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24,836,185 | 24,835,716 | 1 | 2 | 24,835,219 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Design Stripe or Hacker News-like favicons in seconds</title><url>https://formito.com/tools/favicon</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>davidweatherall</author><text>I would love this if it had the option to preview say 40 fonts at once? I don&#x27;t know what specific font I want, so I was having to manually search for one, select a random one, and see how it looked. It would be nice to see a grid of 40 favicons, each with a different font on to easily glance over.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Design Stripe or Hacker News-like favicons in seconds</title><url>https://formito.com/tools/favicon</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>matsemann</author><text>I was first a bit hesitant to embed a letter using a custom font in an SVG, but then I saw it actually creates a path. So it will look the same everywhere and not depend on a font-file. Nifty! But how is it done?<p>How usable are svg favicons nowadays? Do I still need a dozen link rels in my &lt;head&gt; with various icons in different formats&#x2F;sizes? Currently I have one .ico file as rel=&quot;shortcut icon&quot;, 4 pngs in various sizes as &quot;icon&quot;, 4 pngs as &quot;apple-touch-icon&quot; and 1 svg as &quot;mask icon&quot;</text></comment> |
14,724,265 | 14,723,849 | 1 | 2 | 14,720,254 | train | <story><title>The language of programming</title><url>https://temochka.com/blog/posts/2017/06/28/the-language-of-programming.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>spc476</author><text>Back in the 80s, Infocom [1] created a database program named Cornerstone. Because it was an integrated environment, identifiers were abstracted. A line of code displayed on the screen as:<p><pre><code> xn = (A * y) * x * (1 - x)
</code></pre>
was actually stored as:<p><pre><code> id17 = (id1 * id11) * id10 * (1 - id10)
</code></pre>
and there was a mapping of internal IDs to visible names:<p><pre><code> id1 A
id2 B
...
id10 x
id11 y
...
id17 xn
</code></pre>
The upshot---you could change the name of a variable anywhere in the editor and the code would still work because the &quot;name&quot; picked by the programmer was not the actual &quot;name&quot; used by the system. I often wonder if that can&#x27;t even extend to keywords in a language as well, translating this [2]:<p><pre><code> medan not_done
börja
för x:= 1 till 5 gör
börja
om person^.age = 120 så
too_old(person);
om person^.age &gt; 130 så
gåtill person_should_be_dead;
slut;
slut;
</code></pre>
into:<p><pre><code> while not_done
begin
for x := 1 to 5 do
begin
if person^.age = 120 then
too_old(person);
if person^.age &gt; 130 then
return person_should_be_dead;
end
end
</code></pre>
Or heck, while we&#x27;re at it:<p><pre><code> while(not_done)
{
for (x = 1 ; x &lt;= 5 ; x++)
{
if (person-&gt;age = 120)
too_old(person);
if (person-&gt;age &gt; 130)
return person_should_be_dead;
}
}
</code></pre>
But I&#x27;m not holding my breath on this.<p>[1] Yes, the company that made all the text adventure games.<p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;boston.conman.org&#x2F;2008&#x2F;01&#x2F;04.1" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;boston.conman.org&#x2F;2008&#x2F;01&#x2F;04.1</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The language of programming</title><url>https://temochka.com/blog/posts/2017/06/28/the-language-of-programming.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ky3</author><text>&gt; For better or worse, we must agree that English has won the world’s common tongue competition.<p>I too labor under the yoke of a foreign tongue not sung to me at my cradle.<p>But something to keep in mind about English is that she gives everyone a hard time. No-one gets a free pass. Absolutely no-one.<p>In a few months, POTUS Trump will visit the Queen of English. Fo&#x27; shizzle they too will have problems with the language. She&#x27;ll have bigly problems, and he&#x27;ll have all the rest.<p>So the thing I do is to have something worthy to say, find people who&#x27;ll appreciate it, and improvise a shared tongue for that special moment.<p>People have always gladly met me halfway.</text></comment> |
14,555,952 | 14,555,662 | 1 | 3 | 14,553,401 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Password-protect a static HTML page</title><url>https://robinmoisson.github.io/staticrypt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joekrill</author><text>From the way we&#x27;ve seen most schools respond to these types of reports from students you have to wonder if you were lucky that you couldn&#x27;t figure out how to report it!</text></item><item><author>roywiggins</author><text>In highschool I realized that my school&#x27;s grading system was using a javascript scheme to control access to grades online:<p>1. Concatenate the username and password, hash the combination<p>2. Name the HTML file with the grades using that hash<p>3. When the user logs in, calculate the hash in Javascript and redirect to that HTML page.<p>In theory, you can only work out the URL of the page if you have the username and password in hand. I&#x27;m sure it was pretty trivially bruteforcable, but aside from that it seemed sort of okay.<p>Until I realized that directory listings were turned on, and the directory that had all the HTML files sometimes had no index.html, thereby rendering the entire obfuscation scheme moot.<p>(n.b. I was too ethical to use this to peek at anyone&#x27;s grades! I did try to report it but it was never clear to whom to report it to, and since every teacher generated these files using their own copy of the program, there was no obvious central place to report this to. A couple of years later online grades were centralized into a different system)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>roywiggins</author><text>The time I accidentally took down the entire school website, I luckily did it at school and immediately told my understanding math teacher, who told IT directly, who came and asked me what I&#x27;d done, and fixed it within a couple minutes.<p>In retrospect I dodged a huge bullet!</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Password-protect a static HTML page</title><url>https://robinmoisson.github.io/staticrypt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joekrill</author><text>From the way we&#x27;ve seen most schools respond to these types of reports from students you have to wonder if you were lucky that you couldn&#x27;t figure out how to report it!</text></item><item><author>roywiggins</author><text>In highschool I realized that my school&#x27;s grading system was using a javascript scheme to control access to grades online:<p>1. Concatenate the username and password, hash the combination<p>2. Name the HTML file with the grades using that hash<p>3. When the user logs in, calculate the hash in Javascript and redirect to that HTML page.<p>In theory, you can only work out the URL of the page if you have the username and password in hand. I&#x27;m sure it was pretty trivially bruteforcable, but aside from that it seemed sort of okay.<p>Until I realized that directory listings were turned on, and the directory that had all the HTML files sometimes had no index.html, thereby rendering the entire obfuscation scheme moot.<p>(n.b. I was too ethical to use this to peek at anyone&#x27;s grades! I did try to report it but it was never clear to whom to report it to, and since every teacher generated these files using their own copy of the program, there was no obvious central place to report this to. A couple of years later online grades were centralized into a different system)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Natsu</author><text>When I found a way to bypass the login process back in university and thereby gain access to the previous users&#x27; network storage in university, I reported it anonymously for that very reason.</text></comment> |
34,403,197 | 34,402,788 | 1 | 2 | 34,397,715 | train | <story><title>Heat pumps of the 1800s are becoming the technology of the future</title><url>https://knowablemagazine.org/article/technology/2023/heat-pumps-becoming-technology-future</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AlanSE</author><text>The fridge isn&#x27;t the biggest energy hog in the house, but I&#x27;m very sympathetic to the absurdity of heat levels in a house.<p>I often see my HVAC cooling when the set-point temperature is actually _higher_ than the outside temperature. Logically, the house is a heat generator, it makes sense physically. The roof is black, etc.<p>It would offer a good number of benefits if the system could outright open a duct to the outdoor air, and suck it in whenever the local outside temperature is within the range requested by the user. People who are into optimizing energy use (they exist) can go even further and pre-cool their house during the night in summer.<p>For this to work, all you need a pusher fan, no refrigeration at all. There might be some pressurization problems, like, you may need a duct both for the intake and outlet. Also might require another filter... but air quality would improve significantly.<p>This is a really &quot;dumb&quot; idea, but it&#x27;s perfectly in-line with all the new ideas being thrown out there. The new ideas just tend to throw in an additional heat storage mechanism, like a water tank (in the article). You can get a lot more efficiency gains by saving the night&#x27;s cold in a tank and using it through the day. But on a more basic level, you can pump straight into the house when the conditions are right.</text></item><item><author>nickpeterson</author><text>Why can’t my whole home participate in this technology? It would seem an ok fit for things like freezers, refrigerators, hot water heaters, etc.<p>When it’s freezing cold outside, it seems crazy that I warm the air of my house and then use electricity to keep the fridge cooler than the air I just heated.<p>Someone needs to make a standard for moving heat&#x2F;cool through all appliances in a house…</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ComputerGuru</author><text>I&#x27;ve built&#x2F;retrofitted and a prototype of mechanically operated louvres with push&#x2F;pull fans for air exchange in an old school building, tied to the thermostat, ac, and a CO2 detector.<p>The idea of doing the same in my home has been taunting me for years now. Ideally you&#x27;d have two such louvres, one with a push fan in the upper floor and the other with a pull fan in the lower floor to simultaneously eject unwanted heat, bring in fresh air, and boost whole-house circulation. They&#x27;d be set up to interface with the thermostat&#x2F;hvac and would operate when the outdoor temperature at intake is lower than the temperature at exhaust and both are above the set point on the ac.<p>The biggest problem is really one of convenience. You&#x27;d need a filter on the intake and a rather large and powerful fan to overcome that static pressure - ergo, a noisy one. And you&#x27;d probably have to fully dismantle the system in the winter to prevent the cold from getting in (the Midwest is cursed with both hot and humid summers and cold and dry winters). It just end up being the kind of thing where the devil really is in the details and you either do it right and it&#x27;s a huge undertaking or you do it fast and sloppy and its drawbacks won&#x27;t be worth it.<p>But I agree, nothing is more infuriating than seeing the AC on and the outdoor air temperature being lower than that of the home. And opening windows just doesn&#x27;t make a difference since in most 20th century homes there&#x27;s just poor airflow and no circulation.</text></comment> | <story><title>Heat pumps of the 1800s are becoming the technology of the future</title><url>https://knowablemagazine.org/article/technology/2023/heat-pumps-becoming-technology-future</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AlanSE</author><text>The fridge isn&#x27;t the biggest energy hog in the house, but I&#x27;m very sympathetic to the absurdity of heat levels in a house.<p>I often see my HVAC cooling when the set-point temperature is actually _higher_ than the outside temperature. Logically, the house is a heat generator, it makes sense physically. The roof is black, etc.<p>It would offer a good number of benefits if the system could outright open a duct to the outdoor air, and suck it in whenever the local outside temperature is within the range requested by the user. People who are into optimizing energy use (they exist) can go even further and pre-cool their house during the night in summer.<p>For this to work, all you need a pusher fan, no refrigeration at all. There might be some pressurization problems, like, you may need a duct both for the intake and outlet. Also might require another filter... but air quality would improve significantly.<p>This is a really &quot;dumb&quot; idea, but it&#x27;s perfectly in-line with all the new ideas being thrown out there. The new ideas just tend to throw in an additional heat storage mechanism, like a water tank (in the article). You can get a lot more efficiency gains by saving the night&#x27;s cold in a tank and using it through the day. But on a more basic level, you can pump straight into the house when the conditions are right.</text></item><item><author>nickpeterson</author><text>Why can’t my whole home participate in this technology? It would seem an ok fit for things like freezers, refrigerators, hot water heaters, etc.<p>When it’s freezing cold outside, it seems crazy that I warm the air of my house and then use electricity to keep the fridge cooler than the air I just heated.<p>Someone needs to make a standard for moving heat&#x2F;cool through all appliances in a house…</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ballenf</author><text>I&#x27;ve often wondered if opening windows while AC is running and outside temp is below inside temp is less efficient than keeping them closed.<p>My thought is I should keep them closed due to extra load on the AC to dehumidify the outside air. Or open windows and turn AC to fan-only mode to prevent stagnant air in rooms without windows.</text></comment> |
34,574,073 | 34,573,757 | 1 | 3 | 34,571,885 | train | <story><title>AirGradient Open Source Air Quality Monitor for CO2 and PM2.5 Measurements</title><url>https://www.airgradient.com/open-airgradient/instructions/diy-pro-v37/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NikolaNovak</author><text>Open source diy is wonderful. But is there a reliable trustworthy monitor that can just... Be bought? A box that will reliably tell me what&#x27;s the carbon dioxide carbon monoxide dust allergens volatile compounds? Am I possibly being greedy and I need several konitors (I wouldn&#x27;t have an issue with that)?<p>Every review I check for any consumer accessible device seems to indicate they&#x27;re inaccurate, miscalibrated, or downright deceptive :-(</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>daniel_iversen</author><text>I got the uHoo Air Quality Monitor[1] and I love it. One of the few nice smart-home&#x2F;app ones to monitor carbon monoxide too. But it&#x27;s pricey. I can probably get some discount codes from them if the HN community is interested (I&#x27;ve spoken with their team once before in Singapore and they were very nice and accommodating!)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;getuhoo.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;getuhoo.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>AirGradient Open Source Air Quality Monitor for CO2 and PM2.5 Measurements</title><url>https://www.airgradient.com/open-airgradient/instructions/diy-pro-v37/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NikolaNovak</author><text>Open source diy is wonderful. But is there a reliable trustworthy monitor that can just... Be bought? A box that will reliably tell me what&#x27;s the carbon dioxide carbon monoxide dust allergens volatile compounds? Am I possibly being greedy and I need several konitors (I wouldn&#x27;t have an issue with that)?<p>Every review I check for any consumer accessible device seems to indicate they&#x27;re inaccurate, miscalibrated, or downright deceptive :-(</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>karmelapple</author><text>The Aranet has worked well for me, and I think is calibrated well and works smoothly. It’s not the cheapest though, but I haven’t recharged it in over a year… almost two years now!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;a.co&#x2F;d&#x2F;9o1Qvzb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;a.co&#x2F;d&#x2F;9o1Qvzb</a></text></comment> |
17,960,327 | 17,960,527 | 1 | 3 | 17,959,523 | train | <story><title>The US has spent $1.5 trillion on war since Sept 11 attacks</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/10/the-us-has-spent-1point5-trillion-on-war-since-september-11-attacks.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rfinney</author><text>What about the contrarian view that the Pax Americana has brought the greatest era of peace, wealth and standard of living to the world?<p>Our forefathers paid a higher price.<p>Security and liberty are not without costs.</text></item><item><author>kibwen</author><text>The usual thought experiment for framing the magnitudinal difference between millionaires and billionaires, extended to trillions:<p>One million seconds ago was Thursday, August 30 (11 days).<p>One billion seconds ago was Saturday, January 3, 1987 (31 years).<p>One trillion seconds ago was back during the Pleistocene geological epoch and the Paleolithic era of prehistory (31,689 years).<p>The quantity of American resources that have been wasted on war is shameful. For my own mental health I try not to dwell too long upon all the infrastructure, research, and social programs that money could have been better spent on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikeash</author><text>That only works if the massive resources spent on Afghanistan and Iraq helped with the Pax Americana. I see no reason to think it did, and a multitude of reasons to think the opposite. How many millions have now died because we knocked over Iraq without anything resembling a real plan for handling the aftermath?</text></comment> | <story><title>The US has spent $1.5 trillion on war since Sept 11 attacks</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/10/the-us-has-spent-1point5-trillion-on-war-since-september-11-attacks.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rfinney</author><text>What about the contrarian view that the Pax Americana has brought the greatest era of peace, wealth and standard of living to the world?<p>Our forefathers paid a higher price.<p>Security and liberty are not without costs.</text></item><item><author>kibwen</author><text>The usual thought experiment for framing the magnitudinal difference between millionaires and billionaires, extended to trillions:<p>One million seconds ago was Thursday, August 30 (11 days).<p>One billion seconds ago was Saturday, January 3, 1987 (31 years).<p>One trillion seconds ago was back during the Pleistocene geological epoch and the Paleolithic era of prehistory (31,689 years).<p>The quantity of American resources that have been wasted on war is shameful. For my own mental health I try not to dwell too long upon all the infrastructure, research, and social programs that money could have been better spent on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cyphar</author><text>Given that America has constantly been at some sort of state of war since WW2, the concept of Pax Americana (which apparently started after WW2, while the Americans were in a cold war with the Russians -- and various new conflicts each decade) is simply a rewrite of history based on modern imperialistic pro-American propaganda.<p>Arguing that &quot;security and liberty&quot; (of Americans I assume, not the rest of the world) is worth &quot;bringing peace&quot; (read: starting wars and overthrowing democratically elected leaders) to other countries is just silly. Many millions of people were killed in the middle east (and many of them were innocent civilians). How would you act if a foreign power (acting as though they were the bringers of civilisation to a group of savages) decide to kill millions of Americans? I doubt you would think that those invaders were particularly deserving of the moral high-ground.</text></comment> |
23,920,552 | 23,920,674 | 1 | 3 | 23,919,175 | train | <story><title>Apple Security Research Device Program</title><url>https://developer.apple.com/programs/security-research-device/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>saurik</author><text>Anyone who wants to should be able to buy such a device, as it isn&#x27;t like any of the machine code you are getting elevated access to is even secret (you can download, from Apple, unencrypted copies of the entire operating system). (You can try to make an argument that this is about keeping you from getting access to third-party encrypted assets to prevent some aspect of piracy in the App Store, but this doesn&#x27;t accomplish that either as you need only have a single supported jailbroken device for that to be easy, and the world already has millions of those and you can&#x27;t really prevent them as the act of fixing bugs discloses the bug for the older firmware.)<p>The real problem here is that Apple is so ridiculously controlling with respect to who is allowed to develop software (in Apple&#x27;s perfect world, all software development would require an Apple license and all software would require Apple review)--in a legal area that isn&#x27;t really conducive to that (see Sega v. Accolade, which was important enough to later ensure permanent exemptions on reverse engineering and even jailbreaking for software interoperability purposes in the original DMCA anti-tampering laws)--that they are even working right now on suing Corellium, a company which makes an iPhone emulator (which again, has strong legal precedent), in order to prevent anyone but a handful of highly controlled people from being able to debug their platform.<p>Apple just has such a history of being anti-security researcher--banning people like Charlie Miller from the App Store for showing faults in their review process, pulling the vulnerability detection app from Stefan Esser, slandering Google Project Zero, denying the iPhone 11 location tracking until proven wrong, requiring people in their bug bounty program to be willing to irresponsibly hold bugs indefinitely so Apple can fix things only at their leisure, and using the DMCA to try to squelch research via takedowns--that this ends up feeling like yet another flat gesture: they should have done much more than this device at least a decade ago. I&#x27;d say Apple is in store for a pretty big fall if anyone ever manages to get a bankroll large enough to actually fight them in court for any protracted length of time :&#x2F;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Despegar</author><text>&gt;that they are even working right now on suing Corellium, a company which makes an iPhone emulator (which again, has strong legal precedent), in order to prevent anyone but a handful of highly controlled people from being able to debug their platform.<p>Anyone can debug their platform, as they have been. You just need to be approved for this specific program.<p>Apple&#x27;s case against Corellium is about intellectual property, and it&#x27;s frankly going to be a slam dunk in court. There&#x27;s already established precedent with Apple v. Psystar with an almost identical set of facts.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple Security Research Device Program</title><url>https://developer.apple.com/programs/security-research-device/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>saurik</author><text>Anyone who wants to should be able to buy such a device, as it isn&#x27;t like any of the machine code you are getting elevated access to is even secret (you can download, from Apple, unencrypted copies of the entire operating system). (You can try to make an argument that this is about keeping you from getting access to third-party encrypted assets to prevent some aspect of piracy in the App Store, but this doesn&#x27;t accomplish that either as you need only have a single supported jailbroken device for that to be easy, and the world already has millions of those and you can&#x27;t really prevent them as the act of fixing bugs discloses the bug for the older firmware.)<p>The real problem here is that Apple is so ridiculously controlling with respect to who is allowed to develop software (in Apple&#x27;s perfect world, all software development would require an Apple license and all software would require Apple review)--in a legal area that isn&#x27;t really conducive to that (see Sega v. Accolade, which was important enough to later ensure permanent exemptions on reverse engineering and even jailbreaking for software interoperability purposes in the original DMCA anti-tampering laws)--that they are even working right now on suing Corellium, a company which makes an iPhone emulator (which again, has strong legal precedent), in order to prevent anyone but a handful of highly controlled people from being able to debug their platform.<p>Apple just has such a history of being anti-security researcher--banning people like Charlie Miller from the App Store for showing faults in their review process, pulling the vulnerability detection app from Stefan Esser, slandering Google Project Zero, denying the iPhone 11 location tracking until proven wrong, requiring people in their bug bounty program to be willing to irresponsibly hold bugs indefinitely so Apple can fix things only at their leisure, and using the DMCA to try to squelch research via takedowns--that this ends up feeling like yet another flat gesture: they should have done much more than this device at least a decade ago. I&#x27;d say Apple is in store for a pretty big fall if anyone ever manages to get a bankroll large enough to actually fight them in court for any protracted length of time :&#x2F;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ladberg</author><text>If anyone could buy this device, then tons of scammers would buy them, install malware, and sell them to people as normal phones. They could then control banking apps and whatever else they wanted.</text></comment> |
24,829,808 | 24,828,468 | 1 | 2 | 24,826,854 | train | <story><title>Developing Multitile Creatures in Roguelikes</title><url>https://www.gridsagegames.com/blog/2020/04/developing-multitile-creatures-roguelikes/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>podiki</author><text>The entire dev blog [0] here is really great for anyone interested in game dev, roguelikes, graphics, etc. etc. Lots of in depth information and great images&#x2F;gifs. Such a nice resource and to give to a community of small game developers, lots on there on my reading list!<p>(It is from the developer of Cogmind, Josh Ge, who also has a nice video [2] on their journey to becoming a game developer. I love how the game looks, but haven&#x27;t yet tried it.)<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gridsagegames.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gridsagegames.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gridsagegames.com&#x2F;cogmind&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gridsagegames.com&#x2F;cogmind&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=9yJflbg0V38" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=9yJflbg0V38</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Developing Multitile Creatures in Roguelikes</title><url>https://www.gridsagegames.com/blog/2020/04/developing-multitile-creatures-roguelikes/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Der_Einzige</author><text>I am a huge fan of roguelikes and I casually develop one of my own for fun (in a very very early stage of development) so anything like this instantly gets my upvote.<p>This article is super sweet to see and the cogmind creator writes more about development for Roguelikes more than anyone else I know. Truly a wonderful resource in the community.<p>I am however surprised by the omission of what I consider to be an obvious example of multi-tile creatures which would be vehicles in Cataclysm: DDA<p>I suppose a vehicle is not a creature, but I think that for all intents and purposes, that the implementation details will be very similar. I think it&#x27;s also possible to get AI controlled vehicles which are functionally very very similar to a creature.<p>Of course, he may have left out Cataclysm DDA because its implementation is funky. You&#x27;ll notice this if you take a pickup truck and turn in diagonal, suddenly opening up half of your vehicle to zombies despite it being closed when the vehicle oriented in any of the four standard directions (up, down, left, right)</text></comment> |
16,312,047 | 16,312,126 | 1 | 3 | 16,311,632 | train | <story><title>Dow plunges 1000 points</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/04/us-stocks-interest-rates-futures.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>valuearb</author><text>Buffett had a good quote about it once that I can&#x27;t find now, but essentially during most of your life you will be a net buyer of stocks. Only at the end, during your retirement, will you be a net seller and only then will you want high prices.<p>Until then, the less you pay for your stock purchases, the better your long term gains will be.</text></item><item><author>dvfjsdhgfv</author><text>&gt; Obviously, either way a decline in the stock market indexes is good news for almost everyone. I&#x27;m hoping for a real crash as I need to save lots more money, not just for my retirement but also for my kids college.<p>Could you elaborate?</text></item><item><author>valuearb</author><text>I hate to be nitpicking about good news, but the S&amp;P 500 is down less than 7% from it&#x27;s peak, that&#x27;s hardly a crash. Especially after gaining 26% over the previous year. And, after increasing over 90% the last 5 years.<p>Obviously, either way a decline in the stock market indexes is good news for almost everyone. I&#x27;m hoping for a real crash as I need to save lots more money, not just for my retirement but also for my kids college.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hsitz</author><text>Another way of thinking about it is: on average, stock value over the long term (20+ years) is very likely to be in range of, say, 5%&#x2F;year, plus or minus (actual number is not that important for our purpose here), after adjusting for inflation. If stocks have been on a recent runup, gaining, say, 50% or 100% over a period of a few years, then they are very likely to grow more slowly than average (i.e., revert to the mean) over the coming years. If you buy during period of inflated prices you will realize a lower than average return if you&#x27;re holding over the long term.<p>Robert Shiller (Yale finance professor, of Case&#x2F;Shiller housing index) likes to make the following analogy. Predicting the stock market is basically the opposite of predicting weather. With weather our short-term predictions can be fairly accurate, but our long term predictions are very poor. With the stock market it&#x27;s the reverse, short-term predictions are worthless, but long term predictions are generally fairly accurate.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dow plunges 1000 points</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/04/us-stocks-interest-rates-futures.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>valuearb</author><text>Buffett had a good quote about it once that I can&#x27;t find now, but essentially during most of your life you will be a net buyer of stocks. Only at the end, during your retirement, will you be a net seller and only then will you want high prices.<p>Until then, the less you pay for your stock purchases, the better your long term gains will be.</text></item><item><author>dvfjsdhgfv</author><text>&gt; Obviously, either way a decline in the stock market indexes is good news for almost everyone. I&#x27;m hoping for a real crash as I need to save lots more money, not just for my retirement but also for my kids college.<p>Could you elaborate?</text></item><item><author>valuearb</author><text>I hate to be nitpicking about good news, but the S&amp;P 500 is down less than 7% from it&#x27;s peak, that&#x27;s hardly a crash. Especially after gaining 26% over the previous year. And, after increasing over 90% the last 5 years.<p>Obviously, either way a decline in the stock market indexes is good news for almost everyone. I&#x27;m hoping for a real crash as I need to save lots more money, not just for my retirement but also for my kids college.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JoshTriplett</author><text>I once heard it described as &quot;the market is on sale right now&quot;.</text></comment> |
16,960,672 | 16,960,206 | 1 | 2 | 16,958,446 | train | <story><title>Show HN: A free, lightweight static page to get stock quotes using the IEX API</title><url>https://github.com/toddwschneider/stocks</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>djhworld</author><text>One thing I&#x27;ve taken away from this is vanilla Javascript seems to have come a long way, or I&#x27;ve just never taken the time to fully appreciate all the features<p>For example I didn&#x27;t even realise JS supported string interpolation<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;toddwschneider&#x2F;stocks&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;index.html#L111" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;toddwschneider&#x2F;stocks&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;index.h...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mcintyre1994</author><text>There&#x27;s some really good examples of this in Wes Bos&#x27; (free) javascript30.com course - 30 short videos all using vanilla Javascript and showing some really neat new features.<p>Another really awesome new feature which I can&#x27;t remember if it&#x27;s in that course or not, is fetch - super simple AJAX API using promises. It&#x27;s also used in this app: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;toddwschneider&#x2F;stocks&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;index.html#L151" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;toddwschneider&#x2F;stocks&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;index.h...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: A free, lightweight static page to get stock quotes using the IEX API</title><url>https://github.com/toddwschneider/stocks</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>djhworld</author><text>One thing I&#x27;ve taken away from this is vanilla Javascript seems to have come a long way, or I&#x27;ve just never taken the time to fully appreciate all the features<p>For example I didn&#x27;t even realise JS supported string interpolation<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;toddwschneider&#x2F;stocks&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;index.html#L111" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;toddwschneider&#x2F;stocks&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;index.h...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wjossey</author><text>I had taken a nearly six year break from JavaScript coding until about 7 months ago. It has definitely come a long way and is pretty great to use now.<p>There’s still a lot of “pain” left in the build processes, transpiling, etc, but they’re less painful than they were half a decade ago. Those are also less specific to issues with the language, and more with how we need to use the language.<p>While not plain JS, I’d strongly recommend trying Vue if you’re getting back into JS. Is a true pleasure to use on a daily basis, and I never find myself fighting it. It makes writing non static sites with interactivity a breeze, and even when I’m building near static pages, I like how it helps me to organize my code (from a structure standpoint, it isn’t opinionated on this stuff).</text></comment> |
22,838,444 | 22,838,600 | 1 | 2 | 22,833,304 | train | <story><title>Braid – A team-chat app with a novel UI for better conversations</title><url>https://github.com/braidchat/braid</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rafd</author><text>Hey HN! One of the creators of Braid here.<p>We started Braid internally in the pre-Slack days (we were using HipChat then), because we felt that &quot;chatrooms&quot; didn&#x27;t promote good async team workflows. They would lead to a lot of FOMO and constant checking, because if you didn&#x27;t participate in a conversation at the right time, the topic in a channel would have moved on to something else. We liked the async nature of email more, but, email has it&#x27;s own baggage.<p>Our team has been using Braid internally for several years and we&#x27;re very happy with it. But, compared to Slack, it&#x27;s best thought of as a prototype &#x2F; experiment &#x2F; UI-proof-of-concept, because we don&#x27;t have the polish and maturity of features that Slack has.<p>We&#x27;ve had interest from some individuals who &quot;get it&quot;, but it&#x27;s often been hard for those individuals to convert the rest of their teams. If any team here is interested in the Braid concept and wants to give it a serious go, I&#x27;m at your disposal, and I&#x27;d love to get your feedback so we can keep morphing the product.<p>The use of &quot;hashtags&quot; in our demos is a bit overdone compared to what happens in practice. It makes it seem like twitter #hastags, but, it&#x27;s really more like Gmail labels. Braid tags serve the same purpose as Slack&#x27;s channels, except a given thread can exist in multiple channels (ie. go to multiple teams &#x2F; individuals) and tags can be added over time (ie. more people can be invited to the conversation).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ssivark</author><text>In essence, this moving conversations from a “category” ontology (mutually exclusive, collectively exhaustive) to a “tags” ontology. In a sense this is rediscovering email&#x2F;list addresses with cc ;-)<p>One can set up “tag subscriptions” (propagating hooks) for tags, such that at the lowest level, the messages you see are all the messages you’ve been tagged in. This can even be made declarative, so adding&#x2F;removing tags can re-jig who will see which conversations.<p>There is an obvious niceness to this approach :-) What would you say are the problems&#x2F;challenges with this modeling of the domain?</text></comment> | <story><title>Braid – A team-chat app with a novel UI for better conversations</title><url>https://github.com/braidchat/braid</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rafd</author><text>Hey HN! One of the creators of Braid here.<p>We started Braid internally in the pre-Slack days (we were using HipChat then), because we felt that &quot;chatrooms&quot; didn&#x27;t promote good async team workflows. They would lead to a lot of FOMO and constant checking, because if you didn&#x27;t participate in a conversation at the right time, the topic in a channel would have moved on to something else. We liked the async nature of email more, but, email has it&#x27;s own baggage.<p>Our team has been using Braid internally for several years and we&#x27;re very happy with it. But, compared to Slack, it&#x27;s best thought of as a prototype &#x2F; experiment &#x2F; UI-proof-of-concept, because we don&#x27;t have the polish and maturity of features that Slack has.<p>We&#x27;ve had interest from some individuals who &quot;get it&quot;, but it&#x27;s often been hard for those individuals to convert the rest of their teams. If any team here is interested in the Braid concept and wants to give it a serious go, I&#x27;m at your disposal, and I&#x27;d love to get your feedback so we can keep morphing the product.<p>The use of &quot;hashtags&quot; in our demos is a bit overdone compared to what happens in practice. It makes it seem like twitter #hastags, but, it&#x27;s really more like Gmail labels. Braid tags serve the same purpose as Slack&#x27;s channels, except a given thread can exist in multiple channels (ie. go to multiple teams &#x2F; individuals) and tags can be added over time (ie. more people can be invited to the conversation).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rakoo</author><text>Very nice to see some innovation in this space, I wish there were more novelties like this !<p>Like someone said in the thread, I know that Zulip has a similar system (although I&#x27;ve never used it): you have predefined &quot;rooms&quot;, and inside each &quot;room&quot; you can start a new thread, with its own topic, much like a new email thread. From what I can see the home view can directly show all snippets from all conversations directly, without having to jump from room to room. Also, since you&#x27;re not interested in _all_ the discussions in the room, you can only follow some. I guess it&#x27;s the same for Braid ?<p>Speaking of similarities, Google Chat (the one for GSuite accounts) still has a similar model: you have rooms, and in each rooms you must create (unnamed) threads and you can chooses which one to follow (and be notified for). Unfortunately the UI is not very well done, all threads are stacked vertically so you can&#x27;t switch from one to the other easily and a lot of screen estate is lost. I think this is where Braid might do things better.<p>One thing that Braid does is it essentially hides all the conversations you&#x27;re not interested in. However sometimes I had to search for something I didn&#x27;t really remember, and I only could find it because I had a rough idea about what appeared before or after, or the time it was said. Is there a way to do the same with Braid ?<p>Lastly, thank you for making this open source, it&#x27;s rare enough that it needs to be underlined. Oh and I see matrix integration is on the roadmap ? Would that mean that Braid would essentially become a glorified matrix client ? I don&#x27;t mean to sound negative, I&#x27;d really wish to try it but I can&#x27;t use it if I have no one to talk to, so I&#x27;m gonna follow Braid closely in the future.</text></comment> |
4,569,456 | 4,568,886 | 1 | 3 | 4,568,558 | train | <story><title>Go Bloviations</title><url>http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/go_bloviations.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cletus</author><text>A couple of responses:<p>- I too dislike the lack of a ternary operator. Python has this problem too (you can create boolean expressions to sorta mimic it but it doesn't tend to be considered "Pythonic"). And brevity is my reason too. I'm sure it's easier to parse without it but it can't be that hard.<p>- On the "damnable use requirement", I see his point. If anything, it means that Go will be better used with IDEs than text editors that'll do this for you automatically;<p>- On the "thread safe set", yeah he's Doing It Wrong [tm] (which I think he knows). You use channels to share state in Go rather than creating shared state directly.<p>- Unbuffered channels seem to be idomatic. Race conditions and deadlocks seem to often be the result of using buffered channels;<p>- On his channel reads issue ("violating time and space") I disagree: it's good to have blocking and non-blocking channel reads.<p>I basically agree with his conclusions, particularly in Go feeling like a "modern C", something I desperately hope succeeds.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jabbles</author><text>Go doesn't have non-blocking receives anymore.<p><pre><code> value, ok := &#60;- ch
</code></pre>
will block, always. Iff the channel is closed, ok will be false, allowing you to distinguish between a zero value sent on the channel, and the zero value you get back if you try to receive on a closed channel. Receiving from a nil channel always blocks.<p>Select statements allow you to check if a channel has had a value sent on it.<p><a href="http://golang.org/ref/spec#Receive_operator" rel="nofollow">http://golang.org/ref/spec#Receive_operator</a><p><a href="https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-nuts/Z63l4LDOlsI/54uTd4x9eiIJ" rel="nofollow">https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-nuts/Z63l4LDOlsI/54uT...</a><p><a href="http://golang.org/ref/spec#Select_statements" rel="nofollow">http://golang.org/ref/spec#Select_statements</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Go Bloviations</title><url>http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/go_bloviations.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cletus</author><text>A couple of responses:<p>- I too dislike the lack of a ternary operator. Python has this problem too (you can create boolean expressions to sorta mimic it but it doesn't tend to be considered "Pythonic"). And brevity is my reason too. I'm sure it's easier to parse without it but it can't be that hard.<p>- On the "damnable use requirement", I see his point. If anything, it means that Go will be better used with IDEs than text editors that'll do this for you automatically;<p>- On the "thread safe set", yeah he's Doing It Wrong [tm] (which I think he knows). You use channels to share state in Go rather than creating shared state directly.<p>- Unbuffered channels seem to be idomatic. Race conditions and deadlocks seem to often be the result of using buffered channels;<p>- On his channel reads issue ("violating time and space") I disagree: it's good to have blocking and non-blocking channel reads.<p>I basically agree with his conclusions, particularly in Go feeling like a "modern C", something I desperately hope succeeds.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>psykotic</author><text>&#62; Python has this problem too<p>Python has had conditional expressions since version 2.5. Dumb example:<p><pre><code> def count(xs, p):
return sum(1 if p(x) else 0 for x in xs)</code></pre></text></comment> |
