool</title><url>https://github.com/Worklenz/worklenz</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dbingham</author><text>This looks the exact same as every other project management tool out there. What differentiates this?<p>Project Management is an incredibly crowded space.</text></comment> | <story><title>Worklenz: Open-Source, All in one project management tool</title><url>https://github.com/Worklenz/worklenz</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sixhobbits</author><text>Looks nice but it is missing clarity on the pricing page about if the premium features are also open source or not, or is this open core?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;worklenz.com&#x2F;pricing&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;worklenz.com&#x2F;pricing&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
41,251,485 | 41,251,460 | 1 | 2 | 41,251,412 | train | <story><title>GitHub was down</title><url>https://github.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tabbott</author><text>It is kinda amazing how consistently status pages show everything fine during a total outage. It&#x27;s not that hard to connect a status page to end-to-end monitoring statistics...</text></item><item><author>twp</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.githubstatus.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.githubstatus.com&#x2F;</a> reports no problems, but it&#x27;s clearly down for a lot of people (including me).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blinded</author><text>From my experience this requires a few steps happen first:<p>- an incident be declared internally to github<p>- support &#x2F; incident team submits a new status page entry (with details on service(s) impact(ed))<p>- incident is worked on internally<p>- incident fixed<p>- page updated<p>- retro posted<p>Even aws now seems to have some automation for their various services per region. But it doesn&#x27;t automatically show issues because it could be at the customer level or subset of customers, or subset of customers if they are in region foo in AZ bar, on service version zed vs zed - 1. So they chose not to display issues for subsets.<p>I do agree it would be nice to have logins for the status page and then get detailed metrics based on customerid or userid. Someone start a company to compete with statuspage.</text></comment> | <story><title>GitHub was down</title><url>https://github.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tabbott</author><text>It is kinda amazing how consistently status pages show everything fine during a total outage. It&#x27;s not that hard to connect a status page to end-to-end monitoring statistics...</text></item><item><author>twp</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.githubstatus.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.githubstatus.com&#x2F;</a> reports no problems, but it&#x27;s clearly down for a lot of people (including me).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cortesoft</author><text>There is always going to be SOME delay between the outage and the status page, although 5 minutes is probably enough time where it should be updated</text></comment> |
22,301,911 | 22,301,057 | 1 | 3 | 22,300,414 | train | <story><title>N26 will be leaving the UK</title><url>https://n26.com/en-de/blog/leaving-uk-does-not-change-our-global-vision-to-transform-retail-banking-for-the-better</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danpalmer</author><text>Businesses pulling out of the UK based on the Brexit process is bad for the UK, and I&#x27;m sure this was indeed mainly motivated by N26&#x27;s need for a UK banking licence, which is a costly and difficult process to go through. However, it&#x27;s worth noting that they are pretty small in the UK (~200k users).<p>They&#x27;re very successful in Germany where banking is a very slow, difficult, manually run industry (from what I&#x27;ve heard), but in the UK we have generally very good banking infrastructure – payments are normally instant and free, and there&#x27;s a lot of consumer protection with things like the current account switching service guarantee.<p>Startups such as Monzo and Starling started in this great infrastructure and now offer relatively compelling products, while the incumbents are getting to grips with modern tech and doing better than many people realise.<p>N26 on the other hand just didn&#x27;t have a compelling offering. They charged for most&#x2F;all of their accounts (explicit charges for accounts in the UK are uncommon), they lacked features, and their marketing was unremarkable compared to the competition.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alibarber</author><text>I&#x27;ve recently moved from the UK to another European country, and whilst I despise the way the politics is going back home - I&#x27;m amazed at how much better banking is back in the UK. It&#x27;s free to have an account and debit card, often with a modest free overdraft. And transfers are really instant. As in I can transfer from Barclays to Santander and by the time I&#x27;ve double-tapped between bank apps the money will be there cleared, at any time of day.<p>Here it&#x27;s &#x27;transfer before 2pm and we&#x27;ll send it the same _working_ day!!&#x27; And that&#x27;s once you&#x27;ve made your appointment a week out to open an account, and maybe received everything after a few weeks (if they like you that is)...<p>I got the impression that N26 was mainly to challenge the latter way of working. I didn&#x27;t understand what their offer was even for a free account that was better than even a &#x27;legacy&#x27; bank in the UK (and I&#x27;m not sure they even support direct debit - which would have made it useless for any super-cheap energy&#x2F;phone etc deals).<p>In all - yes Brexit sucks, yes they may have stayed in the UK without it (although I wouldn&#x27;t have expected them to introduce anything new), but I don&#x27;t think they can blame any lack of success in the UK on it.</text></comment> | <story><title>N26 will be leaving the UK</title><url>https://n26.com/en-de/blog/leaving-uk-does-not-change-our-global-vision-to-transform-retail-banking-for-the-better</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danpalmer</author><text>Businesses pulling out of the UK based on the Brexit process is bad for the UK, and I&#x27;m sure this was indeed mainly motivated by N26&#x27;s need for a UK banking licence, which is a costly and difficult process to go through. However, it&#x27;s worth noting that they are pretty small in the UK (~200k users).<p>They&#x27;re very successful in Germany where banking is a very slow, difficult, manually run industry (from what I&#x27;ve heard), but in the UK we have generally very good banking infrastructure – payments are normally instant and free, and there&#x27;s a lot of consumer protection with things like the current account switching service guarantee.<p>Startups such as Monzo and Starling started in this great infrastructure and now offer relatively compelling products, while the incumbents are getting to grips with modern tech and doing better than many people realise.<p>N26 on the other hand just didn&#x27;t have a compelling offering. They charged for most&#x2F;all of their accounts (explicit charges for accounts in the UK are uncommon), they lacked features, and their marketing was unremarkable compared to the competition.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nursie</author><text>Anecdote time - the only person I know who had an account (I work in London fintech at the moment) never used it and only opened it for the fancy translucent card. He seems to have accounts with all the &#x27;challenger&#x27; banks.</text></comment> |
19,375,289 | 19,374,593 | 1 | 2 | 19,371,159 | train | <story><title>The Tragedy of Baltimore</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/magazine/baltimore-tragedy-crime.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cromwellian</author><text>There&#x27;s a huge differential in the way the criminal justice system handled black people&#x27;s drugs (crack), and cocaine (rich man&#x27;s aspirin). A few rocks of crack got you an arrest with jail time, repeat 3 times, and a fatherless home is created with a new felon in the system. But white professionals who did coke? Slap on the wrist unless they were possessing huge amounts.<p>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s a stretch to say that the criminal justice system is biased against the poor, and exceptionally biased against poor minorities. Since Baltimore demographics are heavily represented by minorities, it&#x27;s no surprise things happening differently there vs Appalachia.</text></item><item><author>yters</author><text>It&#x27;s curious the difference in response to the current &quot;opioid epidemic&quot;. Where is the police crackdown in this case?</text></item><item><author>cromwellian</author><text>I grew up in Baltimore City, born in the 70s. Up until the drug war in the 80s, it was a multiracial working class city. I lived near &quot;Pigtown&quot; one of the poorer areas, but I was never afraid to go out at night.<p>During the summer months when it was hot and humid, I&#x27;d sleep during the day, and friends and I would sneak out and walk all over the city in the middle of the night, we were only 11-12 years old.<p>Yes, we hung out on the stairs of our row houses, and on the corners of the streets, and played radios loud, but by and large, violence was confined mostly to bullying. In fact, we had often walked down Pratt street past Martin Luther King Boulevard with no problem from the people living in the projects.<p>Things changed after the drug war started in the 80s. I started experiencing shootings. Kids got shot at my school. I&#x27;d hear gunshots all during the night. I even got caught up in a shootout at one point, which sounded like firecrackers going off if it wasn&#x27;t for the sounds of bullets ricocheting off of the brick houses (thank god old Baltimore rowhouses had real brick facades)<p>Many of my childhood friends became drug addicts, crack houses sprung up around my home. One of the friends I knew who I thought would graduate highschool and college, who was smart and into electronics, ended up as the neighborhood drug kingpin. Older neighbors and others who could, fled the city for the suburbs. Homes were boarded out, and soon, it looked like Mad Max. Our house sprouted bars on the windows.<p>If it hadn&#x27;t been for my 300 baud vic-modem and Vic-20&#x2F;C64, I wouldn&#x27;t have gotten off the streets. I mostly survived by vanishing into the online world, and staying in libraries, and avoiding the streets.<p>To me, the war against crack cocaine is what leveled Baltimore. Not the drug itself, if the government had treated it as a public health problem, things might have turned out better. But the drug war only served to make drugs the most lucrative, most important part of the local economy, and for the losers in that economy, the dopamine it provided became an escape from despair.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pryce</author><text>The &#x27;drug war&#x27; has always been intended to treat black and white users differently (and consequently the drugs they tend to reach for differently, not the other way around as many people assume); in many ways that was the whole point. See this article from Harpers [1]:<p>&gt; I’d tracked Ehrlichman, who had been Nixon’s domestic-policy adviser, to an engineering firm in Atlanta, where he was working on minority recruitment. At the time, I was writing a book about the politics of drug prohibition. I started to ask Ehrlichman a series of earnest, wonky questions that he impatiently waved away.<p>&gt; “You want to know what this was really all about?” he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or blacks, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;harpers.org&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2016&#x2F;04&#x2F;legalize-it-all&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;harpers.org&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2016&#x2F;04&#x2F;legalize-it-all&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Tragedy of Baltimore</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/magazine/baltimore-tragedy-crime.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cromwellian</author><text>There&#x27;s a huge differential in the way the criminal justice system handled black people&#x27;s drugs (crack), and cocaine (rich man&#x27;s aspirin). A few rocks of crack got you an arrest with jail time, repeat 3 times, and a fatherless home is created with a new felon in the system. But white professionals who did coke? Slap on the wrist unless they were possessing huge amounts.<p>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s a stretch to say that the criminal justice system is biased against the poor, and exceptionally biased against poor minorities. Since Baltimore demographics are heavily represented by minorities, it&#x27;s no surprise things happening differently there vs Appalachia.</text></item><item><author>yters</author><text>It&#x27;s curious the difference in response to the current &quot;opioid epidemic&quot;. Where is the police crackdown in this case?</text></item><item><author>cromwellian</author><text>I grew up in Baltimore City, born in the 70s. Up until the drug war in the 80s, it was a multiracial working class city. I lived near &quot;Pigtown&quot; one of the poorer areas, but I was never afraid to go out at night.<p>During the summer months when it was hot and humid, I&#x27;d sleep during the day, and friends and I would sneak out and walk all over the city in the middle of the night, we were only 11-12 years old.<p>Yes, we hung out on the stairs of our row houses, and on the corners of the streets, and played radios loud, but by and large, violence was confined mostly to bullying. In fact, we had often walked down Pratt street past Martin Luther King Boulevard with no problem from the people living in the projects.<p>Things changed after the drug war started in the 80s. I started experiencing shootings. Kids got shot at my school. I&#x27;d hear gunshots all during the night. I even got caught up in a shootout at one point, which sounded like firecrackers going off if it wasn&#x27;t for the sounds of bullets ricocheting off of the brick houses (thank god old Baltimore rowhouses had real brick facades)<p>Many of my childhood friends became drug addicts, crack houses sprung up around my home. One of the friends I knew who I thought would graduate highschool and college, who was smart and into electronics, ended up as the neighborhood drug kingpin. Older neighbors and others who could, fled the city for the suburbs. Homes were boarded out, and soon, it looked like Mad Max. Our house sprouted bars on the windows.<p>If it hadn&#x27;t been for my 300 baud vic-modem and Vic-20&#x2F;C64, I wouldn&#x27;t have gotten off the streets. I mostly survived by vanishing into the online world, and staying in libraries, and avoiding the streets.<p>To me, the war against crack cocaine is what leveled Baltimore. Not the drug itself, if the government had treated it as a public health problem, things might have turned out better. But the drug war only served to make drugs the most lucrative, most important part of the local economy, and for the losers in that economy, the dopamine it provided became an escape from despair.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>roenxi</author><text>Aren&#x27;t minorities the majority in Baltimore? I don&#x27;t know what the difference is between Baltimore City and whatever is Baltimore in practice, but the statistics I&#x27;ve seen today [0] suggest that &quot;minorities&quot; are white people.<p>Honest question - how can the criminal justice system in Baltimore be biased against &#x27;black people&#x27;s drugs&#x27; as a minority when they are numerically in the majority? It is an interesting logistical challenge to discriminate against a 60% voting block in a democracy. Is criminal justice enforced by non-city actors? (I&#x27;m not an American)<p>[0] planning.baltimorecity.gov&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;2a_City%20Profile%20-%203.30.16_0.pdf</text></comment> |