15,040,344 | 15,040,257 | 1 | 3 | 15,039,587 | train | <story><title>Wekan: An open-source Trello-like kanban</title><url>https://wekan.github.io/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tadfisher</author><text>If you want to do Kanban right, double down on making it possible to design actual Kanban workflows. Pretty ticket UI with checklists and GIFs must be secondary to this goal.<p>Things that most actual Kanban flows have that no one has built into a decent product[0]:<p><pre><code> - Nested columns in lanes
- Rows for class-of-service
- WIP limits (per lane, per column, and per class-of-service)
- Sub-boards for meta issues
</code></pre>
The actual content of each work item is the least important part of Kanban; it could be a hyperlink for all I care. Kanban is about managing the flow, not managing the work.<p>[0] Please prove me wrong if there is such a product out there!</text></comment> | <story><title>Wekan: An open-source Trello-like kanban</title><url>https://wekan.github.io/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nsebban</author><text>While I like the idea of having open source alternatives to the popular applications, this one is a pure and simple copy of Trello. This is a bit too much IMO.</text></comment> |
13,296,981 | 13,295,407 | 1 | 2 | 13,295,166 | train | <story><title>DCCP: a new transport layer protocol which draws from TCP and UDP</title><url>https://www.anmolsarma.in/post/dccp/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yoaviram</author><text>There&#x27;s also SCTP:<p>Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is a transport-layer protocol, serving in a similar role to the popular protocols TCP and UDP. It is standardized by IETF in RFC 4960.<p>SCTP provides some of the same service features of both: it is message-oriented like UDP and ensures reliable, in-sequence transport of messages with congestion control like TCP; it differs from these in providing multi-homing and redundant paths to increase resilience and reliability.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Stream_Control_Transmission_Protocol" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Stream_Control_Transmission_...</a><p>Edit: fix typo</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>IgorPartola</author><text>HTTP should have made SCTP a lot more popular. SCTP is a natural fit for reliably transporting static files, which is what HTTP was originally designed for. So many of the HTTP2&#x2F;SPDY&#x2F;etc. features are there to make up for the fact that TCP doesn&#x27;t have a length &quot;field&quot; since it&#x27;s stream-oriented.<p>Obviously, there are exceptions and you can have both streams and known-length content served over HTTP, but I still think streams over SCTP would have been a better choice than datagrams over TCP.<p>Edit: Also firewalls that filter out anything but TCP (or TCP + UDP, or TCP + UDP + ICMP) can die a fiery death. The fact that basically any new protocol has to tunnel over UDP instead of properly over IP is heresy and bullshit.</text></comment> | <story><title>DCCP: a new transport layer protocol which draws from TCP and UDP</title><url>https://www.anmolsarma.in/post/dccp/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yoaviram</author><text>There&#x27;s also SCTP:<p>Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is a transport-layer protocol, serving in a similar role to the popular protocols TCP and UDP. It is standardized by IETF in RFC 4960.<p>SCTP provides some of the same service features of both: it is message-oriented like UDP and ensures reliable, in-sequence transport of messages with congestion control like TCP; it differs from these in providing multi-homing and redundant paths to increase resilience and reliability.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Stream_Control_Transmission_Protocol" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Stream_Control_Transmission_...</a><p>Edit: fix typo</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>voidz</author><text>It&#x27;s also (usually) routed over the Internet properly in my experience.</text></comment> |
15,682,725 | 15,682,727 | 1 | 2 | 15,681,566 | train | <story><title>Süddeutsche Zeitung Became the Go-To Place for Leaks Like the Paradise Papers</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-a-german-newspaper-became-the-go-to-place-for-leaks-like-the-paradise-papers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>branchless</author><text>UK &quot;journalism&quot; is simply stunningly bad now. When I think back 20 years ago the gap now is huge. I don&#x27;t agree with the politics of The Telegraph but leaving that aside its slide is so sad. They now run stories about characters in TV programs as though they are actually real. All UK papers are now so bad I&#x27;d advise not reading any, including the FT which is simply terrible. They cannot die soon enough, the damage presently done by pandering to big bank advertisers is huge.<p>I think if you re-incarnated and showed the editor of the Telegraph from 1950 the web-site, just the difference between the background colour of &quot;sponsored&quot; stories versus actual stories, he&#x27;d blow his brains out. Never mind the actual content.<p>Do German papers do this, mix paid and actual content and attempt to show the paid as similar to real? Although this is nowhere near as bad as The Telegraph following the instructions of disgruntled banker advertisers:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.opendemocracy.net&#x2F;ourkingdom&#x2F;peter-oborne&#x2F;why-i-have-resigned-from-telegraph" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.opendemocracy.net&#x2F;ourkingdom&#x2F;peter-oborne&#x2F;why-i-...</a></text></item><item><author>ImaCake</author><text>One of the best things about learning German has been the access to German news media. I find Suedeutsch Zeitung and a few others hold themselves to a higher quality than almost any english newspaper I&#x27;ve read. It&#x27;s good to see english media take note!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>miles</author><text>&gt; <i>UK &quot;journalism&quot; is simply stunningly bad now.</i><p>The Guardian[0] has done some great reporting in recent years[1]:<p><i>Notable scoops include the 2011 News International phone hacking scandal, in particular the hacking of murdered English teenager Milly Dowler&#x27;s phone. The investigation led to the closure of the UK&#x27;s biggest selling Sunday newspaper, and one of the highest circulation newspapers in the world, the News of the World. The newspaper also released news of the secret collection of Verizon telephone records held by US President Barack Obama&#x27;s administration in June 2013, and subsequently revealed the existence of the PRISM surveillance program after it was leaked to the paper by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. In 2016, it led the investigation into the Panama Papers, exposing the then British Prime Minister David Cameron&#x27;s links to offshore bank accounts.</i><p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Guardian" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Guardian</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Süddeutsche Zeitung Became the Go-To Place for Leaks Like the Paradise Papers</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-a-german-newspaper-became-the-go-to-place-for-leaks-like-the-paradise-papers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>branchless</author><text>UK &quot;journalism&quot; is simply stunningly bad now. When I think back 20 years ago the gap now is huge. I don&#x27;t agree with the politics of The Telegraph but leaving that aside its slide is so sad. They now run stories about characters in TV programs as though they are actually real. All UK papers are now so bad I&#x27;d advise not reading any, including the FT which is simply terrible. They cannot die soon enough, the damage presently done by pandering to big bank advertisers is huge.<p>I think if you re-incarnated and showed the editor of the Telegraph from 1950 the web-site, just the difference between the background colour of &quot;sponsored&quot; stories versus actual stories, he&#x27;d blow his brains out. Never mind the actual content.<p>Do German papers do this, mix paid and actual content and attempt to show the paid as similar to real? Although this is nowhere near as bad as The Telegraph following the instructions of disgruntled banker advertisers:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.opendemocracy.net&#x2F;ourkingdom&#x2F;peter-oborne&#x2F;why-i-have-resigned-from-telegraph" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.opendemocracy.net&#x2F;ourkingdom&#x2F;peter-oborne&#x2F;why-i-...</a></text></item><item><author>ImaCake</author><text>One of the best things about learning German has been the access to German news media. I find Suedeutsch Zeitung and a few others hold themselves to a higher quality than almost any english newspaper I&#x27;ve read. It&#x27;s good to see english media take note!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jsmthrowaway</author><text>No mention of The Guardian? I have a pretty high opinion of their newsroom, and donate regularly. They’ve been doing solid investigative work lately, even on American topics.</text></comment> |
28,646,646 | 28,645,786 | 1 | 2 | 28,645,266 | train | <story><title>Developers fix multitude of vulnerabilities in Apache HTTP Server</title><url>https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/developers-fix-multitude-of-vulnerabilities-in-apache-http-server</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DonHopkins</author><text>It&#x27;s called Apache HTTP server because it&#x27;s A Patchy HTTP Server.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mail-archive.com&#x2F;[email protected]&#x2F;msg06924.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mail-archive.com&#x2F;[email protected]&#x2F;msg06924...</a><p>&gt;On Jul 16, 2008, Les Mikesell wrote:<p>&gt;&gt; Alexandre Oliva wrote:<p>&gt;&gt; Apache wasn&#x27;t the original name.<p>&gt;It was and it wasn&#x27;t. It was indeed a bunch of patches on top of the
(also younger) NCSA http server. That&#x27;s where &quot;a patchy http server&quot;
came from. But that was &#x27;90s already, some ten years after GNU
started.</text></comment> | <story><title>Developers fix multitude of vulnerabilities in Apache HTTP Server</title><url>https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/developers-fix-multitude-of-vulnerabilities-in-apache-http-server</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>iBotPeaches</author><text>This was an interesting security patch that marked the first time in my memory that updating Apache led to an immediate regression. A few hours after taking this upgrade many systems experienced such strange timeout errors. Connections were low and couldn&#x27;t pinpoint the misleading behavior that looked like a slowloris attack, with no connections.<p>Half a day later with no resolution in research a new patch [1] was available and problem resolved.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;apache&#x2F;httpd&#x2F;commit&#x2F;8720881b0634383145e87334f1456cbcab4cb6cc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;apache&#x2F;httpd&#x2F;commit&#x2F;8720881b0634383145e87...</a></text></comment> |
17,804,565 | 17,803,632 | 1 | 3 | 17,802,892 | train | <story><title>Apple Is Planning a New Low-Cost MacBook, Pro-Focused Mac Mini</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-20/apple-is-said-to-plan-revamped-low-cost-macs-to-reignite-sales</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gxespino</author><text>Too little, too late. I bought an X1 Carbon earlier this summer and have been pleasantly surprised by Ubuntu.<p>I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ll be in the market again for another 2-3 years and by then I may be fully sold on Linux.<p>I was a hardcore mac enthusiast from 2006-2018... But the past few years have resulted in a lot of disdain for the company.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dbbk</author><text>That’s great but you are a tiny tiny minority.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple Is Planning a New Low-Cost MacBook, Pro-Focused Mac Mini</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-20/apple-is-said-to-plan-revamped-low-cost-macs-to-reignite-sales</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gxespino</author><text>Too little, too late. I bought an X1 Carbon earlier this summer and have been pleasantly surprised by Ubuntu.<p>I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ll be in the market again for another 2-3 years and by then I may be fully sold on Linux.<p>I was a hardcore mac enthusiast from 2006-2018... But the past few years have resulted in a lot of disdain for the company.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>netule</author><text>Same, but I went with a Razer Blade 15 which also replaces my gaming desktop machine. Ubuntu has been surprisingly usable for development work.</text></comment> |
18,669,680 | 18,669,642 | 1 | 2 | 18,668,638 | train | <story><title>Why Use F#?</title><url>https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/why-use-fsharp/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lihaoyi</author><text>Having used and enjoyed F#, I ended up programming in Scala which is almost the same language, despite the huge superficial differences:<p>- Indentation delimited blocks vs curlies<p>- CLR vs JVM<p>- Whitespace vs Parenthesis for function calls<p>- Currying by default vs currying optional<p>Despite all this, when you actually start coding, it&#x27;s remarkably the same:<p>- Immutability by default, transformations rather than mutation<p>- Less classes with embedded implementation logic, more &quot;dumb&quot; records with external functions<p>- Structural pattern matching<p>- Tagged unions<p>- Type inference<p>- Convenient definition of record&#x2F;struct-like data types with free copy-constructor<p>- Operator overloading<p>- Easy FFI to external libraries in a different paradigm<p>- Easy &quot;dropping down&quot; to mutable, imperative code (e.g. for performance, or interop)<p>- Both have lots of syntactic and semantic warts and corner cases, though few enough you can live with them<p>- Garbage collected, multithreaded, JITed runtime<p>- Both compile to Javascript<p>While every single feature looks totally different on the surface, starting with a totally different syntax, the two languages are more the same than different. If you look at the tutorials linked from that page, all of them can be translated almost line-for-line from F# to Scala (and vice versa: take any random Scala tutorial, and you can trivially translate it line-for-line into F#)<p>Scala brings with it a bigger ecosystem, both in Scala and from the JVM, and better tooling support in general (Both Scala-specific, as well as general JVM tooling which all works with Scala: profilers, debuggers, package managers, ...), and slightly more seamless platform interop (Scala &lt;-&gt; JVM is less jarring than F# &lt;-&gt; C#), which is why I ended up sticking around.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>morpheuskafka</author><text>Ultimately these higher-level requirements like JVM vs. .NET are the biggest factor in deciding a language. For example, my latest project need to run on Azure Functions (consumption plan, has cold-start) for cost reasons, so the deciding factor was &quot;which language has the lowest cold start time?&quot; If you&#x27;re doing ML model design, you use Python because that&#x27;s what the notebooks and libraries are written in. At any given moment, OS&#x2F;cloud platform support, library availability, and desired app model has way more impact on choosing a language than design.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Use F#?</title><url>https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/why-use-fsharp/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lihaoyi</author><text>Having used and enjoyed F#, I ended up programming in Scala which is almost the same language, despite the huge superficial differences:<p>- Indentation delimited blocks vs curlies<p>- CLR vs JVM<p>- Whitespace vs Parenthesis for function calls<p>- Currying by default vs currying optional<p>Despite all this, when you actually start coding, it&#x27;s remarkably the same:<p>- Immutability by default, transformations rather than mutation<p>- Less classes with embedded implementation logic, more &quot;dumb&quot; records with external functions<p>- Structural pattern matching<p>- Tagged unions<p>- Type inference<p>- Convenient definition of record&#x2F;struct-like data types with free copy-constructor<p>- Operator overloading<p>- Easy FFI to external libraries in a different paradigm<p>- Easy &quot;dropping down&quot; to mutable, imperative code (e.g. for performance, or interop)<p>- Both have lots of syntactic and semantic warts and corner cases, though few enough you can live with them<p>- Garbage collected, multithreaded, JITed runtime<p>- Both compile to Javascript<p>While every single feature looks totally different on the surface, starting with a totally different syntax, the two languages are more the same than different. If you look at the tutorials linked from that page, all of them can be translated almost line-for-line from F# to Scala (and vice versa: take any random Scala tutorial, and you can trivially translate it line-for-line into F#)<p>Scala brings with it a bigger ecosystem, both in Scala and from the JVM, and better tooling support in general (Both Scala-specific, as well as general JVM tooling which all works with Scala: profilers, debuggers, package managers, ...), and slightly more seamless platform interop (Scala &lt;-&gt; JVM is less jarring than F# &lt;-&gt; C#), which is why I ended up sticking around.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>soulnothing</author><text>I can echo this. I&#x27;m working in F# in my day to day. While I like the language. I find the tooling IDE and other essentials are missing. I spent several weeks fighting swagger generation client and server tools. Something that just worked on the jvm.<p>I bounce between Scala and Kotlin. But as a Linux dev I find the JVM far more forgiving.</text></comment> |
14,433,557 | 14,433,425 | 1 | 2 | 14,433,362 | train | <story><title>Airbnb Employees Speak Out About Bullying and ‘Toxic’ Work Environment</title><url>http://brokeassstuart.com/blog/2017/05/25/airbnb-employees-speak-out-about-company-bullying-tactics/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MichaelBurge</author><text>Large companies have enough disgruntled employees that even the laziest journalists can find a few to generate some outrage, which drives views&#x2F;clicks to their site. Since AirBNB is a well-known name, people on HN will tend to upvote it and commenters will self-select for people who want to rant about AirBNB.<p>That&#x27;s 3 selection biases here: Visibility on HN(selects for an &quot;interesting&quot; story, not truth), disgruntled employees, comments will want to rant about AirBNB. It&#x27;s almost certainly a mistake to judge them negatively based on this story.<p>&gt; In 2015, Glassdoor ranked the company as the #1 place to work, in 2017 that ranking dropped to 35th, and many employees are speaking out.<p>35th &quot;best place to work&quot; and &quot;people are treated like cattle&quot;? Somebody&#x27;s giving you misleading statistics: Either it&#x27;s Glassdoor.com, or the managing editor of &quot;broke-ass stuart&quot;.<p>I don&#x27;t think there&#x27;s a single company above 10,000 employees that you couldn&#x27;t force a similar framing on.</text></comment> | <story><title>Airbnb Employees Speak Out About Bullying and ‘Toxic’ Work Environment</title><url>http://brokeassstuart.com/blog/2017/05/25/airbnb-employees-speak-out-about-company-bullying-tactics/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ubikretail</author><text>It makes sense, if you compare it to the conditions of the hosts. I got people for a year and this is remarkable:<p>— Not host, nor guests are legally related to AirBnB. Hence, none of the parties is really protected, even if ABnB talks about &quot;insurance&quot;.<p>— Not even the help desk is AirBnB. As they call them, they are &quot;community helpers&quot;, and their help is not legally linked to AirBnB.<p>— They changed the conditions just because, and they place them as you go in for you to accept them. If you disagree, you have to remove yourself from the platform via email.<p>— They promise a plan of prizes for good hosts. It seems that most of your ratings should be high. It turns statistically impossible once your go into the real conditions: must be evaluated by +80% of your hosts, and +80% of your score must be five stars (or similar).<p>— They don&#x27;t pay your social security, welcoming time, help, and after all anything we call &quot;added value&quot;.<p>— Nevertheless, they added surreptitious-yet-public evaluation for things nobody is paying for, like being the tourist guide of someone who is getting a room for 10€&#x2F;night.<p>— They do not care about hosts opinions, in spite they are the ones putting the real value on the platform, paying taxes for it, doing the face-to-face with the end client, etc. If your guests arrive 8 hours early and they complain you didn&#x27;t received them, the bad scoring is on you (happened). If your hosts leave a mess behind, AirBnB evaluates if they should cover it for the shake of their public image, or if they rather claim that according to the rules that is not covered.<p>Everybody is free to do whatever, but after my experience I trust hotels more than anything.</text></comment> |
4,904,846 | 4,904,832 | 1 | 2 | 4,904,208 | train | <story><title>How a load-balancing bug led to worldwide Chrome crashes</title><url>http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=165171#c27</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>hammock</author><text>The last discussion was mostly about how the title was linkbait. I want to hear people's opinions on whether they think it's appropriate for a browser (Chrome) to be designed such that it doesn't operate independently- that it can be crashed (or self destruct bug, insert your own word here) by a remote server at any time.<p>To my knowledge, Firefox doesn't do that. Safari doesn't do that. Internet browsers are probably the #1 most important app on a computer these days, browser reliability is vital.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DannyBee</author><text>Chrome Sync is, AFAIK, not a push service.
Something polled a Google server, it returned a bad answer, it crashed the browser.
Why is this important?<p>Because it's entirely possible that Firefox or Safari, for example, could have been crashed by contacting the safebrowsing server, and the safebrowsing server returning an answer that crashes it.<p>Firefox also does remote firefox update checks and plugin update checks, etc.<p>None of the browsers you mention are "independent" of internet servers anymore. They are meant to function independently, as is Chrome, but exactly the right remote bug could likely crash all of them.</text></comment> | <story><title>How a load-balancing bug led to worldwide Chrome crashes</title><url>http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=165171#c27</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>hammock</author><text>The last discussion was mostly about how the title was linkbait. I want to hear people's opinions on whether they think it's appropriate for a browser (Chrome) to be designed such that it doesn't operate independently- that it can be crashed (or self destruct bug, insert your own word here) by a remote server at any time.<p>To my knowledge, Firefox doesn't do that. Safari doesn't do that. Internet browsers are probably the #1 most important app on a computer these days, browser reliability is vital.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maggit</author><text>It's a crash bug. Bugs happen.<p>It is not a design flaw. Sure, this specific vulnerability would not be there if the remote sync feature wasn't there, but people like features.<p>Chrome has a pretty good security track record. I'm not worried.</text></comment> |
2,017,365 | 2,017,329 | 1 | 2 | 2,017,126 | train | <story><title>Stored XSS Vulnerability in Amazon (or How to hack Amazon with a book)</title><url>http://drwetter.eu/amazon/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jerf</author><text>Just replicated the Stallown3d!1 one, it's still there.<p>Actually a useful link to have; I've had some difficulty convincing people in the past that this sort of injection is a big deal and that's a convenient, harmless way to prove the point.</text></comment> | <story><title>Stored XSS Vulnerability in Amazon (or How to hack Amazon with a book)</title><url>http://drwetter.eu/amazon/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>schrototo</author><text>This has to be the funniest XSS hack of all time.</text></comment> |
34,022,886 | 34,022,306 | 1 | 2 | 34,021,414 | train | <story><title>Congress passes legislation to end US participation in global shark fin trade</title><url>https://www.humanesociety.org/news/congress-passes-legislation-end-us-participation-global-shark-fin-trade</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>LinkLink</author><text>There really does need to be a limit on bill length
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.congress.gov&#x2F;bill&#x2F;117th-congress&#x2F;house-bill&#x2F;7776&#x2F;text" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.congress.gov&#x2F;bill&#x2F;117th-congress&#x2F;house-bill&#x2F;7776...</a>
For anyone who was riding their high horse on this, the bill is a majority a defense spending bill which includes appropriations of sea territory and military operations. About 3000 pages of spending, and oh but dont kill sharks.</text></comment> | <story><title>Congress passes legislation to end US participation in global shark fin trade</title><url>https://www.humanesociety.org/news/congress-passes-legislation-end-us-participation-global-shark-fin-trade</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ancapsfascists</author><text>I do not understand how a human can participate in finning.<p>Amputation of the fins from a living, awake animal then tossing it into ocean while it thrashes around in pain.<p>There&#x27;s no excuse for that level of inhumanity.</text></comment> |
6,654,764 | 6,654,877 | 1 | 2 | 6,654,179 | train | <story><title>OpenBSD 5.4 Released</title><url>http://www.openbsd.org/54.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>csmuk</author><text>Signed up to agree.<p>Canned 6 Ubuntu machines (servers) and replaced with OpenBSD 5.3 recently. So much goodness ships with openbsd it&#x27;s unreal. Bar Theo&#x27;s sharp tongue (which is usually spot on), you get pf, opensmtpd (so much cleaner than postfix), nginx in base, miles better manual pages than Linux, no horrid gnu info, small and simple base system, absolutely no surprises, no bloated crap like dbus&#x2F;upstart, tmux in base and what I can only describe as a warm fuzzy &quot;why the hell isn&#x27;t everything like this&quot; feeling.<p>Also, it&#x27;s just about the only thing I&#x27;ve found that can work adequately entirely offline without having to use google to fix obscure problems and decypher documentation.<p>I&#x27;ve got a bootable USB stick that contains the base packages, entire FAQ (main documentation source outside manpages), all normal binary packages I use, WiFi firmware and its less than 2Gb.<p>Thanks as well.</text></item><item><author>sramov</author><text>Packets already flowing through 5.4 -<i>release</i> on my &#x27;lil ALIX home router. Workstation on -<i>current</i>, of course.<p>There is <i>nothing</i> quite like OpenBSD out there. Thank you OpenBSD developers!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pit</author><text>Agreed, the base install gives you a system that feels both minimal and complete at the same time.<p>Plus, every release includes a song: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#54" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openbsd.org&#x2F;lyrics.html#54</a></text></comment> | <story><title>OpenBSD 5.4 Released</title><url>http://www.openbsd.org/54.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>csmuk</author><text>Signed up to agree.<p>Canned 6 Ubuntu machines (servers) and replaced with OpenBSD 5.3 recently. So much goodness ships with openbsd it&#x27;s unreal. Bar Theo&#x27;s sharp tongue (which is usually spot on), you get pf, opensmtpd (so much cleaner than postfix), nginx in base, miles better manual pages than Linux, no horrid gnu info, small and simple base system, absolutely no surprises, no bloated crap like dbus&#x2F;upstart, tmux in base and what I can only describe as a warm fuzzy &quot;why the hell isn&#x27;t everything like this&quot; feeling.<p>Also, it&#x27;s just about the only thing I&#x27;ve found that can work adequately entirely offline without having to use google to fix obscure problems and decypher documentation.<p>I&#x27;ve got a bootable USB stick that contains the base packages, entire FAQ (main documentation source outside manpages), all normal binary packages I use, WiFi firmware and its less than 2Gb.<p>Thanks as well.</text></item><item><author>sramov</author><text>Packets already flowing through 5.4 -<i>release</i> on my &#x27;lil ALIX home router. Workstation on -<i>current</i>, of course.<p>There is <i>nothing</i> quite like OpenBSD out there. Thank you OpenBSD developers!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pfortuny</author><text>The doc is really unbeatable, I know nothing like it anywhere.</text></comment> |
4,113,126 | 4,112,465 | 1 | 2 | 4,111,796 | train | <story><title>Apple's "benign dictatorship" of the App Store leaves users, devs in the dark.</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/06/app-store-enigma-the-patent-holder-the-developer-and-the-voiceless-child/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>josteink</author><text>If Speak for Yourself had developed an app for Android they would have had <i>none</i> of these problems. None. Zilch. There are several markets. There are several stores. You can install standalone APKs if you like.<p>The nature of the platform <i>protects you</i> from the likes of Apple.<p>That there are options doesn't make Apple any more right here. I'm not saying that. But there are other platforms than Apple's closed circus. And people should consider them.<p>With time I hope people will see that value in an open platform. That these people, those who have their daughter threatened to be <i>re-muted</i> by Apple, that they still insist on using Apple's hardware is a mystery to me.<p>You would at least think that <i>they</i> saw why choosing Apple is fundamentally wrong for any person who considers himself free. If you're not free to do with your own property as you please, how much of a free being are you really?</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple's "benign dictatorship" of the App Store leaves users, devs in the dark.</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/06/app-store-enigma-the-patent-holder-the-developer-and-the-voiceless-child/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>soup10</author><text>I'm still waiting for the lawsuit that forces apple to provide an option to install unreviewed apps. Nobody would tolerate this kind of total platform control in OS X or windows. Why is it tolerated in iOS?<p>It's perfectly fine to have a a curated app store by default, it's not OK when it's the only option. Especially when your as big as Apple is.</text></comment> |
20,178,437 | 20,177,954 | 1 | 3 | 20,177,593 | train | <story><title>Starsky Robotics Becomes First Uncrewed Truck to Hit 55 MPH</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/tech/28520/starsky-robotics-becomes-first-unmanned-truck-to-hit-55-mph</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DanFeldman</author><text>Starsky engineer here. We spent a few days getting all of our emergency procedures in place and testing all fail-safe aspects of our system on the road in preparation of the run. We&#x27;ve done unmanned runs before (also in Florida), but at much lower speed and with a vastly less sophisticated emergency system.<p>Happy to answer any questions</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>markstos</author><text>What is the failure mode when connectivity with the truck is lost or jammed?</text></comment> | <story><title>Starsky Robotics Becomes First Uncrewed Truck to Hit 55 MPH</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/tech/28520/starsky-robotics-becomes-first-unmanned-truck-to-hit-55-mph</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DanFeldman</author><text>Starsky engineer here. We spent a few days getting all of our emergency procedures in place and testing all fail-safe aspects of our system on the road in preparation of the run. We&#x27;ve done unmanned runs before (also in Florida), but at much lower speed and with a vastly less sophisticated emergency system.<p>Happy to answer any questions</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whynolove</author><text>Are there any worries around drivers being more careless with driving since their own live is not in danger like it would be while actually in the truck?</text></comment> |
12,986,247 | 12,985,761 | 1 | 2 | 12,983,965 | train | <story><title>OpenAI and Microsoft</title><url>https://openai.com/blog/openai-and-microsoft/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>raphinou</author><text>My experience with azure is subpar : slow, deploys failing for no clear reason, terrible ui. Do you have bettee experience with it?</text></item><item><author>old-gregg</author><text>I am actually getting more and more impressed with Azure. The rate of maturity of their offering is really impressive, and the number of world-wide regions is insane.<p>Wile we&#x27;re primarily still AWS users, but we&#x27;re hosting free global tools (check out <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;teleconsole.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;teleconsole.com</a>) on Azure for low latency.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mcaravey</author><text>I&#x27;ve been using Azure in various forms since beta days. Back then it felt very startup-like with half baked software and updates coming all the time. That is still how their new stuff is delivered, but I&#x27;ve rarely had issues with anything that is out of preview.<p>Here what really sold Azure to me, the various companies I&#x27;ve worked for, etc. Azure allows you to do just about anything these days, and you can mix &amp; match all sorts of different pieces of tech as you see fit, and its all the in one place. It&#x27;s quite important for businesses that I have, for example, probably half a dozen ways to open a connection into my corporate network in order for my front end Azure-hosted API can access some ancient database. Microsoft knows how to make Azure appeal to businesses, since that is their bread and butter.<p>One last thing: where I currently work we have been running or entire infrastructure on Azure since day 1. We have to architect our applications for the cloud, but the benefits have always been amazing. Whenever we get bigger customers that slam our infrastructure with traffic, we just push a button (or automatically) and we get more machines&#x2F;bandwidth&#x2F;storage, etc. Not once has there been feelings of regret for choosing Azure in the company. It&#x27;s a safe bet.</text></comment> | <story><title>OpenAI and Microsoft</title><url>https://openai.com/blog/openai-and-microsoft/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>raphinou</author><text>My experience with azure is subpar : slow, deploys failing for no clear reason, terrible ui. Do you have bettee experience with it?</text></item><item><author>old-gregg</author><text>I am actually getting more and more impressed with Azure. The rate of maturity of their offering is really impressive, and the number of world-wide regions is insane.<p>Wile we&#x27;re primarily still AWS users, but we&#x27;re hosting free global tools (check out <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;teleconsole.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;teleconsole.com</a>) on Azure for low latency.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>m_fayer</author><text>I mostly use Azure for hobby&#x2F;small&#x2F;exploratory work, but I&#x27;m generally quite happy with it, sticking mostly to their PAAS offerings, and a Linux VM here and there. I never touch their UIs, which are terrible indeed. But the CLI tools do everything and I&#x27;m pretty happy with those.</text></comment> |
12,129,564 | 12,128,652 | 1 | 2 | 12,126,284 | train | <story><title>When a crow dies, the other crows investigate the cause of death (2015)</title><url>http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/10/151003-animals-science-crows-birds-culture-brains/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Unklejoe</author><text>Here&#x27;s a different perspective, which I will admit in advance is kind of ridiculous, but it makes me think...<p>Why are humans not considered to be a part of nature? I think it’s because we consider ourselves to be more intelligent than other animals&#x2F;organisms and therefore assume it to be our responsibility to actively protect nature. However, this is based on our own moral standards, which were created by us, likely as a result of our ability to empathize.<p>A human eating an apple and discarding the core seems pretty natural to me (though it’s not, by definition). If this has an impact on the wildlife population, then perhaps it was “meant to be”.<p>Going out of our way to preserve nature seems more unnatural. Nature should have no expectation of our intelligence, so perhaps the human-caused destruction of the world is itself natural.<p>Then again, perhaps our increased intelligence is natural, so going out of our way to preserve nature is natural.<p>As you can see, I basically have no point here. It’s just an interesting thought train that I felt like expressing.<p>Of course, this argument could be extended to just about anything that a human does, including pumping oil directly into the ocean, which is why I’m not actually trying to argue this point.<p>I guess what I am saying is that if humans are left unregulated, nature seems to find a way to restore sanity. An example of this is the over prescription of antibiotics which has led to a decrease in their overall effectiveness. It seems like nature will always win in the end.</text></item><item><author>krzrak</author><text>You realize you&#x27;re not supposed to toss around garbage in the national park?</text></item><item><author>sirtastic</author><text>I believe ravens and crows are very similar, this is a personal (long, and not the great) story about a raven I messed around with in Yosemite National Park:<p>When I was up on north dome (not to be confused with half dome) there was a group of raven&#x27;s hanging out on the rocks watching us eat our late lunch. I had an apple core that I tossed to the side and watched as a raven warily tried to approach it. I walked over and grabbed the apple core before the raven could grab it so I could entertain myself teasing the raven for a bit before we started down the mountain. I started by putting my arm back ready to throw the apple and as I did that I noticed the raven kneel a bit as if getting ready to launch itself. I thought this was interesting as it showed it was anticipating me throwing the object based on my arm motion. As I relaxed my arm the bird also relaxed.<p>I tried grabbing a rock and again watched it brace itself to launch from the rock then tried switching the apple core and the rock behind my back and tossing the rock hoping the bird would dart after it thinking it was the core. The bird didn&#x27;t do as I expected and instead just watched me carefully never motioning for the rocks.<p>I tore a piece of the apple from the core behind my back and tossed it just as I had with the rocks and before the piece of apple even left my hand the raven leaped from the rock in its direction.<p>This blew my mind. Not sure how the raven knew it was a chunk of apple and not a rock.<p>I messed around with that particular raven for a good 10-15 minutes tossing various things in its direction, testing its reactions and trying to mess with its little raven mind. All I managed to do however was be impressed at its level of experience in dealing with Yosemite tourists such as myself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>QuotedForTruth</author><text>Sure, throwing one apple core seems pretty natural. But a national park is full of visitors every day. If it isn&#x27;t a strict policy not to throw trash and food where animals can scavenge it, they learn to expect and rely on it. This brings them in more frequent contact. With crows that&#x27;s no big deal, perhaps an annoyance to visitors at worst. But other animals can be much more dangerous. Keeping a healthy fear of people in animals (and honestly of animals in people) is incredibly important.<p>The most extreme example of this is trash feeding bears in Yellowstone up until 1970. Humans naturally ate at hotels which naturally tossed their trash into giant piles nearby. Bears naturally came looking for all that food they smelled and naturally ate it. The humans then naturally started watching and the park naturally made that easier by putting up grandstands around the trash heaps.<p>Eventually a new Yellowstone park chief saw the ridiculousness and danger of this and stopped it. It then took a while for the bears to adapt their behavior back to their actual natural behavior without such a rich food source.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.yellowstonepark.com&#x2F;yellowstone-bears-no-longer-get-garbage-treats&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.yellowstonepark.com&#x2F;yellowstone-bears-no-longer-g...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>When a crow dies, the other crows investigate the cause of death (2015)</title><url>http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/10/151003-animals-science-crows-birds-culture-brains/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Unklejoe</author><text>Here&#x27;s a different perspective, which I will admit in advance is kind of ridiculous, but it makes me think...<p>Why are humans not considered to be a part of nature? I think it’s because we consider ourselves to be more intelligent than other animals&#x2F;organisms and therefore assume it to be our responsibility to actively protect nature. However, this is based on our own moral standards, which were created by us, likely as a result of our ability to empathize.<p>A human eating an apple and discarding the core seems pretty natural to me (though it’s not, by definition). If this has an impact on the wildlife population, then perhaps it was “meant to be”.<p>Going out of our way to preserve nature seems more unnatural. Nature should have no expectation of our intelligence, so perhaps the human-caused destruction of the world is itself natural.<p>Then again, perhaps our increased intelligence is natural, so going out of our way to preserve nature is natural.<p>As you can see, I basically have no point here. It’s just an interesting thought train that I felt like expressing.<p>Of course, this argument could be extended to just about anything that a human does, including pumping oil directly into the ocean, which is why I’m not actually trying to argue this point.<p>I guess what I am saying is that if humans are left unregulated, nature seems to find a way to restore sanity. An example of this is the over prescription of antibiotics which has led to a decrease in their overall effectiveness. It seems like nature will always win in the end.</text></item><item><author>krzrak</author><text>You realize you&#x27;re not supposed to toss around garbage in the national park?</text></item><item><author>sirtastic</author><text>I believe ravens and crows are very similar, this is a personal (long, and not the great) story about a raven I messed around with in Yosemite National Park:<p>When I was up on north dome (not to be confused with half dome) there was a group of raven&#x27;s hanging out on the rocks watching us eat our late lunch. I had an apple core that I tossed to the side and watched as a raven warily tried to approach it. I walked over and grabbed the apple core before the raven could grab it so I could entertain myself teasing the raven for a bit before we started down the mountain. I started by putting my arm back ready to throw the apple and as I did that I noticed the raven kneel a bit as if getting ready to launch itself. I thought this was interesting as it showed it was anticipating me throwing the object based on my arm motion. As I relaxed my arm the bird also relaxed.<p>I tried grabbing a rock and again watched it brace itself to launch from the rock then tried switching the apple core and the rock behind my back and tossing the rock hoping the bird would dart after it thinking it was the core. The bird didn&#x27;t do as I expected and instead just watched me carefully never motioning for the rocks.<p>I tore a piece of the apple from the core behind my back and tossed it just as I had with the rocks and before the piece of apple even left my hand the raven leaped from the rock in its direction.<p>This blew my mind. Not sure how the raven knew it was a chunk of apple and not a rock.<p>I messed around with that particular raven for a good 10-15 minutes tossing various things in its direction, testing its reactions and trying to mess with its little raven mind. All I managed to do however was be impressed at its level of experience in dealing with Yosemite tourists such as myself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coldpie</author><text>Unregulated humans have lead to the extinction of hundreds (thousands?) of species. Largely by hunting, but also unintentionally by destroying habitats. It&#x27;s also a safety hazard: when you feed wild animals, they learn to associate humans with food and are more willing to approach humans, which places humans in danger. Aside from animal welfare, garbage is just disgusting. If one person sees an apple core, perhaps they&#x27;ll assume it&#x27;s OK to leave their Doritos bag, and someone else a beer bottle, and now the area is spoiled for everyone. Not to mention health hazards for both humans and animals from rotting food.</text></comment> |