15,095,120 | 15,094,319 | 1 | 3 | 15,093,129 | train | <story><title>Titan in depth: Security in plaintext</title><url>https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/08/Titan-in-depth-security-in-plaintext.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bluegate010</author><text>Hey HN, I&#x27;m one of the engineers on the team behind Titan, feel free to AMA.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kop316</author><text>Hello!<p>I am curious about a couple of things:<p>Assuming you use Intel chips, how do you manage to trust the firmware&#x2F;ME from them? Do you write your own BIOS to ensure that it is safe? Or do you use ARM&#x2F;PowerPC&#x2F;other ISA and have an entirely open source stack?<p>Does the Titan assume no phyiscal access? And if you do assume someone could steal the chip&#x2F;try to reverse engineer the chip, do you have anything in it to stop an adversery? I would wonder if there would be a private&#x2F;nation state agency would want access to certain secrets so bad that they would try to alter it physically, rather then through root access.</text></comment> | <story><title>Titan in depth: Security in plaintext</title><url>https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/08/Titan-in-depth-security-in-plaintext.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bluegate010</author><text>Hey HN, I&#x27;m one of the engineers on the team behind Titan, feel free to AMA.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>puzzle</author><text>Does LOAS use Titan, then?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;jbeda&#x2F;status&#x2F;715373975182807040" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;jbeda&#x2F;status&#x2F;715373975182807040</a><p>Will you convince Niels to publish a paper?</text></comment> |
28,265,249 | 28,265,128 | 1 | 2 | 28,264,714 | train | <story><title>Hydrogen lobbyist quits, slams oil companies’ “false claims” about blue hydrogen</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/08/ex-lobbyist-slams-blue-hydrogen-says-it-would-lock-in-fossil-fuel-dependence/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>loicd</author><text>I fail to see an economic future for hydrogen as a fuel source. If it is produced from e.g. methane (the blue version), then we are burning more methane than we would have if we had been using the methane directly. If it is produced from electricity and water (the green version), then we are wasting electricity that could have been used directly in BEVs. At the end of the day, hydrogen is always going to cost more than the energy source that was used to produce it, and it will not be competitive against solutions that use that primary energy source directly.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hydrogen lobbyist quits, slams oil companies’ “false claims” about blue hydrogen</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/08/ex-lobbyist-slams-blue-hydrogen-says-it-would-lock-in-fossil-fuel-dependence/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lambdasquirrel</author><text>It’s just so weird we’re supposed to get hydrogen from petroleum sources. It’s not like you can’t split it from water (with solar providing the energy). Everyone learns that in elementary school chemistry.<p>Hydrogen doesn’t seem like a good idea for cars, too much dispersed infrastructure that needs to be built, that seems even more difficult to pull off than electric charging. But for airplanes, it might make more sense.</text></comment> |
36,073,192 | 36,072,387 | 1 | 2 | 36,070,261 | train | <story><title>PostgreSQL 16 Beta 1</title><url>https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-16-beta-1-released-2643/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Nextgrid</author><text>Out of curiosity, if the problem of connections being expensive is solvable by PGBouncer-style connection multiplexing, why doesn&#x27;t Postgres just do that by itself?</text></item><item><author>dalyons</author><text>IMO the biggest reason folks use pgbouncer is not for load balancing (which it can do, -ish) but instead for connection pooling. Postgres connections are expensive for the db server (one process per connection not one thread) so if you have say thousands of web application pods you need to use pgbouncer or similar as a proxy to multiplex those thousands of connections down onto a more manageable number (~200). So no, not really.<p>(EDIT: if you don&#x27;t know this already - the _establishment_ of connections is also super expensive. so another reason to pgbounce is to keep connections persistent if you have app servers that are constantly opening and closing conns, or burst open conns, or such like. Even if the total conns to pg doesnt go super high, the cost of constantly churning them can really hurt your db)</text></item><item><author>Fgehono</author><text>Could you elaborate on the load balancing?<p>Is this a replacement for PG bouncer and similar?</text></item><item><author>craigkerstiens</author><text>For being &quot;boring and stable&quot; technology, Postgres 16 includes 200 features, which is on par with each of prior years releases. If you&#x27;re looking for the full set of features it&#x27;s available here - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.postgresql.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;16&#x2F;release-16.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.postgresql.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;16&#x2F;release-16.html</a>.<p>Personal favorites on the list include:<p>- load_balance_hosts, which is an improvement to libpq so you can load balance across multiple Postgres instances.<p>- Logical replication on standbys<p>- pg_stat_io which is a new view that shows IO details.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anarazel</author><text>If it were easy to do well in-core, I think we&#x27;d do it immediately. Unfortunately the interesting pooling modes in pgbouncer also break a few things - which would likely not be acceptable in core postgres. Avoiding such breakage requires non-trivial architectural adjustments.<p>Historically connection state and &quot;process state&quot; have been tightly coupled, for good server-side pooling they have to be divorced. While good pooling is doable with the current process model (passing the client file descriptor between processes using SCM_RIGHTS), it&#x27;s much harder with processes than with threads - this is one of the reasons I think we will eventually need to migrate to threads.<p>Eventually I want to get to a point where we have a limited number of &quot;query execution workers&quot; that handle query execution, utilized by a much larger number of client connections (which do not have dedicated threads each). Obviously it&#x27;s a long way to go to that. Ah, the fun working on an complicated application with a ~35 year history.<p>There also are use cases for pgbouncer that cannot be addressed on the server-side - one important one is to run pgbouncer on &quot;application servers&quot;, to reduce the TCP+TLS connection establishment overhead and to share connections between application processes &#x2F; threads. That can yield very substantial performance gains - completely independent of server side pooling support.</text></comment> | <story><title>PostgreSQL 16 Beta 1</title><url>https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-16-beta-1-released-2643/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Nextgrid</author><text>Out of curiosity, if the problem of connections being expensive is solvable by PGBouncer-style connection multiplexing, why doesn&#x27;t Postgres just do that by itself?</text></item><item><author>dalyons</author><text>IMO the biggest reason folks use pgbouncer is not for load balancing (which it can do, -ish) but instead for connection pooling. Postgres connections are expensive for the db server (one process per connection not one thread) so if you have say thousands of web application pods you need to use pgbouncer or similar as a proxy to multiplex those thousands of connections down onto a more manageable number (~200). So no, not really.<p>(EDIT: if you don&#x27;t know this already - the _establishment_ of connections is also super expensive. so another reason to pgbounce is to keep connections persistent if you have app servers that are constantly opening and closing conns, or burst open conns, or such like. Even if the total conns to pg doesnt go super high, the cost of constantly churning them can really hurt your db)</text></item><item><author>Fgehono</author><text>Could you elaborate on the load balancing?<p>Is this a replacement for PG bouncer and similar?</text></item><item><author>craigkerstiens</author><text>For being &quot;boring and stable&quot; technology, Postgres 16 includes 200 features, which is on par with each of prior years releases. If you&#x27;re looking for the full set of features it&#x27;s available here - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.postgresql.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;16&#x2F;release-16.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.postgresql.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;16&#x2F;release-16.html</a>.<p>Personal favorites on the list include:<p>- load_balance_hosts, which is an improvement to libpq so you can load balance across multiple Postgres instances.<p>- Logical replication on standbys<p>- pg_stat_io which is a new view that shows IO details.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dingledork69</author><text>Because pgbouncer&#x27;s transaction-based pooling, which is what the previous poster was referring to, breaks a few postgres features. This is fine for most applications, but not all. See the table on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pgbouncer.org&#x2F;features.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pgbouncer.org&#x2F;features.html</a></text></comment> |
32,269,935 | 32,269,343 | 1 | 3 | 32,268,934 | train | <story><title>WebContainers are now supported in Firefox on desktop and Android</title><url>https://blog.stackblitz.com/posts/webcontainers-are-now-supported-on-firefox/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>krono</author><text>FYI WebContainers are not a web standard, but this article sure does try its best to make it sound like one. Pretty off-putting and not at all necessary for such a great product as Stackblitz.<p>Firefox has added support for some webdriver APIs[1] that this proprietary &quot;WebContainers&quot; product depends on. That is all.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Mozilla&#x2F;Firefox&#x2F;Releases&#x2F;103#webdriver_conformance_webdriver_bidi_marionette" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Mozilla&#x2F;Firefox&#x2F;Rel...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>WebContainers are now supported in Firefox on desktop and Android</title><url>https://blog.stackblitz.com/posts/webcontainers-are-now-supported-on-firefox/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>inb4_cancelled</author><text>Instead of building fast native application delivery and sandboxing we&#x27;re taking the longer way around and reinventing OSes inside a document (!) browser.<p>Can&#x27;t say that it makes me happy.</text></comment> |
18,502,737 | 18,501,817 | 1 | 2 | 18,501,341 | train | <story><title>A small French privacy ruling could remake adtech</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/20/how-a-small-french-privacy-ruling-could-remake-adtech-for-good/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fyfy18</author><text>Good. I always saw the intention of the GDPR as legislation to fundamentally change the way personal data is processed, to prevent the freely spreading of it, with blatant disregard to the consequences, by basically any company that handles personal data. Instead most companies have just opted for clickwrap consent, and continued as they always have.<p>The more rulings we have like this, the better. Yes it may cause some business models to disappear, but I feel it&#x27;s worth it to take back control of our privacy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nothis</author><text>I hate the &quot;cookie law&quot; for this very reason. It just resulted in more popups which became at best white noise, at worst a genuine annoyance for users. Cookie-consent popups are a part of most ad-blockers, which should make you think.<p>Instead, the end result should be less abuse and hoarding of data. In other words, ad services should be held accountable for what they collect, not just inform users <i>that</i> they collect your data. Cookies are actually the <i>one</i> thing you can control, it&#x27;s in your browser, it&#x27;s not the problem, you can block or delete the data. What should be regulated are what companies store server-side and how they connect that data and that should be done between the government and the companies, not between the company and its users who might not have the expertise and, in many cases, are stuck with some quasi-monopoly like Google or Facebook.</text></comment> | <story><title>A small French privacy ruling could remake adtech</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/20/how-a-small-french-privacy-ruling-could-remake-adtech-for-good/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fyfy18</author><text>Good. I always saw the intention of the GDPR as legislation to fundamentally change the way personal data is processed, to prevent the freely spreading of it, with blatant disregard to the consequences, by basically any company that handles personal data. Instead most companies have just opted for clickwrap consent, and continued as they always have.<p>The more rulings we have like this, the better. Yes it may cause some business models to disappear, but I feel it&#x27;s worth it to take back control of our privacy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>isostatic</author><text>&gt; Yes it may cause some business models to disappear, but I feel it&#x27;s worth it to take back control of our privacy.<p>Good, hopefully we&#x27;ll see some real innovation, with wide spread micropayments, rather than brainwashing which costs the viewer of the site far more than the recipient of the site gets.</text></comment> |
19,970,453 | 19,969,786 | 1 | 2 | 19,969,171 | train | <story><title>A Survey of Symbolic Execution Techniques (2018)</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.00502</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>touisteur</author><text>I&#x27;m curious, HN. Apart from Fujitsu, do any of you use Symbolic Execution in an Industrial setting or in your day-to-day job ? I&#x27;m starting to see fuzzing &#x27;largely&#x27; adopted, and an uptick of interest in proof (see recent partnership between Nvidia and AdaCore on Spark2014 for firmware), but not much on Symbolic Execution ?<p>Apart from Trail of Bits, University Research teams, and automatic patching competitions ?<p>Anyone using cbmc, Klee, angr, s2e ?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jor-el</author><text>I have come across many pentesting labs using these tools to deal with obfuscated binaries. You can check Quakslab&#x27;s blog, they have articles on this [0]. Another interesting project is of cracking Tigress VM using Symbolic execution [1]. The use has dramatically increased in past few years as many new tools are available and also hardware is more performant now.
I am also using these tools in my day-to-day job to deal with obfuscated binaries and reverse engineering. I use Miasm [2].<p>PS: My company is hiring for such roles <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;netsec&#x2F;comments&#x2F;b90hep&#x2F;rnetsecs_q2_2019_information_security_hiring&#x2F;ek374i0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;netsec&#x2F;comments&#x2F;b90hep&#x2F;rnetsecs_q2_...</a><p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.quarkslab.com&#x2F;deobfuscation-recovering-an-ollvm-protected-program.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.quarkslab.com&#x2F;deobfuscation-recovering-an-ollvm...</a>
[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.quarkslab.com&#x2F;deobfuscation-recovering-an-ollvm-protected-program.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.quarkslab.com&#x2F;deobfuscation-recovering-an-ollvm...</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cea-sec&#x2F;miasm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cea-sec&#x2F;miasm</a></text></comment> | <story><title>A Survey of Symbolic Execution Techniques (2018)</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.00502</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>touisteur</author><text>I&#x27;m curious, HN. Apart from Fujitsu, do any of you use Symbolic Execution in an Industrial setting or in your day-to-day job ? I&#x27;m starting to see fuzzing &#x27;largely&#x27; adopted, and an uptick of interest in proof (see recent partnership between Nvidia and AdaCore on Spark2014 for firmware), but not much on Symbolic Execution ?<p>Apart from Trail of Bits, University Research teams, and automatic patching competitions ?<p>Anyone using cbmc, Klee, angr, s2e ?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PaulHoule</author><text>My experience about any area I&#x27;ve specialized in is that for every one that is talked about publicly there are maybe ten things that are not being talked about.<p>This is particularly the case when the new technology is a particular competitive advantage.<p>One firm that I worked for developed a highly competitive product using a deep neural net (back when the Restricted Boltzmann Machine was a thing!) and the &quot;deep learning&quot; hype was just starting. They sent a marketing person to my office to interview me about what things we could say about the product that would make it sound impressive and I told him all about it, but his superiors didn&#x27;t let him use the material because they didn&#x27;t want competitors to know how it worked.</text></comment> |
23,201,977 | 23,201,676 | 1 | 2 | 23,201,177 | train | <story><title>Coronavirus Is Making Universal Basic Income Look Better</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-05-15/coronavirus-is-making-universal-basic-income-look-better</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>supernova87a</author><text>This opinion is pretty flawed. When will aggregations of individuals making $24k per year get together and build a hydroelectric dam or nuclear power plant, or assemble themselves to form a genomics research institute or space agency?<p>There are things that individuals, left to their own preferences and entrepreneurial habits, will never create.</text></item><item><author>Mengkudulangsat</author><text>Maybe we shouldn&#x27;t be presupposing that governments are better at resource allocation than their citizens. People will still work with UBI, but they are much better positioned to choose the kind of work they personally do best.</text></item><item><author>keiferski</author><text>I&#x27;ve still never come across a decent answer to this question, so maybe someone can help: why is Basic Income (in the US) preferable to a Great Depression-style Works Progress Administration?<p><i>The Works Progress Administration (WPA; renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) was an American New Deal agency, employing millions of job-seekers (mostly unskilled men) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads.</i><p><i>Headed by Harry Hopkins, the WPA provided jobs and income to the unemployed during the Great Depression in the United States, while developing infrastructure to support the current and future society.</i><p><i>Above all, the WPA hired workers and craftsmen who were mainly employed in building streets. Thus, under the leadership of the WPA, more than 1 million km of streets and over 10,000 bridges were built, in addition to many airports and much housing.</i><p>Much of the infrastructure in the US is crumbling and needs to be replaced or fixed in the coming decades. Wouldn&#x27;t society benefit more from training and hiring people to clean streets, rebuild infrastructure, beautify urban areas, etc. than simply sending everyone a check?<p>I know that Basic Income isn&#x27;t simply to replace jobs lost to automation, but I don&#x27;t see how <i>paying people to improve aspects of civilization</i> is not obviously better than <i>paying people with no expectations.</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Broken_Hippo</author><text>Having UBI won&#x27;t make jobs go away, though. It won&#x27;t make government infrastructure projects go away. I really don&#x27;t understand folks think that one thing completely decimates the other.<p>It will mean that people won&#x27;t be wage slaves if they don&#x27;t want to, and can quit a shitty job or a shitty manager. It means that folks can miss work if the are sick. Or not go broke while getting education, both formal and informal. Folks might not work at a job they hate just to get food on the table and be slightly-over-broke. People can demand vacation time. But it&#x27;ll still be worth it to go to work to have more money than UBI gives, even if some folks don&#x27;t participate.</text></comment> | <story><title>Coronavirus Is Making Universal Basic Income Look Better</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-05-15/coronavirus-is-making-universal-basic-income-look-better</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>supernova87a</author><text>This opinion is pretty flawed. When will aggregations of individuals making $24k per year get together and build a hydroelectric dam or nuclear power plant, or assemble themselves to form a genomics research institute or space agency?<p>There are things that individuals, left to their own preferences and entrepreneurial habits, will never create.</text></item><item><author>Mengkudulangsat</author><text>Maybe we shouldn&#x27;t be presupposing that governments are better at resource allocation than their citizens. People will still work with UBI, but they are much better positioned to choose the kind of work they personally do best.</text></item><item><author>keiferski</author><text>I&#x27;ve still never come across a decent answer to this question, so maybe someone can help: why is Basic Income (in the US) preferable to a Great Depression-style Works Progress Administration?<p><i>The Works Progress Administration (WPA; renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) was an American New Deal agency, employing millions of job-seekers (mostly unskilled men) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads.</i><p><i>Headed by Harry Hopkins, the WPA provided jobs and income to the unemployed during the Great Depression in the United States, while developing infrastructure to support the current and future society.</i><p><i>Above all, the WPA hired workers and craftsmen who were mainly employed in building streets. Thus, under the leadership of the WPA, more than 1 million km of streets and over 10,000 bridges were built, in addition to many airports and much housing.</i><p>Much of the infrastructure in the US is crumbling and needs to be replaced or fixed in the coming decades. Wouldn&#x27;t society benefit more from training and hiring people to clean streets, rebuild infrastructure, beautify urban areas, etc. than simply sending everyone a check?<p>I know that Basic Income isn&#x27;t simply to replace jobs lost to automation, but I don&#x27;t see how <i>paying people to improve aspects of civilization</i> is not obviously better than <i>paying people with no expectations.</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>friendlybus</author><text>Weird opinion to see on HN. People who forsee and can execute on building a nuclear power startup can get outside investment. Fusion research is moving to the small and cheap entrepreneurial projects.<p>You prefer to have nuclear physicists digging ditches like parent poster..?</text></comment> |
26,738,547 | 26,737,796 | 1 | 2 | 26,710,763 | train | <story><title>Surprisingly Slow</title><url>https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2021/04/06/surprisingly-slow/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>peter_d_sherman</author><text>&gt;&quot;Closing File Handles on Windows<p>Many years ago I was profiling Mercurial to help improve the working directory checkout speed on Windows, as users were observing that checkout times on Windows were much slower than on Linux, even on the same machine.<p>I thought I could chalk this up to NTFS versus Linux filesystems or general kernel&#x2F;OS level efficiency differences. What I actually learned was much more surprising.<p>When I started profiling Mercurial on Windows, I observed that most I&#x2F;O APIs were completing in a few dozen microseconds, maybe a single millisecond or two ever now and then. Windows&#x2F;NTFS performance seemed great!<p>Except for CloseHandle(). These calls were often taking 1-10+ milliseconds to complete. It seemed odd to me that file writes - even sustained file writes that were sufficient to blow past any write buffering capacity - were fast but closes slow. It was even more perplexing that CloseHandle() was slow even if you were using completion ports (i.e. async I&#x2F;O). This behavior for completion ports was counter to what the MSDN documentation said should happen (the function should return immediately and its status can be retrieved later).<p>While I didn&#x27;t realize it at the time, the cause for this was&#x2F;is Windows Defender. Windows Defender (and other anti-virus &#x2F; scanning software) typically work on Windows by installing what&#x27;s called a filesystem filter driver. This is a kernel driver that essentially hooks itself into the kernel and receives callbacks on I&#x2F;O and filesystem events. It turns out the close file callback triggers scanning of written data. And this scanning appears to occur synchronously, blocking CloseHandle() from returning. This adds milliseconds of overhead.&quot;<p>PDS: Observation: In an OS, if I&#x2F;O (or more generally, API calls) are initially written to run and return quickly -- this doesn&#x27;t mean that they won&#x27;t degrade (for whatever reason), as the OS expands and&#x2F;or underlying hardware changes, over time...<p>For any OS writer, present or future, a key aspect of OS development is writing I&#x2F;O (and API) performance tests, running them regularly, and <i>immediately halting development to understand&#x2F;fix the root cause</i> -- if and when performance anomalies are detected... in large software systems, in large codebases, it&#x27;s usually much harder to gain back performance several versions after performance has been lost (i.e., Browsers), than to be disciplined, constantly test performance, and halt development (and understand&#x2F;fix the root cause) the instant any performance anomaly is detected...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>greggman3</author><text>Related, If you copy a file via the OS&#x27;s copy function the system knows the file was scanned and you get fast copies. If you copy the file by opening a new destination file for write, opening the source file for read, and copying bytes, then of course you trigger the virus scanner.<p>So for example I was using a build system and part of my build needed to copy ~5000 files of assets to the &quot;out&quot; folder. It was taking 5 seconds on other OSes and 2 minutes on Windows. Turned out the build system was copying using the &quot;make a new file and copy bytes&quot; approach instead of calling the their language&#x27;s library copy function, which, at least on Windows, calls the OS copyfile function. I filed a bug and submitted a PR. Unfortunately while they acknowledged the issue they did not take the PR nor fix it on their side. My guess is they don&#x27;t really care about devs that use Windows.<p>Note that python&#x27;s copyfile does this wrong on MacOS. It also uses the open, read bytes, write bytes to new file method instead of calling into the OS. While it doesn&#x27;t have the virus scanning issue (yet) it does mean files aren&#x27;t actually &quot;copied&quot; so metadata is lost.</text></comment> | <story><title>Surprisingly Slow</title><url>https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2021/04/06/surprisingly-slow/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>peter_d_sherman</author><text>&gt;&quot;Closing File Handles on Windows<p>Many years ago I was profiling Mercurial to help improve the working directory checkout speed on Windows, as users were observing that checkout times on Windows were much slower than on Linux, even on the same machine.<p>I thought I could chalk this up to NTFS versus Linux filesystems or general kernel&#x2F;OS level efficiency differences. What I actually learned was much more surprising.<p>When I started profiling Mercurial on Windows, I observed that most I&#x2F;O APIs were completing in a few dozen microseconds, maybe a single millisecond or two ever now and then. Windows&#x2F;NTFS performance seemed great!<p>Except for CloseHandle(). These calls were often taking 1-10+ milliseconds to complete. It seemed odd to me that file writes - even sustained file writes that were sufficient to blow past any write buffering capacity - were fast but closes slow. It was even more perplexing that CloseHandle() was slow even if you were using completion ports (i.e. async I&#x2F;O). This behavior for completion ports was counter to what the MSDN documentation said should happen (the function should return immediately and its status can be retrieved later).<p>While I didn&#x27;t realize it at the time, the cause for this was&#x2F;is Windows Defender. Windows Defender (and other anti-virus &#x2F; scanning software) typically work on Windows by installing what&#x27;s called a filesystem filter driver. This is a kernel driver that essentially hooks itself into the kernel and receives callbacks on I&#x2F;O and filesystem events. It turns out the close file callback triggers scanning of written data. And this scanning appears to occur synchronously, blocking CloseHandle() from returning. This adds milliseconds of overhead.&quot;<p>PDS: Observation: In an OS, if I&#x2F;O (or more generally, API calls) are initially written to run and return quickly -- this doesn&#x27;t mean that they won&#x27;t degrade (for whatever reason), as the OS expands and&#x2F;or underlying hardware changes, over time...<p>For any OS writer, present or future, a key aspect of OS development is writing I&#x2F;O (and API) performance tests, running them regularly, and <i>immediately halting development to understand&#x2F;fix the root cause</i> -- if and when performance anomalies are detected... in large software systems, in large codebases, it&#x27;s usually much harder to gain back performance several versions after performance has been lost (i.e., Browsers), than to be disciplined, constantly test performance, and halt development (and understand&#x2F;fix the root cause) the instant any performance anomaly is detected...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrisweekly</author><text>&gt; &quot;For any OS writer, present or future, a key aspect of OS development is writing I&#x2F;O (and API) performance tests, running them regularly, and immediately halting development to understand&#x2F;fix the root cause -- if and when performance anomalies are detected... in large software systems, in large codebases, it&#x27;s usually much harder to gain back performance several versions after performance has been lost (i.e., Browsers), than to be disciplined, constantly test performance, and halt development (and understand&#x2F;fix the root cause) the instant any performance anomaly is detected...&quot;<p>Yes, this! And not just OS writers, but authors of any kind of software. Performance is like a living thing; vigilance is required.</text></comment> |