20,051,117 | 20,051,156 | 1 | 2 | 20,050,666 | train | <story><title>Terry Pratchett warns Bill Gates about fake news (1995)</title><url>https://twitter.com/20thcenturymarc/status/1133395241837506561</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hirundo</author><text>&gt; Captioning his find, Burrows said that the fantasy writer had “accurately predicted how the internet would propagate and legitimise fake news”<p>It&#x27;s like when you have one clock, you know what time it is. When you have two clocks they&#x27;re always somewhat different, and so you&#x27;re no longer certain of the time, and have less faith in clocks.<p>Fake news has always been with us and the internet just propagates it along with everything else. Contrary to the claim that the internet legitimized it, it made us more aware of how common it is, delegitimizing all news sources in the way that multiple clocks delegitimize clocks.<p>But clocks at least can be made quite accurate. I&#x27;m not at all sure that&#x27;s true of news sources.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gregmac</author><text>Building on that analogy, the trouble with one clock is you only know what time it is <i>if it&#x27;s correct</i>. If you take the time to verify and&#x2F;or set it against an accurate time source, then this is no problem.<p>However, it seems more and more people are skipping that verification step, and just assuming the clock is right. When presented with two conflicting clocks, instead of questioning what&#x27;s going on and trying to find another clock to verify current time, they pick a side, rejecting one of the clocks as &quot;fake&quot; and continue using the one that most aligns with what they <i>think</i> the time should be.</text></comment> | <story><title>Terry Pratchett warns Bill Gates about fake news (1995)</title><url>https://twitter.com/20thcenturymarc/status/1133395241837506561</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hirundo</author><text>&gt; Captioning his find, Burrows said that the fantasy writer had “accurately predicted how the internet would propagate and legitimise fake news”<p>It&#x27;s like when you have one clock, you know what time it is. When you have two clocks they&#x27;re always somewhat different, and so you&#x27;re no longer certain of the time, and have less faith in clocks.<p>Fake news has always been with us and the internet just propagates it along with everything else. Contrary to the claim that the internet legitimized it, it made us more aware of how common it is, delegitimizing all news sources in the way that multiple clocks delegitimize clocks.<p>But clocks at least can be made quite accurate. I&#x27;m not at all sure that&#x27;s true of news sources.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coldtea</author><text>&gt;<i>Fake news has always been with us and the internet just propagates it along with everything else. Contrary to the claim that the internet legitimized it, it made us more aware of how common it is, delegitimizing all news sources in the way that multiple clocks delegitimize clocks.</i><p>It&#x27;s also that those in power would love it for their opinions to be the &quot;authoritative&quot; ones and only ones permitted to be heard. Same for mainstream media (though for them it&#x27;s their business model).<p>The internet allows the &quot;unwashed masses&quot; to voice their opinions and viewpoints too. And of course those higher up will always have a distaste for those opinions.<p>Imagine everybody being able to criticize the Vietnam War in the sixties, or e.g. segregation in the 40s, or prohibition in the 20s, or the war on drugs in the 80s, or McCarthyism, on a platform that could get equal eyeballs as the Time or TIME LIFE or NYT. All those critiques would be discarded as &quot;fake news&quot;, &quot;propaganda&quot; and so on too (in fact whatever little was, e.g. in underground papers and so on, got exactly those labels).<p>Of course people would also be able to voice their support those things, but that we be business as usual. People touting the elite&#x27;s opinions were never without a soapbox in the mainstream media. The revolution is in the ability of the &quot;unwashed masses&quot; to speak for themselves.</text></comment> |
18,569,235 | 18,568,218 | 1 | 2 | 18,566,929 | train | <story><title>Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview</title><url>https://patentpandas.org/stories/company-patented-my-idea</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zawerf</author><text>She worded that way too diplomatically.<p>What google did here is one of the evilest things you can do.<p>They are taking open research and trying to close it off. Research that they didn&#x27;t even contribute to! Research that they didn&#x27;t need patent rights for because it&#x27;s already free for them to use. But they can&#x27;t allow anyone after them to have the same privilege can they?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PurpleBoxDragon</author><text>These are just some of the reasons patents are fundamentally broken and the patent system as a whole should be scrapped. Another big issue is that, like most any law, enforcing it costs significant money, and that cost scales depending upon who your opponent is. The cost for a little guy to enforce a patent claim against google is vastly out of proportion to the cost of google to enforce a patent claim against a little guy. This means that the patent system ends up being another form of regulatory capture used to squash competition. If we just removed patents, major corporations would be just as free as today to steal from the little guys, but at least they couldn&#x27;t then weaponize their patents to crush the original inventors.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview</title><url>https://patentpandas.org/stories/company-patented-my-idea</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zawerf</author><text>She worded that way too diplomatically.<p>What google did here is one of the evilest things you can do.<p>They are taking open research and trying to close it off. Research that they didn&#x27;t even contribute to! Research that they didn&#x27;t need patent rights for because it&#x27;s already free for them to use. But they can&#x27;t allow anyone after them to have the same privilege can they?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wnkrshm</author><text>How many patents the group or each employee gets awarded per year is probably one of their employee metrics (as in one application per X months). It&#x27;s not surprising that someone would grab at low hanging fruit or develop unethical methods like that to fulfill performance requirements. It&#x27;s probably not the first time the group did that.</text></comment> |
12,485,659 | 12,484,809 | 1 | 2 | 12,476,006 | train | <story><title>Don't Start Big, Start a Little Snowball</title><url>https://blog.nugget.one/2016/09/04/dont-start-big-start-a-little-snowball/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bsder</author><text>&gt; Start a small company. &quot;Hustle&quot; diligently for a while. Profit. Repeat. Now you have a large, successful company.<p>And, also, survivor bias. Lots of companies hustled and hustled and died.<p>Elon Musk is a <i>really</i> good example. At one point he couldn&#x27;t meet cashflow--and then the government contract for SpaceX finally came in.<p>3 months of delay on that contract and Musk is a goat instead of a hero.</text></item><item><author>pjlegato</author><text>This is somewhat interesting, but relies on the all too common tautological device of &quot;hustle,&quot; a quasi-magical activity whose details are usually elided over.<p>Start a small company. &quot;Hustle&quot; diligently for a while. Profit. Repeat. Now you have a large, successful company.<p>What makes a successful company? &quot;Hustle.&quot; What is &quot;hustle&quot;? Why, it just means &quot;working hard at doing all the things that make a company successful.&quot; It&#x27;s a perfectly circular definition.<p>Proposal: always avoid the word &quot;hustle.&quot; Instead, talk about specific actions and decisions that led to success in particular cases.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>taneq</author><text>This one drives me crazy. Sure, you have to be good and smart and you have to hustle, but you also have to be lucky, and luck is a bigger factor than anyone likes to admit. People who make it big forget the luck aspect and start believing that because it worked, they did everything right. They then go around dispensing questionable advice on the basis of &#x27;it worked for them&#x27; while knowing full well that they&#x27;re a massive outlier.<p>It&#x27;s like when old successful people give &quot;life-affirming&quot; advice like &quot;quit your job, follow your dreams, take risks, LIVE!&quot; Which is great advice if you&#x27;re already financially secure and you know that doing so didn&#x27;t result (in your case) in you ending up as some peon working in a fast food joint. Never mind the other 99% of people who did the exact same thing and it didn&#x27;t work out, because who listens to a failure?</text></comment> | <story><title>Don't Start Big, Start a Little Snowball</title><url>https://blog.nugget.one/2016/09/04/dont-start-big-start-a-little-snowball/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bsder</author><text>&gt; Start a small company. &quot;Hustle&quot; diligently for a while. Profit. Repeat. Now you have a large, successful company.<p>And, also, survivor bias. Lots of companies hustled and hustled and died.<p>Elon Musk is a <i>really</i> good example. At one point he couldn&#x27;t meet cashflow--and then the government contract for SpaceX finally came in.<p>3 months of delay on that contract and Musk is a goat instead of a hero.</text></item><item><author>pjlegato</author><text>This is somewhat interesting, but relies on the all too common tautological device of &quot;hustle,&quot; a quasi-magical activity whose details are usually elided over.<p>Start a small company. &quot;Hustle&quot; diligently for a while. Profit. Repeat. Now you have a large, successful company.<p>What makes a successful company? &quot;Hustle.&quot; What is &quot;hustle&quot;? Why, it just means &quot;working hard at doing all the things that make a company successful.&quot; It&#x27;s a perfectly circular definition.<p>Proposal: always avoid the word &quot;hustle.&quot; Instead, talk about specific actions and decisions that led to success in particular cases.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hoodoof</author><text>You make a good point.<p>This blog post is a common line of messaging in the &quot;how to succeed in startups&quot; - &quot;see what (hugely successful company X) did? That&#x27;s what you should do, that&#x27;s how you succeed!&quot;<p>Truth is that success comes from a somewhat magical mixture of timing, luck, spotting of opportunity, knowing how to build it, having the resources to build it, meeting just the right people at the right time who will play a role in that success, somehow making the product &quot;slightly more right&quot; instead of &quot;slightly more wrong&quot; and sometimes seeing some incredible new way of viewing the world that others don&#x27;t. Like a magic spell it&#x27;s a bit of all these ingredients put together in a recipe that, well, works.<p>Then the bloggers and venture capitalists come along, timeline what you did and say &quot;ha! there is the recipe for success!&quot;.</text></comment> |
15,440,953 | 15,440,361 | 1 | 2 | 15,439,967 | train | <story><title>150 days of living and coding in a van</title><url>https://ruby-on-wheels.github.io/blog/the-first-150-days-of-van-life/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bshimmin</author><text>I think work is the big issue with this sort of lifestyle (leaving aside children, as others have mentioned). Many remote gigs still want a daily standup, a weekly sprint retrospective and planning session, etc, and none of that really works if you&#x27;re truly nomadic and can&#x27;t really guarantee where you are or how good your Internet connexion is at any given time.<p>The article talks about the flexibility of his lifestyle: &quot;instead of following a fixed plan, I get inspired by random ideas: When the waves are great, I go surfing. When it’s chill and fresh, I work. When it’s hot, I go for a swim.&quot; ... which sounds lovely, but I can&#x27;t see how that works with a full-time job, to be honest.<p>There are, of course, freelance jobs you can do where you have a task to do and a deadline and (hopefully) not too much real-time conversation required... but it may be hard to get enough of that work to support yourself.</text></item><item><author>grecy</author><text>I am doing something somewhat related.<p>I built a Jeep Wrangler into a house on wheels [1], and am driving around Africa for two years.<p>I am freelancing for Magazines, and earning money through my website and social presence. I have not done any coding on this trip, mostly becuase I find it hard to get remote work that meets my flexibility needs - i.e. weeks off-grid and only occasional checkins&#x2F;calls.<p>Last time I drove Alaska to Argentina, doing more-or-less the same thing.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;theroadchoseme.com&#x2F;the-jeep" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;theroadchoseme.com&#x2F;the-jeep</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lucaspiller</author><text>I work in a remote team, and even my co-workers who work from home sometimes have bad internet days. It&#x27;s just something you learn to deal with.<p>In my team there are two others (there are a handful of teams in our company - all remote), sometimes we need to work together (e.g. to solve a bug) but most of the time we are all just working on our own tickets. If we were in an office we&#x27;d be the same - eyes down, headphones on.<p>You just need to trust people enough, to know that they are going to do, what they say they are going to do. Admittedly that&#x27;s hard for some people (the trust and being trustworthy), which I&#x27;d say is why remote work often gets a bad rep.</text></comment> | <story><title>150 days of living and coding in a van</title><url>https://ruby-on-wheels.github.io/blog/the-first-150-days-of-van-life/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bshimmin</author><text>I think work is the big issue with this sort of lifestyle (leaving aside children, as others have mentioned). Many remote gigs still want a daily standup, a weekly sprint retrospective and planning session, etc, and none of that really works if you&#x27;re truly nomadic and can&#x27;t really guarantee where you are or how good your Internet connexion is at any given time.<p>The article talks about the flexibility of his lifestyle: &quot;instead of following a fixed plan, I get inspired by random ideas: When the waves are great, I go surfing. When it’s chill and fresh, I work. When it’s hot, I go for a swim.&quot; ... which sounds lovely, but I can&#x27;t see how that works with a full-time job, to be honest.<p>There are, of course, freelance jobs you can do where you have a task to do and a deadline and (hopefully) not too much real-time conversation required... but it may be hard to get enough of that work to support yourself.</text></item><item><author>grecy</author><text>I am doing something somewhat related.<p>I built a Jeep Wrangler into a house on wheels [1], and am driving around Africa for two years.<p>I am freelancing for Magazines, and earning money through my website and social presence. I have not done any coding on this trip, mostly becuase I find it hard to get remote work that meets my flexibility needs - i.e. weeks off-grid and only occasional checkins&#x2F;calls.<p>Last time I drove Alaska to Argentina, doing more-or-less the same thing.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;theroadchoseme.com&#x2F;the-jeep" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;theroadchoseme.com&#x2F;the-jeep</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>codecamper</author><text>After having done this sort of lifestyle myself.. I&#x27;ve realized it can be GREAT for finding a quiet place you can really go deep and concentrate. I&#x27;d say it&#x27;s better to keep the job &amp; have a mobile office like this set up so you can disappear to the forest or lake for a week at a time to get serious work done.<p>You need the job &amp; others around to stay in touch with the pace of what is happening and to keep up your friendships. And then having a quiet place to go, surrounded by nature is also vital.</text></comment> |
21,505,512 | 21,505,009 | 1 | 3 | 21,503,005 | train | <story><title>Unix for Poets (2013) [pdf]</title><url>https://www.cs.upc.edu/~padro/Unixforpoets.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>b215826</author><text>This is an excellent article. However, note that if you&#x27;re using tr from GNU Coreutils, you have to use the &#x27;A-Za-z&#x27; syntax for character ranges instead of &#x27;[A-Z][a-z]&#x27;, since GNU tr doesn&#x27;t use the SysV syntax [1]:<p><pre><code> GNU `tr&#x27; does not support the System V syntax that uses square
brackets to enclose ranges. Translations specified in that format
sometimes work as expected, since the brackets are often
transliterated to themselves. However, they should be avoided
because they sometimes behave unexpectedly. For example, `tr -d
&#x27;[0-9]&#x27;&#x27; deletes brackets as well as digits.
</code></pre>
[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;software&#x2F;coreutils&#x2F;manual&#x2F;html_node&#x2F;Character-sets.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;software&#x2F;coreutils&#x2F;manual&#x2F;html_node&#x2F;Char...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Unix for Poets (2013) [pdf]</title><url>https://www.cs.upc.edu/~padro/Unixforpoets.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ableal</author><text><i>&quot;I did a quick search in Alta Vista on Netscape&quot;</i> (footnote, page 2)<p>Sounds more like 1998 than 2013 ...<p>P.S. Actually 1994: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scholar.google.com&#x2F;citations?user=E6aqGvYAAAAJ&amp;hl=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scholar.google.com&#x2F;citations?user=E6aqGvYAAAAJ&amp;hl=en</a></text></comment> |
16,041,308 | 16,041,275 | 1 | 2 | 16,039,943 | train | <story><title>Quick Tips for Fast Code on the JVM</title><url>https://gist.github.com/djspiewak/464c11307cabc80171c90397d4ec34ef</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>barrkel</author><text>I&#x27;d recommend a process rather than a handful of implementation-specific rules of thumb that are, IMO, at risk of being applied too generally. I&#x27;d hate someone to read this article and then go ahead and avoid &#x27;new&#x27; wherever possible because they think that&#x27;s how you make code fast, or avoiding boxing and polymorphic call sites, etc.<p>My process for writing fast code on the JVM:<p>1) Measure. Set up a benchmark so you know whether you&#x27;re on the happy path or not, or whether you&#x27;ve fallen off a performance cliff, for whatever reason. Make this part of your testing suite with some kind of notification for regressions.<p>2) Start small, ideally with a do-nothing loop over the input. This gives you a baseline; you can&#x27;t go faster than a do-nothing loop (presuming you can&#x27;t skip part of your input, which is an algorithm problem, not specific to JVM optimization).<p>3) Incrementally build up your algorithm and pay attention to when it falls off the performance cliff, using your benchmark from (1). If and when you fall off the performance cliff, that&#x27;s when you start bringing in tricks like avoiding new, ensuring call sites are monomorphic &#x2F; bimorphic, avoiding boxing, reducing pointer indirections and other cache friendly code, etc.<p>Another trick to consider is playing around with inlining, but not in the way you might think: try pushing infrequently executed code (conditionals) one level deeper in the call stack (i.e. making the body of an if-block into a method and calling it). The idea here is to encourage inlining of method doing the calling. Inlining is where the JVM gets to specialize your code to the specific situation at hand, but the JVM is reluctant to inline big methods because it has a time budget. So you need to help it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ballenarosada</author><text>I&#x27;m a Java programmer who has tried and failed to do some optimizations this year following your general guidelines. I&#x27;m extremely happy to finally see a piece of writing that expands my mental model of what is actually happening on the JVM. If we just keep repeating the same general truisms about measurement and inlining, then nobody will ever advance beyond my own low level of understanding.</text></comment> | <story><title>Quick Tips for Fast Code on the JVM</title><url>https://gist.github.com/djspiewak/464c11307cabc80171c90397d4ec34ef</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>barrkel</author><text>I&#x27;d recommend a process rather than a handful of implementation-specific rules of thumb that are, IMO, at risk of being applied too generally. I&#x27;d hate someone to read this article and then go ahead and avoid &#x27;new&#x27; wherever possible because they think that&#x27;s how you make code fast, or avoiding boxing and polymorphic call sites, etc.<p>My process for writing fast code on the JVM:<p>1) Measure. Set up a benchmark so you know whether you&#x27;re on the happy path or not, or whether you&#x27;ve fallen off a performance cliff, for whatever reason. Make this part of your testing suite with some kind of notification for regressions.<p>2) Start small, ideally with a do-nothing loop over the input. This gives you a baseline; you can&#x27;t go faster than a do-nothing loop (presuming you can&#x27;t skip part of your input, which is an algorithm problem, not specific to JVM optimization).<p>3) Incrementally build up your algorithm and pay attention to when it falls off the performance cliff, using your benchmark from (1). If and when you fall off the performance cliff, that&#x27;s when you start bringing in tricks like avoiding new, ensuring call sites are monomorphic &#x2F; bimorphic, avoiding boxing, reducing pointer indirections and other cache friendly code, etc.<p>Another trick to consider is playing around with inlining, but not in the way you might think: try pushing infrequently executed code (conditionals) one level deeper in the call stack (i.e. making the body of an if-block into a method and calling it). The idea here is to encourage inlining of method doing the calling. Inlining is where the JVM gets to specialize your code to the specific situation at hand, but the JVM is reluctant to inline big methods because it has a time budget. So you need to help it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jnordwick</author><text>I&#x27;m not really a fan of your &quot;best practices&quot;. Java often has unique problems where this generic advice breaks down (I do a lot of low latency and high performance work), and sometimes you need mechanism sympathy instead of relying on tools so much.<p>1- The author does tell you to understand your hot path. However in Java it is often difficult to pin down GC related issues and just easier to prevent them in the first place. I&#x27;ve tried to go through code bases others have written top clean up allocation problems and they become so embedded in the code that it is easier to just rewrite. Or some issues like finalizer&#x2F;weak ref issues are very difficult to find in your measurements.<p>2 and 3- I&#x27;ve never seen this work. This is a great way to get a bunch of faulty analysis or not even know you&#x27;re going off track to begin with.<p>This article and many of the tips are written when you are trying to be &quot;as fast as possible&quot; and where each microsecond counts. I&#x27;ve seen a lot of projects go down in flames where they treated performance as something secondary the can be written into the code in a second pass. When you ate having to deal with issues like the article describes you should take a more first principles approach and keep your eye on the proper idioms inn the first place.</text></comment> |
24,625,158 | 24,623,174 | 1 | 2 | 24,621,152 | train | <story><title>YouTube is shutting down crowdsourced captions</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/09/youtube-celebrates-deaf-awareness-week-by-killing-crowd-sourced-captions/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deadbunny</author><text>Or is that that their AI&#x2F;ML is good enough that they don&#x27;t need to crowd source captioning now?</text></item><item><author>ocdtrekkie</author><text>It&#x27;s surprising because Google loves to use handicapped and disabled users as example cases of how important their technologies are. One of the most prominent early videos for the self-driving car project <i>hinged</i> on the idea that it would let a blind person go to a drive-thru at a restaurant.<p>When they turn around and cut off a surely much less cost-heavy accessibility feature seemingly at random, to many users complaint, it is, in fact, surprising.<p>As far as recourse, it&#x27;d be a bit of a stretch to use the ADA here, but I wouldn&#x27;t be totally surprised if someone tried a lawsuit in this instance: Google is cutting off handicapped users for almost no real cost to themselves.</text></item><item><author>ancarda</author><text>Yeah, it&#x27;s really shitty behavior, but are you surprised? YouTube is owned by Google, a company that routinely culls features or products not used by at-least a billion people a day.<p>They aren&#x27;t going to change their behavior - this is how Google rolls and it works for Google. They only want popular, cool stuff - and catering to the disabled and less fortunate isn&#x27;t popular or cool.<p>I doubt much can be done about this... Try to avoid their services, when possible? Don&#x27;t give them money? Encourage others to avoid Google?<p>It&#x27;s frustrating having no recourse.</text></item><item><author>ocdtrekkie</author><text>What&#x27;s incredibly insane here, is that &quot;low usage&quot; is the excuse being used to terminate an accessibility feature. Accessibility features will <i>always be low usage</i>, but it&#x27;s still important to provide them.<p>This is kinda like a restaurant removing their handicapped ramp because it&#x27;s &quot;not used often&quot;. Of course, that&#x27;d be illegal.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zimpenfish</author><text>Based on what I&#x27;ve seen, it can&#x27;t even cope with simple plain English - in a video I watched earlier, in just the first 90 seconds, &quot;This subject has&quot; -&gt; &quot;If his subject has&quot;, &quot;A weapon that was&quot; -&gt; &quot;Her weapon fat was&quot;, &quot;spherical shape&quot; -&gt; &quot;severe achill shape&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>YouTube is shutting down crowdsourced captions</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/09/youtube-celebrates-deaf-awareness-week-by-killing-crowd-sourced-captions/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deadbunny</author><text>Or is that that their AI&#x2F;ML is good enough that they don&#x27;t need to crowd source captioning now?</text></item><item><author>ocdtrekkie</author><text>It&#x27;s surprising because Google loves to use handicapped and disabled users as example cases of how important their technologies are. One of the most prominent early videos for the self-driving car project <i>hinged</i> on the idea that it would let a blind person go to a drive-thru at a restaurant.<p>When they turn around and cut off a surely much less cost-heavy accessibility feature seemingly at random, to many users complaint, it is, in fact, surprising.<p>As far as recourse, it&#x27;d be a bit of a stretch to use the ADA here, but I wouldn&#x27;t be totally surprised if someone tried a lawsuit in this instance: Google is cutting off handicapped users for almost no real cost to themselves.</text></item><item><author>ancarda</author><text>Yeah, it&#x27;s really shitty behavior, but are you surprised? YouTube is owned by Google, a company that routinely culls features or products not used by at-least a billion people a day.<p>They aren&#x27;t going to change their behavior - this is how Google rolls and it works for Google. They only want popular, cool stuff - and catering to the disabled and less fortunate isn&#x27;t popular or cool.<p>I doubt much can be done about this... Try to avoid their services, when possible? Don&#x27;t give them money? Encourage others to avoid Google?<p>It&#x27;s frustrating having no recourse.</text></item><item><author>ocdtrekkie</author><text>What&#x27;s incredibly insane here, is that &quot;low usage&quot; is the excuse being used to terminate an accessibility feature. Accessibility features will <i>always be low usage</i>, but it&#x27;s still important to provide them.<p>This is kinda like a restaurant removing their handicapped ramp because it&#x27;s &quot;not used often&quot;. Of course, that&#x27;d be illegal.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tmpz22</author><text>No way it handles all languages with the same effectiveness.</text></comment> |
17,303,283 | 17,302,697 | 1 | 3 | 17,302,282 | train | <story><title>Javascript utility libraries to know in 2018</title><url>https://blog.bitsrc.io/11-javascript-utility-libraries-you-should-know-in-2018-3646fb31ade</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Klathmon</author><text>I love moment, but it&#x27;s age is starting to show.<p>The way it&#x27;s designed makes code splitting and tree shaking extremely difficult, and the difficulty removing large chunks of the library (i&#x27;m looking at you locales) is annoying at best. It&#x27;s also a pretty heavy library on it&#x27;s own anyway, as it needs to implement quite a lot of code for legacy browsers that isn&#x27;t really needed if you are only targeting evergreen browsers (and possibly IE 10-11).<p>As an alternative, I always recommend &quot;date-fns&quot;[0]. it got a mention in the article, but not nearly enough of one!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;date-fns&#x2F;date-fns" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;date-fns&#x2F;date-fns</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_ZeD_</author><text>&gt;&gt;&gt; I love moment, but it&#x27;s age is starting to show.<p>according to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;moment&#x2F;moment&#x2F;blob&#x2F;develop&#x2F;CHANGELOG.md#030" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;moment&#x2F;moment&#x2F;blob&#x2F;develop&#x2F;CHANGELOG.md#0...</a> the 0.3.0 release was from 2011.<p>it&#x27;s barely 7 years ago. And I&#x27;m non counting the fact that the current version is 2.22.2 (so there are at least 2 major ones).<p>How... how can you tell it&#x27;s aging?!</text></comment> | <story><title>Javascript utility libraries to know in 2018</title><url>https://blog.bitsrc.io/11-javascript-utility-libraries-you-should-know-in-2018-3646fb31ade</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Klathmon</author><text>I love moment, but it&#x27;s age is starting to show.<p>The way it&#x27;s designed makes code splitting and tree shaking extremely difficult, and the difficulty removing large chunks of the library (i&#x27;m looking at you locales) is annoying at best. It&#x27;s also a pretty heavy library on it&#x27;s own anyway, as it needs to implement quite a lot of code for legacy browsers that isn&#x27;t really needed if you are only targeting evergreen browsers (and possibly IE 10-11).<p>As an alternative, I always recommend &quot;date-fns&quot;[0]. it got a mention in the article, but not nearly enough of one!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;date-fns&#x2F;date-fns" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;date-fns&#x2F;date-fns</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>apaprocki</author><text>Please review and contribute your views on the TC39 Temporal proposal. There’s a polyfill to play with now...<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tc39&#x2F;proposal-temporal" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tc39&#x2F;proposal-temporal</a></text></comment> |
14,325,258 | 14,324,105 | 1 | 2 | 14,321,498 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: How do you manage SSH keys and SSL certificates in your company?</title><text>Do you use - Universal SSH Key Manager, ManageEngine Key Manager Plus, Cyberark Solution, or any other tool? Tips please.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jen20</author><text>A good solution to this problem is to use an SSH Certificate Authority - then you need only configure the CA certificate on each box, and you can either issue semi-long-lived certificates to each user who needs access, or use something like Vault to issue short-lived certificates intended for one-time use.<p>This model is described in an excellent post by Facebook from a while back [1].<p>(Disclaimer: I used to work at HashiCorp, and put this model into production there, though the Vault support for issuing short-lived certificates was added after I left)<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.facebook.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;365787980419535&#x2F;scalable-and-secure-access-with-ssh&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.facebook.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;365787980419535&#x2F;scalable-and...</a></text></item><item><author>serkanh</author><text>So let say you have bunch of servers that your team has to access via ssh, how would vault help adding users public keys add it to ~&#x2F;.ssh&#x2F;authorized_keys of each machine? i am familiar with vault locking&#x2F;unlocking secrets but not sure if Vault can help centralizing and deploying those keys to individual machines.</text></item><item><author>mheiber</author><text>It baffles me that nobody seems to have mentioned Hashicorp&#x27;s Vault yet:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vaultproject.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vaultproject.org</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hashicorp&#x2F;vault" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hashicorp&#x2F;vault</a><p>It comes with both, a full blown PKI (want a new cert? Use an authenticated REST endpoint!) and SSH backend. On top of that you can use it to manage accounts for many other third party applications as well (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL) while leveraging a multitude of authentication backends to delegate granular access for all of these features.<p>It&#x27;s been an absolutely eye-opener for somebody like me who&#x27;s used to managing SSH keys&#x2F;PKIs (what a pain) and I wouldn&#x27;t want to use anything else right now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fragmede</author><text>Using an SSH Certificate Authority is also my recommendation, but be aware that it&#x27;s relatively new, so associated tooling with it is not super mature yet. In particular, the user still needs some bits in order to login, and whether they generate it themselves and send it off to get signed, or the bits are generated for them on the backend and the user simply needs to receive them, there&#x27;s a management aspect to it that isn&#x27;t a totally solved problem with open source tools.<p>It&#x27;s not a difficult problem, mind you, but there was custom code written that runs on developer laptops (OS X and Ubuntu) to support this workflow.<p>(Despite being a very similar looking string of bytes as more traditional pub&#x2F;private keys, it&#x27;s different in the SSH-Agent protocol, so don&#x27;t assume all ssh-agent-looking daemons support it.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: How do you manage SSH keys and SSL certificates in your company?</title><text>Do you use - Universal SSH Key Manager, ManageEngine Key Manager Plus, Cyberark Solution, or any other tool? Tips please.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jen20</author><text>A good solution to this problem is to use an SSH Certificate Authority - then you need only configure the CA certificate on each box, and you can either issue semi-long-lived certificates to each user who needs access, or use something like Vault to issue short-lived certificates intended for one-time use.<p>This model is described in an excellent post by Facebook from a while back [1].<p>(Disclaimer: I used to work at HashiCorp, and put this model into production there, though the Vault support for issuing short-lived certificates was added after I left)<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.facebook.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;365787980419535&#x2F;scalable-and-secure-access-with-ssh&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.facebook.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;365787980419535&#x2F;scalable-and...</a></text></item><item><author>serkanh</author><text>So let say you have bunch of servers that your team has to access via ssh, how would vault help adding users public keys add it to ~&#x2F;.ssh&#x2F;authorized_keys of each machine? i am familiar with vault locking&#x2F;unlocking secrets but not sure if Vault can help centralizing and deploying those keys to individual machines.</text></item><item><author>mheiber</author><text>It baffles me that nobody seems to have mentioned Hashicorp&#x27;s Vault yet:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vaultproject.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vaultproject.org</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hashicorp&#x2F;vault" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hashicorp&#x2F;vault</a><p>It comes with both, a full blown PKI (want a new cert? Use an authenticated REST endpoint!) and SSH backend. On top of that you can use it to manage accounts for many other third party applications as well (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL) while leveraging a multitude of authentication backends to delegate granular access for all of these features.<p>It&#x27;s been an absolutely eye-opener for somebody like me who&#x27;s used to managing SSH keys&#x2F;PKIs (what a pain) and I wouldn&#x27;t want to use anything else right now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mi100hael</author><text>One other handy feature that we&#x27;re using is the ability for Vault to set user IDs in the signed key ID field which then get logged by sshd on the remote host. That way we can still audit who exactly logged in if using a single user on the remote host.</text></comment> |
29,740,712 | 29,739,686 | 1 | 2 | 29,737,973 | train | <story><title>Unusual login activity was due to bug</title><url>https://blog.lastpass.com/2021/12/unusual-attempted-login-activity-how-lastpass-protects-you/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kup0</author><text>I think one thing that really got to me is that the post is by the <i>VP of Engineering</i>, which for some reason gave me an expectation of a detailed explanation of the problem, only to find none<p>The post sounds like it was <i>actually</i> written by either legal or marketing instead</text></item><item><author>tryptophan</author><text>Not communicating clearly and pretending like dumb blog posts like this are an answer are both major red flags.<p>I don&#x27;t understand the thought process behind such legal-ese talk. Do they think we are dumb and can&#x27;t see through it? Putting this sort of stuff up is just saying &quot;we don&#x27;t care about you in reality but here is a post saying we do&quot;.</text></item><item><author>kup0</author><text>Posts like this are so frustrating. It&#x27;s a whole lot of words to say nothing. There&#x27;s a small mention of the alerts being triggered by a bug&#x2F;error, but it is surrounded hundreds of words of deflection&#x2F;spin.<p>Additionally, it is bothersome that absolutely zero detail on this error is given.<p>Given the incredible gravity of the situation (potential of having one&#x27;s entire password vault compromised), I expect a better response than this</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nescioquid</author><text>And when the VP of Engineering writes<p>&gt; some of these security alerts...were likely triggered in error<p>one can conclude that they do not <i>know</i> that <i>any</i> of the alerts were triggered in error (else he would have said as much). Some of the VP&#x27;s statements were likely triggered by the legal department, though I don&#x27;t know that any actually were. It doesn&#x27;t exactly shed light on anything.</text></comment> | <story><title>Unusual login activity was due to bug</title><url>https://blog.lastpass.com/2021/12/unusual-attempted-login-activity-how-lastpass-protects-you/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kup0</author><text>I think one thing that really got to me is that the post is by the <i>VP of Engineering</i>, which for some reason gave me an expectation of a detailed explanation of the problem, only to find none<p>The post sounds like it was <i>actually</i> written by either legal or marketing instead</text></item><item><author>tryptophan</author><text>Not communicating clearly and pretending like dumb blog posts like this are an answer are both major red flags.<p>I don&#x27;t understand the thought process behind such legal-ese talk. Do they think we are dumb and can&#x27;t see through it? Putting this sort of stuff up is just saying &quot;we don&#x27;t care about you in reality but here is a post saying we do&quot;.</text></item><item><author>kup0</author><text>Posts like this are so frustrating. It&#x27;s a whole lot of words to say nothing. There&#x27;s a small mention of the alerts being triggered by a bug&#x2F;error, but it is surrounded hundreds of words of deflection&#x2F;spin.<p>Additionally, it is bothersome that absolutely zero detail on this error is given.<p>Given the incredible gravity of the situation (potential of having one&#x27;s entire password vault compromised), I expect a better response than this</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thrwaway9871</author><text>So much this. Don&#x27;t use any online password managers but with this response lastpass became godaddy for passwords in my book.</text></comment> |
26,463,625 | 26,463,546 | 1 | 2 | 26,463,247 | train | <story><title>Spain to launch modest trial of four-day working week</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/15/spain-to-launch-trial-of-four-day-working-week</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>n_cusan</author><text>Growing up in Spain, I am currently living back here after living over 14 years in Germany and spending most of my working life there. I am half Spanish and half German and have a good perspective on both mentalities in general. In my opinion the problem in Spain is definitely the mindset towards work and the way it is perceived. Here work seems to always be some tedious chore that keeps you away from social live. I do not know many people who truly enjoy their job.<p>A couple of years ago my girlfriend came from Spain to live with me in Germany and got a job. After the first day she came home at 10:00 pm (work ended at 6:00 pm). I was worried that they were making her work to hard the first day, but when she came home she told me she just stayed late doing nothing for the new boss seeing her put in the effort... That really really reminded me why I left Spain to work in Germany. I just do not get that kind of attitude, when I confronted her about it she told me that this behavior was expected in all the places she worked at. Leaving early (or even on time), even if you are effective and have done you work is frowned upon by both coworkers and managers. Paradoxically people might even consider you lazy.<p>So I am really expectant to see how this experiment turns out and if it achieves a change in mentality or if it is just a way to spend tax money and make some “friends of friends” rich as politicians like to do in Spain by subsidizing companies that once the state money runs out go back to normal.</text></comment> | <story><title>Spain to launch modest trial of four-day working week</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/15/spain-to-launch-trial-of-four-day-working-week</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dirktheman</author><text>I&#x27;ve been working 4 days since 2006, when our first child was born. I don&#x27;t see myself going back to working 5 days a week, even when the youngest one is older. I get to spend more time with our children, and when they&#x27;re in school (I&#x27;m off on Wednesday) I have the entire day to myself. It&#x27;s totally worth the pay cut!<p>Fun fact: 50% of employed people here in The Netherlands are working parttime in some form.</text></comment> |
1,219,793 | 1,219,429 | 1 | 2 | 1,219,133 | train | <story><title>The Onion cut 66% of their bandwidth by upstream caching 404s</title><url>http://www.reddit.com/r/django/comments/bhvhz/the_onion_uses_django_and_why_it_matters_to_us/c0mvow7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>randomstring</author><text>OK, so what they are saying is that The Onion is throwing away 66% of its traffic by serving up 404s instead of serving up page views. Wouldn't they 1) have a better user experience by redirecting to the correct URL 2) have more page views and most important 3) make more money off of ads?<p>The Internet is trying to give the gift of free traffic and The Onion is saying: "no thanks." Most sites have to pay for traffic, and wouldn't be trowing it away.<p>Way to play it like Big Media. What's next? A pay wall?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lmkg</author><text>66% of server time, not 66% of traffic. I am not a web developer, but my guess of what's happening: active pages get cached, so 500,000 page views to the homepage uses as much server time as a spider coming across a dead link from 2002. The Onion updates frequently, but not hundreds of time a day, and there's only a (relatively) small number of 'current' articles at any given time. It wouldn't take that many dead links to dwarf the server processing time, as long as they were all distinct links.<p>As a web analyst, I can tell you that in general old, deprecated content does not get very many visits except from spiders. I would not at all be surprised if the marginal ad revenue is break-even compared to the extra server load.<p>Note also that they're not just throwing the traffic away. It's a decent 404. It's not the best I've seen, there's room for improvements, but it's directing people straight to the archive so they can look for the story they were linked to.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Onion cut 66% of their bandwidth by upstream caching 404s</title><url>http://www.reddit.com/r/django/comments/bhvhz/the_onion_uses_django_and_why_it_matters_to_us/c0mvow7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>randomstring</author><text>OK, so what they are saying is that The Onion is throwing away 66% of its traffic by serving up 404s instead of serving up page views. Wouldn't they 1) have a better user experience by redirecting to the correct URL 2) have more page views and most important 3) make more money off of ads?<p>The Internet is trying to give the gift of free traffic and The Onion is saying: "no thanks." Most sites have to pay for traffic, and wouldn't be trowing it away.<p>Way to play it like Big Media. What's next? A pay wall?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ShabbyDoo</author><text>"The Onion is throwing away 66% of its traffic by serving up 404s instead of serving up page views."<p>Spidering and organic activity are bundled together in this 66% number. It would be interesting to know what percentage of this was people who wanted to see an Onion page.</text></comment> |
15,715,114 | 15,714,880 | 1 | 2 | 15,714,366 | train | <story><title>Google Maps Gets a New Look</title><url>https://blog.google/products/maps/google-maps-gets-new-look/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>com2kid</author><text>I hope it actually starts showing street names when zooming in. When using Google Maps for pedestrian navigation, having street names show up rather arbitrarily can be a huge problem, I&#x27;ve had times when I was unable to find out what street I was on due to visual design overriding usability concerns.<p>This is most applicable in cities that don&#x27;t feel the need to place street signs all that often, which is another issue altogether!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kin</author><text>Oh my god I went into the comments section to post exactly this! It makes me curious how they determine when to show a street name. Honestly, all I want is at all times the center of my screen should show its street name. That&#x27;s it. Sometimes I find myself zooming in and out of the very center of my screen and it refuses to show the street. Instead it shows the names of nearby streets I don&#x27;t care about. Sometimes I&#x27;m on the damn street and I just want to know what street I&#x27;m currently on. It really does feel arbitrary.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Maps Gets a New Look</title><url>https://blog.google/products/maps/google-maps-gets-new-look/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>com2kid</author><text>I hope it actually starts showing street names when zooming in. When using Google Maps for pedestrian navigation, having street names show up rather arbitrarily can be a huge problem, I&#x27;ve had times when I was unable to find out what street I was on due to visual design overriding usability concerns.<p>This is most applicable in cities that don&#x27;t feel the need to place street signs all that often, which is another issue altogether!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smelendez</author><text>This is really annoying and occasionally dangerous (if you&#x27;re in an situation where you don&#x27;t to look lost or have your phone out longer than you need to).<p>The other thing I find really annoying is that you can&#x27;t touch landmarks for more information while in navigation mode. A lot of times I&#x27;m on a long walk and want to know if it&#x27;s worth detouring for a business that&#x27;s a few blocks off the route, and the only way I&#x27;ve found to do so is exiting navigation mode, clicking, then re-entering my destination.</text></comment> |
17,596,312 | 17,596,084 | 1 | 2 | 17,594,612 | train | <story><title>Confessions of an Ex-Prosecutor (2016)</title><url>http://reason.com/archives/2016/06/23/confessions-of-an-ex-prosecutor</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>segmondy</author><text>One thing I would love to see taken off is plea deals. It&#x27;s abused often, &quot;plead guilt and do 2 yrs take a chance that if you lose we will give you the maximum 20 yrs&quot; If someone deserves 20 yrs, then they don&#x27;t deserve 2 yrs no matter the cooperation. If someone deserves 2 yrs, they don&#x27;t deserve 20 yrs. Time served should be all about serious of crime and how long we think it would take to rehabilitate the person. It&#x27;s all fucking games.</text></comment> | <story><title>Confessions of an Ex-Prosecutor (2016)</title><url>http://reason.com/archives/2016/06/23/confessions-of-an-ex-prosecutor</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>firasd</author><text>Something that makes me uncomfortable which is not directly touched upon on this article: in America, being a prosecutor is often a stepping stone to being a politician. Which (among other career imperatives) is an incentive to be a &#x27;showboat&#x27; and win notable convictions.<p>The desire to convict also leads to some decisions that seem very wrong-headed from a common-sense perspective, like prosecuting young people for child porn for taking pictures of themselves, or imprisoning victims of domestic violence for not giving testimony...</text></comment> |
9,978,810 | 9,978,324 | 1 | 2 | 9,978,039 | train | <story><title>Landlords are trying not to rent to startups in San Francisco</title><url>https://42floors.com/blog/cre/landlords-are-trying-not-to-rent-startups</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fredkbloggs</author><text>This is a great analysis and the argument makes perfect sense in every respect. The only thing I find dubious is the idea that the bust is 2-4 years out. I think if you polled most SF commercial landlords, they would tell you that they expect most of their startup tenants to start having difficulty paying the rent in no more than 18 months. It would be interesting to see some actual data on this. After all, there&#x27;s not much benefit to demanding 5-year leases if you think that (a) prices are going to keep going up for 3 or 4 more years, and (b) your tenants are mostly going to be solvent for at least that long. If the landlords really believed the bust were 3 or 4 years out, given the sub-sub-sublease problem, they&#x27;d take startups on 1-year terms at a MUCH higher rate than established tenants who could negotiate modest discounts on longer-term leases. The evidence presented suggests rather strongly that most landlords don&#x27;t expect these startups to be in business in 2 years, and I agree.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ww520</author><text>It&#x27;s not that the bust is coming soon. Startups are notoriously bad tenants as a class, whose life cycle is too short. Signing long lease with them just doesn&#x27;t make sense. By definition a startup is an experiment to build products and a business in a short amount of time, with one to two years of funding in most cases. 9 out of 10 these experiments fail, so 9 out 10 startup tenants will move out after a short time. Commercial landlords want long term tenants, not people going out of business in one or two years.<p>Commercial lease is really only applied to companies that can stay in business. A long lease is often not enforceable. The incorporated company simply declares bankruptcy and it&#x27;s hard to collect the money on the full term of the lease. I remember in the Dot Com bust days some failing startups simply stopped paying rents but stayed on, to stretch that last dollar or to burn out that security deposit.</text></comment> | <story><title>Landlords are trying not to rent to startups in San Francisco</title><url>https://42floors.com/blog/cre/landlords-are-trying-not-to-rent-startups</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fredkbloggs</author><text>This is a great analysis and the argument makes perfect sense in every respect. The only thing I find dubious is the idea that the bust is 2-4 years out. I think if you polled most SF commercial landlords, they would tell you that they expect most of their startup tenants to start having difficulty paying the rent in no more than 18 months. It would be interesting to see some actual data on this. After all, there&#x27;s not much benefit to demanding 5-year leases if you think that (a) prices are going to keep going up for 3 or 4 more years, and (b) your tenants are mostly going to be solvent for at least that long. If the landlords really believed the bust were 3 or 4 years out, given the sub-sub-sublease problem, they&#x27;d take startups on 1-year terms at a MUCH higher rate than established tenants who could negotiate modest discounts on longer-term leases. The evidence presented suggests rather strongly that most landlords don&#x27;t expect these startups to be in business in 2 years, and I agree.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>Agreed, many landlords seem to feel like the trouble is a mere few months away, although often any attempt at getting them to discuss how they arrived at that conclusion gets something like &quot;I just know it.&quot;<p>So one wonders about the whole &quot;wisdom of the crowds&quot; or &quot;herd&quot; in this case, and whether or not they can sense something that isn&#x27;t showing up in other indicators. I&#x27;ve been looking but other than the extensively covered late stage valuation madness I&#x27;ve not found good correlation for this feeling.</text></comment> |
8,528,451 | 8,528,355 | 1 | 3 | 8,527,932 | train | <story><title>CurrentC Has Been Hacked, Testers’ Email Addresses Stolen</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/29/retailer-backed-apple-pay-rival-currentc-has-been-hacked-testers-email-addresses-stolen/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>steakejjs</author><text>This is a big problem I&#x27;ve noticed with startups. Stupid web vulns are EVERYWHERE.<p>I&#x27;ve reported so many serious web vulnerabilities to startups it isn&#x27;t even funny (4-5 S14 YC batch alone). Account hijacks, XSS, SQLi. Everywhere.<p>If you are starting a startup (or writing any web software software), PLEASE read OWASP to at least get an idea of what types of issues can exist in Web Applications. Their top 10 is a good place to start (<a href="https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Top_10_2013-Top_10" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.owasp.org&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;Top_10_2013-Top_10</a>)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>krapp</author><text>Startups optimize for fast growth and monetization with limited resources. Time spent securing a site is considered time wasted not improving SEO or user experience. It&#x27;s already well known that people will sign up for an insecure site because they really don&#x27;t care until something happens, and apologies after you&#x27;ve gotten traction (and their money and&#x2F;or data) are less risky than potentially going live later than sooner.<p>In other words, not only do many startups not care, they would consider application security to be actively harmful.<p>This is of course assuming they know. Vulnerabilities may exist in libraries, packages and frameworks which are not known about, or in the case of PHP, old and unsafe practices are easier to copy and paste and tend to proliferate on tutorial and Q&#x2F;A sites.</text></comment> | <story><title>CurrentC Has Been Hacked, Testers’ Email Addresses Stolen</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/29/retailer-backed-apple-pay-rival-currentc-has-been-hacked-testers-email-addresses-stolen/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>steakejjs</author><text>This is a big problem I&#x27;ve noticed with startups. Stupid web vulns are EVERYWHERE.<p>I&#x27;ve reported so many serious web vulnerabilities to startups it isn&#x27;t even funny (4-5 S14 YC batch alone). Account hijacks, XSS, SQLi. Everywhere.<p>If you are starting a startup (or writing any web software software), PLEASE read OWASP to at least get an idea of what types of issues can exist in Web Applications. Their top 10 is a good place to start (<a href="https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Top_10_2013-Top_10" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.owasp.org&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;Top_10_2013-Top_10</a>)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LesZedCB</author><text>While I totally agree this is important to know, CurrentC isn&#x27;t a startup, it&#x27;s a new program from an established company. These guys have made themselves a target, and it is very likely that no amount of good security would leave them totally invulnerable. The community&#x27;s desire to make CurrentC look foolish is very high.</text></comment> |
3,334,678 | 3,333,457 | 1 | 2 | 3,332,670 | train | <story><title>Snake game in a data: URI </title><url>http://bytex64.net/code/datasnake/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xtracto</author><text>&#62;That is, if you are attempting to recreate the classic Nokia experience, anyway.<p>Wow, it is interesting that "the reference" for the snake game is the one in a Nokia mobile phone. The reference for me is the BASIC implementation that (I think) came with a version of Microsoft DOS some time ago.</text></item><item><author>naz</author><text>You should queue inputs. If you press left-down the snake should turn left and then go down on the next frame. That is, if you are attempting to recreate the classic Nokia experience, anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jiggy2011</author><text>There was a version called "Nibbles" that came with QBasic (Which in turn came with DOS 5). It also had another artillery style game called Gorillaz.<p>I guess the nokia implementation is considered the reference because it had the install base and must have wasted hundreds of thousands of hours worldwide.<p>IIRC the DOS version was pretty much unknown unless you happened to scour your disk for .BAS files.</text></comment> | <story><title>Snake game in a data: URI </title><url>http://bytex64.net/code/datasnake/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xtracto</author><text>&#62;That is, if you are attempting to recreate the classic Nokia experience, anyway.<p>Wow, it is interesting that "the reference" for the snake game is the one in a Nokia mobile phone. The reference for me is the BASIC implementation that (I think) came with a version of Microsoft DOS some time ago.</text></item><item><author>naz</author><text>You should queue inputs. If you press left-down the snake should turn left and then go down on the next frame. That is, if you are attempting to recreate the classic Nokia experience, anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stuaxo</author><text>Heh, yeah the Qbasic one was good, I remember extending it to have powerups, 23 levels and 4 player ...</text></comment> |
41,192,876 | 41,192,706 | 1 | 2 | 41,192,118 | train | <story><title>Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out</title><url>https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2024/08/07/firefox-sidebar-and-vertical-tabs-try-them-out-in-nightly-firefox-labs-131/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>buo</author><text>I think the best vertical tabs implementation in firefox is Sidebery. The use of &quot;panes&quot; to group tabs is brilliant. Older versions were buggy, but version 5 has been rock solid for me.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mbnuqw&#x2F;sidebery">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mbnuqw&#x2F;sidebery</a></text></item><item><author>KaiMagnus</author><text>Found a recent screenshot of it on Reddit. Looks good, I hope it has similar nesting like Tree Style Tab though. In my opinion that is still the best implementation of this idea across all browsers.<p>Firefox&#x27; UI has kinda stagnated. It&#x27;s not like other browsers are far ahead – Chrome doesn&#x27;t have vertical tabs either – but it does have groups and profiles. They really need to get out of this stale and boring state and innovate more, so I&#x27;m glad they finally found some time to do this.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1emmfvb&#x2F;ive_just_found_that_vertical_tabs_are_available&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1emmfvb&#x2F;ive_just_f...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>muwtyhg</author><text>Another former Tree Style Tabs user, now on Sideberry with no regrets.<p>I am excited that FireFox is working this in by default so I don&#x27;t have to keep fiddling with userChrome.css to get rid of the top tab bar.</text></comment> | <story><title>Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out</title><url>https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2024/08/07/firefox-sidebar-and-vertical-tabs-try-them-out-in-nightly-firefox-labs-131/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>buo</author><text>I think the best vertical tabs implementation in firefox is Sidebery. The use of &quot;panes&quot; to group tabs is brilliant. Older versions were buggy, but version 5 has been rock solid for me.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mbnuqw&#x2F;sidebery">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mbnuqw&#x2F;sidebery</a></text></item><item><author>KaiMagnus</author><text>Found a recent screenshot of it on Reddit. Looks good, I hope it has similar nesting like Tree Style Tab though. In my opinion that is still the best implementation of this idea across all browsers.<p>Firefox&#x27; UI has kinda stagnated. It&#x27;s not like other browsers are far ahead – Chrome doesn&#x27;t have vertical tabs either – but it does have groups and profiles. They really need to get out of this stale and boring state and innovate more, so I&#x27;m glad they finally found some time to do this.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1emmfvb&#x2F;ive_just_found_that_vertical_tabs_are_available&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1emmfvb&#x2F;ive_just_f...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sigio</author><text>Can&#x27;t agree more, have been using sidebery for about a month now, and even completely dropped chromium which I ran beside firefox for the last years to only running firefox with sideberry and container-tabs now.</text></comment> |
40,313,576 | 40,313,524 | 1 | 2 | 40,312,434 | train | <story><title>The history of 'OK' (2023)</title><url>https://people.howstuffworks.com/history-ok.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jonplackett</author><text>Is it me or does the final paragraph totally contradict itself?<p>&gt; It&#x27;s not that it was needed to &#x27;fill a gap&#x27; in any language. Before 1839, English speakers had &#x27;yes,&#x27; &#x27;good,&#x27; &#x27;fine,&#x27; &#x27;excellent,&#x27; &#x27;satisfactory&#x27; and &#x27;all right.&#x27; What OK provided that the others did not was neutrality, a way to affirm or to express agreement without having to offer an opinion.<p>That, as is then explained - response without judgement, is a really big and useful gap to fill.</text></comment> | <story><title>The history of 'OK' (2023)</title><url>https://people.howstuffworks.com/history-ok.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hahahacorn</author><text>A deep knowledge of etymology, if nothing else, is useful for answering a 5 year old&#x27;s infamous chain of &quot;why?&quot;s<p>Disregarding potential inaccuracies, I love stories like these. Not particularly sure why, but I&#x27;m sure someone has a post somewhere about why we&#x27;re so obsessed with the history of _our_ mundane.</text></comment> |
35,421,757 | 35,419,006 | 1 | 2 | 35,416,224 | train | <story><title>Starlink internet is going from rural savior to unreliable luxury</title><url>https://www.xda-developers.com/starlink-internet-rural-savior-unreliable-luxury/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tedk-42</author><text>All these talks about Starlink -&gt; Remember it&#x27;s a bandaid solution to your governments poor planning and infrastructure rollout of a core utility &#x2F; service.<p>I say this as an Australian who watched one government plan a national rollout of fibre while another came in justifying most people don&#x27;t need a connection better than 25&#x2F;5 (based on usage data at the time) and went ahead and gutted the project.<p>We&#x27;re now trying to undo the previous government&#x27;s mess up of the original roll out post COVID world when everyone discovered remote work is a good idea for many.<p>Starlink&#x27;s issue feels like history repeating itself with any service that becomes popular and goes too quickly into high demand</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davidy123</author><text>Yes. I am in rural(ish) Canada. A community got together and with regional and national funding created <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fibreargenteuil.ca&#x2F;en&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fibreargenteuil.ca&#x2F;en&#x2F;</a>
It was intense, they had to fight, sometimes publicly, tooth and nail with the utility pole controllers. But I&#x27;m typing this from fast, reliable (knock the nearest of many trees) fibre internet with very reasonable (all things considered, though I wish they had a more basic tier for down and out folks) pricing.<p>I follow a few rural internet groups, at first most members thought Starlink would be all they&#x27;d ever need, now they are very unhappy.</text></comment> | <story><title>Starlink internet is going from rural savior to unreliable luxury</title><url>https://www.xda-developers.com/starlink-internet-rural-savior-unreliable-luxury/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tedk-42</author><text>All these talks about Starlink -&gt; Remember it&#x27;s a bandaid solution to your governments poor planning and infrastructure rollout of a core utility &#x2F; service.<p>I say this as an Australian who watched one government plan a national rollout of fibre while another came in justifying most people don&#x27;t need a connection better than 25&#x2F;5 (based on usage data at the time) and went ahead and gutted the project.<p>We&#x27;re now trying to undo the previous government&#x27;s mess up of the original roll out post COVID world when everyone discovered remote work is a good idea for many.<p>Starlink&#x27;s issue feels like history repeating itself with any service that becomes popular and goes too quickly into high demand</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crispinb</author><text>&gt; it&#x27;s a bandaid solution to your governments poor planning and infrastructure rollout ..<p>Well yes, but a needed bandaid. That&#x27;s what happens when governments vacate their role - individuals are left to manage on their own (and the devil take the hindmost).<p>Australian here like you. Generally appalled by the NBN debacle. Starlink&#x27;s beyond my means, but if I had a remote job I&#x27;d find it a godsend where I live (rural Northern Rivers). Our &quot;NBN&quot; is SkyMuster, which is from all accounts not up to much (even if you can get the NBN to connect it).</text></comment> |
30,951,423 | 30,949,230 | 1 | 2 | 30,947,680 | train | <story><title>TypeScript as fast as Rust: TypeScript++</title><url>https://zaplib.com/docs/blog_ts++.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xixixao</author><text>Related but more high level, I think we should have language sets instead of single languages with simpler interop and shared infra: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;xixixao&#x2F;8e363dbd3663b6729cd5b6d74dbbf9d4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;xixixao&#x2F;8e363dbd3663b6729cd5b6d74dbb...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>TypeScript as fast as Rust: TypeScript++</title><url>https://zaplib.com/docs/blog_ts++.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>simjnd</author><text>Not sure if you&#x27;re familiar with or heard about AssemblyScript [1]. It sounds like the goal you are trying to achieve, but with a saner approach: create a TypeScript-like language that compiles to WebAssembly. This means it gives you native access to SIMD, and eventually even threads! All while avoiding the overhead of learning a new language (well there are still some gotchas since it is actually a new language, but very close).
No need to think about whether you need to optimize X function or manually manage memory somewhere, and still get the awesome performance of Wasm.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.assemblyscript.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.assemblyscript.org&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
30,648,651 | 30,648,516 | 1 | 2 | 30,647,784 | train | <story><title>How to Design Better APIs</title><url>https://r.bluethl.net/how-to-design-better-apis</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kumarvvr</author><text>Sometimes, I feel that we ought to have a simple protocol, on top of HTTP, to simply do remote procedure calls and throw out all this HTTP verbs crap. Every request is a http POST, with or without any body and the data transfer is in binary. So that objects can be passed back and forth between client and server.<p>Sure, there is gRPC, but it requires another API specification (the proto files).<p>There I said it. HTTP Verbs constrained REST APIS are the worst thing ever. I hate them.<p>They introduce un-necessary complexity, un-necessary granularity and they almost always stray away from the &quot;REST principles&quot;. To hell with &quot;Hypermedia&quot; stuff.<p>I find it such a joy to program in server rendered pages. No cognitive overhead of thinking in &quot;REST&quot;.<p>But, of course, all this is only where the client and server are developed by the same person &#x2F; company.<p>For publishing data and creating API for third party use, we have no serious, better alternative to REST.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tobyjsullivan</author><text>As someone who has spent a decade working with APIs, I 100% agree. The use cases that are a good fit for “RESTful” APIs pale in comparison to those that would benefit from RPC.<p>What is the point of having your client translate an action to some operation on a document (read or write), only to then have your server try to infer what action was intended by said document operation.<p>It pains me that this article doesn’t mention any of the trade offs of each suggestion (POST vs PUT vs PATCH and expandable objects, especially) or of using REST APIs generally.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to Design Better APIs</title><url>https://r.bluethl.net/how-to-design-better-apis</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kumarvvr</author><text>Sometimes, I feel that we ought to have a simple protocol, on top of HTTP, to simply do remote procedure calls and throw out all this HTTP verbs crap. Every request is a http POST, with or without any body and the data transfer is in binary. So that objects can be passed back and forth between client and server.<p>Sure, there is gRPC, but it requires another API specification (the proto files).<p>There I said it. HTTP Verbs constrained REST APIS are the worst thing ever. I hate them.<p>They introduce un-necessary complexity, un-necessary granularity and they almost always stray away from the &quot;REST principles&quot;. To hell with &quot;Hypermedia&quot; stuff.<p>I find it such a joy to program in server rendered pages. No cognitive overhead of thinking in &quot;REST&quot;.<p>But, of course, all this is only where the client and server are developed by the same person &#x2F; company.<p>For publishing data and creating API for third party use, we have no serious, better alternative to REST.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spikej</author><text>I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve ever come across any third party actually implementing HATEOAS (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;HATEOAS" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;HATEOAS</a>)</text></comment> |
13,277,632 | 13,277,600 | 1 | 3 | 13,276,351 | train | <story><title>C++17 – better than you might think</title><url>http://www.levelofindirection.com/journal/2016/12/28/c17-why-its-better-than-you-might-think.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>koja86</author><text>You might find this project kind of interesting:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;isocpp&#x2F;CppCoreGuidelines&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;CppCoreGuidelines.md" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;isocpp&#x2F;CppCoreGuidelines&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;CppC...</a><p>As a day-to-day C++ practitioner I like it.<p>...Yet I am not fully convinced that the general idea of language evolution implemented as ruleset outside of the language itself is the way to go. Seems more like band-aid to me and made me start to think about concept of programming language&#x27;s life cycle in context of Darwinian evolution - once either legacy compatibility burden is too big or that particular biotope of specific problems the language solves better than others vanishes&#x2F;changes the language dies out.<p>My particular issue with C++ is that it&#x27;s complexity, longevity and evolution made possible for widespread bad-practices as not every C++ developer evolved as much as the language itself and it&#x27;s general public understanding. (Some current best-practices were simply not always widely known or accepted.) I would even go as far to say that most of existing C++ code is crap (at least from standpoint of today &quot;modern&quot; C++).<p>And that&#x27;s why I am both eagerly looking to &quot;next generation&quot; being shaped up by people who has (hopefully) learnt from past mistakes and used by people who care (itching to give Rust a ride once it stabilizes just a bit more) and also occasionally digging in the history for possible gems that I might not able to see without my current experience (platonic weekends-only relationship with Haskell, Lisp being right there at top of my TODO list).<p>EDIT: Removed the sir.</text></item><item><author>ktRolster</author><text><i>What about static analysis to enforce a particular subset of features deemed idiomatic or otherwise best practice?</i><p>I like that idea.</text></item><item><author>rl3</author><text>&gt;<i>More features, more libraries, but is there a working group that looks back at C++98 and tries to reduce complexity by removing mistakes from the language?</i><p>Then you break backwards compatibility. What about static analysis to enforce a particular subset of features deemed idiomatic or otherwise best practice?<p>Granted, reducing complexity does make the job of future compiler authors far less miserable.</text></item><item><author>gurkendoktor</author><text>More features, more libraries, but is there a working group that looks back at C++98 and tries to reduce complexity by removing mistakes from the language?<p>My pet peeve is Argument-Dependent Lookup. It&#x27;s a hack that breaks the encapsulation of namespaces, increases compile times and still makes it harder to write code - try swap()ing two values of type T in a template function. But like any of C++&#x27;s warts, it will be with us forever.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Koshkin</author><text>&gt; <i>I am not fully convinced that the general idea of language evolution implemented as ruleset outside of the language itself is the way to go</i><p>I think you are right - as far as &#x27;the&#x27; language is concerned. The complexity (and the slowness) of a C++ compiler now is mostly due to the complexity - and the slowness - of the built-in interpreter of the template meta-language. There are other, saner languages, such as Common Lisp, where the meta-language is indistinguishable from the language itself, which, in addition to its greater simplicity, greatly contributes to the reasonable compile times. In the C&#x2F;C++ land, it might have been possible to use a similar approach instead of introducing a separate macro&#x2F;template syntax, a good example being the approach taken in the design of ASP (active server pages), PHP, and the like.</text></comment> | <story><title>C++17 – better than you might think</title><url>http://www.levelofindirection.com/journal/2016/12/28/c17-why-its-better-than-you-might-think.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>koja86</author><text>You might find this project kind of interesting:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;isocpp&#x2F;CppCoreGuidelines&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;CppCoreGuidelines.md" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;isocpp&#x2F;CppCoreGuidelines&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;CppC...</a><p>As a day-to-day C++ practitioner I like it.<p>...Yet I am not fully convinced that the general idea of language evolution implemented as ruleset outside of the language itself is the way to go. Seems more like band-aid to me and made me start to think about concept of programming language&#x27;s life cycle in context of Darwinian evolution - once either legacy compatibility burden is too big or that particular biotope of specific problems the language solves better than others vanishes&#x2F;changes the language dies out.<p>My particular issue with C++ is that it&#x27;s complexity, longevity and evolution made possible for widespread bad-practices as not every C++ developer evolved as much as the language itself and it&#x27;s general public understanding. (Some current best-practices were simply not always widely known or accepted.) I would even go as far to say that most of existing C++ code is crap (at least from standpoint of today &quot;modern&quot; C++).<p>And that&#x27;s why I am both eagerly looking to &quot;next generation&quot; being shaped up by people who has (hopefully) learnt from past mistakes and used by people who care (itching to give Rust a ride once it stabilizes just a bit more) and also occasionally digging in the history for possible gems that I might not able to see without my current experience (platonic weekends-only relationship with Haskell, Lisp being right there at top of my TODO list).<p>EDIT: Removed the sir.</text></item><item><author>ktRolster</author><text><i>What about static analysis to enforce a particular subset of features deemed idiomatic or otherwise best practice?</i><p>I like that idea.</text></item><item><author>rl3</author><text>&gt;<i>More features, more libraries, but is there a working group that looks back at C++98 and tries to reduce complexity by removing mistakes from the language?</i><p>Then you break backwards compatibility. What about static analysis to enforce a particular subset of features deemed idiomatic or otherwise best practice?<p>Granted, reducing complexity does make the job of future compiler authors far less miserable.</text></item><item><author>gurkendoktor</author><text>More features, more libraries, but is there a working group that looks back at C++98 and tries to reduce complexity by removing mistakes from the language?<p>My pet peeve is Argument-Dependent Lookup. It&#x27;s a hack that breaks the encapsulation of namespaces, increases compile times and still makes it harder to write code - try swap()ing two values of type T in a template function. But like any of C++&#x27;s warts, it will be with us forever.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SomeStupidPoint</author><text>Just to point out: biological evolution uses changes in the base features utilized (epigenetics) to speed adaptability to changing environments (or new environments).<p>There&#x27;s every reason to think that evolving human systems should use similar masks on features of a technology to make it more suitable for a particular domain and serve as a signal to drive the base evolution.<p>The restricted C subset used for safety critical systems I think is a good example of this -- the restriction allows for usage in a domain where the full set of features is a disadvantage.</text></comment> |
26,469,774 | 26,469,065 | 1 | 2 | 26,468,204 | train | <story><title>Launch HN: Mezli (YC W21) – Robotic restaurants that serve healthy fast food</title><text>Hi folks, Alex here – I’m the CEO and one of the cofounders at Mezli (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mezli.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mezli.com&#x2F;</a>). (I’ve also been a Hacker News lurker since high school and always hoped I’d be posting a Launch HN one day!)
We make “auto-kitchens”, fully autonomous restaurants in a shipping container form factor. They serve our menu of Mediterranean grain bowls for pickup and delivery, at a low price point enabled by our approach’s low costs.<p>The three of us met as grad students at Stanford where we were all working on different things – I was doing AI research before dropping out of my PhD, Alex G was in a robotics lab (and just finished his PhD!), and Max was in aero&#x2F;astro. We worked on a variety of classes, research, and side projects together, but we wanted to start a company and none of our ideas were looking particularly commercially viable. Then, as I was winding down a project building an autonomous weeding robot, it crossed my mind that one of my own biggest daily frustrations was something that was worth building a company to solve.<p>That frustration was that eating well in America requires spending a lot of time cooking or a lot of money buying meals. In grad school, I didn’t have enough time to cook every meal, but I also couldn’t afford to spend $10 or more at Chipotle, Sweetgreen, etc. It turned out that most of my friends, in and out of grad school, had the same problem. So, with Alex G and then Max as well, I started looking into why good&#x2F;healthy restaurant meals in America are so expensive.<p>It turns out that a lot of it comes down to costs that are passed down to customers. An average Chipotle restaurant costs a million dollars to build and runs up a $600K&#x2F;yr bill for on-site labor. That all gets passed on to customers, so that a $10 burrito bowl has only about $3 worth of ingredients in it, but also $3 of restaurant labor and $4 to cover things like rent and profit margin – which for most restaurants is quite thin. We realized that reducing the cost of building and operating a restaurant could unlock much cheaper great-quality meals. So Alex G and I, soon joined by Max, started talking to people all over the restaurant and automation spaces and brainstorming how to solve the problem.<p>It turned out that if we constrained ourselves to bowl-style meals (grain bowls, salads, soups, curries, etc.), we could use a lot of existing automation equipment off-the-shelf, put it in a shipping container and integrate it with a few pieces of custom hardware to make an autonomous restaurant-in-a-box. The hardest part turned out to be the dispenser technology – putting ingredients in a bowl reliably is not trivial! We came up with a new approach for that that we’ve recently filed a patent application on and we&#x27;ll be able to talk about more publicly once the patent is granted.<p>Like most restaurant chains, we do the bulk of our prep in a central kitchen and then the auto-kitchen itself uses a variety of heating and finishing steps (e.g. applying sauces and dry toppings) to make bowls to-order. Unlike some food automation companies, we’re focused on creating a fully automated “restaurant in a vending machine” rather than human-in-the-loop partial automation. Getting our tech to work reliably enough to not need a human to monitor it is a challenge, but comes with benefits like being able to make more meals, faster, out of a smaller space. It also gives us food safety advantages because there’s less room for human error, and we can also do things like bathing the insides of our boxes with high-intensity UV light that kills germs but would not be very employee-friendly!<p>We’re also taking the point-of-view that solving food automation requires leaning into special-purpose hardware, rather than just trying to program a robotic arm to do everything a human cook does. As a former AI researcher, I can speak to the difficulties of programming arms to do even simple tasks like pick-and-place, let alone cooking full meals. And if you’re going to constrain the kitchen environment to help the arm’s actions be more repeatable, you might as well use special-purpose hardware that can do the same tasks more quickly and reliably.<p>We’re now executing on both the food side and tech side of things in parallel. Our human-powered ghost kitchen is dishing out our Mediterranean menu from our San Mateo location (Stop by! <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;order.mezli.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;order.mezli.com</a>). At the same time, we’re building our full-scale food-safe v2 prototype and are shooting to have it up and serving customers later this month. Once our auto-kitchen is working reliably and is robust enough to handle a few knocks, we’re going to start forward-deploying it to parking lots and garages in the Bay Area to test out our operational model. Then, it’ll be time to build multiple auto-kitchens and eventually develop multiple concepts so each auto-kitchen rotates to a new menu on a regular cadence.<p>At that point, we might start partnering with restaurant chains, chefs, etc. to roll out their menus&#x2F;brands to many of our auto-kitchens at once. Since our hardware can make just about any kind of meal that goes in a bowl, and the side of each auto-kitchen will be a digital billboard, we’ll be able to roll out new brands to hundreds of locations overnight without having to update signage, retrain staff etc. – a sort of “AWS for bowl-style meals” model.<p>We’d love to hear any thoughts from the HN community. Do you have experience in the restaurant and&#x2F;or automation spaces? Are you a prospective customer with opinions on our offerings? Another perspective yet? We’d love to hear your thoughts!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>gregschlom</author><text>&quot;Robotic restaurant that serves healthy fast food&quot;: this is <i>exactly</i> how Eatsa used to pitch itself (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;09&#x2F;upshot&#x2F;restaurant-of-the-future-service-with-an-impersonal-touch.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;09&#x2F;upshot&#x2F;restaurant-of-the-...</a>)<p>Turned out things didn&#x27;t work out too well for Eatsa, but I think it was more due to errors in execution (hyper fast growth with nation-wide expansion, and lots of time and money spent on developing custom hardware) rather than a lack of product&#x2F;market fit.<p>Best of luck to Mezli!<p>(Disclosure: former Eatsa employee)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>Eatsa was strange. It wasn&#x27;t really automated. It was more like Amazon lockers for fast food. There was a conventional kitchen in back, but order taking and scheduling was automated.<p>McDonalds announced a big automation push years in 2019. Again, not robotic kitchen automation. Automating order taking and supervision.[1] A previous try at that was called &quot;Hyperactive Bob&quot;.[2] That&#x27;s like Amazon&#x27;s warehouse automation system with Kiva robots.[3] Or the Chicago Dryer &quot;Cascade&quot; system for folding linens.<p>These things use computers to tell the people what to do, because unskilled human hands are cheaper than robots. The human part is reduced to simple eye-hand coordination tasks, which robots still can&#x27;t do very well. &quot;Machines should think. People should work&quot; automation.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.foodserviceequipmentjournal.com&#x2F;mcdonalds-plans-for-greater-restaurant-automation-with-third-acquisition-this-year&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.foodserviceequipmentjournal.com&#x2F;mcdonalds-plans-...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techdirt.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;20040908&#x2F;0156256.shtml" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techdirt.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;20040908&#x2F;0156256.shtml</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;CWNuaPE4DTc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;CWNuaPE4DTc</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;k-DSd2o-mP8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;k-DSd2o-mP8</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Launch HN: Mezli (YC W21) – Robotic restaurants that serve healthy fast food</title><text>Hi folks, Alex here – I’m the CEO and one of the cofounders at Mezli (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mezli.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mezli.com&#x2F;</a>). (I’ve also been a Hacker News lurker since high school and always hoped I’d be posting a Launch HN one day!)