7,172,807 | 7,172,857 | 1 | 2 | 7,171,899 | train | <story><title>DEA teaches agents to recreate evidence chains to hide methods</title><url>https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2014/feb/03/dea-parallel-construction-guides/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>I object to parallel construction because it warps NSA&#x27;s incentives and encourages them to develop deeper domestic capabilities.<p>Having said that: it&#x27;s worth understanding what parallel construction actually is.<p>Parallel construction does NOT allow law enforcement to:<p>(a) Introduce evidence that is the product of NSA surveillance<p>(b) Literally manufacture probable cause to effect a search to generate introducible evidence<p>In order for an LEO to act on data from a surveillance source, they must not only be &quot;at the right place at the right time&quot; (which is what surveillance allows them to do), but, once there, discover probable cause to effect a search. That&#x27;s why you see slides in this deck about how long you can stop a car in a traffic stop; one of the pitfalls of trying to launch a search from a traffic stop is that if the stop exceeds the duration allowed for a detention without arrest, all the evidence generated after that time period elapses is excludable.<p>Obviously: (i) the probable cause mitigation is damaged by drug dogs (&quot;our search was authorized by this dog over here&quot;), and (ii) all search mitigations are damaged by the fact that they come into play only once someone is arrested and threatened with prosecution. Those are both very serious, important, valid objections. However, I contend that they are objections to the entire process of evidence collection with or without surveillance. Judges need to stop pretending that dogs can judge whether a search is reasonable. Prosecutors have too much unchecked power in our system.<p>Here&#x27;s an extremely detailed cartoon flowchart of how 4th Amendment protections come into play (or are thwarted) in the real world:<p><a href="http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=2256" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lawcomic.net&#x2F;guide&#x2F;?p=2256</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dmix</author><text>&gt; discover probable cause to effect a search.<p>Right so when you get arrested at that traffic stop, all you need is about $15-20k+ for lawyer, tons of time in courtrooms, bail money, potentially jail time in between, months&#x2F;years stressing a criminal charge...and hopefully some decent evidence you can convince a judge or jury your rights weren&#x27;t infringed.<p>There are a ton of externalities that goes into proving the state wrong and protecting civil rights at the court level. The majority of drug convictions happen to people in lower socio-economic positions (if not, asset seizure will ensure it). So the fact lawyers are capable of destroying the DEA&#x27;s evidence in a courtroom doesn&#x27;t make me feel any better about the situation. Reducing the use of drug dogs is a good start, far too many false-positives.</text></comment> | <story><title>DEA teaches agents to recreate evidence chains to hide methods</title><url>https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2014/feb/03/dea-parallel-construction-guides/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>I object to parallel construction because it warps NSA&#x27;s incentives and encourages them to develop deeper domestic capabilities.<p>Having said that: it&#x27;s worth understanding what parallel construction actually is.<p>Parallel construction does NOT allow law enforcement to:<p>(a) Introduce evidence that is the product of NSA surveillance<p>(b) Literally manufacture probable cause to effect a search to generate introducible evidence<p>In order for an LEO to act on data from a surveillance source, they must not only be &quot;at the right place at the right time&quot; (which is what surveillance allows them to do), but, once there, discover probable cause to effect a search. That&#x27;s why you see slides in this deck about how long you can stop a car in a traffic stop; one of the pitfalls of trying to launch a search from a traffic stop is that if the stop exceeds the duration allowed for a detention without arrest, all the evidence generated after that time period elapses is excludable.<p>Obviously: (i) the probable cause mitigation is damaged by drug dogs (&quot;our search was authorized by this dog over here&quot;), and (ii) all search mitigations are damaged by the fact that they come into play only once someone is arrested and threatened with prosecution. Those are both very serious, important, valid objections. However, I contend that they are objections to the entire process of evidence collection with or without surveillance. Judges need to stop pretending that dogs can judge whether a search is reasonable. Prosecutors have too much unchecked power in our system.<p>Here&#x27;s an extremely detailed cartoon flowchart of how 4th Amendment protections come into play (or are thwarted) in the real world:<p><a href="http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=2256" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lawcomic.net&#x2F;guide&#x2F;?p=2256</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ggreer</author><text>At this point, making it easier for law enforcement to discover crime probably harms more people than it helps.<p>Here&#x27;s a thought experiment: What if law enforcement was <i>perfect</i>? That is, every time someone broke a law, the state knew and could arrest them. Let&#x27;s also assume this technology somehow disallowed even the slightest peek into an individual&#x27;s legal private life. After a week under such a system, we&#x27;d all likely be jailed.<p>There are so many laws; so many <i>unjust</i> laws, that we&#x27;re all criminals. Giving law enforcement more tools just puts the DA in a position of greater power.</text></comment> |
20,353,132 | 20,352,677 | 1 | 2 | 20,349,149 | train | <story><title>Firefox Local Files Theft – Not Patched Yet</title><url>https://quitten.github.io/Firefox/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>majewsky</author><text>Is it really that hard to run `python -m http.server` in your repository?</text></item><item><author>mort96</author><text>Learning web programming is amazing, since you can just start writing a .html file and open it in a browser. There is no need to learn how go set up a local http server. Chrome truly is killing that experience; you can&#x27;t even load javascript modules without http involved now outside of Firefox.<p>I really hope Mozilla doesn&#x27;t &quot;fix&quot; this &quot;vulnerability&quot; by destroying the experience of people learning web programming like Google did.</text></item><item><author>est31</author><text>IMO, the approach taken by Chrome and other browsers is over restrictive, basically killing off the file:&#x2F;&#x2F; protocol. Already now it&#x27;s impossible to load wasm files in the file:&#x2F;&#x2F; protocol in Chrome, and I think this also had implications on using wasm in electon.<p>Ultimately, file:&#x2F;&#x2F; is a great, cloud free method of having web pages and applications and it should stay that way instead of forcing everything to be networked and reliant on third party computers or domain names.<p>There are so many reports, documents, etc that live as non-networked html files. E.g. rust documentation (cargo doc --open) is generated as html files on-disk and then just displayed without the need for a webserver. Starting a localhost webserver is in fact <i>less</i> secure than file because now every user on the computer has access instead of just the users with read-access to the files. This has thankfully been fixed in Chrome OS though.<p>Responsive web apps are not the solution as they still need &quot;seeding&quot; via the network. Maybe some kind of standardized format where you have a glorified zip file with some metadata and when you double click it, it opens in the web browser which starts a web server in the background that runs a specially designated js in that zip file and which can accept usual fetch requests and has read access to the entire zip file. The browser&#x27;s &quot;UI&quot; would then communicate with the server via well-known protocols.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nemetroid</author><text>I started learning HTML at age eight. No one in my family had experience with programming or using a terminal (there was an HTML book on discount at the book store). I was able to get started because it was dead simple, and only used tools I was already familiar with: the web browser, Notepad, and regular files.</text></comment> | <story><title>Firefox Local Files Theft – Not Patched Yet</title><url>https://quitten.github.io/Firefox/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>majewsky</author><text>Is it really that hard to run `python -m http.server` in your repository?</text></item><item><author>mort96</author><text>Learning web programming is amazing, since you can just start writing a .html file and open it in a browser. There is no need to learn how go set up a local http server. Chrome truly is killing that experience; you can&#x27;t even load javascript modules without http involved now outside of Firefox.<p>I really hope Mozilla doesn&#x27;t &quot;fix&quot; this &quot;vulnerability&quot; by destroying the experience of people learning web programming like Google did.</text></item><item><author>est31</author><text>IMO, the approach taken by Chrome and other browsers is over restrictive, basically killing off the file:&#x2F;&#x2F; protocol. Already now it&#x27;s impossible to load wasm files in the file:&#x2F;&#x2F; protocol in Chrome, and I think this also had implications on using wasm in electon.<p>Ultimately, file:&#x2F;&#x2F; is a great, cloud free method of having web pages and applications and it should stay that way instead of forcing everything to be networked and reliant on third party computers or domain names.<p>There are so many reports, documents, etc that live as non-networked html files. E.g. rust documentation (cargo doc --open) is generated as html files on-disk and then just displayed without the need for a webserver. Starting a localhost webserver is in fact <i>less</i> secure than file because now every user on the computer has access instead of just the users with read-access to the files. This has thankfully been fixed in Chrome OS though.<p>Responsive web apps are not the solution as they still need &quot;seeding&quot; via the network. Maybe some kind of standardized format where you have a glorified zip file with some metadata and when you double click it, it opens in the web browser which starts a web server in the background that runs a specially designated js in that zip file and which can accept usual fetch requests and has read access to the entire zip file. The browser&#x27;s &quot;UI&quot; would then communicate with the server via well-known protocols.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CaptainMarvel</author><text>For someone getting started with programming? Very hard - it steepens the learning curve significantly</text></comment> |
21,716,875 | 21,716,794 | 1 | 3 | 21,710,280 | train | <story><title>China gene-edited baby experiment 'may have created unintended mutations'</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/dec/04/china-gene-edited-baby-experiment-may-have-created-unintended-mutations</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wahern</author><text>&gt; natural system of transcription, translation, and protein synthesis at the core of DNA still makes mistakes.<p>Exactly, which means the system is <i>resilient</i>, which means it&#x27;s more forgiving of random mutations introduced by gene editing, which is perhaps why most scientists are less concerned than you think they ought to be.<p>Imagine if we took the same approach to surgery--overly worried that scar tissue of any kind at any point would completely disrupt the functioning of an organ. We&#x27;d be a hundred years or more behind where we are now. Scientists and doctors understand that the body is both much more complex than a simple machine, but also much more resilient.<p>Such criticism cuts both ways. Likewise for GMOs. Demanding perfection is unreasonable and unnecessary.</text></item><item><author>deusofnull</author><text>Back in my genetics class in Uni, unitended mutations from gene editing struck me as a concern almost immediately. and its scary to think about. these unknown mutations could be benign, harmful, or even helpful, but if they entered the population through procreation... i mean i had an anxiety that the whole human genome could be damaged at a fundamental level.<p>the complexity of the biological machinery that occurs during gene transcription and replication and translation is maddening. yes, its sort of like a zipper in some ways, but remember that the geometry of a zipper is 2 dimensional, teeth and grooves. DNA is &quot;zipped&quot; by a protein that will fit with the geometry of hundreds or thousands of nucleotide pairs, and even that is a really basic way of putting it. and that natural system of transcription, translation, and protein synthesis at the core of DNA still makes mistakes.<p>You think index mismatch by 1 in an array can be a bit tricky, imagine how with DNA you have a long array, sort of, with millions of discrete parts that have start and end segments sort like how memory is managed in ram. CRISPR is in some ways, like trying to write perfect memory safe code in a non mem-managed language. crude metaphor but it was how i thought about it during university learning about both compsci and genetics.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ak217</author><text>There&#x27;s a huge difference between somatic and germline editing. Surgery is like somatic editing. It&#x27;s elective, based on medical need, and its effects are confined to one individual. Germline editing is more like forcing an entire population to undergo surgery that is claimed to enhance their bodies.<p>Nobody is particularly concerned about somatic editing where a medical need exists. Everybody is rightly freaking out about germline editing because it&#x27;s non-elective for the babies, its consequences are permanent and can be severe, and we aren&#x27;t good enough at it yet (not even the somatic variety) to claim anything about its safety.</text></comment> | <story><title>China gene-edited baby experiment 'may have created unintended mutations'</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/dec/04/china-gene-edited-baby-experiment-may-have-created-unintended-mutations</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wahern</author><text>&gt; natural system of transcription, translation, and protein synthesis at the core of DNA still makes mistakes.<p>Exactly, which means the system is <i>resilient</i>, which means it&#x27;s more forgiving of random mutations introduced by gene editing, which is perhaps why most scientists are less concerned than you think they ought to be.<p>Imagine if we took the same approach to surgery--overly worried that scar tissue of any kind at any point would completely disrupt the functioning of an organ. We&#x27;d be a hundred years or more behind where we are now. Scientists and doctors understand that the body is both much more complex than a simple machine, but also much more resilient.<p>Such criticism cuts both ways. Likewise for GMOs. Demanding perfection is unreasonable and unnecessary.</text></item><item><author>deusofnull</author><text>Back in my genetics class in Uni, unitended mutations from gene editing struck me as a concern almost immediately. and its scary to think about. these unknown mutations could be benign, harmful, or even helpful, but if they entered the population through procreation... i mean i had an anxiety that the whole human genome could be damaged at a fundamental level.<p>the complexity of the biological machinery that occurs during gene transcription and replication and translation is maddening. yes, its sort of like a zipper in some ways, but remember that the geometry of a zipper is 2 dimensional, teeth and grooves. DNA is &quot;zipped&quot; by a protein that will fit with the geometry of hundreds or thousands of nucleotide pairs, and even that is a really basic way of putting it. and that natural system of transcription, translation, and protein synthesis at the core of DNA still makes mistakes.<p>You think index mismatch by 1 in an array can be a bit tricky, imagine how with DNA you have a long array, sort of, with millions of discrete parts that have start and end segments sort like how memory is managed in ram. CRISPR is in some ways, like trying to write perfect memory safe code in a non mem-managed language. crude metaphor but it was how i thought about it during university learning about both compsci and genetics.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pythonaut_16</author><text>To play devil&#x27;s advocate: Scar tissue doesn&#x27;t get passed to offspring or propagated throughout the population though.</text></comment> |
8,456,446 | 8,456,307 | 1 | 2 | 8,455,966 | train | <story><title>Holy War on Sites That Demand Pinboard Passwords</title><url>https://blog.pinboard.in/2014/10/holy_war_on_sites_that_demand_pinboard_passwords/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jurassic</author><text>I agree asking for passwords is bad, but he&#x27;d probably have gotten cooperation from third parties much more quickly if he were following OAuth, OAuth2 or some other widely used standard. Forcing others to write bespoke code to handle a weird non-standard auth, however simple, is a major impediment to people using the Pinboard API.<p>Also, promising to break working integrations with the &quot;ban hammer&quot; seems like a poor reward to give users for alerting you to a problem. If a user values the integration more than the security of their bookmark list (as I&#x27;m guessing many people do, given the number of people using Pinboard via IFTTT), they won&#x27;t be reporting that to you.</text></comment> | <story><title>Holy War on Sites That Demand Pinboard Passwords</title><url>https://blog.pinboard.in/2014/10/holy_war_on_sites_that_demand_pinboard_passwords/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>joshu</author><text>Man, I wanted to do this so badly on the original delicious.<p>I have some ways of identifying aggregate misbehavior if you want to catch this. Happy to help.</text></comment> |