We make “auto-kitchens”, fully autonomous restaurants in a shipping container form factor. They serve our menu of Mediterranean grain bowls for pickup and delivery, at a low price point enabled by our approach’s low costs.<p>The three of us met as grad students at Stanford where we were all working on different things – I was doing AI research before dropping out of my PhD, Alex G was in a robotics lab (and just finished his PhD!), and Max was in aero&#x2F;astro. We worked on a variety of classes, research, and side projects together, but we wanted to start a company and none of our ideas were looking particularly commercially viable. Then, as I was winding down a project building an autonomous weeding robot, it crossed my mind that one of my own biggest daily frustrations was something that was worth building a company to solve.<p>That frustration was that eating well in America requires spending a lot of time cooking or a lot of money buying meals. In grad school, I didn’t have enough time to cook every meal, but I also couldn’t afford to spend $10 or more at Chipotle, Sweetgreen, etc. It turned out that most of my friends, in and out of grad school, had the same problem. So, with Alex G and then Max as well, I started looking into why good&#x2F;healthy restaurant meals in America are so expensive.<p>It turns out that a lot of it comes down to costs that are passed down to customers. An average Chipotle restaurant costs a million dollars to build and runs up a $600K&#x2F;yr bill for on-site labor. That all gets passed on to customers, so that a $10 burrito bowl has only about $3 worth of ingredients in it, but also $3 of restaurant labor and $4 to cover things like rent and profit margin – which for most restaurants is quite thin. We realized that reducing the cost of building and operating a restaurant could unlock much cheaper great-quality meals. So Alex G and I, soon joined by Max, started talking to people all over the restaurant and automation spaces and brainstorming how to solve the problem.<p>It turned out that if we constrained ourselves to bowl-style meals (grain bowls, salads, soups, curries, etc.), we could use a lot of existing automation equipment off-the-shelf, put it in a shipping container and integrate it with a few pieces of custom hardware to make an autonomous restaurant-in-a-box. The hardest part turned out to be the dispenser technology – putting ingredients in a bowl reliably is not trivial! We came up with a new approach for that that we’ve recently filed a patent application on and we&#x27;ll be able to talk about more publicly once the patent is granted.<p>Like most restaurant chains, we do the bulk of our prep in a central kitchen and then the auto-kitchen itself uses a variety of heating and finishing steps (e.g. applying sauces and dry toppings) to make bowls to-order. Unlike some food automation companies, we’re focused on creating a fully automated “restaurant in a vending machine” rather than human-in-the-loop partial automation. Getting our tech to work reliably enough to not need a human to monitor it is a challenge, but comes with benefits like being able to make more meals, faster, out of a smaller space. It also gives us food safety advantages because there’s less room for human error, and we can also do things like bathing the insides of our boxes with high-intensity UV light that kills germs but would not be very employee-friendly!<p>We’re also taking the point-of-view that solving food automation requires leaning into special-purpose hardware, rather than just trying to program a robotic arm to do everything a human cook does. As a former AI researcher, I can speak to the difficulties of programming arms to do even simple tasks like pick-and-place, let alone cooking full meals. And if you’re going to constrain the kitchen environment to help the arm’s actions be more repeatable, you might as well use special-purpose hardware that can do the same tasks more quickly and reliably.<p>We’re now executing on both the food side and tech side of things in parallel. Our human-powered ghost kitchen is dishing out our Mediterranean menu from our San Mateo location (Stop by! <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;order.mezli.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;order.mezli.com</a>). At the same time, we’re building our full-scale food-safe v2 prototype and are shooting to have it up and serving customers later this month. Once our auto-kitchen is working reliably and is robust enough to handle a few knocks, we’re going to start forward-deploying it to parking lots and garages in the Bay Area to test out our operational model. Then, it’ll be time to build multiple auto-kitchens and eventually develop multiple concepts so each auto-kitchen rotates to a new menu on a regular cadence.<p>At that point, we might start partnering with restaurant chains, chefs, etc. to roll out their menus&#x2F;brands to many of our auto-kitchens at once. Since our hardware can make just about any kind of meal that goes in a bowl, and the side of each auto-kitchen will be a digital billboard, we’ll be able to roll out new brands to hundreds of locations overnight without having to update signage, retrain staff etc. – a sort of “AWS for bowl-style meals” model.<p>We’d love to hear any thoughts from the HN community. Do you have experience in the restaurant and&#x2F;or automation spaces? Are you a prospective customer with opinions on our offerings? Another perspective yet? We’d love to hear your thoughts!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>gregschlom</author><text>&quot;Robotic restaurant that serves healthy fast food&quot;: this is <i>exactly</i> how Eatsa used to pitch itself (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;09&#x2F;upshot&#x2F;restaurant-of-the-future-service-with-an-impersonal-touch.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;09&#x2F;upshot&#x2F;restaurant-of-the-...</a>)<p>Turned out things didn&#x27;t work out too well for Eatsa, but I think it was more due to errors in execution (hyper fast growth with nation-wide expansion, and lots of time and money spent on developing custom hardware) rather than a lack of product&#x2F;market fit.<p>Best of luck to Mezli!<p>(Disclosure: former Eatsa employee)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kolchinski</author><text>We&#x27;ve taken a lot of inspiration from Eatsa, actually! We&#x27;ve chatted with probably of half-dozen ex-Eatsa folks. I&#x27;ll shoot you a note if you&#x27;re up for a conversation.</text></comment> |
20,165,297 | 20,164,132 | 1 | 2 | 20,154,289 | train | <story><title>New study dramatically narrows the search for advanced life in the universe</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2019-06-narrows-advanced-life-universe.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>papito</author><text>Most of the Universe is uninhabitable. People keep talking about the &quot;Goldilocks Zone&quot; but that is just <i>one</i> factor.<p>* We are on the outskirts of the Milky Way because the center of the galaxy is radiation hell. A chunk of most galaxies is too &quot;hot&quot; for life. So take most of the SPACE out there and move that to the side.<p>* The planet itself has to be around a star that&#x27;s not too big and not too dim, at the right distance, of course.<p>* Our Solar system is very special as it has the planets in stable, almost circular orbits around a SINGLE star. It&#x27;s not &quot;collision central&quot;, where most planets can still smash into each other, within a binary star system, to boot.<p>* We have gas giants, by chance, protecting us against space rocks flying into us.<p>* The Moon, just the right size, just the right distance, to keep us in stable rotation, with seasons.<p>* Just the right amount of water. Too much or too little water, and we would not be here.<p>* I am probably missing a bunch...<p>* And only then you get to the rest of the factors for life to be possible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>godson_drafty</author><text>* an iron core that produces a magnetic field surrounding the planet, which allows the atmosphere to remain in place, rather than being blasted off the planet by solar winds.</text></comment> | <story><title>New study dramatically narrows the search for advanced life in the universe</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2019-06-narrows-advanced-life-universe.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>papito</author><text>Most of the Universe is uninhabitable. People keep talking about the &quot;Goldilocks Zone&quot; but that is just <i>one</i> factor.<p>* We are on the outskirts of the Milky Way because the center of the galaxy is radiation hell. A chunk of most galaxies is too &quot;hot&quot; for life. So take most of the SPACE out there and move that to the side.<p>* The planet itself has to be around a star that&#x27;s not too big and not too dim, at the right distance, of course.<p>* Our Solar system is very special as it has the planets in stable, almost circular orbits around a SINGLE star. It&#x27;s not &quot;collision central&quot;, where most planets can still smash into each other, within a binary star system, to boot.<p>* We have gas giants, by chance, protecting us against space rocks flying into us.<p>* The Moon, just the right size, just the right distance, to keep us in stable rotation, with seasons.<p>* Just the right amount of water. Too much or too little water, and we would not be here.<p>* I am probably missing a bunch...<p>* And only then you get to the rest of the factors for life to be possible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cheschire</author><text>And timing! With humans only being 150,000 to 200,000 years old, and really only intelligently processing input from the stars for less than a century, we&#x27;re basically talking about two people trying to wave at each other from airplanes that aren&#x27;t even flying over the same country.</text></comment> |
10,485,455 | 10,485,323 | 1 | 3 | 10,483,695 | train | <story><title>Locked doors, headaches, and intellectual need</title><url>http://mkremins.github.io/blog/doors-headaches-intellectual-need/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>greghendershott</author><text>My most unrewarding educational experiences felt like I was being fire hosed solutions to problems I didn&#x27;t have. This is a big challenge in the early stages of learning any subject.<p>Interestingly, experienced software developers benefit from barely-learning about many solutions to problems they don&#x27;t have, yet. What I mean is a style of skimming stuff like API documentation. You don&#x27;t really learn it. You can&#x27;t recall details. But you can recognize its applicability. Someday a problem tickles your memory, and you know roughly where to go looking for the details. And of course then you&#x27;re really motivated to learn it, for real. You have an immediate need.</text></comment> | <story><title>Locked doors, headaches, and intellectual need</title><url>http://mkremins.github.io/blog/doors-headaches-intellectual-need/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>javajosh</author><text>Yes! In fact I&#x27;ve often considered this question in the context of teaching physics - wouldn&#x27;t it be wonderful if you started with a really hard problem, flailed around for a while, and then learned the thing that could solve it for you? Instead (in basic mechanics) we get &quot;f=ma&quot; and then see how it applies to a bunch of systems, instead of first looking at some idealized systems and challenging a student to ask some really basic questions about it. (Not necessarily the full equations of motion, which might not make sense yet, but basic stuff like &quot;how fast does this weight need to move before it leaves contact with this curved surface&quot;).<p>(Actually, it&#x27;s a little more involved with &quot;F=ma&quot; because really that&#x27;s a key to a bunch of other keys - it yields closed form solutions to a bunch of important problems which are characterized by whether &quot;a&quot; is constant (linear motion), proportional to x (a spring), proportional to x^2 (gravity, electrostatics), their rotational analogues, and so on. BTW it still trips me out that Newton <i>saw this connection</i> to so many disparate systems, but I&#x27;m deeply grateful that he did.)</text></comment> |
39,280,357 | 39,279,588 | 1 | 2 | 39,277,767 | train | <story><title>"Fake Chinese income" mortgages fuel Toronto real estate bubble: HSBC bank leaks</title><url>https://www.thebureau.news/p/fake-chinese-income-mortgages-fuel</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ThisIsMyAltAcct</author><text>&gt; The whistleblower, whom The Bureau is calling D.M., immigrated to Canada as an international student from India, making him a minority among mostly Chinese-Canadian co-workers at the Aurora branch.<p>&gt; “I am going to reveal potential mortgage fraud at HSBC Bank Canada and possibly some employees benefited from the fraud, financially pocketing thousands of dollars, which I call the proceeds of crime.”<p>&gt; FINTRAC’s study doesn’t say that Canadian banks knowingly issued fake-income mortgages to Chinese diaspora buyers in Toronto. But in an interview, D.M. said banking staff are trained to guard against fraud, and the loan application packages he reviewed in Aurora beggared belief.<p>&gt; The Bureau’s review of HSBC Canada emails and D.M.’s text messages, shows he came to believe numerous employees at the Aurora branch had direct knowledge of faked Chinese income mortgages, and a veteran manager with oversight of more than 10 Greater Toronto branches knew about broad and questionable mortgage lending for Chinese diaspora clients.<p>&gt; Pointing to specific examples, D.M. claimed that another branch colleague had admitted processing numerous loan applications without meeting his clients, because a branch manager delivered her subordinates foreign income client applications so “they did not have to get sales themselves.”<p>&gt; “She said yes, she knows specially in Mainland China there is a team who would even answer emails and phone calls verifying [Chinese income] but it’s a sophisticated and well organised scam,” D.M. &#x27;s email to HSBC Canada managers says. [...] “When I asked for such a serious issue if she raised a HSBC confidential [complaint] or not she evaded my question,” D.M. wrote. “Now we all love numbers, but I don&#x27;t think the bank will like these kinds of numbers achieved through this way.”<p>Sounds like that branch is compromised</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>topspin</author><text>&gt; Sounds like that branch is compromised<p>&quot;Since 2015, the whistleblower concluded, more than 10 Toronto-area HSBC branches had issued at least $500-million&quot;<p>It&#x27;s not <i>a</i> branch. It&#x27;s the whole bank. And you can safely infer it&#x27;s not the <i>only</i> bank.</text></comment> | <story><title>"Fake Chinese income" mortgages fuel Toronto real estate bubble: HSBC bank leaks</title><url>https://www.thebureau.news/p/fake-chinese-income-mortgages-fuel</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ThisIsMyAltAcct</author><text>&gt; The whistleblower, whom The Bureau is calling D.M., immigrated to Canada as an international student from India, making him a minority among mostly Chinese-Canadian co-workers at the Aurora branch.<p>&gt; “I am going to reveal potential mortgage fraud at HSBC Bank Canada and possibly some employees benefited from the fraud, financially pocketing thousands of dollars, which I call the proceeds of crime.”<p>&gt; FINTRAC’s study doesn’t say that Canadian banks knowingly issued fake-income mortgages to Chinese diaspora buyers in Toronto. But in an interview, D.M. said banking staff are trained to guard against fraud, and the loan application packages he reviewed in Aurora beggared belief.<p>&gt; The Bureau’s review of HSBC Canada emails and D.M.’s text messages, shows he came to believe numerous employees at the Aurora branch had direct knowledge of faked Chinese income mortgages, and a veteran manager with oversight of more than 10 Greater Toronto branches knew about broad and questionable mortgage lending for Chinese diaspora clients.<p>&gt; Pointing to specific examples, D.M. claimed that another branch colleague had admitted processing numerous loan applications without meeting his clients, because a branch manager delivered her subordinates foreign income client applications so “they did not have to get sales themselves.”<p>&gt; “She said yes, she knows specially in Mainland China there is a team who would even answer emails and phone calls verifying [Chinese income] but it’s a sophisticated and well organised scam,” D.M. &#x27;s email to HSBC Canada managers says. [...] “When I asked for such a serious issue if she raised a HSBC confidential [complaint] or not she evaded my question,” D.M. wrote. “Now we all love numbers, but I don&#x27;t think the bank will like these kinds of numbers achieved through this way.”<p>Sounds like that branch is compromised</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>radicaldreamer</author><text>Are US banks just a lot more strict about source of income than Canadian banks?</text></comment> |
17,386,988 | 17,386,726 | 1 | 2 | 17,384,703 | train | <story><title>You can't tell people anything (2004)</title><url>http://habitatchronicles.com/2004/04/you-cant-tell-people-anything/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nojvek</author><text>&gt; I often joke that my goal is to become independently wealthy so that I can afford to get some work done. Mainly that’s about being able to do things without having to explain them first, so that the finished product can be the explanation. I think this will be a major labor saving improvement.<p>I believe this is true for almost every ambitious (maker&#x2F;engineer). It’s really hard to convince Management about something new because they don’t experience the pain. Sometimes their Job depends on not understanding it.<p>Probably a reason why Startups outperform big companies in certain niches.<p>The big dilemma right now is there’s little funding available that can compete with the salaries of big companies. Rents have shot up so high that it’s not easy to take 6 months of to build something so you don’t have to explain. Failure has become expensive.<p>My theory is that even though people are getting paid more, we’re in this weird paradox of having less innovation.</text></comment> | <story><title>You can't tell people anything (2004)</title><url>http://habitatchronicles.com/2004/04/you-cant-tell-people-anything/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>scottmsul</author><text>I was a physics TA in grad school. I was very good at explaining solutions to problems, so of course during exam reviews I would get big crowds to watch the explanations. I was also somewhat aware of this principle, so during a review I was trying to get students to come up with approaches or ideas while solving a problem, and they demanded &quot;why don&#x27;t you just tell us!&quot; It was pretty frustrating.<p>Watching someone explain solutions well can be dangerous, since it gives you the very real feeling of understanding, without actual understanding. To actually understand, you have to try a problem from scratch. Then you will understand why the solution&#x2F;approach is what it is, and why other approaches fail, which will give you intuition about which approaches work on future problems. But counter-intuitively, you will get lost in the weeds during the process, which makes you feel like you don&#x27;t understand!</text></comment> |
41,240,017 | 41,237,827 | 1 | 2 | 41,235,462 | train | <story><title>AudioFlux: A C/C++ library for audio and music analysis</title><url>https://github.com/libAudioFlux/audioFlux</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BrannonKing</author><text>If a person wanted to transcribe sheet music from recorded audio, do you know which library and features would be the best starting point?</text></item><item><author>jcelerier</author><text>It would be nice to have a comparison with any of the many C++ MIR (music information retrieval) libraries in the wild:<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;essentia.upf.edu&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;essentia.upf.edu&#x2F;</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;marsyas&#x2F;marsyas">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;marsyas&#x2F;marsyas</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ircam-ismm&#x2F;pipo">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ircam-ismm&#x2F;pipo</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;flucoma&#x2F;flucoma-core&#x2F;tree&#x2F;main&#x2F;include&#x2F;algorithms&#x2F;public">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;flucoma&#x2F;flucoma-core&#x2F;tree&#x2F;main&#x2F;include&#x2F;al...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cpdomina</author><text>For MIDI:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Music-and-Culture-Technology-Lab&#x2F;omnizart">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Music-and-Culture-Technology-Lab&#x2F;omnizart</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;basicpitch.spotify.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;basicpitch.spotify.com&#x2F;</a><p>They work better if you apply some source separation before (e.g, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sigsep&#x2F;open-unmix-pytorch">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sigsep&#x2F;open-unmix-pytorch</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;facebookresearch&#x2F;demucs">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;facebookresearch&#x2F;demucs</a>, or <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mvsep.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mvsep.com</a>)<p>Still, I think the best results are from proprietary models (specifically <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ableton.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;manual&#x2F;converting-audio-to-midi&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ableton.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;manual&#x2F;converting-audio-to-midi&#x2F;</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.celemony.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;melodyne&#x2F;what-is-melodyne" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.celemony.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;melodyne&#x2F;what-is-melodyne</a>)</text></comment> | <story><title>AudioFlux: A C/C++ library for audio and music analysis</title><url>https://github.com/libAudioFlux/audioFlux</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BrannonKing</author><text>If a person wanted to transcribe sheet music from recorded audio, do you know which library and features would be the best starting point?</text></item><item><author>jcelerier</author><text>It would be nice to have a comparison with any of the many C++ MIR (music information retrieval) libraries in the wild:<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;essentia.upf.edu&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;essentia.upf.edu&#x2F;</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;marsyas&#x2F;marsyas">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;marsyas&#x2F;marsyas</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ircam-ismm&#x2F;pipo">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ircam-ismm&#x2F;pipo</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;flucoma&#x2F;flucoma-core&#x2F;tree&#x2F;main&#x2F;include&#x2F;algorithms&#x2F;public">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;flucoma&#x2F;flucoma-core&#x2F;tree&#x2F;main&#x2F;include&#x2F;al...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bravura</author><text>I have had mixed luck with this model, which is supposedly state-of-the-art: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;magenta&#x2F;mt3">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;magenta&#x2F;mt3</a><p>What kind of music are you trying to transcribe?<p>Feel free to email me.</text></comment> |
15,689,093 | 15,689,135 | 1 | 2 | 15,688,097 | train | <story><title>Brilliant Jerks in Engineering</title><url>http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-11-13/brilliant-jerks.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fhood</author><text>You are wrong because the vast majority of people take criticism personally. It turns out that when you tell people they are wrong and present them with reasons they are wrong, a surprising number of people double down. I&#x27;m sure you have heard this before, but you have to make them think it was their idea.<p>Edit Source: I make this mistake all the god damn time, and never realize it until the person breaks and finally snaps at me. The whole time I thought we were just having a reasoned argument. I think that I am constructively invalidating the other persons arguments, meanwhile they are feeling belittled and defensive.<p>Edit edit: This is even worse if, like me, you think arguments are pretty much the greatest most entertaining game it is possible to play.</text></item><item><author>mars4rp</author><text>I am an Alice and I need some feedback as why is it a bad thing! I work in an environment when very small percentage of people know what are they doing. and people that know what is going on do not speak up because they are frustrated and know probably nothing will change.
in this environment I do speak up whenever I get a chance and I&#x27;ve been in arguments with managers 3 4 level above me.
everybody else wants to be politicians and please everybody! but I believe because no one wants to hurt other people&#x27;s feelings we are in a shit situation we are in.<p>why am I wrong ? should I care less like everybody else?<p>PS: where I currently work is wasting public money and I feel obligated to do something as a Libertarian!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wallace_f</author><text>I have made this mistake all the time in life as well. Even with some things that seem to have no political, religious, etc. angle to them, and are just very easy to Google and verify in a heartbeat.<p>This is going to sound ridiculous, but I thought I&#x27;d open up for example. In university I adamently refuted the moon landing conspiracy of a group partner. I didn&#x27;t realize this would offend, but it did. She did a lot of extremely vindictive things after that, and even tried to (with some success, I might add) incite anger towards me from other group members.<p>Some people become extremely defensive and then aggressive, perhaps it is especially so if you are the nerdy-humble-well-intentioned-Alice-low-gravitas type...<p>Knowing when to correct someone and when to keep quiet is something I have become a lot better at with age. It took a lot of learning the hard way though.<p>I would hope others are understanding that not everyone who is perceived as a jerk, actually intends it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Brilliant Jerks in Engineering</title><url>http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-11-13/brilliant-jerks.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fhood</author><text>You are wrong because the vast majority of people take criticism personally. It turns out that when you tell people they are wrong and present them with reasons they are wrong, a surprising number of people double down. I&#x27;m sure you have heard this before, but you have to make them think it was their idea.<p>Edit Source: I make this mistake all the god damn time, and never realize it until the person breaks and finally snaps at me. The whole time I thought we were just having a reasoned argument. I think that I am constructively invalidating the other persons arguments, meanwhile they are feeling belittled and defensive.<p>Edit edit: This is even worse if, like me, you think arguments are pretty much the greatest most entertaining game it is possible to play.</text></item><item><author>mars4rp</author><text>I am an Alice and I need some feedback as why is it a bad thing! I work in an environment when very small percentage of people know what are they doing. and people that know what is going on do not speak up because they are frustrated and know probably nothing will change.
in this environment I do speak up whenever I get a chance and I&#x27;ve been in arguments with managers 3 4 level above me.
everybody else wants to be politicians and please everybody! but I believe because no one wants to hurt other people&#x27;s feelings we are in a shit situation we are in.<p>why am I wrong ? should I care less like everybody else?<p>PS: where I currently work is wasting public money and I feel obligated to do something as a Libertarian!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>an_d_rew</author><text>Agree totally.<p>In an idealized &quot;intellectual-only&quot; world, humans would be Spock-like and be pure rational actors.<p>But we aren&#x27;t, not even close. (And I would argue that that&#x27;s a good thing, but that discussion is waaaaay out of scope).<p>As soon as you accept that humans, including yourself, primarily make _emotional_ decisions and not rational ones, it becomes easier to steer decisions in a healthy manner.</text></comment> |
11,940,117 | 11,939,218 | 1 | 2 | 11,938,930 | train | <story><title>Thorium</title><url>http://austinmeyer.com/project/thorium/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ajkjk</author><text>This writing style makes me actively distrust anything written in it. It&#x27;s the opposite of convincing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>I agree, and I&#x27;ve been thinking about why that is. It starts with Szilard&#x27;s understanding, and then misstates that it &quot;was realized in 1945&quot; (the year the bomb dropped on Hiroshima), but anyone who has read about atomic energy knows that the Szilard tested his theory with Fermi in Chicago as Chicago Pile 1 [1] in 1942.<p>Secondly, it presents the choice of molten salt versus pressurized water reactors (PWR) as a binary choice when it clearly isn&#x27;t. Running a reactor is a <i>process</i> not a simple act. Fueling and &quot;cleaning&quot; molten salt reactors is an additional burden on the reactor&#x27;s operation. If you put the number of <i>processes</i> you have to develop to run a molten salt reactor to the number you have to develop to run a PWR, there are fewer processes for a PWR. So from a development stand point the PWR is the MVP of reactors. By the time the research was available on the needed processes for Thorium[2] nuclear power was already under siege [3].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Chicago_Pile-1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Chicago_Pile-1</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Molten-Salt_Reactor_Experiment" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Molten-Salt_Reactor_Experiment</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Anti-nuclear_protests" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Anti-nuclear_protests</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Thorium</title><url>http://austinmeyer.com/project/thorium/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ajkjk</author><text>This writing style makes me actively distrust anything written in it. It&#x27;s the opposite of convincing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xori</author><text>Same, author glosses over important details and is clearly biased. I agree with the spirit of the article but the execution is flawed.</text></comment> |
11,678,181 | 11,677,583 | 1 | 3 | 11,676,327 | train | <story><title>How Fastly coded their own routing layer for scaling CDN</title><url>https://www.fastly.com/blog/building-and-scaling-fastly-network-part-1-fighting-fib</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>amazon_not</author><text>TL;DR: Fastly needs full routing tables on all CDN nodes in order to determine which is the best transit path to push out content through. In order to save money, they used a programmable Arista switch instead of a traditional router. Their solution is to reflect BGP routes via the switch to the nodes and and fake direct connectivity between the nodes and the transit provides, so that nodes can directly push out content to whichever transit provider they determine is best on a per packet basis.<p>Please correct me if I&#x27;m wrong.<p>Maybe I&#x27;m just obtuse, but I found the blog post confusing about what it really is about and long winded, taking a very long time to come to the point. There is a severe lack of context in the beginning, it would have tremendously benefited from the what and the why of what they are trying to do.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Fastly coded their own routing layer for scaling CDN</title><url>https://www.fastly.com/blog/building-and-scaling-fastly-network-part-1-fighting-fib</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>francoisLabonte</author><text>Also note Spotify published their own stuff also on Arista hardware<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;labs.spotify.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;26&#x2F;sdn-internet-router-part-1&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;labs.spotify.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;26&#x2F;sdn-internet-router-part...</a><p>Podcast where David Barroso talks about it:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.ipspace.net&#x2F;2015&#x2F;01&#x2F;sdn-router-spotify-on-software-gone-wild.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.ipspace.net&#x2F;2015&#x2F;01&#x2F;sdn-router-spotify-on-softwa...</a><p>Arista blog post:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eos.arista.com&#x2F;spotifys-sdn-internet-router&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eos.arista.com&#x2F;spotifys-sdn-internet-router&#x2F;</a><p>Disclaimer I work at Arista</text></comment> |
38,090,218 | 38,089,172 | 1 | 2 | 38,086,222 | train | <story><title>Real-time dreamy Cloudscapes with Volumetric Raymarching</title><url>https://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/real-time-cloudscapes-with-volumetric-raymarching/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mrsharpoblunto</author><text>Great job explaning the whole process! I&#x27;ve been building some similar stuff recently for my procedural space-exploration side project (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.threads.net&#x2F;@mrsharpoblunto&#x2F;post&#x2F;CufzeNxt9Ol" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.threads.net&#x2F;@mrsharpoblunto&#x2F;post&#x2F;CufzeNxt9Ol</a>). I was planning to do a dev blog post writing a lot of the details up, but yours covers most of the tricks :)<p>A couple of extra things I ended up doing were:<p>1) Using a lower-res texture to modulate the high-res raymarched density, this gives you control over the overall macro shape of the clouds and allows you to transition between LOD better (i.e. as you move from ground level up to space you can lerp between the raymarched renderer &amp; just rendering the low-res 2D texture without any jarring transition.<p>2) Using some atmospheric simulation to colorize the clouds for sunrise&#x2F;sunset. To make this performant I had to build some lookup tables for the atmospheric density at given angles of the sun.<p>3) Altering the step size of the raymarch based on density, I took this from the Horizon Zero Dawn developers where they have a coarse raymarch and as soon as they get a dense enough sample they step back and switch to a higher res step until the density hits zero again.</text></comment> | <story><title>Real-time dreamy Cloudscapes with Volumetric Raymarching</title><url>https://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/real-time-cloudscapes-with-volumetric-raymarching/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>atum47</author><text>very nice tutorial. If I can make one suggestion is to write the shaders in a GLSL file format (i.e.: .vs, .fs) then just get the text value from it; that way you can get your editor to highlight the GSLS syntax, which is pretty helpful when dealing with complex shaders.<p>this not, by any means, the best way of doing it, but I felt it was a bit easier writing GLSL code.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;victorqribeiro&#x2F;3Dengine&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;js&#x2F;ShaderProgram.js">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;victorqribeiro&#x2F;3Dengine&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;js&#x2F;Sh...</a></text></comment> |
17,232,203 | 17,231,739 | 1 | 3 | 17,230,510 | train | <story><title>Tesla Faces Accelerating Rate of Model 3 Refunds</title><url>https://blog.secondmeasure.com/2018/06/04/tesla-faces-accelerating-rate-of-model-3-refunds/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>twblalock</author><text>It would be interesting to see how many of the waitlist cancellers bought electric cars from other brands. The Bolt, the Leaf, and the BMW i3 are the obvious alternatives.</text></item><item><author>bald</author><text>At least in the Tesla fan community, a number of people got tired of waiting and bought a Model S&#x2F;X instead. It remains unclear how many upgraded and as a result of this fell off the reservation list. They should have asked that as well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>addflip</author><text>Anecdata. I cancelled my reservation last month after it came apparent that it would be a while before they start manufacturing base model [1]. Ended up getting the BMW i3 and love it. After incentives it came out $217&#x2F;month to lease[2].<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;electrek.co&#x2F;2018&#x2F;05&#x2F;21&#x2F;tesla-ceo-elon-musk-ties-base-model-3-availability-to-company-profitability&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;electrek.co&#x2F;2018&#x2F;05&#x2F;21&#x2F;tesla-ceo-elon-musk-ties-base...</a><p><pre><code> 2. leasehackr.com&#x2F;calculator?make=BMW&amp;msrp=47245&amp;sales_price=42450&amp;months=30&amp;mf=.00166&amp;dp=0&amp;doc_fee=80&amp;acq_fee=925&amp;taxed_inc=9500&amp;untaxed_inc=0&amp;rebate=3866&amp;resP=61&amp;reg_fee=400&amp;sales_tax=9.5&amp;memo=&amp;zero_driveoff=true&amp;monthlyTax_radio=true&amp;miles=10000&amp;msd=0</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla Faces Accelerating Rate of Model 3 Refunds</title><url>https://blog.secondmeasure.com/2018/06/04/tesla-faces-accelerating-rate-of-model-3-refunds/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>twblalock</author><text>It would be interesting to see how many of the waitlist cancellers bought electric cars from other brands. The Bolt, the Leaf, and the BMW i3 are the obvious alternatives.</text></item><item><author>bald</author><text>At least in the Tesla fan community, a number of people got tired of waiting and bought a Model S&#x2F;X instead. It remains unclear how many upgraded and as a result of this fell off the reservation list. They should have asked that as well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>atonse</author><text>I remember doing test drives of the Leaf vs. the Tesla Model S two years ago.<p>Back then, it felt like the leaf was the present, and Tesla was like stepping into a future of dreams. It was simply no comparison.<p>But dreams aside, I can see how the economics might push people one way.</text></comment> |
27,048,536 | 27,048,430 | 1 | 2 | 27,047,243 | train | <story><title>ClearURLs – automatically remove tracking elements from URLs</title><url>https://github.com/ClearURLs/Addon/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eythian</author><text>I don&#x27;t really know how I feel about having the browser mess with URLs without the user engaging it deliberately. It feels to me something that should perhaps be approached with caution. On the other hand, it does make sense. It&#x27;s a tricky one.</text></item><item><author>ronjouch</author><text>I&#x27;d love if Firefox&#x27;s built-in Tracking Protection did without an addon the job ClearURLs does, so two months ago I created<p>Bug 1697982: <i>&quot;Firefox Tracking Protection should protect against URL&#x2F;queryparam-based tracking (like ClearURLs&#x2F;NeatURL addons do)&quot;</i> , <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugzilla.mozilla.org&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=1697982" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugzilla.mozilla.org&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=1697982</a><p>Please vote for the bug if you&#x27;d like it too.<p>Also, I see a few interesting comments in this HN thread; this evening when the dust settles, I&#x27;ll aggregate &amp; bring them to the bug for consideration if&#x2F;when fixing this bug is considered.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matheusmoreira</author><text>It&#x27;s exactly the kind of thing user agents should do. If it&#x27;s good for the user, they should do it by default for everyone.</text></comment> | <story><title>ClearURLs – automatically remove tracking elements from URLs</title><url>https://github.com/ClearURLs/Addon/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eythian</author><text>I don&#x27;t really know how I feel about having the browser mess with URLs without the user engaging it deliberately. It feels to me something that should perhaps be approached with caution. On the other hand, it does make sense. It&#x27;s a tricky one.</text></item><item><author>ronjouch</author><text>I&#x27;d love if Firefox&#x27;s built-in Tracking Protection did without an addon the job ClearURLs does, so two months ago I created<p>Bug 1697982: <i>&quot;Firefox Tracking Protection should protect against URL&#x2F;queryparam-based tracking (like ClearURLs&#x2F;NeatURL addons do)&quot;</i> , <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugzilla.mozilla.org&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=1697982" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugzilla.mozilla.org&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=1697982</a><p>Please vote for the bug if you&#x27;d like it too.<p>Also, I see a few interesting comments in this HN thread; this evening when the dust settles, I&#x27;ll aggregate &amp; bring them to the bug for consideration if&#x2F;when fixing this bug is considered.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rakoo</author><text>Firefox already positioned itself when it gave the user a possibility to block tracking cookies and fingerprinting techniques. It&#x27;s engaged even further now with Site Isolation.<p><i>If</i> utm_* query arguments are used solely for tracking, then it only makes sense that Firefox goes the next step</text></comment> |
12,691,860 | 12,688,633 | 1 | 2 | 12,685,595 | train | <story><title>Brutalism is Back</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/06/t-magazine/design/brutalist-architecture-revival.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mdasen</author><text>Part of the problem is that concrete doesn&#x27;t age well. The building might start as looking ok, but quickly becomes discolored. It&#x27;s worsened by the fact that many of the buildings made no accommodation for how they wouldn&#x27;t allow water to just drip and discolor them even worse.<p>The article talks about them belonging to &quot;an era of muscular, public-minded development&quot;. Later, it says, &quot;Brutalism wasn’t fully popular with a broad public, whose members were never convinced that awe-inspiring concrete dourness was what society was truly missing, and it ultimately depended on the good will of sympathetic planners&quot;. So, actually, it harkens back to an era when politicians and planners felt that they didn&#x27;t need to be accountable.<p>The worst part of the article is when it argues, &quot;THERE’S NO QUESTION that Brutalism looks exceedingly cool. [author&#x27;s emphasis]&quot;. I think most of the broad public would disagree - and the article basically says that. Brutalism is just gross and dirty to me. There&#x27;s nothing interesting or cool about it for me. Brutalism means putting a lot of money into something that&#x27;s crappy. As rayiner points out (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12688217" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12688217</a>), it isn&#x27;t honest like the article portrays it as. The buildings are often needlessly complicated or purposely ugly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>usrusr</author><text>Done right, aging concrete can be very beautiful. It blends with nature, slowly taking up color and texture of natural rock. Unfortunately, the &quot;doing it right&quot; has to happen at the drawing board, where people tend to picture pristine surfaces of perfectly even coloring. There, they are easily tempted to go for those minimalist shapes that exaggerate shinyness when new (that&#x27;s why people go for that look) as much as raggedness when not. The difference between patina and grit happens before building even starts.<p>If I had a few man-decades of developer time to burn, without any chance of ever seeing adequate return, my dream software project would be a tool that analyzes architectural model data, simulates aging and creates an &quot;aging forecast&quot; version ready for rendering. This could help architects and clients to avoid badly aging designs if they choose to factor that into their decisions. Or at least it could generally promote the idea that sustainable is not just about day to day energy use but also about long term attractivity .</text></comment> | <story><title>Brutalism is Back</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/06/t-magazine/design/brutalist-architecture-revival.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mdasen</author><text>Part of the problem is that concrete doesn&#x27;t age well. The building might start as looking ok, but quickly becomes discolored. It&#x27;s worsened by the fact that many of the buildings made no accommodation for how they wouldn&#x27;t allow water to just drip and discolor them even worse.<p>The article talks about them belonging to &quot;an era of muscular, public-minded development&quot;. Later, it says, &quot;Brutalism wasn’t fully popular with a broad public, whose members were never convinced that awe-inspiring concrete dourness was what society was truly missing, and it ultimately depended on the good will of sympathetic planners&quot;. So, actually, it harkens back to an era when politicians and planners felt that they didn&#x27;t need to be accountable.<p>The worst part of the article is when it argues, &quot;THERE’S NO QUESTION that Brutalism looks exceedingly cool. [author&#x27;s emphasis]&quot;. I think most of the broad public would disagree - and the article basically says that. Brutalism is just gross and dirty to me. There&#x27;s nothing interesting or cool about it for me. Brutalism means putting a lot of money into something that&#x27;s crappy. As rayiner points out (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12688217" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12688217</a>), it isn&#x27;t honest like the article portrays it as. The buildings are often needlessly complicated or purposely ugly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pimeys</author><text>&gt; Part of the problem is that concrete doesn&#x27;t age well. The building might start as looking ok, but quickly becomes discolored. It&#x27;s worsened by the fact that many of the buildings made no accommodation for how they wouldn&#x27;t allow water to just drip and discolor them even worse.<p>Funny how people see things differently. For my eye the discolored old concrete buildings look very inspiring and I guess it was the original idea that the buildings show their age...</text></comment> |
13,238,773 | 13,238,933 | 1 | 2 | 13,238,346 | train | <story><title>The Space Shuttle Challenger Explosion and the O-ring</title><url>https://priceonomics.com/the-space-shuttle-challenger-explosion-and-the-o/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nemild</author><text>I&#x27;m the author of this piece, happy to answer questions.<p>I grew up with stories of the Challenger after my father - a statistician - and 2 of his co-authors were selected by National Academy of Sciences to study if the danger could have been predicted beforehand. They showed that the likelihood of failure was 13% at the launch temperature, but would have been negligible if NASA had waited just a few hours. (His co-author, Ed Fowlkes, was dying of AIDS at the time - and considered this paper one of his life&#x27;s great achievements)<p>Bad statistical inferences were a huge part of the launch story, and you can see more in Richard Feynman&#x27;s critiques:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rogers_Commission_Report" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rogers_Commission_Report</a><p>Secondly, the effect I highlight (a biased data sample) is a key issue with news&#x2F;social media - and can lead us to heavily flawed inferences if we don&#x27;t correct for it.<p>I&#x27;ll dig deep into this in future posts with a substantial amount of data and visualizations.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Space Shuttle Challenger Explosion and the O-ring</title><url>https://priceonomics.com/the-space-shuttle-challenger-explosion-and-the-o/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>seliopou</author><text>Tufte wrote an essay on how the data available suggested that there was a high likelihood of O-ring failure, but that the data and findings were poorly communicated. This led to the decision to launch, the subsequent failure of the O-rings and loss of life. This essay appears in the booklet &quot;Visual and Statistical Thinking&quot;[0], among other publications, along with an other essay on how the source of cholera was traced to contaminated drinking water in 19th century London by John Snow. He plotted cholera cases on a map, and looked at where the outbreaks were most frequent.[1] This also led to the discovery of the vector of cholera, which up until then was unknown or at least misattributed. Both are great reads.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfu.ca&#x2F;cmns&#x2F;courses&#x2F;2012&#x2F;801&#x2F;1-Readings&#x2F;Tufte%20Visual%20and%20Statistical%20Thinking.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfu.ca&#x2F;cmns&#x2F;courses&#x2F;2012&#x2F;801&#x2F;1-Readings&#x2F;Tufte%20...</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1854_Broad_Street_cholera_outbreak#&#x2F;media&#x2F;File:Snow-cholera-map-1.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1854_Broad_Street_cholera_outb...</a></text></comment> |
35,492,520 | 35,492,297 | 1 | 3 | 35,478,871 | train | <story><title>How to Design Programs 2nd Edition</title><url>https://htdp.org/2023-3-6/Book/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>michidk</author><text>I read the abstraction chapter, but I really have a hard time translating those concepts to different languages like Rust. Seems like this book is very specific to this Racket-based teaching language?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chongli</author><text>The racket-based teaching language is actually a series of languages that progress in complexity. The beginner version is very simplified, which makes it perfect for students working on assignments since they won’t be distracted by advanced language features.<p>The specific concepts in the book translate to other functional programming languages, and almost not at all to imperative programming.<p>The general thesis of the book, that you should follow a design recipe, is a universal one. It teaches you how to design your functions and write the documentation before you begin the implementation. This is also the part that students are the worst at, in my experience (as a TA for a first year course based on this book, twice).</text></comment> | <story><title>How to Design Programs 2nd Edition</title><url>https://htdp.org/2023-3-6/Book/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>michidk</author><text>I read the abstraction chapter, but I really have a hard time translating those concepts to different languages like Rust. Seems like this book is very specific to this Racket-based teaching language?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zabzonk</author><text>concepts presented seem pretty basic to any programmming language - what were you having problems with?</text></comment> |
37,884,160 | 37,884,225 | 1 | 2 | 37,879,511 | train | <story><title>The Razor Edge Book of Sharpening (1985) [pdf]</title><url>https://www.sharpeninghandbook.info/Images/Knife_Sharpening_text.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>noman-land</author><text>Any tips to hold the angle steady?</text></item><item><author>btbuildem</author><text>Years ago, when I lived in Seattle, I remember meeting an old Japanese blacksmith. I found him when I was looking to buy some of the pull-style hand saws, but when I met him to pick up the wares, it turned into a bit of a social call.<p>He must&#x27;ve been around 80 or so, lived by himself in a house that was half home half workshop. Got into talking about saws and chisels and blades and sharpening, complete with a Mr.Miyagi-esque riddle of &quot;what does it mean to cut something?&quot;<p>I walked out of there having learned how to quickly and effectively sharpen a blade -- hold a steady angle consistent with the rough grind of the edge, push into the grain of the stone, and remove the burr. Seeing that in this book brought this memory back :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ofalkaed</author><text>Practice. It is one of those things like riding a bike that you have to put in the time and mess up at if you want to master. It might take an hour or two to get that first blade sharp but once you develop the skill it will become easy. The biggest thing is to pay attention to what you are doing, how you hold the blade and the movements you are making and how that affects the edge. Check the edge often and examine the marks left by the stone, nice straight parallel even grooving tells you things are as they should be; they will appear slightly curved and&#x2F;or look as if they fade away if you are changing angle during the stroke. The marks will actually tell you everything you are doing wrong or right once you learn to read them and some purposeful and exaggerated &#x27;mistakes&#x27; can be helpful in learning to read them.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Razor Edge Book of Sharpening (1985) [pdf]</title><url>https://www.sharpeninghandbook.info/Images/Knife_Sharpening_text.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>noman-land</author><text>Any tips to hold the angle steady?</text></item><item><author>btbuildem</author><text>Years ago, when I lived in Seattle, I remember meeting an old Japanese blacksmith. I found him when I was looking to buy some of the pull-style hand saws, but when I met him to pick up the wares, it turned into a bit of a social call.<p>He must&#x27;ve been around 80 or so, lived by himself in a house that was half home half workshop. Got into talking about saws and chisels and blades and sharpening, complete with a Mr.Miyagi-esque riddle of &quot;what does it mean to cut something?&quot;<p>I walked out of there having learned how to quickly and effectively sharpen a blade -- hold a steady angle consistent with the rough grind of the edge, push into the grain of the stone, and remove the burr. Seeing that in this book brought this memory back :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>btbuildem</author><text>He had different wedges of wood with angles matched to different plane irons -- the wood would slide on the table&#x2F;bench while the edge of the blade would go over the stone. Holding the iron against the angled block seemed to keep the angle consistent.</text></comment> |
13,648,748 | 13,647,870 | 1 | 3 | 13,647,190 | train | <story><title>India has banned disposable plastic in Delhi</title><url>https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/india-bans-all-disposable-plastic/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=global&utm_campaign=general-content&linkId=34447287</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>My father told me that American highways used to be lined with trash until it was made illegal to throw trash out the window.</text></item><item><author>Maarten88</author><text>Rwanda also has this policy, since 2008, and they enforce it. The country is very clean, it looks different than other African countries (and countries like the US), just because there is no plastic rubbish everywhere. I think this is a very good policy, and would welcome it at home.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;commentisfree&#x2F;2014&#x2F;feb&#x2F;15&#x2F;rwanda-banned-plastic-bags-so-can-we" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;commentisfree&#x2F;2014&#x2F;feb&#x2F;15&#x2F;rwanda...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Kluny</author><text>There was this scene in Mad Men where Don Draper, Betty Draper and the kids go out for a picnic in the new family car. They eat lunch in a grassy field, then when they&#x27;re done, they pack up their basket and blanket, leaving the beer cans, food wrappers, empty bottles, plastic cutlery, and chicken bones scattered on the grass.<p>That scene shocked and horrified me more than all the sexism, racism, and homophobia combined.<p>Edit: saw the other comments, looks like I wasn&#x27;t the only one affected by that scene.</text></comment> | <story><title>India has banned disposable plastic in Delhi</title><url>https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/india-bans-all-disposable-plastic/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=global&utm_campaign=general-content&linkId=34447287</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>My father told me that American highways used to be lined with trash until it was made illegal to throw trash out the window.</text></item><item><author>Maarten88</author><text>Rwanda also has this policy, since 2008, and they enforce it. The country is very clean, it looks different than other African countries (and countries like the US), just because there is no plastic rubbish everywhere. I think this is a very good policy, and would welcome it at home.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;commentisfree&#x2F;2014&#x2F;feb&#x2F;15&#x2F;rwanda-banned-plastic-bags-so-can-we" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;commentisfree&#x2F;2014&#x2F;feb&#x2F;15&#x2F;rwanda...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wnevets</author><text>One of my favorite scenes from Mad Men was Don and his family leaving their garbage everywhere after a picnic in a beautiful forest.<p>edit: panic to picnic</text></comment> |
26,676,066 | 26,676,158 | 1 | 2 | 26,674,244 | train | <story><title>Isamu Akasaki, inventor of first efficient blue LED, has died</title><url>https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/04/02/national/isamu-akasaki-dies/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Aardwolf</author><text>I found myself taping over some blue LEDs because they were so bright at night!</text></item><item><author>edoceo</author><text>Oh, I remember when blue LEDs became readily available (late 90s for me) and I would mod all my stuff to blue.<p>Had this MS ergo keyboard, with the LEDs in the middle hump, came with green. So, I replaced with these 2.5 hi-blues and I was blinded by my own Numlock-Beam. Had to cross a resistor over there to take the edge off.<p>Anyway, I think HN should get a black-bar because the blue LED is so cool.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>randrews</author><text>I have a laptop charger with one that I taped over with kapton tape: the orange kapton is almost the exact opposite of the blue LED so you&#x27;re left with a dim white indicator, no blinding brightness.</text></comment> | <story><title>Isamu Akasaki, inventor of first efficient blue LED, has died</title><url>https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/04/02/national/isamu-akasaki-dies/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Aardwolf</author><text>I found myself taping over some blue LEDs because they were so bright at night!</text></item><item><author>edoceo</author><text>Oh, I remember when blue LEDs became readily available (late 90s for me) and I would mod all my stuff to blue.<p>Had this MS ergo keyboard, with the LEDs in the middle hump, came with green. So, I replaced with these 2.5 hi-blues and I was blinded by my own Numlock-Beam. Had to cross a resistor over there to take the edge off.<p>Anyway, I think HN should get a black-bar because the blue LED is so cool.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>boomlinde</author><text>I hate them with a passion for this reason but on second thought maybe I can&#x27;t really blame it on the LEDs themselves. People seem to give them too much forward voltage and don&#x27;t always use diffusing packaging, which would have made them much more pleasant to look at.<p>Then again, I rarely see such problems with products with red or amber LEDs.<p>I have a synthesizer with blue LEDs that&#x27;s particularly obnoxious. It&#x27;s probably feeding them 5V and there&#x27;s of course no diffusion at all. I&#x27;ve taped all of them over with a layer of duck tape and they&#x27;re still too bright.</text></comment> |
25,091,833 | 25,091,824 | 1 | 2 | 25,091,401 | train | <story><title>PokéWalker hacking: A complete device takeover and ROM dump using infrared</title><url>http://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=28.%20pokewalker</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fyfy18</author><text>This reminds me of the VMU on Dreamcast. It was a memory unit with a built in monochrome screen. When &#x27;docked&#x27; in the controller it would show extra information about the game you are playing. As well as saving games, you could also download minigames that could be played solely on the VMU. Some of them let you play with friends by connecting two VMUs together (no cables needed, the connector is half male half female so two connect together) - although supposedly I was the only person in the world with a Dreamcast, as all my friends at school had PS1.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;venturebeat.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;09&#x2F;12&#x2F;the-best-dreamcast-vmu-games&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;venturebeat.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;09&#x2F;12&#x2F;the-best-dreamcast-vmu-ga...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>PokéWalker hacking: A complete device takeover and ROM dump using infrared</title><url>http://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=28.%20pokewalker</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>canofbars</author><text>This is brilliant. I love when people find unused features or weird implementation details in things.<p>Also kind of jarring how this is the first bit of &quot;retro&quot; tech that I have seen a reverse engineering post on that I actually used when it was new..</text></comment> |
32,358,843 | 32,357,992 | 1 | 2 | 32,357,470 | train | <story><title>DreamWorks Animation to release MoonRay as open source</title><url>https://www.awn.com/news/dreamworks-animation-release-moonray-open-source</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mkaic</author><text>This looks absolutely fantastic. If you&#x27;re interested in the technical details currently available, check out the about page[0] on the official MoonRay site, or this presentation from SIGGRAPH 2017[1]. I&#x27;m particularly excited for the HeatMap render pass, seems like a really practical way to identify what&#x27;s bogging your scene down. Not to mention the <i>gorgeous</i> volumetric rendering this engine is capable of (see How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden Realm[2]).<p>Really impressed that Dreamworks is making this move. They&#x27;ve made some of my favorite films of all time (the Dragons franchise genuinely changed my life and is a major part of why I love filmmaking, film scores, and 3D rendering) and I&#x27;m glad to see they&#x27;re doing this. I can&#x27;t wait to try MoonRay in Blender once a community integration exists!<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openmoonray.org&#x2F;about" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openmoonray.org&#x2F;about</a><p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jo.dreggn.org&#x2F;path-tracing-in-production&#x2F;2017&#x2F;MoonrayV3.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jo.dreggn.org&#x2F;path-tracing-in-production&#x2F;2017&#x2F;Moonra...</a><p>[2]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.awn.com&#x2F;animationworld&#x2F;how-moonray-became-hidden-superpower-behind-how-train-your-dragon-hidden-world" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.awn.com&#x2F;animationworld&#x2F;how-moonray-became-hidden...</a><p>EDIT: I&#x27;ve also come across this excellent blog post written by an engineer who worked on MoonRay for 4 years: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rendering-memo.blogspot.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rendering-memo.blogspot.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;</a><p>And this paper recommended by erichocean in their reply below: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tabellion.org&#x2F;et&#x2F;paper17&#x2F;MoonRay.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tabellion.org&#x2F;et&#x2F;paper17&#x2F;MoonRay.pdf</a></text></comment> | <story><title>DreamWorks Animation to release MoonRay as open source</title><url>https://www.awn.com/news/dreamworks-animation-release-moonray-open-source</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>miohtama</author><text>Would be interesting to know what business considerations lead to the decision to open source MoonRay.</text></comment> |
5,381,457 | 5,380,905 | 1 | 2 | 5,380,513 | train | <story><title>Chicken Scheme</title><url>http://www.call-cc.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thecombjelly</author><text>I would highly recommend chicken scheme for most projects. It isn't as mature as other ecosystems, but it is getting there fast and is already quite mature and practical. I've used it to build multiple web apps/sites.[0][1]<p>Learn more about the features it provides: <a href="http://wiki.call-cc.org/man/4/Getting%20started" rel="nofollow">http://wiki.call-cc.org/man/4/Getting%20started</a><p>An index of the many libs it supports: <a href="http://wiki.call-cc.org/chicken-projects/egg-index-4.html" rel="nofollow">http://wiki.call-cc.org/chicken-projects/egg-index-4.html</a><p>Why another lisp? <a href="http://wiki.call-cc.org/man/4/faq#why-yet-another-scheme-implementation" rel="nofollow">http://wiki.call-cc.org/man/4/faq#why-yet-another-scheme-imp...</a><p>Getting good performance: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5381472" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5381472</a><p>[0] <a href="http://thintz.com?hn=t" rel="nofollow">http://thintz.com?hn=t</a>
[1] <a href="https://a.keeptherecords.com/demo" rel="nofollow">https://a.keeptherecords.com/demo</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Chicken Scheme</title><url>http://www.call-cc.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tsewlliw</author><text>The absolute most interesting thing about Chicken Scheme is the way it does allocations and garbage collection. I've wanted for a long time to make the time to add a always-on cpu and memory profiler to Chicken Scheme that just tallys the "return" addresses during the gc, meaning at each cg cycle you have a pretty darn good tracing profiler, and keeps the "return" addresses in cells when they are moved off stack, so at any moment you can blame your memory usage on particular code. Clearly you <i>could</i> do this sort of thing with a lot of runtimes, but Chicken's design really lends itself to it.</text></comment> |
15,466,767 | 15,467,083 | 1 | 2 | 15,464,702 | train | <story><title>Finish your stuff</title><url>http://250bpm.com/blog:50</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>projectramo</author><text>What would that look like?<p>Consider an example:<p>You have made a little web app that beeps at certain times of the day to remind me to do something.<p>Is it complete?<p>Oh, you want a calendar integration. That makes sense. You add it. Is it complete?<p>Oh, you say you want to release mobile versions? Okay, now is it complete?<p>Sorry, but the iOS version needs to be updated to remain compatible. Now is it complete?<p>There is a new popular cal app that everyone uses. Should you update it to work with that?<p>The problem isn&#x27;t that the software is incomplete. The &quot;problem&quot; is that the world keeps changing.<p>To the extent that the environment doesn&#x27;t change (unix), you can &quot;complete&quot; your tool.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zachrose</author><text>I think the Unix philosophy would have you pipe those beeps to another program that does your calendar integration.</text></comment> | <story><title>Finish your stuff</title><url>http://250bpm.com/blog:50</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>projectramo</author><text>What would that look like?<p>Consider an example:<p>You have made a little web app that beeps at certain times of the day to remind me to do something.<p>Is it complete?<p>Oh, you want a calendar integration. That makes sense. You add it. Is it complete?<p>Oh, you say you want to release mobile versions? Okay, now is it complete?<p>Sorry, but the iOS version needs to be updated to remain compatible. Now is it complete?<p>There is a new popular cal app that everyone uses. Should you update it to work with that?<p>The problem isn&#x27;t that the software is incomplete. The &quot;problem&quot; is that the world keeps changing.<p>To the extent that the environment doesn&#x27;t change (unix), you can &quot;complete&quot; your tool.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zokier</author><text>That is called feature creep, and is usually not viewed in positive light. Its real art to know how to decompose problems and design neat, contained, solutions.<p>I&#x27;d also argue that the &quot;change&quot; you are seeing is mostly illusionary, but that is another story altogether.</text></comment> |
17,373,507 | 17,373,679 | 1 | 2 | 17,373,220 | train | <story><title>Performance patches in Go 1.11</title><url>https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1tpeJZFObkeick4CF-mx0L3CeCgvT15B96aJeRpxEPcE/edit?usp=sharing</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>obl</author><text>Cool stuff. It&#x27;s nice to have a somewhat mainstream language using its own backend instead of llvm. You can in fact get pretty far by tailoring your compiler to your specific needs. You end up with much less code, it&#x27;s also easier to make it fast.<p>You do cut yourself of from the more advanced optimizations simply for man-hour reasons. I&#x27;m guessing it&#x27;s a trade off they are willing to make.<p>I have to say that I really dislike the kind of large pattern matching they added for the hash table clear. C compilers do that as well for e.g. memset&#x2F;copy or bit rotate instructions.<p>IME it&#x27;s really brittle and would be more beneficial as some kind of a lint (&quot;you could replace this bunch of code by a call to clear()&quot;).<p>It makes the code simpler and won&#x27;t inexplicably slow down next time someone does a tautological refactoring.</text></comment> | <story><title>Performance patches in Go 1.11</title><url>https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1tpeJZFObkeick4CF-mx0L3CeCgvT15B96aJeRpxEPcE/edit?usp=sharing</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>morrbo</author><text>These are some really cool optimizations. It is nice that they&#x27;re letting you put these in, and it&#x27;s always kind of bugged me that they won&#x27;t do some basic optimization of their util classes - like ReadDir sorting by filenames by default, removing one line of code can speed it up 800% on large directories iirc, but they won&#x27;t honour the pull requests. The argument being &quot;it&#x27;s a util class, if you don&#x27;t like it, don&#x27;t use it.&#x27;. Whilst this is true, IMO the stdlibrary&#x2F;common functions should be as quick as possible, with anything extra bolted on (within reason - sorting names being an obvious one). I wouldn&#x27;t expect to have to read the actual source code in order to try and optimize, but i guess i&#x27;m wrong here ¯\_(ツ)_&#x2F;¯</text></comment> |
33,444,476 | 33,444,475 | 1 | 2 | 33,444,266 | train | <story><title>Apple now valued at more than Amazon, Alphabet and Meta combined</title><url>https://www.marketwatch.com/story/apple-now-valued-at-more-than-amazon-alphabet-and-meta-combined-11667430617</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>KerrAvon</author><text>Google and Facebook are not really in the same businesses as Amazon and Apple.<p>That Amazon isn&#x27;t worth more is puzzling. I know I&#x27;ve stopped buying from them unless I absolutely have to because I can&#x27;t trust that the product I get is non-counterfeit and previously unused -- seriously, who sells used shavers as new, totally f&#x27;in gross -- but has everyone else stopped buying too?<p>update: grammar</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>potatolicious</author><text>Yes, for a lot of classes of products I simply do not buy from Amazon any more. The counterfeiting and inventory co-mingling (such that you can&#x27;t even filter for trustworthy sellers) has destroyed a lot of Amazon&#x27;s usefulness.<p>IMO Amazon&#x27;s foray into 3P market-making will ultimately be seen as an attempt to grow the product that ends up killing the product.<p>Even besides the counterfeiting, there&#x27;s just <i>so much crappy junk</i>. Want lightbulbs? Wade through page after page of crappy no-name brands who all have fake&#x2F;gamed reviews, so you can&#x27;t tell the good from the bad. Want a name-brand lightbulb? Well, then we&#x27;re back to the counterfeiting problem.<p>Even when I do buy from Amazon there&#x27;s at least a 50% chance what I buy will be some cheap bullshit with faked reviews that will fall apart in under a month of use. Amazon is <i>worse</i> than the Walmart discount bin.<p>Amazon has weirdly given me a newfound appreciation for traditional retailers. There is <i>value</i> in the curation - in filtering bad products so that as a customer I can shop with confidence, and that even if I don&#x27;t do too much research the product I buy will be <i>good enough</i> - or at least authentic and safe.<p>The complete laissez-faire free-for-all model just results in me Googling for product reviews for the most mundane things I buy. It is a massive time-sink.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple now valued at more than Amazon, Alphabet and Meta combined</title><url>https://www.marketwatch.com/story/apple-now-valued-at-more-than-amazon-alphabet-and-meta-combined-11667430617</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>KerrAvon</author><text>Google and Facebook are not really in the same businesses as Amazon and Apple.<p>That Amazon isn&#x27;t worth more is puzzling. I know I&#x27;ve stopped buying from them unless I absolutely have to because I can&#x27;t trust that the product I get is non-counterfeit and previously unused -- seriously, who sells used shavers as new, totally f&#x27;in gross -- but has everyone else stopped buying too?<p>update: grammar</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fshbbdssbbgdd</author><text>&gt; That Amazon isn&#x27;t worth more is puzzling.<p>The simple answer is that Amazon is the least profitable company in the list (even less than Meta in its current state). There are factors that excuse this, hence Amazon is actually valued very high compared to how little money it makes.</text></comment> |
3,660,197 | 3,660,183 | 1 | 2 | 3,659,927 | train | <story><title>How to find a short domain name</title><url>http://www.zegup.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>matt1</author><text>A few years back I built Domain Pigeon, a similar tool, that generated web 2.0-style domain names and made them available to visitors. One of my big lessons learned from that experience was that web 2.0 style domain names are NOT good domain names. More often than not people can't remember them and when they can, they misspell it and if they can spell it, it's only because someone had to spell it out when telling it to them.<p>I recently launched a follow up to Domain Pigeon called Lean Domain Search which I think handles the problem a lot better [1]. Rather than generating random words, it pairs your search phrase with 1,500+ other keywords and instantly shows you which are available. In this way, every domain it generates is a combination of two or more actual words which makes it much easier to remember and explain to people.<p>By all means explore and see what your options are, but try to pick a name that will be easy for people to remember and easy to spell.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.leandomainsearch.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.leandomainsearch.com</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How to find a short domain name</title><url>http://www.zegup.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jasonkester</author><text>Am I right to be suspicious of this service if the best name it could find for their own domain was zegup?</text></comment> |
32,266,436 | 32,266,531 | 1 | 3 | 32,263,444 | train | <story><title>US Gross Domestic Product, Second Quarter 2022 (Advance Estimate)</title><url>https://www.bea.gov/news/2022/gross-domestic-product-second-quarter-2022-advance-estimate</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mywittyname</author><text>I agree that we are in a recession.<p>&gt;How did we get to a point where actual data can be outright denied or absorbed based on your political viewpoint?<p>Because the actual data is sending mixed signals. People equate recessions with job losses, but job growth is still high and unemployment remains incredibly low. Businesses equate recessions with reduced demand for goods and and services, yet demand remains strong enough to push prices and profits to record levels.<p>GDP has long been criticized for being a poor metric for the economy. But it&#x27;s always been correlated enough with overall economic sentiment that it was Good Enough. It looks like we&#x27;ve finally gotten ourselves into a situation where the edge case issues with GDP surface.<p>Lastly, not everyone feels recessions the same. I was one of those people who benefited from the financial crisis, because I kept my job and lived in an apartment, so my income was going up while my costs went down. That doesn&#x27;t take away from the devastation it caused to other people.</text></item><item><author>partiallypro</author><text>I personally think we&#x27;re in recession and the reason is datapoints outside of this GDP print, what companies are saying, and the fact I know people that have been laid off already. What I find pathetic is that saying we are in a recession is now a political stance.<p>I think we all know that if a Republican were President the entire narrative would shift, with most of the press saying we&#x27;re in recession while Fox, etc would say unemployment is still low which is what matters.<p>How did we get to a point where actual data can be outright denied or absorbed based on your political viewpoint? It&#x27;s really pathetic. People will go to the ends of the earth just to protect politicians. Worse, even if we&#x27;re in recession it&#x27;s pretty mild, so I don&#x27;t even know why there is so much handwringing about it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phpisthebest</author><text>They are not mixed signals, the data we use for signaling is flawed for the modern area<p>Take for example the U-3 unemployment number that you cite, what is missing from that is Workforce Participation, we have a pretty large drop-off in Work force participation which is leading to the false belief that employment is &quot;fine&quot;, and the quote &quot;mix signal&quot; of being in a recession while still having lower unemployment.<p>Completely absent from most of these older metrics is the &quot;gig-economy&quot; which is really screwing with the data IMO.<p>Then you have U-6 Unemployment increasing while U-3 is dropping, I think U-3 is just a few months away from reversal and will start increasing soon<p>&gt;&gt;GDP has long been criticized for being a poor metric for the economy.<p>yes by MMT supporters that want to ignore the classic model of economics in favor of monetary manipulation for political purposes</text></comment> | <story><title>US Gross Domestic Product, Second Quarter 2022 (Advance Estimate)</title><url>https://www.bea.gov/news/2022/gross-domestic-product-second-quarter-2022-advance-estimate</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mywittyname</author><text>I agree that we are in a recession.<p>&gt;How did we get to a point where actual data can be outright denied or absorbed based on your political viewpoint?<p>Because the actual data is sending mixed signals. People equate recessions with job losses, but job growth is still high and unemployment remains incredibly low. Businesses equate recessions with reduced demand for goods and and services, yet demand remains strong enough to push prices and profits to record levels.<p>GDP has long been criticized for being a poor metric for the economy. But it&#x27;s always been correlated enough with overall economic sentiment that it was Good Enough. It looks like we&#x27;ve finally gotten ourselves into a situation where the edge case issues with GDP surface.<p>Lastly, not everyone feels recessions the same. I was one of those people who benefited from the financial crisis, because I kept my job and lived in an apartment, so my income was going up while my costs went down. That doesn&#x27;t take away from the devastation it caused to other people.</text></item><item><author>partiallypro</author><text>I personally think we&#x27;re in recession and the reason is datapoints outside of this GDP print, what companies are saying, and the fact I know people that have been laid off already. What I find pathetic is that saying we are in a recession is now a political stance.<p>I think we all know that if a Republican were President the entire narrative would shift, with most of the press saying we&#x27;re in recession while Fox, etc would say unemployment is still low which is what matters.<p>How did we get to a point where actual data can be outright denied or absorbed based on your political viewpoint? It&#x27;s really pathetic. People will go to the ends of the earth just to protect politicians. Worse, even if we&#x27;re in recession it&#x27;s pretty mild, so I don&#x27;t even know why there is so much handwringing about it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>b0mbadilh0le</author><text>Macro Econ 101: Unemployment is a lagging indicator. Always has been. Always will be. It&#x27;s why it was silly for them to keep touting it as a measure of the economy&#x27;s health.<p>We could even enter a prolonged, severe recession with low unemployment. How? Labor force participation. If it is low enough, there aren&#x27;t jobs to cut.<p>Your last point is very valid, and much is a matter of perspective.<p>As far as mixed data... the only data throwing a contrary signal is unemployment, previously discussed. Inflation, rising interest rates, low consumer confidence, home prices turning over (speculative market areas currently), supply chain issues, and loss of wealth effect (markets have lost approximately $30 trillion this year), are all VERY recessionary.</text></comment> |
11,929,980 | 11,929,433 | 1 | 3 | 11,928,789 | train | <story><title>May is Earth's hottest on record</title><url>http://www.sciencealert.com/may-was-the-hottest-month-on-earth-since-records-began-says-nasa</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mmastrac</author><text>We live in a time where it is far easier to invent wild new technology to extract and sequester CO₂ from the atmosphere than it is to convince industry and individual to reduce the amount of CO₂ they contribute, let alone convincing people that a problem actually exists.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bsder</author><text>It is significantly easier to engineer a solution for a single, large (generally industrial) pollution source than a billion small pollution sources for both technical and political reasons.<p>So, for example, electric cars are incredibly useful <i>even if they have the same carbon footprint as combustion cars</i> simply because they move the pollution source to a single point (the power plant).<p>In addition, there is not a lot that an individual can do that will dramatically affect his carbon footprint. Neighborhoods don&#x27;t magically become walkable or bikeable. Businesses don&#x27;t magically implement work-from-home because a low-level employee wills it (see: Yahoo).<p>Most carbon reducing solutions require buy-in from a group of people, and that takes forever, if you can get them to agree at all.</text></comment> | <story><title>May is Earth's hottest on record</title><url>http://www.sciencealert.com/may-was-the-hottest-month-on-earth-since-records-began-says-nasa</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mmastrac</author><text>We live in a time where it is far easier to invent wild new technology to extract and sequester CO₂ from the atmosphere than it is to convince industry and individual to reduce the amount of CO₂ they contribute, let alone convincing people that a problem actually exists.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>atmosx</author><text>&gt; let alone convincing people that a problem actually exists.<p>I love this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=lPgZfhnCAdI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=lPgZfhnCAdI</a><p>It&#x27;s my favourite episode of the daily show.</text></comment> |
29,588,884 | 29,589,053 | 1 | 2 | 29,588,174 | train | <story><title>Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation</title><url>https://www.axios.com/wages-inflation-economic-data-c912afdb-b950-4183-8283-50afff593576.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kelseyfrog</author><text>The best thing you can do is organize your workplace. Job hopping allows businesses to eat the market at the edges and eventually squeeze those demands out of the labor pool.</text></item><item><author>tjpnz</author><text>In my experience HR are never receptive to those types of arguments. If you want a raise the best thing you can do is find a new job.</text></item><item><author>wing-_-nuts</author><text>We had an all-hands meeting recently where we got to submit anonymous questions. One of the questions was &#x27;with inflation rising at 6%, will the company reconsider their &#x27;standard&#x27; 2% raise?&#x27; The lady answering looks dead in the camera and goes &#x27;Honestly? No&#x27; and goes on to talk about how we&#x27;re reasonably competitive with the local market. Hey, credit where credit is due, at least she was a refreshingly straight shooter. It pretty much let everyone on the call know what they needed to do if they wanted a good raise.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>roenxi</author><text>Inflation doesn&#x27;t - fundamentally - change the power balance between employers and employees. Market forces will cause the situation to find a fair market price. If job hopping can&#x27;t get you better wages, then you probably don&#x27;t have enough market power to resist if an employer flat-out cuts your pay.<p>Though to try and prevent misunderstandings - I do think inflation is bad for people who are paid wages. Market forces aren&#x27;t perfect and &quot;market price&quot; is really a band of prices. Inflation pushes all workers to the low end of the band and means if anyone doesn&#x27;t feel like negotiating they will be pushed in to a bad deal by default.</text></comment> | <story><title>Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation</title><url>https://www.axios.com/wages-inflation-economic-data-c912afdb-b950-4183-8283-50afff593576.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kelseyfrog</author><text>The best thing you can do is organize your workplace. Job hopping allows businesses to eat the market at the edges and eventually squeeze those demands out of the labor pool.</text></item><item><author>tjpnz</author><text>In my experience HR are never receptive to those types of arguments. If you want a raise the best thing you can do is find a new job.</text></item><item><author>wing-_-nuts</author><text>We had an all-hands meeting recently where we got to submit anonymous questions. One of the questions was &#x27;with inflation rising at 6%, will the company reconsider their &#x27;standard&#x27; 2% raise?&#x27; The lady answering looks dead in the camera and goes &#x27;Honestly? No&#x27; and goes on to talk about how we&#x27;re reasonably competitive with the local market. Hey, credit where credit is due, at least she was a refreshingly straight shooter. It pretty much let everyone on the call know what they needed to do if they wanted a good raise.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Kiro</author><text>Look at Sweden. The collectively bargained pay increase was below inflation in all sectors.<p>You should unionize for many reasons but I wouldn&#x27;t trust it as an efficient tool for pay negotiations.</text></comment> |
32,996,138 | 32,993,751 | 1 | 3 | 32,974,720 | train | <story><title>India's lattice buildings cool without air con</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220920-how-indias-lattice-buildings-cool-without-air-con</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spaceman_2020</author><text>Modern Indian housing in major Indian cities has done a complete 180 from these tried-and-tested architectural practices. The materials used seem to be deliberately chosen to maximize human misery. There&#x27;s glass everywhere which, besides being impossible to keep clean in India&#x27;s dusty summers, also retains heat and makes most housing unbearable without AC.<p>Then there are the designs themselves. Faux wood is everywhere, as are laser-carved patterns that collect dust. Spaces are designed to maximize square footage, ventillation and sunlight be damned.<p>The &quot;builder floors&quot; that dot cities like Delhi are an exercise in public ugliness and bad design.<p>Edit: An example of the kind of housing I&#x27;m talking about. Superficially &quot;modern&quot;, but absolutely the wrong design for Indian weather:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;newprojects.99acres.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;findahouse&#x2F;findahouse_grandeur_builder_floors&#x2F;images&#x2F;l44oozuc_large.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;newprojects.99acres.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;findahouse&#x2F;findahou...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>michael1999</author><text>Canada makes similar mistakes. People imitate California designs in a Canadian climate and then find that the building is uncomfortable, and expensive to heat and cool. In many cases, builders will actually reuse complete designs without modification. Just madness.</text></comment> | <story><title>India's lattice buildings cool without air con</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220920-how-indias-lattice-buildings-cool-without-air-con</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spaceman_2020</author><text>Modern Indian housing in major Indian cities has done a complete 180 from these tried-and-tested architectural practices. The materials used seem to be deliberately chosen to maximize human misery. There&#x27;s glass everywhere which, besides being impossible to keep clean in India&#x27;s dusty summers, also retains heat and makes most housing unbearable without AC.<p>Then there are the designs themselves. Faux wood is everywhere, as are laser-carved patterns that collect dust. Spaces are designed to maximize square footage, ventillation and sunlight be damned.<p>The &quot;builder floors&quot; that dot cities like Delhi are an exercise in public ugliness and bad design.<p>Edit: An example of the kind of housing I&#x27;m talking about. Superficially &quot;modern&quot;, but absolutely the wrong design for Indian weather:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;newprojects.99acres.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;findahouse&#x2F;findahouse_grandeur_builder_floors&#x2F;images&#x2F;l44oozuc_large.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;newprojects.99acres.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;findahouse&#x2F;findahou...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pembrook</author><text>In the example you give, there’s no way of knowing if it’s been properly designed for Indian climate per given budget constraints.<p>There appears to be windows on only 2 sides of the building, 1 of which is far enough inset to create significant shade.<p>Depending on what direction the building faces, this could in fact be optimal design for staying cool while still having windows.<p>Now, of course, the best design for staying cool would be an underground cave carved out of rock with no windows—-but is that really how we want to live?<p>There is no scalable home design that works without AC when temperatures regularly get to 100-120F with high humidity.</text></comment> |