13,347,005 | 13,346,947 | 1 | 2 | 13,345,832 | train | <story><title>Kitten – A statically typed, stack-based functional programming language</title><url>http://kittenlang.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>evincarofautumn</author><text>Author of Kitten here, happy to answer any questions.<p>The site is pretty far out of date—it describes an older version of the language&#x2F;compiler, so it’s better to check out the GitHub repo[1]. I figure I’ll send a pre-release announcement to all the stargazers, when the time is right.<p>One of my new year’s resolutions is to work on Kitten every week this year, and release it before the end of the year. I’m also working on a short ebook (“Programming with Kitten”) to serve as the standard tutorial.<p>I could really use help with all this—building and marketing a language is no small task. If you’re interested in contributing, even if you’re not familiar with Haskell or compilers, I’d be glad to help you get involved. :)<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;evincarofautumn&#x2F;kitten" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;evincarofautumn&#x2F;kitten</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Kitten – A statically typed, stack-based functional programming language</title><url>http://kittenlang.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mr_luc</author><text>Factor was a big name in &#x27;modern stack-based languages,&#x27; but of course it&#x27;s pretty dynamic. I gave Factor a couple of dives a few years ago (after walking through jonesforth prior) and it felt surprisingly complete&#x2F;mature (except for lack of package manager, of course).<p>Given its novelty, I think it&#x27;d be lovely if Kitten took a page from some other languages and had a &quot;QuickStart&quot; or &quot;Crash Course&quot; that consisted of side-by-side examples comparing Kitten to Forth or Factor, or even some other more common language like Javascript. (Ie, elixir-lang does this comparison with Erlang on its website, and it can be helpful).</text></comment> |
6,187,353 | 6,187,435 | 1 | 3 | 6,186,730 | train | <story><title>Kids can't use computers, and why it should worry you</title><url>http://www.coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-computers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>300bps</author><text><i>The problem isn&#x27;t that these people can&#x27;t use computers. It&#x27;s that they can&#x27;t THINK.</i><p>I find it&#x27;s more specific than and not as serious as that. I got my first computer in 1982, first modem in 1985 (hence my username). I find that people who proudly state how not-technical they are actually purposely turn their brain off around computers. It&#x27;s not that they can&#x27;t think. They can and often do around non-technical things. But they automatically assume they&#x27;re unable to fix anything computer-related so they don&#x27;t even try. My wife is a perfect example of that. If I hear, &quot;Printer is not working&quot; again I think I&#x27;m going to throw it out the window. The latest time, she unplugged the printer USB cable to plug in her iPhone and then called me to fix the printer. If this was a &quot;can&#x27;t think&quot; problem, she would belong in a group home. Instead it&#x27;s a &quot;won&#x27;t think about technical things&quot; problem.<p><i>I was one of those kids, and I would be so excited for them that I would bury them in whatever help they needed.</i><p>I was one of those kids too. Only my computer teacher was in his first year of teaching computers, having been drafted from the math program because &quot;computers use math&quot;. He was completely just learning about computers. He would ask me, &quot;Is that right, 300bps?&quot; after almost everything he taught the class. He ended up just having me do special projects doing things like creating math games on the Apple ][e.</text></item><item><author>otakucode</author><text>The problem isn&#x27;t that these people can&#x27;t use computers. It&#x27;s that they can&#x27;t THINK. They do not understand what critical thinking is, or how it works. They do not know how to approach problems or explore solutions. They don&#x27;t know how to do it with their computer... or their car, or their vacuuming robot, or their television, or their oven or their relationships or any thing in their life. They don&#x27;t understand why the world is the way it is, they don&#x27;t know how to figure it out, and they generally think that trying is a suckers game.<p>You mention that there are always 1 or 2 kids a year who have already picked up programming or know how to build a computer... I think I would live for them. I was one of those kids, and I would be so excited for them that I would bury them in whatever help they needed.<p>For the other kids, I&#x27;d put aside the computers for a bit. I&#x27;d teach them critical thinking, because it&#x27;s really the only skill they need to learn (see the documentary &quot;High School&quot; by Wiseman for an excellent example of how reformulating every single class as being centered around critical thinking led a poor latino high schools students to accomplish the highest percentage of students to attain college degrees in the nation... while preserving their youthful exuberance for learning).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>demallien</author><text>Hmmm, it&#x27;s an interesting point. I think the reason people don&#x27;t even try is because they recognize that they can&#x27;t tell the difference between something that might take them 15 minutes of monkeying around to fix, and something that is beyond their competency. Worse, they are not sure that they won&#x27;t make things when trying to fix the problem.<p>I&#x27;m sure it must be similar to the feeling I get when I&#x27;m working on a new code base that I&#x27;m not familiar with, and I need to make a modification in a function so that it calls another module correctly for some new functionality. But I can&#x27;t tell if that change isn&#x27;t going to break something somewhere else, so making that change becomes quite scary.<p>In the software development world, we handle this by creating suites of automatic tests that we can run after the change to make sure that what we just did doesn&#x27;t break things. We also use config managent software so that we can back out any erroneous changes. These things aren&#x27;t available to nontechnical users - they can&#x27;t verify that they haven&#x27;t broken anything, and if they <i>have</i> broken something, they may not be able to put things back the way they were. This pretty much guarantees that people won&#x27;t experiment with their computer.</text></comment> | <story><title>Kids can't use computers, and why it should worry you</title><url>http://www.coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-computers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>300bps</author><text><i>The problem isn&#x27;t that these people can&#x27;t use computers. It&#x27;s that they can&#x27;t THINK.</i><p>I find it&#x27;s more specific than and not as serious as that. I got my first computer in 1982, first modem in 1985 (hence my username). I find that people who proudly state how not-technical they are actually purposely turn their brain off around computers. It&#x27;s not that they can&#x27;t think. They can and often do around non-technical things. But they automatically assume they&#x27;re unable to fix anything computer-related so they don&#x27;t even try. My wife is a perfect example of that. If I hear, &quot;Printer is not working&quot; again I think I&#x27;m going to throw it out the window. The latest time, she unplugged the printer USB cable to plug in her iPhone and then called me to fix the printer. If this was a &quot;can&#x27;t think&quot; problem, she would belong in a group home. Instead it&#x27;s a &quot;won&#x27;t think about technical things&quot; problem.<p><i>I was one of those kids, and I would be so excited for them that I would bury them in whatever help they needed.</i><p>I was one of those kids too. Only my computer teacher was in his first year of teaching computers, having been drafted from the math program because &quot;computers use math&quot;. He was completely just learning about computers. He would ask me, &quot;Is that right, 300bps?&quot; after almost everything he taught the class. He ended up just having me do special projects doing things like creating math games on the Apple ][e.</text></item><item><author>otakucode</author><text>The problem isn&#x27;t that these people can&#x27;t use computers. It&#x27;s that they can&#x27;t THINK. They do not understand what critical thinking is, or how it works. They do not know how to approach problems or explore solutions. They don&#x27;t know how to do it with their computer... or their car, or their vacuuming robot, or their television, or their oven or their relationships or any thing in their life. They don&#x27;t understand why the world is the way it is, they don&#x27;t know how to figure it out, and they generally think that trying is a suckers game.<p>You mention that there are always 1 or 2 kids a year who have already picked up programming or know how to build a computer... I think I would live for them. I was one of those kids, and I would be so excited for them that I would bury them in whatever help they needed.<p>For the other kids, I&#x27;d put aside the computers for a bit. I&#x27;d teach them critical thinking, because it&#x27;s really the only skill they need to learn (see the documentary &quot;High School&quot; by Wiseman for an excellent example of how reformulating every single class as being centered around critical thinking led a poor latino high schools students to accomplish the highest percentage of students to attain college degrees in the nation... while preserving their youthful exuberance for learning).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SomeCallMeTim</author><text>I used to have to help my aunt with her computer. She eventually learned how to do a few things (create and edit documents; print), but it was like she had an absolute blind spot to anything I would say about how to do things.<p>Eventually I gave up and had my wife explain things to her. I swear she used the <i>exact same words</i> that I would have to explain some things, but my aunt understood her just fine and told her how much better she was at explaining. :|<p>Just mentioning this because it appears there are multiple factors at play, at least with some people. My aunt was a lawyer, by the way, so presumably she <i>could</i> think for herself logically on other topics.<p>Aside: I was also a kid who knew more than the programming teachers. And FWIW, I know a lot more about car maintenance than the author of the article, because (unlike him) I also apply my thinking skills to cars and just about everything else in my life. Seems like he shouldn&#x27;t be throwing stones.</text></comment> |
40,807,186 | 40,806,673 | 1 | 2 | 40,804,675 | train | <story><title>WordStar – A Writer's Word Processor (1990)</title><url>https://sfwriter.com/wordstar.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>whartung</author><text>I always thought one of the nice concepts that WS did was the presentation of the command menu.<p>WordStar worked with prefixes, much like Emacs. I think it used ^K and ^Q. But, no matter.<p>The important thing was that if you hit one of the prefix keys, a menu of all the commands would come up. And it was a non trivial menu. More a panel, full screen width, 8-10 lines long.<p>However, if you were fast enough, the menu didn’t appear. Or if you hit the second key of the command, it would abort the menu presentation, restore the screen and keep going.<p>This was important because the displays were slow. It worked on serial terminals, and rendering that menu took quite some time. Of course while it was displaying, and aborting, and restoring the display, it was buffering the keystrokes.<p>Not a small task on a 2Mhz 8080.<p>Simply, a lot of work went into this key component of the experience, to keep the interface out of your way, yet novice friendly and responsive on the very slow hardware we had back in the day.</text></comment> | <story><title>WordStar – A Writer's Word Processor (1990)</title><url>https://sfwriter.com/wordstar.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>joe_the_user</author><text><i>Finally, to come back to the keyboard interface, I think WordStar is the least modal word processor I have ever used. On long-hand paper, writing and editing are one fluid task: there&#x27;s no barrier to discourage you from switching between adding new material and modifying existing material. On a typed page, these tasks are quite distinct, especially with non-electronic typewriters. To change a word is a completely different spectrum of activities, and therefore a completely different mindset, from simply adding new words.</i><p>The thing is, Microsoft Word (for Dos and then Windows) was actually a big step for this also. The standard Windows&#x2F;Macintosh arrow-key-and-selection-area interface was huge step up from previous word processing. The thing is that as author says, previous word processors like WordPerfect preserved faithfully and horribly the typed-page-and-whiteout &quot;interface&quot;. I wrote a number of college papers in WordPerfect and I found it&#x27;s &quot;modalism&quot; terrible (though I&#x27;m sure some is nostalgic, someone found advantages).<p>Moreover, the select-copy-paste system is based on a few simple tools that can be grasped without special training and synergize to produce just about any edit effect. Things weren&#x27;t that easy before and I don&#x27;t miss that.<p>One thing I&#x27;d mention is that graphic editing (photoshop&#x2F;GIMP&#x2F;etc) is still stuck in an interface taken from paper. And that when CorelDraw and Inkscape showed a better interface that also uses a few synergizing tools, other software failed to adopt it. But the pressures on graphics software seems to be different.</text></comment> |
36,646,810 | 36,646,165 | 1 | 2 | 36,643,630 | train | <story><title>Scams upon scams: The data-driven advertising grift</title><url>https://anotherangrywoman.com/2023/07/05/scams-upon-scams-the-data-driven-advertising-grift/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marginalia_nu</author><text>I always feel that a good deal of data-driven anything is basically modern divination. The median data-driven decision might as well have been based on haruspicy.<p>You can construct experiments to demonstrate damn near anything is true, and without (or even with) a rigorous background in statistics and scientific methodology, it&#x27;s very hard to examine the supposed evidence.<p>I know I say this a lot, but constructing solid experiments is time consuming and difficult. It&#x27;s hard even if you you&#x27;re trying to be fair. Professors routinely get this wrong despite a literal decade of formal training in the scientific method and half a lifetime of practical experience with this exact craft; despite how fucking up puts their career, reputation and livelihood in jeopardy. Not only does this happen <i>a lot</i>, bad science routinely slips through peer review as well.<p>That&#x27;s the state of affairs in the spaces that in general aren&#x27;t extremely adversarial, where the people involved in constructing the experiments in general don&#x27;t have a a vested interest in trying to mislead you. (Scientific fraud still happens of course, but Jan Hendrik Schön is the exception and not the rule)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>IG_Semmelweiss</author><text>There&#x27;s always the famous case of Uber made 120M cuts[2] in their 150M adspend, nothing absolutely changed in their app installs. [1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thehustle.co&#x2F;01072021-uber-ad-spend&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thehustle.co&#x2F;01072021-uber-ad-spend&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;augustinefou&#x2F;2021&#x2F;01&#x2F;02&#x2F;when-big-brands-stopped-spending-on-digital-ads-nothing-happened-why&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;augustinefou&#x2F;2021&#x2F;01&#x2F;02&#x2F;when-bi...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Scams upon scams: The data-driven advertising grift</title><url>https://anotherangrywoman.com/2023/07/05/scams-upon-scams-the-data-driven-advertising-grift/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marginalia_nu</author><text>I always feel that a good deal of data-driven anything is basically modern divination. The median data-driven decision might as well have been based on haruspicy.<p>You can construct experiments to demonstrate damn near anything is true, and without (or even with) a rigorous background in statistics and scientific methodology, it&#x27;s very hard to examine the supposed evidence.<p>I know I say this a lot, but constructing solid experiments is time consuming and difficult. It&#x27;s hard even if you you&#x27;re trying to be fair. Professors routinely get this wrong despite a literal decade of formal training in the scientific method and half a lifetime of practical experience with this exact craft; despite how fucking up puts their career, reputation and livelihood in jeopardy. Not only does this happen <i>a lot</i>, bad science routinely slips through peer review as well.<p>That&#x27;s the state of affairs in the spaces that in general aren&#x27;t extremely adversarial, where the people involved in constructing the experiments in general don&#x27;t have a a vested interest in trying to mislead you. (Scientific fraud still happens of course, but Jan Hendrik Schön is the exception and not the rule)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>goodcharles</author><text>Meanwhile, people with no scientific training are entrusted to run A&#x2F;B tests and other web experiments.<p>Practically all web marketing experiments and analysis is invalid, and not replicable. But it pays the bills for everyone to pretend its legitimate.</text></comment> |