37,250,159 | 37,249,525 | 1 | 2 | 37,248,895 | train | <story><title>Hugging Face raises $235M from investors including Salesforce and Nvidia</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/24/hugging-face-raises-235m-from-investors-including-salesforce-and-nvidia/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>QuadrupleA</author><text>Hugging Face is early in the Silicon Valley enshittification cycle - currently burning VC money being incredibly good to it&#x27;s users. Next would be shifting that value to its business customers. Then clawing back and squeezing as much value as possible from those. Then collapse.<p>Although, is it technically a platform &#x2F; marketplace?<p>Anyway for now, enjoy the free beer from the VCs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>version_five</author><text>They represent a real risk to the AI ecosystem IMO (or opportunity if you&#x27;re an investor). They have really cornered the market on model hosting as well as frameworks for running them, it&#x27;s going to get ugly when they start turning the screws.<p>I think it&#x27;s important for people to diversify away from them and not build anything that uniquely depends on them. It&#x27;s not good to have chokepoints like this.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hugging Face raises $235M from investors including Salesforce and Nvidia</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/24/hugging-face-raises-235m-from-investors-including-salesforce-and-nvidia/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>QuadrupleA</author><text>Hugging Face is early in the Silicon Valley enshittification cycle - currently burning VC money being incredibly good to it&#x27;s users. Next would be shifting that value to its business customers. Then clawing back and squeezing as much value as possible from those. Then collapse.<p>Although, is it technically a platform &#x2F; marketplace?<p>Anyway for now, enjoy the free beer from the VCs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NelsonMinar</author><text>Yeah, enjoy the free beer and have a plan to take a case with you when the bar is closing.</text></comment> |
24,644,023 | 24,643,211 | 1 | 2 | 24,640,151 | train | <story><title>The Failed Promise of Web Components</title><url>https://lea.verou.me/2020/09/the-failed-promise-of-web-components/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nwienert</author><text>Web Components are a total mess and impossible to build anything of significance with. I can&#x27;t even imagine how anyone would get anything done with them. It&#x27;s like an Angular developer, an artist, and a mid-2010s neural net walked into a bar and sketched out a spec by taking shots and passing it clockwise.<p>Separation of languages is a silly way to separate things. You&#x27;re building <i>components</i>: logic, structure and style are coupled. SwiftUI adopts the React model, and it succeeds because of it. One can build an app in React&#x2F;SwiftUI in about 1&#x2F;2 the time spent &quot;separating concerns&quot;, and build systems still extract things out to be clean and performant, there&#x27;s no sacrifice being made there. CSS is a shitshow and a total mess especially on large teams.<p>React has nothing to do with how performant an app is and if anything speeds them up compared to anything previously, you may be confusing the power and ease with which it enables development as getting some drunk on building larger apps, but that&#x27;s only because of how effective it is. Twitter is a good example, great performance. It&#x27;s way more about the team than the tool, though certainly it will get easier over time to have the defaults be better at optimization for smaller teams who are ambitious.<p>Most of the super bloated websites I see are basically news sites and other less-techy sites that are stuffed with ad tracking and have no tree shaking. The majority of React apps build with Webpack which supports tree shaking and lazy loading out of the box, plus React makes it possible to pre-render your entire app and deliver it as HTML that hydrates.</text></item><item><author>jeroenhd</author><text>I&#x27;m a strong proponent of separation of duties on the web (style and visuals in CSS, layout in HTML, anything interactive in JS). Enabling data binding in HTML would only serve to blur those lines.<p>With some minimal JS, you can update each web component already. Is writing nameField.innerText = response.name really that difficult? What problem does it solve to make a standard for it? As for (de)serialization, JS has built-in support for JSON and XML. HTML attributes are everything but rickety in my opinion, as any decent parser will allow you to access them as if they are a normal dictionary. Put JSON in them if you really want to encode complex data in attributes, although you probably shouldn&#x27;t.<p>I strongly believe the abhorrent overuse of React and other such libraries on the web is the sole reason our computers have gotten hundreds of times faster but the web is only slightly as quick. I don&#x27;t see a place in web standards for a React-style functional design because of the specific rules each of these libraries have.</text></item><item><author>brundolf</author><text>This post is needlessly snarky, but I don&#x27;t disagree with the basic premise.<p>Here&#x27;s what killed web components: lack of native databinding on the web. That&#x27;s the reason the standard is useless without JS. Any modular, dynamic, modern UI requires databinding, which means it&#x27;s going to bring in a framework anyway, which means that self-contained widgets are <i>all</i> going to bring in their own frameworks, which means that instead of one large framework on the page you have five or six, all of them stitched together through rickety HTML-attribute APIs and custom value-parsing strategies because HTML attributes are just strings.<p>I fail to grasp why databinding hasn&#x27;t made it into a web standard yet. The web has a long tradition of feeling out features in the JS world before adopting the successful ones into the platform. jQuery turned into querySelector() and fetch(), CommonJS modules blazed the trail that led to ES modules, etc. And this next paradigm is more than ready to get standardized. Not only would it make the dream of web components possible, it would eliminate the need for a whole lot of the JavaScript out there and even make UIs faster, since reactivity logic would be implemented natively.<p>It&#x27;s such an obvious, ubiquitous improvement to the web that I can only assume there&#x27;s some fundamental implementation roadblock I&#x27;m missing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>isochronous</author><text>Weird, because we&#x27;re using web components at my workplace to build complex web applications. We use Lit-Element as a base class and have come up with a top-down functional state pattern for data that removes the need for two-way binding. If a sub-component needs to update its state due to DOM interaction, it just fires off an event with info about that DOM interaction, and the data store for that component (another web component) does the necessary state modification, then fires off a &quot;state-changed&quot; event that tells all associated components to update their state from the &quot;master&quot; store (one line of code). All of the data elements use pure functions to do state modification, so doing complex operations is simply a matter of composing the appropriate functions. I&#x27;ve not used react myself other than playing with a few demos, but another developer on my team says the pattern is very similar to how react stores work, and the core modules that drive it are like 100 lines of code.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Failed Promise of Web Components</title><url>https://lea.verou.me/2020/09/the-failed-promise-of-web-components/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nwienert</author><text>Web Components are a total mess and impossible to build anything of significance with. I can&#x27;t even imagine how anyone would get anything done with them. It&#x27;s like an Angular developer, an artist, and a mid-2010s neural net walked into a bar and sketched out a spec by taking shots and passing it clockwise.<p>Separation of languages is a silly way to separate things. You&#x27;re building <i>components</i>: logic, structure and style are coupled. SwiftUI adopts the React model, and it succeeds because of it. One can build an app in React&#x2F;SwiftUI in about 1&#x2F;2 the time spent &quot;separating concerns&quot;, and build systems still extract things out to be clean and performant, there&#x27;s no sacrifice being made there. CSS is a shitshow and a total mess especially on large teams.<p>React has nothing to do with how performant an app is and if anything speeds them up compared to anything previously, you may be confusing the power and ease with which it enables development as getting some drunk on building larger apps, but that&#x27;s only because of how effective it is. Twitter is a good example, great performance. It&#x27;s way more about the team than the tool, though certainly it will get easier over time to have the defaults be better at optimization for smaller teams who are ambitious.<p>Most of the super bloated websites I see are basically news sites and other less-techy sites that are stuffed with ad tracking and have no tree shaking. The majority of React apps build with Webpack which supports tree shaking and lazy loading out of the box, plus React makes it possible to pre-render your entire app and deliver it as HTML that hydrates.</text></item><item><author>jeroenhd</author><text>I&#x27;m a strong proponent of separation of duties on the web (style and visuals in CSS, layout in HTML, anything interactive in JS). Enabling data binding in HTML would only serve to blur those lines.<p>With some minimal JS, you can update each web component already. Is writing nameField.innerText = response.name really that difficult? What problem does it solve to make a standard for it? As for (de)serialization, JS has built-in support for JSON and XML. HTML attributes are everything but rickety in my opinion, as any decent parser will allow you to access them as if they are a normal dictionary. Put JSON in them if you really want to encode complex data in attributes, although you probably shouldn&#x27;t.<p>I strongly believe the abhorrent overuse of React and other such libraries on the web is the sole reason our computers have gotten hundreds of times faster but the web is only slightly as quick. I don&#x27;t see a place in web standards for a React-style functional design because of the specific rules each of these libraries have.</text></item><item><author>brundolf</author><text>This post is needlessly snarky, but I don&#x27;t disagree with the basic premise.<p>Here&#x27;s what killed web components: lack of native databinding on the web. That&#x27;s the reason the standard is useless without JS. Any modular, dynamic, modern UI requires databinding, which means it&#x27;s going to bring in a framework anyway, which means that self-contained widgets are <i>all</i> going to bring in their own frameworks, which means that instead of one large framework on the page you have five or six, all of them stitched together through rickety HTML-attribute APIs and custom value-parsing strategies because HTML attributes are just strings.<p>I fail to grasp why databinding hasn&#x27;t made it into a web standard yet. The web has a long tradition of feeling out features in the JS world before adopting the successful ones into the platform. jQuery turned into querySelector() and fetch(), CommonJS modules blazed the trail that led to ES modules, etc. And this next paradigm is more than ready to get standardized. Not only would it make the dream of web components possible, it would eliminate the need for a whole lot of the JavaScript out there and even make UIs faster, since reactivity logic would be implemented natively.<p>It&#x27;s such an obvious, ubiquitous improvement to the web that I can only assume there&#x27;s some fundamental implementation roadblock I&#x27;m missing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jeroenhd</author><text>I have never used SwiftUI so I can&#x27;t comment on it. However, separation of concerns doesn&#x27;t need to take extra development time. Inlining all CSS and JS is like dropping the MVC model because creating all the necessary classes is taking too much time; focusing on short term gains only lead to a mediocre end result, one that nobody wants to maintain five years down the line.<p>Good React is fine for large applications, but not for websites. Even in applications a few lines of Javascript and a rendering backend can replace entire JS frameworks. Try disabling Javascript for a day and you can see how many pages just become a white screen because whatever is replacing the browser&#x27;s renderer isn&#x27;t loading.<p>&gt; Twitter is a good example, great performance.<p>I agree that it&#x27;s a great example, but it performs horribly for me. I use their website on my phone and videos rarely play back properly, content jumps around while navigating, empty screens and loading bars are everywhere. Sometime I just have to reload because the Twitter website decided it doesn&#x27;t want to load images anymore. Nitter links, on the other hand, load instantly, including image and video content, because of its minimalist approach.<p>Server side rendering is a welcome improvement because it means the developer doesn&#x27;t offload the website&#x27;s calculations to their visitors. I&#x27;m fine with whatever framework people pick on the server, as long as my browser doesn&#x27;t get its rendering engine replaced by the fancy framework for the week.</text></comment> |
15,531,559 | 15,530,981 | 1 | 2 | 15,529,944 | train | <story><title>Tesla Strikes Deal With Shanghai to Build Factory in China</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/tesla-strikes-deal-with-shanghai-to-build-factory-in-china-1508670181?mod=e2fb&mg=prod/accounts-wsj</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sidcool</author><text>It&#x27;s a bit sad that some Governments exercise so much control on businesses and knowing the right people means so much.<p>There should be a Goldilocks zone between Laissez-faire economy and extreme regulation.</text></item><item><author>omarforgotpwd</author><text>The 5% stake in Tesla Tencent took a few months ago was extremely strategic. Not only did Tesla get some much needed capital for Model 3 production, I&#x27;m sure Elon&#x27;s friends at Tencent were happy to introduce Tesla to the right people in the Chinese government to make this deal happen and boost their Tesla stake. A crucial step as China will likely soon represent the biggest market for EVs (if it isn&#x27;t already?). Just goes to show every entrepreneur how valuable equity in your company can be not just for access to capital, but also access to people.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dalbasal</author><text>Idk, I think this characterization is a little on the naive-idealist side.<p>Access to people in positions of power has always been an important part of the game. Those gatekeeping peddlers of access and influence can be financiers, politicians or corporate bosses. Often, it&#x27;s all mixed together.<p>In the west, it&#x27;s sometimes been considered faux pax to emphasize the political component publicly. That generally doesn&#x27;t apply to certain endevours, where the idea of doing anything big without such support is absurd. Banking, large scale construction and military industry comes to mind. If you can&#x27;t get in a room with the big boys, you&#x27;re not a big part of those.<p>I&#x27;m not against idealisation. Like power in the hands of the people, building your fortune by the sweat of thy brow is admirable and attractive morally. As ideals, they can and do shape society and history. But societies and economies are not really built like that, never have been. Power matters.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla Strikes Deal With Shanghai to Build Factory in China</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/tesla-strikes-deal-with-shanghai-to-build-factory-in-china-1508670181?mod=e2fb&mg=prod/accounts-wsj</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sidcool</author><text>It&#x27;s a bit sad that some Governments exercise so much control on businesses and knowing the right people means so much.<p>There should be a Goldilocks zone between Laissez-faire economy and extreme regulation.</text></item><item><author>omarforgotpwd</author><text>The 5% stake in Tesla Tencent took a few months ago was extremely strategic. Not only did Tesla get some much needed capital for Model 3 production, I&#x27;m sure Elon&#x27;s friends at Tencent were happy to introduce Tesla to the right people in the Chinese government to make this deal happen and boost their Tesla stake. A crucial step as China will likely soon represent the biggest market for EVs (if it isn&#x27;t already?). Just goes to show every entrepreneur how valuable equity in your company can be not just for access to capital, but also access to people.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheSpiceIsLife</author><text>In case anyone gets concerned that Lassie the dog isn&#x27;t free, the parent comment probably meant <i>Laissez-faire</i>.[1]<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Laissez-faire" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Laissez-faire</a></text></comment> |
10,357,816 | 10,357,235 | 1 | 2 | 10,356,933 | train | <story><title>Debian Dropping the Linux Standard Base</title><url>https://lwn.net/Articles/658809/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pippy</author><text>I&#x27;ve always liked the concept behind GoboLinux[1], it makes so much more sense in comparison to the legacy mainframe style file structure other linux distros use. Debian dropping LSB might pave the way for more distros adopting a more modern and sensible file structure.<p>1 <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gobolinux.org&#x2F;?page=at_a_glance" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gobolinux.org&#x2F;?page=at_a_glance</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JdeBP</author><text>This is nothing new, of course. NeXTStep introduced things like ~&#x2F;Apps, &#x2F;LocalLibrary, and &#x2F;LocalApps back in the early 1990s.<p>Daniel J. Bernstein, around the turn of the century, proposed a &#x2F;package hierarchy (for package management without the need for conflict resolution) and a &#x2F;command directory. (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cr.yp.to&#x2F;slashpackage.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cr.yp.to&#x2F;slashpackage.html</a>) Their major problem was the idea that one had to register things with what was to most of the world just some bloke on another continent. But they had concepts like a hierarchical package naming scheme (&quot;admin&#x2F;&quot;, &quot;mail&#x2F;&quot;, &amp;c.), self-contained build trees with versioned names, and an &quot;index&quot; directory full of symbolic links.</text></comment> | <story><title>Debian Dropping the Linux Standard Base</title><url>https://lwn.net/Articles/658809/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pippy</author><text>I&#x27;ve always liked the concept behind GoboLinux[1], it makes so much more sense in comparison to the legacy mainframe style file structure other linux distros use. Debian dropping LSB might pave the way for more distros adopting a more modern and sensible file structure.<p>1 <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gobolinux.org&#x2F;?page=at_a_glance" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gobolinux.org&#x2F;?page=at_a_glance</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>caf</author><text>Debian has specifically said that they will be continuing to use the FHS (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard).</text></comment> |
35,989,879 | 35,990,065 | 1 | 2 | 35,988,348 | train | <story><title>Passage by 1Password: Add passkey support to your app or website</title><url>https://blog.1password.com/passage-by-1password/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>artdigital</author><text>Passkey folks - can someone explain to me how this makes things more secure?<p>For example, let’s take Apple. Apple Passkey support is great - I can store a passkey and it syncs through iCloud to all my devices. So my phone can login, my macbook can login. Neat.<p>But thinking about this a little more, Passkeys on iPhones are secured with FaceID, so to login I have to use FaceID or other biometrics. But on iPhone you can skip the FaceID check if you know the device passcode as fallback. So now, if someone has access to my iPhone and knows my passcode, they have access to ALL my accounts that have Passkeys stored on my iCloud.<p>Previously, even if an attacker had access to my iPhone, they still wouldn’t be able to login because they don’t know my password. And 1Password itself uses a separate unique password and can’t be skipped with device passphrase.<p>I’m honestly surprised that we can’t lockdown passkeys on iOS with a separate password&#x2F;key that’s used to encrypt those. It just seems like I’m giving up on security by switching to passkeys, away from randomly generated passwords. IMHO it should be: FaceID, and if you can’t use biometrics, you HAVE to specify that unique passkey-only encryption phrase to unlock it. Not device passcode.<p>If not that, then I would have expected passkeys to be factor 1 authentication to directly replace passwords, and then have something else as second factor, such as TOTP&#x2F;yubikey&#x2F;SMS auth. But current implementations on any website I’ve seen so far treat Passkey as “ok you’re in”, while going the password route usually triggers a second-factor check.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bgentry</author><text>Your iOS device passcode also gives root access to your entire iCloud account, including the ability to reset your account password. This was highlighted a couple months ago by the Wall Street Journal in relation to a recent wave of thefts &amp; account takeovers which were exploiting this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;apple-iphone-security-theft-passcode-data-privacya-basic-iphone-feature-helps-criminals-steal-your-digital-life-cbf14b1a" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;apple-iphone-security-theft-pas...</a><p>It seems we all need to treat our iOS device passcodes with as much importance &amp; sensitivity as the password to our password manager—essentially root on your digital life.</text></comment> | <story><title>Passage by 1Password: Add passkey support to your app or website</title><url>https://blog.1password.com/passage-by-1password/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>artdigital</author><text>Passkey folks - can someone explain to me how this makes things more secure?<p>For example, let’s take Apple. Apple Passkey support is great - I can store a passkey and it syncs through iCloud to all my devices. So my phone can login, my macbook can login. Neat.<p>But thinking about this a little more, Passkeys on iPhones are secured with FaceID, so to login I have to use FaceID or other biometrics. But on iPhone you can skip the FaceID check if you know the device passcode as fallback. So now, if someone has access to my iPhone and knows my passcode, they have access to ALL my accounts that have Passkeys stored on my iCloud.<p>Previously, even if an attacker had access to my iPhone, they still wouldn’t be able to login because they don’t know my password. And 1Password itself uses a separate unique password and can’t be skipped with device passphrase.<p>I’m honestly surprised that we can’t lockdown passkeys on iOS with a separate password&#x2F;key that’s used to encrypt those. It just seems like I’m giving up on security by switching to passkeys, away from randomly generated passwords. IMHO it should be: FaceID, and if you can’t use biometrics, you HAVE to specify that unique passkey-only encryption phrase to unlock it. Not device passcode.<p>If not that, then I would have expected passkeys to be factor 1 authentication to directly replace passwords, and then have something else as second factor, such as TOTP&#x2F;yubikey&#x2F;SMS auth. But current implementations on any website I’ve seen so far treat Passkey as “ok you’re in”, while going the password route usually triggers a second-factor check.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AviationAtom</author><text>I think you&#x27;re misunderstanding the intent of this. It&#x27;s meant to stop the theft of text authenticators, from breached databases. It shifts from &quot;something you know&quot; to &quot;something you have.&quot; The problem with &quot;something you have&quot; to this point is that your average consumer doesn&#x27;t want to buy and use a Yubikey. It&#x27;s making PKI (which the DoD still uses for authentication) much more accessible, available, and convenient, for the average user.</text></comment> |
25,749,817 | 25,749,732 | 1 | 2 | 25,749,380 | train | <story><title>The Lies that can Undermine Democracy</title><url>https://martinfowler.com/articles/202101-lies-and-democracy.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>igammarays</author><text>A lie is intentional. If a person legitimately believes the election was fraudulent, even if it was not, it&#x27;s not a lie. It&#x27;s a mistaken belief.<p>Calling the other side liars is precisely the kind of polarizing rhetoric that can undermine democracy. They are not liars if they legitimately believe what they are saying. 70% of Republican voters and some 10% of Democrat voters actually do believe there was election fraud [1].<p>The way to combat mistaken beliefs is to allow them to voice their views, then refute their arguments, not to call them liars and suppress their views. And even if they do not accept the refutation, the arguments should be left up for people to read and make their informed choice.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.politico.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2020&#x2F;11&#x2F;09&#x2F;republicans-free-fair-elections-435488" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.politico.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2020&#x2F;11&#x2F;09&#x2F;republicans-free-fa...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Lies that can Undermine Democracy</title><url>https://martinfowler.com/articles/202101-lies-and-democracy.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Grimm1</author><text>This was flagged dead. I vouched for it. There is nothing in here that is beyond discussion imo and we are still well into a situation in the US that requires discussion like this and this is a sufficiently nuanced take.</text></comment> |
28,373,844 | 28,373,713 | 1 | 3 | 28,372,506 | train | <story><title>Apple banned a pay equity Slack channel</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/31/22650751/apple-bans-pay-equity-slack-channel</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Kinrany</author><text>Why is being adversarial a problem?</text></item><item><author>tibbetts</author><text>Not starting out adversarial with management is a big part of it. Unions in the US feel like they need to have strict rules because otherwise management will take advantage. Management in the US is often very strongly anti-union. This is a situation where social conventions and government regulation could yield better outcomes than an adversarial system. But Americans love adversarial systems.</text></item><item><author>diebeforei485</author><text>The works council system in Germany and Switzerland (and some other countries) works a lot better than American unions. I&#x27;m not sure why. It seems they are more co-operative and have fewer BS rules.</text></item><item><author>foepys</author><text>Meanwhile in Germany an employer has to provide rooms and resources for a works council (Betriebsrat) to meet and organize, and has to pay all necessary trainings, including all related travel expenses.</text></item><item><author>advisedwang</author><text>There&#x27;s a long case history in front on the NRLB about whether or not employees can use employer&#x27;s resource (ie notice boards, email system, slack) for organizing. In general the rule has been that if employees can use something for general non-work purposes (e.g. setting up a baseball game on the weekend) then the company can&#x27;t stop them from using it for organizing.<p>However the specifics (e.g. what if there is a policy about what topics are OK, but some OK topics are non-work, or what if there is a general work-only policy that is selectively enforced against organizing) have gone back and forth depending on the administration.<p>Apple&#x27;s behaviour is probably a result of a 2019 ruling [1] which opend the door to this kind of thing. Given that the administration has swung back to being fairly labor friendly, it&#x27;ll be interesting if this gets to the NRLB to see if they find a way to make this illegal.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.bloomberglaw.com&#x2F;daily-labor-report&#x2F;labor-board-paves-way-for-employers-to-ward-off-union-emails" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.bloomberglaw.com&#x2F;daily-labor-report&#x2F;labor-board...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>topkai22</author><text>You can end up with insane rules that ultimately benefit no one. An old boss of mine told me about a time he was working for a big auto manufacturer. They were rolling an update to a major system. It looked like everything went well, so people started to go home.<p>Pretty soon though, the team started to see issues with the update, up to and including a major LoB system going down. They immediately rolled back the update but found they had a problem- they needed some servers restarted to pick up the update, and the sole person who by union rules could restart the server had left for the day and wasn&#x27;t picking up the phone.<p>Now there were people who technically had permissions to restart the server, but they couldn&#x27;t cross the union rules. They spent over an hour (with the major LoB, business critical system down) trying to get in touch with the people who were allowed to restart the server until they finally convinced the physically datacenter ops people (who were still on duty) go physically unplug and replug the servers in question.<p>He couldn&#x27;t disclose the total cost of the outage, but I was lead to believe it was in the millions of dollars.<p>A functioning owner&#x2F;management&#x2F;worker relationship might fight over how the earnings of a company might be split, and even how or what to invest in, but they should all be working to making a company successful as a whole. An adversarial relationship prevents the sort of cooperation and good-faith assumptions that allow the different parties to collaborate and work to everyone&#x27;s benefit.<p>That being said, that non-adversarial relationship is a two way street, and ownership+management need to be participating in good-faith as well.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple banned a pay equity Slack channel</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/31/22650751/apple-bans-pay-equity-slack-channel</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Kinrany</author><text>Why is being adversarial a problem?</text></item><item><author>tibbetts</author><text>Not starting out adversarial with management is a big part of it. Unions in the US feel like they need to have strict rules because otherwise management will take advantage. Management in the US is often very strongly anti-union. This is a situation where social conventions and government regulation could yield better outcomes than an adversarial system. But Americans love adversarial systems.</text></item><item><author>diebeforei485</author><text>The works council system in Germany and Switzerland (and some other countries) works a lot better than American unions. I&#x27;m not sure why. It seems they are more co-operative and have fewer BS rules.</text></item><item><author>foepys</author><text>Meanwhile in Germany an employer has to provide rooms and resources for a works council (Betriebsrat) to meet and organize, and has to pay all necessary trainings, including all related travel expenses.</text></item><item><author>advisedwang</author><text>There&#x27;s a long case history in front on the NRLB about whether or not employees can use employer&#x27;s resource (ie notice boards, email system, slack) for organizing. In general the rule has been that if employees can use something for general non-work purposes (e.g. setting up a baseball game on the weekend) then the company can&#x27;t stop them from using it for organizing.<p>However the specifics (e.g. what if there is a policy about what topics are OK, but some OK topics are non-work, or what if there is a general work-only policy that is selectively enforced against organizing) have gone back and forth depending on the administration.<p>Apple&#x27;s behaviour is probably a result of a 2019 ruling [1] which opend the door to this kind of thing. Given that the administration has swung back to being fairly labor friendly, it&#x27;ll be interesting if this gets to the NRLB to see if they find a way to make this illegal.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.bloomberglaw.com&#x2F;daily-labor-report&#x2F;labor-board-paves-way-for-employers-to-ward-off-union-emails" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.bloomberglaw.com&#x2F;daily-labor-report&#x2F;labor-board...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jdavis703</author><text>I’ve heard union leaders say getting workers to “hate the boss” is an important part of organizing. Entering in to negotiations where the goal is to punish the boss as opposed to getting the best deal for the workers is toxic.</text></comment> |
7,542,384 | 7,542,081 | 1 | 2 | 7,541,559 | train | <story><title>The Hypocrisy Of Sam Yagan and OkCupid </title><url>http://uncrunched.com/2014/04/06/the-hypocrisy-of-sam-yagan-okcupid/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>masklinn</author><text>&gt; For example, there are people who have nothing against homosexuality but are attached to the symbolic value of &#x27;marriage&#x27; as a Christian institution<p>Yes, they were also attached to its symbolic value when they used it to condemn miscegenation.<p>Given atheist, muslims, jews or hindus can get married, and so can blacks, browns, reds, yellows and whites (with one another too, which once upon a time was against &quot;the symbolic value of &#x27;marriage&#x27; as a Christian institution&quot;), I&#x27;m pretty sure civil marriage has nothing to do with &quot;the symbolic value of &#x27;marriage&#x27; as a Christian institution&quot;.<p>&gt; and would be completely fine with another civil contract with the same rights but a different name.<p>Because &quot;separate but equal&quot; had such a good run last time around eh?<p>&gt; This seems to be somewhat in line with Eich&#x27;s actions<p>No it is not:<p>1. Eich donated $1000 to prop 8. Prop 8&#x27;s goal was to prevent future homosexual marriages in california and to break up existing ones (since prop 8 was passed specifically because proposition 22 had been struck down and homosexual couples were getting married). It did not propose the introduction of an equivalent contract or amend californian law to effectively introduce one<p>2. Eich refused to acknowledge such an intent and stonewalled instead behind &quot;me giving to people trying to destroy your marriage does not mean I&#x27;m a bigot&quot;. Does not sound like &quot;separate but equal&quot; was his intent, as distateful as that would have been<p>3. &quot;I would prefer an alternative to it therefore I donate to amend the constitution in order to ban it&quot; is not what I would call sane and sensible reasoning</text></item><item><author>pyduan</author><text>What is regrettable in all this is that no one seems to consider the possibility that people may have nuanced views about gay marriage. According to the mob you&#x27;re either a saint or a bigot, and thus Eich&#x27;s value as a human being was supposedly entirely determined by this one opinion he voiced in 2008.<p>I&#x27;m staunchly in favor of gay marriage, which I consider to be a no-brainer -- but it seems to me the motivations of Prop 8 proponents differ a lot in nature, with some being much more excusable than others in their wrongness.<p>For example, there are people who have nothing against homosexuality but are attached to the symbolic value of &#x27;marriage&#x27; as a Christian institution and would be completely fine with another civil contract with the same rights but a different name. This seems to be somewhat in line with Eich&#x27;s actions (I remember reading a memo from Eich stating he had no plan to amend Mozilla&#x27;s gay-friendly policies and employee benefits). Although I still think this view is guilty of being wrongly attached to outdated models of society, this is not nearly as bad as what Eich has been accused of.<p>There are other possible reasons one could have (for example, those who in ignorance of the many studies that showed that children of homosexual households grow up just fine could have unfounded reservations about gay adoption, but would be ready to change their mind if shown the evidence; I&#x27;ve encountered a couple myself), but my broader point is that there is a huge range in the degree of bigotry between those who voted Prop 8 and one should not jump to conclusions so easily as they do not all deserve the same level of condemnation.<p>Now, I can understand why Eich&#x27;s views <i>could</i> make him unsuitable as a CEO because, in a purely pragmatic sense, holding views that most of your workforce despise is obviously detrimental to your ability to lead and especially so at such a peculiar organization as Mozilla where ideology matters arguably more than in other companies; it also matters because, as many have said, a CEO is the face of the company and his views and those of the company are sometimes hard to disentangle.<p>But going from there to making a call to boycott Firefox is a <i>huge</i> jump and smells like a pure appropriation of the controversy for PR purposes. This revelation about Sam Yagan seems to strengthen this feeling. Come on people, we&#x27;re better than this. Being on the right side of history about an issue does not automatically waive us from intellectual rigor and moderation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andrewfong</author><text>I think you&#x27;re misreading the above post. The point is not to say there is a justifiable argument against gay marriage but to say that not all opponents are like Fred Phelps -- i.e., not all opponents are motivated by pure animus as opposed to ignorance, FUD, or just faulty reasoning.<p>A big part of that ignorance is many (if not most) gay marriage opponents simply don&#x27;t believe it&#x27;s an immutable characteristic and don&#x27;t fully appreciate how damaging it can be to suppress one&#x27;s sexual orientation (e.g. don&#x27;t ask, don&#x27;t tell). And if you don&#x27;t believe that sexual orientation is an immutable characteristic, then a gay marriage ban isn&#x27;t discrimination against a minority but simply yet another public morality law in line with bans on drugs, polygamy, or public nudity.<p>That doesn&#x27;t make the argument any less wrong, but IMHO, intent matters. Ignorance or stupidity don&#x27;t deserve the same level of condemnation as outright hate.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Hypocrisy Of Sam Yagan and OkCupid </title><url>http://uncrunched.com/2014/04/06/the-hypocrisy-of-sam-yagan-okcupid/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>masklinn</author><text>&gt; For example, there are people who have nothing against homosexuality but are attached to the symbolic value of &#x27;marriage&#x27; as a Christian institution<p>Yes, they were also attached to its symbolic value when they used it to condemn miscegenation.<p>Given atheist, muslims, jews or hindus can get married, and so can blacks, browns, reds, yellows and whites (with one another too, which once upon a time was against &quot;the symbolic value of &#x27;marriage&#x27; as a Christian institution&quot;), I&#x27;m pretty sure civil marriage has nothing to do with &quot;the symbolic value of &#x27;marriage&#x27; as a Christian institution&quot;.<p>&gt; and would be completely fine with another civil contract with the same rights but a different name.<p>Because &quot;separate but equal&quot; had such a good run last time around eh?<p>&gt; This seems to be somewhat in line with Eich&#x27;s actions<p>No it is not:<p>1. Eich donated $1000 to prop 8. Prop 8&#x27;s goal was to prevent future homosexual marriages in california and to break up existing ones (since prop 8 was passed specifically because proposition 22 had been struck down and homosexual couples were getting married). It did not propose the introduction of an equivalent contract or amend californian law to effectively introduce one<p>2. Eich refused to acknowledge such an intent and stonewalled instead behind &quot;me giving to people trying to destroy your marriage does not mean I&#x27;m a bigot&quot;. Does not sound like &quot;separate but equal&quot; was his intent, as distateful as that would have been<p>3. &quot;I would prefer an alternative to it therefore I donate to amend the constitution in order to ban it&quot; is not what I would call sane and sensible reasoning</text></item><item><author>pyduan</author><text>What is regrettable in all this is that no one seems to consider the possibility that people may have nuanced views about gay marriage. According to the mob you&#x27;re either a saint or a bigot, and thus Eich&#x27;s value as a human being was supposedly entirely determined by this one opinion he voiced in 2008.<p>I&#x27;m staunchly in favor of gay marriage, which I consider to be a no-brainer -- but it seems to me the motivations of Prop 8 proponents differ a lot in nature, with some being much more excusable than others in their wrongness.<p>For example, there are people who have nothing against homosexuality but are attached to the symbolic value of &#x27;marriage&#x27; as a Christian institution and would be completely fine with another civil contract with the same rights but a different name. This seems to be somewhat in line with Eich&#x27;s actions (I remember reading a memo from Eich stating he had no plan to amend Mozilla&#x27;s gay-friendly policies and employee benefits). Although I still think this view is guilty of being wrongly attached to outdated models of society, this is not nearly as bad as what Eich has been accused of.<p>There are other possible reasons one could have (for example, those who in ignorance of the many studies that showed that children of homosexual households grow up just fine could have unfounded reservations about gay adoption, but would be ready to change their mind if shown the evidence; I&#x27;ve encountered a couple myself), but my broader point is that there is a huge range in the degree of bigotry between those who voted Prop 8 and one should not jump to conclusions so easily as they do not all deserve the same level of condemnation.<p>Now, I can understand why Eich&#x27;s views <i>could</i> make him unsuitable as a CEO because, in a purely pragmatic sense, holding views that most of your workforce despise is obviously detrimental to your ability to lead and especially so at such a peculiar organization as Mozilla where ideology matters arguably more than in other companies; it also matters because, as many have said, a CEO is the face of the company and his views and those of the company are sometimes hard to disentangle.<p>But going from there to making a call to boycott Firefox is a <i>huge</i> jump and smells like a pure appropriation of the controversy for PR purposes. This revelation about Sam Yagan seems to strengthen this feeling. Come on people, we&#x27;re better than this. Being on the right side of history about an issue does not automatically waive us from intellectual rigor and moderation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baddox</author><text>It has nothing to do both &quot;separate but equal&quot; if the only difference is the legal term used (&quot;marriage&quot; for heterosexual couple, &quot;civil union&quot; for homosexual couple) and not the rights associated with it.<p>Separate but equal was about physical segregation of minorities, not just about using different legal terms for the same thing. And, by the way, something that a <i>ton</i> of people don&#x27;t know about the separate but equal doctrine (because it doesn&#x27;t appear to be taught in American public schools): It actually refers to the <i>government&#x27;s</i> legal authority to <i>mandate</i> that privately owned businesses provide separate nut equal facilities for blacks. That&#x27;s a lot different than the usual portrayal of Brown vs. BoE, as the government stepping in an conquering private racism.</text></comment> |