11,213,129 | 11,213,126 | 1 | 3 | 11,212,967 | train | <story><title>Comcast gets big tax break that was designed for Google Fiber</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/03/oregon-lawmakers-accidentally-gave-comcast-a-big-tax-break/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>omarforgotpwd</author><text>Why shouldn&#x27;t all service providers benefit from the tax break? Is it ethical to give a tax break that unfairly gives one corporation a competitive advantage against another?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>finnn</author><text>The idea is that service providers that provide gigabit internet benefit, as an incentive to build out gigabit internet. So Comcast offers gigabit internet (actually 2 gbps) at an outrageous price, just so they can qualify for the tax break. While the article says it&#x27;s meant for Google Fiber, it is clearly for any provider who wants to start providing fast internet to people. This would all be fine if the tax break was for companies providing gigabit internet for under a certain price.</text></comment> | <story><title>Comcast gets big tax break that was designed for Google Fiber</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/03/oregon-lawmakers-accidentally-gave-comcast-a-big-tax-break/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>omarforgotpwd</author><text>Why shouldn&#x27;t all service providers benefit from the tax break? Is it ethical to give a tax break that unfairly gives one corporation a competitive advantage against another?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mhurron</author><text>The only issue I can see with it is this part -<p>&quot;But the rule change didn&#x27;t specify that companies have to offer gigabit service at any particular price in order to qualify for the tax break&quot;<p>The idea for the tax break was to bring affordable high speed to the state whereas Comcast is qualifying by offering anything but &#x27;Comcast&#x27;s 2Gbps service costs $300 per month, with $1,000 in startup fees.&#x27;</text></comment> |
38,892,424 | 38,892,661 | 1 | 2 | 38,891,712 | train | <story><title>Live Map of Swiss Trains</title><url>https://maps.vasile.ch/transit-sbb/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hubraumhugo</author><text>It&#x27;s hard for foreigners to grasp that our comprehensive public transport network connects even the most remote areas of Switzerland. My parents are living on a farm in the countryside and still I can get there easily by train and bus. If I need some more flexibility (moving stuff, skiing, ...), there are electric car rentals available at any major train stations. It&#x27;s my ideal version of mobility.<p>PS: The Swiss federal railways also have a large set of open data to enable such cool projects: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.sbb.ch&#x2F;pages&#x2F;home&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.sbb.ch&#x2F;pages&#x2F;home&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sandworm101</author><text>Compare me visiting my parents who live in a &quot;remote&quot; town of in BC about 200km from Vancouver. After a ferry and a bus I found myself outside a grocery store asking strangers for a ride north (no taxi service). A kind soul drove me to the highway turnoff. I walked the last five miles. That&#x27;s what most of North America is like once you step slightly outside of the major cities: No car, no get there.</text></comment> | <story><title>Live Map of Swiss Trains</title><url>https://maps.vasile.ch/transit-sbb/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hubraumhugo</author><text>It&#x27;s hard for foreigners to grasp that our comprehensive public transport network connects even the most remote areas of Switzerland. My parents are living on a farm in the countryside and still I can get there easily by train and bus. If I need some more flexibility (moving stuff, skiing, ...), there are electric car rentals available at any major train stations. It&#x27;s my ideal version of mobility.<p>PS: The Swiss federal railways also have a large set of open data to enable such cool projects: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.sbb.ch&#x2F;pages&#x2F;home&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.sbb.ch&#x2F;pages&#x2F;home&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>panick21_</author><text>Usually locations for skiing are very well connected. Trains that go to popular skiing locations of have places to store your equipment. There are also bikes available at most stations.<p>&gt; It&#x27;s my ideal version of mobility.<p>It can decently be a lot better in a lot of ways. But we have to not just complain but try to objectively criticizes so we can continue to improve.<p>I would like to actually do high-speed rail. Switzerland did really well improving on InterCity trains and got more people to use them. But that became almost a mantra of &#x27;speed doesn&#x27;t matter&#x27;. The actual mantra is &#x27;not as fast as possible, but as fast as required&#x27;.<p>This was correct and with the Rail2035 plan, we are going further in that direction. Many InterCity trains go from every 30 min to every 15 min. Basically turning most of the country into an S-Bahn like system.<p>See here if you are interested: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sbb-step2035.ch&#x2F;de&#x2F;personenverkehr&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sbb-step2035.ch&#x2F;de&#x2F;personenverkehr&#x2F;</a><p>But I think beyond that we should seriously consider a totally new high-speed line, right across the major population centers. That would not just make rail competitive with driving, but beat driving with a big stick. Also this would free up a huge amount of capacity from the existing lines and allow things like 15min regional and inter-regional travel. Plus it would increase cargo capacity.<p>Sadly its currently not in the Rail2050 plan, but there are people pushing for it.<p>Further, I think we can do a lot, a lot better in terms of biking. Compared to the Dutch we are utterly primitive in integrating biking in the larger transport network. In the Netherlands they have figured out that bikes are the optimal feeder system into the rail network and have taken huge advantage of that. Switzerland needs to do so much better in that.<p>Frankly, I think its really useful. I was able to perfectly travel around on Christmas. Getting to family in different parts of the country, no problem.</text></comment> |
33,261,614 | 33,261,562 | 1 | 2 | 33,259,351 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Why don't I see gold at the end of the remote working rainbow?</title><text>Saying the following feels like heresy and whenever I say it, fellow software engineers look at me as if I just asked them if there are GOTOs in Javascript.<p>I used to love going to the office. Discussing our team&#x27;s latest Python problems over a coffee. Looking over at their screen and then asking them why they look like they want to beat someone over the head with their keyboard repeatedly. Guessing people&#x27;s emotions in a heated Retro from their body language. Grabbing dinner with a few colleagues after a long workshop meeting in the evening and then realizing that, aside from all the differences we might have about static typing in programming languages, we all like the same exotic progressive metal bands.<p>Many of these things that made my job much more than slaving at a digital conveyor belt seem to be gone these days. And the worst thing for me is that I feel few people relate. On the contrary, many are screaming in outrage if asked to come to the office even for a single day a week and threaten to quit.<p>To provide a bit of context, I have been working in the Berlin Tech Startup scene for almost a decade. I remember thinking after the first few weeks on my entry-level job that this couldn&#x27;t possible be the horrible &quot;working world&quot; I have seen relatives complain about all their lives. It was fun, gratifying and stimulating to learn new things, meet new people and all the while be payed for doing so and building a career.<p>Now, I am fully aware that there&#x27;s a low of people for whom the horror of commute doesn&#x27;t make up for the gains of socializing and others that just abhor having to talk to real-life people. Then there are people who work mainly to get paid and do not care to invest themselves beyond what is necessary. But are those really the majority? I always saw tech as the field where a disproportionally large amount of people truly love what they do. Mostly, because it takes so much grit and persistence to get good at it that most people wouldn&#x27;t succeed unless they see something in it beyond putting food on the table.<p>Have I been under some weird form of Stockholm Syndrom where I actually enjoyed something that was pure torture to most? Have a lot of people realized they don&#x27;t actually like being among other people, apart from their closest friends and family?<p>And finally, I feel no one else is realizing that they are happily hacking away at the amazingly well-paid branch they&#x27;re sitting on. As soon as a company&#x27;s IT department is practically fully remote, why should they page a German wage for someone who is a face on a screen, when they can pay a fraction for that same face broadcasted from a few hundred kilometers further east or south? German is hardly used in business context here anyway and lower-wage countries within ±3 hours timezones abound.<p>All in all, there is a gnawing feeling in me that Covid made a significant dent on the once fun (Berlin Startup) tech working culture for good. And worse, I suspect there is gonna be more consequences down the road for the tech job market at large that few people seem to see.<p>I know that &quot;the office&quot; is a bad place for a lot of people. There may be product managers that ignore the noise-cancelling headphone stop-sign and make you lose your stack of thoughts just to ask if the dev app URL is still the same it was yesterday. There can be bad managers and unpleasant situations all around. But shouldn&#x27;t we rather work on fixing those things instead of making them bearable by just turning off a camera in a Zoom meeting?<p>From talking to friends, I feel this is a very controversial opinion to have and I don&#x27;t really get why. Any help to make me understand would be greatly appreciated! And just to be clear, I absolutely do get that for some people (fresh parents, people living at home to take care of their parents etc.) remote work is a real blessing. I am just wondering if that is really the case for the majority or what it is that I&#x27;m missing.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>samuel_backend</author><text>Honestly, I feel this is a bit of a black-and-white view that grossly oversimplifies things. And I am downright insulted by the last sentence to be frank.<p>Blaming shitty management on extroverted techies. Are you sure about that?</text></item><item><author>throwaway294566</author><text>&gt; I always saw tech as the field where a disproportionally large amount of people truly love what they do.<p>You do confuse &quot;loving what they do&quot; with &quot;being at the office&quot; and &quot;socializing during slack time&quot;. I do love my job but I do hate socializing with people, which is definitely not my job. That is why I&#x27;m working in IT, I don&#x27;t have to socialize beyond the bare minimum to be successful. I think IT attracts introverts like me, and I do suspect we are the majority (but I have only anecdata for that).<p>&gt; I know that &quot;the office&quot; is a bad place for a lot of people. [...] But shouldn&#x27;t we rather work on fixing those things instead of making them bearable by just turning off a camera in a Zoom meeting?<p>Things have gotten worse and worse around the office. Small one- or few-person offices gave way to cubicles, which gave way to open-plan offices, which gave way to open-plan seat-lottery not-even-your-own-desk offices. No amount of pushback changed this direction in the slightest. Meanwhile noise and interruptions got worse and worse, where in my private office people knocked politely before entering or were kept out by the DND sign, nowadays the seat lottery puts me next to a loudmouthed marketing phone-drone, who when not screaming into the mic drones on about his awesome sales statistics and his new yacht. At least the boss can&#x27;t easily walk over anymore and breathe down my neck because the seat lottery put him somewhere else usually. Any and all things that have been tried to fix this are band-aids and lip-service. It only got worse and worse.<p>WFH is great, finally a step in the right direction. I do have no sympathy for the extroverts, because they got us into the aforementioned mess.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mirchibajji</author><text>Sorry you see it this way. I agree with a lot of what the parent said. The post started the black-and-white framing - the current situation is bad, and we need to fix it.<p>A popular three wishes joke goes: &quot;Three men are stranded on a desert island, when a bottle washes up on the shore. When they uncork the bottle, a genie appears and offers three wishes. The first wishes to be taken to Paris. The genie snaps his fingers, and the man suddenly finds himself standing in front of the Eiffel Tower. The second man wishes that he were in Hollywood, and with a snap of the genie&#x27;s fingers, he finds himself on a Tinseltown movie set. The third man, now alone on the island, looks around and says, &quot;I wish my friends were back.&quot;[1]<p>If you looking for different points of view, I would urge you to look past the trigger words.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Three_wishes_joke" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Three_wishes_joke</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Why don't I see gold at the end of the remote working rainbow?</title><text>Saying the following feels like heresy and whenever I say it, fellow software engineers look at me as if I just asked them if there are GOTOs in Javascript.<p>I used to love going to the office. Discussing our team&#x27;s latest Python problems over a coffee. Looking over at their screen and then asking them why they look like they want to beat someone over the head with their keyboard repeatedly. Guessing people&#x27;s emotions in a heated Retro from their body language. Grabbing dinner with a few colleagues after a long workshop meeting in the evening and then realizing that, aside from all the differences we might have about static typing in programming languages, we all like the same exotic progressive metal bands.<p>Many of these things that made my job much more than slaving at a digital conveyor belt seem to be gone these days. And the worst thing for me is that I feel few people relate. On the contrary, many are screaming in outrage if asked to come to the office even for a single day a week and threaten to quit.<p>To provide a bit of context, I have been working in the Berlin Tech Startup scene for almost a decade. I remember thinking after the first few weeks on my entry-level job that this couldn&#x27;t possible be the horrible &quot;working world&quot; I have seen relatives complain about all their lives. It was fun, gratifying and stimulating to learn new things, meet new people and all the while be payed for doing so and building a career.<p>Now, I am fully aware that there&#x27;s a low of people for whom the horror of commute doesn&#x27;t make up for the gains of socializing and others that just abhor having to talk to real-life people. Then there are people who work mainly to get paid and do not care to invest themselves beyond what is necessary. But are those really the majority? I always saw tech as the field where a disproportionally large amount of people truly love what they do. Mostly, because it takes so much grit and persistence to get good at it that most people wouldn&#x27;t succeed unless they see something in it beyond putting food on the table.<p>Have I been under some weird form of Stockholm Syndrom where I actually enjoyed something that was pure torture to most? Have a lot of people realized they don&#x27;t actually like being among other people, apart from their closest friends and family?<p>And finally, I feel no one else is realizing that they are happily hacking away at the amazingly well-paid branch they&#x27;re sitting on. As soon as a company&#x27;s IT department is practically fully remote, why should they page a German wage for someone who is a face on a screen, when they can pay a fraction for that same face broadcasted from a few hundred kilometers further east or south? German is hardly used in business context here anyway and lower-wage countries within ±3 hours timezones abound.<p>All in all, there is a gnawing feeling in me that Covid made a significant dent on the once fun (Berlin Startup) tech working culture for good. And worse, I suspect there is gonna be more consequences down the road for the tech job market at large that few people seem to see.<p>I know that &quot;the office&quot; is a bad place for a lot of people. There may be product managers that ignore the noise-cancelling headphone stop-sign and make you lose your stack of thoughts just to ask if the dev app URL is still the same it was yesterday. There can be bad managers and unpleasant situations all around. But shouldn&#x27;t we rather work on fixing those things instead of making them bearable by just turning off a camera in a Zoom meeting?<p>From talking to friends, I feel this is a very controversial opinion to have and I don&#x27;t really get why. Any help to make me understand would be greatly appreciated! And just to be clear, I absolutely do get that for some people (fresh parents, people living at home to take care of their parents etc.) remote work is a real blessing. I am just wondering if that is really the case for the majority or what it is that I&#x27;m missing.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>samuel_backend</author><text>Honestly, I feel this is a bit of a black-and-white view that grossly oversimplifies things. And I am downright insulted by the last sentence to be frank.<p>Blaming shitty management on extroverted techies. Are you sure about that?</text></item><item><author>throwaway294566</author><text>&gt; I always saw tech as the field where a disproportionally large amount of people truly love what they do.<p>You do confuse &quot;loving what they do&quot; with &quot;being at the office&quot; and &quot;socializing during slack time&quot;. I do love my job but I do hate socializing with people, which is definitely not my job. That is why I&#x27;m working in IT, I don&#x27;t have to socialize beyond the bare minimum to be successful. I think IT attracts introverts like me, and I do suspect we are the majority (but I have only anecdata for that).<p>&gt; I know that &quot;the office&quot; is a bad place for a lot of people. [...] But shouldn&#x27;t we rather work on fixing those things instead of making them bearable by just turning off a camera in a Zoom meeting?<p>Things have gotten worse and worse around the office. Small one- or few-person offices gave way to cubicles, which gave way to open-plan offices, which gave way to open-plan seat-lottery not-even-your-own-desk offices. No amount of pushback changed this direction in the slightest. Meanwhile noise and interruptions got worse and worse, where in my private office people knocked politely before entering or were kept out by the DND sign, nowadays the seat lottery puts me next to a loudmouthed marketing phone-drone, who when not screaming into the mic drones on about his awesome sales statistics and his new yacht. At least the boss can&#x27;t easily walk over anymore and breathe down my neck because the seat lottery put him somewhere else usually. Any and all things that have been tried to fix this are band-aids and lip-service. It only got worse and worse.<p>WFH is great, finally a step in the right direction. I do have no sympathy for the extroverts, because they got us into the aforementioned mess.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway294566</author><text>Yes, I am sure that extroverts are to blame. But not only extroverted techies. Management is almost 100% extroverts. Extroverted techies went along, repeating the party line of &quot;watercooler talk makes us cooperate more&quot;, &quot;I like the new open floorplan, so social&quot; and &quot;interruptions aren&#x27;t that bad, learn to multitask and get some headphones&quot;. For examples, just read some HN about open floorplans. The introverted techs, being introverts, were less heard and mostly had no say anyways. Extroverted management and techs lacked any interest and necessary empathy to understand them. Whats more, snark and derision for the introverts, not only behind closed doors. HR and management slides praised the new culture of constant social interaction and suggested the rest should just socialize more and learn to multitask and be outgoing. Be more extroverted like us, less like you. Same from the extroverted techies, e.g. here on HN. Introverts just weren&#x27;t accepted and were not heard.<p>So yes, I think snark is warranted and the last sentence is fair play. Now that the shoe is on the other foot, where extroverts don&#x27;t like WFH, I do only treat extroverts with the same contempt I was treated with.</text></comment> |
13,211,046 | 13,211,133 | 1 | 2 | 13,210,979 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Why does 'View Source' issue a new HTTP request?</title><text>I&#x27;ve noticed that both Firefox and Chrome issue a new HTTP request when you view the source for a web page that you&#x27;ve already loaded. It&#x27;s particularly annoying when the page itself is slow to load or if it won&#x27;t load at all.<p>Why is that? Wouldn&#x27;t they have the existing source for the originally received page cached already? Is it based on Cache-Control headers?<p>This has been on my mind for a while (usually comes up when looking at what&#x27;s behind slow web apps) and came up again with Piwik on the front page[1]. Their website was semi-down (HN hug of death) but eventually loaded. I wanted to see what their GA equivalent tracking code looks like but the page failed to load as rather than showing the cached copy, it tried to fetch a new one.<p>[1]: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=13210195</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>spookylukey</author><text>It&#x27;s a bug: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugzilla.mozilla.org&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=307089" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugzilla.mozilla.org&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=307089</a><p>Or, it&#x27;s a memory saving feature. To implement &quot;View source from cache&quot; requires keeping around the raw page HTML, which you might not otherwise need after parsing - except you probably will for all the developer tools to work, so this probably should just be considered bug.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Why does 'View Source' issue a new HTTP request?</title><text>I&#x27;ve noticed that both Firefox and Chrome issue a new HTTP request when you view the source for a web page that you&#x27;ve already loaded. It&#x27;s particularly annoying when the page itself is slow to load or if it won&#x27;t load at all.<p>Why is that? Wouldn&#x27;t they have the existing source for the originally received page cached already? Is it based on Cache-Control headers?<p>This has been on my mind for a while (usually comes up when looking at what&#x27;s behind slow web apps) and came up again with Piwik on the front page[1]. Their website was semi-down (HN hug of death) but eventually loaded. I wanted to see what their GA equivalent tracking code looks like but the page failed to load as rather than showing the cached copy, it tried to fetch a new one.<p>[1]: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=13210195</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>oneeyedpigeon</author><text>I wish View Source were more flexible. I would like:<p>* Raw: a view of the actual body as sent in the response. Although I&#x27;m not aware of the current situation, at least some browsers used to subtly alter what was sent, even for View Source (possibly related to validity corrections). I want a <i>guarantee</i> that what I&#x27;m viewing is what the server sent.<p>* View source as it is today (with a good common understanding of what that means), but a bit more powerful. Give me a cursor so I can copy from the keyboard, for crying out loud! Maybe even let me edit the source so I can work with static pages more easily.<p>* Something in-between View Source and DOM inspector. E.g. the original source, guaranteed to be untouched by javascript, but cleaned-up for easier reading (given that the source returned by many websites nowadays is practically unreadable (take a look at this page, for example). Reformatting (where possible), maybe automatic expansion of any base href, consistent ordering of attributes, highlighting of errors, etc.</text></comment> |
21,849,145 | 21,848,753 | 1 | 2 | 21,847,051 | train | <story><title>Facebook Discovers Fake AI-Generated Profiles</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/business/facebook-ai-generated-profiles.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nemild</author><text>One of the scariest quotes for me was Facebook&#x27;s Little Red Book in 2012 (a book handed out to every employee) that had this quote:<p>&gt; &quot;When everyone has a printing press [i.e., Facebook], the ones with the best ideas are the ones people listen to.&quot;<p>In retrospect, it gives a ton of insight into the flawed beliefs within the company.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;nemild&#x2F;status&#x2F;1006533287378968576" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;nemild&#x2F;status&#x2F;1006533287378968576</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;inside-facebooks-little-red-book-2015-5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;inside-facebooks-little-red-...</a></text></item><item><author>jedberg</author><text>It&#x27;s ironic that as we move into a world where anyone can be a &quot;journalist&quot; and anyone can have a voice, we need professional journalists more than ever.<p>Now a journalist will not only need training in writing well, conveying a story with facts, and investigating, but they will also need to become experts in identifying fake source material.<p>In a world where anyone can make a video or photo of anyone doing anything, we&#x27;ll need to rely on reputable journalists to vet that material for us.<p>Saw a video on YouTube of the President saying something bad? No idea if it&#x27;s real anymore.<p>Sure, a lot of this technology has existed for a while, but it was usually in the fringes (see The National Enquirer). Now it&#x27;s going mainstream.<p>And the worst part is, there are a whole group of people who will not trust a professional journalist (sometimes with good reason) but will trust anyone online who happens to provide evidence that boosters their existing opinions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>primitivesuave</author><text>In the century that the printing press was invented, one of the most popular books to be printed was the Malleus Maleficarum, which systematized the practice of witch burning in the following centuries. Better dissemination of ideas does not necessarily mean better ideas.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Malleus_Maleficarum" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Malleus_Maleficarum</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook Discovers Fake AI-Generated Profiles</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/business/facebook-ai-generated-profiles.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nemild</author><text>One of the scariest quotes for me was Facebook&#x27;s Little Red Book in 2012 (a book handed out to every employee) that had this quote:<p>&gt; &quot;When everyone has a printing press [i.e., Facebook], the ones with the best ideas are the ones people listen to.&quot;<p>In retrospect, it gives a ton of insight into the flawed beliefs within the company.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;nemild&#x2F;status&#x2F;1006533287378968576" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;nemild&#x2F;status&#x2F;1006533287378968576</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;inside-facebooks-little-red-book-2015-5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;inside-facebooks-little-red-...</a></text></item><item><author>jedberg</author><text>It&#x27;s ironic that as we move into a world where anyone can be a &quot;journalist&quot; and anyone can have a voice, we need professional journalists more than ever.<p>Now a journalist will not only need training in writing well, conveying a story with facts, and investigating, but they will also need to become experts in identifying fake source material.<p>In a world where anyone can make a video or photo of anyone doing anything, we&#x27;ll need to rely on reputable journalists to vet that material for us.<p>Saw a video on YouTube of the President saying something bad? No idea if it&#x27;s real anymore.<p>Sure, a lot of this technology has existed for a while, but it was usually in the fringes (see The National Enquirer). Now it&#x27;s going mainstream.<p>And the worst part is, there are a whole group of people who will not trust a professional journalist (sometimes with good reason) but will trust anyone online who happens to provide evidence that boosters their existing opinions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mathgenius</author><text>In the 1850&#x27;s it was widely believed that the invention of the telegraph would bring about world peace.<p>The problem is <i>language itself</i>. We trust it way too much to convey meaning, and truth. But it&#x27;s just a delusion, or a mirage, in much the same way that the search for artificial intelligence is. In fact, I would say that language itself <i>is</i> the first AI invented.</text></comment> |
9,910,713 | 9,910,712 | 1 | 2 | 9,910,622 | train | <story><title>If David Cameron bans secure encryption he can't intercept</title><url>http://blog.mythic-beasts.com/2015/01/15/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-mythic-beasts-employee-after-david-cameron-bans-the-secure-encryption/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>SCdF</author><text>Honestly, it sounds kind of relaxing. Good excuse to get some sunshine.<p>On a more serious note, I can&#x27;t help but think David Cameron is employing the technique of attempting something extreme so that he can do something less extreme (but still really bad) later with less oversight. Of <i>course</i> you can&#x27;t ban strong encryption. His advisers know that, he knows that, _everyone_ knows that.<p>It will be very interesting to see what actually gets put (or attempted to be put) into law. Right now it&#x27;s just a whole lot of unrealistic noise.</text></comment> | <story><title>If David Cameron bans secure encryption he can't intercept</title><url>http://blog.mythic-beasts.com/2015/01/15/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-mythic-beasts-employee-after-david-cameron-bans-the-secure-encryption/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mike-cardwell</author><text>It&#x27;s pretty clear that the UK government doesn&#x27;t have the power to ban encryption. This is just a distraction so that we are happy to accept whatever &quot;less bad&quot; proposals they come up with to increase their surveillance powers. I can&#x27;t help but feel that peoples dislike of Cameron is a pointless distraction too. This is not Cameron. This is government. We will still be having this same discussion in 50 years, unless some miracle technical advancement makes it moot.</text></comment> |
19,375,595 | 19,374,513 | 1 | 2 | 19,373,991 | train | <story><title>Scaleway cloud adds AMD EPYC instances</title><url>https://www.scaleway.com/general-purpose-instances/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>napsterbr</author><text>Nice. The only thing keeping me away from Scaleway are several bad reviews about Online.net network. Anyone got any experience on this?<p>Their arm offerings are nice but unfortunately they are always out of stock. When I contacted support to ask if they have plans to mitigate this, their full response was &quot;sometimes we are victims of our own success&quot; (nice, good for them, but some real information would be useful).<p>Another major problem for anyone considering Scaleway is several reports of not being able to launch an instance from control panel, or completely bricking a working instance by simply restarting it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stevekemp</author><text>I&#x27;ve been a customer of theirs for less than a month. In that time I&#x27;ve had several problems.<p>For example I rebooted a host, and it didn&#x27;t come back. For 10 hours it was down. After getting in touch with their support I was told &quot;Oh yeah, there is a problem with the hypervisor, we&#x27;ll fix it&quot;. Meanwhile their status-site showed &quot;zero problems&quot;. (The next day it came back.)<p>Provisioning a stock (Debian) system results in a host with no working serial console, which makes it hard to rescue.<p>You can&#x27;t make outgoing SMTP (25&#x2F;587) access without giving them copies of passports, etc. Though if you enable IPv6 you&#x27;ll soon discover outgoing SMTP works ;) Only downside there is you can&#x27;t set reverse DNS for your IPv6 address.<p>(Reverse DNS? They require the forward address to point to you before they&#x27;ll let you set it, as a &quot;security measure&quot;.)<p>I&#x27;m using the host for offsite monitoring, but we&#x27;ll see if it stays. Cheap, but perhaps too cheap.</text></comment> | <story><title>Scaleway cloud adds AMD EPYC instances</title><url>https://www.scaleway.com/general-purpose-instances/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>napsterbr</author><text>Nice. The only thing keeping me away from Scaleway are several bad reviews about Online.net network. Anyone got any experience on this?<p>Their arm offerings are nice but unfortunately they are always out of stock. When I contacted support to ask if they have plans to mitigate this, their full response was &quot;sometimes we are victims of our own success&quot; (nice, good for them, but some real information would be useful).<p>Another major problem for anyone considering Scaleway is several reports of not being able to launch an instance from control panel, or completely bricking a working instance by simply restarting it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>haolez</author><text>I&#x27;ve been a customer for 3 years. During the first year, I had some annoying problems, like instances that wouldn&#x27;t restart (got &quot;frozen&quot;) or disks that wouldn&#x27;t attach to my instance. But their support fixed those issues a few hours after creating the tickets.<p>However, for the last 2 years or so, I&#x27;ve had no issues at all and the platform seems to be evolving constantly. Their prices are insanely competitive.<p>If you learn just a little bit of Ansible and Terraform, you can easily setup a Kubernetes cluster there.<p>I can totally recommend them.<p>Disclaimer: just a happy customer :)</text></comment> |