1,891,513 | 1,891,496 | 1 | 2 | 1,890,538 | train | <story><title>The Great Cyberheist</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/magazine/14Hacker-t.html?ref=technology</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>teye</author><text>Shadowcrew was an awesome place. You could get pretty much anything there. The marketplace was built on reputation -- you'd send a new offering to the senior members, who'd review you.<p>The coolest guy there was MacGyver. He knew everything about everything. You'd ask for feedback on the new SSN cards you were selling and he'd casually drop that the SSA used band printers back when your card would have been issued, so there should be little marks here or there.<p>From what I could tell, he never profited from any activity there, but being a senior member and receiving goods for review, receiving credit card blanks and numbers was enough to put him away. By the time it occurred to me I could send him a letter in prison, he was already out.<p>Sure, he was indirectly contributing to illegal activity, but to a kid looking for fake ID info, he was a god.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Great Cyberheist</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/magazine/14Hacker-t.html?ref=technology</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>blaines</author><text>This article is long, but really good, it reads like a movie.<p>Gonzalez not only hacked computer networks, but also personal networks. He may not have been great at code, but he was definitely good at navigating social structures. Gonzalez was certainly a great hacker, but not necessarily good.<p>I'll be keeping my eye out for author James Verini in the future, this was a great read.</text></comment> |
33,932,277 | 33,931,258 | 1 | 3 | 33,930,105 | train | <story><title>mimmutable() for OpenBSD</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/915640/53bc300d11179c62/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Sirened</author><text>&gt;One of those marks executable memory that is empowered to call into the kernel; on OpenBSD systems, only the C library is given that capability. That will prevent hostile code loaded elsewhere from making direct system calls; protecting the rest of a process with mimmutable() will prevent the changing of protections to allow system calls from elsewhere (such changes would be done with msyscall() on OpenBSD).<p>This is, unfortunately, a continuation of OpenBSD&#x27;s long tradition of security &quot;mitigations&quot; that are entirely detached from any actual understanding of exploitation [1]. The above suggestion that attackers can no longer make syscalls from their shellcode, while ostensibly true, is moot because you can simply JOP to one of the authorized syscall instructions and entirely defeat the mitigation. Even if mimutable <i>outright prevented any new code from being mapped</i>, this still wouldn&#x27;t really stop anyone; just look at iOS where attackers have thrived despite there only being one process on the entire OS which is able to map arbitrary code.<p>&gt; Whenever a process enters the kernel, its stack pointer is checked to see whether it is, indeed, pointing into a stack region; if not, the process is killed.<p>This too is trivially defeated. You simply need to add another stage to your payload in which you copy your ROP payload onto the legitimate stack, pivot, and continue executing. If you managed to pivot off the original stack, you already have a pivot gadget and so you only then need to trigger a call to memcpy. This mitigation isn&#x27;t stopping any real attacker.<p>While I never hope to discourage kernel developers from thinking about security mitigations, I think it is really important that people working on these mitigations actually converse with people who <i>write exploits</i>. Other vendors have seen considerable success with their mitigations [2] in that they specifically target things that attackers need and want to do, such as heap spray.<p>[1] See: ROP gadget elimination, a feature which does not actually stop ROP but merely hopes that &quot;a substantial reduction of gadgets is powerful.&quot; &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marc.info&#x2F;?l=openbsd-tech&amp;m=150317547021396&amp;w=2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marc.info&#x2F;?l=openbsd-tech&amp;m=150317547021396&amp;w=2</a>&gt;. Speaking from experience and having written plenty of actual exploits on attacker hostile platforms, trying to block code execution against an attacker who already has kernel read&#x2F;write is an utterly ridiculous idea because even if you manage to stamp out every single ROP gadget, they can just go and stomp on your kernel page tables to map new kernel code. Even baring that, kernel R&#x2F;W is still a complete compromise even if kernel code execution is somehow impossible because you can still just use R&#x2F;W to bypass any control the kernel could ever hope to enforce.<p>[2] Life and death of an iOS attacker by Luca Todesco &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=8mQAYeozl5I" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=8mQAYeozl5I</a>&gt;, a discussion of exploit mitigations on iOS and the exponential cost of defeating mitigations on iOS. Luca&#x27;s company writes exploits for iOS devices as a service and he is extremely knowledgable in this area.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>daneel_w</author><text><i>&gt; &quot;This too is trivially defeated. You simply need to add another stage to your payload in which you copy your ROP payload onto the legitimate stack, pivot, and continue executing.&quot;</i><p>Have you, or someone else as knowledgeable as you, been able to provide a succesful POC doing this? I admit that I haven&#x27;t gone about looking for results on this topic and method of attack but I would be very interested in reading about it and see a practical example achieving it, since it&#x27;s (in your own words) trivially defeated and simply needs just this or that thing.</text></comment> | <story><title>mimmutable() for OpenBSD</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/915640/53bc300d11179c62/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Sirened</author><text>&gt;One of those marks executable memory that is empowered to call into the kernel; on OpenBSD systems, only the C library is given that capability. That will prevent hostile code loaded elsewhere from making direct system calls; protecting the rest of a process with mimmutable() will prevent the changing of protections to allow system calls from elsewhere (such changes would be done with msyscall() on OpenBSD).<p>This is, unfortunately, a continuation of OpenBSD&#x27;s long tradition of security &quot;mitigations&quot; that are entirely detached from any actual understanding of exploitation [1]. The above suggestion that attackers can no longer make syscalls from their shellcode, while ostensibly true, is moot because you can simply JOP to one of the authorized syscall instructions and entirely defeat the mitigation. Even if mimutable <i>outright prevented any new code from being mapped</i>, this still wouldn&#x27;t really stop anyone; just look at iOS where attackers have thrived despite there only being one process on the entire OS which is able to map arbitrary code.<p>&gt; Whenever a process enters the kernel, its stack pointer is checked to see whether it is, indeed, pointing into a stack region; if not, the process is killed.<p>This too is trivially defeated. You simply need to add another stage to your payload in which you copy your ROP payload onto the legitimate stack, pivot, and continue executing. If you managed to pivot off the original stack, you already have a pivot gadget and so you only then need to trigger a call to memcpy. This mitigation isn&#x27;t stopping any real attacker.<p>While I never hope to discourage kernel developers from thinking about security mitigations, I think it is really important that people working on these mitigations actually converse with people who <i>write exploits</i>. Other vendors have seen considerable success with their mitigations [2] in that they specifically target things that attackers need and want to do, such as heap spray.<p>[1] See: ROP gadget elimination, a feature which does not actually stop ROP but merely hopes that &quot;a substantial reduction of gadgets is powerful.&quot; &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marc.info&#x2F;?l=openbsd-tech&amp;m=150317547021396&amp;w=2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marc.info&#x2F;?l=openbsd-tech&amp;m=150317547021396&amp;w=2</a>&gt;. Speaking from experience and having written plenty of actual exploits on attacker hostile platforms, trying to block code execution against an attacker who already has kernel read&#x2F;write is an utterly ridiculous idea because even if you manage to stamp out every single ROP gadget, they can just go and stomp on your kernel page tables to map new kernel code. Even baring that, kernel R&#x2F;W is still a complete compromise even if kernel code execution is somehow impossible because you can still just use R&#x2F;W to bypass any control the kernel could ever hope to enforce.<p>[2] Life and death of an iOS attacker by Luca Todesco &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=8mQAYeozl5I" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=8mQAYeozl5I</a>&gt;, a discussion of exploit mitigations on iOS and the exponential cost of defeating mitigations on iOS. Luca&#x27;s company writes exploits for iOS devices as a service and he is extremely knowledgable in this area.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>masklinn</author><text>&gt; you can simply JOP to one of the authorized syscall instructions and entirely defeat the mitigation<p>But now you need to know where the libc is mapped in order to find those syscalls instructions yeah? Which increases the complexity of the exploit, because instead of making a syscall you have to find where the libc is mapped, and the entire point of ASLR is making that difficult, no?</text></comment> |
24,512,560 | 24,512,453 | 1 | 3 | 24,511,910 | train | <story><title>Spotify reportedly fighting with employees about hosting episodes of Joe Rogan</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/spotify-report-joe-rogan-transphobia-fight-employees2020-9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikece</author><text>I’m curious what his contract with them stipulates on these matters. As for the employees, they could contact Rogan and either ask to come on the show to discuss what they find so offensive. Joe will talk to anyone, let them have their say and explain their point of view. Arguing to censor his episode history only sends the message that Spotify isn’t a platform for intellectual curiosity and free speech.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>omosubi</author><text>I like Rogan&#x27;s podcast but he definitely won&#x27;t talk to anyone - When was the last time there was someone on that didn&#x27;t agree with him on the major issue or issues they were brought on the podcast to discuss? They may quibble over certain things but at the end of the day he wants to have a fun conversation and arguing with trans rights people for 2 or 3 hours isn&#x27;t going to happen. Also they&#x27;ve already censored his history and as far as I can tell he agreed to it</text></comment> | <story><title>Spotify reportedly fighting with employees about hosting episodes of Joe Rogan</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/spotify-report-joe-rogan-transphobia-fight-employees2020-9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikece</author><text>I’m curious what his contract with them stipulates on these matters. As for the employees, they could contact Rogan and either ask to come on the show to discuss what they find so offensive. Joe will talk to anyone, let them have their say and explain their point of view. Arguing to censor his episode history only sends the message that Spotify isn’t a platform for intellectual curiosity and free speech.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>threatofrain</author><text>Is Spotify a platform for intellectual curiosity and free speech?<p>On the matter of free speech, Spotify isn&#x27;t a public square. Facebook isn&#x27;t a public square. A masonic fraternity isn&#x27;t a public square. One of the key things about public squares is that it&#x27;s funded by public money and administered by public officials.<p>How are people so keen on asking private companies to behave like public institutions... without asking for the other critically healthy pillars of public funding and public administration? It&#x27;s sad, but I think it&#x27;s because in some ways, people have come to actually TRUST big corps to be more morally responsive and deliberative than their own government. As in, would you rather Facebook own your messages, or would you like to see what concept of digital town square the UK or the US government would produce?</text></comment> |
28,561,915 | 28,561,797 | 1 | 2 | 28,560,830 | train | <story><title>Walkman Archive</title><url>http://walkman-archive.com/gadgets/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jimt1234</author><text>The Walkman came out when I was in 6th grade, and even though it seems lame now, I can tell you it was every bit as mind-blowing as the iPhone when it was first released. Now I could choose my music and take it with me, wherever I went. Prior to the Walkman, you either listened to music in your house, with parents in the next room (ew, gross!), or you listened to what the radio played for you (boring!).</text></comment> | <story><title>Walkman Archive</title><url>http://walkman-archive.com/gadgets/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vishnugupta</author><text>My father bought a camera in 80s, very similar to this[1]. It was extensively used to capture our memories and we stopped using it around late 90s. However the camera stayed around, at one point my adolescent son used it as a toy, and it was rough handled. One day I saw it lying about the house and picked it up and tried to operate it. Almost every button was functional, spring operating perfectly, shutters open&#x2F;close mechanism intact. It was as if still well maintained. No rust, and absolutely no mechanical malfunction. Even the camera roll counter aligned perfectly against the marker. I was astonished. I couldn&#x27;t but marvel at the quality of Japanese engineered product. Not only was precisely built but it was also rugged and the material used oozed quality. Respect.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.pinimg.com&#x2F;736x&#x2F;8d&#x2F;c9&#x2F;ff&#x2F;8dc9fffb67918c2dc8869d2ac1e85ff3--old-cameras-vintage-cameras.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.pinimg.com&#x2F;736x&#x2F;8d&#x2F;c9&#x2F;ff&#x2F;8dc9fffb67918c2dc8869d2ac...</a></text></comment> |
28,170,322 | 28,170,232 | 1 | 3 | 28,169,681 | train | <story><title>Co-founder of Snopes was writing plagiarized articles under a fake name</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/deansterlingjones/snopes-cofounder-plagiarism-mikkelson</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>headmelted</author><text>Honestly I can almost imagine a way to arrive at this conclusion without it being shifty (although no idea what the case actually is here).<p>If you&#x27;re going to debunk an article about something like a lack of vaccine safety and need to retract a couple of sentences later, but the overall conclusion is the same, then the conspiracists will be right on you with a diff of the changes from the archive trying to piece together what it all means and who paid you off.</text></item><item><author>jaywalk</author><text>So they can silently change stuff without the ability for someone to go back and look at what it used to say.</text></item><item><author>ramraj07</author><text>I’m still struggling to understand why they’d want to block that.<p>Edit: on re-reading I realize it’s so that they don’t get caught for this plagiarism since their modus operandi was plagiarize first rewrite slowly.</text></item><item><author>danso</author><text>&gt; <i>Marchionni is reevaluating decisions Mikkelson made years earlier to not allow Snopes stories to be archived on the Wayback Machine and is empowered to make any changes necessary.</i><p>Not the most immediate important thing, but hiding content from the Wayback Machine that is purported to be factual record is very problematic, to say the least</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>corndoge</author><text>That is a good thing. I want to see those changes.<p>Preventing people from seeing the change log of a page because &quot;conspiracy theorists might use it&quot; is dangerous thinking. Saying that it&#x27;s okay to forego transparency because it could be used to bolster people who disagree with you is backwards. That&#x27;s precisely why transparency should be retained - when you&#x27;re the person disagreeing, it benefits you.</text></comment> | <story><title>Co-founder of Snopes was writing plagiarized articles under a fake name</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/deansterlingjones/snopes-cofounder-plagiarism-mikkelson</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>headmelted</author><text>Honestly I can almost imagine a way to arrive at this conclusion without it being shifty (although no idea what the case actually is here).<p>If you&#x27;re going to debunk an article about something like a lack of vaccine safety and need to retract a couple of sentences later, but the overall conclusion is the same, then the conspiracists will be right on you with a diff of the changes from the archive trying to piece together what it all means and who paid you off.</text></item><item><author>jaywalk</author><text>So they can silently change stuff without the ability for someone to go back and look at what it used to say.</text></item><item><author>ramraj07</author><text>I’m still struggling to understand why they’d want to block that.<p>Edit: on re-reading I realize it’s so that they don’t get caught for this plagiarism since their modus operandi was plagiarize first rewrite slowly.</text></item><item><author>danso</author><text>&gt; <i>Marchionni is reevaluating decisions Mikkelson made years earlier to not allow Snopes stories to be archived on the Wayback Machine and is empowered to make any changes necessary.</i><p>Not the most immediate important thing, but hiding content from the Wayback Machine that is purported to be factual record is very problematic, to say the least</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jaywalk</author><text>Conspiracists (and many others) disregard Snopes out of hand, so I highly doubt that was part of their thinking.</text></comment> |
41,283,685 | 41,283,735 | 1 | 3 | 41,283,310 | train | <story><title>Police cannot seize property indefinitely after an arrest, federal court rules</title><url>https://reason.com/2024/08/16/police-cannot-seize-property-indefinitely-after-an-arrest-federal-court-rules/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>threatofrain</author><text>I wonder if judicial solutions can ever be adequate as police can simply say that an investigation is ongoing for years. And determining whether ongoing possession of seized property is legitimate involves disclosing investigation details.</text></item><item><author>fergbrain</author><text>I wonder if this ruling could also force the courts to start addressing unconstitutional civil forfeiture</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tshaddox</author><text>How is that different than, say, indefinite detention? It’s obviously not implemented perfectly, but habeas corpus is uncontroversial at least in principle. I don’t see anything mechanistically unique about property seizure that would make this tricky to solve.</text></comment> | <story><title>Police cannot seize property indefinitely after an arrest, federal court rules</title><url>https://reason.com/2024/08/16/police-cannot-seize-property-indefinitely-after-an-arrest-federal-court-rules/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>threatofrain</author><text>I wonder if judicial solutions can ever be adequate as police can simply say that an investigation is ongoing for years. And determining whether ongoing possession of seized property is legitimate involves disclosing investigation details.</text></item><item><author>fergbrain</author><text>I wonder if this ruling could also force the courts to start addressing unconstitutional civil forfeiture</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zdw</author><text>There was a proposal back in the discussion of extending copyright to be &quot;forever minus one day&quot; by the maximalist camp which included Sonny Bono, so there are hacks around &quot;indefinitely&quot;.</text></comment> |
34,986,164 | 34,984,841 | 1 | 2 | 34,982,965 | train | <story><title>Qualcomm CEO says he’s expecting Apple to use its own modems in iPhones in 2024</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/01/qualcomm-ceo-says-planning-for-apple-to-make-own-iphone-modems-from-2024-.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rdsubhas</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting to see discussions here that are adamant that this is <i>only</i> about improving profit, or <i>only</i> about quality (battery), or <i>only</i> about getting back at qualcomm.<p>Apple has repeatedly shown that you don&#x27;t have to make decisions on one to compromise the other. You can launch your own chip (M1), and improve quality (battery, perf), and improve profits, and get back at intel.<p>It&#x27;s the same here. Watch the iFixit teardown videos to see just how big the standalone qualcomm modem chip is. I knew it was big, but it was even bigger than I thought.<p>Apple moving to an integrated chip can be a win in both quality (battery improvement and space on the SoC to put other stuff), cost, and getting back at qualcomm (who is getting more and more like Intel of mobile world, comfortable, monopolistic, litigative). They&#x27;ve proven that a vertically integrated SoC is better in every way.<p>So maybe stop arguing whether it&#x27;s &quot;this or that&quot; it&#x27;s this and that.</text></comment> | <story><title>Qualcomm CEO says he’s expecting Apple to use its own modems in iPhones in 2024</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/01/qualcomm-ceo-says-planning-for-apple-to-make-own-iphone-modems-from-2024-.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tiffanyh</author><text>Battery life improvements.<p>I have to imagine this will bring considerable battery life improvements since the radio will be fab on the same latest generation TSMC node that Apple gets access too (as opposed to Qualcomm fab&#x27;ing on 3+ year old nodes).</text></comment> |
12,360,079 | 12,360,165 | 1 | 2 | 12,358,926 | train | <story><title>Why the NSA Dump Isn't from an Insider</title><url>https://medium.com/@thegrugq/completely-wrong-a300246ad316#.v112fv666</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>logicallee</author><text>&gt;Nobody expects Russia to play nice,<p>I do! I expect Russia, China, the US, the UK, Australia, and even places like the Middle East to play nice when it comes to their Intel services.<p>Why? Because I expect them to be staffed by exactly (precisely) people like you and me and the people reading this forum, and I believe there is an incentive for the intelligentsia to completely ignore all political things and simply be awesome stewards of a safe world. In fact, I think that there should be a secret conspiracy by every single intel worker worldwide to band together online in a meta-community. I think they should state in this very forum (HN) if they are being asked to do evil - such as in reply to this comment - because they&#x27;re part of this meta-conspiracy.<p>I don&#x27;t think this is hopelessly naive because I can say with certitude that there are people reading this from intelligence agencies all over the world. Why wouldn&#x27;t they?<p>I expect this to be viciously downvoted and I don&#x27;t care. I think I&#x27;m on the right side of history and I think that the people who expect these geeks to wage war on each other are on the wrong side of world history.<p>It&#x27;s very black and white. (The reach and extent of the activities of these respective services is a different matter entirely and not a subject of this comment.)</text></item><item><author>Bartweiss</author><text>There are plenty of reasons they might.<p>The (mainstream) Snowden narrative was one of disgruntled employees and treason. The <i>contents</i> of the leak drove some muttering about NSA regulation, but the <i>nature</i> of the leak didn&#x27;t. It just led to a lot of calls for &quot;internal whistleblowing&quot;, which has been repeatedly proved useless.<p>Enemy action, by contrast, doesn&#x27;t support a focus on the attacker. Nobody expects Russia to play nice, and nobody can realistically suggest &#x27;discouraging&#x27; state powers from hacking and leaking. The tools <i>will</i> be misused (from a US government viewpoint) since the new owner has US-unaligned goals. The only barrier left is security, which appears to have failed.<p>If insiders leak details, then it&#x27;s just a conversation about what the NSA does with its tools. If foreign powers get those details, then the &quot;reveal and patch&quot; crowd is bolstered by the knowledge that outsiders are using the same tools.</text></item><item><author>intherdfield</author><text>Would the NSA prefer to have these dumps be vaguely attributed to an insider?<p>I wonder if they would because any mistake in handling data calls into question their competence which calls into question their ability to keep that big database safe. The one with all our call records, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saint_fiasco</author><text>Many physicists didn&#x27;t want to work on nuclear bombs but they were convinced to help develop it because they were afraid other scientists with even less ethics would build one first. It only takes one Leo Szilard to ruin it for the whole human race.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why the NSA Dump Isn't from an Insider</title><url>https://medium.com/@thegrugq/completely-wrong-a300246ad316#.v112fv666</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>logicallee</author><text>&gt;Nobody expects Russia to play nice,<p>I do! I expect Russia, China, the US, the UK, Australia, and even places like the Middle East to play nice when it comes to their Intel services.<p>Why? Because I expect them to be staffed by exactly (precisely) people like you and me and the people reading this forum, and I believe there is an incentive for the intelligentsia to completely ignore all political things and simply be awesome stewards of a safe world. In fact, I think that there should be a secret conspiracy by every single intel worker worldwide to band together online in a meta-community. I think they should state in this very forum (HN) if they are being asked to do evil - such as in reply to this comment - because they&#x27;re part of this meta-conspiracy.<p>I don&#x27;t think this is hopelessly naive because I can say with certitude that there are people reading this from intelligence agencies all over the world. Why wouldn&#x27;t they?<p>I expect this to be viciously downvoted and I don&#x27;t care. I think I&#x27;m on the right side of history and I think that the people who expect these geeks to wage war on each other are on the wrong side of world history.<p>It&#x27;s very black and white. (The reach and extent of the activities of these respective services is a different matter entirely and not a subject of this comment.)</text></item><item><author>Bartweiss</author><text>There are plenty of reasons they might.<p>The (mainstream) Snowden narrative was one of disgruntled employees and treason. The <i>contents</i> of the leak drove some muttering about NSA regulation, but the <i>nature</i> of the leak didn&#x27;t. It just led to a lot of calls for &quot;internal whistleblowing&quot;, which has been repeatedly proved useless.<p>Enemy action, by contrast, doesn&#x27;t support a focus on the attacker. Nobody expects Russia to play nice, and nobody can realistically suggest &#x27;discouraging&#x27; state powers from hacking and leaking. The tools <i>will</i> be misused (from a US government viewpoint) since the new owner has US-unaligned goals. The only barrier left is security, which appears to have failed.<p>If insiders leak details, then it&#x27;s just a conversation about what the NSA does with its tools. If foreign powers get those details, then the &quot;reveal and patch&quot; crowd is bolstered by the knowledge that outsiders are using the same tools.</text></item><item><author>intherdfield</author><text>Would the NSA prefer to have these dumps be vaguely attributed to an insider?<p>I wonder if they would because any mistake in handling data calls into question their competence which calls into question their ability to keep that big database safe. The one with all our call records, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>exolymph</author><text>What you&#x27;re missing is that people respond to incentives on a local scale, not a global scale. As in, people want to satisfy their managers in order to get paid more, not cure global warming or whatever other lofty goal that would benefit all humanity.</text></comment> |
13,486,067 | 13,484,319 | 1 | 3 | 13,482,085 | train | <story><title>Should gifted students go to a separate school?</title><url>https://theconversation.com/should-gifted-students-go-to-a-separate-school-71620</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ltbarcly3</author><text>Have you ever been inside a school? The stupid kids don&#x27;t gather around to bask in the glow of the gifted kids. They DO gather around them and call them &#x27;faggot&#x27; and trip them in the hallway, especially if they are smart but not athletic.</text></item><item><author>Aqueous</author><text>4. This idea that education is <i>only</i> for <i>my own individual welfare</i> has to end. It&#x27;s creating a culture of individual atomism that is instilling the most anti-social, selfish values and corroding the country at its roots.<p>We go to school not just to be educated but to educate each other. If you&#x27;re smart, you set an example to kids near us who don&#x27;t feel that way. Hopefully, those who aren&#x27;t labelled &#x27;smart&#x27; gain from the presence of &#x27;smart&#x27; students just as &#x27;smart&#x27; students gain from presence of kids who aren&#x27;t labelled &#x27;smart.&#x27;</text></item><item><author>habosa</author><text>A lot of comments here sound something like this: &quot;I am smart and when I was in high school the classes bored me because they were taught to the lowest common denominator&quot;.<p>This is not an argument for intellectual segregation of schools. While I could put forth a hundred arguments against this, here are a few off the top of my head:<p>1. When do we decide who is &quot;gifted&quot;? What happens to late bloomers? Are they forever cast down into a track of lower opportunity? This will be highly correlated with race and socioeconomic status since we know that poor &#x2F; minority communities don&#x27;t have the best resources &#x2F; results for early childhood development.<p>2. What about the social benefits of being around people who are on a different intellectual level? &quot;Smart&quot; kids who never have to interact with anyone &quot;below&quot; them or &quot;dumb&quot; kids who never have to interact with anyone &quot;above&quot; them will have trouble navigating many social and professional situations.<p>3. &quot;Gifted&quot; kids often come with motivated parents. Removing these children from schools will take their parents with them. These parents are often the best advocates for positive change in their community. The worst schools will never get better if all the talent is sucked out of them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>r00fus</author><text>Do you think bullies are limited to the &quot;stupid&quot; kids? Let me tell you something - that&#x27;s not the case at all. There is a good distribution of smart kids who just like to mess with others as well.</text></comment> | <story><title>Should gifted students go to a separate school?</title><url>https://theconversation.com/should-gifted-students-go-to-a-separate-school-71620</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ltbarcly3</author><text>Have you ever been inside a school? The stupid kids don&#x27;t gather around to bask in the glow of the gifted kids. They DO gather around them and call them &#x27;faggot&#x27; and trip them in the hallway, especially if they are smart but not athletic.</text></item><item><author>Aqueous</author><text>4. This idea that education is <i>only</i> for <i>my own individual welfare</i> has to end. It&#x27;s creating a culture of individual atomism that is instilling the most anti-social, selfish values and corroding the country at its roots.<p>We go to school not just to be educated but to educate each other. If you&#x27;re smart, you set an example to kids near us who don&#x27;t feel that way. Hopefully, those who aren&#x27;t labelled &#x27;smart&#x27; gain from the presence of &#x27;smart&#x27; students just as &#x27;smart&#x27; students gain from presence of kids who aren&#x27;t labelled &#x27;smart.&#x27;</text></item><item><author>habosa</author><text>A lot of comments here sound something like this: &quot;I am smart and when I was in high school the classes bored me because they were taught to the lowest common denominator&quot;.<p>This is not an argument for intellectual segregation of schools. While I could put forth a hundred arguments against this, here are a few off the top of my head:<p>1. When do we decide who is &quot;gifted&quot;? What happens to late bloomers? Are they forever cast down into a track of lower opportunity? This will be highly correlated with race and socioeconomic status since we know that poor &#x2F; minority communities don&#x27;t have the best resources &#x2F; results for early childhood development.<p>2. What about the social benefits of being around people who are on a different intellectual level? &quot;Smart&quot; kids who never have to interact with anyone &quot;below&quot; them or &quot;dumb&quot; kids who never have to interact with anyone &quot;above&quot; them will have trouble navigating many social and professional situations.<p>3. &quot;Gifted&quot; kids often come with motivated parents. Removing these children from schools will take their parents with them. These parents are often the best advocates for positive change in their community. The worst schools will never get better if all the talent is sucked out of them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>forgotmysn</author><text>thats a generalization and sounds anecdotal</text></comment> |
5,592,198 | 5,591,841 | 1 | 3 | 5,590,897 | train | <story><title>Sleep: Everything You Need to Know</title><url>https://medium.com/the-healthy-life/b65f8e19ed18</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>obviouslygreen</author><text>I really wonder how much sleep people lose worrying about their sleep habits.<p>Trying to micromanage everything from your sleep schedule to your work schedule to your calorie intake to your fat intake to your social media intake to your exposure to cell phone radiation results in being even more stressed out than you would be if you weren't attempting to keep track of eighty different pseudoscientific lifestyle prescriptions.<p>Go to sleep. Wake up. Eat food. Do those things, and try to enjoy life while you have it... burning it trying to "optimize" everything is a painful waste of time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>malbiniak</author><text>&#62; I really wonder how much sleep people lose worrying about their sleep habits.<p>I've been having an increasing issue with sleep (not being able to fall asleep, then waking up early and not being able to fall back asleep). I've tried to combat it by being more aware of my habits and patterns, but that's resulting in sleep anxiety. Compounded with the effects of sleep deprivation and I'm easily losing sleep worrying about my sleep habits.<p>Sample set of 1, though.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sleep: Everything You Need to Know</title><url>https://medium.com/the-healthy-life/b65f8e19ed18</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>obviouslygreen</author><text>I really wonder how much sleep people lose worrying about their sleep habits.<p>Trying to micromanage everything from your sleep schedule to your work schedule to your calorie intake to your fat intake to your social media intake to your exposure to cell phone radiation results in being even more stressed out than you would be if you weren't attempting to keep track of eighty different pseudoscientific lifestyle prescriptions.<p>Go to sleep. Wake up. Eat food. Do those things, and try to enjoy life while you have it... burning it trying to "optimize" everything is a painful waste of time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ryguytilidie</author><text>You're looking at this completely wrong. It's more about changing your habits than constantly thinking about what you're doing. If as a result you eat better food, the time you're awake is of better quality, and you eat better, do you really think its not worth the slightest bit of effort?</text></comment> |
36,340,414 | 36,340,652 | 1 | 2 | 36,338,529 | train | <story><title>Effective Rust (2021)</title><url>https://www.lurklurk.org/effective-rust/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>softirq</author><text>After writing primarily no standard library C for 15 years, I have to say that I find Rust just as ugly and cumbersome as C++ (not debating its safety guarantees). It seems like languages that add sufficiently advanced type&#x2F;macros systems always spiral into unwieldy beasts where you spend a bunch of your time arguing with the type systems and writing blog posts about some new piece of type theory to solve a problem you would have never have had with C. People just get greedier with deriving code and wanting more &quot;magic&quot; until every program only makes sense to its author.<p>I don&#x27;t think I will ever like kitchen sink languages. Experience has taught me that the most effective tool is the simplest one, which for most use cases today would be Go. For systems programming I just shudder to think how convoluted and hard to read things will become when we take already extremely complex code written in the simplest terms in C and port it to Rust.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brigadier132</author><text>&gt; I have to say that I find Rust just as ugly and cumbersome as C++<p>Ok, so you don&#x27;t like it aesthetically. Do you have problems writing unmaintainable software in it? What about incorrect software? Is there any specific feature in the language that you object to that will cause confusion and lead to people writing bugs?<p>C is a very beautiful and &quot;simple&quot; language, people also write a lot of security vulnerabilities with it.<p>Beauty is a useless concept in a programing language. Most of the time it just relates to someone&#x27;s bias towards what they are familiar with. A lot of people find Python &quot;beautiful&quot;, I&#x27;m unfortunately very familiar with python and as I&#x27;ve become more and more familiar with it I find it uglier and uglier.<p>Same with C, I remember all the many hours I&#x27;ve spent in valgrind debugging problems other people have made for me and I find it ugly too.<p>When I look at a programming language, I don&#x27;t think about aesthetic &quot;beauty&quot; or even &quot;simplicity&quot;.<p>I think, does this programming language allow me to represent the concepts I want to represent accurately and correctly?<p>If it is not memory safe, does not support static typing with algebraic data types, and does not have null safety it does not meet those minimum requirements and is not suitable for use.<p>Edit: I want to add, it&#x27;s not just accuracy and correctness that are important. Performance is very important too and many functional languages absolutely flounder because of strict immutability and the adoption of patterns that have terrible memory access patterns.</text></comment> | <story><title>Effective Rust (2021)</title><url>https://www.lurklurk.org/effective-rust/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>softirq</author><text>After writing primarily no standard library C for 15 years, I have to say that I find Rust just as ugly and cumbersome as C++ (not debating its safety guarantees). It seems like languages that add sufficiently advanced type&#x2F;macros systems always spiral into unwieldy beasts where you spend a bunch of your time arguing with the type systems and writing blog posts about some new piece of type theory to solve a problem you would have never have had with C. People just get greedier with deriving code and wanting more &quot;magic&quot; until every program only makes sense to its author.<p>I don&#x27;t think I will ever like kitchen sink languages. Experience has taught me that the most effective tool is the simplest one, which for most use cases today would be Go. For systems programming I just shudder to think how convoluted and hard to read things will become when we take already extremely complex code written in the simplest terms in C and port it to Rust.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>avgcorrection</author><text>&gt; After writing primarily no standard library C for 15 years, I have to say that I find Rust just as ugly and cumbersome as C++ (not debating its safety guarantees).<p>The safety guarantees are the whole point compared to C. So what’s <i>the point</i> of complaining about how things are cumbersome when you just elide that whole side of the debate?<p>I could complain about how C is too cumbersome with the proviso that I don’t care about portability or efficiency. But then what would the point be?</text></comment> |
22,969,788 | 22,968,037 | 1 | 2 | 22,967,716 | train | <story><title>How to play board games online with your friends</title><url>https://masilotti.com/play-board-games-online/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pbhjpbhj</author><text>I was hoping this was going to be how to modify boardgames to play with friends via webcam. We played Monopoly, and had good success - one board, setup a ghost player for the remote people. Remote people used parts of a set to keep track of their money and properties. Later several hours.<p>&gt;In my experience, Zoom is the most consistent service and works on almost any device. One person in your group will need a paid subscription if you want to host an event longer than 40 minutes. &#x2F;&#x2F;<p>We used meet.jit.si, it was free, good sound&#x2F;video quality and long call time was no problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JoeDaDude</author><text>By now everybody knows there are alternatives to Monopoly, right?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=jAWzA09XGxc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=jAWzA09XGxc</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How to play board games online with your friends</title><url>https://masilotti.com/play-board-games-online/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pbhjpbhj</author><text>I was hoping this was going to be how to modify boardgames to play with friends via webcam. We played Monopoly, and had good success - one board, setup a ghost player for the remote people. Remote people used parts of a set to keep track of their money and properties. Later several hours.<p>&gt;In my experience, Zoom is the most consistent service and works on almost any device. One person in your group will need a paid subscription if you want to host an event longer than 40 minutes. &#x2F;&#x2F;<p>We used meet.jit.si, it was free, good sound&#x2F;video quality and long call time was no problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kickscondor</author><text>My group has been doing a similar thing - except that video quality has been to unreliable for some of the more detailed boards (Troyes, Power Grid). We needed the ability to pinch and zoom the board.<p>We’ve been using an app called iPhotoBot to take high res shots every few seconds. These get uploaded to Dropbox. Then there is a web server of a synced folder which builds a page of the images. Server-sent events are used to update the page.<p>It’s kind of clunky to set up, but I can share my code if anyone is interested. I’m also curious if there are better ways to stream high quality photos.</text></comment> |
17,628,828 | 17,628,901 | 1 | 2 | 17,624,056 | train | <story><title>What OpenStreetMap can be</title><url>http://blog.systemed.net/post/15</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>akavel</author><text>As to humanitarian use for OSM and how anyone can contribute by small tasks (I&#x27;ve tried it myself, was surprisingly exciting), enabling faster and more accurate response and travel to people in need, see:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.openstreetmap.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Humanitarian_OSM_Team" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.openstreetmap.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Humanitarian_OSM_Team</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.openstreetmap.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;OSM_Tasking_Manager" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.openstreetmap.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;OSM_Tasking_Manager</a><p>As to work in progress on detection of features and automatic conversion to maps, I&#x27;ve recently found the below website:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.mapillary.com&#x2F;update&#x2F;2016&#x2F;07&#x2F;15&#x2F;mapillary-osm.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.mapillary.com&#x2F;update&#x2F;2016&#x2F;07&#x2F;15&#x2F;mapillary-osm.h...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>What OpenStreetMap can be</title><url>http://blog.systemed.net/post/15</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lakechfoma</author><text>I&#x27;m excited about this direction! I do minor contributions and poking around my area I&#x27;m surprised by how much of it is done by very few people. How useful it is yet how lacking it is. There&#x27;s a neighboring town that is absurdly well documented, it seems a group of people got together over a month and mapped the place out meticulously, including drawing all buildings etc. This town would work very well for these vector maps, my town probably not so much.<p>I wonder how to get more people involved, and excited, about OSM? How do we make it the Wikipedia of digital maps?<p>And does Strava&#x2F;Mapbox give back? When Strava identifies common bike routes, or perhaps trails, and when Mapbox determines that roads have changed is that given back to OSM in some capacity?</text></comment> |
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