37,796,920 | 37,796,997 | 1 | 2 | 37,793,941 | train | <story><title>The ozone hole above Antarctica has grown to three times the size of Brazil</title><url>https://www.space.com/ozone-hole-antarctica-three-times-size-of-brazil</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>doitLP</author><text>Clickbait:<p>&gt; Yet despite experiencing large seasonal growth this year, the ozone hole is still decreasing in size overall. &quot;Based on the Montreal Protocol and the decrease of anthropogenic ozone-depleting substances, scientists currently predict that the global ozone layer will reach its normal state again by around 2050,&quot; said Claus Zehner, ESA&#x27;s mission manager for Copernicus Sentinel-5P.</text></comment> | <story><title>The ozone hole above Antarctica has grown to three times the size of Brazil</title><url>https://www.space.com/ozone-hole-antarctica-three-times-size-of-brazil</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>phkahler</author><text>What a stupid headline. I have no idea how many times the size of Brazil is normal. Is this 3x as large? Is it 10 percent larger? The whole measure is completely meaningless.</text></comment> |
3,745,873 | 3,745,126 | 1 | 3 | 3,744,841 | train | <story><title>MIT discovers the location of memories: Individual neurons</title><url>http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/123485-mit-discovers-the-location-of-memories-individual-neurons</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amalag</author><text>I agree with this. Because of the brain's ability to access things which are not exactly constrained to it's physicality, I think the brain acts as a type of radio and tunes into memories. Not exactly sure how they are stored.</text></item><item><author>jules</author><text>The data doesn't warrant the title of this post. Even if a single neuron is responsible for triggering a memory (which is hard to say based on mice in the first place), it doesn't follow that the information is stored in the neuron. As an analogy, if we erase a specific bit in memory, whole parts can become unreadable. For example imagine changing a bit in a pointer. That doesn't mean that all of the information was stored in that bit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>irahul</author><text>&#62; Because of the brain's ability to access things which are not exactly constrained to it's physicality,<p>Philosophy and spirituality aren't science. Do you have any citations for brain's metaphysical abilities? Unless proven to be true, personal anecdotes and old wive tales aren't valid data points. Apart from it, I haven't read anything about brain transcending the physical.<p>There is a lot of unknown viz. we don't know what constitutes consciousness, but that doesn't mean it can be attributed to metaphysical. Physical or metaphysical, you need to know for sure - till then, it's "no man's land".</text></comment> | <story><title>MIT discovers the location of memories: Individual neurons</title><url>http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/123485-mit-discovers-the-location-of-memories-individual-neurons</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amalag</author><text>I agree with this. Because of the brain's ability to access things which are not exactly constrained to it's physicality, I think the brain acts as a type of radio and tunes into memories. Not exactly sure how they are stored.</text></item><item><author>jules</author><text>The data doesn't warrant the title of this post. Even if a single neuron is responsible for triggering a memory (which is hard to say based on mice in the first place), it doesn't follow that the information is stored in the neuron. As an analogy, if we erase a specific bit in memory, whole parts can become unreadable. For example imagine changing a bit in a pointer. That doesn't mean that all of the information was stored in that bit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrsebastian</author><text>There's a very strong urge to believe that the brain "tunes" into some kind of non-meatspace realm (spiritual, quantum, etc.)<p>Fairly sure that it'll turn out that it just depends on the massive complexity of neuron/synapse connections, though.<p>But then you think of concepts like 'group psyche', and twins that are separated from birth but share the same thoughts/feelings over a distance...<p>Hopefully science will get to the bottom of it soon :)</text></comment> |
16,589,718 | 16,587,692 | 1 | 2 | 16,585,892 | train | <story><title>Theranos, CEO Holmes, and Former President Balwani Charged with Fraud</title><url>https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-41</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>prostoalex</author><text>I interpreted it somewhat differently. The money paragraph seems to be<p>&gt; claimed that Theranos’ products were deployed by the U.S. Department of Defense on the battlefield in Afghanistan and on medevac helicopters and that the company would generate more than $100 million in revenue in 2014. In truth, Theranos’ technology was never deployed by the U.S. Department of Defense and generated a little more than $100,000 in revenue from operations in 2014.<p>This was not even a forward-looking statement, it was an outright lie in the legal document.<p>One can do pretty much whatever they wish with accredited investors&#x27; money, but it has to be disclosed in the PPM.<p>Even if you have a line item where all the money will be spend on CEO&#x27;s dog&#x27;s private jet travel, accredited investors who have reviewed and signed the PPM have no legal recourse.<p>In Theranos case it looks like a straightforward misrepresentation of facts, which is a red flag for SEC.</text></item><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>Ok, this is the money line in that press release for me:<p><i>“The charges against Theranos, Holmes, and Balwani make clear that there is no exemption from the anti-fraud provisions of the federal securities laws simply because a company is non-public, development-stage, or the subject of exuberant media attention.”</i><p>For all those entrepreneurs are trying to &quot;fake it until you make it&quot; be aware that the SEC considers your strategy both fraudulent and they feel they have the jurisdiction to prosecute you. And while I doubt the SEC is going to go after every CEO that raised a Series A on a pitch deck that was pure fantasy, the people who participated in the round might bring them in if it served their purposes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>c3534l</author><text>I had to go through a bunch of SEC cases for an accounting project a while back. One thing stood out to me more than anything: the SEC goes after cases that are easy more than anything else. Multiple crimes committed with lots of evidence and easy-to-spot damages. It actually gave me the impression that avoiding the ire of the SEC is relatively easy if you set your mind to committing fraud without getting caught.</text></comment> | <story><title>Theranos, CEO Holmes, and Former President Balwani Charged with Fraud</title><url>https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-41</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>prostoalex</author><text>I interpreted it somewhat differently. The money paragraph seems to be<p>&gt; claimed that Theranos’ products were deployed by the U.S. Department of Defense on the battlefield in Afghanistan and on medevac helicopters and that the company would generate more than $100 million in revenue in 2014. In truth, Theranos’ technology was never deployed by the U.S. Department of Defense and generated a little more than $100,000 in revenue from operations in 2014.<p>This was not even a forward-looking statement, it was an outright lie in the legal document.<p>One can do pretty much whatever they wish with accredited investors&#x27; money, but it has to be disclosed in the PPM.<p>Even if you have a line item where all the money will be spend on CEO&#x27;s dog&#x27;s private jet travel, accredited investors who have reviewed and signed the PPM have no legal recourse.<p>In Theranos case it looks like a straightforward misrepresentation of facts, which is a red flag for SEC.</text></item><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>Ok, this is the money line in that press release for me:<p><i>“The charges against Theranos, Holmes, and Balwani make clear that there is no exemption from the anti-fraud provisions of the federal securities laws simply because a company is non-public, development-stage, or the subject of exuberant media attention.”</i><p>For all those entrepreneurs are trying to &quot;fake it until you make it&quot; be aware that the SEC considers your strategy both fraudulent and they feel they have the jurisdiction to prosecute you. And while I doubt the SEC is going to go after every CEO that raised a Series A on a pitch deck that was pure fantasy, the people who participated in the round might bring them in if it served their purposes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>samfisher83</author><text>How do you not go to jail for this? This isn&#x27;t fake it until you make it. This is massive fraud. 100 mil vs 100,000 is off by a factor of 1000.</text></comment> |
25,804,735 | 25,804,489 | 1 | 2 | 25,802,366 | train | <story><title>Google Safe Browsing can kill a startup</title><url>https://gomox.medium.com/google-safe-browsing-can-kill-your-startup-7d73c474b98d</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vaduz</author><text>It&#x27;s a relatively long article - but it does not answer one simple question, which is quite important when discussing this: <i>were there any malicious files hosted on that semi-random Cloudfront URL</i>? I realise that Google did not provide help identifying it - but that does not mean one should simply recomission the server under a new domain and continue as if nothing has happened!<p>From TFA:<p>&gt; We quickly realized an Amazon Cloudfront CDN URL that we used to serve static assets (CSS, Javascript and other media) had been flagged and this was causing our entire application to fail for the customer instances that were using that particular CDN<p>&gt; Around an hour later, and before we had finished moving customers out of that CDN, our site was cleared from the GSB database. I received an automated email confirming that the review had been successful around 2 hours after that fact. No clarification was given about what caused the problem in the first place.<p>Yes, yes, Google Safe Browsing can use its power to wipe you off the internet, and when it encounters a positive hit (false or true!) it does so quite broadly, but that is also <i>exactly what is expected for a solution like that to work</i> - and it will do it again if the same files are hosted under a new URL as soon as detects the problem again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gomox</author><text>Author here. Nothing was fixed, and the blacklist entry was cleared upon requesting a review, with no explanation.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Safe Browsing can kill a startup</title><url>https://gomox.medium.com/google-safe-browsing-can-kill-your-startup-7d73c474b98d</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vaduz</author><text>It&#x27;s a relatively long article - but it does not answer one simple question, which is quite important when discussing this: <i>were there any malicious files hosted on that semi-random Cloudfront URL</i>? I realise that Google did not provide help identifying it - but that does not mean one should simply recomission the server under a new domain and continue as if nothing has happened!<p>From TFA:<p>&gt; We quickly realized an Amazon Cloudfront CDN URL that we used to serve static assets (CSS, Javascript and other media) had been flagged and this was causing our entire application to fail for the customer instances that were using that particular CDN<p>&gt; Around an hour later, and before we had finished moving customers out of that CDN, our site was cleared from the GSB database. I received an automated email confirming that the review had been successful around 2 hours after that fact. No clarification was given about what caused the problem in the first place.<p>Yes, yes, Google Safe Browsing can use its power to wipe you off the internet, and when it encounters a positive hit (false or true!) it does so quite broadly, but that is also <i>exactly what is expected for a solution like that to work</i> - and it will do it again if the same files are hosted under a new URL as soon as detects the problem again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vbernat</author><text>They seem to be unable to answer this question since Google provided no URL. Without knowing what is considered malicious, how could they check if there was anything? What if it is a false positive?</text></comment> |
24,953,402 | 24,953,374 | 1 | 2 | 24,951,915 | train | <story><title>Jailbreaking Used Teslas</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3mb3w/people-are-jailbreaking-used-teslas-to-get-the-features-they-expect</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>illumanaughty</author><text>Owners of photoshop don&#x27;t get free updates even though they own their computer. Software costs money to develop so saying all updates should be free simply because they already own the hardware doesn&#x27;t makes any sense.</text></item><item><author>dragosmocrii</author><text>I remember when Tesla issued that paid software update to make your car accelerate 0-100 a 0.1 seconds faster. If the hardware is there unchanged, why should the software update be a paid upgrade? It means the software was not good to begin with. Seems to me Tesla is trying to model a software development business, but they forget they&#x27;re in the hardware business</text></item><item><author>ydlr</author><text>How long until Tesla (or any manufacturer) remotely disables the ignition on all used cars until the new owner pays them to turn it back on.<p>Its only fair. After all, the new owner just bought a hunk of metal from the previous owner. They still need to purchase a license for features like starting the car.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simon1573</author><text>I don&#x27;t agree with the analogy. Tesla manufacturers the whole package and you buy the car as a package. You don&#x27;t buy the metal from your local car dealer and the software as a separate thing from Tesla.<p>A more fitting analogy would be Apple charging you to upgrade your BIOS.</text></comment> | <story><title>Jailbreaking Used Teslas</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3mb3w/people-are-jailbreaking-used-teslas-to-get-the-features-they-expect</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>illumanaughty</author><text>Owners of photoshop don&#x27;t get free updates even though they own their computer. Software costs money to develop so saying all updates should be free simply because they already own the hardware doesn&#x27;t makes any sense.</text></item><item><author>dragosmocrii</author><text>I remember when Tesla issued that paid software update to make your car accelerate 0-100 a 0.1 seconds faster. If the hardware is there unchanged, why should the software update be a paid upgrade? It means the software was not good to begin with. Seems to me Tesla is trying to model a software development business, but they forget they&#x27;re in the hardware business</text></item><item><author>ydlr</author><text>How long until Tesla (or any manufacturer) remotely disables the ignition on all used cars until the new owner pays them to turn it back on.<p>Its only fair. After all, the new owner just bought a hunk of metal from the previous owner. They still need to purchase a license for features like starting the car.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bonzini</author><text>The hardware and software manufacturers are different, no? IBM mainframe owners do get updates for free.</text></comment> |
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